Stories from Thursday, March 28, 2024

Berneda Riley passed away March 26, 2024, at Heritage Square Nursing Center in Blytheville. She was born May 7, 1954, to Shannon Whiteside and Alma Robbins. Berneda was of the Pentecostal faith and loved the Lord. She enjoyed arts and crafts and sewing. Berneda played the piano and sang. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ronald Riley, and her parents...

Vanita Mae Hay, 98, of Blytheville, passed away Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at Flo and Phil Hospice House. Vanita was born to Tollie and Audie Henderson Campbell in St. James, Ark. During the depression, she moved from the hills of the Ozarks to the cotton fields of the Delta. ...

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark.– On Wednesday, March 27, around 3:20 p.m., an Arkansas State Police (ASP) Trooper initiated a traffic stop near the 265-mile marker on Interstate 40 Eastbound in Crittenden County. During a search of the vehicle, the trooper located various narcotics, including marijuana candy, hash powder, marijuana buds, and psychedelic mushrooms...