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Police: No foul play at Sonic
(Local News ~ 05/19/17)
After receiving several calls, Blytheville police arrived at Sonic on East Main around 8:12 a.m. Friday for a welfare check. The lights were on, but no one was responding to police or customers, according to Blytheville Police Chief Ross Thompson. After investigating, police determined it was an employee issue, according to Thompson...
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Barbara Sue Goodman Harrison
(Obituary ~ 05/19/17)
Mrs. Barbara Sue Goodman Harrison, 73, passed away at her home in Kennett, Missouri on May 18, 2017. She was a Care Giver for hospice. Mrs. Harrison is survived by two sons, Bubba and Bobby Joe Harrison both of Kennett, Mo.; three daughters, Mutt Mutt and Toottie Harrison and Penny Harrison Pounds, all of Kennett, Mo.; one brother, Dean Goodman of Memphis, Tenn.; one sister, Lola Davis of Kokomo, Ind.; eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren...
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Othe Richard Laden
(Obituary ~ 05/19/17)
Mr. Othe Richard Laden, 81, passed away on May 18, 2017 at his home in Malden, Missouri. He was a retired concrete finisher and a United States Marine that served during the Korean War. Mr. Laden is survived by his life partner, Norma Lee of Malden, Mo.; three sons, Jeff (Paula) Laden of Hope, Scott (Sue) Laden of Aurora, Ill. ...
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Leave the statues alone! Instead learn the lessons.
(Editorial ~ 05/19/17)
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present,” former Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir. “We are not makers of history, we are made by history,” Martin Luther King, Jr. Do you learn more from your successes or from your failures? Failures of course!...
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McKinney becomes first GHS athlete to win the decathlon
(High School Sports ~ 05/19/17)
CABOT — Gosnell senior Marquel McKinney won the two-day Arkansas high school decatlon on Thursday by compiling 6,140 points. He topped Bentonville’s Adrian Broadus, who finished with 5,885 points. McKinney overcame reinjuring his right leg in an event on Wednesday to become Gosnell’s first decathlon winner...
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Multiple agencies pursue suspect
(Local News ~ 05/19/17)
Around 9:30 a.m. Friday, officers of the Blytheville Police Department, Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office and Highway Patrol responded to Walnut and 15th streets, where Terrill Jones, 22, was arrested on charges of fleeing, resisting arrest, littering and driving while license suspended or revoked. ...
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