Blytheville News

Monette Manor residents and staff, along with family members, celebrated two 70th wedding anniversaries on Monday, June 22.

The city of Blytheville will get just more than $2 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pay for repairs and cleanup after the Jan.

A newly formed choral group, the Arkansas Northeastern College Chamber Singers, will give its debut concert at 2 p.m. today in the atrium of the Sullins Administrative Building at the college, 2501 S. Division St.

Thomas Gene Gall Dr. Thomas and Rachel Gall of Blytheville announce the birth of a son on June 15, 2009 at St.

The Leachville City Council passed a resolution for application of a grant to make city ball park improvements at the Monday, June 8, council meeting.

Three school districts in Arkansas will share close to 850-thousand dollars in federal money to support libraries and literacy.

SouthBank President Homer Thompson, of Blytheville, has been selected for the distinguished honor of Arkansas Chapter of National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Member of the Year Award for 2009 for his service on the Mississippi County Public Facilities Board in Osceola.

Arkansas Delta Byways, a tourism promotion association that serves 15 counties in eastern Arkansas, held its annual awards banquet Friday night at the Paragould Community Center.

Numerous members of the Arkansas State Athletic Department will be making the rounds at local golf courses beginning today when the summer golf tour gets underway in Osceola with the first of four Scarlet Scrambles.

There was a healthy dose of Arkansas-related coverage in "60 Minutes'" look last night.

The Trumann Police Department has two new officers who will soon be hitting the streets.

When the Air Force gives you an old air base, what do you do with it? You change the name to the Arkansas Aeroplex and you begin to look for tenants.

Good World AIDS Vaccine Day to you all. Today is an annually observed day that promotes the need for an HIV and AIDS vaccine, while acknowledging all the thousands of supporters have done.

If you are the parent of a teenage driver here are some numbers you want to pay attention to.

The State of Arkansas is facing a problem that all states in the nation are facing nowadays.

U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and U.S. Representative Marion Berry Friday announced that several local airports will receive $4,822,491 in federal grant funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for various projects across Arkansas ranging from construction to rehabilitating runways.

A year ago we told you about a program that was designed to help high school students get into the food industry.

Gov. Mike Beebe is taking his education and economic development show on the road.

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark-If you ever feel as if you can't do anything right, think of Billy Edings.

A blind man in Blytheville is going back to school after no one would hire him. Billy Edings is 29 years old and previously earned a degree in management information systems.