ANC's new tech center open in time for fall semester
BLYTHEVILLE, AR - Floodwaters couldn't stop a grand opening in Blytheville Friday. Arkansas Northeastern College's new Center for Allied Technologies officially opened its doors to the public just in...
View ArticleCity council votes to deed library building to MCLS
BLYTHEVILLE, AR - A resolution passed that unanimously now puts a Region 8 public library one step closer to its goal. In a Blytheville City Council meeting Tuesday, the council passed a resolution...
View ArticleStudy will determine cost of possible Cold War museum in Blytheville
BLYTHEVILLE, AR - A structural design study is bringing the idea of a Cold War museum a little closer to a reality. We first reported Blytheville-Gosnell Regional Airport Authority's plan to turn the...
View ArticleBlytheville Police look to expand SkyCop camera system.
Crimestoppers is an invaluable tool for law enforcement, and now Blytheville Crimestoppers is partnering with local high schools to target a younger group of tipsters. And it's a program within...
View ArticleA Better Region 8: Blytheville SkyCop cameras
These cameras will be put in high crime areas of the city and will record activity on the street and sidewalks 24 hours a day. Blytheville police hope they will deter criminals, and if not catch them...
View ArticleBlytheville police investigate shots fired
BLYTHEVILLE, AR - Authorities are looking into a report of shots fired in a neighborhood earlier this week in Blytheville, with police believing the incident may have ties to a 2017 homicide. According...
View ArticleISU music therapy graduate Kalin Huston leaves on high note, discusses future...
This quote can have meaning in everyone's life, but particularly rings true to 2018 music therapy graduate Kalin Huston, 22, of Blytheville, Arkansas . Huston was involved in Belle Voix, Civic Chorale...
View ArticleArkansas landfill boss, hauler face fraud counts
The supervisor of the Mississippi County landfill and his best friend, who is a driver for a trucking company in Missouri, were arrested Thursday on federal charges of honest services fraud and...
View ArticleA transgender priest finds a new life helping others on the margins
In the makeshift chapel at Constance Abbey, an Episcopal way station for the homeless here, Mother Gillian Klee celebrated the Eucharist one morning for a small group of guests and staff. Klee's hands...
View ArticleCollege opens new workforce training center
When Arkansas Northeastern College opened its new Center for Allied Technologies, it consolidated three facilities, enhanced its role as a leader in custom training and education and brought the world...
View ArticleArkansas man gets 25 years for girl's sex assault
A Mississippi County man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after a girl testified he sexually abused her over several years, authorities said. Willie Antoine Matlock, 46, was found guilty of...
View ArticleJericho Way Resource Center
Last April, Depaul USA, which operates the Jericho Way mission, purchased a house on Heather Lane in east Little Rock with the purpose of housing the homeless. "Depaul USA's goal when it arrived in...
View ArticleDay care provider shutting in state; special-needs kids displaced
An Ascent Children's Health Services center is shown in North Little Rock on Aug. 3, 2017. One of the state's largest providers of therapeutic day care for children with special developmental or...
View ArticleOrdinance Opens Osceola to Commercial Business
People are coming to Osceola to work, but city leaders are trying to get them to spend their downtime there too.
View ArticleFast forward in Blytheville
SPEEDY CHEVY: Michael Matyjaski of South Carolina cranked his 1971 Camaro to 232 mph in the 1-Mile Challenge at the former Eaker Air Force Base. Standing at the midpoint of the 11,602-foot-long runway...
View ArticleLottery jackpot soars to $1 billion
The Mega Millions jackpot soared to an estimated $1 billion Friday, becoming the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. lottery history. Lottery officials increased the grand prize just hours ahead of...
View ArticleSuit claims excessive force by Blytheville police left man in vegetative state
A lawsuit filed in Mississippi County circuit court this week alleges a Blytheville man is in a permanent vegetative state because his t rachea was crushed by a Blytheville police officer as he...
View Article2018 Arkansas Football Playoff Brackets
Hot Springs Lakeside at Blytheville Little Rock Parkview at Morrilton Nettleton at Texarkana Greenbrier at Little Rock Christian Alma at Pulaski Academy Valley View at Little Rock McClellan White Hall...
View ArticleRecycling plant in Osceola falls short of '14 aim
Touting itself as the nation's first "urban mining" electronic-waste recycling plant, BlueOak Arkansas hasn't yet lived up to its billing, either as a recycler or as an investment, but its chief...
View ArticleLocal driver feels the need for speed
Doug Johnson's friends have referred to him by the nickname, "Happy", since a co-worker first called him that a quarter century ago. "Life is too short to be sad," said Johnson, 62, a Morgantown...
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