05/09/11 We asked and Region 8 residents responded. The second annual Red Cross-A-Thon raised more than 75 thousand dollars for our local Red Cross chapter. The money will help them continue to help others during times when help is needed most.
05/09/11 Local, state and federal authorities are praising the level of interagency cooperation displayed in the fight to save this city from flood waters of the Mississippi River.
05/09/11 The Red Cross is in need of donations to help families struck not only by Mother Nature's disasters, but more personal catastrophes as well, like house fires. In fact, fires are the #1 disaster they respond
05/08/11 The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette won the sweepstakes award and The Sentinel-Record of Hot Springs won the general-excellence category in the larger newspaper division in the 2010 Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors contest.
05/05/11 Three volunteers from the local Red Cross are in Arkansas and are heading to an area that has not yet been assessed since the deadly tornados hit last week.
04/28/11 Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney Stephen P. Sokoloff, has filed charges against an Arkansas man in connection to a murder at Blytheville, Ark. The charges were officially filed yesterday,...
04/27/11 Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney Stephen P. Sokoloff, has filed charges against an Arkansas man in connection to a murder at Blytheville, Ark. The charges were officially filed today, Wednesday,...
04/26/11 The 10th annual Ozark Foothills Film Festival was held March 21-27, in Batesville. Tanner Smith, a 2010 graduate of Manila High School who is currently attending Arkansas Northeastern College in Blytheville, was an attending artist who had a film shown at the festival.
04/26/11 Pat Ivey Lendennie of Blytheville, formerly of Manila, is excited to have her first novel, "Warning! A Bonnie Moss Journalistic Adventure," available in print.
04/26/11 Heavy rainfall, large hail and damaging winds are all possible as a cold front moves across the lower Mississippi River valley and into the Mid-South.
04/22/11 According to Blytheville Police, Stacey Jones of Osceola has been arrest in the death of Patricia Johnson.
04/22/11 NEW DETAILS: Blytheville Police have arrested a man they shot another man in March.
04/21/11 In January Blytheville Police Officer Cody Gentry was seriously injured when he crashed his cruiser while responding to a reported robbery.
04/19/11 NEW DETAILS: The man police say made a false police report that inadvertently injured a Blytheville Police Officer had his court date continued.
04/18/11 On Tuesday, April 12, 52-year-old Jessie James Adams told his aunt, Glean Adams, that he was going to walk to a nearby grocery store and would be back later. By 4:45pm the next day, Adams had not returned.
04/13/11 On Wednesday, April 13, a Mississippi County jury convicted Cordell Wells, Jr. of Blytheville on first-degree murder charges.
03/29/11 The American Red Cross is trying to encourage people to donate money to help Japan by offering a "text" message option.
03/23/11 The Mississippi County Hospital System is preparing to participate in a new and potentially lifesaving program for heart attack patients.
03/20/11 Former Fenton resident Andrew Rummel, 26, and his girlfriend, Maiya Hirose, 22, of Tokyo, Japan, have had some difficult decisions to make.
03/17/11 Marking the 200th year since the historic New Madrid temblors -- and amid the deadly earthquake in Japan and ongoing rattles in nearby Arkansas -- DeSoto and state emergency officials want to shake people out of any earthquake complacency. | 
