Stories from Wednesday, July 5, 2006

The Trumann Democrat staff took home several awards from the Arkansas Press Association Better Editorial Newspaper Contest. Forty-eight weekly newspapers across the state submitted more than 1,300 entries in the contest which was judged by the Missouri Press Association...

Addiction has become a very real problem for families all over the nation and Eastern Poinsett County is no exception. One can see the reality of addiction's hold when flipping through the newspaper, turning on the radio or watching the news. Producers are scripting main characters with addictions in movies...

Matthew Wagner, 602 Optimistic in Heber Springs, was arrested on June 27 by Trumann Police Department Ptl. Dale Parker. Wagner is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture meth. According to police reports, Wagner had items used in the production of meth and caught the kitchen of a residence on fire with the chemicals...

Henry Brown Bloodworth, 75, of Trumann died Thursday, June 29, 2006 at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born in Lepanto and had lived most of his lifetime in Trumann. He was manager for Malone Oil Company and was a retired employee of the former Singer Company and Arbor Inc. in Trumann. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and the Korean War and a member of the First Baptist Church in Trumann...

Anne Marie Blasingame, 48, of Harrisburg, died Thursday, June 29, 2006 at the family residence. She was born in Jonesboro and had lived most of her lifetime in the Trumann area. She was a retired office clerk for the Poinsett County Health Department and a member of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church...

William Robert "Bull" Hanna, Sr., 50, of Marked Tree died Sunday, June 25, 2006 in Livingston, Tex. He was a mechanic, was in the Army and was of the Pentecostal faith. He is survived by his mother and step-father, Shelba Ray Miller of Marked Tree; his father, Bobby Hanna of Harrisburg; his wife, Peggy Hanna of Trumann; three sons, William Robert Hanna, Jr., Jimmy Ray Hanna and Shannon Martel Hanna, all of Trumann; two sisters, Donna Sears of Benton and Tina Nedril Nix of Marked Tree; six brothers, Gary Lee Hanna of Paragould, Nathan Arnold Hanna of Scott, Brice Wayne Southard of North Little Rock, Ace Hanna of Widner, and Bobby Hanna of Harrisburg and eight grandchildren.. ...