Stories from Thursday, November 9, 2006

Voter turnout was good Tuesday as people headed to the polls to cast their votes in several contested races. In the race for Lepanto mayor, Kevin Wright won with 367 votes while incumbent Dale Dunlap received 201 votes. In the race for Marked Tree mayor, Dixon Chandler received 467 votes to defeat incumbent Lawrence Ashlock, Jr. who received 358 votes...

A lengthy drug investigation paid off Friday after local police made two arrests in Lepanto, according to reports by the Poinsett County Sheriff's Department. At approximately 6:21 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 6 a search warrant was executed at 103 Diana Street in Lepanto. ...

Courtesy of the Modern News Merle Williams of Harrisburg has decided it is time to retire once again and spend more time doing the things he said wants to do. Like spending more time with his wife and his six-year old grandson Christopher, who lives in Fayetteville...

Tribune Sports Staff "This game is over. Marked Tree is the winner, but there are going to be sanctions on both teams." So was the edict of Referee Troy Cox Thursday night as he declared Marked Tree the 22-8 winner of a fight-shortened, non-conference contest. What had begun as a highly anticipated ball game, turned into a brawl by early in the fourth period as the Earle bench and then the Marked Tree bench emptied onto the field...

Bobbie Jean Turner, 69, of Lepanto died at St. Bernard's Medical Center on Wednesday, November 1. She was a Baptist. She was preceded in death by her parents, Chester and Virgie Carson; one sister, Eva Doris Thomas and one brother Earl Carson. Survivors include four sons, David, Duane, Doug and Bobby Don Turner, all of Lepanto; two daughters, Glenda Cavitt and Connie Milam of Tyronza; two sisters, Virgie Harvey of Marked Tree and Loretta Fike of Lowell, Mass.; two brothers, L.B. ...

Billy Ray Brown, 63, of Caraway died at his residence Tuesday, Oct. 31. He was a lineman for a power company and a member of Buffalo Chapel Baptist Church in Caraway. Survivors include his daughter, Melinda Brown of Newark; two brothers: Don Brown of Moline, Ill. and Roy Brown of Lepanto; and two sisters: Joy Fay Roach of Lepanto and Loretta Dubose of Wimauna, Fla...

Aunvy Christine Turner, 71, of Lepanto died Nov. 4, 2006 at her residence. Born May 21, 1935 in Oil Trough, she was a homemaker and a member of Red Oak Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Cecil Foster and Mabel Pilgrim; one sister, Carolyn Walling; and one brother, Jerry Foster...

Tribune News Staff Race car driving isn't something one often associates with a 14 year old. Often teens that age spend their time playing football, baseball or running around a track. Dalton Vaughn is on a track alright, but he's not running. He's practically flying...

A fatal accident in Lepanto Monday afternoon claimed the life of a Kesier man. Billy Pannell was traveling south on Highway 140 in Lepanto in a 2000 Chevrolet pickup truck. According to a fatal crash summary issued by the Arkansas State Police, Pannell crossed the center line and struck a 2001 Freightliner semi truck driven by Joseph Guth of Trumann. Pannell, who was reported to not been wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene by the coroner...

Tribune Sports Staff For the first time in some time, the EPC football team will not be going to the state playoffs. As a matter fact, most people, no doubt are glad that the season has mercifully come to a close. No one can say that the Warriors didn't give everything they had to a season in which they saw only one win. But by season's end EPC had only 15 players, the majority of whom had very little senior high experience, going against squads numbering 35-50...