Stories from Wednesday, March 27, 2013

[Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part article on CASA volunteers.] Last year there were 80 children in foster care in Poinsett County. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) recruits and trains volunteers to investigate child abuse and neglect cases and serve as advocates for these children in court. ...

TRUMANN - Mr. Jessie Lorenzia Blair, Sr. died Friday, March 22, 2013 Flo & Phil Jones Hospice Center in Jonesboro, Ark. He was born Sunday, January 22, 1933 in Hernando, Miss., to the late Nannie Busby Blair. He had lived in Trumann for the past five years and was formerly of Memphis, Tenn., was a welder, Korean War Army veteran and member of the Providence Baptist Church in Trumann. ...