• Local woman reported missing

    Police have entered a local woman into state and national computer data bases as being a “missing or endangered” person after her sister reported she has been missing for several days and that she suffers from mental stress issues. Crystal Gillmore said her sister, Mari …

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  • T-wolves wreck Devils; Lady T-wolves fall

    IMBODEN — The Cedar Ridge Timberwolves blasted the Augusta Red Devils in the first round of the 2A Region North Tournament at Sloan-Hendrix here Wednesday night as Spencer Reaves fired in 30 points and Cole Crabtree followed with 27. Jordan Brown led The Red Devils …

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  • Lyon baseball freshman wins AMC Player of week award

    Lyon Sports Information ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Lyon College freshman outfielder Kris Kohlstedt was named the American Midwest Conference Baseball Player of the Week after hitting .500 during a 4-game sweep of the University of Saint Francis (Ill.) last weekend Joining Kohlstedt was Park University …

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  • Lyon adds three baseball games

    Lyon Sports Information Lyon College added a last-minute baseball opponent to its schedule after Wednesday’s scheduled game at Arkansas State was lost to weather. The Scots are slated to host Central Christian College of McPherson, Kan., for a tripleheader on Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. …

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  • BHS hoop games moved to Friday

    By press time, the only confirmed change in the circulation area sports schedule were the Batesville-at-Blytheville basketball season finales set for tonight. Due to road conditions and the threat of more icy weather today, those 5A-East District games were moved to Friday night. The girls …

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  • Scot cagers experience good, bad reversals

    One of the reversals was nice for Lyon College’s basketball teams. In games moved up one day because of forecasted icy weather, the Scot women clobbered the Hannibal-LaGrange Lady Trojans 62-32, and the Trojans edged the Scot men 73-30. If you’ve forgotten, when these teams …

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  • Sports Calendar

    Upcoming sports events in Batesville and the surrounding area for Thursday, February 21 – Saturday, February 23, 2013.

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  • Weekend Events

    Upcoming weekend events in Batesville and the surrounding area for Friday, February 22 – Sunday, February 24, 2012.

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  • News of Other Days

    Editor’s note: This column ran previously in the Guard on Sept. 14, 1993.

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  • The cut is in the mail

    It’s Nixon’s fault. I speak of the financial woes of the U.S. Postal Service, and the recent news that cutting Saturday mail delivery may save a few billion dollars a year. As it goes, President Nixon, tired of strikes by then-government postal workers, signed the …

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  • Flexible cell phones, laptops

    On Jan. 9 at the 2013 Consumer Products Show in Las Vegas, Samsung unveiled its prototype for a new flexible phone that when it makes it into production they claim will bend, twist and even rollup without any harm to the phone. Research shows the …

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  • Drivers working through learning curve of Gen-6 cars

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It took all of 15 minutes for NASCAR’s new Gen-6 race car to throw drivers a few curves of its own at the first practice for the Daytona 500. Ryan Newman lost control of his Chevrolet right in front of Carl …

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