🌱 Blytheville man killed after late-night crash on U.S. 61

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• Blytheville man killed after late-night crash on U.S. 61

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📰 News we're reading

• Two people killed in separate crashes on Arkansas roads in 11-hour period (arkansasonline.com) — A 59-year-old Blytheville man, Larry Z. Harris, died late Friday night after his SUV crossed the center line, hit a guardrail, went airborne and overturned on U.S. 61 near Burdette in Mississippi County. Another fatal motorcycle crash in Crawford County earlier that day brought the statewide toll to two deaths within about 11 hours.
   

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