Stories from Monday, August 6, 2012

Due to construction on Oak Grove Road, voters in the Oak Grove precinct during Tuesday's primary election may only reach the polling place at the 5th and 6th Grade Center from the west or the north. Butler County Clerk Tonyi Deffendall said voters may use Township Line Road and Oak Grove Road to reach the school from the west or use U.S. 67, Outer Road South and County Road 437 at Fellowship General Baptist Church from the north...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Ripley and Carter are among the counties across the state now reaping the financial benefits of a 2008 law aimed at raising the minimum salary of sheriff deputies to make wages more competitive. The law allows sheriffs to receive an additional $10 fee for processing any civil summons, writ, subpoena or other court order...

By CAROLYN SMITH Staff Writer According to Donna Reynolds, acting chief of Voluntary Services, "Approximately 240 volunteers are on the rolls at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center." Each volunteer shares their unique gift or skill in order to brighten a veteran's day. In 2011, volunteers at this facility alone performed 23,000 hours of service...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

By BETSY HART Scripps Howard News Service Certain people seem to be playing a game of chicken. The question is, how hard are such folks willing to press the pedal to the metal? What does "blinking" from the other players look like to them? That's what I wondered on Wednesday as I ate lunch at a Chick-fil-A in Lombard, Ill., a western suburb of Chicago. I had never eaten at a Chick-fil-A before. It just hadn't popped up on my radar screen. On Wednesday, my radar zeroed in on it...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Are you ready for some football? First, however, are you ready for some autopsies? The opening of the NFL training camps coincided with the closing of the investigation into the April suicide by gunshot of Ray Easterling, 62, an eight-season NFL safety in the 1970s. ...

By OLIVER NORTH Washington, D.C. -- This week's revelation about the president's authorizing covert action in Syria should not have come as a surprise to anyone. On Wednesday, Aug. 1, CNN carried a breathless report sourced to "U.S. officials" that our beloved Nobel Peace Prize recipient in the Oval Office "has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. ...

Cooking Matters for Kids was sponsored by the University of Missouri Extension Center in Poplar Bluff and was held for 10 students from the Boys and Girls Club. It was a hands-on program designed to empower the students to make their own tasty meals and snacks in class and at home...

Pansy Riley celebrates 80th birthday The family of Pansy J. Riley (Malone) recently gathered at The Journeyman Restaurant in Doniphan to celebrate her 80th birthday. She was born April 5, 1932, in West Frankfort, Ill., and married Melvin E. Riley in 1948. She is the mother of Emmett, Pam, Aletha, and Annette...

Marilyn VanKirk Marilyn VanKirk, 61, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, at Poplar Bluff, Mo. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Cotrell Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff. Funeral services will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home chapel...

The Agee Community Club met at Ryan's on July 12. Hostess Cathy Womack called the meeting to order with the club motto and gave the devotional. Nadine Johnson gave the devotional from I Corinthians 4:1-7. Roll call was answered by stating a most embarrassing moment. Jeanie Figgins read the secretary and treasurer's report, old business was discussed. There was no new business...

Don Hayes BUNKER, Mo. -- Don Hayes of Bunker, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, at his residence. Arrangements are pending with McSpadden Funeral Home in Bunker, Mo., and will be announced later.

Donald Adams RICHLAND, Mo. -- Donald James Adams, 76, of Risco, Mo., formerly of Camdenton, Mo., died Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo. Mr. Adams was born Oct. 24, 1935, in Lilbourn, Mo. He was of the Baptist belief and a retired auto mechanic...

Michael Cochran DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Michael P. Cochran, 63, of Doniphan, Mo., died Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, at his residence. Mr. Cochran, son of Annabelle (Dowdy) Cochran, was born March 4, 1949, in San Pedro, Calif. He was a 1967 graduate of Doniphan High School and, soon after graduation, entered the U.S. ...

Floyd Sutterfield BUNKER, Mo. -- Floyd E. "Duke" Sutterfield, 89, of Ellington, Mo., died Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, at the Brent B. Tinnin Manor in Ellington. Mr. Sutterfield was born April 1, 1923, in Corridon, Mo. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II with the 88th Infantry Blue Devils. ...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...