Stories from Friday, November 9, 2012

Have you selected your perfect turkey for the upcoming holiday? Will you have twenty at your Thanksgiving table or maybe just two? Well, this year I'm planning on buying a large frozen turkey to prepare for Thanksgiving. When buying one remember that frozen turkeys should be rock hard and stored well below the freezer line in the refrigerated case at the grocery store. ...

To the Editor: Cancer is not just breast cancer. There are all kinds of cancer, it happens to all ages: young and old, babies, children, mean and women. We never think our love ones, friends and neighbors would cancer, it could happen anytime. I was diagnosed with breast cancer six years ago. God blessed me. The doctor found mine early and they got it...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor With the first half of Missouri's youth deer season under their belts, the state's youngest hunters already have shattered their special season's harvest record. Hunters aged 15 and younger killed 19,277 deer during the Saturday and Sunday youth-only season. The harvest reflects a 17.6-percent increase from a year ago...

Bonnie Beltz CAMPBELL, Mo. -- Bonnie Sue Beltz, 75, died Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, at her residence. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Friday followed by the funeral at 11 a.m. in Landess Funeral Home chapel in Campbell with Mr. Allen Massey officiating. Burial will be in Loyd Cemetery in Holcomb, Mo...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor This weekend is the one most area hunters have been eagerly awaiting for the last 11-plus months: the opening of Missouri's firearms deer season. This season alone is responsible for about half a million deer permit sales annually (ironically, most of them seem to occur Friday night at Wal-Mart - be warned!)...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "Are the good times really over for good?" asked Merle Haggard in his 1982 lament. Then, the good times weren't over. In fact, they were coming back, with the Reagan recovery, the renewal of the American spirit and the end of a Cold War that had consumed so much of our lives...