Stories from Thursday, January 10, 2013

By MONA CHAREN Lyndon Johnson, step aside. Barack Obama is far more deserving than you ever were of the term "credibility gap." The latest Benghazi lie to crumble like a cigar ash was the assurance from White House spokesman Jay Carney that four State department employees had been fired for their mishandling of the situation following an internal report that found security to have been "grossly inadequate." On Dec. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - SoutheastHEALTH of Cape Girardeau, Mo., announced it advanced partnerships Jan. 1 with the Poplar Bluff, Mo., based Advanced Healthcare Management Services and Dexter, Mo., hospital Missouri Southern Healthcare. Southeast has closed on its acquisition of the leasehold interest in Missouri Southern and officially began the new partnership and management agreement with Dexter Hospital, LLC, at the start of the New Year. ...

For the 25 years he has been in private practice, local optometrist Dr. Michael R. Penney has always had a vision to provide the very best eye care possible for his patients. His latest step toward that vision is becoming the only optometrist in Southeast Missouri to become nationally Board Certified by the American Board of Optometry (ABO)...

The American Red Cross has released a schedule of upcoming blood donation opportunities: Carter County 2-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, at East Carter County High School FEMA Building, 24 S. Herren in Ellsinore, Mo. Dunklin County 2-6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Bootheel Youth Museum, 700A N. Douglas in Malden, Mo...

Americans are mostly an optimistic lot, but as they enter the New Year they have reason to see the glass half empty rather than half full when it comes to the management of their government and its ability to deal with a myriad of issues the nation's leaders have been unwilling to tackle in the last 12 months...