Stories from Thursday, January 17, 2013

SoutheastHEALTH President and CEO Wayne Smith announced today that Paula Harris has been named vice president of regional operations of SoutheastHEALTH. Harris most recently served as chief executive officer of Advanced Health Care Management Services headquartered in Poplar Bluff...

Thank you, Chief for the sign I just want to say thank you Police Chief Danny Whiteley for that sign you put up in front of our police department: Poplar Bluff City Police Department God Bless America. We think you are a wonderful police chief. We thank you for standing true to the Christian values that our country was founded on. We are proud that you put that sign up there. Thank you again, Police Chief Danny Whiteley. Merry Christmas...

Earl Vaughn PIGGOTT, Ark. -- Earl D. Vaughn, 72, of Trumann, Ark., died Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark. Visitation was held Tuesday evening. The funeral service was held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hoggard & Sons Funeral Home in Piggott, Ark., with Austin Missey officiating. Burial was in Piggott Cemetery...

Poplar Bluff High School students receive honors at art exhibition Winners of the 11th Annual Hemingway-Pfeiffer Student Art Exhibition were announced in a Jan. 12 awards reception at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum in Piggott. The annual juried art competition invites students within a 50-mile radius of Piggott to submit art for exhibition at the museum...