Stories from Saturday, August 9, 2014

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor The defense's attempt to depose four Poplar Bluff City Council members in the city's lawsuit against former city manager Doug Bagby has failed. Following a hearing in Butler County Circuit Court Wednesday, Circuit Judge Kelly Parker of Salem, Mo., granted the city's motion for a protective order and denied Bagby's motion to compel the taking of depositions from Mayor Angela Pearson and Councilmen Peter Tinsley, David Johnson and Johnny Brannum...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Wappstock, a Missouri not-for-profit organization, is offering a day filled with a variety of activities at three Lake Wappapello locations Saturday. The funds raised will be used to send youngsters to camp. The activities will include a catfish tournament, motorcycle rally and poker run, car show sponsored by Larry Hillis Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and a variety of 70s and 80s-style bands playing during the day and evening at different locations...

Poplar Bluff Municipal Library District received a clean 2013 audit. This is the first audit completed for the library since its financial separation from the city of Poplar Bluff following the passage of Proposition 1. The favorable audit for the fiscal year ending December 2013 was conducted by Boyer and Associates, PC, Certified Public Accountants of Park Hills, Mo. ...

Knows were bodies buried This is in regards to the article in the paper about the woman who worked at the college and was paid $94,000 a year and she's resigned but they're still going to pay her salary. This sounds like somebody knows where the bodies are buried...

Jordan Hernandez and Kevin Staggs of Poplar Bluff, Mo. have chosen the name Piper Danielle Staggs for their 6-pound, 5-ounce daughter who was born at 3:18 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Piper was 19 1/4" long...

Jeff and Melissa Jones of Monaca, Pa., formerly of Poplar Bluff, Mo. are the parents of Madeline Suzanne Jones. She was born at 6:29 a.m., June 19, 2014 at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa. She weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces and was 19 1/4 inches long...

By BEN CARSON Intolerance that fosters pogroms abroad is taking root in U.S. communities. Sobering and unforgettable images are projected across our television and computer screens. They should elicit the most basic instincts of both fear and compassion...

Adrian Venable DONIPHAN, Mo. - Adrian Venable, 89, of Nixa, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Saturday in the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan. The funeral service will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home chapel with burial to follow in the Poynor Cemetery in Poyner, Mo...

Frances Verdier Frances Noles Verdier, 95, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. died Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, at The Monticello House, in Jackson, Mo. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

Leola "Sue" Schulte Leola "Sue" Schulte, 89, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Schulte was born Aug. 6, 1925, in Lincoln, Neb., to the late Lon and Velma Derryberry Bowen. She was of the Baptist faith, and had previously worked as a seamstress at the Gossard Clothing Factory. Mrs. Schulte enjoyed reading, quilting and sewing...

Roy Poore Roy Aubert Poore, 94, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mr. Poore was born May 20, 1920 in Neelyville, Mo. to the late Aubert and Daisy Ann Nixon Poore. He was a member of The First Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff, and had retired from John J. ...

Doyle Foulks DONIPHAN, Mo. - Doyle Louis Foulks, 71, of Doniphan departed this life Thursday, July 31, 2014. Mr. Foulks, son of Frank Foulks and Dortha (Anderson) Foulks Calvert, was born May 1, 1943, in the Tucker community of Ripley County, Mo. He had been a well-driller and enjoyed riding his motorcycle in his leisure time...

Patricia Powell MALDEN, Mo. - Patricia June Powell, 82, of Gideon, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at Gideon Care Center. Visitation will be 1-1:45 p.m. Saturday at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Gideon. Graveside service will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton, Mo...

Bible camps and sports camps are typically exclusive of each other. Earlier this week, a passing notion to combine the two came to fruition and surged past organizer's expectations. "We threw it out there and didn't know if it would catch and it really has. ...

Norman Lawrence MALDEN, Mo. - Norman C. Lawrence, 85, of Malden, died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at Malden Nursing and Rehab. Visitation will be noon to service time Saturday at Bradshaw Funeral Home. Funeral will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Bradshaw Chapel with burial in Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton, Mo...