Stories from Wednesday, September 3, 2014

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor DONIPHAN, Mo. -- A Doniphan man is to appear in a Ripley County court Wednesday after being charged with the weekend shooting death of another man in an apparent dispute over prison happenings. Michael L. Futrell, 55, was charged with the Class A felonies of first-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action by Ripley County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Bill Gresham...

Bonnie Gazaway DONIPHAN, Mo.--Bonnie Muriel Gazaway, 84, of Gatewood, Mo died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Gazaway was born Jan. 8, 1930 to the late Curtis and Clara Miller Johnson. Bonnie was a retired school teacher having taught at Gatewood and Couch, Mo. ...

Hiriam McFadden PIEDMONT, Mo.--Hiriam I. McFadden, 87, of Piedmont, passed away Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014 at the Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. Visitation was held at 10 a.m. today at the Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel in Piedmont. Funeral services followed at noon today at the funeral home chapel...

Earl Huitt PIEDMONT, Mo.--Earl F. "Dick" Huitt, 88, of Patterson, Mo., passed away Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 at the Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. He was born July 15, 1926 near Lesterville, Mo. He was married to Helen Bess Sept. 14, 1946 at Ironton, Mo. ...

Dylan Fitzwater PIEDMONT, Mo.-- Dylan Fitzwater, 24, of Piedmont, died Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Reynolds County, Mo. Arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont.

Hershel Riddell MALDEN, Mo.--Hershel Riddell, 82, of Malden, died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 at the Southeast Health Care of Stoddard County in Dexter. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the Landess Funeral Home in Malden. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Landess Funeral Chapel in Malden with Rev. Raymond Ledbetter officiating...

Dannie Denise and Steven Lee McCoy of Poplar Bluff, Mo., have chosen the name Memphys Grace McCoy for their 1-pound, 5-ounce daughter born at 2:50 p.m., Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at Saint Francis Medical Center's Family BirthPlace in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Memphys was 13 inches long...

Please stop dumping cats Yeah, I was calling to complain about the people and to issue a statement that are dumping cats and kittens out in subdivisions because they think, oh, maybe somebody out there will adopt 'em. I take all the stray ones to the pound because I have so many that I feed already. ...

Everlena Herrion DEXTER, Mo.--Everlena "Bigmomma" Herrion, 78, of Sikeston, Mo. died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Watkins and Sons Chapel in Dexter. Funeral services will follow at 1 p.m. Saturday Sept. 6, at the Watkins and Sons Chapel in Dexter with Pastor Norman Cole, Jr. of Sikeston and Elder Dan Larkins officiating...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Russia's ongoing dismemberment of Ukraine and the Islamic State's erasing of Middle Eastern borders have distracted attention from the harassment of U.S. Navy aircraft by Chinese fighter jets over the South China Sea. ...

By MICHELLE MALKIN Did you miss Tinseltown's latest political correctness powwow? Preening celebrities showed their solidarity with Ferguson, Mo., at the MTV Video Music Awards show this week. Rapper Common led the convocation, preachifying about the positive impact of hip-hop music on society as a "powerful instrument of social change" and "truth."...

With school back in session it is once again time to meet the Raiders. Three Rivers will host its annual Meet the Raiders event at 6 p.m., Monday at the Bess Activity Center. Admission if free, but dinner is $5 for non-students. Booths for booster club membership, reserved seating and bus programs will be available...