Stories from Monday, July 20, 2015

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Two people were treated Friday at a local hospital following an traffic accident involving a Carter County deputy who was responding to a house fire in Grandin, Mo. Deputy Kristopher L. Wilkins was eastbound on Highway 60 at Van Buren at approximately 8 p.m. when a 2007 Chevrolet Malibu pulled into the path of his vehicle, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer The Poplar Bluff City Council is expected to vote Monday on a new debt policy and the issuance of bonds related to the Eight Points Redevelopment Project. Eight Points developers have requested payment of $13.6 million related to infrastructure improvements in the north Poplar Bluff redevelopment area. This includes construction of streets and storm sewers...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Blind snakes, dogs going mad, sores from swimming and poor fishing are just a few of the tall tales surrounding the dog days of summer. But while most of these myths are false - as with most folklore, a hint of truth likely exists between the lines...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Patients began arriving at 4 a.m. Saturday at Malden High School, where one of three clinics will offer free medical, dental and vision services through Thursday. There are no income or residency requirement for the care, which is provided by U.S. Army and Navy active duty members and reservists...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer A Poplar Bluff teen was one of 100 in the nation to attend the Boys and Girls Club of America Advanced Leaders Institute at Emory University in Decatur, Ga. Alexa King, 17, was the Youth of the Year candidate for the Poplar Bluff club for 2015 and after being named runner-up as Youth of the Year for Missouri, she was invited to the campus to participate in leadership development workshops, networking and mentoring...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor A Bernie man accused of brutally stabbing another man to death has been committed a second time to the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Allen Dale McCoy, aka "Smurf," appeared Friday before Presiding Circuit Michael Pritchett for a motion hearing in his case...

Irwin and Paula McClanahan of O'Neill, Neb., announce the engagement of their daughter, Angela Dawn McClanahan, of St. Louis, to Brian Ray Capps of Poplar Bluff. Jerry and Terri Capps of Broseley are parents of the bridegroom-to-be. The couple will be married at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, at The Journey Church in St. Louis...

By SHARON RANDALL Tribune News Service Guilt. If it had a face, it would look a lot like the ax-waving monster that chased me through my nightmares as a child. How dare you, it says, do the things you do or have the things you have, when others never get a chance to enjoy them?...

By CAROLYN SMITH Staff Writer Former resident Nicole Terry, daughter of Richette Allen and the late Andrew Allen, recently celebrated the first anniversary of Nicki's Vegan Sweets which she operates out of her kitchen in Phenix City, Ala. On June 26, 2014, she sold her first dessert. ...

By MICHELLE MALKIN Four U.S. Marines, barred from carrying weapons at naval training facilities despite explicit ISIS threats against our military, are dead in Tennessee. Another service member and a Chattanooga police officer survived gunshots after Thursday's two-stage massacre allegedly at the hands of 24-year-old jihadist Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez...

Charlotte Joyce Jordan MALDEN, Mo.-- Charlotte Joyce Jordan, 74, of Lake City, Ark., formerly of Gideon, died Wednesday, July 15, 2015, at St. Bernard Hospice House in Jonesboro. Visitation will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church in Gideon...

Peggy Nicholson Peggy Nicholson, 60, of Poplar Bluff, died Friday, July 4, 2015 at her residence. A private family memorial service will ne held at a later date in St. Louis, Mich. Cotrell Funeral Service of Poplar Bluff is in charge of arrangements...

Billie McCoy MALDEN, Mo.--Billie McCoy, 78, of Gideon, died Thursday, July 16, 2015, at his residence. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Bradshaw Chapel with burial in Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton with military rites...

Firing up the 4th Whatever happened to our city ordinance about our fireworks? I thought it was like 10 p.m. and I was up until 2 a.m. with all these fireworks keeping me awake. I think it's wonderful people want to celebrate the 4th but it's not right or fair to celebrate so late and I was just wonderin' what happened. It was upsetting and rude. Thank you so much...

By ERIN RAGAN SEMO News Service Efforts to improve the Show Me Center are on track for completion before Southeast Missouri State University students return in the fall. On Friday, university officials and facilities management staff toured the venue, where construction crews worked to install a large new video scoreboard and retractable seating...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer A Poplar Bluff teen was one of 100 in the nation to attend the Boys and Girls Club of America Advanced Leaders Institute at Emory University in Decatur, Ga. Alexa King, 17, was the Youth of the Year candidate for the Poplar Bluff club for 2015 and after being named runner-up as Youth of the Year for Missouri, she was invited to the campus to participate in leadership development workshops, networking and mentoring...

Gary Waters FISK, Mo. -- Gary Dewayne Waters, 63, of Perryville, Mo., died Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center at Poplar Bluff. No services are scheduled. White-Sanders Funeral Home at Fisk is in charge of arrangements. Condolences; www.whitesandersfuneralhome.com...