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FBI trains PBPD
(Local News ~ 09/11/15)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Officers with the Poplar Bluff Police Department recently sharpened their skills, practicing tactics and techniques they can use in responding to active-shooter and hostage situations. "We have such a young enforcement staff now; a lot of the younger guys have just graduated from the academy and have not had good training on entry and active shooters, hostage type situations," said Chief Danny Whiteley, who contacted Bill Woods, the special agent in charge of the FBI in St. ...
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Boys/Girls Club adds karate
(Local News ~ 09/11/15)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer The Poplar Bluff Boys and Girls Club has teamed up with the Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center to offer karate classes in order to teach students self-discipline and self-defense skills. "We have kicked off a new karate program with our kindergarten members at the PB kindergarten center. ...
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Women Aware ticket prices go up Sunday
(Local News ~ 09/11/15)
By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Tickets to the 28th annual Women Aware Conference Sept. 24 featuring New York Times best selling author Carine McCandless will cost $50 after midnight Saturday, Sept. 12. The early bird price of $40 per ticket will be good until then...
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Hit parents with baseball bat PB man pleads to killing dad
(Local News ~ 09/11/15)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor NEW MADRID, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff, Mo., man pleaded guilty earlier this week to causing the 2013 death of his father by repeatedly striking him with a baseball bat. Accompanied by his attorney, Amanda Altman with the Public Defender's Office, Matthew Dale Jenkins pleaded guilty as charged Tuesday to the Class A felony of second-degree murder, according to Butler County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Barbour...
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Concert fundraiser set Bread Shed expands reach
(Local News ~ 09/11/15)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer A local charity that strives to nourish both body and soul is expanding two long-standing programs this month. The Bread Shed's food truck program will start monthly deliveries to Doniphan, Mo., on Sept. 19 at First Baptist Church...
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Mich. county to extend search Kaplan does not get job
(Local News ~ 09/11/15)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer BENZIE COUNTY, Mich. --After presentations from their top candidates, including fired Poplar Bluff, Mo., city manager Heath Kaplan, Benzie County commissioners have decided to restart their search for a new administrator in nine months...
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Pears are good and nutritious
(Features ~ 09/11/15)
This is the time of year that pear lovers everywhere get excited about the fresh new pears appearing at local markets. Did you know that people have loved pears since the dinosaur days? The pear is a cousin of the apple, the almond, and the apricot...
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Donald Trump is a malleable mess
(Column ~ 09/11/15)
By GEORGE F. WILL "I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder.' My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."...
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Life was not always this way
(Column ~ 09/11/15)
By WALTER E. WILLIAMS Academics and public intellectuals, who should know better, attempt to explain the highly visible and publicized pathology witnessed in cities such as Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Ferguson and others as a legacy of slavery. The argument is made that the problems encountered by many black Americans are rooted in white racism, greed and income inequality. ...
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Sharon L.
(Obituary ~ 09/11/15)
Sharon L. Longarini DEXTER, Mo, -- Sharon L. Longarini (nee Smith), 73, a resident of Naperville, Ill. since 1978, died Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015 at Edward Hospital in Naperville. A visitation will be held from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Beidelman-Kunsch Funeral Homes and Crematory, 24021 Royal Worlington Drive, Naperville; with a brief prayer service at 7 p.m. ...
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The rumor of Mr. Reindeer
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/11/15)
To the Editor: To begin my story I need to input a little background as it happened in Poplar Bluff in the middle of the 1930s depression. My parents had six children, all born before World War II. My father was a railroad engineer and we always rented because we could never afford to buy a home. ...
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Damian
(Obituary ~ 09/11/15)
Damian Andrew Winters NEELYVILLE, Mo.-- Damian Andrew Winters, 14, of Oxly, Mo. died Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, near Oxly. He was a student at Naylor. Damian was born Oct. 8, 2000 at Poplar Bluff, Mo. His hobbies were basketball, video games and being with family...
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Margaret "Peg" Bruyette
(Obituary ~ 09/11/15)
Margaret "Peg" Bruyette DEXTER, Mo. -- Margaret "Peg" Charlotte Bruyette, 78, of Dexter, Mo. died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015 at SoutheastHEALTH in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be from 9-10:30 a.m. Friday at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter with the funeral services being conducted at 10:30 a.m. at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Father David Dohogne officiating. Burial will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery...
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Jonathan
(Obituary ~ 09/11/15)
Jonathan "Quintin" Freeze VAN BUREN, MO.--Jonathan "Quintin" Freeze, 50, of Ellsinore, Mo., died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. Visitation for the public will be at 6 p.m., Thursday, at the McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore. The funeral will be at 2 p.m., Friday, at the funeral home chapel with Dr. Richard Franz officiating...
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Tigers set trap for 3-0 Mules
(High School Sports ~ 09/11/15)
Coming off a conference road win for the program's first 3-0 start since 2003, the Poplar Bluff football team travels Friday to the defending conference champs who are 1-2 and coming off a tough loss. Cue the 'Return of the Jedi' scene with Admiral Ackbar:...
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Greitens bows out of governor forum
(Local News ~ 09/11/15)
By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor One of the six Republican candidates for governor has decided not to participate in the Poplar Bluff Forum sponsored by the Butler County Republican Central Committee. A campaign staff member, who had confirmed Eric Greitens, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, would be at the forum, told BCRCC chairman Eddy Justice today that he would not be attending because "he has not officially announced he is a candidate for governor."...
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Carter David Battles
(Births ~ 09/11/15)
Brittany Anthony and Austin Battles of Bloomfield, Mo., have chosen the name Carter David Battles for their 7-pound, 3-ounce son born at 10:24 a.m., Friday, Aug. 28, 2015 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Grandparents are: Frank Anthony, Jr., of Poplar Bluff, Mo., Michael Battles and Kristie Battles, both of Bloomfield. Great-grandparents are: Lois Anthony of Poplar Bluff, Linda Lewis of Dexter, Mo., Debbie Battles of Bloomfield, and Sandy and Ken Kingree, also of Bloomfield,...
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Topsy-turvy start to conference play
(High School Sports ~ 09/11/15)
Three weeks into the 2015 season, there has been plenty of changes in the SEMO Conference compared to last year. Three of the teams that had at least a share of first place in their respective divisions a third of the way through last season -- Cape Central, Jackson and Caruthersville -- now find themselves in the cellar or near it...
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Dexter man named a SEMO St. regent
(Local News ~ 09/11/15)
By KATIE LAMB SEMO News Service Gov. Jay Nixon announced Tuesday two appointments to the Southeast Missouri State University board of regents. Phillip M. Britt of Kennett and Edward P. Gargas of Dexter will replace regents Daren Todd and Doyle Privett, respectively, whose terms expired Jan. 1...
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