Stories from Thursday, June 9, 2016

By RON SMITH P-N Staff Writer Nearly three miles of Current River frontage covering 185 acres at the edge of the Doniphan city limits is on its way to becoming part of the Mark Twain National Forest. Friday afternoon, the T.L. Wright Lumber Company of Doniphan officially transferred ownership of the property to The Conservation Fund. The announcement was made at a public meeting held at the Doniphan Community Center...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Local authorities are investigating an armed robbery that occurred Tuesday night as a pizzeria employee was walking to a nearby bank to make a nightly deposit. At about 10:55 p.m., Poplar Bluff police officers responded to Pizza Hut in the 1300 block of North Westwood Boulevard...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer VAN BUREN, Mo. -- An attempt to remove the mayor of Van Buren from office will go to trial Aug. 19. Judge David Evans issued an order Tuesday, setting a trial date that will allow the state to present evidence that Mayor Michael Hoerner violated election procedure and should be removed from office...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer GREENVILLE, Mo. -- As the Missouri State Highway Patrol begins an investigation into the city of Greenville's finances, it appears the conflict that has followed the town of about 500 since April will not end anytime soon...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor A Poplar Bluff, Mo., woman is being held on a $500,000 cash bond after being charged Tuesday afternoon with assaulting a teenager by allegedly stabbing her more than a dozen times. Jessica Ann Sincup, 27, was charged with the Class A felony of first-degree assault and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action by Butler County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ted Thompson...

Norma Isaac Norma Isaac, daughter of the late Horace and Dova Cato Crites, was born in Greenbrier, Mo., on Feb. 13, 1933, and passed away at her home near Puxico on June 1, 2016, at the age of 83 years, 3 months and 19 days. Mrs. Isaac had lived in the Puxico area all of her life. She was a member of the Kinder Chapel General Baptist Church near Puxico. She had worked as a cook at the Puxico Public Schools and enjoyed gardening, dogs, birds and cats...

Jimmy Mangrum Jimmy Ray Mangrum, 54, of Wappapello, Mo., died Friday, June 3, 2016, at his residence. Services were held June 7, 2016, at Cotrell funeral Chapel in Wappapello. Rev. Jim Schremp officiated. Burial followed in the Little Brushy Cemetery...

Janice Maddox Janice Marie Maddox, 60, of Dexter passed away Sunday, May 28, 2016, at her residence. Services were held June 4, 2016 at the Liberty Hill General Baptist Church in Aid. Rev. Preston Owens officiated.

William Jones of Qulin, Mo., earned a place on the 2016 spring semester Dean's List at State Technical College of Missouri in Linn, Mo. To be placed on the Dean's List, a full-time student must earn a semester grade point average between 3.5 and 4.0 on a 4-point scale...

Nobody likes a bully. We ask our public schools not to tolerate bullying and we teach our children to stand up for what is right in the face of intimidation. Yet President Obama is acting like a bully when it comes to the recent directive to public schools across this country regarding sexual identity. ...

Ella Mae McAlister Brown MALDEN, Mo. -- Ella Mae McAlister Brown, 82, Malden, Mo., died Sunday, June 5, 2016, at Southeast Health of Stoddard County - Dexter, Mo. Visitation will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 8, at Bradshaw Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 9, in the chapel with the Rev. Stewart Allen Clark officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Malden...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "Clinton to Paint Trump as a Risk to World Order." Thus did page one of Thursday's New York Times tee up Hillary Clinton's big San Diego speech on foreign policy. Inside the Times, the headline was edited to underline the point:...

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER WASHINGTON -- Part of Bernie Sanders' charm is that for all of his arm-waving jeremiads, he appears unthreatening. He's the weird old uncle in the attic, Larry David's crazy Bernie. It's almost a matter of style. Who can be afraid of a candidate so irascible, grumpy, old-fashioned and unfashionable?...

Vickie Jaco Cochran Vickie Jaco Cochran, 54, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. passed away Saturday, June 4, 2016 at her residence. She was born on April 23, 1962 to Richard Lindgren and Peggy (Jaco) Jenkins in Houghton, Mich. She graduated from Poplar Bluff High School in 1980 and later graduated from Three Rivers College. Vickie worked at Rowe Furniture for many years until the factory closed and Mid-Continental Nail as a customer service representative...

Greg Coble sees the irony in teams passing on him. That doesn't mean he has to understand it, much less accept it. He's been here before. He just figured that after years of proving a lot of people wrong, he might be past that. Instead, the Poplar Bluff football player has to prove himself all over again...

Gertrude Haworth MALDEN, Mo. -- Gertrude Haworth of Malden, Mo. was born on Sept. 3, 1924 in Holdenville, Okla. and departed this life on Monday, June 6, 2016 at the Golden Living Center in Malden, Mo. at the age of 91. Mrs. Haworth's parents were Emery Hutchings and Maude Watson Hutchings. ...

Donald Ray Stevenson Donald Ray Stevenson, 70, of Hastings, Okla., died Friday, June 3, 2016. Funeral services were at 1 p.m. , Wednesday, June 8, 2016, at the Waurika Church of Christ. Burial will be in Resthaven Cemetery in Duncan. Contributions may be made to Fallen Warriors Foundation, Wounded Warriors, Waurika Church of Christ or charity of choice...

Anna Willis PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Anna Willis, 82, of Patterson, Mo., died Monday, June 6, 2016, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Visitation will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont, Mo. Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, June 10, at the Piedmont Chapel. Donations can be made to the Shriners Hospital, St. Louis, Mo...

Three Rivers College will not renew the contract of softball coach Jack Childress. "It was a decision made by the administration in consultation with the board," Three Rivers President Dr. Wesley Payne said. "We decided to go in a different direction with the softball program and not offer coach Childress a new contract for coming year."...