Stories from Friday, April 27, 2018

Three Rivers College serves the Southeast Missouri region by providing higher education opportunities that are high quality, affordable, and convenient. Three Rivers offers a wide variety of college transfer and career-technical programs. With TRC's college transfer programs, students can save thousands of dollars by taking freshman and sophomore classes close to home, then transfer seamlessly to a four-year college or university. ...

There is an old song about a man who attended a church he had never been to. This was a rather quiet church where you sang hymns, repeated prayers and basically remained quiet during the rest of the service. The guest really liked what the minister was saying and eventually he couldn't hold it any longer...

Southeast Missouri can be an outdoorsman's dream, and while the deer and turkey hunting can be really good, waterfowl hunting just may be the most popular hunting activity in the region. Whether it be private lands with flooded rice and soybean fields or the Missouri Department of Conservation's multiple managed wetland areas, waterfowl hunters have plenty of opportunities...

DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Jones, 72, of Doniphan, died Friday, April 20, 2018, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 28, 2018, at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan. The funeral service will follow at 1 p.m. in the funeral home chapel...

By MARC A. THIESSEN WASHINGTON -- Emmanuel Macron and President Trump don't agree on much. Macron is a globalist; Trump is a nationalist. Macron is a free-trader; Trump just imposed protectionist tariffs on steel and aluminum. Macron wants the United States to remain in Syria; Trump wants to get out. Macron wants to preserve the Iran nuclear deal; Trump wants to scrap it. Macron wants the United States to rejoin the Paris climate deal; Trump withdrew from the accord...

Leonard Theodore Boyt, formerly of Dudley, son of the late C. C. and Lola Blanche Taylor Boyt, was born in Parma, Missouri Jan. 14, 1933, and passed away at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter April 25, 2018, at the age of 85 years, 3 months and 11 days...

By ADRIANA COHEN A cultural shift is happening before our very eyes. Entertainment royalty and prominent blacks in American society, long beholden to the Democrat Party, had a rare breakout moment this week, setting the social media stratosphere ablaze...

Douglas Gene Redwine, 55, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. died Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at his home. He was born Dec. 18, 1962 in Denver, Colo. Douglas worked as a die-caster for Briggs and Stratton. He was a member of American Legion Post 1000 and a veteran of the United States Navy. He enjoyed fishing, woodworking and working on automobiles. He was a member of Westwood Baptist Church...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "Together," President Macron instructed President Trump, "we can resist the rise of aggressive nationalisms that deny our history and divide the world." Before Congress he denounced "extreme nationalism," invoked the U.N., NATO, WTO, and Paris climate accord, and implored Trump's America to come home to the New World Order...

GREENVILLE, Mo. -- Mary J. Elder, 79, of Greenville died Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at Greenville Health Center, Greenville. Arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Greenville.

Throughout the state of Missouri, 100 students were selected for an academic honor which included a senior from Twin Rivers High School in the elite group. Cameron Bleem was selected for the 2018 Missouri Scholars 100, a statewide program that honors Missouri's top academic students in the graduating class of 2018...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A federal jury deliberated about 2 1/2 hours Thursday in acquitting a Ripley County man of lying to a federal agent about a missing helicopter, which authorities found in his hanger. Lonnie Wayne Reid stood trial this week before U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. on two felony counts of lying to a federal law enforcement officer about a material fact related to the investigation of a missing helicopter...

A Facebook post setting a deadline for downtown streets to change from one-way to two-way traffic also caught some Poplar Bluff City Council members off guard this week, which city officials say was not intentional. South Broadway and Main streets will become two-way at 6 a.m. May 4, according to an announcement made Wednesday on the police department's social media page...

The United Cancer Assistance Network has provided $1.9 million in direct funding to cancer patients in the past 20 years. A homegrown charity, UCAN doesn't receive any government funding, said executive director Melody Melloy. All of that support has come from community members like those who will show up Saturday for the 2018 Sarah Jarboe White UCAN Walk...

Karon Campbell joined friends and loved ones Thursday to celebrate her designation as the 2018 Three Rivers College Distinguished Alumni. The woman behind Tasteful Creations Catering is the college's third Alumni of the Year and was honored in a reception at the Tinnin Fine Arts Center...