Stories from Wednesday, October 9, 2019

RiverMist Assisted Living in Poplar Bluff recently held a staff appreciation day celebrating parent company, Americare Senior Living, recieving the 2019 Customer Approved Award from NRC Health. The award recognizes the top twenty senior-care organizations across the country providing outstanding care experiences to their residents...

City firefighters responded at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, to an alarm at Shady Oaks Residential Home, 2913 Bedoll Ave. It was investigation only. _ City firefighters responded at 7:31 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, to a motor-vehicle crash at the intersection of Oak Grove Road and Westwood Boulevard...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Steven H. Hinkle, 24, of Harviell was arrested at 10:58 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated (drugs) and failure to yield. He was booked at the Butler County jail. _ Eduardo Corona, 17, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at 10:03 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, failure to drive on the right half of the road, no insurance and no seat belt He was booked at the Butler County jail...

WAPPAPELLO — For 32 years, the radio call sign “764” in Wayne County was synonymous with retired conservation agent Mic Plunkett, and after two years with Hayley Honeycutt in that position, “764” is back in the family. Mic’s son, Jacob Plunkett, has been a conservation agent in St. Francois County since he graduated from the Department of Conservation’s agent academy in October 2017. When Honeycutt transferred from Wayne to St. Francois County, he was given the opportunity to return home...

ELLSINORE — Leroy Carpenter, 82, died Oct. 7, 2019 at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10 in the McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore, with a graveside service at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11 in the Henson Cemetery in Ellsinore. Rev. Scott Reynolds will be officiating.

Local bowhunters took advantage of the cooler weather Saturday and bumped up the archery deer harvest a pretty good amount. However, Sunday’s off-and-on wet weather seems to have kept folks at home for the most part. In the days since, hunters have had good success and have started closing the big gap in the harvest total compared to a year ago...

With the fall of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, the defeat of his armies and the flight to Formosa, that was the question of the hour in 1949. And no one demanded to know more insistently than the anti-Communist Congressman John F. Kennedy:...

A Springfield defense attorney is among those recently charged with paying a witness to give false testimony during the retrial of a Myrtle man, who was acquitted in 2016 by a Butler County jury of killing his wife’s grandmother. Adam Woody, 38, was charged Friday with two Class D felonies of tampering with a witness and the Class D felony of perjury...

FISK — Benjaman Leroy Roberts, 73, of Benton, Ill., died Oct. 7, 2019 at his residence. Visitation will be from 1-2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13 at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. with Rev. Jerry Cooper officiating.

Verla (Ginger) Virginia Hotaling Malmstrom passed away peacefully on her birthday, Oct. 5, 2019, at the Circle of Life Hospice House in Bentonville, Ark. She was born Oct. 5, 1940 to Lester and Jessie (Chadd) Hotaling in Greeley, Colo. She attended Ault Colorado schools where she met the love of her life, Jerry Malmstrom, in the first grade. They kindled their relationship and eloped to Pocatello, Idaho and married Sept. 4, 1959. They were married 58 years until Jerry’s passing Feb. 8, 2018...

Survived by his beloved wife, Bonnie, of 62 years, Vernon Alford slipped away from this world into eternal rest on Oct. 9, 2019, surrounded by family. Vernon and Bonnie shared six children, Janet, Michael (Debbie), David (Kaye), Nancy, Johnny (Theresa) and Chris (Tara). ...

Rosemary (Rose) Barrientes of Poplar Bluff, died Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

CAPE GIRARDEAU — An Alton couple pleaded guilty this week in federal court to possessing stolen firearms that were taken from homes and cabins in Ripley County. Kyle King and Sandy Edwards pleaded guilty as charged in their indictments to the felony of possession of stolen firearms before U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Sr., according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Sorrell...

NEELYVILLE — Scott Alan Garrett,36, of Fairview Heights, Ill., passed away Oct. 6, 2019 in Mascoutah, Ill. Visitation for Scott will be at 6 p.m. Thursday Oct. 10 in the Fowler & Sons Funeral Home in Neelyville. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday Oct. 11 in the funeral home chapel.

Calvin R. Scowden, age 94, of Lowndes, died Tuesday, Oct, 8 in Benton, Mo. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11 at the Morrison Funeral Chapel in Greenville. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12 at the funeral home chapel with Rev. Leeman Shirrell officiating.