Stories from Sunday, September 11, 2011

The images Americans witnessed on Sept. 11, 2001, as the Twin Towers fell and the Pentagon smoldered following terrorist attacks, are something not even time can wash away, Missouri Speaker of the House Rep. Steven Tilley told those gathered Saturday at the 9/11 Memorial Banquet...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer When Scarlett Halifax decided to sleep in on the last day of a vacation to New York City, she didn't realize it was a choice that would save her life and those of her two sisters. Ten years later, the Poplar Bluff, Mo., woman still finds it difficult to speak of the morning nearly 3,000 Americans were killed...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Three bids for the construction of the Poplar Bluff Industrial Park Bypass Road were opened Friday during the Butler County Commission meeting. R.L. Persons Construction, Inc. of Poplar Bluff, Mo., submitted the apparent low base bid of $3,485,000. The owner, Randy Persons, also bid $62,095 on the first alternate and $71,079 on the second alternate, making the total bid $3,618,174...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associated Editor The 1992 murder of a Poplar Bluff, Mo., woman found dead in her Cherry Street apartment will be featured nationally later this week. Viewers tuning into "Nightmare Next Door" on Investigation Discovery at 9 p.m. Thursday will see an episode entitled "Midwestern Malice."...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In Cairo in 1943, when the tide had turned in the war on Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, who had embraced Joseph Stalin as an ally and acceded to his every demand, had a premonition. Conversing with Harold Macmillan, Churchill blurted:...

To the Editor, The Wappapello Civic Center Board of Directors would like thank everyone for their attendance and participation at our Modern Woodman Matching Funds Fundraiser for making this event a success. The proceeds raised from this project will be used to purchase new tables, a dehumidifier and repair and replace windows...

WASHINGTON -- Everyone older than 20 remembers whom he was with, what he was doing and how he learned we were at war that beautiful Tuesday morning a decade ago. Most of us recall a gorgeous late-summer morning with blue skies -- "shirt-sleeve weather" -- and then the horror: two of the world's tallest buildings collapsing into piles of rubble, the west wall of the Pentagon in flames and a fire-bathed crater in the soil of Somerset County, Pa...

The Butler County Genealogy Society met Sunday, Aug. 28 at Twin Towers. In attendance were 23 members and guests. President June Allen called the meeting to order and called for the secretary's and treasurer's reports. Both were read and approved. Katie Findley reported that a set of books was placed in the public library in memory of Sylvia Hodge...

Poplar Bluff Garden Club held the annual Senior Citizen's Plant Show at the Twin Towers Sept. 7-8 with 26 people entering 57 plants to be judged. Best of Show was won by Bernice Wright with a beautiful cactus. Visitors to the show found two unusual plants, a Wonder Egg plant and a Partridge/Quail plant very interesting...

Herschel and Pauline Rains will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at Westwood Hills Health Care Center, Business 67 S at Warrior Lane. All friends and relatives are invited to attend the celebration hosted by their children, Sue, Joe, Lynn and Ray...

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) MO 734 met at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 7 at the First Presbyterian Church at the corner of Main and Oak Streets. Linda Morgan, leader, called the meeting to order with 21 TOPS and three KOPS members present. Lou Ann Wrather read the secretary's report, Pam Kane, the treasurer's report and Ruth Fisher, the exercise report. All reports were approved...

Barbara Jo Thompson DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Barbara "Barbie" Jo Thompson, 32, of Doniphan, Mo., died Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Monday at Edwards Funeral Home of Doniphan. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home chapel...

Clyde Garner NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Clyde M. Garner, 79, of Naylor, Mo., died Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. Visitation will begin at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday followed by the funeral at 1 p.m. in Fowler-Sullivan Memorial Chapel in Neelyville. A complete obituary will be published in Monday's Daily American Republic...

Matthew Rohan PUXICO, Mo. -- Matthew D. Rohan, 18, of Puxico died in an auto accident early Saturday morning, Sept. 10, near Miner, Mo. Mr. Rohan was born May 9, 1993, at Paducah, Ky. He was a lifelong resident of Puxico. He was a member of the Puxico FFA Chapter and attended Egypt Church. He graduated from Puxico High School in 2011. He was a welder for C.T.S. Construction Co., in Sikeston, Mo...

Martha Blagg NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Martha Blagg, 73, died Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Funeral arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullivan Memorial Chapel of Neelyville, Mo.

Marie Yocks MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Marie M. Yocks, 89, of Marble Hill, Mo., died Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, at the Woodland Hills Nursing Home in Marble Hill. She was born Sept. 4, 1922, at Puxico, Mo. Mrs. Yocks loved to read and work in her garden. She and Ward Yocks were married in July 1955...

Edward Fraize DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Edward Clay Fraize, 80, of Oxly, Mo., died Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, at Ripley County Memorial Hospital in Doniphan. Mr. Fraize was born June 8, 1931, in White River, Ark. He was a self-employed mechanic. He attended Wilderness Church and was a veteran of the U.S. Army...

When Scarlett Halifax decided to sleep in on the last day of a vacation to New York City, she didn't realize it was a choice that would save her life and those of her two sisters. Ten years later, the Poplar Bluff, Mo., woman still finds it difficult to speak of the morning nearly 3,000 Americans were killed...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ten years on, Americans will come together Sunday where the World Trade Center soared, where the Pentagon stands as a fortress once breached, where United Airlines Flight 93 knifed into the earth. They will gather to pray in cathedrals in our greatest cities and to lay roses before fire stations in our smallest towns, to remember in countless ways the anniversary of the most devastating terrorist attacks since the nation's founding, and in the process mark the milestone as history itself.. ...

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- The 40 passengers and crew who fought back against their hijackers aboard Flight 93 on Sept. 11 performed one of the most courageous acts in U.S. history, former President George W. Bush said Saturday at a ceremony dedicating the first phase of a memorial at the nation's newest national park...

DEXTER -- Senior James Watson set a new Sikeston High School single game rushing record with 328 yards to help lead the Bulldogs to a wild, 57-30, win over the Dexter Bearcats Friday night at Charles Bland Stadium. Watson carried the ball 26 times and scored two touchdowns, one a 81-yard scamper in the second quarter, on his way to the new school record. Watson erased the old mark of 318 yards set in 1999 Justin Robinson...

PIGGOTT, Ark. -- The Malden Green Wave felt pretty green after last week's loss against Hayti. On Friday night across the state border in Piggott, Ark., the Green Wave found lots of open green on the field. The Green Wave hustled for 395 yards of total offense and scored twice on defense as they manhandled the Mohawks, 57-15...

After giving up one-goal leads three times Friday night, the Poplar Bluff soccer team held on for the final 7 minutes, 45 seconds. "I'm 28 (years old) and they're going to turn my hair all gray," Mules coach Jamie Waddell said after beating Anna-Jonesboro (Ill.) 5-4 at Whiteley Park...

Gregory Shore CAMPBELL, Mo. -- Gregory Allen Shore, 51, of Campbell, Mo., died on Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, in Campbell as a result of an auto accident Mr. Shore was born on Sept. 14, 1959, in Indiana. He was a construction worker and was of the Church of Christ faith...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Three bids for the construction of the Poplar Bluff Industrial Park Bypass Road were opened Friday during the Butler County Commission meeting. R.L. Persons Construction, Inc. of Poplar Bluff, Mo., submitted the apparent low base bid of $3,485,000. The owner, Randy Persons, also bid $62,095 on the first alternate and $71,079 on the second alternate, making the total bid $3,618,174...

To the Editor, The Wappapello Civic Center Board of Directors would like thank everyone for their attendance and participation at our Modern Woodman Matching Funds Fundraiser for making this event a success. The proceeds raised from this project will be used to purchase new tables, a dehumidifier and repair and replace windows...

WASHINGTON -- Everyone older than 20 remembers whom he was with, what he was doing and how he learned we were at war that beautiful Tuesday morning a decade ago. Most of us recall a gorgeous late-summer morning with blue skies -- "shirt-sleeve weather" -- and then the horror: two of the world's tallest buildings collapsing into piles of rubble, the west wall of the Pentagon in flames and a fire-bathed crater in the soil of Somerset County, Pa...

Poplar Bluff Garden Club held the annual Senior Citizen's Plant Show at the Twin Towers Sept. 7-8 with 26 people entering 57 plants to be judged. Best of Show was won by Bernice Wright with a beautiful cactus. Visitors to the show found two unusual plants, a Wonder Egg plant and a Partridge/Quail plant very interesting...

Matthew Rohan PUXICO, Mo. -- Matthew D. Rohan, 18, of Puxico died in an auto accident early Saturday morning, Sept. 10, near Miner, Mo. Mr. Rohan was born May 9, 1993, at Paducah, Ky. He was a lifelong resident of Puxico. He was a member of the Puxico FFA Chapter and attended Egypt Church. He graduated from Puxico High School in 2011. He was a welder for C.T.S. Construction Co., in Sikeston, Mo...

When Scarlett Halifax decided to sleep in on the last day of a vacation to New York City, she didn't realize it was a choice that would save her life and those of her two sisters. Ten years later, the Poplar Bluff, Mo., woman still finds it difficult to speak of the morning nearly 3,000 Americans were killed...

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- The 40 passengers and crew who fought back against their hijackers aboard Flight 93 on Sept. 11 performed one of the most courageous acts in U.S. history, former President George W. Bush said Saturday at a ceremony dedicating the first phase of a memorial at the nation's newest national park...