Stories from Monday, February 6, 2012

Lauren White and Abby Simpson, students at Poplar Bluff High School, performed recently with the Missouri All-State Band at the Missouri Music Educators Association Conference at Tan-Tar-A Resort, Lake of the Ozarks. More than 1,000 students from across Missouri met at Hickman High School in Columbia to audition for the honor of participating in the top honor band in the state. Only 108 students were accepted into this elite ensemble...

PUXICO -- Brett Ruch and Adam Vandiver had 14 points each for Bloomfield as the Wildcats held on for a 49-43 win over Puxico on Friday. Bloomfield led by three heading into the fourth quarter where the Wildcats sank 7 of 11 free throws and got a pair of baskets from Vandiver and another from Ruch...

NAYLOR -- The Naylor Lady Eagles shot the lights out Saturday afternoon in the first round of the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament but it wasn't  enough for an upset or a second victory this week against No. 3 Twin Rivers. The sixth-seeded Lady Eagles sunk 13 3-pointers as a team but the Lady Royals played a stronger second half to advance with a 64-58 score...

Activities at Twin Towers will begin at 9 a.m. Monday, Feb. 6 when the Genealogy Society Book committee meets in the Toellner meeting room. At 9:30 a.m., the P.A.C.E. (people with Arthritis can exercise) class will meet in the Assembly room. P.A.C.E. is sponsored by the Independent Living Center. Then at 10:30 a.m., Book Study Club will gather in the Altrusa Room. For information about the Book Study Club, call Nancy at 714-4134. Darcus will come together in the Altrusa room at noon...

Kirstie Danielle Carda and Clay Houston Lawson, both of Poplar Bluff, Mo., announce their engagement. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Greg and Lisa Carda of Poplar Bluff. The bridegroom-to-be is the son of John Del Lawson of Poplar Bluff and the late Deidre Lawson...

Poplar Bluff High School will present Brighton Beach Memoirs, a comedy by Neil Simon, at the Kay M. Porter Theatre. Performances will be Friday and Saturday, March 16 -17 at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, March 18 at 2 p.m., and Monday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $4. Tickets may be purchased at the door...

Alexandra Campbell of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was one of 40 outstanding students initiated into the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society. The Omicron Delta Kappa Society, Inc., the national leadership honor society for college students, recognizes and encourages, superior scholarship, leadership and exemplary character. ...

Brian Dueker -- Wappapello, Mo. George Watson -- Dexter, Mo. Helen Jane Wilson -- Bowling Green, Ky. Hursel Newingham -- Poplar Bluff, Mo. Harold Smith -- Dexter, Mo. Bobby Zook --Piedmont, Mo. Steven Foster Sr. -- Ellington, Mo. Thomas Knodell Junior Harmon -- Puxico, Mo...

The definition above, from an old Webster's dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. The committee unearthed spies and traitors -- Alger Hiss among them. ...

Fighting back The news tells us that an Iranian scientist was assassinated by a magnetic bomb stuck to the rear of his car. Speculation is made that the United States and Israel are to blame. United States spokesperson denies that the U. S. had anything to do with it, and we are told that the U. ...

The story is grisly: a husband and wife murdering their three young daughters, ages 19, 17 and 13, by drowning them along with their stepmother. The couple was assisted by their 21-year-old son. All were found guilty of first-degree murder in Ontario, Canada. They were sentenced to life in prison...

By CAROLYN SMITH Staff Writer When the opportunity presented itself to attend this years' Sundance Film Festival, I booked a flight to Utah. I love films. Always have, always will. When I was a child films were the major source of entertainment. Movie theaters ran double features. ...

The definition above, from an old Webster's dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. The committee unearthed spies and traitors -- Alger Hiss among them. ...

By MONA CHAREN In 1992, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton built his campaign for the White House on doing more for the "forgotten middle class." Calling it the "new covenant" (Democrats since Roosevelt have tried to work the words "new" or "deal" into their campaign slogans), Clinton promised to focus on the people he called "the backbone of the country, the ones who do the work and pay the taxes and send their children off to war."...