Stories from Monday, March 19, 2012

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Locally based Southeast Missouri Search and Rescue recently assisted with two major missing persons cases. On Feb. 24-26, a team traveled to Tennessee and joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and other teams in the search for Holly Bobo. Bobo, a 19-year-old college student, was abducted outside her Tennessee home in April 2011...

By JOHN WILLEY Staff Writer With the help of her family, friends and encouragement from her teachers, Bethany Kenser is headed for the U.S. Air Force Academy in June -- just after graduation ceremonies at Poplar Bluff High School. Kenser not only received an appointment to the academy from Rep. ...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Surprised to hear complaints about the cost of gasoline, foreign exchange student Loke Toldshøj of Denmark explains, in his homeland, gas is $7 a gallon. "Everything here is a lot cheaper," said Toldshøj, who is living with Derek and Jodie Hillis of Poplar Bluff, Mo., and their two children, Jordan, 14, and Karlee, 10, while he attends Poplar Bluff High School. "I laugh when people complain about gas prices."...

Area schoolteachers are encouraged to register now for a free workshop presented by NASA's Aerospace Education Services Project. John Weis, an education specialist with Penn State University and the Marshall Space Flight Center, will return to Three Rivers College to lead the popular Moon Rocks workshop for teachers March 21-23. ...

Last May, the Poplar Bluff Lady Mules were given a huge opportunity to go where no team in school history had ever gone. Playing the MSHSAA Class 3 District 1 Tournament on their own field at Whiteley Park, top-seed Jackson went down in flames in a 3-1 loss in the semifinals which perked up the Lady Mules as they warmed up for their game to follow...

After high school, Chris Kilgore was on the fast track to Kansas. But Hutchinson definitely wasn't on his map at the time. It certainly is now. Kilgore, who graduated from Poplar Bluff in 2009, left to join the track and field team at Coffeyville Community College in Kansas...

The Three Rivers Lady Raiders capped long week on the road with two wins over Arkansas Baptist on Friday before splitting with Southwest Tennessee Saturday. In the first game against Arkansas Baptist, the Lady Raiders (13-7) won 17-2 in five innings...