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Fatal crash on 67
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
A two-vehicle crash at 11 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. 67, two miles south of Neelyville, Mo., left an Illinois man dead and a Corning, Ark., man seriously injured. According to the report, a southbound 2000 Ford was overtaking a 2009 Kenworth tractor-trailer when it struck the truck, then ran off the road and overturned...
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Police: Cyclist had lab on bike
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
A Poplar Bluff, Mo., man may face drug-related and traffic offenses after allegedly fleeing from officers conducting a spot check Tuesday afternoon. Poplar Bluff police officers were conducting a spot check for seat belts and liability insurance on South Fifth Street at Cherry Street when a motorcycle, driven by Michael W. Hon, allegedly failed to stop and fled the scene...
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Fly-in breakfast from 7-11 a.m. Saturday
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
By JOHN WILLEY Staff Writer The annual Poplar Bluff Civil Air Patrol Fly-In Breakfast always provides fun for people of all ages and attracts a lot of aviation enthusiasts whether they have a pilot's license or just an interest in airplanes. It is touted as a fly-in breakfast, but people who want to see the aircraft are welcome to drive in also...
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Taste of the Town Thurs. Benefits the Boys/Girls Club
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer For just $35, residents can sample food and drink from more than 20 local restaurants and vendors at the Boys & Girls Club's fifth annual Taste of the Town from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Black River Coliseum. Vendors include Applebee's, the Bread Co., Colton's Steakhouse, Las Margaritas and Marble Slab Creamery, as well as Budweiser and several local wineries...
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Twin Rivers OKs insurance
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer The Twin Rivers R-X Board of Education voted to switch insurance brokers and approved a new plan at a special meeting Tuesday night in the high school cafeteria. Superintendent Mike Stevenson explained he began examining options when the district learned its current United Health Care plan, brokered through Morse-Harwell-Jiles, would increase 22 percent. ...
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Toddlers and Tiaras Local pageant organizers on TV show tonight
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Two local pageant organizers will be featured on TLC's "Toddlers and Tiaras" tonight at 9. A premiere party will be held at Buffalo Wild Wings beginning around 8:30 p.m. Jill Worley of Broseley, Mo., directed the Me and My Pet pageant in January in Blytheville, Ark., with former Mrs. Missouri Lori Garrison of Piedmont, Mo. Brandy Kearbey and Jessica Bader of the Poplar Bluff area served as judges at the pageant...
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Police: Cyclist had lab on bike
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
A Poplar Bluff, Mo., man may face drug-related and traffic offenses after allegedly fleeing from officers conducting a spot check Tuesday afternoon. Poplar Bluff police officers were conducting a spot check for seat belts and liability insurance on South Fifth Street at Cherry Street when a motorcycle, driven by Michael W. Hon, allegedly failed to stop and fled the scene...
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Fly-in breakfast from 7-11 a.m. Saturday
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
By JOHN WILLEY Staff Writer The annual Poplar Bluff Civil Air Patrol Fly-In Breakfast always provides fun for people of all ages and attracts a lot of aviation enthusiasts whether they have a pilot's license or just an interest in airplanes. It is touted as a fly-in breakfast, but people who want to see the aircraft are welcome to drive in also...
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Taste of the Town Thurs. Benefits the Boys/Girls Club
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer For just $35, residents can sample food and drink from more than 20 local restaurants and vendors at the Boys & Girls Club's fifth annual Taste of the Town from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Black River Coliseum. Vendors include Applebee's, the Bread Co., Colton's Steakhouse, Las Margaritas and Marble Slab Creamery, as well as Budweiser and several local wineries...
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Twin Rivers OKs insurance
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer The Twin Rivers R-X Board of Education voted to switch insurance brokers and approved a new plan at a special meeting Tuesday night in the high school cafeteria. Superintendent Mike Stevenson explained he began examining options when the district learned its current United Health Care plan, brokered through Morse-Harwell-Jiles, would increase 22 percent. ...
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Toddlers and Tiaras Local pageant organizers on TV show tonight
(Local News ~ 05/09/12)
By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Two local pageant organizers will be featured on TLC's "Toddlers and Tiaras" tonight at 9. A premiere party will be held at Buffalo Wild Wings beginning around 8:30 p.m. Jill Worley of Broseley, Mo., directed the Me and My Pet pageant in January in Blytheville, Ark., with former Mrs. Missouri Lori Garrison of Piedmont, Mo. Brandy Kearbey and Jessica Bader of the Poplar Bluff area served as judges at the pageant...
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President Obama: The divider in chief
(Column ~ 05/09/12)
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER "The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states ... " -- Barack Obama rising star Democratic convention, 2004 WASHINGTON -- Poor Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. Once again he's been pilloried for fumbling a historic Supreme Court case. First shredded for his "train wreck" defense of Obamacare's individual mandate, he is now blamed for the defenestration in oral argument of Obama's challenge to the Arizona immigration law...
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Democrat race baiters
(Column ~ 05/09/12)
By WALTER E. WILLIAMS MSNBC's Chris Matthews, in a recent debate with former Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, called the Republican Party the "grand wizard crowd." Grand wizard is the title given to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. It is truly misinformed to call Republicans the party of the Klan. Throughout our history, most Klansmen and most racists have been Democrats. Here are a few racist quotes from major Democratic figures...
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Extremism & welfare state
(Column ~ 05/09/12)
By MONA CHAREN The theme song of a popular TV show from the last decade featured the lyric "I worry all the time. If you paid attention, you'd be worried, too." It's a wise posture when analyzing the slow-motion crisis that is Europe. European governments are toppling like clock towers in an earthquake. ...
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Rita Ossig
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Rita Ossig PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Rita Mae Ossig, 94, of Piedmont, Mo., died Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at Piedmont. She was born Nov. 22, 1917 in the Peachtree Community near Piedmont. She was a homemaker and a longtime member of the Peachtree General Baptist Church. She was married to Paul E. Ossig July 3, 1938 at Peachtree. He preceded her in death on June 9, 2002...
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Lady Royals rally past Clearwater
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/12)
Twin Rivers had a rocky first inning but settled in after that. The fourth-seeded Lady Royals were down 4-0 before battling back to knock off fifth-seeded Clearwater 6-5 in the opening round of the Ozark Foothills Conference tournament Tuesday at Rains Field...
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Doris Fox
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Doris Fox PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Doris Fox of Patterson, Mo., died Tuesday May 8, 2012, at her residence. Funeral arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont, Mo. Condolences: www.rueggfuneralhome.com
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Evelyn Nichols
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Evelyn Nichols Evelyn Nichols, 84, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are pending with Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
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Lady Mules beat Liberty in final tune-up for postseason
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/12)
The original schedule called for the Poplar Bluff Lady Mules varsity soccer team to end the regular season with a rigorous stretch of five road games. But a much-improved Liberty-Mountain View team came calling and the Lady Mules instead got to end their season Tuesday afternoon at Whiteley Park...
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Neelyville tops Greenville in extra innings
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/12)
Neelyville got all it could handle in the opening round of the Ozark Foothills Conference tournament. The third-seeded Lady Tigers got a run in the bottom of the eighth inning as escaped with a 3-2 win over sixth-seeded Greenville at Rains Field. "I don't think there has been very many games this season where we have had four or five hits and that is what we had," Neelyville coach Summer Sumrall said. "I don't think we could have paid to get a hit today...
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John Hartline -- Dexter, Mo.
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
John Hartline -- Dexter, Mo. Troy Crossen -- Poplar Bluff, Mo. Rita Ossig -- Piedmont, Mo. Linda Slavings -- Tallaossa, Mo. Betty Babb -- Poplar Bluff, Mo. Evelyn Nichols -- Poplar Bluff, Mo. Doris Fox -- Patterson, Mo.
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Neelyville downs East Carter 8-1
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/12)
NEELYVILLE -- The Neelyville Tigers struck early and often Tuesday afternoon at home against East Carter. The Tigers scored runs in each of the first four innings to move past the Redbirds, 8-1, in Ozark Foothills Conference action. Neelyville (16-5) got up 3-0 in the first inning and two runs apiece in the next two innings...
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John Hartline
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
John Hartline DEXTER, Mo. -- John D. Hartline, 70, of Dexter, Mo., died Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at his residence. He was born on Jan. 7, 1942, at Bernie, Mo. Mr. Hartline was of the Baptist faith, a former union carpenter in Flint, Mich. and was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps...
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Betty Babb
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Betty Babb Betty Sue Babb, 71, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Friday, May 4, 2012, at The Manor in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Babb was born July 16, 1940, in Mayfield, Ky. She was of the Pentecostal faith, and had retired from Oakdale Care Center as a laundry worker. Mrs. Babb enjoyed spending time with her family, gardening, making quilts and fishing...
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Troy Crossen
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Troy Crossen Troy Crossen, 84, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died May 6, 2012, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. He was born Sept. 21, 1927 in Corning, Ark. Mr. Crossen was a lifetime resident of Butler County and was a member of the New Life Christian Church United. He enjoyed life and his family, and playing golf. He was a member of the Poplar Bluff Blue Lodge #209, Scottish Rite of St. Louis, Moolah Temple, American Legion Post #153 and AMVETS. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...
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Linda Slavings
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Linda Slavings MALDEN, Mo. -- Maria Linda Slavings, 36, of Tallapoosa, Mo., died Saturday, May 5, 2012, in Tallapoosa. Ms. Slavings was born Dec. 3, 1975, in Toledo, Ohio. She attended the Baptist Church in Tallapoosa. Surviving are her mother, Reynalda Lerma of Malden, Mo.; her adopted parents, Fay and Mary Manning, of Tallapoosa; two sons, Romero Slavings and Dalton Manning, both of Tallapoosa; two sisters, Sonya Sanders and Hope Huggins, both of Malden; three brothers, Julian Lerma of Portageville, Arturo Lerma of Poplar Bluff and Alfredo Manning of Springfield.. ...
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Lady Royals rally past Clearwater
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/12)
Twin Rivers had a rocky first inning but settled in after that. The fourth-seeded Lady Royals were down 4-0 before battling back to knock off fifth-seeded Clearwater 6-5 in the opening round of the Ozark Foothills Conference tournament Tuesday at Rains Field...
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John Hartline -- Dexter, Mo.
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
John Hartline -- Dexter, Mo. Troy Crossen -- Poplar Bluff, Mo. Rita Ossig -- Piedmont, Mo. Linda Slavings -- Tallaossa, Mo. Betty Babb -- Poplar Bluff, Mo. Evelyn Nichols -- Poplar Bluff, Mo. Doris Fox -- Patterson, Mo.
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Neelyville downs East Carter 8-1
(High School Sports ~ 05/09/12)
NEELYVILLE -- The Neelyville Tigers struck early and often Tuesday afternoon at home against East Carter. The Tigers scored runs in each of the first four innings to move past the Redbirds, 8-1, in Ozark Foothills Conference action. Neelyville (16-5) got up 3-0 in the first inning and two runs apiece in the next two innings...
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John Hartline
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
John Hartline DEXTER, Mo. -- John D. Hartline, 70, of Dexter, Mo., died Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at his residence. He was born on Jan. 7, 1942, at Bernie, Mo. Mr. Hartline was of the Baptist faith, a former union carpenter in Flint, Mich. and was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps...
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Betty Babb
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Betty Babb Betty Sue Babb, 71, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Friday, May 4, 2012, at The Manor in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Babb was born July 16, 1940, in Mayfield, Ky. She was of the Pentecostal faith, and had retired from Oakdale Care Center as a laundry worker. Mrs. Babb enjoyed spending time with her family, gardening, making quilts and fishing...
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Troy Crossen
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Troy Crossen Troy Crossen, 84, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died May 6, 2012, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. He was born Sept. 21, 1927 in Corning, Ark. Mr. Crossen was a lifetime resident of Butler County and was a member of the New Life Christian Church United. He enjoyed life and his family, and playing golf. He was a member of the Poplar Bluff Blue Lodge #209, Scottish Rite of St. Louis, Moolah Temple, American Legion Post #153 and AMVETS. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...
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Linda Slavings
(Obituary ~ 05/09/12)
Linda Slavings MALDEN, Mo. -- Maria Linda Slavings, 36, of Tallapoosa, Mo., died Saturday, May 5, 2012, in Tallapoosa. Ms. Slavings was born Dec. 3, 1975, in Toledo, Ohio. She attended the Baptist Church in Tallapoosa. Surviving are her mother, Reynalda Lerma of Malden, Mo.; her adopted parents, Fay and Mary Manning, of Tallapoosa; two sons, Romero Slavings and Dalton Manning, both of Tallapoosa; two sisters, Sonya Sanders and Hope Huggins, both of Malden; three brothers, Julian Lerma of Portageville, Arturo Lerma of Poplar Bluff and Alfredo Manning of Springfield.. ...
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