Stories from Monday, June 11, 2012

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor CORNING, Ark. -- Democratic voters in Clay County, Ark., will help decide who wins the Democratic nomination for U.S. representative in District 1 in Tuesday's runoff election. Polling places will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m...

NEW MADRID, Mo. (SMNS) -- Five people have been charged in connection with a fatal assault at the New Madrid County Jail. New Madrid County Prosecuting Attorney Lewis Recker filed second-degree murder and first degree assault charges against Joshua Darter, Maurice Ely, Henry Lewis Hill, Pedro S. Rivera and Trevor J. Hatton, who were prisoners in the New Madrid County Jail on Tuesday with John Wayne Reynolds...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Students in the Boys & Girls Club of Poplar Bluff's Summer Camp program will get to experience nature like never before this summer, thanks to the Summer Junior Ranger Adventure program. Through the program, students will visit various regions of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, including Big Spring, Round Spring and Alley Spring. ...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Traveling across the United States on their Surly Long Haul Trucker Touring Bicycles, college friends Devin Yeoman and David Hosack are fulfilling a challenging dream. In the fall of 2011, Yeoman, who is the son of Dr. Lance Yeoman of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was talking to Hosack in the library at the University of Northern Iowa about biking across the country. Hosack recalls saying the trip "sounds really cool. I'll go with you. I like a great personal challenge."...

NEW MADRID, Mo. (SMNS) -- Five people have been charged in connection with a fatal assault at the New Madrid County Jail. New Madrid County Prosecuting Attorney Lewis Recker filed second-degree murder and first degree assault charges against Joshua Darter, Maurice Ely, Henry Lewis Hill, Pedro S. Rivera and Trevor J. Hatton, who were prisoners in the New Madrid County Jail on Tuesday with John Wayne Reynolds...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor CORNING, Ark. -- Democratic voters in Clay County, Ark., will help decide who wins the Democratic nomination for U.S. representative in District 1 in Tuesday's runoff election. Polling places will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Students in the Boys & Girls Club of Poplar Bluff's Summer Camp program will get to experience nature like never before this summer, thanks to the Summer Junior Ranger Adventure program. Through the program, students will visit various regions of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, including Big Spring, Round Spring and Alley Spring. ...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Traveling across the United States on their Surly Long Haul Trucker Touring Bicycles, college friends Devin Yeoman and David Hosack are fulfilling a challenging dream. In the fall of 2011, Yeoman, who is the son of Dr. Lance Yeoman of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was talking to Hosack in the library at the University of Northern Iowa about biking across the country. Hosack recalls saying the trip "sounds really cool. I'll go with you. I like a great personal challenge."...

By ANN McFEATTERS Scripps Howard News Service GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was walking on the beach near his $12 million home in La Jolla, Calif., when he saw a young man smoking marijuana and drinking. He went up to the man, demanding he stop both activities...

WASHINGTON - There's that old adage about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. It's difficult to gauge where Pakistan fits in that equation, but it seems certain that the beneficiaries of so much U.S. military aid don't always have our best interests at heart when it comes to the systematic dismantling of al Qaida's leadership...

By MONA CHAREN Though it hasn't been celebrated as such, Scott Walker's victory in Wisconsin represents the full flowering of the tea party movement. It is also a sign -- among others -- that the Republican Party has recaptured its ideological core...

Ruby Cheshire Ruby Cheshire, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Saturday, June 9, 2012, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Arrangements will be announced by Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff.

J. L. Mondy J. L. Mondy, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Sunday, June 10, 2012, at Oakdale Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Chapel in Poplar Bluff.

CHARLESTON -- Baseball can be a funny game and Sunday's Fighting Squirrel Classic Championship proved to be that way. The Poplar Bluff Thunder and Elsberry Senior Legion Post 226 each struggled at the plate and neither team knocked in a run but the Thunder won 3-1 at Hillhouse Park...

WASHINGTON - There's that old adage about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. It's difficult to gauge where Pakistan fits in that equation, but it seems certain that the beneficiaries of so much U.S. military aid don't always have our best interests at heart when it comes to the systematic dismantling of al Qaida's leadership...

By MONA CHAREN Though it hasn't been celebrated as such, Scott Walker's victory in Wisconsin represents the full flowering of the tea party movement. It is also a sign -- among others -- that the Republican Party has recaptured its ideological core...

Ruby Cheshire Ruby Cheshire, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Saturday, June 9, 2012, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Arrangements will be announced by Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff.

J. L. Mondy J. L. Mondy, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Sunday, June 10, 2012, at Oakdale Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Chapel in Poplar Bluff.

CHARLESTON -- Baseball can be a funny game and Sunday's Fighting Squirrel Classic Championship proved to be that way. The Poplar Bluff Thunder and Elsberry Senior Legion Post 226 each struggled at the plate and neither team knocked in a run but the Thunder won 3-1 at Hillhouse Park...