Stories from Wednesday, June 13, 2012

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Volunteers hope to keep a Fairdealing, Mo., animal shelter up and running with a biker run Saturday. Registration will be from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at both Ice Cycles in Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Rocky River Resort in Doniphan, Mo., for the second annual Kindred Spirit Animal Rescue Center Biker Run. The first 10 registered at each site will receive a free T-shirt...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- As part of his Tuesday guilty plea, a former Cape Girardeau man agreed to forfeit the Shannon County campground he made available to drug sellers and users during his music festivals. James Tebeau, 44, pleaded guilty as charged to one felony count of maintaining a drug-involved premises before U.S. ...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor CORNING, Ark. -- Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington of Jonesboro, Ark., narrowly won the Democratic nomination for U.S. representative in Arkansas District 1. Ellington defeated state Rep. Clark Hall of Marvell, Ark., by only 260 votes in Tuesday's runoff election. Ellington tallied 10,055 votes while Hall received 9,795 votes, according to the Arkansas Secretary of State's office...

By SYD HAYMAN Staff Writer The accomplishments of 23 adults who passed the GED examination were acknowledged at the Adult Education and Literacy's GED Recognition Ceremony Sunday, June 3. The ceremony was held at Poplar Bluff Senior High School's Kay Porter Theater...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Pritchett expects to name an interim Ripley County prosecuting attorney Friday to serve until a permanent replacement for Monte Phillips is named by the governor...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor CORNING, Ark. -- Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington of Jonesboro, Ark., narrowly won the Democratic nomination for U.S. representative in Arkansas District 1. Ellington defeated state Rep. Clark Hall of Marvell, Ark., by only 260 votes in Tuesday's runoff election. Ellington tallied 10,055 votes while Hall received 9,795 votes, according to the Arkansas Secretary of State's office...

By MELISSA MILLER SEMO News Service CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Isle of Capri has moved up the opening date for its Cape Girardeau casino, announcing it will open by Nov. 1, pending regulatory approval. That's two months ahead of its initial schedule to open at the end of 2012...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Within days of SEAL Team Six's killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama's national security adviser pungently to "shut the (bleep) up."...

To the Editor: I have been asked for months to write an article about the Child Concern retail shop. I asked for some information about the shop. This is sure a lot of information about the shop. I shall try to just write about the main things. I had no idea that one had to have the Office of the Secretary of State involved in getting this business started. ...

The Earth Shook? Not! The letter to the editor entitled, "June 3 the Earth Shook." The writer might be surprised to hear it might have shook where he was, but we didn't even feel a vibration. I even asked a neighbor and they didn't feel anything either. ...

By MONA CHAREN President Obama ran a successful campaign in 2008 against George W. Bush. Yes, yes, John McCain's name was on the ballot, but that was a detail. Obama campaigned against Bush. McCain even laughed about it at the Alfred E. Smith dinner, joking that Obama's "pet name for me" is "George Bush."...

Martha Stause DEXTER, Mo. -- Martha Stause, 66, of Dexter, Mo., died Sunday, June 10, 2012, at her residence. Mrs. Stause was born on July 13, 1945, in Dexter. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Dexter. She was a former employee of Purolator Products in Dexter for 17 years, and was currently employed at Gregory's Creations for the past eight years...

Robert Risinger CARLYLE, Ill. -- Robert Risinger, 69, of Keyesport, Ill., died Sunday, June 11, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Risinger was born on Dec. 15, 1942, in Fisk, Mo. He was a truck driver and had owned and operated gas stations in Highland. He supported the New Life Evangelistic Church...

Martha Stause -- Dexter, Mo. Robert Risinger -- Keyesport, Ill. Clinton Williams -- Campbell, Mo.

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels have proven to be the Poplar Bluff Thunder's closest competitor in the young Senior Babe Ruth season. But even on the Thunder's worst night, they didn't drop a game. After beating the Squirrels by one run last Friday night in Charleston, Poplar Bluff earned another one-run win Tuesday evening at Strenfel Memorial Field by taking the opener 3-2. Poplar Bluff won the night cap 5-2, improving to 18-0...

Clinton Williams CAMPBELL, Mo. -- Clinton Williams, 93, of Campbell, Mo., died Tuesday, June 12, 2012, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Campbell. Mr. Williams was born to James Clyde Williams and Alice Rachelle Williams on Nov. 16, 1918, in Beebee, Ark. He was of the General Baptist faith...

By MELISSA MILLER SEMO News Service CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Isle of Capri has moved up the opening date for its Cape Girardeau casino, announcing it will open by Nov. 1, pending regulatory approval. That's two months ahead of its initial schedule to open at the end of 2012...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Within days of SEAL Team Six's killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama's national security adviser pungently to "shut the (bleep) up."...

The Earth Shook? Not! The letter to the editor entitled, "June 3 the Earth Shook." The writer might be surprised to hear it might have shook where he was, but we didn't even feel a vibration. I even asked a neighbor and they didn't feel anything either. ...

By MONA CHAREN President Obama ran a successful campaign in 2008 against George W. Bush. Yes, yes, John McCain's name was on the ballot, but that was a detail. Obama campaigned against Bush. McCain even laughed about it at the Alfred E. Smith dinner, joking that Obama's "pet name for me" is "George Bush."...

Robert Risinger CARLYLE, Ill. -- Robert Risinger, 69, of Keyesport, Ill., died Sunday, June 11, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Risinger was born on Dec. 15, 1942, in Fisk, Mo. He was a truck driver and had owned and operated gas stations in Highland. He supported the New Life Evangelistic Church...

Martha Stause -- Dexter, Mo. Robert Risinger -- Keyesport, Ill. Clinton Williams -- Campbell, Mo.

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels have proven to be the Poplar Bluff Thunder's closest competitor in the young Senior Babe Ruth season. But even on the Thunder's worst night, they didn't drop a game. After beating the Squirrels by one run last Friday night in Charleston, Poplar Bluff earned another one-run win Tuesday evening at Strenfel Memorial Field by taking the opener 3-2. Poplar Bluff won the night cap 5-2, improving to 18-0...