Stories from Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Don't ruin neighborhood There seems to be a couple of landlords in Poplar Bluff who purchase homes in good neighborhoods and then do not take the time needed to take care of these homes or supervise the tenants to make sure that the home is taken care of...

By MARTIN SCHRAM Scripps Howard News Service On Tuesday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court convened to hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of the current limitations on the amounts individuals can contribute -- invest, really -- in federal election campaigns...

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER WASHINGTON -- For all the hyped indignation over GOP "anarchism," there has been remarkable media reticence about the president's intransigence. He has refused to negotiate anything unless the Republicans fully fund the government and raise the debt ceiling -- unconditionally...

Darrell Faulkner PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Darrell Ray Faulkner, 70, of Piedmont died Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont. Online condolences: www.rueggfuneralhome.com...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR. Out of the decomposing carcass came Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, all in Europe; Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus; and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia...

James Bolin Sr. PUXICO, Mo. -- James R. Bolin Sr., 77, of Puxico died Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at his residence. Visitation will be held after noon on Thursday at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico. Funeral services will follow Thursday beginning at 1 p.m. at the funeral home chapel with the Rev. James Hagy of Dexter officiating. Burial will follow in the Rock Hill Cemetery near Puxico...

Nancy Preston PUXICO, Mo. -- Nancy Preston, 61, of Fayetteville, Ga., died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in Fayetteville. Arrangements are pending with Morgan Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico.

JACKSON -- The Poplar Bluff Mules soccer team is starting to heat up. After eight straight games without a win from the end of September into October, the Mules have now won four of their last five games after a 4-0 shutout of Saxony Lutheran Monday night...

Minnie Tinker WILLIAMSVILLE, Mo. -- Minnie M. Tinker, 94, of Piedmont died Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, at Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. Visitation will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Ruegg Funeral Home in Williamsville. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. also at the chapel. Burial will be in the Holiday Cemetery in Williamsville...

Florence Hoops WAPPAPELLO, Mo. -- Florence Dale Hoops, 59, of Wappapello died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, at her residence. A private family viewing was held Monday with cremation to follow. No other services were planned. Online condolences: www.cotrellfuneralservice.com...

Thelma Brinkley PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Thelma Brinkley, 71, of Piedmont died Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at her residence. Visitation will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont. Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. Thursday at the chapel...

Ruth Graham NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Ruth Ellen Graham, 77, of Naylor, Mo., died Sunday Oct. 13, 2013, at her residence. Visitation will be after 6 p.m. today at Fowler-Sullivan Memorial Chapel in Neelyville. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the chapel. Burial will be in Cochran Cemetery near Harviell, Mo...

Rollie Browning Rollie A. Browning, 89, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Browning was born in Poplar Bluff on Feb. 11, 1924, to Eddie and Kathryn Burgess Browning. On Sept. 21, 1946, he married Wilma Manon Urich in Pocohontas, Ark. She preceded him in death on June 6, 2013...

Theresa Ridenour PUXICO, Mo. -- Theresa Ridenour, 74, of Puxico died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. today at Morgan Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home chapel. Burial will be in the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, Mo...

Katrina Graff FESTUS, Mo. -- Katrina Marie "Tina" Graff, 51, of Silva, Mo., passed away Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., as a result of an automobile accident. She was born Jan. 11, 1962, in St. Louis, the daughter of the late Corrine (nee Pearson) and Cecil Zellers...

Evangel is returning eight players, including All-American Zack Kleine, from a team that went to the NAIA National Tournament last season. In the first half of the Three Rivers Jamboree on Saturday at the Bess Activity Center, the Raiders beat them by two points...

Bob Smith MALDEN, Mo. -- Robert "Bob" Smith, 62, of Campbell, Mo., died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, at his residence. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home chapel with burial with military rites following in the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, Mo...

Rosa Huskey FISK, Mo. -- Rosa Lee Huskey, 79, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., went to rest Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, with her trusted Savior, Jesus Christ, and her children by her bedside, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Huskey was born Feb. 24, 1934, at Corning, Ark. She was a homemaker and enjoyed fishing, her grandchildren and sharing her life experiences with everyone...

Jodie Gooch Carolyn Josephine "Jodie" Gooch, 72, of Poplar Bluff passed away Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center after a 20-year battle with cancer. Mrs. Gooch was born Sept. 3, 1941 in Springfield, Mo. She was a member of First United Methodist Church of Poplar Bluff and had worked from 1979 to 1994 as the P.E. Teacher at Poplar Bluff Junior High School. Mrs. Gooch enjoyed spending time with her family, being at Lake Vermilion in Cook, Minn., and fishing...

Halloween fun show at Puxico The Mingo Saddle Club in Puxico will be having a Halloween Fun Show on Friday at the Puxico Arena at the junction of Highway 51 and Highway T. Sign-in for the show starts at 6 p.m. and the show begins at 7 p.m. For more info, call Barb at 573-222-8803...