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As City Council candidate Johnson lists plans for city
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
David Johnson issued the following news release concerning his candidacy for one of the two at-large seats on the Poplar Bluff City Council. "I am a lifelong resident of Poplar Bluff and have always had an interest in city government and serving the people," Johnson said. ...
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After January fire Grad Center totally reopens
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Poplar Bluff School District programs returned last week to the final section of the Graduation Center that was damaged by a fire in January. For nearly two months, Jane Worley's students in the Missouri Options program used an overflow room at the high school for their studies while repairs were completed...
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36 years in law enforcement UP special agent Steve Ray retires
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor For more than 30 years, Steve Ray has investigated crimes and accidents involving Union Pacific Railroad property and its trains. Ray, who is retiring Monday from the railroad, began his law enforcement career in 1978 as a police officer in Maplewood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, Mo...
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Council candidate apparently sought plaintiff for case Delaying cable sale denied
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor A reported search by Ward 5 City Council candidate Peter Tinsley for a citizen who would attempt to halt the City Cable sale apparently was successful. Less than 12 hours after Charles Ogden of Poplar Bluff filed a motion for a temporary restraining order, Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Pritchett denied the request...
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City Council candidate Rushin wants to bring sports events to PB
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
Dr. Jack Rushin issued the following news release concerning his candidacy for one of the two at-large seats on the Poplar Bluff City Council. Rushin has operated the Rushin Chiropractic Center at 400 South 11th St. since 1988. He has served 18 years in leadership positions with the Missouri State Chiropractic Association and 10 years as a member of the Missouri State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. ...
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During public R-1 School District forum Candidates express views
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Four candidates for the Poplar Bluff R-I Board of Education discussed their priorities and voiced support of a proposed tax levy measure as a way to reduce class sizes and improve district security. They appeared during a public forum Monday at Kay Porter Theater...
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Speak Out 4/2/14
(Opinion ~ 04/02/14)
Right motives? I was just watching that television reporter on CNN, the one that quit the Russian television station today while she was broadcastin'. I say good for her if her motives are right about them trying to dictate what they say and all, but if it's just to get a job a FoxNews then it was wrong because her next job will be FoxNews -- watch what I tell ya. Thank you. Bye...
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Obama vs. Putin: The mismatch
(Column ~ 04/02/14)
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER "The United States does not view Europe as a battleground between East and West, nor do we see the situation in Ukraine as a zero-sum game. That's the kind of thinking that should have ended with the Cold War." -- Barack Obama, March 24...
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Whole lotta Democratic corruption going on
(Column ~ 04/02/14)
By MICHELLE MALKIN Has Nancy Pelosi seen a newspaper lately? (Pro tip, hon: Like the Obamacare monstrosity, you have to read it to find out what's in it.) I'd love to see her face in the wake of the veritable epidemic of Democratic corruption now sweeping the country. Pelosi's blink count must be off the charts...
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Pres. Obama and nuclear terrorism
(Column ~ 04/02/14)
By MONA CHAREN In the Netherlands this week, President Barack Obama confessed a fear: "I continue to be much more concerned, when it comes to our security, with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan." It would be reassuring to think that the president worries about this (when he's not busy filling out his NCAA brackets), except that he is failing to do the most important thing to prevent such a catastrophe...
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John Yount
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
John Yount GREENVILLE, Mo. -- John W. Yount, 54, of Hiram, Mo., died Saturday, March 29, 2013, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Greenville.
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Carpenter Cemetery spring cleanup is Sat.
(Community News ~ 04/02/14)
The Carpenter Cemetery Association will hold its spring cemetery cleanup day beginning at 8 a m. Saturday. All volunteers are requested to meet at the cemetery. For further information, call 573-820-7936 or visit the website at www.carpentercemetery.org or LIKE the page on Facebook...
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Qulin Lions Club dinner
(Community News ~ 04/02/14)
The Qulin Lion Club will hold its Sunday dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the club. The charge will be $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12 with payment taken at the door. Catfish and fried chicken, potatoes and hush puppies, baked beans and coleslaw, and green beans and corn are on the menu with drinks and dessert also provided...
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Lena Boyer
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Lena Boyer Lena Boyer, 70, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Sunday, March 30, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff.
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Marie Green
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Marie Green DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Marie Elaine Green, 78-year-old resident of Doniphan, died Saturday, March 29, 2014, in the Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Marie was born April 3, 1935, in Casey, Ill. A business woman, she worked as a legal secretary and also received her certification as a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), becoming the first woman in the state of Missouri to achieve that distinction. ...
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Mildred Clark
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Mildred Clark Mildred A. Cox Clark, 85, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Bond County, Ill., died Saturday, March 29, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Clark was born Feb. 17, 1929, in Schram City, Ill., to the late Russell and Druscilla Wright Cox. ...
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Tax credit workshop at Chamber
(Community News ~ 04/02/14)
Tax credit workshop at Chamber A Poplar Bluff Rehabilitation Tax Credit and Preservation-based Revitalization of Downtown Commercial Districts Workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce...
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Mary Binford
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Mary Binford PUXICO, Mo. -- Mary Ellen Binford, 80, of Puxico died Sunday, March 30, 2014, at her home. Mrs. Binford, daughter of the late Robert and Mary Jane McDaniel Midgett, was born in Puxico on Sept. 21, 1933. She had lived in the Puxico area all of her life. ...
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At Ellington Smokin' BBQ contest May 9-10
(Community News ~ 04/02/14)
The Ellington Chamber of Commerce, Royal Oak Charcoal Inc., and the St. Louis BBQ Society announce this year's BBQ event. The Spring Smokin' BBQ Competition will kick off at 7 p.m. Friday, May 9, with the judging held Saturday at noon. This event is a part of the 31st Annual Spring Fever Days festival in Ellington, Mo., set for May 9 - 10...
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Sacred Heart honor roll
(Community News ~ 04/02/14)
Sacred Heart School in Poplar Bluff, Mo., has announced its third quarter honor roll for the 2013-2014 school year. Students named to that list follow. A HONOR ROLL First grade: Cohen Ashcraft, Keith Ashcraft, Jackson Beis, Madelyn Cauthen, Cameron Denton, Emma Gutterman, Maci Hockersmith, Lilyanna Johnson, Ryan Kaufman, Josephine Kaup, Jasmin Martinez, Vanessa Torres and Joshua Wheeler...
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Eugene Field honor roll
(Community News ~ 04/02/14)
Eugene Field has released its third quarter honor roll for the 2013-2014 school year. Students named to the list follow: A Honor Roll: Second Grade Trell Amoss, Sabrina Breckenridge, Kaylie Burm, Emma Degaris, Zoe McIntosh, Caleb Morris, Kurt Rosson, Mason Weston, Brennen White and Karli Wilkerson...
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Revolt against schools' test tyranny
(Column ~ 04/02/14)
By MICHELLE MALKIN Have you had enough of the testing tyranny? Join the club. To be clear: I'm not against all standardized academic tests. My kids excel on tests. The problem is that there are too damned many of these top-down assessments, measuring who knows what, using our children as guinea pigs and cash cows...
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Local Dem women host district meet
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
By CAROLYN SMITH Staff Writer The 8th Congressional District Democratic Women held their annual convention, hosted by the Butler County Women's Democrat Club, Friday at the Holiday Inn and Saturday at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church. The theme for their two-day event was "A New Day for Women." Festivities began with a social hour at 6 p.m. ...
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Paying honor to voting fraud
(Column ~ 04/02/14)
By MIKE JENSEN Publisher Sikeston Standard-Democrat Melowese Richardson illegally voted for the re-election of President Obama six times in 2012 and stated so proudly during a national television interview. She was sentenced to five years in prison for voter fraud. She served eight months...
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Buds of the socialist spring
(Column ~ 04/02/14)
By GEORGE F. WILL "Boys from another school pulled out the severed head of a classmate while fishing in a pond. His whole family had died. Had they eaten him first? Or had he survived the deaths of his parents only to be killed by a cannibal? No one knew; but such questions were commonplace for the children of Ukraine in 1933. ...
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Hobby Lobby hopes to open by end of May
(Business ~ 04/02/14)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Hobby Lobby Stores, a privately held national retail chain of craft and home decor stores, hopes to have its new store open by the end of May. Construction and renovations have begun on this 49,000 square-foot building formerly occupied by Montgomery Ward, located at N. Westwood Boulevard and Maud street, in the Valley Plaza Shopping Center...
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Oley Griffin
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Oley Griffin QULIN, Mo. -- Oley Griffin, 93, died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Doniphan, Mo. A celebration of life service will be held beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Qulin Nutrition Center.
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Naomi Styles
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Naomi Styles Naomi Wilson Styles, 93, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Arkansas, died Monday, March 31, 2014, at The Manor in Poplar Bluff. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.
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PB chef gets Vegas invite
(Business ~ 04/02/14)
By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer A Poplar Bluff, Mo., pastry chef will travel to the Las Vegas Festival & Pastry Show this weekend to visit with some of the top bakers in the country. Lorelei Morris, co-owner of Sweet Revenge, was contacted by Alan Semsar, CEO of Barcelona Enterprises, about the event. Barcelona sponsors the festival...
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Eula Powell
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Eula Powell PUXICO, Mo. -- Eula Powell, 86, of Puxico died Sunday, March 30, 2014, at her residence. Visitation will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Morgan Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico. The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home with burial to follow at Puxico City Cemetery...
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Redbirds squeeze past Bulldogs
(High School Sports ~ 04/02/14)
ELLSINORE -- After they gave up nine runs in the season opener, the East Carter Redbirds have bounced back strong. In six games since, East Carter has held its opponents to 10 total runs including a 6-1 win over county rival Van Buren on Monday afternoon...
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John Yount
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
John Yount GREENVILLE, Mo. -- John W. Yount, 54, of Hiram, Mo., died Saturday, March 29, 2013, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be held at noon Wednesday at Ruegg Funeral Home in Greenville. Services will follow at 2 p.m. Burial will be at Graham Cemetery...
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John McKittrick
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
John McKittrick GREENVILLE, Mo. -- John McKittrick, 68, of Omaha, Neb., died Monday, March 31, 2014, at Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Services are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Greenville.
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Mules win tie for 2nd
(High School Sports ~ 04/02/14)
JACKSON -- Ryan McVey tied for medalist honors and Poplar Bluff got an assist from its non-scoring fifth player Monday to finish second at the Notre Dame Invitational. McVey shot 3-over-par 75 to tie Jackson's Eli Pike and Notre Dame's Jack Litzelfelner at Bent Creek Golf Club, but the Mules finished a stroke from the top team spot...
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Frances Yates
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Frances Yates PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Frances Lucille Yates of Arnold, Mo., and also of rural Wayne County, Mo. died Monday, March 31, 2014, at her Arnold residence. Services are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont.
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Dorothy Lazzaro
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Dorothy Lazzaro PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Dorothy Lazzaro, 87, of Annapolis, Mo., died Monday, March 31, 2014, at her residence. Arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont.
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Top seeds swing away
(High School Sports ~ 04/02/14)
The favorites carried the first round of the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament and in the opening game, Neelyville carried every inning. The Lady Tigers, supported by aggressive running on the base paths and a pair of Riley Washburn home runs, avoided losing the momentum early and ended up winning 17-7 in six innings...
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Warren
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Warren Whitworth Warren Frank Whitworth died March 30, 2014. Warren was born May 13, 1944, in Buffalo, N.Y., to Eldon Whitworth and Edith Glover Whitworth. The family moved to Poplar Bluff, Mo., in 1956, where Warren grew up and graduated from Poplar Bluff High School in 1962. During his high school years, in addition to playing football and throwing discus and shot put on the track team, he was a member of the Civil Air Patrol and began skydiving...
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Margaret Ban
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Margaret Ban SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Margaret E. Ban, 94, of Springfield, formerly of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away on March 31, 2014, at her home surrounded by her loved ones. Margaret was born in Morehouse, Mo., on Jan. 18, 1920, the daughter of Wally and Etta Spence. She was united in marriage to Joe P. Ban on Nov. 2, 1937, who preceded her in death on April 13, 1988...
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Ralph Fincher
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Ralph Fincher DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Ralph Fincher, 76, of Doniphan died Monday, March 31, 2014, at the Current River Nursing Center in Doniphan. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Thursday at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan. A graveside service will follow at 11 a.m. Friday at the Bloomfield Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, Mo...
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Ellen Boyer
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Ellen Boyer Ellen Boyer, 70, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Sunday, March 30, 2014, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Boyer was born Dec. 4, 1943. She was a homemaker and enjoyed reading and gardening. On Sept. 8, 1960, she married Jimmy Boyer in Piggott, Ark. He preceded her in death April 27, 2010...
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Birdsong homers, Neelyville tops Couch
(High School Sports ~ 04/02/14)
COUCH -- After their first loss of the spring, the Neelyville Tigers bounced back Monday by getting up big on the Couch Indians and they held on for a 10-5 win with some reserves in the game. Neelyville (2-1) led 10-0 after two innings. Cody Birdsong hit a 3-run homer for the Tigers while Cole Washburn drove in two runs and Lane Spencer added an RBI...
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