Stories from Saturday, June 14, 2014

GREENVILLE, Mo. -- A Silva, Mo., man was sentenced to eight years in the Missouri Department of Corrections Monday after pleading guilty to a drug violation. Jeffrey W. Sanders, 50, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Kelly Parker after pleading guilty to the Class C felony of possession of chemicals with an intent to manufacture methamphetamine, according to a press release from Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Ramshur...

By EMILY PRIDDY SEMO News Service A federal appellate court will take up convicted murderer Russell Bucklew's case in September. Bucklew, 46, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection May 21, but less than six hours before his death warrant was set to expire, the U.S. Supreme Court granted his application for a stay of execution pending appeal in the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Doug Bagby, the former city manager who was fired on May 5 by the new coalition on the Poplar Bluff City Council, has filed an answer to a petition for declaratory judgment concerning his contract with the city...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor A report of a man acting suspicious near Black River Thursday afternoon led to Union Pacific rail traffic being halted when responding officers found the man had climbed a trestle on the railroad bridge spanning the river...

Can them Asian carp Asian carp. Asian carp. That's all you hear about any more. How they are overtaking our rivers and all that stuff. Well back when I was a boy and we're talkin' almost 70 years ago cause I am 70, my father would catch Buffalo and all different kinds of carp, suckers and stuff like that, even drum fish. ...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating. They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous ("micro-aggressions," often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate. ...

Gerry Buffington Gerry Dan Buffington, 47, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at his home. He was born Oct. 12, 1966, in Poplar Bluff, to Alta Dunlap Buffington and the late Vernon Buffington. Gerry Dan was a member of First Baptist Church but also attended services at the VA Chapel with good friend Chaplain Bill Hatch, and became close to many there. ...

Jill Rushin proved adept at being king of the hill in high school. However, the three-time Missouri Class 4 state throwing champion -- two titles in discus and one in shot put -- and 2010 graduate of Jackson High School has moved onto more challenging terrain...

Charles Grubb VAN BUREN, Mo.- Charles "Charlie" Edward Grubb, 91, of Van Buren, died Wednesday, June 11, 2014 at the Dowdy Care Center in Fremont, Mo. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m Tuesday at the Good Hope Cemetery in Grandin, Mo. Burial will follow with United States Military Honors. Rev. David Grubb will officiate...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer A historic Poplar Bluff, Mo., home is in danger of demolition, and was recently named to the Missouri's Most Endangered Places list. The Coleman House, located in the 500 block of North Main Street, was built around 1902 for Charles Bernard Coleman, a prominent local dentist, and his wife, Ruth Hinckley. ...