Stories from Tuesday, August 12, 2014

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Nerves may have gotten the best of a Three Rivers College forestry management student at a recent timber sports competition, but the teen says he can settle for 12th best in the nation ... this year. The STIHL TIMBERSPORTS pro and collegiate championship marked only the third competition ever for 19-year-old Aaron Hovis, who won a wild card spot to enter...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Local authorities are searching for a Poplar Bluff, Mo., man wanted for allegedly firing multiple shots into a Roxie Drive home early Sunday morning. Poplar Bluff police officers were sent at 2:30 a.m. to a home in the 300 block of Roxie Drive, where witnesses reported Christopher Gainwell, 25, had "demanded entry" into the residence, said Capt. David Sutton...

Dorothy Massey Dorothy M. Massey, 92, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, at Cedargate. Arrangements are pending with Cotrell Funeral Service.

To the Editor: The Fisk Community Library Board would like to thank everyone who donated, volunteered and purchased items at our annual rummage sale July 10-12th. We also want to thank the City of Fisk for its continued support providing space and utilities...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Although the Ebola virus might remain mostly confined to West Africa, it has infected the Western imagination. This eruption of uncontrolled nature into what developed nations consider serene modernity is more disturbing to the emotional serenity of multitudes than it is threatening to their physical health...

By MONA CHAREN "Meet the Press" featured a segment this week that illustrates the planted liberal axioms that dominate our political culture. The topic was Congress's failure to "get anything done" this term. Political director Chuck Todd set the stage:...

Arretta Dunivan PUXICO, Mo. -- Arretta Dunivan, 73, of Puxico died Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at her home. Arrangements for a memorial service are incomplete and will be announced by Morgan Sifford Funeral Home of Puxico.

Greedy people Many will have to admit that many of the programs we currently view on television are less than well food for feeding the mind and more intent on destroying the few functioning neurons most people still have, but there's one program that is deeply disturbing and it's this: Extreme Couponing. ...

Patsy Crawford PUXICO, Mo. -- Patsy Ann Crawford, 75, of Advance, Mo., died Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, at Advance Assisted Living Center. A former resident of Wappapello, Mo., and Puxico, Mrs. Crawford had lived in Advance for two years. She was born Nov. 6, 1938, in Wappapello. She was a homemaker and of the General Baptist faith...

Pat Bearden PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Patricia "Pat" S. Bearden, 75, of Piedmont died Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be held at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Victory Baptist Temple in Piedmont. Burial will follow at Eaton Cemetery in Piedmont...

Elizabeth Henderson DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Elizabeth Ilene Henderson, 90, of Doniphan, died Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, at her residence. Mrs. Henderson was born Sept. 28, 1923, in Coffeyville, Kan., to the late Sharon and Ola Mae Rogers Harrington. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Doniphan and was active in the CWF group. She was an avid reader, and loved the river and fishing with her husband. She also enjoyed gardening, her butterfly garden, and loved animals...

Wilbert Gisi DEXTER, Mo. -- Wilbert "Fib" Gisi, 90, of Dexter, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, at Southeast Health of Stoddard County in Dexter. Visitation was held today at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, with the funeral services following at 1 p.m. Burial followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

Gerald Czerwonka DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Gerald Czerwonka, 63, of Doniphan, Mo., died Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Tuesday at First Church of God in Doniphan. A memorial service will follow at 6 p.m. in the church sanctuary. Edwards Funeral Home of Doniphan is in charge of arrangements...