Stories from Friday, September 26, 2014

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Dexter, Missouri, restaurant owner is scheduled to appear in court today after being charged with possessing methamphetamine. After an investigation by the SEMO Drug Task Force and the Stoddard County Sheriff's Office, Robert Lay, 45, owner of The Grill off Business Highway 60 on the western edge of Dexter, was arrested at the restaurant on Friday. He posted bond Monday...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Attorney Robert Smith is no longer serving the city in an interim capacity. Smith's permanent appointment as city attorney was announced by City Manager Heath Kaplan during the Poplar Bluff City Council meeting Tuesday night. Smith's annual salary is $48,000...

The Agee Community Club met at Ryan's for a luncheon Wednesday, Sept. 17. Jeanie Figgins was hostess. Club President Cathy Womack opened the meeting with the group repeating the club motto, "When the world is full of love the world is full of beauty."...

Have you noticed all of the beautiful, bright orange pumpkins appearing at local markets? We had a huge pumpkin at the Butler County Fair this year and I saw several roadside stands selling my favorite Halloween decoration on my trip to Kentucky last week...

Uniforms for PD bike patrol Can't help but wonder if the PBPD has bought Spandex to wear while riding/working with the City Managers new proposed PBPD Bike Patrol? They'll look good in fluorescent neon green (for visibility). Just asking . . . Child concern?...

Clifford Allen PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Clifford Allen, 80, of Piedmont, Mo., died Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 at St. Louis University Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo. Visitation at Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont will be Saturday, beginning at 4 p.m. for the family and 5 p.m. for the public...

How many times have we heard laments such as "women are 50 percent of the population but only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs" and, as the Justice Department recently found, "blacks are 54 percent of the population in Newark, New Jersey, but 85 percent of pedestrian stops and 79 percent of arrests"? If one believes that people should be represented socio-economically according to their numbers in the population, then statistical disparities represent injustices that demand government remedies. ...

By MICHELLE MALKIN Fresh terror busts in Australia expose a common Achilles' heel of the West: Indiscriminate refugee policies turn free countries into breeding grounds for jihad. It's the same game in America. Soldiers of Islam have weaponized our blind generosity against us...

Robert Woods Robert L. Woods, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Piedmont, Mo.. died Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, at the Oakdale Care Center in Poplar Bluff. A private service was held. Arrangements were made by Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont. Online condolences: rueggfuneralhome.com...

TOPS MO 734 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) was called to order at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, with 10 TOPS and four KOPS in attendance by leader Linda Morgan. The secretary's report was read and approved. The best loser for TOPS was Wanda Flurry who was rewarded with $3...

Aaron Henderson of Poplar Bluff, Mo, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Theology Philosophy, at the Benedictine College's annual commencement exercises in May in the Ralph Nolan Gymnasium on the Atchison, Kan., campus. This year, 211 candidates were honored during the ceremony, which featured Helen Alvare, noted speaker on women and the family for the Vatican, who delivered the Commencement Address...

Stephen Hicks Stephen Carl Hicks, 61, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at his residence. Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

Seth and Jacy McBroom of Qulin, Mo., have chosen the name Beck Stockton McBroom for their 6-pound, 5-ounce son born at 10:56 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, 2014 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. He was 20 and one-half inches long. Grandparents are Tommy Cook of Kennett, Mo., Annette Clifford of Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Gary and Tammy McBroom of Qulin...

Having scored just once over the past 149 minutes, the Poplar Bluff football team is looking to get its offense going again. The Mules have been outscored 81-6 during a three-game slide they're looking to end Friday night in Sikeston. "We've got to move the football early and find a way to make first downs," Mules coach Mark Barousse said...

It seemed like bull rider Denton Fugate was changing the oil in his Prius every two weeks. He was on the road a lot this summer. Up to Wisconsin. Out west to Wyoming. On a rare occasion, back to Missouri to his parents house in Dixon. There was a stretch where he went to 28 rodeos in 28 days, and so the miles were counted in quarts...

Billy Carter Billy D. Carter, 66, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. There will be a graveside service at 2 p.m. Friday at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, Mo...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor The head of the local Republican party filed a complaint Wednesday accusing Carter County Prosecuting Attorney Rocky Kingree of making threats against him via text message. Eddy Justice, chairman of the Butler County Republican central committee, filed his complaint with the Butler County Sheriff's Department regarding Kingree allegedly sending him a series of threatening text messages between about 11:30 p.m. ...