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PB man gets 7 years for drugs, gun
(Local News ~ 01/15/15)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff, Mo., man was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to a total of seven years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intentions of distributing it and illegally possessing a firearm...
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Sikeston Homicide suspect robbed victim's girlfriend earlier
(Local News ~ 01/15/15)
By EMILY PRIDDY SEMO News Service One of the men suspected of murdering a Sikeston man Sunday had been involved in a robbery and assault at the victim's home in November, police reported Tuesday. Gailon Lamarous Applewhite, 29, and William Henry Applewhite III, 27, both of Sikeston, are wanted on murder and armed criminal action charges in connection with the shooting death of Christopher Qurvon West, 31...
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In PB, Piedmont Thursday Mobile VA visits vets
(Local News ~ 01/15/15)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Mobile vet centers are visiting communities throughout the area this week to provide information concerning VA services for combat veterans and their spouses. Very often these individuals do not realize benefits are available to them, explained Michael Focke, who spent Tuesday afternoon in Van Buren and Wednesday afternoon in Doniphan...
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Stella Peters
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Stella Peters Stella Peters, 96, of Puxico died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015 at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Ms. Peters was born 1918 in Romance, Ark.. to the late L.L. and Edna Vardell. She was a 1936 graduate of Puxico High School. Ms. Peters worked in the cafeteria for the Puxico School System for several years. She also worked as a manager for Bennett Sundries and then open Stella's House of Fitness...
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Wantona
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Wantona Ferguson Wantona Ida "Toni" Ferguson, 88, of Poplar Bluff died Jan. 4, 2015 at Westwood Hills Healthcare Center in Poplar Bluff. Services were held Jan. 6, 2015 at Cotrell Funeral Chapel in Poplar Bluff. Rev. Ralph Mayes officiated. Burial followed in the Little Brushy Cemetery in Wappapello...
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Helen
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Helen Hufstedler Helen Ollie Hufstedler, 93, of Poplar Bluff died Jan. 2, 2015 at the Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff. Services were held Jan. 5, 2015 at White Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk. Pastor Loy Culver officiated. Burial followed in the Shain Memorial Cemetery...
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Dorothy Doty
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Dorothy Doty Dorothy Nevada Doty, 86, of Poplar Bluff died Jan. 2, 2105. Services were held Jan. 5, 2015 at Fowler-Sullivan Funeral; Chapel in Poplar Bluff. Rev. Vernon Kneir officiated. Burial followed in the Woodlawn Cemetery. Online condolences: www.fowlersullivanfuneralhome.com...
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Dew, Sheren To Vie For Marshal
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
By MICHELLE L. VARVIL With seven days left to file for the April 7 municipal election, the four-year marshal term is the only contested city race to date. Marshal Daniel Dew, who was appointed to fill that office when Johnny Clark retired Aug. 31, 2014, filed a declaration of candidacy Dec. 16, 2014. Former Puxico Police Department officer Rick Sheren filed his declaration of candidacy for marshal Dec. 18, 2014...
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2014: Looking Back
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
From Staff Reports Aug. 27, 2014 Debby Hess was named the new administrator at Puxico Nursing & Rehab Center. Marshal Johnny Clark praised the Puxico Police Department's reserve officers for their many years of service. Sept. 3, 2014 A ceremony was held for the "Remembering Our Fallen" exhibit at the Bill Emerson Memorial Visitor Center. ...
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Apply for MDC Spring Managed Turkey Hunts
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
Missouri youth, archery, and firearms turkey hunters can apply online for managed hunts during the 2015 spring turkey season beginning Jan. 9 to Feb. 28 through the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) website at mdc.mo.gov/node/11252. Managed hunt details and application procedures are outlined on the webpage. Application results will be available beginning March 13...
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Dew Wants New Police Vehicle
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
By MICHELLE L. VARVIL A special meeting of the Puxico Board of Aldermen was held Jan. 8 at Puxico City Hall. Marshal Daniel Dew requested permission to purchase a 2015 Ford Explorer to replace the 2004 Ford Expedition that has 113,953 miles on it. Dew said the total cost would be $35,000 for the vehicle as well as the lighting package, prisoner cage, radar and lettering...
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Walter
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Walter Guilliams Walter Berrel Guilliams, 81, of Jackson died at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Services were held Jan. 4, 2015 at the McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Rev. Don Estes officiated. Burial followed at Russell Heights Cemetery with full military honors...
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Varsity Beats East Carter 70-53
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
By MICHELLE L. VARVIL It was an exciting night in the Arnold Ryan Gymnasium Jan. 9 as the Puxico Indians battled district rival East Carter. The game started out rocky for the varsity Indians, but they turned things around in the fourth period, ultimately beating East Carter 70-53...
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Lorene Runnels
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Lorene Runnels Lorene L. Runnels (nee Lacy), of New Florence, Mo., died on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015 , at the age of 88. Loving wife of the late Loren Agnew Runnels; dear daughter of the late Noah Sylvester Lacy and Bitha Lacy; devoted mother of Regina (Donald) Lawrence, Lindell K. (Marla) Runnels, and the late Ellen J. Merry; cherished grandmother of six and great-grandmother of six; and dear sister of Nelson Elmo Lacy, Mary Jane Hendershott, the late Cletus Elmu Lacy, and the Glenora Birk...
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Alternative Deer Harvest Down
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports hunters harvested 11,025 deer during the Alternative Methods portion of the 2014 deer hunting season, which ran Dec. 20-30. Top harvest counties were Oregon with 269, Franklin with 248, and Howell with 244. Stoddard County hunters killed 125. The total harvest for last year's Alternative Methods portion was 11,967...
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Thad Ryan
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Thad Ryan Thad Bryant Ryan, 86, of Cape Girardeau, Mo. passed away  Tuesday, Jan. 06, 2015 at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He formerly lived in Morehouse, Mo., and Puxico, Mo. for many years. He was born July 20, 1928 in Lilbourn, Mo. ...
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Clyde Barnfield
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Clyde Barnfield Clyde Barnfield, 77, of Puxico died Friday Jan. 2, 2015 at the Puxico Nursing and Rehab. Services were held Jan. 10 at Morgan Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico. Burial followed in the Puxico City Cemetery with full military rites...
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Reflections
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
When a person has as many anniversaries of his birth as I have it gives reason to reflect on the course of his life has taken. I was born to loving parents, the second of six children that survived, and lived on a farm. We learned to love and to share with each other...
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Scenic Riverways retirements
(Business ~ 01/15/15)
Faye Walmsley VAN BUREN, Mo.-- Faye Walmsley retired Dec. after 31 years with the federal government, 29 of those with the National Park Service. Walmsley has been the chief of interpretation at Ozark National Scenic Riverways since 2010, overseeing the park's visitor programs, special events, interpretive media, and public outreach...
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East Carter honor rolls
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
Elementary honor students East Carter Elementary second quarter honor roll students are: First Grade: Lexi Brown, Emma Eudaley, Clayton Forsythe, Sarah Fouts, Alexis Hosentfeld, Kyla Leader, Katelyn  Nichols-Brown, Payton Quigley, Gabe Randazzo, Alexander Reasons, Makayla Shonk, Bryce Stahl, Alyssa Barker, Torryn Burkhart, Mayson Chestnut, Kaydence Crisp, Trevor Davis, Cordell Duckett, Whitney Kearbey, Emma Mcgehee, Gracie Miller, Cason Price, Drayden Shaffer, Kaylynn Spicer, Alberto Thompson, Charles Brame, Gracie Brown, Dylan Crafton, Delilah Belle Emerson, Cameron Forsythe, Colton Harvey, Eli Holt, Riley Hopkins, Kaitlyn King, Madison Newman, Sebastian Ochoa, Abigail Price, Aleah Tinnin. ...
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Ice, muddy water hampering anglers
(Outdoors ~ 01/15/15)
By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Anglers wanting to fish for crappies at Wappapello Lake have a bit of a quandary this week because access to the water is hampered severely by ice. Poking around the lake yesterday showed most boat ramps, coves and any water sheltered from the wind was frozen solid...
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Doniphan company rises to top of biotech industry
(Business ~ 01/15/15)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer DONIPHAN, Mo. -- As people are paying more attention to the foods they eat, environmentally friendly biotechnology is experiencing rapid growth across the board, but one local company is leading the pack with a line of products created more than 30 years ago...
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Winter is good time to start hunter ed process
(Outdoors ~ 01/15/15)
By FRANK CAMPA Mo. Dept. of Conservation A good, productive way to use some time right now on a cold, snowy or rainy day is to start working on your hunter education certification process. You caught that correctly, I said "process." For several years, all a person had to do is show up for a hunter education course which usually took place on two different evenings or days for 10-plus hours in class, pass the test and leave. ...
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Designing Women gives scholarships totaling $4,000
(Community News ~ 01/15/15)
The Designing Women Foundation (DWF) has granted scholarships totaling $4,000 to area women during the past year. The Foundation awarded its $1,000 Three Rivers College Scholarship to nursing student Alysia Nicole Musser of Poplar Bluff. DWF grants the scholarship each year to a female non-traditional student at Three Rivers...
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Speak Out 1/15/15
(Opinion ~ 01/15/15)
Take heart Poplar Bluff Citizens of Poplar Bluff, good news! Mr. Kaplan will be leaving soon. Just as soon as he has lined his pockets and bankrupted our city he will move on to the next one. So take heart. PB, and be happy. Message to Twin Rivers A message to the Twin Rivers School Board: I am disappointed in all of you! We elected you to do the best interest for our children. ...
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Judges back to job to rethink wrong
(Column ~ 01/15/15)
By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Mighty oaks from little acorns grow, so last year's most encouraging development in governance might have occurred in February in a U.S. District Court in Frankfort, Ky. There, a judge did something no federal judge has done since 1932. By striking down a "certificate of necessity" (CON) regulation, he struck a blow for liberty and against crony capitalism...
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What UVA rape case reveals
(Column ~ 01/15/15)
By MONA CHAREN Rolling Stone magazine and its reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely are facing a great deal of skepticism about a story called "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA." The article tells the story of "Jackie," a University of Virginia student who says she was gang raped at a fraternity party early in her freshman year...
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Windle Shue
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Windle Shue PIEDMONT, Mo.-- Windle Clay Shue, 64, of Piedmont, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. The arrangements are pending at this time. Online condolences: www.rueggfuneralhome.com.
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Frankie Losh
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Frankie Losh WAPPAPELLO, Mo.-- Frankie Lynn Losh, 57, of Wappapello, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, at her residence. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Wappapello, Mo.
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Bonnie Brewer
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Bonnie Brewer DEXTER -- Bonnie Lou Brewer, of Essex, 76, died Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter. Visitation will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter with funeral services beginning 3 p.m. at the Dexter Chapel with the Rev. James Malloy of Essex officiating Online condolence: www.watkinsfuneralhome.com...
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Beaulah
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Beaulah Marguriette Swank Brunell CHARLESTON -- Beaulah Marguriette Swank Brunell, 95, formerly of Mississippi County, Mo. and Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at the Oberon House Assisted Living Center in Arvada, Colo. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. Mo. Burial will be at Rush Ridge Cemetery near Wyatt, Mo...
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Lady Raiders show spark in loss
(High School Sports ~ 01/15/15)
The Lady Raiders found a spark in the closing seconds of the first half and nurtured it through the second. However, Three Rivers was too deep in a hole to start a fire and lost to St. Louis 76-61 Tuesday at the Bess Activity Center. "A lot of improvement from (Saturday's loss to Moberly Area)," Three Rivers coach Jeff Walk said. "That started with a minute to go in the first half. We started flickering, light wise. We started and then it gradually started working and working."...
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Helen Denney
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Helen Denney Helen Irene Denney, 89, of Poplar Bluff, died Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 at Westwood Hills Care Center. Burial will be held at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery at a later date. Online condolences: www.cotrellfuneralservice.com Cotrell Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements...
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Headbanded Mules earn 'mega' victory
(High School Sports ~ 01/15/15)
Sporting headbands and playing in front of a student section hungry for corndogs, the Poplar Bluff Mules delivered Tuesday night. Chris Stocks had a perfect shooting night for 21 points as the Mules beat Doniphan 77-31 at Peters Gym. "I told the guys that if we won the Showdown that we would let them wear headbands," Mules coach William Durden said of uniform addition...
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Shirley Stott
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Shirley Stott Shirley Maxine Stott, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, at her home with her family at her side. Shirley was a lover of the arts. She was a past member of the Poplar Bluff Artist Guild, where she served as Past President and won awards for her original style of oil painting. ...
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Kitsey Shepard
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Kitsey Shepard Kitsey Catherine Shepard, 80, of the Stringtown community of Butler County, passed away, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, at her residence. Mrs. Shepard was born Feb. 4, 1934, in Oklahoma to the late John and Mona (Bailey) Cornett. She was a member of Kerns Chapel Church in Stringtown and was a homemaker. Mrs. Shepard enjoyed reading, sewing, gardening, scrapbooking and making dolls...
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Michelle
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Michelle Emerson Michelle Renae Emerson, 53, of Mill Spring, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. The arrangements are pending at this time. Online condolences: www.rueggfuneralhome.com.
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Garry Johnson
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Garry Johnson Qulin, Mo.-- Garry Johnson, 67, of Qulin, passed away Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Johnson was born July 28, 1947, in Qulin. He was a resident of Qulin for most of his life. He was a boilermaker and had formerly worked at Bacon Tank and the City of Chicago...
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Vernon
(Obituary ~ 01/15/15)
Vernon Loughary Jr. MALDEN, Mo.-- Vernon Loughary Jr., 55, of Clarkton, died Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home chapel. Burial will follow in the Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton...
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Mules motor past Cape Central
(High School Sports ~ 01/15/15)
Poplar Bluff swim coach Beth Lewis-Muse is looking for the right combination to unlock a conference title for the Mules. Haylee Dragon, Cassidy Harris, Taylor Norwood and Morgan McAtee have qualified for state in all three relays together but they can only swim in four total events at the conference championship, meaning Lewis-Muse has some big decisions to make...
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Neelyville tops Clearwater in OT
(High School Sports ~ 01/15/15)
NEEYVILLE -- Rashawn McComb, Tyler Turner, Matt Nicolay and Sammy Davidson scored in overtime to lift Neelyville past visiting Clearwater 68-65 in overtime to earn a Ozark Foothills Conference win. Neelyville (9-4, 3-0 OFC) led 26-15 at halftime after holding Clearwater to four second-quarter points...
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Defense ignites Raiders
(High School Sports ~ 01/15/15)
It was quintessential Raider basketball. Three Rivers blocked nine shots, drew three charges, had 19 more rebounds and earned coach Gene Bess his 1,202nd win as they beat St. Louis 79-50 on Tuesday at the Bess Activity Center. St. Louis called three timeouts in the span of five minutes in the first half. None of them helped...
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West Coast rap has roots in PB MTV cites first white professional rapper as Butler County native
(Local News ~ 01/15/15)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Who really was the first white rapper--Vanilla Ice, Eminem, the Beastie Boys? Nope. Scratch (no pun intended) all the above. The first white rapper to sign a contract, according to MTV, was Lee "DJ Flash" Johnson, who spent most of his childhood just outside of Poplar Bluff...
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