Stories from Thursday, June 11, 2015

By KATHERINE WEBSTER SEMO News Service The music minister at a local church reported to jail earlier this month in connection with charges of invasion of privacy. Shane R. Steck, 35, of Cape Girardeau pleaded guilty in February to one count of second-degree invasion of privacy, a class A misdemeanor...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Robbie Myers has been named the permanent director for the Butler County Emergency Management Agency. Commissioners said this week they chose not to conduct interviews or seek applications for the position. Myers has worked hard during the last two months as interim director, said Presiding Commissioner Vince Lampe...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Pristine and clear used to be how some residents living near the Little Black River described one of the "best kept" secrets for fishing. Now, they call it a trash heap and blame those attending the Trucks Gone Wild event at Brick's Off Road Park with causing the damage...

Boots to Business: Reboot is coming to Poplar Bluff. The entrepreneurial education program is being presented by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the St. Louis Veterans Business Resource Center. The event is modeled after the existing Operation Boots to Business: From Service to Startup program and introduces veterans to the fundamentals of business ownership...

Dorothy (Dot Crawford) Temples was born May 29, 1924 in Attica Ind., departed on April 11, 2015, in Sonora, Calif., where she moved to after the loss of her husband Leo Temples of Wappapello Mo. Her early years she lived in Kansas, later Florida, Southern California, Northern California, and Wappapello Mo.,...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Sascha Russell, DPT, a physical therapist for Midwest Therapy Services in Poplar Bluff, was named "Physical Therapist of the 2015/2016 Year in Poplar Bluff" from Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare. Russell graduated from Washington University with a doctorate in physical therapy. She has been with the local company since 2010...

Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center is changing the way patients and their families think about and experience joint replacement surgery with the introduction of the Bone & Joint Center, a comprehensive program that is based on a national best practice model for hip and knee replacements, and structured around the fundamental principles of wellness...

By MICHELLE MALKIN Let's set aside whether Cameron Crowe's new movie, "Aloha," is a good or bad movie. Whatever the flick's merits or demerits, it has inadvertently helped expose the arbitrary, capricious and ridiculous demands of militant identity politics...

By MIKE JENSEN Publisher Sikeston Standard Democrat Law enforcement has always been a difficult job - long hours, low pay and the ever present possibility of danger. But recent well-publicized incidents that we can all recite by heart have put law enforcement in the crosshairs. And there is a highly orchestrated effort by the progressive movement to keep law enforcement on the defensive...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Saturday's weather was hot, and apparently, so was the bass fishing. To say the Wappapello Bassmasters Buddy Bass Tournament was a success would be an understatement. Forty teams fished the event, which saw plenty of quality fish...

Class of 1959 lunch Thurs. The Poplar Bluff High School Class of 1959 will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m Thursday at Hayden's. All class members, spouses and guests are invited to attend. Any questions, call 686-1019 or 718-5900.

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Campaign finance "reformers" think America would be better governed if the government could thoroughly regulate campaign speech, which is speech about the composition and comportment of the government. Reformers scold the Supreme Court for construing the First Amendment as though it says "Congress shall make no law ... ...

Dick Brumitt DONIPHAN, Mo.--Richard Stanton "Dick" Brumitt, 88, long-time resident of Doniphan, died at home surrounded by family on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. He leaves behind his wife, Barbara, to whom he was married for 62 years, and their five children along with many friends and acquaintances, all of whom he dearly loved...

Naomi Meyer Naomi Onita Pool Meyer, 79, of Poplar Bluff, died June 8, 2015, at Cedar Gate Nursing Home in Poplar Bluff. Naomi was born on Aug. 15, 1935, in Hayti, Mo. to Roscoe and Katie Pool. She married McCurry Meyer Jr. on Aug. 1, 1952. Naomi was a member of First Baptist Church in Caruthersville, Mo...

James "Crawford" Price James "Crawford" Price, 94, of Doniphan, passed away Sunday, May 31, 2015, at John J. Pershing V.A. Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Price was born Nov. 3, 1920, in Prentiss, Miss. to the late Cassie and Clara Rubbins Price. ...

Arkansas State University has released the list of approximately 1,800 students who were awarded diplomas on the undergraduate and graduate levels during the 2015 spring commencement services May 9. Local graduates include: Campbell: Meagan Danielle Rush of Campbell, Bachelor of Science in Education, Early Childhood Education;...

Two people in a ribbon cutting photo for Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center's opening of the Bone & Joint Center in today's Business Section were misidentified. Erica Winkler, PTA and joint care coordinator, was mistakenly identified as Walker. PBRMC CEO Ken James was mistakenly called Ken Jones...

Donald R. Williams Jr. Donald. R. Williams Jr., 33, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Monday, June 8, 2015, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Williams was born Sept. 23, 1981 in Poplar Bluff to Catherine Williams and the late Donald R. Williams, Sr...

MoDOT awards contracts for But. County bridges The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission awarded contracts for Southeast District projects during its regular meeting on June 3. A $683,517 contract was awarded to Hessling Construction Inc. of Dexter for three bridge replacement projects in Butler County...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Seated on their front porch Saturday, Beverly Treat and her husband kept vigil over their property to prevent those going into Brick's Off Road Park from cutting through their yard or using it as a parking lot...