Stories from Saturday, November 7, 2015

Poplar Bluff, Mo., artist James Huck has been awarded Best of Show by juror Vickie Glassman at the 62nd Annual Poplar Bluff Artists' Guild Regional Juried Art Exhibit. His woodcarving "A Ride in the Park" will be on display with other winning pieces at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum, 421 N. Main St., through Dec. 20...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Poplar Bluff, Mo., leaders have to answer a question that could be worth $450,000 to residents as planning for a new city hall moves forward. One of the decisions yet to be made is whether or not the Municipal Court and city council can share a meeting space...

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri House members and staff must now undergo annual sexual-harassment training following allegations a former lawmaker sexually harassed interns and another exchanged sexual texts with one...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer The Poplar Bluff R-I student council is inviting the community to a free Thanksgiving dinner from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday in the high school student center. Organizer Hope Conover says the event is a chance for the R-I community to show their appreciation to the public for supporting Poplar Bluff Schools...

Can't believe I still live in USA Just read Rep. Steve Cookson's Article of Oct. 21. I can't believe I still live in the USA, when a group of partisan legislators can get a doctor to lose privileges at hospital for being associated with a group against whom nothing has been proven and is still being investigated...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- The IRS scandal -- the denial of essential tax-exempt status to conservative advocacy groups, thereby effectively suppressing the groups' activities -- demonstrates this: When government is empowered to regulate advocacy, it will be tempted to suppress some of it. And sometimes government will think like Oscar Wilde: "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."...

Take a peek at one of the Poplar Bluff cheerleading team's practices and you'll notice a common exchange between the 12 returning athletes and eight newcomers. They all want to be perfect. While a combination of songs blasts through the gym at the Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center, it's all business for the Mules, who remain the two-time defending state champs and celebrated their third straight regional title in July...

Katie Sliger has been running with the lead pack all fall as the Poplar Bluff sophomore earned nine top-5 finishes in 11 races. That will change Saturday in the MSHSAA Class 4 championship race. "You don't have a choice of what you're going to run," Mules coach Beth Lewis-Muse said. "It's wherever you lay in that pack is going to take you in that first mile...

Illa E. Cook Illa E. Cook, 87, of Poplar Bluff, died Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015 at Oakdale Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Cook, the daughter of the late Mart and Grace (Holt) Frazier, was born March 30, 1928 in Deslet, Mo. She was a very active member of First United Methodist Church in Poplar Bluff and had retired after many years as a supervisor with Missouri State Department of Social Services. ...

Brenda Hayden Campbell, MO. - Brenda Joyce Hayden, 74, of Campbell, died Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, MO. Visitation will be at 6 p.m., today at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 7 at Bernie Cemetery...

MATTOON Ill. -- After losing for the first time this season, Three Rivers men's basketball coach Gene Bess said there were a lot of things to fix and not time to fix them. The Raiders had all of one day of practice before three games in three days at the Lake Land Classic...

By MICHELLE MALKIN It looks like those elitist harridans on ABC's "The View" learned nothing from the national backlash over their mockery of nurse Kelley Johnson less than eight weeks ago. Guess they've already forgotten how major advertisers Johnson & Johnson, Party City, McCormick spices, Snuggle, and Eggland's Best all pulled spots from the show after co-host and lead Mean Girl Michelle Collins led a cacklefest ridiculing Johnson, Miss Colorado 2015, for a heartfelt monologue about her work during the Miss America pageant.. ...

Mabel M. Graham Mabel M. Graham, 95, of Poplar Bluff passed away Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015 in Poplar Bluff. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

Estelle Marie Allen Martin DEXTER, MO.--Estelle Marie Allen Martin, 85, of Dexter, died Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m., Sunday, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church with the Rosary being said at 7 p.m. Funeral Mass will be conducted at 9:30 a.m., Monday, with Father David Dohogne officiating. Burial will follow in the Dexter Cemetery...

From Staff Reports An Animal Adoption Awareness Day and Fundriaser will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Poplar Bluff, Mo., city animal shelter on Butler street. The idea for a fundraiser started with Amber Peal's visit to the pound to adopt a pet. Her eyes and heart were opened to the needs of the animals awaiting their forever homes...

Registration for Spring semester classes is underway at Three Rivers College, with openings available for new and returning students at all of the college's locations. Online and on-site registration will continue through Jan. 15 at the Poplar Bluff campus and the locations in Sikeston, Dexter, Kennett, Malden, Willow Springs, Piedmont and Cape Girardeau. The semester starts on Jan. 19...