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Extension specialist to spend time with family
(Local News ~ 05/29/16)
By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor After more than 42 years, University of Missouri Extension Specialist Phyllis Flanigan is looking forward to a new phase in her life - retirement. Her last day in the Butler County office will be Tuesday but she will not retire until at the end of June...
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Standing up for country PB family carries on legacy of service
(Local News ~ 05/29/16)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer A Poplar Bluff, Mo., family is carrying on a legacy of service in America's armed forces that has grown five fold with every generation. As they look back on seven decades of enlistment by more than 30 sons, daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in nearly every branch of service and armed conflict since World War II, these veterans say they never considered any other path...
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Carter Co. PA retiring to beach
(Local News ~ 05/29/16)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor VAN BUREN, Mo. -- After practicing law for more than four decades, it was the years Ernie Richardson spent as prosecutor that he enjoyed the most. "I've always loved prosecution work, and it's going well now because we have a good sheriff" in Carter County and good Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers who "make a prosecutor's job a little bit easier by screening cases themselves and by doing accurate, thorough crime reports," said Richardson, who will retire Friday from his most recent stint as county prosecutor.. ...
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Neelyville woman dies in ATV crash
(Local News ~ 05/29/16)
A 20-year-old Neelyville, Mo., woman was killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash at 12:20 a.m. Saturday on County Road 525, just east of Tower Road. According to the report, Brandon T. Law, 20, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was operating a 2016 Cam-Am Maverick utility-terrain vehicle eastbound when it rolled over...
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Vets deserves chance to heal Cyclists raising PTSD awareness
(Local News ~ 05/29/16)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Two California men pedaled their way into Poplar Bluff, Mo., Friday as they cycle across the country raising awareness of post-traumatic stress issues facing combat veterans and first responders. David Allison and Michael Priddy set off on their 2,700-mile journey -- No Man Rides Alone -- on April 28 when they left Sacramento, Calif...
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PB Monuments seeks info on Unclaimed memorials
(Local News ~ 05/29/16)
By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Poplar Bluff Monument Works is asking the public's help this Memorial Day in tracking down homes for a number of markers belonging to members of the U.S. Armed Forces that remain unclaimed. The Department of Veterans Affairs furnishes upon request, a free Government headstone or marker for the unmarked grave of any deceased eligible Veteran in any cemetery around the world, regardless of their date of death...
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Remembering the price of freedom
(Column ~ 05/29/16)
By Congressman Jason Smith Capitol Report Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer. The temperatures are rising, school is winding down for many and the smell of backyard barbecues as the sun goes down is starting to fill the air. Memorial Day is also one of my favorite times to drive around our district and see so many American flags placed on houses, businesses, and in yards. ...
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SSLqThe Great White Hope'
(Column ~ 05/29/16)
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group ... death rates in this group have been rising, not falling." The big new killers of middle-aged white folks? Alcoholic liver disease, overdoses of heroin and opioids, and suicides. So wrote Gina Kolata in The New York Times of a stunning study by the husband-wife team of Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and Anne Case...
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Robert J.
(Obituary ~ 05/29/16)
Robert J. Chamberlain QULIN, Mo. -- Robert J. Chamberlain, 85, of Qulin, Mo., died Friday, May 27, 2016, at his residence. Mr. Chamberlain was born July 29, 1930, at Portageville, Mo., the son of the late Callie and Febe (Kilpatrick) Chamberlain. He had served in the Army and was a POW during the Korean War. Mr. Chamberlain was a millwright and a member of Millwright Local No. 1043 in Indiana. He attended the Church of Christ at Qulin...
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Derek Francis Fichtel
(Obituary ~ 05/29/16)
Derek Francis Fichtel DEXTER, Mo. -- Derek Francis Fichtel, 45, of Dexter died Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Visitation will be from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home with funeral services following in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Rev. Greg Stevens officiating. Burial will follow in the Chalk Bluff Cemetery near Dexter...
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Floyd Miller
(Obituary ~ 05/29/16)
Floyd Miller DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Henry "Floyd" Miller, 69, of Doniphan died Thursday, May 26, 2016, at Southeast Health Center of Ripley County. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan, followed by a graveside service at noon at the Pine Cemetery...
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James Morphis
(Obituary ~ 05/29/16)
James Morphis DONIPHAN, Mo. -- James Levile Morphis, 63, of Doniphan died Thursday, May 26, 2016, at Southeast Health Center of Ripley County. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan, followed by the funeral at 3 p.m. with Brother Monty Flanigan officiating...
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Roger Paul Collier
(Obituary ~ 05/29/16)
Roger Paul Collier PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Roger Paul Collier, 74, of Piedmont died Friday, May 27, 2016, in Fredericktown, Mo. Visitation services will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont, MO. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 2, 2016, also at the Piedmont Chapel. Burial will follow at Beulah Cemetery in Brunot, Mo...
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Mary Louise
(Obituary ~ 05/29/16)
Mary Louise Burnett DEXTER, Mo. -- Mary Louise Burnett, 84, of Dexter died Thursday, May 26, 2016 at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter. Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will be conducted beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel on Sundaywith John Langley officiating. Burial will follow in the Dexter Cemetery...
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James Osborn
(Obituary ~ 05/29/16)
James Osborn James Osborn, 73, of Springfield, Mo., formerly of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Saturday, May 28, 2016 at Wilson Street Nursing and Rehab in Springfield. Arrangements are pending with Cotrell Funeral Service.
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Flanigan praised for being innovative, hard-working
(Local News ~ 05/29/16)
By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Professional, innovative and hard-working are words used to describe University of Missouri Extension county program director Phyllis Flanigan, who is retiring after working four decades in Southeast Missouri. Responding to the news of Flanigan's retirement, former Poplar Bluffian Dolores Shearon, a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism who has held a variety of positions at MU and served as marketing director for University of Missouri Extension for 12 years from 1998-2010, offers words of respect and praise for Flanigan.. ...
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Mules earn all-state honors, not enough points for team trophy
(High School Sports ~ 05/29/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- There were all-state finishes, personal records broken and plenty of mental mistakes for the Mules track and field team after Friday's rain. Defending their MSHSAA Class 4 state title proved too difficult for the Poplar Bluff girls and the boys never gained traction to compete for their hardware...
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