Stories from Tuesday, May 31, 2016

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor While freedom is a blessing, it has a price and that price is paid by soldiers who gave their all. This message was the constant theme heard by the crowd gathered Monday morning at the Veterans' Memorial Wall at the Black River Coliseum. The standing-room only crowd was challenged to remember the soldiers so they "are not to be forgotten."...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Poplar Bluff Police say they will use every asset at their disposal this summer to prevent death or injury to children and pets from being left in hot vehicles. Chief Danny Whitley said it is the department's philosophy to take "immediate" action in incidents where life could be in danger...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer The Butler County Sheriff's Department is investigating back-to-back church burglaries that occurred over the weekend just north of Poplar Bluff. Northpoint Church of the Nazarene, located in the 4100 block of Highway 67, and Cornerstone Tabernacle, located in the 3500 block of Highway 67, both in Butler County, were burglarized sometime late Saturday or early Sunday, according to reports...

Madison Miller, a Three Rivers student from Poplar Bluff, placed in the top 10 of Collegiate DECA's international competition in Washington, D.C., after placing third in the Banking and Financial Services competition at the DECA State Career Development Conference in Lake Ozark in March...

By MONA CHAREN As someone who believes that excessive partisanship and Balkanization is poisoning our politics, I have tried to view Hillary Clinton as something other than the ghoul she is portrayed as in conservative circles. No accusation against her is considered too outlandish to gain assent in some precincts of the right: Vince Foster was murdered. Clinton covered up a cocaine smuggling operation in Arkansas. She assassinated Kathleen Willey's cat...

Aubrey Odell Parker FISK, Mo. - Aubrey Odell Parker, age 75 of Broseley, Mo. died Sunday, May 29, 2016 at his residence. Mr. Parker was born August 23, 1940 at Osceola, Ark., son of the late Odell Roosevelt and Wilma Marie (Maclin) Parker. He was a farmer and had lived around Broseley most of his life. ...

By GEORGE F. WILL LONDON -- Leaders of the campaign to end Britain's membership in the European Union hope that next month's referendum will make June 23, 2016, a date as luminous in modern British history as May 3, 1979, when voters made Margaret Thatcher prime minister. Michael Gove, secretary of justice and leader of the campaign for Brexit -- Britain's withdrawal from the EU -- anticipates a "galvanizing, liberating, empowering moment of national renewal."...

John Stovall John D. Stovall, 43, of Oran, Mo., died Saturday, May 28, 2016, at his residence. He was born April 9, 1973 in Poplar Bluff, Mo. to Janet Rough Stovall and the late Danny Stovall. He had been a long time resident of Poplar Bluff. John was a member of the First Pentecostal Church of Cape Girardeau, Mo...

The Heritage Foundation The torrent of red tape engulfing Americans surged yet again in 2015, bringing Obama-era regulatory costs to an astonishing $108 billion a year. This unparalleled increase in regulatory burdens spells a decline in economic freedom and individual liberty...