Stories from Saturday, August 6, 2016

By CHELSAE CORDIA Staff writer The Daily American Republic and the City of Poplar Bluff combined efforts yesterday to show support of local law enforcement by hosting a fish fry at the Black River Coliseum. According to DAR publisher Don Schrieber, the "We Back the Blue" event was held in the midst of negative media attacks toward police officers nationwide to serve as a means of thanks from the DAR staff and city officials...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Racers in the American Solar Car Challenge were spotted by a number of readers on Tuesday near Highways 60 and 67 in Butler County. The race is an eight day 1,975 mile road course from Brecksville, Ohio, to Hot Springs, South Dakota...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor For the first time since 2013 there will not be an August class at the local Missouri Sheriffs' Association Law Enforcement Training Academy. "Since August 2013, we've been running two classes at Poplar Bluff" at Three Rivers College, explained Kevin Merritt, MSA's director of operations. "Back at the time, we were seeing class numbers in the teens, 16 to 18...

Unity in the Community is asking everyone to join together from 2-3 p.m. Sunday at the Butler County Courthouse as one and pray down the walls of "separation and segregation" in our community, town, and country. Organizers are urging everyone to come and take a stand as ONE in unity and pray over our homes, families, friends, service men and women, our community, our town, and our nation. The stand against this evil has to start somewhere, why not with us?, they say...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN With Democrats howling that Vladimir Putin hacked into and leaked those 19,000 DNC emails to help Trump, the Donald had a brainstorm: Maybe the Russians can retrieve Hillary Clinton's lost emails. Not funny, and close to "treasonous," came the shocked cry...

William M. "Bill" Davis DONIPHAN, Mo. -- William M. "Bill" Davis, 88, long-time resident of Doniphan, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be held from 5 - 8 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, in the Edwards Funeral Home chapel in Doniphan...

To the Editor: Reading the Poplar Bluff DAR newspaper on Wednesday, July 27th, I read the article "Rep. Smith visits deer farm," as he embarks on annual farm tour. Farms in the state of Missouri are normally where crops are raised to eventually supply food for human consumption. ...

Jeannette Weston GREENVILLE, Mo. -- Jeannette Weston, 60, of Silva, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, at the Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel in Greenville. Funeral services will follow at 1 p.m. at the funeral home chapel...

WASHINGTON -- In the 1870s, when Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall controlled New York City, and in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chicago's Democratic machine was especially rampant, there was a phenomenon that can be called immunity through profusion: Fresh scandals arrived with metronomic regularity, so there was no time to concentrate on any of them. The public, bewildered by blitzkriegs of bad behavior, was enervated...

Jon M. Hartley PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Jon M. Hartley, 71, of Piedmont, died Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016 at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, MO. Services will be announced by the Piedmont Chapel of Morrison-Worley Funeral Home Chapel.

Lindon D. Farmer Lindon D. Farmer, 89, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, Poplar Bluff, Mo. Lindon was born in Knobel, Ark. June 21, 1927 the oldest of 13 children. He served in the Berlin Airlift as a soldier in the Army Air Corp. He was a World War II veteran...

Competing in the Olympic games may be years away for Keona Sample. That's because she's only 10 years old. But in just three years of competitive swimming, she's already taking giant steps to make it the largest international sporting event one day...

At a time when most summer baseball teams have already packed up to prepare for the quickly approaching school year, the Wayne County Lumberjacks are a day away from their biggest test yet. Wayne County will try to make their claim for their first national championship starting Saturday as they join nine other teams in the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Ephrata, Washington...

Glenden Darrel Casey NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Glenden Darrel Casey, 81, of Neelyville, Mo. passed away Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016 in the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. He was born May 14, 1935 at Fairdealing, Mo. to the late James Everett Casey and Palymra (Nobles) Casey...

Bashie Williams DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Nellie Basha (Bashie) Kane Williams, 83, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, at Meridian Village in Glen Carbon, Ill. Bashie was born to Earl and Lora (Hayes) Kane Jan. 31, 1933, in Ripley County and spent most of her life on family farms in Poynor...

Darrell B. "Tiger" Healey Darrell B. "Tiger" Healey, 51, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical. Darrell, the son of Jimmie and Margaret E. Adcox Kent, was born Nov. 1, 1964 in Garden City, Mich. ...

Charles R. Moran FISK. Mo. -- Charles R. Moran, 88, of Fisk, Mo., died Thursday, July 28, 2016 at his residence. Mr. Moran was born May 29, 1928 at Fisk, son of the late Nathaniel and Trannie (Adkins) Moran. He was a truck driver and had served in the Air Force during the Korean War...