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PB VA addressing opioid drug issue
(Local News ~ 06/09/17)
A limited inspection of the Poplar Bluff VA's opioid drug management practices has found some procedures were not followed, but local officials say the results do not reflect changes made at the facility in the past 15 months. The release of findings comes after John J. Pershing VA Medical Center has been under fire in recent months because of complaints made by pain management doctor Dale Klein, who has been critical of procedures regarding narcotics management...
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Flea Market Days D'town
(Local News ~ 06/09/17)
Downtown Poplar Bluff's Farmers Market kicked-off last weekend with a new initiative aimed at driving interest and participation within the community. It's called Flea Market Days and according to Downtown Poplar Bluff Director Jerrica Fox, all types of participants are welcome...
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Six receive awards Troop E shines at state honors banquet
(Local News ~ 06/09/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Six members of Missouri State Highway Patrol's Troop E were among the 21 recently honored at the patrol's annual awards banquet in Columbia. "We had some of our folks do some extraordinary things back in 2016 ...," said Capt. Jeff Vitale, Troop E commander. " ... I'm very proud that Troop E kind of prevailed, and we got some of our folks recognized."...
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Chitwood receives Dicken scholarship
(Community News ~ 06/09/17)
Montana Chitwood was Poplar Bluff High School's fourth recipient of the $400 Kyle Dicken Memorial Scholarship. Chitwood plans to study music education at Missouri State University in Springfield. "She's in the marching band, jazz, concert - pretty much her whole schedule is band," said instructor Stephen Winters, half-jokingly...
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Henry Thomas Pearson
(Obituary ~ 06/09/17)
Henry Thomas Pearson, infant, passed away Tuesday, June, 6, 2017 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. His parents are Dustin and Shayna (Leutert) Pearson of Qulin; grandparents: Allen and Sheila Leutert of Qulin, Vickie and Eddie Niva of Ellisnore, and Julian, II (Jay) and Robin Pearson of Fairfield, Ill.; great-grandparents: Martha Imogene Finton of Qulin, Dale Clack of Broseley, and Sherman and Virginia Thomas of Broseley; and aunts and uncles, Julian Pearson, III, Tosha and Dustin Bellers, Heather and Rob Bruton, Keisha Cook, and Derrick and Sara Cook.. ...
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Is Estonia a cause to die for?
(Column ~ 06/09/17)
WASHINGTON -- So what if, in his speech to NATO, Donald Trump didn't explicitly reaffirm the provision that an attack on one is an attack on all? What's the big deal? Didn't he affirm a general commitment to NATO during his visit? Hadn't he earlier sent his vice president and secretaries of state and defense to pledge allegiance to Article 5?...
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A. C. "PeeWee" Vannasdall
(Obituary ~ 06/09/17)
MALDEN, Mo. -- A. C. "PeeWee" Vannasdall, 88, of Salem, formerly of Malden, died Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at Seville Care Center in Salem. A graveside service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m., at Mt. Gilead Cemetery in Clarkton. Burial will follow in Mt. Gilead Cemetery in Clarkton...
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Velma Cranor
(Obituary ~ 06/09/17)
VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Velma Ann Cranor, 85 of Edna, Kan., departed this life Sunday, June 4, 2017 in Springfield, Mo. She was born Feb. 2, 1932 in Elm City, Kan., daughter of the late Irvin and Opal (Hays) Spencer. Velma met the love of her life Robert Wayne Cranor at the age of 15. She and Robert married July 2, 1948 in Oswego, Kan. at the Court House...
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Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group
(Local News ~ 06/09/17)
The Muslim Brotherhood is an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the United States and its values. Since its inception, the organization's foundational objective has been to re-establish a caliphate, which it defines as a geographic territory ruled by a caliph and governed by sharia law. More importantly, the Muslim Brotherhood has consistently embraced violent jihad as a core part of its strategy for success...
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Trump signals EU, America's had enough
(Column ~ 06/09/17)
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN By the time Air Force One started down the runaway at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, to bring President Trump home, the Atlantic had grown markedly wider than it was when he flew to Riyadh. In a Munich beer hall Sunday, Angela Merkel confirmed it...
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Norman Allen
(Obituary ~ 06/09/17)
Norman Allen, 87, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Friday, June 9, 2017 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.s
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Jerry 'Leroy' Colter
(Obituary ~ 06/09/17)
Jerry "Leroy" Colter, 75, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away Thursday, June 7, 2017, at his residence. He was born May 28, 1942 in Corning, Ark. He married Marcell Jean (Passley) Colter, Jan. 13, 1989 in Poplar Bluff. She survives. Mr. Colter served in the U.S. ...
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