Stories from Thursday, November 16, 2017

The Dog Park in downtown Poplar Bluff, Mo., is expected to open this week. The park will operate from dawn to dusk as soon as fencing is complete, said Downtown Poplar Bluff Director Jerrica Fox. The two-acre park is located between the Black River and Second Street, near the Poplar Street intersection...

A diverse team of instructors from Three Rivers recently finished a three-year project to improve institutional effectiveness. On Wednesday, the team presented its work, called the Assessment and Program Review to Improve Learning, during the monthly Three Rivers College Board of Trustees meeting...

The Twin Rivers R-X School District once again increased its annual performance report score, which is composed by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to determine accreditation. A total of 140 points is available and Twin Rivers collected 117.5 points, resulting in a 83.9 percent and accreditation for 2017...

By MIKE JENSEN Publisher Sikeston Standard Democrat In "normal" times, an historic foreign trip by a US President would be the subject of massive news coverage focused on sensitive talks and potential new alliances with both friends and foes. But there's nothing "normal" about these times as the news coverage instead involves awkward handshakes and fish feeding. More coverage is devoted to the First Lady's attire than the substance of talks with foreign leaders...

By SEN. ORRIN G. HATCH via Tribune News Service WASHINGTON - There are few duties of the United States Senate as solemn, and as consequential, as the consideration and confirmation of judicial nominees. Attention in the media is often focused on the Supreme Court, and for good reason, given how powerful the Supreme Court remains...

They should never lecture us again Hey, the Hollywood honcho and the Washington, D.C. politicians should never lecture us again about anything. Sexual predator running Hollywood and the D.C. politicians takin' his money. How disgusting. Are we really...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - Joey Kimbrel, 40, of Bloomfield, died Friday, Nov. 10, 2017 near Doniphan, Mo. Visitation will be at 11 a.m., Thurs., Nov. 16 at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield. The funeral will follow at 1 p.m. in the funeral home with Rev. Sam Brotherton of Wappappello officiating...

Nancy Stewart, 69, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wed., Nov. 15, 2017 at her residence. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service.

Jonathan Curry, 73, of Poplar Bluff, died Tues., Nov. 7, 2017 at Missouri Delta Hospital in Sikeston. Visitation will be at 11 a.m., Sat., Nov. 18 in the Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home chapel in Poplar Bluff. The funeral will follow at noon in the chapel. Burial will be in Morocco Cemetery with full military honors. www. fowlersullivanfuneralhome.com...

MALDEN, Mo. - Hester Virginia Laws was born on July 26, 1923 in Little Walnut, Missouri to the late Harry B. Kneibert & Ethel M. Blades Kneibert. She departed this life on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 94 years 3 months and 19 days...

Carolyn Louise (Knox) Mansfield, 54, of Poplar Bluff, passed away on Sunday, November 12, 2017 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. She was born on November 9, 1963 to Lester and Norma (Kearbey) Knox in Lynchburg, VA. On July 19, 2001 she married Steve Mansfield of Poplar Bluff...

DONIPHAN, Mo. - Kay Wicklund, 73, of Doniphan, died Wed., Nov. 15, 2017 at her residence. Visitation will be from 5 - 8 p.m., Sat., Nov. 18 at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan. The funeral will be at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 19 at the Methodist Church in Doniphan. Burial will follow in Doniphan City Cemetery. A full obituary is forthcoming...

MALDEN, Mo. - Johnathan Daniel Rice, 35, of Dexter, Mo., died Monday, Nov. 13, 2017 in Sedalia, Mo. Visitation will be at 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 17 at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will be at 2 p.m., Sat., Nov. 18 at Bradshaw Chapel in Malden with Bro. Mike Vipperman officiating. Burial will be in Rosewood Cemetery in Malden. www.brashawfh.com...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Weather conditions were good for the opening weekend of Missouri's firearms deer season and deer movement was strong in the days leading up to the opener, but hunters ended up taking fewer deer than they did a year ago...