Stories from Sunday, March 4, 2018

A group of students from Poplar Bluff High School (PBHS) watched history unfold Tuesday when Gov. Eric Greitens unveiled a portrait of noted scientist and inventor, George Washington Carver, to be hung inside the governor's mansion in Jefferson City...

Local officials say an Interstate 57 designation that includes Poplar Bluff is part of a federal transportation, housing and urban development appropriations bill U.S. legislators could take up in the next two months. They are hopeful Missouri will soon see signs marking future sections of I-57, like those unveiled recently in Arkansas...

A statewide tornado drill will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday as part of efforts to better prepare residents for severe weather, said Butler County Emergency Management Director Robbie Myers. It comes a little more than a week after two area communities experienced devastating tornadoes, with one person killed and several others injured...

GREENVILLE, Mo. -- A Wayne County jury deliberated 53 minutes Saturday afternoon in convicting a former patron of Brick's Off-Road Park of assault charges stemming from a drunk-driving crash that left a local woman paralyzed and his passenger injured...

By GEORGE F. WILL MOUNT LEBANON, Pa. -- Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, which ripples over the steep hills of this Pittsburgh suburb and stretches south to the West Virginia border, has not had a competitive congressional election since 2006. The fact that it will have one on March 13 makes this the most important 2018 voting before Nov. 6...

Trashy mess I often wonder if the citizens of Poplar Bluff feel as I do about the trash thrown out of vehicles onto the highways and streets and also peoples' nice yards. It just makes me so mad when I see this disgusting mess. Some of it is due to trash trucks that don't have the top covered when going down the highways at a little faster pace. ...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post. "Remember how American engagement with China was going to make that communist backwater more like the democratic, capitalist West?" asked Charles Lane in his opening sentence...

By ADRIANA COHEN By televising high-level congressional meetings on key issues, as President Trump did yesterday at the White House amongst a bipartisan group of lawmakers on school safety, the American people are witnessing firsthand how legislation is formed; the proverbial "sausage making" of lawmaking...

Kaetlin Lamberson of Poplar Bluff, Mo., has received the Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 2018-2019 academic year. Lamberson is the daughter of Donna Lamberson, and will be a 2018 graduate of Poplar Bluff High School...

Poplar Bluff Senior High School January Students of the Month are Joseph Hardimon, Wyatt Rowland, John Wyatt Murphy, Michael Joseph, Britten Edmundson, Katherine Rose Pattillo, Shelbey Johnson and Jillian Page. Hardimon is the son of Shamieca and Terhan Hardimon...

Lois Ann Bumpus, 72, of Poplar Bluff, passed away on Thursday, March 1, 2018 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. She was born on Dec. 10, 1945 in Hollywood, Fla. She graduated from Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1964. On Sept. 10, 1965 she married Jim Bumpus in Oak Ridge. He preceded her in death on Feb. 17, 2006...

Sacred Heart Second quarter A and B honor rolls were recently announced. Students earning places on the A or B honor rolls include: A Honor Roll for second quarter: First Grade: Jacob Acre, Calista Cummings, Morgan Ellsworth, Xavier Kaup, Eli Makari, Bridget Popp, Eder Salinas, Landon Schindler, Sophie Stuckenschneider, Jude Williams...

CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- The Raiders put together 28 hits and 23 runs Saturday to continue their strong start. Summer Shockley struck out 15 as the Raiders won the opener against John A. Logan (Ill.) 7-1, and then Allison Pingel had a grand slam and seven RBIs in the nightcap as Three Rivers won 16-8...

VAN BUREN - The third time was the charm for the Eminence Redwings. After losing to Advance twice in the past year, the Redwings pulled away in the fourth quarter Saturday to beat the Hornets 78-62 in the MSHSAA Class 1 quarterfinal at Van Buren High School...