Stories from Thursday, May 10, 2018

Residents can have fun while raising money for a good cause May 12 at the annual fly in pancake breakfast at Poplar Bluff Municipal Airport. Proceeds from the event will help fund scholarships distributed by Poplar Bluff Masonic Lodge 209, and will also help support the Poplar Bluff JROTC program...

DONIPHAN -- The Naylor Eagles scored four runs in the sixth inning Wednesday and beat the Doniphan Dons 8-7 in an Ozark Foothills Conference baseball game. The Dons scored three runs in the second inning to take a 3-1 lead and three more in the third to go ahead 6-3. Both teams scored a run in the fifth...

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in late April, Cooper Crosnoe stood on the mound and watched a familiar face stroll up to the plate. He locked eyes with the hitter, and the two couldn't help but smile. The batter, Jackson High School's Justice Crosnoe, had grown up playing baseball with Cooper. The bond goes deeper than that, though. The two are cousins, part of a bloodline that is synonymous with baseball in Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area...

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America's most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today's lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year's elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing...

By MARC A. THIESSEN WASHINGTON -- It was one of the Clinton administration's biggest counterterrorism successes. Just weeks after al-Qaida terrorists trained by Iran blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, Gina Haspel's phone rang in the middle of the night. ...

In January of this year my office hosted the 2018 Southeast Missouri Education Forum at Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff with over 40 K-12 schools represented by their Superintendents, Principals, and Board members. The theme of the forum was "are we teaching what our students need for the 21st century?"...

Over 50 young ladies were able to dance the night away and create memories with the special men in their lives during the fourth annual Neelyville Daddy Daughter Dance. Hosted by the Neelyville High School cheerleaders, students in Pre-K through high school were invited to attend the dance...

From Staff Reports The colorful blossoms purchased for Mother's Day gifts at the Xi Kappa's Annual Flower Sale for UCAN will also brighten the lives of area cancer patients. The sale will be from 8 a.m, to noon or until all the flowers are gone Saturday at Poplar Bluff Realty...

Missouri's 2018 spring turkey season, in most hunter's minds, was a long and difficult one, with frequent poor weather, below-normal bird densities, little gobbling and mostly unresponsive gobblers when you could find one. To say the season, which ended Sunday afternoon, was a bummer would be a pretty big understatement, and the harvest certainly reflects it...