Stories from Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Forum: Why is immigration important now? The Trump administration has turned to divisive scare tactics to manufacture a fake “crisis” on our southern border in order to obtain funding for an unnecessary border wall. Never mind that the President promised Mexico would pay for the wall, congressional funding for a wall would not solve the border “crisis,” even if it did exist...

Forum: Why is immigration important now? A nation must have secure borders to be a nation. A nation without secure borders cannot remain an independent nation. And with the blessings God has given the USA, there are those not willing to respect our borders in order to get a piece of that blessing...

PUXICO, Mo. - James Hemby, of Puxico, died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 at his residence. A memorial service will be at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 19 at Defiance Park (Cairo Point), in Cairo, Ill. Family and friends will meet at the Puxico Skating Rink at noon then travel together to the memorial in Cairo. For those unable to attend the Cairo service, a Remembrance Gathering will be at 5:30 p.m., Saturday evening at 5853 Lee Rd. in Puxico. Refreshments will be provided...

Ronda A. Porter, 54, of Grandin, Mo., died January 12, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. She was born August 23,1964 in San Diego, Calif., to Roberta Hadzima Porter and the late Ronald Porter Sr. She was a long time resident of Grandin...

City firefighters responded at 6:35 p.m. Saturday to report of a strange odor at 1804 Seifert Drive occupied by Donna McQuiston. According to the report, firefighters arrived and met with McQuiston who stated she had noticed the smell earlier in the day and it smelled like rotten eggs. She also stated she did not have gas service, only electric utilities...

County firefighters responded at 5:23 a.m. Tuesday to a motor-vehicle crash on Highway W, south of County Road 534. According to the report, firefighters used tools to extricate the driver. ————

FISK, Mo. - Susan Tarrence, age 71, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Friday, January 11, 2019 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Tarrence was born June 30, 1947 in Cape Girardeau, Mo., daughter of the late Grover and Mae Cross. She was an avid reader. ...

A partial trail of suspected stolen jewelry led Butler County authorities to a Williamsville man found hiding in a wooded area off of Kanell Boulevard on Monday night. The location where Donald Wayne Sanders was found was about 100 yards away from the crashed Ford Ranger he and Marty Lewis Luke allegedly had fled from deputies in a short time earlier...

FAIRDEALING, Mo. - Matthew Alan Barker, 31, of Fairdealing, Missouri, died Monday, January 14, 2019, at his home.