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Pearson airlifted to St. Louis City decides on insurance
(Local News ~ 11/26/15)
By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer The Poplar Bluff City Council selected L.S. & Associates of Mississippi to be the city's health insurance broker Tuesday, choosing from nine bids. A committee of city employees interviewed five of the companies, reporting back they liked L.S. and Associates because the broker had saved Butler County a "considerable" amount of money in the last two years...
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PBHS teacher named district director for Richardson
(Local News ~ 11/26/15)
BY PAT PRATT Staff Writer A Poplar Bluff High School government teacher will leave the education sector to serve as district director for Missouri House Speaker Todd Richardson. Mitch Davis, graduated PBHS in 2010 and holds a bachelor's in history from Central Methodist University. In addition to teaching, he has served as campaign aide and legislative assistant for former Sen. Rob Mayer, R-Dexter, and worked on Richardson's 2010 campaign...
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Firearms deer harvest up significantly
(Outdoors ~ 11/26/15)
PAUL DAVIS Oudoors Editor More hunting pressure than usual - plus generally favorable conditions - equalled a significant increase in Missouri's firearms deer season harvest this year. Over the duration of the 11-day season, which ended yesterday, hunters in Missouri managed to kill 189,938 deer. The number is preliminary and could vary slightly, but it's up around 13 percent from last year's season total of 167,205 and is the best harvest since 2012...
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Festival of Lights Auto Tour
(Community News ~ 11/26/15)
The 23rd Annual Festival of Lights Auto Tour will be held in the Redman Creek East Campground at Wappapello Lake beginning Nov. 27 and will run through Dec. 27. The Festival of Lights will be open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from dusk until 9 p.m. until Dec. 18, when it opens on a nightly basis until closing on Dec. 27...
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Eugene Field honors students
(Community News ~ 11/26/15)
Eugene Field Elementary School has chosen their Students of the Month for October 2015. First grader Brayden Jones, son of Charvareta Jones, was chosen by his teachers Cynthia Olsen and Angie Bowman. Brayden is a very sweet boy who always follows directions and helps other students. His attitude and actions show great leadership. His hobbies are soccer and running. When he grows up he wants to be a policeman...
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Obama drove Sunnis to ISIS
(Column ~ 11/26/15)
By MONA CHAREN Throughout the last third of George W. Bush's presidency, opinion leaders were obsessed with the question of mistakes. Among most members of the press and among Democratic officeholders (even, or perhaps especially, those who voted to approve the Iraq War), the appetite was strong to hold President Bush in a half nelson until he admitted that the war had been a terrible mistake. ...
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Ululations of radical college crybabies
(Column ~ 11/26/15)
By MICHELLE MALKIN Deray McKesson, the professional agitator whose racial rabble-rousing began at tax-subsidized Teach for America, proudly unveiled his new enterprise on the Internet Thursday: A website chronicling "THE DEMANDS" of his radical brothers and sisters on college campuses across Northern America...
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Agee Club meets
(Community News ~ 11/26/15)
The Agee Community Club met at the Bread Company Thursday, Nov. 13, for the club's 83rd anniversary. The table was decorated in the club colors of blue and silver, balloons and items were given to the ladies for our celebration. Club President Cathy Womack was this month's hostess, who opened the meeting with the ladies repeating the club motto, "When the heart is full of love, the world is full of beauty."...
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Home, it is what makes us
(Column ~ 11/26/15)
If Washington was more like Missouri, America would be a lot better off. This is something I have always thought, but over my first couple years in Congress it has become more and more true. Here in Missouri, things like family, liberty, personal and fiscal responsibility, and good ol' common sense are held true, yet they are simply missing from our nation's capital...
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Cane Creek Club
(Community News ~ 11/26/15)
The Cane Creek Community Club elected officers Nov. 11. New officers are: president, Nancy Wujcik; vice president, Glenda Phillips; treasurer, Wilma Rains; secretary, Irma Epps; song and game leaders, Jean Hawkins and Marie Boxx; and sunshine chair person, Ruth Anderson...
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Have a healthy holiday season
(Features ~ 11/26/15)
Many times, people feel guilty about the weight they've gained during the holidays. So how can you not gain weight and still enjoy all the pumpkin pies, Betty's fudge, and Aunt Emma's special fruitcake? Consider the meat you are serving at holiday meals. ...
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Grace
(Obituary ~ 11/26/15)
Grace Pauline Mann PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Grace Pauline Mann, 93, of Piedmont died Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, at Clark's Mountain Nursing Center at Piedmont. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 27, at Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont. The funeral service will follow at 1 p.m. Friday also at the Chapel. Burial will be at Carson Hill Cemetery in Mill Spring, Mo...
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Fish kill experienced at Branson trout hatchery
(Outdoors ~ 11/26/15)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- A large fish kill has been reported a southwest Missouri hatchery. The Springfield News-Leader reports (http://sgfnow.co/nRArjf ) that foul-smelling water coming out of Table Rock Lake dam killed scores of trout at the Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery. The state conservation department says the fish kill can be traced to heavy rains, hot weather and an algae die-off that depleted water quality...
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Conditions close to ideal for firearms deer season
(Outdoors ~ 11/26/15)
By FRANK CAMPA Mo. Dept. of Conservation In my several years of experience, I have to say in most regards, this has been one of the more successful firearms deer seasons. Let us look at the reasons why. First and foremost, good hunting conditions depend on basically two things - numbers of deer and the weather...
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Fred Harris
(Obituary ~ 11/26/15)
Fred Harris NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Fred Harris, 81, of Temple Terrace, Fla. passed away on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. Fred was loved and respected by many for his integrity, sense of humor and devotion to his family. He was preceded in death by his mother, Anna L. Harris (McLean); father, Loyd L. Harris, Sr.; and brother, Billy (Ralph) Harris...
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Malden faces 4-time defending state champion
(High School Sports ~ 11/26/15)
For the first time this season and second in two years, the Malden football team isn't favored. It's been more than a year since the Green Wave experienced a similar feeling and a rude awakening in the MSHSAA Class 2 semifinals, welcoming Lamar to The Swamp before the Tigers dismantled their perfect season and walked away with a 28-2 win...
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Lula
(Obituary ~ 11/26/15)
Lula Walker Camp NEELYVILLE, Mo. - Lula Belle Walker Camp, 79, of Naylor, Mo., died Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, at her residence. She was born, Oct. 7, 1936 in Naylor and spent her lifetime in the area and was a homemaker. On Sept. 3, 1957, she married Carl Edwin Camp in Mt. Carmel, Ill. He preceded her in death on Nov. 29, 1992. Mrs. Camp enjoyed fishing, listening to music, gardening and shopping...
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Donald R.
(Obituary ~ 11/26/15)
Donald R. Morgan, Sr. DEXTER, Mo. -- Donald R. Morgan, Sr., 85, of Dudley died on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Friday, Nov. 27, at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter, with the funeral services beginning at noon in funeral home chapel. Burial will be in the Brown Chapel Cemetery in Broseley, Mo. with Watkins & Sons Funeral Service of Dexter in charge of arrangements...
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Audra
(Obituary ~ 11/26/15)
Audra Jean Terrell Audra Jean Terrell, 90, of Poplar Bluff, died Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 at The Cedargate Care Center in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Terrell, the daughter of the late Lewis Marvin and Alma (Lawson) Forrester, was born April 17, 1925 in Greene County, Ill. ...
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William James "Jimmy" Dickens
(Obituary ~ 11/26/15)
William James "Jimmy" Dickens SEYMOUR, Mo. - William James "Jimmy" Dickens, 71, of Seymour, formerly of Poplar Bluff, died Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 in Springfield, Mo.Mr. Dickens was born March 19, 1944, in Butler County. He attended local schools until graduation, when he joined the U.S. ...
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Mary
(Obituary ~ 11/26/15)
Mary Evelyn Brooks VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Mary Evelyn Brooks, 77, of Van Buren, Mo., departed this life Monday, Nov. 23, 2015 in the Riverways Manor Nursing Home in Van Buren. A lifelong resident of Van Buren, Evelyn was born July 14, 1938 in Van Buren to August and Elsie Lucille (Chilton) Lowe. ...
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Kilgore family tradition adds chapter
(High School Sports ~ 11/26/15)
In Malden, a football game at The Swamp isn't just a game. It's tradition. Fans come out in droves, tailgate before games and "bleeding green and gold" runs deep. That tradition runs deepest in the Kilgore family. In all, 13 members and three different generations of the Kilgore family have at one time or another put on a Malden football uniform...
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After break, Raiders enjoy home cooking
(High School Sports ~ 11/26/15)
"One game at a time. That's our thing. That's what the problem was last year, especially around this time and this tournament," Three Rivers sophomore Domonique Alexander said. "We were just worried about next game too much, instead of just focusing on what we was doing right now. I guess we've just got to focus more on what we're doing and not what we are going to do."...
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