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For Stoddard County rapist 2 life sentences, plus 163 years
(Local News ~ 07/17/14)
By NOREEN HYSLOP SEMO News Service BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Convicted rapist Steven Clark Rendleman was sentenced Tuesday in Stoddard County to two concurrent life sentences, along with 30 years for kidnapping, 15 years for assault and 118 years for armed criminal action...
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Sterling, 1st Comm. form partnership
(Local News ~ 07/17/14)
Sterling Bank and First Community Bank, Missouri, announce the forming of their strategic partnership through a signed definitive Merger Agreement. Sterling Bancshares, Inc. will acquire 100 percent of Bootheel Bancorp, Inc., including First Community Bank, Bootheel Bancorp, Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary. The acquisition, expected to close in early 2015, has been approved by the Board of Directors of both companies and is subject to regulatory approval...
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Piggott couple escapes boat blast at Bull Shoals
(Local News ~ 07/17/14)
LAKEVIEW, Ark. -- A Piggott, Ark., couple's vacation took a turn for the worst Tuesday afternoon when their boat exploded shortly after refueling on Bull Shoals Lake. The Baxter Bulletin of Mountain Home, Ark., reports Tim and Sue Adams planned a leisurely afternoon on the lake...
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Challenges of a new school year
(Column ~ 07/17/14)
By MIKE JENSEN Publisher Sikeston Standard Democrat While out for a brief Sunday afternoon shopping binge, I couldn't help but notice the "Back to School" sections were in full display. My kids are long out of the educational environment so I pay much less attention to the school calendar...
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And other improvements at Baldwin Buick GMC New parts, services bldg.
(Business ~ 07/17/14)
By ALEX WEST Staff Writer Baldwin Buick GMC is offering customers better services options and a better display for new vehicles thanks to the completion of its new parts and services building. The store recently completed the construction of a 15,000-square-foot building that houses a state of the art services department and offers new space for parts...
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Obama's lawyers' enrichment act
(Column ~ 07/17/14)
By MICHELLE MALKIN The American Dream is dying for tens of millions of unemployed, underemployed and long-term jobless citizens. But the White House has guaranteed that one sector of the U.S. economy will thrive for decades to come: Open-borders immigration lawyers...
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How to fight sexual assault
(Column ~ 07/17/14)
By MONA CHAREN Two University of Miami football players have been arrested and dismissed from the university after being criminally charged with sexual battery on a 17-year-old girl. According to ESPN, the two admitted to buying drinks for the girl and then bringing her back to a dorm room where they engaged in nonconsensual sex acts with her...
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Elsie Coleman
(Obituary ~ 07/17/14)
Elsie Coleman JONESBORO, Ark.- Elsie Edith Sullins Coleman, 96, formerly of Jonesboro, passed away Monday, July 14, 2014, at Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. She was born on April 14, 1918 in Grubbs, Ark. to the late Charles David and Minnie Johns Sullins (Dr. ...
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Donald Wilson
(Obituary ~ 07/17/14)
Donald Wilson DONIPHAN, Mo. - Donald Ronald Wilson, 69, of Doniphan, died Monday, July 14, 2014, at the home of his daughter in rural Ripley County, Mo. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan. The funeral service will follow at 1 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Bro. Steve Sanders officiating. Burial will be in the Beaver Dam Cemetery...
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PB teen calls his way to podium finish
(Outdoors ~ 07/17/14)
By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor While most 15-year-old boys are trying to figure out girls, ways to have fun and their place in the high-school ecosystem, Zane Foust is on a roll, making a name for himself in the outdoors. The Poplar Bluff, Mo., teen killed two turkeys in his first two years of hunting them, he shoots circles around others two or three times his age on the skeet range (I'll attest to that), and last weekend he took second place in the junior division of the Tennessee Valley Hunting and Fishing Expo's duck calling contest in Huntsville, Ala.. ...
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Skylar Tinker
(Obituary ~ 07/17/14)
Skylar Tinker POPLAR BLUFF, Mo.- Skylar Damien Tinker, 9 months old, of Bernie, Mo., passed away Sunday, July 13, 2014, at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. Skylar was born Sept. 15, 2013, in Poplar Bluff, to Laura Summers and Matthew Tinker. He is survived by his parents and grandparents, Doyle and Gwenelda Tinker and Timothy and Sandra Summers; great-grandparents, Charles and Joanna Riggs, Gene and Beverly Summers, Margaret Eads and Diane Kirkpatrick; five uncles, George Dawson, Josh Dugger, Josh Tinker, Charles Summers, and Noah Summers; three aunts, Brittney Dawson, Alicia Summers, and Danielle Summers.. ...
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Make preparations to keep your fish fresh
(Outdoors ~ 07/17/14)
By JOHN PRATT Mo. Dept. of Conservation The weather has turned hot, and that causes fishermen to need to take special care of their catch if they want them to be decent eating. If you are set-line fishing, it is common to find a dead fish on the line. A dead fish on a set line is not a fish worthy of eating, especially during hot weather. I for one don't want to eat a fish that has been dead for any length of time. If the gills are not still bright red, I don't keep them...
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Jerry Jones
(Obituary ~ 07/17/14)
Jerry Jones MALDEN, Mo.- Jerry Thomas Jones, 67, of Bonne Terre, Mo., died Thursday, July 10, 2014, at his residence. Visitation will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. Memorial service will follow at 2 p.m. with burial in Rosewod Cemetery in Malden...
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Donettes coach got start as volunteer during Mules' championship years
(High School Sports ~ 07/17/14)
In his first job coaching basketball, Zac Moore was a part of something special. Over a decade later, Moore is now trying to build something special with the Doniphan Donettes basketball team. Moore, a 1998 Poplar Bluff graduate, was a volunteer assistant coach for the Mules when they won state titles in 2004 and 2005 under coach John David Pattillo...
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Jimmy Day
(Obituary ~ 07/17/14)
Jimmy Day Jimmy Glenn Day, 60, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at his residence. The arrangements are pending and will announced by Cotrell Funeral Service of Poplar Bluff, Mo.
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Vernon wins 4th straight WHCC match play title
(High School Sports ~ 07/17/14)
Carr Vernon defended his title again as match play champion at Westwood Hills Country Club over the weekend. Vernon defeated David Gilmore 7 and 5 in the championship match for his fourth straight title. Gilmore, the 11th seed in the 26-player field, kept it from being a father-son final by beating Jimmy Vernon 2 up in the semifinal...
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James White
(Obituary ~ 07/17/14)
James White James C. White, 76, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. died Monday, July 14, 2014 at his residence. He was born Jan. 21, 1938 to Carl and Lois Barrier White in Savannah, Tenn. On Feb. 16, 1963, he married Shirley Ogden in Hayti, Mo. She survives of the home...
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Veterans Wall raffle
(Local News ~ 07/17/14)
Vets Wall raffle By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Members of the Ride for the Veterans Wall Committee are selling tickets for a drawing on a 2003 Mercedes Kompressor convertible in order to raise funds needed to pay off the loan on the Veterans Memorial Wall in Downtown Poplar Bluff...
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