Stories from Saturday, December 27, 2014

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Less money will be available to purchase equipment for police and fire stations and make street repairs in the next five years, under a new long-range spending plan for the city of Poplar Bluff. More money than ever will be spent from Poplar Bluff's capital improvements fund between 2015 and 2019...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Capital improvements fund spending Last five years (2010-2014) Total revenues: $9.5 million Total spending: $8.6 million Next five years (2015-2019, projected) Total revenues: $10 million Total spending: $11.5 million Revenues for the next five years are based on figures released by city manager Heath Kaplan in November predicting a 1.5 percent annual increase in sales tax revenues for this fund...

Last week the House made important progress on an issue I have been fighting since I got to Washington - protecting our farmers and landowners from intrusive federal regulations. Since I have been in office, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers have been scheming to take away our property rights. ...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "NYPD, KKK, How many kids did you kill today?" That was one of the chants of anti-police protesters in New York City. Another was, "What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want them? Now!" Well, the marchers got their wish Saturday in Bedford-Stuyvesant when Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, firing into a patrol car, murdered NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu...

By MONA CHAREN Has there ever been a president more eager to make concessions to vicious regimes than Barack Obama? The opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba is the latest and, one fears, not the last in a string of preemptive concessions. Obama, with his blend of hard-left prejudices and vaulting solipsism, has sought throughout his presidency to atone for what he and his party view as America's past sins...

Bruce Martin Bruce Franklin Martin, 60, of Gideon, died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. today, Dec. 26 at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will follow at 1 p.m. in the funeral home chapel...

Bill Tutor Bill "Dub" Tutor, 83, of Corning, Ark., died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at home. Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. Friday in the Ermert Funeral Home in Corning. The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel. Burial will be in Williams Cemetery at Corning...

Preston Shaw Preston Shaw, 25, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

David Rose QULIN, Mo.-- David "Tom" Rose, 66, of Qulin, died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Rose was born August 13, 1948 at Qulin and had lived in the Butler County area all of his life. He had served in the Army during the Vietnam War. ...

Charlotte Garrison Charlotte Lavonne (Pace) Garrison, 75, who grew up in the Poplar Bluff, Mo., area, passed away peacefully at home in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. Lavonne was born in Marshall, Mo., on Oct. 8, 1939, to Bill and Flora (Tommie) Pace. She married her husband, Harry, Sr., in 1956, and he preceded her in death in 1986...

Jimmy Eudaley Jimmy Eudaley, 73, of Ellsinore, died Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, at his residence. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Henson Cemetery in Ellsinore. McSpadden Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.