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Mules, fans pay tribute to Gaebler
(Local News ~ 09/03/17)
riday night's Poplar Bluff Mules varsity football game was different for the Chain Gang. Usually, they'd shuffle down the sideline, play after play, marking each down and distance for the officials and fans. But this time, for the first time, the men stood back and watched...
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2 die, 3 injured in crash near Doniphan
(Local News ~ 09/03/17)
Two people, including a Poplar Bluff, Mo., man are dead after a two-vehicle accident on US 160, three miles east of Doniphan at 10:55 a.m. Saturday. According to the report, Justin A. Young, 36, was driving a eastbound 2002 Dodge pickup when his vehicle alledgedly crossed the center line and struck a westbound 2015 Jeep Wrangler head-on driven by Wendy L. Brooks, 45, of Boaz, Ky...
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Mingo Swamp Friends Flora, Fauna Photo winners announced
(Local News ~ 09/03/17)
The judges had a challenge choosing the best of the entries in the 12th Annual Mingo Swamp Friends Flora and Fauna Photo Contest. Photos in four categories highlight native wildlife, native plants, people in nature and Mingo landscapes. Photos were entered by youth and adults from Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff, Sikeston, Jackson, Dexter, East Prairie, Benton, Essex and Harviell. ...
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Huskey, Wallis
(Features ~ 09/03/17)
Allison Sarah Huskey and Trevor Andrew Wallis, both of Poplar Bluff, exchanged wedding vows Saturday, May 20, 2017, at City Light Baptist Church in O'Fallon, Mo. Rev. Steve Patterson officiated over the double-ring ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Lindell and Myrna Huskey of Poplar Bluff. Parents of the bridegroom are: Lisa Wallis of Poplar Bluff and Jay and Lynn Wallis of Dexter...
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It's time Congress returns to regular order
(Column ~ 09/03/17)
Editor's Note: John McCain, a Republican, represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate. By JOHN McCAIN Americans recoiled from the repugnant spectacle of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville to promote their un-American "blood and soil" ideology. There is nothing in their hate-driven racism that can match the strength of a nation conceived in liberty and comprising 323 million souls of different origins and opinions who are equal under the law...
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What a difference a leader makes in crisis
(Column ~ 09/03/17)
By JAMIE STIEHM What a difference a mayor makes -- for better or worse. Houston, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charlottesville, Virginia, residents have learned that fact real good. Houston's mayor, Sylvester Turner, has not come through Hurricane Harvey with flying colors. Granted, to see a massive city drown on your watch in a Biblical flood is a tragedy beyond belief. We thought it couldn't happen here. Americans, particularly Texans, have a bravado that convinces us we're invincible...
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Area rescue squad deploys to Texas
(Local News ~ 09/03/17)
A 10-member swift-water rescue team of Cape Girardeau and Jackson firefighters has been deployed to flood-ravaged Texas to help with recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The firefighters -- eight from the Cape Girardeau department and two from the Jackson department -- left for Texas at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, four hours after being notified they would be deployed, Cape Girardeau fire chief Rick Ennis said...
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Robert Mueller just undercut Trump's use of the pardon power
(Column ~ 09/03/17)
Politico reported Wednesday that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is teaming up with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in the investigation of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. This is extremely bad news for Manafort and others at the center of Mueller's broader investigation into the campaign...
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Wanda S. (Anspach) Watson
(Obituary ~ 09/03/17)
BELTON, Mo. -- Wanda S. (Anspach) Watson died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 in Belton, Mo. Memorial services will be held with her family and friends will begin at noon Monday, Sept 4, 2017, at the South Poplar Bluff General Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff with burial following at 2 p.m in Memorial Gardens, Highway 67 South...
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Gary John Trapp
(Obituary ~ 09/03/17)
PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Gary John Trapp, 75, of Piedmont, Mo., died Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, Poplar Bluff, Mo. Visitation will be held from 4:30-8 p.m, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, at Ruegg Funeral Home, Piedmont, Mo. Services will follow at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 4, 2017, also at the chapel...
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Randall "Randy" Lacy
(Obituary ~ 09/03/17)
Randall "Randy" Lacy, 82, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. passed away Friday, Sept. 1, 2017 at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Randy, the son of the late O.H. and Bessie May Mosely Lacy, was born Feb. 5, 1935 in Clarkton, Mo. He was of the Baptist faith and had retired from McDonnell Douglas/Boeing as a departmental business manager in 1993. ...
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Dorothy "Dotty" Francis
(Obituary ~ 09/03/17)
FRISCO, Texas -- Dorothy (Dotty) Francis, 89, died Friday, Aug. 11, 2017 after a long and difficult struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Throughout this struggle, her husband Howard Francis was always by her side. She resided at Prairie Estates Nursing Home in Frisco, Texas, when she died...
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Singer Tom Jones postpones US tour due to medical issues
(Local News ~ 09/03/17)
LONDON (AP) -- Veteran singer Tom Jones announced Saturday that he was reluctantly postponing a U.S. concert tour scheduled to kick off next week because of health issues. The 77-year-old Welsh crooner said on Twitter that his fall tour would be delayed "following medical advice. He did not reveal the state of his health or provide further details...
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Sniffing out crime City, county canines on alert for drugs, danger
(Local News ~ 09/03/17)
With noses trained to sniff out criminal activity, three specially-trained canines serve side by side with their human partners at the Butler County Sheriff's Department and Poplar Bluff Police Department. The dogs are similar in many ways, including how each "passive" alerts, meaning they sit when narcotics or explosives are detected; however, there also are differences -- Bojar is a nearly 4-year-old German shepherd from the Czech Republic, Kane is a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois from Atlanta, Ga., and Loco is a nearly 7-year-old German shepherd from the Netherlands.. ...
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Questions linger as ISI holds PB property $1.2 million tech in Michigan
(Local News ~ 09/03/17)
Dusty boxes containing 150 computer monitors remain locked in a Poplar Bluff storage facility, unused since the day the $26,000 in equipment was delivered nearly three years ago. Former city officials paid a premium for this equipment. The monitors saw a 17 percent markup over a week, and are not the brand originally presented to city council...
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Contract awarded for road repairs
(Local News ~ 09/03/17)
A contract has been signed early to begin repairs to a road damaged near Clearwater Dam following a historic crest in the spring. The Missouri Department of Transportation completed documents Tuesday hiring H.R. Quadri Contractors to fix a one-fourth mile section of Highway HH...
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Malden rumbles past Portageville
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/17)
MALDEN -- Was there ever any doubt how the Green Wave might respond after their three-year regular season winning streak ended last week. On the way to beating Portageville 42-14 Friday at The Swamp, Tray Stevenson ran for a career-best 218 yards and four touchdowns on 20 carries. All in the first half. Tye Miller, playing defensive back for the first time, had his first two varsity interceptions and a pick 6...
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'Cats get shutout with 7 turnovers
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/17)
DEXTER - Dexter coach Kevin Goltra was a little nervous the first time New Madrid County Central got the ball in their hands. The Eagles were quicker and showed it in their first drive, eating up chunks of yards with little resistance from his Bearcats...
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Ground game, defense propels Poplar Bluff past Pirates
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/17)
It took an actual mule longer to march downfield than it took the Poplar Bluff Mules on their opening possession Friday night. Following an emotional pregame ceremony that featured a mule on Poplar Bluff's football field for the first time in 20 years, the Mules offense needed just 61 seconds and four plays to pull ahead for good in a 45-7 win over St. Charles at Mules Stadium...
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Mules finish 4th at Soccer Fest
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/17)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- The Poplar Bluff soccer team took home fourth place at the Notre Dame Soccer Fest following consecutive losses. Jackson, which won the title, beat the Mules 4-1 in Friday's semifinal before Poplar Bluff lost 3-0 to Carbondale (Ill.) on Saturday in the third-place game...
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Dexter defends crown at Fest
(High School Sports ~ 09/03/17)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. --Dexter defeated Notre Dame in straight sets, 25-20, 25-23, to repeat as Notre Dame VolleyballFest champions. "It's big, this is one of our goals, to win this tournament," Bearcats coach Carmen Morgan said. "We got it last year, we wanted to get it this year. Our kids just kept scrapping and kept playing and that's what we had to do, so I was proud of them."...
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