Stories from Monday, July 23, 2012

PATTERSON, Mo. -- Experience the rolling St. Francois Mountains while rolling down the highway during the Bikers at Baker event Sept. 7-9 at Sam A. Baker State Park in Wayne County. The first Missouri State Parks motorcycle poker run and tour will feature a weekend of fun, food and music and a chance to see some of Missouri's most scenic state parks and historic sites, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Registration deadline is July 31...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer PATTERSON, Mo. -- As the fifth most popular Missouri state park, according to the most recent attendance figures, hundreds of thousands of visitors come to Sam A. Baker each year to camp, hike trails along some of the oldest exposed rock in North America, launch boats into the St. Francis River for crappie fishing and wade along the shores of Big Creek...

A Charleston, Mo., man has entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder for a fatal shooting in Charleston. Devonte Marquez Johnson, 19, entered the guilty plea during a hearing at the Butler County Courthouse in Poplar Bluff, according to Mississippi County Prosecuting Attorney Darren Cann. Johnson is charged in the death of Nicholas Munn...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Public meetings will be held this week across Southeast Missouri by the Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland property committee, which has been gathering information in the past several months to develop a long-range property plan for the council...

PATTERSON, Mo. -- Experience the rolling St. Francois Mountains while rolling down the highway during the Bikers at Baker event Sept. 7-9 at Sam A. Baker State Park in Wayne County. The first Missouri State Parks motorcycle poker run and tour will feature a weekend of fun, food and music and a chance to see some of Missouri's most scenic state parks and historic sites, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Registration deadline is July 31...

A Charleston, Mo., man has entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder for a fatal shooting in Charleston. Devonte Marquez Johnson, 19, entered the guilty plea during a hearing at the Butler County Courthouse in Poplar Bluff, according to Mississippi County Prosecuting Attorney Darren Cann. Johnson is charged in the death of Nicholas Munn...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer PATTERSON, Mo. -- As the fifth most popular Missouri state park, according to the most recent attendance figures, hundreds of thousands of visitors come to Sam A. Baker each year to camp, hike trails along some of the oldest exposed rock in North America, launch boats into the St. Francis River for crappie fishing and wade along the shores of Big Creek...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Public meetings will be held this week across Southeast Missouri by the Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland property committee, which has been gathering information in the past several months to develop a long-range property plan for the council...

Thief stole joy I would like to say thank you to the employee at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center who received my daughter's purse after a patient found it in the emergency room trash can. She was quite devastated after finding the window of her Jeep smashed in and her purse missing. ...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

By DAN K. THOMASSON WASHINGTON The Pony Express may ultimately have been faster than some of the modern services from a U.S. Postal Service struggling against massive debt and the evil Internet. The result of the cutbacks in the futile effort to reverse the situation ultimately may be the abolition of what was once a precious national lifeline...

By BETSY HART Scripps Howard News Service How easy it is as parents to see the negative in a child as only that. "He is so stubborn." "She talks too much." "That kid is so argumentative." And on it goes. Instead, years ago, a wise pastor friend encouraged me in dealing with my children to always try to find the positive side of a personality or character trait I was having trouble with. ...

By OLIVER NORTH GEORGETOWN, S.C. -- Taking a dozen grandchildren on vacation means that we buy cereal by the ton and milk in multiple gallons. I was in the cereal aisle, squinting at the list of ingredients on a brightly colored box of "high-fiber multigrain something," when a fellow shopper put the question to me: "So, Col. North, what's the 'October surprise' for this election?"...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Poplar Bluff's Taylor Norwood and Alessandra Rubi took top honors for their age group, winning three individual races Saturday at the Southeast Missouri Swim Conference Championships. The Piranhas earned a third place finish while picking up the most points in the history of the program...

Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. ...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

By DAN K. THOMASSON WASHINGTON The Pony Express may ultimately have been faster than some of the modern services from a U.S. Postal Service struggling against massive debt and the evil Internet. The result of the cutbacks in the futile effort to reverse the situation ultimately may be the abolition of what was once a precious national lifeline...

By OLIVER NORTH GEORGETOWN, S.C. -- Taking a dozen grandchildren on vacation means that we buy cereal by the ton and milk in multiple gallons. I was in the cereal aisle, squinting at the list of ingredients on a brightly colored box of "high-fiber multigrain something," when a fellow shopper put the question to me: "So, Col. North, what's the 'October surprise' for this election?"...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...