Stories from Saturday, October 27, 2012

By BETSY HART Scripps Howard News Service "When a many loves a woman, he can't keep his mind on nothin' else; he'll trade the world for the good things he's found." -- Percy Sledge Just before my wedding (Oct. 13!) I wrote that I had learned Tom and I were considered "deciders" not "sliders."...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "It would be unconscionable to go to war if we haven't had such discussions," said Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state in the Bush administration, of reports the Obama White House has agreed to one-on-one talks with Tehran over its nuclear program...

1. IDOLATRY. Idol worship is a direct violation of the first two Commandments. It need not be a bowing down to worship an idol God. It may well be the idolizing of anything. In any form it is an abomination to God. God said, "Ephram is joined to idols; let him alone." Hosea 4:17...

Grace Long DEXTER, Mo. -- Grace Lucille Whitson Long, 99, of Bernie, Mo., died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at Winchester Place in Bernie. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home. The funeral will follow at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with burial at Mounds Memorial Park in New Madrid, Mo...