Stories from Friday, November 16, 2012

Many families travel long distances to celebrate the holidays. In my family, everyone brings a dish to the holiday dinner. How can you insure that the food will arrive safe and sound? When assigning foods to family members, you will want to consider the type of food and the distance to travel. ...

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS Here's one usage of the term gentleman: The gentleman helped the fallen lady to her feet. Here's another, one we might hear from a newscaster or a police spokesman: Tonight we report on the arrest of two gentlemen who raped, sodomized and murdered an 80-year-old woman...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN After its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis. Eighteen states have voted Democratic in six straight elections. Among the six are four of our most populous: New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. And Obama has now won two of the three remaining mega-states, Ohio and Florida, twice...

Johnny McAbee MALDEN, Mo. -- Johnny Joe McAbee, 47, of Sunrise Beach, Mo., died Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, in Camdenton, Mo. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday followed by the funeral service at 2 p.m. in the Bradshaw Funeral Home chapel in Malden. Burial will be in Mt. Gilead Cemetery in Clarkton...

Fred Pollard FISK, Mo. -- Fred Richard Pollard, 87, of Doniphan, Mo., formerly of Fisk, Mo., died Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, at Current River Nursing Center in Doniphan, Mo. Visitation will begin at 11:30 a.m. Friday followed by the funeral at 1 p.m. at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk with the Rev. Nina Sue Hampton officiating. Burial will be at Shain Memorial Cemetery at Fisk...

Eugene McKinney Eugene McKinney, 76, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Funeral arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff.

By DALE McFEATTERS Scripps Howard News Service A good sex scandal always has something to teach us. Usually, what we learn in kindergarten: "Keep your hands to yourself." And the one affecting our top military leaders is no exception. Will we learn that there is no such thing as privacy on the Internet? Apparently not...