Stories from Thursday, December 20, 2012

PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Clark's Mountain Nursing Center recently announced the retirement of long-time administrator Vicki Eaton. A 30-year veteran of the long-term care industry, Eaton spent the last 25 years at the helm of Piedmont's only skilled nursing and rehabilitation center...

Poplar Bluff does help In response to the article in the paper on Tuesday about "Poplar Bluff people not helping." I really don't believe that. I was at the homeless coalition meeting at the hotel in Poplar Bluff. We had more churches, more organizations, more individual people to come and hold their hand out to help people and give them a helping hand than I've ever seen in my life and I was real proud. ...

By MONA CHAREN Chivalry is back in the news. The always-alert Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute draws our attention to an item in the Psychology of Women Quarterly. A new study on what the authors are pleased to call "benevolent sexism" (which, as Murray translates, seems to mean gentlemanly behavior) found that both women and men are happier when men behave like gentlemen...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor PUXICO, Mo. -- Gene Shain, senior vice president of First Midwest Bank in Puxico, Mo., was honored during an open house reception Friday to celebrate his retirement after 61 years in banking -- 25 in Fisk, Mo., and 36 in Puxico...

BROSELEY -- The Clearwater Lady Tigers were off a touch offensively in the second half Tuesday night in the quarterfinals of the Lady Royals Classic. Luckily, they were on in the first half and built a sizeable lead against host Twin Rivers. Clearwater, seeded No. 4, managed just five second-half field goals but held on late with free throws to advance to the semifinals, 49-38...

By REG HENRY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A man's gotta to do what a man's gotta do. Why is that? Because only men can do certain things, just as only women can do other things (in their case, birthing babies comes immediately to mind). What a man can do is grow a beard. ...

BERNIE - With 8.6 seconds left, trailing by 2 and both teams out of timeouts, Twin Rivers' Blake Moore raced up the court, past the Bernie press. He dribbled to the free-throw line and kicked the ball to Zach Underberg in the corner when the defense collapsed on him...

MALDEN -- Hershel Manning, 86, of Tallapoosa, Mo. died Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, at Missouri Southern Health Care in Dexter, Mo. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. Thursday and continue until the funeral at 1 p.m. Thursday at Bradshaw Funeral Chapel in Malden. Burial will be in Pine City Cemetery, Holcomb, Mo...

ANNAPOLIS -- The Clearwater Tigers and the top-ranked team in Class 1, the South Iron Panthers, just couldn't get any offensive momentum going Tuesday night. The Tigers missed opportunity after opportunity in the fourth quarter and lost their chance at an upset, losing 36-32...