Stories from Monday, December 24, 2012

By BILL O'REILLY Anyone offended by public displays of Christmas needs to see a psychiatrist. Are we clear on this? You are a loon if the sight of baby Jesus arouses anger or sadness in you. Get help. This brings us to the governor of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee. ...

Ask Jo Ann to pay for election Jo Ann Emerson knew when she got re-elected she was gonna resign as soon as she got elected to take that private CEO job. If it's gonna cost the taxpayers of this district a million dollars, she should be made to pay it instead of making the poor folks do it...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe them, but when evaluating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's ideas for making the Senate more like the House of Representatives, consider the source. Reid is just a legislative mechanic trying to make Congress' machinery efficiently responsive to his party's progressivism. And proper progressives think the Constitution, understood as a charter of limited government, is unconstitutional...

Amanda Cullum of Parma, Mo., has been awarded the Rose Abbott Memorial Nursing Scholarship. Cullum has been an EMT in New Madrid County for 12 years and is in her second year of RN school at Three Rivers Collge. She is married to Steven Cullum, Jr. They have two children, Cody and Kaitlin...

Cindy Clark of Ellsinore, Mo., has been named an advisor to the scholarship committee of Three Rivers Community College Foundation. As such, she will help choose recipients of the scholarships and grants administered by the foundation. Clark, 51, a long-time Carter County resident, teaches business courses for Central Methodist University on the Three Rivers campus. ...

Mary Cumbee Mary Frances Cumbee, 89, of Paducah, Ky., formerly of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Cotrell Funeral Chapel in Poplar Bluff, with the funeral service following at 10:30 a.m...

Kevin Griffin Kevin Griffin, 53, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. Arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff and will be announced in Thursday's edition of the Daily American Republic.

Glenda Cline FISK, Mo. -- Glenda B. (McKuin) Cline, 87, formerly of Houston, Texas, and Fisk, Mo., died Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Greentree Assisted Living of Southern Illinois. Ms. Cline was born Feb. 20, 1925, at Morrilton, Ark. She had lived in Illinois for the past five years. She was a homemaker...

Susan Darby MALDEN, Mo. -- Susan Laverne Foster Darby of Malden, Mo., went to be with the Lord on Dec. 22, 2012, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., after a three-year battle with ALS. She was born on May 28, 1950, in St. Louis. Susan was the loving wife of Jerry for over 41 years. ...