Stories from Friday, January 18, 2013

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Bloomfield man charged with stabbing his uncle multiple times is to make his first appearance in a Stoddard County court today. Wesley Darrell Tackett, 21, was to appear at 9 a.m. before Associate Circuit Judge Joe Satterfield for arraignment on the Class A felony of first-degree assault and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action...

By MONA CHAREN Now the other shoes begin to drop. Voters knew in November that many of the promises Obama made in 2008 had been broken. The economy had not revived as he had promised it would ("or we'll be talking about a one-term proposition"). He has not "changed the tone in Washington" -- except for the worse. ...

An Interactive Television (ITV) program to discuss Missouri's Complicated Fence Law will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. The meeting will be held at Three Rivers College, E. K. Porter Distance Learning Center, room 202. There is a $20 charge per person/$25 per couple for this meeting and the fee covers the program and materials. ...

The Jan. 10 meeting of the Missouri Star Quilters was called to order at 6:30 p.m. by President Teresa Rueck. The minutes for December meeting were approved. Committee reports: Many of the chairperson positions are not filled yet for 2013. Members are asked consider taking one of these unfilled positions...

The River Springs chapter of Show-Me Missouri Back Country Horsemen will have its annual chapter membership meeting and elections at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Stray Dog BBQ & Pizza, located at the junction of Highway 60 and Highway 103 in Van Buren, Mo...

Alice Tucker turning 102 on Jan. 20 Alice Wilson Nickless Tucker, who spent 95 of her 102 years in Poplar Bluff, celebrates her birthday January 20. The official celebration will take place at 2 p.m., Monday January 21 at Crystal Oaks Assisted Living in Crystal City, Mo. The celebration will include family, the mayor and local media...