Stories from Thursday, April 18, 2013

Community business leaders can access the knowledge and experience of world-renowned leaders by attending Chick-fil-A® Leadercast® May 10 at the Three Rivers College Tinnin Center. Chick-fil-A® Leadercast® is a one-day leader development event broadcast live from Atlanta, Ga., to hundreds of sites throughout the nation, including Poplar Bluff. ...

The Broseley Senior Community Center will serve dinner from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sunday. Menu will include: fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, dessert and drink. Cost will be $7, adults and $3.50 for kids 12 and under.

By MONA CHAREN We tell ourselves, we parents of college-bound kids (not to mention ordinary citizens), that American campuses really aren't as bad as all that, that students can avoid the most tendentious indoctrinators and that the press tends to exaggerate. And then we read headlines like "Kathy Boudin Teaching at Columbia" and sharp reality once again punctures the comfortable cushion of denial...

Throughout this session, I have received phone calls from constituents in the district, as well as across the state, who are very concerned about their Second Amendment rights. A lot of the issues and actions being seen and heard are at the federal level; however, the Missouri legislature is also working to protect our Second Amendment rights under constitutional law. ...

Must work to keep our jobs This is about the editorial in today's paper. Yeah, Poplar Bluff, we'll survive. We are all survivors. Four years from now we'll say NORDYNE, who? Like the editor says. But, the thing about it is when Rowe Furniture shut down if they hadn't have shut down with their three or four hundred employees and NORDYNE hadn't have closed up and went to Mexico four years from now. ...

MALDEN, Mo. -- Mildred Marie Hicks Brown, 86, of Sikeston, Mo., died Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at Landess Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will begin at 2 p.m. at the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Charles Woodard officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park...