Stories from Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Three Rivers College will operate from a budget of more than $34.3 million in Fiscal Year 2014, which begins July 1. Approved allocations include (approximate): OVER $500,000 $534,000 - Language program $690,000 - Nursing program $635,000 - President's office...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Multiple canine search teams training in Carter County Sunday found human remains in the "general vicinity" of where the abandoned vehicle of a missing Michigan man was found more than four months ago...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor By a 4-0 vote, the Poplar Bluff Regional Transportation Development District Board decided Monday on the number of lanes for Oak Grove Road from the elementary school to Township Line Road. It will be three lanes from where the five-lane section ends in front of Oak Grove School to west of County Road 438A. ...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The Palin Doctrine On U.S. military intervention in Syria's civil war, where "both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line 'Allahu akbar' ... I say let Allah sort it out." So said Sarah Palin to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. And, as is not infrequently the case, she nailed it...

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER WASHINGTON -- The war in Syria, started by locals, is now a regional conflict, the meeting ground of two warring blocs. On one side, the radical Shiite bloc led by Iran, which overflies Iraq to supply Bashar al-Assad and sends Hezbollah to fight for him. Behind them lies Russia, which has stationed ships offshore, provided the regime with tons of weaponry and essentially claimed Syria as a Russian protectorate...

There will be a lot of excitement and hoopla from Southeast Missouri sports fans come Thursday for the NBA Draft Scott County Central alum and former Georgetown player Otto Porter Jr. (the son of former Three Rivers Raider Otto Porter) will be selected as a likely top-5 pick...