Stories from Monday, February 3, 2014

Bunny and Charlie Sisk of Poplar Bluff, Mo., will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary from 1 - 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at Temple Baptist Church, 1813 Barron Road, Poplar Bluff. Hosting the party will be their two children: Steven Sisk, St. Louis, Mo. and Susan Lemonds, Thayer, Mo...

Rev. and Mrs. N. A. Haynes, Malden, Mo. celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. The couple was married Dec. 7, 1938. They are both 92 years old. The family celebrated the occasion when they gathered together at Christmas. The Haynes pastored Naylor Pentecostal Church for 42 years. They are retired from the ministry and farming...

By ALEX WEST Staff Writer In January, two chartered buses full of around 100 residents of Southeast Missouri traveled to Washington D.C. for the 41st Annual March for Life. Those traveling from this area joined hundreds of thousands of marchers supporting the pro-life cause from across the United States and other countries...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Out of the Republican retreat on Maryland's Eastern shore comes word that the House leadership is raising the white flag of surrender on immigration. The GOP will agree to halt the deportation of 12 million illegal aliens, and sign on to a blanket amnesty. It only asks that the 12 million not be put on a path to citizenship...

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER WASHINGTON -- What is it about women that causes leading Republicans to grow clumsy, if not stupid? When even savvy, fluent, attractively populist Mike Huckabee stumbles, you know you've got trouble. Having already thrown away eminently winnable Senate seats in Missouri and Indiana because of moronic talk about rape, the GOP might have learned. You'd think...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Someone you probably are not familiar with has filed a suit you probably have not heard about concerning a four-word phrase you should know about. The suit could blow to smithereens something everyone has heard altogether too much about, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereafter, ACA)...

ROGERSVILLE -- Just 17 hours after a heartbreaking loss, the Poplar Bluff Mules were 173 miles away playing for a third time in as many days. Glendale led wire-to-wire Saturday afternoon to take seventh place at the Logan-Rogersville Tournament with a 68-59 win over the Mules...

CHARLESTON -- Ahead by seven at halftime, the Poplar Bluff Lady Mules switched to a zone defense and ran away with their seventh straight win Saturday afternoon. Courtney Raulston scored nine of her game-high 19 points in the third quarter, matching Scott County Central's offensive output, in Poplar Bluff's 62-42 win at the Charleston Coach's vs. Cancer Shootout...

In their pink jerseys, the Three Rivers Lady Raiders got off to a red-hot start Saturday, but couldn't hold on to the lead. Three Rivers led by 10 in the early going, but allowed a 20-0 run late in the first half and a 20-3 run midway through the second, eventually losing 90-79 to State Fair at the Bess Activity Center...

It is hard for road teams to win on Gene Bess Court. On Saturday, it was hard for the best team in Region XVI to even take the lead. The Three Rivers Raiders may have held the lead for more than 36 minutes, but didn't hold it in the end, though, losing at home 90-86 to State Fair...