Stories from Tuesday, October 7, 2014

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor An intensive investigation by the Poplar Bluff Police Department has resulted in the arrests of two men and a woman suspected of being involved in selling heroin, according to Deputy Police Chief Jeff Rolland. Robert Jamaine Lewis, 39, Sade Lashaye Anderson, 26, both of St. Louis, Mo., and Jamar Mario Griffin, 29, who recently had moved from St. Louis to Poplar Bluff, were arrested at 8 p.m. Friday in the Comfort Inn and lodged in the Butler County jail...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Twin Rivers High School welcomes two new teachers for the 2014-15 school year--one filling a vacant math teacher position and one filling a newly created language arts teacher position--as administrators strive to offer more electives to students...

Bravo on DAR editorial I wanted to say Bravo! on the editorial in today's paper [Friday, Sept. 26, 2014] regarding the city council and the new city manager picking a London company over our local for the city employees' health insurance. It is a disgrace to not only pick this company but to pay $17,000 more and I think it is a shame, it's a disgrace and I'm very disappointed as a resident of the city of Poplar Bluff I can only see that being passed on to us, the taxpayers...

By MONA CHAREN There's really only one thing that progressives get wrong: human nature. This leads them into error on economics, where they imagine they can micromanage billions of individual decisions every day; foreign policy, in which they overestimate the appeal of "talks" and underestimate the ferocity and opportunism of aggressors; and sex, in which, well, where to begin?...

WASHINGTON, DC - The Missouri Pharmacy Association (MPA) has selected Ken Michel, PharmD, FASCP, as the recipient of the 2014 Bowl of Hygeia Award for outstanding community service. Michel was presented with the award at the IPhA & MPA Annual Convention on Saturday, Sept. 27. The award is sponsored by the American Pharmacists Association Foundation, the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations and the American Pharmacists Association with support from Boehringer Ingelheim...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Unfortunately, Congress' vortex now spins the other way, throwing off powers that the executive scoops up. Hence this autumn's spectacle: Feverish House and Senate candidates waging ferocious campaigns to win or retain offices that are of rapidly diminishing significance...

Jack Randleman PUXICO Mo.--Jack Randleman, 90, of Zalma, Mo., died Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, at his residence. He was a World War II veteran, and retired from the U.S. Marines. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Morgan- Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico, Mo. Funeral services will be at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with Scott Sifford officiating. Burial to follow in Bloomfield Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield Mo. with full miltary rites...

Glodean Smothers MALDEN, Mo.-- Glodean Lucy Smothers, 91, of Campbell, Mo., died Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. today at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden, Mo. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bradshaw Chapel with burial to follow in Elder Cemetery in Campbell...