Stories from Monday, January 26, 2015

From Staff Reports Visions of an African safari filled Ted Thornburgh's holiday dreams this year. The images were of the 14-day hunting safari he and his wife, Patricia, already have taken and the ones they plan for the future. The Poplar Bluff couple planned the trip thinking it would be a once-in-a-life-time expedition to celebrate their 25th anniversary, but Ted is quick to admit, they will be going again. He credits his wife with doing the hard part - planning everything...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer The city of Poplar Bluff should soon receive nearly $1.3 million in personal and real estate property tax money which was collected by the county. Disbursement of the funds was delayed due to unsettled questions regarding a contract between the city and county for fees paid to the county collector's office, according to local officials...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer A public hearing will be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Butler County Courthouse on a proposed county budget of nearly $20 million for the 2015 fiscal year. Commissioners are expected to vote on the budget, which is due to state auditors by Feb. 1...

SEMO News Service SIKESTON, Mo. -- A three-hour standoff ended late Friday with the arrest of two men wanted in a Jan. 11 fatal shooting. Sikeston Department of Public Safety Director Drew Juden reported about midnight Friday the arrest of William Henry Applewhite III, 27, and Gailon Lamarous Applewhite, 29, on Davis Street in Sikeston. The brothers were taken to the Sikeston Jail...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer A Poplar Bluff Police pursuit ended with the arrest of a man suspected of holding his girlfriend captive all night at gunpoint. Jewayne B. Shaw, 24, of the 900 block of Cherry, was arrested around noon Saturday in the 100 block of North Westwood Boulevard. Police are seeking charges of felonious restraint, armed criminal action, unlawful possession of a firearm, resisting arrest and multiple traffic violations...

In honor of Black History Month this February, and in the spirit of Dr. Charles Drew, an African-American surgeon who was the first medical director of the American Red Cross and a modern blood-banking pioneer, eligible donors as diverse as the patients who need their blood donations are encouraged to give blood to ensure a sufficient blood supply...

JEFFERSON CITY--The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold a local public hearing beginning at 6 p.m. Monday at the Elks Lodge, 325 North Two Mile Road in Dexter in an electric rate case filed by Union Electric Company d/b/a Ameren Missouri. The local public hearing schedule appears below...

Students named to the Chancellor's and Deans' lists for fall 2014 at Arkansas State University have been announced. Combined, the group has 2,128 students. The two lists recognize students who achieved the highest grade point averages while enrolled in 12 or more credit hours of study...

Reporting a junkyard I'd like to report a junkyard on the 1500 block of Truman Street. I don't know whether our code enforcement is scared of the people or what, but it looks worse than Browning junkyard and it needs to be cleaned up and everything and I don't know if the city manager and code enforcement is scared of the people or what but there's a dozen cars, old junkers, all the way around it. ...

Patricia L. Shipman Elmore DEXTER, Mo. -- Patricia L. Shipman Elmore, 80, of Dexter died at her residence Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015. Arrangements are pending at this time and are being handled by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

By SHARON RANDALL Tribune News Service From the start, I sensed something special about him. I didn't know he was blind and suffered cerebral palsy. Born premature, my brother spent his first months in an incubator. I was 4 years old, clueless about babies...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN On Martin Luther King Day, 2015, how stand race relations in America? "Selma," a film focused on the police clubbing of civil rights marchers led by Dr. King at Selma bridge in March of 1965, is being denounced by Democrats as a cinematic slander against the president who passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965...

Patricia Clark Losh Patricia Clark Losh, 66, High Ridge, died Jan. 15, 2015, at St. Claire Hospital in Fenton. Born Nov. 10, 1948, Patti was the daughter of Leo and Ruby (Phelps) Clark, Poplar Bluff. She attended Poplar Bluff schools until her senior year, when she graduated from Sterling, Ill. Prior to retirement, she was a relocation specialist for several moving companies...

Harold Gough MALDEN, Mo. - Harold Gene Gough, 72, of Malden, Mo. died Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 at Malden Nursing and Rehab in Malden. Visitation will be 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25 at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will be 3 p.m. Sunday in the Bradshaw Chapel with burial in Rosewood Cemetery in Malden...

Donna F. Barton Donna F. Barton, 73, of Poplar Bluff, died Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 at Poplar Bluff Regional Hospital. Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service.

Mary Ellen Boner MALDEN, Mo. - Mary Ellen Boner, 72, of Bernie, Mo. died Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 at her residence. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Monday at the Landess Chapel in Malden. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27 at the Landess Chapel with burial in the Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton, Mo...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Missouri House of Representatives will convene Monday, Jan. 26, to present a resolution sponsored by Rep. Steve Cookson honoring Doniphan native country music songwriter/artist Billy Yates. This past year, the city of Doniphan by Proclamation declared a stretch of highway within the city limits, the BILLY YATES HIGHWAY in conjunction with declaring every third Friday of May the City's official "BILLY YATES DAY". ...

Barbara Rogers NEELYVILLE, MO. -- Barbara Kay Rogers, 69, of Terre Haute, Ind. died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at Signature Health Care in Terre Haute. Rogers was born Aug. 11, 1945, in Portageville, Mo. She formerly had lived in the Neelyville and Harviell area. She was a homemaker who enjoyed gardening and knitting. She was of the Pentecostal faith...

Friends of Girl Scout Camp Latonka and two other camp committees in the Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland Council were given approval by the Board of Directors to continue their efforts towards keeping the camps open and available for usage by Girl Scouts as well as the public. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Poplar Bluff Mules swim team rewrote their record Saturday. It started with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay in a meet-record time that was also the fourth-fastest in the state this season. "There was a lot of confidence going in," Mules coach Beth Lewis-Muse said. "The girls were up against some good competition."...

CAMDENTON -- Poplar Bluff wore down a West Plains team Saturday as the Mules extended their win streak to nine with a 68-54 win. The Zizzers had just finished a double-overtime win over Camdenton just 16 hours before tipping off against the Mules on Saturday morning...

Three Rivers swept Moberly Area for the first time since 2009. The Raiders got back above .500 in Region XVI play with a 70-56 win over Moberly Area on Saturday at the Bess Activity Center. The Raiders (18-6, 3-2 XVI), who had a week between games to prepare, fell behind in the early going and eventually tied it up at 14 on a 3 by Vashawn Ruffin...

PUXICO -- The Bernie Mules continued their strong season and earned their 15th win Friday at Puxico with a 64-54 decision. Jacob Ellenburg had 26 points for Bernie (15-2) and Brandon Sparks added 23. Zack Tucker had 24 points for Puxico (10-9) and Seth Luttrull got 18...

SIKESTON - For the past three years Poplar Bluff's Matt King has finished with a second place medal during the SEMO Conference Wrestling Tournament. With a chance to erase three tournament's worth of losing in the championship match Saturday night, King finally got his gold...

The long winter continued for the Lady Raiders on Saturday. Three Rivers suffered its seventh straight loss and fell to 0-6 against Region XVI opponents with a 75-64 loss to Moberly Area. "What we did the second half is probably going to be the offense the rest of the year," Three Rivers coach Jeff Walk said. "That got us going the second half."...

NEELYVILLE -- Lightning has now struck twice for the Neelyville Tigers. They even survived the thunder that came with it Friday night. For the second straight year, and only the second time since 1990, the Tigers defeated Twin Rivers in Ozark Foothills Conference play, 53-45, despite a late comeback by the visiting Royals who cut a 17-point deficit to a single basket...