Stories from Thursday, November 5, 2015

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Poplar Bluff High School advanced physics students are participating in a Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) contest that challenges aspiring engineers to build the best model bridge in the region. MoDOT's 12th annual bridge building competition is currently underway for juniors and seniors in the Southeast District. The competition challenges students to design and construct the most efficient model bridge using limited materials...

Area tax issues passed By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Three tax initiatives were passed Tuesday in Dunklin and Wayne counties, despite low voter turnouts. Measures in Campbell drew about 18 percent of active registered voters, while about 8 percent turned out in Wayne County...

RSVP craft show is Sat. By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer The 16th Annual Arts and Craft Show hosted Saturday by Butler County's Retired Senior Volunteer Program is more than an opportunity to find quality and locally handcrafted items. It's an opportunity to help support at least 20 hometown non-profit organizations, according to Jennifer Rosener, RSVP program director...

Assault victim is sent to Cape By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor A Poplar Bluff, Mo., man is being treated at a Cape Girardeau, Mo., hospital after he allegedly was assaulted Tuesday night by three men, two of whom have been arrested. Just after 8 p.m., Poplar Bluff police officers were sent to an apartment in the 400 block of South Broadway in reference to an alleged stabbing...

Carla McClard DEXTER, Mo. -- Carla June McClard, 61, of Dexter died Friday, Oct. 16, 2015, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Saturday at the Bridge Church of Christ in Pyle Town on Saturday and a memorial service will follow with Curtis McClard, Jr. officiating...

By MIKE JENSEN Publisher Sikeston Standard Democrat Long before it captured the national attention, I voiced strong reservation over the influx of millions of illegal immigrants into our country. Back when the focus was on the disaster of Obamacare and the growth of ISIS, the daily avalanche of illegals was garnering much less attention except in the border states where the impact was immediate...

Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess that's because they see blacks as being incapable of acquiring some kind of government-issued identification. Interesting enough is the fact that I've never heard of a challenge to other ID requirements as racist, such as those: to board a plane, open a charge account, have lab work done or cash a welfare check. ...

Roy Lacey Roy Lacey, 60, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. He was born Dec. 2, 1954 to Buddy and Drusilla (Richardson) Lacey in Gideon. Roy worked on a farmer and at Gamblin Lumber in Poplar Bluff. He married Molly Reed April 15, 1974 in Gideon...

Georgia Juanita Smith Georgia Juanita Smith, 91, of Centerton, Ark., formerly of Paragould, died Sunday. She was in the food service industry and loved to cook. Her greatest joy was being with family. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jessie Arthur Ring and Elsie Allen; first husband, Pierce Robert Lawless; second husband, Arnet Taylor Smith; son, James Robert Lawless; brothers, Herschel, Weldon, Eldon, Sherman, Ted, Jay and Loren Ring...

Bobby Joe Wells ELLSINORE, Mo. -- Bobby Joe Wells, 57, of Ellsinore, Mo., died Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015 in the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. A public visitation will begin at 1 p.m. on Thursday in the McSpadden Funeral Home in Ellsinore; with his funeral service following at 2 p.m. Rev. Jerry Adams will officiate. Burial will be in the Garrison Cemetery in Delaware, Ark...

John Earl Dowdy DEXTER, MO.--John Earl Dowdy, 71, of Dexter, departed this life Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015 at the Southeast Health of Stoddard County. He born Feb. 25, 1944, to the late Earl Dowdy and Pauline Robertson Dowdy in Bernie. Mr. Dowdy was a veteran of the United States Army National Guard. ...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor One day was pretty much a windy washout over much of the state, while the other was calm, cool and perfect for hunting. In the end, Missouri's early-segment youth deer season hunters tagged 14,095 deer over the weekend. That's short of the 18,091 taken during last year's first youth season segment and the lowest since 2010...

Ruth William Morgan NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Ruth William Morgan, 97, of Sandoval, Ill., passed away Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. Mrs. Morgan was born April 15, 1918 in Neelyville, Mo. She worked as a caregiver in nursing. Her hobbies included quilting, fishing, sewing, and gardening. She was a member of the Naylor Pentecostal Church until her health prevented her attendance...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor The attention of the parents of most young hunters last weekend may have been on the youth deer season, but for one local dad, passing on his love for duck hunting put his two sons and a few friends right in the middle of a knee-deep marsh...

By FRANK CAMPA Mo. Dept. of Conservation Archery deer and turkey hunting season has been well underway since Sept. 15 and goes through Jan. 15. The firearms deer season begins on Saturday, Nov. 14 and goes through Tuesday, Nov. 24. One of our more common violations during both seasons is hunting with the aid of bait. Bait is anything which is considered a food of any type, including sugar...

CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- Five fouls were called in the first minute of play. On the first play of the game between Three Rivers and John A. Logan, Three Rivers' Justas Furmanavicius was called for charging. On the second play, teammate Domonique Alexander picked up his first. A minute later he was called for his second. A minute after that, Furmanavicius was called for charging again...

Rodney "Rod" Brillhart DEXTER, MO.--Rodney Brillhart, 55, of Dexter, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015, in the SoutheastHEALTH of Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m., Thursday, at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will then be conducted at 11:30 a.m. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Rev. Roger Wooten officiating...