Stories from Thursday, March 10, 2016

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Narrow victories in the Kentucky caucuses and the Louisiana primary, the largest states decided on Saturday, have moved Donald Trump one step nearer to the nomination. Primaries in Michigan, Mississippi and Idaho on Tuesday, and in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina on March 15, may prove decisive. If Marco Rubio does not win his home state of Florida, he is cooked, as is Gov. John Kasich if he does not win Ohio...

C. Pearl Medley C. Pearl Medley, 85, of Poplar Bluff passed away Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at Westwood Hills Healthcare Center in Poplar Bluff. Services were held Sunday, March 5, 2016 at Cotrell Funeral Chapel in Poplar Bluff. Dr. Steve Proctor officiated. Burial followed in the Poplar Bluff City Cemetery...

Eva Tipton Eva Paralee Tipton, 82, of Dexter died Feb. 28, 2016 at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter. Services were held March 3, 2016 at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie. Burial followed in the Chalk Bluff Cemetery in Dexter.

Peggy Joyce Morelan DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Peggy Joyce Morelan, 81, of Doniphan, died Sunday, March 6, 2016, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m., Thursday in the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Friday, in the funeral Home chapel with Richard Gosnell officiating...

Stahl Lee Sturgeon Stahl Lee Sturgeon, 50, of Doniphan, Mo. died Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Poplar Bluff. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

Judith Lynn Elledge DEXTER, Mo. -- Judith Lynn Elledge, 74, of Dexter, Mo. died Friday, March 4, 2016 at Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will begin at 10 a.m. Friday in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Rev. Mike Williams officiating. Burial will follow in the Poplar Bluff City Cemetery in Poplar Bluff...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- They were just four words, but they denoted something that led to a wonderful swerve in world history. They were words Ronald Reagan repeatedly used when referring to something that happened long before he spoke his most famous four words: "Tear down this wall." The other four words described the most important event in his eventful life, an event without which Reagan probably would never have been in a position to bring down the Berlin Wall:...

A. Dwight Hyde OVERLAND PARK, Kans. - Aaron Dwight Hyde, 68, Overland Park, Kansas passed away Saturday February 27th, 2016 at home. Dwight was born April 12, 1947 in Paragould, Arkansas to Aaron Granville Hyde and Mamie Jane (Masters) Hyde. He graduated from Paragould High School, and then received his degree in Accounting and a degree in Math and Physics from the Arkansas State University. ...

Jerry Dean Hooper, Sr. Jerry Dean Hooper, Sr., 65, of Poplar Bluff died Saturday, March 5, 2016 at his residence. Mr. Hooper, the son of Thomas Franklin and Mary G. Arnold Hooper, was born March 20, 1950 in Poplar Bluff. He was of the Baptist faith and was a retired truck driver. ...

Eugene C. Monehan FISK, Mo. -- Eugene C. Monehan, 82, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. He was born Sept. 6, 1933 at Kennett, Mo. On July 18, 1954 he married Shirley Ade Hafford. She preceded in death on Aug. 18, 2008. He was also preceded in death by his parents: William Matthew and Susie (Arnold) Monehan; and two brothers: Cleo Monehan and L.C. Monehan...

JACKSON, Mo. -- Fredericktown became the latest squad to provide the Dexter girls basketball team with a first-half scare Tuesday night. The Blackcats scored the first seven points in the opening three minutes and led by nine with just under four minutes left in the half of a MSHSAA Class 4 playoff at Jackson High School...

Speed vs. Power. Agility vs. Strength. Quickness vs. Size. Bloomfield and Iberia will be on two ends of the spectrum when they face off in the MSHSAA Class 2 semifinals at noon Thursday at the Hearnes Center in Columbia. Iberia is led by a pair of post players inches taller than anyone on Bloomfield's roster. Topping the measurement chart is Dexter Frisbie, a 6-foot, 10-inch, 250-pound senior who is 7 inches taller than Noah Vandiver and Dallas Monroe, Bloomfield's tallest players...

The Naylor Lady Eagles learned some tough lessons while making history last season. Naylor reached the finals of the MSHSAA Class 1 Show-Me Showdown for the first time in school history a year ago only to lose 48-45 to Walnut Grove. The Lady Eagles will get a shot at revenge in a semifinal against Walnut Grove at 3:20 p.m. Thursday at the Hearnes Center on the campus of the University of Missouri...

The celebration lasted through a team dinner Saturday night for the Neelyville Lady Tigers. Then reality set in. Planning and preparation for their first-ever MSHSAA Class 2 Show-Me Showdown, which starts at 6:40 p.m. Thursday against New Franklin at Mizzou Arena, quickly followed...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- Inches keep costing the Raiders on their Gulf Coast road trip. Three Rivers coach Stacey Burkey had a similar refrain after the Raiders lost to Pasco Hernando 7-3 on Tuesday. "The table was set by just a couple of things where just look and say 'That's baseball sometimes.' Balls that aren't hit very well go for hits and balls that are, are caught," Burkey said...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- After mustering two hits for no runs, the Lady Raider batting order got mixed up. The plan worked, sort of. Three Rivers increased its production and got eight hits in the nightcap, but still no runs. After failing to score a run off 10 hits in their doubleheader with Pensacola State College, the Lady Raiders lost 5-0, 6-0 on Tuesday in Pensacola...