Stories from Saturday, October 8, 2016

By CHELSAE CORDIA Staff Writer BROSELEY, Mo. - The Twin Rivers High School special education department recently teamed up with the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center to provide an on-the-job work experience program for students during their senior year. This is the first time the local VA has hosted special needs students in a work-experience program...

By CHELSAE CORDIA Staff Writer "I'm running 100 miles for the same reason people climb Mt. Everest, for the same reason people jump out of airplanes; we all want to test ourselves, we all want to go where no man has gone before and do what no man has done before," said 67-year-old Edward Baker, less than a month before he competes in the Ozark Trail 100-Mile Endurance Run on Nov. 5...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Country music superstar Martina McBride, a four-time Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year winner, will open her Love Unleashed Tour next week in Poplar Bluff, Mo., with an event designed to do good at a time when the world can seem consumed by tragedy and uncertainty...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor A Poplar Bluff, Mo., parolee may face new charges after allegedly shooting another man Thursday evening over a suspected theft. "Around 6 p.m., officers were dispatched to the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center emergency room for a victim of (reported multiple) gunshot wounds," said Poplar Bluff Police Patrolman Joey Woodruff...

Three Rivers College will celebrate its 50th anniversary with "Show Me Three Rivers," an open house event to be held at five of the college's locations across Southeast Missouri on Oct. 21 from 2 - 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at the college's Poplar Bluff campus, as well as its locations in Sikeston, Dexter, Kennett, and Malden...

Sacred Heart Students of the Month Sacred Heart School has chosen their October Student of the Month as well as their Preschool Student of the Month. Emma O'Connor is Sacred Heart's October student of the month. Emma is in the 7th grade. She is the daughter of Kevin and Ann Marie O'Connor. She has one sister, Leslie, and one brother, Michael. She loves going fishing with her family...

In observance of National White Cane Safety Day, the SEMO Blind Club will host a White Cane Walk Saturday, Oct. 15, at Valley Plaza Mall. Those interested in walking should arrive at 8 a.m. A walk of the mall's perimeter will begin promptly at 9 a.m. This walk offers the opportunity for sighted individuals to walk in the shoes of those whose vision is impaired...

FAYETTE, Mo. -- Over 200 students graduated from Central Methodist University over the summer of 2016. The following local individuals were among the gradutuates, who consisted of students from CMU's main campus in Fayette, Mo., extended locations and online programs...

Naomi Josephine Miller ELLSINORE, Mo. -- Naomi Josephine Miller, 92, daughter of the late W.T. and Delphia (Cotton) Skaggs, was born Dec. 16, 1923, in Ellsinore, Mo. and departed this life to be with God on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 in Poplar Bluff, Mo...

PBHS '66 50th reunion Oct. 14-15 The PBHS class of 1966 is celebrating a 50th reunion Oct. 14 and 15. Class members will enjoy a social time prior to the Mules game on Friday evening. They will meet for breakfast at 9 a.m. Saturday at Ryan's. Then Butler County Museum housed in the Old Mark Twain school will be open for tours from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Class members will meet for socializing and dinner at Westwood Hills Country Club Saturday evening...

WASHINGTON -- The "quiet catastrophe" is particularly dismaying because it is so quiet, without social turmoil or even debate. It is this: After 88 consecutive months of the economic expansion that began in June 2009, a smaller percentage of American males in the prime working years (ages 25 to 54) are working than were working near the end of the Great Depression in 1940, when the unemployment rate was above 14 percent. ...

By STEPHEN MOORE Hillary Clinton keeps bashing the Trump tax plan as "trumped-up trickle-down economics." This class-warfare card has become the standard and tired response to every Republican tax reform plan for 30 years. No wonder we haven't cleaned out the stables of the tax code since the Reagan era. Democrats have no interest in doing so...

Billy Shacklee PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Billy Shacklee of Williamsville, Mo. died Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, at his residence. Arrangements currently are pending with Ruegg Funeral Homes, Inc. Online condolences: www.rueggfuneralhomes.com

Mary Faye Bradshaw CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Mary Faye Bradshaw, 67, of Cape Girardeau, Mo. died Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 at her home. Visitation will be from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016 at the Ford & Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at Ford & Sons Mt. Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau with the Rev. Mark Boettcher officiating...

By MERRILL MATTHEWS Tribune News Service For a long time, Americans of all economic classes, backgrounds and political persuasions have been able to briefly escape life's stresses by communally watching sports. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, however, may change all that...

Marcella M. Smith SPRINGFIELD, Mo., -- Marcella M. Smith, 88, of Galena, Mo., passed away Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. She was born in St. Louis, Jan. 30, 1928 to Fred and Theresa Cullmann. She married Elmer Charles Smith, Aug. 31, 1946, and they had three children...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- In a small room on the first floor of the Show Me Center, Southeast Missouri sports royalty gathered at rectangular tables situated around a podium. The players and coaches were in town Thursday for a press conference announcing the area's 2016 inductees into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame...

Doris Niederstadt DEXTER, Mo. -- Doris Niederstadt, 83, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., formerly of Dexter, died Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, at the Hunter Creek Health & Rehab Center in Tuscaloosa. Visitation will be held at 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Saturday, at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will follow at 1 p.m. in the Watkins & Sons Chapel with Pastor Keith Hathcock of Burleson, Texas officiating...

MALDEN -- The Malden volleyball team received offensive contributions from just about everyone in uniform with a conference tournament championship on the line Thursday night. Six Green Wave players combined to tally 13 kills and five combined to record 10 ace serves...

The Van Buren Lady Dawgs exorcised some demons, rather Red Devils, in the MSHSAA Class 1 District 1 championship Thursday night. Nearly a year to the day after Chaffee captured its first title in program history with a win over Van Buren, the Lady Dawgs exacted revenge with an exclamation point...

Beverly Jean Mikel MALDEN, Mo. -- Beverly Jean Mikel, 86, of Gideon, died Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, at Gideon Care Center. Visitation will be at noon, Sunday, at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will follow at 1:30 p.m., at Bradshaw Chapel with Rev. Randy Wiseman...

Melanie Mooney jumped up on the run in right field and took away Poplar Bluff's chance to tie the game Thursday. The Oakville junior's over-the-shoulder catch robbed Brylee Misner of an extra-base hit to end the sixth inning and, essentially, the Mules' season by preserving a 3-2 win in the MSHSAA Class 4 District 1 semifinal at Bobby Strenfel Field...

ALTON, Mo. -- Courtney Duckett and Makenna Moore each homered as the top-seeded East Carter softball team advanced to the MSHSAA Class 2 District 2 championship with a 7-1 win over No. 5 Alton Thursday. The Lady Redbirds (11-6) will play No. 2 Willow Springs (17-6) in the title game at 4 p.m. Friday...

The Poplar Bluff cross country team prepared for the SEMO Conference meet a week away by running Hendrickson Park on Thursday. Wesley Moore won with a time of 18 minutes, 29.55 seconds while Katie Sliger finished in 21:09.89 to win the 5,000-meter girls race...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- In its second road trip of the season, the Poplar Bluff Junior High football team split with Sikeston as the seventh grade Junior Mules stayed undefeated with a 50-30 win before losing 36-28 in the eighth grade game Thursday. Gage Rivers and Hunter Jenkins combined for seven touchdowns for the seventh grade Mules (5-0). Jenkins opened the game with a 10-yard run and later scored on rushes of 1 and 25 yards. He finished with four TDs to lead the Mules...