Stories from Monday, January 9, 2017

WASHINGTON -- When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson's embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate's rejection of the U.S. ...

Transparency. Transparency. Transparency. Politicians are always pontificating about the need for more transparency in government and how they are strong advocates for it and they will make sure the public is fully informed. Yet when it comes time to be more transparent, many are suddenly quiet...

Eugene Field Elementary School officials have selected their Students of the Month for November 2016. Lucy Gillum, daughter of Andrea and Anthony Gillum, was chosen by her first grade teacher, Michelle Adams, because Lucy is an amazing leader in the classroom. She always tries her best and puts first things first. Lucy always looks for ways to help other students and teachers...

Women Aware Inc. is hosting its monthly luncheon featuring speaker Terry Baker, a grass-roots coordinator with the American Lung Association, from noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12 at the Banquet Room at Moore Funeral Home located at 1100 Iron Bridge Road, Poplar Bluff...

By DAR STAFF Leon Cookson, a member of the undefeated state championship Puxico basketball team and longtime coach and teacher, died Friday. He was 84. Cookson taught high school history for 38 years, the first nine at Scott City were he also coached basketball and won the school's first district title in 1964. He later taught and coached at Fox High School in Arnold...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Morgan McAtee qualified for the MSHSAA state championship swim meet for a fourth year in the 100-yard breaststroke and helped a pair of Poplar Bluff relays also make state cuts Saturday. Taylor Norwood placed third in the 200-individual medley finals and fourth in the 100 butterfly at the Como Invitational at the Mizzou Aquatic Center. ...

DONIPHAN -- Klay Barton will never forget the feeling of being benched for the first time in his varsity career. The Doniphan junior guard also won't forget the euphoria he felt Friday night, after he was lifted into the air by teammate Trent Lippoldt and pinned to the gymnasium wall by a frenzied home student section that lost its collective mind in excitement...

Nobody led by double digits, because Region XVI basketball. In front of a packed house of an estimated 1,200 fans, Three Rivers College lost to No. 6 ranked Mineral Area 80-78 in overtime on Saturday at the Bess Activity Center. "It personified (region basketball)," Three Rivers sophomore Camron Reedus said. "Anybody can come in and beat anybody. Always the toughest games to play in."...

After an uneasy tuneup, the Lady Raiders rolled in the Region XVI opener. Three Rivers College, which had an up and down game Monday, improved its winning streak to 13 games with a 78-44 victory over Mineral Area on Saturday at the Bess Activity Center...

Marshon Morrissey and Wes Sharp outscored Neelyville by 13 points as the Ellington Whippets ran away with a 74-39 victory on Saturday at the Bess Activity Center. Sharp drained a game-high 31 points on 12 of 18 shooting, including four from behind the arc, while Morrissey chipped in 21 points. Justin Tripp added 10 points and Deonte Walthour had six...

Donald Volz DEXTER, Mo. -- Donald Glen Volz, 42 of Marston, died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at the Pemiscott Memorial Hospital in Hayti. Visitation was from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Saturday, at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. Services were held at 1 p.m., Saturday, at the Watkins & Sons Chapel in Dexter with Pastor James Malloy of Essex, officiating...

Joyce Carol Cain Joyce Carol Cain, 69, of Poplar Bluff, died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at Westwood Hills Health Care in Poplar Bluff. She was born Dec. 31, 1947 in New Mexico. In 2009, she married Charles Cain in Poplar Bluff. He survives. Other survivors include their children: Janice (David) Stevoff and Teri (Josh) Tornabeni; two step-children: Tara Marie Santaitic and Charles Timothy Cain; two grandchildren: Josh Tornavni, Jr., and Keri Ann Santaitic; and a brother, Bill Curtis...

William G. Brunelle William G. Brunelle, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Brunelle, the son of the late Bernard Joseph and Rose Charlotte (Steele) Brunelle, was born Aug. 17, 1933 in Green Bay, Wisc. ...

William Kenneth Link, Sr. BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- William Kenneth Link, Sr., 89, formerly of Bloomfield, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at the St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, Ark. Visitation will be from noon - 2 p.m., Saturday, at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield...

Dwight Leon Cookson PUXICO, Mo. -- Dwight Leon Cookson, 84, of Puxico, son of the late James Otto and Beulah Kaiffer Cookson, was born in Puxico, Nov. 1, 1932, and passed away at Advance Assisted Living in Advance, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Mr. Cookson had lived in the Puxico area most of his life. ...

Cold weather poses serious threats to pets' health and Poplar Bluff Police Chief Danny Whiteley offers tips for keeping pets healthy and safe this winter. Whiteley's guidelines will help you protect your companion animals when the mercury dips. "Keep your cat inside," he said. "Outdoors, felines can freeze, become lost or be stolen, injured or killed. Cats who are allowed to stray are exposed to infectious diseases, including rabies, from other cats, dogs and wildlife...

George Payne DONIPHAN, Mo. -- George Franklin Payne, 83, of Farmington, Mo., formerly of Doniphan, died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at Community Manor in Farmington. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9 at Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan with graveside services at noon at Oak Grove Cemetery in Doniphan...

Ernest Woodrow Ruble PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Ernest Woodrow Ruble, 60, of Maplewood, Mo., formerly of Iron County, Mo., died Friday, Jan. 7, 2016, at his residence. There will be graveside services at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at Sutton Cemetery near Vulcan, Mo...

Walter Samuel Wyman DEXTER, Mo. - Walter Samuel Wyman, 88, of Essex, Mo., died Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 at his residence. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will follow at 2:00 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Rick Roberts and Rev. Greg Stevens officiating. Burial will be in the Bluff Cemetery near Idalia, Mo...