Stories from Friday, June 23, 2017

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson should have his bond revoked because of the death of an inmate in the county jail, Missouri assistant attorney general Gregory Goodwin told a judge Thursday. At the end of the hearing in Mississippi County Circuit Court, Judge Gary Kamp took the matter under advisement...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- In 1859, when Manhattan still had many farms, near the Battery on the island's southern tip The Great American Tea Company was launched. It grew, and outgrew its name, becoming in 1870 The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, which in 1912 begat the first A&P Economy Store, a semi-modern grocery store...

By STEPHEN MOORE Every day, legions of economists dismiss Donald Trump's economic agenda and forecast of 3 percent growth as a wild-eyed fantasy. The consensus is that the economy "can't possibly grow at 3 percent," according to The Wall Street Journal. "Slow growth is the new norm, so get used to it," wrote Rucir Sharma, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, in Foreign Affairs magazine this month...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Sunday, a Navy F-18 Hornet shot down a Syrian air force jet, an act of war against a nation with which Congress has never declared or authorized a war. Washington says the Syrian plane was bombing U.S.-backed rebels. Damascus says its plane was attacking ISIS...

PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Janet B. Street, 64, of Piedmont died Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Wayne County as a result of an automobile accident. Visitation will be at 10 a.m., Saturday at the Harvest Full Gospel Church in Des Arc. Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m., Saturday at the church with Pastor Jimmy Nelson officiating. Burial will be in the Ruble Cemetery near Piedmont under the director of Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel, Piedmont...

PUXICO, Mo. -- Carolyn Joan Lacewell, 78, formerly of Puxico, died Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. Graveside service will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, at Puxico City Cemetery. Burial in Puxico City Cemetery. Morgan-Sifford Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Freddie Pyle, 60, of Paragould, Ark., passed away Tuesday, June 20, 2017, in the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital of Jonesboro, Ark. He was born Sept. 20, 1956, in Corning, Ark. He married Debbie Bland at Moark, Ark., March 20, 1975. She survives...

FISK, Mo. - Ruby Mae Kerr, age 67, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at her residence, in Poplar Bluff. Mrs. Kerr was born July 24, 1949 in Broseley, daughter of the late Virgil "Casey"and Annie Belle Jones. She had worked at Commerce Bank for 23 years. ...

DEXTER, Mo. - Nita (Danita) Arlene Ham Bedell was born in Poplar Bluff Missouri July 5, 1954, and passed away June 19, 2017 at her home in Houston, Texas. Nita attended Dexter Public Schools, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration from Southeast Missouri State University in 1985. ...

Facility improvements are a continued focus for the Poplar Bluff R-1 School District after administrators proposed the 2018 budget to the board of education Thursday evening. The financial plan ends with a deficit balance to the tune of almost $800,000. However, the majority of the expenditures are slotted to cover one-time facility improvements and will be paid for with the district's capital project reserve fund...

JACKSON, Mo. -- A Thebes, Ill., man faces charges he took the wheel from the passenger seat and tried to cause a crash and kill himself and the driver of the vehicle, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Larry A. Henderson, 34, with first-degree domestic assault Thursday...

DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Federal aviation officials are back on the scene today in Ripley County where a single-engine plane imbedded itself in a garage after apparently running out of fuel and making an emergency landing in a field. The pilot, a Cape Girardeau, Mo., man in his 30s, reported to Federal Aviation Association officials, he had been in Texas earlier in the day and was en route to the Doniphan airport, explained Ripley County Sheriff Mike Barton...