Stories from Tuesday, September 5, 2017

By JOE JEREK Mo. Dept. of Conservation PIEDMONT, Mo. -- The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has named Eric L'Heureux of Piedmont on being named Missouri's State Logger of the Year for 2017. L'Heureux was also named regional logger of the year for the Southeast Region...

SIKESTON Mo. -- A Van Buren man faces felony charges after allegedly firing gunshots from a vehicle. John William Tinsley, 38 of Van Buren, formerly of Sikeston, is charged with Class B felony discharging a firearm from a vehicle at a person or habitable structure and Class D felony unlawful possession of a firearm. He is a convicted felon which prohibits him from possessing a firearm...

Since his retirement from NASA in 2013 and recently returning to Butler County, Phil Bounds has been thinking of different ways he could give back to the community and young people. When the retired senior strategic security adviser for NASA received an invitation to attend the launch of a satellite at Kennedy Space Center he helped work on before retirement, Bounds knew exactly how he could use this opportunity to give back...

How do protesters make a living? Hello, Speak Out. After a lifetime of working every day just to keep a roof over my head, groceries on the table and to have something to drive legally with insurance, license plates and so on. I never had the time off work to participate in a riot or a protest or a march. ...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Autumn, which is bearing down upon us like a menacing linebacker, is, as John Keats said, a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Actually, Keats, a romantic, did not mention that last part. He died before the birth of the subject of a waning American romance, football. This sport will never die but it will never again be, as it was until recently, the subject of uncomplicated national enthusiasm...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Like 9/11, Hurricane Harvey brought us together. In awe at the destruction 50 inches of rain did to East Texas and our fourth-largest city and in admiration as cable television showed countless hours of Texans humanely and heroically rescuing and aiding fellow Texans in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history...

MALDEN, Mo. -- Theola Townsend, 55, of Columbia, formerly of Malden, died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, at University Hospital in Columiba. Visitation will be from noon - 1 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, at the Landess Funeral Chapel in Malden. Graveside services will follow at 1 p.m. at the Macedonia Cemetery in Malden...

PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Georgie A. Clark, 82, of Poplar Bluff, died Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, at Cedargate Nursing Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will held at 11 a.m., Thursday, at the Morrison-Worley Chapel in Piedmont. Funeral services will follow at 1 p.m., Thursday, at the funeral home chapel with Pastor Steve Proctor officiating. Burial will be in the Masonic Cemetery...

GREENVILLE, Mo. -- Randolph S. Joy, 58, of Silva, died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, at the Wesley-Dixon Cemetery in Hiram with Bro. Robert Randolph officiating. Services are under the direction of Morrison-Worley Greenville Chapel...

DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Justin Adam Young, 36, of Blytheville, Ark., died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, in rural Ripley County, Highway 160 east of Doniphan. Mr. Young, son of Dennis Young and Pam (Donnell) Barr, was born March 25, 1981, in Poplar Bluff. He was a pipe fitter and welder and had formerly lived in the Ripley County area. ...

Jackie Moore, 66, of Poplar Bluff passed away Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017 in Poplar Bluff. She was born Jan. 11, 1951 in Memphis, Tenn., to Jack and Ruth Trammel. Jackie grew up in Wilson, Ark., and graduated from Wilson High School in 1969. She obtained her Bachelor's in Elementary Education from the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Ark. ...

MALDEN, Mo. -- Jerry Donald Pavy, 78, of Malden, died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, at his residence. Visitation will at 1 p.m. until service time Thursday at Bradshaw Funeral Homes, Inc. in Malden. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Bradshaw Chapel with Rev. Bryan Johnson officiating. Burial in Bethany Cemetery in Campbell...

James D. McNeelis, Jr., 82, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Monday, Sept. 4, 2017 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. James, the son of the late James D. Sr. and Jennie Alexander McNeelis, was born Nov. 23, 1934 in Somerville, Tenn. He was a teacher in the Dexter Public School System for 30 years. ...

DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Monty Roberts, 58, died Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center Emergency Room. Funeral arrangements are pending with Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan and will be announce upon completion.

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Members of unions representing Cleveland police officers and paramedics have said they won't hold a large U.S. flag during pregame ceremonies prior to next Sunday's Cleveland Browns season opener after a group of Browns players knelt during the national anthem before a preseason game last month...