Stories from Thursday, September 21, 2017

A fundraiser will be held Saturday at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum to benefit the museum and sculpture garden. The Friends of the MHAM will hold the Fork and Cork from 5-9 p.m. with food by Tasteful Creations and entertainment by the band The Millstones...

More than a dozen Butler County residents were arrested Wednesday during a county-wide drug sweep on warrants for sale of a controlled substance. Members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, SEMO Drug Task Force, Poplar Bluff Police Department, Butler County Sheriff's Department and U.S. Marshal's Service began serving the warrants early Wednesday morning and by the end of the day, 13 were in custody. Another 10 previously had been arrested...

Financial and personnel matters held the focus of the Three Rivers College Board of Trustees during its monthly meeting Wednesday. Chief Financial Officer Charlotte Eubank presented the college's monthly financial report. She began by comparing numbers from July, the first month of the current fiscal year, to those of last year...

By FRANK CAMPA Mo. Dept. of Conservation With the 2017-2018 archery deer and turkey hunting season now underway, hunters need to be reminded of some basic regulations they need to follow throughout. While personal computers and smartphones are always a wonderful asset for hunters, they are encouraged to keep printed copies of these regulations; there are times when computers are not available or there is not a signal available on cellphones to look them up out in the field. ...

Tilda Meadors, 67, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Visitation will take place from 10:30 a.m.- noon Saturday, Sept. 23 at Cornerstone Tabernacle in Poplar Bluff. The funeral will immediately follow at noon with Rev. Chuck Carr officiating. Burial will take place in Black Creek Cemetery in Poplar Bluff, Mo...

By LUCAS BOND Mo. Dept. of Conservation JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- As summer turns to fall, Missouri's estimated 350 native black bears enter a phase called hyperphagia in which they eat heavily, accumulating a layer of fat that results in a 30 percent weight gain preparing them for hibernation. ...

How to be more popular online, what causes my fear of the dentist, angry birds. Does this sound like someone's Google search history or over $6 million dollars of wasteful government spending? If you guessed spending, you would be correct. A recent report found billions of government dollars wasted on everything from training monkeys to use a treadmill to paying government employees to do nothing...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Hot and humid weather conditions certainly aren't what Missouri's archery-season deer hunters are hoping for, but, like it or not, that's how the season opens every year and hunters have to deal with it or stay home. Judging by the harvest so far, a few folks have been making it work just fine...

If you live in the Northwestern part of the continent, as I do, there has been no escaping this year's extraordinary wildfire season. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes. Tourists and hikers destined for national parks such as Glacier, Waterton, Yosemite and Mount Rainier have had to cancel plans or suffer through noxious smoke drifting in from fires, some hundreds of miles away. ...

To the Editor, In response to Mr. Spain's letter to the editor, I would like to ask if the Daily American Republic is not the moral authority of Butler County, then, who is? CNN? MSNBC? Channel 12? Facebook? No, the best voice for the people is a local newspaper like our Daily American Republic...

MALDEN, Mo. - Kimberly Marie Miller, 47, of Holcomb, died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 at Malden Nursing & Rehab. Visitation will be from 1 - 2 p.m., Friday, at the Landess Funeral Chapel in Malden. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday at the Landess Funeral Chapel with Rev. Bruce Vinson officiating...

A year later, nothing has changed for the Indians and Mules. The last two unbeaten teams in SEMO North Conference play face off Friday night at Mules Stadium in a game that could also shape the postseason path for both teams. Poplar Bluff (5-0) and Jackson (4-1), two district and conference rivals with high-scoring offenses, look to keep the scoreboard operator busy once again...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A new ban imposed by India's government on the sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter to protect animals considered holy by many Hindus is drawing widespread protests from state governments and animal-related industries. Many state governments criticized the ban as a blow to beef and leather exports that will leave hundreds of thousands jobless and deprive millions of Christians, Muslims and poor Hindus of a cheap source of protein...

Jason Rose could have done many things when his baseball career concluded in college. He chose to be a high school baseball coach and teacher, where he became not only an ambassador for the game but a pillar in the community. In 2016, the Twin Rivers High School graduate who coached and taught at Neelyville, Naylor and Doniphan, was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and died just 32 days later at the age of 39...

Homecoming week is always a difficult one for coaches. The teenage minds they coach are being pulled in several different directions. Making this week even worse for Dexter football coach Kevin Goltra, is its also the week of the Stoddard County Fair...

During the past few months, Joyce Drew, county archivist, along with volunteers from the genealogy society and members of the commuity have partically moved books from the basement of the Old State Bank Building to new quarters in the basement of the Courthouse. ...

The 52nd annual Truman Day Rally will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Poplar Bluff Elks Lodge. Keynote speaker for the evening will be Eighth Congressional District candidate Kathy Ellis. Other speakers during the evening will include Stephen Webber, Matt Michele, Dorothy Adams and Missouri Federation of Democratic Women's President Cindy Jenks...