Stories from Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Lois Hemmerlein, 90, of Taskee, died Thursday, July 15, at Greenville Health Care. Visitation is at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 24, at Cool Springs Baptist Church, Taskee. Funeral service will follow at 11 a.m., also at Cool Springs Baptist Church. Burial is in Cool Springs Cemetery, Taskee...

A 29-year-old woman was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash at 8:09 a.m. Tuesday, July 20, on U.S. Highway 67, five miles north of Poplar Bluff. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Tara G. Porter, 29, of Mountain Grove was operating a 2014 Jeep Wrangler southbound on Highway 67 when it struck the rear of a southbound 2014 Mack truck operated by Clarence G. Chase, 56, of Dexter...

Virginia Gayle Berry, 78, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, passed away Tuesday July 20, 2021, in her home. Virginia was born on June 13, 1943, to Curtis and Vera (Kiser) Gilmore in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. She married Cecil Berry on December 24, 1960, in Poplar Bluff...

CAPE GIRARDEAU — A Malden man will spend the next 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal firearms charge. United States District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Kendrick D. Calloway, 38, of Malden to 10 years in prison Tuesday — the statutory maximum sentence for the crime — after Calloway pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon...

Editor’s note: this is the second part of a two-part story. Part one ran in the Wednesday edition of the Daily American Republic. ASCENSION ISLAND — Poplar Bluff native Lara Christy arrived on Ascension Island from the United States in mid-April. After three months, it is safe to say she is enjoying life on the remote island in the south Atlantic Ocean...

David Franklin Diamond Sr, age 79, of High Ridge, Missouri, died Saturday, July 17, 2021, in High Ridge. Mr. Diamond was born December 22, 1941, in St. Louis, Missouri, son of the late Frank & Billie Diamond. He is survived by one son, David Diamond Jr, of Pevely, Missouri; three daughters, Connie Rost, of Arnold, Missouri, Bonnie Honea, of High Ridge and Teresa Hargrove, Louisville, Kentucky; two sisters, Virginia Miller, of Owensville, Missouri and Linda Johnson-Sedrick, of Qulin, Missouri; nine grandchildren, Brandon, Michael, Caleb, Kaitlyn, Heather, Ryan, David, Joey and Ray; three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.. ...

The Southeast Missouri School of Archery, based out of Twisted Arrow in Poplar Bluff and only in its second year, took seven young archers to the S3DA Outdoor Field Archery Nationals last weekend in Fairfield, Ohio, and every single one of them finished in the top 20 in their division...

Cases of COVID-19 are increasing across Missouri and Gov. Mike Parson Wednesday announced an incentive plan to get residents off the fence in making “the big decision” to become vaccinated. He also named Donald G. Kauerauf the next director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services...

The Mules Booster Club named Kennedy Rowland and Alex Wiseman of Poplar Bluff High School the May Athletes of the Month. Kennedy, an incoming senior who runs track, was a state qualifier in two relays, earned all-district and was all-conference honors. ...

After a 25-year break, a community organization that hopes to improve the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights in Butler County is active once again, thanks to the work of area volunteers. Butler County Unit 4101 of the NAACP was reactivated in 2021, after being dormant for 25 years...