Stories from Thursday, July 10, 2014

For those of us that work a regular 5-day a week job, a 3-day holiday weekend is a magical thing. It's hard to wrap your head around what it must have been like for a bunch of brave, adventurous Europeans, building a new life in a strange land while being oppressed by taxation from across the Atlantic, to rise up and fight. ...

Editor's Note: Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled it's permissible to open a government meeting with prayer. The case involved town council meetings. Citing the ruling, Allan Burke sent a suggested prayer he wrote for opening meetings of county commissions, school boards, city boards and other governmental entities. Allan Burke is publisher emeritus, the Emmons County Record, Linton, ND...

I read one time of a girl that was standing on the platform of a train station. She waved down an official and asked if the train started from that station? He replied, "For where? Let me see your ticket." When he looked at it he told her, "No, you are at the wrong station."...

Recently, Portageville's own local musician, Duhlayknee, decided to tell her friends, family and fans a "secret" at her music video premiere party. The event was held at Klipfel's Korner on Thursday, June 26. Her new single "Secrets" is now available for download on all digital retailers (iTunes, Amazon, Google play, Spotify and CD Baby). The new song is the first single on her new album produced by Dennis Gurley of Alley Trax Recording in Hayti, MO...

Other than the air conditioner not working properly Monday night at the Portageville City Council, Mayor McCrate had an item to discuss with Police Chief Ronnie Adams. He wanted to know why Adams promoted officer Austin DeLisle to sergeant with out prior approval from the board...

CHARLESTON - A fourth person is in custody in connection with the murder of a Poplar Bluff man in Mississippi County. The Mississippi County Sheriff's Department reported the arrest Monday afternoon of a Mississippi County man in connection with the murder of Derell Davis. Davis' body, which had multiple lacerations to the neck and abdomen, was discovered Saturday evening in the Drinkwater Sewer in northern Mississippi County by fishermen...

Local Teams have finished their spring session in the Pioneer Pool League. In the 9-ball Division II, four teams competed for trophies, all out of T-Ray's Bar in Wardell.