Stories from Wednesday, September 7, 2016

The Portageville High School Pep Club is stepping out in style showing support for the Portageville Lady Bull-dawgs last Thursday night. spelling the Dog Pound are, from left, D. Tatum Howard; A. Luke Darst; W. Ryan Priggel; G. Bryce Lowman; P. Emily Brown; O. Amber Stafford; U. Mary Katherine Brandenburg; N. Ali Laws; and D. Alexis Glidewell...

Although he met her only once, the Rev. David Hulshof found his fleeting encounter with Mother Teresa profoundly memorable. At the time, the priest of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Cape Girardeau was a 23-year-old theology student serving at a soup kitchen near the Circus Maximus in Rome, and the famous nun was there visiting a group of novices soon to take the veil...