Stories from Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Three Rivers College will hold a Fall registration event at the Fisher Delta Research Center in Portageville on Wednesday, July 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. “We know that it can be hard for prospective students in the outlying areas of our service region to get onto our main locations to register for classes,” said Chris Adams, Director of Enrollment Services at Three Rivers College. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Calling it "a modern plague," Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens implemented a prescription drug monitoring program by executive order Monday, bypassing the legislative process. The order aims to help address the opioid epidemic that killed more than 900 Missourians last year...

CHAFFEE, Mo. - Carl Lee Bounds, 69, died July 15, 2017, at his family home in Chaffee. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Walsie JoAnn Partin, 73, died July 14, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Aug. 7, 1943, in Dardanelle, Ark., she was the daughter of the late Jones and Walsie Nuckles Lewis. On Nov. 22, 1969, in Scott County, she married Bill Partin who preceded her in death on March 23, 1989...

SIKESTON -- Alan Hill, 69, died July 14, 2017, at the VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Born Oct. 27, 1947, in Portland, Ore., son of the late Hugo and Shirley Harrison Hill, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was a lifetime member of the Sea Scouts...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Mary Diane DeLisle, 89, died July 18, 2017, at Southaven Nursing Center in Kennett. Born July 15, 1928, in Portageville, daughter of the late Grace Cooke DeLisle and Bernard E. DeLisle, she was a member of the St. Eustachius Catholic Church, where she served as the organist...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Janet "Susie" Chandler, 72, died July 13, 2017, at UAMS Hospital in Little Rock. Born Sept. 10, 1944, in Charleston, Mo., daughter of the late Orville and Lucille James Smith, she grew up in Anniston, Mo., and graduated from Anniston High School in 1962. ...

SIKESTON -- John Richard Ensor Sr., 90, died July 18, 2017, at his home in Sikeston. Born July 1, 1927, in Sikeston, to the late Wilbur Woodside Ensor and Maggie Matthews Ensor, he was a member of Hunter Memorial Presbyterian Church and graduated from Sikeston High School in 1945...