Stories from Tuesday, August 2, 2011

A stretch of One Mile Road will be closed to traffic on Wednesday, Aug. 3 The area will be from the railroad tracks near Busy B Lumber north to Business Highway 60.

The heat and humidity didn't seem to stand in the way of youngsters who gathered at Otter Slough early Saturday morning. Children experienced some hands-on lessons banding mourning doves under the direction of several volunteers of Ducks Unlimited and Missouri...

A Dexter teenager is behind bars, facing ten separate charges, after leading local police on a high speed chase through the city in the early morning hours of Monday. Zachary Truett, 17, was observed driving recklessly just before 1 a.m. Monday as he was southbound on One Mile Road. When local police attempted to stop Truett's pickup truck, he sped away, clocked traveling as fast as 85 miles per hour...

NOREEN HYSLOP-nhyslop@dailystatesman.com Southeast Missouri is currently decked out in the red of Crepe Myrtle (or Crape Myrtle - both are correct). The flowering shrubs are in full bloom and grow from 10 to 20 feet in height. The shrubs are extremely tolerant of drought conditions, perhaps adding to their brilliance in the Bootheel this summer!...

Megan and Andrew Stuever of Dexter made it back-to-back mixed pairs titles at Hidden Trails Country Club this past weekend. The defending champions scrambled their way to a round of 5-under-par 67 on Saturday and then held off a Sunday charge by the team of Cheryle Morin and Tim Young with a score of 68 on Sunday to take a one-stroke victory...

Earl Ray Halterman, 81 died at John J. Pershing V.A. Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo., on Sunday July 31, 2011 Born March 5, 1930 in New Madrid to the late George and Maggie Mae Odell Halterman, he was a member of the Church of Christ Dexter, had been a millwright for Coupples Manufacturing in St. ...

Dorothy Laverne (Murphy) Kinkade died Saturday, July 30, 2011, at the home of her son Jerry D. Kinkade of Santa Fe, N.M. Mrs. Kinkade was born Dorothy Laverne Murphy on Oct. 11, 1917 in Bernie, Mo. , daughter of John and Mary Murphy. She had three sisters and four brothers and was preceded in death by all but one brother, J.W. Murphy, of Fisk, Mo...