Stories from Friday, September 16, 2011

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Through a grant written by Lt. Patrick Barbour of the Dexter Police Department, seven patrol units of the department's fleet have been equipped this week with new mobile data terminals (MDTs). The terminals are individual computers that will provide officers on the road instant access to driver's license information and criminal record reports and will enable officers to draft reports directly from the scene of an accident or crime scene...

By MIKE McCOY Statesman Staff Writer The Stoddard County Ambulance District (SCAD) Board of Directors accepted the resignations of a board member and the resignation of Jene Ann McGill as supervisor of communications at their meeting Wednesday night. Board Member Anthony Sifford resigned because he has moved from the Puxico area which he represented, and Rick McClain of Puxico was appointed by a unanimous board vote to replace him. McGill will stay on with the district as a dispatcher...

By COREY NOLES Statesman Staff Writer PUXICO, Mo. - A Thursday afternoon crash left a Puxico man dead and one woman seriously injured. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred on County Rd. 271 approximately four miles east of Puxico...

John Wesley Wiley, son of John Thurman Wiley and Sandra McTurnan, was born in Poplar Bluff, Mo. on May 28, 1987, and died near Puxico, Mo. on Sept. 15, 2011, at the age of 24. Mr. Wiley worked at the Faurecia Company in Dexter, Mo. He had lived in Puxico all of his life...