Stories from Friday, October 28, 2011

Southwest students could be found in the hallways Thursday decked out either in Bearcat or Cardinals attire, ready to cheer both teams to victory last night. Among them were Andie Kruse and Kenton Pope, both second graders in LeeAnn Nelson's classroom...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor It was seven years ago when Wade and Carrie Stearns learned that Wade had cancer. The Dexter couple, only in their twenties at the time, had two young boys, Kyle and Jeremy. The next few years would be spent in and out of therapy as Wade battled back from brain cancer and, in the process, re-learned many life skills stolen away by the...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH SEMO News Service DONIPHAN, Mo. - A Doniphan teenager will stand trial for his alleged role in the murder of an elderly couple found dead inside their burned home. Accompanied by his attorney, Thomas Marshall, with the Capital Public Defender's Office, Keith A. Boyles appeared Monday afternoon in a Ripley County courtroom for a preliminary hearing in his case before Associate Circuit Judge Thomas Swindle...

By PAUL DAVIS MDC Outdoors Editor PUXICO, Mo. - Renovation work is continuing at Duck Creek Conservation Area north of Puxico, and because of the ongoing work, open positions for waterfowl hunters will be limited during the coming duck season. The work began in 2009 and has frustrated some hunters, but when completed it eventually should create more hunting opportunities and less maintenance costs for managers, said Missouri Department of Conservation Wildlife Biologist Keith Cordell...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Senate Leader Robert N. Mayer, R-Dexter, has appointed Brett Dorton of Dexter to serve on the Joint Interim Committee on State Employee Wages, the panel responsible for examining state worker wages...

Charles Jeff Smith, son of the late John Tyler Smith and Anna D. Mayberry Smith, was born on Aug. 17, 1916, in Leora, Mo., and died on Oct. 26, 2011, at Mis-souri Southern Healthcare in Dexter, Mo., at the age of 95. Mr. Smith was a veteran of the US Army, serving in World War II. He was a terminal manager and truck driver for Hart Transportation in Dexter for 18 years, and a resident of Dexter...

Minnie Egetta Marion, daughter of the late James Julian and Grace Patterson Julian, was born on Feb. 6, 1925, in Portageville, Mo., and died in Mountain Home, Ark., on Oct. 26, 2011, at age 86. Mrs. Marion moved to Bloomfield, Mo., in 1952. In her early life she worked as a bookkeeper and telephone operator. She later worked at...

Bobby Dale Nesler, 71, the son of Henry and Mary Blair Nesler, was born Sept. 4, 1940, in Manila, Ark., and died Oct. 27, 2011, at his home Bell City, Mo. Bobby retired from Fredric Roofing Co. in St. Louis, Mo. He was a member of the Bell City Masonic Lodge...

SIKESTON - Route AB in Stoddard County will be closed while Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a pipe beneath the roadway. This section of roadway is located from Route 25 to County Road 503. Weather permitting, work will be performed Monday, Oct. 31 and Tuesday, Nov. 1 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily...