Stories from Sunday, December 25, 2011

Shoop-Haasbrock to wed Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hazel of Bloomfield, Mo., and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thomas of Brooksfield, Mo., are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of Gerbrand Abraham Haasbrock also of Bloomfield, to Cheryl Ann Shoop of Linn, Mo...

By DEANNA CORONADO SEMO News Service MALDEN, Mo. - A 38-year-old Dunklin County man is incarcerated at the Dunklin County Justice Center facing a list of serious charges regarding his alleged role in a home invasion of a 70-year-old Malden man...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri real estate broker has been named to the governing board for Southeast Missouri State University. Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday appointed Thomas M. Meyer to the Cape Girardeau university's board of regents. Meyer, a Democrat, is the owner of a realty company. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University and has served as the president of the school's alumni association...

By COREY NOLES Statesman Staff Writer Once again, another year is coming to a close. As The Daily Statesman does each year, over the final four issues of the year we will walk readers through the headlines that made the news this year. January...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Christmas 2011 for little Carsen Jones of Dexter will be vastly different than last year. A year ago, Carsen was nine months old. He was known then as Shen Kai Zuo, and he was living in an orphanage in China with dozens of other children. Like most of the children surrounding him, Shen Kai Zuo had been abandoned by his mother as an infant...