Stories from Sunday, January 22, 2012

Farm Bureau HONOLULU, January 9, 2012 -- The American Farm Bureau Federation presented its highest honor, the Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award, to former Missouri Farm Bureau President Charles Kruse. The award was announced during the 93rd AFBF Annual Meeting...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - A 64-year-old homeless man charged in August 2010 with the molestation of three children aged seven, eight and nine pled guilty as charged in a Stoddard County courtroom on Wednesday. Nathan Purdom is charged with three counts of the felony statutory sodomy in the first degree stemming from the incident that allegedly took place at a home where he was staying in Dexter...

A Bloomfield man is in jail this week following a robbery at gunpoint. Marvin Hugh DeJournett, 32, is charged with one count each of the Class B felony of assault in the first degree, the Class A felony of robbery in the first degree and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action...

Third in a series of articles dealing with suicide awareness and prevention It is perhaps a commentary on the society in which we live. Suicide rates in the U.S. are on the rise. Statistics gathered from 1999 to 2009 indicate a suicide occurred on average every 16 minutes. In that same time period, 40 of the 4082 deaths in Stoddard County were attributed to suicide...