Stories from Sunday, February 26, 2012

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH SEMO News Service BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - A week after being apprehended for allegedly escaping from the Stoddard County Jail, a Puxico, Mo., area man pleaded guilty to those actions. Jason Stroup was to appear Thursday before Associate Circuit Judge Joe Satterfield for arraignment on the Class D felony of escape from custody...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - Three individuals are in the custody of the Stoddard County Sheriff's Department as the result of video surveillance footage from the county jail in Bloomfield. According to Sheriff Carl Hefner, Matthew Taylor, 28, of Batesville, Ark. ...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor An Englishman whose job as a consultant engineer for Federal Mogul brought him to the Bootheel of Missouri in recent years, is the featured guest artist at Keller Public Library for the next two weeks. Over his years of traveling to the US, particularly to Southeast Missouri, Mel C. Jones has made many acquaintances, many of whom he returns to the states to visit in spite of the closing of the Federal Mogul Malden plant in 2006...