Stories from Tuesday, March 20, 2012

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Stoddard County Republican Caucus Saturday drew 83 registered county voters who took nearly two hours to finalize 14 delegates and 14 alternate delegates to both the congressional district convention at Poplar Bluff on April 21 and the State Convention in Springfield June 1 and 2...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Vanduser man was jailed this weekend following a reported kidnapping in Advance. Charlie Dale Reynolds, 34, of Vanduser, is charged with the Class B felony of kidnapping, the Class B felony of burglary in the first degree and the Class A misdemeanor of domestic assault in the third degree...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- An Advance man is behind bars today following a weekend rape that resulted in an ensuing chase and shots being fired. Steven Clark Rendelman, 51, of Advance, has been convicted of rape twice in the past 30 years. In 1984 in Cape Girardeau County and in 1990 in Stoddard County, Rendelman was convicted. A third incident in 2009 in Cape Girardeau County led to a guilty plea of sexual misconduct...

Jerry Busby, son of the late J.B. Franklin Busby and Ruth Mary Busby, was born on Jan. 17, 1946, in Bunny, Ark., and died at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo., on March 18, 2012, at the age of 66. Mr. Busby retired after 33 years as a maintenance technician for Arvin Automotive, now known as Faurecia Emissions Technologies in Dexter. ...