Stories from Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Mildred F. Grubbs, daughter of the late Claude Edge and Lulu Hamm Edge, was born on Sept. 17, 1926, in Guntown, Miss. and died on Dec. 23, 2012, at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter at the age of 86. Mrs. Grubbs was a dedicated homemaker for her family. ...

Stanley Lewis Weinert, son of the late Frederick Ransom and Lillian Mae Wenz Weinert, was born in St. Louis, Mo. on Aug. 22, 1930, and died at the Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. on Dec. 23, 2012, at the age of 82. He had lived in St. Louis until moving to Poplar Bluff in 1982 and moved to Dexter in 2000. He had worked at as a clerical worker with the U. S. Navy and served during the Korean Conflict. He was a member of the D.A.V...

Susan Laverne Foster Darby, 62, of Malden, died Dec. 22, 2012, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis after a three year battle with ALS. She was born May, 28, 1950 in St. Louis. Susan was the loving wife of Jerry for over 41 years. They were married Aug. 21, 1971, in Poplar Bluff. ...

Oscar Leo Pullum, son of the late Herbert Milton and Serena Jane McCoy Pullum, was born in Parma, Mo. on Oct. 19, 1933, and died at his home in Essex, Mo. on Dec. 21, 2012, at the age of 79. He lived in Essex most all his life where he worked as a farmer...

R.C. Williams, age 82, a resident of Dexter, died Dec. 21, 2012, at his residence in Dexter. Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter in charge of arrangements.

BROSELEY, Mo. -- Alison Jarrell led four Dexter players in double figures as the Lady Bearcats defeated Neelyville, 71-32, to claim the championship title at the Twin Rivers Lady Royals Christmas Classic Saturday. Jarrell knocked three 3-pointers and scored 17 points to lead all players while Dexter repeated as tournament champs at the annual holiday event...

To no surprise, the first round of the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament has been postponed due to the blizzard. The tournament is set to start now Thursday morning at 10 a.m. with all eight first-round games on the schedule. Early word is the championships will be moved to Monday (New Year's Eve)...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. --The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports two people died during the Christmas holiday counting period--from 6 p.m., Friday, December 21, to 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, December 25, 2012. The Patrol investigated 239 traffic crashes, which included two fatalities and 91 injuries. Troopers arrested 130 people over the Christmas holiday weekend for driving while intoxicated...

DUDLEY, Mo. - Three Essex residents sustained serious injuries Saturday morning when the vehicle in which they were traveling failed to stop at a crossing southwest of Dudley marked by crossbucks County Road 691. The truck was struck by an oncoming eastbound train...

January 2012 Jan. 1 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is getting $800 million in federal disaster relief funds to make repairs along the flood-ravaged Mississippi River, corps officials announced Thursday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports five people died during the New 1/4/12 - Year's holiday counting period from 6 p.m. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- The most infamous murderer in Cape Girardeau history will be the subject of an upcoming television program. The story of Timothy Krajcir and his brutal slaying of five women in Cape Girardeau -- plus four other women he has confessed to killing in Illinois and Pennsylvania -- will be recounted on an episode of "Very Bad Men," scheduled to air on the Identification Discovery, or "I.D." channel, at 9 p.m. Jan. 3...

Dexter escaped a predicted foot of snow overnight, but the city and surrounding area did awaken to about five to eight inches of wet snow Wednesday morning, with drifts piled three and four feet high in many areas. An unofficial report said Dudley did see a foot of snow. Winds howled throughout the night as high as 40 m.p.h. and continued to blow at about 20 to 25 m.p.h. throughout the morning hours...