Stories from Sunday, January 6, 2013

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor A rural Bloomfield man is in the Stoddard County Jail under a $25,000 cash only bond after an assault against family members and law enforcement officers. Robert Dale Chism is charged with the Class B felony of first degree assault with a gun and the Class A misdemeanor of third degree assault on a law enforcement officer. Additional charges, officials said, are pending...

By CHRIS KAISER SEMO News Service DUNKLIN COUNTY -- As the election has been completed for approximately two months, and the swearing in of elects is around the corner, the matter of the the State Representative for the 150th District is still undetermined and does not seem to be coming to a close anytime soon...

By DAVID SILVERBERG SEMO News Service A rules committee has determined how the Republican 8th District Congressional Committee's will pick its nominee for the election to replace Rep. Jo Ann Emerson. The rules committee is made up five members of the Republican 8th Congressional Committee. They include Bob Green (Texas County), Jeff Shawan (Butler County), David Courtway (Jefferson County), Mary Stubblefield (Crawford County) and Wayne Bowen (Cape Girardeau County)...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor William Taft was president of the U.S. on Sept. 8, 1910 -- the day Ola Gidcumb Sifford was born to James and Lydia (Mason) Gidcumb in rural Stoddard County. George V became King of the United Kingdom that year upon the death of his father, Edward VII, and on April 15 , 1910, Taft threw out the first baseball by a U.S. president to start a major league game...