Stories from Thursday, January 31, 2013

SUBMITTED photo Lions present scholarshipa to Three Rivers College Andrea Young and Matthew Summers are recent recipients of Dexter Lions Club scholarships to attend Three Rivers College Dexter Center. The two accepted the scholarship this week from Lions members Larry White, at left and Larry Louder. ...

SUBMITTED photo Lions present scholarshipa to Three Rivers College Andrea Young and Matthew Summers are recent recipients of Dexter Lions Club scholarships to attend Three Rivers College Dexter Center. The two accepted the scholarship this week from Lions members Larry White, at left and Larry Louder. ...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH SEMO News Service EMINENCE, Mo. -- The daughter of the woman accused of the 2010 murders of a Doniphan, Mo., couple described their deaths as "another trial run" for a bigger plan her father and others hoped to carry out. The second day of Melissa "Lisa" Youngblood's trial began Tuesday with opening statements from Assistant Attorney General Richard Hicks and Youngblood's attorney, Donna Anthony with the Public Defender's Office...

By KEITH LEWIS SEMO News Service ROCKVIEW, Mo. -- High winds and heavy downpours that swept across the area Tuesday night are reported to have damaged property, blown two tractor-trailers over and caused several Union Pacific rail cars to derail near Chaffee...

By BOB MILLER and ERIN RAGAN SEMO News Service CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Missouri's laws for replacing members of Congress who leave in the middle of a term require that teams of political activists bypass a traditional primary election. Instead of voters-at-large determining who the next Republican or Democrat nominees will be, 86 Republicans and 68 Democrats -- and a handful of Libertarians -- will offer names that will appear on a special election ballot...

By MIKE McCOY Statesman Staff Writer When President Barack Obama was elected in 2008 it caused a spike in gun and ammunition sales in the Bootheel because he was seen as backing gun control laws. That spike was minor compared to the current frenzy with residents in Stoddard County buying up guns and ammunition faster than retailers can stock it. Obama's proposed ban of assault weapons and numerous other controls on the purchase of guns in the cause of the run on local gun dealers...

By COREY NOLES Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - Two individuals are behind bars after being caught stealing automobile parts from Stites Concrete just off of Hwy. 60 on the edge of Dexter. The two men were Thomas Burris of Williamsville, Mo. and Rodney Green of Poplar Bluff...