Stories from Tuesday, February 12, 2013

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Dexter picked up its 20th win of the season and improved to 3-0 in SEMO Conference play as the Lady Bearcats rolled up a 65-37 road win Monday night against the Poplar Bluff Lady Mules. Senior Brittany Harris scored 20 points and hauled down 12 rebounds and added two blocked shots in the win as the Lady 'Cats improved to 20-2 on the year...

Dexter High School will be well represented at the upcoming state wrestling tournament. Dexter will be sending three district champions and a total of seven wrestler to Columbia for the state competition after the Bearcats battled on the mats and earned a second place team-finish at the Class 2, District 1 tournament this past weekend in Ste. Genevieve...

Tim Lee, a resident of Dexter, Mo., died on Feb. 10, 2013, in Poplar Bluff, Mo., at the age of 48 years. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A junior high schoolteacher who was facing more than 100 years in prison on charges he sent a 14-year-old student explicit photos of himself last year may be sentenced to probation next month as part of a deal for his guilty plea Monday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Wayne Hoffman farms corn, beans, wheat and cattle in north Cape Girardeau County, "a little bit of everything" so that he can get by. Because of drought losses last year, he filed for reimbursement from the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program [NAP]...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission approved allowing parking on county land near the Stars and Stripes Museum/Library for a World War II re-enactment to be held Oct. 19-20 at the museum. The request was made by Museum Director Dr. Joe Baker at the regular commission meeting Monday morning...

VAN BUREN, Mo. -- He needed 50 votes. He received 55. Jason Smith described the range of emotions he endured through six rounds of voting. "It was like a roller coaster," Missouri's House speaker pro tem said minutes after he emerged the winner of the 8th Congressional District's Republican nomination as chosen by an 84-member committee Saturday in Van Buren. "It was like going through six elections in one day."...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- "I used to be a girlie girl," said Kelly Potter as she walked the fields at Gobbler Ridge Farm in rural Bloomfield Saturday. "But then I got married and had two sons. It was either join 'em or be left behind. I decided to join them."...