Stories from Tuesday, April 23, 2013

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Fifty-seven-year-old James Malloy of Essex escaped serious injury Monday morning when the dump truck he was driving crossed over One Mile Rd. just north of the Highway 60 overpass, struck the brick entrance marker at the New Life Cathedral Church, and turned over, coming to rest in front of the church...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Ashley Adams and Emily Milam, employees of Dexter's State School No. 27, were making their morning bus run Monday just after 8 a.m. when they saw the dump truck of James Malloy (see accompanying story) turned on its side with red gravel spilling out of the overturned trailer. Adams is a driver and classroom aide for the State School. Emily serves as a monitor on the bus run and also is employed as an aide at the school...

Neal Clifton Edwards, 90, died Saturday, April 20, 2013, at his home in Cape Girardeau after a prolonged illness. Neal was born June 13, 1922, in Delta, son of Samuel C. and Menda Edwards. Samuel died in 1923. Neal was raised and attended school in Benton, and served in the U.S. ...

Robert Lee Johnson Sr., son of the late Adrian and Theresa Proffer Stevens Johnson, was born on Feb. 26, 1929, in Galveston, Texas. He lost his battle with cancer on April 20, 2013, at the age of 84. He was united in marriage to Vivian Perry Putnam on May 5, 2006. Mrs. Johnson survives of their residence...

James A. Johnson, son of the late J. W. Johnson and Minnie Pearl Holloway Johnson, was born on Feb. 25, 1925, in Egypt, Ark., and died April 21, 2013, at the Gideon Care Center in Gideon, Mo., at the age of 88. Mr. Johnson was a member of the North Side Baptist Church in Bernie and a resident of Gideon formally of Bernie. He was a Veteran of the United States Army and was employed by United Phone Company in Bernie as a repairman...

Norma F. Stephens, 98, of Advance, died Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born Feb. 19, 1915, in McGee, Mo., the daughter of Henry David and Emma Eva Mudge Fronabarger. Norma had been the Advance City Treasurer. She was a member of the Advance First Baptist Church and a long time member of the Order of the Eastern Star...

Juanita Rankin, a resident of Grayridge, Mo., died on Monday, April 22, 2013, at her residence in Grayridge at the age of 86. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

Route AF in Stoddard County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace the culvert pipe under the roadway. This section of roadway is located between Sadler Lane and County Road 624. Work will take place Wednesday, April 24 and Thursday, April 25 from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily, weather permitting...

Dexter Police April 20-22, 2013 Nathan Edward O'Harver, 21, of Sikeston, was arrested on a Dexter municipal warrant for failure to appear on a possession of drug paraphernalia charge. Stoddard County April 20-22, 2013 Anthony Eugene Cobb, 40, of Bernie was arrested on a warrant for resisting arrest. Bond was set at $5,000 cash, and he remains in jail...

By SAMANTHA RINEHART SEMO News Service CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A subpoena has been issued to Gov. Jay Nixon to testify in a lawsuit challenging the Missouri Department of Revenue's controversial storing and sharing of information on concealed-carry weapons permit holders, according to Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russ Oliver...

By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- New Lisbon Township officials addressed the Stoddard County Commission Monday morning about the need to replace several low water crossings in the township because many are either deteriorating or too narrow. They asked whether the federal funds coming from off-system bridges (BRO) could be used to begin replacing some of these crossings...

Second in a series of articles in observance of Autism Awareness Month By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor More than ever before, children with autism are being diagnosed, and more importantly, are receiving the appropriate help to improve their day-to-day lives...