Stories from Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Five people died in traffic crashes over the 2013 Memorial Day weekend. Last year, nine people were killed during the three-day weekend. This year, Troop E was not immune to tragedy during period. There was one boating fatality in the region over the 2013 Memorial Day weekend that claimed the life of a Sikeston man...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Tootie's 225, LLC, in Dexter will receive $50,000, plus $3,000 in court costs in the settlement of a lawsuit brought against Stoddard County Prosecutor Russ Oliver, Sheriff Carl Hefner and the county. The lawsuit was filed after the prosecutor and sheriff confiscated hundreds of packets of what authorities contended contained imitation controlled substances on July 14, 2011...

KENNETT, Mo. -- A Dexter man charged with the forcible rape of a local woman in 2011 will have his fate decided by a jury beginning today. Moses Grayson, 35, is charged with the Class A felony of forcible rape, the Class A felony of armed criminal action and the Class B felony of first-degree burglary...

Shawna Lane Godwin, daughter of Pam Gayle Kelley Woosley of Essex, and the late Walter Dale Lane, was born on March 31,1967, in Sikeston and died on May 26, 2013, at her residence in Waterloo, Ill., at the age of 46. Shawna was a member of the Essex Church of Christ. She was a former resident of Essex and had worked as a retail manager for WalMart...

Ruth Verna Patton, daughter of the late Elmer Lincoln and Zola Jackson Lincoln, was born on Dec. 4, 1919, in Dunklin County, Mo., and died on May 28, 2013, at her daughter's home in Dexter at the age of 93. Mrs. Patton was a resident of Dexter, a member of the New Salem Baptist Church in Marble Hill, Mo., and a homemaker...

Pearl Lizzie Doane, daughter of the late Charles M. Waller and Gertie Lee House Waller, was born on Aug. 31, 1921 in Cotton Wood, Mo., and died at the Golden Living Center in Malden, on May 27, 2013, at the age of 91. On April 16, 1952, she was married to Raymond Doane, Sr. He preceded her in death on Oct. 15, 1986...