Stories from Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Glida Gean, age 78, died Sunday, June 9, 2013, at her home near Bloomfield, surrounded by family. Glida was born Jan. 24, 1935, in Leachville, Ark., to the late Cecil and Lela Sims Rucker. She was a nurse's aid at Shuffits Nursing Home on Ruth Street for many years...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- The ALS Association St. Louis Regional Chapter's Annual St. Louis Walk to Defeat ALS® presented by Ameren will be held at Forest Park on Saturday, June 29, 2013. Enjoy music provided by the Lightnin' Bottle Band and Joia. Teams and individuals can register for the Walk online at www.walktodefeatals.orgis a 1 and 3-mile route, but participants do not need to walk the entire route to participate...

WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. (AP) -- An alumnus of Webster University in suburban St. Louis is celebrating his second Tony Award. Jerry Mitchell won for best choreography Sunday night for his work on the musical "Kinky Boots." The musical won six Tonys, including best musical...

A canned food drive will take on Wednesday, July 12, on the lot of Allen Christian Buick GMC on Business 60 in Dexter. All items will be donated to the Stoddard County Gospel Mission to help supply meals to the needy within the county. Items may be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. all day Wednesday...

PARK HILLS, Mo. -- A day for which so many who loved her waited so long for came and went Saturday when Jacque Sue Rawson Waller finally was laid to rest. Hundreds turned out for her visitation, funeral and burial in Park Hills, not far from where she grew up, lived and spent her last days with her then-5-year-old triplets before her death June 1, 2011...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A Cape Girardeau man accused of shooting his wife and son to death before turning the gun on himself will have to hire his own lawyer after a judge determined he is not eligible for a public defender. George Joseph, 48, faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action in connection with the May 30 deaths of his wife, Mary, and 18-year-old son, Matthew...

"It's a sad thing," said Ola Kelley of Essex recently, "when you can't trust people to leave flowers in place at your loved one's gravesites." Kelley, whose husband and son are both interred at the Essex Cemetery, commissioned a local florist before Memorial Day to place flowers upon the graves of her family members. Kelly is wheelchair bound, and cannot get to the cemetery on her own, but she was told a few days after Memorial Day that her flowers were no longer in place...

ROCKVIEW, Mo. -- The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that a Union Pacific train may have sped through a stop signal before it crashed into a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train in a derailment last month near Rockview. According to the preliminary report, the UP train was traveling about 49 miles per hour when it struck the side of the BNSF train, which was traveling about 22 miles per hour. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Stoddard County Commission voted to re-appoint Debbie McKay and to appoint David Keller and June Moore to the SB 40 Board at their regular meeting Monday. Steve Rahm and Joe Guthrie served on the board but did not want to be re-appointed. Both the ARC and Stoddard County Sheltered Workshop submitted names of individuals for appointment. In addition to Keller and Moore, Virginia Young, Robin Rickman and Shirley Carney were on the list submitted to the commission...

It's difficult for Amanda Richardson to stop smiling these days. She went from being a car-hop at a local drive-in to being a millionaire less than a week ago, and she and her fiancé, Michael Magarian, are still letting the news soak in. "We always play the Lotto," Michael explains. "We've played the Wednesday and Saturday games for years. We play the Quick Picks and let the computer pick the numbers."...

Dexter Police June 8-10, 2013 An accident Saturday at 8:47 a.m. at W. Oak and W. City Park involved a 2005 Dodge Charger Caravan and a 2006 Dodge Charger. No names or details regarding the accident were released by police. Michael R. Newberry, 24, of Dexter was issued a summons at 1707 E. Stoddard at 3:48 p.m. Saturday for discharging an air gun in the city limits...