Stories from Friday, July 19, 2013

SENATH, Mo. - Dunklin County Legion moved one step closer to another district title with a 6-0 win against Cape Girardeau Legion in an opening round game at the District 14 tournament Thursday night. Tyson Campbell earned a complete-game win for Dunklin County on the hill. Campbell allowed five hits in nine innings of work. He struck out nine and walked three...

With a birdie on their final hole, the twosome of Sissy Donahue and Sherre Simmons proved they were more than one-ht wonders at the 35th annual Lassies Classic at Cape Girardeau Country club. Donahue followed up a Simmons lob wedge shot by rolling in a 6-foot uphill putt on the ninth green to edge out playing partners and 11-time champions Harriette Myers and Diane Fowler by a stroke, as well as 2008 tournament champions Vicki Long and Janice Hoffman...

Madeline Westmorlan, daughter of the late James Robert Fowler and Pearl Iva Cecil Fowler, was born on March 15, 1927, in Risco and died at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield on July 17, 2013, at the age of 86. Mrs. Westborlan was raised in Risco and had been a resident of Essex and Dexter most of her life. She was a member of the Dexter Church of Christ and had been a cook in the public schools, The Pig, Polly's Drive In and at The Dairy House before she retired...

Evalee McGowan of Puxico was born March 1, 1927, and died at the Puxico Nursing and Rehab Center on July 17, 2013, at the age of 86. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home of Puxico is in charge of all arrangements.

Band Camp for Dexter High School and T.S. Hill Middle School students is slated to begin on Monday, July 22 with the following schedule in place: 6th Grade Beginning Band Monday, July 22 through Friday, July 26 6th Grade Parent Meeting: Tuesday July 23 or Thursday July 25 at 7 p.m. in the T.S. Hill Middle School Band Room...

FRUITLAND, Mo. -- A Missouri state representative said on Thursday his failed attempt to exempt Cape Girardeau County mining companies from a 2011 law that protects a Fruitland school was done after a request from a lobbyist used by one of the companies...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Actors Paul Rudd, Rob Riggle and Jason Sudeikis are playing cards in Kansas City for a good cause. They'll be attending this weekend's 4th Annual Big Slick Celebrity Poker Tournament and Party to benefit the Cancer Center at Children's Mercy. Last year's event raised more than $500,000...

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) -- Family, friends and strangers are continuing a nearly weeklong gsearch for a missing 72-year-old Missouri woman who suffers from Alzheimer's. Hellen Erlene Cook was reported missing from Warsaw in Benton County on Saturday. She walked away from the vacation home she shares with her husband near Warsaw...

KENNETT, Mo. (SMNS) -- Kennett police Lt. Tim Trowbridge on Wednesday said the department has made arrests after a woman falsely claimed she was robbed at gunpoint at Unico Bank. According to Trowbridge, Kennett police, with the help of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Dunklin County Sheriff's Office, arrested Heather Godair, 24, and Tony Bishop, 33, as part of the robbery investigation...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Investigators still are trying to determine the cause of a crash on Interstate 55 that killed a Texas trucker known as "Possum." James D. Holloway, 56, of Corsicana, Texas, was killed Wednesday when the tractor-trailer he was driving ran off the road, crashed through a guardrail, plunged down a steep embankment and caught fire in a wooded area just south of mile marker 97.2 on southbound I-55, Cape Girardeau police reported...

SIKESTON, Mo. - A low flying plane in the Bootheel is working for the government but they aren't looking at you -- or anything else on the ground. They are interested in what is going on underneath the surface. The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting a special survey, explained Rick Blakely, research geophysicist for the USGS out of Menlo Park, Calif., to get a clearer idea of what is going on with the New Madrid Fault...

Three Rivers College will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Eastern Campus on Thursday, Aug. 15, at 10 a.m. in Sikeston. The event, which is open to the public, will mark the beginning of construction of the new campus at the intersection of Highways 60 and 61. Once completed, the Eastern Campus is expected to serve over 1,000 students from across the area...

When the call came from the Stoddard County Ambulance District (SCAD) Dispatch Center, Paramedic Jerry Caldwell went into action. He and EMT Dustin Pfeiffer responded to a report of a woman in labor just south of Bernie. Little did he know that approximately 18 minutes after arrival he would be assisting Renee Burrage in the birth of her son while in the back of the ambulance...