Stories from Wednesday, August 28, 2013

An arrest this week involving an individual who is accused of knowingly infecting one person, and possibly 300 more, is a cause of concern for local officials. Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russell Oliver said he sees this case as a cause for concern in Stoddard County...

Beulah Jarrell, daughter of the late Ulyesses and Cora Francis Black, was born on Dec. 3, 1923, in Petty, Texas and died at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield on Aug. 26, 2013, at the age of 89. She had been a resident of Bloomfield most of her life and was a member of the Church of Christ. She had worked as a self-employed housekeeper...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Three months after the collapse of the Route M overpass in Scott County due to a train collision, the Missouri Department of Transportation's Southeast District is preparing to open the new overpass. The Route M overpass is expected to open to traffic at noon Friday, Aug. 30...

UNION, Mo. -- A Doniphan, Mo., woman is on her way to prison after being sentenced Monday afternoon for her role in the 2010 deaths of two elderly couples whose bodies were found in their burned homes. Chantale Youngblood, 20, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for felony second-degree murder by Presiding Circuit Judge Gael Wood in Franklin County, according to her attorney, Steve Lynxwiler with the public defender's office...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Smith and Company Engineers of Poplar Bluff was awarded the contract for the design of a new bridge on County Road 307 in Pike Township. It will replace a bridge that was constructed in the 1920s. The old bridge has significant deterioration of the concrete on both the deck and wing walls...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A new face is watching the halls in Bloomfield Middle School this fall. Seth McBroom of Qulin, Mo. was hired to fill the vacancy left following various administrative restructuring events that took place within the district at the conclusion of the 2012-13 school year...

50-60 believed to be in Stoddard County

What do you do in pre-season practice if you are a member of the defending state semi-finalist Caruthersville Tiger football team? That answer is simple, work your tail off. That's how Coach Nathan Morgan and his Tigers have been so successful over the last three seasons, and with his fourth season at the helm rapidly approaching, he is preparing his team for the battles that lie ahead. ...

ADVANCE, Mo. - The 2013 Advance Hornets varsity volleyball team will have little room for error if it wants to surpass the win total accumulated by the 2012 squad. The Hornets rarely lost in 2012, finishing 28-5-1. Advance graduated five players off of last season's varsity squad that won a district title and advanced to the Class 1 state quarterfinals...