Stories from Friday, August 30, 2013

Police are on the lookout for culprits who have evidently got their hands on a wrench designed to open up and shut off water hydrants in the City of Dexter. According to City Administrator Mark Stidham Friday morning, a utility wrench was left at a work site overnight Wednesday and could not be found Thursday morning...

The schedule has been released for the eight-team Woodland varsity volleyball tournament. The tournament will take place Sept. 3, 5 and 6 at Woodland High School in Marble Hill, Mo. Leopold is the defending champion of the tournament. View a complete schedule for the tournament below:...

Given the recent revelation that a Dexter resident may have spread HIV to hundreds of people, local health officials are working to get out the facts on the disease as a means of education. Assistant Director Tom Roy of the Stoddard County Public Health Center stated that education on the means of transmission, testing and detection are key to preventing further spread of the disease...

Since its inception in 2000, the Dexter-based 18 Fore Life Charity has witnessed some unusual means by which supporters raised funds. There have been lemonade stands, Pink-out volleyball games across the county, fishing tournaments, the 10 Pins for Ben Bowling event, and in 2013 another local charity, the H.O.P.E. Campaign even partnered with 18 Fore Life in support of raising funds to be presented in $1,000 increments to area cancer patients...

SENATH, Mo. - The Bernie Mules baseball team improved to 2-0 Thursday afternoon with a 7-1 victory against the Senath-Hornersville Lions. "We played well today against a quality opponent," Bernie coach Darrin Shipman said. "I really like how we had four consecutive hits after two outs that plated three runs. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Dexter girls tennis team battled hard but came up short in its bid to win its season-opening tennis matches at Notre Dame Regional High School Thursday afternoon. Notre Dame defeated Dexter 9-0 in the varsity match and 8-1 in the junior varsity match...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Bloomfield Wildcats baseball team tallied three two-out runs in the bottom of the first inning and never looked back on its way to a 5-0 season-opening win against the Risco Tigers Thursday afternoon. The Wildcats pitching staff was close to flawless on the hill...

Larry Ray Goines, 81, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Sat., Aug. 24, 2013, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo. A memorial service will be held at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses in Sikeston, Mo., on Sept. 14, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill is in charge of arrangements...

Evelyn Estelle Dieter, daughter of the late Franklin C. Gregg and Elizabeth Armstrong Gregg, was born on Oct. 20, 1916, in Hackleburg, Ala., and died on Aug. 28, 2013, at the Miner Nursing Center in Miner, Mo., at the age of 96. Mrs. Dieter was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Dexter. She was a housewife and a resident of Dexter...

James Bryan Lankford, son of the late Bryan and Mary Evelyn Ellis Lankford, was born in Essex, Mo., on Sept. 3, 1938, and died at his home near Dexter on Aug. 28, 2013, at the age of 74. He had lived in Phoenix, Ariz., from 1967 to 1994 when he moved back to Southeast Missouri. He had been a resident of Dexter since 2010. He was retired from the Salt River Project as an Engineer Technician and was a member of the Essex Methodist Church...