Stories from Thursday, September 5, 2013

DEXTER, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats varsity girls tennis program took care of business against a district opponent for a second straight day Wednesday afternoon. Fresh off a convincing 9-0 road win against Charleston Tuesday the Bearcats cruised past Sikeston 9-0 in its first home match of the season...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A local court case that helped to set off a statewide investigation into document scanning practices by the Missouri Department of Revenue has been dropped. Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russell Oliver, who filed the suit as part of his private practice, announced Wednesday that he saw no need for the case to proceed forward from this point...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Revenue from a one-cent sales tax in Stoddard County is running approximately $107,000 behind last year in the latest figures released by the Missouri Department of Revenue. Total revenue received by the county through July 2013 was $1,560,377.60, with the largest monthly total coming in May when $265,531.04 was received...

The Dexter Police Department bid farewell to one of its finest on Monday. The department's canine unit, Rambo, a nine-year-old German Shepherd who came to the department in 2006, died of what was believed to have been lymphoma. Rambo's handler and caretaker was Patrolman Kevin Cluck. When Cluck agreed to be Rambo's keeper, he couldn't have imagined the role the dog would play in his life and that of his wife, Meghan's...

Sheila Renee Fry, daughter of Melvin Jaco of Farmington, Mo., and Connie Waters DeBerry of Bloomfield was born on Dec. 20, 1965, in St. Louis, Mo., and died at her residence in Dexter on Sept.1, 2013, at the age of 47. On June 16, 1984, she was united in marriage to Ricky Fry at Bloomfield, Mo. Mr. Fry preceded her in death on Nov. 2, 2001...