Stories from Tuesday, September 10, 2013

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Bloomfield Wildcats baseball team collected its third straight come-from-behind win Monday afternoon when it rallied to beat the Campbell Camels 9-6 to extend its winning streak to four games. "I thought we came up with clutch hits with two outs and runners in scoring position," Bloomfield coach Tyler Trover said. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Trailing Notre Dame 23-13 in a decisive third set of a varsity semifinal at the Notre Dame Volleyballfest Saturday Dexter Bearcats coach Carmen Morgan encouraged her players to forget about the scoreboard. "Volleyball is a game of momentum," Morgan said. "So you can never afford to think you've got it or give up. That's what we had to do. I told them 'don't look at the score, you've looked at the score your last time. You better get out there and play.'...

Albert Wayne Hunt was born June 29, 1939, and died Wed., Sept. 4, 2013, at the age of 74. He was the best man many of us knew. "Al" was born in the Missouri Bootheel, as one of five Hunt brothers: Jim, Carlton, Al, Ronnie, and Noel. He graduated high school in Dexter, then served in the United States Air Force. ...

Marjorie McGuire, daughter of the late Roy "Poss" Meritt and Pauline Barfield Meritt was born on Aug. 2, 1932, in Grayridge and died on Sept. 7, 2013, at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter at the age of 81. Marjorie went to school in Grayridge. ...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor BENTON, Mo. -- A Benton man lost his life in an accident Sunday night north of his hometown. The Highway Patrol reports that Jeremy N. Reeves, 35, was southbound on US Highway 61, three miles north of Benton when his vehicle, a 1997 Jeep Wrangler, rano ff the road and overturned. Reeves was ejected from his vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene by acting Scott County Coroner Rick Walters...

SIKESTON, Mo. - A Dexter man was arrested following a high-speed chase after taking his brother's car. The Sikeston Department of Public Safety responded to a call at about 1:44 p.m. Sunday from a man who said his brother took his car from a car wash at the corner of Linn and Ingram without permission, according to DPS Capt. Bill Mygatt...

Dexter Police Sept. 7-9, 2013 A summons was issued to Kimberly Jones, 42, of Dexter at 307 W. Elk at 8:13 a.m. Monday for third degree domestic assault. Stoddard County Sept. 7-9, 2013 Christopher R. Stebbins, 23, of Dexter was arrested on three warrants for failure to appear. Total bond was set at $3,150 with $150 being cash only. He remains in the county jail...

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Income tax cuts? No. Nullification of federal gun-control laws? No. New hurdles for public employee unions? No. Again and again, Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed bills passed by Missouri's Republican-led Legislature that would have put a decisively conservative stamp on the state. ...

Police Chief Sammy Stone with the Dexter Police Department has announced that sometime during the month of September the Dexter Police Department will conduct a sobriety check point within the city limits. The operation will be conducted by the Dexter Police Department in cooperation with other local area law enforcement agencies...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor A Puxico couple was killed in a wreck in northern Stoddard County near Swinton Saturday night. According to the Highway Patrol, Brandy L. Beal, 33, was southbound on Route BB, one mile north of Rt. K when she ran off the right side of the roadway, overcorrected, and ran off the left side of the roadway. The vehicle, a 2003 Chrysler Sebring, then struck a tree...

By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Stoddard County Commission authorized a $10,000 payment made in restitution for funds stolen to be deposited in the Stoddard County Sheriff's commissary account. The action came at the commission's regular meeting Monday. ...

SUBMITTED photo Rachel Putnam, at center, a junior at Dexter High School, was crowned Miss Dexter Sunday during pageants held Sunday at the Dexter High School auditorium. She is the daughter of Denny and Shannon Putnam. Named second alternate was Chandler Crowley, at left. ...

On a wooded ridge in north Stoddard County, a quiet ribbon of highway runs through an out of the way stretch of country where once existed a little town called Tilman. Early settlers seemed to have been drawn to its position because of the tree-covered hills above the swamplands...