Stories from Tuesday, October 8, 2013

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission made one new appointment and re-appointed four others to the Stoddard County Mental Health Board at their meeting Monday at the Government Building. The board recommended the appointment of Danny Hillis for a three-year term on the board to represent the Essex area of the county, and the re-appointment of Catherine Bockhold, Amy Grobe, Nora Statler and Deneen Schweiss. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Before the first police car reached the Stoddard County Justice Center, rain began to fall on the Bloomfield Fall Fest Parade. Despite the weather, the crowd of several hundred mostly stayed for the parade and the festivities that followed...

QULIN, Mo. -- Prayers for a miracle ended Monday for the family of 5-year-old Devonte Dye when rescue workers found the missing boy's body shortly before 10 a.m. in a slough near his grandparents' Qulin home. The old St. Francis River channel sits about 50 feet behind Devonte's grandparents' Highway 53 home, where the boy was last seen playing in the yard Sunday afternoon, Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs said...

Participants in Saturday's Color Burst get their "colorful" reward for having completed the 5K run/walk Saturday morning. The event was part of the first Annual Bearcat Tailgate Event over the weekend. Over 200 people (and one faithful dog) took part in the run that concluded with a rainbow of colors on the DHS parking lot. Funds raised from the event will go toward the recently established Pep Club at DHS...

PUXICO, Mo. -- A small, but resolute group of protesters took a stand against the current government shutdown by demonstrating at the entrance of Mingo Wildlife Refuge Sunday afternoon. The protest was staged across from the Highway 51 Mingo entrance at 1:30 Sunday and consisted of about 20 participants, a significant number of which represented the Cape Girardeau County Tea Party. ...

The Dexter varsity girls tennis team moved one step closer to a district title Monday afternoon with a 6-0 victory against Charleston in a Class 1, District 1, quarterfinal...

Violetta Ruth Maclin, daughter of the late Lester F. Welch and Nellie May Causbie Welch, was born on Feb. 2, 1938, in Parma, Mo., and died on Oct. 6, 2013, at her residence in Parma, Mo., at the age of 75. Mrs. Maclin was a member of the Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church in Sikeston and had worked in the office of Wagner Electric Corporation in St. Louis...