Stories from Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The first round of the district football playoffs will begin Thursday. Dexter has received the No. 6 seed in Class 3, District 1. Dexter will play at third-seeded Potosi Thursday at 7 p.m. View a complete football playoff schedule for the southeast Missouri region below:...

Dexter advances to Class 3 district semifinal: CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats varsity volleyball team moved one step closer to a district title Monday with a 25-7, 25-12, quarterfinal win against sixth-seeded Doniphan. Dexter tallied 30 of its 50 points on kills. Shyann Jines led the Bearcats with 11 kills. Jessica Lindsey added eight more...

DEXTER, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats eighth grade girls basketball team outscored the Puxico Indians by six points in the final six minutes of the first half on its way to a 49-37 victory in the championship game of the Dexter eighth grade girls basketball tournament Monday night...

Helen Gaines, daughter of the late Frank B. Carney and Molly Hisaw Carney, was born on March 19, 1919, in Dexter and died on Oct. 27, 2013, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter at the age of 94 years. Mrs. Gaines was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dexter and a resident of Dexter. After 22 years, she retired from the Bloomfield Nursing Center where she had worked as a medical technician. After retirement, she volunteered as an ombudsman at Beverly Health Center in Dexter...

Gary Leon Polley, Sr., of Sikeston, died Oct. 28, 2013, at SoutheastHealth in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Ponder Funeral Home of Sikeston, Mo., is in charge of all arrangements.

Richard Scarbrough, Jr., 24, of Meridian, Miss., died Oct. 24, 2013, near Suqualena, Miss., with his girlfriend, Jamie Logan. Richard was employed as a property repairman. He is survived by his father, Richard Scarbrough, Sr., of Bloomfield, Mo.; his mother, Linda McDonald of Meridian, Miss.,; one sister, Renee (Randy) Jones of Bloomfield, Mo.,; one brother, Wesley (Kim) Scarbrough of Carthage, Miss.; his maternal grandfather, Wesley Scarbrough of Collinsville, Miss.; his stepfather, Idos McDonald of Carthage, Miss.; three nieces, Taylor Jones, and Josie Jones, both of Bloomfield, Mo., and Lillie Scarbrough of Carthage, Miss.; and one nephew, Kyle Scarbrough also of Carthage, Miss. ...

One person was injured in an accident Monday morning on County Road 442 three miles north of Dexter. According to a report from Trooper C.B. Christian, Chelsee J. Eagle, 26, of Dexter was driving a 2007 Grand Prix in the middle of the county road when she struck a 2013 Fusion driven by Dale E. Jackson, 43, of Dexter...

Dexter Police Oct. 26-28, 2013 Todd A. Heaton, 43, of Dudley was arrested on a warrant service. A report of a weapon brandished during a domestic disturbance was made on Hickory Hills Drive. An unlawful use of a weapon charge was filed. A vehicle driven by David J. Colove, 28, of Dexter rolled down a hill and struck a parked car. He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident...

By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - The Stoddard County Commission heard a request from County Public Administrator Pam Lape to provide funding to make a part-time position in her office a full time position. She told the commission that Cyndy Duckworth has been offered another job and would be leaving at the end of the month, if she could not obtain full-time status in the administrator's office...

By AMITY SHEDD SEMO News Service CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - With farmers still working without a federal agreement on the farm bill, the recent government shutdown left them short on information they use to sell current crops and plan their next ones during the height of harvest...

SEMO News Service POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - A former Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce executive and Poplar Bluff mayor finds himself again facing a criminal charge, this time for suspected drunk driving. Scott Ryan Faughn, 33, of the 600 block of County Road 454 is to appear at 9 a.m. ...

By COREY NOLES Statesman Staff Writer ESSEX, Mo.--In small towns, people come together in times of need. It could be picking up the pieces following a tornado, gathering items for a family that lost their home in a fire or simply reaching out a helping hand during tough times...