Stories from Monday, December 2, 2013

A man is in custody following a pair of armed robberies in Dexter and one in Cape Girardeau Monday morning. According to Dexter Police Department Det. Cory Mills, the two Dexter robberies were reported between 4:59 and 5:10 a.m. The first robbery occurred at Break Time located at 302 W. Bus. Hwy. 60. The second occurred at Murphy Oil USE located at 2027 W. Bus. Hwy. 60...

Bob Weathers, son of the late George Rawleigh Weathers and Ethel Cordelia Forest Weathers was born on Sept. 22, 1937, at Fisk and died at Southeast- HEALTH Center of Stoddard County on Nov. 30, 2013, at the age of 76. Mr. Weathers was a 21 year veteran of the Dexter Police Department, retiring as Lieutenant. He enjoyed working on the family farm and was a resident of Dexter...

Willene Gibbs Matthews of Bloomfield, Mo., died Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, at St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. at the Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield, Mo, A complete obituary will be published at a later date. Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in charge of all arrangements...

Throughout history, world leaders have sought an "end to war"-- from Woodrow Wilson, who dubbed World War I, a "War to end War"-- to John F. Kennedy, who said that war might be 'indefinitely postponed by the eventual discovery of a weapon so horrible that it will truthfully mean the abolishment of all the nations employing it." Kennedy hoped that science would be the "means of bringing it (war) to an end."...

Music lovers will be pleased to hear that the combined Advance/Zalma Choirs will once again be presenting a Madrigal Feast for the second year. Last year's performance was a sell-out, so interested guests should get their tickets early. This year's production is entitled "The Wife of Bath," a rollicking Medieval tale of a women scorned. The piece, taken from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," has been a popular story throughout history...

Willene Gibbs Mathews, daughter of the late Amos E. and Daphne Ruth Hudgens Smith, was born on June 23, 1931, in Bloomfield, Mo., and died on Dec. 1, 2013, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., at the age of 82. She had lived in Bloomfield most of her life. ...