Stories from Monday, January 6, 2014

Stoddard County dodged the bullet for the first part of last weekend's weather event. The snow was minimal in northern areas of the county and non-existent to the south. Freezing rain and sleet, however, took their toll on the roads, especially to the north...

Mary Louise Hobgood, daughter of the late Homer Elsworth and Madgie Partin Elsworth was born in Bernie, Mo., on Nov.1, 1931, and died at the Golden Living Care Center in Malden, Mo., on Jan. 5, 2014, at the age of 82. Mrs. Hobgood had worked at Brown Shoe Company in Bernie, was a homemaker and member of Bernie General Baptist Church...

On the Road series The cold wave which is bringing icy temperatures to over half the nation is having a correspondingly chilly effect in southern Florida, as residents prepare for thirty-degree mornings. Missouri visitors to the normally balmy peninsula are unpacking the warm clothes they came in...

SCHOOLS Advance R-IV Bell City Head Start Bloomfield R-XIV Dexter Head Start Poplar Bluff R-I Puxico Head Start Puxico R-VIII Richland Woodland R-IV Zalma R-V Please report all closings and cancellations to news@dailystatesman.com or call 624-4545...

Louise Waggoner, daughter of the late Edgar W. Link, Etta Everett Mallory and step-daughter of James B. Mallory was born on April 26, 1926, at Dexter and died in the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center at Dexter on Jan. 5, 2014, at the age of 87. Louise was a member of the First General Baptist Church in Dexter, a former dispatcher with the Dexter Police Department and a resident of Dexter...