Stories from Friday, March 7, 2014

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission focused on scheduling a company to discuss a self-insured health insurance plan in 2015 at their regular meeting held Wednesday due to the weather. It was a brief agenda. Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis was not present. He notified the clerk's office that he was away on family business...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- It took the Stoddard County Democratic Central Committee a little longer to select its candidate for the 151st Special Election, but that doesn't mean they're any less confident that they've chosen the right person. The 151st District Democratic Legislative Committee met in conjunction with the Central Committee Thursday night at the Stoddard County Justice Center to officially choose its candidate...

Ten-year-old twins, Nicholas and Gerica Harris, pose from inside the igloo their father helped them build Wednesday evening at their Dexter home. The twins are the children of Chris and Tammy Harris.

A Dexter man was recently honored for his role on his college baseball team. Randy Potts, who now works at WW Wood Products in Dudley, was once an up and coming college baseball talent. Potts attended high school in Carlisle, Ill. where in his senior year the baseball team took the state championship...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Coming soon to a field near East Prairie: sightings of a strange vehicle in the sky. It won't be a UFO making crop circles, however, but a UAV doing crop surveys. "A UAV is an unmanned aerial vehicle," said Kevin Mainord, sales and marketing director for MRM Ag Services of East Prairie. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Five other states on Thursday joined Missouri's effort to strike down a California law barring the sale of eggs produced by hens kept in cages that don't meet size and space requirements. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster filed a lawsuit last month in California challenging the egg law that is set to take effect in 2015. ...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- A St. Louis-area man has been sentenced to six years in prison for breaking into a church freezer and stealing ice cream. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 25-year-old Andrew Steven Jung of St. Charles was sentenced Wednesday...

LEBANON, Mo. (AP) -- One of 11 horses rescued from a south-central Missouri property last week has been euthanized. The Missouri Humane Society says the horses were "emaciated" and dangerously close to death when they were seized Friday from property near Lebanon in Laclede County...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Federal agents would be sent to jail for enforcing some federal gun control laws under legislation endorsed by a Missouri House panel. The House General Laws Committee advanced the measure Thursday. It passed the Missouri Senate last month...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Intoxicated people still can't legally carry guns in Kansas City. The Kansas City Council voted Thursday against a measure that would have made city law conform with the state's law on intoxicated people carrying a gun. The Kansas City Star reports the city currently says intoxicated people can't carry firearms. That conflicts with Missouri state law, which allows intoxicated people to carry guns unless the weapons are discharged negligently...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Graphic design majors Krista Francis and Calla Harris didn't find jobs directly related to their field, but they came across some niches they could fit into at Southeast Missouri State University's Career and Internship Fair on Thursday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - A nerve-racking situation materialized for Dexter center Paige Patterson as she headed to the free throw line to attempt a pair of free throws with her team leading Kennett 58-7 in the third quarter of its district semifinal Thursday night...

A Dexter man is in the Stoddard County Jail without bond, charged with the Class A felony of domestic assault in the first degree after his live-in girlfriend was found in his home in a pool of blood and with, according to authorities, "life threatening" injuries to her head and face...

Captain James Jines, son of the late Lyman Lloyd Jines and Cora Mae Knight Jines was born on Nov. 26, 1935, in Sikeston and died on Feb. 28, 2014, at his residence in Dexter at the age of 78. Mr. Jines attended the Assembly of God Church in Dexter, was a riverboat captain for Missouri Barge Lines and was a resident of Dexter...

Jeffrey Thomas Clark, son of Amelia Corlew Green of Ava, Mo., and the late Doyle Thomas Clark, was born on Feb., 3, 1960, at West Point, N. Y. and died on March 4, 2014, at his residence in Dexter at the age of 54. Mr. Clark had been employed as a truck driver and was a resident of Dexter...

FULTON, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton has its first deaf superintendent. The Fulton Sun (bit.ly/1ceaNjs ) reports that Ernest Garrett III has been selected to lead the school effective July 1 by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The school was established by state lawmakers in 1851...