Stories from Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Several changes have taken place recently at the Daily Statesman, with the naming recently of a new publisher, Sheila Rouse, and the move to a four-day a week paper that is entirely post office delivered. A few additional changes are announced this week. Effective immediately, The Daily Statesman will no longer be charging a fee for the publication of engagement or wedding announcements. Anniversary announcements will still be accepted at no charge...

VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Citing multiple conflicts of interest, a judge has removed Carter County Prosecuting Attorney Rocky Kingree from representing the State of Missouri in a motion seeking to set aside the conviction of a man sentenced to die for gunning down a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant...

A late night stroll near Bloomfield ended at the Stoddard County Jail for a Dexter man. Jerry L. Minehart, 47, is charged with the Class A misdemeanor of possession of marijuana and the Class B misdemeanor of possession of a defaced firearm. The incident took place in the early hours of Saturday morning after Trooper Foster of the Missouri State Highway Patrol noticed Minehart walking eastbound on Hwy. J...

A Stoddard County man accused of a 2012 rape and abduction near Advance is slated to stand trial in the coming month. Steven Clark Rendleman, 52, will face a three-day jury trial on May 20-22, 2014. The case will be heard in a Franklin County courtroom before Judge Gael D. Wood...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- It has become a tradition for the Bloomfield Senior Beta Club to have an officer at the state level. A Beta Club member has held one of those positions for all but one of the last 13 years. Lindsey Young, a junior at Bloomfield, is now the president-elect of the Missouri Beta Club. She won the position at the recent Senior Beta Club Convention at Branson and will take office July 1. Kendra Elder, a senior, is the current State Secretary, having won the election last year...

Dr. Kyle Ouzts, owner of Stoddard Animal Clinic in Dexter, recently attended a symposium in Cape Girardeau, Mo. sponsored by Zoetis that addressed products to relieve itch and inflammation associated with allergic and atopic dermatis in animals. The program, entitled Apoquel, featured Dr. Joe Holzhauer in a roundtable presentation for attendees...

The Regional Healthcare Foundation is sponsoring their Third Annual Spring Plant Swap this Saturday, April 26 at Cox Corner at the corner of Walnut Street and Business 60. The Plant Swap event invites all gardeners, as well as those who wish they were more accomplished at gardening, to donate any special cuttings, garden supplies, or books on gardening for the swap. ...