Stories from Tuesday, September 9, 2014

PHOTO BY KYLE CARTER - RICHLAND SCHOOL Richland freshman Bailey Glass passes the ball in the Lady Rebels' third game vs. Zalma Monday. The Richland varsity volleyball team outlasted Zalma on the road 22-25, 25-19, 25-16 Monday.

What does a man need to train livestock that inspired the phrase "stubborn as a Missouri mule?" Patience, according to a Dexter resident, who swept Missouri State Fair competitions in August and is up again today at the SEMO District Fair in Cape Girardeau, Mo...

JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri General Assembly will have no shortage of issues to consider during its Wednesday veto session. The largely Republican Legislature and Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon clashed repeatedly over bills approved in the 2014 legislative session. Sales tax cuts, agriculture and an extended abortion waiting period are among the key issues that divided the two. They are among the more than 30 bills vetoed by the governor over the summer...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Grant writer Kathy Skelton reported that a rough draft of a grant proposal for restoration of the old courthouse was completed and should be ready for submission to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) by Sept. 15. Skelton said the grant focused on restoring the cupola (dome) on the courthouse and for new electrical wiring...

For the second time in as many months, a high-speed pursuit started on South Highway 25 and ended in Dexter on Friday night. According to the report, Wendall J. Coleman, 50, of Jonesboro, Ark., was driving a silver 2014 Chevrolet Camaro and had been initially pursued by the Senath Police Department on the charge of speeding...

Harold Junior Foster, of Bloomfield, son of the late Issac Howard and Susie Foster, was born in Maynard, Ark., on Dec.7, 1929, and died at the V. A. Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo., on Sept. 7, 2014, at the age of 84. He had lived in Bloomfield most of his life and had worked as a janitor at the Stoddard County Courthouse for 24 years. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army...

A wreck on Highway 60, one mile east of Dexter Monday, left a Sikeston man with minor injuries. The Highway Patrol was summoned to the scene just after noon Monday when a westbound 1994 Ford Ranger was struck in the westbound lane of traffic as he was crossing the highway...

The Highway Patrol picked up several individuals over the recent weekend for DWI. At 11:24 p.m. on Friday, the patrol arrested Debra L. Pemberton, 59, of Bernie following a traffic stop in Stoddard County. She was charged with DWI, failure to stop for a stop sign, and for failure to drive on the right half of the roadway. She was taken to the county jail...

A Broseley man sustained moderate injuries in a wreck at 12:15 p.m. Friday, according to the Highway Patrol. Truman E. Glass, 59, was reportedly southbound on Hwy. N, 1.5miles north of Highway 60 in Stoddard County when his 1981 Freightliner dump truck left the right side of the roadway. The driver apparently overcorrected and ran off the left side and roadway and overturned...

The Stoddard County ARC is awarding a $1,000.00 scholarship ($500.00 per semester) to two Stoddard County residents who will be attending college and working toward a degree in Special Education or related field that will enable them to work with handicapped individuals...

Dexter Police Sept. 6-8, 2014 At 1:10 Friday, Daniel Wayne Moore, 34, of Puxico was arrested by Puxico PD on a local warrant for failure to appear. Amanda R. Hadley, 38, of Bloomfield was charged with shoplifting at Walmart at 1:19 p.m. Friday. An accident at Walmart at 7:54 p.m. Saturday occurred as Carolyn Ruth Johnson of Dexter was driving east across the parking lot and struck a vehicle driven by Cara Nichole Weathers of Bloomfield, who was driving down a row of parking areas...

Kile Alexander Pennington, 20, of Bloomfield was arrested Sept. 5 by Bollinger County deputies on a Dexter municipal warrant for failure to appear, resisting arrest, and for being a minor in possession of liquor. At 11:40 p.m. Friday, Tiffany Gail Rainey, 25, of Dexter was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for probation violation for a charge of domestic assault...

Erica Lyn Gentry of Dexter, was born April 1, 1986, and died Sept. 8, 2014, at the SoutheastHEALTH Center of Stoddard County at the age of 28. Watkins and Sons Funeral Service of Dexter is in charge of all arrangements.