Stories from Thursday, September 11, 2014

Ronald D. Cooper, son of Travis Cooper and Clara McFarlin Cooper of Bernie, was born on April 27, 1960, in Poplar Bluff and died on Sept. 10, 2014, at Mulberry Manor in Dexter at the age of 54. Mr. Cooper had worked as a compliance officer for First Midwest Bank in Dexter and was a resident of Dexter...

Dexter Police Sept. 10-11, 2014 Police are investigating a report on Tuesday of failure to return rental property including an oxygen concentrator, V-Pap machine and a Humidaire machine. A summons was issued Tuesday at 1:32 p.m. to Tommy Everett Jones, 66, of Dexter, at 702 N. Mulberry for third degree domestic assault...

When Paul Gilliland graduated from Hillsboro College and Southeast Missouri State University, he could have accepted a high-paying job with Monsanto in St. Louis. He had degrees in Animal Technology, biology, and chemistry. He had worked ten years as a vet tech and was within five hours of completing an agri-business degree...

Karen and Clyde Jenkins met at his sister's wedding, where he was an usher. "I thought he was cute, but he didn't pay any attention to me--He grabbed Mary (Rendleman) Hart and ushered her down the aisle," Karen remembers. "Well, you were about twelve," Clyde says...

Note: A photo gallery of the Dexter-Farmington match is available at this link: View Photos Here DEXTER, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats varsity girls team outlasted Farmington 5-4 in its closest match of the season Wednesday afternoon. Farmington opened the closely contested affair been winning two of three doubles matches...