Stories from Tuesday, January 13, 2015

2013 Dexter graduate Brad Potts is slated to continue playing baseball next season at a four-year college. Potts, who is about to begin his sophomore season as a pitcher at Shawnee Community College in Ullin, Ill., has committed to play baseball at Evangel University in Springfield, Mo., next year...

Sadler Chapel will host its third "Jam Session" on Thursday, Jan. 15, beginning at 6 p.m. Those attending are free to come empty handed or with an instrument, or with a dessert. All are welcome. The music is local, organic, and whatever the singer/instrumentalist wants to play within the bounds of "family oriented."...

Declaring Dexter Police Department's participation in the nation's annual "Holiday DWI Crackdown" substance-impaired driving campaign a major success, Dexter Police Department reported that along with 115 citations made during the enforcement period, one substance-impaired driving arrests was made and one other significant arrest. The period ran from Dec. 12, 2014 to Jan. 1, 2015...

Dexter Police Jan. 9-11, 2015 Brandy M. Jones, 31, of Poplar Bluff was arrested at the local Walmart store at 11:43 p.m. Sunday on a Butler County warrant for failure to appear, a Ripley County warrant for failure to appear, and a Dunklin County warrant for theft...

Staff Reports Stoddard County Sheriff Carl Hefner has reported the arrest of a female subject involved in illegal drug activity. Deputies arrested Amber M. Medlin, 29, of Dexter on the class B felony charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance...

By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission reviewed priorities for replacing bridges in the county at their regular meeting Monday. Smith & Company, Engineers presented eight bridges in five townships for consideration for replacement under the Off-System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program (BRO)...

Separate wrecks leave several injured By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor A Dexter man was the first traffic fatality in Troop E for the new year, the result of a wreck in the early morning hours of Saturday in Butler County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Trennis J. ...

By JONATHON DAWE Statesman Staff Writer As the city of Dexter continues to thrive in an uncertain economy, City Administrator Mark Stidham wants to help make citizens, and businesses, feel a little more safe. "We earmarked some money from the general revenue this last year for the purchase of security cameras," Stidham explained. ...

By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer On Sept. 14, 1980, the vision of two men and the work of a committee brought to fruition the Stoddard County Children's Home. The facility has served abused, neglected and abandoned children from newborn to 18 years of age since its opening over 34 years ago...

KENNETT, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats varsity girls basketball program enjoyed one of its most dominating defensive performances of the season as it led wire to wire in a 62-24 road win against district rival Kennett Monday night. "I thought we really came out and set the tone defensively at the beginning of the game," Dexter coach Chad Allen said. "I thought our full-court press was really good and really active. We created turnovers and got a lot of points off turnovers."...

In Bonita Springs, Florida, restaurateur Dolly Scott is famous for her homemade coconut crème pie, one of 35 pies that she serves at Dolly's Produce Patch and Eatery on Bonita Beach Road. In fact, Dolly's pie choices are so popular that she has created a pocket-sized booklet called "The Sweet Story Dessert Book."...

Vernon Eugene Hampton, son of the late Dane Eugene and Barbara Ann Ethridge Hampton and was raised by Mabel Hampton, was born in Pontiac, Mich., on April 14, 1956, and died at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter on Dec.19, 2014, at the age of 58...