Stories from Monday, February 2, 2015

CHARLESTON, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats varsity girls basketball team completed a perfect 3-0 week Saturday afternoon with an 88-66 victory against host Charleston at the Coaches vs. Cancer Shootout. "It was definitely a high-scoring game," Dexter coach Chad Allen said. "We tried to press early on and I thought Charleston did a good job of attacking and getting to the rim. We didn't do so well containing the ball. They made us work so it was definitely a good game for us."...

R. G. Langley, son of the late Randall Greenfield Langley and Sarah Jane Taylor Langley was born on Nov. 7, 1919 near Essex, Mo. and died in the SoutheastHealth Center of Cape Girardeau on Feb. 1, 2015 at the age of 95. Mr. Langley was a farmer, a veteran of the United States Air Force serving in World War 2 and a lifelong resident of Essex...

Carolyn Sue Hilderbrand, 65, of Dexter, died on Jan. 23, 2015 in Dexter. Funeral services are under the direction of Watkins & Sons of Dexter.

Norma Moore, daughter of the late Abe Brotherton and Priscilla Green Brotherton, was born on Aug. 23, 1922, in Bollinger County and died on Jan. 29, 2015, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter at the age of 92. Mrs. Moore worked at Elders Manufacturing in Dexter and was a resident of Dexter...

Dexter Police Feb. 1-2, 2015 At 12:29 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 1, Dexter Police received a report of first-degree burglary in the 700 block of North Walnut Street. At 7:36 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 1, Dexter Police arrested Markus Loehnert, of Dexter, on the charge of third-degree assault...