Stories from Monday, February 9, 2015

The physician who was arrested on Friday in West Plains, Mo. for soliciting sex with a four-year-old girl had a strong presence in southeast Missouri, including in Dexter and Bloomfield clinics. Dr. Donald W. Lamoureaux, D.O. was part of a team of medical personnel that operated out of the SoutheastHEALTH clinic located on Business 60 in Dexter. ...

Bill would levy surcharge on all communication devices

Two Stoddard County Defendants, Ronald Deprow and Dallas Cluck, have each received 15 year sentences in the Missouri Department of Corrections. The sentences are the result of trials in which both men were tried for possession of a controlled substance. ...

BENTON, Mo. -- Travis Johnson, 19, of Bell City has been charged with the class C felony of possession of a controlled substance and the class A misdemeanor of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said on Wednesday, Feb. 4, deputies conducted an investigation after receiving information about activity at a residence near Vanduser involving illegal narcotics...

The Board of Education of the Dexter R-XI School District has voted to employ Mitchell D. Wood as the Superintendent of Schools, effective July 1, 2015, it was announced late Friday. Wood has been serving as superintendent of the Oran R-3 District since 2004. ...

Editor's Note: The following comes from the The Batesville Daily Guard in Batesville, Ark. On Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. Dr. Donald W. Lamoureaux is a former Dexter physician who practiced at the SoutheastHEALTH Clinic in Dexter, leaving the clinic in July 2014. Further information on this story will appear in the Tuesday, Feb. 10 Daily Statesman. A link to this article appears below...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Southeast Missouri State University's planning for a new Center for Excellence in Mass Media will begin this week with a meeting of the minds to determine what changes are required to transform the 51-year-old former First Federal Savings and Loan Building at 325 Broadway in Cape Girardeau into a state-of-the-art, hands-on media learning center...

Carl Lee "Dub" Griffin, son of the late Thomas H. and Ruby Harvey Griffin, was born in Vanduser on Sept. 25, 1933, and died at his home in Puxico on Feb., 7, 2015, at the age of 81. Dub had lived in the Puxico area most of his life. He had worked at Arvin and was a member of the Duck Creek Baptist Church in Puxico...

Eva Jane Gregory, daughter of the late Troy Vernon Bell and Flora Keathley Bell, was born on Oct. 12, 1926, in Enola, Ark., and died on Feb. 6, 2015, at the SoutheastHEALTH Center of Cape Girardeau at the age of 88. Mrs. Gregory was a member of the Parma Church of Christ and had owned and operated G & E Grocery Store in Parma with her husband for 21 years. She was very proud of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff woman critically injured in a weekend house fire, which claimed the lives of two of her young grandsons, also has died of her injuries. Erma Pierce, 47, died Thursday in the burn unit at St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, where she, along her 46-year-old husband, Daniel, were patients...

The Dexter Police Department donated a 2006 Ford Crown Victoria to the Stoddard County Prosecutor's office Thursday. The car had 78,000 miles on the odometer. It will be used by Investigator Tim McCoy in the prosecutor's office. Prosecutor Russ Oliver said the car will replace a 2000 model used by McCoy that was purchased for $500 from Butler County. ...

Through the generosity of the Dexter Public Schools Foundation, a six-year-old Dexter girl has been given a gift she never had before -- a voice of her own. Lorin Northern is autistic. When she began attending Early Childhood Special Education classes at Southwest Elementary School three years ago, she had only a handful of words and a world of frustration built up from lacking the ability to communicate with the world around her...