Stories from Friday, February 20, 2015

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor Snow is blocking horns, culverts Dexter City Administrator is urging local residents to help prevent some potential major flooding that could come with predicted rainfall on Saturday. "They're predicting quite a bit of rain for us," Stidham explains. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State Representative Tila Hubrecht recently filed HB 920, which is known as the "Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act". Hubrecht, who is strongly pro-life, said the bill is meant to prevent what she says is an "unconscionable and inhumane way to be rid of a child."...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - Did you set aside your personal property tax form to file it at a later date? Stoddard County Assessor Jody Lemmon reminds county residents that personal property tax assessments are due in his office by the close of business on Monday, March 2. Penalties will be applied to anyone filing their assessment after the deadline...

GRAYRIDGE -- A Grayridge man is in custody after allegedly abusing his mother and holding a gun to her head. According to the report, Michael Davis, 40, of Grayridge, was arrested on Monday, Feb. 16, after a domestic assault call was made to the Stoddard County Sheriff's Department concerning an altercation Davis had with his mother. It was allegedly during that assault that Davis had put a gun to her head...

Dexter Schools will be looking for two elementary principals for the 2015-16 school year. In a recent news release from the Dexter Board of Education, it was learned that a letter of retirement from Cindy Bowman, longtime principal at Central Elementary School, had been accepted effective May 31, 2015. Bowman has been on administrative leave from her position for several weeks, and that leave was granted by the board until the date of her pending retirement...

Dexter School Board members covered a variety of issues during a two-hour regular session and subsequent executive session (see sidebar article).

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The boyfriend of an Arkansas woman was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison Tuesday afternoon for her strangulation death at a downtown Poplar Bluff apartment building. Circuit Judge Michael Gardner sentenced Jeremy Allen Winkle "to just what we agreed to," said Butler County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Barbour...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republican Jay Ashcroft announced his candidacy for secretary of state Thursday, setting up a GOP primary battle for the office that oversees Missouri's elections and business registrations. Ashcroft declared his candidacy just hours after Democratic Secretary of State Jason Kander said he plans to run for U.S. ...

David Elliott Green, son of Charlotte Blackwell Green of Jefferson City, Mo., and the late Eugene Green, was born on Oct. 24, 1950, in St. Louis, Mo., and died on Feb. 19, 2015, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston at the age of 64. Mr. Green was a resident of Dexter, a self-employed insurance/investment advisor working mainly with American National Insurance Company...