Stories from Tuesday, June 23, 2015

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission filled two vacancies on advisory boards at their regular meeting Monday morning. The commission appointed James Boyer to the Workforce Investment Board (WIB) of Southeast Missouri and Calvin Whitehead to the Stoddard County Common Sewer District #1 Board...

Three Sunday wrecks left five individuals with injuries, with one of those injured being airlifted from the scene. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, just before 8 a.m. on Sunday, Cooper D. Tatum, 2, of Dexter, sustained minor injuries when the vehicle in which he was a passenger was struck on County Road 625, one mile south of Dexter...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- An internationally known union donated $50,000 to Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon days after he recently vetoed a contentious right-to-work measure, a sizable contribution that could help fund a re-election campaign -- if he was not term-limited from running again...

"When we first moved out here in 1998, I had a blue Blazer," Bob Waldner remembers aloud. "My property is eight acres, so I would open the gate to the back of the property, and the kids would all chase the Blazer to see who could catch it. They were competing and didn't know it."...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Stoddard County judge sentenced a Catron man to seven years in prison Monday afternoon in connection with the May 2012 shooting death of his son. A seven-woman, five-man jury convicted Charles C. Goforth of the Class C felony of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action (ACA) following an April trial...

Dexter firefighters responded to a vehicle fire in a farm field about one-half mile south of Highway 60 on ZZ early Tuesday afternoon. The fire apparently started from the heat of a service truck that became stuck in the field. The truck was pulling a fuel wagon to a combine in the field as wheat was being thrashed. ...

The Poplar Bluff Master Gardeners will meet for their regular monthly educational meeting on the first Tuesday of the month, July 7, 2015, for a tour and education on roses in Poplar Bluff beginning at 6 p.m. For more information, call the University of Missouri Extension Center at 573-686-8064...

Dexter Police June 20-21, 2015 At 1:45 p.m., Thursday, June 18, Dexter Police responded to a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Business Highway 60 and One Mile Road. According to the report, the accident occurred when a 2005 Chrysler, which was driven by Jenny L. Humphrey, of Bloomfield, struck the rear of a 2008 GMC, which was driven by Austin T. Poe, of Bloomfield...

A slew of baseball players from the southeast Missouri region were selected to the 2015 Missouri Baseball Coaches Association all-state baseball team. Four players for the Class 1 state champion Bell City Cubs were selected all-state. Bell City sophomore pitcher Austin Hicks and sophomore catcher Bobby Wright were selected first-team all-state. ...

Evelyn June Hester, daughter of the late Alva "Stubby" Walker and Lacy Hill Walker was born in Bernie on June 15, 1931, and died at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter on June 21, 2015, at the age of 84. June was a homemaker. She attended grade school in the Sugar Tree Community. ...

Cynthia Goings Anderson of House Springs, Mo., was born March 4, 1957, in Gideon, Mo., to Earl and Lois Goings and died at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Louis on June 11, 2015, at the age of 58. Cynthia had retired from Chrysler of Fenton, Mo. She is survived by her husband, Chuck Anderson of House Springs; her parents, Earl and Helen Goings of Dexter and Lois Schmidt of Imperial, Mo.; two daughters, Jennifer Porter and Jamie Garner; one son, Josh Garner; one brother, Gary Goings of Festus, Mo., one step-sister, Janet Smith of Bell Fountain, Mo.; two step-brothers, Marvin Smith of Poplar Bluff and Kenneth Smith of Marble Hill; and one aunt, Movilene Downey of Catawissa, Mo.. ...

Chelcy Bernell "Barney" Bradish, son of the late Frank Bradish and Grace Marler Bradish, was born on April 18, 1921, in Satulpa, Okla., and died this life on June 13, 2015, at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff at the age of 94. Mr. Bradish was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Dexter. He worked as a heavy equipment operator and was a resident of Bloomfield. He was also a veteran of the United States Army Air Corp...