Stories from Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Tiffany Wiggins and Peggy Potts, both teachers within the Dexter Public Schools, were each awarded $500 Classroom Grants on Monday from Missouri Retired Teachers and Employees Association, better known as MRTA. Missouri is divided into 14 MRTA regions. Each one of the 14 regions was able to award four $500 Classroom Grants this year...

Dexter Police Aug. 7-9, 2015 Police are investigating a report of counterfeiting in the 400 block of N. One Mile Road on Friday. Police responded to 408 Hickory Hills Dr. on Saturday morning in regard to an animal bite. Police were summoned to 804 N. Catalpa St, at 11:33 a.m. Saturday regarding a burglary...

By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis told commissioners that he attended a recent meeting of the Castor Township Board to hear their concerns and express his opinions on a request from the township to borrow $200,000 from the commission to repave County Road 413 north of Dexter. He made his report at the regular commission meeting Monday morning...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Thirteen states led by North Dakota are asking a federal judge in Bismarck to block a new rule that gives federal authorities jurisdiction over some state waters. Missouri is among the states to join in the lawsuit. North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said he will seek a preliminary injunction Monday, the deadline for such legal action to prevent the rule from taking effect on Aug. 28...

By JIM SALTER & ALAN SCHER ZAGIER Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- A suspect who authorities say opened fire on officers in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death was critically wounded when the officers shot back, St. Louis County's police chief said Monday...

With The Moving Wall in the background, the POW/MIA flag is shown blowing in Saturday's breeze. It was one of several put in place reminding visitors to the exhibit that Prisoners of War and those soldiers Missing in Action will never be forgotten.

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor "There are a lot of people today who are called heros, but by our presence here, we are affirming that every person whose name is on this wall is a hero," Brigadier General (Ret) Charles Kruse told the crowd gathered at Dexter's East City Park as they paid a formal tribute to "The Moving Wall," the half-scale memorial to all those whose lives were lost to the Vietnam War...

The Missouri High School Activities Association in conjunction with the National Federation of State High School Associations has released its annual points of emphasis for the 2015 high school football season. The five areas of emphasis for the upcoming season are: risk minimization, defining excessive contact, the free-blocking zone, illegal equipment and sideline interference...

Margaret A. Cannell was born July 1, 1933, in Anderson, Ind., to Verl and Bertha Jessup and died Aug. 10, 2015, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. She was a former resident of Essex and attended Grace Fellowship Church. On May 30, 1952, she married Ralph Cannell...

Georgia L. Dement, daughter of the late George Deroush was born on April 20, 1934, in Sikeston and died on Aug. 11, 2015, at her residence in Dexter at the age of 81. Mrs. Dement attended the Lighthouse Christian Center and had worked as a Licensed Practical Nurse at the Dexter Memorial Hospital...