Stories from Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The word search turkey winners claimed their prize at the Daily Statesman office Monday morning. Pictured are: June Coffer (left) and granddaughter, Maile Kent of Dexter.

Dexter Police Nov. 21-23, 2015 At 8:14 a.m., Friday, Nov. 21, Dexter Police received a report of stealing form Tyson Foods Processing Plant. According to the report, Douglas Robinett investigated the theft of a laptop computer from the Tyson building...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Castor Township Board Member Steve Larsen presented the Stoddard County Commission with a letter from the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) saying the township would receive a check for $379,353.62 to pay 75 percent of the cost of construction of a bridge on County Road 410. Larsen said the funds were being electronically transferred...

The day after everyone gives thanks with their family, many will fight crowds for all the holiday savings they can get during the busiest shopping day of the year. And, while the Black Friday bargains may be too tempting to ignore, Dexter Police Chief Sammy Stone warned that the frenzied crowds are also tempting for thieves...

BERNIE, Mo. -- Jed McGowan, like many folks, made some poor choices when he was younger. Because of one of those choices, though, he now finds himself in the final stages of life, suffering from COPD, a progressive lung disease. "I started smoking when I was 13 years old," McGowan related Monday from his home in Bernie. Although the warnings were there, he says that in his teens, it was the "cool" thing to do...

DEXTER, Mo. - The highly anticipated middle school boys basketball matchup between the Dexter Bearcats and Poplar Bluff Mules lived up to its billing Monday night at Dexter Middle School. A standing room only crowd watched the undefeated Dexter seventh grade boys basketball team get a defensive stop in the closing 10 seconds of regulation to secure a 40-37 victory against Poplar Bluff...

Donald R. Morgan, Sr., the son of the late Mike and Bertha Lee Pope Morgan, was born in Fisk on Nov. 2, 1930, and died at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau on Nov. 23, 2015, at the age of 85. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home of Dexter is in charge of all arrangements...

Puxico girls basketball coach Jordan Lindsay believes defense and conditioning will be key for her eight-player squad entering the 2015-16 season. "Our success really depends if we are disciplined on defense," Lindsay said. "We will also have to be well-conditioned because of our depth. I hope we develop well as the season progresses. We are still fairly young, which is exciting going forward."...