Stories from Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Wanda Lee Hill, 82 of Bernie, passed away March 1, 2022 at Cambell, MO.  Visitation was conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie on Saturday, March 5, 2022 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.  Funeral services were be conducted at 1 p.m. in the Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie. Interment followed in Bernie Cemetery.  Mathis Funeral Home of Bernie is assisting with arrangements...

Genevieve Elsie Miller, daughter of the late Martin Tripp and Marie Reeder Tripp, was born on August 25, 1929, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and departed this life on March 4, 2022, in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 92. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

• James Smith II, 31 of Poplar Bluff, was booked at the Dexter City Jail on the charge of steal/shoplifting • Nellie Barnett, 49 of Cape Girardeau, was booked at the Dexter City Jail on an other agency warrant and peace disturbance - private. • Dillon Gammons, 22 of Dexter, was booked at the Dexter City Jail on an other agency warrant and a warrant for failure to appear/pay fine...

• A Poplar Bluff man received serious injuries in a two vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 60 1 mile west of Dexter. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol Floyd Smith, 72 of Poplar Bluff, was eastbound in a 2010 Chevrolet Town and Country when he struck the rear of a 1992 Freightliner driven by Dennis E. McMullin, 54 of Dexter. Smith received serious injuries was transported by Air Evac to St. Louis University Hospital for treatment...

The Dexter Board of Aldermen agreed to use a 50/50 grant to install a restroom at the Dexter City Lake. Dexter City Administrator Trevor Pulley said the grant is through the Missouri Department of Conservation. The Missouri Department of Conservation works with the city to maintain the city lake. ...

BLOOMFIELD — The state of Missouri has begun a procedural audit of Stoddard County. The county is audited annually by a private accounting firm, but the state tries to personally audit a county every four years, according to presiding commissioner Danny Talkington...