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School board gets new faces, Bernie elects new mayor
(Local News ~ 04/08/14)
Several school and local boards will soon welcome new faces following Tuesday's municipal election. Despite several contested races, overall county-wide voter turnout was low with only 2,256 ballots counted overall. The race for three seats on the Dexter School Board was likely the most heated race of them all and the board will see some changes...
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Amtrak says delays possible after Missouri floods
(State News ~ 04/08/14)
WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) -- Rail damage from recent flash flooding in Missouri could cause weekend delays for Amtrak's Missouri River Runner passenger train. Amtrak said in a release Saturday that Union Pacific is repairing a section of rail line east of Warrensburg. Amtrak says trains are operating, but that significant delays are possible on the Missouri River Runner, which runs between Kansas City and St. Louis...
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Highway in Missouri honors Cronkite
(State News ~ 04/08/14)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) -- Officials in northwest Missouri have formally dedicated a stretch of highway to honor news legend Walter Cronkite. The Walter Cronkite Memorial Highway is a section of the Belt Highway in St. Joseph, where Cronkite was born. Cronkite signed off for the final time as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in 1981. He died in 2009 at the age of 92...
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Bus driver fired for texting while behind wheel
(State News ~ 04/08/14)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- A school bus driver has been fired for texting while driving for the Francis Howell School District. Francis Howell spokeswoman Jennifer Henry told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1kcdK7O) that a middle-school student took a video of the driver texting with kids on board Thursday, and parents contacted the district...
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Former riverboat fetches $600,000 at auction
(State News ~ 04/08/14)
WOOD RIVER, Ill. (AP) -- The former riverboat that once served as the Casino Queen along East St. Louis' Mississippi River banks is under new ownership after being sold at auction for $600,000. A federal marshal who led the auction Friday took 14 bids from three people who vied for the White Star One before the vessel was bought by a Florida man who is a former shipyard owner and has riverfront properties in Kentucky, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1hfJXJ4 ) reported...
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Kansas City police officer convicted of corruption
(State News ~ 04/08/14)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A suspended Kansas City police officer has been convicted of one count corruption but found not guilty on four other charges after he was accused of having sex with two women in exchange for not arresting them. The jury convicted Jeffrey Holmes on Friday of one corruption charge but found him not guilty of four other charges involving corruption and sex-related accusations. ...
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Boy finds father's body in trunk in Kansas City
(State News ~ 04/08/14)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City police are investigating after a 12-year-old boy found his father's body in the trunk of his car in a parking garage. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Marisa Barnes told The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/Px7gCC) the victim had not been seen for several days...
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Rodeo finalized; Michaels to perform Saturday
(Local News ~ 04/08/14)
SIKESTON -- The news a lot of people are waiting for is finally out -- Bret Michaels is the Saturday night performer at this year's 62nd annual Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo. "We have been working on this deal with Bret for awhile," said Craig Templeton, entertainment chair for this year's rodeo. "It took time to work out all of the details of the contract."...
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Number of business startups, optimism are on the rise
(Local News ~ 04/08/14)
While Lonnie Chapman grew up in Jackson, he wished there was a local business where he could buy used video games. The only way for him to do so was by traveling to neighboring Cape Girardeau. Chapman spent about a year and a half forming a 29-page business plan and shopped his idea around to different banks...
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Puxico man's charges include drug possession in jail
(Local News ~ 04/08/14)
A Puxico man remains in the Stoddard County Jail under a $35,000 cash only bond after his arrest Friday on a number of traffic and drug-related charges. According to a probable cause affidavit filed on Friday, Trooper David Nelson with the Missouri State Highway Patrol was summoned to the scene of an accident at 11:30 a.m. Friday. Nelson found an abandoned vehicle in a ditch on Route T. The vehicle's plates traced it to Richard Allen Benfield, 65...
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Thefts from parked vehicles on the rise
(Local News ~ 04/08/14)
Dexter Police investigated several reports once again over the recent weekend involving the theft of items from vehicles parked on city streets. One incident was reported from the Walmart parking lot on Saturday night. Another theft was reported from the 100 block of Stanley Street, and two incidents occurred in the 700 block of N. Elm Street. Among the items taken were cell phones and cash...
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Helping to prevent child abuse, one handprint at a time
(Local News ~ 04/08/14)
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
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County's Sheltered Workshop receives $50,000 grant
(Local News ~ 04/08/14)
The Stoddard County Sheltered Workshop has received a $50,000 grant from the Bootheel Solid Waste Management District. The grant was announced recently by County Commissioner Carol Jarrell and Solid Waste Management District Planner Willard Adams. The $50,000 grant is for the fiscal year 2014-15...
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City receives $40,000 in new forensics equipment
(Local News ~ 04/08/14)
The Dexter Police Department just received some new computer equipment for its work in mobile forensics. Lt. Det. Trevor Pulley, the department's computer forensics specialist and one of the only such specialists in southeast Missouri, was issued the equipment following a recent training exercise...
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New assignments released for high school basketball districts for 2015 & 2016
(High School Sports ~ 04/08/14)
Multiple SCAA schools will have a different path to a district basketball title or the state final four next season. The Missouri High School Activities Association announced class and district alignments Saturday for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons...
- Patton-Patton Junction Livestock Auction: Feeder Cattle and Cow auction for 4/07/2014 (Agriculture Report ~ 04/08/14)
- Patton- Patton Junction Livestock Auction: Feeder Cattle Weighted Average Report for 04/07/2014 (Agriculture Report ~ 04/08/14)
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Michael L. "Mike" Galloway
(Obituary ~ 04/08/14)
Michael L. "Mike" Galloway, 63, of Dexter, formerly of Slater, Mo., died Monday, April 7, 2014, at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Born Sept. 14, 1950, in Sedalia, Mo., he was the son of the late Ernest Leo and Bonnie Brauer Galloway...
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William "Sonny" Woodruff
(Obituary ~ 04/08/14)
William "Sonny" Woodruff, son of the late William Cairl and Lillie Jane Stephens Woodruff, was born in Dexter, Mo., on March 29, 1938, and died at his home in Dexter on April 6, 2014, at the age of 76. He had lived in Dexter all of his life. He had worked at Purolator and as a carpenter and painter...
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Helen Louise Wheatley
(Obituary ~ 04/08/14)
Helen Louise Wheatley, 88, recently of Eureka, Mo. and formerly of Flint, Michigan, died on Monday, March 31, 2014, in Washington, Mo. She was born January 25, 1926, to Adolph and Myrtle Fish in southeastern Missouri. Helen relocated to Flint, Mich. in the 1950s and worked there for many years in the Restaurant, Hospitality and Bartending business...
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