Stories from Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is conducting special enforcement operations this month targeting drunk drivers and hazardous moving vehicles. Sometime during the month, a sobriety checkpoint will be in Butler County, and saturations will be in Butler, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard, Dunklin, Pemiscot, and New Madrid counties...

BERNIE, Mo. - Becky Dennington, the Bernie native whose blog about her journey with breast cancer (featured in an October special section of The Daily Statesman) will be on hand at the Poplar Bluff Public Library on Tuesday, March 13, to talk about cancer, writing and life in general...

A Dexter woman charged in relation to a November 2011 fire set inside a nursing home appeared in court Thursday and was bound over to appear in Div. 1. Joyce Johnson, 59 of Campbell, is charged with the Class A felony of elderly abuse in the first degree and the Class B felony of arson in the first degree...

A little ingenuity and a lot of elbow grease has worked to improve the appearance of authenticity of Dexter's oldest known homestead, the Heritage House, situated just north of the local Police Department on Cooper Street. Through a local Boy Scout's Eagle Scout project, the Heritage House is now equipped with a newly constructed period outhouse and nine crepe myrtles planted on the north edge of the property...

Alyx Dyan Chevalier and Ricky Everett Schwab announce their engagement and forthcoming wedding. Alyx is the daughter of James Burton Chevalier and the late Diana Hisle Chevalier, both from Marshall, Mo. Rick is the son of Ricky Wayne and Shirley Ann Schwab of Lawson, Mo...