Stories from Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Mildred Unger was born on April 11, 1923, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and died on March 26, 2012, at the Golden Living Center in Bloomfield at the age of 88. Funeral arrangements are currently incomplete and will be announced later by the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter...

Members of the Stoddard County Public School Employees Association held their quarterly meeting Monday at Dexter's Hickory Log and collected paper goods to be donated to the Stoddard County Children's Home. The donation is one of the organization's annual service projects. ...

JACKSON, No. -- Dexter senior Cody Stevens carded a round of 79, but got little help as the Bearcats finished 8th in the 13-team field at the Notre Dame Invitational golf tournament held at Bent Creek Golf Club Monday. Dexter totaled 379 strokes in the 18-hole event that combined the scores of a team's top four golfers...

HAYTI, Mo. -- The Kennett Indians baseball team scored a season-high 11 runs on its way to a convincing 11-1 win against the Hayti Indians Monday afternoon. Kennett, which improved to 3-1 on the season and 1-0 in regular-season Bootheel Conference play with the win, never trailed in the five-inning contest...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Dexter's girls placed first in the sprint division and earned third place finishes in the field and distance divisions Saturday at the Notre Dame Relays in Cape Girardeau. "Overall I think the girls did well," Dexter coach Jill King commented. "We need to improve in several areas but we are young. So each meet I hope we learn and keep improving...

HOLCOMB, Mo. -- Two Bernie residents sustained serious injuries and were airlifted for treatment following a Saturday afternoon wreck north of Holcomb, and one of those injured faces several criminal charges including felony vehicular assault. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Charles D. ...

According to a press release form the Missouri Association of Counties, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that local sales taxes cannot be levied on out-of-state purchases of motor vehicles, trailers, boats and motors. Prior to the ruling, the Department of Revenue collected state sales taxes at the time of registration. The ruling also applies to sales between individuals, according to the press release...

BENTON -- A Dexter woman is in jail on drug and resisting arrest charges in Scott County. Carla Bromley, 41, of Dexter, is charged with possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), a class C felony; deliver/possession of a controlled substance in a county jail, a class C felony; and resisting or interfering with an arrest, a class D felony, according to Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A happenstance stop by a Stoddard County Sheriff's Deputy Monday resulted in the seizure of a walking methamphetamine lab. According to Sheriff Carl Hefner, Deputy Keith Haynes was travelling west on State Hwy. 114 when he noticed a white male looking over the side of a railing and acting strange. Haynes then drove around and attempted to make contact with the subject who was standing on the other side of the railing and walking down a steep grade...

A Dexter teen who formerly attended Dexter Schools remains in jail today under a $7,500 cash only bond, charged with making a terrorist threat. A Stoddard County arrest warrant issued on Friday, March 23, states Lucas Allen, 17, of Dexter, "knowingly communicated on his Facebook page, a threat to 'snap and shoot up his school or just start murdering people,' a condition involving a danger to life, by posting the message on his Facebook page, and (Allen) did so for the purpose of frightening 10 or more people.". ...