Stories from Tuesday, May 28, 2013

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- National Transportation Safety Board officials said an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed an overpass in the Chaffee-Rockview, Mo., area will take four to seven days. Seven people were injured, though none seriously...

SIKESTON, Mo. - Southeast Missouri's former congressional representative, Jo Ann Emerson, made her first local public appearance in a new role Friday when she hosted a town-hall style meeting with employees of SEMO Electric Cooperative. Emerson resigned from Congress in January after more than 16 years in office to head the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, where she now serves as CEO...

"This weekend is a time we have traditionally set aside to honor the sacrifices of those who died in service to our nation. Memorializing them goes to the very core of who we are as Americans," said keynote speaker, Paul Schuerenberg, at Monday's Memorial Day services held at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

Dexter's Makayla Waldner, pictured in action at a track meet earlier this season, earned all-state honors in both 100 and 300 meter hurdle events at this weekend's MSHSAA Class 3 Track and Field Championships in Jefferson City. The Dexter freshman finished third in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 15.52, and eighth in the 300-hurdles with time of 46.36. ...

Joyce Margaret Wamble, daughter of the late Ernest Robinson and Veda Martin Robinson, was born on Oct. 10, 1914, in Stoddard County and died in the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter on May 25, 2013, at the age of 98. Mrs. Wamble was a member of the Second General Baptist Church in Dexter, where she taught Children's Sunday School for over 30 years. She was a former cook in the Dexter Public School System for 30 years and was a resident of Dexter...

Marie Mays, daughter of the late Aud Ezra Venable and Nellie Mae Stanfill Venable was born on July 30, 1931, in Bertrand, Mo., and died on May 26, 2013, at her residence near Bernie at the age of 81. Mrs. Mays was a member of the Bernie Church of Christ, she was a former seamstress at the Gossard Garment Factory at Malden, a former telephone operator at Sikeston and a resident of rural Bernie...

Ruth Patton, a resident of Dexter, died May 28, 2013, at her daughter's residence in Dexter at the age of 93. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time and will be announced by Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.