Stories from Sunday, June 9, 2013

By SAMANTHA RINEHART SEMO News Service CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Newly elected 8th Congressional District Rep. Jason Smith participated in his first meetings on the job in Cape Girardeau on Friday. He began his morning at the First Friday Coffee with the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce before meeting with members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District...

BENTON, Mo. (AP) -- A southeast Missouri man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a 2012 traffic accident that killed a Sikeston woman. Forty-seven-year-old Mark Lee Jobe of Sikeston also pleaded guilty Thursday to driving while intoxicated-aggravated offender. Jobe had three prior alcohol-related convictions...

By COREY NOLES Statesman Staff Writer BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - A Puxico, Mo. man charged in connection with assaulting multiple law enforcement and emergency workers, waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Thursday. Glenn Richard Spikes, 60, was charged with two Class C felonies of felonious restraint, the unclassified felony of armed criminal action and three Class C felonies of second-degree assault on a law enforcement officer/ emergency personnel in April by Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russell Oliver.. ...

SEMO News Service CAPE GIRADEAU, Mo. -- A Cape Girardeau man faces two first-degree murder charges in connection to the May 30 shooting deaths of his wife and son. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has charged George Edwin Joseph with murdering his wife, Mary Joseph, and his son, Matthew Joseph, by shooting them several times in the head on May 30...

By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor BERNIE, Mo. -- Sam Hector applied for a job with IXL, an axe handle plant at Bernie, when he was 17 years old. His first day on the job was May 20, 1963. It would be the first and last full-time job of his career. When the plant closed its doors for the final time on Friday, Hector retired along with the company -- after more than 50 years on the job...