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Freezing rain, sleet and snow forecast for Tuesday
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
With the streets still melting and students still home from school following the weekend's snow, it is already time to start thinking about the next winter storm which is expected to arrive in Stoddard County today. At 4:49 a.m. Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service office in Paducah, Ky. issued a Winter Storm Warning that encompasses all of Stoddard County. The warning last from 9 am. Tuesday morning until 6 a.m. Wednesday morning...
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Paper delivery may be delayed
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
Delivery of the Tuesday Daily Statesman may be delayed due to the current weather conditions Customers in the outlying areas of Bernie, Essex, Bloomfield and Dexter are asked to be patient should their papers not arrive in a timely manner. The safety of the paper's delivery personnel is uppermost in our minds during these weather conditions...
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Leslie H. "Les" McQuary
(Obituary ~ 02/04/14)
Leslie H. "Les" McQuary, was born May 9, 1916, in Macon County, Mo., to Hiram and Lula Francis McQuary, died peacefully Jan. 29, 2014, in Tuscon, Ariz. Educated in primary and secondary years in Dexter, Mo., he also attended Southeast Missouri State College in Cape Girardeau, Mo. During his high school years, he met Ernestine Weber, his future bride, at a dance in Bloomfield. They married on Sept. 8, 1935...
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Going nowhere
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
Dexter Schools' bus fleet hasn't moved this week. With icy roadways remaining from the weekend weather and another severe weather warning in effect throughout Tuesday, every school in Stoddard County remained closed. Some county schools are approaching the 10-day mark for snow days for the 2013-14 year, which seldom occurs in the area...
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Missouri lawmakers plot new plan for juvenile lifers
(State News ~ 02/04/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- More than 80 people convicted of first-degree murder as juveniles are serving mandatory life sentences in Missouri prisons -- a punishment the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed cruel and unusual. Now Missouri officials are trying to figure out what to do with them...
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Lawmakers OK funding for preschool aid
(State News ~ 02/04/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican governors and lawmakers who now control a majority of state capitols have been pushing aggressively to cut spending and shrink government -- with one glaring exception. Many are pumping new money into preschool programs at a rate equaling or even exceeding the Democratic-dominated capitols stereotypically cast as big spenders...
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Mo. teen's dare sparks needless lake search
(State News ~ 02/04/14)
MONETT, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities in southwest Missouri say a teenager could be charged for taking a dare that prompted a needless search of an icy lake. The Monett Times reports (http://bit.ly/1elsLk0 ) a worker spotted snowy footprints leading to a hole in the ice on Monett City Park Lake on Monday afternoon. Police, firefighters and others decided a search was needed and brought in divers...
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Mo. senator wants to alter impeachment proceedings
(State News ~ 02/04/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri senators would be responsible for trying all impeachments of elected state officials under a proposed constitutional amendment. Under current law, most officials are impeached by the House and then tried by the Missouri Supreme Court. Impeachments of a governor and Supreme Court judges are tried by a panel of "eminent jurists."...
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Autism insurance beneficiaries rising in Mo.
(State News ~ 02/04/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The number of people receiving autism services covered by insurance has risen significantly under a still relatively new Missouri law. The state insurance department says insurers paid for 3,070 people to receive autism services last year, an increase of 22 percent from 2012. The claims totaled $8.2 million, up nearly 27 percent from the prior year...
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Springfield changes protocol for homeless
(State News ~ 02/04/14)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Springfield officials say the city will change its procedures for relocating homeless people after it receives complaints from residents. The change was prompted by criticism last week when police broke up a homeless camp without giving any notice to those living there...
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Woman gets 10 years in prison for fatal heroin OD
(State News ~ 02/04/14)
TROY, Mo. (AP) -- An eastern Missouri woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for providing a fatal dose of heroin, and her brother goes to trial Friday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 32-year-old Wendy Voss of Moscow Mills pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter and drug distribution. She was originally charged with second-degree murder...
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Feds plot future of Ozark Riverways
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
ST. LOUIS -- Paddlers, partiers, boat owners and other outdoor devotees have long flocked to the spring-fed Current and Jacks Fork rivers, which a half-century ago became part of the federal national park system. As the National Park Service updates its management plan at the Ozark National Scenic Riverways for the first time in three decades, the federal agency is trying to balance the competing needs of preservationists who want more environmental protection against nearby property owners fighting for less government regulation, not more. ...
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Nursing Program enrollment deadline extended for TRC
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
Prospective students looking to enter Three Rivers College's Licensed Practical Nursing program have been given extra time to apply for entrance to the cohort in Kennett. The program is accepting applications for the 2013-2014 class through March 1, extended from the original deadline of Feb. 1...
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Jazz Sultans to perform Feb. 6 with guest artist, Brad Leali
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., -- The Southeast Missouri State University Department of Music faculty jazz combo, the Jazz Sultans, will return to the stage to offer a jazz performance with Brad Leali, special guest artist for the Clark Terry/Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Festival, Feb. 6 at the River Campus...
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Acevedo named to Westminster Dean's list
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
FULTON, Mo. -- Dylan Acevedo from Dexter was recently named to the Fall 2013 Academic Dean's List for exemplary academic performance at Westminster College in Fulton, MO. The Dean's List recognizes those Westminster students who have shown high academic performance during the past semester. To be included on the Dean's List, a student must have a 3.60 semester grade point average with at least 12 hours completed that semester...
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Area students named to Mizzou Dean's List
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The University of Missouri at Columbia has announcedits dean's list for the 2013 Fall semester. Earning the dean's list status from Stoddard County were: John Michael Middleton, Junior, Arts & Science, from Advance; Bailey Nicole Martin, Junior, Agr-Food & Nat Resources, from Bernie;...
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2 area students earn scholarships to SEMO
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Two Stoddard County students are among those who have been awarded scholarships to attend Southeast State University in Cape Girardeau for the 2014-15 academic year. Tanner Mayberry from Bernie and Zach Kester of Dexter are among the most recently announced scholarship recipients...
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Nixon sets date for special elections
(State News ~ 02/04/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday set an Aug. 5 special election to fill three vacant Missouri House seats, including one that's been vacant since June. The date ensures the winners won't be around for this year's regular session but could take office in time to decide whether to override any potential gubernatorial vetoes...
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Reaction to special elections is mixed within county
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
In the wake of a decision by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to set a special election for a series of vacancies with the state legislature, local political parties have shown mixed responses regarding the coming election. "It's a little bit late," said Wayne Jean, Chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Stoddard County. "He should have done it in April so someone could have filled the seat before the end of the session."...
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Stopping over
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
Canadian geese are seen settling on the snow covered edge of an icy pond just north of Dexter on Monday. The geese have been in abundance in recent weeks both on rural ponds and the Dexter City Lake.
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I think I can, I think I can...
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
Taking flight from an ice-covered lake is not as easy as one might think, not even for a Canada goose. In an almost cartoon-like set of motions, it took several tries for this bird to get enough traction on the ice Monday afternoon to become airborne. After several attempts, though, his wings finally spread and he was northward bound...
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Dexter girls basketball team beats Miller Career Academy 66-57
(High School Sports ~ 02/04/14)
PARK HILLS, Mo. - The Dexter Bearcats varsity girls basketball team outlasted the Miller Career Academy Phoenix 66-57 Saturday. Dexter's largest lead in the first quarter was five twice. Miller Career Academy's largest lead in the first half was 6-2. Dexter padded its lead to 32-18 by the midway point of the second quarter...
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TRC president testifies before Education Comm.
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Dr. Devin Stephenson, President of Three Rivers College and chair-elect of the Missouri Community College Association (MCCA) testified before the Missouri House of Representatives' Higher Education Committee on Tuesday, Jan. 28 on the importance of community colleges and the need for increased funding...
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Eftink, Kinchen among honor students at S&T
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
Missouri University of Science and Technology has announced its students who made the honor list for the 2013 fall semester of school. Named to that list from Stoddard County were Jonathan Henry Eftink of Bloomfield and Catherine Lee Kinchen of Dexter...
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TRC named fastest growing by collegiate magazine
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
By MIKE MCCOY Statesman Staff Writer Three Rivers College (TRC) has been declared one of the fastest growing community colleges in America by Community College Week, the nation's leading periodical for community, technical, and junior colleges. According to a news release, the collegiate magazine ranked Three Rivers as the number one fastest growing institution among colleges with 2,500-4,999 students during the period from Fall 2011 to Fall 2012. ...
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A story of ruin and redemption: Part 3
(Local News ~ 02/04/14)
Editor's note: The following is the last of a three-part series on a local man's journey with alcoholism. When Perry T. was released from prison June 10, 2002, he did not realize the birthday of Alcoholics Anonymous was the same day in 1935. "I found that ironic," he said...
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