Stories from Friday, October 2, 2015

Stoddard County Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2015 Michael Scott Campbell, 46, of Hannibal, was arrested on a warrant for sexual assault. Bond was set at $7,500 cash, and he remains in jail at this time. Dylan P. Wiseman, 19, of Malden, was arrested on a warrant for driving while revoked. Bond was set at $5,000, and he bonded out...

An Advance man was arrested after he allegedly hit his father in the head, fracturing his skull. Eric D. Eaker, 52, was charged with first-degree domestic assault and first-degree elder abuse after an incident Friday in Bollinger County. Bollinger County Sheriff's Cpl. Michael Henson responded to a report of an elderly man covered in blood standing on Route W in Greenbriar, Mo., Henson wrote in a probable-cause statement...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Clint Stephens of Advance, Mo., was recently elected to the Missouri Corn Merchandising Council (MCMC) board of directors by growers in District 7. Stephens begins his service to corn farmers effective immediately. "It's important for growers and members to be involved in their state organizations," noted Stephens. "I think this is a good opportunity to be involved in the farming industry, learn more about how and where our product is used and create new markets for farmers."...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Wreaths Across America will be held at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 11 a.m. The ceremony is held across the U.S. and in many foreign countries at the same time as the ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia which is at noon...

Some are calling it an outbreak. Others, especially those involved in any aspect of poultry farming, say it's an epidemic. If it's an outbreak, it's the worst in U.S. history. The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed the degree of devastation that highly pathogenic avian flu -- or "bird flu" -- has taken on the country's bird population so far in 2015...

The previously unbeaten Bernie Mules baseball program finally met its match in the final game of the fall season Thursday night against the Bell City Cubs. Second-seeded Bell City scored a run in the first and fourth innings and threw a runner out at home plate to seal a 2-1 victory against top-seeded Bernie in the September Showdown championship...

This week's Capitol Report focuses on a wide variety of issues but I would like to use this portion to write about an issue that is very near to my heart. The issue I would like to bring attention to is the care our veterans are being given at the VA system...

Craig "Tony" Hart, of Hartshorne, Okla., was born in Sept. 13, 1962, in San Antonio, Texas to James V. and Norma Jean Beck Hart, and died Sept. 30, 2015, at the Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., at the age of 53. Mr. Hart graduated from Haileyville High School in 1980 and was a carpenter for several years in the Haileyville and Hartshorne area and work was his life...

Louise D. Burton, daughter of the late Forest O. B. and Ruth Ethel Dublin Jones, was born in Senath, Mo., on Jan. 19, 1922, and died at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter on Oct. 2, 2015, at the age of 93. Mrs. Burton had lived most of her life in the Dexter area. ...