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Armed robbery in rural Kennett
(Local News ~ 11/18/11)
KENNETT, Mo. - Local authorities are looking for three individuals believed to be involved in an armed robbery that occurred on a county road just east of Kennett on Thursday afternoon. According to a release from Dunklin County Sheriff Bob Holder, at approximately 2:30 p.m., a report was received from a 21-year-old man claiming he obtained a ride with two men and a female and was supposed to be driven to Beaton Street...
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Round Pond Massacre a chilling tale
(Local News ~ 11/18/11)
Editor's note: The following is one of several Civil War features reprinted from the North Stoddard Countian's Reflections Editions 2011. During the early 1860s Stoddard County was torn by war. The county was a major means of transport, chiefly via the old Bloomfield Road. The road wasn't used only by civilians but by military personnel as well to transport troops and equipment to and from Arkansas...
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Edward Dallas McRoy
(Obituary ~ 11/18/11)
Edward Dallas McRoy, son of the late Bud and Ollie B. Pruitt McRoy, was born on Aug. 24, 1929, in Bloomfield, Mo., and died at his residence on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, at the age of 82. Edward was a veteran of the U.S. Army where he served as an airplane mechanic during the Korean War. He was a retired truck driver and had served as a city alderman for Bloomfield in 1990...
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Billy Andrew Collins
(Obituary ~ 11/18/11)
Billy Andrew Collins was born in the state of Louisiana on Oct. 7, 1931, to Asis (Ace) and Loretta Duncan Collins Duffey. He died on Nov. 17, 2011, at the age of 80. After the death of his father when Bill was seven or eight years old, Loretta and Bill returned to Advance, Mo., and Billy resided in the Advance and Bloomfield area the remainder of his life. Billy worked on a farm in the Avert, Mo., area...
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