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Arson confirmed at Otter Slough
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
By NOREEN HYSLOP Managing Editor A $5,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for setting fire to a storage building and two vehicles at the Missouri Department of Conservation's Otter Slough facility southwest of Dexter in Stoddard County during the overnight hours of Thursday, May 30, 2013...
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Sister expresses 'shock' at remains being found
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- "Just shock" is what Jacque Waller's sister, Cheryl Brenneke, said she felt when she heard her sister's body had been found earlier this week. "You anticipate how you're going to feel for two years," Brenneke said. "You just can't prepare yourself, really. You just can't."...
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Hwy. 60 to undergo pavement repair work
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- East and Westbound US 60 in Stoddard County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform pavement repairs. The westbound section is located from Route F to one mile west will be performed on Monday, June 3 and Tuesday, June 4 from 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m...
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Bradford "Brad" Scott Locke
(Obituary ~ 05/31/13)
Bradford "Brad" Scott Locke was born on Jan. 13, 1955, at Missouri Delta Community Hospital in Sikeston, Mo. and died at his home in Houston, Texas on May 26, 2013. He is survived by his loving parents, Charles and Evelyn Locke of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; one brother, Christopher Blake Locke of Houston Texas; one sister, Linda Beth Foust and husband, Paul Foust, of St. ...
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Holcomb beats Canton in Class 2 third-place game
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
O'Fallon, Mo. - Holcomb Hornets junior Cameron Clark had few complaints about his final four experience after earning a complete-game win on the mound in Thursday afternoon's Class 2 third-place game against the Canton Tigers. "We came here to win first, but we got third and that's great," Clark said. ...
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Boy, 10, finds $10,000 in Kansas City hotel room
(State News ~ 05/31/13)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A 10-year-old boy who found $10,000 in a drawer at a Kansas City hotel where he was staying with his dad turned the money over to police. Tyler Schaefer found the neatly stacked bills Saturday in the room where he and his father, Cody Schaefer, were staying at a hotel near the airport, The Kansas City Star reported (http://bit.ly/16sloUJ). ...
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River expected to reach major flood stage next week at Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- The Mississippi River is expected to rise over its "major" flood stage designation of 42 feet by June 8 in Cape Girardeau. The river was at about 31 feet late Thursday. Flood stage is 32 feet. According to the National Weather Service, the river should rise above the flood stage today and crest at 43 feet by June 8, the highest it's been this year...
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Jacque Waller's remains found
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - After two years of searching and waiting, a formal announcement came Thursday: The remains of Jacque Waller were finally discovered. Saturday is the two-year anniversary of the day the Jackson mother of triplets went missing. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney's Office issued a news release about 2 p.m. Thursday, which simply stated Jacque Waller's remains were recovered Wednesday...
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18 Fore Life is tonight!
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
Chad Gaylord, a native of Dexter, and his wife, Nikki, arrived in downtown Dexter Thursday afternoon after a bike ride of about 200 miles originating in Jefferson City. Gaylord has paid tribute to the memory of his late friend, Ben Kruse, by making a special sacrifice each year to attend the charity event on the first Saturday in June. ...
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Mother, son dead, father injured in Cape shooting
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - A shooting Thursday in Cape Girardeau left two people dead and a third wounded. Cape Girardeau Police Department spokesman Darin Hickey on Thursday afternoon said Matthew Joseph, 18, and Mary Joseph, 57, were killed in the shooting at 1220 W. Cape Rock Drive...
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Grayson found guilty; sentencing June 11
(Local News ~ 05/31/13)
KENNET, Mo. - It took only an hour and 15 minutes Thursday for a Dunklin County jury to find Moses Grayson guilty on two counts, the Class A felony of forcible sodomy and the Class B felony of first degree burglary. On the charge of Class A felony of armed criminal action, the jury found him not guilty...
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James Aaron Davison
(Obituary ~ 05/31/13)
James Aaron Davison, son of Aaron L. Davison of DeSoto, Mo. and the late Eunice Moran Davison, was born on May 24, 1945 in Portageville, Mo. and died on May 30, 2013, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. at the age of 68. Mr. Davison was a resident of Arnold, Mo. He retired from Chrysler Automotive in Fenton, Missouri...
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