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Man wanted for carjacking is located in Miner
(Local News ~ 03/01/13)
MINER -- A Hayti man wanted for a carjacking in Jefferson County was arrested Friday by law enforcement officers in Miner. Jerry Ray White, 61, of Hayti was taken into custody after officers with the Miner Police Department located the vehicle that was reportedly stolen in Pevely in Jefferson County...
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District thriller
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/13)
sports@standard-democrat.com DEXTER -- Even when she purposely missed a shot, Hannah Noe was making all the right moves. With two seconds left and the Dexter Lady Bearcats ahead by one point, Noe stepped to the free throw line to give her team a bit more separation. She sank the first and was about to let go of her second when the call from the sideline told her to miss it...
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High five: Sikeston wins fifth-straight district championship
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/13)
sports@standard-democrat.com DEXTER -- The Sikeston Bulldogs are still the king of the hill. For the fifth--straight year the Bulldogs captured the Class 4, District 1 championship with a 77-61 victory over second-seeded Cape Central on Thursday night at the Bearcat Event Center in Dexter...
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Warren Eaves
(Obituary ~ 03/01/13)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Warren Marshall Eaves, 35, died Feb. 26, 2013, in Bell City. Born March 18, 1977, in Poplar Bluff, son of Larry W. Eaves of Bonne Terre and Pattie Fields Consolo of Sahuarita, Ariz., he was a member of the St. Vincent's Catholic Church in Cape Girardeau and was employed as a drywall contractor. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in the Iraq War...
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Jack Yount
(Obituary ~ 03/01/13)
SIKESTON -- John Henry "Jack" Yount Jr., 97, died at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Born July 13, 1915, in Cairo, Ill., to the late Dr. John Henry and Minnie Jane Marshall Yount Sr., he was a landowner and farmer in New Madrid, Scott and Stoddard counties in Southeast Missouri. He attended the Western Military Academy in Alton, Ill., for three years and graduated from Soldan High School in St. Louis...
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Dorothy Baugh
(Obituary ~ 03/01/13)
CHARLESTON -- Dorothy J. Parker Baugh, 78, died Feb. 28, 2013, at her home. Born Nov. 27, 1934, at the Deventer community in Mississippi County, to the late Roy Lee and Cecil Elizabeth Henry Parker, she was a member of First Baptist Church in Wyatt where she taught Sunday school and was member of the WMU. A homemaker, she worked at Burkart Foam in Cairo, Ill., for 10 years...
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Thelma Roberson
(Obituary ~ 03/01/13)
MOREHOUSE -- Thelma M. Roberson, 92, died Feb. 28, 2013, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. Born March 28, 1920, in Holcomb, to the late George Washington and Mamie Shelton, she had owned and operated Morehouse Cafe before retiring and was of the Baptist belief...
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Beth Amos
(Obituary ~ 03/01/13)
WICKLIFFE, Ky. -- Beth Ann Amos, 52, formerly of Scott City, Mo., died Feb. 27, 2013, at Morley, Mo. Born April 12, 1960, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., to Dicky Joe and Vera Cathryn Webb Riley of Scott City, she was a member of the Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cairo, Ill...
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Battle of Sand Ridge set to take place on Saturday
(Local News ~ 03/01/13)
scottw@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Nothing like some press to bring in fresh faces. And Rick Justice of Sikeston, a Civil War re-enactor who leads the 10th Tennessee Cavalry, is expecting just that this weekend. Civil War re-enactors should start to arrive and set up camp Friday at the Scott Matthews Farm on the south side of Highway 60 about a mile east of the South Main interchange in Sikeston...
- District champs -- again (Local News ~ 03/01/13)
- Matthews family donates more land for TRC campus (Local News ~ 03/01/13)
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Mississippi County OKs upgrade for E-911 centers
(Local News ~ 03/01/13)
scottw@standard-democrat.com CHARLESTON -- Sometimes it's good to upgrade. Other times it's best to stick with something that's still working. During their regular weekly meeting Thursday Mississippi County commissioners first approved the purchase of a software and hardware upgrade for the county E-911 dispatching centers in Charleston and East Prairie...
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