Stories from Sunday, June 1, 2014

WILLIAMSVILLE, Mo. -- There may not be internet or television, a 12-year-old visitor to Markham Springs Recreation Area wrote, but that doesn't matter. "What matters is the bonding of every family (member) and friend that comes," the girl wrote in the notebook kept for guests to a 75-year-old home at the site, which is in the Mark Twain National Forest...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer The suspect in a Poplar Bluff home invasion was captured early Saturday morning, walking about a block from the police department as officers concluded a street crimes task force sweep. Jeremy Vance Fineout, 30, was spotted shortly after midnight at Second and Pine by Patrolman Danny Hicks, who had just left the department...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor PUXICO, Mo. -- Officials with the Missouri Department of Conservation will be conducting an aerial spraying operation of emergent vegetation at Duck Creek Conservation Area's Pool 1 sometime over the next week, which will require closure of the area to fishing for a single morning...