Stories from Thursday, June 19, 2014

A work site accident claimed the life of a 16-year-old construction worker Tuesday near Randles in Cape Girardeau County. Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Clifton confirmed Tristin James Wood of Marquand, Missouri, was fatally injured at a job site on Highway 272. Wood would have been a junior at Greenville High School this year. He played on the Bears' varsity basketball team last season...

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed legislation Tuesday that could have narrowed the duration of Missouri's jobless benefits to one of the shortest in the nation. The Democratic governor said the bill passed by the Republican-led Legislature "would have made it harder for unemployed workers to get back on their feet and undermined Missouri's economic growth."...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor Local authorities are searching for two persons of interest for questioning about a Tuesday shooting, which sent a Poplar Bluff, Mo., man to a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. At about 1 p.m., the Poplar Bluff Police Department received a 911 call indicating a man, later identified as Mark Coger, was found sitting in the street in front of 909 Kendall St. with a gunshot wound, according to Deputy Chief Jeff Rolland...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor The federal residential re-entry center, which serves federal prison inmates being returned to Butler, Stoddard and Scott counties, will remain in Neelyville, Mo. "I got my contract," a happy Nancy Mosley said Tuesday. "It is contingent on getting all the additions done."...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Approximately 30 persons attended the Missouri Department of Transportation open house Tuesday to learn about area projects to be completed if voters approve a three-fourths cent sales tax for 10 years on Aug. 5...

Quit bashing City Council Yes. My concern is the slamming and bashing of the new city council and the firing of a man who was making $120,000 some a year. What I would like to know with all the uproar over his firing and God love him his poor little salary where was the concern for the city cable employees who lost their jobs? I've not heard the former city council say a thing about them. ...

By SHARON RANDALL McClatchy-Tribune News Service When your world spins out of control, what exactly do you do? Me? I usually hold on tight and wait and pray for it to stop. There are gifts that come with waiting and praying. I've seen plenty. So have you...

The Annual Ranger Willie B. Safe's Wet 'n' Wild Waterfest will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 5. Day use fees will be waived at the Redman Creek Beach for this U.S. Army Corps of Engineers free event, which is co-sponsored with the SEMO Regional Water Safety Council along with many other businesses. Concessions will be provided by the Wappapello Volunteer Fire Department...

VAN BUREN, Mo. -- In recognition of Ozark National Scenic Riverways 50th Anniversary, middle and high school students around the region participated in a poster contest. The submitted posters represented all aspects of the park's unique natural and cultural resources and recreational opportunities...

The Three Rivers Community College Foundation has awarded a $1,000 Marianna Wolpers Memorial Scholarship to Donny Falk of Doniphan to help underwrite his studies at Three Rivers College (TRC). Falk, 23, is a music education major who plans to graduate in the spring of 2015...

By JOHN PRATT Mo. Dept. of Conservation Are you interested in deer? If you are, there are many other Missourians that share your interest. There are some important meetings that are going to be in the southern part of the state. Hunters and other Missouri residents with an interest in white-tailed deer can express their opinions of the state's deer herd at these meetings in our area...

David Garrison MALDEN, Mo. -- David Adam Garrison, 59, of Malden, Mo. died Monday, June 16, 2014, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Bradshaw Chapel. Burial will be in the Rosewood Cemetery in Malden...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Butler County 4-H, which is administered through the University of Missouri Extension Service, is looking to create a 4-H rifle club for youngsters between the ages of 8 and 18. The idea behind the program, said shooting coach Tim Heuiser, is to introduce youngsters to the shooting sports while teaching them marksmanship, self-discipline, sportsmanship and safe firearm use...

Upon Nathan Martin's exit from Puxico High School in 2012, the basketball player had a couple options to continue hooping in college. Instead of taking a partial scholarship with no guarantee of even making the varsity team at Hannibal-LaGrange University, Martin worked out with the Three Rivers Raiders briefly...

Grover Dycus Grover Dycus, 77, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, June 17, 2014, at his home. Arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullian Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff.

Richard Towns Sr. Richard "Dick" Towns Sr., 79, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Colorado, died Saturday, June 14, 2014, at his residence. He was born Nov. 16, 1934 in Grand Junction, Colo. On Nov. 21, 1969, he married his wife Barbara in California. She survives...

Ella Mae Dixon DEXTER, Mo.--Ella Mae Dixon, 94, of Dexter, died Monday, June 16, 2014 at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Visition will be from 1-3 p.m. Friday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. Funeral services will follow at 3 p.m. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Rev. Kenneth Biggs officiating. Burial will be in the Dexter Cemetery...

After smashing the ball for 26 runs in a doubleheader Monday night at East Prairie, the Poplar Bluff Mules bats were grounded a little bit Tuesday against Piedmont Senior Babe Ruth. The Mules were able to sneak out with a 2-0 win in the opener at Strenfel Memorial Field. But the Riverdogs got an excellent pitching performance in the nightcap for a 5-1 victory to earn the split...

Kerry Deckard PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Kerry Lee Deckard, 28, of Patterson, Mo. died Monday, June 16, 2014 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel in Piedmont. Funeral services will follow at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home chapel with Rev. Darrel Loughridge officiating. Burial will be in the Rowland-Woods Cemetery near Patterson...