Stories from Friday, February 8, 2019

The reign continues. For the second time in a month, Neelyville girls basketball jumped all over Doniphan in the first quarter. This time, though, it was for the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament championship. The Tigers opened up a double-digit lead in the first quarter before pulling away in the third with a 63-43 win over Doniphan, sealing their 11th consecutive OFC Tournament championship...

Twin Rivers played nearly a perfect game in the Ozark Foothills Conference Tournament championship against Neelyville. The Royals pulled away from the Tigers in the third quarter for a 60-32 win to avenge last year’s OFC Tournament championship loss to the Tigers. The win is the Royals’ fourth tournament championship in the past six years...

FISK, Mo. — Gregory Dale Beck, 62, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Visitation will be at 4 p.m., Monday, Feb. 11 at White-Sanders Funeral Home in Fisk. The funeral will follow at 5 p.m., in the funeral home...

MALDEN, Mo. — Virginia Joyce Camp, 77, of Bernie, Mo., died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. - 11 a.m., Monday, Feb. 11 at the Landess Chapel in Malden. The funeral will follow at 11 a.m., at the Landess Chapel with Rev. Bryan Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the Qulin Cemetery in Qulin, Mo...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Mary Elizabeth Winchester, 82, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at her home, peacefully in her sleep. She was born September 13, 1936 in Cape Girardeau County, to Floyd and Amy McNeely Bond. She and Bob Winchester were married December 29, 1957 at Foursquare Gospel Church in Cape Girardeau...

DONIPHAN — Ripley County authorities suspect a 62-year-old man died from hypothermia Thursday after crossing a flooded creek while walking home. The body of Charles Richard Engelken, 62, was found about 8:30 a.m. Friday in a field not far from his home. The man resided on a private road about three-fourths of a mile off Route K north of Doniphan...

Keith A. Boyles was found guilty of murder Friday afternoon by Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Pritchett. The 26-year-old is guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Gladys Irene Piatt, 80, and Loyd Eugene Piatt, 77, as well as Edgar Atkinson, 81, and Bonnie Chase, 69. He was also found guilty of armed criminal action in all four death...

DONIPHAN, Mo. — Glee Odean Freeman, 88 year old resident of Doniphan and former resident of the Shawnee, KS area departed this life Thursday, February 7, 2019 in Doniphan. Mrs. Freeman was born February 24, 1930, in Oregon County, Mo. to the late Henry and Eula Carson Pippin. She had worked for several years in the Meat Department at Safeway, and later managed Taco Via. Mrs. Freeman loved crocheting, reading, and especially enjoyed her dogs...

Thomas Gaylon Lynch, 67, of Poplar Bluff, died Sunday, February 3, 2019 at his residence. It is his wishes to no have a service or a burial.

A Butler County judge has found a Doniphan man guilty of murdering two elderly couples whose bodies were found inside their burned homes in 2010. Keith A. Boyles, wearing in a blue and white striped dress shirt and jeans, sat at the defense table flanked by his attorneys, Thomas Marshall and Heather Vodnansky with the Capital Public Defender’s Office, as Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Pritchett took the bench Friday afternoon...

DEXTER — The Dexter Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a resolution during a special meeting Friday morning giving city officials permission to apply for grant funding for phase three of the city’s trail project. “We have applied for a Missouri Department of Natural Resources trail grant, and it is due” on Feb. 15, explained City Administrator Mark Stidham...

Officials with the National Weather Service say storm damage Thursday in the Dexter area was caused by a wind event, not a tornado. Friday evening it was announced the wind that derailed a train and turned over a parked semi-truck may have reached speeds of 90 to 100 miles an hour...