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Three are seriously injured in ATV crash
(Local News ~ 06/22/15)
PORTAGEVILLE - A driver and two children were ejected from an ATV during a weekend accident. Sarah E. Keene, 30, Brooklyn R. Linville, 6, and Carson J. Linville, 4, of Portageville were all seriously injured in an accident at 6:45 p.m. Saturday on Highway TT at County Road 417, four miles southeast of Portageville...
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Meals that Matter: Home-based business offering home-cooked meals is growing
(Local News ~ 06/22/15)
CHARLESTON -- A local home-based business that started as a way to help foster kids is outgrowing its residential kitchen. Blair Ray of Charleston started Meals that Matter, a business that delivers home-cooked meals made from fresh ingredients, about a year ago when she wanted to do something for children in foster homes but was unable to take children into her home at that time...
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10 Things to Know for Today
(Local News ~ 06/22/15)
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. GREECE BRACES FOR TOUGH TALKS Eurozone leaders meet in Brussels, and markets surge on hopes of a deal, as the clock runs down on the nation's chances of avoiding an exit from the euro...
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$1M award upheld for children of slain Dexter parolee
(Local News ~ 06/22/15)
ST. LOUIS -- A federal appeals court issued an opinion affirming a $1-million award for the children of a Dexter parolee, who was fatally shot by a state fugitive apprehension agent attempting to arrest him in 2008. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found the evidence supported that Steven Julian, who was a fugitive recovery agent on the fugitive apprehension team, then managed by the Missouri Department of Corrections, acted with reckless indifference in causing the death of Zachary Snyder, 23.. ...
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Floods cause more road closures in area
(Local News ~ 06/22/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The rain-swollen Mississippi River continued to slowly rise Sunday in Southeast Missouri, inconveniencing travelers and inundating farmland. The Missouri Department of Transportation said floodwaters have closed roads in more than two dozen counties, with the largest concentration of closures in the east-central part of the state...
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Sharon Rayburn
(Obituary ~ 06/22/15)
MATTHEWS -- Sharon Lynn Rayburn, 53, died June 20, 2015, at the Close To Home Nursing Center. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.
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Timothy Sartin
(Obituary ~ 06/22/15)
PORTAGEVILLE -- Timothy Don Sartin, 38, died June 18, 2015, at Pemiscot Memorial Hospital in Hayti. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.
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Eugene Holland
(Obituary ~ 06/22/15)
GRAY RIDGE -- Eugene Holland, 67, died June 19, 2015, at his home. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.
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Kennett man arrested for breaking into storage sheds
(Local News ~ 06/22/15)
MINER - A Kennett man was caught breaking into storage sheds on Friday. Robert West, 57, is charged with felony stealing, possession of burglar tools and trespassing, according to Miner Police Chief Chris Griggs. West's arrest follows a series of storage sheds being broken into at AA Mini Storage, 406 AA Highway. Griggs reported West was observed by the business owner on the property cutting locks and stealing items from storage lockers...
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SPEAKOUT (471-6636)
(Opinion ~ 06/22/15)
I'd like to respond to "Every town has eyesores." They are leaving out one town and that's Miner. There are three or four houses out here that are strictly eyesores but the worst one is on Gilmore. He has all kinds of rubbish in the front yard, the back yard. ...
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Corps of Engineers increases vigilance with Phase II floodfight efforts
(Local News ~ 06/22/15)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis District of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has initiated Phase II of its floodfighting efforts Monday due to continuing high river stages on the ipper Mississippi River. The lands likely to be affected by the forecasted high water are located in and around the communities of Cape Girardeau, Scott City, Chaffee and Commerce, Mo. ...
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