Stories from Thursday, November 3, 2005

CARUTHERSVILLE - The East Prairie Eagles football team will invade Hopke Field in Caruthersville on Thursday night to take on the Tigers. The winner of the contest will become Class 2, District 1 champions and will be granted the right to host Crystal City in sectional play...

HAYTI -- Two men were arrested Tuesday following the discovery of a methamphetamine lab by the Bootheel Drug Task Force and Pemiscot County Sheriff's Department. According to the Bootheel Drug Task Force, agents and deputies from both offices conducted an investigation in reference to a methamphetamine lab located at the residence on County Highway 407, east of Braggadocio. ...

BENTON -- Area motorists traveling along Interstate 55 in vehicles compatible with E85 fuel now have at least one source to replenish their tanks with the ethanol-based fuel. On Wednesday Express Fuel in Benton became the only known fueling station to offer E85 on I-55...

Voters in rural Scott County will get a chance next week to approve the formation of a rural water district and though the issue may be less than glamorous, it will mark a substantial improvement in the water quality and availability for those residents. A positive vote will approve bonds to pay for the project and user fees from those joining the district will then retire those bonds...

SIKESTON - Mrs. Hattie Boyer of Poplar Bluff visited her son, Cecil Boyer, and family here last week. --- SIKESTON -At the Rex, "Bad Men of the Border" and "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" are playing. DEXTER - Dedication of a new section of Highway 25 between Dexter and Bloomfield, to be designated the "Warren E. ...

SIKESTON -- When it comes to cooperating to fight methamphetamine, Southeast Missouri is an example to follow. During a press conference Wednesday at the Clinton building, United States Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway of Missouri's eastern district said the working relationship the U.S. Attorney satellite office at Cape Girardeau office has with local law enforcement will be used as a model for the entire district...

BENTON -- A Scott City woman who told three children to crawl under a Union Pacific train Sunday - resulting in the loss of an arm for a 7-year-old girl - is facing felony child endangerment charges. The Scott County Prosecuting Attorney's office filed three counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree against Glenda K. Ross, 33, Wednesday after reviewing the case...

Pets need a warm bed I would like to speakout about these people that lay up in their warm beds at night time and let their little animals lay out without a dog house, a place to stay warm. They lay out in the cold, shiver and whine and carry on wanting a warm place. ...

EAST PRAIRIE - Deena and Billy Jackson are the parents of their third child, first son, born at 1:38 p.m. Oct. 1, 2005, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Luke Allen Jackson weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Vivian Ward of East Prairie and the late Donald and Deborah Smith...

DEXTER - Thurman King, 81, died Nov. 3, 2005, at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

SIKESTON - Louis Chadd, 66, died Nov. 1, 2005, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Born May 25, 1939, in Kewanee, son of the late William Melvin and Dorothy Lands Chadd, he retired from the United States Navy after 21 years, and then worked as a truck driver for Big Lake Transport. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Henry Meldrum American Legion Post 114 in Sikeston...

HOLCOMB -- Julio Romon Lerma, 27, died Nov. 1, 2005, at American Railcar Industries in Marmaduke, Ark. Born July 23, 1978, in Toledo, Ohio, son of Raynalda Lerma of Sikeston and Fay and Mary Manning of Tallapoosa, he was employed by American Railcar Industries and a member of First Assembly of God Church in Senath...

SCOTT CITY - Jeff Alan McFall, 44, formerly of Morley, died Nov. 1, 2005, at his residence. Born Dec. 15, 1960, in Sycamore, Ill., son of Ruby Denny Graham of Ava and the late John L. McFall, he was a truck driver for the Millington Trucking Company in Dexter and was a veteran of the United States Navy...

DEXTER - Kathryn Matthews, 65, died Nov. 3, 2005, at her home. Visitation is scheduled from 5:30 to 8 p.m. today at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter where services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday. Burial will follow in the Chalk Bluff Cemetery near Dexter...

CHARLESTON - Pallbearers at services to be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Henry Catholic Church in Charleston, for Dr. Renatto F. "Doc" Guerra, 84, who died Nov. 1, 2005, will be: John Guerra, James Guerra, Francis Duff, Jason Toon, Eric Toon, Kenneth Kenyon and Raymond "Buddy" Marshall...

SIKESTON - Lillie Mae Johnson, 79, died Oct. 31, 2005, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Jan. 16, 1926, in Bernie, daughter of the late Jonas and Emma Porter, she had lived in Southeast Missouri all her life and was a member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Grayridge...

SIKESTON - Burl O. Vines, 79, died at 12:55 a.m. Nov. 3, 2005, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau due to injuries he sustained in a fall while working at a residence in Wappapello. Born Sept. 20, 1926, in Matthews, son of the late Guy and Golie Beardsley Vines, he owned and operated Vines Auto Repair Shop from 1974 to 1986. He was a farmer and residential carpenter for many years and attended Fellowship Baptist Church in Sikeston...