Stories from Thursday, May 8, 2014

sports@standard-democrat.com DEXTER - The Dexter high school baseball team scored eight runs in the final two innings to beat Cape Central 8-5 Wednesday afternoon. Jason Mattison secured a complete-game victory for Dexter. He allowed seven hits and struck out six...

sports@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Backed by a complete game effort from starting pitcher Doug Still, the Sikeston Bulldogs hammered out 10 hits Wednesday to down visiting Oran 10-0 in five innings via the mercy rule. "We hit it pretty well today," Sikeston head coach Alan Scheeter said. ...

EAST PRAIRIE -- A Charleston couple were killed in a two-vehicle accident Wednesday in Mississippi County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred at 3:57 p.m. on Missouri Highway 105, one mile north of East Prairie, as northbound motorist, Charles M. Ross, 17, swerved to miss a vehicle that was attempting to make a lefthand turn and pulled into the path of the oncoming vehicle operated by Nina M. Marshall, 84, of Charleston...

The works by New Madrid County Central High School art students were going up Wednesday in the North Lobby of the High School in preparation for the art show from 5:30-7 p.m. today. Placing some of the 120 works which can be viewed by the public are, from left: Patrick Rausch, Susan Cummins and Kallie Turner. Also the New Madrid County Central High School band will be in concert at 7 p.m. Thursday in the school auditorium. (Jill Bock, Staff)...

ASTATULA, Fla. -- John Robert Todt, 62, died May 5, 2014, at the Cornerstone Hospital. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

MORLEY - Charlotte Coplin, 48, died May 7, 2014, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

CHARLESTON -- Alfred Herbert Marshall II, 84, died May 7, 2014, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near East Prairie. Nina Marie Hough Marshall, 84, died May 7, 2014, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston of injures sustained in an automobile accident...

DEXTER - Raymond Louis "Junior" Webber Jr., 85, died May 6, 2014, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

PORTAGEVILLE - Larry Michael Nelson, 66, died May 6, 2014, in Portageville. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

America's greatness was based on freedom to a degree unprecedented in world history. Ben Franklin said, "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. Virtue is achieved by self discipline, not outside restraint." This administration has added new regulations to the point where we have almost 80,000 pages of rules that could convict each of us as felons or worse. ...