Stories from Tuesday, February 14, 2017

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Dexter trailed 7-0 after 66 seconds and by as much as 14 midway through the opening quarter Monday night. Krysten Garrison then scored 20 of Dexter's next 33 points as the Bearcats surged into halftime with the lead. Chaylea Mosby and Natalie Sitze fueled a third-quarter run from long distance to beat Poplar Bluff 82-50 in a SEMO Conference game...

BENTON, Mo. -- The Scott County Central Bravettes picked up a 79-47 Scott-Mississippi Conference win over Kelly Monday night at Kelly High School. Breasia Jones led SCC with 22 points and six steals. Samantha Coffee added 20 points, 19 rebounds and three blocks while Trinity Thomas scored 12 and had five steals...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - An infant is expected to make a full recovery after an investigation into a report of child abuse at a rural Mississippi County home. According to Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson, the investigation began Sunday morning when his Office received a report of child abuse...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. - A tip lead to the arrest of three East Prairie residents on drug and other charges. James Michael Evans Jr., 34, is charged with two felony counts of delivery of a controlled substance, and two felony counts of unlawful possession of a firearm...

MORTONS GAP, Ky. - Dorothy Louise O'Neal, 95, formerly of Charleston, Mo., died Feb. 14, 2017, in Madisonville, Ky. Born Jan. 14, 1922, in Hickman, Ky., to the late John William and Hester I. Davidson Evans, she worked with doctors Bondurant, Comer and Yarbrough in Cairo, Ill., for several years following her 1945 graduation from St. ...