Stories from Thursday, October 4, 2018

SIKESTON — George Crawford, 84, died Oct. 3, 2018, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Born Jan. 29, 1934, in East Prairie, son of the late James David and Saphrey Juanita Pruitt Crawford, he was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force having served during the Korean War and was a line worker for Tetra Pak before retiring...

SIKESTON — L.T. Turley, 80, died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, at his home in Sikeston. Born April 10, 1938, in Tanner, son of the late Sherman and Verbel Lands Turley, L.T. was of the Pentecostal faith and worked as a Journeyman Pipefitter for Associated Natural Gas Company before retiring...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Dorothy Lee Wolfe, 90, died Oct. 4, 2018, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. Born Jan. 21, 1928, in Delta, daughter of the late Wallace and Nettie Montgomery Mansker, she was a retired librarian for the Chaffee Public Library. She also worked as a clerk for Whitakers-Ace Hardware Chaffee and was a church secretary and member of the First United Methodist Church in Chaffee. ...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — A Dexter man was ordered to stand trial Thursday afternoon on five counts of boating while intoxicated in connection with a June boat collision on Black River that left a local teenager dead and four others injured. Accompanied by his attorney Dan Moore, Braden Parker Bollinger, 27, was set to appear before Associate Circuit Judge John Bloodworth for a preliminary hearing in his case...

BLOOMFIELD -- A Bloomfield man, who spent more than 10 years in a mental health facility, was ordered to stand trial Thursday afternoon for the 2004 stabbing death of his stepbrother. Leslie Hazel with the Public Defender’s Office in Kennett, filed a waiver of preliminary hearing on Wednesday in Justen Lee Patterson’s case...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — A Stoddard County judge ordered a Dexter man to stand trial Thursday afternoon for the June stabbing death of another man. Accompanied by his attorney, Leslie Hazel with the Public Defender’s Office in Kennett, Joshua James Koonce was supposed to appear before Associate Circuit Judge Joe Satterfield for a preliminary hearing on the Class A felony of second-degree murder and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action...

DEXTER, Mo. — Members of the Senate Bill 40 board that oversees programs for the developmentally disabled in Stoddard County voted Tuesday to make approximately $60,000 in payments to an existing sheltered workshop, while stripping money for other new programs from their 2019 budget...

WAYNE COUNTY, Mo. — Area Girl Scout leaders plan to file complaints with the scouting group’s national office and launch a letter-writing campaign in an effort to keep Camp Cherokee Ridge open. The board of directors of Missouri Heartland Girl Scouts voted last month to close the Southeast Missouri camp Dec. 16 and sell the property...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The son of the founder of a popular Miner and southwest Missouri cafe has pleaded not guilty to child sex trafficking. Fifty-year-old Benjamin Lambert posted $100,000 bond after entering the plea Wednesday. His attorney said Lambert is living in a nursing home in the Sikeston area...

SIKESTON — A Sikeston man faces felony charges after allegedly burglarizing a residence early Wednesday. Ronald Joseph Young III, 25, is charged with felony first degree burglary and misdemeanor second degree property damage, according to online court records...

BENTON, Mo. — The Scott County Circuit Court has officially gone “live” on the State of Missouri’s Show-Me Jury notification system. “Scott County is the first in our area to go live with Show-Me Jury,” said Scott County Circuit Clerk Christy Hency. “We are paving the way.”...