Stories from Saturday, June 30, 2012

Mary Doretta Hare, daughter of the late John Wooley and Rose Holmes Wooley, was born on June 25, 1924, in Rockview, Mo. and died on June 28, 2012, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff at the age of 88. Mrs. Hare had been a member of the Harvest Assembly Church in Essex since 1959. She was a homemaker and a resident of Essex...

NOREEN HYSLOP photo The forecasters said the area would reach all time highs Friday and it did. Unofficially, the temperature was 109 in Dexter, as illustrated above, at around 2 p.m. Much of the same if promised for the weekend.

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH SEMO News Service WAPPAPELLO LAKE, Mo. - State and federal authorities continue to investigate a Thursday afternoon fire, which destroyed the fuel dock and store at Sundowner Marina on Wappapello Lake, as well as one of its pontoon boats...