Stories from Saturday, July 5, 2014

The combination of a rate increase and cost-cutting maintenance in Stoddard County Public Sewer District #1 have helped stabilize the financial condition of the district. Sewer District #1 Board President Ronnie Alsup warned that the rate increase was just a "Band-Aid" for the problems facing the district, but says that it "appears to be putting the district on the right track."...

Two Dexter residents are among the 34 newly commissioned Missouri Highway Patrol troopers, according to Col. Ron Replogle, superintendent of the patrol. The group was commissioned in a ceremony on June 27, 2014, on the south lawn of the Missouri State Capitol...

Bill Kidd has been injecting insulin into his system four times a day since he was 23 years old -- but no more. The 42-year-old Desert Storm veteran from Dexter is a recent recipient of not only a new pancreas, but also a kidney. The double transplant was performed at Iowa City University Hospital, which is affiliated with the Veterans Hospital in Iowa City. ...