Stories from Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Family/Domestic Cases Filed • Nicole Holloway vs. Jeffery Holloway – CC Dissolution of Marriage W/O Children • Ashley N. Kinder vs. Jordan C. Kinder – CC Dissolution of Marriage W/O Children • Belinda D. Phillips vs. William R. Phillips – CC Dissolution of Marriage W/O Children...

Criminal Cases Filed • St. vs. Bobby Joewyn Luebbers - Domestic Assault - 3rd Degree • St. vs. Henry Logan Yates - Burglary 1st Degree • St. vs. Stephen D. Cunningham - Driving While Revoked/Suspended - 1st Offense • St. vs. Charles E. Adams - Trespass - 1st Degree...

Jeanette Smith, daughter of the late Troy Teeter and Carrie Waldrop Teeter, was born April 17, 1933, and departed this life July 22, 2024, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 91. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel at 1 p.m. Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

Bob Taylor, son of the late Edison Taylor and Myra Haubold Taylor, was born Dec. 8, 1940, and departed this life July 17, 2024, in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 83. Private services were held Saturday, July 20, 2024. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery...

Toney McKnight, son of the late Frank McKnight and Nova Gilmore McKnight, was born Jan. 2, 1934, in Moark, Arkansas and departed this life July 19, 2024, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 90. Graveside services were held Monday, July 22, 2024, at Wappapello Cemetery...

Doyle Condict, son of the late Arthur Condict and Francis White Condict, was born June 17, 1933, in Clines Island, Missouri, and departed this life July 19, 2024, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 91. Funeral services were held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Interment followed in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

Bill Davis, son of the late Paul Davis and Mary Howell Davis, was born Sept. 9, 1935 in Bernie, Missouri, and departed this life July 18, 2024 in Olathe, Kansas at the age of 88. Graveside services will be held at Bernie Cemetery on Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 10:30 a.m...

Bloomfield — Circuit 35 Associate Judge Bradley Jarrell addressed Stoddard County commissioners concerning unsafe and unsightly courtroom conditions on Monday. “A lady slipped and fell to the floor in Courtroom C. The chairs have mold issues and they roll. There is no carpet,” said Jarrell. He continued, “The carpet in courtrooms A and B is unraveling.”...

By NATHAN GLADDEN Southeast Missourian Former Secret Service agent Paul Nenninger — a native of Cape Girardeau who has served on the Cape Girardeau Public Schools Board of Education — weighed in with thoughts about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, July 13, in Butler, Pennsylvania...

“Practice what you preach” is a statement many believers don’t want to hear. The reason being is that it is often an accusation. When someone says it to us, there is a pretty good chance we have acted less than ideal in their eyes. But I often wonder how the accusers think followers of Christ are supposed to act...

“And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great so that you will be a blessing.” — Genesis 12:2 The subject of this promise in Genesis 12:2 was the patriarch Abraham, from whom the people of Israel are descended and through whom God promised to bring blessing to all the world (v. 3). It would be no overstatement to say that Genesis 12:1-3 establishes the trajectory of the entire rest of the Bible from that point forward...

POPLAR BLUFF — Summer 2024 is predicted to bring on the heat which can put extra stress on your heart. For every degree body temperature rises, the heart beats approximately 10 beats per minute faster, according to the National Institute of Health. That’s why in hot temperatures it becomes harder for the body to cool off, especially for those with chronic health conditions like heart disease, high cholesterol or atrial fibrillation (AFib)...

• St. vs. Jason Lee Smith - Exceeded Posted Speed Limit (Exceeded By 6-10 Mph) • St. vs. Eduardo Perez - Exceeded Posted Speed Limit (Exceeded By 20 - 25 Mph) • St. vs. Cathy Lee Cody - Exceeded Posted Speed Limit (Exceeded By 20 - 25 Mph) • St. vs. Joel David Bannister - Exceeded Posted Speed Limit (Exceeded By 16 - 19 Mph)...

On the evening hours of July 18, the Scott County Rural Fire Protection District was dispatched to a structure fire on County Road 518, according to Lt. Austin Novak. First arriving-companies found heavy fire involvement to a large shop structure known as the Lentz Auction building, immediately upgrading the incident to a second alarm, he said. ...