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Judge weighs concerns over deputy video in death of Stoddard County dog (5/7/24)BLOOMFIELD — A Bloomfield man faces numerous felony charges after being taken into custody in the early hours of Friday morning after a frantic emergency call of shots fired was made. According to the probable cause affidavit, an emergency phone call was made at 1:05 a.m. Friday in regards to shots being fired at a vehicle. The report states deputies arrived at the scene and gathered information from the reporting parties, who explained the incident had started inside Reynolds’ residence...
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Bloomfield man arrested with multiple felony charges (5/6/24)BLOOMFIELD — A Bloomfield man faces numerous felony charges after being taken into custody in the early hours of Friday morning after a frantic emergency call of shots fired was made. According to the probable cause affidavit, an emergency phone call was made at 1:05 a.m. Friday in regards to shots being fired at a vehicle. The report states deputies arrived at the scene and gathered information from the reporting parties, who explained the incident had started inside Reynolds’ residence...
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Prayer held at Dexter City Hall (5/3/24)Dexter’s religious leaders were welcomed by song from Dimension Church, Pastor Chris Masters and Kristin Masters as they gathered Thursday at city hall to pray. Congress, by law, has called upon the president of the United States to issue a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as “National Day of Prayer.” President Joseph R. Biden Jr. proclaimed May 2 as that day...
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Updates help preserve Dexter Twin Cinema (4/30/24)It was exactly four years ago that life as we knew it would forever be altered by a worldwide virus. Careers suddenly became remote, masks were mandated, and the world struggled to comprehend this atypical existence. COVID ripped its way through families and businesses. Some pressed on, while others faded out of existence...
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Richland youth heads to nationals (4/30/24)“Only by understanding the rights we have are we able to protect them,” Richland student Jaycee Arnold wrote in an essay that has earned the sixth grader a spot in a national competition. Arnold entered her essay, “What the Bill of Rights Means to Me,” in a local competition hosted by the Dexter Elks Lodge for grades fifth through eighth...
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U.S. 60 to be reduced (4/30/24)Highway 60 in Butler and Stoddard counties will be reduced as contractor crews remove and replace islands at various intersections. As work is underway, eastbound and westbound Route 60 will be reduced to one lane in each direction in the vicinity of the intersection...
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U.S. 60 in Butler, Stoddard counties reduced for island replacement (4/29/24)Highway 60 in Butler and Stoddard counties will be reduced as contractor crews remove and replace islands at various intersections. As work is underway, eastbound and westbound Route 60 will be reduced to one lane in each direction in the vicinity of the intersection...
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Highway 60 to be reduced Sunday, Monday (5/2/24)U.S. Bus 60 in Stoddard County Reduced for Culvert Replacement Business Route 60 in Stoddard County will be reduced as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a culvert under the roadway. This section of roadway is located from Cooper Street to One Mile Road in Dexter, Missouri...
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Cicadapocalypse or Cicada-notcalypse? (4/30/24)Cicada Broods XIX and XIII will emerge together for the first time since 1803. They come to the surface after a 13 and 17-year period of gestation in the ground respectively and cover an area stretching from southern Wisconsin to parts of Alabama. It should be noted the two broods do not overlap in territory...
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Public warned: Scammer pretends to be Dexter Police Department (5/5/24)The Dexter Police Department has received information that scammers are calling posing as a member of the police department. “The suspect(s) in these types of cases are sophisticated and your caller ID will show the call as coming from the local Police Department,” according to a release from Chief Hank Trout. ...