Bernie News

Gov. Jay Nixon today announced that the state of Missouri will reimburse communities in Stoddard County and across southern Missouri more than $4 million for expenses incurred as a result of a devastating ice storm in January 2009.

A number of cases The Daily Statesman has followed in recent months were in court Wednesday before Presiding Judge Stephen Sharp.

A Malden woman has been killed in an auto accident. It happened last night at 5:50 on Route a oeJa , just south of U.S. 62 in New Madrid County.

Meth, pot seized in two local busts A Wednesday release from Stoddard County Sheriff Carl Hefner reports the arrest of five individuals on drug charges.

What a difference a year makes. Last season's MorseLife dinner dance was more funereal than festive, occurring on the very day that Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme collapsed and took with it the nest eggs of many of the people in the room.

A busy month of December saw nine separate drug-related arrests by the Stoddard County Sheriff's Department, according to a release from the Bloomfield office Tuesday.

A Missouri State Highway Patrol helicopter from Troop C in St. Louis entered the search effort Monday for Shirley Stratton, the Bernie, Mo., woman who was swept into the flood waters along Route U about one mile west of the Powe community early on Christmas Eve morning.

Searchers in southeast Missouri continue to look for a 39-year-old woman who was pulled under water after her car ended up in a ditch during a Christmas Eve storm.

Divers continued in Saturday's frigid temperatures to comb the waters of a drainage ditch on the south side of U Highway near the small community of Powe, searching for Shirley Stratton, a Bernie woman who was swept into the flood waters along the highway early Thursday morning while on her way to her job in Poplar Bluff.

With filing now in full swing for the April municipal election, a number of people have filed for available positions throughout the county.

Issue with hiring volleyball coach discussed In a lengthy meeting of Bernie Schools' Board of Education this week, it was decided that with the start of the 2010-11 school year, middle and high school students would be reverting back to the traditional seven-period school day.

The cheering grew louder and louder in an immense display of school pride, as about 35 middle schools throughout the state were introduced by their representatives.

Most Americans give little thought to their grocery experience short of keeping track of the amount spent.

The Bernie Board of Aldermen voted to purchase a 2009 Chevrolet 2500 service truck at a cost of $24,586 at a special meeting Tuesday night.

Bernie School Board members voted this week to relinquish their ties to the Malden Alternative School beginning with the 2010-11 school year, and instead conduct their own in-house classroom for students assigned to in-school suspension .

The Bernie Board of Aldermen worked through a brief meeting Monday night that included Christmas bonuses to employees, hiring a caterer for the annual employee Christmas party and hiring Charles Youngblood, Jr.

2, 1984 With varying degrees of damage to businesses and temporary traffic problems, west Cape Girardeau spent most of yesterday treading water after receiving a record rainfall; several businesses along Kingshighway from Bloomfield Road to just north of Independence Street, and a section of Kingshighway near Route W received water damage when ...

Noreen Hyslop photo Ginger Beaird and Ashley Robertson, both Bernie teachers, have received notification of honors that will place them at national and international levels of learning.

Although figures will not be in until early next spring, Supt. John Boyd warned his Bernie School District board members during their regular monthly meeting Monday night that state funding is projected to drop for the 2010-1011 school year, possibly as much as 25 percent.

Michael Hargrove, Assistant Fire Chief, and Mike Campbell, firefighter, stand beside the Vanduser fire truck after the Bell City Community Day parade on Saturday, Sept.