Dexter, Missouri - The Bootheel Solid Waste Management District will be sponsoring an ewaste Recycling Day on Tuesday, September 6th at the bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission offices on E. North Main Street.

The Drop-Off Location is 105 E. North Main (located in the old Armory Building)

The management district obtained grand funding from the Missouri department of Natural Resources to help cover the cost for residents in disposing of these e-waste items.  As a result, no fees will be charged.

The Bootheel Solid Waste Management District has sponsored the recycling event in the past with great success.  It can be difficult to dispose of many electrical items such as computers and televisions and these events provide an opportunity for residents to dispose of unwanted electrical items.

The following items will be accepted:

1.  Computer equipment, servers, desktop PCs, laptops, Netbooks, Apple computers, tablets, keyboards, speakers, modems, routers, cables, software and all accessories.

2.  Video and photography, Blu Ray players, HD DVD, DVD, Laserdisc, VHS, Betamax, DVRs, cable and satellite receivers and digital and film cameras.

3.  Audio-Receivers, amplifiers, speakers, MP3 players, CD players, cassette decks, turntables, 8-Track equipment, boom boxes, microphones, mixers, rack equipment and DAW.

4.  Appliances - washers, dryers,  microwaves, stoves, refrigerators, air conditioners and water heaters.

5.  Office - Printers, copiers, scanners, fax machines, and ink/toner cartridges.

6.  Miscellaneous - lead batteries for cars, tractors, boats, rechargeable batteries, battery chargers, and wires.

For more information please contact the Willard Adams at Bootheel Solid Waste Management District at (573) 614-5178.

Dexter, Missouri -  Saint Francis Healthcare System is asking residents to help warm those around us in need. This September, the community can donate new or gently-used coats for kids through Saint Francis to directly benefit The Salvation Army in Cape Girardeau and other charitable organizations throughout the region.

The donated coats will provide a tremendous benefit to area kids in the colder months just around the corner. Any help that the community can provide for this cause will be extremely beneficial. The Salvation Army traditionally hosts coat drives in November and Saint Francis’ collection will go toward that drive.
 
“The Salvation Army does so much good in communities worldwide,” says Debbie Gibson, manager of Saint Francis’ Volunteer Services and Pastoral Care. “We are honored to do our part to help, and invite everyone in and around Cape Girardeau to do the same!”

Eight donation barrels are located on the Medical Center campus: outside the Chapel of Saint Francis, in Pastoral Care and at Entrances 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8. Donation barrels are also at various Saint Francis outreach clinics: Charleston Family Care, Farmington Physician Associates, Jackson Family Care, Kneibert Clinic in Poplar Bluff, Piedmont Physician Associates in Piedmont, Physicians Park Primary Care, Poplar Bluff Neurology Specialists, Sikeston Radiation Oncology and the Saint Francis Health Center in Dexter. Coats collected outside Cape Girardeau will go to local charities in the respective communities.

For more information about coat donation, please call 573-331-3996.

Saint Francis Medical Center is a 307-bed facility serving more than 713,000 people throughout Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. Guided by its mission to provide a ministry of healing and wellness inspired by its Christian philosophy and values, the Medical Center has become a progressive, innovative regional tertiary care referral center. Saint Francis’ major service lines, which have received national recognition, include the Neurosciences Institute; Orthopedic Institute; Family BirthPlace, featuring the region’s first Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Heart Hospital; Emergency and Level III Trauma Center; Cancer Institute; and Fitness Plus.

Sikeston, Missouri - The Missouri Highway Patrol is joining the effort to find a missing New Madrid County teen.

According to the missing person report, 14-year-old Christian Burton was last seen at her home in Sikeston, Missouri.

The missing person report said she was left alone at the home when her dad left for work at 6:50 Monday morning. She is home-schooled, and when her mom returned from work, she found Burton and her cell phone were missing.

She is about 5-foot tall, 90 pounds, with brown eyes and fair complexion. She has brown hair with blue and green highlighted tips. She was last seen wearing pajamas, but may now be wearing a black Pokemon shirt, blue jeans and black Converse tennis shoes.

Her mom told police that she had an online relationship in 2015 with an unknown 40-year-old man.

Police said they pinged her cell phone which placed it about 17 miles outside Lowry City in Western Missouri.

Anyone with information is asked to call the New Madrid County Sheriff's Department at (573) 748-2516.

MDC reminds dove hunters of 20 more hunting days this year and of numerous conservation areas for hunting.

Jefferson City, Missouri - With dove hunting season in Missouri opening Sept. 1, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reminds dove hunters of its more than 180 conservation areas around the state that allow dove hunting, including nearly 100 planted in crop fields that attract the popular game birds. Crops include sunflower, corn, millet, wheat, and buckwheat.

MDC is offering hunters 20 more days of dove hunting this fall. Mourning doves, Eurasian collared doves, and white-winged doves may be taken from Sept. 1 through Nov. 29 from one half hour before sunrise to sunset with a combined daily limit of 15 and a combined possession limit of 45 for all three species.

Get more information on dove hunting – including permit requirements, places to hunt, recipes, and more -- online at huntfish.mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/species/dove. Information on dove hunting is also available through MDC's "2016 Migratory Bird Hunting Digest" available starting in mid-August where hunting permits are sold.

FROM DEXTER POLICE DEPARTMENT!

UPDATE: 08/25/2015 3:35PM

Thanks to your tips, the subject has been identified as Edward Lusk. It was then determined that Lusk already had an active parole absconder warrant issued for his arrest.

After a manhunt that lasted most of the early afternoon, Lusk was apprehended at a residence in Dexter. Again, it was tips from citizens that allowed us to locate and arrest Lusk.