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GOING BENEATH THE SURFACE Izaac Pursley faces life his own way
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Searchers find bodies in Former judge hurricane-stricken town Marybelle Mueller dies She is remembered as the first female lawyer to serve as a judge in Missouri BY MARK BLISS
SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN Former Cape Girardeau County judge Marybelle Mueller, the first female lawyer to serve on the bench in Missouri, was remembered Friday as a judicial pioneer. Mueller of Jackson died Wednesday at Chateau Girardeau Health Center in Cape Girardeau. She was 91. Former federal judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr., who grew up in Cape Gi-
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Hector Morales sits on a debris pile Friday near his home, which was destroyed by Hurricane Michael, in Mexico Beach, Florida. “I have nothing else to do. I’m just waiting,” said Morales as he wondered what he will do next. “I lost everything.”
SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO BEACH, Fla. — Search-and-rescue teams found at least one body in Mexico Beach, the ground-zero town nearly obliterated by Hurricane Michael, an official said Friday as the scale of the storm’s fury became ever clearer. The death toll across the South stood at 14 including the victim discovered in Mexico Beach.
Miami fire chief Joseph Zahralban, leader of a search-and-rescue unit that went into the flattened town, said: “We have one confirmed deceased and are working to determine if there are others.” Zahralban said searchers were trying to determine whether that person had been alone or was part of a family. Zahralban spoke as his team — which included a dog — was winding down its twoday search of Mexico Beach, the town of about 1,000 peo-
ple nearly wiped off the map when Michael blew ashore there Wednesday with devastating 155 mph winds. Blocks and blocks of homes were demolished, reduced to splintered lumber or mere concrete slabs by the most powerful hurricane to hit the continental U.S. in nearly 50 years. As the catastrophic damage across the Florida Panhandle came into view 48 hours after the hurricane struck, there was little doubt the death toll would rise.
How high it might go was unclear. But authorities scrapped plans to set up a temporary morgue, suggesting they had yet to see mass casualties. State officials said by one count, 285 people in Mexico Beach defied mandatory evacuation orders and stayed behind. Some of them successfully rode out the storm. It was unclear how many of the others might have gotten out at the last minute. See MICHAEL, Page 4A
See MUELLER, Page 4A
Candidates at odds on issues in Dist. 147 state House race BY MARK BLISS
BY RUSS BYNUM AND BRENDAN FARRINGTON
rardeau, said Mueller was a “fine person” who entered the legal proMarybelle fession Mueller at a time when few women were lawyers. Limbaugh said he and Mueller were students at the University of Missouri Law School in Columbia in
Republican state Rep. Kathy Swan and Democratic challenger Renita G r e e n disag ree on everything from how to draw legislative Kathy Swan districts to medical marijuana. Swan of Cape Girardeau, who was first elected to the
District 147 House seat in 2012, is seeking her fourth, two-year term in the Nov. 6 election. Swan, who formerly served on the Cape Girardeau City Council and the local school board, wants to Renita Green repeal the prevailing-wage law, and opposes See 147TH, Page 4A
Lovin’ life in spite of lymphoma Noreen Hyslop was the longtime managing editor of The Dexter Statesman. She’s also a cancer survivor. Hyslop was diagnosed with stage IV non-Hodgkins small B cell lymphocytic lymphoma early this year and received treatment at the Southeast Cancer Center. This summer when she went back for scans, she showed no signs of lymphoma. Read more on page 3.
Noreen Hyslop, Cancer Survivor
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