Around Southeast Missouri 2/21/07

Teen gets 25 years in Poplar Bluff killing

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff, Mo., teenager was sentenced Feb. 13 to five years in prison for the shooting death of a local man. Dwayne Burrage, 19, was convicted in December of the second-degree murder of Joseph L. Bartlett, 31, on Aug. 22, 2005. He was also charged and convicted with armed criminal action in December. Burrage was given 20 years on the murder charge and five for the armed criminal action charge.

-- Daily American Republic, Poplar Bluff

Man sentenced for raping 13-year-old

KENNETT, Mo. -- Timmy A. Cave, 32, of the 1600 block of County Road 470, was sentenced Feb. 14 to 15 years in prison for raping a girl under age 14 on Dec. 25, 2005. The sentence was part of a plea bargain, said Butler County prosecutor Kevin Barbour. Cave was reportedly convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in Tennessee in 1998.

-- Poplar Bluff Daily American Republic