ONE DIES, ONE HURT IN AREA ACCIDENTS

The Labor Day weekend began in Southeast Missouri with two accidents, one a fatality.

David G. Moore, 31, of Dexter was killed in a one-vehicle accident just after midnight Saturday morning on U.S. 60, one-tenth of a mile from Dexter.

Moore was driving a 1991 Chevrolet, which traveled off the roadway and overturned.

Gregory J. Ormsby, age 28, of Fairdealing, was taken by air ambulance to Elvis Presley Trauma Center in Memphis after a one-vehicle accident on Ripley Country Road 142, seven miles east of Doniphan.

The 1998 Ford driven by Ormsby ran off the road, struck a tree and overturned.