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Charleston overcomes lackluster showing, defeats Doniphan 66-44
(High School Sports ~ 01/03/17)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- It wasn't quite the showing Doniphan wanted against one of the top teams in the SEMO Conference. Then again, it wasn't quite the display Charleston wanted either after a big tournament win and one of its most anticipated games of the season on the horizon...
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Victim of suspected elderly abuse dies
(Local News ~ 01/03/17)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Theresa Smothers died early Saturday, less than two days after police found the malnourished 87-year-old, lying naked in a bed soaked in fecal matter and urine at the home of her daughter. Her daughter now faces charges of voluntary manslaughter...
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Signing up for another term
(Local News ~ 01/03/17)
New Madrid County officials elected in November took their oaths of office Tuesday morning at the Court House. Signing their official paper work are, from left, George DeLisle, coroner; Paula Scobey, public administrator; Don Day, second district commissioner, and Bobby Aycock Jr., first district commissioner. Pictured in the back ground waiting their turn are Jacob Johnson, assessor, and Terry Stevens, sheriff...
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James Woodson
(Obituary ~ 01/03/17)
HAYWOOD CITY, Mo. -- James Woodson, 87, died Dec. 30, 2016, at his home. Born May 24, 1929, in Grove Hill, Ala., to the late Beauty Chapman Caves and Frank Woodson, he worked many years for Moore Farms and retired from Dean Farms in 2008. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he was a member of Harmony Lodge No. 40 AF&AM and New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church where he served as a deacon...
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Gerald Whitmore
(Obituary ~ 01/03/17)
ORAN, Mo. - Gerald Eugene Whitmore, 79, died Jan. 3, 2017, at his family home. Born May 20, 1937, in St. Louis, to the late John and Marie Clark Whitmore, he retired from food service with Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War...
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Bob Porter
(Obituary ~ 01/03/17)
SIKESTON - Robert "Bob" Porter, 86, died Jan. 2, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete with McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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Deema Atteberry
(Obituary ~ 01/03/17)
CHARLESTON, Mo. - Deema Lane Boyd Atteberry, a resident of Charleston, passed away peacefully at the age of 98, surrounded by her family on Dec. 27, 2016, in St. Louis, Mo. She was born June 1, 1918 in Crosno, Mo., to the late Ralph A. and Bertha Hicks Boyd, the middle child in a family of seven children...
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Sally True
(Obituary ~ 01/03/17)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Sally O'Connor True, 92, died Jan. 2, 2017, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born May 18, 1925, to the late Joseph Daniel and Ollie Florence Roach O'Connor, she was a homemaker and member of the Anniston High School class of 1943. She was also a member of the First Baptist Church in East Prairie...
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Larry Lofton Sr.
(Obituary ~ 01/03/17)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Larry Nelson Lofton Sr., 66, died Jan. 1, 2017, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Feb. 28, 1950, in Florence, Ala., to the late Rudy and Myrtle Hicks Lofton, he was employed by Jack Farms and was a member of the Powerhouse of God Church of East Prairie...
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