Stories from Thursday, June 22, 2023

SIKESTON — Charlie Robison, a 2023 Sikeston High School graduate and Delta Area Opportunity Economic Corp. employee, took part in a practical exercise pretending to be injured at the conclusion of the Tactical Combat Casualty Care training that DAEOC assisted in facilitating Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at the Bootheel Club House in Sikeston. ...

BENTON, Mo. — Parents who are searching for something fun and meaningful for their children to do this summer, may want to look into registering them for church camp. The Charleston Baptist Association in Benton, Missouri, located on Highway 77, across from Unity Baptist Church, is holding its annual church camps this summer in July...

The Sikeston Regional Chamber welcomed new member H2OS Trucking with a ribbon cutting on May 23. H2OS Trucking, LLC is a small trucking company whose owners are Kenneth D. Waters and Carolyn S. Waters, and they started their family-owned trucking company in 2013. H2OS Trucking LLC picks up and delivers freight throughout 48 states...

The Sikeston Regional Chamber held a ribbon cutting for one of its newest members, Hearts with Hooves. Hearts with Hooves Inc. is a program for kids, at-risk kids, foster kids, kinship kids, guardianship and adopted kids. They work on six areas of life skills as well as earned riding and fun activities. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — East Prairie High School has announced its fourth quarter honor roll for the 2022-2023 school year. 9th Grade High Honor Roll Cayden Adams, Addisyn Aters, Mick Bixler, Maison Blasingain, Alyssa Carlyle, Ella Dunn, Chloe Eschenweck, Emma Harper, Jaxee Henderson, Sophia Jordan, Cooper Knight, Kayleigh Lewis, Madyson Lewis, Eli Merideth, Ruthie Owens, Jack Pearson, Madison Powers, Kenzie Robison, Anna Sipp, Charlsea Thurman, Princess Tidwell,...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — East Prairie Middle School has announced its fourth quarter honor roll for the 2022-2023 school year. Fifth grade Camryn Arington, Kynleigh Avery, Ivie Baker, Lilah Beedle, Lexi Blasingain, Roy Blasingain, Bryce Bollinger, Timothy Bone, Trey Bright, Alyvia Brightman, Pacey Byassee, Anthony Carden, Jackson Carlyle, Nicholas Cogdill, Brodey Day, Cotton Day, Colter Dean, Mariah Devin, Kylianne Ditto, Serenity Duck, Jayson Evans, Levi Forbey, Riley Furgerson, Emma Gephart, Tildon Gladwell, Maxwell Grisham, Daxx Harper, Westin Henderson, Leveah Higgins, Chip Hill, Jamarion Holman,  Brody Jackson, Kyleah Jackson,  Brantley James, Dalila Jones, Brody Looney, Madilyn Love, Kimberly Mathis, Madison Mayabb, Lillian Meeks, Taryn Morris, Annah Myers, Noah Patrick, Linley Perdomo, Luis Perdomo, Hunter Grace Phillips, Whitleigh Pinzon, Nevaeh Poley, Chloe Presson, Navy Rendon, Mya Renfrow, Brenden Riggins, Samuel Scruggs, Rylan Shoffner, Hailey Smith, Kaylee Tatum, Angelina Thompson, Hunt Thurmond, Ava Wallace, Gavin Weyand, Lace Whybark, Briella Wilkerson, Camdyn Wilson. ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri spring semester 2023 dean’s list is now available. During the spring 2023 semester, 11,550 undergraduate students earned the academic distinction to be named to the dean’s list. This list includes international, U.S. and Missouri students. The Missouri list is broken down by county. Each county listing includes the cities within the county and the students named to the dean’s list from those cities...

JONESBORO, Ark. – Students on the Chancellor’s and Dean’s Lists for the spring 2023 semester at Arkansas State University have been announced. The lists recognize undergraduate students who achieved the highest grade-point averages while completing a minimum of 12 credit hours of study...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The following students have been named to the spring 2023 President’s List at Southeast Missouri State University. Students named to the list earned at least a 4.0 grade point average and completed at least 12 hours of standard graded credit in a semester...

The search for the missing submersible on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic neared the critical 96-hour mark Thursday when breathable air is expected to run out, reaching a vital moment in the intense effort to save the five people aboard...

SIKESTON — Martha Burchfield, 90, died June 21, 2023, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

SIKESTON – Southeast Missouri Food Bank, a member of the Feeding America nationwide-network of food banks, pantries and meal programs, has received a “Living Our Values” award from the national organization. The award was presented by Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, Feeding America’s CEO, at the Feeding America annual conference to 23 food banks and state associations that comprise the Disaster-Ready Midwest Region cohort for their efforts to better prepare food banks to respond to the needs of people and communities impacted by disasters.. ...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — A Poplar Bluff man has been arrested for second-degree murder in the death of his 5-week-old son.  Dustin Eugene Mason, 25, is accused of shaking the infant to the point that it caused death, Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs said Tuesday morning. ...