Stories from Tuesday, October 17, 2023

NEW MADRID, Mo. — The investigation into a break-in of a local pharmacy continues. The night of Monday, Oct. 16 suspects made entry into the New Madrid Pharmacy, 457 Main St. in New Madrid, by cutting a hole in an exterior wall. The suspects were careful to keep movement and debris hidden behind the building and were believed to have had accomplices acting as lookouts during the incident, authorities said...

SIKESTON — An officer-involved shooting that resulted in a Delta man's death is under investigation in Sikeston. At about 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety responded to 153 Murray Lane near the former Kingshighway mall location, where an Alcoholics Anonymous group meeting was in progress with about 10 people in attendance. ...

SIKESTON — Ival Karnes, 82, died Oct. 17, 2023, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

HARLINGEN, Texas — Our amazing and loving father, Joe Hooks Jr., passed away peacefully on Oct. 6, 2023, in Harlingen, Texas, at the age of 98 years, 9 months. Joe was born in Dexter, Missouri, to parents Joe Hooks Sr. and Tinny Ann Pasley Hooks. Joe graduated from Essex High School in 1943 and promptly joined the U.S. ...

SIKESTON, Mo. — Ival Gene Karnes, age 83, passed away on Oct. 17, 2023, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. He was born on Oct. 25, 1940, in Antlers, Oklahoma, to the late Lester and Fannie Iola Turner Karnes. On Nov. 19, 1959, in Crowder, Missouri, he married Geraldine Scott Karnes, who survives of the home in Sikeston...

SIKESTON — Willine Miller, 101, died Oct. 17, 2023, at her home in Sikeston, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

DELTA, Mo. — George Walter Holland, son of the late George and Vivian (Boshell) Holland, was born on Oct. 5, 1954, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed his life on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, at the age of 69 years. He was a former machinist for Southeast Missouri Machine Shop in Cape Girardeau, Missouri; veteran of the United States Army, and a resident of Delta, Missouri...

SIKESTON —  Get ready for some spooky strides at this year’s Sikeston Bootheel Counseling Services 14th Annual Goblin Gallop 5K and 1-mile fun run/walk.  This year’s event will take place Oct. 28, and Jennifer Hartlein, director of fund development and public relations at Bootheel Counseling Services in Sikeston, said the event is a rain or shine family event, with the road route beginning and ending at Bootheel Counseling Services. ...

SIKESTON — The Morehouse Fire Department is going spookier for Halloween weekend this year, putting on their own haunted house. The haunted firehouse will be Friday, Oct. 27 and Saturday, Oct. 28 in the old fire station in Morehouse, which is next door to the new fire station at 105 E. Beech St., according to James Whitley, fire chief...

SIKESTON — A fun-filled Saturday evening is being held for individuals who have fostered children in the past or are currently fostering children by Foster Hope, a more recent branch of the faith-based ministry Spread Hope Now. Meredyth McKelvey, director of Foster Hope, said for almost 18 months, an unofficial group of people who have a heart for adoption, local children and foster care have been gathering in an unofficial capacity. ...

Clay Nowlin drives his cotton picker through a field just south of New Madrid. The cotton harvest began at the end of September and was projected at 25% complete on Oct. 13, 2023. The USDA is rating 50% of the local crop as “good to excellent.”