Stories from Friday, January 19, 2024

Recently I made a quick trip to Glendive, Montana. In three days I made the long round trip. It was tiring, but I was able to see parts of this nation I had never seen before. A part of my drive took me through the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota, which encompasses part of the Badlands. The scenery was breathtaking...

“Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, [Jesus] saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 17 And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” 18 And immediately they left their nets and followed him” Mark 1:16-18 (ESV)...

I thought the House of Representatives in Washington was there to make laws for the rest of the people instead of bringing people in there and destroying other people’s lives just to give them some kind of a political advantage. They need to stop destroying American citizens’ lives. Thank you.

SIKESTON — January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about this crime and educating others on how to stop it, and the Missouri Department of Transportation has joined the fight, promising to help identify and eradicate human trafficking...

SIKESTON — Spread Hope Now Warming Center in Sikeston has been open through the night and will continue to do so until the frigid temperatures rise.  This week, warming centers and shelters have opened across the state of Missouri as temperatures have been freezing and below-freezing...

MILLERSVILLE, Mo. — Timothy Wayne Warner, 48, died Jan. 17, 2024, at his home in Millersville. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston, Missouri.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Cape Girardeau man has been charged with the unlawful use of a weapon after allegedly threatening hospital security with a handgun. Police say Quintayus Moore Jr., 21, committed crimes involving a gun while he was being escorted from a Cape Girardeau hospital on Thursday, Jan. 11...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri’s 2023-2024 deer-hunting season ended Jan. 15 with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reporting a preliminary record-setting total deer harvest for the season of 326,026. This year’s new harvest record surpasses the one set in 2006 of 325,457...

SIKESTON — Staff with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety, along with city staff and officials with Sikeston BMU and Sikeston Public Schools, took part in an executive kickoff briefing for the new ShotSpotter program Wednesday, Jan. 17. The ShotSpotter program, through SoundThinking, is a gunshot detection program that enables rapid response to gunfire, 80% of which is not reported to 911.  ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Villa Grimes, 90, died Jan. 18, 2024, at her home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston, Missouri.

SIKESTON — Barbara Britt, 61, died Jan. 19, 2024, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

PUXICO, Mo. – Celebrate the majestic bald eagle with the Missouri Department of Conservation, or MDC, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Friends of Mingo Swamp, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, World Bird Sanctuary, and Puxico School District during free-to-attend Eagle Days events on Feb. 3 in Puxico...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — A Lilbourn man entered a not guilty plea in connection to the fatal shooting of a Howardville woman. Shaundale T. Maxwell, 45, who is charged with second degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action, discharge/shoot firearm at or from motor vehicle/shot at person – persistent offender, unlawful possession of a firearm and tampering with physical evidence in a felony prosecution, entered the plea on Thursday, Jan. 18 before Associate Circuit Judge Brandon M. Sanchez...

SIKESTON —The Sikeston Regional Chamber and Area Economic Development Corp. kicked off the new year with its first luncheon Thursday, Jan. 18 at the Clinton Building in Sikeston. During the luncheon, Kathy Medley, executive vice president of the Sikeston Regional Chamber, discussed several major events in 2024, including the Balloon Festival, Tourist Award, Total Eclipse of the Park and the Veterans Project. ...

SIKESTON — Bringing brainpower and fun together, the Sikeston Middle School Student Council will host a trivia night next month. Set for 6 p.m. Feb. 10, the trivia night will take place in the Sikeston Middle School cafeteria. Heather Sapp, a sixth grade teacher at Sikeston Middle School, said this is the second year the Student Council will host a trivia might...

SIKESTON — Daris Doyle Burgess, age 88, died at Missouri Delta Medical Center on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Daris was born Sept. 29, 1935, in Newport, Arkansas. He moved to Sikeston as a small child. He ran the Burgess Band and Ice Comapany and had a Tom’s route. He served in the Navy as a CS3. He was a devout member of the fellowship Baptist Church of Sikeston.