Stories from Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Employees of Rednour Steel Erectors of Cutler, Ill., work on the steel structure for the new SEMO Health Building along Highway 61 in New Madrid on Monday. It will include 11 exam rooms, rooms where staff can meet with patients, offices and an x-ray room when completed...

MARSTON, Mo. — Magnitude 7 Metals is closing its doors, at least for the foreseeable future. In a statement issued Wednesday, Jan. 24, to the 400-plus employees, the company announced it was curtailing operations over the next three to five days. Greg Lester, a spokesman for Mag 7, provided the following statement from the company:...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — A Cape Girardeau, Missouri, man faces charges for the New Year's Day murder of a Caruthersville, Missouri, man in Charleston. Jimmy Hudson III, 18, of Cape Girardeau is charged with first degree murder, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance, according to Charleston Department of Public Safety Director Robert Hearnes...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — When putting together the budgets for the city of New Madrid and the Municipal Light and Power, City Administrator Aaron Griffin said he and the Council had two goals – to improve infrastructure and to maintain the current infrastructure...

It seems the recent letter to the editor caused someone to get their panties in a wad. At least the person who wrote that letter had the nerve to sign their name. Thank you, sir, for that letter. I agree with it and so did millions of others who want to see these liberal commies stoped. The response to that letter was like all the other comments this person has submitted — full of hate and venom, accusations and Democratic baloney. Not one word of proof was given against Trump, only accusations brought by liberal Trump haters. Oh, P.S. Don’t forget to take your meds.

NEW MADRID, Mo. — With his first year as New Madrid’s city administrator complete, Aaron Griffin described it as a of year of learning. “I have definitely learned that operating a city is very complex,” he said. “There are so many things that go on behind the scenes to maintain a functioning community. Learning how all the different departments function together has been very interesting.”...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - On the afternoon of Jan. 16, an elderly woman was brought to the police department by two residents who found her stranded in a car near LaForge. The woman’s car had slid off the road, down an embankment and was stuck in the snow at the bottom of the embankment...

SIKESTON — Rhonda Gayle Wilkins, 49, died Jan. 24, 2024, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Sikeston.

SIKESTON — Phyllis Joan Reeves Frederick, age 82, died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2024, at her home in Sikeston. Born July 22, 1941, at East Prairie, Missouri, to the late John Elec and Myrtle Bea Williams Reeves, she was a graduate of East Prairie Schools.