Stories from Thursday, February 29, 2024

SIKESTON — A Puxico, Missouri, man was killed and a Scott City, Missouri, man injured in a two-vehicle crash early Wednesday, Feb. 28 in New Madrid County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 9:11 a.m. on US Highway 60, one mile west of Sikeston, as the northbound vehicle driven by Jerry L. Jones, 39, of Puxico pulled into the path of the westbound vehicle driven by Harold J. Crail, 65, of Scott City...

SIKESTON — Filing for the Aug. 6 Primary Elections just began Tuesday, Feb. 27, and races are already forming in some counties. In Scott County, offices up for election are first and second district commissioners, sheriff, assessor, public administrator and coroner...

BENTON, Mo. —Many bridges in Scott County are either condemned or in an unsafe condition, and Scott County Presiding Commissioner Danny Tetley emphasized his concerns and the importance of repairing the bridges. Tetley said one of the county’s currently condemned bridges, located off County Road 468, was built in 1962. Tetley said the bridge, along with other old bridges in the county, has deteriorated over time...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – A jury on Wednesday, Feb. 28 found a former U.S. Postal Service letter carrier guilty of charges accusing him of stealing and failing to deliver customers’ mail. After a trial lasting less than two days, Robert Gafford, 33, of Jackson, Missouri, was found guilty of one count of delaying or destroying mail and one count of embezzlement of mail. ...

SIKESTON — City of Sikeston officials met with the skateboarding community to discuss ways to improve the skate park in the recreational complex. Jay Lancaster, director of Sikestons Public Works, shared his thoughts and reasoning with everyone in attendance at the Tuesday, Feb. 27 meeting at the Clinton Building in Sikeston...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Marshall Eugene “Jack” Feezor, age 79, of Charleston entered into his eternal home, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, surrounded by family at his home. Born May 4, 1944, at Cairo, Illinois, to the late Marshall M. “Buck” Feezor and Audrey Elizabeth Farrenburg Feezor, Jack was a 1962 graduate of Anniston High School. ...

SIKESTON — Leatha Evelyn Jones, age 90, passed away Feb. 28, 2024, at her home in Sikeston. She was born on Jan. 10, 1934, in Canalou, Missouri, to the late Abraham and Mary Elizabeth Scott Landers. On June 24, 1956, in Canalou, at the First Baptist Church she married Jerry Rodney Jones who preceded her in death on June 10, 2004...