SIKESTON — Sikeston R-6 School District announced on Friday Garrett Cooper will be the next assistant principal at the Junior High. The district began the task of searching for a new assistant principal after the promotion of current Assistant Principal Crystie Ressel...

SIKESTON — New mother Tate Warren of Sikeston will celebrate her first Mother’s Day on Sunday, but her journey to motherhood status wasn’t without its challenges. Warren and her husband, Phillip, tried to get pregnant for three years and suffered a miscarriage along the way before their daughter, Sawyer Raye Warren, was born at 2:02 p.m. March 1 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

While the Sikeston Cinema Grill has been open since September, only a few new major movies have been released during the pandemic. But as summer approaches that is about to change. The Sikeston Cinema Grill reopened on Sept. 3, 2020, but the blockbuster releases that the public flocks to have been put on hold. Only a few major films like “Tenet,” “Godzilla v. King Kong” and the recently released “Mortal Kombat,” have been released...

At about 10 p.m. May 2, 2011, the night sky over a portion of Southeast Missouri lit up as explosions obliterated a levee holding back the bulging Mississippi River. The concussions rang through the region. A collective sigh of relief floated up from Cairo, Illinois. And those who lived and worked on the 130,000 acres making up Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in Mississippi County, Missouri, watched as the floodwaters came...

This is the 16th in a series of articles with Kellerman Foundation for Historic Preservation board chairman Frank Nickell, an emeritus faculty member of Southeast Missouri State University, commenting on Show Me State history on the 200th anniversary of Missouri being received as America’s 24th state in 1821...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Two men were taken into custody Thursday by the Drug Enforcement Administration after being indicted on federal drug charges. Ronnie Moreland, 59, of Bertrand and Paul Hale, 52, of Benton were federally indicted Tuesday on four counts of distribution of, possession with Intent to Distribute, and Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, according to Mississippi County Sheriff Britton Ferrell...

SIKESTON — While some area high school seniors are preparing to graduate in the coming days and weeks, others are receiving their diplomas as early as this week. Bell City High School was among the first, if not the first, area high schools to graduate its class of 2021. Graduation was set for Thursday in the high school’s gymnasium...

SIKESTON — Due to the weather forecast on Saturday, the Wing Fling and live music scheduled for Saturday at Sikeston’s Legion Park has been postponed. “We felt this was the best choice since the rain would put the sound equipment at risk for damage, participants would potentially be in danger with storms and the public would be less likely to attend and sample the wings if storms were possible,” said Jason Davis, executive director of Historic Downtown Sikeston. ...