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SIKESTON — The cotton harvest is underway which also means it’s time for the 74th Annual Sikeston American Legion Cotton Carnival. The Henry Meldrum Post No. 114 of the American Legion’s annual fundraiser will run Tuesday through Saturday at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo grounds. “A Salute to American Legion Auxiliary” is this year’s theme...

SIKESTON — The 2018 parade grand marshal for the 74th Annual Cotton Carnival Parade will be Barbara “Babs” Tyrone of Sikeston. Set for 10 a.m. Sept. 29, this year’s parade theme is “A Salute to the American Legion Post 114 Auxiliary.” Born in Sikeston where she has lived most of her life, Tyrone is married to Gene Tyrone and has two children, Jessica Guzman of Sikeston and Joey Looney of Seattle, Wash. ...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — For more than seven decades Portageville residents have celebrated the arrival of the fall harvest season with the Soybean Festival. As the Sept. 29 opening nears, the planning and work is well underway. “For us, the Soybean Festival is a very big deal,” said Clint Klipfel, president of the Portageville Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the annual event. ...

Chester Cardwell works to put together part of the set for Miner Baptist Church’s upcoming Judgement House scheduled for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 3 and 11; 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 6 and 13; and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 7 and 14. The upcoming dramatic multi-scene, walk-through presentation about the truth of people’s choices and their consequences in life and thereafter is set to the theme of “Behind the Family Portrait. The reservation phone line, (573) 471-4266, opens Sept. 24...

Police are investigating a pedestrian’s death after she was struck by a vehicle Thursday in Sikeston.

The Stoddard County Fair kicked off Tuesday evening in Dexter, Mo., with the annual Stoddard County Fair Parade.

SIKESTON — The ladies behind the Sikeston Jaycees are serving up another helping of their favorite recipes along with rodeo history and fun facts in a new edition of their cookbook. In previous years, the Sikeston Jaycee ladies — wives, mothers, sisters, daughters and girlfriends of Jaycee members — compiled a cookbook with their favorite recipes to share with the community while raising money for a good cause...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — The Stoddard County Sheriff’s Department will soon see a new jailer and deputy after Monday’s county commission meeting. Sheriff Carl Hefner asked commissioners for permission to hire another jailer and road deputy to help alleviate overtime pay being accumulated and add safety to the jail...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — For most of us, buckling up and putting the phone down when driving or staying on the sidewalk while we’re out for a stroll are automatic safety habits. But did you know there is another real – and potentially life-threatening – hazard to drivers and pedestrians? It’s the danger we don’t often consider: driving or walking near train tracks...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — More than $1 million in grant funds will be sought to alleviate flooding in New Madrid. Following a public hearing, the city council gave its approval to seek a Community Development Block Grant for $1,109,808. The funds, if received, will be used for storm water improvements at three locations in the community: Kingshighway at Blades Drive, from Vandenvender to Mill Street and at the southern end of Mitchell Street...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. —A Stoddard County man was sentenced to 220 months in federal prison on child pornography charges. James M. Davenport, 28, of Puxico was sentenced on Monday following his guilty plea to the offense of receipt of child pornography, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Davenport appeared for his sentencing hearing before United States District Judge John A. Ross at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON — Fire crews battled a field and tractor fire along with triple-digit temperatures Monday in Scott County. At 11:45 a.m. Monday, crews with Miner Police Department, Sikeston Department of Public Safety and Scott County Rural Fire responded to a field and tractor fire in a salvage yard behind Double D Supply Co.,1078 US Highway 62, which is located just outside of Miner city limits, according to Miner Police Chief Chris Griggs. ...

SIKESTON — A Sikeston woman faces charges after allegedly stabbing and injuring another woman Saturday in Sikeston. Jasmine N. Stevenson, 28, of Sikeston is charged with first degree assault and armed criminal action, according to Sgt. Jon Broom, public information officer with Sikeston Department of Public Safety...

WYATT, Mo. — Three accidents in Southeast Missouri within one hour of each other left six people injured Friday afternoon. The first accident occurred at 3:10 p.m. on US 62, two miles east of Wyatt when a westbound vehicle driven by Carrie Prince, 30, of Clarksville, Tenn., ran off the right side of the roadway, went down an embankment and overturned...

According to Capt. Austin Henley with Sikeston Department of Public Safety, the accident occurred as the driver of the motorcycle was traveling northbound on Main Street and a vehicle turned into the path of the motorcycle. The motorcycle struck the side of the vehicle, causing the operator of the motorcycle to be ejected. He was transported to a local hospital for moderate injuries...

As Hurricane Florence approaches, area professionals are preparing to offer help where they can. Six linemen from the SEMO Electric Cooperative are leaving today for South Carolina at the request of South Carolina-based Santee Electric Cooperative. “Missouri is just answering the call,” said SEMO Electric Cooperative manager of external affairs Glen Cantrell Thursday...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — The City of East Prairie has announced the hiring of its new city manager. Dennis Presley of Carterville, lll., expects to start his new duties as city manager on Oct. 1, according to a news release issued Friday by East Prairie Mayor Kevin Mainord...

DEXTER, Mo. — Pam Garner is a woman with a big heart. She feels things deeply -- empathy, compassion, gratitude -- and because of that, one of her greatest satisfactions is being able to help those less fortunate. “When you have been on the receiving end of kindness and selfless giving, I think it is only natural to want to repay those gestures,” she explains. ...

SIKESTON — Two teams and four individuals will be inducted into the Sikeston R-6 Hall of Fame at Friday’s football game between the Sikeston Bulldogs and the Jackson Indians. The names of the 2018 inductees will be featured on the recognition board in the Field House. There are no 2018 Honor Wall inductees...

SIKESTON — The Sikeston Department of Public Safety is still seeking a suspect from a homicide on Aug. 23 after another suspect turned himself in on Tuesday. DeShauntay Lamar Craig, 19, of Sikeston, is still at large with arrest warrants for first degree murder, armed criminal action and first degree robbery through Scott County Circuit Court. ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — A Wisconsin man was killed in a one-vehicle accident on Interstate 57 Wednesday night. The accident occurred at 8:57 p.m., eight miles north of Charleston, when a southbound vehicle driven by Ronald Leonard, 72, of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, ran off the roadway and overturned. Leonard, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead by Mississippi County Coroner Terry Parker at 9:30 p.m...

SIKESTON — Sikeston fourth graders are learning about local history during the annual Fourth Grade Historical Interpretive Tour held at the Sikeston Depot Museum and Cultural Center. In conjunction with the Elementary division of the Sikeston Public and Private Schools, the Missouri Arts Council and the Sikeston Depot Museum and Cultural Center fourth graders are taking part in an educational program featuring the history of Sikeston...

Three have already been arrested in the homicide, including two placed in custody late last week.

SIKESTON — A Sikeston man faces felony charges for allegedly raping a juvenile. Billy Tillman, 40, is charged through Scott County on three counts of first degree rape, three counts of statutory sodomy and three counts of statutory rape, according to Sgt. Jon Broom, public information officer for Sikeston Department of Public Safety...

SIKESTON — Nobody’s alone; there is somebody who will walk beside you. That’s the message the newly organized group, Walk Bes;de Me, wants people to know. “It’s OK to feel down,” said McLane Barber of Sikeston, who helped start the group in July. “Everybody has moments of depression and feelings of hopelessness, and there are people there who love and will walk with them.”...