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BENTON, Mo. — A former worship leader at a Poplar Bluff church faces a child pornography charge in Scott County after sexually-explicit videos of young girls were found on his cellphone. Zachary Lee Moore, 24, of Sikeston, Missouri, is free on bond after being charged with the Class B felony of first-degree promoting child pornography...

SIKESTON — Following a month of ongoing concerns by students, staff, administrators and parents that school meals were not up to standard, the Sikeston R-6 School District canceled on Thursday the contract with its current food service provider. At the recommendation of Sikeston R-6 Superintendent Dr. ...

BENTON, Mo. — A Sikeston, Missouri, man who was exonerated for murder and now facing a felony charge of first-degree assault was ordered bound over to circuit court following a preliminary hearing in Scott County’s Associate Court. David Lee Robinson, 52, appeared Monday in custody by video conference, and his attorney Stephen Walsh appeared in person before Division 5 Associate Judge Robert Zachary Horack on charges of first degree domestic assault causing serious physical injury and tamper or attempt to tamper with a victim in a felony prosecution, according to online court records.. ...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. — Two people are in custody following what authorities term as the “savage” murder of a Morehouse woman. Ashley M. Riggins, 34, and Rayshand C. Lyons, 27, of Morehouse are charged with first degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action, first degree robbery, two counts of child abuse, tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse in connection with the stabbing death of 73-year-old Dottie Lutes of Morehouse. Riggins is Lutes’s granddaughter...

SIKESTON — A group of Scott County women set out for a fun, girls getaway to the beach, but instead, they returned home early Thursday as survivors of Hurricane Sally. After being assured and re-assured by their resort and travel agent they would experience only rain and some wind, retired-co-workers of Scott County R-4 “Kelly” Schools and friends Gail Riley and Debbie Nelson of Blodgett, Missouri, and Dorothy Lewer and Cindy Powell of rural Sikeston set out early Monday for their planned week-long stay in Orange Beach, Alabama.. ...

SIKESTON — The Sikeston R-6 Board of Education president discussed the school district’s process to create its COVID-19 reopening procedures but also plans to start the dialogue for the state to make students essential. “Earlier this year, the Sikeston school board made a very difficult decision to close our school after Gov. ...

SIKESTON — Ladies of the Riday Morning Prayer Group met Sept. 11 at the home of Jane and Ralph Boyer in Sikeston to celebrate the 48th anniversary of the group’s beginning. The group’s first meeting was held Friday, Sept. 1, 1972, at the home of Jean (Joe) McCord on Green Meadows Drive. ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation conducted a fishing survey at the Sikeston Recreation Complex Lake Monday morning. The survey was done to determine the fish population and the types of fish currently in the lake. The survey will the MDC start managing the lake in the near future as part of the Community Assistant Program (CAP)...

SIKESTON — With the COVID-19 pandemic canceling all of Historic Downtown Sikeston’s events that were planned through September, the group is not sitting back being idle despite there being just a few months left in 2020. “I decided we could do one of two things,” Jason Davis, director of Historic Downtown Sikeston told those in attendance at Thursday’s Sikeston Regional Chamber luncheon. ...

SIKESTON — Forms to compete in the 76th Annual Sikeston American Legion Cotton Carnival pageants are due by 5 p.m. Friday. As of Monday, there were 10 contestants for Miss Sikeston, three or four for Miss Cotton Carnival, 10 for Junior Miss Sikeston and five boys and five girls for Little Mr. and Miss Cotton Carnival, according to pageant committee member Kelly Williams...