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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...

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 — 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 — 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. ...

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...

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 — 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...

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...

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.”...

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...