Stories from Tuesday, November 17, 2009

WYATT -- Fred E. Bender, 75, died Nov. 16, 2009, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete with McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

GIDEON -- Allene McCaskill, 94, died Nov. 15, 2009, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Landess Funeral Chapel in Malden. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

SIKESTON -- Donald Cameron, 70, formerly of Portageville, died Nov. 14, 2009, at Sikeston. Funeral arrangements are with the DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

sd_sports@yahoo.com SIKESTON -- The Sikeston Lady Bulldogs seventh and eighth grade basketball teams wrapped up the home portion of their season Monday night. The outcomes might have not been what the Sikeston faithful had hoped for, a 34-21 loss for the 7th grade and a 36-7 loss for the 8th, both to the Jackson Lady Indians...

sd_sports@yahoo.com SIKESTON -- Injuries are going to happen throughout the course of any season, especially during football season. The high-impact sport is the cause of many nagging injuries on a week-to-week basis as well as some season-ending ones as well...

michellef@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Although the University of Missouri at Columbia has a lot more than its athletic department to be proud of, sports are what often draws in the attention. And Mike Alden, athletic director, takes the opportunity to talk about sports and the university as a whole whenever possible. He and other members of the athletic staff were guests and speakers at Monday's Rotary Club meeting...

scottw@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Sikeston's Leaf Collection Program will begin as soon as it is dry enough to begin collecting them. "Our collection program was to have started today," Steve Lee, street superintendent, said Monday. "The rain caused us to hold off."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - A St. Louis man who took part in a mortgage fraud scheme involving the sale of residential real estate in Sikeston will spend 11 years in federal prison. Russell Todd McBride of Creve Coeur was sentenced Monday to 135 months on a 34-count indictment for his involvement in the scheme and turned over to the custody of the United States Marshals to begin serving his sentence, according to a news release Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap...