Stories from Tuesday, June 4, 2013

BENTON -- Republican candidate Jason Smith won the majority vote in Scott County Tuesday during the special election of the U.S. representative for Missouri's Eighth Congressional District. Smith received 2,603 votes followed by Democratic candidate and East Prairie resident Steve Hodges, who received 1,439 votes. Also receiving votes were Constitution Party candidate Doug Enyart with 117 and Libertarian candidate Bill Slantz with 72. There were also four write-in candidates...

CHARLESTON -- Steve Hodges of East Prairie carried his home county bringing in 59 percent of the votes cast in Mississippi County in the race to replace Jo Ann Emerson as the Eighth District's Congressional representative. Hodges, the Democrat's candidate, received 1,028 votes in Tuesday's special election...

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SIKESTON -- Shirley J. Tetley, 85, died June 3, 2013 at Clearview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

NEW MADRID -- Robert Joseph "Joe" Vann, 61, died June 1, 2013, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

SIKESTON -- Steven Anthony Worley, 60, died June 2, 2013, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- James Alfred "Jimmy" Tidwell, 63, formerly of East Prairie, Mo., died July 14, 2012, in Taipei. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

sports@standard-democrat.com RISCO -- The Tri-County summer baseball team, consisting of Risco, Gideon and Clarkton players, won and tied during a doubleheader against Campbell and Bernie Monday. In the first game, Tri-County tied 9-9 with Campbell in eight innings. Ace Armstrong threw all eight innings striking out eight. He also led Tri-County with three hits and three RBIs...

The Sikeston Area Youth Baseball league (SAYB) and the YMCA T-Ball league were in action Monday night at the Sikeston Complex. To view more photos from Monday's games, visit our photo galleries at www.standard-democrat.com.

SIKESTON -- A Sikeston man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly choking his grandmother. Matthew Carmack, 22, of Sikeston was arrested Friday for the assault on his grandmother and charged with domestic assault in the second degree through the Scott County Court...

NEW MADRID -- New Madrid County voters went with the local candidate picking Steve Hodges of East Prairie over the three other contenders for the Eighth District Congressional seat. Hodges, the Democratic candidate to replace Jo Ann Emerson as Eighth District Congressional representative, polled $1,008 votes, or just over half of the 1,945 ballots cast countywide in Tuesday's special election...

A statement from a former president, it just so happens that the former president came from Missouri. His statement was, "The buck stops here." I think what he meant what he meant when he made this statement was that he wasn't responsible for his and all the people that he chose and helped in the United States. ...

scottw@standard-democrat.com NEW MADRID -- For any law enforcement officer, getting credit for solving a case is gratifying. But, as New Madrid County Sheriff Terry Stevens put it during a gathering of law enforcement officials in the county, "the main thing is to put the bad guy in jail."...