Stories from Wednesday, July 9, 2014

SIKESTON - A woman is in custody after reportedly shooting her husband Monday afternoon. Around 5 p.m. Monday, the Sikeston Department of Public Safety received a call for a subject shot on Daniel Street. Officers responded to a residence in the 400 block of Daniel Street and located a male subject with a gunshot wound to his torso...

Thirty-three members of the Southeast Missouri Press Association met for their annual meeting June 19, at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau. SEMO Press was organized in 1893. Officers and directors elected (shown from left) include Peggy Scott, Festus, Historian; Ed Thomason, New Madrid, Director; Amanda Layton, Perryville, President; Michelle Friedrich, Poplar Bluff, Secretary-Treasurer; Scott Seal, Portageville, First Vice President; Teresa Ressel, Park Hills, Director; and Toby Carrig, Ste. ...

SMITHVILLE -- Sikeston golfer Gabe Wheeler tied for 16th at the 31st annual Junior Amateur Golf Championship at Paradise Pointe Golf Complex in Smithville Tuesday. Wheeler shot four-over par at 148 alongside 132 participants. He tied with Poplar Bluff's Nicholas Woolard...

sports@standard-democrat.com ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. -- Nearly four years have went by since an accident forced Dilan Rucker to switch from riding bulls to roping them down. His tradeoff will come full circle when he competes in the 66th Annual National High School Finals Rodeo Monday in Rock Springs, Wyoming in both team roping and calf roping...

sports@standard-democrat.com CHARLESTON -- In their final tuneup before the playoffs, the Charleston Fighting Squirrels took down the Charleston Riverdogs 6-3 in a nine-inning contest on Tuesday. "We played one of our better games," Squirrels head coach Michael Minner said. "We played pretty well defensively and our pitching was outstanding. We threw nine guys and they were all good. We swung that bats a little bit too...

CHARLESTON - A fourth person is in custody in connection with the murder of a Poplar Bluff man in Mississippi County. The Mississippi County Sheriff's Department reported the arrest of a Danny Lee Naile, 60, of Bertrand in connection with the murder of Derell Davis. Davis' body was discovered Saturday evening in the Drinkwater Sewer in northern Mississippi County by fishermen...

SIKESTON -- Staff members in the Sikeston R-6 School District will receive the highest raise in pay they've seen in several years in the new school year. The Sikeston R-6 Board of Education adopted on June 24 the $32-million budget with for the new fiscal year, which began July 1. Included was the approval for certified staff to receive a year of service step in their salary schedules (which is about $654) plus a 3-percent increase...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. OBAMA HEADS TO TEXAS, BUT NOT TO THE BORDER A day after asking Congress for $3.7 billion to help deal with the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing into the U.S., the president will hold a meeting hundreds of miles from the Mexico line, in Dallas...

scottw@standard-democrat.com BENTON -- Scott County will get a safer railroad crossing at no cost to the county. Bids for construction of improvements to the approaches of a railroad crossing located on County Road 411 were opened Tuesday during the County Commission's regular meeting...

scottw@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Sikeston City Council members will review the Citizens Resource Bank for potential candidates to fill a third seat on the city's new Liquor License Review Board. Council members approved during their regular monthly meeting Monday an amendment to the Alcoholic Beverages chapter of city code to give the city manager the authority to suspend or revoke an establishment's city liquor licence...

BENTON - Absentee voting for the Aug. 5 primary election is under way. For residents of Scott, New Madrid or Mississippi County, absentee ballots can be voted in their county clerk's office or if people are unable to vote in person, they may request an absentee ballot to be mailed...

NEW MADRID - Pallbearers at services conducted Tuesday at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel for Gary Wagley, 70, of New Madrid, who died July 5, 2014, were: Kevin Raper, Paul T. Walker, Keven Morris, Jodi Chambliss, Chris Wagley and Glenn Medlin. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition...

MALDEN -- Dianne Curtis, 69, died July 6, 2014, at Cedargate Skilled Nursing Facility in Poplar Bluff. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

SIKESTON - Dimeta Joyce Shannon, 60, died July, 3, 2014, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

LAGRANGE, Texas -- Chad Allen Fieweger, 22, died June 4, 2014, at LaGrange. For the complete paid Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

SIKESTON -- Pallbearers at services Sunday at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel for Bernice Owens Eason, 89, of Memphis, Tenn., formerly of Vanduser and Sikeston, who died July 3, 2014, were: Johnny Griffin, Dick Griffin, Wade Griffin, Albert Wayne Owens, Buddy Griffin and Buddy Alberson. Honorary pallbearers were: Larry Harshbarger, Gary Owens and Billy Don Griffin...

PUXICO -- Lyman Fowler, 88, died July 4, 2014, at his home. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

SIKESTON -- Edna Louise Meunier, 81, died July 5, 2014, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

SIKESTON -- Pallbearers for services held Monday at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel for Ferrell Miller, 95, of Sikeston, who died on July 4, 2014, were: Ron Miller, Lyle Miller, Roy Miller, Darin Miller, Ben Miller and Leonard Mallot. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition...

SIKESTON -- Rose Berdell Atkins Lawson, 83, passed away July 5, 2014, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

LONDON, Ohio -- Danny G. Greene, 80, died June 21, 2014, at his home. For the complete paid Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

To keep a conspiracy, a lie or an illegal act in check, you must first have a code of silence. Participants in a conspiracy must abide by a spoken or unspoken understanding that the wayward deed will unravel if anyone breaks that bond of silence. And, it goes without saying, that the fewer involved, the less chance that someone will say the wrong words and the truth will begin to surface...

I just watched a lengthy online talk by a college English professor on Common Core. He backed up everything he said with newspaper articles, or excerpts from school text books or government articles. It is sickening to hear about what is being taught in our schools. ...

Anyone who knows me knows my love for sports. I've been watching them since I can remember and in that time I have come across plenty of violent ones. There's football where a person can get hit and knocked unconscious or even have an appendage snapped in two. ...

Duke was a five-gated pinto. A pinto is a horse that has a coat color of white and any other color. For those of us who are not horse experts, many different breeds of horses have pinto colors. Anyway, when I was a young boy, Duke lived just up the street on Kingshighway in an attractive red barn trimmed out in white. It was surrounded by a dirt yard and a high, wire fence...

Joseph Bailey Rutledge, 97, of Bragg City, Missouri died Monday, June 30, 2014 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was born and raised in Itawamba County. Mississippi. Bailey graduated from Mississippi State University in 1938. He moved to Steele, Missouri where he was employed as a vocational agriculture teacher in the Steele schools. It was there that he met his future wife, Helen Vickrey. They were married more than 65 years...

Chad Allen Fieweger was born March 11, 1992 at Kennett, Missouri to Shawna Brasher Fieweger and Richard Paul Fieweger. He died at LaGrange, Texas, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at the age of 22 years, 2 months and 24 days. Chad attended Portageville schools and graduated March 26, 2010 from First Coast Academy of Jacksonville, Florida. ...

Dorthy Pearl Bass, 70, of Poplar Bluff, MO, passed away Sunday, July 6, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Ms. Bass was born on October 24, 1943, in Portageville, MO, to the late Carl and Neta B. (James) Watson. She was a member of Highland Drive Church of Christ, and she was a homemaker who loved spending time with her family and her pet dog, and watching TV...

City incidents- 3 06-03-14: Firemen responding- 6; Location- 307 DeLisle Ave.; Lawn Mower Fire. 06-05-14: Firemen responding- 11; Location- Magnolia Manor Apt. 14; Smoke Scare. 06-10-14: Firemen responding- 5; Location- Portage Village Apt. 69; Clothes Dryer...