Stories from Monday, January 19, 2015

sports@standard-democrat.com BENTON -- Logan Ivie's double-double helped lead the Kelly Lady Hawks to a 54-26 win over visiting Scott City Monday 54-26. Ivie led Kelly (10-4) with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Tessa Johnson added 13 points and four steals...

M.L.King Day will be sunny, with a high near 56 then becoming mostly clear tonight with a low around 36. Partly sunny on Tuesday with a 20 percent chance of showers after 1 p.m. while Tuesday night will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers before 7 p.m. ...

DEXTER -- Sometimes out of tragedy there comes a bit of triumph. That was the case at a Friday morning house fire at First and Stoddard Streets on the east end of Dexter. Dexter firefighters were summoned to the scene about 9:40 a.m. after a passerby called 911, indicating that flames could be seen coming through the roof at the front of the home. ...

A 43-year-old man was charged Sunday with fatally shooting a hotel manager during a violent 24-hour span last week in St. Louis in which six other people were killed. Joseph B. Bowens faces one count of first-degree murder in Thursday's killing of Scott Knopfel at a Drury Inn & Suites hotel, said Poplar Bluff Police Chief Danny Whiteley. ...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday: 1. WHAT OBAMA PLANS TO PITCH DURING STATE OF UNION The president will roll out plans for tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans in his annual address Tuesday...

PUXICO -- A Puxico teen died around midnight Friday after he apparently stepped on a live electrical line following a motor-vehicle crash on Highway 51. The teen is identified as Marcus Lauder, 19. He is a 2014 graduate of Puxico High School, where he...

Fire personnel from New Madrid and Matthews responded to a fire at a residence on Route W, just east of Kewanee Sunday afternoon. According to a fireman at the scene, the blaze was the results of sparks from nearby burning trash, which caught a building behind the residence on fire. Fire crews were able to keep the fire from spreading to nearby structures...

CHAFFEE -- Phillip Wayne Reeves, 54, died Jan. 17, 2015. Visitation will be at 4 p.m., Tuesday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee where funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Jeff Crandall will officiate. Burial will follow at Garden of Memories in Sikeston...

DEXTER - Linda Sue Medlin Pashia, 64, died Jan. 17, 2015, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. until time of services at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. The Rev. Roger Wooten will officiate. Burial will follow in the Dexter Cemetery...

DEXTER - Clifford (Bud) Carlton Shell, 78, died Jan. 15, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday. The Rev. Roy Sherfield and Glynn Jarrell will officiate...

In 1961 in New Madrid, workmen began tearing down the old Smith home next to the Methodist Church on Mill Street to make way for a new parsonage. As they ripped away at one of the walls, money began falling out. It was strange looking money, U. S. currency, but the bills were much larger and there were Indians and buffalos depicted on a number of them...

SIKESTON - Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Tongate, age 85, died Jan. 18, 2015, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee. Friends may call Thursday, Jan. 22, from 4 p.m. until time of services at 5 p.m. at the Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Geoff Posegate, pastor of First United Methodist Church, will officiate...