Stories from Friday, May 1, 2015

SIKESTON -- Police are investigating the stabbing of a Sikeston man Friday afternoon. Officers with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety responded at about 1:15 p.m. Friday to a residence in the 700 block of Mimosa street where a man had been stabbed in the neck, according to Capt. James McMillen, public information officer with DPS...

In most streams south of the Missouri River, black bass may not be possessed from March 1 through the Friday before the fourth Saturday in May. During those dates all black bass in those streams must be returned to the water unharmed immediately after being caught. For details see Chapter 6 of the Wildlife Code. 

Lakes...

U.S. Senator Roy Blunt's staff will host a Mobile Office on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 from 9:00am to 10:00am at the New Madrid County Courthouse. Next, the Mobile Office at the Fisher Delta Research Center from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. Mobile Offices are opportunities for Missourians to discuss their questions or concerns with the federal government one-on-one with members of Senator Blunt's staff...

sports@standard-democrat.com CHAFFEE -- For a team that's seen more than their fair share of close games go south recently, Friday's meeting with East Prairie was a breath of fresh air for the Chaffee Red Devils. Locked in a defensive battle where neither team left an inning with the lead, the Red Devils entered the top of the seventh with their leadoff hitter, senior Lane Henson, batting second...

sports@standard-democrat.com CHARLESTON -- Sikeston finished off its second suspended game of the season Thursday taking down Charleston 12-0 in five innings at Hillhouse Park in Charleston. Sikeston was ahead 8-0 in the top of the fifth when rain forced a stop in play April 21...

sports@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- With four starters out of commission, Sikeston was in need of some new playmakers against the visiting Marion, Ill. Lady Wildcats on Thursday. Enter freshman Mackenzie Yant, who came into the contest with just one goal in her high school career...

JEFFERSON CITY -- In a decision by Missouri's Public Service Commission on Wednesday, Noranda Aluminum, Inc. was given a lower rate it has long sought. On Thursday, Noranda's President and CEO Layle K. "Kip" Smith said in a statement the rate decrease was important for the New Madrid plant, which employs about 900 people...

Alright, I know Reelfoot really isn't very "abroad", but I'm leaning towards moving the name of this article to "Heartlander Abroad" full-time, and with a small donation from every reader I may be able to fund being constantly abroad! Being on the road a lot has its pros and cons, and one of those cons is not fishing my home lake in the northwest corner of Tennessee. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU- Southeast Missouri State University sophomore Rylyn Small of East Prairie was named a 2015-2016 National Teach Ag Ambassador and will participate in the 2015 National Future Farmers of America Convention Oct. 28-30 in Louisville, Ky...

BENTON- A Sikeston area man was arrested on drug possession charges over the weekend in Scott County. Jeremy B. Pearson, 35, is charged with the class D felony of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia and the class B misdemeanor of property damage. Scott County Sheriff Rick Sheriff Walter said on Friday deputies responded to 140 Stone Drive in Sikeston for a delayed disturbance report. When deputies arrived, they were told Pearson caused a disturbance due to him believing he had an active warrant...

New Madrid County Coroner George DeLisle, and Deputy Coroner Ralph Barnwell, attended the Missouri Coroner and Medical Examiner Conference April 6, 7 and 8 in Jefferson City, MO. While there they learned about new technology used at death scenes and attended classes for death investigations, courtroom investigative protocols and investigating auto crashes. All courses taken further their abilities on conducting scientific, systematic and thorough death scene investigations for our county...

Chapter GU of the P.E.O. Sisterhood celebrated their 75th birthday April 16, 2015 at the Portageville United Methodist Church. Chapter GU was organized April 13, 1940 by several charter members: Alice B. Perry, Mary Louise Perry, Lucy J. Lester, Mary W. Cook, Bessie B. Hobbs, Ollie M. Bess, Carrie E. Robinson, Virginia Barnes Swilley, Ann M. Miller, Hunter Miller, Mary C. Simmons, Fannie Swilley, Minnie O. Noland, Georgia C. Lester and Hazel M. Ellington...

CHARLESTON -- After one week on targeted projects, Mississippi County's road and bridge department has half of them done. Carlin Bennett, presiding commissioner, listed during the Commission's April 23 meeting eight jobs the department could quickly complete despite wet conditions...

Workers with Keith Simpson Construction of Benton finish the approaches to the new bridge on Wakefield Avenue near the Sikeston Power Plant. Construction began on the project in January, according to Jay Lancaster, public works director for the city of Sikeston, and was built with assistance of federal funds through the Missouri Department of Transportation...

SIKESTON -- Not only will the annual Sikeston in Bloom event offer fun activities and shopping opportunities, but it will also include a car show and mark the start of the downtown farmers' market season. "We wanted to make a bigger event this year," said Historic Downtown Sikeston Director Lynn Lancaster about Bloom...

SIKESTON -- How much does the Sikeston need to offer entry-level public safety officers to keep them here? And can the city come up with that money? The Sikeston City Council must again find answers to those questions while drafting the operating budget for the city's next fiscal year which begins July 1...

April showers have given way to May plowers as recent dry weather has enabled area farmers to get into their fields. In a field north of New Madrid, James Bissel prepares ground for corn planting. The dry weather is forecast to continue at through Monday...

DEXTER -- Luzell Matney Grubbs, 89, died April 30, 2015, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

Does the Friday, April 17 SpeakOut column tell you you need to be involved in all city council meetings? I was appalled and offended of how this president is blaming the Christians for all the killings that's going on over in Kenya and other places around the world. He said us Christians wasn't showing love toward the Muslim religion. He said that's why Christians were being killed, it was the Christians' fault. I'm sorry, but that man don't have enough sense to be president...