Stories from Tuesday, November 10, 2015

MOREHOUSE -- A Dexter man was killed when a vehicle he was a passenger in was struck by a truck. David N. Quoos, 73, was pronounced dead at the scene of an accident by Stoddard County Coroner Kenny Pope at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday on Highway 60, a half mile west of Morehouse. David Quoos' death is the 53rd fatality recorded in the Troop E area by the Missouri Highway Patrol...

BENTON -- A Sikeston man was arrested on domestic violence and felonious restraint charges after an incident Tuesday. According to Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter, Wilburn L. Gifford, 41, was charged with the Class C felony of domestic assault in the second degree and the Class C felony of felonious restraint...

RISCO -- Lawrence E. Owens, 81, died Nov. 8, 2015, at his home in Risco. Visitation is after 6 p.m. Tuesday at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Malden. Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Risco with the Revs. Robert Wake and Gene Lancaster officiating...

Patchy fog before 8 a.m. today, otherwise, sunny, with a high near 65 then becoming mostly clear tonight with a low around 47. Veterans Day will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms, mainly after noon with the possibility some of the storms could be severe and a high near 70 along with a south wind 8 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. ...

More than 5,000 chickens en route to be processed at a Tyson plant in Dexter, Missouri, were scattered across the median of Highway 25 after the truck hauling the birds reportedly ran a red light on the highway overpass, crashing into a Jeep crossing the intersection. The Jeep's driver, Joshua Moore of Dexter, and the truck driver were taken to a Cape Girardeau hospital. About half the chickens died in the crash; the surviving ones were taken to the processing plant...

SCOTT CITY -- The freight trains that trundle along Scott City's main street throughout the day pass by the Scott City Historical Museum, where a handful of residents for years have worked to curate a collection of area history. To Gail Crader, a retired professor who oversees the museum's records room, the museum represents a microcosm of Scott City's small-town spirit of cooperation...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. WHAT INFLUENCES ACTIONS AT UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Emboldened by last year's protests in Ferguson, students at the Columbia campus take action after racially charged incidents, leading to the resignations of two top leaders and the promise of changes...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Forecasters are warning 63 million people in the central U.S. to have an eye out for bad weather this week as colliding air masses threaten to generate high winds and possibly tornadoes. The threat Wednesday stretches from San Antonio to Chicago to Cincinnati. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ricky Lee Schweain, 55, of Cape Girardeau pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder, admitting he shot and killed his stepdaughter, Melissa Luttrell, 27, on March 26. "I shot her; I can't deny it," he told Judge Benjamin Lewis...