Stories from Friday, January 22, 2016

The recent round of winter weather struck Friday's high school sports schedule forcing many postponements. The final round of the Scott-Mississippi Conference Tournament held in Scott City was pushed back to Wednesday, Jan. 27, with the same start times. The championship game between top-seeded Scott County Central and No. 3 Scott City will be at 7:45 p.m. No. 2 East Prairie will play second-seeded Oran for third place at 6:30 p.m. The junior varsity title game will begin at 5 p.m...

The annual tournament concludes Saturday at Cape Central High School where 14 individual champions will be crowned as well as an overall team champion.

"All in all it was good team effort. A win is a win. An ugly win is an ugly win."

sports@standard-democrat.com ORAN, Mo. -- Freshman Leah Cauble scored a game-high 39 points as the Eagles cruised to its 71-34 home win over Delta. Cauble added six rebounds and three assists while Ashlyn McIntosh chipped in 10 points. Jessie Long grabbed 10 rebounds and had four steals while Tatum May had six steals, five rebounds and four assists for Oran (13-2)...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. BLIZZARD COULD RANK NEAR TOP 10 TO HIT EASTERN U.S. Snowfall estimates are more than 2 feet for Washington, a foot to 18 inches for Philadelphia and 8 inches to a foot in New York...

SIKESTON -- A Scott County high school teacher is the new vice president of the National FBLA-PBL Professional Division. Buddy Alberson, adviser of the Scott Central High School chapter of FBLA, was appointed early this week to the national position by National FBLA-PBL Professional Division President Blake Reynolds...

I wanted to speak out about the raises that the policemen got. I realize that it said they had gotten a $3,000 raise already. I notice that you didn't print how much of a raise they were going to get that was approved by the city council. When they were asking the public to vote on the sales tax I noticed that they were quick to put the salaries of all of the other police around were getting but they didn't put the Sikeston police salary in there. ...

CHARLESTON, Mo -- Joseph Tennesse "Joe" Jackson, 72, died Jan. 21, 2016, at SSM Health St. Clare Hospital in Fenton. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. -- Joe Phelps Davis, 89, formerly of Charleston, Mo., died Jan. 17, 2016. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Robert Howard "Bobby" Williams, 86, died Jan. 20, 2016, at the East Prairie Nursing Center. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


MOREHOUSE, Mo. -- Willard Floyd, 86, died Jan. 20, 2016, at his home in Morehouse. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


MOREHOUSE, Mo. - Barry Ray Scott, 70, died Jan. 20, 2016, at his home. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


LILBOURN, Mo. -- Anthony Tierre Lashawn "Shawn" Patton, 39, died Jan. 18, 2016 at Southeast Health Center in Dexter. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


SIKESTON - John Lon Cray, 84, died Jan. 21, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation is from 11 a.m. until time of service at 2 p.m. Saturday at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston. Burial with full military honors will follow in the Dogwood Cemetery...

scottw@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Local experts don't see the drop as anything to worry about for retirement funds. "'Volatile trading' is just a fancy word meaning its going down," said Eric Wooden at Raymond James Financial Services. "Nobody refers to a market as volatile when its going up."...