Stories from Saturday, January 23, 2016

sports@standard-democrat.com BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Clutch threes from Bloomfield senior Noah Vandiver gave the Wildcats a nail-biting 49-48 win over visiting Woodland Friday in Bloomfield, Mo. Vandiver, who finished with a team-high 20 points, tied the game at 46-all with the first of his two threes with 25 seconds left. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- The Sikeston wrestling team finished the SEMO Conference wrestling tournament with two individual champions and third place as a team Saturday at Cape Central High School in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Sikeston ended the two-day tournament with 260 points. Farmington broke Jackson's string of three straight team titles with 363 points. Jackson finished second with 356.5...

I am grateful but humiliated for Christmas. It's a concern for lots of people here in Sikeston. I don't know who's behind it or what, but different organizations give us, the less fortunate, gifts for Christmas. And what it is, about giving people items for Christmas, but you are having children passing this out and that's very humiliating to have children giving to the less fortunate. ...

Change is virtually the only thing assured in our world. The problem, of course, is that change can be for good or bad depending on your viewpoint. And here in our small neck of the woods, even the discussion of a shutdown of Noranda Aluminum is a most unwelcome and unwanted change...

SIKESTON - Henry Vincent Leible, 77, died Jan. 22, 2016, at his home in Sikeston. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- "You can get me out of any hour but second ... gotta play ping pong." The phrase is one teachers and students of East Prairie High School said they've heard senior Seth O'Guin say over and over throughout the school year. That phrase is also featured on the back of a T-shirt sold as a fundraiser to benefit O'Guin. The 18-year-old sustained life-threatening injuries in a head-on collision Dec. 17 in Mississippi County...

RISCO, Mo. -- Ten years later and the family of Teresa Butler still waits to discover the fate of a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother. Ten years later, Sheriff Terry Stevens is still searching for the answers. Sometime between 10 p.m. Jan. 24, 2006, and the next morning when her husband, Dale, returned from his job in Blytheville, Ark., Teresa Butler disappeared...

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. - Due to prospect of inclement weather, a ceremony honoring an officer killed on duty is rescheduled. The dedication of Patrolman Evan D. Burns Memorial Highway will now be at 10 a.m. Jan. 29. The ceremony will be conducted just west of the radio station on Highway 84 in Caruthersville at the site, where a memorial sign naming that portion of Highway 84 in his honor will be unveiled...