Stories from Thursday, January 5, 2017

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that deer hunters in Missouri harvested 6,491 deer during the antlerless portion of the fall firearms deer season, Dec. 2-4. Top harvest counties were Callaway with 213 deer harvested, Pike with 205, and Osage with 185...

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.)--The Missouri Corn Growers Association and Missouri Corn Merchandising Council will be awarding seven deserving students $1,000 scholarships. Applications for the Missouri Corn Scholarship Program are now available for high school seniors and college juniors pursuing a degree in agronomy or related area of agriculture...

Portageville - Ameren Missouri has donated $15,000 to the Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation (DAEOC) to create a winter energy assistance fund for struggling families across the Bootheel region. DAEOC provides services to some of the most impoverished Missouri residents, including those living in the three poorest counties in the state...

SIKESTON -- The Christmas break hit both the Sikeston and Charleston girls basketball teams with a period of transition. Sikeston entered Thursday's game down two starters and it got worse when another exited in the second quarter with an injury. Charleston was without Josh Thompson on the sideline. The seventh-year head coach was not in attendance for an undisclosed reason giving way to longtime assistant Dollette Jones...

SIKESTON -- Police are investigating a New Year's Eve robbery at a Sikeston truck stop. At about 4 p.m. Saturday an officer responded to Love's Truck Stop, 1401 S. Main St., in reference to an armed robbery, according to Sikeston Department of Public Safety reports...

SIKESTON -- Now that 2016 is officially in the books, the National Weather Service has ranked the top 10 weather events of the year along with the overall weather trend for the region. "It was an unusually warm year across the whole country, and our area saw temperatures that were 2 to 3 degrees above normal for the whole year," the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky., reported...

SIKESTON -- A Sikeston woman was arraigned Wednesday after allegedly assaulting another person with a knife. Iesha R. Jackson, 19, who is charged with felony first degree domestic assault and felony armed criminal action, appeared before Scott County Associate Circuit Judge Scott T. Horman, according to online court records...

City Incidents- 3 12-21-16: Firemen responding- 09; Location- Hwy 61 North; Grass Fire Behind Federal Compress. 12-22-16: Firemen responding- 08; Location- 303 West 9th Street; Grass Fire. 12-27-16: Firemen responding- 05; Location- Magnolia Manor, Apartment 2; EMS Assist...

SIKESTON -- Robert Dale Summers, 59, formerly of Charleston, died Jan. 4, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born March 16, 1957, at East Prairie, to the late J.L. Summers and Mary Doris Crane Coulter, he had lived in Mississippi County most of his life and was a member of the Chapel By The Lake...

DEXTER, Mo. -- Marvin Ray Wells, 55, died Jan. 3, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born July 23, 1961, in Vincennes, Ind., son of the late Melvin and Mary Leona Wells, he had lived the past seven years in Dexter. He ran a carpet cleaning business and was of the Christian belief...

DEXTER, Mo. -- Gregory Kent Knutson, son of the late Leo Knutson and Geraldine Flannary Whitler, was born on Oct. 19, 1950, in Evansville, Ind., and departed this life on Jan. 4, 2017, at the emergency room at Southeast Health in Dexter at the age of 66...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - William A. "Bill" Owens, age 84, a resident of Charleston, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 21, 1932 in Malden to Algie Benjamin and Pauline Qualls Owens, who preceded him in death. ...

MARSTON, Mo. - Jeannette Haubold, of Marston, Missouri, died Jan. 2, 2017, at 85 years of age, surrounded by her family. She was daughter of the late John Haubold and Ivy D. Haubold. Born July 11, 1931, she was the fourth of five children, survived by one sister, Katherine Jeaniece Washburn and several nieces and nephews...

BERTRAND, MO. -- James Edward Waters died Jan. 5, 2016, at his home in Bertrand. Arrangements are incomplete with McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

Harold Jester SIKESTON -- Harold Herbert Jester, 61, died Jan. 1, 2017. Born Dec. 27, 1945, in Oran, son of the late William and Dortch Jester, he worked in set-up and operation with milling machines and retired from Jacobsen Textron. He loved old cars, tinkering and inventing new gadgets...