Stories from Saturday, March 4, 2017

VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Too many fouls, not enough defense and allowing second and third chances is never a good recipe for basketball success. Unfortunately for the Scott County Central girls basketball team, those keys and a few more didn't go their way Saturday afternoon at Van Buren High School...

SIKESTON -- Voters in the Scott County Central School District will be asked to approve a no-tax increase $1.75-million bond issue during the April 4 election. Mold was discovered on the walls in one of the elementary classrooms during the 2015-2016 school year. At the time, the classroom was vacated and a remedy was sought, according to Scott County Central Superintendent Al McFerren...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- An investigation led the arrest of Charleston man on felony drug distribution charges. Montrell Donte Ferguson, 24, of Charleston is charged with felony delivery of a controlled substance. According to Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson, the investigation began last week when the Sheriff's Office received information that narcotics were being distributed by from a residence in Charleston...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- A Charleston man faces felony drug and firearm charges following a traffic stop in Mississippi County. Denique Rashad Clark, 28, of Charleston is charged with felony delivery of a controlled substance and felony unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- A Charleston man faces felony drug and firearm charges following a traffic stop in Mississippi County. Denique Rashad Clark, 28, of Charleston is charged with felony delivery of a controlled substance and felony unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon...

It should come as no shock, but there are a number of underhanded tactics being employed these days to upend the Trump administration. We've come to label this new phenomenon as "fake news" but, in fact, it is an organized, deliberate attempt to undermine the outcome of the November election. ...

WYATT, Mo. -- Paul Edward "Chuckles" Berry, 71, died March 3, 2017, at the Charleston Manor. Born March 26, 1945, at Wyatt, son of the late Paul 'Tut' Berry and Helen Louise Bailey Berry, he had lived in Wyatt most of his life and had worked as truck driver a number of years and later for Richard Hutcheson Farms...

SIKESTON -- Cecil Sherman Hartwick, 81, formerly of Charleston, died March 4, 2017, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. Born Sept. 16, 1935, in Kelso, Ark., son of the late Marvin Clark and Mozell Osborn Hartwick, in 1952 he moved to Reeves where he worked on Temple's farm until moving in 1956 to St. ...

SIKESTON -- John Patrick Rohmiller, age 73, died March 1, 2017, at Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston. Born July 15, 1943, in Coffeyville, Kan., to the late John Stephen and Mae (Patrick) Rohmiller, he was owner and operator of John's Mexican Villa and a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. -- Beverly Ann King, 72, died Feb. 25, 2017, at her home in Morehouse. Born Oct. 8, 1944, in Concord, N.H., daughter of the late Ross Haddock and Arlene Bickford, she was of the Baptist belief. She was a health care worker for Missouri Delta Hospice before retiring...