Stories from Tuesday, April 25, 2017

SIKESTON -- The Sikeston girls soccer team lost a nailbiter against visiting Marion, Ill., 2-1 in the second overtime Monday in Sikeston. Sophomore Emma Jones scored Sikeston's lone goal with the assist coming from Lyndsey McClendon. It was Jones' team-leading ninth goal of the season...

SIKESTON -- Tuesday's game between Sikeston and Notre Dame was filled with implications. A Notre Dame win meant they would clinch the SEMO Conference regular season championship. A Sikeston win meant they would guarantee a first round home game and possibly move into a top three seeding during the upcoming SEMO Conference Tournament this weekend...

SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. - A driver died following a fiery crash. William C. Bullis, 61, of Fredericktown was killed in a single-vehicle accident at 8:15 a.m. Monday on Missouri Highway 72, one mile east of Route B. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol's online report, Bullis was driving eastbound when his vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway. The vehicle struck a fence then a tree before catching fire...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. Southeast Missouri State University suspended few students found to have committed sexual assault in the past five academic years, a six-month investigation by the Arrow campus newspaper found. There also were no expulsions of any of the 16 students found to have committed sexual assault by the campus judicial system during those five years, according to school records obtained by the newspaper in early December through a Freedom of Information Act request...

SIKESTON - Jackie Files, 77, died April 23, 2017, at his home in Sikeston. Born Dec. 5, 1939, in Fairfield, Ill., to the late Oscar and Elizabeth Files, he was a member of the American Bowling Congress and an amateur trap shooting champion, having been Missouri State Champion for two years...

SIKESTON -- Zelma Estelle Gremore, 90, passed away on April 24, 2017, at her home in Sikeston. She was born July 20, 1926, in Marston, Mo., to the late Joe and Fannie Hemphill Inman. On Feb. 26, 1941, in Blytheville, Ark., she married Harry L. Gremore, who preceded her in death on Sept. 17, 2006...

CHARLESTON, Mo. - Margaret Rolwing Stricker, 97, of Charleston, died Monday, April 24, 2017, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 27, 1919, in the Texas Bend Community of Mississippi County, to the late Otto J. and Ethel Newcum Rolwing...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Kausoundra Luvenia Owens, 62, formerly of Charleston, Mo., died April 19, 2017, at her daughter's home in Bloomington. Born April 13, 1955, in Charleston to the late Herbert and Viola Hunt Clemon, she attended Lincoln School in Charleston before attending Charleston High School. She was a member of Hallelujah Worship Center in Bloomington, where she sat on the Mother's Board...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Elizabeth "Nana" Bethune Forbey, 92, formerly of Charleston, died April 22, 2017, at The Bluffs in Columbia. Born March 14, 1925 in Bertrand, the daughter of the late William and Lulie Spencer Bethune, she graduated high school in Diehlstadt and lived in several cities throughout Missouri...

SIKESTON - Rosalinda Perez Scott, 66, died April 20, 2017, at Miner Nursing Center. She was born April 14, 1951, in San Antonio, Texas, to the late Jesus R. and Delores (Escalante) Perez. Following the death of her mother, she was raised by her stepmother, Teresa Garces Perez. A resident of this area for the past 33 years, she was a member of Church on the Rock and had worked in the laundry department at Sikeston Convalescent Center...