Stories from Tuesday, June 6, 2017

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Former Sikeston pitcher Doug Still held down Arkansas for five innings to help push Missouri State into the NCAA Tournament Super Regional with a 3-2 win at Baum Stadium in Fayetteville, Ark., Monday night. Still, who graduated from Sikeston High School in 2014, earned the win on the mound after allowing one run on four hits while striking out four and walking one. ...

When senior Trey Smith began preparing for his final high school baseball season, one thing he didn't have to worry about was where he'll spend next fall. The Sikeston outfielder already signed with Rend Lake College in December, so the weight of impressing college coaches in each at-bat was lifted leaving Smith to just focus on hitting...

CHARLESTON, Mo - Former Chief Deputy Branden Caid is now the acting Mississippi County sheriff.

SIKESTON -- Mary "Viola" Curtis, 82, died June 4, 2017, at her home near Sikeston. Born Aug. 13, 1934, at Kennett, to the later Porter and Nancy Ann (Frost) Pipkin, she had been a resident of this area since 1952 and was a member of New Beginnings Church at East Prairie...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Frances E. Williams, 87, died June 5, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Dec. 8, 1929, in Mississippi County, to the late Thomas J. and Stranda Tinnell Givens, she was a member of the Assembly of God Church in East Prairie. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Juanita Newsome, 87, died June 5, 2017, at the East Prairie Nursing Center. Born Dec. 13, 1929, in Hickman, Ky., to the late Henry and Nellie Everett, she was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church of East Prairie...

OZARK, Mo. - Lucille Lett Jackson, formerly of East Prairie and Charleston, Mo., passed away on June 4, 2017, at the age of 90. She was born on Nov. 25, 1926, in Bertrand, Mo., to Thomas LaFayette Lett and Minnie Evelyn Golightly, and baptized in the Bertrand Methodist Church...

MATTHEWS, Mo. - Dennis Wolfe, 61, died June 5, 2017, at his home in Matthews. Born March 31, 1956, in Hayti, to the late Louie and Virginia Wolfe, he was a veteran of the United States Navy and was engaged in farming most of his life. On Nov. 5, 1976, he married Mamie Counts, who survives...

DELTA, Mo. -- Glenda Burnett "Boots" Baker, 87, died June 6, 2017, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 16, 1930, in Morley, to the late Cecil Thomas and Flora Belle Fisher Minner. On Nov. 1, 1947, she married James W. Burnett, and he preceded her in death on Oct. 20, 1977. She married Ralph K. Baker on Sept. 15, 1990, and he preceded her in death on Feb. 25, 2008...