Stories from Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Former Sikeston pitcher Doug Still was drafted by the San Francisco Giants during Wednesday's 2017 MLB Draft. Still, who graduated from Sikeston in 2014, was selected with the 336th overall pick in the 11th round after helping Missouri State to just its third Super Regional berth in school history...

BENTON, Mo. -- Following a four-month closure, a north Scott County road reopened to all traffic Tuesday after a bridge that had been deemed unsafe by the state was replaced. In January, the Missouri Department of Transportation conducted an inspection of the bridge on Scott County Highway 220, which is located off of State Highway RA in Chaffee and goes to Lake Tywappity. Due to the state deeming it unsafe, the bridge was closed immediately and completely to all traffic in February...

SIKESTON - Meet Theo. "Theo" is the literary creation of author Robert Menz, a native of Perkins, Mo., now residing in Sidney, Ohio. Theo is both the name of the book and the name of its central character in this fact-based work of fiction. Theo, a fictional character, plays a key role throughout the winding story from the war in Vietnam to life after war in the United States...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Tuesday, members of the Missouri congressional delegation, including U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill, and Representative Jason Smith, introduced legislation to establish the Ste. Genevieve National Historic Site and designate it as a unit of the National Park Service...

SIKESTON -- A Sikeston man faces felony charges after allegedly threatening a woman with a sword. Michael Edward Cox, 54, is charged with felony third-degree domestic assault, misdemeanor fourth-degree domestic assault, felony unlawful use of a weapon and felony resisting/interfering with the arrest for a felony, according to online court records...

Much of today's political chaos is little more than groundwork for the 2018 midterm and the 2020 presidential elections. Democrats are pushing their well-worn obstructionist model to favorably position themselves for higher office. They believe that chaos today will translate into votes tomorrow...

SIKESTON -- Peggy Lain Shelby Cruchon, 75, died June 10, 2017, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Blanchard Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.