Stories from Monday, July 24, 2017

Donnie Brown (standing left) keeps a close eye on the work as the employees with the New Madrid County Highway Department surface the parking lot at New Madrid County Central High School. The County Highway Department was the low bidder and expects to complete the project this week, well before the opening date of school on Aug. 11...

Jessica Keele sings at an open audition for the annual "Grace Reliant Heartland Idol" on Saturday morning at the Sikeston Factory Outlet Stores. Contestants performed a cappella for the 60-second audition with the winners advancing to the semifinals at the SEMO District Fair on Sept. 11...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Methamphetamine protected Natasha Knight from sleep, holding back the nightmares that lingered after a tour of duty in Iraq the year before U.S. forces pulled out. The Army gunner and gate guard did not recognize the signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or the emotional scars she carried from an experience she still considers incredible...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- A Chaffee, Missouri, police officer was jailed, then fired over a charge he violated a protection order for a Chaffee councilwoman who is his wife and is divorcing him. The Chaffee City Council voted to immediately terminate Timothy Warner last week upon the recommendation of the town's police board...

SIKESTON - Two separate investigations by the Sikeston Department of Public Safety detectives led to the arrest of three people on drug charges. Tony Poyner, 34, is charged with the delivery of a controlled substance and possession of a drug paraphernalia after a warrant was served Friday at a residence in the 700 block of Matthews Street. ...

SIKESTON - Dennis Yancy, 51, died July 22, 2017, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel.

NEW MADRID, Mo. - Sondra Kay Kimball, 54, died July 17, 2017, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 10, 1963, in Sikeston to the late Eva and Roy Edwards. Survivors include her husband, Michael Kimball of the home; one daughter and son-in-law, Holly and Reginald Paul of Cape Girardeau; three sisters, Tina Edwards of Lilbourn, Connie Baker of Memphis, Tenn., and Rhonda Marshall of the state of Florida; two brothers, Clyde Edwards of New Madrid and Richard Edwards of Marston; and two grandchildren.. ...