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Women in Agriculture, third is series
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
Moving grain from their fields with an 18-wheeler to the New Madrid County Port, to becoming the first female director of the Port Authority, Timmie Lynn Hunter has accomplished quite a lot in the agriculture field. Hunter is now serving her 19th year as the Executive Director of the New Madrid County Port Authority, plus is still a partner with the Craig Hunter Farms...
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Sikeston man sentenced to prison for fatal shooting of friend during prank
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- A Sikeston, Missouri, man is heading to prison for the shooting death of a friend. Tiarrius Gant, 19, was sentenced by Judge Fred Copeland on Tuesday to five years in the Department of Corrections on a charge of voluntary manslaughter and 15 years for unlawful use of a weapon with the sentences to run consecutively totaling 20 years...
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Auditor Galloway conducts audit of New Madrid County
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
Previous audit identified concerns with lack of oversight and record keeping
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Stuck in an Impossible Situation Part 2
(Column ~ 07/27/17)
Last week we looked at Jeremiah 29. This passage records how the people of Judah found themselves in an impossible situation. They were exiled to a strange land and their homeland was destroyed and made a wasteland. Why did all of this happen? It is important for us to know that it happened because they, the people of God, turned away from the Lord. ...
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Snakebites Up in Missouri, Poison Control Reports
(Outdoors ~ 07/27/17)
ST. LOUIS - It's being called a byproduct of heavy rains in Missouri earlier this year - snake bites are on the rise. The state is home to five types of venomous snakes: copperhead, water moccasin, timber rattler, pygmy rattler and massasauga rattler. The most common is the copperhead...
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Daugherty Signs with Crowley's Ridge College Baseball
(College Sports ~ 07/27/17)
Tyler Daugherty signed last Wednesday to play baseball for Crowley's Ridge College. Daugherty is a pitcher from Portageville, MO. He was a starting pitcher last year as a freshmen for Morthland College. In high school, Tyler was awarded All-Conference his junior year and All-District his senior year. At Morthland, Tyler accrued the second most total innings pitched on the team. ...
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Weekly Capitol report
(Column ~ 07/27/17)
Governor Issues Executive Order to Create System to Fight Opioid Abuse Calling it a big step toward addressing the opioid crisis in Missouri, Governor Greitens recently issued an executive order to create a prescription drug monitoring program in Missouri. While the system put in place by the governor is different from the plan proposed by the legislature, it has the same intent of preventing the over-prescribing and misuse of opioids such as Vicodin, OxyContin and Percocet...
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Supporting Our Military Like Never Before
(Column ~ 07/27/17)
Time away from family and friends, missing the birth of their sons and daughters, deployed overseas during holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, anniversaries gone by… these are just a few things the men and women who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces give up in order to defend our freedom. ...
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Storms, high temps still in the forecast; relief is on the horizon
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
PADUCAH, Ky. - Storms and high temperatures are still in the forecast but relief is on the way. The National Weather Service at Paducah has issued a weather alert for southeast Missouri noting the prospect for scattered to numerous thunderstorms, which will move across the northern parts of the region today and across all of the area by this afternoon or evening...
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CSW adapts to changes, now in period of growth
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
SIKESTON - Things are looking up at the Community Sheltered Workshop. With its unique work force, the CSW has weathered economic struggles and now is enjoying a period of recovery and growth. "When Noranda closed, we lost a large part of our business, and we had to figure out a way to recover those lost earnings," said Harvey Cooper, executive director of the CSW since 1981...
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Two injured in Wednesday accident
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
Emergency personnel work the scene of a two-vehicle accident on N. West Street Wednesday afternoon. Two were injured in the crash as one adult was transported to Missouri Delta Medical Center with moderate injuries while a juvenile was transported to Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. No further information was available at press time...
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Delta Regional Authority’s DeltaCorps adds 21 new sites
(State News ~ 07/27/17)
MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA REGION – The Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation (DAEOC) is the only organization in the state of Missouri to receive funding from DeltaCorps. The Delta Regional Authority’s DeltaCorps added 52 new members at 21 sites across the Mississippi River Delta Region and the Black Belt of Alabama as the program celebrates its one-year anniversary. ...
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Business along I-55 robbed Wednesday
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
STEELE, Mo. -- Pemiscot County deputies are investigating an armed robbery at the Lion's Den. According to a release from Pemiscot County Sheriff Tommy Greenwell, Pemiscot County 911 received a call of an armed robbery at the business, located on I-55 at the Steele exit, at 10:11 p.m. Wednesday...
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Domestic assault suspect doesn't heed warnings and is shot by farmer
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
A man suspected of domestic assault who threatened a Bootheel farmer ended up with a gunshot wound Wednesday.
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Ressie Hendrix
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. - Ressie Hendrix, 85, died July 26, 2017, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete with Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.
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Jerrie Yarbrough
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
SIKESTON - Jerrie M. Yarbrough, 77, died July 25, 2017, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete with Ponder Funeral Home of Sikeston.
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John Goodin
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
CHARLESTON, Mo. - John Wilber Lindsey Goodin, 76, of the Big Lake Community, north of Charleston, died July 26, 2017, at the Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast at Miramar Beach, Fla. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston...
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Annie Essner
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
CHAFFEE, Mo. - Annie Mary Essner, 97, died July 26, 2017, at Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Feb. 10, 1920, in Scott County, to the late Albert Sr. and Bertha Heuring Schwartz, she was an active member of St. Ambrose Church and Daughters of St Ambrose, VFW Ladies Auxiliary 3127, RSVP and Saint Francis Medical Center Auxiliary and was a volunteer at the Chaffee Nursing Home serving as a eucharistic minister...
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