Stories from Monday, August 21, 2017

The Sikeston Farmers' Market in Legion Park in Historic Downtown Sikeston is held from 7 a.m. to sellout every Saturday through October.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A Parma, Mo., man was sentenced Friday morning to a combined total of 120 years in prison in connection with break-ins at eight Dexter, Mo., businesses. Edward D. Lusk, 50, appeared before Circuit Judge Benjamin Lewis for sentencing after having pleaded guilty in June to six Class C felonies of second-degree burglary and the Class C felonies of first-degree property damage and second-degree arson, according to news release from Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russ Oliver.. ...

MINER, Mo - The Miner Board of Alderman met on Tuesday evening in regular session with budget issues and the municipal tax on the agenda. The board approved the budget for fiscal year 2016 - 2017 which conformed the budget to actual fiscal expenditures...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Fountain soda always has been big at Rhodes 101 Convenience Stores, but at Sunday's summer customer appreciation event, the usual 32-ounce and 44-ounce cups were overshadowed by the gas station's newest -- a 15-foot-tall cup with the company's new logo...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Former Chaffee, Missouri, police officer Timothy Warner has been charged with driving while intoxicated. The charge stems from an incident last month that ended on a Cape Girardeau County farm and led the Chaffee City Council to terminate his employment as a police officer...

Wedding 8/20/17

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Duane Lee Wilmurth, 58, died Aug. 20, 2017, at his home in Charleston. Born May 14, 1959, at Topeka, Kan., to the late Billy Woodrow Wilmurth and Albert Novola "Bert" Bowen Wilmurth, he was a retired United States Marine, having served over 21 years. He was a former member of the V.F.W. After his retirement from the military, he was employed in over-the-road commercial trucking...

SIKESTON -- Kevan Aldo Beck, 66, died Aug. 19, 2017, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born May 27, 1951, in St. Louis, to the late Woodrow and Gwen Coots Beck, he was a lifelong resident of this area and a member of First Baptist Church of Sikeston and the V.F.W. in Chaffee. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and had been a farmer and truck driver...

BERTRAND, Mo. -- Mildred Berry, 90, formerly of Essex, died Aug. 19, 2017, at Bertrand Nursing Center in Bertrand. Born Jan. 2, 1927, in Essex, daughter of the late John and Ida Butler Tarpley, she had lived in Essex most of her life before moving to Sikeston in 2008. She was a member of the Church of Christ...

SIKESTON -- Erin Elizabeth Blackmon, 39, died Aug. 19, 2017, at her home in Sikeston. Born Sept. 15, 1977, in Sikeston, to Joseph Myers and Lisa Mitchell Martin of Sikeston, she was a member of Cape First Church and had worked in the customer service department of Alan Wire...

SIKESTON -- Gregory Bain, 61, died Aug. 20, 2017, at his home in Sikeston. Born Sept. 22, 1955, in Bell City, to the late Moline and Florence Allen Bain, he worked as a diesel technician for Bootheel Diesel. On Sept. 22, 2000, he married Betty J. Hawkins; she survives of Bertrand...