Stories from Thursday, September 7, 2017

"Rollin' On The River" is this year's theme for Portageville's 70th Annual National Soybean Festival. Let the float building begin if you have not already! Parade changes- The Kiddie Parade will be on Tuesday, September 26. Free entry - up to age 12 categories: Walking Characters, Wheels Pets, and Motorized...

On Friday, August 25, 32 JAG students from Portageville High School participated in a Job Fair held at the Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff. Students went around to the different booths asking questions about what they need to be doing to prepare for the job market. ...

Poplar Bluff, Mo - The University of Missouri Extension in Butler County is offering a Boost Your Brain & Memory: Brain Fitness Class. Just as you can control and improve your general physical health with good habits, so too can you improve the health of your...

Smith met with local cooperative to discuss the impact of tax reform and the Farm Bill

This week I want to consider this question, “Is Jesus enough when suffering surrounds you?” In Job 1:1-3, 6-12 (HCSB) we read, “There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of perfect integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil. ...

MALDEN - Was there ever any doubt how the Green Wave would respond after their three-year regular season winning streak ended last week. On the way to beating Portageville 42-14 Friday at The Swamp, Tray Stevenson ran for a career best 218 yards and four touchdowns on 20 carries. ...

Hayti continues to hold steady at No. 6 in the latest Missouri Media State Football poll. The Indians are 3-0 after taking down previously undefeated Chaffee 49-9 last Friday. Class 1 Hayti will play another undefeated team this week on the road at East Prairie (3-0)...

Our tax system is rigged, designed to help only the most powerful people who can afford the most expensive tax lawyers to find their way through tricky tax loop holes. This week, I joined President Donald Trump in Springfield to talk about our complicated and unfair tax code, the work we must do to fix it, and how we are going to give hardworking Americans a pay raise in the process...

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- A foot pursuit in a New Madrid subdivision led to a man's arrest Wednesday. About 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, officers with the New Madrid Police Department responded to a house on St. Theresa Street in reference to a disturbance, according to New Madrid Police Chief Joey Higgerson...

SIKESTON -- The Sikeston City Council made numerous appointments to municipal government boards in its meeting on Tuesday. Council appointed the following individuals to Boards and Commissions: Board of Adjustments: Jodi Glidewell, reappointed (full member); Larry "Wayne" Wheatley, appointed (alternate member)...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Suspended Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson waived his arraignment in a court appearance Thursday. A trial was scheduled for April 2, 2018, and is expected to last five days. In a hearing on June 27 on a robbery charge, Bonnie Woods, an East Prairie beautician who works for Joyce's Salon, testified that Kasey Hall, a relative of Hutcheson, had worked as a beautician in the same salon...

SIKESTON - A child born in Missouri's Bootheel is less likely to survive its first year than a child born in Cuba, Romania, Tonga or Botswana. The rate of infant mortality in the Bootheel is startling. To raise public awareness of the tragic frequency of infant death, Sikeston Mayor Steven Burch has declared September as Infant Mortality Awareness Month...

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held at  at Delta South Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Tuesday in Sikeston.