Stories from Wednesday, October 11, 2017

After a week long of celebrating the 70th annual Soybean Festival, the Portageville High School ended the week with the crowning of Senior Hannah Cook as the 2017-18 Football Homecoming Queen. Hanna is the 17 year old daughter of Billy and Rana Cook. ...

6 projects attract $8 million in total investments

The Portageville Fire Department had three incidents to report over the last two days — On October 6th at 1pm, the fire department responded to State Highway YY to a tractor on fire. The department was extinguished and the tractor was considered a complete loss...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill announced more than $17,000 has been awarded to the City of Lilbourn to assist with the purchase of a new police vehicle through funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program.  ...

It begins, like every river, as little more than a trickle. A modest stream draining a tiny glacial lake in northern Minnesota.  By the time the Mississippi River reaches the Gulf of Mexico some 2,320 miles later, it has become – as Mark Twain described it – “in all ways remarkable.”...

SIKESTON -- The saying goes "you never get a second chance to make a first impression." Sikeston officials hope the newly renovated terminal at the Sikeston Municipal Airport will make a good first impression to those flying into the city. "This terminal means a lot to the city of Sikeston," said Sikeston mayor Steven Burch at an open house for the new terminal Wednesday afternoon. "This really makes a good impression on Sikeston."...

Yet as we have seen so many times in the past, this is yet another crisis to be exploited for political purposes by the left.

ESSEX, Mo. -- James Dale Jennings, 84, died Oct. 10, 2017, at Cypress Point Skilled Care in Dexter, Mo. Born July 14, 1933, son of the late Edgar Jennings and Mildred Talley Jennings, he was a carpenter and member of the Bernie General Baptist Church...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Local son, WWII hero, fragrance industry leader, devoted husband and father, Alvin Francis Lindsay Jr., known as "Bud," passed away on Sept. 26, 2017, in Miami Beach. Bud was born on Sept. 4, 1920, at his family's home on Dorothy Street in Sikeston, Mo. ...