Stories from Sunday, October 15, 2017

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Evelyn Leona Chong, 84, died Oct. 14, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Born March 27, 1933, in Rockview, daughter of the late Stanley and Rhoda Ross Shumpert, she was a homemaker and of the Baptist belief. On Feb. 7, 1965, she married Loo Shee Chong, who preceded her in death on Oct. 24, 1994...

The offenders, William Carter, 27, of Kennett and Joseph Latamondeer, 41, of East Prairie escaped Sunday from the Pemiscot County Jail in Cartuhersville. 

According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 10 p.m. as 16-year-old Linda T. Schultz was driving southbound on Route W, one mile north of Poplar Bluff, when her vehicle crossed the center of the road, ran off the left side of the road and struck a tree.