Stories from Saturday, November 18, 2017

SIKESTON -- Sandra Kaye Tibbs, 72, died Nov. 17, 2017, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Born Aug. 12, 1945, in Macon, Ga., daughter of the late R.T. and Durette Stockton Reed, she was a resident of this area most of her life and a member of First General Baptist Church of Morehouse. She had been a secretary at Dace Body Shop and later at Tibbs Body Shop...

Though your Thanksgiving list probably is fairly similar to my own, there has always been the knowledge that our freedoms of expression were simply part of our national fabric. We rarely paused to give thanks for these freedoms because, to be honest, there was never any reason to doubt them.

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- A homicide is under investigation after a Cape Girardeau man was found in wrecked vehicle Friday in Charleston. About 5:30 p.m. Friday, Charleston Department of Public Safety received a call of gunshots in the 500 block of Cleveland Street, according to Charleston DPS Director Robert Hearnes...