Stories from Thursday, January 18, 2018

SIKESTON -- A suspect in an armed robbery at a fast-food restaurant late Wednesday in Sikeston is in custody, awaiting formal charges. At about 10:46 p.m. officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety responded to Burger King located at 921 E. Malone in reference to an armed robbery...

SIKESTON -- Races for the April 3 municipal election have been set as filing for candidacy ended Tuesday. Voters in Miner will elect a mayor, two aldermen in Ward 1 and one alderman in Ward 2 when they step up to the polls in April. Vying for the two-year term as mayor are Don Foster and incumbent Darren Chapman. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- It has been nearly one year since a 21-year-old Sikeston man lost his life when he was struck by a 2009 Cadillac XLR while walking along a stretch of Highway 51 near Puxico. The accident occurred in the early morning hours of Friday, Feb. 17, 2017...

HOWARDVILLE, Mo. -- The name has changed -- often. Originally Lilbourn East High School, the building became Howardville High School, then Howardville Junior High School and later Central High School West Campus. Add a new designation for the large building which anchors the middle of Howardville -- a national historic place...

SIKESTON -- Marcia Ann Trigg, age 73, passed away on Jan. 17, 2018, at her home in Sikeston. Born Sept. 3, 1944, in Sikeston, she was the daughter of the late John and Maxine Ozment Gipson. On Nov. 22, 1963, in Sikeston, she married Homer Trigg, who survives of the home...

SIKESTON -- Pamela Lynn Jones, age 54, passed away on Jan. 16, 2018, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Born Nov. 2, 1963, in Sikeston, daughter of the late J.P. and Virginia Johnson Holland, she was a member of Murray Lane Baptist Church in Sikeston...

DEXTER, Mo. -- Walter Marsh Watkins, 89, died Jan. 18, 2018, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Born Sept. 10, 1928, in Cash, Ark., son of the late Earl L. and Eunice Ellene Marsh Watkins, he had lived in Cash before moving to Missouri. He owned and operated Watkins and Sons Funeral Home until retirement. He was a member of the Dexter Rotary Club...

BELL CITY, Mo. -- Trisha Lynn Slagley, 23, died Jan. 17, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born July 1, 1994, at Cape Girardeau, daughter of Jeffrey Slagley of Cape Girardeau and Edith Shipley of Perkins, she was a 2012 graduate of Bell City High School. She worked as a waitress and bartender at Ruby Tuesday's at Cape Girardeau...