Stories from Tuesday, May 1, 2018

SIKESTON — A Sikeston man faces a felony charge for an alleged rape over the weekend in Sikeston. Thomas Raymond Coakley, 40, is charged with felony first degree rape, according to online court records. At 7:40 p.m. Saturday, officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety responded to a report of the sexual assault-rape of two females in Sikeston, according to DPS reports. The case remains under investigation, according to Lt. Austin Henley with Sikeston DPS...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered the release of a man who spent nearly two decades in prison for the killing of a woman in his southeast Missouri hometown. The court on Tuesday ruled that David Robinson should be released, saying in a one-page ruling that constitutional violations had occurred during his trial in the August 2000 shooting death of Sheila Box. ...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - The Addams Family was known as creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky and all together ooky (snap, snap). But when New Madrid County Central stages the musical “Addams Family,” add in witty, fun and definitely family. The musical is the tale of teenage Wednesday Addams who has fallen in love with a normal boy from Ohio, Lucas Beineke, and the mishaps that occur when their families meet for the first time...

SIKESTON — A brief foot pursuit resulted in the weekend arrest of a Sikeston man wanted on two felony warrants in Scott County. The pursuit began around 7:20 p.m. Friday when officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety were conducting a vehicle stop at Westgate near Malone for a lane violation, according to DPS reports...

SIKESTON — Robert Lee Beck, 54, died April 26, 2018, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Nov. 4, 1963, in Poplar Bluff, he was the son of the late James and Dorothy Lewis Beck. He was also preceded in death by a daughter, Crystal Beck; and a sister, Helen Alpine Beck...

COLUMBUS, Miss. —Sarah Ruth Catlett, 91, formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died at 9:30 a.m. April 28, 2018, at Trinity Healthcare. Born Sept. 15, 1926, in Rudy, Ark., she was the daughter of the late Roxada Simpson and Lee Reece. Her husband, Forrest “Slim” Catlett, preceded her in death...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Shenee Latrelle Fisher “Lucy” Jennings, 37, died April 27, 2018, in her home. Born July 24, 1980, daughter of William Bogan Jr. and Barbara "Louise" Fisher of Charleston, she attended Charleston High School and graduated with the Class of 1999. She had worked as a certified nurse's assistant at the East Prairie Nursing Center and the Bertrand Nursing and Rehabilitation Center...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Caruthersville, Mo. was sentenced to over 16 years in federal prison on child pornography charges Tuesday. Darryl T. Herron, 42, was sentenced to 200 months after pleading guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a minor on Jan. 30, appearing before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr...

DEXTER, Mo. — Former state senator Jerry Howard is announcing his candidacy as a Democrat for the Missouri House of Representatives District 151.