Stories from Thursday, May 10, 2018

Every Missouri Lottery ticket sold helps benefit education programs, which could not be accomplished without the more than 4,600 Lottery retailers throughout the state. Each year, the Lottery seeks to recognize the exceptional retail locations that exceeded expectations and generated more money for public education...

The Portageville FFA Parent-Member banquet was held May 3, at the high school cafeteria. Several awards were presented to FFA students, as well as local businesses that have helped support the program. One the businesses that received an appreciation award was Farm Credit Service of Portageville...

The Bible teaches that God's favor and a person's entrance into heaven can only be obtained as a free gift. This teaching contrasts with the teaching of every religion in the world. Every religion teaches that people must earn the favor of God by doing something to make them worthy. ...

The SEMO War Eagles 12U travel baseball team recently competed in The USSSA Snowden Slam Global World Series Qualifier in Southaven, Mississippi. The War Eagles went undefeated in the AA bracket play qualifying them for the championship game against the Red Sox of Batesville, MS. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that turkey hunters checked 34,055 birds during Missouri’s 2018 regular spring turkey season April 16 through May 6. Top harvest counties were Franklin with 760 birds checked, Texas with 732, and Laclede with 657. Young turkey hunters harvested 1,729 birds during the 2018 spring youth season, April 7-8, bringing the overall 2018 spring turkey harvest to 35,784...

The comeback of rural America, ignited in large part by a President who understands that we are more than just flyover country on the way to Hollywood, has been joined in recent months with new optimism from American small businesses. Whether it be a result of reducing the federal tax burden, slashing thousands of regulations which were tying up valuable business resources and employee time, or a change in the overall atmosphere from one which wants to punish American entrepreneurs to one which wants to reward them, small businesses across the U.S. ...

BENTON, Mo. — A Scott County deputy has been arrested on allegations of sexual misconduct. According to a release from Scott County Sheriff Wes Drury, the Sheriff’s Office received a report of sexual misconduct at approximately 2:30 a.m. Thursday. The Sheriff’s Office was advised the suspect was a deputy. Drury immediately contacted the Missouri State Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime Control and requested them to take over the investigation...

SIKESTON — High school seniors are saying goodbye to high school this month and moving on to the next chapter in their lives as graduation ceremonies are being held all across the area. In a change from the past, Sikeston High School will graduate on a Sunday this year with the ceremony set for 2 p.m. on May 20 at Sikeston Public Schools Stadium. The last day of school for other students will be May 24 when they will go a half-a-day...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Helen Maxine LeGrand, 77, died May 9, 2018, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Jan. 25, 1941, in Point Pleasant, she was the daughter of the late Goldean Tatum and Edward Williams. On March 30, 1957, in Portageville, she married Harry LeGrand, who survives of the home...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Richard James Jones Sr., 74, died May 4, 2018, at Pemiscot Memorial Hospital. Born March 30, 1944, in Lamar, Miss., he was the son of the late Ethel Lou Campbell Shepard and Jack Jones Sr. He was also preceded in death by a brother, James Edward Dye; and two sisters, Willie Mae Owens and Dorothy Grissom...

PORTLAND, Tenn. — Gary Wayne Hamlett, 65, formerly of Oran, Mo., died May 8, 2018, at the St. Thomas West Hospital in Nashville. He was born on Dec. 8, 1952, in Cape Girardeau, son of the late Finis and Dessie Wood Hamlett, he was a retired owner/operator of RV Repair in New Deal...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — James Moore Thurmond Sr., age 85, a resident of Charleston, died Monday, May 7, 2018, at his home in Naples, Fla. He was born Sept. 3, 1932, in Charleston, at the family home on North Main Street, to James Dennis and Margaret Stephens Thurmond. At the age of 13 he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout and was, at that time, the youngest recipient nationwide. ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Annette Bixler Dismuke, age 77, passed away on May 6, 2018, at her home in St. Louis. She was born on Nov. 23, 1940. in Steele, she was the daughter of the late Roy and Addie Hampton Bixler. On Jan. 14, 1976, in Canalou, she married Thomas Jefferson Dismuke, who preceded her in death on May 26, 2015...

SIKESTON — Michael Cliff Price, 52, died May 8, 2018. Born Sept. 27, 1965, in Poplar Bluff, son of Clifford Price of Sikeston and the late Peggy Cates Price, he was a member of First United Methodist Church in Sikeston and Sikeston Masonic Lodge 310 AF & AM...

MINER, Mo. — Charles Warren, 82, died May 9, 2018, at his home in Miner. Born July 31, 1935, in Trimble, Tenn., son of the late Shirley Lee and Bertha Mae (Harper) Warren, he was a member of Greater Works Church, where he was formerly pastor for many years as well as a missionary to the Philippines. He had owned and operated Sikeston Plumbing and Heating and he then operated a recovery center for eight years before retiring...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Betty Rosson Housman, 71, died May 10, 2018, at her home in Charleston. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

SIKESTON — Bobby Joe McReynolds, 85, of Sikeston, passed away Wednesday, May 9, 2018, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Born Jan. 26, 1933, at rural Sikeston, to the late Ralph and Stella McReynolds, he was a 1950 graduate of Morehouse High School. ...

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — Maurine B. Phillips, 91, of Scott City died Thursday, May 10, 2018, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau.  She was born March 29, 1927, in Blytheville, Ark., to Clarence and Gladys Craddock Morris. She married John Phillips on May 6, 1957...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Elizabeth Rose Rogers, 87, died on May 9, 2018, at Charleston Manor in Charleston. Born Oct. 16, 1930, daughter of the late William Perry and Delia Rose Faust Tanksley, she was a New Madrid County sheriff's deputy for 15 years and maintenance supervisor for New Madrid County for 10 years before retiring...

SIKESTON – On Saturday letter carriers across Southeast Missouri will again team up to help Stamp Out Hunger along with help from residents. The nation’s largest one day food drive provides food assistance to the rapidly increasing number of Americans who are struggling with hunger. In 2017, 20,350 pounds of food was received locally through Stamp Out Hunger. This one day food drive helps those neighbors that do not have food on the table...

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved a filing made by Union Electric Company d/b/a Ameren Missouri to adjust the fuel and purchased power adjustment charge (FAC) on the bills of its electric customers. Ameren Missouri made two filings with the Commission. ...