Stories from Wednesday, August 1, 2018

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Lilbourn man was sentenced on Wednesday to 147 months in prison on carjacking and gun charges. Justin D. Perry, 34, of Lilbourn was was sentenced on one felony count of felon in possession of a firearm, one felony count of attempted carjacking and one felony count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, according to the United States Attorney's Office. He appeared before U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr...

Manhattan was purchased from native Americans by the Dutch in 1626 for 60 guilders or about $1,000. Calling itself the cultural, financial, media and entertainment capital, Manhattan is perhaps the most expensive piece of property in the world. But there’s a little chunk of California that is shaking up the real estate world and is trying to rival Manhattan’s high-priced digs...

Overheard a conversation in Lowe’s this morning about the fire. Two guys were talking and somebody said that fireworks were illegal in the city limits of Sikeston and if they ever found out who did that, shot them up on the roof of Lowe’s and started the fire, would be in some deep doo doo. I didn’t think nothing about it until a little while ago, but is Lowe’s in New Madrid County or is it in the City of Sikeston?

GRAFF, Mo. — Terry Dean Lynn, 65, formerly of Chaffee, died July 30, 2018, at his home. Born April 4, 1953, in Cairo, Ill., son of the late Cecil and Louise Brown Lynn, he was a farmer. Feb. 9, 2018, he married Nancy Lee Smith, and she survives of the home...

HAYTI, Mo. — Irene Handley, 80, died July 29, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Sept. 4, 1937, in Hayti, daughter of the late Carrie Mae Nelson and Christopher Columbus Crumley, she was of the Baptist belief. Her husbands, Robert Penrod and William Walter Joseph Handley, preceded her in death...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Patricia Ann Estes, 81, died July 31, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born May 25, 1937, in Portageville, daughter of the late Helen Hart and Lynwood Call, she was a member of First Baptist Church in Portageville...

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — Luella Mae Murdock Duncan, born Feb. 29, 1916, in her parents’ farmhouse outside Puxico, Mo., died July 31, 2018, in Prairie Village. She was preceded in death in 1976 by her husband of 37 years, Norvel W. Duncan, and in 1990 by her husband of one year, Wyman Henry...