Stories from Friday, August 10, 2018

SIKESTON — A 51-year-old male is recovering from a stab wound following an argument early Friday in Sikeston. At 7:27 a.m., officers with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety received a report of an assault at 531 S. Frisco, according to Lt. Austin Henley with Sikeston Department of Public Safety. ...

SIKESTON — The 66th Annual Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo continued through Saturday.

I can’t believe the morals a lot of women have nowadays. They’ll live with 10 or 15 kids and have a dozen kids and they’ll have to have 20 or 30 men tested to see who the dad is. I just don’t understand that. It’s just ridiculous.

CHARLESTON, Mo. — The main office and special services offices have opened at the new Charleston R-1 Central Office just in time for the new school year, which begins for students on Aug. 15. Located in the A.D. Simpson Building, 311 E. Tom Brown St., the main office is located on the east side of the building while the Board of Education meeting room is located on the west. Visitors may use the building’s north entrance, the doors facing East Tom Brown Street...

SIKESTON, Mo. — Training is scheduled for four area health departments as they and 10 other Southeast Missouri counties make the move to digital record keeping. On Aug. 14 and 15, the staffs from the Scott, New Madrid, Mississippi and Pemiscot county health departments will begin electronic records training. ...

MINER, Mo. — A theft from a Miner business has police searching for two black females. According to Miner Police Chief Chris Griggs, two black females entered a Miner business Thursday afternoon and one of them gained entry to an employee only area and took credit cards and other monetary valued items...

BERTRAND, Mo. — Larry Reed Best, 77, died Aug. 4, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.  
Born Oct. 13, 1941, to the late Frank Zaccagnini and Evelyn Anticliff, he had owned Best Fabricating in Washington State. His wife, Patricia Ann Thatcher, preceded him in death. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Danny Leon Russell, 67, died Aug. 9, 2018, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau.  Born Sept. 29, 1950, in Sikeston, son of the late Argus Ragon and Ardena Noe Russell, he was the owner of Danny Russell Trucking and a member of Elm Street Baptist Church. ...