Stories from Sunday, August 12, 2018

BENTON, Mo. —  A Perryville man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after being found guilty of felony kidnapping, burglary and weapons charges. Clint E. Arrington, 49, was sentenced on Thursday by Judge David Dolan following a jury trial June 14 in Scott County, according to a news release from the office of Scott County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Boyd. At the trial, the state was represented by Assistant Prosecutors Tamara Carlson and Tabatha Blakely...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Sheila Georgette Marshall Pullen, 68, died Aug. 11, 2018, at Kindred Hospital in St. Louis. Born Feb. 16, 1950, in Wyatt, daughter of the late Harrison and Audrey Allen Marshall, she was a 1968 graduate of Charleston High School. She was seamstress in the community and later employed by Brown Shoe Co. before being manager for the Dollar General Store in Cairo, Ill., until her retirement. She had attended the Pentecostal Church in Wyatt...

SIKESTON — Michael Robin Cornell, 71, died Aug. 10, 2018, at his home in Sikeston. Born March 26, 1947, in Kellogg, Idaho, son of the late William Lyle and Emily Hughes Cornell, he was a graduate of Kellogg High School and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. ...