Stories from Sunday, December 23, 2018

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. — Police are investigating the shooting death of a Steele man Saturday in Pemiscot County. Pemiscot County Sheriff Tommy Greenwell said officers were dispatched Saturday to county road 217 and Missouri Highway A following a 7:47 p.m. ...

Editor’s note: For the past 35 years or so we have shared the following story with readers every Christmas. The words of Francis P. Church will ring true today as they did more than 100 years ago when first written. In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon became worried when her friends told her there was no Santa Claus. Her father advised her to write to the New York Sun to find out the truth, and the reply by Francis P. Church became a classic:...