Stories from Saturday, February 9, 2019

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop E in Poplar Bluff is requesting the assistance of the public for any information pertaining to a fatal hit and run crash. The crash occurred at 7:39 p.m. Feb. 4 on Missouri Highway 53, approximately three miles south of Poplar Bluff, according to Sgt. Clark D. Parrott with the Patrol...

SIKESTON – Sikeston Department of Public Safety assisted a neighboring community late Friday in the evacuation of a patient from a flooded area. At 7:57 p.m. Friday Region E’s Homeland Security Response Team responded to Bollinger County Road 708 to assist Bollinger County EMS and Fire to remove a patient from a flooded area in a remote part of Bollinger County, according to the Cape Girardeau Fire Department. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. –The newest round of winter weather is moving into the state late tonight. Precipitation will begin around midnight in the southern areas and move throughout the state bringing rain, sleet, snow and freezing rain before ending early Sunday afternoon, the Missouri Department of Transportation said...

The annual list of the 100 Worst Cities in America is out this week and we can proudly acknowledge that no Missouri city made the list. I read in great detail the similarities among the various cities and the common factor was always poverty. Crime followed poverty and a lack of job opportunities and a lack of education also combined to determine the list...

In the Jan. 9 Standard, I read congressman Jason Smith’s article trying to blame the Democrats for big spending. I would remind him, that in the eight years just passed, though totally controlled by the Republicans, both house and senate, no congress in modern history has piled on more debt for our children than this Republican congress. The last balanced budget in the last 30 years was under President Clinton, who paid down the debt for almost three years after balancing the budget, until the people elected Bush, who blew that budget up again. You sure can’t mislead the people and expect history to smile on you.