Stories from Thursday, April 18, 2019

In looking at the doctrine of man, his nature and his fall, we come now to consider the consequences of man's sin. The Bible takes sin very seriously. Every sin, even the smallest, is of great significance, and thus has serious consequences. First, sin brings guilt. ...

SIKESTON — Joan F. Evans, 78, died April 17, 2019, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Aug. 30, 1940, in New Jersey, she was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. On Sept. 24, 2000, at Charleston, she married Don Evans; he survives of the home...

KEWANEE, Mo. — J.R. Blankenship passed away at his home in Kewanee at the age of 75 years. He was born March 26, 1944, in Sikeston, son of the late Jay and Weba Ross Blankenship. J.R. was a farmer until his retirement in 2009 due to health problems...

SIKESTON — Donna Hoyer, 81, died April 18, 2019, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel.

HAYWOOD CITY, Mo. — JReece ''Jerry'' Johnson, 60, died April 16, 2019, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Aug. 9, 1958, in Philadelphia, Miss., son of the late Rev. Roosevelt Johnson and Helen Brown Johnson, he was a 1977 graduate of Scott County Central High School. He was employed by the Missouri Highway Department for 39 years before retiring, and he had worked part-time at Wal-Mart in Sikeston since 2000. He was a member of Masonic Lodge Harmony 40 of Cape Girardeau...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — During his arraignment Thursday morning, Eliot D. Bonner, 27, of St. Charles, Mo., was informed he could face the death penalty if found guilty for the Oct. 31 shooting death of Monica Keenlance. As New Madrid County Associate Judge Joshua Underwood read the charges, Bonner stood quietly listening to each count. ...

SIKESTON — A Sikeston man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbery of a Cape Girardeau, Mo., grocery store. Harvee Pratcher, 30, was sentenced to 144 months imprisonment on one felony count of interference with commerce by robbery, and one felony count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He appeared before United States District Judge Audrey Fleissig...