Stories from Thursday, May 2, 2019

SIKESTON — Jared Kruger, 31, died May 1, 2019, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Jan. 4, 1988, in Cape Girardeau, son of Jay and Joan (Alberson) Kruger of Sikeston, he was a member of First United Methodist Church, the Sikeston Jaycees and worked as a shop technician for Missouri Department of Transportation...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The commander of the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has declared a state of emergency in areas near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Forecasts call for the river gage at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to rise above the Phase I floodfight activation level (38 feet) on May 3, and above the Phase II activation level (43 feet) on May 5...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Cape Girardeau city officials want to shut down a banquet center in the aftermath of a shooting incident last weekend in which 50 to 60 shots were fired. The city is seeking to revoke the liquor license for River Valley Banquet Center at 631 S. Sprigg St., and also have it declared a chronic nuisance. If declared a chronic nuisance, the banquet center would be shuttered for one year, city officials said...

Ira Lee Sandefer, retired pastor of Smith Avenue Church of God in Sikeston, leads the prayer during the observation of the National Day of Prayer Thursday at Mission Missouri in Sikeston. everal locations throughout Sikeston simultaneously observed the day with prayer at noon Thursday followed by a reception at Mission Missouri...

SIKESTON — A Sikeston High School graduate and former board of education member will be the new executive director of the Sikeston Public Schools Foundation. Amy Blanton will assume the role as the Foundation’s executive director beginning June 1 after Lauren DeWitt recently announced she is stepping down from the position...