Stories from Thursday, October 31, 2019

SIKESTON — Law enforcement officers are searching for a woman missing since July who was last seen getting off a bus in Sikeston. Kari Markland, 49, was last seen get off a bus in Sikeston in July, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Missing Person Clearinghouse. Shortly after she arrived in Missouri, she contacted a relative but has not been heard from since which is out of character, the Patrol said...

SIKESTON — A drug investigation led the arrest of an East Prairie man Tuesday in Sikeston. Christopher Gephart, 37, of East Prairie is charged through Scott County Circuit Court with first degree trafficking drugs and four counts of felony delivery of controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoid, according to online court records...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A conviction of a Sikeston man who was previously found guilty of sodomy charges was upheld on Tuesday. The Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Ron Sherrod, 67, of Sikeston, who was found guilty by a Cape Girardeau County jury on July 12, 2018, of two counts of statutory sodomy. Sherrod was sentenced to 40 years in prison...

SIKESTON – Orgill, Inc. and Sikeston’s Area Economic Development Corporation have teamed together to try and let people, manufacturers and suppliers in 11 states know that Sikeston is a strategic location for business and industry. Beginning in November, a map will be seen on some Orgill trailers that will show Sikeston’s location, featuring its short distance from major cities, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, at the junction of Interstates 55 and 57 and home of an Orgill Distribution Center. ...

SIKESTON — Teresa Lynn Jenkins, 60, died Oct. 30, 2019, at Westfield Nursing Center near Sikeston.  Born Oct. 14, 1959, in Dexter, daughter of Edith Faye (Ergle) Frohock Grainger of Sikeston and the late Roy Lee Frohock, she was a lifelong resident of this area and had attended Matthews Missionary Baptist Church...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Mary Elizabeth “Liz” McNew, age 74, passed away on Oct. 29, 2019, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Oct. 24, 1945, in Sayre, Ala., to the late Hubert and Margaret Phillips Hill. She retired from Unilever in 2005 after 24 years of service...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Glenda Maxine Haney, 80, formerly of East Prairie, died Oct. 30, 2019, at The Arbors in Cape Girardeau.  Born Feb. 27, 1939, in East Prairie, daughter of the late Leroy and Ethelyne Haynes Bisher, she had been employed at Brown Shoe Company and also worked in housekeeping at Missouri Delta Medical Center until her retirement. She was a member of Wolf Island Baptist Church. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — William Onis Brown, age 96, died at The Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau on Oct. 30, 2019. He had been a resident there for two years. Born in Choctaw, Ark., on Feb. 12, 1923, he was the son of WT and Plumber Jane Brown. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Morehouse native was among four Southeast Missouri State University alumni and a faculty member who received Merit Awards presented by the Southeast Alumni Association Oct. 25 at the Copper Dome Society/Merit Recognition Dinner at the Show Me Center...