Stories from Saturday, January 25, 2020

SIKESTON — Four Sikeston firefighters were injured Friday after a roof collapsed while they were responding to a residential fire. At 5:37 p.m. Friday officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety responded to 105 Bohannon Drive in reference to a structure fire out of town, according to Evelyn Aceves, public information officer for DPS...

Far too often I turn on the television or read news where an animal has been abused. A week doesn’t go by where I don’t see a story about a dogs being dumped with tape around its nose, a dog being starved or cats being killed. The list is long and my stomach turns with every graphic photo I see and horrible story I hear...

Mr. Editor, could you please find out for me how much, if there are statistics somewhere, how much an ordinary American spends every year keeping his vehicle going and in operation. I’m sure it varies from the class your in, the financial economic class you’re in, and what part of the country you live in. Because here in the middle of the country we have virtually no public transportation to relieve a person’s burden of their individual transport responsibilities. So I think it would be helpful for people to know.