Stories from Thursday, February 6, 2020

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Herbert Brown, 80, died Jan. 31, 2020. Born Feb. 26, 1939, son of late Harmon Brown Sr. and late Elnora Brown, he had attended Green Memorial Church of God in Christ. He had worked for EBG, Portageville Compress, Plastine, farming and construction...

BERNIE, Mo. — One of the 10 most wanted fugitives in Texas was arrested in Bernie Thursday. According to a release from Bernie Police Chief, Justin K. Allen, Christopher Robinson was arrested at his residence at 307 Howell St. in Bernie on a Texas DPS warrant for a parole violation...

SIKESTON, Mo. — Several Southeast Missouri law enforcement agencies were among over 100 awarded public safety grants by the state on Thursday. Gov. Mike Parson announced that the Missouri Department of Public Safety has awarded 106 Missouri law enforcement agencies a total of more than $700,000 in grants to purchase essential equipment used by officers, including ballistic vests, first aid and trauma kits, police radios, light bars and sirens...

MORLEY, Mo. — Doyle Wayne Canady, son of Pauline Semancik of Delta, Missouri, and the late Velmer “RED” Canady was born on June 7, 1957, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 62 years...

The Dunklin County farmer who alleges he is going out of business because of dicamba damage to his peach trees testified in Cape Girardeau’s federal court Wednesday morning that the herbicide was illegally applied to crops on neighboring farms, curtailing his peach yields and profits...

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — James H. "Tex" May Jr., age 74, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was born Oct. 21, 1945, in St. Louis, Missouri, son of the late James H. May Sr. and Kathleen Locke May, he was a cable splicing technician for Southwestern Bell and AT&T before retiring...