Stories from Monday, April 20, 2020

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Police are seeking public assistance in locating a missing/endangered teen-aged female from New Madrid County. Jillian P. Reed, 17, was last seen in Lilbourn, Mo., wearing a black hoodie with "NMCC 2021" on the front and carrying a pink back pack, according to New Madrid County Sheriff Terry Stevens. Reed is 5'4" and weighs 185 pounds. She has blue eyes and brown hair...

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. — A Caruthersville child was killed and man seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday in Pemiscot County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, as the westbound vehicle driven by Joshua A. Lacey, 24, of Caruthersville was traveling on East 7th Street at Maple Street in Caruthersville and ran off the right side of the road, became airborne, drove through a fence and struck a tree...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Autopsies will be performed later today on a Poplar Bluff woman and her infant daughter, both of whom died Sunday of apparent gunshot wounds. “I pronounced 31-year-old Angela Lemonds dead at the scene” at about 10 a.m. Sunday, according to Butler County Coroner Andy Moore. “I went to the emergency room for the child.”...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Butler County authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was pulled from Black River Sunday afternoon. Just after 2:30 p.m., Sheriff Mark Dobbs said, a fisherman called to report he found what he believed to be a body in Black River, approximately one-half to one mile upstream from the Hargrove Road...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — The Portageville Board of Aldermen has extended its stay-at-home order for citizens until May 4. During a meeting Sunday, the Board approved the ordinance. The ordinance is designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 within the city of Portageville and within a five-mile radius of the city...

According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, there were 140 new positive cases of COVID-19 reported Monday with one new death. That brings the total number of cases in Missouri to 5,807 with 177 deaths. Locally, Butler County saw the only increase from Sunday’s to Monday’s reports with one additional case, bringing its case total to 24...

SIKESTON – Catholic schools in Southeast Missouri will remain closed through the end of the school year. Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau Bishop Edward M. Rice made the announcement Friday in a letter to monsignors, priests, deacons, principals and catechetical directors in the diocese...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In Monday’s COVID-19 briefing, Gov. Mike Parson announced over $47 million in additional expenditure restrictions to ensure a balanced budget and the necessary funds to deal with COVID-19 going forward. These restrictions include reduced funding for nine state agencies, Office of the Attorney General, and the General Assembly...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Michael Dewayne Stafford, 61, died April 19, 2020, at his home in Portageville. Born Sept. 23, 1959, in Hayti, he was the son of the late Jewell Johnson Safford and Walter Paul Stafford. On April 17, 1996, he married Michelle Marie Durbin, who preceded him in death on May 2, 2015...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Carol Ann Baylor Sneed, 38, formerly of Jackson, Mo., died April 16, 2020, at her home in St. Louis.