Stories from Monday, June 15, 2020

SIKESTON —A Sikeston man was arrested and charged Monday with first degree drug trafficking following a joint investigation that resulted in the location of methamphetamine valued at $185,000. Members of Sikeston Narcotics Unit and the Drug Enforcement Administration served a search warrant early Monday at an apartment located at 111 N. Stoddard in reference trafficking narcotics, according to a news release from Sikeston Department of Public Safety...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Polly Cook, 68, died June 12, 2020, at Jackson-Madison County Hospital in Jackson, Tenn. Born Feb. 26, 1952, in Portageville, daughter of the late Wilma Christine Nanney and Cecil Cook, she worked as a fiscal director at Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation for many years...

SIKESTON — William Clois Rasberry, 78, died June 12, 2020, at his home in Sikeston. Born March 13, 1942, in Leachville, Ark., he was the son of the late James and Reathey Wheetley Rasberry. On Nov. 13, 1973, in Kennett, Mo., he married Martha Hutton, who survives of the home...

SIKESTON — Charles Dennison, 82, formerly of Chaffee, Mo., died June 14, 2020, at Hunter Acres Care Center in Sikeston. Born Dec. 14, 1937, in Portageville, Mo., son of the late Charles “C.B.” Dennison and Letha Joiner Dennison, he was a former production manager with Tyson Foods Inc. in Dexter, Mo., for many years...

The Scott County Health Department is reporting seven new positive COVID-19 cases since Friday, with five being reported Saturday and another two being reported on Monday. The new positive cases gives Scott County a total of 139 positive cases with 39 of those active. There have been 11 deaths and 89 recoveries...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Lola Mae Cherry, age 89, of Cape Girardeau, passed away Sunday, June 14, 2020, at the Chaffee Nursing Home in Chaffee, Missouri. She was born Dec. 29, 1930, in Clarksville, Arkansas, the daughter of Samuel Alexander and Eva Merle Warren Barnett. She married George “Leon” Cherry Oct. 3, 1948. They had been married 64 years at the time he preceded her in death June 21, 2013...