Stories from Wednesday, August 5, 2020

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Cape Girardeau man pled guilty to robbery and firearm charges Wednesday in federal court in Cape Girardeau. De’Drevion Savage, 21, of Cape Girardeau pleaded guilty to charges of Interference with Commerce by Robbery and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. He appeared before U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr...

Just received another notification from a business notifying me of required face coverings (masks). In my youth (19 years of age), my government sent me an induction (draft) notice. I allowed myself to be “drafted” and sent to a distant combat zone. Vietnam. I grew to regret very much that decision. I saw buddies die for a political agenda. An agenda that often times tied our hands and allowed our enemies to take advantage of the politics of our cherished America. A place we dearly missed and wanted to come “home” to. Now, those in charge are demanding we wear masks in public. Yet they refuse to properly report the true statistics related to COVID-19. We hear only the new cases. One nurse was listed as “positive” and home quarantine, when it was discovered two weeks later she had mononucleosis. People with slight temperatures are listed falsely. People with a runny nose — improperly. Folks with a cough — again improperly. And the so called positive listings go on-and-on, day-by-day, week-by-week and month-by-month. It’s time to stop. Do your jobs properly. Report the facts. Quit fudging/falsely reporting data. The same crap took place in “Nam”. You see where that got us? I’m tired of all the falsehoods coming from elected officials. Try telling the truth for a change. A 70-year-old combat vet.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Larry Briggs, 71, died July 29, 2020. Born March 18, 1949, in St. Louis, Missouri, son of the late Eunice Briggs and Dorothy Briggs Jacobs, was a 1967 graduate of Charleston High School. He was a member of the starting five for Charleston High School’s first team to win a regional championship and a state playoff game during the 1966-1967 season. ...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — George Adolph DeRousse, 89, died Aug. 4, 2020, at Tishomingo Manor in Iuka, Mississippi. Born Dec. 30, 1930, in Pemiscot County, Missouri, son of the late Thelma Ethel Pigg DeRousse and Ollie DeRousse, he was a member of the Hayward Baptist Church and a U.S. Army veteran serving during the Korean War...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Monica Paulette Parr Burney, 69, died Aug. 4, 2020, at her home in East Prairie. Born Jan. 18, 1951, in East Prairie, daughter of Delma Fern Purl Parr and the late Charles Paul Parr, she had lived in East Prairie her entire life and was a 1968 graduate of East Prairie High Schoo. She attended cosmetology school.   On Aug. 10, 1968, she married Rex Edward Burney, who survives of the home...