Stories from Sunday, August 16, 2020

HAYTI, Mo. — Two people were killed after their vehicle failed to yield to a train Friday in Pemiscot County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 5:30 p.m. on Gettings Lange in Hayti as the eastbound vehicle driven by Titusan Townsend, 52, of Columbia, Missouri, failed to yield at a railroad crossing marked by cross bucks and was struck by an oncoming southbound General Electric Burlington Northern train engine...

WYATT, Mo. — Jesse Howard Campbell, 45, died Aug. 14, 2020, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Born Oct. 12, 1974, at Fulton, Kentucky, son of Ramona Robey Campbell of Kentucky and the late Joe L. Campbell, he was a 1994 graduate of Hickman County High School and went on to study at ITT Technical Institute where he graduated in 1996. He was member of the Wyatt Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon. He had been employed with Heartland Wood Products...