Stories from Wednesday, January 12, 2022

I just read where the governor of Missouri canceled the state of emergency. That means the state of emergency is over. When we got more people getting sick now than ever, and I mean ever before. More of St. Louis. You don’t even hear about in Kansas City. Way more than Kansas City than St. Louis. But I’m talking about southeast Missouri. The governor stopped that. OK. Where is all the rescue money going to go since the state emergency has stopped? I’m sorry for all the people that voted for him. You better sit down and think about the rich, middle class and poor and lowest of poor, poor like I am. He does not care. He just stopped it. Now we should be finding out where is all that money going. He stopped that so he don’t have to stop the poor and the people that is making $40,000 and $50,000. That is nothing. He makes that in his back pocket for one 15 minute speech. I know how good the Standard Democrat reporters are. They can look that up and it’s probably way more than that.

GAMALIEL, Ark. — Priscilla “Pru” Widner Turner, 70, of Gamaliel, formerly of Sikeston, Missouri, passed away Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022 at St. Vincent’s Infirmary in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was born in Portageville, Missouri, and was the daughter of the late J.W. ...

SIKESTON — Around 7:36 a.m. Wednesday, officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety were called to the rear of 833 E. Kathleen St. in reference to a camper fully engulfed in fire, according to DPS. This created some delays with surrounding traffic as the fire was just west of Sikeston High School, DPS said. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but no one was hurt during the incident, DPS said...