Stories from Tuesday, May 3, 2022

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — A Sikeston, Missouri man faces a felony sodomy charge following his arrest in Scott City. Darrion Jerome Bradley, 23, is charged with felony statutory sodomy or attempted statutory sodomy-deviate sexual intercourse-person less than 12 years old, according to online court records...

SIKESTON — Sikeston residents had their first chance to speak out on the City of Sikeston’s budget for the 2023 fiscal year during Monday’s City Council meeting. As part of the proposed budget, which was being presented for the first time to Sikeston City Council, the starting pay for officers with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety will be increased to $20.42 an hour...

SIKESTON — James Myron Kegley, age 88, passed away Sunday, May 1, 2022, at his home in Sikeston. On Jan. 8, 1934, in Clarkton, Missouri, he was born to the late Odell and Lela Shelton Kegley. In Hernando, Mississippi, on Sept. 21, 1956, he married Shirley Miller who survives of the home...

SIKESTON — David Lewis Fuller IV, 19, of Sikeston died Wednesday, April 27, 2022, in Kilgore, Texas, as a result of a car accident. David was born in Round Rock, Texas, on July 2, 2002, to Evangelist Flora Wiggins and David Lewis Fuller III. He was a 2020 graduate of Sikeston High School. He and his friends organized a community group, SLOT, Sikeston Leaders of Tomorrow, that focused on helping teenagers in the Sikeston community. He was employed at Alan Wire in Sikeston...

In 1996, area code 573 — including residents in Cape Girardeau and all of Southeast Missouri — was put into service when area code 314 began to run out of available telephone numbers because of cellular phones, fax machines, computer modems and pagers...

SIKESTON — The annual Kids Fishing Derby will be held Saturday at the Sikeston Recreation Complex Lake. The free event will be held from 9-11 a.m. and is open to all kids age 15 and under. Each child must provide his or her own fishing pole and bait...

SIKESTON — The Sikeston Job Center will host a hiring event for State of Missouri jobs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 10 at Three Rivers College, 1400 S. Main St. in Sikeston. There will be on-site interviews, state benefit reps, resume support with opportunities for all...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) has issued a new Earthquake Insurance Market Report that shows earthquake coverage in the highest risk areas of the New Madrid fault region of the state has hit historic lows. In the six-county New Madrid region of the state, the percentage of residences with earthquake coverage has declined by an astonishing 49 percentage points between 2000 and 2021, from 60.2 to 11.4 percent...

SIKESTON — Southeast Missouri employees with the Missouri State Highway Patrol were recognized over the weekend for their life-saving actions in 2021. Missouri State Highway Patrol on Monday released the names of recipients of 35 awards to its employees who were recognized for their actions at the awards ceremony April 29 at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Columbia, Missouri...

According to reports from Steele Chief of Police Billy Joe Stanfield, an officer responded to a shots fired call at 243 West Main Street. Upon arrival the officer observed a large group of approximately 100 people fleeing the area on foot and in vehicles. The group was attending a party given by a local resident...

Farmers are receiving more for their row crops than in recent years, but that fact is not directly leading to more money in their pockets for a number of reasons. From 2014 through 2020, agriculture commodity prices — what a farmer receives for cotton, soybeans, corn and other crops — tanked. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture figures:...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - New Madrid County Central High School has a long winning tradition. Banners touting their successes hang with pride in the school gym. This year a banner will be added to honor another group of talented NMCC athletes - the school’s cheerleading squad. The 16-member squad competed in Missouri’s first-ever Gameday Championships, cheering their way into second place at the competition conducted at Drury College in Springfield...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - The following memorial gifts were made to the New Madrid Memorial Library: “A Man of Honor” by Barbara Taylor given in memory of Eugene Hartman by the New Madrid Class of 1965. “Sea Hawke” by Ted Bell given in memory of Jim Farrenburg by the New Madrid Memorial Library librarians...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - For Peggy Sides it is a favorite quote: “Those privileged to touch the lives of children and youth should constantly be aware that their impact on a single child may affect a multitude of others a thousand years from now.” After nearly 50 years in New Madrid County’s classrooms and her continuing efforts to tutor outside of the classroom, Sides’ impact on the children and youth may extend well beyond a thousand years...