Stories from Tuesday, November 15, 2022

An ongoing search and rescue for a Sikeston, Missouri, hunter missing since late Sunday continues in Carter County. According to Ozark National Scenic Riverways, National Park Service personnel along with Missouri Highway Patrol Aviation Division, Missouri Department of Conservation and Carter County Emergency Response teams have been combing the ground near Cave Spring southeast of Van Buren to locate 58-year-old Phillip Carnell of Sikeston, who was reported missing Sunday evening when he didn't come in from hunting near Cave Spring.. ...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Terri Theresa Roberson, 58, died Nov. 11, 2022, in Gosnell, Arkansas. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time at noon Saturday, Nov. 19 at Temple of God's Glory Church with Rev. Raymond Roberson Officiating. Burial will be in the Lily of the Valley Cemetery with the DeLisle Funeral Home of Portageville...

Santa Claus greets a youngster at the Holiday Open House in Downtown Sikeston Friday night. The City’s Parade of Lights and Tree Lighting will be held Dec. 2 beginning at 6 p.m.

“A Christmas Carol” is one of the most timeless Christmas tales and the Sikeston Little Theatre will be performing the classic, beginning Thursday night.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows deer hunters in Missouri harvested 93,355 deer during opening weekend of the November portion of firearms deer season Nov. 12 and 13. Of the 93,355 deer harvested, 55,267 were antlered bucks, 7,250 were button bucks, and 30,838 were does...

SEMO Electric Cooperative has announced to its customers their electricity rates will increase in 2023. In an email sent to customers on Wednesday, SEMO Electric said for residential accounts, the “daily fixed charge” will increase 25 cents; and the kilowatt-hour (kWh) cost will increase from $0.08798 to $0.09326. For a residential member using 1,000 kWh per month, increases amount to $11.28 per month...

An employee with Slinkard Painting of Cape Girardeau puts the first coat of paint on the water tower at the Sikeston Board of Municipal Utilities Water Plant under construction south of Sikeston.

A Scott City man is in custody after a domestic assault. According to a release from the Scott City Police Department, Sunday at about 10:34 a.m. officers responded to an address in Scott City to investigate an assault.

NEW MADRID, Mo. - On Monday I attended a meeting in Jefferson City with other police chiefs and sheriffs from around the state to discuss the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The speaker, a retired police officer and an instructor with Texas State University, gave a debriefing of the incident and talked about what could have been done better...

BARLOW, Ky. — Charlene L. Thresher, 72, formerly of East Prairie, Missouri, died Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at her home in Barlow. Charlene was born Sept. 1, 1950, in Mississippi County, Missouri, to her mother, Ruth Louise Parker Hicks, and her stepfather who raised her, Charles Randolph Hicks, she grew up in East Prairie and was a 1968 graduate of East Prairie High School.