Stories from Monday, January 23, 2023

The identities of a husband and wife who were shot and killed early Sunday in Sikeston have been released. Kiara D. Haynes, a 33-year-old male, and Breana C. Conner, 27-year-old female, were found around 3 a.m. Sunday with gunshot wounds outside apartments in the 800 block of South West Street in Sikeston, according to Sgt. Tyler Rowe, public information officer with Sikeston DPS...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. – Human remains discovered Sunday, Jan. 22 are believed to be those of a man missing for more than two years. According to a news release from New Madrid County Sheriff William “Bud” Cooper, the New Madrid County Sheriff’s Department was notified by the Portageville Police of human remains located in a Portageville warehouse. The remains were found in a portion of the warehouse that was not in use...

The Missouri Department of Conservation, or MDC, reminds Missouri landowners who get no-cost or reduced-cost deer and turkey landowner hunting permits through its Landowner Permit Application process that it may be time to reaffirm or update the property information they submitted to MDC...

The format to announce the entertainment lineup for the upcoming Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo will be slightly different this year. While the announcement will still be in partnership with the Sikeston Region Chamber and made in March, it will take place in the evening and also allow for members of the public to attend...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Reva Irene Munson passed away peacefully on Jan. 20, 2023, at the age of 95. She lived the first 91 years of her life in Mississippi County before moving to Austin, Texas. She was born in Crosno, Missouri, on Jan. 8, 1928, daughter of Nellie and Guy Woodard...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — On Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, Galen DeWitt Harper, a beloved husband, father, stepfather and grandfather passed away. He was 75. Born to Ollien Harper and Lois Harper nee Crenshaw in Cairo, Illinois, on Jan. 2, 1948, Galen graduated from Charleston High School in Charleston, Missouri, in 1965 and studied at Southeast Missouri State University...