Stories from Thursday, January 26, 2023

Officers with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety were among emergency personnel that came together on Saturday, Jan. 21 in Bollinger County to train in a search and rescue scenario. The Missouri Region E Homeland Security Response Team, or HSRT, which is made up of Sikeston Department of Public Safety, Cape Girardeau Fire, Jackson Fire and Stoddard County EMS, conducted search and rescue training at the Castor River Conservation Area, near Marble Hill, Missouri...

VICKSBURG, Miss. – On Oct. 5, R.D. James of New Madrid, Mo., former assistant secretary of the Army for civil works and long-serving member of the Mississippi River Commission, was inducted into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division’s Gallery of Distinguished Civilians for his 36 years of service on the commission as well as his service to the nation as one of the staunchest advocates for flood control in the history of the Mississippi Valley...

For Donnie Brown, taking the oath of office Jan. 4 was the easy part of becoming the next 149th District State representative. After his announcement of his plans to run for the office, Brown was busy balancing his job as the New Madrid County Highway Department engineer with campaigning for election in a district that includes New Madrid County along with parts of Mississippi and Pemiscot counties. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Larry Gene Smith, 84, died Jan. 25, 2023. Visitation is from 11 a.m. until time of service at 1 p.m. Saturday Jan. 28 at the First Church of God in East Prairie with Dawn Walters, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow at the East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery in East Prairie...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Juanita Jane French Cross passed away at her home in Charleston Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, at the age of 93. Jane, as she was known by, was born June 5, 1929, at Mount Level near East Prairie to the late Claude and Alberta Williams Green.

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Christopher Wayne Green, age 34, died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, at his home in Charleston after a long battle with kidney disease. Born March 30, 1988, at St. Louis, Missouri, to Virgil Wayne Green and Denise Anne Ponder Green, who survive of Sikeston, Missouri, he had lived in Sikeston a number of years, most recently living in Charleston...

Some cows remained loose Thursday after the semi-truck trailer they were being hauled in caught fire late Wednesday, Jan. 25 in Scott County. Shortly after 7 p.m., Sikeston Department of Public Safety’s fire and public safety divisions responded to the report of a livestock trailer on fire at exit 1B at the Interstate 57 and 55 interchange in Sikeston, according to Capt. Derick Wheetley, fire division commander for Sikeston DPS...

A winter storm impacted the region from the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 24 into the morning on Wednesday, Jan. 25. The bulk of the snow accumulations occurred across southeast Missouri and southern Illinois, according to the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky. ...