Stories from Monday, July 15, 2024

MINER, Mo. — A Poplar Bluff, Missouri, man faces drug-related and vehicle tampering charges following an incident early Saturday, July 13 in Miner. At 8:42 a.m. Saturday the Miner Police Department received a report of a subject attempting to break into vehicles in the Burger King parking lot, according to a post made by Miner Police Department via its social media.The on-duty officer responded and located the suspect in the parking lot of Drury Inn...

RISCO, Mo. — A New Madrid, Missouri, man was killed and a Hayti, Missouri, woman seriously injured in a single-motorcycle crash late Saturday, July 13 in New Madrid County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 9 p.m. on US 62, four miles east of Risco, as the eastbound motorcycle operated by Calvin D. ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden Sunday called for unity and pledged an independent review following the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday where former President Donald J. Trump was shot and injured. “An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation,” Biden said in remarks from the White House, adding that “there is no place in America for this kind of violence or any violence for that matter.”...

SIKESTON — Vonda N. Barnes passed away on the evening of July 13, 2024, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born on June 25, 1929, in Morley, Missouri, to William A. and Beulah O’Neal Foster On Jan. 20, 1952, she married Harley E. Barnes Jr. at the First Baptist Church in Sikeston...

SIKESTON — Ladonna Morgan, 44, of Sikeston passed away on Monday, July 8, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She was born on Oct. 19, 1979, in Sikeston, to Donna E. (Marks) Morgan and the late Rodell G. Jackson. In addition to her mother, she is survived by three brothers, Mark Marks, Paul Marks, Matthew Morgan and a host of other relatives and friends...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Merle Edwin Gelsheimer, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, July 13, 2024, at his residence. Merle was born Feb. 11, 1931, in Springfield, Missouri, to the late Henry and Mora Cain Gelsheimer. He was a 1949 graduate of Central High School in Springfield and then served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. He was honorably discharged and returned home to Springfield...