Stories from Monday, April 17, 2006

SIKESTON - Tasha and Jody Owens are the parents of their third child, second daughter, born at 8:26 p.m. March 10, 2006, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Jo'shiah De'Yoinna Owens weighed 7 pounds and was 19.5 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Jean Sherrell Davis and Clarence Davis of Seattle, Wash...

SIKESTON - A truck belonging to Bess Distributing Co. was badly damaged and 25 cases of beer were destroyed as the result of a wreck on Highway 60, three miles west of Sikeston Saturday morning. BELL CITY - Bill Watkins, R-2 School District Board of Education member, divulged this morning that the board had voted against accepting $81,107 in federal funds next year, at a meeting of the school board last Monday. ...

Mississippi County Commissioner Martin Lucas, foreground, gets a tour of the county's new emergency communications trailer from Charles Telker, a HAM radio enthusiast who assisted the county by equipping the trailer. The trailer, which has four radios powered by a generator to help county officials maintain communications in the event of an emergency, will be included in the Dogwood-Azalea Festival parade Saturday...

NEW MADRID - A recount, requested by a candidate who lost an election by one vote, didn't change the outcome. A recount was conducted of the ballots cast for mayor of Canalou after James Taul made the request through the office of New Madrid County Clerk Clement Cravens. Cravens said the recount, conducted Thursday, came back with the same results initially tallied through his office following the April 4 election - Taul received 37 votes and write-in candidate Charles Joyce had 38 votes...

To the person on the food stamp issue. You stopped what you were doing so you could see exactly what she was spending so you could run and tell somebody. Readers already knew you were mad when you said it 'cause you can't get that stuff. That $342 could have been for the whole month. ...

SIKESTON -- Carl Hazel, 78, died April 16, 2006, at his home in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

SIKESTON - Jerry Watson, 81, died April 15, 2006, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Ponder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements which are incomplete.

KELSO -- Leroy Lawrence Reinagel, 80, died early Friday morning, April 14, 2006, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Aug. 17, 1925, at Kelso, he was the son of William Martin Reinagel and Regina J. Leible. He and Bernice Cecilia Glastetter were married April 2, 1945, at St. Lawrence Church in New Hamburg...

ST. CHARLES -- Oran's baseball team impressed with a strong performance against large-school opponents at the St. Charles Tournament this weekend. "We did all right this weekend," said Oran assistant coach Larry Boshell, of the Eagles fifth-place finish in the 12-team tournament. "We saw some good pitching and a lot of big, strong kids."...