Stories from Wednesday, October 16, 2013

SEMO News Service ORAN -- Oran High School's sectional round softball game against Dora on Wednesday went almost exactly according to coach Jim Eftink's game plan. "I told them we'd score in the first inning, we'd get [Addie] Kielhofner on, she'll steal second, we'll bunt her to third and then we'll bunt her home," Eftink said. "That's how we score runs, that's how we have all year, and that's just who we are and we can't change our spots now."...

sports@standard-democrat.com BENTON -- Thanks in large part to the bat of junior Kristi Brucker the Kelly Lady Hawks now stand just one win away from a return trip to the Class 2 final four in Springfield. Batting in the fifth-spot, Brucker had three hits while driving in five runs to guide the Lady Hawks to a 6-0 win over East Carter County on Wednesday in Sectionals...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. SOME FURLOUGHED WORKERS CALLED BACK The status of thousands of employees changed from nonessential to essential over the course of the partial government shutdown...

SIKESTON -- When Katherine Wethington wants to show her support of the Sikeston Bulldogs, she sits down at her sewing machine. For the second time, Wethington has pieced a quilt to be raffled to benefit the team. This year the quilt will be raffled as part of Friday's homecoming activities...

There are just a few last-minute details to attend to for Thursday's Missouri Delta Medical Center Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon. Pictured from left straightening out the special banners for cancer survivors are Pat Glass and Mary Carolyn Adams with the MDMC Women's Imaging Center and Marcie Lawson, MDMC Foundation director. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU-- Dr. Randal Otto, MD, FACS, of San Antonio, Texas, will receive an Alumni Merit Award presented by the Southeast Missouri State University Alumni Association Oct. 25 at the Copper Dome Society/Merit Recognition Program during the Homecoming celebration...

I just read the speakout "Tired of paying for others." This person is dead-on. This is the best SpeakOut article I have ever read in my entire life. Keep up the good work. Sentence questions What's going on in the Mississippi County courthouse? First a judge gave a man 120 days of so-called shock treatment for a guilty plea last year on second degree murder. ...

POPLAR BLUFF -- John D. Daniel, 85, of Poplar Bluff, died Oct. 13, 2013, at his home. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


NEW MADRID -- Bobby Sweet, 76, died Oct. 8, 2013, at his home in New Madrid. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


AIKEN, S.C. - Maxine Newby Choate, 93, passed away peacefully on Oct. 9, 2013, at Pepper Hill Nursing Home where she had been a resident for the past two years. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.
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SIKESTON -- Barbara Jean Wiggins-Lott, 65, died Oct. 10, 2013, at her home. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


SIKESTON -- Henry Nevada Bonner, 58, a resident of Sikeston, died Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, at Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


As I made my way to the office this morning in the all-too-dark early hours, I passed a familiar coffee shop packed with the usual suspects. And then I passed another early morning watering hole and then another and another. The morning coffee shop is an important ingredient in the lives of many - mostly men - farmers, bankers, lawyers, small businessmen and such...