Stories from Thursday, July 10, 2014

Other than the air conditioner not working properly Monday night at the Portageville City Council, Mayor McCrate had an item to discuss with Police Chief Ronnie Adams. He wanted to know why Adams promoted officer Austin DeLisle to sergeant with out prior approval from the board...

Recently, Portageville's own local musician, Duhlayknee, decided to tell her friends, family and fans a "secret" at her music video premiere party. The event was held at Klipfel's Korner on Thursday, June 26. Her new single "Secrets" is now available for download on all digital retailers (iTunes, Amazon, Google play, Spotify and CD Baby). The new song is the first single on her new album produced by Dennis Gurley of Alley Trax Recording in Hayti, MO...

I read one time of a girl that was standing on the platform of a train station. She waved down an official and asked if the train started from that station? He replied, "For where? Let me see your ticket." When he looked at it he told her, "No, you are at the wrong station."...

Editor's Note: Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled it's permissible to open a government meeting with prayer. The case involved town council meetings. Citing the ruling, Allan Burke sent a suggested prayer he wrote for opening meetings of county commissions, school boards, city boards and other governmental entities. Allan Burke is publisher emeritus, the Emmons County Record, Linton, ND...

CAMPBELL -- A Malden teenager was killed after being ejected from his vehicle Wednesday in Dunklin County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, at 5:25 p.m. on Route WW, three miles north of Campbell, 16-year-old motorist, Nicholas R. Holt, of Malden traveled off the left side of the road, and his vehicle overturned. Holt was ejected from the vehicle. He was transported by ambulance to Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott, Ark., where he was pronounced dead at 7:11 p.m...

SIKESTON -- A robbery at a local check-cashing business is under investigation by the Sikeston Department of Public Safety. At about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to a panic alarm at Check Into Cash, located at 1305 S. Main St. When officers arrived, they spoke with an employee who said a black male entered the store and demanded cash, according to a news release from Capt. Jim McMillen, Sikeston DPS public information officer...

For those of us that work a regular 5-day a week job, a 3-day holiday weekend is a magical thing. It's hard to wrap your head around what it must have been like for a bunch of brave, adventurous Europeans, building a new life in a strange land while being oppressed by taxation from across the Atlantic, to rise up and fight. ...

sports@standard-democrat.com CHARLESTON -- Some have been easier than others, but in six of the last seven years the Charleston Fighting Squirrels have found a way to bring home a state title. They'll get that chance again starting today when they open up the Senior Babe Ruth Missouri State Tournament at Hillhouse Park in Charleston...

Local Teams have finished their spring session in the Pioneer Pool League. In the 9-ball Division II, four teams competed for trophies, all out of T-Ray's Bar in Wardell.

CHARLESTON - A fourth person is in custody in connection with the murder of a Poplar Bluff man in Mississippi County. The Mississippi County Sheriff's Department reported the arrest Monday afternoon of a Mississippi County man in connection with the murder of Derell Davis. Davis' body, which had multiple lacerations to the neck and abdomen, was discovered Saturday evening in the Drinkwater Sewer in northern Mississippi County by fishermen...

SIKESTON -- When 5-year-old Sam McGill goes to the Sikeston Public Library to pick out a book, he wants to read about dinosaurs. So when Sam sat down last year to paint a tile to become a permanent part of the planned basement renovations at the Library, he drew his favorite thing -- a dinosaur...

SIKESTON -- Those looking to gear up for the upcoming rodeo while learning some American history in the process will have the chance to do so beginning with Friday's Downtown Gallery Walk in Historic Sikeston. "We're are still putting the collection together," said Shari Bartyzel, executive director of the Sikeston Depot Museum, on Wednesday...

BENTON - A Benton woman is facing drug charges after a Scott County deputy responded to a report of a disturbance. Amber Thomure, 28, is charged with the Class C felony of possession of a controlled substance, the Class A misdemeanor of possession of marijuana, and the Class A misdemeanor of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- Clarence Scott, 63, formerly of East Prairie, Mo., died July 9, 2014, in the Midwest Rehabilitation and Nursing in Belleville. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Nancy Allen Bone, 68, formerly of Charleston, died July 10, 2014, at the Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

PORTAGEVILLE -- Ayven Demarious Nelson, 3-month-old son of Kelci Nolen of Portageville and Justice Nelson of Kennett, died July 7, 2014 at Pemiscot Memorial Hospital. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

POPLAR BLUFF -- Derell Timothy "Tim" Davis, 44, died July 4, 2014. For the complete Standard Democrat obituary log in to our electronic edition.

I'm getting tired of hearing all the bleeding hearts complain about the soldier that was supposedly kidnapped by the Taliban and brought home by the release of five terrorists. Everybody seems to forget that he deserted his post. Whether he was serving the United States here at a post, or overseas like he was, when you walk away from your post you are a deserter. ...