Stories from Monday, November 23, 2015

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. BELGIUM POLICE ARREST 16, PARIS FUGITIVE STILL AT LARGE Meanwhile, David Cameron, who is meeting Francois Hollande in Paris, says he will ask for parliamentary approval for the U.K. to join airstrikes against Islamic State extremists in Syria...

LILBOURN -- James Paul "Jimmy" Dambach was born Sept. 21, 1926, to Ben and Sophia Siemers Dambach at Fornfelt, (now Scott City), and died Nov. 22, 2015. For the complete obituary, see the Monday edition of the Standard Democrat.

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Zelma McNew, 88, died Nov. 20, 2015, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. For the complete obituary, see the Monday edition of the Standard Democrat.

DEXTER - Jean Payne, 74, died Nov. 21, 2015, at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter. For the complete obituary, see the Monday edition of the Standard Democrat.

ANNISTON -- Jeffie Loflin Jr., 72, died at 4:30 a.m. Nov. 20, 2015, at his home. For the complete obituary, see the Monday edition of the Standard Democrat.

CHARLESTON - Marene Wallace Baldridge, 78, died Nov. 21, 2015, at her home in Charleston. For the complete obituary, see the Monday edition of the Standard Democrat.

SIKESTON -- David F. Morris was well known as a veterinarian but for many he will always be remembered as the guy who put shoes on school kids' feet. Morris, who died Sept. 8 at age 78, was if not the sole guy responsible for starting the Sikeston Optimist Club's Christmas Shoe Program, was without doubt the heart and soul of the annual shoe giveaway program...

Not even rain and plummeting temperatures could keep the Scouts from collecting donated food during Scouting For Food Saturday. Officials estimate Scouts across the Greater St. Louis Area Council which includes Sikeston collected 1,955,525 food items during the 31st annual food drive. Cody Aldrich, left, assists members of a Sikeston Troop unload bags of food for the Scouting For Food event Saturday. The Scouts delivered the food to the Food Bank in Sikeston...

Fact check: Five of the Paris terrorists were French citizens, according to police. One was a Belgium citizen. Maybe instead of worrying about people fleeing war in search of a better life, we should be worried about the enemy from within. When did you change the name of this newspaper??? I thought it was the "Sikeston Standard DEMOCRAT"?? Not the Sikeston Standard Republican!...