Stories from Monday, March 28, 2016

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. WHAT MAJOR WORLD ECONOMY IS EMERGING AS A GLOBAL HUB FOR MONEY LAUNDERING An AP investigation finds that scam artists, drug cartels and gangs from around the world are turning to China as a haven where they can safely hide money, clean it, and pump it back into the global financial system...

The United States has really gone to the dogs. Let me rephrase this, all Congress and Senate has gone to the dogs. Mitch McConnell is a racist, most Republicans are. Mitch wants to block anything Obama wanted to do. They fly back and forth playing golf. They're off more than they're on. They are elected and paid to do a job. Why don't they do it? Send Mitch back to Kentucky. Maybe he could find a job there...

SIKESTON -- Verna Davis, 87, died March 27, 2016, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Visitation is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sikeston...

SIKESTON - Bettye Falkoff, 88, died March 27, 2016, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Garden of Memories Cemetery under the direction of Ponder Funeral Home.

SIKESTON - Lucille M. Givens, 95, died March 27, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.

MOREHOUSE, Mo. - Marlin L. Swinger, 83, died March 27, 2016, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, log on to the electronic edition.


Above: Lakelynn Hastings, left, and Addilynn Harbison collect dandelions while waiting for the Easter egg hunt to begin on the grounds at the Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site in New Madrid on Saturday. Left: A child gets some help as he takes part in the annual Easter egg hunt at the Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site. ...

Kaelyn Wilburn contemplates her art work as she takes part in Saturday's "Road to Resurrection" at the Tanner Street Church of God. The program included hands-on learning about Jesus final days on earth and an Easter egg hunt.

Lee Hunter Elementary has announced the PBIS "Top Dawg" students for the month of March. Our Paws Pride Reminder for the month of March is "Courage" Pictured in the front row are first grade students: Charity Price and Redic McIntyre; second grade students: Olevia Richardson and Zeke Pennington. ...

SIKESTON - Matthews Elementary in Sikeston has announced the students who achieved status on the honor roll for the third quarter of the 2015-2016 school year. They are: Adian Adams, Mauricio Bautista, Stephon Boyd, Zavior Boyd, Miley Jo Brewer-Robbins, Jackson Bye, Peyton Carlisle, Kensi Colwick, Billy Doss, Jayce Drake, Avery Fritz, Ava Goodwin, Hadley Hager, Vincent Hatton, Addisyn Holifield, Zeeshan Huang, Emarious Hunt, Carl Jacobsen, Sekhyra Jones, Morgan Kolwyck, Alexa Lee, Crystal Lee, Ashland Manning, Lamazeion Marks, Jordan Massey, Jackson Mau, Anijah Mays, Payton Mercer, Tyler Merritt, Luke Miller, Za'Quaiviion Moore, Lucas Morton, Adlyn Newsom, Rhylee Odum, Aalayah Peet, Kailyn Pulley, John Reed, Preston Rodgers, Liana Sanchez, Madison Sanders, Lauran Scott, Wyatt Seiler, Kennedi Sims, Conner Thompson, Max Thompson, Rosa Tidwell, Emma Turner, Karman Turner, Camryn Uthoff, Johnathan Villanueva, Dynesty Wofford, Ryder Wooley, Blaize Wren, Raelynn Wright.. ...

SIKESTON -- Should Sikeston become the next smoke-free city in Missouri? Several area residents urged the Sikeston City Council to take that action during Monday's special city council meeting while the proposal left others fuming. The citizen's group "Smoke-Free Sikeston" proposed the council adopt a "simple, strong and fair law" for the community banning smoking in public places...