Stories from Tuesday, August 16, 2016

MORLEY, Mo. -- An Oran man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Monday in Scott County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened at 6:45 p.m. on U.S. Highway 61, two miles south of Morley, as the northbound vehicle driven by Bradley A. Bollinger, 64, of Oran ran off the road, struck a fence and a tree...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A Parma man was sentenced on Tuesday to prison on federal charges involving farm subsidy and crop insurance fraud. Bobby David Lowrey, 49, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on multiple charges involving federal crop insurance fraud, theft of government property and wire fraud. He appeared for sentencing before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. in Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON -- Parents who pick up and drop off their seventh and eighth graders in the Sikeston R-6 School District have a new traffic control plan to follow for the new school year. In prior years, motorists in the vicinity of Sikeston Junior High School during the start and end of the school day may have experienced backups along Route Y/West Salcedo Road...

SIKESTON -- Lou Nell Curtner, 74, died Aug. 14, 2016, at her son's home in Sikeston. Visitation is from 11 a.m. until time of service at 1 p.m. Thursday at Blanchard Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Terry Curtner from Walnut Hill, Ill., will officiate. Burial will follow at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

WHITEWATER, Mo. -- Truman Weston Waddle, 89, died Aug. 14, 2016, at his home. Visitation is at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. Whitewater Masonic Lodge #417 AF&AM service will be at noon on Wednesday with funeral service to follow. Ray Greenlee and Earl Elfrink will officiate...

BENTON, Mo. -- John L. Mack, 77, died Aug. 15, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete with Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton. For this obituary and more, see the Wednesday edition of the Standard Democrat...

SIKESTON -- Parents who pick up and drop off their seventh and eighth graders in the Sikeston R-6 School District have a new traffic control plan to follow for the new school year. In prior years, motorists in the vicinity of Sikeston Junior High School during the start and end of the school day may have experienced backups along Route Y/West Salcedo Road...

SIKESTON -- Parents who pick up and drop off their seventh and eighth graders in the Sikeston R-6 School District have a new traffic control plan to follow for the new school year. In prior years, motorists in the vicinity of Sikeston Junior High School during the start and end of the school day may have experienced backups along Route Y/West Salcedo Road...