Stories from Wednesday, September 28, 2016

"There was no quit. I told them that it wasn't over. We could get three runs. We had the top of the lineup going and I knew we could get some baserunners on. We could do three runs."

Recently, the South East Australian Basketball League wrapped up its 2016 season with the Championship Finals staged at the State Basketball Centre in Wantirna South followed by the Annual Awards lunch recently. Booker was the only Ballarat player to take home an award being selected in the All SEABL Team for the third consecutive year. Booker averaged 25.1 points, 4.1 assists and 3.1 rebounds a game across his 19 games in 2016...

SIKESTON -- It typically takes more than a good mood to set one team apart from the other. But, staying happy might help. The Sikeston volleyball team pulled off its sixth-straight win on Tuesday at the Sikeston Field House with a three-set win over Portageville winning the first and third sets handedly...

SIKESTON -- There was a light agenda during the Sikeston Council meeting on Monday. The Council took the following actions: Award of Lease-Purchase Agreement: Council conducted the first reading of Bill 6037. Upon its second reading and passage this legislation will authorize the city to enter into a four-year finance agreement with U.S. Bancorp for the lease-purchase of a street sweeper for $204,500 with a 1.69 percent interest rate...

SIKESTON -- Electronic Recycling Day will be Oct. 4 in Sikeston in an effort to "reduce, reuse and recycle" obsolete electronics. The drop off site is at Carnell's Collision Repair parking lot, on the corner of Tanner and North Main streets, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m...

provide a glimpse into your overall health but also help identify warning signs of many serious illnesses. Now finding your numbers can be as easy as taking a trip to the YMCA of Southeast Missouri. A wellness event called "Know Your Numbers" will be conducted on Oct. 3 at the YMCA and will give the community a chance get a snapshot of their health...

SIKESTON -- Pageants, rides and fish sandwiches attract thousands to the annual Sikeston American Legion Cotton Carnival each year. But one of the state's longest parades featuring floats, area high school bands, pageant royalty and politicians is another reason area residents look forward each year to the carnival, which is marking its 72nd year...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- An inmate who escaped from the Mississippi County Detention Center is back in custody and facing additional charges. Stoddard County Sheriff Carl Hefner reported Edward Lusk, 49, was arrested around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday following a brief foot pursuit...

Monday night's first presidential debate was a production of style over substance. Both disappointing and chaotic, the match-up between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton failed to live up to expectations in many ways. Trump failed time and time again to strike Clinton on her most vulnerable issues - immigration, her private email server, Benghazi or the Clinton Foundation...

BENTON, Mo. -- The newly formed drama club at Kelly Middle School aims to bridge the gap between the existing elementary and high school drama clubs. "This is our first year to have a drama club at the Middle School," said Lydia King, KMS Drama Club sponsor. "For the last two years, the elementary has had a drama club, and the high school has had a drama club for several years so there has been a gap for the kids who fell in love with the art and weren't able to take it in middle school."...

SIKESTON -- Margene Reeder, 86, passed away Sept. 25, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born May 20, 1930, in Loveland, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Arlie and Cora Elston Phillips. Survivors include: one son, Reece Reeder of St. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Timothy Alan Newton, 56, died Sept. 27, 2016, at his home. Born Nov. 15, 1959, in Sikeston, to the late Elvis Lee "Opie" Newton and Lucy Ann Bennett Newton Evans, he lived most his life in East Prairie where he worked at Stanley Muffler Company...

ATLANTA -- Janet Marie "JJ" Jones, 58, formerly of Charleston, Mo., died Sept. 23, 2016. Born Nov.11, 1958, in Charleston, daughter of Phillip Turner Sr. of Charleston and the late Dorothy B. Johnson, she received her education in Charleston and was a former member of Ollie Grove Baptist Church of Wilson City, Mo. She later joined Floyd Chapel Baptist Church where she served on the Women's Ministry and Usher Board...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. - Walter Paul Stafford, 83, died Sept. 28, 2016, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete with DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville.