Stories from Wednesday, August 2, 2017

SIKESTON - Marcie Lawson, recently named executive director of the Sikeston Regional Chamber, completes the team whose mission is to market the community. For the first time, all of the city's tourism and promotion will be done through the Chamber. The first order of business for Lawson is to sell Sikeston to Sikeston...

SIKESTON -- Sikeston R-6 School District teachers and staff will once again kick off the new school year with a bus tour and stops through their students' neighborhoods. Set for 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, the third annual community bus tour includes four school buses filled with teachers, staff and school resource officers riding to various bus stops in the district and greeting some of the school children, parents and community members along the way...

WILSON CITY, Mo. -- The Mississippi County Sheriff's office has launched a homicide investigation after the death of a Wilson City, Mo., man Tuesday. Mississippi County Coroner Terry Parker confirmed that 55-year-old Ralph Edward Cross was found dead early Tuesday...

Sikeston volleyball player Olivia Nash passes the ball during practice Tuesday morning at the Sikeston Field House.

The GOP is facing a dilemma unlike any in history.

SIKESTON - Joseph Lee Applewhite, 73, died July 30, 2017, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born May 29, 1944, in Sikeston, to the late Albert and Hazel McCauley Applewhite, he retired from Noranda Aluminum Inc. at New Madrid after 30 years of service...

SIKESTON - Lesley Gaylene Williams, 49, passed away on July 29, 2017, at St. Louis University Hospital in St.Louis. She was born Jan.13, 1968, in Anderson, Ind., to the late John and Patricia Helton Price. On April 15, 1989, in Sikeston, she married William Williams, who survives of the home...

SIKESTON - Mary Hamilton, 68, died July 31, 2017, at her home in Sikeston. She was born July 9, 1949, in Morehouse, to the late Owen and Virginia Lutes Jones. Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Jerry and Martha Brown of Memphis, Tenn., and Ray and Kim Hamilton of Pagosa Springs, Colo.; one daughter and son-in-law, Mary Yvonne and Blake Martin of Bartlett, Tenn.; four brothers, her twin Jerry Jones of Sikeston, Delmer Jones of Dallas, Billy Jones of Sikeston and Dale Jones, address unavailable; one sister, Darlene Ferrell of Sikeston; 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.. ...