Stories from Friday, August 4, 2017

SIKESTON -- While it's still too early for hard statistics, Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston is seeing an impact following the recent implementation of breastfeeding promotion and education to decrease the region's infant mortality rate. In July 2016, Missouri Delta Medical Center obtained a two-year grant through the Missouri Foundation for Health as part of the project to decrease infant mortality. ...

SIKESTON -- Continuing at 7 a.m. Monday, Linn Street at N. Ingram Road will be reduced to one lane due to sanitary sewer improvements. The work is being performed for the Board of Municipal Utilities. The project will continue for approximately two days, weather permitting. ...

Police located approximately 21 pounds of marijuana, 9.5 ounces of cocaine and just over a pound of methamphetamine after executing a search warrant of a Sikeston residence.

PUXICO, Mo. -- Jerry Wayne Crisel, 75, died Aug. 3, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born April 20, 1942, in St. Louis, son of the late Herbert Eugene and Roxie DeCelis Crisel, he was a lifelong resident of Puxico, self-employed in the trucking business and a farmer. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Masonic Lodge 596 and had been a Puxico School Board Member for several years...

SIKESTON -- Bobby "Skip" Gentry, 71, died Aug. 4, 2017, at his home in Sikeston. Born July 17, 1946, in Blytheville, Ark., to the late William and Dorothy Mullis Gentry. he served in the United States Army and worked for the Sikeston post office for 42 years...

ROCKWALL, Texas -- Charles Gloth, 73, died Aug. 3, 2017, in Rockwall. Born Sept. 13, 1943, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., son of Alma Gloth, he retired as a housing construction contractor. He had previously ran a charter service in New Madrid, Mo., where he owned nine airplanes...

JACKSON, Mo. -- Marie Frances Halter Bradford-Amrhein, 91, died Aug. 4, 2017, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. Born June 20, 1926, in Charleston, daughter of the late Joseph and Ida Wilhelm Halter, after her 1944 graduation from St. Henry High School in Charleston, she worked for Bell Telephone Company in Charleston and moved to Jackson in 1952. ...