Stories from Friday, September 15, 2017

YOKOSUKA, Japan – A Kennett, Missouri native and 2007 Kennett Christian Academy graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the guided missile cruiser, USS Antietam. Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin Brown is a culinary specialist aboard the forward deployed Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser operating out of Yokosuka, Japan. Antietam is one of three cruisers forward-deployed in Yokosuka...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jason Smith authored and passed an amendment this evening by a vote of 225-195 that stops federal highway funds for sanctuary cities. Cities like San Francisco use federal tax dollars to improve their roads, highways and bridges while at the same time breaking U.S. ...

Many people want to live the American dream by owning their own business. In fact, over half of all new businesses started are small business owned by local people. One of the biggest hurdles they face is planning their new business venture and is why over 70% of new business fail in their first year...

"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen" (Rom 1:24-25).

USDA Reports and Supply & Demand Tables University of Missouri Extension Meetings in Southeast Missouri
Corn Meeting - December 13, 2017 at the Miner Convention Center, Miner, MO
Soybean Meeting - January 17, 2018 at the Miner Convention Center, Miner, MO...

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13: Lotto 04-08-21-30-31-37 (four, eight, twenty-one, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-seven) Estimated jackpot: $3.9 million Pick 3 Evening 3-9-1 (three, nine, one) Pick 3 Midday 5-4-6 (five, four, six) Pick 4 Evening 6-9-2-7 (six, nine, two, seven)...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The Latest on the murder trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot a black man in St. Louis (all times local): 1:40 p.m. Dozens of protesters are facing off with police in riot gear in downtown St. Louis after blocking a bus filled with officers...

ST. LOUIS (AP) A judge found a white former St. Louis police officer not guilty of first-degree murder on Friday in the death of a black man who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase in 2011.

Engagement 9/15/17

SIKESTON -- Brenda Perry, 66, died Sept. 15, 2017, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. She was born May 25, 1951, in Sikeston, to the late Earl and Joan Britt Riley. Survivors include: one son, Walter Perry of Sikeston; one daughter, Delina Cureton of Sikeston; two brothers, Tommy Riley of Sikeston and Lester Riley of Illinois; two sisters, Shirley Knight of Morley and Theresa Summers of Sikeston; and one grandchild...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Flint Menard Pritchett, 89, formerly of East Prairie, died Sept. 15, 2017, at the Bertrand Nursing Center. Born March 14, 1928, in East Prairie, to the late Harley and Eugenia Day Pritchett, he was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He was employed by McDonnell Douglas before retirement...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Raymond Patrick, 72, died Sept. 15, 2017, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born April 10, 1945, in Dorena, to the late Robert Hearold and Quincy Dorthula Staggs Patrick, he had worked as a farmhand most of his life. He was a member of New Life Apostolic Church in Bertrand...

PUXICO, Mo. -- Vadola Martin, 95, died Sept. 15, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Jan. 30, 1922, in McGee, daughter of the late Richard Overton and Lula Jackson Overton Hodge, she had lived in the Puxico area all of her life. She was a member of the Life Chapel Assembly of God Church in Puxico. She was a member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary...

MOREHOUSE, Mo. -- Connie Louise Dock Smith, 66, died Sept. 14, 2017, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Born Aug. 8, 1951, in Sikeston, to the late Murrell and Stella Beavers Gosnell, she was of the Baptist belief and had been a beautician at several beauty shops in the area. She had also worked at Randy's Pharmacy...