Stories from Friday, September 29, 2017

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ These Missouri lotteries were drawn Thursday: Lucky For Life 09-10-12-16-32, Lucky Ball: 14 (nine, ten, twelve, sixteen, thirty-two; Lucky Ball: fourteen) Mega Millions Estimated jackpot: $20 million Pick 3 Evening 5-4-2 (five, four, two)...

KENNETT, Mo. - A New Madrid County man will serve 10 years in prison on a drug charge. Wesley Creasy, 39, of Portageville entered a guilty plea on a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. Creasy's case was heard Sept. 21 in Dunklin County on a change of venue...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Michael Jackson, 62, died Sept. 24, 2017, at Dexter Living Center in Dexter. Born Dec. 29, 1954, in Randles, son of the late Robert Cleveland and Alma Sue Crowden Jackson, he was a retired carpenter. His wife, Brenda Mason Jackson, survives of the home...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. - Jimmy Lamar Holdiness, 71, died Sept. 28, 2017, at his home in East Prairie. Born Jan. 3, 1946, in LaForge, Mo., to the late Lamar and Lois Moss Holdiness, he was a self-employed carpenter. In 1984, he married Brenda Georgette Marshall Holdiness who survives of the home...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Melvin Ardell Shoults, 90, died Sept. 29, 2017, at Memphis, Tenn. Born Dec. 18, 1926, in Ste. Genevieve, son of the late Nellie Cox Shoults and Harley Shoults, he was a member of First Baptist Church of Portageville and retired from Frisco Railroad Company...