Stories from Wednesday, May 16, 2018

SIKESTON — A downtown Sikeston business received moderate damage after a fire early Wednesday morning. According to Sikeston Department of Public Safety Sgt. Jon Broom, a DPS patrol officer located fire and smoke coming from the roof of Joy’s Bridal, located at 138 E. Front St., at 12:53 a.m...

It’s far from a tidal wave, but Democrats are reluctantly arriving at the conclusion that Trump bashing is not working. Perhaps Democrats are poll testing their anti-Trump messaging and recognizing that the constant barrage of criticism is wearing thin with the American public...

Help needed at Wendell Apartments My name is Shirley from Wendell Apartments and I’d like to know if anyone out there has wheelchairs or walkers or whatever to give to Wendell Apartments. We need them here for the senior citizens. Some of them need them and don’t have the money to buy them. There is people here that need wheelchairs to get in and we just ain’t got any and it’s just making people where they can’t get out of their apartments...

Micah Stengler has his cap fixed by his father Heath Stengler before a kindergarten graduation ceremony Tuesday night at The Christian Academy in Sikeston.

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Necie M. Marshall, 60, died May 16, 2018, at her home. Born June 21, 1957, to the late William and Joan Duffy Cooper, she was married to the late Bob Marshall and was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in New Madrid...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Brittany Rachelle Hart Faire, 33, died May 15, 2018, at her home in Charleston. Born Nov. 8, 1984, at Sikeston, daughter of Larry and Sherri Smithson Hart of Charleston, she had lived most of her life in Charleston where she attended Charleston schools. She was member of the First Baptist Church of Charleston...