Stories from Monday, June 11, 2018

Boyd, who won “America’s Got Talent” in 2008, was found unresponsive by his mother at her Sikeston home and pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m.

SIKESTON — Governor Mike Parson will make nine stops this week to hear from community leaders across Missouri. The tour will begin Tuesday with visits to Springfield, Branson, Carthage, St. Joseph, and Kansas City. The tour will continue Wednesday with visits to Columbia, Cape Girardeau, Sikeston and St. Louis...

Local residents took part in the Historic Downtown Sikeston Pickers Market on Saturday as tents with vintage, antiques, collectables and repurposed items were for sale.

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Susan King Totty, 70, died May 19, 2018, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Born to the late Robert DeLisle King and Thelma Parks King, she graduated summa cum laude from Old Dominion University with a Bachelor of Science in speech pathology. She spent 20 years teaching children with special needs in the Arlington Independent School District in Arlington, Texas...

SIKESTON — Alice Cox, 87, formerly of Cairo, Ill., died at 12:25 p.m. June 9, 2018, at her daughter’s home in Sikeston. Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. until service time at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Mighty Rivers Worship Center in Cairo with Dr. Larry Potts officiating...