Stories from Monday, October 15, 2018

SIKESTON — The Sikeston Department of Public Safety is looking for a suspect in an armed robbery that happened Friday. According to Sikeston DPS Lt. Jon Broom, DPS officers responded to Gas and Goodies convenience store at 1307 W. Malone Ave. at 12:06 p.m. Friday on a report of an armed robbery...

SIKESTON — A Sikeston man and Illinois man face felony charges for an alleged kidnapping and burglary with the use of a weapon over the weekend. Brandon Johnson, 31, of Sikeston and Thomas Evans, 29, of Bellwood, Ill., are each charged with felony first-degree kidnapping, armed criminal action, first-degree burglary, unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession (previous felon) of a weapon.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Sikeston man was sentenced on Monday to nearly eight years in prison for the January robbery of a Sikeston fast food restaurant. Byron Jones, 20, was sentenced to 94 months imprisonment on one felony count of Interference With Commerce by Robbery and one felony count of Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He appeared before United States District Judge E. Richard Weber...

DEXTER, Mo. — Dorothy Faye Black Kersey Jarrell, 92, died Oct. 11, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born May 9, 1926, in Mount Ida, Ark., daughter of the late Ulysses and Cora Francis Black, she had lived in Cardwell and Bloomfield, and she moved to Dexter in 1948. She had worked for Elder Manufacturing and attended the Dexter Church of Christ...

DEXTER, Mo. — Memorial services for Harold Morrow, 80, who died Sept. 16, 2018, will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 1013 S. Madison St. in Malden. Watkins and Sons Funeral Service is in charge off arrangements...

BAYVIEW GARDENS, Ill. — Bonnie J. Grounds, 85, formerly of Bernie, Mo., passed away at 12:36 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. She was born on June 27, 1933, in Parma, Mo., to Jasper and Daily (Harwood) Ray. She married Jolly J. Grounds on July 3, 1958. He passed away on Aug. 20, 1997...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Kentucky man was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to attempting to distribute child pornography to a local undercover officer. According to the United State’s Attorney’s Office, Frankie J. Pearl, 47 of Owensboro, Ky., was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison Monday at his sentencing hearing that followed his guilty plea earlier this year...

SIKESTON — Ella Mae Neal Robinson, 88, died Oct. 12, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born June 10, 1930, in Lone Oak, Ark., daughter of the late Regis Neal and Mary Hall, she was raised by her aunt, the late Minnie Simpkins, following the the death of her parents. She was employed as a cook at Huck's General Store and The Regional Center in Sikeston...