Stories from Monday, November 19, 2018

SIKESTON — Four people were arrested after officers executed search warrants for heroin sales and use Friday in Sikeston. On Friday, officers with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Unit, assisted by the Sikeston DPS Special Operations Group, served three search warrants at three residences in the City of Sikeston., according to Capt. Austin Henley with Sikeston DPS. These search warrants were all based on the use and sales of heroin, he said...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Thomas Russell Borders, 74, died Nov. 18, 2018, at the Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born July 31, 1944, at Charleston, son of the late George Dewey Borders and Nancy Oscille Fowler Borders, he grew up in Charleston and was a 1964 graduate of Charleston High School. ...

ESSEX, Mo. — James “Keith” Miller, 52, died Nov. 19, 2018, at his home in Essex. Born June 30, 1966, in Poplar Bluff, son of James Luther “Jim” Miller and the late Karen Sue Mann Miller, he had farmed all of his life with his father and most recently farmed for Mayberry Farms. He also worked as a welder for RETCO for a number of years. In 1983, he was the FFA Recipient of Missouri State Farmer Award. He was of the Christian belief...