Stories from Tuesday, December 11, 2018

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A Sikeston man pled guilty in federal court to carjacking and firearm charges Tuesday in federal court. According to the United States Attorney's Office, Dylan J. Nobles, 20, pled guilty to one felony count of carjacking, and one felony count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He appeared before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr...

SIKESTON — One person was killed in a shooting on Alabama Street Tuesday night. According to Sikeston Department of Public Safety Sgt. Jon Broom, the SEMO Major Case Squad has been activated and suspect info or the victim’s identity has yet to be released...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Glennette Rene Manning Wilson, 54, died Dec. 10, 2018, at her home in East Prairie. Born June 20, 1964, at East Prairie, daughter of Glenn Ray Manning of East Prairie and the late Bonnie Jean Bolden Manning, she was a member of the Gospel Assembly Church in East Prairie and had been employed with the Head Start Program...

SIKESTON — James S. Ahern, 83, died Dec. 7, 2018, at Kindred Hospital at St. Anthony's in St. Louis.  Born Sept. 1, 1935, in Keokuk, Iowa, son of the late James and Blanche Sandidge Ahern, he was retired from Noranda Aluminum.  Survivors include: his wife, Earnestine Hathcock Ahern of Sikeston; one son, Dewayne Ahern of Memphis, Tenn.; and two sisters, Mary Wilkins of Austin, Texas, and Sylvia Goodale of Colorado Springs, Colo...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Mae Lorene Parker McMillen, 89, died Dec. 8, 2018. Born Dec. 19, 1928, in the Wolf Island Community of Mississippi County, daughter of the late James William “Tubby” Parker and Ora Mae Poyner Parker, she lived in the Florida Keys a number of years before moving to Bonne Terre in 1992...

SIKESTON —Lindon Winford Duncan, 82, of Sikeston passed away Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, at the family home.He was born on Oct. 23, 1936, in Matthews, to the late Orril William and Lema Mae Holland Duncan. On Aug. 19, 2003, he married Jackie Sue Wagoner, who survives of the home.  Lindon was a retired troubleshooter/lineman for Ameren UE. He was a member of Sikeston Masonic Lodge 310 and a member of St. Louis Scottish Rite-Valley St. Louis Orient of Missouri. He also was a member of the Shriners International Club in Springfield– Adou Ben Adhem Shrine.

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — A federal grant has put the Southeast Missouri Regional Port on track to handle trainload shipments at its Scott City facility within the next several years. It was announced last week the regional port authority would receive a $19.8 million grant to help fund a $33 million project to construct two loop tracks and a terminal at the Mississippi River port...

Brandon Couch and his daughter, Sophia, take part in the AWANA Grand Prix Sunday at Miner Baptist Church.

Nylah Harris talks with Santa Claus as part of “Santa’s Winter Wonderland” at the Sikeston Depot on Saturday afternoon. Children’s workshops were also available as the Depot was decorated with winter scenes and snowmen.

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Just like Santa, Liz Riley, one of organizers for New Madrid’s annual Christmas parade, is keeping an eye on the weather. For Saturday’s parade, the weather is looking perfect: warm enough for the crowds to line the street but cool enough to put everyone in that Christmas spirit...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Snowdie Howard Farrar, 78, formerly of Charleston, died Dec. 9, 2018, at her home. Born Feb. 29, 1940, in Charleston, daughter of the late Bob Howard and Ardessie Kirkwood Howard, she was a Christian and member of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in rural Charleston where she sang in the choir until she relocated to Cape Girardeau. ...