Stories from Wednesday, January 2, 2019

NEW MADRID, Mo. — The last of three people charged in the murder of a Kansas man will spend the next 13 years in prison. Larenzle M. Coleman, entered a guilty plea to tampering with a motor vehicle before Judge Fred Copeland in Division I of New Madrid County Circuit Court. Copeland handed down the 13-year sentence Dec. 26...

Does patrol have a double-standard? Yeah, you probably won’t print this, but I see where that highway patrol spokesman, I think his name is Parrott, he’s just talking about distracted drivers. Maybe he should talk about his troopers going down the road, 80 miles per hour, passing you while on the cell phone. Now that sounds like to me a double standard. I appreciate you printing it but you probably won’t. Thank you...

Believe it or not, there once was a time when politics did not dominate the daily discourse in this nation. For sure, the political arena has always and will always be a part of our national discussion and well it should be. But that all changed in 2008 with the election of Barack Obama as President...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Jimmie G. Lawrence, son of the late John H. Lawrence and Chloe Robling Lawrence, was born on June 23, 1934, in Gray Ridge, and departed this life on Jan. 1, 2019, at the Missouri State Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 84 years...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Two people were killed in a one-vehicle accident Wednesday morning in Mississippi County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 7:15 a.m. on Interstate 57 at the 3.2 mile marker when a vehicle driven by Natasha Newton, 26, of Mounds, Ill., ran off the roadway and struck a tree...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — After nearly a month-and-a-half, an arrest has been made in an leaving the scene of an accident incident in Portageville that left a building damaged. According to Portageville Police Chief Ronnie Adams, on Nov. 19 at approximately 8 a.m., officers were dispatched to 401 West 12th Street in reference to a vehicle stricking a building and leaving the scene...

BLODGETT, Mo. — Christine Bollinger, 89, died Jan. 2, 2019, at her home. Born June 17, 1929, in Osceola, Ark., daughter of the late Louis Franklin and Estie Lee Simpson Stowers, she worked for and volunteered at the Kenny Rogers Children’s Center in Sikeston for over 10 years.

Title Orville the Motor Man Joins Agri Systems of Cape and Jackson Jackson, MO- Orville Thoma, informally known as “The Motor Man” has reunited with Butch Koeppel once again to work on all things electric including generators, pumps, ac motors, controls, and grain bin fans and he would just like for everyone to know where to find him. ...