Stories from Wednesday, February 13, 2019

The New Madrid County Missouri Mentoring Partnership (MMP) recognized National Groundhog Job Shadowing Day on Thursday, February 7. The first Groundhog Job Shadow day was spearheaded by a coalition that included America's Promise-The Alliance for Youth; Junior Achievement; the Association for Career and Technical Education; the Society for Human Resource Management; the U.S. Department of Education; and the U.S. Department of Labor...

February, the month we celebrate love. A quick trip to the local store tells us pretty quickly that love is in the air. Brightly colored valentine cards are on display. Colorful heart-shaped boxes of candy fill the store shelves. There are even those special displays of cuddly stuffed animals and other gifts that convey a special thought of love for that special someone in our life. Truly during this month, we focus on love...

BERNIE, Mo. — A Cape Girardeau woman faces charges after she was arrested in Stoddard County for possessing a powdered form of fentanyl — an increasingly popular and highly dangerous opioid pain medication.  Tanya Nichole Rankin, 37, of Cape Girardeau is charged with possession of the controlled substance, fentanyl powder...

The Green New Deal apparently is the Democrat’s far-reaching plan to frame the 2020 Presidential election by promising something for every imaginable victim’s group in America. Unveiled last week to much hoopla, the progressive agenda is a virtual wish list of liberal ideas that would make today’s American unrecognizable...

I don’t why in the world people want to stand up for abortion. That is nothing but murder. I can see if a woman’s life is at risk if she has the baby, that would probably be OK. But having an abortion because you can and want to is murder and the doctor that does it and the woman that has the abortion, should be put in prison for murder. That’s what they are doing. Murdering innocent children. One of these days they are going to be standing in front of the Lord. I don’t know, He won’t understand, I’m sure. I’m not one to judge but it just ain’t right. They should think it over. If they don’t want to get pregnant use birth control. I don’t know, it’s just crazy how people are now days. But killing a baby is murder. Thank you.

SIKESTON — Ronald "Ron" Shelby, 65, died Feb. 13, 2019, at his home in Sikeston. Born Nov. 25, 1953, in Cape Girardeau, son of the late Don and Elizabeth Blaylock Shelby, he was a veteran of the United States Air Force and a self-employed business man...

MALDEN, Mo. — Gladys Naomia Cagle, 99, died Feb. 12, 2019, at Ridgeview Living Community in Malden. Born May 30, 1919, in New Madrid County, daughter of the late Henry and Varinda Leonard Hatchel, she had lived in Parma all her life and was a member of the Parma General Baptist Church. She had retired from the Brown Shoe Co...

MALDEN, Mo. — Pamela Lee Brant, 70, died Feb. 12, 2019, in Gideon. Born Oct. 8, 1948, in Gold Dust, Tenn., she was the daughter of the late Evelyn Ducan White and Everett Reed. In 1998 in New Madrid, she married Carl Brant, who survives of Malden. Other survivors include: one daughter and son-in-law, Amy and Scott Earnheart of Gideon; one son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Margaret Martin of Gideon; two brothers, Avery Thomas Reed of Texas and Stevie White of Gideon; five sisters, Ivie Whitt of Texas, Molly Lacey of Poplar Bluff, Glenda Sue Rausch of Mississippi and Lisa Donley of and Ruth Lemonds of Friendship; and five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.. ...