Stories from Wednesday, September 16, 2020

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Alice Cornelia “Connie” Shanks, age 94, of Bloomfield, Missouri, went home to be with his Lord, Sept. 14, 2020. Mrs. Shanks, who was born on April 7, 1926, was a faithful member of The First Baptist Church of Bloomfield, where she loved life and taking care of other through her cooking and caring ways. Her life was spent loving her family and her church family...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — HL Layman, son to the late Herbert and Lena Sigler Layman, was born on Dec. 23, 1931, in Houlka, Mississippi, and departed this life on Sept. 14, 2020, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 88 years...

NEW MADRID, Mo. — Annie Louise Silmon, 84, died Sept. 8, 2020, at her home in New Madrid. Born Oct. 31, 1935, in Como, Mississippi, daughter of the late Pearlee McDaniels and Joseph Holts, she was a member of the Full Gospel Church in East Prairie. Her husband, Wesley Silmon, survives of the home...

CARTER COUNTY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation reports a Scott County woman has been charged with illegally shooting a cow elk in Carter County in November 2019 and abandoning the carcass with no meat or other parts of the animal taken...

On Pine Street, in front of the high school in Sikeston, the speed limit is 20 mph not 60 mph. As I sit in my car waiting for my child cars are rushing by. How hard is it for the police to just maybe drive down Pine to show that they care? In the past few weeks in the paper there have been only five speeding tickets for city court. I’m sure at least 12 cars are speeding on Pine from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.