Stories from Friday, April 16, 2021

Yes, I’d just like for you to find out, maybe you can call the mayor and ask why the police will give a person a ticket for no turn signal. Make them get out of the vehicle and everything. Then, a man that’s riding a motorcycle will go up these streets like a bat out of blank. No he doesn’t have license. Don’t stop them and let them drive off. Now isn’t that reckless of the police department? When a person don’t have license and you know they don’t have license as a police officer you are supposed to make them get off or get out of that vehicle and have somebody else come and drive it home or impound it. I’d like the Standard Democrat to call the mayor over here and ask them whose running the police department. Who is running the streets, the thugs, the dobies or who over here in East Prairie? Just call and ask them and maybe that’ll put a stop to it. Because we have kids out here.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Peace has finally come to Carolyn Dawson Hedgepeth, 83, who passed away at Baptist Reynolds Hospice House in Collierville at 9:15 p.m. on Monday, March 22, 2021. Prior to her admission on March 9, Gloria Pegues gave kind, trained, compassionate care to her during a long struggle with a degenerative disease...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Charleston has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle its part in a lawsuit brought by the family of a Black man who died in jail after having his neck pinned down for several minutes by the knee of a white sheriff. A federal judge said Wednesday she would likely approve the settlement between the mother, widow and nine children of Tory Sanders and the City of Charleston and several of its police officers, the St. ...

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — At 5:22 a.m. Thursday, the Portageville Fire Department was dispatched to the 500 block of Payne Street after police officers on scene reported flames and smoke coming from rear of a residential structure. A crew made their way to the rear of the home where they found heavy fire in the kitchen area...

DEXTER, Mo. — The City of Dexter has a new city administrator and chief of police. During a special Dexter Board of Alderman meeting Monday night, Trevor Pulley, who was serving as Dexter’s police chief, was named the new city administrator. Pulley takes the position after former city administrator, Mark Stidham, died in December. A special committee was formed to assist the board with the search...

On Monday, newly elected Sikeston mayor Greg Turnbow will officially take his seat at the head of the Sikeston City Council. While it may be his first time as mayor, Turnbow is not unfamiliar with a leadership role...

WEINER, Ark. – For the third year in a row, Greenway Equipment and Jason Aldean teamed up to help hungry children in Arkansas and southeast Missouri. A giveaway featuring a John Deere Gator and zero-turn mower that Aldean used on his property near Nashville raised $250,500 for three local food banks...

BRANSON, Mo. — Sally Rouchen DeLisle Graham and Timothy Quentin Jay Ingram Jr. of Branson have announced their engagement. A 2004 graduate of New Madrid County Central High School, the future bride is the daughter of Sally DeLisle of Sikeston and Rouget DeLisle of Portageville...

GERMANTOWN, Tenn. — Devoted husband, father, son and friend, Thomas Eugene Gadberry, 51, of Germantown, passed away unexpectedly on April 6, 2021. Tom was an avid sports fan and, at an early age, developed a love of trivia and history which guided him to a career in education. He spent 12 years in the Shelby County school system as a teacher, administrator and coach...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri's COVID-19 vaccine dashboard reported Friday that one-third of all Missourians have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.  "One-third of all Missourians have now received at least one dose of the vaccine, proving that we continue to make great progress in administering vaccines to residents across the state,"  Gov. ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — The dogwoods and azaleas in Charleston are in full bloom and on display for visitors to the town’s 53rd annual festival which kicked off Thursday and ends Sunday. Francine Halter, co-coordinator of the Molly French Garden Club’s plant sale, said she and the rest of the town were excited and ready to open and share their town with each other and visitors...