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Sheriff: Gun, gang violence not acceptable
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
CHARLESTON, Mo. — Two people have been arrested and face charges in connection with a shooting Labor Day weekend that injured four adults at a family event in Mississippi County. Jimarquez Jauonte Johnson, 20, of Charleston and Jimierquon Jaquantay Johnson, 21, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, are each charged with four counts of first degree assault and four counts of armed criminal action occurring on Sept. 5...
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Speakout
(Opinion ~ 09/10/21)
I don’t know why people that don’t even need a housekeeper to come to their house, they’ve run around all over the country and do stuff, they can do their own housework. They get commodities and buy groceries all the time. It’s crazy. Anything is free nowadays. People are going to get whether they need it or not. People that really need it have to do without because of greedy people. I don’t understand that.
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Gay N. Wilkerson
(Obituary ~ 09/10/21)
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Gay N. Wilkerson, 90, was born on Aug. 15, 1931, in Ingram Ridge, Missouri, to Henry and Lorene Fields, and passed from this life on Aug. 17, 2021, at Mercy South Hospital in St. Louis. On Jan. 10, 1953, she was united in marriage to T.L. “Bo” Wilkerson in Piggot, Arkansas. He preceded her in death on Aug. 12, 1979...
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Jeanette Parker
(Obituary ~ 09/10/21)
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Jeanette Parker, age 76, passed away Sept. 8, 2021, at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis due to complications from COVID-19. Even though Jeanette was vaccinated, she contracted the virus and could not win the fight since she was immunocompromised from cancer treatments...
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COVID numbers up in local schools
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
With eight of the nine hardest-hit counties over the past week, southeast Missouri has become the epicenter of Missouri’s COVID-19 outbreak. And the numbers are showing in local school districts. According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services website, there were 65 positive cases in ages 5-19 in the Sikeston R-6 district between Aug. 18-Aug. 31...
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COVID-19 vaccine and education clinics popping up throughout area
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
SIKESTON — A Charleston, Missouri, pharmacist and nonprofit organizations have teamed up to offer pop-up COVID-19 vaccination and education clinics in Southeast Missouri. Charleston pharmacist Dr. Richard Logan Jr. said when the vaccine arrived early this year, with the help of the county health department, mass vaccination clinics were held in Mississippi County, including in its largest towns, Charleston and East Prairie...
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Gary Birdwell
(Obituary ~ 09/10/21)
PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Gary Dale Birdwell, 54, died Sept. 7, 2021, at his home in Portageville. Visitation is from 1 p.m. until service time at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11 at the New Beginnings Church of East Prairie, Missouri. DeLisle Funeral Home of Portageville is in charge of arrangements...
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Witness to 9/11: Local man watched history unfold in NYC
(Local News ~ 09/10/21)
It was Sept. 11, 2001, and Jake Nesselrodt was just settling into the routine of college life at Pace University in New York City. He woke up early in his college dorm room, located not far from the New York City Hall, and prepared to go to his 9 a.m. class. He had already decided his first stop would be at a nearby shop for coffee and a doughnut...
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