Stories from Thursday, September 29, 2022

MINER, Mo. — As Hurricane Ian was churning Wednesday toward Florida, where it strengthened into a Category 4 storm, a Southwest Florida couple stranded in Missouri after their vehicle broke down decided to help their own while waiting out the storm...

ORAN, Mo. — Rosalia Ann Friga, daughter of the late Mike Friga and Rosa Pazdera Friga was born on Oct. 28, 1945, in Paragould, Arkansas, and departed her life on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, at her residence in Oran at the age of 76 years. She was the owner and operator of Rosalia’s House of Glamour in Oran for over 50 years. ...

SIKESTON — Della May Hubbard, age 80, passed away on Sept. 28, 2022, at her home in Sikeston. She was born on May 25, 1942, in Portageville, Missouri, to the late Irvie and Esther Barnes McMillen. On Feb. 17, 1963, in Sikeston, she married Elbert Hubbard who survives of the home in Sikeston...

The sport of pickleball is gaining in popularity and that was never more evident than during the ribbon cutting of the new courts at the Sikeston Recreation Complex Tuesday morning. Nearly 50 people turned out for the ribbon cutting, many of those pickleball enthusiasts who have been filling the newly open courts nightly...

An 18-year-old Charleston man has been charged with murder in the deadly shooting of a Hayti man after a Caruthersville football game Friday. According to online court records, Zy’Quan Williams was charged with first degree murder and armed criminal action Thursday morning and is being held in the Pemiscot County Justice Center with no bond...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — William Leroy Evans, 51, died Sept. 25, 2022, at his home in East Prairie. A celebration of life will be at 5 p.m. Oct. 7 at the New Beginnings Fellowship in East Prairie.

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Suzanne Zoellner Lee passed away peacefully in her home in Charleston on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Born Feb. 3, 1951, at Cairo, Illinois, to the late Delbert J. Zoellner and Mary Doris Winger Zoellner, Suzanne was a lifelong resident of Charleston and a 1970 graduate of Charleston High School.

An explosion involving a tanker truck at C-Mart shook Bloomfield Wednesday afternoon. Bloomfield Fire Chief Daniel Dew said the preliminary report was of an explosion. Dew said crews arrived on scene to find tanks and a tanker truck on fire. Dew said mutual aid was received from Dexter and Advance Fire Departments. He said the situation had been contained and the Department of Natural Resources and hazmat crews had been called to the scene to assist with clean up...