Stories from Tuesday, October 15, 2024

SIKESTON — This year, the Sikeston/Bootheel Area United Way is celebrating 61 years. During that time, a lot of donations and changes have occurred. Now, the 501(c)(3) is asking for the public’s assistance during its 2024 fundraising campaign, which runs from Oct. 1-Dec. 31, as corporate donations have receded over the years...

SIKESTON — The Sikeston Department of Public Safety is committed to the local community in a variety of ways. One of those ways now includes some departmental restructuring within animal control as DPS now will manage Pet and Animal Welfare Services (PAWS)...

SIKESTON — Joseph C. Blanton Jr. became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America, at the Annual Meeting of the College in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sept. 28. Founded in 1950, the College is composed of the best of the trial bar. ...

NEW MADRID, Mo. - The New Madrid County Central High School 2024 homecoming theme was “Ride the Wave to an Eagle Victory!” This year the NMCC Eagles football team certainly did with a commanding 62-14 victory over the Malden Green Wave. Prior to the game, was the introduction of the 2024 football royalty and the crowning of Destiny Hughes as this year’s queen...

SIKESTON — With October being Bullying Prevention Month, members of the Catholic Grandparents Association and Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School staff members and students gathered in the Technology Lab for a picture to recognize the new posters hung addressing cyber bullying...

Just a note to Mr. DeWitt, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals. This year’s playoff teams included eight ex-Cardinals and one ex-manager. The players are Tommy Edman, Luke Weaver, Tommy Pham, Michael Wacha, Jack Flaherty, Lane Thomas, John Brebbia, Marcell Ozuna, and the ex-manager is Mike Shildt.

BLOOMFIELD, Mo.— In a strongly worded ruling, Stoddard County Sheriff Carl Hefner has been found guilty of knowingly violating Missouri’s open records law in failing to release body camera footage in the 2003 killing of a dog by a deputy. Judge Wade Pierce found that Hefner’s defense — whether or not the matter of safety/security something was something that took precedence over a records request — was an attempt to hide what happened. Hefner has been fined more than $6,000...

ESSEX, Mo. — Kyle Carter has lived the life many journalists and photojournalists can only dream of. His work has been on the cover of People, he has covered presidents and even the World Series. But, after leaving journalism for a career as a financial advisor, there still was something missing from his professional portfolio...