Stories from Friday, July 2, 2021

Stoddard County Health Center Director Ben Godwin has confirmed the 64th COVID-19 related death in the county as well as a spike in COVID-19 cases in the county. Godwin said the majority of the new cases are related to an outbreak in a nursing facility in Advance...

A Sikeston man died in a two vehicle accident Thursday morning on Route N, one mile south of Circle City in Stoddard County. According to the report from the Missouri Highway Patrol, Jerrod T. Plaskie, 33 of Sikeston was southbound on a 2005 Kawasaki. According to the report Plaskie vehicle crossed the center of the roadway striking a 2003 Dodge Ram driven by Danny W. Griffin, 65 of Bloomfield. Plaskie was pronounced dead at the scene by Stoddard County Coroner Brent Stidham...