Stories from Monday, July 1, 2024

Dexter R-XI Board of Education members addressed finding the right balance for artificial intelligence before approving handbooks for the 2024-25 school years. High school principal Eric Boles addressed the board during their monthly meeting Thursday by saying, “We don’t want them using it (AI) when it’s not appropriate.”...

Mobile Day of Caring events are coming to the Bloomfield and Van Buren communities this month. Sponsored by Saint Francis Healthcare, these events will offer the opportunity to get health screenings, receive food and nonperishable items and a community lunch...

Barbara Ross, 66, of Cape Girardeau was arrested Monday, June 24, for DPD warrant service/failure to appear. _ Leland Officer, 63, of Crestview was arrested Monday, June 24, for speeding-school zone, 31-35 mph over. _ Joshua Eloe, 22, of Kearney was arrested Friday, June 28, for driving with an excessive blood alcohol content 8/100%...

“But Joseph said to them, ‘Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.’” — Genesis 50:19-20 The doctrine of God’s sovereignty is one of those doctrines that tends to expose a person’s deeper convictions. ...

Most Christians know the basics of the Old Testament — the Creation of everything, the fall of Man, the Great Flood, and God’s choosing of his people to carry out his plan of salvation. After promising never to wipe out all of humanity in another great flood, God sees Noah’s descendants to be just as evil as in Noah’s day. ...

SIKESTON — Police are investigating early Monday, July 1 shooting incidents in both Sikeston and Charleston. At about 12:30 a.m. Monday, officers with Charleston Department of Public Safety responded to a gravel parking lot known as “The Rocks,” at the intersection of Sy Williams and Vine Streets, which is the is the parking lot of the Bowden Center, after an officer heard multiple gunshots...

KEWANEE, Mo. — A Malden, Missouri, woman and a Sikeston, Missouri, man were killed in a head-on collision early Sunday, June 30 in New Madrid County. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 12:45 a.m. on Highway 61, two miles north of Kewanee, as the northbound vehicle driven by 32-year-old Jasymine R. Clark of Malden crossed the center of the road and struck the southbound vehicle driven by Michael J. Coaker, 43, of Sikeston head-on...

NEW MADRID — The New Madrid County Sheriff’s Department has released photos of a drowning victim’s tattoos in hopes of identifying the man. According to interim Sheriff Ronnie Adams, an autopsy was conducted Friday, June 28, on the body that was found floating in the Mississippi River on Wednesday, June 26, near Marsh Landing, approximately 8 miles east of Portageville...

Helen Robinson, daughter of the late Dennis Jenkins, was born May 1, 1947, in Tennessee, and departed this life June 24, 2024, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 77. No services are currently planned. Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter assisted with arrangements...

Megan Parker, daughter of Lisa Kelley of Sikeston, Missouri and Jeremy Parker of East Prairie, Missouri, was born Sept. 21, 2001, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and departed this life June 26, 2024, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 22. Funeral services were conducted at First Baptist Church in Puxico Saturday, June 29, 2024. Interment followed in Duck Creek Cemetery...

Donald Davis, son of the late John Davis and Connie Overman Davis, was born Sept. 13, 1938, in Blytheville, Arkansas, and departed this life June 26, 2024, at his home in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas, at the age of 86. Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel at 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, 2024.Interment will follow in the Bloomfield City Cemetery...

Sara Williams, daughter of the late Earl Wilson and Emmer Stewart Wilson, was born Nov. 5, 1935, in Bloomfield, Missouri and departed this life June 27, 2024, in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 88. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday, July 6, 2024, . at the Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, Missouri. Funeral services will then be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 6, 2024, in the Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter, Missouri. Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery...

Herman Pullum, son of the late Andrew Pullum and Goldie Lashley Pullum, was born Jan. 1, 1946, in Essex, Missouri, and departed this life June 29, 2024, in Dexter, Missouri at the age of 78. Funeral services were conducted at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter July 3, 2024. Interment followed in the Triplett Cemetery...