Stories from Sunday, August 18, 2024

Each year, two Southeast Missouri State University students receive $5,000 scholarships through the university’s partnership with Valor Partners Foundation...

NEW MADRID, Mo. —Karen House has a favorite photo. It is a picture of her at about 2 years old standing on a stool in the family kitchen. Even then, she said, she liked to cook. “I was always right there in the kitchen with my grandmother and my mother,” she recalled. “We would create recipes, nickname them. We canned. We did everything.”...