Stories from Saturday, August 10, 2019

Often I am asked how I like my job. The answer is I love serving as your state representative. When I first started, I was told it would be overwhelming, like trying to drink water from a fire hydrant. However, this session I was blessed to be one of the few freshman to get a bill passed by the House. ...

EDITORIAL: Turn back the clock 10 years, and no one had ever heard of the St. Jude VIP banquet and archery shoot. That’s because those events didn’t exist. This weekend marks the ninth anniversary of the archery shoot. A sold out event was scheduled for Friday night, with 850 tickets being sold and many fundraising activities planned. It was paired with today’s archery shoot, expected to bring so many participants that extra parking and a shuttle service are needed...

BLOOMFIELD — Robert R. Johnson, 46, of Sikeston died Wednesday, July 31, 2019, at the Pemiscott County Hospital in Hayti. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield, followed by the funeral at 1 p.m. Burial will be in the Walker Cemetery in Bloomfield...

More than 1,000 Ozark Border Electric Cooperative members from around the region converged on the Bess Activity Center Saturday morning for the cooperative’s 81st annual membership meeting. After registering and casting their ballots for the rural power provider’s Board of Directors, the members then milled around the center, listening to the Brothers Walker perform and enjoying the provided hot dogs and soda...

City firefighters responded at 8:17 p.m. Friday to assist emergency-medical-services at 720 N. 11th St. According to the report, firefighters helped EMS package a patient who had fallen in his back yard. _ City firefighters responded at 8:49 a.m. Friday to a report of a strong gasoline odor at 432 Highway 53...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Timothy L. Ross, 34, of Van Buren was arrested at 11:51 p.m. Friday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and failure to drive on the right half of the road. He was booked at the Carter County Sheriff’s Department and released...