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Sikeston

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    KSDK Knows When You're Going to Die, Based on ZIP Code

    To hype last night's "I-Team Investigation," KSDK-TV (Channel 5) had been running a promo piece that featured two cartoon guys. Cartoon Guy No. 1 is Joe, who, the voiceover says, lives in St. Charles. He's got glasses and kind of looks like George Costanza. Cartoon Guy No. 2, Doug, favors a young Pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    UPDATE: Sculptor Hard at Work on Bust of Rush Limbaugh for Missouri State Capitol

    Update, March 6: More information at the end of the post, including Senator Claire McCaskill's protest and an answer to commenter Mike N's question about whether this wad of bronze is funded by taxpayer money. ------- The eagle-eyed bloggers at Fired Up! Missouri posted the news earlier this after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Sikeston Musician's Homemade Millennium Falcon Guitar Earns YouTube Fame

    Star Wars is a beastly franchise -- a film series to which legions and legions of fans don't hesitate to pay tribute. But a Missouri musician upped the badassery ante recently with an awe-inspiring Millennium Falcon guitar. Brian Fisk -- a country music artist who resides in Sikeston -- has made se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Sikeston-Based Designer of Star Wars Guitar "Does it For the Ladies"

    Brian Fisk, a 22-year-old from Sikeston, appeared on CNN's website Monday thanks to this little video:

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    New Madrid Fault Stretches, Rolls Back Over for Another Ten Minutes Sleep

    ​A 4.0 earthquake within the New Madrid Seismic Zone gently shook southeast Missouri Tuesday morning at 3:58 a.m. The quake was centered about nine miles east of Sikeston, Missouri, and no damage or injuries were reported.Just ten days ago, engineers, scientists, emergency first responders and ear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Lawsuit Filed Against Latest "Fair Tax" Proposals

    Lawuit: Ballot language provides bad road map for voters.​Missourians for Fair Taxation last week filed a lawsuit attempting to change the ballot language for two recent proposals that will ask voters to eliminate state income tax in favor of higher sales taxes in Missouri.The group -- composed of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    America's Got Talent Winner Runs for Missouri Office: Eight Musicians He Should Learn From

    Neal Boyd's American dream includes serving in Missouri House of Representatives.​Neal E. Boyd of Sikeston has already won lots of American votes. Enough to win the 2008 season of America's Got Talent, when he wowed audiences with his pop opera skills. Before finding reality-show fame, Boyd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Missouri to Drug Test Welfare Recipients

    Give us your tired, your hungry, your poor; we'll drug test them!!​The third time proved to be the charm.After floating bills the previous two years (Exhibit A, Exhibit B) that would allow officials to drug test federal welfare recipients in Missouri, lawmakers in Jefferson City finally got enough ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    John Caton of Benton Park Cafe, Part 2

    This is part two of Chrissy Wilmes' Chef's Choice profile of John Caton of Benton Park Cafe (1900 Arsenal Street, 314-771-7200). Part one can be found here. Part three, a recipe from Caton, will be posted tomorrow. Chrissy WilmesJohn Caton and Jessica Lenzen, co-owners of Benton Park Cafe.​Di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Seven Arrested for Causing $10,000 in Damage and Shooting Woman...With a BB Gun

    Image viaYou'll put somebody's eye out! (or go to jail you silly hoosier)​This past week, two adults and five juveniles were rounded up in Caruthersville (down in the bootheel) for going on a pair of BB-gun shooting sprees about a month ago. Their handiwork: -- 20 windows of vehicles, shot out-- 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Real Jesus Much Better Wordsmith than St. Louis Reenactor

    Neal Thompson, aka Jesus Christ​I first came across Neal Thompson back in 2008 when he showed up at a meeting in Meacham Park the day after resident Charles "Cookie" Thornton went on a rampage, killing six people at Kirkwood's City Hall. A hundred or so people were gathered inside a community cent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Missouri Poised to Lead Nation in Meth Lab Busts For Fourth Straight Year

    Courtesy of the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri busted 1,776 meth labs last year and we're on pace for more than 1,800 in 2010.​Missouri has already done the three-peat -- leading the nation in meth lab seizures for three consecutive years, including a whopping 1,774 busts last year, nearly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Are Some Missouri Counties Ignoring Meth Labs?

    Provided by the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri meth labs in 2009. Click for larger image.​While the focus of this week's RFT feature is meth lab explosions and the impact that injured meth cooks are having on hospitals across the Midwest, the story also touches on the reasons why meth has r ... More >>

  • News

    May 19, 2010

    The potentially explosive "shake-and-bake" method is burning its way through meth land

    Provided by the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri meth labs in 2009. Click for larger image.​While the focus of this week's RFT feature is meth lab explosions and the impact that injured meth cooks are having on hospitals across the Midwest, the story also touches on the reasons why meth has r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    18 Symbols That Should Be Made "Official" in Missouri

    ​In Missouri, legislators didn't think it was a good idea to name a dead dog as the official state canine. On Thursday, the state House defeated a bill aimed at making "Seamen," the dog that accompanied Lewis and Clark on their trip West, the official canine in our state. As the Post-Dispatch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Obama Visits St. Louis, Wishes it Were 2008 All Over Again

    Claiming a burning need to get out of politics-obsessed Washington, President Obama visited St. Louis yesterday for a nice, relaxing chat about health care. After delivering his speech at St. Charles High School, the president dropped in at the Renaissance Grand Hotel downtown for a benefit for his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Rod Jetton is Having a Rough Week: Former House Speaker Now Faces Federal Investigation

    ​Yesterday a circuit court judge set a preliminary hearing date for the assault charges facing Rod Jetton. The former Missouri Speaker of the House has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from an alleged sexual assault that occurred during rough sex with a Sikeston woman. (He claims his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    FoodWire: Operation Food Search "Operation Heartfelt" Fundraiser, Saturday, 2.13

    Look: You don't want to get anywhere near a restaurant on the Friday and Saturday before Valentine's Day. Operation Food Search has a solution -- and, as a bonus, you can help provide food to the needy. The organization is hosting Operation Heartfelt, a fundraiser, from 7-10 p.m. Saturday, February ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    St. Louis Philanthropist Des Lee Dies at 92

    E. Desmond "Des" Lee, a lifelong Missourian and successful entrepreneur who leveraged his business success to fund arts and education, died today at St. John's Hospital. He was 92.umsl.eduE. Desmond "Des" Lee (1917-2010) with his wife, Mary Ann.​According to a press release from his family, Lee ga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Rod Jetton To Appear In Court This Morning for Arraignment on Assault Charges

    www.rodjetton.org​Good morning. "You should have said green balloons."Those are the words that former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton supposedly whispered to a bruised and battered Sikeston woman one morning last November. The woman alleges that Jetton poured her some wine prior to a session of& ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    What Was Rod Jetton's Safe Word?

    Image Via​That's the question everyone's been asking since news broke last night that the former Missouri House Speaker was charged with felony assault that allegedly happened during an S&M session gone wrong.According to one blog that covers Jeff City politics, the Republican leader-turned po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Former Missouri House Speaker, Rod Jetton, Charged with Assault in Kinky S&M Game

    www.rodjetton.org​The political blog of the Kansas City Star is reporting that former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton, now a Jefferson City political consultant, has been charged with felony assault. The alleged incident occurred last month in Sikeston, Missouri. The complaint asserts that the R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Sikeston Citizens to Learn Thriller Dance, Possibly Shatter World Record

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wetwebwork/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Back in April 2002, about 200,000 grade school kids across Canada simultaneously danced the Hokey Pokey. Thus was set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Dance. That record could be in danger, though, and folks from Sikesto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    Tremor Time Again: Did You Feel the Earth Move?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wetwebwork/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Back in April 2002, about 200,000 grade school kids across Canada simultaneously danced the Hokey Pokey. Thus was set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Dance. That record could be in danger, though, and folks from Sikesto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2008

    Dodgers for Dummies: A Series Preview

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wetwebwork/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Back in April 2002, about 200,000 grade school kids across Canada simultaneously danced the Hokey Pokey. Thus was set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Dance. That record could be in danger, though, and folks from Sikesto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2007

    Your Weekly Food Blog Digest

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wetwebwork/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Back in April 2002, about 200,000 grade school kids across Canada simultaneously danced the Hokey Pokey. Thus was set the Guinness World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Dance. That record could be in danger, though, and folks from Sikesto ... More >>

  • News

    May 17, 2006

    Ask a Negro Leaguer Column

    Week of May 18, 2006

  • News

    May 10, 2006

    Running on Empty

    Truck firms are so desperate for drivers that just about anybody can get behind the wheel

  • News

    June 23, 2004

    This Is Your Brain on Meth

    Unreal catches up with a crystal-meth cooker gone straight, chats with an Andrew W.K.-endorsed candidate and gets local businesses' take on gay marriage; plus we totally freak out about West Nile, and Bill Haas offers something for the ladies

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Unreal catches up with a crystal-meth cooker gone straight, chats with an Andrew W.K.-endorsed candidate and gets local businesses' take on gay marriage; plus we totally freak out about West Nile, and Bill Haas offers something for the ladies

  • News

    April 9, 2003

    What Is Your Condiment of Choice?

    Week of April 9, 2003

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    Solitary Man

    Lifer Bill Herron knew exactly how to get out of jail -- until 16 years ago, when the Missouri Department of Corrections locked him in solitary

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    The Ethics Omission

    Enforcers of Missouri's campaign-finance laws would rather hide than seek.

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