Stories from Sunday, August 6, 2023

BERTRAND, Mo. — A Bertrand family considers themselves lucky after an EF-2 tornado destroyed their house, and the community is coming together to assist them in their time of need. Husband and wife, David and JoAnn Todd, were inside their house when the tornado struck and destroyed it around 2:10 p.m. Monday, July 24. According to the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky, the EF-2 tornado had a path width of 25 yards and length of .28 miles with winds peaking at 115 miles per hour...

Katie Coleman, a 2019 Three Rivers College graduate, paints on the exterior wall of Stogies of Sikeston on West Front Street Friday, July 28 in Historic Downtown Sikeston. At the request of the owner, Coleman is painting Bigfoot smoking a cigar, and she expected to finish the mural by day’s end...