Stories from Saturday, November 24, 2018

Staff Reports Warnings of ice and snow signal a rush to stock food, but for home-bound people that depend on others, Northside Nutrition Center's blizzard packets are the answer to staying well fed. The packets, which need no refrigeration, also are known as emergency meals. They provide food for two to three days for 305 home-bound seniors, disabled individuals and veterans. Northside Nutrition Center Director Tammy Kassinger and her staff at the center pack them each year...

Three Rivers College EMT and paramedic students filled the Bess Activity Center earlier this week to train for an event which hopefully, they will never be faced with once entering their careers. Along with assist from Air Evac Lifeteam, Butler County EMS and ambulance districts from Clearwater, Ripley County and Stoddard County, the group was read a scenario as part of Three Rivers College's mass causality training...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A federal grand jury in Cape Girardeau has indicted a New Madrid County farmer and his farming business on charges of illegally applying dicamba herbicide on crops. Federal prosecutors announced the indictment earlier this week...

The Poplar Bluff Kiwanis Club is asking for help to provide area foster children with a sense of comfort this Christmas. The Kiwanis Club is hosting a pajama drive through Dec. 14. The new pajamas will be passed out to children for Christmas through FosterAdopt Connect SEMO in Poplar Bluff...

KENNETT, Mo. -- As a child we all tend to have dreams of being on television or living our lives doing something we are passionate about and being able to make a living doing it. Chad Stone, who has been cooking all of his life, said he first got a taste for cooking as he grew up watching his grandmother whip up some amazing pastries and dishes...