Stories from Sunday, July 28, 2024

SIKESTON — A new recovery community center in Sikeston called “We Do Recover Community Center” has opened as part of the Gibson Center for Behavioral Change. Ryan Essex, chief operating officer of the Gibson Center for Behavioral Change, a behavioral health organization, said Gibson has been serving in Southeast Missouri for about 45 years and in Sikeston for 30 years. ...

The City of Cape Girardeau’s first Gun Violence Task Force meeting focused on an introduction to work being done by the Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri to prevent gun violence and the Cape Girardeau Police Department’s Gun Crime Taskforce and overview of crime data. ...

The Hillcrest Animal Hospital in Poplar Bluff partnered with Dr. Peggy Fisher of the University of Missouri-College of Veterinary Medicine to study the prevalence of treatment-resistant heartworms in Southeast Missouri. She found nematodes with a near total resistance to ivermectin and avermectin-based treatments such as Heartguard in the studied area...