SIKESTON, Mo. -- Sikeston was known as Big ... Trains carried huge crops of corn and watermelons to distant markets. Farmers Supply Co., owned by C.D. Matthews, boasted that it sold "Supplies ...

In the early 20th Century, Sikeston is said to have had more millionaires ... Marshall was a farmer, known for his watermelons, but he also served as a Missouri state senator.

SIKESTON, Mo. (KFVS) - Storm damage around Sikeston is now considered to be from an EF3 tornado. The National Weather Service released an update on Wednesday afternoon, saying survey teams found ...

How a lynching and police killing 78 years apart haunt the rural community of Sikeston, Missouri. The story of how the 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright - and the subsequent failure of the first ...