Sikeston police investigating St. Louis man’s deathFebruary 11, 2022 GMTSIKESTON, Mo. (AP) — Sikeston police are investigating after a woman reported shooting an estranged boyfriend who was breaking into her home.A caller notified police early Friday that her mother had shot a man, police said.Teenager killed and his mother wounded in Sikeston shootingDecember 31, 2021 GMTSIKESTON, Mo. (AP) — A southeast Missouri man is charged with first-degree murder and several other crimes in a shooting that killed a teenager and left the teen's mother wounded.Southeast Missouri man charged in shooting death of womanDecember 30, 2021 GMTBLOOMFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southeast Missouri man has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a woman.The Sikeston Standard Democrat reports that 39-year-old John Clary of Bloomfield also is charged with felony murder and weapons charges.ADVERTISEMENTSoutheast Missouri town of Sikeston at center of COVID surgeBy JIM SALTERSeptember 9, 2021 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — The epicenter of Missouri’s COVID-19 outbreak has shifted to the state’s southeast, and no place is getting hit harder than Sikeston.The town of 16,000 residents about 145 miles (230 kilometers) south of St.Neal Boyd, one-Time ‘America’s Got Talent’ winner, diesJune 11, 2018 GMTSIKESTON, Mo. (AP) — Neal Boyd, an opera singer who won NBC's "America's Got Talent" and dabbled in Missouri politics, has died.Scott County Coroner Scott Amick says Boyd died around 6 p.m. Sunday at his mother's house in Sikeston.