-
Crash on Monday evening in South Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 11/09/21)
Vehicles are seen after a crash near the intersection of Highway 74 and South West End Boulevard on Monday evening in Cape Girardeau.
-
Cape Council declares official results of Nov. 2 election
(Local News ~ 11/09/21)
With a unanimous vote Monday afternoon, Cape Girardeau City Council accepted the official results of the election held Nov. 2. City Council held a special meeting via Zoom to officially declare the results of the election. City charter requires the council to do so within seven days of an election...
-
Jackson NSDAR members to soon set wreaths on vet graves
(Local News ~ 11/09/21)
For the first time, wreaths will be placed on about 1,250 veterans' graves in Jackson this December as part of Wreaths Across America, a national effort occuring at more than 2,500 locations, including Arlington National Cemetery. Russell Heights and Old Jackson City cemeteries are part of the program this year because of the efforts of a local chapter of National Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), the main sponsor of the project...
-
Perryville native inducted into Missouri Veterans Hall of Fame
(Local News ~ 11/09/21)
A Perryville, Missouri, native was one of six veterans recently inducted into Missouri Veterans Hall of Fame's class of 2021. Jim Eddleman, one of Missouri's National Veterans Memorial's founding members and largest donors, was inducted into the hall of fame for his service in the Vietnam War and his continued contributions to Missouri veterans' communities...
-
Missouri House redistricting commission receives input in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 11/09/21)
The 20-member panel charged with redrawing the map for Missouri House legislative districts following the results of the 2020 U.S. Census held a public hearing in Cape Girardeau on Monday to hear witness testimony. The hearing in Cape Girardeau was the fifth of six such gatherings scheduled statewide...
-
Local children begin receiving pediatric COVID-19 vaccine Monday in Cape
(Local News ~ 11/09/21)
For a few kids Monday, the hardest part of receiving their COVID-19 vaccine was choosing between "Space Jam" and "Avengers" Band-Aids. For the first time, children received the pediatric vaccine for COVID-19 at John's Pharmacy in Cape Girardeau, one of few places in the area where the vaccine is available, according to pharmacist Abe Funk...
-
Cape Girardeau County tax bills for 2021 are in the mail, collector says
(Local News ~ 11/09/21)
Cape Girardeau County Collector Barbara Gholson told the County Commission on Monday real estate and personal property tax bills for 2021 are on their way to residents via U.S. mail. "We put them in the mail Friday and if they don't show up by Thanksgiving, residents should call my office," Gholson said...
-
Today in History
(National News ~ 11/09/21)
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2021. There are 52 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom or deliberate persecution that became known as "Kristallnacht."...
-
Prayer 11-9-21
(Prayer ~ 11/09/21)
O Lord God, may we be joyful in hope and patient in trials. Amen.
-
Power of disinformation
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/09/21)
The 1938 radio broadcast War Of The Worlds, sent millions of Americans into a panic, many actually believing that Earth was being destroyed by hoards of hungry Martian monsters intent on devouring humans. The broadcast was, of course, a play based on a classic work by H.G. Wells. Intended as entertainment, the broadcast ultimately served as a warning, not of any danger from Martians, but of what can happen when fiction or disinformation is accepted as fact...
-
Here comes the hypocritical global minimum tax
(Column ~ 11/09/21)
There is a certain irony to a group of rich countries pushing for policies that will disadvantage poorer countries. Yet this is exactly what the leaders of the world's biggest economies did by endorsing a global minimum tax rate of 15% on the profits of large businesses, a deal that has since gained momentum and pledges from leaders in 136 countries...
-
Losing our religion
(Column ~ 11/09/21)
"Love is love." "Science is science." Homes and offices in Washington, D.C. must display every politically correct lawn sign there is. Could it be these signs give a sense of belonging, the kind that used to be provided by organized religion? And what does "Love is love" and "Science is science" really mean?...
-
Births 11/9/21
(Births ~ 11/09/21)
Daughter to Justin Gregory and Laura Katherine Gohn of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 1:26 a.m. Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. Name, Ariel Kate. Weight, 8 pounds, 15 ounces. First child. Mrs. Gohn is the former Laura Littlemyer, daughter of Kathy Littlemyer of Gilbertsville, Kentucky. She is a process engineer with Toyoda Gosei. Gohn is the son of Pat and Greg Gohn of Jackson. He is a welder/fabricator at Standley Batch Systems...
-
Carl E. Swoboda Jr.
(Obituary ~ 11/09/21)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Carl E. Swoboda Jr. died Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. He was born Oct. 13, 1920, the second child of Carl Earl and Anna Martha Bucher Swoboda. He spent most of his life in Cairo and was educated at St. Joseph Grade School and St. Joseph High School. He then graduated from The David Rankin Jr. Mechanical Traders School in St. Louis, where he was educated in mechanical design and refrigeration...
-
Lisa Ritch
(Obituary ~ 11/09/21)
Lisa Dawn Ritch, daughter of the late Jerry and Patricia Bethel Ferrell of Scott City, was born April 2, 1974, in Harrisburg, Illinois, and departed this life Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the young age of 47 years...
-
Nellie McBride
(Obituary ~ 11/09/21)
Nellie McBride, daughter of the late Harry and Mary Stanley McBride, was born Jan. 11, 1964, in Chaffee, Missouri, and departed this life Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 57 years. She is survived by five brothers, Bob (Mary) Stanley of Jackson; Leonard (Susie) Stanley of Sparta, Illinois; Charles McBride of Perryville, Missouri; Gary (Brenda) McBride of Kansas City, Missouri; and Terry (Betty) McBride of Chaffee; sister, Wanda Owens of Chaffee; and many nieces and nephews.. ...
-
Cob Keller
(Obituary ~ 11/09/21)
Cob Keller, 78, of Scott City died Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, at his home. He was born Sept. 11, 1943, in Cape Girardeau to Roger A. and Norma Dean Reed Keller. He married Konnie Freed on April 16, 1972, in Scott City. He was a truck driver for Brenda Kay, retiring in 2009, and was a member of the Hog/Harley owners group. He was of the Baptist faith...
-
Roy Hartle Sr.
(Obituary ~ 11/09/21)
Roy Hartle Sr., son of the late George and Irene Hahs Hartle, was born Feb. 19, 1947, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center at the age of 74. Roy retired as a school teacher of the Delta School District after 25 years and continued to teach at various Missouri schools in Scott County, Cape Girardeau County and Mississippi County for another five years. ...
-
Rebecca Guzman
(Obituary ~ 11/09/21)
Rebecca Guzman, daughter to Kenny Menz and Mary Jo Ressel, was born Jan. 20, 1973, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau at the age of 48 years. She married Tracy Guzman Sept. 21, 1994, at Morley (Missouri) Baptist Church. He survives of the home...
-
Palmer Fritsche
(Obituary ~ 11/09/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Palmer E. Fritsche, 85, of Perryville died Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Visitation will continue from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Friday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville...
-
Jane Baker
(Obituary ~ 11/09/21)
Jane Day Baker, daughter of the late Charles and Gertrude McClain Leggett, was born Oct. 11, 1932, in Chaffee, Missouri, and departed this life Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee, Missouri, at the age of 89 years. On April 28, 1963, she married Alvin Baker. He preceded her death Oct. 15, 1991...
-
Answers sought in Houston festival deaths, injuries
(National News ~ 11/09/21)
HOUSTON -- When rapper Travis Scott's sold-out concert in Houston became a deadly scene of panic and danger in the surging crowd, Edgar Acosta began worrying about his son, who wasn't answering his phone. He called hospitals and police, who told him his son was not on the list of victims from the Astroworld festival. ...
-
U.S. reopens to international travel, allows happy reunions
(National News ~ 11/09/21)
SAN DIEGO -- Parents held children born while they were stuck abroad. Long-separated couples kissed, and grandparents embraced grandchildren who had doubled in age. The U.S. fully reopened to many vaccinated international travelers Monday, allowing families and friends to reunite for the first time since the coronavirus emerged and offering a boost to the travel industry badly damaged by the pandemic. The restrictions closed the U.S. to millions of people for 20 months...
-
Missouri girl hospitalized after rare mercury spill
(State News ~ 11/09/21)
WENTZVILLE, Mo. — An eastern Missouri girl is hospitalized and three households have been evacuated after a rare mercury spill. Jen Niswonger of Wentzville first took her four children to the doctor this summer when they all broke out in rashes. Her 11-year-old daughter didn't get better. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported it wasn't until Oct. 29 medical tests determined the child suffered from mercury poisoning...
-
Report: Federal center tenants were misled over toxic exposure
(State News ~ 11/09/21)
ST. LOUIS — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel said in a letter to President Joe Biden and members of Congress employees at a federal office complex in St. Louis were exposed to "widespread, longstanding" contamination from asbestos, lead, mercury, arsenic and other toxic materials by the agency in charge of managing government workplaces...
-
Speak Out 11-9-21
(Speak Out ~ 11/09/21)
In the last couple of months I have been run off the road by tailgaters on multiple occasions. There are a lot of dangerous, reckless and possibly mentally ill drivers in Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Be safe, crazy people are driving. Retribution for the Atlanta Braves. MLB and the woke crowd cannot take away their World Series win. May the Chop live on!...
-
Out of the past: Nov. 9
(Out of the Past ~ 11/09/21)
Approximately 35 concerned citizens, headed by KFVS-TV general manager Howard Meagle, have created a task force to restructure and revitalize the Cape Girardeau Civic Center; the center was dealt a near-fatal blow in May, when the Area Wide United Way refused to supply the second half of a $35,000 funding allotment due to the center's inability to provide adequate expenditure reports and financial statements; group members are working anonymously to organize a financial plan and seat a new board of directors.. ...
-
McDonald’s and Student Santas for Families
(Submitted Story ~ 11/09/21)
Jennifer Icaza-Gast, founder of Student Santas, accepts a check from Cheryl Farrow, Director of Operations of McDonald’s. Student Santas has helped 30,000 children and their families who would otherwise have very little for Christmas.
-
Jessie Ritter Performs At The Library December 21st
(Submitted Story ~ 11/09/21)
Jessie Ritter returns to her hometown for an evening of original music. The performance will be on Tuesday, December 21st from 7-9pm at The Library in downtown Cape Girardeau. $10 suggested donation. Growing up in Southeast Missouri, Jessie developed a love of country music from an early age. ...
Stories from Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Browse other days