Out of the past 2/22/12
(02/22/12)
The youths of St. Andrew Lutheran Church present the musical "It's Cool in the Furnace II" during the regular worship...
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A Few Clouds ~ River stage: 14.04 ft. Rising Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 |
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Out of the past 2/21/12
(02/21/12)
More than 400 people from throughout the state turned out last night to pay tribute to Gene E. Huckstep, as Saint...
Out of the past 2/20/12
(02/20/12)
The city council is seeking to cultivate advice from the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on what, if any, steps...
Out of the past 2/19/12
(02/19/12)
Southeast Missouri State University incidental fees and room and board charges next year will remain at 1986-1987...
Out of the past 2/18/12
(02/18/12)
A two-hour meeting last night at Cape Girardeau City Hall was used by street and sewer contractors to air concerns,... Obituaries
Doris Long BENTON, Mo. — Doris Ann Long, 67, of Benton died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at Southeast Hospital in Cape...
Michael Campbell ZALMA, Mo. -- Michael Lynn Campbell, 43, of South Roxana, Ill., passed away Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at St. John's Mercy...  Garry Greenhill Garry James Greenhill, 50, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, at his home. He was born April 12, 1961, in...
Jean Trueblood Jean McLeod Trueblood, 94, of Kirkwood, Mo., died Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Clayton, Mo....  Evelyn Brunkhorst PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Evelyn J. "Ace" Brunkhorst, 49, of Perryville died Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at her home. She was born...  Yvonne Dopp ELDON, Mo. -- Yvonne Dopp, 76, of Eldon passed away Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, at her home. She was born Nov. 5, 1935, in...  Caleb Kinder DEXTER, Mo. -- Caleb Trevor Kinder, 29, of Dexter died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in St. James, Mo. He was born May 6,...
Melinda McLeod Melinda Caroline McLeod, 68, of Burfordville passed away Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at her home. She was born Oct. 11,...  Mary Torbet Mary J. Torbet, 87, of Jackson, formerly of Marble Hill, Mo., passed away Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, at her home. She was...
Ruth Coffelt PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Ruth Ann Coffelt, 87, of Perryville died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at Perry Oaks Nursing and... |
History in the news 
Bald Knob Cross board eyes date for lighting improvements
(02/21/12)
Alto Pass Ill. -- The Bald Knob Cross of Peace will be lit with state-of-the art LED lights, its board of directors decided during its annual meeting last week. The lights will bring the 48-year-old cross back to its original state, Bald Knob Cross president D.W. Presley said. When erected in 1963, the cross was illuminated with grounded stadium lights at night...
Local Civil War engagements discussed at Cape Roundtable
(02/20/12)
 1More than 30 people heard accounts of how the Civil War directly touched this area Sunday at a meeting of the Cape Girardeau Civil War Rountable. This month's meeting featured "The Civil War in Our Area -- A Fight For Control of the Rivers," a presentation by Fred Keller, a club member who is a former reporter and photographer at KFVS12 and former news director of KZIM radio... 
Efforts started to photograph, preserve old barns in Missouri
(02/20/12)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Thousands of precariously leaning, rotting barns with peeling paint and missing boards dot America's rural landscape. The aging relics hold a certain romance for many, and interest is growing in numerous states in saving or at least documenting the rickety barns before they become victims of age and urban sprawl, the cost of maintenance too high when they no longer have a practical purpose... 
Prodigy Leadership Academy still working to save Cape's old Jefferson School
(02/19/12)
Leaders of a local Christian academy are still hoping -- and praying -- that they can save the old Jefferson School. But they acknowledged Friday that they have dreams for the south Cape Girardeau property whether or not the building can be salvaged... 
New book highlights Southeast Alumni Merit Award recipients
(02/19/12)
1The history of Cape Girardeau cannot be told without including Southeast Missouri State University. Last year part of that history was captured in a book published by the university about its 200 Alumni Merit Award recipients. Though largely a collection of individual stories, the project was organized and edited by Jane Stacy, the former director of alumni services at Southeast... 
Love letters of Barrett, Browning go online
(02/16/12)
WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) -- "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett ..." So begins the first love letter to 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning. Their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming love and their forbidden marriage, have long fascinated scholars and poetry fans. ...
Effort under way to save Rock Hill church
(02/14/12)
ROCK HILL, Mo. (AP) -- Supporters of an historic St. Louis-area church hope to raise about $900,000 by April to move and repair the church and a neighboring historic structure. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/wuiIR1) reports the effort is under way to save Rock Hill Church, built in the St. Louis County community in 1845. Otherwise, it could be demolished to make way for a gas station and convenience store... 
JFK intern recounts long-ago affair in new book
(02/14/12)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president. Her decades-old secret about her trysts with John F. Kennedy was still safe then... 
Students work to preserve, document local buildings
(02/13/12)
3Several hours into a blustery, ice-cold February afternoon of tearing shingles and carrying heavy, rotted-out pieces of a decades-old porch, Chris Kinder took a short break and explained a few things he's learned during many weekends since September...
Re-enactor portrays Lincoln conspirator at Cape library
(02/13/12)
1About 50 people came out to the Cape Girardeau Public Library on Sunday afternoon, the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, to see Dianne Moran in "The Unquiet Death of Mary Surratt." Moran performed the story, about the first woman executed by the federal government for her supposed involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, in costume and spent 45 minutes in character telling about the events surrounding Surratt's trial. ... 
Slain Lutesville marshal honored with highway designation
(02/12/12)
2MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- On the night of Oct. 6, 1971, Lutesville marshal Clive S. McGee had handcuffed a young offender to a pole in front of Lutesville Motors, but before he could make the arrest, a car went flying by, so McGee uncuffed the young man, got in his car and chased down the speeding vehicle...
Repairing old CVB building would be too costly, Cape mayor says
(02/10/12)
8Mayor Harry Rediger wouldn't mind if a city-owned downtown Cape Girardeau building were flattened, he acknowledged Thursday, especially considering repairs would cost at least 10 times more than bringing in a wrecking ball. The future of the 56-year-old former Convention and Visitors Bureau building at 100 Broadway came into question with the release of the city's capital improvement program last month. ... 
Kodak to stop making digital cameras, digital picture frames
(02/10/12)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Picture it: Save for a few disposable point-and-shoots, Kodak is exiting the camera business. Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in a move that marks the end of an era for the beleaguered 132-year-old company... 
British man wanted in '93 heist nabbed in Mo.
(02/10/12)
OZARK, Mo. -- A British armored car guard suspected of driving off with a fortune worth $1.5 million back in 1993 has been captured in rural Missouri, where he had been working as a cable guy and raising a son who apparently knew nothing of his father's past... 
U.S. economic embargo on Cuba turns 50
(02/08/12)
HAVANA -- When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The U.S. economic embargo on communist-run Cuba, a near-total trade ban that turned 50 on Tuesday... 
South Cape convenience store closes after nearly four decades
(02/07/12)
17Don Caldwell has had a gun waved in his face and watched as the trigger was pulled. He mostly worked midnights, despite the fact that he owned the place. And, until recent years, he had to call the cops on a regular basis -- once even to clear his own store... 
Despite 1993 ceremony, NY fort's skeletons not buried
(02/07/12)
Associated Press LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) -- For decades, tourists visiting this popular Adirondack village could gape at the skeletons of soldiers from nearby French and Indian War sites. Then in 1993, a somber reburial ceremony was held to finally put the remains to rest... 
Brown University student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech
(02/06/12)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America's top diplomats. The audiotape of Malcolm X's 1961 address in Providence might never have surfaced at all if 22-year-old Brown University student Malcolm Burnley hadn't stumbled across a reference to it in an old student newspaper. ... 
On 75th anniversary, flood of '37 draws parallels to, questions about last year's high water
(02/05/12)
4"You can drown downtown, when the water is high It's been happening here, since I was a child There ain't nothing you can do to stop it Just hope for the best, and mop up the rest." -- "Get Down, River," by the Bottle Rockets... 
New Jersey museum finds recording of Otto von Bismarck
(02/05/12)
For the first time, 21st-century audiences are able to hear the voice of Otto von Bismarck, one of the 19th century's most important figures. The National Park Service announced last week that the German chancellor's voice has been identified among those found on a dozen recorded wax cylinders, each more than 120 years old, that were once stored near Thomas Edison's cot in his West Orange, N.J., lab. ... |
Today in History
(02/22/12)
Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2012. There are 313 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 22, 1732 (New Style date), the first president of the United States, George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County in the Virginia Colony...
Today in History
(02/21/12)
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2012. There are 314 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 21, 1912, a new phrase entered the American political lexicon as former President Theodore Roosevelt, traveling by train to the Ohio Constitutional Convention, told a reporter in Cleveland, "My hat is in the ring," signaling his intent to challenge President William Howard Taft for the Republican nomination. ...
Today in History
(02/20/12)
Today is Monday, Feb. 20, the 51st day of 2012. There are 315 days left in the year. This is Presidents' Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury's Friendship 7 spacecraft...
Today in History
(02/19/12)
Today is Sunday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2012. There are 316 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 19, 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the U.S. military to exclude people from designated areas. (The order was used to relocate and intern American residents of Japanese ancestry, a majority of whom were native-born U.S. citizens.)...
Today in History
(02/18/12)
Today is Saturday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2012. There are 317 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala... Missourian timeline  The Southeast Missourian newspaper celebrated its centennial in 2004, publishing a timeline of its history. This is an updated version of that timeline.... Photo galleries 
John Glenn orbits Earth 50 years agoAstronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth in the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft on Feb. 20, 1962. Twenty years later, U.S. Sen. John Glenn appears in Sikeston, Mo. on behalf of Jerry Ford of Cape Girardeau, 8th District Democratic candidate. 
Remembering 9/11Ceremonies in Cape Girardeau and Jackson Sept. 11, 2011 commemorated the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States. 
9/11 in Southeast MissouriSoutheast Missourian photographers captured the local scene on 9/11 and the following days. 
9/11 Then and NowThese Associated Press photos show the before and after of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York City. 
Downtown Cape Girardeau clock turns 25People come out to celebrate the clock at the intersection of Themis and Main streets 25th birthday Tuesday, June 28, 2011 in downtown Cape Girardeau. A custom birthday hat sat atop the clock as people listened to tunes from the Jerry Ford Band, munched on hot dogs and cupcakes and sang "Happy Birthday" to the clock. 
A vacant Pinhook, Mo.Floodwater from the breached Birds Point levee has left the town of Pinhook, Mo. void of residents as seen on Thursday, June 16, 2011. 
Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway after the breachThe waters in the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway are receding, leaving behind a desolate Mississippi County landscape as seen on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. 
Steam locomotive in Cape GirardeauTrain fans get up close to Union Pacific's steam locomotive No. 844 on display Sunday, June 5, 2011 in Cape Girardeau. 
Railroads historical galleryRailroads have played a role in the history of Cape Girardeau. Here is a collection of photos from the history of rail travel in the area, taken from the Southeast Missourian archives. 
Rural Schools historical galleryRural schools in the surrounding Cape Girardeau area. Most of the buildings no longer exist. 
Racing historical galleryRacing of all kinds has always been popular in Cape Girardeau. Here are photos of boat races, horse races, car races and other types of races that took place in Cape Girardeau over the years. 
Memorial Day historical galleryMemorial Day was originally called Decoration Day. The holiday grew out of the tradition of decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. In Cape Girardeau, early observances included musical programs and patriotic speeches conducted in the shade of the Courthouse Park. Those in attendance would then parade to Old Lorimier Cemetery, where veterans' graves would be cleaned and decorated with flowers and flags. 
Flash Flooding in Cape GirardeauMajor flooding occurred along Cape LaCroix Creek in the Town Plaza area of Cape Girardeau after more than six inches of rain fell on May 15, 1986. 
Cape Girardeau aerials historical galleryGarland D. "Frony" Fronabarger took hundreds of aerial photos of Cape Girardeau during his tenure as the Southeast Missourian's photographer. Fronabarger joined the newspaper in 1927 and retired in 1986. Staff members have chosen a few to share. |
