Emerson calls for roundup of illegal immigrants
(05/23/07)
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson called Wednesday for a roundup of all illegal immigrants so they can be returned to their home countries. In a telephone conference call with reporters from the 8th Congressional District, the Cape Girardeau Republican denounced the immigration overhaul measure pending before the U.S. Senate. Instead of changing the immigration rules, Emerson said the nation should turn to a strong effort to enforce current laws...
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Stories from Wednesday, May 23, 2007
DREAM initiative gets grant money, tax credits
(05/23/07)
Two projects for economic development in central Cape Girardeau received state approval Wednesday. Gov. Matt Blunt announced a $400,000 grant to extend Fountain Street from Independence Street to William Street along with $172,270 in tax credits for the Southeast Missouri Children's Museum...
Whitewater woman dies in deer-related accident
(05/23/07)
A Whitewater woman died in a fatal accident Tuesday night after the car she was driving struck a deer on Highway 61 north of Shawneetown. Joann Jaco, 47, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her husband, 49-year-old Richard P. Jaco, was taken by ambulance to Saint Francis Medical Center with minor injuries... 
Lines drawn in ethanol argument
(05/23/07)
Even Rob Henderson had to admit the ethanol plant at Malta Bend, Mo., was an impressive sight, at least on its face. "It was clean. The smell's not a real big issue," Henderson said after a trip May 16 to the 40-million-gallon-per-year ethanol production facility in Malta Bend owned by Mid-Missouri Energy. ...
MoDOT warns of worst work zones
(05/23/07)
The Missouri Department of Transportation has put together a top 10 list of highway work zones to look out for in the middle of one of its largest-ever construction seasons. The list is ranked in descending order of impact on drivers. Five years from now, 85 percent of all Missouri highways will be in good condition and a lot of work is going on this year to accomplish that, according to MoDOT spokesman Jeff Briggs...
32 cited at student party in Scott Co.
(05/23/07)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- A high school graduation party hosted by the parents of a Notre Dame Regional High School student ended late Sunday night with police citing more than 30 party-goers and the homeowners for alcohol violations. Thirty-two people were cited with underage possession of alcohol. The hosts were cited with supplying alcohol to minors...
New principal looks forward to job in Cape
(05/23/07)
Cape Girardeau's new middle school principal grew up in Jackson. He still lives there. But Mark Kiehne said Tuesday he won't have any trouble donning the orange and black school colors of Jackson's rival. "I am really looking forward to it," the 31-year-old Kiehne said Tuesday, a day after the Cape Girardeau school board hired him to run Central Middle School... 
Fire destroys home near Crump
(05/23/07)
A fire in rural Cape Girardeau County destroyed a doublewide mobile home Wednesday afternoon. Fire departments from Whitewater, Millersville and Gordonville responded to a call about the fire at a home near Crump on Highway U around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. According to sources at the scene, the home was completely burned down within 15 minutes of firefighters arrival on the scene... 
Downtown needs housing, officials say
(05/23/07)
City officials, members of Old Town Cape and the chamber of commerce all say that Cape Girardeau needs more housing stock to make downtown successful. Rene and Guy Tomasino, who Tuesday night revealed their new condominiums at 20 N. Main St., are determined to bring people downtown...
Search warrants served in drug investigations
(05/23/07)
Cape Girardeau police served two search warrants as part of drug investigations this week, netting a half-pound of marijuana in one raid and discovering two wanted men but little drugs in the other, a police spokesman said. ...
Real estate agent finds starving animals in vacant rural house
(05/23/07)
ESSEX, Mo. -- A real estate agent inspecting a recently foreclosed-on house in rural Stoddard County discovered four starving dogs and two emaciated cats inside. Tricia Carroll of Poplar Bluff, Mo., found the animals Monday locked in different rooms of the house along County Road 732 southeast of Essex...
Council revises ArtsCape attendance
(05/23/07)
The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri's leadership has revised its estimated attendance figures for this year's ArtsCape festival, bringing them down from Saturday's early estimates but still showing a marked increase. Directors of the council met Monday night to compare observations of the festival and take an early look at financial statements. ...
Man had eluded police previously
(05/23/07)
A wanted man who led Cape Girardeau police on a high-speed chase up Highway 177 Monday evening had eluded police just weeks earlier by stealing a car, a police spokesman said Tuesday. Michael W. Hinton, 27, was charged Tuesday with felonies for manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of drugs and resisting arrest. He was also charged with five misdemeanors ranging from speeding to marijuana possession. His bond was set at $100,000...
Club news 5/23/07
(05/23/07)
American Legion Auxiliary 63 Nine female veterans were honored by the American Legion Auxiliary on May 9 with a luncheon. Three of the women are members of Louis K. Juden Unit 63 of Cape Girardeau. Seven of the women are residents at Missouri Veterans Home. Each woman received a gift bag. Co-hostesses of the meeting were Jane Grojean and Frieda Howard...
Federal investigators want $8 million back from Mo.
(05/23/07)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Federal investigators say Missouri's tax on hospitals has not followed federal law, and they want the state to pay back at least $8 million in federal Medicaid money. The state Department Social Services, which oversees Missouri's Medicaid health care program for the poor, has not repaid the money yet, insisting it has done nothing wrong...
Last of 7 gun dealers pleads guilty in illegal Mo. sales
(05/23/07)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- All seven men indicted in December for illegally selling firearms at a northeast Missouri flea market have now pleaded guilty, U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said Wednesday. The last of the suspects, Daniel Brashers of Ferguson, entered his guilty plea Wednesday in federal court. He will be sentenced Aug. 3...
Hulshof confirms candidacy for Univ. of Missouri presidency
(05/23/07)
Associated Press writer ST. LOUIS (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof on Wednesday confirmed what he called "a poorly guarded secret" -- he is a finalist to become the next University of Missouri president. In a written statement issued soon after his confidential interview with a 19-member advisory panel, the Republican congressman from Columbia said he is "humbled to be one of the candidates for this important post."...
Missouri recognized for anti-trafficking laws
(05/23/07)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Missouri is one of the first states to criminalize human trafficking, and is among the few that regulate international marriage brokers and sex tourism travel agencies, a women's advocacy group said Wednesday. But while Missouri has tackled these issues and nearly half the states have not, its laws should be strengthened to offer more safeguards to victims, the Washington-based Center for Women Policy Studies said...
SW Missouri poultry plant raid nets more than 100 suspected illegal workers
(05/23/07)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Federal immigration agents raided a southwest Missouri poultry plant Tuesday morning and arrested more than 100 workers who are believed to be illegal immigrants. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement served a federal criminal search warrant at the George's processing plant in the rural town of Butterfield in Barry County, about 60 miles southwest of Springfield...
St. Joseph man sentenced in 396 years for raping children
(05/23/07)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) -- A 41-year-old man who admitted sexually molesting three young children received sentences Tuesday totaling 396 years in prison. Donald R. Axtell, of St. Joseph, pleaded guilty last month on the day his trial was to start to four felony counts of rape and sodomy. The charges involved female victims as young as 3 years old...
Secrecy surrounds University of Missouri presidential search
(05/23/07)
Associated Press writer ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Keeping the name of the next University of Missouri president a secret is no easy task. For the 19-member advisory panel gathered here to interview finalists, it meant meeting in a closed session Tuesday night at a members-only downtown dining club on the 40th floor of Metropolitan Square, the city's tallest building...
Judge: DNR can't intervene in Taum Sauk lawsuit
(05/23/07)
ST. LOUIS -- The Department of Natural Resources will not be allowed to intervene in a lawsuit filed over the Taum Sauk reservoir collapse filed by Missouri's attorney general, a Reynolds County judge said Tuesday. Attorney General Jay Nixon sued Ameren Corp. in December for damages from the 2005 collapse of the Taum Sauk reservoir, which destroyed much of Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park... 
Doctors: Lincoln fell ill with severe case of smallpox a day before delivering the Gettysburg Address
(05/23/07)
CHICAGO -- Abraham Lincoln has been dead for 142 years, but he still manages to make medical headlines, this time from doctors who say he had a bad case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address. Physicians in Baltimore said last week that Lincoln might have survived being shot if today's medical technology had existed in 1865. ...
Raid nets 100 suspected illegal workers
(05/23/07)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Federal immigration agents raided a southwest Missouri poultry plant Tuesday morning and arrested more than 100 workers who are believed to be illegal immigrants. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement served a federal criminal search warrant at the George's processing plant in the rural town of Butterfield in Barry County, about 60 miles southwest of Springfield...
PSC OKs increase for Ameren customers
(05/23/07)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Millions of Missourians will pay more for their electricity as a result of a roughly $43 million annual rate increase granted Tuesday to Ameren Corp. A majority of Missouri Public Service commissioners said they were sending the embattled utility a message that it needs to improve its reliability and customer service in approving a rate increase that was just a fraction of the $361 million Ameren requested... 
Appetite for big houses grows though family size shrinks
(05/23/07)
WASHINGTON -- McMansions are sprouting in the suburbs of Washington and Atlanta, in southern Connecticut and out West in Utah as an appetite for bigger homes just keeps on growing. One in five American houses had at least four bedrooms in 2005. That's up from one in six in 1990, despite shrinking families and increasing costs for construction and energy...
BP shuts down 100,000 barrels of Alaskan output due to leaky pipe
(05/23/07)
WASHINGTON -- BP said Tuesday it will shut down 100,000 barrels of Alaskan oil production for a "few days" after discovering a leaky pipe at a processing facility. Analysts said the temporary loss of output at the Prudhoe Bay oil field should not have a dramatic effect on world oil markets, but with supplies already tight and crude futures trading near $66 a barrel, any snag in the industry tends to make energy traders jittery...
FDA approves birth-control pill that stops periods
(05/23/07)
WASHINGTON -- The first birth-control pill meant to put a stop to women's monthly periods indefinitely won federal approval Tuesday. Called Lybrel, it's the first such pill to receive Food and Drug Administration approval for continuous use. When taken daily, the pill can halt women's menstrual periods indefinitely and prevent pregnancies...
NYC mayor says city's yellow cab fleet will be entirely hybrid within five years
(05/23/07)
NEW YORK -- Every yellow cab in the city will be a fuel-efficient hybrid by 2012, and stricter emissions and gas mileage standards for taxis will be phased in starting next year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday. There are now 375 hybrid vehicles among the 13,000 taxis rolling on New York City streets. Under Bloomberg's plan, that number will increase to 1,000 by October 2008 and will grow by about 20 percent each year until 2012...
Thousands attend Falwell funeral at church he founded in 1956
(05/23/07)
LYNCHBURG, Va. -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell was remembered by thousands Tuesday as a champion of conservative Christian values who fearlessly galvanized the religious right into a powerful force in American politics. The funeral returned Falwell to his roots -- the Thomas Road Baptist Church, where he started as a young preacher in 1956 with just 35 parishioners in an old, abandoned soda bottling plant. More than 10,000 people attended the funeral, many forced into overflow seating...
Traveling classroom uses civil rights sites as teaching tool
(05/23/07)
JACKSON, Miss. -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated just one day before Sharon Matlock turned 10. Her birthday brought gifts and her mother's tears, and ever since she has tried to understand the hatred and violence of those times. Now 49 and a college staff member, Matlock recently joined professors and students on a five-state trip to civil rights landmarks to find answers...
Thousands flee besieged Palestinian refugee camp
(05/23/07)
TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- People flooded out of a besieged Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday night, waving white flags and telling of bodies lying in the streets and inside wrecked houses after three days of fighting between Lebanese troops and Islamic militants... 
Britain asks Russia to extradite suspect in ex-KGB spy's poisoning death
(05/23/07)
LONDON -- Britain's move to extradite a former KGB bodyguard to face murder charges in the poisoning death of an ex-Soviet spy is stirring fresh hostilities between the Cold War rivals already at odds over energy disputes, spying allegations and diplomatic shenanigans...
Jackson has no reply to powerful Word
(05/23/07)
FARMINGTON -- Moments after Jackson's loss in the Class 2 state sectional to Incarnate Word, Indians coach Zach Walton ticked off some of the honors for the IWA players. All-Americans, national team members. That's why the Red Knights (22-1-2) entered the game ranked No. 13 in the nation, according to the latest National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Adidas poll released this week...
Eagles, Rams take momentum into playoffs
(05/23/07)
At the midway point of the baseball season Oran found itself stumbling through a three-game losing streak during a weekend tournament on its home field. The Eagles struggled in nearly every aspect of the game that weekend, dropping to 11-4. Since then, Oran has won 12 straight and appears to be clicking on all cylinders heading into today's sectional game... 
Notre Dame girls blank De Soto in Class 1 sectional
(05/23/07)
Notre Dame's girls soccer team put together a dominating effort Tuesday night, smothering De Soto's high-powered offense in a 2-0 Class 1 sectional win at home. The Dragons had scored 111 goals in 24 games heading into Tuesday's sectional. Notre Dame goalie Shelley Frank was forced to make just two saves and the Dragons had just one dangerous scoring chance throughout the contest...
Klocke collects honor of OVC's rookie of year
(05/23/07)
Southeast Missouri State catcher Jim Klocke would be having a strong season even if he were an upperclassman. The fact Klocke is a freshman makes what he is doing this year even more impressive. Klocke's banner campaign was recognized Tuesday as he was named the Ohio Valley Conference rookie of the year based on voting by the league's head baseball coaches and sports information directors...
Tourney time: Redhawks begin title quest vs. Racers
(05/23/07)
Southeast Missouri State knows its road to a potential Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament title could have been made easier with an opening-round bye. But the Redhawks still believe they are more than capable of bringing home the program's first OVC tournament championship and NCAA regional berth since 2002...
Semoball.com wins SNA top honor
(05/23/07)
Semoball.com, the Web site for local sports from the Southeast Missourian and its media partners in the region, won top honors for best local community initiative in the Suburban Newspapers of America Local Community Web site contest. The contest drew nearly twice as many entries as last year...
Demo Day, free lessons will provide unique weekend
(05/23/07)
There are not many things better in the game of golf than saving strokes. That is unless you're saving strokes and dollars in one swoop. Area golfers will be able to hit the rare daily double this weekend at Arena Park Golf in Cape Girardeau. The business will host its annual Demo Day on Saturday, which will be followed up Sunday by free 10-minute lessons by Perryville Country Club PGA professional David Pearce...
Blazers win draft lottery
(05/23/07)
SECAUCUS, N.J. -- The Portland Trail Blazers beat the odds and won the right to settle the Greg Oden-Kevin Durant debate. With just a 5.3 percent chance of winning the No. 1 pick, the Blazers won the NBA's draft lottery Tuesday night, earning the right to draft a potential franchise player from what's considered to be an excellent class... 
Redbirds end five-game slide
(05/23/07)
ST. LOUIS -- Adam Wainwright made the Pittsburgh Pirates try to beat him one base at a time. Wainwright came up with enough clutch pitches to offset nine singles in 5 1/3 innings, and contributed a two-run double that helped the St. Louis Cardinals end a five-game losing streak with a 9-4 victory Tuesday night...
Tigers climbs to second seed with late-season surge in Big 12
(05/23/07)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Coach Tim Jamieson wishes people would stop being so surprised that his Missouri team is playing so well. But even he struggles to explain the Tigers' surge to second in the Big 12 standings. "You look at our numbers, they're pretty average," Jamieson said Tuesday at a media day previewing the Big 12 baseball tournament. ...
Green in awkward position in KC as Chiefs, Dolphins stall on trade
(05/23/07)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Angry and frustrated because a deal has not gotten done with Miami, Trent Green practiced with Kansas City on Tuesday while insisting he has no plans to ever play for the Chiefs again. Yes, said the two-time Pro Bowl quarterback, it is a very awkward situation...
Ducks eliminate Red Wings, will play Senators in final
(05/23/07)
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Jiggy and the Anaheim Ducks held off the Detroit Red Wings to earn a second trip to the Stanley Cup finals. Jean-Sebastien Giguere shut out Detroit for the first two periods as Anaheim built a 3-0 lead, then withstood a three-goal outburst by the Red Wings in the closing period to take a 4-3 victory Tuesday night... 
Slow food fest coming to United States next May
(05/23/07)
SAN FRANCISCO -- In a country of drive-through dinners and 30-minute meals, cuisine can be more fraught than haute. So advocates of the slow food movement are planning what they bill as a "World's Fair of Food" next year. "The challenge, the game, truly begins here in America," said Carlo Petrini, the Italian founder of the "slow food" movement that emphasizes a return to regional traditions and home cooking from local, sustainably grown ingredients. ...
Around your house 5/23/07
(05/23/07)
Gas grills You don't have to hand over a lot of bills to get a good grill. That's the finding from Consumer Reports, which tested and rated 30 liquid propane grills, commonly known as gas grills, for its June issue. The magazine picked the $450 Blue Ember by Fiesta (FG50069-U401) and $300 Char-Broil Commercial Series grill (463268007) as its best buys, offering best performance for price. ... 
Rhubarb's incredible story
(05/23/07)
On an early spring morning at the turn of the 19th century, a London nurseryman named Joseph Myatt sent five bundles of rhubarb stalks to Covent Garden to be sold at the fruit and vegetable market there. Only three bundles sold, but the next season, after advising his customers to cook the stems with plenty of sugar, he sent 10 bundles to the market and all of them sold. ...
A few recipes worth sharing
(05/23/07)
I have had a few recipes tucked back for several weeks just waiting for a week when I could use all of them at once and pass them on. This is the week. There is no theme to the recipes; they are just ones that sound really good and worth sharing. I hope you enjoy them all... 
Opal London
(05/23/07)
Opal T. London, 80, of Jackson died Monday, May 21, 2007, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 10, 1927, at Arbor, daughter of Wade and Lora Land Griffith. She and James Hurt were married Jan. 1, 1942. He died in 1973. She and Earl London were married in 1979. He died in 2000...
Tiber Dohogne
(05/23/07)
Tiber E. Dohogne, 86, of University City, Mo., died Sunday, May 20, 2007, at his home. He was born Aug. 6, 1920, at Kelso, Mo., son of Leo and Louise Dohogne. Dohogne was employed 33 years with Ford Motor Co. in Hazelwood, Mo., retiring as traffic manager... 
DeAnna Jeans
(05/23/07)
DeAnna J. Jeans, 59, of Jackson passed away Sunday, May 20, 2007, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 21, 1947, in Hannibal, Mo., daughter of Frank E. and Betty L. O'Keefe Thompson. She and Stephen L. "Steve" Jeans were married Dec. 31, 1999. He passed away Feb. 15, 2002... 
Charles Spradlin Sr.
(05/23/07)
Charles Harrison Spradlin Sr., 86, of Scott City died Monday, May 21, 2007, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 24, 1920, at Fornfelt, son of Harrison Kue and Allie Taylor Spradlin. He and Annie Pearl Ratcliff were married March 9, 1945, in St. Louis. She died March 20, 2006...
Lula Perry
(05/23/07)
Lula M. Perry, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, May 22, 2007, at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Cape fire report 5/23/07
(05/23/07)
n At 5 p.m., an alarm sounding at 2114 William St. n At 6;43 p.m., an illegal burn at Wisteria Drive and Columbine Lane. n At 8:41 p.m., emergency medical service in the 900 block of South Sprigg Street. n At 3:01 a.m., medical assistance in the 1200 block of Butler Street...
Out of the past 5/23/07
(05/23/07)
Sister Alice Blunck, formerly known as Sister Mary Colette, who headed the business education department at St. Mary's High School in Cape Girardeau from 1948 to 1954, was one of 13 School Sisters of Notre Dame who celebrated their Jubilee Year of Profession on May 16; a celebratory Mass was held in their chapel in St. Louis...
Coal man
(05/23/07)
BY Kimberley A. Strassel From the Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- Every good party has its wet blanket. In the case of the energy industry's merrymaking for a global warming program, the guy in the dripping bedspread is a 67-year-old, straight-talking coal-mine owner by the name of Robert E. Murray...
Watching out
(05/23/07)
Recent accidents in which pedestrians and bicycles were involved in collisions with cars are reminders that no one owns the road. We all must share it. One of the pedestrians, a woman with a cane, suffered a broken ankle when struck by a car backing up in a parking lot. In that case, the driver was not cited...
Ethanol plants are bad investment
(05/23/07)
To the editor:I concur with Monty Keesee's concern about the pollution likely to occur from the proposed ethanol plants. The bright side is that the ethanol-plant investors will think twice before investing in more plants. Stock prices in plants that have gone public have dropped 40 to 60 percent. Investors are banking on increased corn acres, resulting in higher yields. This is not likely to happen, because:...
It's easier to deny existence of WMDs
(05/23/07)
To the editor:I cannot believe Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction before we invaded in 2003. It makes much more sense that President Bush found it easier to deny their existence than to admit what happened to them. And it is harming our direction and focus as a nation to not admit what really happened... |
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