Stories from Tuesday, October 12, 2010

After the Zalma Bulldogs erased three of the four match points the Scott City volleyball team had earned Monday night, Rams' coach Haley Jennings called a timeout and gave all-state junior Mikah Simpson an order. "It's a little bit nerve-racking when you know that it's a tight game and coach calls a timeout and she looks at you and she says, 'Put it away,' and everybody looks at you and says, 'Yeah, you better put it away,'" Simpson said...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Chris Barrigar of Bloomfield, Mo., calls it tailgating for nature lovers, but the goal of the nationwide "Big Sit" planned for Sunday is really to tally as many bird species in the given time period and report it to Bird Watcher's Digest...

Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Clifton has identified the man killed in a Saturday tractor accident at Daisy. Daniel Sebaugh, 72, was killed by a head injury he received in the accident. He was found by passers-by in a field near his tractor. According to an obituary published in the Southeast Missourian, Sebaugh was a former teacher in the Jackson school system and a retired dairy farmer...

Two grants totaling $246,476 have been awarded to Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship based on its success starting new local businesses. The Center was the only organization in Missouri to receive a grant from the...

Members of the Jackson and Cape Girardeau Joint Subdivision Advisory Committee said they understood why the Cape Girardeau City Council unanimously passed a resolution last week to send the issue of peripheral zoning to the Cape Girardeau County Commission, but they wish the council had tabled the discussion...

Perry County Coroner Herb Miller has identified the Sikeston, Mo., man who drowned in Apple Creek Sunday night as 32-year-old Chris Grindstaff. Several agencies, including the Perry County and Cape Girardeau County sheriff's departments and the Cape Girardeau Fire Department dive team, searched for Grindstaff for about 90 minutes after a woman said he had not surfaced after jumping into the creek from the Old Appleton bridge around 7 p.m. ...

A fast-food restaurant owner is feeling violated, he said, after his business was burglarized for the third time in two months on Friday. Joe Grojean, owner of Blimpie, 3036 William St., said the first two times, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, the suspect or suspects stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the business. On Friday, the suspect damaged a safe inside the establishment...

On October 21, more than 7,500 communities and 1 million Americans will celebrate Lights On Afterschool. Mt. Rushmore and the Empire State Building will light up for this event. Together, we will demonstrate how afterschool programs keep kids safe, help working families and inspire learning...

The war in Afghanistan, bolstering the country's ailing economy and whether to repeal health care reform were among the top subjects Monday night during the first of the 8th District debates for Congress.

Jim Murphy of St. Louis talks about how he manages his diabetes at a meeting of the Diabetes Self-Management Support Group on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 12, at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Wellness Connection in West Park Mall. Murphy is a member of the sanofi-aventis A1C Champions ProgramŽ which involves a patient-led approach to diabetes education. About 30 people attended the session...

If football is a game of inches, the Cape Girardeau School District just learned academic excellence can be a matter of a fraction. The district moved from mere accreditation into "Distinction in Performance" status, based on the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's revised and final Annual Performance Reports for 2010, released last week...

The Fruitland Fire Department spent more than three hours Monday fighting a blaze at a home at 5332 Highway C, just south of New Wells. Crews responded to the residence around 7:20 a.m. after receiving a 911 call that a Winnebago was on fire. By the time crews were on scene, the fire had spread to the home...

The Show Me Center has had a series of successful events recently. Country music artists Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and the McClymonts performed last month to a crowd of 5,585 enthusiastic fans. Earlier this month, the Make a Difference Tour was held at the Show Me Center. ...

The principle of democracy is that each eligible individual has the right to vote on candidates for elective office. Decisions voters make on whom they will support are based on their understanding of the positions that candidates hold on issues of importance to them as voters...

Under our present income tax system, I would agree with Amendment 3. However, there is a movement to replace our complicated loophole-riddled income tax system with a simple no loophole sales tax -- the FairTax. Amendment 3 will pre-empt the FairTax proposal by eliminating home sales from a sales tax. When we pass the FairTax, Amendment 3 would force the sales tax on everything else to be higher...

EVERYONE needs to learn self-discipline. The Jackson School District is not to blame if a parent admits his or her child is not perfectly behaved. I can't believe it when I hear the United States talk about trying to end the corruption in Afghanistan. How about stopping the corruption here in the United States? It's harming our government too much. I would like to see both parties stop playing politics and once and for all, stop corruption in the government...

May integrity and uprightness protect us, O Lord, because our hope is in you. Amen.

For decades, mainstream Americans have seen their "ruling class" become dismissive, dysfunctional and self-serving. Their arrogance and elitism would shame even the Whigs and Tories of King George III's era. Scott Rasmussen recently wrote, "The gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colony and England during the 18th century."...

LOS ANGELES -- Rhys Ifans is playing the bad guy in the next "Spider-Man." But the filmmakers aren't saying yet which character he'll be. Sony Pictures announced Monday that Ifans, widely known as a comic actor in such films as Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant's "Notting Hill," will co-star as the villain in the superhero adventure due out July 3, 2012...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Jo Collins, 85, of Olive Branch died Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, at the home of her daughter in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 18, 1925, in Southern Illinois, daughter of Joseph and Bessie Siers. She and Bill Collins were married in 1945 in Alexander County, Ill. He preceded her in death July 10, 2006...

Joseph R. Bruenderman, 73, of Festus, Mo., passed away Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, at his home. He was born Oct. 10, 1936, in Cairo, Ill., son of the late Raymond and Louise Carlisle Bruenderman. Survivors include four daughters, Kimberly (Michael) West, Pamela (Tom) Hines, Alma (Gene Davenport) Bevel and Sherri Light; seven grandchildren, Chris, Aaron, Gwen, Samantha, Andy, Allen and Joey; five great-grandchildren, Shana, Hailey, Alyssa, Brandon and Austin; three brothers, Donald Bruenderman of Charleston, Mo., John (Sandy) Bruenderman of Cape Girardeau, Bill (Ann) Bruenderman of Pana, Ill.; two sisters, Mary Ellen (Mark) Hails of Evansville, Ind., and Rose Ann (Terry) Nadler of Fenton, Mo.. ...

Audrey L. Wooldridge, 94, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, at her home. She was born Sept. 5, 1916, in St. Louis, daughter of Harry and Bertha Lessing Eggers. She and William Lloyd Wooldridge were married in 1937 in St. Louis. He passed away in 1966...

Rosemary Bagbey Andrews, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, at Monticello House in Jackson. She was born Jan. 14, 1924, in Bertrand, Mo., to William Robert and Helen Mary Hardwick Bagbey. She was previously married to Robert Andrews. They were married Feb. 9, 1942, in Cape Girardeau...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Margaret Ellen Leible, 84, of Perryville died Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, at Perry Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. The wake will be at 7 tonight. The rosary will be at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday...

Caroline Louise Dressler, 79, of Pocahontas died Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation is from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson, and from 9 a.m. Thursday until time of service at Trinity Lutheran Church in Shawneetown...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Clarence L. "Jack" Zahner, 84, of Perryville died Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, at Riverview at the Park Rehabilitation Center in Ste. Genevieve, Mo. He was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery in Perryville. Military rites will be provided by VFW and Delta Team...

Richard Harvey "Dick" Shackles, 82, a resident of Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born Nov. 17, 1927, in Alton, Ill., son of Paul N. and Marie L. Amrhein Shackles. He was raised in Chaffee, Mo...

Gordon Philip Mueller, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, at the Lutheran Home. He was born July 21, 1933, in Wheatfield, N.Y., son of Paul and Edna Mueller. After primary and high school in New York, he attended Concordia Lutheran University in River Forest, Ill., and graduated in 1955...

Dr. Jack R. Ruopp has joined his father, Dr. Dudley G. Ruopp, in the practice of chiropractic; the younger Ruopp is a graduate of Notre Dame High School and the Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis; his father, also a graduate of Logan, will complete 40 years in practice in March...

POLICE The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Theft Burglary FIRE Firefighters responded to the following calls Saturday: Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday:...

Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday: ...

Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Arrests Summonses Assaults Thefts n Macy's, 100 West Park Mall, reported shoplifting....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Farmers in Missouri and nationwide are harvesting a disappointing corn crop this season, which may translate into higher bills at the grocery store. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday cut its previous predicted harvest yield by 3.8 percent. ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The tea party movement was born in anger over the recession and the Obama administration's bailouts, and built largely on a platform of lower taxes and smaller government. But some of its candidates are getting tripped up on social issues...

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Seniors prepared to cut back on everything from food to charitable donations to whiskey as word spread Monday that they will have to wait until at least 2012 to see their Social Security checks increase. The government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through a second straight year without an increase in monthly benefits. ...

NEW YORK -- The stock market finished about the same place it started Monday as traders waited for a packed week of reports that will give them a better view of where the economy is headed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained stuck in a 52-point range throughout the day, ending the day 10 points above the 11,000 milestone...

Southeast football ranks No. 18 and No. 20 in the two major Division I-AA polls after winning its fifth game in a row

St. Louis scored its first two goals in a 6-second span and cruised to a 5-1 victory

The recently acquired player tore a patellar tendon during Sunday's game

Jackson's doubles team of Jenny Powell and Montana Adams defeated Lindbergh 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 in a Class 2 Sectional 1 match Monday to advance to the state tennis tournament. Central's doubles team of Veronica Swingle and Caroline Harding took second, losing to Nerninx Hall 5-7, 5-7...

BLOOMSDALE, Mo. -- The northbound Bloomsdale rest area two miles north of Bloomsdale in Ste. Genevieve County will be closed until further notice while repairs are being made to the water lines. For more information, contact the Missouri Department of Transportation's Customer Service Center at 888-275-6636...

BENTON, Mo. -- Two Scott County teenagers were seriously injured in an automobile accident at 9:05 p.m. Sunday, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier driven by 17-year-old Caleb A. Crumley of Benton veered off County Road 401 east of Benton, struck a tree and overturned on the road. ...

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Abandoned mines in Romania leach waters contaminated by heavy metals into rivers. A Hungarian chemical plant produces more than 100,000 tons of toxic substances a year. Soil in eastern Slovakia is contaminated with cancer-producing PCBs...

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile -- They'll come up one by one in green overalls bearing their names on their chests -- first the fittest, then the weakest, twisting in a steel cage that proved itself with four flawless test runs deep into the earth. The endgame hastened Monday for the 33 Chilean miners who have spent two months underground, with rescuers reinforcing the escape shaft and the 13-foot-tall rescue chamber sliding, as planned, nearly all the way to the trapped men...

The Cape Girardeau School District's revised Comprehensive School Improvement Plan outlines five key objectives, critically tied to one another, administrators say. But student performance" tops the list. More than 50 people, many of them parents, attended Monday night's public forum at Central Middle School, where the improvement plan was unveiled...

Southeast Missouri State will showcase its 2011 baseball team with its "Steak and Beans" series beginning today. The annual competition for bragging rights features the winning side receiving a steak dinner and the losing side eating beans. Game 1 in the best-of-three series will be at 4 p.m. today at Capaha Field. Game 2 will be at 4 p.m. Friday with Game 3 set for noon Saturday...

ST. LOUIS -- Emerald ash borers haven't yet struck ash trees in the St. Louis area, but officials with the National Park Service say it is only a matter of time before they arrive. And that's bad news for the grounds of the Gateway Arch. The ash borer has decimated ash trees in several states. ...

It's much more than a party, but the Rev. Bob Towner says not to disregard the fun. "Our goals are to become a safe place, a social place, a clean place," said Towner of Christ Episcopal Church and an event organizer. "But I wouldn't want to discount the fun."...

This month, the Southeast Missourian introduces you to local women who won the fight against breast cancer.

Local events to raise awareness, money for breast cancer

NEW YORK -- The breast cancer awareness movement's dynamic duo, Evelyn Lauder and Elizabeth Hurley, have watched their audience evolve in nearly two decades of promoting the pink ribbon, matching lipsticks and mammograms. Instead of convincing people to talk about breast cancer, they find themselves courting a generation of young women who've never thought the subject was taboo in the first place...