-
Mo. House creates special agriculture panel
(State News ~ 06/25/13)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A new Missouri House committee will look into issues affecting dairy farmers and rivers. House Speaker Tim Jones says he created the interim agricultural panel to develop policy recommendations in advance of the 2014 session...
-
Jail overcrowding puts Farmington, Mo., inmates in tent
(State News ~ 06/25/13)
FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) -- One eastern Missouri jail is so overcrowded that authorities are using a huge tent to house weekend prisoners. The Daily Journal newspaper in Park Hills, Mo., reports that St. Francois County Sheriff Dan Bullock plans to use the tents again next weekend...
-
Photo: Flag to welcome Great Race goes up over Broadway
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
On Tuesday morning a large American flag was placed over Broadway at the border of the 200 and 300 block to welcome the participants of the Great Race. Racers are expected to roll into town at about 5 p.m., with a party at the finish line downtown after all the racers arrive, starting about 6:30 p.m...
-
Power plant limits at center of Obama climate plan
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Taking climate change efforts into his own hands, President Barack Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property. Obama, in a speech Tuesday at Georgetown University, was to announce he's issuing a presidential memorandum to launch the first-ever federal regulations on carbon dioxide emitted by existing power plants, moving to curb the gases blamed for global warming despite adamant opposition from Republicans and some energy producers.. ...
-
Cape Girardeau police investigating weekend assault downtown
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department is investigating an early Sunday morning assault downtown. According to department spokesman Darin Hickey, three women were walking on Water Street at about 1 a.m. when they were approached by two other women about an earlier confrontation. ...
-
Motorcyclist dies in I-55 crash
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- A motorcyclist died in an accident on Interstate 55. At 8:30 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 55 at the 33.2-mile marker, Michael E. Blinn, 50, of Winamac, Ind., was driving his motorcycle north when it went off the left side of the road and overturned, throwing him, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:52 a.m. by New Madrid County Coroner George DeLisle. The death is the 22nd fatality in the Troop E zone for 2013...
-
Body in Carter Co. may be missing Michigander
(State News ~ 06/25/13)
ST. LOUIS -- An autopsy is scheduled today to confirm whether remains found in a remote area of Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest are those of a Michigan man missing since winter. Search dogs on Sunday found decomposed remains that authorities believe are those of Fred Byrne, 49, of Big Rapids, Mich. Carter County, Mo., Sheriff Richard Stephens said the remains were badly decomposed and it wasn't clear how long identification would take...
-
Kitchen will lead Central baseball team next season
(High School Sports ~ 06/25/13)
The recently resigned Jackson coach returns to his alma mater
-
River now expected to fall below flood stage Wednesday
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
The Mississippi River is expected to drop below flood stage early Wednesday, instead of late Tuesday, according to the latest National Weather Service forecast. A river flood warning for Cape Girardeau issued Monday said the river was expected to fall below its flood stage level of 32 feet by early Wednesday morning...
-
Hearing scheduled in Cape double-murder case
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
A date was set on Monday for the state to present evidence against a Cape Girardeau man accused of shooting his wife and son to death before turning the gun on himself. George Joseph, 48, appeared via video before Cape Girardeau County Judge Gary Kamp on Monday, where a preliminary hearing was scheduled for July 24...
-
House investigators: Disability judges are too lax, follow-up reviews not done
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- Social Security is approving disability benefits at strikingly high rates for people whose claims were rejected by field offices or state agencies, according to House investigators. Compounding the situation, the agency often fails to do required follow-up reviews months or years later to make sure people are still disabled...
-
Guthrie case continued for private psychiatric evaluation
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
The case against a Jackson man accused of assaulting his wife and shooting at police has been continued to July to give the defendant time to obtain a private psychiatric evaluation, a circuit judge said Monday. Lawrence Guthrie, a former Marine and Gulf War veteran, has been charged with first-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action and three counts of first-degree assault or attempted assault on a law enforcement officer in connection with a June 2012 case in which he is accused of physically assaulting his estranged wife and exchanging gunfire with police before shooting himself in the head.. ...
-
Cape School Board approves 2013-2014 budget
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
Funding to provide computers for high school students and teachers, along with the creation of two positions to support the initiative, and a bump in teacher salaries were part of the 2013-2014 budget approved Monday by the Cape Girardeau School Board...
-
Missouri law may boost health-care access in rural areas
(Community ~ 06/25/13)
The way nurse practitioners now can care for patients with a doctor's supervision may help alleviate a shortage of accessible health care in rural areas of Missouri. New allowances in state law on the practices of nurse practitioners was prompted by legislation filed by Kathy Swan, who represents Cape Girardeau in the Missouri House of Representatives...
-
City: Sinkhole not ruled out in backyard ground collapse
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
What led to the formation last week of a hole behind a vacant house on South Ellis Street is still apparently undetermined. Some possibilities have been ruled out, but the chance the hole could be another sinkhole remains. The Cape Girardeau Fire Department at 7:25 p.m. ...
-
What a view
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/25/13)
This is a picture of the smokey mountains in Tennessee, my first time to ever see any mountain view and it was GORGEOUS!!
-
Just Climbing 'Round
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/25/13)
This is a picture of myself taking a moment from hiking on our honeymoon in Gatlinburg Tn
-
B-25 "Maid in the Shade"
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/25/13)
North American B-25J "Maid in the Shade" makes a pass down Runway 28 at Cape's Airport. Flown to Cape by members of the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, this B-25 is one of the few flyable warbirds of it's vintage that actually saw combat in WWII...
-
Patriotic Photo
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/25/13)
Natalie Profilet Jones snapped this patriotic picture of her children, Jackson and Juliette, while vacationing in Orange Beach, Alabama.
-
The Great Race
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/25/13)
Great day with great looking cars.
-
Academy Sports + Outdoors' new Cape Girardeau stor
(Submitted Story ~ 06/25/13)
Academy Sports + Outdoors' new Cape Girardeau store donates $100 shopping sprees to 30 youth from Boys & Girls Club of Cape Girardeau Doors open to the public the following day, Friday, June 28 WHO: Academy Sports + Outdoors and 30 youth from the Boys & Girls Club of Cape Girardeau...
-
Today in History
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
Today is Tuesday, June 25, the 176th day of 2013. There are 189 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 25, 1973, former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up...
-
Healthy lemonade comes chilled with patriotic glow
(Community ~ 06/25/13)
If you've never tasted fresh lemonade, you don't know what you're missing. It's much more vivid than the supermarket stuff, much more about the lemon and less about the sugar. True, juicing the lemons can be a pain, but the process becomes nearly painless if you start by softening the lemons in the microwave for 30 seconds. Then all you have to do is add sugar syrup -- a mixture of sugar and water, heated until the sugar is dissolved -- and some cold water. Done...
-
Run for God
(Editorial ~ 06/25/13)
You have to be tough to run -- and not just physically. It's an endurance sport that demands physical preparation and inner strength. Over the last few months, about 150 individuals through four classes have participated in a training program called Run for God. The class, which met for 12 weeks, focuses on the spiritual and athletic components of running, showing the parallels between faith and the endurance sport of running...
-
Births 6/25/13
(Births ~ 06/25/13)
Son to Cynthia Kaye Renee Roberts and Elbridge Norman Robinson III of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Name, Ashton Tristen Lee. Weight, 6 pounds, 15 ounces. Third child, second son. Ms. Roberts is the daughter of Cynthia Kitchen of Cape Girardeau and David Roberts of Scott City. Robinson is the son of Latrice Clark and Elbridge Robinson II of Cape Girardeau...
-
Obama set to limit power plants' carbon
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's national plan to combat climate change will include the first-ever regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, as well as increased production of renewable energy on public lands and federally assisted housing, environmental groups briefed on the plan said Monday...
-
Out of the past 6/25/13
(Out of the Past ~ 06/25/13)
Just four days after easing restrictions on water usage by customers in the city of Cape Girardeau, Union Electric Co. restores the restrictions after a record amount of water was used and the storage tank levels dropped; a company spokesman warns the situation is serious and will continue to be as long as the hot, dry period continues...
-
Kathryn Taylor
(Obituary ~ 06/25/13)
Kathryn A. "Katie" Taylor, 83, of Cape Girardeau went to be with her Lord Sunday, June 23, 2013. She was born March 21, 1930, to Leslie Eldon and Flossie Willie Mainer. She and William E. "Slug" Taylor were married June 18, 1948, in Piggott, Ark. He preceded her in death Jan. 1, 2011...
-
Bill Shrum
(Obituary ~ 06/25/13)
J.E. "Bill" Shrum, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 24, 2013, at Missouri Veterans Home. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. Friends may call from 9:30 a.m. until time of service Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the church, with the Rev. Douglas Breite officiating. Interment will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield, with full military honors...
-
John Sachen
(Obituary ~ 06/25/13)
John Sachen, 77, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, June 21, 2013. He was born April 21, 1936, in Kansas City, Mo., to John and Vivian Sachen. John was a St. Louis University High School alumni and attended St. Louis University. He served in the United States Air Force...
-
Evelyn Peetz
(Obituary ~ 06/25/13)
Evelyn Peetz, 85, of Jackson passed away Saturday, June 22, 2013, at Monticello House in Jackson. She was born April 18, 1928, in Gordonville, daughter of Albert William and Frieda Graden Gerecke. She and Clarence E. Peetz were married March 5, 1947, at Zion Lutheran Church in Gordonville. He passed away Aug. 30, 1990...
-
Dee Kinnison
(Obituary ~ 06/25/13)
Dee Kinnison, 80, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Chaffee, Mo., passed away Friday, June 21, 2013, at the family home. She was born Sept. 7, 1932, in Osceola, Ark., to the late Omer Earl and Minnie Robins Hopper. She married Jim Kinnison Jan. 21, 1950. He preceded her in death April 3, 2000...
-
Charles Hoover
(Obituary ~ 06/25/13)
Charles R. Hoover, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, June 21, 2013, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 29, 1923, in Thebes, Ill. He married Minnie L. Hendrix, who preceded him in death. Hoover was a former iron worker with Local 782 of Paducah, Ky...
-
Eldon Atchison
(Obituary ~ 06/25/13)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Eldon Lee Atchison, 81, of Marble Hill died Sunday, June 23, 2013, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Jack Leslie officiating. Burial will be in McGee Chapel Cemetery near Glenallen, Mo...
-
Speak Out 6/25/13
(Speak Out ~ 06/25/13)
Recently, Catholics from all over Southeast Missouri made a religious procession from St. Mary's Church to Old St. Vincent's. As we walked down the hill toward the river singing hymns, we could see some young men playing basketball in Indian Park. However, by the time we got there, they had stopped playing and were sitting quietly on the bench, and they waited for us to pass before resuming play. I wanted to thank them for this courteous action. It was greatly appreciated...
-
Tightrope walk over Arizona gorge draws nearly 13 million TV viewers
(Entertainment ~ 06/25/13)
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER GORGE, Ariz. -- Aerialist Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk over a gorge near the Grand Canyon drew nearly 13 million viewers to the live television broadcast. The Discovery Channel said Monday the quarter-mile stunt at the Little Colorado River Gorge was among the most highly viewed shows in the station's history...
-
Blackhawks win Stanley Cup with late reversal in Game 6
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/13)
Goals 17 seconds apart inside the final 80 seconds gave Chicago a 3-2 win in Game 6
-
Cape Girardeau fire report 6/25/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/25/13)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday:...
-
Cape Girardeau police report 6/25/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/25/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do no imply guilt. DWI...
-
Health Beat: Take steps to protect your baby from cytomegalovirus
(Community ~ 06/25/13)
While many people have never heard of it, cytomegalovirus, or CMV, is a common virus that infects people of all ages. Most CMV infections are "silent," which means the majority of people infected with CMV have no symptoms. However, women who are infected can transmit CMV to their fetuses, causing a congenital CMV infection. ...
-
Berlusconi convicted in sex-for-hire trial
(International News ~ 06/25/13)
MILAN -- Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's flamboyant former premier, was sentenced to seven years in prison and banned from politics for life Monday for paying an underage prostitute for sex during infamous "bunga bunga" parties and forcing public officials to cover it up...
-
Former South African leader Mandela remains critical
(International News ~ 06/25/13)
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's president on Monday said a critically ill Nelson Mandela was "asleep" when he visited the 94-year-old at the hospital, and he urged the country to pray for Mandela, describing him as the "father of democracy" who made extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of his people...
-
Change in weather needed at backcountry fire in Colorado
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
DEL NORTE, Colo. -- Crews defending small homes, a ski area and a handful of roads against an erratic wildfire in Colorado's southwest mountains hoped Monday for a break -- any break -- in the weather that would allow them to launch a more strategic assault on the backcountry blaze...
-
Rights-case ruling favors 6-year-old transgender girl
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
DENVER -- Colorado officials say a suburban Colorado Springs school district discriminated against a 6-year-old transgender girl by preventing her from using the girls' bathroom, in what advocates described as the first such ruling in the next frontier in civil rights...
-
Sandy poll: Friends, kin helpful
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
NEW YORK -- A silver lining frames the cloud of destruction left by Superstorm Sandy. In their hour of need, families and communities -- not the government -- were the most helpful sources of assistance and support. A poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found after the storm in New York and New Jersey, friends, relatives and neighbors were cited most often as the people who helped victims get through it...
-
U.S. urges nations to return Snowden
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. grasped for help Monday from both adversaries and uneasy allies in an effort to catch fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. The White House demanded he be denied asylum, blasted China for letting him go and urged Russia to "do the right thing" and send him back to America to face espionage charges...
-
Liberal groups also screened, says IRS
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service's screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than previously has been disclosed, the new leader of the agency acknowledged Monday. Terms including "Israel," "Progressive" and "Occupy" were used by agency workers to help pick groups for closer examination, according to an internal IRS document obtained by The Associated Press...
-
Zimmerman portrayed as a vigilante
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
SANFORD, Fla. -- George Zimmerman was fed up with "punks" getting away with crime and shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin "because he wanted to," not because he had to, prosecutors argued Monday, while the neighborhood watch volunteer's attorney said the killing was self-defense against a young man who was slamming Zimmerman's head against the pavement...
-
High court sends back Texas race-based plan
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- Affirmative action in college admissions survived Supreme Court review Monday in a consensus decision that avoided the difficult constitutional issues surrounding a challenge to the University of Texas admission plan. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the court's 7-1 ruling that said a court should approve the use of race as a factor in admissions only after it concludes "that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity."...
-
Immigration bill clears Senate test
(National News ~ 06/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- Historic immigration legislation cleared a key Senate hurdle with votes to spare Monday, pointing the way to near-certain passage within days for $38 billion worth of new security measures along the border with Mexico and an unprecedented chance at citizenship for millions living in the country illegally...
-
Road work 6/25/13
(Local News ~ 06/25/13)
Highway 77 in Scott County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge repairs. The bridge over Interstate 55 is between Route H and County Road 40. The work will be performed Wednesday and Thursday, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily...
-
Prayer 6/25/13
(Prayer ~ 06/25/13)
Lord Jesus, may we persevere in the race you have set before us, focusing on you. Amen.
-
Shemonia qualifies for Pan-Am Junior meet in Columbia
(College Sports ~ 06/25/13)
Brandon Shemonia's summer couldn't be going much better. Shemonia, a 2012 Scott City High School graduate, landed a spot on Team USA for the Pan-American Junior Athletics Championships after his third-place finish over the weekend in the 10,000-meter run at the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa...
-
Wainwright upset over exit in loss to Rangers
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/13)
ST. LOUIS -- Adam Wainwright lost the lead in the seventh, and then he lost his temper. The St. Louis Cardinals ace strenuously objected to being pulled before Ian Kinsler's go-ahead hit that helped the Texas Rangers complete a soggy three-game interleague sweep with a 2-1 victory Sunday night...
Stories from Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Browse other days