Stories from Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Music major Lindsey Grojean picks up a textbook for a media class from a shelf of rental books Monday during Southeast Missouri State University's first day of classes. ...

Cape Girardeau County Republican Party’s central committee has nominated interim Sheriff Ruth Ann Dickerson as its candidate for a November special election to fill out the unexpired term of sheriff. Dickerson took over as Cape Girardeau County sheriff Aug. 13, becoming the first woman to serve in that position in the 218-year history of the department...

A bronze statue of a black, Civil War-era, Union soldier could be erected by next June in Cape Girardeau’s Ivers Square, project proponents told the city council Monday. Denise Lincoln, who has researched the history of Cape Girardeau’s former slaves who joined the Union Army, wants the statue erected in their honor...

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2018. There are 132 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia resulting in the deaths of at least 55 whites. (Turner was later executed.)...

On Aug. 17, I visited my son who is a student at SEMO. He has recently moved into a house he is renting off-campus on Whitener. He and several neighbors had two full trash bins at the curb. The neighborhood stank of garbage. It was disgusting! My son said that the trash was not picked up last week because the bins had been placed too close together at the curb. ...

An opinion article by Cape Girardeau County Assessor Bob Adams ("Ameren trying to game system, forgo $20M in taxes owed," Aug. 11) contained factual inaccuracies. Although I won't detail every incorrect claim, the important points for local readers to know are:...

To all the well-meaning citizens demanding stricter gun-control laws, suggest holding a convention and try to improve on the Ten Commandments (not suggestions) that God gave to Moses sometime between 1440 and 1441 BC. Emphasis should be placed on number six: Thou shall not kill. They have been assured the completed legislation will become the law of the land immediately...

For more than 43 years readers of this newspaper have enjoyed the work of photographer Fred Lynch. There were local high school sports and coverage of the Southeast Missouri State University Indians-turned-Redhawks sports programs. Major events like a blizzard or presidential visit. And countless other scenes that have become part of the first draft of history for Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois...

Our military deserve the utmost respect -- for all they do, for the price they pay, for the sacrifice they make. Yes, they sacrifice so much for us, so it is exciting to hear how many of the lives of troops in Missouri are being transformed by the sacrifice that was made for them...

Anther section of the former St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad's historic Belmont Branch between Delta and Oran, Missouri, will fade into history this year when its tracks are removed and the right-of-way turned back to adjoining landowners; the branch line, once the main line of the Iron Mountain, and later a branch line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, was the first built into Southeast Missouri...

Nina M. Sommers, 94, of Cape Girardeau went home to her Lord Jesus on Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, from The Arbors. Nina was born Feb. 11, 1924 in Anniston, Missouri, to John and Claudie O'Guin Young. After graduating from Illmo High School in 1941, she worked at Brown Shoe Co. ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Louisa Harris Quick of Bloomfield died Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 20, 1924, to Ernest and Minty Harris. She and Seldon F. Quick were married Dec. 25, 1943. They had celebrated their 66th anniversary, when he passed away...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Maggie Catherine Long, 85, of Marble Hill passed away Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, at Woodland Hills Nursing Home. She was born Sept. 23, 1932, at Hurricane, Missouri, daughter of Jessie M. And Mealie Long Russell. She and Woodrow "Deak" Long were united in marriage July 19, 1947, and he passed away Sept. 21, 1988...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Peggy Lee Ellison, 86, of Perryville passed away Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, at Chateau Girardeau Nursing Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 27, 1931, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, daughter of Tom and Virgil Lardis Quirk. She and Walt Ellison were married July 12, 1957...

Amanda "Mandy" Nichole Davis-Scheffer, 38, of Millersville died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, at her home. Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Funeral Home-Jackson. Funeral service will be at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Melissa Marie Clifton, 34, of Perryville died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Young and Sons Funeral Home...

Arlene Blanchett, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday Aug. 19, 2018, at Lutheran Home. She was born July 28, 1925, in Minneola, Kansas, daughter of Richard Eugene and Mignon N. Riley Hall and was one of 12 children of that union. She and Samuel Robert "Bob" Blanchett were married Jan. 16, 1944, in Dodge City, Kansas...

WILLIAMSBURG, Mo. -- Diane Lee Aubuchon, 75, of Williamsburg passed away Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, at her home. She was born in Portland, Oregon, Jan. 18, 1943, the daughter of the late Troy Barnes and the late Ruth Hollis Barnes. On Aug. 8, 1964, Diane was united in marriage to David Aubuchon, who survives her passing...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Miss America chairwoman Gretchen Carlson has struck back against the reigning Miss America, saying Cara Mund's allegations Carlson and others bullied her have led to a loss of $75,000 in scholarship money for this year's contestants...

HAMDEN, Conn. — State police in Connecticut usually pull over cars for driving too fast. But on Sunday, troopers stopped and ticketed 10 cars for going too slow. Police received several calls from angry motorists Sunday about what were described as high-performance, racing-type cars slowing traffic to a crawl on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in New Haven and Hamden. ...

MOSCOW -- Russia lashed out at Western countries Monday, accusing them of blocking U.N. aid for Syria's reconstruction and trying to prevent the return of refugees. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with his Lebanese counterpart, Gibran Bassil, the U.S. refusal to provide assistance for rebuilding Syria after more than seven years of fighting would deter Syrians from returning to their homes...

ISTANBUL -- Shots were fired from a moving car at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey before dawn Monday, an attack coming during heightened tensions between the two NATO allies. There were no casualties and no claim of responsibility for the fleeting attack, in which three of the six bullets fired hit the embassy gate and a reinforced window...

ATHENS, Greece -- There'll be no dancing in the moonlit streets of Athens. For all the official pronouncements Greece's eight-year crisis will be over as its third and last bailout program ended Monday, few Greeks see cause for celebration. Undeniably, the economy is once again growing modestly, state finances are improving, exports are up and unemployment is down from a 28 percent high...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis issued a letter to Catholics around the world Monday condemning the crime of priestly sexual abuse and its cover-up. He demanded accountability but offered no indication of how he plans to sanction complicit bishops or end the Vatican's long-standing culture of secrecy...

FLINT, Mich. -- A judge Monday ordered Michigan's health director to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in two deaths linked to Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area, the highest-ranking official to face criminal charges as a result of the city's tainted water scandal...

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan restricting greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. A plan to be announced today would give states broad authority to determine how to restrict carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global warming. ...

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested attorneys preparing to question President Bill Clinton in 1998 seek graphic details about the president's sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The questions are part of a two-page memo in which Kavanaugh advised Independent Counsel Ken Starr and others not to give the president "any break" during upcoming questioning unless he resigned, confessed perjury or issued a public apology to Starr...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A nurse has admitted she did not provide health-care services to a developmentally disabled Missouri man for months before his body was found encased in concrete in 2017. Melissa Denise DeLap, 49, of Columbia, pleaded guilty Monday to health-care fraud. ...

O’FALLON, Mo. — Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is investigating why a suburban St. Louis polling place opened 90 minutes late for this month’s primary election. Ashcroft said Monday doors at the polling place in O’Fallon remained locked 90 minutes past opening time for the Aug. 7 election. ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A couple claims in a lawsuit a former top lay official in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Catholic diocese emotionally and sexually abused the woman, and the diocese did not intervene. The lawsuit was filed last week against the diocese and Troy Casteel, the diocese’s former director of family ministry. ...

ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis teenager posted online he was glad to make it to his 17th birthday after all he'd been through. Just over an hour later, he was fatally shot in the head. Armond Latimore was shot outside a restaurant about 1 p.m. Saturday -- his birthday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. No arrests have been made. Homicide detectives are investigating...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri farmers suffering from intense droughts across the state will be able to hay and pump water from some state land through new relief programs announced Monday by Gov. Mike Parson. Farmers will have access to water at 28 conservation areas and five state parks in northern and mid-Missouri, where the drought is hitting the hardest. The state also opened a lottery that will allow 16 farmers to hay on nearly 900 acres of Missouri State Parks land...

The city’s work continues with Immaculate Conception Church and School over the abandonment of East Jefferson Street between the two buildings, city attorney Tom Ludwig told the Jackson Board of Aldermen at Monday’s regular meeting, during the study session...

O Lord Jesus, may we help those in need, showing your love. Amen.

CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Driving while intoxicated, driving on a revoked license, resisting arrest by fleeing, driving the wrong direction and failure to have two lighted headlamps were reported on North Main Street. A suspect is in custody pending formal charges...

Bill Truman Stone, 91, of Millersville died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, at Chaffee Nursing Center. There will be no services. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Virgina G. Lewis, 99, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

BLACK JACK, Mo. -- A baby bobcat found in eastern Missouri and being nursed back to health might be mistaken for an ornery feral cat -- until you hear her roar. The animal was found in July outside the YMCA in Potosi, scrawny and with her mother nowhere around. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the Missouri Department of Conservation trapped her and took her to a St. Louis County facility run by the Bi-State Wildlife Hotline of Missouri and Illinois...

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