Stories from Monday, August 12, 2019

Rick Bailey, right, untangles a line for his fiancee, Darla Hughes, while fishing at Red Star Boat Dock during their first outing of the year Sunday in Cape Girardeau. Bailey said he typically goes fishing at the Red Star area five to six times a year but was unable to do so this year due to flooding ...

Conflict in the workplace is often inevitable and while it's usually thought of as something to be avoided, it can often lead to something positive, when handled correctly. That was the message last week at the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce's Women's Impact Network (WIN) luncheon...

The future of the 150,000-square-foot Sears Grand building in Cape Girardeau is uncertain following the announcement last week by Sears Holdings the store is among 26 large-format Sears and Kmart outlets in the U.S. and Puerto Rico that will close by late October...

Saturday’s “Tay Day” vigil held in memory of Cape Girardeau homicide victims Detavian L. Richardson and Zatrun R. Twiggs at Capaha Park served as an unsettling reminder of the prevalence of gun violence. The event also recognized the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio...

A dental-health arm of the Cape Girardeau County Health Department plans to extend oral health services to adults, including the elderly, thanks in part to United Way funding and an increased emphasis on fundraising. Health department dental coordinator Dotty Gholson said she is responsible for managing all the dental screenings at schools within Cape Girardeau County. The organization is partnered with Missouri’s Preventive Services Program (PSP)...

Today is Monday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2019. There are 141 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 12, 2017, a car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and hurting more than a dozen others. ...

Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Amen.

Two faith-based organizations, led by two compassionate people, have combined forces to get homeless people off the streets and into stable housing. As recently reported by Jay Wolz, a two-story, four-bedroom house on Jefferson Street in Cape Girardeau soon will become permanent housing for several homeless men, thanks to a partnership between The People’s Shelter and Saint Francis Health System Foundation...

I would like to commend MoDOT for the excellent resurfacing of William Street from Kingshighway to Mount Auburn Road. The work was all done at night. It was striped and finished in record time. The surface is a smooth ride now. The picture of 10- and 6-year-old boys playing in the Mississippi River in today's paper was appalling. ...

DETROIT -- They were the suburban vehicle of choice in the 1990s and early 2000s, but ever since, minivans appeared to be riding the slow lane to extinction. The soccer moms who once made the boxy people-haulers ubiquitous have shunned them for car-based SUVs with three rows of seats. Many automakers have stopped selling them. In fact, Chrysler sold more minivans by itself in its heyday than the entire industry does today...

Flora F. Wiseman, 101, of Crump passed away Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, at her home. She was born Nov. 27, 1917, in Whitewater to James F. and Emma E. Brase Williams. Flora survived her five siblings: Mildred Helderman, James “Jr.” Williams, Irene Trentham, John Williams and Jean Green, who passed away just two days before Flora...

Kelly Blackman, 92, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.

Daughter to Clayborne Allen and Shanavia Boyd of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 7:29 a.m. Sunday, July 21, 2019. Name, Zoe Lunae Allen. Weight, 7 pounds, 1 ounce. First child. Ms. Boyd is a cashier at Goodwill. Allen is a cook at McDonald's. Son to Branston Keefer and Katelyn Bemis of Sikeston, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, 2:08 p.m. ...

HOOPA, Calif. — They probably don’t train people for this at the Sheriff’s Academy. A patrol car was struck by a falling bear in Northern California last weekend. Authorities said a Humboldt County sheriff’s deputy was driving on State Route 96 on Aug. 3, answering a report of a drug overdose in the community of Orleans, when the bear fell or jumped onto the car, apparently from a steep embankment. ...

NEW YORK -- Guards on Jeffrey Epstein's unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail's operations told The Associated Press. The person said the Metropolitan Correctional Center's Special Housing Unit was staffed with one guard working a fifth straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime. ...

CANTON, Miss. -- The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi's heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not. "I will not sit in silence while my parents are taken away," read a sign carried by two Hispanic boys...

NEW YORK — School lunch menus already have Meatless Mondays and Taco Tuesdays. Now some may get Trade Mitigation Thursdays. This fall, some U.S. school cafeterias are expecting shipments of free food, one little known consequence of President Donald Trump’s trade disputes ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Researchers with the University of Missouri are getting a head start on growing hemp in order to collect information to help farmers who plan to grow the state's newest cash crop in the spring. The crop is hemp, a type of cannabis without high levels of THC, the chemical that gets people high. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- After devastating flooding this year, Iowa put $15 million into a special fund to help local governments recover and guard against future floods. Missouri allotted more money to fight rising waters, including $2 million to help buy a movable floodwall for a historic Mississippi River town that's faced flooding in all but one of the past 20 years...

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The first River Heritage Regional Black Family Reunion kicks off here with a presentation by the Rev. Benjamin Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP; Hooks attends a prayer breakfast and is keynote speaker at a leadership seminar that is part of the reunion; the reunion is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ------ Element 74, a digital production company, recently launched a new company-wide benefit to all of its salaried employees in the form of unlimited paid time off. In between client engagements and company goals, employees are now encouraged to take off as much as they want to as a way to recharge, stay fresh, and maintain a healthy work-life balance...