Stories from Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Cape Girardeau's trash and recycling collection schedules will be altered next week and the week of Nov. 23 in observance of Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. There will be no special trash pickups next Nov. 11, Veterans Day; or Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving...

Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center reported 115 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend and Monday for a total case count of 3,156, with 2,692 recoveries and 53 deaths. Active cases fell by 96 on Monday, down to 411. Cases in long-term care facilities totaled 272, with 223 recoveries, nine active cases and 40 deaths. The active cases in such facilities have dropped significantly in recent days, officials noted...

Elections specialist Amy Hester cleans a plexiglass divider at the poll worker station Monday in preparation for Election Day at the Arena Building in Cape Girardeau. ...

A pair of employee email accounts at Perry County Memorial Hospital were reportedly accessed without authorization recently, potentially exposing private patient information of “some individuals,” according to the hospital. A statement released Monday by the Perryville, Missouri, hospital said the email accounts were accessed on or about Aug. 23. The hospital is notifying individuals whose personal information may have been exposed...

In a 48-second video sent via email, Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas hailed students for their adherence to the university’s “Protect the Nest” COVID-19 guidelines and warned them to keep up their vigilance. “I know you are all tired and I understand that,” said Vargas, president since 2015, “but this is the time to focus on your health and safety for the last month of the semester.”...

Barring a last-minute change of direction, it appears Jackson city employees will be offered a new health insurance plan in 2021 in which SoutheastHEALTH physicians and facilities will be preferred providers and the Saint Francis Health System will be out of network...

In 2016, the Missouri Department of Corrections was in “complete disarray," according to department re-entry manager Ken Chapman. “The system [wasn’t] supporting the client ... the system [was] existing to support itself,” Chapman said recently of the department as well as other state and federal agencies...

This story has been updated. Acknowledging there is “activity supporting the fact that the deer population is growing” in Cape Girardeau, city manager Scott Meyer said a meeting has been set with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) on Nov. 23 to discuss the process for conducting a deer census in 2021...

After her career in education, teaching students from kindergarten through college, Dolly Jewel has used much of her time for civic purposes. She volunteers at church, SoutheastHEALTH, Alzheimer's Association and Read to Succeed, among other activities. And for more than 25 years, she's been a poll worker for a Cape Girardeau precinct on Election Day...

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 3, the 308th day of 2020. There are 58 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 3, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a landslide election victory over Republican challenger Alfred "Alf" Landon. On this date:...

O Heavenly Father, may we elect principled leaders who seek wisdom from you. Amen.

Don't forget to vote, Many military members have given their lives for the sake of freedom. The least we can do is use our constitutional right and vote. God bless the U,S.A. To the person who abandoned the six-week old precious yellow kitten in the box, in the middle of the road between Chaffee and Scott City at 5 a.m., please know she was found and loved. ...

This is as good a day as any to reflect on seven years ago. Monday, Nov. 2, made seven years since I pulled into Southeast Missouri after living my entire life in New York. I am, therefore, designating today Reflection Day. It's hard to believe it was seven years ago when after a two-day trip with my car packed so full of belongings I could barely see out the windows and with the rest of my stuff coming later in a moving pod, I reached my destination. ...

Gary "Hambone" Weinhold, 71, of Perryville, Missouri, died Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Young Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Kevin Barron officiating. Burial will be at in Brazeau Presbyterian Cemetery...

Leonard Morton Swan, 75, of Jackson died Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at this time at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.

William "Bill" Henry McCullough, 88, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, at Capetown Arbors Assisted Living in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 13, 1932, in Greenbriar, Missouri, son of "Dudley" Hugh and Ida "Fern" Miller McCullough...

ST. LOUIS -- Joseph John Domian, age 73, passed away peacefully Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. Joe was born in St. Louis to the late Joseph and Alberta Smith Domian. He graduated from Affton High School and Truman University. He served in various board capacities for Southeast Missouri State University...

Charles "Tripp" Cochrane, age 101, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Anna, Illinois, and many other places, passed away at 1:20 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 5, 1919, in Jacksonville, Florida, to James G. and Mabel Wiggins Cochrane. He married Lorna Stevens on June 3, 1951, in Los Angeles, California. She preceded him in death June 28, 2008...

PITTSBURGH -- In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an unsupported allegation the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed to claim states once seen as safely Republican...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri election officials are predicting the state's largest voter turnout in decades. Local election jurisdictions are expecting more than 3.2 million people to cast ballots in today's general election, according to figures provided by the Secretary of State's Office. That would amount to 75% of the state's 4.3 million registered voters...

This editorial originally appeared in the Daily American Republic, a publication of Rust Communications, on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. Election Day won't decide who fixes our country. Yes, you read that right. The day that we've been leading up to for months, even years, is not the answer to all of our country's problems...

There is one clear leading indicator pointing to President Donald Trump still having a chance to win the election -- stores around America are fortifying themselves in anticipation of election-related violence. Businesses in cities like New York City, Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago are boarding up as if a category 5 hurricane is bearing down...