Stories from Wednesday, November 2, 2022

The FBI reports "foreign actors" are likely to use "information manipulation tactics" leading up to the general elections Tuesday, Nov. 8. This information came in a joint news release from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In a second release, the two agencies report it unlikely malicious cyber activity against election infrastructure will disrupt or prevent voting...

The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Advisory Board meeting — at which board members were set to vote to recommend a bid for the new terminal project to the Cape Girardeau City Council — was postponed. The meeting was originally supposed to take place Tuesday, Nov. 1...

The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office found four out of the 83 registered sex offenders in the county required to comply with the special Halloween guidelines not compliant. Not all registered sex offenders are required to follow the guidelines. A 2010 Missouri Supreme Court ruling stated the guidelines only apply to sex offenders convicted after 2008 — the year when the state law was passed...

A nearly $1.4 million federal grant aimed largely at boosting recruitment to health care careers and retraining industry professionals has been received by Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences. "This project — Rural Healthcare Training & Retraining Initiative — will result in an increased pipeline of workers, at all career stages, into the health care industry, help current health care professionals advance their careers and increase the quality of care within the rural Missouri and Missouri Ozark region," said Steven Langdon, Southeast's nursing school president, commenting on the grant from the U.S. ...

Lord Jesus, we lift up your name. You are deserving of all praise. Amen.

Democracy is under threat -- the wrong candidates could win more votes than their opponents in hotly contested free and fair elections. That's the worry of progressives insisting that "democracy is on the ballot" in the midterms. This trope, repeated endlessly on the center-left, is offered as a reason why voters of conscience should cast aside their other concerns and vote Democrat up and down the ballot...

There are several amendments on the November ballot. While some have been given significant attention, others have likely flown below the radar for most voters. Today, we summarize the issues and offer our position. n Amendment 1: This would give the state greater flexibility when making investments, namely allowing "state investments in municipal securities possessing one of the top five highest long term ratings or the highest short term rating."...

PHOENIX -- An Arizona county's plan to hand count all ballots cast in next week's election has triggered a court challenge, marking the latest twist to the effort by rural Cochise County to mollify skeptics distrustful of its vote-counting equipment...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Liberty McCoy was out Saturday urging voters to pass a Nov. 8 ballot measure to limit rent increases in Pasadena because she's afraid she'll be priced out of the city where she grew up and where her aging parents live. The librarian and her husband, a freelance consultant, received notice of a $100 monthly rent increase last year and another for $150 this year, bringing the rent on their home outside Los Angeles to $2,350 a month. ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Sen. Lindsey Graham's testimony in a Georgia investigation of possible illegal interference in the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump and his allies in the state. The court lifted a temporary hold on Graham's appearance before a special grand jury, now scheduled for Nov. 17...

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean officials admitted responsibility and apologized on Tuesday for failures in preventing and responding to a Halloween crowd surge that killed more than 150 people and left citizens shocked and angry. The government is facing growing public scrutiny over whether the crush Saturday night in Seoul's Itaewon district, a popular nightlife neighborhood, could have been prevented and who should take responsibility for the country's worst disaster in years...

NEW YORK -- Larry, a 71-year-old retired insurance broker and Donald Trump fan from Alabama, wouldn't be likely to run into the liberal Emma, a 25-year-old graphic designer from New York City, on social media -- even if they were both real. Each is a figment of BBC reporter Marianna Spring's imagination. ...

The vast majority of candidates running to become their states' chief election officers oppose hand counting ballots, a laborious and error-prone process that has gained favor among some Republicans embracing conspiracy theories about voting machines...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia reinforced its fighting force Tuesday with an annual fall draft of 120,000 men, and doubled the number of civilians it's trying to evacuate in anticipation of a major Ukrainian push to recapture the strategically vital southern port city of Kherson...

WASHINGTON -- Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday put a temporary hold on the handover of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to a congressional committee. Roberts' order gives the Supreme Court time to weigh the legal issues in Trump's emergency appeal to the high court, filed Monday...

ALGIERS, Algeria -- Arab leaders on Tuesday met in Algeria at the 31st summit of the largest annual Arab conference to seek common ground on divisive issues in the region. The meeting comes against the backdrop of rising inflation, food and energy shortages, drought and soaring cost of living across the Middle East and Africa...

KYIV, Ukraine -- The decorative candles Yaroslav Vedmid bought more than a year ago were never meant to be lit, but the dried wax that now clings to them attests to how they've been used almost nightly -- a consequence of power cuts across Ukraine. Seated at the dinner table with his wife in a village on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, the two can't count the number of times they've eaten in the dark since Russian attacks triggered the blackouts beginning in early October. ...

This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of miles away, a heavily-armed U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed up to a fleet of a few hundred Chinese squid-fishing boats not far from Ecuador's Galapagos Islands. Its mission: inspect the vessels for any signs of illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing...

BRASILIA, Brazil -- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday did not concede the election he lost to leftist Lula da Silva in a brief speech that marked his first comments since results were released two days ago. But afterward, Chief-of-Staff Ciro Nogueira told reporters that Bolsonaro has authorized him to begin the transition process...

JERUSALEM -- Exit polls in Israel indicated Tuesday that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies may have won enough seats to return to power in a nationalist religious government after 3 1/2 years of political gridlock. The polls are preliminary, however, and final results could change as votes are tallied. ...

New research shows vaccinating pregnant women helped protect their newborns from the common but scary respiratory virus called RSV that fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall. The preliminary results buoy hope that after decades of failure and frustration, vaccines against RSV may finally be getting close...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home, beating her husband and seeking to kidnap her told police he was on a "suicide mission" and had plans to target other California and federal politicians, according to a Tuesday court filing...

ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis jury has ruled that Ford Motor Co. and other companies must pay $6 million to a Missouri family over claims that a woman's death was caused by exposure to asbestos, including from dust generated during brake repairs. Linda Behling of Springfield died of mesothelioma at age 70 in 2019. Late Monday, jurors sided with Behling's husband, son and daughter after a trial that lasted more than two weeks...

The Rev. Robert Kuhn, first vice president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, is the guest speaker at Reformation Festival Services at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau; Kuhn speaks about "Real Confession," based on Matthew 16:13-18; special music is performed by the Trinity Singers and Trinity Ringers bell choir...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Oct. 31 n Medical assists were made at 3:51 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 5:08 p.m. on Scott Street; 5:36 p.m. on Bordeau Drive; 5:57 p.m. on Grandview Drive; 6:04 p.m. on Whitener Street; 7:28 p.m. on Broadway; 8:24 p.m. on Bloomfield Street; and 11:32 p.m. on Boutin Drive...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Linden Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on Broadway. n A warrant arrest was reported. Assaults...

MOUNDS, Ill. — Sherry Camille Moses Miller, 75, of Mounds died Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, at Jones Funeral Home in Villa Ridge, Illinois, and from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Annunciation in Cape Girardeau...

Glenn Robert McGill, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, at Lutheran Home. He was born Oct. 20, 1934, to Marshall Eldridge McGill and Gladys Marie Bozell McGill in Sikeston, Missouri. He graduated from Sikeston High School in 1952, and went on to earn a degree in accounting from Southeast Missouri State University in 1956...

Kimberly Honey Hornback, 72, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, at her home. She was born March 25, 1950, to Ilra Lloyd and Minnie Ellen Watson Honey in St. Louis. Kimberly worked for Kagmo Electric Co. for 40 years. She was a member of Cape County Cowboy Church. In her spare time, she enjoyed bowling, playing cards, ceramics and playing bingo...

Mildred Eldridge, daughter of the late Elisha Crumbaugh and Effie Mills Crumbaugh, was born Aug. 21, 1931, in Rockview, Missouri, and departed her life Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center Emergency Room in Cape Girardeau at the age of 91 years...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Patricia Ann Buchheit, 71, of Valparaiso, Florida, formerly of Perryville, died Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, and from 8 to 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. The rosary will be recited at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 at the funeral home...

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Hugh Hunter Byrd passed away Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. He was born May 26, 1938, in Cape Girardeau to the late Thomas Albert Byrd and Helen Swayne Byrd, both of Charleston. He attended The Webb School and then went on the attend University of Missouri, University of the South and Vanderbilt University, where in 1962 he graduated with a degree in biology...