Stories from Thursday, December 8, 2022

Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 8 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Approval of minutes of the Tuesday, Dec. 5, meeting Communications/reports — other selected officials/department heads n Updates on new jail and 1908 courthouse project...

An alleged home invasion resulted in three felony charges against Austin G. Hengst. According to Cpl. Ryan Droege of Cape Girardeau Police Department, officers responded at about 3:30 a.m. Monday to a residence in the 3500 block of Pheasant Cove, after the homeowner reported the man entered his home illegally with a firearm...

During this fun and exciting season of Christmas, we try many new and different foods. I like to look for recipes with a twist to an old favorite or a new recipe I've never made before. That made me think you may be one of those people, too. Today I have pulled together a few recipes you might like to add to your Christmas dinner or maybe a take-along dish to a dinner. I've included a couple of main dish alternatives to ham or turkey and a variety of other recipes you might find interesting...

The team of Lerner and Loewe wrote nine musicals (almost as many as Rodgers and Hammerstein), most notably My Fair Lady. But when the Canadian music critic Gene Lees decided to write a biography of the duo, he chose for his title not a number or a line from My Fair Lady, or Camelot, or Brigadoon. Rather, he titled it Inventing Champagne, a nod to a showstopper tune from the composers' Academy Award winning film, Gigi...

Lawson Burgfield, left, a U.S. Navy veteran, and Rick Sparks, a U.S. Air Force veteran, stand with a wreath at the World War I Doughboy statue in Cape Girardeau County Courthouse Square in Jackson on Wednesday, Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. ...

Mayor Dwain Hahs will ask Jackson voters for another two years in office in the Tuesday, April 4, municipal election. Hahs, 70, filed the necessary paperwork Wednesday, Dec. 7, to run again for the mayoral seat originally won when the former Bausch & Lomb executive defeated then-incumbent Barbara Lohr in 2015...

During the Cape Girardeau City Council meeting Monday, Dec. 5, Phil Penzel of Penzel Construction Co. Inc. presented Mayor Stacy Kinder with Hall of Fame trophies for projects completed for the city. The city and the contractor were on the receiving ends of two separate awards from the Mid-America Region of the Design Build Institute of America for the City Hall and SportsPlex projects...

Recreational marijuana was officially legalized Thursday, Dec. 8, in Missouri, exactly a month after voters in the Show Me state approved a constitutional amendment. While Amendment 3 contains 39 pages of legal text on the sale and distribution of cannabis in the 21st state to legalize, there will be little change to law enforcement operations in Cape Girardeau...

When Joann Lester walks into the dining room of Chick-fil-A in Cape Girardeau, she instantly begins serving people: grabbing their trays and trash, rushing to open doors, chatting with the regulars and giving out hugs. Still, even more than her joyful attitude, Lester is known for singing throughout her shift...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday, Dec. 8 in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said. The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden, but carried a heavy price – and left behind an American jailed for nearly four years in Russia.

Today in History Today is Thursday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2022. There are 23 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor...

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Over the last two years, we have watched President Joe Biden and his administration make a mockery out of our nation's border security. Because of his refusal to enforce the law or keep in place strong policies adopted under the Trump administration, record numbers of illegal immigrants have crossed the border. ...

O Lord Jesus, may we share your hope and never-ending love with others. Amen.

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Dec. 6 n Medical assists were made at 4:56 a.m. on Linden Street; 10:56 a.m. on Karen Drive; 6:11 p.m. on North Fountain Street; 6:41 p.m. on Shirley Drive; 8:16 p.m. on Bloomfield Road; and 11:42 p.m. on William Street. ...

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

Edna Mae Ramsey, 88, of Scott City died Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, at her home. She was born March 25, 1934, in Grove Center, Kentucky, to William Marion and Mary Eva Isabelle Brock Biggs. She married James Walter "Num" Ramsey on May 24, 1952. He preceded her in death March 29, 1997...

Loretta Yvonne Proffer, 74, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, at Heartland Care and Rehabilitation Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 2, 1948, in Alton, Illinois, the daughter of Leo and Jerry May Dickmann Sticht. She and Billy Proffer were married May 1, 1986, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. He preceded her in death Aug. 1, 2021...

Margaret Mary Kester, 65, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, at her home. There are no services at this time. Arrangements are by McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.

Fred O. Jones went ahead of his beloved family to check out Heaven on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, at the age of 78. Always the protector, Fred loved his family fiercely. He married the love of his life, Pamela Ann Hahs, at the tender age of 20, and they spent 57 years sharing adventures together and raising their three children, Jolie (Brian) McCallister, Frederick (Shirlee Wilson) Jones and Polly (Kent) Koch. ...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Hilda Frances Brown, 97, of Chaffee died Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center after a brief bout with the flu. She was a resident of Chaffee Nursing Center. Hilda was born Feb. 24, 1925, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to Simon Darwin and Rada Barnes Brown...

WASHINGTON -- The beating death of notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger at the hands of fellow inmates was the result of multiple layers of management failures, widespread incompetence and flawed policies at the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report Wednesday...

PORTLAND, Maine -- For years, Mark Hager's job as an observer aboard New England fishing boats made him a marked man, seen as a meddling cop on the ocean, counting and scrutinizing every cod, haddock and flounder to enforce rules and help set crucial quotas...

NEW YORK -- Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. Today, it's a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the now extinct mastodon...

DENVER -- Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado gay nightclub was on the FBI's radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members, but agents closed out the case just weeks later. The disclosure by the FBI to The Associated Press creates a new timeline for when law enforcement was first alerted to Anderson Lee Aldrich as a potential danger. ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Duke Energy completed repairs Wednesday on electric substation equipment damaged in shootings over the weekend in central North Carolina. Almost all households in Moore County had regained power as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, according to Duke Energy's outage map. A peak of more than 45,000 customers lost power over the weekend...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Former Theranos executive Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in the company's blood-testing hoax -- a sentence slightly longer than that given to the CEO, who was his lover and accomplice in one of Silicon Valley's biggest scandals...

DETROIT -- In a bustling metro area of 4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into isolated thickets to study Detroit's most elusive residents -- coyotes, foxes, raccoons and skunks among them. Harris and colleagues have placed trail cameras in woodsy sections of 25 city parks for the past five years. They've recorded thousands of images of animals that emerge mostly at night to roam and forage, revealing a wild side many locals might not know exists...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, newly filed federal court documents show. The filing provides insight into what investigators have found in a case that first became public in August. ...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Wednesday that his "special military operation" in Ukraine is taking longer than expected but said it has succeeded in seizing new territory and added that his country's nuclear weapons are deterring escalation of the conflict...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked in making rules for congressional and presidential elections. In nearly three hours of arguments, liberal and conservative justices appeared to take issue with the main thrust of a challenge asking them to essentially eliminate the power of state courts to strike down legislature-drawn, gerrymandered congressional district maps on grounds that they violate state constitutions.. ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor joined about 2,500 members of the public at the scene of the Japanese bombing on Wednesday to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago. The audience sat quietly during a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the same time the attack began on Dec. 7, 1941...

JERUSALEM -- Israel's ties to the Jewish American community, one of its closest and most important allies, are about to be put to the test, with Israel's emerging far-right government on a collision course with Jews in the United States. Major Jewish American organizations, traditionally a bedrock of support for Israel, have expressed alarm over the far-right character of the presumptive government led by conservative Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. ...

BERLIN -- German police seized dozens of people including a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a former judge Wednesday, accusing the suspects of discussing the violent overthrow of the government but leaving unclear how concrete the plans were...

LIMA, Peru -- Peruvian President Pedro Castillo dissolved the nation's Congress on Wednesday and called for new legislative elections, but the Congress rejected the decree and voted to replace him with the vice president. Castillo had tried to beat lawmakers to the punch as they prepared to debate a third attempt to remove him from office. The national ombudsman's office called it a coup...

BEIJING -- China rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places Wednesday in a dramatic change to a strategy that confined millions of people to their homes and sparked protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign...

RICHMOND, Va. -- One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. Fleisher, who is white, and his wife, who is Black, were used to "the look." But this time it was more intense...

WASHINGTON -- For Senate Democrats, an oh-so-slim 51-49 majority never sounded so good. Sen. Raphael Warnock's victory in swing-state Georgia gives Democrats a welcome "lift," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday at the Capitol -- newly confident of sidelining Donald Trump-inspired Republicans in Congress and reaching across the aisle to other GOP lawmakers to deliver on bipartisan priorities with President Joe Biden...

After being postponed a week because of bad weather, the fifth annual Christmas Parade of Lights got off to a delayed start last night when the Mustang convertible carrying the parade marshal, Councilman Melvin Gateley, had to make a quick stop for gasoline; the people gathered along the Broadway parade route didn't seem to mind as they sat wrapped in blankets or stood bundled in coats, sipping cups of coffee and hot chocolate...

The Community Foundation of the Ozarks and its large affiliate foundation network have created mass plantings of 50,000 daffodil bulbs across the region, which will bloom in the spring to commemorate the CFO’s 50th anniversary in 2023. The daffodils have been planted in Springfield and 40 of the CFO’s affiliate communities stretching across the state, including Cape Girardeau, Perryville and Ste. Genevieve...

Jackson Solar, LLC Earns 2022 Angi Super Service Award Award reflects company’s consistent level of customer service Jackson, Missouri, December 8th 2022 – Jackson Solar, LLC is proud to announce that it has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angi Super Service Award (SSA). This award, first released in 1999, recognizes the best home professionals and businesses in the Angi network for their hard work, dedication, and commitment to providing Angi customers a great experience...