Stories from Saturday, January 7, 2023

The Cape Girardeau Police Department's K-9 Yuki received donated body armor. The bullet and stab protective vest was provided through a donation to the not-for-profit Vested Interest in K9s Inc., according to a CGPD Facebook post. Leah Beale of Oklahoma City was directly responsible for Yuki's armor...

The City of Cape Girardeau is a few weeks away from beginning its official budget cycle, finance director Lisa Mills said. The upcoming FY2024 budget will be the first with Mills at the helm. She took over for outgoing director Dustin Ziebold in the fall. While there will assuredly be minor changes in the process because of personal preference, Mills said she doesn't anticipate making large changes to how the budget gets made, compared to her predecessors...

Quality of life was a topic Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Rob Gilligan identified in December 2022 as one of the "pillars of emphasis" in the chamber's ongoing strategic planning process. To that end, Gilligan arranged a "quality of life" panel discussion at the Jan. 6 First Friday Coffee event at Century Casino Event Center...

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and floor tensions boiling over after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority's ability to govern...

It has been a “year of change” for the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce, as chair Jeff Glenn stated in his Dec. 2 First Friday address. Overall, Glenn said they have been hyper-focused on growth for their organization, the Cape community and overall Southeast Missouri region...

Marge and I both grew up in the Sandhills of Nebraska in ranching country with both of our parents and most of our relatives raising cattle. We lived in Nebraska seven years after we were married before moving to Oklahoma, where we lived three years. ...

Auditions for "Battle of the bedroom," River City Players spring comedy, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7 and Sunday, Jan. 7, at Port Cape Girardeau. The play was written by David Pemberton and is directed by Justin Aden. Roles are needed for three men and four women. The show dates are Thursday through Sunday, April 13 through 16...

In the humble Cape Girardeau suburb known as Smelterville, Laura was born to a family who believed in the values of education as a means of advancing, although her birth ended her own mother's education at grade 10. Her maternal grandparents, William and Polly Temple, came to Cape Girardeau from Alabama in the early 1910s, on a promise of industrial expansion and jobs. ...

Monday: Meatball sub sandwich or hot chicken salad with whole-grain crackers, steamed carrots, potato salad and sugar-free gelatin with pears or chocolate cake. Tuesday: Beef Stroganoff or chicken and gravy, Lima beans, tomatoes and zucchini, whole-grain bread slice and hot apples and raisins or glazed applesauce cake...

The work of a woodpecker or two sends a message from the trunk of an old dead snag. They had chipped away on the tree hoping to find woodworms, ants or beetles to eat and inadvertently created a face. More likely than not a pileated woodpecker knocked away bark and chipped out the hole that looks like the mouth of a human-like face. It seems to be yelling "happy new year!" in the best way nature can...

The Kage FCE club met at Thursday, Dec. 8 at Delmonico's restaurant for its Christmas party. Jo Byna Daume opened the meeting. She read a thank-you note from Mary Klaproth regarding Kage hosting the Cape Girardeau County Council Quarterly Meeting Thursday, Dec. 1...

Do you watch NFL football? As a child growing up in St. Louis, I cheered for two St. Louis Cardinals teams. We had the baseball team and the football team of the same name. As a matter of fact, I got an autographed photo of Jim Hart who came to my elementary school, and then when in high school, Otis Anderson and Roy Green attended our football banquet my freshman year...

So, a new year has, again, entered into our midst. What do we plan to do with this new beginning? Will we constantly reminisce about what happened last year? Perhaps we will expect good things to land on our doorsteps. Will good fortune visit us without any effort on our part, or is it often tempting to blame the bad on something or someone else? We may even expect God to make changes in our lives, to do it for us. ...

WASHINGTON -- Such are the fractures in the country, between the political parties and inside the Republican Party itself, that one time-honored specialty of Washington -- memorializing and coming together over national trauma -- isn't what it used to be...

MEXICO CITY -- The operation to detain Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, unleashed firefights that turned the northern city of Culiacan into a war zone, authorities said Friday. In a blow-by-blow description of the battles that killed 10 military personnel and 19 suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said cartel gunmen opened fire on troops with .50-caliber machine guns...

KYIV, Ukraine -- An uneasy calm in Kyiv on Friday was broken by air raid sirens that also blared out across the rest of Ukraine despite a Russian cease-fire declaration for the Orthodox Church Christmas that Ukrainian officials scorned. No explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital, but any fighting elsewhere in the country could take hours to become public...

WASHINGTON -- America's employers added 223,000 jobs in December, evidence that the economy remains healthy even as the Federal Reserve is rapidly raising interest rates to try to slow economic growth and the pace of hiring. With companies continuing to add jobs across the economy, the unemployment rate fell from 3.6% to 3.5%, matching a 53-year low, the Labor Department said Friday...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. health officials on Friday approved a closely watched Alzheimer's drug that modestly slows the brain-robbing disease, albeit with potential safety risks that patients and their doctors will have to carefully weigh. The drug, Leqembi, is the first that's been convincingly shown to slow the decline in memory and thinking that defines Alzheimer's by targeting the disease's underlying biology. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Jan. 4 n Medical assists were made at 6:09 a.m. on Brentwood Drive; 8:47 a.m. on Bertling Street; 9:58 a.m. at North Lorimier and North Fountain streets; 10:24 a.m. on South Sprigg Street; 3:12 p.m. on Sheridan Drive; 3:17 p.m. on Longview Drive; and 5:58 p.m. on Independence Street...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Saint Francis Drive. n A warrant arrest and assault were reported on Shirley Drive. n A warrant arrest was reported on Broadway...

Son to Laura Frayser and Kyle Sieve of Maryland Heights, Missouri, Mercy Hospital, 1:45 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. Name, Cooper Davis. Weight, 6 pounds, 8 ounces. First child. Frayser is the daughter of Susan Anglin of Cape Girardeau and Ken Frayser of Cape Girardeau and the late Teri Frayser. ...

Larry Gene "L.G." Welker, 71, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, at Southeast Hospital due to an aneurysm. He was born May 23, 1951, to Helen and Dennis "Red" Welker in Cape Girardeau. He and Kathryn Welker have been married since Nov. 28, 1985...

Cape Girardeau City Council 5 p.m. Monday, City Hall Presentations n Southeast Missouri Pets Presentation Communication/reports n City Council Items for discussion n Appearances by Advisory Board Applicants n Consent Agenda Review Public Hearings n A public hearing to consider a request to rezone property located at 2854 Cape LaCroix Road from R-1 (Single-Family Suburban Residential District) to R-4 (Medium Density Multifamily Residential District). (Item No. 10; BILL NO. 23-01)...

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

Sally Jane Weisser, daughter of Dr. Edward and Bernadean Campbell, passed away peacefully at the age of 73 on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022, in her family's home, after a 10-month battle with stage IV lung cancer. Sally was born in Cape Girardeau on March 29, 1949, and was third of four siblings...

Russell Leroy "Mad Man" Mainord, 66, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, at his home. Arrangements are pending at Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

Elroy Frederick Kinder passed away Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Elroy was born Jan. 22, 1934, at his home southwest of Gordonville in Cape Girardeau County to Roy Lester and Alma Clara Krueger Kinder. He was baptized at the home of Anna and Elmer Hamilton in Morley, Missouri, by the Rev. Elmer Koerber on March 17, 1934. He was confirmed in 1959 by the Rev. William Opitz at Hanover Lutheran Church...

I was hit by a hearse on my way home from a routine doctor appointment. It was a minor fender bender at a stoplight. While waiting for the light to turn green a hearse backed out of its parking space at the bakery to my right and crunched into my passenger side door...

As our city leaders continue to discuss and create the 2023-2024 Operating Budget for the City of Cape Girardeau, I encourage them to seriously consider implementing the following during the process: Remain focused on what's best for the community. Continue to obligate, invest, and manage taxpayers' dollars wisely...

Will Rogers famously said: "I belong to no organized political party. I'm a Democrat." He would have to dig deeper to find a gibe suitable for today's GOP. The substantive stakes in the battle over Kevin McCarthy's speakership bid, which has produced a deadlock not seen on the House floor in 100 years, are not large. There are limits to what any Republican leader can accomplish with a five-vote majority while Democrats control the Senate and the presidency...

The only thing not going viral in China is the truth. Chinese officials are spewing lies to cover up the massive COVID outbreak there. Worse, U.S. public health officials dawdled for a week, allowing air travelers from China in without testing, while other countries immediately blocked infected travelers from entering...

O Lord God, may we walk in the light as you are in the light. Amen.

The outpouring of support across the world for Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin following a catastrophic health event suffered during a Jan. 2 football game in Cincinnati has been nothing short of impressive, perhaps even miraculous. The response is, for persons of faith, perhaps a concrete example of imago de, the Latin form of the words "image of God."...

Strong thunderstorms that moved across the region yesterday morning dumped over an inch of rain on parts of Cape Girardeau County; the storms, which had moved eastward by noon, left water on many city streets and county roads; more thunderstorms are expected today as the spring-like weather trend continues...

MedAmerica HealthNet Inc.'s bankruptcy won't force a "proliferation of HMOs" in Southeast Missouri's health-care market, say administrators of Cape Girardeau's two hospitals; the network's decision to shut down has left thousands in the region wondering what health insurance options they will have after the network dissolves March 1; in addition to clients who may be losing health-care coverage, MedAmerica HealthNet's bankruptcy means a financial loss for the hospitals that invested approximately $1.5 million in the network.. ...