Stories from Monday, September 2, 2013

PITTSBURGH -- Joe Kelly began the season in the St. Louis Cardinals' bullpen with an electric fastball and an identity crisis. Consider the crisis solved. At the moment, Kelly has become The Stopper. The right-hander allowed four hits over six solid innings to win his fourth straight start and the Cardinals moved back into a tie for first place in the NL Central with a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday...

CINCINNATI -- Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina left a game against the Cincinnati Reds with a sore left wrist. Molina grounded out and flied out in his two at-bats before being replaced by Rob Johnson for the bottom of the fifth inning on Monday. The Reds led 6-2...

Today is Monday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2013. There are 120 days left in the year. This is Labor Day. Today's Highlight in History: On September 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II...

Four Cape Girardeau businessmen and the wife of the publisher of a Poplar Bluff, Mo., newspaper -- Jim Drury, Ernie Beussink, Earl Norman, Tony Stephens and Julie Wolpers -- are investors in a new bi-weekly newspaper scheduled to begin publication here next month; The Cape Girardeau News Guardian will be a free distribution newspaper, published on Wednesday and Saturday mornings...