Stories from Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Since August 2007, more than 2,000 Missourians have used a Jefferson City, Mo., post office box to protect themselves from stalkers, a spokesman for Secretary of State Jason Kander said. The Safe at Home program allows victims of physical or sexual violence to establish state and local public records under a substitute address, Kevin Flannery said Tuesday...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions despite one justice's impassioned dissent that accused the court of wanting to wish away racial inequality. The justices said in a 6-2 ruling that Michigan voters had the right to change their state constitution in 2006 to prohibit public colleges and universities from taking account of race in admissions decisions. ...

Spring often is hailed as a time for blooming flowers and cold weather turning to warm. But in some circles, it's known as the season to begin pothole repairs. Potholes form after the moisture from winter ice and snow seep into the cracks in the pavement, freeze and expand it, causing it to bulge and crack. When cars drive over the weakened pavement, pieces begin to break apart and form a hole...

Travis Simmons stood in the rough just off the left side of the 18th green Tuesday afternoon at Dalhousie Golf Club and knew just what he had to do. Simmons, a senior at Central and the defending SEMO Conference champion, had just played his second shot from the rough at the par-5 18th, which served as the first playoff hole in this year's SEMO Conference tournament, and needed to chip his third shot over a foot of rough and negotiate some 25 feet of green to the pin.. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon raised new concerns Tuesday that a tax cut passed by the Missouri Legislature could have "cataclysmic" consequences for state revenues, but Republican legislative leaders responded that he was manufacturing a crisis to justify a forthcoming veto...

A small group of Southeast Missouri State University students has joined a fledgling New York film director in producing "The Battle of Kushtia," a documentary about Bangladesh's war of independence and the late Dan Coggin, one of the first journalists to cover it...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City hospital has a new policy that forbids hitting of any kind, including parents spanking their children to discipline them. KMBC-TV reported Children's Mercy Hospital has established what it calls a "No Hit Zone" where physical discipline is banned. Hospital officials say the goal is not to tell parents how to discipline their childre, but instead to help parents through stressful times at the hospital...

Bulldogs use two double plays, two pickoffs in 11-1 win

This is at Castor River Shut-Ins, its Missouri's only know pink granite Shut-Ins.

a squirrel stalking the bird feeder; he had already performed several acrobatics by the time he got to this tree

Flash Gordon is a Juliana mini pig and he recently celebrated his first birthday with a cake from Mississippi Mutts. He loves grazing in the yard and cuddling on the couch.

A winter visitor to our airport, this Aircam spent the night in our main hangar before it's pilot continued on his cold journey to New Mexico. There aren't many 3-Seat, Open-Cockpit, Twin-Engine Airplanes that I know of, so the Aircam is a rather unique flying machine in my book...

Chris Tomlin, Grammy award winner and 21-time Dove Awards recipient, is bringing his tour to the Show Me Center. He will perform at 7:30 p.m. July 18, according to a news release from the venue. Tomlin says he feels his music leads to hope, healing and higher ground...

Today is Wednesday, April 23, the 113th day of 2014. There are 252 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 23, 1914, Chicago's Wrigley Field, then called Weeghman Park, hosted its first major league game as the Chicago Federals defeated the Kansas City Packers 9-1...

In some families scouting is a tradition. That was the case for the Limbaughs, and on Thursday night the Boy Scouts of America Greater St. Louis Area Council will recognize former U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Sr. at the Dr. James A. Kinder Good Scout Award Dinner...

The more I watch and listen to the political bobbleheads, the more I think the Republicans are to blame. And believe me, it pains me to come to this sad conclusion. It would seem a slam dunk to refute and dissect President Barack Obama's world view which runs counter to the principles that made this nation the envy of the world...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Lucey is a slobbering 18-month-old pooch whose human family dreams of making her a therapy dog. Winning a pageant before her second birthday should boost the Iowa bulldog's hopes of joining owner Dr. Tiffany Torstenson in the health care industry...

Lucille M. Wibbenmeyer, 90, of Friedheim died Sunday, April 20, 2014, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 2, 1923, in Cape Girardeau County, to Andrew and Elizabeth Renner Kirn. She and Edgar A. Wibbenmeyer were married Sept. 10, 1946, at Biehle, Mo. He preceded her in death Sept. 23, 1996...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Audrey Henderson Stroud, 78, of Olive Branch died Monday, April 21, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 5, 1936, in Water Valley, Ky., daughter of Virtice and Lela Morgan Via. She married Barney "Ted" Henderson Oct. 16, 1954. She later married Gene Stroud July 13, 1984...

Vivian Ann Smith, 48, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, April 17, 2014, at St. Louis University Hospital. She was born May 12, 1965, in Saginaw, Mich., daughter to Clarence and Bertha Willis Smith. Vivian was a former cafeteria employee with the Cape Girardeau School District. She was of the Baptist belief...

GRASSY, Mo. -- Winnis Lee Sifford, 66, of Grassy passed away Monday, April 21, 2014, at home surrounded by her family. She was born June 26, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of the late Ernest and Grace Umfleet Hinkle. She and Don Sifford were married in 1992. He preceded her in death May 15, 2013...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Edward W. Raub, 97, of Norfork, Ark., formerly of Mounds and Olive Branch, Ill., passed away Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at Good Samaritan Village in Mountain Home, Ark. He was born Sept. 29, 1916, in Mounds, son of the late Edward and Sarah Travers Raub. He married the former Delores Ann Honey, who died Jan. 14, 2011...

MORLEY, Mo. -- Margaret L. Horsley, 73, of Morley passed away Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 21, 1940, in Memphis, Tenn., to Clyde Wesley and Minnie Frances Fleming Collins. She married Billy Horsley on Nov. 3, 1956...

Ruth Marguerite Colyer, 87, of Jackson passed away Monday, April 21, 2014, at Monticello House. She was born July 7, 1926, in Burfordville, daughter of Columbus and Phyllis McManus Dockins. She and Woodrow Colyer were married June 16, 1946. He passed away June 1, 2006...

Son to Nick and Keisha Renea Panagos of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 8:41 a.m. Monday, April 14, 2014. Name, Seth Martin. Weight, 8 pounds, 3 ounces. Third son. Mrs. Panagos is the former Keisha Clardy, daughter of Eddie and Tammy Clardy of Jackson. She is employed by the Scott City School District. Panagos is the son of Kathryn Panagos of Jackson and Michael Panagos of Fenton, Mo. He is self-employed...

John Langford, 61, of Jackson died Monday, April 21, 2014, at his home. Visitation will be from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery...

Mildred L. Mueller, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Lutheran Home. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.

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The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Summonses Miscellaneous...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The FBI asked for the public's help Tuesday to identify at least 90 potential victims of a suspected child predator who worked at 10 American and other international schools abroad for more than four decades before committing suicide last month in Minnesota...

OSO, Wash. -- Swooping over a landscape of sadness and death, President Barack Obama took an aerial tour Tuesday of the place where more than three dozen people perished in a mudslide last month. He pledged a nation's solidarity with those who are enduring "unimaginable pain and difficulty" in the aftermath of the destruction...

NEW YORK -- ABC's brainy new medical drama "Black Box" does a neat trick: It dares viewers to imagine for themselves the cost-benefit ratio of addiction, and does it without taking a firm stand. It does it in the person of top-of-her-field Dr. Catherine Black, known as "the Marco Polo of the Brain," who helps patients navigate neurological disorders. She secretly wrestles with one of her own: She's bipolar...

WADOWICE, Poland -- His death triggered an outpouring of grief in Poland. His beatification, an explosion of pride and jubilation. But days before John Paul II is to be declared a saint, many of his countrymen are greeting the landmark with little more than a shrug...

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- When armed men seized the police station in this eastern Ukrainian city, mayor Nelya Shtepa declared she was on their side. She changed her story a few days later. Then she disappeared -- the victim of an apparent abduction by the man who now lays claim to her job...

BEIRUT -- Weakened Syrian rebels are making their last desperate stand in Homs, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad launch their harshest assault yet to expel them from the central city, once known as the capital of the revolution. Some among the hundreds of rebels remaining in the city talk of surrender, according to opposition activists there. ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The townsfolk believed the mosque was safe. They crammed inside as rebel forces in South Sudan took control of the town from government troops. But it wasn't safe. Robbers grabbed their cash and mobile phones. Then gunmen came and opened fire on everyone, young and old...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri House has endorsed legislation allowing use of a cannabis extract by people whose epilepsy is not relieved by other treatments. The bill would permit use of "hemp extract" with little of the substance that makes marijuana users feel high and greater amounts of a chemical called cannabidiol, or CBD. ...

ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis man who avoided prison because of a clerical error and led a law-abiding life for more than a decade before he was locked up last year is asking a Missouri judge to set him free. A petition filed by Cornealious Michael Anderson in Mississippi County Circuit Court on Tuesday seeks to require the Missouri Department of Corrections to credit the 13 years he was technically at large after a May 2000 armed robbery conviction in suburban St. Louis...

ST. LOUIS -- At a time most years when farmers would be in full swing of planting corn, Stanley Blunier and most other growers near his central Illinois farm still hadn't begun the annual ritual Tuesday because fields are too wet or too cold to be receptive to fragile seeds...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A southwest Missouri youth football coach accused of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old girl now is facing rape and sodomy charges. Greene County prosecutors added the charges against Craig Michael Wood, 46, of Springfield on Monday. Court documents indicate the additional charges in the February death of Hailey Owens stem from newly available autopsy results...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appears to be highly skeptical of laws that try to police false statements during political campaigns, raising doubts about the viability of such laws in more than 15 states. Justices expressed those concerns early and often Tuesday during arguments in a case challenging an Ohio law that bars people from recklessly making false statements about candidates seeking elective office...

WASHINGTON -- Grappling with fast-changing technology, Supreme Court justices debated Tuesday whether they can protect the copyrights of TV broadcasters to the shows they send out without strangling innovations in the use of the internet. The high court heard arguments in a dispute between television broadcasters and Aereo Inc., which takes free television signals from the airwaves and charges subscribers to watch the programs on laptop computers, smartphones and even their large-screen televisions. ...

Scott County Central Braves pulled in four of the 10 honors bestowed to local players and coaches with today's release of the 2013-14 all-state basketball teams selected by the Missouri Sportswriters and Broadcasters. Senior point guard LaRandis Banks was among three individuals honored from the Scott County Central boys' 17th state championship squad. Banks averaged 19 points per game for the 26-5 Braves...

NEW YORK -- The only thing that stopped Adam Wainwright from throwing his second straight shutout was a hyperextended right knee. The perennial Cy Young Award contender tossed seven neat innings before leaving with an injury Tuesday night, and Jon Jay hit a two-run single that sent the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 victory over the New York Mets...

CHICAGO -- The St. Louis Blues don't want their recent playoff history repeating itself. The Blues face the Blackhawks in Game 4 of their opening round series at Chicago tonight. The Blues lost 2-0 in Game 3, but still lead the series 2-1. But the Blues' series against the defending Stanley Cup champions seems to be unfolding as it did last season when they took a 2-0 lead against Los Angeles and then dropped the next four games...

The 6-foot-7 power forward is a transfer from Western Kentucky

DETROIT -- General Motors Co. and a battalion of trial lawyers are preparing for a court fight over whether GM is liable for the sins of its corporate past. The company is asking a U.S. bankruptcy court to shield it from legal claims for actions that took place before the company's 2009 bankruptcy...

MOKPO, South Korea -- As the ferry sank, some crew members gave their lifejackets to passengers. One refused to leave until she shepherded students off the ship, and was later found dead. Others worked from rescue boats to break windows with hammers and pull people trapped in cabins to safety...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's acting president ordered security forces to resume "anti-terror" operations in the country's east Tuesday after the bodies of two people allegedly abducted by pro-Russia insurgents were found and a military aircraft was reportedly hit by gunfire...

MIAMI -- Leaders with the largest not-for-profit organization for young Cuban-Americans quietly provided strategic support for the federal government's secret "Cuban Twitter" program, connecting contractors with potential investors and serving as paid consultants, The Associated Press has learned...

All the local high school events reported Tuesday to the Southeast Missourian.

The Redhawks lost 5-2 to SIU Carbondale Southeast Missourian The Southeast Missouri State baseball hadn't lost two games in a row since a pair of losses to Morehead State on March 21 and 22. It happened again Tuesday with a 5-2 loss to nonconference foe Southern Illinois University at Itchy Jones Stadium in Carbondale, Ill...

Southern California native Mike Deasy, whose ability on the guitar made him one of the highest paid studio musicians in Los Angeles, is a guest at New Life World Outreach Center. ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Continuing its observance of the church's 150th anniversary, Trinity Lutheran Church of Altenburg examines "The Expansion Years of 1864-87"; descendants of then-pastor J.F. Koestering are on hand to help lead the service...

O Lord God, thank you that because of your Son Jesus we can have eternal life. Amen.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A North Carolina prosecutor was the original target of an elaborate kidnapping plot, but the kidnappers looked up the wrong address on the Internet and abducted the prosecutor's father instead, an indictment released Tuesday said...

WASHINGTON -- Some student loan borrowers who had a parent or grandparent co-sign the note are finding they must immediately pay the loan in full if the relative dies. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says lenders have clauses in their contract that explain this could happen, but many borrowers are not aware of them...

A daring Tigers team won the Class 4 state baseball title in 1994