-
Two killed, seven injured in early morning shooting in Sikeston
(Local News ~ 06/08/20)
SIKESTON, Mo. — An early morning shooting in Sikeston left two dead and seven injured. According to a news release from the Sikeston Department of Public Safety, officers received a call at 1:46 a.m. Sunday of a noise complaint coming from a party in the 900 block of Plantation Boulevard. Police addressed the complaint and party-goers agreed to turn down the music. ...
-
Comparisons drawn between Floyd's death and Missouri case
(State News ~ 06/08/20)
O’FALLON, Mo. — The Missouri NAACP and black lawmakers on Friday urged a new investigation into the death of an African American jail inmate who died in 2017 in a similar circumstance to George Floyd — with a white law enforcement officer’s knee on his neck...
-
FISH Volunteers to give out free produce Tuesday in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 06/08/20)
FISH Volunteers of Cape Girardeau will distribute 200 boxes of produce beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Centenary United Methodist Church, 300 N. Ellis St. in Cape Girardeau. The effort is in partnership with the SEMO Food Bank, said Avon Crocker, president of the FISH Volunteers’ board...
-
Hundreds gather for Black Lives Matter protest in Perryville
(Local News ~ 06/08/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Chanting, cheering, shouting and street sounds filled the air in downtown Perryville as hundreds of protesters and a few dozen counter-protesters expressed their opinions and feelings about the Black Lives Matter movement Sunday afternoon...
-
Jackson eyes several business openings this summer, fall
(Business ~ 06/08/20)
Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and major highway reconstruction at the junction of Interstate 55 and U.S. 61, several new retail businesses are opening this summer and fall in Jackson. Appearing last week at the Jackson Board of Aldermen study session, Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce vice president Jen Berti pointed to several signs of retail growth in the community...
-
Social distancing guidelines necessitate unusual baptism at Delta church
(Local News ~ 06/08/20)
Under a cloudless sky in the parking lot of First Baptist Church in Delta on Sunday morning, Erica McClard was baptized in a cattle trough. Two weeks earlier, she had given her life to Jesus. Baptism, McClard said, publicly affirmed her private convictions...
-
Business Notebook: Unemployment claims slow; Ameren offers new program to help with bills
(Business ~ 06/08/20)
Another 20,459 Missourians filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits during the last week of May, bringing the 11-week total of initial filings to 611,642. However, it was the smallest single-week increase since the COVID-19 pandemic spread into Missouri in mid-March when businesses began closing and people started losing their jobs...
-
Former Kmart building being readied for Orscheln
(Business ~ 06/08/20)
Interior demolition began last week at Cape Girardeau's former Kmart building in preparation for Orscheln Farm & Home's long- awaited move to that location. A crew from Charles Hampton & Son Construction out of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, has been on site removing ceiling tiles and other materials from the 82,600-square-foot building at 11 S. Kingshighway. The structure has been vacant since Kmart's "Big K" store there closed in November 2018...
-
George Floyd scholarship announced at Southeast Missouri State
(Local News ~ 06/08/20)
On Friday, the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship was formed within the Southeast Missouri State University Foundation, confirmed Trudy Lee, interim vice president for university advancement and executive director of the university foundation. By Monday night, the new Floyd scholarship had already raised 60% of the announced $10,000 goal from 33 donors, according to the university’s website. ...
-
Catch & Release at Capaha Park
(Local News ~ 06/08/20)
Remington Rueseler, 10, of Cape Girardeau goes fishing with his father, Ryan Rueseler, during Cape Girardeau Parks & Recreation's Youth Catch & Release event Saturday at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau. ...
-
Feeding teachers and educators at Lighthouse United
(Local News ~ 06/08/20)
Brent Good, left, a kindergarten teacher's aide at Jefferson Elementary School, shares a moment with Yazzmin Johnson, an incoming third-grade teacher at the school, during a lunch event for teachers and educators Saturday at Lighthouse United in Cape Girardeau. ...
-
Today in History
(National News ~ 06/08/20)
Today is Monday, June 8, the 160th day of 2020. There are 206 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 8, 1967, during the six-day Middle East war, 34 American servicemen were killed when Israel attacked the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship in the Mediterranean Sea. (Israel later said the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.)...
-
Prayer 6-8-20
(Prayer ~ 06/08/20)
O God, comfort us and protect us. Give us hope and spiritually nourish us. Amen.
-
Of course destruction of property is violence
(Column ~ 06/08/20)
Breaking things and burning buildings is enjoying a vogue it hasn’t had since the late 1960s or early 1970s. Arson and looting are a perennial feature of urban unrest, but they have been pretty universally condemned for decades now — until the past week or so...
-
Speak Out 6/8/20
(Speak Out ~ 06/08/20)
All lives matter, including those that are aborted in clinics across this country every day. Where are the protesters for the unborn? They say streets calmer because police claim curfews. I disagree; that isn’t all. His brother ask for the people to protest in peace and not riot, steal, burn and destroy property. I would say that has a lot to cause the calmer streets.
-
Swimming pools reopen in Cape, Jackson with precautions
(Editorial ~ 06/08/20)
Swimming pools and parks are beginning to reopen in the area, including the Jackson Swimming Pool and Cape Splash Family Aquatic Center. The Jackson Swimming Pool reopens today. Jackson parks director Shane Anderson told the Southeast Missourian there are three main things in place to keep public health a priority while simultaneously opening the pool: Social distancing, increased signage and enhanced cleaning...
-
Elizabeth Ingram
(Obituary ~ 06/08/20)
Elizabeth "Betty" Ingram, 93, of Jackson passed away Friday, June 5, 2020, at the Villas of Jackson. Betty was born Feb. 1, 1927, in Glen Allen, Missouri, the daughter of Carlos Edward and Rose Klein Burns. She was baptized March 17, 1927. Betty spent her life as a homemaker. She enjoyed gardening, picking pecans and sewing. She was the most meticulously organized person; she kept a diary of her daily actives from 1944 until April 2020...
-
In isolation, one writer — a cancer survivor — has been turning to her piano for comfort
(Community ~ 06/08/20)
NEW YORK -- Since mid-March, when my NYC friends and I began sheltering at home, my piano has been a big source of comfort. I pound out the keys to Broadway tunes ("On My Own" from "Les Miserables") and classical music (Rachmaninoff and Haydn). I even break into song, mostly off-key, perhaps annoying my neighbors in my Manhattan apartment building...
-
Sri Lankan cafe owner feeds and shelters stranded tourists
(International News ~ 06/08/20)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The tourists came to see the magical waterfalls and mountain views of the lowland jungle and rainforest. But then the pandemic hit, and they were stranded in Sri Lanka. When flights were canceled and the airports shut down, Darshana Ratnayake came to the rescue...
-
Bloodied store manager describes life in the age of coronavirus
(National News ~ 06/08/20)
For weeks Samantha Clarke calmly listened to the insults and threats directed daily at her and her employees by people who learned they couldn't enter the Modesto, California, store without wearing a mask and following other coronavirus-related rules...
-
Left out: More workers now losing hope of getting back jobs
(National News ~ 06/08/20)
NEW YORK -- Eric Benz didn't worry very much when his graphic design firm in Atlanta laid him off in March. He felt sure he'd be recalled to work once the viral pandemic eased and his firm's clients resumed spending. Three months later, there's been no call. Instead, Benz has applied for gig work as an Instacart shopper...
-
SpaceX opens era of amateur astronauts, cosmic movie sets
(National News ~ 06/08/20)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- SpaceX's debut astronaut launch is the biggest, most visible opening shot yet in NASA's grand plan for commercializing Earth's backyard. Amateur astronauts, private space stations, flying factories, out-of-this-world movie sets -- this is the future the space agency is striving to shape as it eases out of low-Earth orbit and aims for the moon and Mars...
-
Tropical storm crashes onto US Gulf Coast amid flood threat
(National News ~ 06/08/20)
NEW ORLEANS -- A lopsided Tropical Storm Cristobal came ashore Sunday in Louisiana and ginned up dangerous weather much farther east, sending waves crashing over Mississippi beaches, swamping parts of an Alabama island town and spawning a tornado in Florida...
-
Police show less force as peaceful protests push reform
(National News ~ 06/08/20)
Police around the U.S. took a less aggressive stance and even sometimes joined protesters demanding a reckoning with institutional racism, as leaders in the city at the center of the latest call for police reforms pushed Sunday to dismantle its department...
-
Man charged in slaying of retired St. Louis police captain
(State News ~ 06/08/20)
ST. LOUIS -- A 24-year-old St. Louis man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a retired police captain who died on a night of violent protests while trying to protect his friend's pawn shop, the city's prosecutor announced Sunday...
-
Open Letter To Cape Girardeau Police
(Submitted Story ~ 06/08/20)
Please share this with the appropriate supervisors. Today our family was eating at Dairy Queen when Officer Spala came in. My boys had taken an interest in policing, by which I mean watching the speedometer from the back seat and telling us when we were driving too fast. So I asked the boys if they wanted to ask the policeman how to write a ticket...
-
Out of the past: June 8
(Out of the Past ~ 06/08/20)
Southeast Missouri State University president Dr. Kala Stroup, is one of five finalists for the job of Missouri's higher education commissioner; the hiring decision could come June 15, when the nine-member Coordinating Board for Higher Education meets in Jefferson City; Stroup has served as Southeast's president since July 1, 1990...
-
Kimberly Birkman
(Obituary ~ 06/08/20)
Kimberly Dawn Birkman, daughter of Kenneth Birkman of Advance, Missouri, and Evelyn Hendershott Birkman of Cape Girardeau, was born Feb. 23, 1972, in Cape Girardeau, and departed this life Friday, June 5, 2020, at the Phelps Health Medical Center in Rolla, Missouri, after a two-year battle with colon cancer at the age of 48...
-
Rev. Thomas Grace
(Obituary ~ 06/08/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Rev. Thomas A. Grace, 82, of Perryville died Friday, June 5, 2020, at Apostle of Charity. Funeral service will be private. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
-
Missouri Bicentennial Quilt Debut
(Submitted Story ~ 06/08/20)
STE. GENEVIEVE HOSTING THE MISSOURI BICENTENNIAL QUILT DEBUT Missouri Bicentennial Quilt Debut STE.GENEVIEVE, MO - The Missouri Bicentennial Quilt will be on display for the first time this week, making its public debut at the Ste. Genevieve Welcome Center in Missouri's first permanent settlement...
Stories from Monday, June 8, 2020
Browse other days