Stories from Monday, April 18, 2022

One person was hurt in an early morning crash Saturday in Cape Girardeau. According to Cpl. Ryan Droege of Cape Girardeau Police Department, a vehicle struck a woman and another vehicle at the Rhodes station at 546 S. Sprigg St. at about 4:18 a.m. Droege said the woman hit by the vehicle was taken to a local hospital. He also said charges are pending in the incident...

Employees, volunteers and supporters gather during Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri's annual breakfast Friday at Drury Plaza Hotel Cape Girardeau Conference Center. ...

One person was slightly injured in a shooting incident Saturday night at about 9:45. According to Cpl. Ryan Droege of Cape Girardeau Police Department, officers responded to the 1000 block of North Middle Street and discovered a victim with a graze wound on an arm. The victim was treated at the scene...

KENNETT, Mo. — Representatives of Platinum Neighbors, the new owners of Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center — which closed in June 2018 — recently met with the hospital group and civic leaders to introduce and share information on the hospital project...

Norton LifeLock, a Tempe, Arizona, supplier of cybersecurity software and related services, makes the case in a compelling way. "Imagine. You're out with friends enjoying a meal when the server comes back with a sorry look. Your card has been declined. ...

Some employees in certain Cape Girardeau departments will now be able to receive a bit of extra pay, which the city wants to use to attract more applicants. On Friday, the City of Cape Girardeau announced a new hiring incentive of $6,000 for positions requiring specific certifications in the police fire and public works departments...

This story is updated. The Aug. 2 Republican primary ballot will feature three candidates running in Missouri House District 147 — a seat left vacant by the resignation of Wayne Wallingford. Wallingford left office in late December to accept a role on Gov. Mike Parson's Cabinet as state director of revenue...

This story is updated. Sugar Chic Creamery plans to open a store by June 1 at 2064 Walton Drive in Jackson. Kim and Clark and Jessica Rhodes previously opened a Sugar Chic shop in October 2017 at 137 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau and last May at 201 N. Jackson in Perryville, Missouri...

Today is Monday, April 18, the 108th day of 2022. There are 257 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning colonists that British Regular troops were approaching...

Lord Jesus, we lift up your name and praise you for your love never fails. Amen,

All relationships have their "Cell Block Tango" moments. You know, the song from the Broadway musical "Chicago." The song opens with poor Ernie, who likes to chew gum. No, not chew — pop! "He had it coming ..." so the song goes. The pandemic has tested our close relationships. ...

Forty years ago, we had a soaring inflation rate, obscene gas prices and interest rates in the teens. Today, thanks to their incredible incompetence, bad policies and serial stupidity, the Democrats in Washington are bringing back all those problems...

One of the most important lessons in tax policy is that the person who is handed the bill and sends the check to the taxman isn't necessarily the person shouldering the entire cost — or even the bulk of the cost. A tax might first directly hit a few rich taxpayers, but it never remains confined there. Case in point: the logic and marketing of the novel "billionaire tax" introduced in the White House's fiscal year 2023 budget proposal...

Adult and Teen Challenge Mid-America held its annual banquet last weekend at the Show Me Center with about 1,000 people on hand to hear testimonies of God's grace and raise money for the transformational program reaching many young men battling addiction...

Three business licenses have been issued by the City of Cape Girardeau's Community Development Department. n Richard Murray of Louisville, Kentucky, for PDS Consultants, 711 S. Mount Auburn Road, a prescription eyewear business assisting veterans under a Veterans Affairs contract...

n Rob Gilligan, new president and CEO of Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will be received at a "meet and greet" reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus, with remarks by Gilligan slated for 5:15 p.m...

Flannery Fur Hide and Root closed last week after nearly a half-century in business at 4244 Highway 34 in Jackson. Owners Robert and Loyce Flannery established the business in 1974, purchasing fur pelts from hunters and trappers. Additionally, the Flannery family has dealt in cowhides and deer hides that supplied tanneries...

Pamela Himstedt, FNP-BC, is leaving Cape Girardeau's EBO MD and will go into semi-retirement, according to EBO administrator Tony Thompson. Himstedt's last day in the practice will be April 30. Do you want more business news? Check out B Magazine, and the B Magazine email newsletter. Go to www.semissourian.com/newsletters to find out more....

Jen Berti will resign this summer as vice president of the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce and retail director for the City of Jackson, Mayor Dwain Hahs has announced. Earlier this month, Hahs told city aldermen Berti, who is relocating with her family out-of-state, has been "very successful" in her role, noting a job description has been formulated to seek Berti's replacement...

Raechel Reinitz has been named director of marketing and public relations for First Missouri State Bank. Reinitz most recently served as community relations manager for United Way of Southeast Missouri. She holds an undergraduate degree in corporate communications from Southeast Missouri State University...

J. Nichole Bratton, CPNP-PC, has accepted a pediatric nurse practitioner role in urgent care at Saint Francis Clinic Poplar Bluff. Bratton received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri, followed by her Master of Science in Nursing from Maryville University in St...

Congressman Jason Smith (R-8) told the Southeast Missourian last week President Joe Biden's economic policies "are robbing families and retirees of their hard-earned savings and undercutting workers' wages." Smith, who has represented 30 counties in southeast and southern Missouri since 2013, said the president is responsible for what he called America's "unaffordable nightmare" — specifically referring to the 8.5% inflation rate reached in March...

Missouri's unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, fell by one-tenth of one percentage point in March to 3.6% — down from February's 3.7%. In real terms, 109,474 were jobless in the state in March, down from 114,288 in the previous month. ...

Historic Post Building in uptown Jackson is undergoing restorative work by its new owner, Edge Realty. Built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, the building long ago was the home of a post office and, before its April 2020 acquisition by Edge, hosted the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Linda Darlene Wilkerson, 69, of Marble Hill died Wednesday, April 13, 2022, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill. The funeral will be at noon Tuesday at the chapel, with the Rev. Jason Hargraves officiating. Burial will follow in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...

Jolene F. Stearns, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, April 14, 2022, at the Lutheran Home. She was born May 29, 1938, in Cape Girardeau to Charles Leo and Zita Seib Hoffer. She and Norbert Edward Stearns were married Oct. 27, 1962, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death June 1, 2002...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Jessica Lynn Goyen, 28, of Perryville died Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 26 at Ford & Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Memorial service will be at 12:30 p.m. April 26 at the funeral home...

"Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore" got off to a less than magical start in its first weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters. The third installment in the "Harry Potter" spinoff opened to $43 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday...

DETROIT -- Two years after the pandemic tore through the economy, America's auto market looks something like this: Prices are drastically up. Supply is drastically down. And gasoline costs drastically more. The result? A widening disparity between the richest buyers and everyone else...

HAMPTON, S.C. -- Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a shooting at a nightclub early Sunday that wounded at least nine people. It was the second mass shooting in the state and the third in the nation during the Easter holiday weekend. The shootings in South Carolina and one in Pittsburgh, in which two minors were killed early Sunday, also left at least 31 people wounded...

It's a convergence that happens only rarely. Coinciding with Judaism's Passover, Christianity's Easter and Islam's holy month of Ramadan, Buddhists, Baha'is, Sikhs, Jains and Hindus also are celebrating their holy days in April. The springtime collision of religious holidays is inspiring a range of interfaith events. ...

BOSTON -- For many U.S. Christians, this past weekend marked the first time since 2019 they gathered in person on Easter Sunday, a welcome chance to celebrate one of the year's holiest days side by side with fellow congregants. Notable events included a 6 a.m. sunrise Mass outdoors near the waterfront in South Boston, and a joyous, hug-filled service at St. Peter Claver, a historically Black congregation in St. Paul, Minnesota...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian fighters who were holed up in a massive steel plant in the last known pocket of resistance inside the shattered city of Mariupol ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from Russia on Sunday and held out against the capture of the strategically vital port...

WASHINGTON -- Millions of Americans wait until the last minute to file their taxes and this year is no exception. Today is Tax Day -- the federal deadline for individual tax filing and payments -- and the IRS will receive tens of millions of last-minute filings electronically and through paper forms...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A teenager charged with stabbing a 14-year-old student to death will remain in juvenile custody, a judge ruled Friday. The 14-year-old suspect is charged in juvenile court with first-degree murder in the death of Manuel Guzman, who was stabbed Tuesday at Northeast Middle School in Kansas City...

Less than a week after buying an old house a quarter-mile north of Neely's Landing, Warren Seekell came home last evening to find it engulfed in flames; by the time firefighters arrived from Fruitland, it was nothing but flames and twisted sheet metal; Seekell, 26, and his wife were at work, and none of their three children -- ages 8, 6 and 8 months -- was home at the time of the fire...

On April 8th, members of Marine Corps League Detachment #1081, attended a reception at the Stars and Stripes Museum in Bloomfield to honor of Col. John Clark, USAF. Colonel Clark was a prisoner of war for 6 years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, after being shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 while on a bombing mission in his F-4 Phantom jet. He shared his personal story of suffering in captivity, while maintaining his hope to be rescued...