Stories from Wednesday, April 27, 2022

A Patton, Missouri, man has been arrested in connection with an alleged incident that involved injuries to a 1-year-old boy. According to a social media post from Bollinger County, Missouri, Sheriff Casey Graham, Dalton Chapman (no age given) was arrested after emergency services personnel responded to a report of the boy having suffered "traumatic injuries." The boy was taken to a pediatric hospital for treatment...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Four Caruthersville, Missouri, teenagers were arrested on gun possession charges Saturday in Charleston. According to Charleston Department of Public Safety Chief Robert Hearnes, on Saturday evening an officer with Charleston DPS stopped a vehicle on Ironbanks Road in Charleston. ...

Restaurant managers may wince at the sight of a health inspector walking through the door, but the inspector's job is to make sure the diners of the establishment are safe from foodborne illnesses. Officials at the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center are responsible for conducting health inspections of local restaurants periodically throughout the year...

Sikeston, Missouri-based Southeast Missouri Food Bank, which plans to open a satellite facility in Jackson, has been awarded a $46,500 grant to continue a healthy food surplus program for veterans. In a news release, SEMO Food Bank said the money is coming through the Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust...

In an uneventful meeting of Cape Girardeau County's Public Health Center Board of Trustees at Shawnee Park Center, new PHC member William Lewis was welcomed Tuesday following his April 5 election and board officers were elected. John Freeze was reelected as board chairman and Georganne Syler will serve as vice chairwoman. Lewis will serve as secretary-treasurer...

Unlike the Manhattan grid, the lines of my life’s trajectory have never been straight. How does a New Yorker even end up here? “God draws straight with crooked lines,” states a centuries-old aphorism.

Returning for its second year this weekend is the Muddy River Marathon. According to a recent Southeast Missourian story, more than 400 runners have signed up for this event that includes full, half and half relay marathon options. The race begins at 6 a.m. Saturday at Century Casino for full marathon participants and 7:45 a.m. for the half marathon. The route will culminate at the intersection of Independence and Main streets where live music will be played from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m...

Lord Jesus, we place our hope and trust in you, our Savior. Amen.

The world clearly doesn't have enough Viking movies, so here is "The Northman" to fill the gap. Critics have called the revenge epic based on the legend of the Viking prince Amleth "two-plus hours of art house savagery" (NPR), "a bloody, mournful, violent tale of vengeance" (The Austin Chronicle), "136 minutes of muscle-bound, shaggy-maned mayhem" (The New York Times), and "an ineffably somber meditation on our species' seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of savagery" (The Wall Street Journal)...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. April 25 n Medical assists were made at 3:41 a.m. on Amethyst Street; 4:57 a.m., on South Benton Street; 10:41 a.m. on South Sprigg Street; 1:42 p.m. on Themis Street; 2:58 p.m. on South Mount Auburn Road; 6:17 p.m. on Franks Lane; 6:36 p.m. on Haddock Street; 9:35 p.m. on North Sprigg Street...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on South Kingshighway. n A warrant arrest was made on Broadway. Assaults n Second-degree assault was reported on William Street...

CENTRALIA, Mo. -- Shirley Cook, 80, daughter of the late Clarence Held and Betilla Rose Gosche, was born Nov. 15, 1941, in New Hamburg, Missouri, and departed her life Friday, April 22, 2022, at her daughter's home in Centralia. On Nov. 28, 1964, she was united in marriage to William "Bill" Cook in Scott City. He preceded her in death May 18, 1987...

Gary Wayne Brandes, 78, of Jackson passed away Saturday, April 23, 2022, at his home. He was born Feb, 25, 1944, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Walter "Cleve" and Irene Kassel Brandes. Gary married Geneva Weber Nov. 29, 1975, at Uniontown, Missouri. Gary was a graduate of Oak Ridge High School. He was a veteran of Vietnam, having served honorably in the U.S. Navy from Feb. 6, 1964, through Dec. 21, 1967...

Sherrie Dale Baker, 81, of Jackson died Monday, April 25, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Friday at Shawnee Hills Baptist Church, 1204 Brandom St., in Jackson. The Rev. Don Estes will conduct the funeral service at 11 a.m. Friday at the church...

ST. LOUIS -- The parents of a 14-year-old Missouri boy who was killed while riding a 430-foot drop-tower ride at a Florida amusement park say their son's death was preventable. Nekia Dodd, the mother of Tyre Sampson, speaking Tuesday at a news conference in downtown St. Louis, said her son's death has left her struggling with emotions ranging from frustration to grief to anger...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's GOP-led House on Monday voted to limit which public high school sports teams transgender athletes can compete on. House members on Monday voted 93-41 to require transgender students to compete on teams matching the "biological sex" listed on their birth certificates...

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. -- A suburban Kansas City school board had told teachers at a high school to remove cards and stickers showing support for LGBTQ students. The Grain Valley school board sent an email to families Monday saying members had "received a concern" about the cards and stickers some high school teachers were displaying to tell students they could approach them regarding LGBTQ questions, The Kansas City Star reported...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri senators on Tuesday passed a roughly $46 billion state budget plan bolstered by federal funding that includes extra money for K-12 public school busing and teacher pay raises. Negotiators now have a little more than a week to hash out differences between the House and Senate's proposed spending plans before the May 6 deadline to pass a budget...

NEW YORK -- Cookie Monster, Elmo and Abby Cadabby are utterly transformed in a new "Sesame Street" show. You might even say they're Transformers. The trio of furry monsters wear cool metal suits bursting with gizmos and soar through the air in their new CGI-animated show "Mecha Builders," adding some science and technology lessons along with their adventures...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Deputies protecting Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz had to pull him aside and surround him Tuesday after a member of a jury pool mouthed possible threats toward him and caused others to become "excited," leading them to fear a potential brawl, officials said...

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the White House announced, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus even as the U.S. eases restrictions in a bid to return to pre-pandemic normalcy...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned lower-court orders blocking the Biden administration from ending a controversial Trump-era immigration program for asylum-seekers. Questions from conservative and liberal justices during nearly two hours of arguments suggested the court could free the administration to end the "Remain in Mexico" policy forcing some people seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait in Mexico for their hearings...

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is scrapping old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs, speeding an ongoing trend toward more efficient lighting officials say will save households, schools and businesses billions of dollars a year. Rules finalized by the Energy Department will require manufacturers to sell energy-efficient light bulbs, accelerating a longtime industry practice to use compact fluorescent and LED bulbs that last 25 to 50 times longer than incandescent bulbs. ...

Coming up with $44 billion to buy Twitter was the easy part for Elon Musk. Next comes the real challenge for the world's richest person: fulfilling his promise to make Twitter "better than ever" as a lightly regulated haven for free speech. His vision for improving the 16-year-old company leans heavily on a pledge to make speech "as free as reasonably possible" on the platform -- a commitment that's been celebrated on the political right and among followers of former President Donald Trump, whose account last year was permanently banned. ...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- UC Berkeley sophomore Terrell Thompson slept in his car for nearly two weeks at the start of the school year last fall, living out of a suitcase stashed in the trunk and texting dozens of landlords a day in a desperate search for a place to live...

NEW YORK -- Three out of every four U.S. children have been infected with the coronavirus and more than half of all Americans had signs of previous infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers estimated in a report Tuesday. The researchers examined blood samples from more than 200,000 Americans and looked for virus-fighting antibodies made from infections, not vaccines. ...

TORETSK, Ukraine -- The U.S. pressed its allies Tuesday to move "heaven and earth" to keep Kyiv well-supplied with weapons as Russian forces rained fire on eastern and southern Ukraine amid growing new fears the war could spill over the country's borders...

The 150th anniversary of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is celebrated at regular worship services at Trinity Lutheran Church, 100 N. Frederick St.; the synod was founded in 1847, when 12 pastors representing 14 congregations met at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Chicago...

Brenda Grubb Garner, 67, of Scott City died Friday, April 15, 2022, at Heartland Care and Rehab Center in Cape Girardeau. Cremation rites will be accorded, and no services will be held at this time. Arrangements have been entrusted to Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau...

VFWPost 3838 Auxiliary presents Award for Patriotism To Terry & Margaret Farrow. Award is presented by Sue Kemp Community Outreach Chairperson.