-
Highway 72 in Bollinger County reduced for pavement work; bridge work reduces Highway 77 in Scott County; Route Z in Scott County reduced for pavement repairs
(Local News ~ 08/09/23)
Highway 72 in Bollinger County -- from Highway 51 to Route B near Sedgewickville, Missouri -- will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews make pavement repairs. According to a MoDOT news release, the work will take place from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily Tuesday, Aug. 8, through Thursday, Aug. 10...
-
CGPD warns of officer false impersonation
(Local News ~ 08/09/23)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department warned of a white male falsely identifying himself as an off-duty police officer at Capaha Park. The man posing as an officer requested a person's ID on Monday, Aug. 7, according to a news release issued by the department...
-
St. Henry in Charleston celebrates 150th anniversary
(Local News ~ 08/09/23)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- St. Henry Catholic Church in Charleston officially celebrated its 150th anniversary July 23. The day began with a Mass offered by Bishop Edward Rice. Following the Mass, Bishop Rice blessed an area on the parish grounds, which will be used to construct a "Rosary Walk" to commemorate the historic moment...
-
SEMO economist discusses Tyson shutdown in Dexter
(Local News ~ 08/09/23)
Tyson Foods' decision this week to close its Dexter, Missouri, poultry production facilities effective Friday, Oct. 13, is "definitely a significant loss" for Stoddard County, economist David Yaskewich of Southeast Missouri State University said. "By my calculations, if you compare the loss of 683 Tyson jobs to the employee base of the county, the layoff amounts to about 5% of the civilian workforce," said Yaskewich, who has been on SEMO's faculty since 2012 and is chairman of the university's Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance.. ...
-
Jaycees create grain bin beverage stand
(Local News ~ 08/09/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- The 71st annual Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo kicks off Wednesday, Aug. 9, and the Sikeston Jaycees' retired members have been hard at work on new grounds' renovations, which includes the addition of a new grain bin beer stand. According to Jeff King, a retired Jaycee, the grain bin stand has been in the works for years...
-
Cape Girardeau City Council establishes property tax rates
(Local News ~ 08/09/23)
Cape Girardeau City Council members established property tax rates for the fiscal year ending Sunday, June 30, 2024, at their meeting Monday, Aug. 7. Based on the ordinance unanimously approved Monday, the General Fund and Health Fund rates will decrease from $0.3057 and $0.0573 to $0.3042 and $0.0570 per $100 assessed valuation, respectively. However, the Downtown Special Business District rate will remain unchanged at $0.6789...
-
City Council approves application for widening of LaCroix trail
(Local News ~ 08/09/23)
Cape Girardeau City Council members authorized the city manager Monday, Aug. 7, to apply for a grant program to enhance a section of the Cape LaCroix Trail. The grant application is for the 2023 Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) under the Federal Highway Administration, a program that reimburses up to 80% of a project focusing on facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists. TAP funds are distributed by the Missouri Department of Transportation, according to information on MoDOT's website...
-
Today in History
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2023. There are 144 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford became the nation's 38th chief executive as President Richard Nixon's resignation took effect...
-
Supreme Court reinstates regulation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers. The court on Tuesday voted 5-4 to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that invalidated the Biden administration's regulation of ghost gun kits. ...
-
Flights and ferries halted in South Korea ahead of storm that's dumped rain on Japan for a week
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
SEOUL, South Korea -- Dozens of flights and ferry services were grounded in South Korea on Wednesday ahead of a tropical storm that has dumped rain on Japan's southwestern islands for more than a week. Khanun's heavy rains and winds were expected to arrive in South Korea's southern and eastern regions Wednesday afternoon, South Korea's weather agency said. ...
-
Thousands of Los Angeles city workers walk off job for 24 hours alleging unfair labor practices
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of Los Angeles city employees including sanitation workers, lifeguards and traffic officers walked off the job Tuesday for a 24-hour strike demanding higher wages and alleging unfair labor practices. Picket lines went up before dawn at Los Angeles International Airport and other locations, and a large rally was held later in the morning downtown at City Hall. ...
-
US east cleans up after deadly storms as New England braces for flooding
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Crews across the eastern U.S. worked Tuesday to clear downed trees and power lines and restore electricity following severe storms that killed at least two people, cut power to more than a million customers at their peak, and forced thousands of flight delays and cancellations...
-
Chicago man accused of killing girl headed straight for her in apartment building, prosecutors say
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
CHICAGO -- The man accused of killing a 9-year-old Chicago girl who had been riding her scooter outside crossed a street and headed straight toward her in the vestibule of her apartment building before shooting her, prosecutors said Tuesday. Serabi Medina's father, who had told her to come into the vestibule, shouted at Michael Goodman, but the man ignored him, allegedly raising his arm and shooting Medina in the head Saturday night in the Portage Park neighborhood, prosecutors said during a court hearing.. ...
-
Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change
(International News ~ 08/09/23)
BELEM, Brazil -- Leaders from South American nations home to the Amazon challenged developed countries Tuesday to do more to stop massive destruction of the world's largest rainforest, a task they said can't fall to just a few when the crisis has been caused by so many...
-
Getting inflation to Fed's target will be tough
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
WASHINGTON -- Over the past year, inflation in the United States has tumbled from 9% all the way to 3%, softening most of the price pressures that have gripped the nation for more than two years. Now comes the hard part. Squeezing out the last bit of excess inflation and reducing it to the Federal Reserve's 2% target rate is expected to be a much harder and slower grind...
-
Trump vows to keep talking about criminal cases despite prosecutors pushing for protective order
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
WINDHAM, N.H. -- Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up his attacks on special counsel Jack Smith and vowed to continue talking about his criminal cases even as prosecutors sought a protective order to limit the evidence that Trump and his team could share...
-
DeSantis replaces his campaign manager as he resets his faltering 2024 presidential bid
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
NEW YORK -- Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is replacing his campaign manager as the Florida governor resets his sluggish presidential campaign. DeSantis is bringing on James Uthmeier, his chief of staff from his state office, to serve as his campaign manager, replacing Generra Peck, who led DeSantis' reelection campaign last year before jumping into the same role on his presidential bid...
-
Biden creates new national monument near Grand Canyon
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. -- Declaring it good "not only for Arizona but for the planet," President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, turning the decadeslong visions of Native American tribes and environmentalists into reality...
-
Voters in Ohio reject Republican-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio voters Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state's constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation's latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year...
-
In Utah and Kansas, state courts flex power over new laws regulating abortion
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
OLATHE, Kan. -- State courts have become hot spots in the national abortion debate, with Utah's top court and a Kansas judge considering Tuesday whether their state constitutions require them to block or invalidate laws regulating the procedure more than a year after Roe v. Wade was overturned...
-
Ukraine accuses Russia of targeting rescue workers with consecutive missile strikes
(National News ~ 08/09/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian officials on Tuesday accused the Kremlin's forces of targeting rescue workers by hitting residential buildings with two consecutive missiles -- the first one to draw crews to the scene and the second one to wound or kill them...
-
Prayer 8-9-23
(Prayer ~ 08/09/23)
Lord Jesus, thank you that everyone who calls on your name will be saved. Amen.
-
Most Americans want nothing to do with Hillary's 'village'
(Column ~ 08/09/23)
Hillary Rodham Clinton can't say she didn't warn us. In a new 3,500-word essay on "The Weaponization of Loneliness" in The Atlantic, the former secretary of state and presidential candidate says her jejune 1996 book, "It Takes a Village", forecast the country's current crisis of loneliness and offered still-relevant solutions...
-
The truth about Bidenomics
(Column ~ 08/09/23)
Working-class Americans just cannot catch a break in the Biden economy. Millions are struggling to get by as they face the one-two punch of higher prices and rising interest rates. And it's all thanks to Washington Democrats' reckless $10 trillion spending spree, which sent the spike in consumer prices to a 40-year high and drove the Federal Reserve into a corner where their only solution is to make borrowing for a house, your farm, a car or to grow a business far more expensive...
-
Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo kicks off week of fun, community impact
(Editorial ~ 08/09/23)
Every community has their marquee events. For Sikeston, Missouri, there are few that come close to the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo. The annual bull-riding, calf-roping and music-listening affair kicks off Wednesday, Aug. 9, and will continue through Saturday evening, Aug. 12...
-
Fire report 8-9-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/09/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Aug. 7 n Medical assists were made at 8:52 a.m. on South Mount Auburn Road and 1:05 p.m. on William Street. n At 2:50 p.m., aircraft emergency standby at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport...
-
Police report 8-9-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/09/23)
Cape Girardeau Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on East Cape Rock Drive. n A warrant arrest was reported on South Sprigg Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on Good Hope Street...
-
Terrance Brough Jr.
(Obituary ~ 08/09/23)
BENTON, Mo. — Terrance Gean Brough Jr., 42, of Benton died Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, at his home. The family will have a celebration of life at a later date. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapels is in charge of arrangements.
-
Out of the past: Aug. 9
(Out of the Past ~ 08/09/23)
The Rev. Denny Lumos is the new United Methodist campus minister and director of the Wesley House Foundation at Southeast Missouri State University; he is a graduate of Mineral Area College, Southeast and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; he is originally from Leadwood, Missouri; Lumos and his wife, Theresa, have three children...
-
Amidst Challenges Replacing Volunteers, Local Business Supports Area Firefighters with Donation
(Submitted Story ~ 08/09/23)
COUNTRY Financial Representative Tim Caldwell is pleased to support the Tamms Volunteer Fire Department, the McClure East Cape Fire Department, and the Horseshoe Lake Fire Department with donations of $500 each. Check presentations were made recently to area volunteer fire department leadership. The funds support efforts to recruit and help new team members complete certifications and training to become volunteer firefighters...
Stories from Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Browse other days