Stories from Monday, October 28, 2013

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Boston's 4-2 win over St. Louis in Game 4 of the World Series drew a slightly higher rating than San Francisco's title clincher last year but was topped by Green Bay's 44-31 win over Minnesota in a regular-season NFL game. Nielsen Media Research said Monday the game on Fox received a 9.4 rating and 15 share and was seen by an average of 16 million viewers. ...

ST. LOUIS -- Jon Lester pitched the Boston Red Sox within a whisker of yet another World Series championship. Lester bested Adam Wainwright once again, journeyman David Ross hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning and the Red Sox downed the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 Monday night to take a 3-2 Series edge...

The Jackson R-2 Foundation is trying something a little different as a fundraiser -- a trip to New England. Those who sign up for the trip, offered through 1st Class Travel, will have a portion of the cost donated to the foundation, which awards classroom teacher grants and other extras not covered by the budget...

Accompanied by a psychedelic light show, vintage television commercials and a pointed request for "your cooperation in not smoking -- anything -- in this theater," the touring production of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles" took the audience at the Show Me Center down the long and winding road from 2013 to 1964...

Cape Girardeau's public works director, Tim Gramling, recently unveiled plans for a new citywide maintenance program designed to aid cleanliness along main traffic thoroughfares. Operation Clean Sweep is the city's latest undertaking in an effort to improve aesthetics in the city...

When most think of a chamber of commerce and what their job entails, the Great Wall of China does not come to mind. In the beginning of October, four area chamber of commerce directors took part in an opportunity of a lifetime -- to take a nine-day trip to China at no cost...

ST. LOUIS -- There's no telling how these wacky World Series games will end. One night after a rare obstruction call, Jonny Gomes hit a decisive homer when he wasn't even in the original lineup and Koji Uehara picked off a rookie at first base for the final out...

Members of the Jackson Board of Aldermen are expressing no interest in the potential annexation of Fruitland -- an issue the aldermen, and Jackson voters, have tangled with in the past. "I'm speaking for myself, but I'm not in favor of the city going through the [annexation] process again," Alderman Joe Bob Baker said Friday. "It's my sense that a majority of the aldermen feel that way."...

With farmers still working without a federal agreement on the farm bill, the recent government shutdown left them short on information they use to sell current crops and plan their next ones during the height of harvest. There is no official date set for the first formal meeting of the U.S. ...

Halloween Tractor Ride

Cape Girardeau Public School District's recently-completed Richard D. Kinder Performance Hall was featured in American School and University magazine's August 2013 issue. A page of the feature article was mounted in a plaque (pictured) and presented to the District school board recently...

Boy Scouts from Troop 5 earned Fishing and Fly Fishing Merit Badges at S-F Scout Ranch on Oct 27th. Scouts attending were Alex Huggins, Sean Murphy, T.K. Babers, Dylan Hacker, Garrett Auer and Tanner Smith.

Boy Scouts from Troop 5 earned Fishing and Fly Fishing Merit Badges at S-F Scout Ranch on Oct 27th. Scouts attending were Alex Huggins, Sean Murphy, T.K. Babers, Dylan Hacker, Garrett Auer and Tanner Smith.

After competing in a blind audition, including a prepared art song and a sight-reading audition, fifteen Cape Central High School students were named to the 2013 Southeast Missouri All-District Choir. They will gather with other students from the Southeast District and prepare for the All-District Choir performance which will be Saturday, November 9, at Richard D. Kinder Performance Hall on the campus of Cape Central High School...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Google Fiber is bypassing Overland Park for now after the prosperous Kansas City suburb hesitated to sign a deal. Google Fiber spent nine months negotiating a deal that would open the way for the company to sell its 1-gigabit-per-second Internet connections and cable-style TV service there, The Kansas City Star reported...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Critics of the way local authorities handled a Missouri case involving a girl who says she was sexually assaulted by an older boy who wasn't prosecuted are applauding the appointment of the Kansas City attorney tasked with re-examining the case...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Health-care workers, medical groups and even a few patients pressured Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon before he halted what would have been the first execution with the anesthetic propofol. The anticipated use of propofol in administering the death penalty fueled concerns that the anti-death penalty European Union could limit its export. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon's administration displayed "indifference to the privacy rights" of Missourians by gathering personal information about driver's license applicants, according to a report Friday from a legislatively appointed panel...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- With a budget of barely $100 a day, the Missouri Eating Disorder Council is developing some ambitious goals to educate parents and teenagers about the disorder and train more professionals to provide treatment. But the council will likely need more money to fully implement its plans...

Today is Monday, Oct. 28, the 301st day of 2013. There are 64 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland...

WASHINGTON -- Chris Brown was arrested early Sunday in Washington after a fight broke out near the W Hotel, police said, complicating an already snarled legal history for the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer. Brown, 24, was charged with felony assault in an incident that started just before 4:30 a.m., D.C. ...

DETROIT -- It may be too broke to pay its bills or even respond to 911 calls on time, but Detroit is still thinking big. As the debt-ridden metropolis moves through bankruptcy proceedings that are turning its empty pockets inside-out, local and state leaders are proposing expensive new projects, including a hockey arena doubling as an events center, plus a mass transit line...

WASHINGTON -- Crowdfunding is about to go big time. For years, filmmakers, artists and charities have used the power of the Internet to generate money for projects. But in the coming year, with the blessing of Congress, startups will be allowed to raise money this way by selling stock to small-time investors...

The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team was picked first in the West Division of the Ohio Valley Conference's preseason poll announced last week, as I had predicted. But to my surprise, the Redhawks shared the top spot with Murray State after Southeast finished second behind the Racers in the division last year...

It would be hard to imagine the Southeast Missouri State soccer team having a better afternoon. Southeast exploded for a season-high four goals -- all in the first half -- and routed Eastern Illinois 4-0 on Sunday in the Redhawks' final regular-season home match...

Seattle brings the NFL's No. 2 ranked rushing attack into tonight's game

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The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce recently honored five educators during an educator appreciation reception:n Heather Fisher, a kindergarten teacher at Blanchard Elementary School Teachers are under the microscope today as much as they have ever been, and they face challenges unique to this generation. ...

In an Oct. 22 article, a Southeast Missouri State professor called for the renewal of Missouri's film tax credit program. Renewing this program would be the worst sequel since "The Godfather: Part III." Simply put, film tax credits do not stimulate economic growth...

A team of archaeologists plans to dig into history at the Bollinger Mill State Historic Site next month; the work will attempt to determine if Indian villages once graced the banks of the Whitewater River at the 24-acre site. The Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission will hold its regular meeting Friday at the Show Me Center; Wayne Muri, chief engineer of the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department, will be guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee's Highway Dinner the night before.. ...

I cannot believe how far we have fallen as a society. When did it become OK for our Congress people to not take the public seriously? They are so far removed from their constituents, they have no idea what the average person is going through. Mark Levin is right; if this country is going to get back to its former glory, we must get those incompetent persons out of Washington, D.C...

The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Summonses...

Cape Girardeau firefighters responded to the following calls Friday:...

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

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Syria has filed details of its poison gas and nerve agent program and an initial plan to destroy it to the world's chemical weapons watchdog, the organization said Sunday. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement that Syria completed its declaration as part of a strict and ambitious timeline that aims to eliminate the lethal stockpile by mid-2014...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Banners that suddenly cropped up around Tehran in the past week depict an American diplomat dressed in a jacket and tie, while under the negotiating table he is wearing military pants and pointing a shotgun at an Iranian envoy. The anti-American images were ordered taken down Saturday by Tehran authorities. But they made their point...

HADERA, Israel -- When Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country might face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a standstill...

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Extremists from three neighboring countries are fighting in Nigeria's northeastern Islamic uprising, according to an alleged captured extremist whose account reinforces fears that one of Africa's most powerful Islamic militant groups is growing closer to al-Qaida affiliates and that radical movements are spilling across national boundaries...

WASHINGTON -- Republicans said Sunday they intend to press Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Obama administration's troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the online portal to buy insurance, and concerns about the privacy of information applicants submit under the new system...

WASHINGTON -- Republicans in Congress don't usually fight for tax increases, especially ones that are part of President Barack Obama's health-care law. But GOP senators balked when Democrats proposed delaying a new temporary fee on everyone covered by health insurance...

NEW YORK -- A year after superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded hundreds of miles of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by bureaucracy, insurance disputes and uncertainty over whether they can even afford to rebuild...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Not happy with your job? Just wait. A study by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 9 in 10 workers who are age 50 or older say they are very or somewhat satisfied with their job. Older workers reported satisfaction regardless of gender, race, educational level, political ideology and income level...

Mary Burton-Hitt was named executive director of the Community Counseling Center Foundation effective Aug. 26. Burton-Hitt succeeds Larry Essner, who is retiring after 17 years as the executive director of the foundation. Burton-Hitt was formerly the executive director of the Southeast Missouri chapter of the American Red Cross...

NEW YORK -- Lou Reed was a pioneer for countless bands who didn't worry about their next hit single. Reed, who died Sunday at age 71, challenged rock's founding promise of good times and public celebration. As leader of the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, he was the father of indie rock, and an ancestor of punk, New Wave and the alternative rock movements of the 1970s, '80s and beyond...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is stressing that information provided while signing up for coverage under the new health-care law will not be used to enforce immigration law. That's always been the case, but lingering fear among some immigrants that personal details could be used against them led the U.S. ...

O Father God, may we be grounded in your Holy Word and take hope in your promises. Amen.

Howard Kinder of Jackson recently carded his third career hole-in-one at Kimbeland Country Club.Kinder, age 84, used an 8-iron to ace the par-3 No. 12. Wayne Nesslein witnessed the shot. -- From staff report...

The Cape Girardeau County University of Missouri Extension office in Jackson will host a workshop presenting information for families, individuals and businesses about options and responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act, according to a news release sent Oct. 23. Human development specialist Mary Gosche will be the facilitator of the workshop...

Jackson was demoted to the second seed behind Vianney for the upcoming Class 5 District 1 football tournament Saturday after the four other schools in the six-team district voted in favor of the appeal presented by the Golden Griffins to switch the top two teams...