Stories from Sunday, January 25, 2015

Emily Beck Cape Girardeau manager at Hempies Do you participate in the state lottery? What would you do if you won? Scratch-off tickets is it. I would start my own animal rescue. Buy a big piece of property and have lots of dogs on it. What's your favorite winter comfort food? Pretty much anything my mom makes me. She's a great cook. This part of Missouri sits on an earthquake fault line. How would you rate your level of preparedness? If zero is not prepared and 10 is very prepared, I'm a zero. Not even close. When you were a child, what was your favorite TV show? "Golden Girls" because I used to watch it with my grandma all the time.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A three-hour standoff ended late Friday with the arrest of two men wanted in a Jan. 11 fatal shooting. Sikeston Department of Public Safety Director Drew Juden reported about midnight Friday the arrest of William Henry Applewhite III, 27, and Gailon Lamarous Applewhite, 29, on Davis Street in Sikeston. The brothers were taken to the Sikeston Jail...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State college and universities say they welcome the $12 million in extra funding Gov. Jay Nixon is seeking in the next budget, but it's not enough to make up for years of underfunding. Some universities said the proposed basic aid increase -- a minimal gain from the current fiscal year's more than $911 million and one of few increases in an otherwise stagnant budget plan -- doesn't compensate for rising costs and could lead to a tuition increase in the 2015-2016 academic year if the Legislature does not provide a higher bump.. ...

Missouri Public Service Commission public hearings for the Ameren Missouri rate-request case will come to the Southeast Missouri area Monday. Those living in and around Cape Girardeau will have a chance to attend a meeting at noon at the Osage Centre to offer their input on the utility's request to raise electric rates...

The city of Cape Girardeau has laid out plans for choosing a partner to develop a sports complex with the rollout of its official request for proposals. The request outlines a need for a public-private partnership between the city and one or more developers, along with building and property specifications for the sports complex project...

Erratic shifts and sleep deprivation may have led to a May 25, 2013, train collision near Chaffee, Missouri, the National Transportation Safety Board has reported. The 2:30 a.m. collision between a 60-car Union Pacific train and a 75-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at the Rockview Interlocking in Scott County injured seven people -- none seriously -- and forced the closure of Route M for more than three months while crews repaired an overpass that collapsed after derailed train cars crashed into it.. ...

Ice chunks floating in the Mississippi river taken at cape rock

James and Sophie defy all those rumors about cats and dogs.

Today is Sunday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2015. There are 340 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 25, 1915, America's first official transcontinental telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph...

KELSO, Mo. -- Denis and Linda Menz of Kelso announce the engagement of their daughter, Heather Kay Menz, to Kyle Patrick Glastetter. He is the son of Gerard and Sherry Glastetter of Benton, Missouri. Heather is a graduate of Notre Dame Regional High School, and received a degree in child and family development from Missouri State. She is a customer service representative at the Missouri Department of Transportation...

Jim and Suzie Vickery of Cape Girardeau announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Ann Vickery, to Casey Neal Holland, both of St. Louis. He is the son of Tom and Colleen Holland of Diamond, Missouri. Courtney is a graduate of Notre Dame Regional High School, and Maryville University in St. Louis. She is an occupational therapist at Rehabilitation Professionals Inc. in St. Louis...

LEOPOLD, Mo. -- Chelsey Lee Stroder and Brandon Calob Long were married Aug. 16, 2014, at Deerfield Lodge in Cape Girardeau. Elijah Allen performed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Bryan and Cathy Stroder of Leopold. The groom is the son of Stan and Kim Long of Grassy, Missouri...

Clarissa Rae Lorenz and Matthew Walter Bosky were married June 14, 2014, at Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna, Missouri. The Rev. Robert Henrichs performed the ceremony. Organist was Matt Palisch of Jackson, and trumpeter was Sarah Luehrs of St. Louis. Vocalist was Drake Douglas of Boston, Massachusetts...

Community Counseling Center, a not-for-profit comprehensive behavioral health and prevention organization, announced last week that Eric Nation, Joleta Ludwig and Cheryl Ziegler have been selected to serve on the center's foundation board of directors. ...

The male northern cardinal is one of the most loved songbirds in all of North America and Southeast Missouri. His bright red feathers make him easy to recognize, especially during winter. He is often fussy with other cardinals at a winter bird feeder, but is usually quite gentle and tolerant of other feeding birds...

The Torchbearer Iota Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met Jan. 12 at the home of Marilyn Schwab, with Linda Belote as co-hostess. President Linda Belote conducted the meeting. It was reported that items for the chapter's "Operation Komando" project have been sent to military personnel. Additional items will be collected all year...

While strolling, I wondered whatever happened to Patsy Peer. Happy birthday this week to Teasha Totty, William Bollinger, Joanna Eastwood, Caitlin Randolph, Jason Mott, Dewayne McAlister, Michael Lee, Gaylord Spane, Gina King, Michelle Neal, Seth Barnhart, Virginia Harris, Doris Yahn, Victor Powell III, Kimberlie Nothdurft, Bret Whitaker, Jennifer Siebert, Hailey Jo Enderle, Melvern Wondel, Heather McAlister, Donald Crowe, Lisa Asmus, Aaron Horrell, Craig Eftink, Susan Horman, Bobbie Abernathy, Sylvester Asmus, Jim Chambers, Greg Ourth and Pam Martin.. ...

What wine pairs best with Chinese takeout? Short answer: beer. The truth is, typical takeout, with its bold flavors of ginger, chili and soy sauce, is enough to stump even the savviest sommelier. "Having a Chinese wife and spending holidays eating my mother-in-law's cooking has given me plenty of opportunities to experiment matching wines to Chinese food, and it's not so easy," says Alder Yarrow, San Francisco-based founder of the popular site Vinography.com and author of "The Essence of Wine."...

People who love football -- and, perhaps, even those who don't -- will gather Feb. 1 to watch the end-of-the-season big game on television. I don't particularly enjoy football, but I do enjoy getting together with family and friends, visiting and just being together. Of course, with that said, there is always food involved...

There are a multitude of ways of killing bugs and insects and such in our gardens and on our fruit trees or bushes. One way is to use an insecticide that kills the bug or insect on contact or when the insect eats the insecticide. Another way is to spray the bug or insect with some type of oil spray that, in effect, smothers the little critters. ...

Somewhere buried in a box in my in-laws' home are pictures of a cross-country trip my wife and her family took one summer. Everytime they crossed a state line, they stopped and took a photo of her standing in front of the "Welcome to this state" sign. My wife says she does not remember much about the trip other than standing on the side of the road in the desert and feeling her flip flops melting under her feet...

DELTA, Mo. -- Established in 2011, the Amen Center west of Delta continues to fulfill its mission, described by co-founder Danny Hollowell as "getting people back on their feet and introducing them to the Lord." A number of area churches help accomplish this through donations, most recently a much-needed water purification system provided by La Croix United Methodist Church...

Daisy is 1 year old. She has graduated from the training program called Puppies for Parole. Daisy is spayed, housebroken and knows basic commands. She is available for adoption at the Humane Society, 334-5837.

Lord Jesus, we sing praises to you, our Savior and the King of kings. Amen.

The character of our nation is being challenged and changed. An emergency "CPAC" is a must for the survival of our nation in this crisis time. n We must be concerned citizens committed to right the wrongs and concentrate on the consequences of bad law and actions...

Local business leaders and economic development partners are putting their minds and resources together in an attempt to spur more innovation and entrepreneurship in Cape Girardeau. These partners have begun a new competition, called the 1st50K. According to a recent story written by Erin Ragan, the competition will take applications yearround. Cash grants will be up to $50,000 and will be coupled with pro-bono business services and access to successful entrepreneurs...

A just-completed master plan for the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport calls for spending almost $11.7 million on airport improvements and maintenance over the next two decades. A sharp division exists among city council candidates over shifting from at-large representation to a ward system of electing council members; that contrast is apparent at a candidates forum sponsored by the Cape County League of Women Voters...

* A motor vehicle accident on West Jackson Boulevard. n Emergency medical service on West Main Street...

1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. Monday n None at this time n Items listed on the agenda n Purchase orders n Payroll change forms n Statement of monthly collections n Juvenile office car log report n City of Delta Ordinance 1130 n 9 a.m. -- Industrial Development Board-Resolution No. 15-R1 for Gibson Recovery Project with revised certificate of approval -- Susan Layton...

A Campbell, Missouri, man is dead after a shooting at a home off Highway DD on Thursday. The Dunklin County Sheriff's Office was called to a disturbance shortly after 5 a.m. at the home of Johnny Mallett, where they found Travis Phillip Bullock with gunshot wounds to the body. He was taken to the Campbell, Missouri, ambulance shed, where he was pronounced dead by Dunklin County Coroner James Powell...

A former Dexter, Missouri, pastor will not stand trial for stealing more than $112,000 from his church, but a judge found probable cause he forged a church document. In November, Marcus Crendale Geuin, 35, appeared before Associate Circuit Judge John Spielman of Dunklin County for a preliminary hearing...

The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n Jamie E. Davidson, 34, of Jackson was arrested on a Jackson warrant for failure to appear on an original charge of a seat-belt violation. n Bridget R. Essner, 31, of Jackson was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant...

The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n Justin Lanier Roberts, 28, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for failure to appear for no operator's license. n Henry Lamont Hawkins, 20, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for failure to appear for contempt of court for stealing...

Dale R. Wolfenkoehler, 93, of Jackson died Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel of McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. There will be a Masonic service at 7 p.m., immediately followed by an American Legion service...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff man was ordered to stand trial Thursday afternoon for the shooting death of a man found submerged in the Black River. Bryce Davis appeared before Associate Circuit Judge John Bloodworth for a preliminary hearing in his case...

Mary Nellrea Warren, 62, of Scott City passed away Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, at her home. She was born Jan. 18, 1952, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Aurthur Carl and Almeda Marie Martin Pierce. She and Jerry Warren were married in 1994 in Reno, Nevada. He passed away in 2004...

Elsie Surina, 80, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Desloge, Missouri, passed away Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. She was born Dec. 29, 1934, in Cape Girardeau County to John and Annie Engelmann Ates. She and William Surina were married Dec. 3, 1965, in St. Louis. He died in August 1992...

Betty Brown Sitter, 86, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, at Heartland Care and Rehab. She was born Aug. 23, 1928, in Hannibal, Missouri, to Elmo and Frances Yancey Brown. She and Ralph Sitter were married Dec. 2, 1950, at Jennings, Missouri. They were married 64 years...

Viola Marie Riehn, 91, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at Monticello House in Jackson. She was born March 12, 1923, in Cape Girardeau, to Freeman D. and Ruby Luedith Henry Niswonger. She was a member of Bethany Baptist Church...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Three Rivers College recorded an enrollment of 3,601 students on the first day of the spring semester -- 175 students fewer than a year ago. "The number of students is down about 5 percent, but this is still 2 percent ahead of the national average decrease," said Dr. Wesley Payne during a Three Rivers College board meeting last week...

Norman V. "Sonny" Niswonger, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at Fountainbleau Lodge. He was born July 25, 1930, in Cape Girardeau to Freeman D. and Ruby Luedith Henry Niswonger. He and Elma Janene Wampler were married Oct. 24, 2007, in Cape Girardeau...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Delma Lucille Lape, 81, of Advance passed away Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 19, 1933, at Buchanan, Missouri, daughter of Benton and Audrey Younger Durham. She and Hughie Lape were married May 23, 1949, in Piggott, Arkansas...

Cecile W. Hopper, 75, of Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, passed away Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. He was born Aug. 16, 1939, in Marvle, Arkansas, to the late Royal and Flossie Mae Hopper. He served his country for 20 years in the United States Air Force before retiring and serving an additional 20 years in civil service...

Joanie Reiminger Hendricks, 57, of Jackson passed away peacefully Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau surrounded by family and friends. She was born May 22, 1957, in Cape Girardeau, to Raymond and JoAnn Biler Reiminger. She and John Hendricks were married Aug. 2, 1996, at St. Vincent Church in Cape Girardeau...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Sherry Lynne Davis, 73, of Chaffee passed away Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 3, 1941, in Cape Girardeau, to the late Ralph Anthony and Lucille Marie Gornet Pfefferkorn. Sherry married James Davis on Dec. 24, 1959, and he preceded her in death April 26, 1993...

Timothy Roland Conrad, 23, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, at Southeast Hospital. Tim will be missed terribly by the girl he had planned to spend the rest of his life with, fiancee Kaylie Vantroba. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- An online system used to train employees from the four-campus University of Missouri system to address violations of a federal law that bans gender discrimination in education has been fraught with problems. Only about 9,500 of more than 39,000 employees -- or about 24 percent -- across the four campuses had completed the training as of Jan. 16, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported...

WESTPHALIA, Mo. -- A proposal to transform an abandoned rail corridor into a 145-mile, cross-state biking and hiking trail is drawing praise from outdoor enthusiasts and concerns from some landowners. If converted, the Missouri Rock Island Trail would stretch from Windsor in the western part of the state to the Franklin County town of Beaufort in the east while twice crossing the 236-mile Katy Trail, which is also a state park...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is stepping into the issue of lethal injection executions for the first time since 2008 in an appeal filed by death row inmates in Oklahoma. The justices agreed Friday to review whether the sedative midazolam can be used in executions because of concerns it does not produce a deep, comalike unconsciousness and ensure a prisoner does not experience intense and needless pain when other drugs are injected to kill him...

ROCHESTER, N.H. -- A New Hampshire woman got a surprise at a Burger King drive-through: a bag full of cash instead of food. Janelle Jones says she discovered on the way home the bag did not contain the chicken sandwich she had ordered Friday. Jones called her husband, and they decided to return the $2,631, which was a Burger King bank deposit. Matthew Jones says the couple considered keeping the money, but they are Jehovah's Witnesses, and "Jehovah sees everything."...

ATLANTA -- A Texas lawmaker would strip the salaries from government officials who honor same-sex marriage licenses. Other states would protect government officials who opt out of performing gay nuptials. In Georgia, where lawmakers are considering a bill critics fear could allow businesses to discriminate against gay customers, the former leader of the country's largest Protestant denomination recently urged lawmakers to rein in...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama attorney general is asking a federal judge to stay a ruling that overturned Alabama's ban on gay marriage, as advocates cheer what once seemed an improbable victory in the deeply conservative state. Attorney General Luther Strange's office asked a federal judge Friday to put the ruling on hold because the U.S. Supreme Court plans to take up the issue of gay marriage this term, "resolving the issues on a nationwide basis."...

DAKAR, Senegal -- A top U.N. official in the fight against Ebola greeted just three patients at one treatment center he visited last week in Sierra Leone. Families in Liberia are no longer required to cremate the remains of loved ones to halt the spread of the virulent disease...

TOKYO -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today angrily demanded the extremist Islamic State group release a Japanese journalist it is holding hostage after a new online video purported to show that another hostage had been killed. While the Japanese government and others cast doubt on the authenticity of the video, President Barack Obama issued a statement condemning what he called "the brutal murder" of one of the hostages. ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Rocket fire slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops Saturday in Ukraine's southeastern city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. The Ukrainian president called the blitz a terrorist attack and NATO and the U.S. demanded Russia stop supporting the rebels...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It's showtime for Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 3 billion miles and is near the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. Today, it begins photographing the mysterious, unexplored, icy world once deemed a planet...

CINCINNATI -- Leelah Alcorn wrote a note on her Tumblr blog, then walked into the path of a tractor-trailer rumbling down a highway. In the final message attributed to her, she pleaded: "My death needs to mean something. ... Fix society. Please." Although many details about her life remain unclear, the transgender Ohio 17-year-old became, within days of her death Dec. 28, the new face of a growing movement of people hungering for acceptance...

I want to give thanks for the Salvation Army in Cape Girardeau. This is the best organization I have ever seen. I am in the health-care field and they have helped me help my clients over the years with food, shoes, eye glasses, bread, coats, etc. You can go there for a holiday or regular dinner. ...

Cheyenne Dalton sings with That Dalton Gang during the Bootheel Bluegrass Festival on Friday at Bavarian Halle in Fruitland. (Glenn Landberg)

Bob was distraught. Oh, my, but how upset he was! He had received a speeding ticket. He hadn't meant to go over the speed limit but he was trying to get to school to pick up a child. Then, out of the blue, multicolored lights were flashing behind him and he heard the sound of a siren. ...

Submitted photo by Teri Jones Best buddies Maleah and Sedona, best buddies.

Liesl Schoenberger Doty orders a brownie with her coffee -- it's that kind of Saturday afternoon in downtown Cape Girardeau, sunny and comfortable. She's home for the weekend to see her mom, Brenda, "and take down the Christmas lights, of course." Schoenberger now lives in Boston, and the travel schedule of a professional violinist doesn't allow for as much time in her hometown as she would like...