Stories from Sunday, August 28, 2016

Ryleigh's 11th birthday wish was for all her family and friends to donate items to Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary instead of birthday gifts for herself. She collected lots of items and monetary donations. She was very excited to take all the items to Safe Harbor on Sunday, August 28, 2016. ...

Missouri's new child-custody law, which takes effect today, seeks to allow children in divorce cases to have more equal time with mom and dad. Supporters see the law as helping good fathers get more time with their children, but others question whether it will make a difference...

Stargazers are about to get a real treat in Southeast Missouri as several area libraries will soon begin offering telescopes for checkout. Trish Erzfeld, director of Perry County Heritage Tourism and chair of the Perry County Eclipse Task Force, was instrumental in helping launch the telescope program locally because of her association with members of the St. Louis Astronomical Society and its Library Telescope Program...

Southeast Missourians who require the lifesaving injections have not been faced with the prospect of paying for the $608 drug. With insurance and discounts, the price tag has not been so dramatic for some.

Seniors in age and grade level came together Saturday at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau for the second annual Senior Matters expo. In addition to nearly 70 vendors showcasing services, expo organizers Senior Matters Inc. hosted a canned food drive, blood drive and scholarship giveaway...

Today in History Today is Sunday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2016. There are 125 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 28, 1963, as more than 200,000 people listened, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C...

Kage FCE met Aug. 11 in the Chateau Girardeau activities room. Dortha Strack, president, called the meeting to order. Jobyna Daume, vice president, led the pledges and the club collect. Kara Clark Summers, hostess, had a devotional on faith. Roll call was answered by 11 members and one guest, Debbie Mann, to the question, "Do you have a computer and how often do you use it?"...

Zion Lutheran Church will host a dinner from 3:30 to 7 p.m. today at the church, 176 County Road 226 in Gordonville. The meal will include kettle beef, chicken and dumplings, various sides, homemade bread, desserts and a drink. Tickets for the event will cost $11 for adults; $5 for children ages 6 to 12; and will be free for children 5 years old and younger. Carry-outs will be available for purchase. For more information, call (573) 204-1944...

LOS ANGELES -- When choosing the right dining table and chairs, there are no rigid rules. Think about mixing and matching pieces instead of plunking down money for a perfectly matched set, experts say. "These days, we see people choosing opposite styles for the table and the chairs," said Amy Panos, a Des Moines, Iowa-based deputy editor at Better Homes and Gardens magazine. ...

The family farm has drawn Paige Birk since she was about 6 years old. While she and her father, Steve Birk, don't live on the farm, he grew up there with his parents, Orville and Mary Birk, in rural Jackson. His great-great-grandfather settled there from Germany in 1876. Today, he and his daughter continue the family tradition of raising registered black angus breeding stock on the Missouri Century Farm...

LAS VEGAS -- Popular Frank Sinatra tunes in Las Vegas hotel lobbies have been replaced by the likes of Sia and Rihanna. The final tower of the famed Riviera Hotel and Casino has fallen, and the Sands Hotel and Casino is long gone. A tribute show to the Rat Pack draws mainly retirees...

Monday: Smothered pork cutlet or pepper steak, mushroom rice pilaf, green peas, pickled beets, whole-grain bread and sugar-free or regular banana pudding with vanilla wafers. Tuesday: Barbecue chicken or cabbage roll, oven-fried okra, steamed cauliflower, whole-grain hot roll, garden salad and chilled apricots or coconut dream dessert...

Autumn might be the official season of the one-pot wonder. Kids are back in school, the office watercooler gets crowded as we trickle back from summer vacations, and suddenly dinnertime feels like more of a time-squeeze. Busy lives need quick meals that don't require a ton of prep, crazy ingredients or lots of dishes,because the last thing I want to do after a long day of work, kids activities and homework-checking is a counter loaded up with dishes...

Sarah Louise Catrino and Tyler Herrick Cuba were united in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony during a Nuptial Mass on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, at Old Saint Vincent's Catholic Church in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Patrick McDevitt served as the celebrant...

Lyndsey Hinkebein and Landon Weber announce their engagement. Lyndsey is the daughter of the late Dennis Hinkebein and the late Diane Hinkebein. Landon is the son of Larry and Barbara Weber. Lyndsey is a 2011 graduate of Jackson High School and a 2015 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in human environmental studies and AA in guidance and administration. She works at the University School for Young Children in Cape Girardeau...

Jennifer Ng and Derek Helderman were married April 23, 2016, at The Old Post Office in St. Louis. Gary Goodrich, friend of the couple, performed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Roger and Cecilia Ng of St. Louis. The groom is the son of Aaron and Mary Beth Helderman of Whitewater...

Steve and Jackie Griffith of Cape Girardeau celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a party for family and friends at Keller's at Isle Casino. Griffith and the former Jacqueline Burger were married Aug. 6,1966, at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in New Hamburg, Missouri. They were married by the Rev. Clement Ilmburger and on Aug. 6, 2016, had their marriage blessed by the Rev. Michael Casteel at St. Lawrence, their parish...

Submitted by the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri Otis is 3 years old. Otis is neutered and housebroken. Otis is available for adoption at the Humane Society; call (573) 334-5837.

Thank you, O Lord Jesus, that by your stripes we are healed. Amen.

Travelers to and from downtown Cape via Broadway you say, "...might have to take a slightly different route." Really? Slightly?

It's hardly a surprise anymore, but we are nonetheless pleased and impressed by the continued strong enrollment at Southeast Missouri State University.

One of the more pleasant surprises I've had in recent years was at the end of a 45-minute drive to Marble Hill to tour the Mayfield Cultural Center and the attached "Dinosaur Museum."

The more than 430 fundraisers posted on the GoFundMe website after the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando have exposed weaknesses inherent in these popular do-it-yourself charity campaigns: waste, questionable intentions and little oversight...

LOS ANGELES -- An ex-wife of Donald Trump's new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school nearly a decade ago, according to court papers reviewed Friday by The Associated Press...

LINTON, Ind. -- A Purdue University entomology professor returned a copy of "The Moths of the Limberlost" he checked out 60 years ago at age 8. Larry Murdock checked out the book from the Linton Public Library in western Indiana in 1956. He said he found the book in a box, and returning it "was the right thing to do." He paid a $436.44 fine. Linton library officials said they used the fine money to buy new computers for the children's section...

MILLINOCKET, Maine -- Among the empty storefronts on once-bustling Penobscot Avenue, longtime resident Jean McLean stood in her art gallery, the sole employee left at a business that once had three. "Right now, it's pretty dead," McLean said, looking at the sunlit mountains of northern Maine. "All the young people left to find work."...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Donald Trump warned Saturday of a "war on the American farmer," telling a crowd in Iowa that rival Hillary Clinton "wants to shut down family farms" and implement anti-agriculture policies. Trump's speech at the annual "Roast and Ride" fundraiser for Republican Sen. Joni Ernst came hours after Clinton received her first national security briefing as the Democratic presidential nominee...

DURANT, Miss. -- A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the shocking killing that rocked the small communities where the women served, authorities said. Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, was charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said late Friday. Both women were 68...

WASHINGTON -- A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- There's a nearly $600 million backlog of deferred maintenance on state buildings because of inadequate funding, Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway said Thursday. Years of funding shortfalls also meant state-owned offices and other buildings have not been inspected regularly as required by state law, she added, pointing to funding restrictions by Gov. Jay Nixon as part of the problem...

ASCOLI PICENO, Italy -- Mourners in Italy prayed, hugged, wept and even applauded as coffins carrying victims of the country's devastating earthquake passed by at a state funeral Saturday, grieving as one nation after three days of trying to save as many people as possible...

BEIRUT -- Backed by Turkish tanks and reports of airstrikes, Turkey-allied Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria in a new escalation that complicates the protracted Syrian conflict. Turkey's military didn't specify what the airstrikes hit, saying only "terror groups" were targeted south of the village of Jarablus, where the clashes later ensued...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- More than 100 new Missouri laws will take effect today, ranging from tougher ethics policies for lawmakers to a requirement that public schools give students time each day to say the Pledge of Allegiance. House Speaker Todd Richardson made tightening the state's loose ethics laws a top priority in the legislative session that ended in May, after a tumultuous year that included the resignations of two former lawmakers who left office amid accusations of scandal...

Anna Emma Crole, 92, of Jackson, passed away Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 17, 1924, in Mississippi, daughter of George P. and Blanche G. Reiss Teasley. She and Charles Crole were married in 1970. He passed away November 27, 2012...

Jesse Eugene Thomas Bartley-Carney, 70, of Wilsonville, Oregon, died at 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, at his home in Wilsonville. Born Jesse Eugene Thomas Carney in Van Wert, Ohio, on Aug. 26, 1945, to banker Thomas Carney and public accountant Martha Miller Black of Cairo, Illinois, and Findlay Ohio. ...

James M. Keen passed away Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016. He was preceded in death by his parents Francis and Theresa Keen (Shea); beloved brother of Mary Keen, Kathleen (Paul) Kornberger, Barbara Keen and Thomas Keen; our dearest uncle, cousin and friend to many...

Bertha Agnes Glastetter, 94, of Scott City, Missouri, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 30, 1922, in New Hamburg, Missouri, to Joseph and Rose Wiedefeld Backfisch. She married William Joseph Glasttetter on January 9, 1945, in Kelso, Missouri...

MARQUETTE, Mich. -- Sarah E. Ballard, 94, formerly of Chocolay Township, entered eternal life Thursday evening, Aug. 25, 2016, at the Marquette County Medical Care Facility in Ishpeming. Born Sept. 23, 1921, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Frank and Rose (Leming) Kenyon, Sarah was raised in Topeka, Kansas, where she graduated from high school. ...

Twin sons born to Benjamin Gary and Jennifer Elaine Schroeder of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, Tuesday, July 19, 2016. Logan William was born at 3:58 p.m., and weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces. Ryne Benjamin was born at 3:59 p.m., and weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces. ...

Fall semester undergraduate enrollment is up slightly at Southeast Missouri State University, but total enrollment decreased; headcount enrollment declined by 95, but undergraduate enrollment increased by 71 and total full-time equivalent enrollment was up 44 over last fall's first-day enrollment; the headcount after the first day of classes Monday stood at 8,380...

CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWIs n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of driving while intoxicated. Arrests n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of unlawful use of a weapon...

JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests to not imply guilt. Arrests n Meagan L. Miller, 23, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Union County, Illinois, warrant for possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia...

CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Thursday n Medical assists at 7:12 a.m. on North Middle Street; 12:06 p.m. on Independence Street; 12:36 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 1 p.m. on Bellevue Street; 1:25 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 2:07 p.m. on South Kingshighway; 3:12 p.m. on Broadway; 3:24 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; 5:40 p.m. on Louis Street; and 11:16 p.m. on North Sprigg Street...

SCOTT CITY The Scott City Fire Department responded to the following calls: Aug. 19 n At 9:54 p.m., emergency medical service in the 700 block of Central Avenue. Aug. 21 n At 12:14 a.m., emergency medical service in the 400 block of State Street. n At 4:35 a.m., emergency medical service in the 400 block of State Street...

Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens addresses a crowd at his Cape Girardeau campaign office Saturday evening as part of his statewide kickoff tour.

Stan W. Amschler, 67, of Perryville, Missouri, died August 26, 2016 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Home with Parish Wake at 7:30 p.m. and from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. Monday...

Jerry Grim of Cape Girardeau recorded his first career hole-in-one Friday at Cape Jaycee Municipal Golf Course. Grim used a 9-iron to ace No. 12, a par 3 playing 129 yards. Witnesses were Jerry Waddle, Rick Hamm and Bruce Robert. Tom Tindall finished with a net score of 66 to place first in the Point Series event at Dalhousie Golf Club...

ST. LOUIS -- Khris Davis hustled home on an infield grounder in the eighth inning and the Oakland Athletics rallied for two runs, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 Saturday night. St. Louis starter Mike Leake was scratched because he was still recovering from having shingles. The Cardinals fell to 1-8 in interleague games at Busch Stadium this season...

All the high school events reported Saturday to the Southeast Missourian.

Notre Dame junior Alaina Baumgart was the second runner to cross the finish line to help lead the Bulldogs to a second-place team finish at the First-to-the-Finish Kickoff Classic in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Saturday. Baumgart finished nearly three minutes behind St. Anthony senior Anna Sophia Keller (18:00.02), who won the race. Bulldogs sophomore Bailey Beussink finished eighth in 21:44.19 seconds to round out the top 10...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri attorney general's office is reviewing a recent state Supreme Court ruling that may impact the criminal charge of felony stealing. The Missouri Supreme Court cited contradictory language in state criminal code when ruling this week in a case in which a woman was convicted of stealing firearms, jewelry and other items, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Robert L. Banks of Houston died Aug. 25, 2016. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Cairo. Friends are asked to meet at the church. Interment will follow at St. Patrick's Calvary Cemetery in Villa Ridge, Illinois...

A Tamms, Illinois, labor-union president faces domestic-assault charges after Cape Girardeau police said he hit a woman in the back of the head with a rock. Matthew E. Smith, 32, is charged with second-degree domestic assault in connection with the case...

The Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team stayed unbeaten on Sunday while earning longtime coach Heather Nelson her 200th career victory, a 1-0 win over host Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Nelson is 200-151-45 in her 22 years as a head coach. She was 31-44-5 in four seasons at Florida State and has amassed a 169-107-40 record during her 18-year coaching career with the Redhawks...

"Everything's up to date in Kansas City," Will Parker sings in the groundbreaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "Oklahoma." "They gone about as fer as they can go." Just back from a trip to California, however, I am reminded once again that out there, predictably, they go even "fer-thur." The Golden State is where new trends and fads in this country as often as not begin...

Happy birthday to Brandon Davis, Betty Haley, Sandy Lee, Debbie Devenport, Madelyn Kiefer, Jenifer Brown, Jacob Smith, Gary Proffer, Mark Heisserer, Matt Peters, Brenda Anderson, Joan Hooker, Fran Wolfe, David Kluesner, John Schott, Mark Starnes, Aaron Fuller, Brent Parker, Mike Swain, Steve Montgomery, Kim Owens, Robin McKinley, Steve Duniphan, Stacey Starnes, Eva Golightly, Paul Friga, Amy Goetz, Annette Bridwell, Jennifer Cook, Catie Eichhorn, Gary Crowden, Scott Horman, Joshua Schilling, Mitchell Dirnberger, Sheila Hahn, Jessica Muka, Jessica Smith, Todd Wessel, Ron Moyers, Joshua Butcher, Shirley Sullinger, Alvie Surface and Dale Williams.. ...

Years ago, my wife and I were paying our bill at a restaurant, one that accepts personal checks. My wife made out the check and handed it to the cashier, who immediately noticed the check number: 666. This number, inevitably falling after 665, is best known for being the so-called mark of the beast in the New Testament book of Revelation. The clerk looked at my wife and said -- this is a paraphrase (it's been a long time) -- "Hey, 6-6-6, what do you think? Should we be worried?"...

As fall gets closer and closer, most outdoor-type minds go in two directions. A few will think about how the fish will be, giving their all to add some fat to their bodies so they can make it through the winter. Most outdoor types will be thinking about hunting season. I know for the past several weeks I've been getting Facebook posts about dove season...

Several months ago, I read a post on the musician Kimbra's blog in which she wrote about the tattoo she'd recently gotten to memorialize time she'd spent in Ethiopia. To her, the tattoo stood as a visual reminder that these deeply impactful experiences couldn't be taken away from her -- like the ink in her skin, they had become a part of her, no matter where she was on the globe...

I recently took this photo of activity at a hummingbird feeder. A rain shower had passed a half hour earlier, and insects were out looking for an easy, sweet meal. In this photo, you can find four insects sipping the sweet sugar-water. The largest insect is a non-native European hornet...

Our family has just returned home from a vacation in beautiful Minnesota. The headwaters of the Mississippi River far exceeded my expectations in beauty and unexpected size. The state of 10,000 lakes may be an understatement, as there is water everywhere and lakes of various sizes nearly everywhere you look. We stayed on the largest freshwater lake of them all, Lake Superior, and it was beautiful along the north shore...

Back when I lived in Louisiana, I drove up to North Dakota because my grandfather lived there.