Stories from Friday, October 14, 2016

17th Annual Veteran’s Honor Service, Sunday, Nov 6th at 11 am at First Pentecostal Church 3054 Lexington Ave, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 The service consists of several components including music by the FPC Praise Team and soloist Craig Mitchell, speeches, tributes and patriotic displays. ...

Cape Police have multiple vehicles and police at the home just to the west of the new police station site on Maria Louise.

A Butler County, Missouri, deputy is on paid administrative leave as authorities investigate a Sunday-night crash in which he struck a pedestrian who crossed Route T in front of his patrol car. The accident happened just before 9:30 p.m. on Route T, about one-half mile south of County Road 569, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report...

Two Scott City men, driven to the establishment by a female accomplice, are accused of breaking into a Scott City bar about 8 a.m. Wednesday, damaging numerous gambling machines and collecting $40 in change. Scott County sheriff’s deputies arrested Joseph Walker, 30, and Tricia Roberts, 29, both of Scott City, on Wednesday afternoon. ...

Shoppers who like to get a head start on the holidays by hitting the stores on Thanksgiving Day will find themselves with fewer options this year. West Park Mall will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and won’t reopen until Black Friday. The announcement directly affects all the stores within the mall that do not have exterior entrances. ...

The tobacco industry's support of two tobacco-tax hikes on the November ballot in Missouri has ignited opposition from a coalition of health organizations that typically favor higher cigarette taxes. The American Heart Association, American Lung Association, American Cancer Society and other health groups contend Amendment 3 and Proposition A seek to "deceive Missouri voters and keep cigarettes cheap."...

A Florissant, Missouri, man got a rude awakening when Cape Girardeau police officers placed him in handcuffs Wednesday morning, police said. Officers arrested Jordan Yeargin, 22, about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. He faces charges of second-degree assault on a law-enforcement officer, misdemeanor assault on a law-enforcement officer and misdemeanor resisting arrest...

Today in History Today is Friday, Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2016. There are 78 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 14, 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings. On this date: In 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, was born in Denison, Texas...

Kenny Carney, 71, has been in the auctioneering business for the past 50 years. He began his career with guidance from his uncle and a local veterinarian who had experience auctioneering. Eventually, he began to meet more auctioneers and found a position selling livestock at the Beck and McCord Auction Co. in Sikeston, Missouri, and the rest is history...

Sam Conlon was on her way from San Francisco to New Orleans when she made a stop in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri -- and never left. "This building reached out and grabbed me and would not let me go," she says, referring to the downtown building that now houses her jewelry shop, Only Child Originals. ...

Jeff Wamble was raised in St. Louis and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1994 to follow his music career. In 1996, he started playing steel guitar for Canadian country music singer Paul Brandt, touring extensively in Canada and even as far as Switzerland...

The Brune family has been farming in Southeast Missouri since the Great Depression, when Doug Brune's grandfather moved to Bollinger County to take over a 134-acre farm. Since then, the Brune farm has evolved to include a feed store, Brune Custom Feeds, which Doug opened in 1991, the year his son Tyler was born...

The aroma of barbecue wafts from Wib's Drive-In as soon as one reaches the parking lot. The popular restaurant on North High Street in Jackson has been serving up its famous barbecue sandwiches since 1947, and eating there has become tradition for many families over the years...

NEW YORK -- When a small business is successful, an owner will likely face the question of whether to grow. After a lot of soul-searching, many say no. Some worry that the quality of their products or services might be hurt because a larger company can be more difficult to operate. ...

With summer's sticky heat behind us -- for the most part -- many are now itching for an excuse to get outside for some crisp autumn air. With courses popping up around the area, disc golf is becoming a more popular way to do just that. Disc golf, similar to traditional golf but played with small flying discs, owes its popularity largely to its accessibility. ...

The Bootheel Boss Gobblers, the local chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, has become one of the not-for-profit organization's top chapters and has received several accolades. The chapter, founded in 1984, is the largest in Missouri, a state where hunting is big...

Conal O'Brien is a 21-year-old marketing major from Dublin who decided he wanted to get in some traveling while he could. So he looked into an exchange program that brought him to Southeast Missouri State University. "I'm here just for the first semester, just until December," he says in his lilting Irish brogue, but, "I'm really, really enjoying it so far."...

I just want to challenge all of Cape and surrounding towns to call their police on Fridays or Thursdays and let them know they are in your thoughts and hearts and prayers. It means so much to them. I do this every weekend. I ask them to pass it on to other police. Especially if you're from a police family like I am...

Each Tuesday at The Bridge Outreach, a La Croix Church building on South Frederick Street in Cape Girardeau, a group of young men meet for the Christian Boxing Academy. The academy, part of the Salvation Army's after-school program, is now in its third year and available to students from fifth through 12th grades...

In a few short weeks, around the first of December, we will have both a new president-elect and the beginning of the religious season of Advent. You may not have expected to be reading about politics and religion this morning, but here you are. Indeed, I think there may be a connection to be made. Let's take a look...

Cape Girardeau patrolman Charlie Herbst ushered in a new era of police protection here Saturday when he became the city's first bicycle patrolman; Herbst is one of eight officers to volunteer for the new bicycle patrol. Michael Morgan is the Cape Girardeau Fire Department's new mechanic, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of Carroll Schaefer in April; in addition, Morgan will serve as the department's public-education officer and its first job-safety officer...

Margarette M. "Maggie" Williams, 92, of Gordonville passed away Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 21, 1924, in Gordonville to Martin and Clara Eggers Hanschen. She and John R. Williams were married Sept. 20, 1947, in Gordonville. They had been married 57 years when John passed away Jan. 4, 2005...

EL DORADO, Ark. -- Mildred Ann Townsend Smith, 88, of El Dorado, previously a resident of North Charleston, South Carolina, for 69 years, passed away Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. She was born to the late Mildred Sanderson Townsend Hanson and late Paul E. Townsend in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on April 28, 1928. She also was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, Peter P. Smith, and son, David A. Smith...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Elsie Edna Gross Sandlin, 88, of Perryville died Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 6:30 to 8:15 a.m. Tuesday at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville...

David Edward Philipps, 84, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, Oct.11, 2016, at his home. He was born Oct. 23, 1931, in St. Louis, son of Elmo W. and Edna E. Kroeker Philipps. He and Barbara Raufer were married Feb. 14, 1960. David attended St. Paul Lutheran School and was confirmed at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. He graduated from Jackson High School in 1948...

Harvey Nischwitz, 92, of Gordonville died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.

Florence May Hurst, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born April 27, 1947, in Bollinger County, Missouri, to Linder and Marjorie Farnsworth Green. She and Michael Hurst were married April 27, 1968, in Jackson...

The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Wednesday: n Medical assists were made at 5:39 a.m. on Bloomfield Street; 8:27 a.m. on Louis Street; 11:20 a.m. on South Mount Auburn Road; 12:45 p.m. on Grandview Drive; 2:48 p.m. on William Street; and 8:51 p.m. on Independence Street...

The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Suspects were in custody pending formal charges of possession of a controlled substance at Morgan Oak and South Ellis streets. n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of possession of a controlled substance at Olive and North Middle streets...

NEW YORK -- Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. In the book world's equivalent of a Supreme Court ruling, the Nobel judges declared Thursday that Dylan is not just a rock star but a poet of the very highest order. Dylan, 75, becomes the first musician in the 115-year history of the Nobel to win the prize in literature. He was honored for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."...

"Mamma Mia," Broadway's hit musical that inspired a motion picture, is coming to Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus with two shows at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 and 27, according to a news release. The performances will be in the Bedell Performance Hall in the Cultural Arts Center...

My car is full of quilts donated from Saint Vincent for Project Homeless connect this Friday! #semoselfie

The half-dozen comics haunting Ragsdales on Wednesday nights make up most of the Riverside Comedy stand-up group. This past Wednesday, they were waiting for Tom Cook, the night's emcee, to come back from the toilet. "It's just his hopes and dreams," Harold Williams said...

WASHINGTON -- The direct U.S. entry into Yemen's civil war, for now a limited response to a rebel missile fired on a U.S. Navy ship, risks a wider entanglement that could leave the next American president embroiled in a yet another unwanted Middle East war with broad implications for the region and beyond...

BERLIN -- A 22-year-old Syrian man suspected of planning an Islamic extremist bombing attack strangled himself by tying his shirt to the bars of his jail cell, German officials said Thursday. Rolf Jacob, the head of the prison where 22-year-old bomb suspect Jaber Albakr was held, told reporters in Dresden a trainee guard checked on the prisoner at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, and when he returned for another check at 7:45 p.m., he found Albakr hanging lifeless...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Twenty-one of Nigeria's Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago have been freed in a swap for detained leaders of the Islamic extremist group, the government and military said Thursday. Some 197 girls remain captive, though it is not known how many of them may have died...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics said today the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 would cost the company about $3 billion during the current and next quarters, bringing the total cost of the recall to at least $5.3 billion. The Note 7 discontinuation will cost in the mid-2 trillion won range during the October-December period and another 1 trillion won, or $884 million, during the January-March quarter, the company said in a statement...

BANGKOK -- King Bhumibol Adulyadej, revered in Thailand as a demigod, a humble father figure and an anchor of stability through decades of upheaval at home and abroad, died Thursday. He was 88 and had been the world's longest-reigning monarch. The Royal Palace said Bhumibol died "in a peaceful state" at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, where he had been treated for various health problems for most of the past decade...

HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Hurricane Nicole roared across Bermuda on Thursday, pummeling the resort island with winds up to 115 mph that snapped trees and peeled off roofs. The Category 3 system also flooded homes, damaged boats that broke away from their moorings and knocked out power to more than 27,000 customers who live in the British territory, which has sturdy infrastructure and is accustomed to heavy weather...

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A New Jersey man has been charged with stealing more than $160,000 worth of Jamaican cheese. Prosecutors said Thursday that 18-year-old Darluis Ortiz stole pallets of Tastee Cheese products from a food warehouse in Moonachie on Sept. 23. Tastee Cheese often is eaten with spiced or sweetened buns, especially at Easter. It's produced by Dairy Industries Jamaica Ltd. Ortiz was arrested Wednesday...

RICHMOND, Va. -- An Old Dominion University student who reported she was raped in her dorm room is charging campus police prevented her from getting a medical exam to preserve evidence until after she was interrogated for almost eight hours. Her complaint to federal education officials about the October 2014 episode also stated she was not given written information about her right to seek a protective order against the person she said attacked her, among other things. ...

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton's campaign tried to move the Illinois presidential primary to a later date, saying a contest held after the Super Tuesday primaries might stop momentum for a moderate Republican candidate and emphasizing Clinton and her husband "won't forget" a political favor, emails made public Thursday show...

PHILADELPHIA -- New allegations have surfaced of sexual assault against Donald Trump -- but they are not recent incidents, dating back in one case as much as three decades. That's left some of Trump's supporters and others asking the question: Why now?...

Lashing back, Donald Trump heatedly rejected the growing list of sexual assault allegations against him as "pure fiction" on Thursday, hammering his female accusers as "horrible, horrible liars" as the already-nasty presidential campaign sank further into charges of attacks on women...

POOLER, Ga. -- Waist-deep floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew coursed down the street and seeped under Lori Galemore's doors, swamping the carpets and furniture as she and her three sons retreated upstairs, where they stayed until firefighters arrived by boat...

ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Department of Higher Education has launched a new effort aimed at increasing the odds of college students graduating on time and leaving them with less debt. The state's "15 to Finish" initiative encourages college students to take 15 credit hours each semester, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri can keep the supplier of its lethal-injection drugs secret, a federal appellate court ruled Thursday, reversing its own ruling earlier that the supplier must be revealed. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis overruled a Sept. 2 ruling by the same judges that the state must disclose its pentobarbital supplier to two Mississippi death-row inmates suing for the information...

A somber crowd watches Thursday as the funeral procession for St. Louis County police officer Blake Snyder passes through Alton, Illinois, on its way from Chesterfield, Missouri, to a cemetery in Godfrey, Illinois. Snyder, 33, was fatally shot while on duty Oct. 6 after encountering a man accused of causing a disturbance in a suburban St. Louis neighborhood...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The contentious race to succeed term-limited Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has generated $27.5 million in television ads since last year, making it the most expensive governor's race in the country, according to an independent analysis released Thursday...

Professional storyteller Marilyn Kinsella will lead a Halloween storytelling event at 7 p.m. today at the Bollinger Mill State Historic Site, 113 Bollinger Mill Road in Burfordville. The free event is sponsored by Missouri State Parks and will be appropriate for all ages. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair. Refreshments will be provided after the storytelling. For more information, call (573) 243-4591...

The deadline for the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri's Regional Juried Exhibition has been extended to Sunday. Artists are encouraged to submit works that interpret any aspect of Southeast Missouri, as well as its bordering states. Work must interpret the people, places or things that are representational of the five-state region. ...

Son to Joshua Joseph and Natalie Marie Govreau of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 11:37 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. Name, Tatum Jacob. Weight, 5 pounds, 12 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Govreau is the former Natalie Townsend, daughter of Jon and Tonyua Townsend of Cape Girardeau. ...

Father God, we give thanks to you, for your love endures forever. Amen.

Everyone can agree that regular exercise is important, so why do so many people struggle to stick with their fitness goals? If you've encountered barriers holding you back from committing to a fitness routine, you're not alone. Check out these simple ideas for overcoming the five most common hurdles to fitness commitment:...

Scratch Brewing Co. in Ava, Illinois, is not your run-of-the-mill microbrewery. With a name based on the concept of their products being "made from scratch," the business is anything but ordinary, incorporating natural ingredients from the land around its location off the beaten path...

Maria Bartoe, cook and owner of the Mississippi Mud Saloon, learned to cook in her dad's kitchen. "I pretty much come from a family that taught me. My dad was an amazing cook," she says. "I was born to a family of 11 kids, and I think we all have that."...

The Mayfield Cultural Center opened in Marble Hill, Missouri, in April 2015, and in the time since, has shown itself as a hidden jewel in an area where there are few places of its kind. The center is at 209 Mayfield Drive, next to the Bollinger County Museum of Natural History. The facilities are housed in two historic buildings, both constructed in 1884...

We don't have anything that compares to the Grand Canyon, but Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois have rugged terrain with valleys deep enough to be called canyons. In local parlance, we typically call these hollows or shut-ins, but we also have ravines, gorges, holes and even a vortex...