Stories from Tuesday, June 13, 2017

SEATTLE -- Another U.S. appeals court stomped on President Donald Trump's revised travel ban Monday, saying the administration violated federal immigration law and failed to provide a valid reason for keeping people from six mostly Muslim nations from coming to the country...

Thatcher Wilson of Jackson appears to soar among the clouds Monday while diving off the board at the Jackson Swimming Pool in Jackson. Temperatures also soared, reaching 91 degrees.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A limited inspection of the Poplar Bluff VA's opioid drug management practices found some procedures were not followed, but local officials said the results do not reflect changes made at the facility in the past 15 months. The release of findings comes after the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center came under fire in recent months because of complaints from pain-management doctor Dale Klein, who was critical of procedures regarding narcotics management...

The city of Cape Girardeau has agreed to pay $112,500 to state Rep. Kathy Swan and her husband, Reg, to settle a condemnation case. Judge Robin Fulton signed the consent judgment Friday, bringing an end to months of litigation over property the city took in connection with the extension of Veterans Memorial Drive...

Today in History Today is Tuesday, June 13, the 164th day of 2017. There are 201 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On June 13, 1942, a four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived on Long Island, New York, during World War II, three days before a second four-man team landed in Florida. ...

Excellence in sports is a tough task to begin with, so imagine our awe that a handful of teams in the area have managed to accomplish great things this season, making high school baseball and soccer and college track and field exciting to follow. Consider the Bell City baseball team, which captured its third consecutive Class 1 championship. ...

The relocation in 1995 of a monument to Confederate soldiers to the grounds of the Common Pleas Courthouse was problematic. But, now that the city council has commendably renamed the park Ivers Square to honor a black Union soldier and his wife, the continuing presence of the monument in its current location is intolerable...

The Board of Aldermen and city staff have spent a considerable amount of time this past year discussing and working on plans for a new bathroom in the park. The addition of a new bathroom was picked as the top priority by the park board. In discussions with the girls' softball league they expressed a need for additional bathroom facilities for the area of the softball fields. ...

Does former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders believe Christians should be disqualified from holding public office? It sure sounds like it. During a Senate Budget Committee hearing last week, he attacked Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's selection for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, suggesting that he is unfit for the position because, as a Christian, he has stated that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ. ...

AVON, Conn. -- A newlywed couple had no problem saying "I do" a second time, when Connecticut firefighters asked them whether they wanted a ride to their reception after their bus was disabled by a small blaze. Maria Leonardi and Justin Stone of New York City were treated to a 15-minute voyage in a fire engine from a church to her father's home in Avon on Saturday, complete with wailing sirens...

MORLEY, Mo. -- Susan Farrar, 75, of Morley passed away Friday, June 9, 2017, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She was born June 16, 1941, in Sikeston, Missouri, to the late Virgil and Virginia Oller Dalrymple. She married Winford Farrar on Jan. 21, 1964, and he survives of the home...

Roger P. Kirn, 67, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 12, 2017 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau He was born Nov. 9, 1949, in Perryville, Missouri, son of George and Frieda (Gegg) Kirn. He and LaDonna McLain were married April 9, 2002. She survives in Cape Girardeau...

The Board of Regents at Southeast Missouri State University Thursday approved a nearly $50 million operating budget for the institution. The fiscal plan includes pay raises for faculty and staff. Cape Girardeau Circuit Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. is chosen as one of three finalists for a vacancy on the Missouri Supreme Court. Gov. John Ashcroft has 60 days to choose one of the three to replace Justice Albert Rendelen, who retired after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 this spring...

WASHINGTON -- Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Monday recommended the new Bears Ears National Monument in Utah be reduced in size and said Congress should step in to designate how selected areas of the 1.3 million-acre site are managed. Zinke made the recommendation as part of an interim report to President Donald Trump on the scenic swath of southern Utah with red-rock plateaus, cliffs and canyons on land considered sacred to Native American tribes...

SEATTLE -- Ken Shefveland's body was swollen with cancer, treatment after treatment failing until doctors gambled on a radical approach: They removed some of his immune cells, engineered them into cancer assassins and unleashed them into his bloodstream...

CHICAGO -- Researchers tried a big serving of food psychology and a dollop of trickery to get diners to eat their vegetables. And it worked. Veggies given names such as "zesty ginger-turmeric sweet potatoes" and "twisted citrus-glazed carrots" were more popular than those prepared exactly the same way but with plainer, more healthful-sounding labels. Diners more often said "no thanks" when the food had labels such as "low-fat," ''reduced-sodium" or "sugar-free."...

WASHINGTON -- A measure of melodic phrasing. A rigorous reading of the law at issue. A nod to the proper role of the courts. Justice Neil Gorsuch's first Supreme Court opinion Monday stayed true to what Gorsuch promised in his nomination hearing and to the reputation for good writing he developed as an appellate judge...

NEW YORK -- The global obesity problem now affects 1 in 10 people in the world, it is rising in countries rich and poor, and in many countries, it is increasing faster in children than adults, according to a new study. The researchers estimated more than 107 million children and 603 million adults are obese...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa could be the first state in the nation with no health-insurance company willing to offer policies on its Affordable Care Act exchange next year unless President Donald Trump's administration approves a stopgap proposal, Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen said Monday...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Monday after Republican Gov. Eric Greitens called for a special session aimed at imposing more abortion restrictions and undoing a St. Louis ordinance that bans discrimination over abortion and pregnancies...

WASHINGTON -- The Washington political world is in disarray. Britain's election tumult has scrambled the outlook for Europe. And economies in the United States and abroad are plodding along at a pace that hardly suggests robust health. Yet when the Federal Reserve meets Wednesday, it's all but sure to raise its benchmark interest rate for the third time in six months -- a pace the Fed normally would adopt when it's trying to slow an economy at risk of overheating...

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana's next congressman, Greg Gianforte, avoided jail time Monday after pleading guilty to assaulting a reporter the day before he was elected. Gallatin County Justice of the Peace Rick West sentenced the Republican technology entrepreneur to 40 hours of community service and 20 hours of anger-management counseling and ordered him to pay a $385 fine for the misdemeanor...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Child advocates filed a federal lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Social Services on Monday over allegations of inappropriately providing psychotropic drugs to foster-care children and systemic lack of oversight of the medications...

PARIS -- Candidates in the runoff of French parliamentary elections hit the campaign trail Monday, shaken by a record abstention rate in the first round and the prospect of a sweep by President Emmanuel Macron's new party that would shatter the political landscape...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- The jury at Bill Cosby's sexual-assault trial deliberated without reaching a verdict Monday over whether he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago in a case that already has helped demolish the 79-year-old comedian's good-guy image...

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Theresa May sought Monday to rally lawmakers from her Conservative Party behind her leadership amid doubts over her ability to remain in power after last week's disastrous election result. May, who is trying to wrap up an arrangement with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party that would allow her to lead a government with a majority of votes in the House of Commons, moved to demonstrate she understands the frustration within her own ranks after the election.. ...

SHANGHAI -- The Ivanka Trump brand is pushing to protect intellectual property in China, winning approvals for four more trademarks since April 20, despite questions from lawmakers about whether she is using her position in the White House to help her company...

ATHENS, Greece -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 damaged scores of homes Monday on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos, killing one woman and injuring at least 10 people. It also was felt in western Turkey, including in Istanbul, and on neighboring islands...

MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of protesters held anti-corruption rallies Monday across Russia in a new show of defiance by an opposition the Kremlin once had dismissed as ineffectual and marginalized. More than 1,000 were arrested -- including opposition leader and protest organizer Alexei Navalny, who was seized outside his Moscow residence while heading to the rally in the city center and sentenced to 30 days in jail several hours later...

NEW YORK -- The knives are out for a new edgy production of "Julius Caesar" that's cutting a little too close to home for some fans of the White House. Delta Air Lines and Bank of America have pulled their sponsorships of The Public Theater's version of "Julius Caesar" that portrays a Donald Trump-like dictator in a business suit with a long tie who gets knifed to death onstage...

CENTERVILLE, Mo. -- A 19-year-old man is dead after drowning at a popular park in Southeast Missouri. Authorities said 19-year-old Christopher Watson of Farmington, Missouri, was trying to swim across the Black River at Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park on Sunday evening when he went under the water and did not resurface. His body was found a couple of hours later...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens signed a bill aimed at averting a scenario in which Missouri residents could have been turned away at airports for lack of valid identification...

WASHINGTON -- The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia filed a federal lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump, alleging he violated the Constitution by improperly retaining ties to his global business empire and by accepting foreign payments while in office...

WASHINGTON -- High-profile supporters of President Donald Trump are turning on special counsel Robert Mueller, the man charged with investigating Russian interference in the U.S. election and possible collusion with Trump's campaign. As Mueller builds his legal team, Trump's allies have begun raising questions about the former FBI director's impartiality, suggesting he cannot be trusted to lead the probe...

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions, facing fresh questions about his Russian contacts during the election campaign and his role in the firing of James Comey, will be interrogated by former Senate colleagues in a public hearing today. The appearance before the Senate intelligence committee comes one week after former FBI director Comey cryptically told lawmakers the bureau had expected Sessions to recuse himself weeks before he did from an investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russia during the 2016 election.. ...

Paul and Amanda Ham of Cape Girardeau won the $2.9 million Missouri Lotto jackpot May 31 after buying the winning ticket at Bi-State Southern Convenience Store at 920 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. They can accept 25 payments over 24 years or a lump-sum payment of $1.45 million before taxes...

A Cape Girardeau man stabbed a man twice in the back during a camping trip Sunday near Alton, Missouri, police said. The Oregon County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Gabriel M. Austin, 34, with first-degree assault and armed criminal action, both felonies...

Two area men face drug charges after officers found them passed out in a vehicle in a church parking lot, police said. The Perry County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Tyson M. Adcox, 28, of Perryville, Missouri, with possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, third-degree assault on a special victim, tampering with physical evidence and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia...

The sidewalk is changing at Cape Girardeau County Park North's Veterans Flag Memorial. The new sidewalk will be made of donated pavers, county park superintendent Bryan Sander said, and the parks department will handle site preparation and removal of the current sidewalk...

A woman led police on a chase Friday through Cape Girardeau, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Iris M. Nanney, 32, of Cape Girardeau with possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest, both felonies...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Some runners didn't expect to see a bear on their race route. Donald Sanborn said he was about 5 miles into the Garden of the Gods 10 Mile Run on Sunday when the bear ambled across a roadway near Colorado Springs. Sanborn said the animal seemed to be trying to decide whether to zip across the road filled with runners, when a large enough gap finally emerged for the bear to get through...

JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Theft n Theft was reported in the 2500 block of Ridge Road. Property damage n Property damage was reported in the 3000 block of East Jackson Boulevard. Miscellaneous n Peace disturbance was reported in the 1400 block of Woodland Drive...

CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Alexsis Rogers, 30, of Sikeston, Missouri, was arrested at 3253 William St. on suspicion of assault on a law-enforcement officer and resisting arrest...

O Father God, we boldly proclaim Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Amen.

It is time for the city of Cape to put Lexington out of its misery. Just pave it with asphalt already and quit trying to patch it. Just sayin'. He has called for two special sessions and the taxpayers still have not received their tax refunds. He is doing all he can to make the working people pay for everything, including lower wages for the benefit of the rich and big businesses. Thanks to St. Louis for increasing the minimum wages that our corrupt legislators will not do...

Popeyes recently hosted a fundraiser night for the Bell City Elementary Jr. Beta. The proceeds will be used by students that are going to Beta National Convention at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Jackson City Park will be filled this weekend just in time for the Father's Day Weekend with Carnival Rides, food vendors, crafts, music and so much more! The festival is open to the public with no gate/entry fee. Come on out and enjoy a fun filled weekend! The event Facebook page may be viewed athttps://www.facebook.com/events/1740126376316575/?ti=cl...