Stories from Wednesday, May 9, 2018

A Cape Girardeau woman and a Jackson woman have been charged with felony making a terrorist threat, Cape Girardeau police said Tuesday. Police arrested Hannah R. Means, 20, of 717 N. West End Blvd. in Cape Girardeau and Chelsea Cobb, 21, of 197 Linden Drive in Jackson...

The City of Jackson permanently closed one of its two commuter parking lots Friday to make way for the planned police station, according to a city official. Administrative services director Rodney Bollinger wrote in an email Tuesday the lot, on South Missouri Street, west of the Jackson Police/Fire Complex at 525 S. Hope St., was closed so the needed survey, soil and environmental assessment work could begin...

Jackson’s parks projects are in full swing this spring, including plans for new ballfields at Brookside Park, said parks and recreation director Shane Anderson. New ballfields are in development at Brookside Park, Anderson said, to expand upon the two fields already there...

Old Town Cape officially kicks off its family-friendly concert series Tunes at Twilight with artist Keith Sykes on Friday at the Ivers Square gazebo in downtown Cape Girardeau. In addition to the free tunes Friday, Old Town Cape events coordinator Emily Vines said she would have some giveaways during the concert such as can cozies, Old Town Cape stickers and Downtown Cape T-shirts...

Cape Girardeau Central High School will have a new assistant principal effective July 1, according to a district news release. The Cape Girardeau School District Board of Education approved Drew Church for the position at a special board meeting Monday, the release stated. Church began his career at Jackson High School as a physical-education instructor and basketball coach, the release stated...

Plans to establish a $29.2 million, 102-bed psychiatric hospital in Cape Girardeau will move forward now that a state board has given its approval. The Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee unanimously approved the project Monday under the state's Certificate of Need law, which regulates the number of hospital beds a community may have and the types of equipment hospitals may purchase...

There is an inspirational story developing in Cape Girardeau, and it revolves around the resurrection of a beloved, academically elevated school whose future just weeks earlier was in doubt. For more than 42 years, Cape Christian School has transformed boys and girls with a mission to "educate students in a Christ-centered community where the Word of God is preeminent in all curricular and co-curricular instruction."...

Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 9, the 129th day of 2018. There are 236 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 9, 1958, "Vertigo," Alfred Hitchcock's eerie thriller starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, premiered in San Francisco, the movie's setting...

I've never been a big fan of polling, specifically political polling. Today, polling has become big business. Experts offer all sorts of mathematical logic and reasoning to justify their polling techniques. And when their poll results are woefully off-base, they offer equally compelling logic to explain the outcome...

A new painting by Bill Needle is unveiled and dedicated during the morning worship service at First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau; the title of the canvass painting is "Christ Lives" and incorporates scenes from the Gospel of John. The Rev. Jonathan Rice is the new youth pastor at First General Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau; he will be assisted by his wife, Angie; the couple resides in Chaffee, Missouri...

Mildred V. Schreiner, 98, of Jackson passed away Saturday, May 5, 2018, at Luther Manor in Hannibal, Missouri. She was a former resident of the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 27, 1919, in Jackson to William and Lydia Bartels Lowes. She was a graduate of Jackson High School and attended Cape Girardeau Business School. She and Roger W. Schreiner were married Nov. 18, 1942, in Jackson. Two children were born to their union, Robert "Bob" and Donna...

Jerry Schlegel, 79 of Cape Girardeau fell asleep in Jesus on Sunday, May 6, 2018, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Sept. 20, 1938, in Cape Girardeau to the late Waldo G. and Irma-Dell Young Schlegel. Jerry and Patricia "Pat" Young were married Sept. 20, 1959, in Cape Girardeau...

HENDERSON, Tenn. -- Charles Ronald Ridings, 68, formerly of Advance, Missouri, died recently at the Tennessee State Veterans Home in Humboldt, Tennessee, after a long struggle with cancer. Ridings was a graduate of Delta High School and Southeast Missouri State University. He lived many years in Memphis, Tennessee, and was an environmental health and safety manager for a company there...

Arleen Kneezle, 68, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 6, 2018, at Southeast Hospital. She was born April 26, 1950, in Rockford, Illinois, to Maurice Mayer and Mildred Millard Ashton. She and Donald Kneezle were married. He preceded her in death May 28, 2005...

Meta Vanieta Hunt, 91, of Jackson died Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at the Monticello House. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson and from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church in Pocahontas...

GLENNON, Mo. -- Harold John Horrell, 68, of Glennon died Monday, May 7, 2018, at his home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill, Missouri. Parish prayers will be at 7:30 p.m. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Anthony Catholic Church at Glennon. Burial will follow in the church cemetery...

BENTON, Mo. -- Nancy L. Gorman, 71, of Benton died Sunday, May 6, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Memorial service will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at 11754 Highway 77 in Chaffee, Missouri. The service is open to the public...

LESTERVILLE, Mo. -- Montie Vernon "Jack" Goggin of Lesterville passed away Friday, May 4, 2018, at the age of 93 years. Jack was born Sept. 8, 1924, the first son of Oscar and Bessie Adams Goggin at Lesterville. He served in the U.S. Army for two years during World War II...

** Lois Frazier SIKESTON, Mo. -- Lois Ann Frazier, 88, of Sikeston died Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at The Arbors at Westridge Place. There will be no services. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City was in charge of arrangements.

LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn. -- Karen Flowers, 82, of Lawrenceburg died Friday, May 4, 2018, at Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tennessee. She was raised in Cape Girardeau and later resided in Sparland, Illinois, before retiring in Lawrenceburg. She is survived by her husband, Wallace Gerald Flowers; five children, Steve (Liz) Mills, James (Kay) Mills, Jack (Ruthanne) Mills, Teena (Don) Lykins and Jerry (Tammy) Flowers; 14 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren...

CANNES, France -- The 71st Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with the premiere of Asghar Farhadi's "Everybody Knows," but the spotlight at the first post-Harvey Weinstein edition of the glamorous French Rivera gathering was focused on the issue of gender equality...

BEIJING -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a northern Chinese port city and pledged his continuing commitment to denuclearization ahead of his expected summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, state media said Tuesday...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was heading to North Korea today to finalize details of a planned historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. Trump announced the mission in Washington on Tuesday just minutes before Pompeo arrived in Japan to refuel before flying on to Pyongyang, and as the president declared he was withdrawing from a landmark nuclear deal with another bitter U.S. adversary, Iran...

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an outspoken opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, but some in Israel's government and security establishment see it as a least-bad option, one the world community should preserve. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the U.S. will exit the 2015 agreement between Iran and world powers, calling it "defective at its core" and said he plans to reinstall sanctions on the Iranian regime...

PARIS -- Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone: "Dear Angela!" it said. "Bloody Valentine's Day!" "We know everything about you, your husband and your children," the Facebook message continued, claiming the hackers, operating under the flag of Islamic State militants, had penetrated her computer and her phone. "We're much closer than you can even imagine."...

BEIRUT -- Syrian state-run media said Israel struck a military outpost Tuesday near the capital Damascus, saying its air defenses intercepted and destroyed two of the incoming missiles. The reported attack came shortly after President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, calling Tehran a main exporter of terrorism in the region...

WASHINGTON -- With the threat of tariffs and counter-tariffs between Washington and Beijing looming, Chinese buyers are canceling orders for U.S. soybeans, a trend dealing a blow to American farmers if it continues. At the same time, farmers in China are being encouraged to plant more soy, apparently to help make up for any shortfall from the United States...

The Middle East is bracing for milestone events packed into one week potentially reverberating in unforeseen ways and changing the trajectory of a region shaped by growing conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, leaders of the Shiite and Sunni Muslim camps...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump sent lawmakers a plan Tuesday to wipe more than $15 billion in unused spending off the government's books. The plan wouldn't have much practical impact on targeted programs such as the popular Children's Health Insurance Program. But the move would take away leftover money agencies could use to pay for other budget priorities...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Don Blankenship couldn't overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and pressures from within his own party to capture the Republican U.S. Senate primary in West Virginia. Nearly a year to the day after his release from prison, the bombastic ex-coal executive conceded the Republican Senate nomination Tuesday night but remained defiant...

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers of both parties accused wholesale pharmaceutical distributors Tuesday of missing signs of suspicious activity resulting in hundreds of millions of prescription opioid pills being shipped to West Virginia, a state disproportionately ravaged by deaths caused by the addictive drugs...

NEW YORK -- Less than three months ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman went before the news cameras to announce a lawsuit accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his former studio of abusing and intimidating a multitude of women. "We have never seen anything as despicable as what we've seen here," Schneiderman declared...

WASHINGTON -- Stormy Daniels' lawyer said Tuesday he has information showing Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney, received $500,000 from a Russian billionaire within months of paying hush money to Daniels, a porn star who claims she had a tryst with Trump...

PAHOA, Hawaii -- Edwin Montoya's family carved their farm on the slopes of the Kilauea volcano out of "raw jungle," transforming it into a fertile collection of gardens, animal pens and fruit trees. Now the property is imperiled by the very land it stands upon. A couple of miles up the hill, lava has destroyed dozens of homes and his daughter's farm is in an evacuation zone...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the landmark nuclear accord with Iran on Tuesday, abruptly restoring harsh sanctions in the most consequential foreign policy action of his presidency. He declared he was making the world safer, but he also deepened his isolation on the world stage and revived doubts about American credibility...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said she's "concerned about what comes next" after President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal. McCaskill in a Tuesday statement said she's looking forward to hearing from Trump and others about a strategy to ensure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House has passed a bill increasing the attorney general’s power to investigate open-records violations. The proposal, approved Tuesday in an 85-59 vote, would give the attorney general’s office subpoena power when investigating state agencies for suspected violations of Missouri’s open records law. ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House has moved to expand who can carry concealed weapons into schools. The bill, approved Tuesday in an 85-59 vote, would allow school districts to designate any employee as a school protection officer, which would make them eligible to carry concealed firearms into schools. ...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Advocates for religious and private schools Monday pressed the New Mexico Supreme Court to reverse its recent ban on the use of public funding for providing textbooks in private schools, as states respond to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year about state funding for religious institutions...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A St. Louis County attorney who sued Gov. Eric Greitens is seeking records from Attorney General Josh Hawley connected to his investigation into Greitens' use of a message-deleting app. Mark Pedroli, who is representing Ben Sansone of the Sunshine Project, sued Greitens over his use of the Confide app. ...

ST. LOUIS -- A forensic examiner was analyzing the cellphone of Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday, days before the governor goes to trial in St. Louis on a felony invasion of privacy charge. Multiple local media outlets reported the examiner was working in a locked courtroom...

Darryl Jones sings "At the Ballet" from "A Chorus Line" with Jose Alpizar, left, and Alexander Dorn, right, during the Southeast Missouri State University theater and dance class of 2018's senior showcase, "The Greatest Showcase" on Tuesday at the Rust Flexible Theatre at the River Campus in Cape Girardeau.

Lord Jesus, Blessed Redeemer, we lift our hands in praise to you, our King. Amen.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House has passed a bill requiring high school sex education to include information about sexual harassment and assault. The proposal, approved Tuesday in an 85-59 vote, would mandate information about consent, sexual violence and sexual harassment be covered in schools teaching sex education. ...

Lance McClellon pushes his daughter, Trinity, 4, on a swing Tuesday at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau.

SCOTT COUNTY Tax liens and lien discharges recorded at the office of Tara L. Mason, recorder of deeds, during April are filed by the Missouri Department of Revenue, except as indicated by IRS designation. For more information, contact the recorder's office at (573) 545-3551...

Cape Girardeau County Tax liens and lien discharges recorded at the office of Drew Blattner, recorder of deeds, during April are filed by the Missouri Department of Revenue, except as indicated by IRS designation. For more information, contact the recorder's office at (573) 243-8123...