Stories from Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Bertling Street east of West End Boulevard in Cape Girardeau will be closed in both directions for up to a week starting Thursday, allowing for street repaving following a water system repair project. Detours will be marked to direct traffic around the closure via West End Boulevard, Butler Street and Henderson Avenue.

The Cape Girardeau County Circuit Clerk’s Office will no longer allow the public or news media to print out court records from a public access computer in the Common Pleas Courthouse. Requested documents now will be printed by clerk staff and redacted to mark out any personal identifiers such as date of birth and Social Security and driver’s license numbers, Circuit Clerk Charleen Biester said Monday...

Groundbreaking for a 9/11 memorial on the grounds of Jackson’s Fire Station No. 1 is set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, 18 years to the day after terrorist attacks on U.S. soil killed nearly 3,000 people, including 343 New York City firefighters. A project of Jackson Fire Rescue, the memorial also will honor firefighters from Cape Girardeau County who have died in the line of duty...

A network of regional high schools has announced the creation of a foreign exchange program to let students study across the big pond: the Mississippi River. The program, dubbed IMAGINE (Illinois Missouri Association Guiding Interstate Noteworthy Exchanges), will allow high school students to live with a host family and experience life on the other side of the river...

Today in History. Today is Tuesday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2019. There are 112 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 10, 1813, an American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. (Afterward, Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy and they are ours.")...

Add California to the list of those committed to "helping" -- with a special focus on providing that "help" to "students of color." Once again, I beg: "Stop 'helping.'" Senate Bill 419 will ban the state's schools from suspending K-8 public and charter school students, as well as grades 9-12 students until 2025 for "willful defiance." This would be an expansion of an existing ban for K-3...

The average hearing aid can last up to seven years. But many people experience shorter life spans. To prolong the life of your hearing aids, it’s crucial to take care of them the best that you can. Here are a few tips for how you can do that: First, cleaning your hearing aids prolongs the life span. ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- When officials at a Catholic high school in South Carolina learned a 16-year-old student made videos of himself firing a gun and using racial slurs, they alerted police, but not parents. After the videos made it into the news over the summer, the backlash came quickly...

LONDON -- British lawmakers demanded Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government release officials' private correspondence about plans for Brexit, as the government prepared to suspend Parliament and send rebellious lawmakers home until two weeks before the country is supposed to leave the European Union...

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said Monday it is willing to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States later this month but Washington must come to the negotiating table with acceptable new proposals. If the proposals don't satisfy North Korea, dealings between the two countries may come to an end, First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said...

TORONTO -- The starry based-on-a-true-story social-justice tale "Just Mercy" made a powerful impression in its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, drawing an emotional response for the courtroom drama led by Michael B. Jordan's crusading attorney and Jamie Foxx's wrongly imprisoned death row inmate...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The acting chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said his agency likely violated its scientific integrity rules last week when it publicly chastised a weather office contradicting President Donald Trump's claim Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama...

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats pressed President Donald Trump on Monday to intervene with Senate Republicans and demand passage of a bipartisan bill to expand background checks for gun purchases. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump's "urgent, personal intervention is needed to stem the endless massacres of our fellow Americans by gunfire."...

WASHINGTON -- Fifty U.S. states and territories, led by Texas, announced an investigation into Google's "potential monopolistic behavior." The Monday announcement closely followed one from a separate group of states Friday disclosing an investigation into Facebook's market dominance. The two probes widen the antitrust scrutiny of big tech companies beyond sweeping federal and congressional investigations and enforcement action by European regulators...

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. -- Coast Guard rescuers began pulling trapped crew members from a capsized cargo ship Monday, finding them alive more than a day after the vessel overturned while leaving a port on the Georgia coast. But the exhilaration of rescuing three South Korean crew members was tempered by the realization a fourth person was still trapped behind glass in an engineering compartment on a separate deck...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. peace talks with the Taliban are now "dead," President Donald Trump declared Monday, one day after he abruptly canceled a secret meeting he had arranged with Taliban and Afghan leaders aimed at ending America's longest war. Trump's remark to reporters at the White House suggested he sees no point in resuming a nearly yearlong effort to reach a political settlement with the Taliban, whose protection of al-Qaida extremists in Afghanistan prompted the U.S. ...

BENTON, Mo. -- Janeth Ann Weber, 70, of Benton died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, at her home. She was born Nov. 28, 1948, in Glennon, Missouri, to Henry and Irene Vandermierden Beel. She married Leonard George Weber on Nov. 30, 1968. She was a supply technician for Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was a member of St. Denis Catholic Church in Benton...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Lester Lee Terbrak, 77, of Perryville died Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 at his home. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Christ the Savior Church Hall in Brewer, Missouri. Celebration of Life will be at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the church hall, with Alan Terbrak officiating. Funeral luncheon will follow at Christ the Savior Church Hall...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Shirley Jane Ryan, 78, of Marble Hill passed away Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at Monticello House in Jackson. She was born May 4, 1941, in Elden, Iowa, daughter of Delbert H. and Elizabeth Earnest Keller. She and John Thomas Ryan were united in marriage July 6, 1983, and he passed away Feb. 23, 2013...

Christopher Burton Partridge, 58, of Jackson died Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, at the home of a friend near Marble Hill, Missouri. A military honors service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield. Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill is assisting the family...

Norman J. Fornkohl, 85, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, at Chateau Girardeau. He was born Sept. 4, 1934, to Henry C. and Mary D. Comer Fornkohl in Egypt Mills. He was baptized Sept. 22, 1935, at Trinity Lutheran Church of Egypt Mills and confirmed Dec. ...

Jason C. Deckard, 41, of Allenville passed away Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Sept. 24, 1977, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Jon and Gala Watkins Deckard. Jason and Amanda Thompson were united in marriage Oct. 5, 2002, at Allenville, and she survives of the home...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Philip Brandon, 56, of Marble Hill died Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Cremation rites will be accorded. Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements...

Bonnie Jo Bradford, 62, of Jackson died Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, at her home. Family and friends may gather from 10 to 11 a.m. Sept. 28 at Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Sept. 28 at the funeral home. Inurnment will follow at a later date at Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

ADVANCE, Mo, -- Floyd Bowers, 72, of Advance passed away Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, at his home. He was born Dec. 5, 1946, in Delta, son of George Washington and Victoria Eakins Bowers. Floyd and Bonnie Bowers were united in marriage April 1, 1991, in Illinois and she survives of the home...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Swedish authorities say a man has been denied a vanity plate with the letters TRUMP because it violated motor vehicle department rules, calling the letter combination “offensive.” The Aftonbladet tabloid, one of Sweden’s largest newspapers, reported Saturday the man said he “was drunk and thought it was fun to apply” online for a new license plate with U.S. President Donald Trump’s last name “because the car is American.” ...

WASHINGTON -- Federal health authorities Monday blasted vaping company Juul for illegally pitching its electronic cigarettes as a safer alternative to smoking and ordered the company to stop making unproven claims for its products. The Food and Drug Administration also upped its scrutiny of several key aspects of Juul's business, telling the company to turn over documents about its marketing, educational programs and nicotine formula...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri lawmakers began a special session Monday to bring back a sales tax break for multi-vehicle trade-ins, a tax credit residents use an estimated 14,000 times a year. Republican Gov. Mike Parson called lawmakers back to work after the Missouri Supreme Court in June ended the sales tax break for multiple vehicle trade-ins...

O Lord, may we train up our children in the way they should go. Amen.

Carson Kelley, assistant director of public safety at Southeast Missouri State University, is the new commander of the Cape Girardeau-Bollinger County Major Case Squad; he will take over the squad Sept. 19. The SEMO District Fair gets underway with a parade; along with the early opening of carnival rides, a 4-H and youth horse show is held in front of the grandstand at noon; tomorrow is the traditional Sneak Peek day and will include a second horse show...

CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault, property damage, armed criminal action and resisting arrested were reported at 57 N. Main St. n Assault was reported in the 1600 block of Oak Hills Drive. Suspect was taken into custody...

Daughter to Spencer Phillips and Paige Michelle Goodman of Cape Girardeau, SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis, 2:42 p.m. Thursday. Aug. 22, 2019. Name, Greta Rose. Weight, 7 pounds, 4 ounces. Mrs. Goodman is the daughter of Steve and Debbie Foeste of Cape Girardeau. She is a speech-language pathologist at SoutheastHEALTH, Outpatient Rehabilitation. Goodman is the son of Tim and Cathy Goodman of Jackson. He is a staff accountant at Schermann & Associates PC...