Stories from Saturday, March 20, 2021

A suspect who struck a patrol vehicle while fleeing from Cape Girardeau police officers was arrested Friday afternoon. According to Sgt. Joey Hann, officers attempted to arrest the suspect -- who was wanted on a felony assault warrant -- at approximately 1:30 p.m. Friday in the 2300 block of Brink Avenue. The suspect fled in a vehicle headed eastbound through the city...

Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. today 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minute n Minutes from March 18 meeting n Minutes from closed session of March 15 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n COVID-19 Update: In an effort to keep Cape Girardeau County residents safe and aware regarding the status of the virus, Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director Mark Winkler will be issuing an update at County Commission meetings. ...

Gov. Mike Parsons announced the appointment of Keith Holloway to the University of Missouri Board of Curators on Friday. Holloway, of Cape Girardeau will have his appointment to the board's Eighth District slot submitted Monday to the Missouri Senate. Upon confirmation, he will replace curator David Steelman. His term would expire on Jan. 1, 2025...

Bethany Deal will succeed Adrian Eftink on July 1 as superintendent of the Oak Ridge R-VI schools, the district has announced. Eftink, who has served in administrative roles for nearly 20 years at Oak Ridge, is departing to become superintendent of the Woodland Schools in Marble Hill, Missouri...

Two officers with the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office received awards from state and regional Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Councils. Sgt. Ed Curtis was named officer of the year by the Missouri CIT Council, and deputy Arman Clark was named co-officer of the year by the Southeast Missouri CIT Council...

Whitney Quick speaks of a disturbing trend, particularly on Facebook, of people posting photos of their vaccination cards in their news feeds. "Everyone is doing it, unfortunately," said Quick, regional director of the Better Business Bureau of Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois, with an office in Cape Girardeau...

Edward M. Rice, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, issued a pastoral letter dated Friday regarding worship attendance in diocesan churches. "The Dispensation from the Obligation to Attend Holy Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation is lifted as of Palm Sunday, beginning with the Vigil Mass, on March 27, 2021, with an exception for those with pre-existing health conditions, those who are caregivers to the homebound, or those with serious concerns, will have a Particular Dispensation," Rice's letter read.. ...

Excessive rainfall along the mid and upper Mississippi River basin coupled with recent snow and ice melt upstream has led to minor flood conditions in the Cape Girardeau area. A week ago the river gauge at Cape Girardeau was at 26 feet. But starting Tuesday the river began a steady rise and by early Friday morning it had reached the 32-foot flood stage along the city's riverfront...

The City of Cape Girardeau will launch a $1.6 million Spanish Street improvement project March 29, weather permitting, according to the city's transformation manager, Anna Kangas. The 15-week downtown project is divided into nine work zones, starting at Independence Street and moving north to Broadway, with an estimated finish date of July 9...

Teachers, school staff and other people eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine received their first dose Friday at Cape Girardeau Central High School during a clinic organized by the school district and local pharmacies. Persons employed in critical infrastructure sectors were eligible for the vaccine after Gov. Mike Parson initiated Phase 1B, Tier 3 of the state’s vaccination plan this week...

Girls come from all over the region to pick out a free prom dress, shoes and accessories at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau. The program is called SEMO Prom Mothers of Cape Presbyterian Churches, which is a chapter of the not-for-profit Becca's Closet. The organization provides an array of dresses, accessories and shoes for girls in school or who are homeschooled who want to go to their school dances, such as prom...

Today is Saturday, March 20, the 79th day of 2021. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 5:37 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Today's Highlight in History: On March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members...

Burglars stole more than $40,000 worth of collectibles from Antique Center Mall on Sunday, two months after fire inspectors ordered barrel-bolt locks removed from the mall's back door; sometime after 10 p.m. Sunday, burglars pried open the simple door lock securing the antiques store at 2121 William with a crow bar; once inside, the burglars stole small collectibles from the 15 antique dealers that make up the business...

In 1823, the book, "Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America" appeared in Philadelphia. The author, John Dunn Hunter, claimed Kickapoo Indians massacred his family and captured him at age 3, in about 1801. The band later moved west to what is now eastern Kansas, where Indians captured him again. ...

Submitted by Dale Humphries VFW Post 3838 and Auxiliary recently hosted its annual reception for the Patriot’s Pen and Voice of Democracy essay contest winners. Pictured are from left, Donna Miller, scholarship chair; Patriot Pen winners Tali Renshaw, second place, Trinity Lutheran School; Maggie Hillin, first place, Trinity Lutheran School; and Ailee McKee, not pictured, third place, Trinity Lutheran School. Voice of Democracy winners were Rachel Keele, third place, Cape Girardeau Central High School; Sydney Gartman, second place, Eagle Ridge Christian School; and first place, Hailey Janssens, Eagle Ridge Christian School. Also pictured is Bill Humphries, Senior Vice Commander Post 3838.

As the recent February snow piled up and extremely cold air poured into Southeast Missouri, non-hibernating wild animals were hard pressed to find food. Shown here is a native gray squirrel that found a walnut. I had braved the cold on this afternoon and so did the squirrel. I saw it drop the walnut from a dead snag tree with a hole in it. The squirrel was cold enough and hungry enough it ignored me and climbed down for the nut...

Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary This handsome guy is Hercules He is about 2 1/2 years old and ready for his forever home. If you are ready for a rewarding experience, come see us at Safe Harbor. Call (573) 243-9823.

The Jackson Knights of Columbus will hold a euchre tournament at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at the Knights of Columbus hall in Jackson. Signup is noon to 1 p.m. Bring your own partner. For more information, call Tim Beussink at (573) 450-6466. On Sunday the Scott City Knights of Columbus will have its third Sunday breakfast from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. ...

Applications are being accepted for the Ruth A. Buckhannon Memorial RN Scholarship, which will be awarded to a 2021 graduating senior of any public high school located in Scott County who plans to become a registered nurse. This is the 15th year of the $4,000 scholarship. Applications and guidelines are available from Chaffee (Missouri) High School counselor Amanda Dooley at (573) 887-3226. The deadline is April 16...

From my mid-30s and into my late 50s, I had the privilege of pastoring senior citizens: first in a church environment and later in a retirement community. I thought then, and do now, seniors are the most interesting folks alive. When a person has been many times around the sun, has seen many moons -- use whichever astronomical metaphor is agreeable -- a fascinating perspective is often formed...

Would you like it if you had everything as you want it? Are you tired of people who disagree with your opinion? What if everybody agreed with your opinion? You feel as if you're right, anyway. This view may sound absurd, but although people don't always voice their inner feelings, many can't tolerate opinions that are different from the ones we possess. ...

For a number of years now, we have grown our gardens for several reasons. We both enjoy gardening for one thing. It is really enjoyable watching the plants go from little bitty to pumping out veggies or fruit. We both enjoy eating fresh produce from the garden, especially me and Dutchess. ...

The Town & Country FCE Club met March 11 for its annual international dinner with food from Zimbabwe, Africa, at the home of Sue Jones. Each club member made an original dish of food from Zimbabwe. They eat a lot of greens with kale being very prominent. Peanut butter is used for flavoring in their food. Guests for the meal were Dean Jones and Don Niswonger. The dinner committee was Mary Klaproth, Donna Woolsey and Jones. Jones made recipe booklets for each member...

Senior centers are open for carryout and delivery only. Monday: Glazed ham slice or chicken cordon bleu casserole, sweet potatoes, green beans, hot roll and seasoned baked pineapple or lemonade cake. Tuesday: Beef vegetable soup and 1/2 cheese sandwich or fried chicken livers, buttered corn, pickled beets, crackers and chilled pears or cherry cheesecake...

Seventh- and eighth-grade students of Immaculate Conception Catholic School pictured with Principal Michele Campbell, left, and Cliff Lankheit, Science teacher, right, celebrate their 71 awards in the junior division from the Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair last week. Included in the 71 awards were overall best Life Science and overall best Physical Science, which were among the top awards within the Junior division...

Eagle Ridge Christian School A Honor Roll Kindergarten: Nora Ammon, Emri Ferguson, Paul Janssens, Eli Loberg, Everly Moore, Asher Seyer, Tobias Shanahan, Myles Stewart,Madelyn Vance, Lydia Winters. 1st grade: Avery Beasley, Rebekah Blunt, Aurora Francis, Mattelyn Honey, Eli Margrabe, Christain Mellies, Miles Shipman, Rhett Strickland...

Scott County Central Junior and Senior High School A Honor Roll (3.5-4.0 7th grade: Ellie Britt, Jamie Duck, Kasey Peters, Chloe Warren. 8th grade: Briley Couch, Stevey Klingel, Kyle Nixon, Landon Trout, Skyler Wallace. 9th grade: Katie Archie, Asher Britt, Ayden Burlbaugh, Tanner Coleman, Makinna Easter, Alycea Jones, Zavior Mize, Annie Oliver, Scott Taylor...

How does a show as dumb as "The View" with people like Joy Behar continue to exist? Not sure where the person commenting on gas prices in the Cape area gets their information. From personal knowledge, the only place with lower gas price I have seen east of Columbia and all the way to Hannibal has been Fredericktown. The gas prices are all pretty much the same through the eastern half of the state. And Fredericktown wasn't much lower...

A decade ago, one of the first things Republicans did after taking back the House of Representatives was get rid of earmarks. For those of you who don't recall, "earmark" is the term of art for when members of Congress bring home the bacon to their district. The GOP was in a tea party-ish mood back then, and getting rid of "bridges to nowhere," etc., was all the rage...

The U.S. military has turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressed his "revulsion" after Carlson questioned the role of women in combat. Keeping women mostly out of combat had been the U.S. military's centuries-long orthodoxy until just a few years ago...

Lord Jesus, we praise you for you are the Light of the World. Amen.

NEW YORK -- Students can safely sit just 3 feet apart in the classroom as long as they wear masks but should be kept the usual 6 feet away from one another at sporting events, assemblies, lunch or chorus practice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines...

Asian American Christian leaders said Thursday their congregations are saddened and outraged after a white gunman killed eight people -- most of them women of Asian descent -- at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. And they're calling for action beyond prayers...

ATLANTA -- For Asian Americans, 2020 was a year of political success and newfound influence. But it was also a time of vulnerability to racist assaults. That painful dichotomy is on display Friday as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the first person of South Asian descent to hold national office, visit Atlanta just days after a white gunman killed eight people, most of them Asian American women, in three metro-area massage businesses. ...

WASHINGTON -- Democrats who long blistered the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies are suddenly in a tough political bind. The Biden administration is responding to a wave of children crossing the southern border into the U.S. with some of the very tactics that evoked moral outrage from Democrats when former President Donald Trump embraced them. ...

Four men described as leaders of the far-right Proud Boys have been charged in the U.S. Capitol riots, as an indictment ordered unsealed on Friday presents fresh evidence of how federal officials believe group members planned and carried out a coordinated attack to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's electoral victory...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. on Friday cleared President Joe Biden's goal of injecting 100 million coronavirus shots, more than a month before his target date of his 100th day in office, as the president prepared to set his sights higher in the nationwide vaccination effort...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- President Joe Biden has chosen a former senator from Florida who flew on the space shuttle right before the Challenger accident to lead NASA. Biden on Friday announced his intent to nominate Bill Nelson as the space agency's administrator...

MOSCOW -- The Kremlin said Friday President Vladimir Putin's offer to speak by phone with U.S. President Joe Biden was intended to prevent bilateral ties from completely falling apart over the American's remark that the Russian leader was a killer. Putin made it clear "it makes sense to have a talk to maintain Russia-U.S. relations instead of trading barbs," and he wanted to make it public to help defuse tensions over Biden's "very bad remarks," said his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov...

WARSAW, Poland -- Countries across Europe resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot Friday, as leaders sought to reassure their populations it is safe following brief suspensions that cast doubt on a vaccine that is critical to ending the coronavirus pandemic...

STOCKHOLM -- The coronavirus brought a year of fear and anxiety, loneliness and lockdown, and illness and death, but an annual report on happiness around the world released Friday suggests the pandemic has not crushed people's spirits. The editors of the 2021 World Happiness Report found that while emotions changed as the pandemic set in, longer-term satisfaction with life was less affected...

Title Bald Knob Cross -Alto Pass, Illinois. Beautiful Day for a road Trip. Today March 20,2021. Outdoor adventure

Title Bald Knob Cross -Alto Pass, Illinois. Beautiful Day for a road Trip. Today March 20,2021. Outdoor adventure