Stories from Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Old Town Cape Inc. will once again host Monster Mash Car Bash in downtown Cape Girardeau. From 4 to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at 35 S. Spanish St., classic cars will be parked and ready with fun displays and trunks full of candy, according to a news release from Old Town Cape Inc...

The Jackson Marching Chiefs perform Tuesday at the Jackson Band Festival parade in uptown Jackson. The annual Jackson Band Festival will be featured in this Weekend's Good Times section.

Notre Dame Regional High School's annual Activity Week fundraiser generated $239,216 in profit between Sept. 24 and Saturday, according to a news release from the school. Each class held a public dinner serving different dishes to an average of 1,390 people each night, there was an online auction of donated packages and items, and students sold additional items, such as candy, pizza, raffle tickets, magazine subscriptions and more...

For his birthday this year, Jimmy Williams of Jackson wanted nothing more than to give gifts to other people. Williams, 13, decided to donate toys to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis -- a place he became familiar with in 2019. While playing in a golf tournament in August 2019, Jimmy started vomiting uncontrollably. His parents took him to Cardinal Glennon Hospital. Test results showed Jimmy's heart functioned at only a fraction of what it should have...

A timeline was announced Tuesday for the new Alexander Cairo Port District in Cairo, Illinois, with groundbreaking planned at the end of next year and completion in late 2024. Thanks in part to a $40 million construction grant promised last year by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and an April labor agreement with the Illinois AFL-CIO, more than 500 jobs are expected to be created by the estimated $125 million to $150 million public-private partnership...

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2021. There are 86 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 6, 2014, the Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States as it rejected appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans, effectively making such marriages legal in 30 states...

O Lord God, may we always speak good words, building one another up in love. Amen.

Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals should be the Cy Young Award winner in the National League and maybe even the league MVP. Where would the Cardinals have finished without him? Cy Young and MVP, yes, just like another Cardinal great, Bob Gibson in 1968...

A very special flight will depart Cape Girardeau Regional Airport for Washington, D.C., on Friday morning. The group of 30 veterans and 20 caretakers will participate in the Veterans Honor Tour, organized by the Wake Foundation. The three-day trip will allow participants to visit the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam Veterans memorials, along with visits to the Pentagon, White House and Arlington National Cemetery...

New Orleans -- Carson Coyle runs around like any healthy young boy. Coyle suffered brain damage at his birth two years ago, with hospital staff at one point predicting he had just hours to live. But then a judge prayed over Carson's cradle with a cross from the Francis Xavier Seelos shrine in New Orleans, and a miracle is believed to have happened -- Coyle healed essentially overnight and is thriving today...

We warned China to stop its incursions into Taiwan's air defense identification zone -- and the Chinese responded by flying even more aircraft into the zone. The 56 Chinese flights Monday brought the total for October to 149, already the year's highest monthly total...

JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Assault n Assault was reported in the 700 block of Broadridge Drive. Arrests n Jacob Wilson, 40, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana 10 grams or less and possession of drug paraphernalia...

Patsy Louise Gould, 80, of Jackson, formerly of Marmaduke, Arkansas, passed away Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, in Cape Girardeau. Patsy was born to Raymond Floyd and Dealie Lola Wyatt Hale. Patsy met and married the love of her life, Wayne Gould. To this union were born Angie and Sherrie...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Georgia Lea Carron, 100, of Glasgow, Kentucky, formerly of Perryville died Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, at Hospice of Southern Kentucky in Bowling Green. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville with Deacon Direk Hunt officiating...

Heaven opened its gates Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, to Edith Randol Adams. She was 100 years old when she passed away at The Villas of Jackson. She was born Aug. 20, 1921, in Randolph County, Arkansas, to Thomas Edgar and Rosie Uzzle Foster. Edith and Silas F. Randol were married June 26, 1938. He preceded her in death Feb. 5, 1985. She then married Ben M. Adams on May 7, 1988. He preceded her in death July 2, 2017...

CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Oct. 4 n Medical assists were made at 2:19 a.m. on Themis Street; 4:44 a.m. on South Louisiana Avenue; 4:27 p.m. on Linden street; 11:41 p.m. on South Benton Street...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Jessica Kaschube has relied on the economic advantages of being married to pursue her career. During almost a dozen years of marriage, the extra income from her husband's more stable jobs -- and his health insurance -- has enabled Kaschube to move from Montana to Alabama to Florida, advancing her career as a theater administrator in an arts profession known for low pay and instability...

MOSCOW -- A Russian actor and a film director rocketed to space Tuesday on a mission to make the world's first movie in orbit, a project the Kremlin said will help burnish the nation's space glory. Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions. ...

WASHINGTON -- Johnson & Johnson asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to allow extra shots of its COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. government moves toward expanding its booster campaign to millions more vaccinated Americans. J&J said it filed a request with the FDA to authorize boosters for people 18 and older who previously received the company's one-shot vaccine. ...

OMAHA, Neb. -- Work at all of the Kellogg Company's U.S. cereal plants came to a halt Tuesday as roughly 1,400 workers went on strike, but it wasn't immediately clear how much the supply of Frosted Flakes or any of the company's other iconic brands would be disrupted...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Evidence emerged Tuesday a ship's anchor snagged and dragged an underwater pipeline that ruptured and spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off Southern California, an accident the Coast Guard acknowledged it did not investigate for nearly 10 hours after the first call came in about a possible leak...

NEW YORK -- The six-hour outage at Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp was a headache for many casual users but far more serious for the millions of people worldwide who rely on the social media sites to run their businesses or communicate with relatives, fellow parents, teachers or neighbors...

WASHINGTON -- While accusing the giant social network of pursuing profits over safety, a former Facebook data scientist told Congress on Tuesday she believes stricter government oversight could alleviate the dangers the company poses, from harming children to inciting political violence to fueling misinformation...

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- Hundreds of students at a suburban Kansas City high school walked out of class this week over allegations of LGBTQ students facing repeated harassment and bullying. The walkout happened Monday at Lee's Summit High School after some students said administrators there have done nothing to protect bullied students, even after receiving repeated reports of the bullying, the Kansas City Star reported...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Missouri lawmaker is demanding Springfield's public schools turn over three years' worth of staff emails and other documents with references to critical race theory and more than two dozen other words or phrases. In response, the school district is demanding a deposit of at least $170,000 to get started...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday grilled state officials over a federal investigation finding nearly 1,000 foster children went missing in 2019, and at least one was sex-trafficked. Federal authorities helped Missouri search for the missing 978 children in 2019. During the search, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general agents raised red flags about how the state handles missing foster kids, prompting the review...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. -- A Missouri man was put to death Tuesday for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago, an execution performed over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even the pope. Ernest Johnson died from an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre. ...

Women are paid less than men on average at Southeast Missouri State University, but the gender gap is closing; Southeast has 936 regular employees in teaching and non-teaching positions, and 52% are men; the school's female employees make nearly $12,000 less than male employees, university salary records show; but nearly 26% of the school's 445 female employees are secretaries, who make substantially lower salaries than do faculty members and administrators...