Stories from Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Finding it harder to hear conversations around you might mean you need to get your ears checked. It could also be your ears signaling to you about other health concerns. “Hearing is directly correlated to so many other health issues,” said Sarah Hickey, Doctor of Audiology and owner of Audiology Associates of Missouri...

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of Jan. 6, but the defeated president seemed "detached from reality" and kept clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power, the committee investigating the Capitol attack was told Monday...

Cape Girardeau County Commission voted Monday to apply for a $10,800 U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant under the agency's "Soft Targets for Crowded Places" program. ST-CP is one of eight federal initiatives designed to "provide critical funding to help state and local officials prepare for, prevent, protect against and respond to acts of terrorism and other hazards," according to a May 13 news release from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas...

With temperatures soaring toward the century mark, Cape Girardeau municipal officials received several reports of potentially heat-related street buckling Monday ...

Cape Girardeau County's tax funds for June show the current inflationary spiral in the U.S. continues to aid county receipts. The county deposited $879,901.72 in sales tax this month as received from the state Department of Revenue, driving total receipts for the first six months of 2022 to $4,393,346.96, up 7.3% from the same time in 2021...

I'd like to update the community on the airport service contract the city is planning to fill this month. First, a bit of history: SkyWest Airlines began its regional jet service with the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport (CGI) in December 2017, with direct flights to Chicago O'Hare Airport...

Church and civic group cookbooks tell the stories of their community and the people who shape them. Each recipe in these cookbooks is more than a list of ingredients and steps: It is a written legacy of the individual who submitted the dish, their family and history. This monthly series will highlight one of these legacies and give readers the chance to create the recipe themselves...

The Missouri Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. June 28 to discuss improvements to U.S. 61 in Jackson. Visitors may stop by any time during the meeting — at the Jackson Civic Center, 381 E. Deerwood Drive in Jackson — to discuss the details of the project with the MoDOT project team, a MoDOT news release stated...

Today is Tuesday, June 14, the 165th day of 2022. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day. Today's Highlight in History: On June 14, 1775, the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created. On this date: In 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the design of the original American flag...

I commend our city leaders and city staff for investing the first payment of the American Rescue Plan funds in one-time public safety, infrastructure and broadband projects. As you begin discussing how best to invest the second payment of the American Rescue Plan funds, I encourage you to continue the same practice of investing the one-time funds in one-time public safety, infrastructure, broadband and other permissible projects...

Lord Jesus, may we be peacemakers and seek to live Christ-centered lives. Amen.

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on East Rodney Drive. n A warrant arrest was reported on North Kingshighway. n A warrant arrest was reported on William Street...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. June 12 n Medical assists were made at 11:47 a.m., on Evergreen Drive; 1:11 p.m. on South Kingshighway; 2:21 p.m. on New Madrid Street; 9:32 p.m. on North Kingshighway. n At 7:41 p.m., lift assist on South West End Boulevard...

Anna Lee Wills, 84, of Millersville died Friday, June 10, 2022, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. June 22 at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The Rev. Jason Grubbs will conduct the funeral at 11 a.m. June 22 at the funeral home. Interment will follow in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Brenda Sue Hickman Sivert, 69, of Advance was called to enter Heaven's Gates for her eternal rest Saturday, June 11, 2022, at St. Louis University Hospital surrounded by her family. She was born Jan. 9, 1953, in Steelville, Missouri, daughter of Clarence Ray and Geneva Ruth Harmon Ray. She and Rodger Sivert were married April 6, 1991, in Steelville. He survives...

CASSVILLE, Mo. -- Martha Laura Riehn, 79, of Cassville passed at her home Sunday, June 12, 2022. Daughter of Chester and Geraldine Smith Harmon, Laura was born July 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. Upon graduating from Cape Girardeau Central High School, Laura went on to receive accreditation as a registered nurse, embarking upon a career where she would care for many and make several lasting friendships. ...

CAMPBELL, Mo. -- Dorothy June Majors, 101, formerly of Campbell, went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ Saturday, June 11, 2022, at Auburn Creek Assisted Living in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 5, 1921, under a tree along the Canadian River in Oklahoma, because members of her family were migrant workers at the time. She was the youngest child of Eliphus and Minnie Prater. Dorothy married Hallett O. Majors on Dec. 27, 1937 in Hayti, Missouri. He died Feb. 16, 1991...

Paul William Lowes, 88, of Jackson died Saturday, June 11, 2022, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Jan. 7, 1934 in Cape Girardeau County to Emil H.F. and Emma Louise Voges Lowes. He and Loretta Marie Friese were married Oct. 20, 1962, at Old Hanover Lutheran Church...

BENTON, Mo. -- Gary Wayne Graham, 72, of Benton, was born Feb. 27, 1950, in Sikeston, Missouri, to the late Dempsey and Lillian (Harris) Graham and departed this life Monday, June 13, 2022, at The Gardens of Germantown in Germantown, Tennessee, surrounded by family...

Leona A. Friesenborg, 95, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, June 10, 2022. She was born Jan. 19, 1927, in Gothenburg, Nebraska, to John W. and Rosa T. Block. She and Gaylan Friesenborg began their courtship at Gothenburg High School at the age of 15. ...

Anna Mae Campbell, 87, of Oak Ridge passed away Sunday, June 12, 2022, at the Arbors at Auburn Creek in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 7, 1934, in Kelso, Missouri, to John W. and Bertha I. Scherer. She and Norman H. Campbell were married May 7, 1960, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson...

NEW YORK -- Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's first movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in "Seinfeld," has died. He was 90. Holly Wolfle Hall, the actor's wife of nearly 40 years, on Monday said Hall died Sunday surrounded by loved ones in Glendale, California. She said Hall had been well until a few weeks earlier, and spent his final days in warm spirits, reflecting on his life...

The FBI either lied to a federal judge about having video of its secretive 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroyed the video to prevent a father-son team of treasure hunters from gaining access to it, an attorney for the duo asserted in new legal filings that allege a government cover-up...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders. In two cases decided Monday, the court said that the immigrants, who fear persecution if sent back to their native countries, have no right under a federal law to a bond hearing at which they could argue for their freedom no matter how long they are held...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators have historically inspected baby formula plants at least once a year, but they did not inspect any of the three biggest manufacturers in 2020, according to federal records reviewed by The Associated Press. When they finally did get inside an Abbott Nutrition formula plant in Michigan after a two-year gap, they found standing water and lax sanitation procedures. But inspectors offered only voluntary suggestions for fixing the problems, and issued no formal warning...

BERLIN -- The European Space Agency released a trove of data Monday on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia space observatory in an effort to create the most accurate and complete map of our galaxy. Astronomers hope to use the data to understand better how stars are born and die, and how the Milky Way evolved over billions of years...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as this fall under a bill signed into law Monday by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine. The law, as enacted, requires up to 24 hours of training before an employee can go armed, and up to eight hours of annual training. The training programs must be approved by the Ohio School Safety Center, and DeWine announced he's ordering the center to require the maximum 24 hours and the maximum eight hours...

WASHINGTON -- The outline of a bipartisan Senate agreement to rein in gun violence has no game-changing steps banning the deadliest firearms. It does propose measured provisions making it harder for some young gun buyers, or people considered threatening, to have weapons...

NEW YORK -- Wall Street entered a bear market Monday as the S&P 500 sank 3.9%, bringing it more than 20% below the record high it set in January. Fears about a fragile economy and stubbornly high inflation have slammed the stock market in recent days and sent Treasury yields surging to their highest levels in years. A report last week that inflation was getting worse, not better as many had hoped, sent a chill through markets that carried over into this week...

Day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland of its neighbor. With the conflict now in its fourth month, it's a high-stakes campaign that could dictate the course of the entire war...

AUSTIN, Texas -- As public pressure mounts for more information on the deadly Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, some are concerned Texas officials will use a legal loophole to block records from being released -- even to the victims' families -- once the case is closed...

More than 100 million Americans are being warned to stay indoors if possible as high temperatures and humidity settle in over states stretching through parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas. The National Weather Service Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said Monday that 107.5 million people will be affected by combination of heat advisories, excessive heat warnings and excessive heat watches through Wednesday...

Cape Girardeau Board of Education member Terry Taylor has submitted his resignation from the board effective July 1; Taylor, 45, serves as vice president of the board; he is being relocated by his employer, Jimmy Dean Foods, to Scottsdale, Arizona, and will be unable to complete the last year of a three-year term...