Stories from Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Since its installation, the Cape Girardeau Police Department's (CGPD) ShotSpotter system has alerted the department 323 times and led to eight arrests. In July, CGPD provided an example of how the gunshot-locating system was leading the department to arrests and faster response times...

Cape Girardeau police are investigating a shooting that left one hospitalized with gunshot wounds. According to Cpl. Ryan Droege of Cape Girardeau Police Department, officers responded to the 1200 block of Hillcrest shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday. They discovered the victim with multiple wounds, which Droege described as not life-threatening...

Authors and artists published in Here. literary magazine gather for a group photo following Tuesday's launch party and reading at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri in Cape Girardeau. The magazine, published by rustmedia, is part of a program meant to give high schoolers firsthand experience in creative professions.

Katrina Amos, manager for Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, gave updates on a slew of projects on the horizon for the airport Tuesday to Airport Advisory Board members. The $4.8 million, 105-day project renovation of Taxiway B will be underway later this month. ...

The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport will officially switch carriers later in the fall. Katrina Amos, airport manager, announced at the Airport Advisory Board meeting Tuesday the airport will likely be switching to Contour Aviation toward the end of October or the beginning of November. No exact date has been set at this time...

WASHINGTON -- The FBI's unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump's Florida residence ricocheted around government, politics and a polarized country Tuesday along with questions as to why the Justice Department -- notably cautious under Attorney General Merrick Garland -- decided to take such a drastic step...

On Saturday, while exploring the Tom Moore cave system in Perry County, Missouri, a group of cavers came across a lost dog alone in the dark. Gerry Keene was with a group of experienced cavers, five of them children. The plan was to go from the Berome Moore entrance and move through a mile of caves and emerge at the Tom Moore entrance. However, about 20 minutes after entering the cave, the group found the dog...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Missouri gathered enough signatures to make it on the November ballot, the secretary of state announced Tuesday. Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft also said a proposal to allow ranked-choice voting failed to collect the roughly 170,000 voter signatures from six of the state's eight congressional districts to get on the ballot...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2022. There are 143 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 10, 1945, a day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Imperial Japan conveyed its willingness to surrender provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged. (The Allies responded the next day, saying they would determine the Emperor's future status.)...

Lord Jesus, may our focus be on your kingdom and not our own selfish interests. Amen.

I'm a lucky American. Thanks to my wife Colleen's job as a travel agent, in the last two weeks I've been to Europe and back. I was able to tag along with Colleen, as I often do, when she took a group of tourists to France's Bordeaux wine country. While I was gone things looked like they were starting to improve a little at home...

Near the corner of Lexington Avenue and Abbey Road in Cape Girardeau stands a single bicycle, painted white, and chained to a city sign that cautions drivers to share the road with cyclists. The memorial is a painful reminder of a crash that took place July 7 when local tattoo and mural artist John "Johnny" Thurman, 41, was riding a Takara Horizon bicycle and was struck by a 2007 Lexus ES250. ...

In 2015, Donald Trump burst on the scene with a megaphone, a populist message, an army of grassroots supporters -- and not much else. If he runs for the Republican nomination again, as seems likely, it will be different. Early in his first presidential campaign, he had to be grateful for every small crumb of support from Republican officialdom -- an endorsement from then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, or former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie...

NEW YORK -- Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced "You Can't Hurry Love," "Heat Wave" and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n A warrant arrest was reported. DWI n Driving while intoxicated and no headlights were reported on Boulder Crest Drive. Thefts n Theft was reported...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Imogene Lorene Ritter, 85, of St. Mary, Missouri, died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, surrounded by her beloved family at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. There will be a moment of prayer on Friday, at 7 p.m. with Brother Don Estes officiating...

Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press's entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. ...

PINGTUNG, Taiwan -- Taiwan warned Tuesday that Chinese military drills aren't just a rehearsal for an invasion of the self-governing island but also reflect ambitions to control large swaths of the western Pacific, as Taipei conducted its own exercises to underscore it's ready to defend itself...

MEXICO CITY -- They call him "El Jefe," he is at least 12 years old and his crossing of the heavily guarded U.S.-Mexico border has sparked celebrations on both sides. "El Jefe" -- or "The Boss" -- is one of the oldest jaguars on record along the frontier, one of few known to have crossed a border partly lined by a wall and other infrastructure to stop drug traffickers and migrants, and the one believed to have traveled the farthest, say ecologists of the Borderlands Linkages Initiative, a binational collaboration of eight conservation groups.. ...

JERUSALEM -- Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted during an arrest raid in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The shootout came a day after a cease-fire ended three days of fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip...

WASHINGTON -- After Russia invaded Ukraine last February, the European Union moved to block RT and Sputnik, two of the Kremlin's top channels for spreading propaganda and misinformation about the war. Nearly six months later, the number of sites pushing that same content has exploded as Russia found ways to evade the ban. ...

KYIV, Ukraine -- In a growing challenge to Russia's grip on occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine, guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing up bridges and trains, and helping the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea and sent towering clouds of smoke over the landscape Tuesday in what may mark an escalation of the war in Ukraine. At least one person was killed and several others were wounded, authorities said...

The birds no longer sing, and the herbs no longer grow. The fish no longer swim in rivers that have turned a murky brown. The animals do not roam, and the cows are sometimes found dead. The people in this northern Myanmar forest have lost a way of life that goes back generations. But if they complain, they, too, face the threat of death...

WASHINGTON -- Americans may finally be catching a break from relentlessly surging prices -- if just a slight one -- even as inflation is expected to remain painfully high for months. Thanks largely to falling gas prices, the government's inflation report for July, to be released this morning, is expected to show that prices jumped 8.7% from a year earlier -- still a sizzling pace but a slowdown from the 9.1% year-over-year figure in June, which was the highest in four decades...

DETROIT -- A tax credit of up to $7,500 could be used to defray the cost of an electric vehicle under the Inflation Reduction Act now moving toward final approval in Congress. But the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won't qualify for a tax credit that large...

Police announced a breakthrough Tuesday in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, charging a man from Afghanistan -- himself a Muslim -- with two of the slayings and identifying him as a prime suspect in the other killings that put the entire community on edge...

CONCORD, N.H. -- A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in a head-on collision in northern New Hampshire that exposed fatal flaws in the processing of license revocations across states. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, was found innocent on seven counts of manslaughter, seven counts of negligent homicide and one count of reckless conduct in connection with the June 21, 2019, crash in Randolph. ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. health officials on Tuesday authorized a plan to stretch the nation's limited supply of monkeypox vaccine by giving people just one-fifth the usual dose, citing research suggesting the reduced amount is about as effective. The so-called dose-sparing approach also calls for administering the Jynneos vaccine with an injection just under the skin rather than into deeper tissue -- a practice that may rev up the immune system better. ...

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- A Black family says racism prompted officials at a suburban Kansas City water park to cancel a private pool party for their 17-year-old son's birthday during the weekend. Chris Evans said he signed a contract with Summit Waves Aquatic Facility in Lee's Summit to host 250 people for the party on Saturday. But when his sons arrived at the park they were told the reservation was canceled and were not given a reason, Evans said at a news conference Tuesday...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri man has been charged with shooting and killing his neighbor following an argument over lawn mowing, bringing to an end years of hostility between the two, officials said. Samuel Avery, 42, of Kansas City, was charged Monday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the killing of 41-year-old Warner Trotter, who was shot in his head on his front porch, the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office said. Trotter was declared dead at a hospital...

JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, most likely closing the case that shocked a nation and galvanized the modern civil rights movement...

NEW HAMBURG, Mo. -- A time capsule, tucked away Sept. 14, 1948, behind the altar of St. Lawrence Catholic Church in New Hamburg, is opened, kicking off a year-long celebration commemorating the church's 150th anniversary; the capsule is a metal lock box wrapped with brown paper; inside the locked box are financial records, correspondence and a sermon from 1948...

Mary E. Seabaugh, 70, of Whitewater passed away Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. She was born April 8, 1952, in New Madrid, Missouri, to Eddie W. and Lillian Gambles Clark. Mary was a graduate of New Madrid High School. She was employed at Holiday Inn and Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau and worked as a private caregiver...

Wakefield Townhomes, situated at 802 W Wakefield Ave in Sikeston, MO, recently sold to a Missouri-native investor who plans to reposition the property through making significant capital improvements to the property. The transaction was brokered by Waller Group, and the sale closed in under 60 days. Waller Group specializes in class b and c properties similar to Wakefield Townhomes, and the firm looks forward to further opportunity in the Southeastern Missouri region...