Stories from Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Westbound Highway 74 in Cape Girardeau — from Fountain Street in Cape Girardeau to Levee Road in East Cape Girardeau, Illinois — will be reduced to one lane with a 16-foot width restriction as Missouri Department of Transportation crews repair the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge. According to a MoDOT news release, the work will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 3 through 6...

If there's one thing college football brings to the fan table, it's excitement, and the 2022 Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks have provided an early season dose -- with more certainly to come. Coach Tom Matukewicz's team (1-1) will host Nicholls State University at 2 p.m. Saturday for the home opener...

A Cape Girardeau man has been charged following a shots-fired incident Sunday afternoon. Vincente V. Young was arrested by Cape Girardeau Police Department officers following a foot chase after officers responded to the 2800 block of Themis Street, according to a news release from the department...

With the 2022 St. Louis Cardinals closing in on a National League Central title and a return to the playoffs, a retired Southeast Missouri State University English professor will speak Thursday in his home state of Mississippi about baseball. Robert W. Hamblin, a member of SEMO's faculty for half a century, will speak on his self-published novel "When You Can Throw From Deep Short."...

After months of being in a "hurry up and wait mode" at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, there is significant movement on numerous fronts, airport manager Katrina Amos said. Amos gave an update on the new terminal project to the Airport Advisory Board at its regular monthly meeting...

When Shipyard Music Festival returns Sept. 23 and 24, it will feature music to suit all tastes. The two-day festival will again be held on the grounds of Century Casino Cape Girardeau. ...

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 14, the 257th day of 2022. There are 108 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him...

O Lord Jesus, we lift hands of praise, singing songs of worship to you. Amen.

Cape Girardeau is a treasure. It is so beautiful. Being the only inland cape in the USA is truly a special place. Our lifeblood Mississippi River brings power and energy to us. People are drawn here like a magnet to view the river's magnificence. The calming riverfront is therapeutic to citizens and visitors alike...

The ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive, if successful, could reshape the war and the geopolitical contours of Europe. It is a testament to Ukrainian pluck and staying power but, above all, to the advanced weapons that the West has put in the hands of the Ukrainians...

MEXICO CITY -- A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast. Archaeologist Octavio del Rio said he and fellow diver Peter Broger saw the shattered skull and skeleton partly covered by sediment in a cave near where the Mexican government plans to build a high-speed tourist train through the jungle...

WASHINGTON -- With only three months left in the year, the House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection. But the investigation is not over. The committee has already revealed much of its work at eight hearings over the summer, showing in detail how former President Donald Trump ignored many of his closest advisers and amplified his false claims of election fraud after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. ...

WASHINGTON -- Upending the political debate, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban Tuesday, sending shockwaves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on a fraught issue weeks before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress...

WASHINGTON -- The National Archives is still not certain that it has custody of all Donald Trump's presidential records even after the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago club, a congressional committee said in a letter Tuesday. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform revealed that staff at the Archives on an Aug. ...

NEW YORK -- Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem. What's also needed, Gates argues, are the kinds of innovations in farming technology that he has long funded to try to reverse the crisis documented in a report released Tuesday by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...

NEW DELHI -- Just hours before news of Queen Elizabeth II's death spread, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a fiery speech urging India to shed its colonial ties in a ceremony to rename a boulevard that once honored King George V. Rajpath, formerly called Kingsway, was a "symbol of slavery" under the British Raj, he said. Instead, under the newly named Kartavya Path that leads to the iconic India Gate, "a new history has been created," Modi beamed...

CHICAGO -- A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II. Members of Herbert "Bert" Jacobson's family waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the young man they knew about but never met. ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- When Don Cox was looking for a reliable place to build a family farm in the 1950s, he settled on California's Imperial Valley. The desert region had high priority water rights, meaning its access to water was hard for anyone to take away...

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Robbie Woodhouse's grandfather began nearly a century of family farming along the Gila River near Yuma in the middle 1920s when he dug up a bunch of mesquite stumps on his land to make way for his barley, wheat, Bermuda seed, cotton and melon fields...

The Rev. Matt Curry's parents were children of the Great Depression, just like "The Waltons" -- the beloved TV family whose prime-time series premiered 50 years ago. When Curry was growing up on a farm in northern Texas, his carpenter father and teacher mother often argued playfully over who had a poorer childhood...

GENEVA -- Jean-Luc Godard, the iconic "enfant terrible" of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first feature, "Breathless," and stood for years among the film world's most influential directors, died Tuesday. He was 91...

LONDON -- The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left the monarch's beloved Scotland and landed Tuesday evening in London, where crowds gathered along the route it will take to Buckingham Palace. Her son, King Charles III, returned to London from Northern Ireland, where his visit drew a rare moment of unity from politicians in a region with a contested British and Irish identity that is deeply divided over the monarchy...

KHARKIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing a counteroffensive that has produced major gains and a stunning blow to Moscow's military prestige. As the advance continued, Ukraine's border guard services said the army took control of Vovchansk -- a town just 2 miles from Russia seized on the first day of the war. Russia acknowledged that it has withdrawn troops from areas in the northeastern region of Kharkiv in recent days...

BRUSSELS -- European Union lawmakers have backed a proposal for a law that would ban the sale in the 27-nation bloc of agriculture products linked to the destruction of forests. MEPs gathered on Tuesday in Strasbourg, France, supported and strengthened a plan from the EU's executive arm with 453 votes to 57, and 123 abstentions...

YEREVAN, Armenia -- Fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan has killed about 100 troops as attacks on both sides Tuesday fed fears of broader hostilities breaking out between the longtime adversaries. Armenia said at least 49 of its soldiers were killed; Azerbaijan said it lost 50...

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, showing that agents earlier obtained a hard drive after issuing a subpoena for surveillance footage recorded inside Mar-a-Lago...

WASHINGTON -- Twitter's former security chief told Congress on Tuesday there was "at least one agent" from China's intelligence service on Twitter's payroll and the company knowingly allowed India to add agents to the company roster as well, potentially giving those nations access to sensitive data about users...

WASHINGTON -- Lower gas costs slowed U.S. inflation for a second straight month in August, but most other prices across the economy kept rising -- evidence inflation remains a heavy burden for American households. Consumer prices rose 8.3% from a year earlier and 0.1% from July. ...

ST. LOUIS -- A former star in a St. Louis-based "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" reality television show testified Tuesday that he was not involved in the killing of his nephew. James "Tim" Norman, 43, is accused of hiring two people to kill 21-year-old Andre Montgomery in March 2016 and then trying to cash a $450,000 life insurance policy he took out on his nephew in the months before he was killed...

ST. LOUIS -- Relatives of a 16-year-old who was fatally shot by St. Louis detectives are disputing the police account of the incident. Darryl Ross was shot Sunday night. Two detectives said they spotted several people with guns at a gas station and pulled onto the lot. The police report said the detectives -- in plain clothes but wearing bulletproof vests labeled "POLICE" -- announced themselves as officers...

A Christian boarding school in southwestern Missouri can remain open despite the state attorney general alleging a "dark pattern of behavior," a judge ruled Monday. Judge David Munton's ruling allows continued round-the-clock monitoring of Agape Boarding School in Stockton by Missouri child welfare workers. The school serves about 60 boys...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 12 n Medical assists were made at 12:26 a.m. on North Kingshighway; 8:50 a.m. on Quince Street; 10:59 a.m. on Aspen Drive; 12:59 p.m. on Notre Dame Drive; 5:15 p.m. on South Fountain Street; 6:27 p.m. on South Mount Auburn Road; and 10:53 p.m. on South Minnesota Avenue...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest n A warrant arrest was reported. Thefts n Burglary was reported on Village Drive. n Theft was reported on South Sprigg Street. n Theft was reported on Perry Avenue...

Willa Lee Zimmerman, 85, of Scott City died Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, at her home. Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at Assembly of God Church in Scott City, with the Rev. Randy Morse officiating. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City is in charge of arrangements...

Michael Kevin Turnbow, 63, of Jackson died Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, at his home, surrounded by his loved ones. He was born Oct. 2, 1958, in Sikeston, Missouri, to W.C. and Shirley Douglas Turnbow. Michael and Elizabeth Hagan Turnbow were married Dec. 31, 1994, in Gordonville...

Jory Len Smith, 67, of Jackson died Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, at his home. A memorial visitation will be from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Fairview General Baptist Church on County Road 253 in Advance, Missouri. The Rev. Ronnie Mactee will conduct a memorial service at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the church...

BRAZEAU, Mo. — Kathleen M. Reinwald, 97, of Brazeau, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 at Independence Care Center in Perryville, Missouri. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Visitation will continue from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Brazeau Presbyterian Church in Brazeau...

Suzanne Lee Jones Lewis departed her earthly life Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, at the age of 80. She was born Dec. 22, 1941, the daughter of Clarence Anderson and Frieda Dillingham Jones. Suzanne had worked in banking and as a teacher's aide and was a mother and homemaker...

CHAFFEE, Mo. — Patricia Hester, daughter of the late Ather Earls and Helen Spoor Earls, was born Dec. 2, 1936, in Morris, Illinois, and departed this life to be with the Lord on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, at Retirement Ranch in Clovis, New Mexico, at the age of 85 years...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — James J. Farrar, 72, of Perryville died Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Perryville. Visitation will be from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Shiloh Lutheran Cemetery in Farrar, Missouri...

EUREKA, Mo. — Albert Dane Drake Jr., 76, of Eureka died Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, at St. Andrew's at Francis Place. He was born Sept. 1, 1946, in Halfway, Missouri, to Albert Dane Drake Sr. and Mary Gladys Fletoffe. He and Mary Prevallet Drake were married at Manchester, Missouri, on Feb. 14, 1990...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Lenore Elizabeth Allen, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, in Englewood. Memorial service arrangements are pending and will be held at a later date. Mile High Mortuary & Cremation Service in Denver is assisting the family...

LaCroix United Methodist Church opens its children's and youth wing with an open house; the wing includes Noah's Playland, Bible Land, the Adventure Land, Promise Land, the Learning Center, Zone 56 and the Youth center; LaCroix is one of the fastest growing churches in the region...

Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president's impeachment and put Starr at the center of one of the country's most polarizing debates of the 1990s, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday...

On September 8, Guardian Angel School in Oran celebrated Mary, our Mother and the Mother of God. It was her birthday. The day started with Mass at 8 am with Father Kelly. After Mass, several students colored pictures for her and hung them in the hallway. ...