Stories from Tuesday, March 14, 2023

A cyclist sustained injuries Monday afternoon, March 13, in a collision with a vehicle. The crash occurred on North Mount Auburn Road near Beaver Creek Drive, according to Cape Girardeau Police Department. The cyclist was transported to a local hospital...

An apartment fire Sunday morning, March 12, in Cape Girardeau left two injured. No smoke detectors were operating on the premises at the time of the fire, fire Chief Randy Morris Jr. said in a release. Some were present but others appeared to have been removed, the release said...

The Cape Girardeau Police Department has credited another fugitive arrest to its new camera system. An officer conducted a traffic stop the morning of March 7. During the stop, the driver of the vehicle — later identified as Ericonta Flenoid, 40, of Cape Girardeau — sped away before the officer could get his information, according to a Facebook post from the police department...

Southeast Missouri State University announced Monday, March 13, the creation of a needs-based scholarship in memory of 1971 SEMO graduate and business leader Walt Wildman, who died Oct. 20 at age 77. Wildman, an Air Force veteran, held executive positions with Regional Commerce and Growth Association, Habitat for Humanity, I-66 Transamerica Highway Project, Empower America, Boy Scouts of America and Easter Seals Society...

CHICAGO — Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law Monday that will take effect next year. Starting Jan. 1, Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence as long as they provide notice in accordance with reasonable employer standards...

HERMANN, Mo. — The search for the man suspected of killing one small-town Missouri police officer and badly injuring another ended Monday after police fired tear gas into the home, and arrested the man when he came outside. The shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. ...

Southeast Missouri State University multimedia journalism student April Styer had a plan for her trip to New York City to cover the CMAs for the school newspaper. See "Phantom of the Opera". Go to the 9/11 museum. Be on the "Today" show. Eat a real New York hot dog...

Average statewide gas prices jumped 5 cents to an average of $3.04 in the last week in what AAA suggests is a short-term upward bump because of the switch to summer-blend gasoline. Not to worry, said AAA spokesman Andrew Gross. "The blend switch may add 5 to 10 cents per gallon in the short term," Gross said, adding, "If demand and oil costs remain low, the recent price bounce may fade."...

Missouri's General Assembly has reached the halfway point of its current legislative session and is taking a one-week break until Monday, March 20. Only one bill has made it past both houses of the Legislature — a supplementary budget measure containing an 8.7% raise for state workers. On Feb. 28, Gov. Mike Parson ceremonially signed House Bill 14 at the Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau...

Today is Tuesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2023. There are 292 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry. On this date:...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A felony warrant arrest was reported on William Street. n Warrant arrest was reported on North Kingshighway. Thefts n Shoplifting was reported on Shirley Drive...

BENTON, Mo. — Jerry Peters, son of the late John Albert and Mabel Ann Woods Peters, was born Sept. 15, 1946, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed his life Sunday, March 12, 2023, at his home in Benton at the age of 76. He was a graduate of Charleston (Missouri) High School and Draughon Drafting College. ...

Wilma R. Ogles, 95, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 10, 2023, at Lutheran Home. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 18, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral will follow at noon Saturday, March 18, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Frank Burgess officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...

Heaven gained an angel Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, when Darrell Wayne McIntyre Sr. went to be with his savior, Jesus Christ. Darrell, or "Big D" as many called him, was born to Bernadette Eastabeook and Joe McIntyre on June 21, 1960, in Bell City, Missouri...

Elisabeth "Babs" Martin, 79, of Jackson died Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Villas of Jackson. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center, and from 10:30 a.m. to service time Thursday, March 16, at Emanuel United Church of Christ...

Linda Kesterson, daughter of the late William Joseph and Bertha Agnes Backfisch Glastetter, was born Aug. 8, 1951, in Cape Girardeau and departed her life Saturday, March 11, 2023, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri, at the age of 71...

Robert S. Browning, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, March 5, 2023, at Southeast Hospital. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral will follow at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Ellen Gurnon officiating...

Kenneth E. Bender, 97, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, March 12, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 16, at St. Andrew Lutheran Church. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday, March 17, at the church, with the Rev. John Dehne officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...

O Lord Jesus, may we first seek your kingdom and righteousness. Amen.

Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a Portland, Oregon good Samaritan confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered goods. More stunning, however, was the sheer outrage -- of the thieves! They pouted. They screamed. They resisted. How dare anyone stop them from stealing anything they wished...

JERUSALEM -- You walk into the Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem and the walls already seem to be closing in on you. That's by design. I've walked through the camps in Auschwitz and Dachau. At Yad Vashem, as Israel's museum is called, I didn't have the nerve to cry until we watched documentary footage of the liberation of some of the camps. ...

The invasion of Ukraine is a test. Do we want an international order based upon a set of laws and peaceful settlement of differences, or do we want to continue the present system of might makes right? Putin and Russia subdued Chechnya at an estimated cost of 60,000 lives. ...

EL PASO, Texas -- A large group of migrants in Mexico who were poised to barge into the U.S. over the weekend were blocked from crossing a bridge leading from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said. The migrants were "posing a potential threat to make a mass entry," and physical barriers were put up to restrict their entry at the Paso Del Norte International Bridge on Sunday afternoon, spokesman Roger Maier said in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday.. ...

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is allowing thousands of Ukrainians who fled their homeland when Russia invaded a year ago to stay in the United States longer, the administration said Monday. The decision provides relief to Ukrainians whose one-year authorization to remain in the U.S. was set to expire soon...

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- To outsiders, they looked like simple stacks of paper. But for Donald Trump's first presidential campaign, they represented a missed opportunity. A month before Iowa's 2016 presidential caucuses, mountains of so-called pledge cards sat in the corner of Trump's suburban Des Moines state headquarters. ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- The South Korean and U.S. militaries launched their biggest joint exercises in years Monday while North Korea said it tested submarine-fired cruise missiles in an apparent protest of the drills it views as an invasion rehearsal...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill to legalize sports betting in Kentucky won House passage Monday, setting up a Senate showdown on a proposal that creates divisions among the Republican supermajorities. Past efforts to legalize sports wagering in the Bluegrass State garnered House support but died in the Senate. It's a reflection of how divisive the gambling issue is in the state that's home to Churchill Downs in Louisville, where the Kentucky Derby is run...

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli parliament Monday advanced a bill that would make it harder to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the corruption charges against him, as it plowed ahead with a broader plan to overhaul the country's legal system in defiance of mass protests...

WATSONVILLE, Calif. -- Crews rushed to repair a levee break on a storm-swollen river in California's central coast as yet another atmospheric river arrived Monday with the potential to wallop the state's swamped farmland and agricultural communities...

Parts of the Northeast were bracing for a powerful winter storm that could dump heavy, wet snow and unleash strong winds, making travel difficult and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. The National Weather Service says the storm could begin late Monday and last into Wednesday. ...

NEW YORK -- Depositors withdrew savings and investors broadly sold off bank shares Monday as the federal government raced to reassure Americans that the banking system was secure after two bank failures fed fears that more financial institutions could fall...

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration said Monday it is approving a huge oil-drilling project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope, a major environmental decision by President Joe Biden that drew quick condemnation as flying in the face of his pledges to slow climate change...

BEIJING -- An agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to reestablish diplomatic relations has cast China in a leading role in Middle Eastern politics -- a part previously reserved for longtime global heavyweights like the U.S. and Russia. It's another sign that China's diplomatic clout is growing to match its economic footprint...

WASHINGTON -- The government inflation report being released Tuesday is expected to show that price acceleration in the United States remained chronically high in February, putting the Federal Reserve in an unusually tough position. The Fed had been considered sure to raise its benchmark interest rate by at least a quarter-point when it meets next week. ...

WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women's and family rights in Congress, died Monday night. She was 82. Schroeder's former press secretary, Andrea Camp, said Schroeder suffered a stroke recently and died at a hospital in Celebration, Florida, the city where she had been residing in recent years...

Auto thefts are up in Missouri but down in Cape Girardeau; despite the number of security devices available to deter auto thievery, 24,170 vehicles were reported stolen in Missouri during 1997, the Missouri Highway Patrol reports; that's an increase of 5% over 1996; in Cape Girardeau, however, the number of vehicle thefts fell from 135 in 1996 to 102 in 1997, city police reported...

McCLURE, Ill. — Patsy Ann Wiggs Dillon, 86, of McClure departed this world at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 11, 2023, at her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Aug. 21, 1936, to Claude Raymond and Roberta Cerny Wiggs in Anna, Illinois...