Stories from Friday, July 14, 2023

Becky Wiginton loves Marble Hill, Missouri. She doesn’t just say it. She shows it through countless hours spent volunteering, serving as Bollinger County Chamber president, coordinating community-wide holiday celebrations and running her own small businesses...

Summer Slaycation will be returning to Ebb and Flow Fermentations, 11 S. Spanish St., on Saturday, July 15. The Slaycation will be from 4 to 10 p.m. There will be a $10 fee at the gate for those 16 and older. All ages are welcome to this night of music...

Radio station WIBH is giving away free children's shoes purchased through the annual Warm Soles, New Hope Campaign to children in need in Southern Illinois. Shoes are available free of charge in sizes 7 toddler to 5 kids through the Children's Medical and Mental Health Resource Network (CMMHRN) in Anna, Arrowleaf in Vienna and all Southern 7 Head Start locations to children living in Southern Illinois affected by abuse, neglect, disaster and family need...

A two-vehicle crash snarled noon-hour traffic Thursday, July 13, in Cape Girardeau. The crash, which damaged the front end of both vehicles, occurred at about 12:30 p.m. at the intersection of Broadway and North West End Boulevard...

Previous intern Savannah Edwards is Old Town Cape's new volunteer and event coordinator. Edwards is a Southeast Missouri State University alumna. She graduated in December with a bachelor's in public relations and a minor in marketing and general psychology. She was previously an intern at Old Town Cape and has returned because of her passion for downtown Cape Girardeau and the community, she said in a release...

Family-owned and St. Louis-based Schnucks Markets will not see a strike by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union Local 88, both sides announced Tuesday, July 11. Terms of the three-year pact, which passed with 87% approval and runs through March 29, 2026, were not disclosed...

Jacob Turner of Jackson has thrown his hat in the ring in a 2024 bid to succeed District 27 state Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder of Scott City. District 27 incorporates the following Missouri counties: Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Perry, Reynolds and Scott...

The sixth annual Dancing with Show Me Stars will take place Saturday, July 29, at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. The event is a fundraiser for Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri (CPSEMO), and is based on the ABC television dance competition "Dancing with the Stars", which partners celebrities with professional dancers to perform choreographed routines judged by a panel of ballroom experts...

OK, you’re gonna face some of your worst fears. Like water. Tight spaces. Water in tight spaces. Electric shock. Heights. You're going to test your endurance like you do when running a long race, but you might feel like this is some combination of Halloween night frights and army basic training — think of that show American Ninja Warrior with a twist of Ted Lasso and a dash of Fear Factor. It’s a spicy concoction of grit, cooperation and voluntary torture...

Healthy Blue is celebrating the reopening of its Cape Girardeau Welcome Center with a ribbon-cutting Tuesday, July 25. ARRAY(0x55869def5780) Healthy Blue community relations representative Zedrick Mitchell said the building had a grand opening before Missouri Care's name changed to Healthy Blue...

Today is Friday, July 14, the 195th day of 2023. There are 170 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 14, 2004, the Senate scuttled a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, with 48 senators voting to advance the measure -- 12 short of the 60 needed -- and 50 voting to block it...

O Lord Jesus, may we love others as you love us. Amen.

President Joe Biden has played his cards: all bluff, no aces. Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit accused of what Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty calls "the most massive attack against free speech in United States history." Yet the appeal Biden filed on Monday is devoid of even one winning argument in his own defense. Count on it to go nowhere. Biden's been caught red-handed violating the U.S. Constitution...

Many years ago, an editor sent a young journalist to cover a ho-hum public hearing at the local U.S. Forest Service office. The topic of the hearing was controlled burns, fires intentionally set by Forest Service personnel to lower the chance of wildfires while maintaining forest health...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 12 n Medical assists were made at 3:48 a.m. on Themis Street; 9:45 a.m. on Independence Street; 12:03 p.m. on William Street; 1:19 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 2:07 p.m. on Keystone Drive; 3:14 p.m. on Beavercreek Drive; 5:08 p.m. on West Rodney Drive; and 8:40 p.m. on South Ellis Street...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n A warrant arrest was reported. Assault n Fourth-degree assault, theft from a building and second-degree property damage were reported on Wisteria Drive...

SAINT CHARLES, Mo. — David Lee Cato passed away Saturday, July 8, 2023, at SSM Saint Joseph Medical Center in Saint Charles. He was born April 11, 1936, to the late Rosetta Statler and the late James Cato. David was married to Laura Jean Williams for 46 years until she preceded him in death...

ST. LOUIS -- Federal investigators Thursday began the task of trying to determine what caused a Greyhound bus crash in Southern Illinois that killed three passengers. The accident just before 2 a.m. Wednesday happened when the bus carrying a driver and 22 passengers slammed into three tractor-trailers parked along an Interstate 70 exit ramp near St. Louis...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian officials said air defenses shot down 20 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia mostly at the Kyiv region early Thursday, but wreckage fell on four districts of the capital, wounding two people and destroying several homes...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian civilians woke long before dawn in the bitter cold, lined up for the single toilet and were loaded at gunpoint into the livestock trailer. They spent the next 12 hours or more digging trenches on the front lines for Russian soldiers...

ATHENS, Greece -- Tourists in central Athens huddled under mist machines and zoo animals in Madrid were fed fruit popsicles Thursday as southern Europeans suffered through a heat wave that was projected to get much worse heading into the weekend. Temperatures in parts of Mediterranean Europe were forecast to reach as high as 113 F starting Friday...

HELSINKI -- The itinerary included a NATO summit, a brief stop in the United Kingdom and a coda in the Finnish shoreline capital that included a news conference in the ornate Gothic Hall at the presidential palace. The president was Donald Trump and the year was 2018. ...

Vermont prepared for the next round of storms -- and possibly a tornado -- as people took advantage of calm weather Thursday to clean up from historic flooding that damaged thousands of homes, businesses and roads, and left some residents stranded. As floodwaters receded, the good news was that there were no new rescue missions, dams were holding up and more roads reopened. ...

WASHINGTON -- No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in a lobby at the White House last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis, and surveillance footage of the area didn't identify a suspect, according to a summary of the Secret Service investigation obtained by The Associated Press. There are no leads on who brought the drugs into the building...

LOS ANGELES -- Leaders of Hollywood's actors' union voted Thursday to join screenwriters in the first joint strike in more than six decades, shutting down production across the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with studios and streaming services broke down...

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators Thursday approved the nation's first over-the-counter birth control pill in a landmark decision that will soon allow American women and girls to obtain contraceptive medication as easily as they buy aspirin and eyedrops...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- More than a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings Thursday as a blistering heat wave that's been baking the nation spread farther into California, forcing residents to seek out air conditioning or find other ways to stay cool in triple-digit temperatures...

St. Louis Federal Reserve bank president James Bullard, one of the most hawkish members of the central bank since it started its aggressive rate-hiking campaign, is stepping down. Bullard is leaving his position as president and CEO of the St. Louis Fed to become the inaugural dean of the Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business at Purdue University next month, the bank announced Thursday...

An already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday...

LOS ANGELES -- Lisa Marie Presley died from complications from bariatric surgery she had several years ago, authorities said Thursday. The January 12 death at age 54 of the singer, songwriter and heir of Elvis Presley was ruled as being from natural causes due to effects of a small bowel obstruction...

PITTSBURGH -- The gunman who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 is eligible for the death penalty, a federal jury announced Thursday, setting the stage for further evidence and testimony on whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison...

ST. LOUIS -- The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area in the mid-20th century were aware of health risks, spills, improperly stored contaminants and other problems but often ignored them, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press...

Helen Gannon, who runs an organization called St. Louis Irish Arts, has brought those arts to Cape Girardeau this week for a one-week workshop at Southeast Missouri State University's Parker Hall; about 30 students have enrolled in classes to learn Irish dance, harp, fiddle, tin whistle and the Irish drum called a bodhran...

When Premier Physical Therapy opened its doors, one of the goals was to help attract students and let them learn in our environment. Over the years, we have had numerous students come in and out of our doors, and hired several of them. One of the most common positions our training SEMO students come in to fulfill is a "Junior." Many of these students are pursuing a Physical Therapy or Occupational Therapy degree. ...