Stories from Friday, August 2, 2024

CHAFFEE — Chaffee German Days, a Chaffee local tradition, returns Friday, Aug. 9, and Saturday, Aug. 10, at Frisco Park...

The St. Louis Clydesdales First Responder baseball team will be bringing its brand of “backyard baseball” to Cape Girardeau’s Capaha Field at the end of this month...

The Cape Girardeau Police Department revealed during the Gun Violence Task Force meeting Thursday, Aug. 1, at City Hall, it is acquiring a new K-9 that can find firearms...

Southeast Missouri State University’s successful cybersecurity program is receiving a major upgrade with its new cyber command center, which is expected to be completed in the coming weeks...

A Farmington man has been charged with several crimes involving recent break-ins at the Knights of Columbus in Cape Girardeau. A release from Cape Girardeau Police Department says officers conducted a traffic stop at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, in Cape Girardeau and made contact with Nathan Wright, 44...

The city’s water treatment facility has been the topic of much discussion in recent months and for good reason. This 91-year-old facility has had numerous upgrades and renovations over the years, but the time has come for the city to launch a major overhaul of various components of the whole system, beginning at the intake of well water all the way to the distribution water lines throughout the city...

Missouri’s Back-to-School Sales Tax holiday will come to Cape Girardeau on Friday, Aug. 2 through Sunday, Aug. 4. Back-to-school purchases such as clothing and school supplies are exempt from sales tax for the time period. The sales tax exemption is statewide, with local jurisdictions — municipalities and counties — no longer having the ability to opt out of participating. In the past, the City of Cape Girardeau usually did not participate.

What does it look like to be an older American? Too often in our youth-obsessed American society, we don’t get to know, or we see a stereotypical version of the experience, or others speak for people who are in the retired demographic. But we want to learn directly from the people who are a part of this group. ...

I’m going to share a little secret with you: Don’t tell anyone, but a few months ago, I realized I had — gasp! — lost my love for reading. Shocking, isn’t it? I mean, reading had always been my favorite hobby. I’d been happily reading four to seven books a week for more decades than I care to admit, I chose to major in English as an undergraduate and to earn a Master’s degree in English, I spent several decades trying to persuade students in my English classes to love reading as much as I did, and I write a column based on reading books. ...

Ted Haertling, born and raised in Perryville, Mo., says he grew up in a tight-knit family. The middle child of three, he remembers cooking with his mom in the kitchen and helping his dad smoke hogs for the whole neighborhood. Whether it was a graduation party, fundraiser or something at church, the events always centered around the food being served. ...

Jackson Family Barber Shop has been operating in uptown Jackson for 128 years, making it the oldest barber shop in Cape Girardeau County. Throughout the years, the name, ownership and even location have changed, but the top-quality service and barbershop feel remain the same. According to current owner and master barber Matt Sullivan, “It’s more than just a haircut. It’s family.”...

Transcription is vital to archival work. Archivists fight a continual battle against deterioration, and the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center is no exception. Paper and electronic records alike will slowly degrade, and information loss can happen, which is very bad...

Have you ever gazed into the evening sky? Or seen the morning fog nestled in the hills? Have you ever seen a majestic eagle fly?Mbr> Or a monarch butterfly dressed in all its frills? Have you ever heard the gurgle of the mountain stream?...

My name is Shandy Elfrink, and I am a 17-year-old senior at Leopold High School. Yet, this summer, I had the excellent opportunity to live on a college campus and earn college credits, all while meeting new people and earning a full-tuition scholarship to Murray State University in Murray, Ky., through a program known as CHA...

“You must have hooked a snapper!” I remember my grandfather shouting as we jumped into a small row-boat on the edge of the pond. “Keep that line tight!” he said, as my Donald Duck fishing pole bent under the strain of hooking the bottom-dwelling leviathan...

1974 50 years ago On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States. Faced with the inevitability of his impeachment and removal from office due to the Watergate scandal and with public opinion having turned decisively against him, Nixon decided to resign. ...

Today is Friday, Aug. 2, the 215th day of 2024. There are 151 days left in the year. Today in history: On August 2, 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious “Black Sox” scandal (though they would be banned from Major League Baseball for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis)...

Heavenly Father, thank you that through your son Jesus we can have eternal life. Amen.

Many successful, confident, driven adults can point to a teacher along the way who championed and inspired and encouraged them. Might have been an English teacher who helped a student get over a fear of speaking to a group.

__Catch speeders__ Where are the police with their radar detection equipment? The people who live on the side streets of William Street who have to listen to drag races aren't impressed. Please do something about it. It's beginning to sound like the Indy 500 on William Street.

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 31 n Medical assists were made at 8:17 a.m. on Bessie Street; 11:35 a.m. on South West End Boulevard; 1:11 p.m. on South Silver Springs Road; 1:28 p.m. at Themis Street and North Silver Springs Road; 3 p.m. on Clark Avenue; 5:54 p.m. on Brucher Street; and 6:47 p.m. on South West End Boulevard. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n A warrant arrest was reported on South Kingshighway. ...

Rick Murphy, 70, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at his home. He was born Jan. 18, 1954, in Sacramento, California, to Hubert and Helen Clark Murphy. He and Patricia Jean Spencer were married July 1, 2000, in Scott City. ...

PERRYVILLE — Robert Lowell Dunker, 74, of Perryville died Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Military honors will be provided by American Legion Post No. 133.

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri is banning the sale of drinks, candy and other foods made with hemp-derived intoxicating substances, Republican Gov. Mike Parson announced in an an executive order issued Thursday. The ban kicks in Sept. 1. Parson cited health concerns and lack of research on Delta-8 THC and similar unregulated CBD substances...

JEFFERSON CITY — Exonerees and advocates on Thursday called out Missouri’s Republican attorney general for pushing for a man’s impending execution despite efforts by the local prosecutor to overturn the man's murder conviction. Marcellus Williams is scheduled to die Sept. 24, roughly a month after a planned Aug. 21 hearing before a St. Louis County court judge to determine whether he’s innocent...

ST. LOUIS — A deep-pocketed pro-Israel super PAC that helped defeat one member of the congressional group known as the Squad is now pushing to oust another — Missouri Democrat Cori Bush. Bush, of St. Louis, has been a vocal critic of how Israel responded when attacked by Hamas in October, calling the Israeli retaliation an “ethnic cleansing campaign,” and she was among the few House members who opposed a resolution supporting Israel. ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The stakes grew higher for Venezuela's electoral authority to show proof backing its decision to declare President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the country's presidential election after the United States on Thursday recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González as the victor, discrediting the official results of the highly anticipated vote...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has found tremendous success from the very first moment he stepped onto the presidential stage by stoking racial animus. Democrats expressed new outrage this week at the former president's derisive and false charge that Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage, only recently “turned Black” for political gain. Some Republicans — even from within Trump's own campaign — seemed to distance themselves from the comment...

LAS VEGAS — Four Las Vegas teenagers accused in the fatal beating of their high school classmate have agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a deal that will keep them from being tried as adults, lawyers said Thursday. The teens originally were charged in January as adults with second-degree murder and conspiracy in the November death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis Jr. Cellphone video of the fatal beating was shared across social media...

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said Thursday that it has confirmed that the head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July. The announcement came a day after an apparent Israeli strike in the Iranian capital killed Hamas’ top political leader...

BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s leader warned Thursday that the conflict with Israel has entered a “new phase,” as he addressed mourners at the funeral of a commander from the group who was killed by an Israeli airstrike this week in Beirut. Meanwhile in Tehran, Iran’s supreme leader prayed over the body of Hamas’ political leader, who was killed in a presumed Israeli assassination...

NEW YORK — Two months after his felony conviction, Donald Trump still isn’t allowed to say everything he wants about his historic hush money criminal case. After a New York appeals court upheld his gag order Thursday, he won’t be for a while. The state’s mid-level appellate court denied the Republican former president and current nominee's latest bid to lift the restrictions, swatting away a last-minute argument that he's unfairly muzzled while Vice President Kamala Harris, his likely Democratic opponent, pits herself as an ex-prosecutor taking on a “convicted felon.”. ...

HOUSTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday eulogized longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee as a “force of nature” as memorials for the longtime Democratic lawmaker drew to a close. Harris took time away from her presidential campaign to describe Jackson Lee, who represented Houston in Congress, as a coalition builder and expert in the legislative process. Harris joked about hiding in the hall when Jackson Lee walked by because the lawmaker was so intense...

Two homes in Cape Girardeau have been added to the National Register of Historic Places, bringing the city’s number of recognized listings to 14; the homes are the Pott house, a late Victorian and Italianate design at Themis and Pacific streets, that is owned by Steven and Emily Mellies, and the Shivelbine house, an Industrial Revolution and Victorian-style dwelling at 300 S. Spanish St., owned by Charles and Adele Kupchella. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests • A warrant arrest was reported on South Kingshighway. • A warrant arrest was reported on North Kingshighway. • A warrant arrest was reported on William Street...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 31 • Medical assists were made at 8:17 a.m. on Bessie Street; 11:35 a.m. on South West End Boulevard; 1:11 p.m. on South Silver Springs Road; 1:28 p.m. at Themis Street and North Silver Springs Road; 3 p.m. on Clark Avenue; 5:54 p.m. on Brucher Street; and 6:47 p.m. on South West End Boulevard...

Shawn Patrick Wilson, 52, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, June 3, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 4, 1971, in Poplar Bluff to Charles Howard and Peggy Ann Dildine Wilson. Shawn was a loving son, father, brother, nephew, cousin and friend...

Tonita "Toni" Ann Wilburn, 86, of Kelso died Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 1, 1937, in Mounds, Illinois, the daughter of Robert Cleo and Juanita Marie Holderfield Moore. Tonita married Troy Wilburn of Mounds City, Illinois, on June 29, 1954, in Mounds. From the moment they met, they knew they were destined to be together and risked everything to do just that...

Thelma Marie Welland, 91, of Perryville, Missouri passed away Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. Visitation will be from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Monday, Aug. 5, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Monday, August 5, at the church, with Rev. Jay Jung officiating. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville...

Glenn Erwin Kroenung, 84, of Cape Girardeau passed away at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, July 27, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau with his family by his side. He was born June 12, 1940, in St. Louis to Erwin and Irma Albrecht Kroenung. He married Barbara Brockmeier on May 13, 1961, in Creve Coeur, and she survives. They enjoyed 63 years of marriage...

1999 Delays in building renovations and new construction won’t cause a delay in the start of classes for the Cape Girardeau School District; superintendent Dr. Dan Steska says Cape Girardeau’s public schools will open on schedule Aug. 26, despite slow construction on projects at three schools — Alma Schrader, Clippard and the new Blanchard School...