Stories from Wednesday, May 8, 2024

The upcoming Business Center is a significant milestone that marks a pivotal moment in the organization’s history as it continues to expand its mission of providing top-quality care and support to individuals on their journey to recovery. The property, first purchased in 1989 for future expansion, is now set to accommodate between 80 to 100 employees. ...

Route C in Scott County — between Highway 91 and Route H near Morley — will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as construction crews make pavement repairs. According to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release, the work will take place daily from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Tuesday, May 28, through Monday, June 24...

A late-night traffic stop resulted in the arrest of a convicted thief and the seizure of stolen goods from a storage unit as well as methamphetamine, police say...

A fire started by an electrical issue destroyed a Scott City home and has displaced a family of five...

Oak Ridge’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter received national honors at the 96th annual Missouri State FFA Convention...

We’re living during an interesting period of time. There’s certainly no shortage of challenges, whether it’s workforce recruiting, inflation, or a myriad of other issues. But it’s also a fascinating time. The pace of innovation is increasing exponentially. Artificial intelligence, for example, continues to impact industries from health care to media to banking and retail, just to name a few...

The Jackson Board of Aldermen annexed and rezoned a parcel of land containing the future site of Trussworks Jackson LLC during its Monday, May 6, meeting...

The Public Works Department and Alliance Water Resources outlined years worth of improvements needed for the city’s water treatment plant and distribution system to the City Council on Monday, May 6...

It has been almost three weeks since Taylor Swift released her newest album, “The Tortured Poets Department”, on April 19. According to www.billboard.com, the album was streamed over 1.76 billion times worldwide in its first week, breaking the global streaming record. Swift is huge worldwide as everyone knows, but how is Missouri stacking up?...

Today is Wednesday, May 8, the 129th day of 2024. There are 237 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 8, 1996, South Africa took another step from apartheid to democracy by adopting a constitution that guaranteed equal rights for Blacks and whites...

Lord Jesus, may we seek you through prayer and reading your Word. Amen.

For young people who haven’t experienced embarking on a career or starting a family, graduation is one of the first major life goals reached. Years of effort culminate in a walk across a stage to the applause of peers, family and friends.

Jackson schools The Jackson school administration continues to double down on their failed arguments trying to raise taxes. Listen, we all know property taxes went up so your related revenue was commensurate. We all know that schools are fully open seven months a year, so teacher pay should be commensurate to the days worked. We all know that Gordonville and Millersville schools were going to be closed. We all know how much administrators make. We all know how much the football and soccer fields cost, and that they’re not “maintenance free”.

Hi y’all! What a week it has been in Jefferson City. It’s hard to wrap up all the political drama that took place, including a multi-day filibuster, but the bottom line is that multiple measures to improve and protect rural health care access have moved forward in the Senate this week.

At 10 years old, Rob Henderson reached the following conclusion: "As far as I was concerned, adults were unreliable liars. With each new family, new parent and new rejection, grief, anger and loneliness accrued within me." Henderson writes of the upbringing that led to this despairing insight in his powerful new book, "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class."

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. May 6 n Medical assists were made at 1:58 a..m. on South Hanover Street; 7:34 a.m. on Haddock Street; 12:54 p.m. on Timon Way; 1:23 p.m. on South Henderson Avenue; 3:13 p.m. on Blattner Drive; and 11:34 p.m. on Kingsbury Drive. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on North Sprigg Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on North Sprigg Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on North Silver Springs Road. ...

Scott J. Geringer, 67, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 4, 2024, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He was born March 14, 1957, in Cape Girardeau to Sylvester and Hannah Geringer. He and Lena Geringer were married July 22, 2005, in Cape Girardeau. ...

Gary Franklin England, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at his home. Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday, May 10, at Discover Life Church in Cape Girardeau. ...

Tax liens and lien discharges recorded at the office of Drew Blattner, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds, during April are filed by the Missouri Department of Revenue, except as indicated by IRS designation. ...

DALLAS -- Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice is suspected of assault in Dallas a little over a month after he was one of the speeding drivers in a chain-reaction crash that led to multiple charges, according to a newspaper report Tuesday. Law enforcement officials told The Dallas Morning News that Rice was suspected of assaulting a person at a downtown nightclub early Monday, and that the person went to a hospital after the encounter...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Seven more Republican-led states sued Tuesday to challenge a new federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation's schools. Republican plaintiffs call the effort to fold protection for transgender students under the 1972 Title IX law unconstitutional...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Paintbrush in hand, Anastasiya Sereda is working on a painting of a chubby-faced panda in the uniform of a Ukrainian soldier. Propped on her easel is the reason why -- a photo of her boyfriend Bohdan, a burly serviceman with a gentle smile...

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to European ally Serbia on Tuesday falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during NATO's air war over Kosovo. U.S. jets dropped five bombs on the Chinese Embassy compound in the Serbian capital on May 7, 1999, setting it ablaze and killing three Chinese nationals. Twenty other people were injured in the bombing, which has burdened relations between the two powers ever since...

TikTok and its Chinese parent company filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new American law that would ban the popular video-sharing app in the U.S. unless it's sold to an approved buyer, saying it unfairly singles out the platform and is an unprecedented attack on free speech...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- The U.S. Air Force said an airman based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida, was shot and killed Friday during an incident involving a sheriff's deputy. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, died at his off-base residence, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement released Monday...

IRVING, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America announced after 114 years that it will change its name and will become Scouting America in an effort to emphasize inclusion as it works to move past the turmoil of bankruptcy and a flood of sexual abuse claims...

MEXICO CITY -- The mother of two Australian surfers killed in Mexico delivered a moving tribute to her sons Tuesday at a beach in San Diego. "Our hearts are broken and the world has become a darker place for us," Debra Robinson said, fighting back tears. "They were young men enjoying their passion of surfing together."...

DETROIT -- Severe storms battered the Midwest on Tuesday, unleashing a curtain of heavy rain, gusty winds and tornadoes throughout the region a day after a deadly twister ripped through a small Oklahoma town and killed at least one person. Tornadoes were spotted after dark Tuesday in parts of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, while portions of Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri were also under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service...

DENVER -- A bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado's Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew of other gun control bills on the 25th anniversary year of the Columbine High School massacre...

AMSTERDAM -- Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists spread across Europe on Tuesday as some called for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza, while schools increasingly faced the question under debate in the U.S.: Allow or intervene?...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of the U.S., a senior administration official said Tuesday...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation...

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden on Tuesday decried a "ferocious surge" in antisemitism on college campuses and around the globe in the months since Hamas attacked Israel and triggered a war in Gaza, using a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust to also denounce new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews...

CHICAGO -- Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who had initially adopted a permissive approach said the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about safety. University President Paul Alivisatos acknowledged the school's role as a protector of freedom of speech after officers in riot gear blocked access to the school's Quad but also took an enough-is-enough stance...

CAIRO -- Israeli troops seized control of Gaza's vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-scale invasion of the southern city and talks with Hamas over a cease-fire and hostage release remain on a knife's edge...

NEW YORK -- With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid to keep silent during the presidential race 10 years later...

A bill that includes $4.6 million for the River Campus project is on its way to the governor; the Missouri Legislature yesterday gave final approval to a capital improvements spending bill that includes money for the Southeast Missouri State University’s arts campus; lawmakers also included $650,000 for a new Cape Girardeau vocational-technical school and $50,000 for added parking lot at the Cape Girardeau veterans home. ...

Thanks to David Tlapek who wrote story about woman who got a ride from the kind diaper man for her kindergartener. He was my uncle, Paul Raymer from Farmington. And yes, he was a jolly, generous man. Thanks for the story.