Stories from Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Scott City police have arrested a man in connection with a murder. According to a social media post from Scott City Police Department, Donald Harris has been charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest. ...

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden marked Memorial Day with a pledge that the country would continue the work of the nation's fallen toward a more perfect union, "for which they lived, and for which they died." Delivering remarks at a solemn remembrance ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Biden said each generation must ensure the sacrifice of the country's service members is not in vain...

“It was one of our bigger days,” National Weather Service-Paducah meteorologist Justin Gibbs stated, “It was a major severe weather outbreak.” The NWS tracked five major severe weather systems that struck Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky Sunday...

A series of powerful storms swept over the central and southern U.S. over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, killing at least 22 people and leaving a wide trail of destroyed homes, businesses and power outages. The destructive storms caused deaths in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky and were just north of an oppressive, early season heat wave setting records from south Texas to Florida...

Akitha Dias and Dulina Dias of Boy Scouts Troop 2 were recognized for their Eagle Scout project Monday, May 27, during the Avenue of Flags ceremony at Cape County Park North in Cape Girardeau.

Donald Harris Jr., the man charged with first-degree murder in Scott City on Sunday, May 26, had stopped by the police station three times before he was charged with killing his wife’s grandmother...

Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 149th day of 2024. There are 217 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne — were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada...

That is the question more and more people are asking. Like most things in life, the answer depends on the situation. However, the benefits of the Roth IRA are some of the best the government has donned on the American saver. Let’s first take a look at historical tax rates. ...

Deo Earl Wolfe, 93, of Jackson, passed away Sunday, May 26, 2024, at his home. He was born Sept. 8, 1930, in Columbia City, Indiana, the son of Herbert Edward and Mary Luella Humbarger Wolfe. Deo married Evelyn Simmons on June 29, 1962. She passed away Aug. 29, 1977. On Oct. 21, 1978, he married Mary Dell Dickerson Penrod. She preceded him in death Feb. 14, 1988. Deo married Janet Minner on April 12, 1990. She survives. ...

Gloria Ann Welker, 88, of Jackson is now resting in the arms of Jesus Christ, her Lord and Savior. She passed away Sunday, May 26, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 24, 1935, in Cape Girardeau to William R. and Bernice M. Sackrey Jackson. She and Leo W. “Red” Welker were married Dec. 23, 1950, at Maple Avenue Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau. They had been married 66 years when Red passed away April 10, 2017. ...

Richard Lynn “Rich” Jones, 66, of Jackson passed away Sunday, May 26, 2024, at his home. He was born Nov. 11, 1957, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Donald L. and Martha Steele Jones. He and Kim McCullough were married Dec. 21, 2002, in Jackson. Rich was a graduate of Chillicothe (Illinois) High School. ...

Joseph M. Bullard, 74, of Jackson died Saturday, May 25, 2024. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to service time Wednesday, May 29, at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The Rev. Mike Parry will conduct the funeral at noon Wednesday, May 29, at the funeral home. Private interment will follow. ...

After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: "There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought." No one would disagree, even though several officials of both hypocritical governments have previously threatened their neighbors with nuclear attacks. ...

"The stars will never be won by little minds," observed the great science fiction writer Robert Heinlein. If we aren’t careful, though, they just might be won by the scheming minds of governments hostile to the United States. A notable New York Times piece the other day reported that the "Pentagon is rushing to expand its capacity to wage war in space, convinced that rapid advances by China and Russia in space-based operations pose a growing threat to U.S. troops and other military assets on the ground and American satellites in orbit." ...

Respectfully, Tony Capobianco would do well to read Rich Lowry’s piece on Harrison Butker. A Catholic spoke Catholic values to Catholic people at a Catholic college. Harrison spoke truth, which set him up for much controversy. But he is a strong man and knows who and whose he is! ...

O God, may you continue to bless us and make your face shine upon us. Amen.

TEL AVIV, Israel -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a "tragic mistake" was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Friday's landslide and has formally asked for international help. The government figure is roughly triple the U.N. ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country's second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un's hopes to field satellites to monitor the U.S. and South Korea...

VIENNA -- Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, according to a confidential report on Monday by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the latest in Tehran's attempts to steadily exert pressure on the international community...

BRAINTREE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts man will be arraigned Tuesday on multiple charges including assault with the intent to murder after six people, including four girls at a movie theater, were stabbed in separate attacks, officials said. Jared Ravizza, 26, of Chilmark, a town on Martha's Vineyard, was arrested Saturday night after a police pursuit...

WASHINGTON -- Business is good at "the firm". The eight-person team at the State Department is leading Washington's efforts to ease the economic blowback for countries targeted by China. It emerged in the scramble to help Lithuania during a spat with China over Taiwan two years ago. Today, "the firm" is helping growing numbers of nations cope with what diplomats call economic coercion from Beijing...

WASHINGTON -- A top assassin for the Sinaloa drug cartel who was arrested by Mexican authorities last fall has been extradited to the U.S. to face drug, gun and witness retaliation charges, the Justice Department said Saturday. Nestor Isidro Perez Salas, also known as "El Nini," is a leader and commander of a group that provided security for the sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaqu'n "El Chapo" Guzmán, and also helped in their drug business, federal investigators said. ...

OPELIKA, Ala. -- On the second floor of a single-family home in a sprawling suburban development, a three-member production crew sat behind banks of computer monitors and guided the conservative Right Side Broadcasting Network's coverage of a recent Donald Trump rally...

The federal government recently reclassified race and ethnicity groups in an effort to better capture the diversity of the United States, but some groups feel the changes miss the mark. Hmong, Armenian, Black Arab and Brazilian communities in the U.S. ...

MADRID -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday secured from Spain a pledge of additional air defense missiles to help fight the about 3,000 bombs that he says Russia launches every month at Ukraine in the third year of the war. However, Ukraine still urgently needs another seven U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems to stop Russia hitting the power grid and civilian areas, as well as military targets, with devastating glide bombs that wreak wide destruction, Zelenskyy said...

FRISCO, Texas -- Saundra "Sandi" Miller was born Sept. 1, 1948, to Joseph and Nelda Eggers of Jackson. She passed away Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, in Frisco. Saundra graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a degree in Elementary education. She taught in both Missouri and Texas during her 29-year career...

Voters in Cape Girardeau County won’t see planning and zoning on the August ballot, but the proposal could come up for consideration in November; a committee has spent the last two years drafting planning and zoning regulations for the county, but John Dudley, chairman of the committee, says the plan isn’t quite ready. ...

Virginia B. Schearf, 93, of Cape Girardeau, passed away Saturday May 25, 2024, at Fountainbleau Lodge. She was born in McClure, Illinois, to Clarence and Bertha Benefield. She married Glenn Schearf in 1951 at Gale Church of God Chapel. She was a faithful member of the Gale Church of God. ...