Stories from Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Northbound Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau County — from mile marker 93 to mile marker 94 near Cape Girardeau — will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance. According to a MoDOT news release, the work will take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, June 9. ...

One City will be holding its third annual Community Care Day on Wednesday, June 5...

Scott City authorities, aided by state Highway Patrol, have located a stolen truck and side-by-side utility vehicle...

A Cape Girardeau man has been sentenced to more than a dozen years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine...

Books and stories are the foundation of many childhoods, from classics such as “The Wiza..rd of Oz” to princesses such as “Belle” and “Adventures in Wonderland”.

Duston Stone owns farmland just outside of Scott City. His property also includes the dirt underneath the farmland, save for where a trio of pipelines diagonally bisects it underground...

Today is Wednesday, May 29, the 150th day of 2024. There are 216 days left in the year. This is Memorial Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 29, 1988, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened their historic summit in Moscow...

Lord God, as your children, may we clothe ourselves with compassion and kindness. Amen.

Do you know someone who personifies the spirit of this country? Qualities such as patriotism, civic engagement, business leadership, volunteerism or military service? Consider submitting a nomination for the Southeast Missourian Spirit of America Award. Each year the newspaper recognizes an individual who demonstrates admirable qualities that we believe represent the fabric of this country. This year marks the 22nd year for the award.

Metal detectors Fans have to go through metal detectors at Cardinals games, just like you would at an airport. I expect the same will be true for Show Me Center events in the future (thanks to a 20 year old thug with a gun). Tunes at Twilight Thank you to Old Town Cape, Mercy and the sponsors who make Tunes at Twilight possible. We love going. The jazz last weekend was exceptional...

The progressive journalist Thomas Frank wrote a much-discussed book in 2004 titled, "What’s the Matter with Kansas?" Right now, some other like-minded journalist might be thinking of writing a book called "What’s the Matter with People of Color?"

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. May 27 n Medical assist was made at 10:28 a.m. on Kingsway Drive. ...

Darlene Jean Werner, 89, of Jackson went to her heavenly home Monday, May 27, 2024, at the hospice unit of Lutheran Home. Darlene was born, the oldest of five children, to Oswald Frederick Leimbach and Flora Leuders on May 20, 1935. She was born in the family farmhouse in Wittenberg. ...

Patrick Lee Shelton, 37, passed away Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Bollinger County following an accident. He was born Aug. 16, 1986, in Cape Girardeau, the middle son of James "Jim" and Denise Jansen Shelton. ...

Roger L. Paulus, 92, of Perryville died Monday, May 27, 2024, at Independence Care Center. Visitation will be from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Thursday, May 30, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville. ...

Linda Sue Menz died Sunday, May 26, 2024, at her home. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, May 31, at Father’s Arms Church in Scott City. ...

Kris B. Mattingly, 64, of Perryville died Saturday, May 25, 2024, at St. Joe Manor in Bonne Terre. Visitation will be from 7:30 to 9:45 a.m. Friday, May 31, at Christ the Savior Catholic Church in Brewer. ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Robert Dennis Brown, 50, of Halifax, formerly of McClure, Illinois, passed away Saturday, May 25, 2024, on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Dennis was born March 28, 1974, in Cape Girardeau to Dale and Betty Kiehne Brown. ...

A. Wes Bolton, 50, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, May 24, 2024, at his home. He was born July 13, 1973, in St. Louis to Amos and Linda J. Treece Bolton. He was a member of the Moose Lodge. He was an avid dart player, and he loved grilling and spending time with friends. ...

MARYVILLE — Police are investigating after the body of a newborn infant was found at a recreation area in northwest Missouri. The body of the newborn was found Saturday at Mozingo Lake Recreation Park in Maryville. Police Chief Mike Stolte said in a news release that a park employee found the remains while performing routine maintenance in a remote area of the park...

FESTUS — A Missouri woman went to a police station Tuesday and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other, authorities said. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said at a news conference that authorities believe both children were killed Tuesday morning...

WASHINGTON — During the presidential election four years ago, the Equal Ground Education Fund hired over 100 people to go door-to-door and attend festivals, college homecomings and other events to help register voters across Florida. Their efforts for this year's elections look much different...

HOUSTON — Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and about 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people during the Memorial Day holiday weekend...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — U.N. development specialist Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council sought to choose someone else for the position. The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to terrorize the capital of Port-au-Prince, opening fire in once peaceful neighborhoods and using heavy machinery to demolish several police stations and prisons...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight and on Tuesday — pummeling the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Palestinians — according to witnesses, emergency workers and hospital officials...

DES MOINES, Iowa — More than 4 million chickens in Iowa will have to be killed after a case of the highly pathogenic bird flu was detected at a large egg farm, the state announced Tuesday. Crews are in the process of killing 4.2 million chickens after the disease was found at a farm in Sioux County, Iowa, making it the latest in a yearslong outbreak that now is affecting dairy cattle as well. ...

WASHINGTON — The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida on Tuesday denied prosecutors' request to bar the former president from making public statements that could endanger law enforcement agents participating in the prosecution...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will be formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee through a virtual roll call ahead of the party’s official convention in Chicago in August — a maneuver that will allow Biden to appear on the November ballot in Ohio...

NEW YORK — Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday during closing arguments in the former president’s hush money trial, while a defense lawyer branded the star witness as the “greatest liar of all time” and pressed the panel for an across-the-board acquittal...

Cape Girardeau has become a way station for National Guard troops moving missiles from a Rock Island, Illinois, military depot to a base near Texarkana, Texas; about 570 National Guard troops are involved, with each group of soldiers serving two weeks; the operation, which began around May 15, should end by June 11. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on West Drive. n A warrant arrest was reported on North Kingshighway. n A warrant arrest was reported on Themis Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on South Sprigg Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on South West End Boulevard. n A warrant arrest was reported on South West End Boulevard. n A warrant arrest was reported on South West End Boulevard. ...