Stories from Thursday, June 6, 2024

Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. Thursday, June 6 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Approval of minutes of the Thursday, May 30, meeting ...

We’re starting a new month, and I’m feeling a few new recipes are in order. I came across a couple of older recipes that I am looking forward to making, and of course I always have a few new recipes that I will try. ...

I had a rough start to researching this column this week. I drove 54miles round trip to discover that Google business hours for the chosen restaurant were incorrect, and even worse, I had asked friends to meet me there. While we stared blankly at the unlit "OPEN" sign before us, I rallied and told them about another restaurant I wanted to visit. ...

Madawn Traxel can’t stop smiling. The opening of Cape Girardeau’s first boutique hotel is coming soon, and Traxel can’t wait for the world to see it. Traxel has put so much time, energy and passion into the Rockwood Inn that her excitement exudes through her introduction of the features she hopes will make it a destination for visitors. ...

BLOOMFIELD — A large class-action suit was filed Wednesday against Tyson Foods in the Stoddard County 35th Judicial Circuit Court, and 45 plaintiffs are hoping a jury will eventually give them some relief.

Today is Thursday, June 6, the 158th day of 2024. There are 208 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 6, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day” as they began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe...

Robinson Construction ranked No. 39 on the Associated Builders and Contractors Top 150 General Contractors, and No. 81 on the Top 250 Performers in 2023. The company was also featured on the Engineering News-Record (ENR) Regional top lists in four regions throughout the U.S...

Auto Tire and Parts NAPA has earned the name “the parts professionals since 1909.” They are the most experienced parts experts, so you can get the right part the first time, coupled with hometown personal service. The company carries a wide selection of parts for all your vehicles. You may know they have auto and truck parts, but they also have heavy duty, farm and ATV parts, along with paint and body shop supplies, tools and equipment, and machine shop services...

Jesus, thank you for the men and women who serve in the military. Amen.

How much will Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush money case matter come November? The obvious answer is that nobody knows. Still, I suspect the verdict will matter, just not in ways that are easy or even possible to predict. A lot of the instant reaction revolves around polls. We talk about polls not because they are so important but because we lack much else to go on. Like the proverbial drunk who looks under the streetlamp for his lost keys because the light is much better there, we look at polls because they at least illuminate something, even if it’s not very much.

A Gallup poll of several months ago asked, "On the whole, would you say that you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world today?" Only one-third, 33%, said they were satisfied. This down from 53% in February 2020 at the conclusion of Donald Trump’s presidency. It’s a wonder that even a third of Americans are comfortable with President Joe Biden’s disastrous leadership. Many scholars now liken the world today to the 1930s, the years preceding World War II.

Did you know? Many building codes were written in blood. Translation, until a disaster occurred that injured and killed a large number of individuals, building safety was not a priority for the community or elected officials. At that time, society had become complacent, and the complacency proved to be dangerous. The disaster motivated both parties to make safety a priority!

Following the 2020 election, former President Trump claimed that voter fraud prevented him from winning this contest. His campaign organization commissioned two organizations, the Berkeley Research Group and the Simpatico Software Systems to review more than a dozen voter fraud theories and allegations. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. June 4 n Medical assist was made at 5:38 p.m. on William Street. ...

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

Shelbie Jean White, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Southeast. She was born April 1, 1939, in Deering to Lewis Tucker and Frances Lanell Griggs Woodard. She and Darrell White were married Sept. 2, 1972, in St. Joseph, Michigan. ...

Lillie Jean Kilburn, 74, of Benton died Sunday, June 2, 2024, at Sikeston Convales-cent Center. She was born July 18, 1949, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau to Herbert L. Brown and Nettie Jean Bowman. She and David Lee Kilburn were married June 8, 1968, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death April 30, 2024. ...

Robert Ray Forsythe, 79, of Scott City died Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, June 10, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. ...

Louise Helen Austin, 98, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at Life Care Center. She was born July 17, 1925, in Marquand to David P. and Stella Maude Shrum Cook. She and Lane E. Austin were married Sept. 14, 1945, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death Nov. 17, 2003. ...

ATLANTA — An appeals court has halted the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others while it reviews the lower court judge's ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case...

LIVONIA, Mich. — A tornado killed a 2-year-old boy and injured his mother Wednesday when a tree fell on their house in suburban Detroit, while emergency workers in Maryland were responding to reports of collapsed structures with people trapped inside after a tornado there...

STANFORD, Calif. — Police arrested 13 people at Stanford University after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the school president and provost’s offices early Wednesday, causing what officials described as “extensive” vandalism inside and outside the building...

AUKAR, Lebanon — A gunman who attacked the U.S. embassy near Beirut was shot and captured by Lebanese soldiers after a Wednesday morning shootout that injured an embassy security guard, the military and embassy officials said. The attack took place as tensions simmered in the tiny Mediterranean country, where months of fighting between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops has displaced thousands along the border, following years of political deadlock and economic hardship...

JERUSALEM — Thousands of ultranationalist Israelis marched through a sensitive Palestinian area of Jerusalem on Wednesday in an annual procession, chanting racist slogans as the country’s far-right national security minister boasted that Jews had prayed freely at a key holy site in the city in violation of decades-old understandings...

WASHINGTON — Ukraine has used U.S. weapons to strike inside Russia in recent days, according to a U.S. senator and a Western official familiar with the matter. The weapons were used under recently approved guidance from President Joe Biden allowing American arms to be used to hit targets inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday appointed two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee, positioning two close allies of Donald Trump who worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election on a panel that receives sensitive classified briefings and oversees the work of America's spy agencies...

PHOENIX — The season's first heat wave is already baking the Southwest with triple-digit temperatures as firefighters in Phoenix — America's hottest big city — employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives in a county that saw 645 heat-related deaths last year...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden's ex-wife and a former girlfriend testified Wednesday in his gun trial about finding his crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia, and jurors saw photos of the president's son bare-chested in a bubble bath and heard about his visit to a strip club...

BLUE SPRINGS — A $4.2 million verdict that jurors ordered a Missouri school district to pay a transgender student is under consideration again. The Western District Missouri Court of Appeals found Tuesday that a judge erred in ordering a new trial in a lawsuit over bathroom and locker room access. The decision sends the case against the Blue Springs School District back to the trial court to determine the reasonableness of the sum jurors awarded in 2021...

Greg A. Shambo, formerly of Scott City, has received a Christian ministries pastoral degree from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City; Shambo and his wife, Kim, lived in Scott City before he attended seminary; he is pastor of Boswell Baptist Church in Boswell. ...