Stories from Monday, June 17, 2024

ST. LOUIS — The Army Corps of Engineers has determined soil is contaminated beneath some suburban St. Louis homes near a creek where nuclear waste was dumped decades ago, but the contamination isn’t enough to pose a health risk. ...

A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. ...

A Missouri judge has rejected the argument that lawmakers intended to “impose their religious beliefs on everyone” in the state when they passed a restrictive abortion ban. Judge Jason Sengheiser issued the ruling Friday in a case filed by more than a dozen Christian, Jewish and Unitarian Universalist leaders who support abortion rights. ...

Alyssa Phares brings more than 10 years' worth of tourism experience to her new role across the Mississippi River. ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A 170-year-old rivalry is flaring up as Kansas lawmakers try to snatch the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs away from Missouri even though economists long ago concluded subsidizing pro sports isn’t worth the cost. ...

SIKESTON — Get ready. The second annual Sikeston Hot Air Balloon Festival is only a week away. The Sikeston Hot Air Balloon Festival will be held from 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 21, and from 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo grounds. ...

A family known for its Cape Girardeau restaurants has expanded into the grocery business, selling various snacks and ingredients the family loves to eat. ...

Cape Girardeau Public Schools is introducing a new way for parents to stay in touch with their children’s educators, allowing them to easily keep up with their student’s progress throughout the school year with a single smartphone app. ...

The Capahas baseball team, a cornerstone of Cape Girardeau's sports history, has announced its closure after an impressive 130-year run. Founded in 1894, the Capahas were the oldest semi-pro amateur baseball team in existence, providing a platform for countless players to showcase their talents...

Cape Girardeau native Charlotte Slinkard chronicles near to the heart of the history of Cape Girardeau with her new book “The Girardeaus: An Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Family in Upper Louisiana". Slinkard’s book tells the story of the Giraradeau family of four, including Jean Baptiste Girardeau, who was born in Moulins, France in 1684; his Canadian wife, Therese Nepveu; and his two sons, Jean Pierre and Pierre. ...

In addition to hot tubs, hearth and masonry, KASTEN is known as the premier provider of swimming pools: above-ground, in-ground and everything in-between. After several years of customer requests, KASTEN has expanded their service department for 2024 to include the installation of the pools they sell and the addition of servicing of pools in the community. These services include pool openings and closings, pool liner replacements and scheduled pool maintenance...

Today is Monday, June 17, the 169th day of 2024. There are 197 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 17, 1994, after leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. (Simpson was later acquitted in a criminal trial but held liable in a civil trial.)...

What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting? What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets really angry about? Occupations? They could care less that the Islamist Turkish government still stations 40,000 troops in occupied Cyprus. No one is protesting against the Chinese takeover of a once-independent Tibet or the threatened absorption of an autonomous Taiwan...

O Lord Jesus, may we, with one voice, praise your name. Amen.

Three area chambers of commerce will host various events over the course of the next week. ...

Southeast Missouri prices dipped slightly, but the same could not be said of gasoline costs nationwide. ...

Two new locations, a play place and a business facility, are being unveiled in Cape Girardeau. ...

Shelly Kaiser, previously with the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce, will oversee MRV Banks' Cape Girardeau branches. ...

NEW YORK — Seriously overdue credit card debt is at the highest level in more than a decade, and people 35 and younger are struggling more than other age groups to pay their bills. ...

The mailings promised “Life Without Pain!” via stem cell injections or IVs administered in a patient’s own home. The allure was obvious: more than 20% of U.S. adults endure chronic pain. The flyers invited Iowans to free dinners across the state. Afterward, sales people traveled to potential customers’ homes for high-pressure pitches disguised as pre-screenings, according to prosecutors. ...

OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland — Nearly 80 countries called Sunday for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia’s two-year war, though some key developing nations at a Swiss conference did not join in. The way forward for diplomacy remains unclear. ...

PHOENIX — Extreme heat spread across Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Texas, Colorado and Kansas as severe weather swept across many parts of the U.S. on Sunday. There was unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest, snow headed to the northern Rocky Mountains and heavy rainfall forecast from the northern Plains to the Upper Midwest. ...

A complaint has been filed with the Cape Girardeau Police Department regarding police behavior during the arrest of two brothers in an incident that turned into a melee Friday morning; Rose Campbell, sister of the men, filed the complaint, which was forwarded to Police Chief Rick Hetzel; she also filed federal complaints with the Department of Justice and FBI alleging unnecessary verbal and physical abuse by officers during the incident that occurred in the 300 block of Good Hope Street ...