Stories from Wednesday, June 26, 2024

The Cape Girardeau Police Department released its 2023 annual report to the City Council on June 17...

A former Cape Girardeau restaurant owner and food truck operator has pleaded guilty in federal court to unlawful interstate transportation of a firearm and unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute...

Dr. Bruce Skinner was appointed to the Show Me Center and River Campus Board of Managers by Southeast Missouri State University’s Board of Governors on Tuesday to complete Dr. Brad Sheriff’s terms that expire Dec. 1, 2025, and Dec. 1, 2026, respectively...

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Governors approved a proposed operating budget for fiscal year 2025, which begins Monday, July 1, at its meeting Tuesday, June 25...

The Cape Girardeau Public School District’s Board of Education voted unanimously to approve the proposed 2024-25 budget, along with amendments to the 2023-24 budget, during its Monday, June 24, meeting...

City manager Ken Haskin and Mayor Stacy Kinder along with Ward 5 Councilman Rhett Pierce weighed in Tuesday, June 25, on police chief Wes Blair leaving the Cape Girardeau Police Department to take a position at Memphis International Airport in Tennessee to lead the airport’s internal law enforcement organization in August...

After more than a decade at the helm of Cape Girardeau Police Department, chief Wes Blair is leaving the department to take a position at Memphis International Airport in Tennessee...

Today is Wednesday, June 26, the 178th day of 2024. There are 188 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin...

O Lord Jesus, may our words glorify you and encourage others. Amen.

California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. June 24 n Medical assist was made at 6:34 p.m. on Themis Street. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest n A warrant arrest was reported. ...

Nancy Taylor, 74, died Friday, June 21, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday, June 27, at Unity Baptist Church in Benton. ...

Carole S. Stone, 79, of Oak Ridge passed away Monday, June 24, 2024, from a fatal car accident. She was born Aug. 14, 1944, in Oak Ridge, the daughter of Ludolf and Anna Helen Grebe Ruch. She and Jackie Stone were married May 29, 1962. He preceded her in death Feb. 14, 2022. ...

Richard M. “Mark” Sides, 65, of Jackson, passed away Sunday, June 23, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 5, 1959, in Cape Girardeau, to Richard and LaDora Bishop Sides. ...

Michael Puchbauer, 62, formerly of Cape Girardeau, passed away Saturday, May 4, 2024, at his home in Trinidad, Colorado. He was born Oct. 1. 1961, in Cape Girardeau to Carl and Patsy Phelps Puchbauer. ...

Dorcas Lynn McPheron Moore, 76, passed away Saturday, June 22, 2024, at home in Cape Girardeau, in the company of loved ones, after a short battle with cancer. Lynn was born June 15, 1948, in Columbia to Ray and Dorcas McPheron. She grew up south of Wichita, Kansas, and graduated from Derby High School. ...

Carol Jean Eakins Crawford of Berkeley, formerly of Advance, fell asleep in death Sunday, June 23, 2024, at the age of 78 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Carol was born in her parent’s home Thursday, Oct. 11, 1945, at 1 p.m. near Advance in rural Cape Girardeau County to the late George "Lee" and Bertha Mae Miller Eakins. ...

George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeated U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Tuesday in a Democratic primary in suburban New York that highlighted the party’s deep divisions over the war in Gaza. With the victory, Latimer has ousted one of the most liberal voices in Congress and one of its most outspoken critics of Israel. Bowman has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians have died in military strikes...

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won Tuesday's Republican primary in a U.S. House race that she jumped into last year, surviving a scandal over a video of her at a Denver theater and accusations of carpetbagging after fleeing what could have been a tough reelection bid in her current district...

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets Wednesday in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security...

LAS VEGAS — A man who fatally shot five people and critically injured a 13-year-old girl at apartments near Las Vegas has killed himself, authorities said Tuesday. The North Las Vegas Police Department said the suspected shooter, 47-year-old Eric Adams, killed himself Tuesday morning as he was confronted by officers in a neighborhood. Authorities had been searching for him since Monday night's shootings in separate apartment units...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the agency's investigation into the East Palestine derailment and shape its conclusions about the flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside...

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump's gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony conviction, but keeping others connected to the case off limits until he is sentenced July 11...

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition as Israel continues to wage war in Gaza...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Tornado warnings, flash flooding and large hail added insult to injury for people in the Midwest already contending with heat, humidity and intense flooding after days of rain. The National Weather Service on Tuesday afternoon and evening issued multiple tornado warnings in parts of Iowa and Nebraska as local TV news meteorologists showed photos of large hail and spoke of very heavy rain...

U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchison, the lone undisputed GOP hero of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, was the main attraction last night at a fund-raising dinner and reception for U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of Cape Girardeau; more than 100 persons attended the reception at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C.R. Talbert Jr., and 50 paid $250 per couple for a private dinner afterward. ...