Speak Out 12/1/11
A senior citizen lady on Bainbridge Road wishes to thank a large group of teenagers from the Jackson school group who raked and bagged all of her leaves from her yard the week before Thanksgiving....
View ArticleDog steps on gun, shoots hunter
SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat. Box Elder County Sheriff's deputy Kevin Potter said the 46-year-old...
View ArticleAfter raids in two cities, Wall Street protesters shift tactics
NEW YORK -- The overnight police raids in Philadelphia and Los Angeles that dismantled two of the nation's biggest Occupy Wall Street encampments leave just a few major "occupations" still going on...
View ArticleCentral banks move to stabilize financial system
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The central banks of the wealthiest countries, trying to prevent a debt crisis in Europe from exploding into a global panic, swept in Wednesday to shore up the world financial...
View ArticleBritain orders Iran diplomats to leave
LONDON -- Britain ordered Iran on Wednesday to remove all its diplomats from the U.K. within 48 hours following attacks on its embassy and a residential compound in Tehran -- one of the most...
View ArticleSecretary of state tests reforms on Myanmar visit
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar -- Looking to cement a foreign-policy success and prod reform in one of the world's most isolated and authoritarian nations, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said...
View ArticleGOP: Offsetting cuts must cover payroll tax relief
WASHINGTON -- Republican congressional leaders stressed a willingness Wednesday to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut due to expire Dec. 31, setting up a year-end clash with Democrats over how...
View ArticleDanny Brack
WICKLIFFE, Ky. -- Danny Howard Brack, 64, of Wickliffe passed away Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, at Western Baptist Hospital. He was a member of Victory Baptist Church in Wickliffe and Ironworkers Local...
View ArticleBarbara Hochberger
Barbara Louise Hochberger, 82, of Three Rivers, Mich., formerly of Cape Girardeau, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, at Heartland Health Care Center. She was born Jan. 8, 1929, in Chicago, daughter...
View ArticleRuth Heuer
Ruth Edna Heuer, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011, at Ratliff Care Center. She was born July 8, 1922, in Cape Girardeau, to Arthur L. and Helen Bertling Kelpe. She graduated from...
View ArticleBetty Green
Betty Roxie McLemore Green, 77, of Jackson, formerly of Scott City, died Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Betty, daughter of John William and Grace Pearl Vaughn...
View ArticleKenneth Hebrock
Kenneth Lee Hebrock, 61, of Scott City died Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, at his home. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City is in charge of arrangements.
View ArticleLouise Nanna
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Louise Nanna, 78, of St. Louis, formerly of Marble Hill, died Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, at her home. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. today at Kutis Affton Chapel, 10151 Gravois...
View ArticleBirths 12/1/11
Daughter to Ryan Anthony Sanders and Melissa Ann Stroder of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 7:32 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Name, Bryleigh Grace. Weight, 6 pounds, 8 ounces. Ms. Stroder is...
View ArticleMary Myers
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Mary Alma Myers, 99, of Marble Hill passed away Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, at Woodland Hills Nursing Home. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to service time Friday at Liley Funeral Home...
View ArticleOut of the past 12/1/11
First it was deer hunting season and now it is rainy weather which is delaying the start of the removal of asbestos insulation from around the rusty boilers of two steam locomotives in Capaha and...
View ArticlePrayer 12/1/11
We give thanks to you, O Lord, for you are good and your love endures forever. Amen.
View ArticleSoutheast Missouri man killed in Tuesday crash
BERNIE, Mo. -- A Malden, Mo., man lost his life Tuesday in the first winter-related wreck in Stoddard County this season. Michael D. Jines was struck head-on in his 1996 Dodge Ram as he was traveling...
View ArticleJudicial panel redraws Mo. legislative districts
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A panel of Missouri appeals court judges released new boundaries for Missouri House and Senate districts Wednesday based on the 2010 census, saying some "significant changes"...
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