Stories from Friday, June 2, 2017

SEMO News Service The Missouri Lottery is looking for a Lotto player who won the $2.9 million jackpot after purchasing the winning ticket at a Cape Girardeau convenience store Wednesday night. The winning ticket -- bearing the numbers 4, 5, 6, 8, 27 and 43 -- was sold at Bi-State Southern Convenience Store, 920 N. Kingshighway, the Missouri Lottery said in a news release...

FISK, Mo. - Science teacher Landon Ham is "the greatest of all time," or at least that's what the majority of his students at Fisk Middle School said. In a world where the spoken word competes every day more greatly with technology, student engagement is an uphill battle for teachers. Yet in one way or another, they somehow find out-of-the-box ways to accomplish this feat...

An Ellsinore, Mo., man was charged Thursday with breaking into the home of a former girlfriend, who he allegedly sexually assaulted, as well as physically assaulted, causing what authorities describe as a brain bleed. Jaykota Keith Kearby, 22, was charged with the Class B felony of first-degree burglary, the Class A felony of first-degree domestic assault and the unclassified felonies of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy by Butler County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Barbour...

Put a drawbridge over Highway T I'm calling in regards to the T Hwy. that was washed out by the dam. I would suggest that they put something like they do in Florida as a drawbridge or a road that turns and let the water through. It doesn't have to manned 24 hours a day. ...

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict." Irving Kristol WASHINGTON -- The quixotic American pursuit of Middle East peace is a perennial. It invariably fails, yet every administration feels compelled to give it a try. The Trump administration is no different...

From Staff Reports The Hoppers, a multi-award winning family group, will be in concert at 6 p.m. Saturday at Fellowship General Baptist Church, 3581 N. Westwood Blvd. This will be their second appearance at the church in Poplar Bluff. Last year the Hoppers had a concert cancel when they were traveling between Michigan and Springfield, Mo. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Cheyene Wood of Doniphan has received the Community College Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 2017-2018 academic year. Wood is the daughter of Earnest Wood of Doniphan and Cynthia Haynes of Doniphan. She is a 2014 graduate of Doniphan R-1 High School and is a 2017 graduate of Three Rivers College...

Five persons involved in the Fellowship of Acceptance ministry at Fellowship General Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff shared their experiences during a two-day "Intersection of Christian Beliefs and Recovery" seminar in Jefferson City. Nearly 125 participants from throughout Missouri were challenged by Scott Breedlove, pastor of the Landmark Church in Jefferson City, to use spiritual truths to help people recover from drug and alcohol addiction...

The family reunion for the Withrow, Rommel and Ward families will be held Saturday at the Hillcrest Park Pavilion. This year, bar-b-que meats will be provided. Bring vegetables, salads, desserts, and drinks and plan to eat between noon - 1 p.m. A short business meeting will be held before the meal...

U.S. Air Force Airman Dylan W. Robinson graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Maryville University has named the following students to the Deans' List for the Spring 2017 semester. Maryville undergraduate students are eligible for the Deans' List when they complete at least 12 Maryville University credit hours in a semester with a minimum of a 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 (perfect) scale...

Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health will host training workshop from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, at the First United Methodist Church, 500 N. Main St. The workshop is free and lunch is provided. These trainings will introduce the developmental asset framework and describe the connection to student achievement, explore how to develop a relationship-based approach to working with families, emphasizing their strengths, capacities, and contributions, and offering tool and strategies for using these approaches.. ...

JACKSON, Tenn. - Six hundred fifty-nine students graduated from Union University May 20 during spring commencement services of the 192nd graduating class at Oman Arena. Among the graduates was Poplar Bluffian Fred Davis Caldwell, BS in Business Administration, Accounting, Management...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Who is the real threat to the national security? Is it President Trump who shared with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the intelligence that ISIS was developing laptop bombs to put aboard airliners? Or is it The Washington Post that ferreted out and published this code-word intelligence, and splashed the details on its front page, alerting the world, and ISIS, to what we knew...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Monstrous cyclones are churning over Jupiter's poles, until now a largely unexplored region that is more turbulent than scientists expected. NASA's Juno spacecraft spotted the chaotic weather at the top and bottom of Jupiter once it began skimming the cloud tops last year, surprising researchers who assumed the giant gas planet would be relatively boring and uniform down low...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Researchers in a New York cabbage patch are planning the first release on American soil of insects genetically engineered to die before they can reproduce. It's a pesticide-free attempt to control invasive diamondback moths, a voracious consumer of cabbage, broccoli and other cruciferous crops that's notorious for its ability to shrug off every new poison in the agricultural arsenal...

CAMPBELL, Mo. -- Rilla Cox, 91, of Campbell died Thursday, June 1, 2017, at Rector Nursing Home in Rector. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. - noon, Monday, at Landess Funeral Home in Campbell. Funeral services will follow at noon, Monday, at Landess Funeral Chapel in Campbell with Rev. Darren Baker. Burial will be at Woodlawn Cemetery in Campbell...

Kristen Nicole Hall Sheubrooks, 36, resident of Atlanta and native of Poplar Bluff, passed away peacefully Tuesday evening, May 30, 2017, surrounded by her loving and devoted family. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, June 5, at Fellowship General Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff, with the Rev. ...

DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Willard James Dale, 86, of Doniphan, died Wednesday, May 31, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will begin at noon Saturday, June 3, 2017, at the Edwards Funeral Home in Doniphan. A graveside service will follow at 2 p.m. in the Bardley Cemetery with Brother Danny Miller officiating...

Sandra Faye Melton, 55, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, May 31, 2017 in Poplar Bluff. She was born July 26, 1961, in St. Louis, Mo. She formerly lived in Ripley County and had lived in Poplar Bluff three years. She attended Black Creek Missionary Baptist Church...