🌱 Downtown confrontation leads to loaded handgun discovery and felony charges
Cape Girardeau, Missouri Patch AM: a 5 min readGreetings Cape Girardeau! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Downtown confrontation leads to loaded handgun discovery and felony charges
- Cape Girardeau once mourned a man President Taft called a lighthouse
Also on today's calendar: Cape Catfish Home Opener and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: Why did the chicken cross the road? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Sunny and pleasant, with a high of 75 and low of 54 degrees.
- Friday: A t-storm around in the a.m., temps: high: 83, low: 70.
- Saturday: A t-storm; breezy in the a.m., with a high of 85 and low of 68 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• 2 Cape Girardeau women arrested after victim claims she was threatened with a gun (wsiltv.com) — Cape Girardeau police arrested two local women after an early-morning downtown confrontation in which a victim reported being assaulted and threatened as a gun was allegedly cocked inside a purse. Officers say they recovered a loaded handgun, and both women now face multiple felony and misdemeanor charges, with bonds set at $15,000 and $40,000. 
• Out of the past: May 13 (semissourian.com) — Today’s “Out of the Past” column looks back at regional moments, including the death of prominent Cape Girardeau resident Edward F. Regenhardt, once praised by President Taft. It also recalls a Jackson market burglary, a 1926 Southeast Missouri State baccalaureate, and early civic gatherings.
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- I told yall I was moving on wasn’t waiting on my daughter to come around I have been feeling a lot better like a weight has been lifted off my heart .
I remembered My heavenly almighty Father closed this door I will leave it shut people get taken out your life for the better I know this so thank u… (Nextdoor Cape Lacroix) - When I was in labor two days with my daughter Vernecia no one else and watched her 9 days later have meningitis she almost died numerous of times I told her she had to choose between God or Satan we don’t get along because it is easier to push me
away.When u have secrets you don’t want anyone to know it is easier to act like others are bad What’s done in the dark will come too light and closed… (Nextdoor Cape Lacroix)
- Southeast Missouri State University posted a job opening for Hall Director - Office of Residence Life in Cape Girardeau. Apply here.
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