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Woman hitting home among accidents highway patrol responded to Monday
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
Three motor vehicle accidents in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties kept the Missouri State Highway Patrol busy Monday. The first accident occurred around 10:15 a.m. on US 61 south of Benton, Mo. A 2007 Chevrolet truck driven by Daphne R Medley, 45, of Vanduser, Mo., ran off the right side of the roadway, struck a highway sign, hit a house and then overturned...
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Fire damages Cape Girardeau home
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
An early morning fire caused extensive damage to a Cape Girardeau home but the family living inside the structure escaped. According to Cape Girardeau Fire Department Chief Fred Vincel, the fire at 1003 Ranney St. occurred around 3:21 a.m. today. The home sustained about $25,000 in damage. Vincel said an aggressive interior attack brought the fire under control...
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Prayer 9/1/09
(Prayer ~ 09/01/09)
Help us, O God, to make good choices when tough decisions must be made. Amen.
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Harvest
(Submitted Photo ~ 09/01/09)
Rewards from summer labor.
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Sipping Nectar
(Submitted Photo ~ 09/01/09)
Little fella was sipping on garden blooms. Can you see his straw?
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Chaffee man injured in Cape Girardeau motorcycle accident
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
Emergency personnel assist Billy Beard, 50, of Chaffee, Mo. after the Harley-Davidson Sportster he was driving was struck by a Chevrolet Malibu driven by Kathryn Blevins, 61, of Chaffee, Mo. in front of Hardee's, 2115 William St...
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Honey Bee
(Submitted Photo ~ 09/01/09)
Caught this little guy collecting nectar at the St. Louis Zoo. Photo was shot using a Canon Rebel XT.
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Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame
(Submitted Story ~ 09/01/09)
Mrs. Marjorie Swan of Pocahontas was welcomed into the Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame on Aug. 16 at the 2009 Missouri State Fair. She was one of 53 volunteers and 4-H supporters from around the state recognized for their service and dedication to the youth of University of Missouri Extension 4-H. ...
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Scott County 4-H Leader Inducted Into 4-H Hall of Fame
(Submitted Story ~ 09/01/09)
Mrs. Geneva Essner of Benton was welcomed into the Missouri 4-H Hall of Fame on Aug. 16 at the 2009 Missouri State Fair. She was one of 53 volunteers and 4-H supporters from around the state recognized for their service and dedication to the youth of University of Missouri Extension 4-H. ...
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Riley Wachter's Big Catch!
(Submitted Photo ~ 09/01/09)
Riley and his Grandpa Jim went fishing after school in a local farm pond and this is what Riley caught. The Bass weighed in at 6 lbs. and of course Grandpa was very proud of him and told him that he could have the fish mounted to hang on his wall...
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President: Three Rivers will be part of higher education center
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- As he stood next to a Poplar Bluff hotel he plans to turn into a worker retraining center Monday, Three Rivers Community College president Devin Stephenson said he will not give up on plans to also establish new facilities in Cape Girardeau County...
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Sleeping Sweeties
(Submitted Photo ~ 09/01/09)
Our Boston Terrier puppy Max decided to curl up next to our newborn Madison to share their afternoon nap.
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Defending Champions Bring Home Second Victory
(Submitted Story ~ 09/01/09)
For the second year in a row, the 6th grade Jackson Jr. Indians won the championship at the NYSSO Kick-Off Classic in Basehor, KS, near Kansas City. They started the weekend by defeating the Eudora team, 30-0, on Saturday. On Sunday, they won the tournament with a 14-6 win against the Jets from the Kansas City area. The fifteen players are led by Head Coach Kris Jeffers, and coaches Rick Doughten, Mike Norrick, and Scott Starzinger...
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Heart group: Cut back - way back - on extra sugar
(Health ~ 09/01/09)
DALLAS -- A spoonful of sugar? Americans are swallowing 22 teaspoons of sugar each day, and it's time to cut way back, the American Heart Association says. Most of that added sugar comes from soft drinks and candy -- a whopping 355 calories, the equivalent of guzzling two cans of soda and eating a chocolate bar...
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Cape council OKs Boulevard Local Historic District
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
After a lengthy public hearing lasting more than an hour, the Cape Girardeau City Council approved without dissent the city's first locally designated historic district for an area east of North West End Boulevard. Familiar arguments that have run throughout the course of the two-year effort to establish the Boulevard Local Historic District were revisited for the council by residents of the area. ...
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Softball preview: Backfisch, Hawks use speed to wreak havoc
(High School Sports ~ 09/01/09)
BENTON, Mo. -- Defense might win championships but speed certainly helps. Just ask the teammates and coach of Kelly senior Londyn Backfisch. After finishing second in the state in Class 2 last year, the Hawks return their speedy leadoff hitter...
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Airport board to hear four more proposals for local service
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
The Cape Girardeau Airport Advisory Board will be busy this week as four airlines make their pitches for the city's commercial passenger business. Gulfstream International Airlines, a Florida-based company expanding into other parts of the country, presented its case last week. The series of meetings begins at 11:30 a.m. today when Nate Vallier, general manager of Locair Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., visits with the board...
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Health care forums draw big names, crowds to Missouri
(State News ~ 09/01/09)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill brought in a big crowd. Republican Sen. Kit Bond brought the big names. Missouri's two senators highlighted the national health care debate Monday in strikingly different fashions. Bond appeared before an invitation-only crowd of 100 people in Kansas City for a subdued health care discussion with Sen. ...
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Jackson streetscape project seeks donations for sprinklers
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
With one week remaining until construction begins on an uptown Jackson streetscape project, engineer Tom Strickland said during a meeting Monday with city merchants that just $1,240 needs to be donated for an automatic sprinkler project. Not approved when the Missouri Department of Transportation awarded a grant for the streetscape project, the automatic sprinkler system is needed to water flower beds and pots on the section of High Street between Main and Adams streets. ...
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Police report 9/1/09
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/01/09)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Summonses Assault Theft Burglary Property damage Miscellaneous Jackson...
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Fire report 9/1/09
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/01/09)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday: Firefighters responded to the following calls Monday: Jackson Firefighters responded to the following call Sunday: Firefighters responded to the following calls Monday: ...
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Out of the past 9/1/09
(Out of the Past ~ 09/01/09)
25 years ago: Sept. 1, 1984 Formal graduation ceremonies were recently held for the six-member class from the School of Technology at Saint Francis Medical Center; members of the second graduating class from the school were Carol Almstedt, Lisa Scrivner, Terry Snider, Mitchell Kampert, Jane Hopkins and Jennifer Estes...
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Births 9/1/09
(Births ~ 09/01/09)
Broxton; White
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Wildfire advancing near Los Angeles
(National News ~ 09/01/09)
LOS ANGELES -- A deadly wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry forest around Los Angeles made another menacing advance Monday, surging toward thousands of suburban homes and a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex while trapping five people inside a smoky canyon...
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Gates: Report details highs, lows of Afghan fight
(National News ~ 09/01/09)
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The United States and NATO need a new strategy to defeat the Taliban, the top commander in Afghanistan said Monday as he delivered a classified assessment that is widely seen as the groundwork for a fresh request to add more American forces next year...
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Farmers' Almanac: Expect numbing cold this winter
(National News ~ 09/01/09)
LEWISTON, Maine -- Americans, you might want to check on their sweaters and shovels -- the Farmers' Almanac is predicting a cold winter for many of you. The venerable almanac's 2010 edition, which goes on sale today, says numbing cold will predominate in the country's midsection, from the Rocky Mountains in the West to the Appalachians in the East...
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Disney planning to buy Marvel for $4B
(Entertainment ~ 09/01/09)
LOS ANGELES -- The Walt Disney Co. is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E. Under the deal, which was announced Monday and is expected to close by the end of the year, Disney will acquire the rights to 5,000 Marvel characters. Many of them, including the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, were co-created by the comic book legend Stan Lee...
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Jay-Z to perform Sept. 11 benefit concert in NYC
(Entertainment ~ 09/01/09)
NEW YORK -- A benefit concert that rapper Jay-Z is planning for Sept. 11 is a step in the direction that his career -- and life -- is heading in, he said Monday. The 39-year-old is set to release his 11th studio CD, "The Blueprint 3," the same day of the concert, which has been billed as "Answer the Call." The performance at New York's Madison Square Garden will air live on Fuse TV...
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Jimena growing stronger, heading toward Baja Penisula
(International News ~ 09/01/09)
LOS CABOS, Mexico -- Extremely dangerous and strengthening Hurricane Jimena roared toward Mexico's resort-studded Baja California Peninsula on Monday, prompting emergency workers to set up makeshift shelters and chasing away an international finance conference...
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Obama keeps Bush noms in top posts
(National News ~ 09/01/09)
WASHINGTON -- For all the GOP howling about Barack Obama radically steering the government to the left and leading the nation toward socialism, some of his major appointments are Republican men and women of the middle. In what may be the top two national posts in light of today's crises at home and abroad, Obama stuck with the picks of former president George W. Bush in reappointing Fed chief Ben Bernanke and Defense Secretary Robert Gates...
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Prostate cancer hormone drugs risky for some men
(Health ~ 09/01/09)
CHICAGO -- A new study links hormone therapy for prostate cancer with a higher risk of death in older men who've had serious heart problems. Hormone therapy suppresses the amount of testosterone produced, in turn causing prostate tumors to shrink or grow more slowly. The treatment, involving injections in a doctor's office, can help men with more advanced disease when used with surgery or radiation...
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Workshop educates public on Sunshine Law
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
Tom Durkin believes the Sunshine Law is necessary. However, he said, if governmental bodies were to follow the golden rule of treating others how they want to be treated, this piece of legislation passed in 1973 would in most cases be unnecessary. "The Attorney General recognizes that this particular law is democracy at work," Durkin said Monday at a Sunshine Law workshop in Jackson...
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Softball team capsules
(High School Sports ~ 09/01/09)
Perryville Pirates Coach: Jeff Steffens Last season's record: 10-15 Last season's postseason results: Lost to Herculaneum in a Class 3 District 2 opener Returning starters: Emily Hanquist, INF; Morgan Baer, C; Rebecca Hanquist, INF; Lexie Rollet, OF; Ashley Hotop, OF; Ashley Wingerter, INF; Casey Brewer, INF...
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Southeast roundup: Hughes, Barth nab volleyball honors
(College Sports ~ 09/01/09)
Southeast Missouri State won two of the Ohio Valley Conference's three weekly awards for volleyball. Junior middle blocker Emily Hughes is the OVC offensive player of the week, while senior Sarah Barth is the league's setter of the week. The two were honored Monday for their performances over the weekend at the season-opening Memphis Invitational, where Southeast went 2-1 and captured the title...
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Southeast football: Opener presents challenge
(College Sports ~ 09/01/09)
Southeast Missouri State football coach Tony Samuel is certain his team would have taken Quincy seriously regardless. But Samuel said the Hawks' performance in their opener served as a good reminder for Southeast, which begins its season Thursday night against Quincy...
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Bulger to watch Rams' final tuneup
(Professional Sports ~ 09/01/09)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Rams plan to sit quarterback Marc Bulger in the preseason finale to lessen the chance of him aggravating a broken right pinkie. Bulger got his arm warmed up for the second straight day Monday, throwing 25 to 30 passes with the pinkie and right ring finger taped together for stability. That's more throws than Sunday, and the plan calls for even more today in a gradual buildup...
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Southeast's leaders
(Editorial ~ 09/01/09)
It has been 19 years since Southeast Missouri Hospital named a new top administrator. Last month, the hospital's board announced two key appointments, one a newcomer to Southeast Missouri and another from one of the area's most distinguished families...
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Speak Out 9/1/09
(Speak Out ~ 09/01/09)
Thanks for help; Which is it?
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Teach people to help themselves
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/01/09)
I think it's time locals as well as politicians start using some common sense in trying to help people. Most people who need help can look in the mirror and see why. They don't know how to manage. These people can only be helped by teaching them how to manage...
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Frances Wick
(Obituary ~ 09/01/09)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Frances L. Wick, 87, of Perryville died Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born in Cartwright, N.D., Oct. 1, 1921, daughter of the late Mathias and Royle (Varner) Koch. She married Eyvind H. Wick Nov. 3, 1940...
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Gerald Grasso
(Obituary ~ 09/01/09)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Gerald Russell Grasso, 78, of Marble Hill died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, at Iron County Hospital in Pilot Knob, Mo. He was born Aug. 19, 1931, in San Rafael, Calif., to Russel Angelo and Bessie Pearl Davies Grasso. He and Janette Sue Foulk were married April 21, 1959, in Jacksonville, Fla...
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Laurel Curry
(Obituary ~ 09/01/09)
Laurel Allen "Stick" Curry, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, at his home. He was born March 5, 1930, in Cape Girardeau to Clarence Fred and Bessie Wolters Curry. He and Eunice M. Farmer were married Oct. 19, 1958, in Cape Girardeau...
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Bethany Rose
(Obituary ~ 09/01/09)
Bethany Dee Rose, 46, of Scott City died Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 9, 1963, in Bangor, Maine, daughter of Don and Regina Young McLeod. She and Tim L. Rose were married May 31, 1997, in Colorado Springs, Colo...
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James Boyer
(Obituary ~ 09/01/09)
GLENALLEN, Mo. -- James Maurice Boyer, 82, of Glenallen passed away Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at his home. He was born April 23, 1927, in Tiff, Mo., son of A.L. and Susan Courtois Boyer. He and Betty Francis were married July 19, 1948, in Piggott, Ark...
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Dale Vaughn
(Obituary ~ 09/01/09)
MORLEY, Mo. — Dale "Red" Vaughn, 68, of Morley died Monday, Aug. 31, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.
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Edward Schiwitz
(Obituary ~ 09/01/09)
Edward Charles Schiwitz, 83, of Scott City died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. He was born Feb. 23, 1926, to Arthur Albert and Mary Pearl Fullerton Schiwitz Sr. in Commerce, Mo. Schiwitz was a heavy equipment mechanic for R.B. Potashnick. He was a member of Eisleben Lutheran Church in Scott City...
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President Obama: You reassure me
(Column ~ 09/01/09)
Dear President Obama: Like Lou Pritchett, a most frightened man, I have lived under the last 13 presidents. None have "scared" me, although "W" came closest with his unnecessary war. As a former military officer, I recognize security threats. Iraq was not one...
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What Saturday change means to you
(Column ~ 09/01/09)
One of the wonderful aspects about working at a newspaper is nothing is ever routine. We never produce the same product twice; each newspaper has different stories, photos, graphics and ads. Each day -- even each hour -- brings a new challenge that Southeast Missourian staff must embrace in order to bring the important issues of the day to our readers...
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High school roundup: Notre Dame swimmers take first with team effort
(High School Sports ~ 09/01/09)
Coleman Schott was the lone winner for the Notre Dame boys swimming team, but the Bulldogs' depth proved the difference in Monday's season-opening meet at the Central municipal pool. Schott took first in the 100 breaststroke to help the Bulldogs score 201 points...
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Bank of America offering to repay some aid, report says
(National News ~ 09/01/09)
NEW YORK -- Bank of America Corp. is looking to pay back some of the billions in federal bailout aid it has received in an effort to get out from underneath the government's thumb, according to a published report. Meanwhile, the government wants the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank to pay about $500 million to terminate a tentative pact in which the U.S. ...
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US agriculture interests split over energy bill
(National News ~ 09/01/09)
OMAHA, Neb. -- Legislation to confront climate change could be an economic godsend to farmers and ranchers. Or it could be an enormous financial burden. It depends on whom you ask, and not even farmers and ranchers agree on the matter. Those who are against the bill say it would lead to skyrocketing fuel and fertilizer costs, cutting into farmers' and ranchers' already unpredictable profits. ...
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Mount Auburn Road reopened to traffic
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
North Mount Auburn Road was re-opened to traffic shortly before 2 p.m. Monday following a gas leak that shut the road down. The gas line was ruptured during construction intended to widen the road. The 2-inch gas main was near Collins Road...
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Drury Hotels donates building to Three Rivers
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Drury Hotel officials passed over the multi-million dollar deed of the former Pear Tree Inn and neighboring restaurant to Three Rivers Community College on Monday. Possibilities for the two North Westwood Boulevard facilities, totaling 76,230 square feet on 1.75 acres, are a work-force solutions center in the hotel portion and a culinary arts program in the restaurant, school officials said...
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Southeast Missourian alters its publication cycle
(Local News ~ 09/01/09)
In an effort to manage costs without passing on substantial increases to advertisers and home subscribers, Jon K. Rust, publisher of the Southeast Missourian, announced today that the newspaper will suspend publication of its Saturday print edition, beginning Sept. 12...
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Boys swimming team capsules
(High School Sports ~ 09/01/09)
Saxony Lutheran Crusaders Coach: Dan Rau Returning swimmers: This is the first year of the program Top newcomers: Jordan Buterbaugh, jr.; A.J. Garms, fr. Jackson Indians Coach: Carole Baugh State results: Riley Talbut -- 33rd in 200 freestyle; Connor McGinnis -- 31st in 500 freestyle; Ryan Gibson -- 14th in 100 butterfly, 16th in 200 individual medley...
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