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Special Olympics fall games kick off in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 10/13/13)
A parade of 800 athletes marching through a red and white rubber arch Friday evening marked the start of the Special Olympics Missouri State Fall Games. The athletes, who came from throughout the state, walked around the Show Me Center waving at a crowd of about 500 family, friends and fans. ...
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Witness: Driver smoked pot all day before fatal crash
(Local News ~ 10/13/13)
Bobby Joe Abernathy had been smoking marijuana off and on all day before the box truck he was driving crossed the centerline and caused a head-on collision that killed a Glenallen, Mo., teenager this spring, an eyewitness testified Friday. Amelia Fisher, 17, died of spinal shock and a cervical fracture -- "basically a broken neck" -- as a result of the April 5 crash on Highway 34 near Burfordville, Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Clifton testified at a preliminary hearing Friday morning.. ...
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Congress trudges along as default looms
(National News ~ 10/13/13)
WASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats in Congress lumbered through a day of political maneuvering Saturday while a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer and a partial government shutdown neared the end of its second week...
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Director of 'Gone Girl' talks about life behind camera
(Local News ~ 10/13/13)
David Fincher, the director of 20th Century Fox's feature film "Gone Girl," is a busy man. A two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Social Network," Fincher, 51, is in the throes of a daily filming schedule that requires his expertise for sequences that could last well into the early morning hours...
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Southeast football team upsets Murray State for first win
(College Sports ~ 10/13/13)
Southeast, playing just its second home game, pulled out an improbable 37-34, triple overtime victory over Murray State to hand the Racers their first OVC loss.
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Picking corn @sunset nearCapeCentral high school
(Submitted Photo ~ 10/13/13)
Picking corn at sunset near Cape Central High school and stadium.
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Murphey is Ready for Halloween
(Submitted Photo ~ 10/13/13)
Murphey is getting prepared for Halloween in his pumpkin sweater.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/13/13)
Today is Sunday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2013. There are 79 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 13, 1962, Edward Albee's searing four-character drama "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened on Broadway with Arthur Hill as George, Uta Hagen as Martha, George Grizzard as Nick and Melinda Dillon (whose 23rd birthday it was) as Honey...
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Thanking pastors
(Editorial ~ 10/13/13)
Faith is vital to many people in Cape Girardeau and throughout the country. Faith is by definition a private decision, yet it's also a nucleus for fellowship with others. A church should be a place where the faithful can share their beliefs and build personal relationships with others. A primary, and important, role for pastors is to help foster that fellowship...
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Fix this broken government
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/13/13)
Eighty-three percent of our government remains open. Military retirees are receiving military retired pay. The VA continues to conduct medical appointments. The Pentagon retains authority to pay casualty assistance funds to our fallen heroes, and the Pentagon's lawyers should end their political posturing and disperse payments...
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Prayer 10-13
(Prayer ~ 10/13/13)
O Holy God, we praise you for the gift of salvation, our joy forevermore. Amen.
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Speak out 10/13/2013
(Speak Out ~ 10/13/13)
Where are our cheap gas prices? St. Louis has lower prices than we do, and every town around the area has lower prices. If the city council wants to really help Cape citizens, they need to put a cap on the number of liquor licenses issued. With the new ordinance passed, the City of Roses will soon become the city of liquor stores...
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Herman Balsman
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Herman A. Balsman, 77, of Perryville died Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, at his home. He was born Nov. 4, 1935, in Oak Ridge to John Balsman and Bertha Trapp Balsman. He married Norma A. Bohnert on Nov. 23, 1957, in Biehle, Mo. She survives in Perryville...
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Coletta Hahn
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Coletta Marie Hahn, 86, of Chaffee died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 4, 1926, in Crump, Mo., daughter of Ernest Kirby and Ida Mae Williams Crump. Coletta married George John "Babe" Hahn on Nov. 29, 1947, and he preceded her in death Nov. 11, 1988...
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Terry Owens
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
Terry Wayne Owens, 66, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at his birth place of Zalma, Mo. He was born Jan. 16, 1947, in Zalma to James Ervin and Pearl B. Herrell Owens. Terry graduated from Zalma High School in 1965 and entered the Army and served as a drill instructor and operations NCO, retiring in 2006 after serving 40 years...
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Katie Bond
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Mary Kathlyn "Katie" Bond, 90, of Chaffee passed away, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, at the Chaffee Nursing Center. She now is in heaven with her heavenly father and her loving husband, who called her "The Queen of 314." Katie was born Nov. 23, 1922, in Chaffee, daughter of the late Rev. William Ernest and Mary Elizabeth Lynch Lee. She married Gordon W. "Pete" Bond on March 16, 1947, and he preceded her in death Jan. 22, 2009...
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Bret Bonney
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
Bret Christopher Bonney, 55, of Ballwin, Mo., passed away Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, as a result of a motorcycle accident in Valley Park, Mo. He was born Feb. 22, 1958, in St. Louis to Richard H. and Joyce Long Bonney. Bret was a 1976 graduate of Fredericktown High School. He served honorably in the U.S. Army from 1975 to 1981...
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Mary Blattel
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
CHAFFEE, Mo. — Mary Jane Blattel, 93, formerly of Chaffee, died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 at St. Joseph West Hospital in Lake St. Louis, Mo. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.
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Steven Blackwell
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
Steven Michael Blackwell, 58, of Jackson passed away Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, at his home. He was born Oct. 8, 1954, in Cape Girardeau, son of Voren Robert and Elizabeth Lewis Blackwell. Steven was a substitute teacher at Jackson High School for eight years. He enjoyed spending time with his family, nieces, nephews and students...
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Patricia Kight
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
Patricia A. "Pat" Kight, 70, of Gordonville died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Out of the past 10/13/13
(Out of the Past ~ 10/13/13)
With little debate yesterday, the Faculty Senate voted to establish an ad hoc committee to examine political activity on the Southeast Missouri State University campus and to suggest guidelines concerning future partisan political endeavors; the action stems from some faculty members' displeasure with President Ronald Reagan's Sept. 14 visit to the Show Me Center...
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Food stamp outage hits 17 states
(National News ~ 10/13/13)
People in Ohio, Michigan and 15 other states found themselves temporarily unable to use their food stamp debit-style cards Saturday, after a routine test of backup systems by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. Xerox announced late in the evening that access had been restored for users in the 17 states affected by the outage, hours after the first problems were reported...
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Giffords will attend gun show
(National News ~ 10/13/13)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, is set to tour a New York gun show, the first such visit since she was shot. Giffords and husband Mark Kelly, a former combat pilot and astronaut, are scheduled to be with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the Saratoga Springs Arms Fair today to highlight a voluntary agreement to monitor gun show sales and stricter state gun control law...
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Arizona, other states reopen national parks, with a catch
(National News ~ 10/13/13)
By FELICIA FONSECA ~ and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Tourists returned to the Grand Canyon on Saturday after Arizona officials along with several counterparts agreed to a federal government plan to reopen national parks, which had been closed as a result of the partial government shutdown...
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Groups criticize cop's arrest in death
(National News ~ 10/13/13)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Hours after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer fatally shot an unarmed man, the department made a rare move: It charged the officer with voluntary manslaughter. Most police departments, including Charlotte, usually take weeks -- sometimes months -- to complete an investigation of a police shooting. ...
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Director secretly shoots feature at Disney parks
(Entertainment ~ 10/13/13)
LOS ANGELES -- As a child, Randy Moore was haunted by Disney World, where he made an annual trip during summers with his dad. So as an adult, and a filmmaker, Moore wanted to capture and question the allure of such manufactured fantasy. The result is "Escape From Tomorrow," which was shot guerrilla-style at Disneyland and Disney World without permission from the famously proprietary Walt Disney Co., and which has actually made it to the screen...
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Watchdog of chemical weapons wins Peace Prize
(International News ~ 10/13/13)
BEIRUT -- The watchdog agency working to eliminate the world's chemical weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a powerful endorsement of the inspectors on the ground in Syria on a perilous mission to destroy the regime's stockpile of poison gas...
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Mortar shells strike near inspectors' hotel in Syria
(International News ~ 10/13/13)
BEIRUT -- Two mortar shells hit Syria's capital Saturday near a hotel where international chemical weapons inspectors and United Nations staff are staying, state media and a hotel guest said. In the north, clashes between rival rebel factions left nearly 50 gunmen dead in three days of fighting for control of neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo, an activist group said...
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Partial Afghan security deal reached, Kerry says
(International News ~ 10/13/13)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday said a partial agreement was reached with Afghanistan on a security accord, but the potentially deal-breaking issue of jurisdiction for American forces remains unresolved. Kerry spoke with President Hamid Karzai after a marathon series of meetings and repeated delays of his departure from Afghanistan. ...
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Bus plunge kills 52, including 13 children
(International News ~ 10/13/13)
LIMA, Peru -- A makeshift bus carrying 52 Quechua Indians back from a party in rural Peru plunged off a cliff into a river southeast of the capital Lima, killing all passengers, including 13 children. The accident occurred Friday night as the red-and-yellow cargo truck made its way back from a party in the provincial capital of Santa Teresa. It fell about 650 feet into the chasm...
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Wind, rain pound India as massive cyclone hits
(International News ~ 10/13/13)
BEHRAMPUR, India -- A massive, powerful cyclone packing heavy rains and destructive winds slammed into India's eastern coastline Saturday evening, as hundreds of thousands of residents moved inland to shelters in hopes of riding out the dangerous storm...
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Hagler replaced as chief of Mo. agriculture agency
(State News ~ 10/13/13)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon abruptly replaced the director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture on Friday, a day after another high-ranking employee resigned from the agency while citing a hostile work environment. The announcement by the governor included no explanation for why Jon Hagler was replaced as agriculture director...
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Arrest made in hit-and-run crash that killed pedestrian
(Local News ~ 10/13/13)
By DAVID SILVERBERG ~ Daily American Republic POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff man was arrested Thursday in connection with Monday's fatal pedestrian accident on Pine Street after he led officers to his damaged car hidden in a wooded area. Joseph Jack Dangerfield, 20, of the 900 block of Nickey Street, was arrested on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident, tampering with physical evidence, both Class D felonies, and driving with a suspended license, a Class A misdemeanor. ...
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Work accident kills Piedmont man
(Local News ~ 10/13/13)
By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH ~ Daily American Republic PIEDMONT, Mo. -- A Piedmont man died Thursday after a piece of heavy equipment he was operating overturned onto him. Clinton Gary Million, 38, died at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, where he was taken after the accident that occurred at German's Recycling Center on Highway 34 east of Piedmont, according to Wayne County Sheriff Dean Finch...
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Interest in Jackson Oktoberfest surprises organizers
(Local News ~ 10/13/13)
The Courthouse Square in downtown Jackson was closed to traffic as people of all ages and dogs of all breeds came together to take part in the city's first Oktoberfest on Saturday, which drew more interest than expected and brought in about 1,000 people, according to Mandy Smith, a member of the Uptown Jackson Oktoberfest Committee...
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Cape Girardeau police report 10/13/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/13/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Summonses Assault Burglaries Thefts Property damage Miscellaneous The Cape Girardeau Sheriff's Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt...
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Jackson police report 10/13/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/13/13)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Theft Miscellaneous...
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Overwhelming grace raises funds for girl with cancer
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
The plight of an 11-year-old Phoenix girl with bone cancer drew more than 100 supporters to a rainy Oct. 5 golf tournament, raffles and silent auction at Cape Girardeau Country Club, where they exceeded the $5,000 fundraising goal. Benefiting Faith Moore, the Friends for Faith Tournament was suggested by her grandmother, Shirley Moore of Cape Girardeau, and organized in three weeks by her aunt, local obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Wendi Carns, and others...
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William Jones
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
William Henry "Willie" Jones, 75, of Delta passed away Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, at the family home. He was born Dec. 26, 1937, in Cape Girardeau, to the late Joseph Henry and Cleo Mansker Jones. Willie was a construction worker. He was a member of Wee-Willie Lawn Mower Racing Club and enjoyed building racing lawn mowers...
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Martin Hircock
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
PERKINS, Mo. -- Martin Raymond "Marty" Hircock, 71, of Perkins passed away Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at the family home. He was born Jan. 22, 1942, in Iowa City, Iowa, to the late Carl Leroy and Belle Lorene Roach Hircock. He and Mary Jane Pierce were married Feb. 28, 1978...
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Rose Yamnitz
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
PATTON, Mo. -- Rose Marie Yamnitz, 79, of Patton died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, in a vehicle accident near Millersville, Mo. She was born Nov. 4, 1933, in Fredericktown, Mo., daughter of Walter James and Leah Marie Ammon Backler. She and Harold Yamnitz were married June 10, 1951. He preceded her in death April 18, 1981...
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Eula Watson
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
Eula S. "Judy" McLain Masterson Watson, 95, of Bakersfield, Calif., passed away Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, in Bakersfield. She was born June 5, 1918, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Charles A. and Avia E. Slinkard McLain. She married William H. Masterson in 1939. He passed away in 1967. She then married Dewey Watson in 1975. He passed away in 1989...
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Betty Smith
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
Betty L. Smith, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, at her home. She was born May 31, 1935, in Memphis, Tenn., to Robert Wesley and Ruby Edwards Smith. She and Wayne A. Smith were married Sept. 10, 1957, in Hernando, Miss. He died May 31, 2008...
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Helen Theiss
(Obituary ~ 10/13/13)
FROHNA, Mo. -- Helen J. Theiss, 76, of Frohna died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at her home. She was born Aug. 23, 1936, in Wittenberg, Mo., daughter of Hugo L. and Renata R. (Schilling) Roth. She and Martin A. "Max" Theiss were married April 14, 1957. He preceded her in death April 10, 2007...
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Lathrop makes most of his return to starting role
(College Sports ~ 10/13/13)
Southeast Missouri State football coach Tony Samuel said sophomore Scott Lathrop got his second start of the season at quarterback Saturday simply because it was his turn. The move paid major dividends for the Redhawks as Lathrop, the 2012 Ohio Valley Conference freshman of the year, had a strong performance in helping jump-start Southeast's struggling offense...
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Central comes from behind to beat Sikeston in thrilling fashion
(High School Sports ~ 10/13/13)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Central football coach Nathan Norman is generally not given to explosive halftime tirades. Friday night was the exception. "He slammed the trash can. It scared the mess out of me," Central sophomore Al Young said with a laugh. "I hate seeing coach like that."...
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Oran earns title against Naylor
(High School Sports ~ 10/13/13)
POPLAR BLUFF, MO -- Oran didn't really need to swing the bats to beat Naylor and claim its first softball district title since 2008. Half of Oran's eight hits, as well as three RBIs, in the Class 1 District 1 championship Friday came via bunts. Add in four walks and six errors by Naylor and Oran scored a lot more runs than it expected in an 8-1 victory...
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Central hosts elite at Cape Rock Invitational
(High School Sports ~ 10/13/13)
The Central boys swimming team hosted 16 teams, including Notre Dame and Jackson, at the Cape Rock Invitational on Saturday at the Central Municipal Pool. Central swimming coach Dayna Powell was impressed with her team, although it did not have any medalists...
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Offensive outburst pushes Jackson to big road victory
(High School Sports ~ 10/13/13)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Battle finally got a taste of Class 5. It's bitter. Jackson overcame an early two-touchdown deficit by scoring 42 unanswered points en route to a 48-19 bashing of the host Spartans on Friday night. Battle, a Class 4 school without a senior class, is expected to move up to Class 5 or Class 6 next year when a wave of current eighth-graders join. ...
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Advance volleyball team picks up victory
(High School Sports ~ 10/13/13)
Senior setter Allie Below led the Advance volleyball team to a 25-6, 25-12, 27-25 victory over Bell City on Friday night in a best-of-five match. Below finished with 24 assits in the match while Grayson Miles added 11 kills and Ashtyn Hudson had 10. Hannah Clark and Kendra Sokolowski finished with three aces each...
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Southeast wins in triple overtime
(College Sports ~ 10/13/13)
Southeast Missouri State almost certainly won't win the Ohio Valley Conference title this year. But the Redhawks celebrated like champions Saturday afternoon in front of an announced Houck Stadium crowd of 4,125. And who could blame them? In a game that featured about as many ups and downs -- and momentum swings -- as anybody could imagine, the football gods finally smiled on the Redhawks for a change...
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Freshman kicker's first collegiate field goal is game winner
(College Sports ~ 10/13/13)
Southeast Missouri State true freshman Alex Knight said he kicked some game-winning field goals during his high school football career, including one in overtime. But nothing compared to the feeling he got Saturday when his 30-yarder in the third overtime ended the Redhawks' contest against visiting Murray State...
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Redhawk volleyball takes care of Murray State in OVC road trip
(College Sports ~ 10/13/13)
The Southeast Missouri State volleyball team swept Murray State on Saturday to salvage a split of its Ohio Valley Conference road trip. Southeast won 25-23, 25-22, 25-12 one day after the Redhawks fell 25-23, 26-24, 18-25, 25-20 at Austin Peay. The Redhawks, 10-10 overall and 3-3 in OVC play, posted a season-high 17 team blocks in Saturday's sweep of the Racers (12-8, 2-4). Southeast fell two blocks short of the school record...
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Missouri wins game, respect at Georgia
(College Sports ~ 10/13/13)
ATHENS, Ga. -- Gary Pinkel said No. 25 Missouri won more than a second straight SEC road game when it upset No. 7 Georgia. "I just think we earned a little more respect," Pinkel said. "The respect level just went up a couple notches." Receiver Bud Sasser threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to L'Damian Washington in the fourth quarter after quarterback James Franklin left with a shoulder injury, and Missouri held off Georgia's comeback attempt to beat the short-handed Bulldogs 41-26 on Saturday...
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Wacha, Cardinals edge Dodgers for 2-0 lead in NLCS
(Professional Sports ~ 10/13/13)
ST. LOUIS -- Matched against ace Clayton Kershaw, the only thing Michael Wacha lacked was a no-hit watch. "He's becoming a guy a lot of teams wish they drafted," teammate David Freese said. "What he's done is remarkable, especially on this stage."...
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Backes leads Blues over Rangers, 5-3
(Professional Sports ~ 10/13/13)
ST. LOUIS -- David Backes appears to have found his long-lost scoring touch. The St. Louis center netted two goals, and the unbeaten Blues beat the slumping New York Rangers 5-3 on Saturday night. The Blues, who haven't trailed at all this season, are 4-0 for the first time in franchise history...
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Rams want to use run game against Texans
(Professional Sports ~ 10/13/13)
ST. LOUIS -- Rams rookie running back Zac Stacy played well enough in his first start to gain coach Jeff Fisher's trust to start again. And why not? The Rams topped the 100-yard mark for the first time by rushing for a season-high 143 yards, averaging 4 yards a carry, in beating visiting Jacksonville 34-20. It was the highest total since St. Louis put up 173 yards at Arizona on Nov. 25, 2012...
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Beltran's October legend grows in opening win
(Professional Sports ~ 10/13/13)
ST. LOUIS -- Everything Carlos Beltran does looks effortless. St. Louis Cardinals teammates joke that it's like he's from another world. "It's like you've got to put a mirror under his nose to check if he's breathing, he's so calm, cool and relaxed," leadoff man Matt Carpenter said after Beltran delivered another big October performance in a 3-2, 13-inning victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night...
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World/national trivia 10-13-13
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
Oct. 13:1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Knights Templar on charges of heresy. 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia. 1944, American troops entered Aachen, Germany, during World War II...
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Fun ways to make guests a part of your special day
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
This story originally appeared in iDO, the Southeast Missourian's bridal magazine, covering everything you need to now to get you ready for your big day and beyond. To receive a copy of the latest issue of iDO, email cellis@semissourian.com. By Robyn Gautschy...
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Toddler warfare
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
This column originally appeared in the Flourish ezine, a monthly digital magazine from the Southeast Missourian. To sign up for the ezine or to receive Flourish in print four times a year, email cellis@semissourian.com or go to semissourian.com/flourish....
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Dr. Blomeyer's White Steamer and the trouble it caused
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
For some reason, the publishers of the Missourian spent a lot of time over the years speculating on who brought the first automobiles to Cape Girardeau. I have found several articles on the subject. They seem to agree that Dr. A.D. Blomeyer owned one of the first vehicles in town, although they don't all agree about what model he drove. If we can trust Blomeyer's memory on the matter, his first automobile was a White Steamer...
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Replay the down: More football recipes for game time
(Column ~ 10/13/13)
We already have visited the football theme, but after that column I had a few more recipes come in to go along with the football game-day theme. Since we are just getting into the season, I would invite you to send in your favorite game-watching snacks. Each household has favorites, so pass those along to be included in this column...
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A chimney made of mud
(Column ~ 10/13/13)
I found this interesting mud structure at the edge of a pond. It was made by a crayfish and is called a "chimney." Crayfish are also called crawfish and crawdads and sometimes mudbugs. The crawfish uses its pincers and legs to excavate small balls of mud as it digs through the ground making a vertical hole. ...
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Elaborate bank of marble and mahogany
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
On April 29, 1905, First National Bank held a reception for the opening of its new building at 117 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau. Construction of the building started April 18, 1904. L.B. Blackwood, architect, was commissioned to design the new building. Constructed of brick with a facade done in Bedford limestone trimmed in bush-hammered stone, the building featured a massive arched entrance that was 28 feet tall, 26 feet deep and 24 feet wide, with marble steps that led to the entrance doors...
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Follow these steps for confident planting in autumn
(Column ~ 10/13/13)
I have been asked the following question several times over the last few days: "Can I plant trees and shrubs in the fall, or should I wait until spring?" The nursery industry attempted to answer this question more than 20 years ago when they developed a promotion called "Fall is for Planting."...
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Balance-bike racing for tots seems to be catching on
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
EAGLE, Colo. -- They gather at the starting line with their tiny handlebars nearly touching. Decked out in helmets, jerseys and protective knee guards, they wait at the gate, listening to the call of "On your mark, get set, go!" before racing off...
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Ex-NFL player found peace in a relationship with Christ
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
Former professional football player Tim Lester was in the area Monday through Thursday, speaking to Scott City High School students Tuesday, leaving them with a message to be good "choosers" and not to conform to the world around them. "We are not born winners, we are not born losers, we are born choosers," Lester said as he encouraged the students to stay away from drugs and alcohol and make good choices in their lives...
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NYC menu offers the sound of silence
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
NEW YORK -- Quiet, please. Your dinner will now be served. That's the message being sent to customers at a New York City restaurant that prohibits any talking during an occasionally put-on $40 prix fixe, four-course meal. Nicholas Nauman, head chef at Eat in Brooklyn's trendy Greenpoint neighborhood, said he was inspired to pitch the tight-lipped consumption sessions after spending time in India, where Buddhist monks take their breakfast without exchanging words...
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Jesus treasures your heart and hopes
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
Tonight at Mass it was rainy and dark outside, the first time it's really felt like fall this year, and inside the church I felt cozy and loved by God in the warm, dimmed lighting -- his care wrapped around me like a blanket. For some reason I felt like a freshman again and remembered the desires of my heart from when I first came to Truman more than three years ago, excited, scared and hopeful. ...
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Golf tourney raises more than $8,500
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
The Kim King Memorial Golf Tournament on Sept. 23 raised more than $8,573 to help fund the newly established Facilities Management Endowed Scholarship at Southeast Missouri State University. The tournament, named in honor of longtime Facilities Management employee Kim King who died Dec. ...
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God responds to our ‘barking' with grace and love
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
Last Sunday a large color photo of a dog ran in the "Good Times" section of this newspaper. The dog's name is Buddy, and he's a special golden retriever trained not to bark and not to run. Chateau Girardeau recently held a 10th birthday party for him. ...
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FYI 10-13
(Community ~ 10/13/13)
Sargent's Chapel Lutheran Church in Sedgewickville, Mo., will celebrate its annual homecoming at 10:45 a.m. today at the chapel followed by a potluck meal after worship. The church will host a country church song fest at 2 p.m. For more information, contact the church at 573-204-8698...
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Police make arrest in 'Baby Hope' case
(National News ~ 10/13/13)
NEW YORK -- Police announced Saturday that, after an investigation that lasted more than two decades, they had arrested the killer of a child who was nicknamed Baby Hope by detectives after her body was discovered inside a picnic cooler beside a Manhattan highway in 1991...
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Craft - 25 Years
(Anniversary ~ 10/13/13)
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Lynn Craft of Jackson celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Aug. 27, 2013, with a trip to Nostalgic Place Bed and Breakfast Inn in historic Arcadia Valley, Mo. The trip was a gift from their daughter, Alisha Craft, and her fiance, Benjamin McMillan...
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Thompson - JiwanLal
(Wedding ~ 10/13/13)
Lauren Elizabeth Thompson and Aneel Kumar Jiwanlal were married June 1, 2013, at Centenary United Methodist Church. The Rev. David Conley performed the ceremony. Pianist was Beverly Reece. Parents of the couple are Ed and Marsha Thompson of Cape Girardeau, and Rich and Shiloh Jiwanlal of Wichita, Kan...
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Hart - Smith
(Wedding ~ 10/13/13)
BENTON, Mo. -- Sydney Paige Hart and Grant Keith Smith were married May 25, 2013, in Benton. Scott Melton performed the ceremony. Parents of the couple are Jerry and Shelia Hart and Johnny and Kay Smith, all of Benton. Maid of honor was Julia Mosebach of Benton. Bridesmaids were Svenja Posdziech of Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and Kelsey Hart of Benton, sisters of the bride; and Beth Pease of Benton, sister-in-law of the groom...
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