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States consider reviving old-fashioned executions
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
ST. LOUIS -- With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers...
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Southeast works toward degree mapping
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
With more jobs requiring education beyond high school, Southeast Missouri State University is trying to increase the percentage of people with certificates, associate or college degrees. To this end, the university has rolled out several programs to help students earn degrees faster and help them focus on a path, said Debbie Below, vice president for enrollment management and student success and dean of students...
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Obama vows to tackle economic inequality
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
WASHINGTON -- Seeking to energize his second term, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday night in his State of the Union address to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" necessary to narrow economic disparities between rich and poor. He unveiled an array of modest executive actions to increase the minimum wage for federal contract workers and make it easier for millions of low-income Americans to save for retirement...
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Jackson boys basketball team outlasts Sikeston in OT
(High School Sports ~ 01/29/14)
Jackson turned back past visiting Sikeston 75-72
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Sabreliner change means layoffs, then rehiring
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
A spokeswoman on Tuesday confirmed Sabreliner Services LLC bought the assets of Sabreliner Corp., an aircraft manufacturing and repair company with facilities in Perryville, Mo., Ste. Genevieve, Mo., and Clayton, Mo. Employees of Sabreliner Corp. were informed Friday they will be released, said Ann Hein, spokeswoman for the corporation, which has about 100 employees spread between the locations...
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Second candidate files for retiring judge's seat
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
Amid the buzz in the local law community over who could replace the retiring Judge William L. Syler in an election later this year, a second local attorney has announced plans to run for the seat. Michael Gardner of Cape Girardeau intends to join Trae Bertrand on the ballot, which should set up a primary race in August for the seat of presiding judge of the 32nd Judicial Circuit that includes Cape Girardeau, Bollinger and Perry counties. Gardner and Bertrand both are Republicans...
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Polar Plunge participants may get warmer weather
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
Don't look askance if you see a bunch of peculiarly attired people jumping into Lake Boutin on Saturday afternoon. They will be specially motivated, but only to raise money for the Special Olympics in Southeast Missouri's eighth annual Polar Plunge...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2014. There are 336 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 29, 1964, Stanley Kubrick's nuclear war satire "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," starring Peter Sellers (in three roles) and George C. Scott, premiered in New York, Toronto and London...
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Clinton's 2016 push
(Column ~ 01/29/14)
It's a foregone conclusion that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2016. The sole obstacle in her path would be a health issue because, rest assured, any potential missteps on her part would never make their way into the mainstream media...
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Thanks to school board members
(Editorial ~ 01/29/14)
This week is recognized as School Board Member Appreciation Week. Letters to the editor from two local superintendents recently appeared on the Opinion page expressing thanks to the individuals who volunteer their time to serve on local school boards...
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Good to see students use A+
(Editorial ~ 01/29/14)
According to a report presented at the recent Jackson School Board meeting, more students in the district are looking at the A+ Program. Amanda Forester, A+ coordinator, said 62 seniors are "on track;" she expects the number could reach 100 by the end of school this spring. During the 2012-13 school year, 95 students were eligible...
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Richard Bowman
(Obituary ~ 01/29/14)
Richard Lee "Buck" Bowman, 83, of Jackson died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, at Monticello House. He was born Feb. 16, 1930, in Cape Girardeau, to Walter and Bertha Friedhof Bowman. He and Shirlene Ford were married April 22, 1950, in Piggott, Ark. She passed away Sept. 19, 1997...
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Lena Phillips
(Obituary ~ 01/29/14)
Lena Mae Alice Phillips, 70, of Scott City died Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 27, 1943, in Canalou, Mo., to Fred and Jessie Drew Perkins. She married Allen Wayne Phillips on April 14, 1964...
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Darlene Blackwell
(Obituary ~ 01/29/14)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Darlene Emma Blackwell, 86, of Marble Hill passed away Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, at Woodland Hills Nursing Home. She was born April 29, 1927, in Leonard, Texas, daughter of Cecil and Nina Mae Hinton Arnold. She and R.C. "Shorty" Blackwell were married Aug. 8, 1942. He passed away May 29, 2001...
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Steven Leimbach
(Obituary ~ 01/29/14)
Steven L. Leimbach, 50, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, at his home. He was born Dec. 9, 1963, in Cape Girardeau, to Norman and Arlene Trickey Leimbach. He and Susan Nesslein were married April 9, 1994. Steven was a 1982 graduate of Jackson High School. ...
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Dwain Manche
(Obituary ~ 01/29/14)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Dwain A. Manche, 59, of Altenburg died Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, at his home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Friday at Young and Sons East Perry Chapel. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Brazeau Presbyterian Church in Brazeau, Mo., with the Rev. Brad Werner officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery...
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Roy Glastetter
(Obituary ~ 01/29/14)
Roy Glastetter, 74, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, at Southeast Hospital. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Parish prayers will be at 7. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Old St. Vincent's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Tom Kiefer officiating...
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Doris Taylor
(Obituary ~ 01/29/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Doris M. Taylor, 85, of Perryville died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. Friday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. The Catholic wake will be at 7 p.m. Thursday. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, with the Rev. Jim French officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery...
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Births 1/29/14
(Births ~ 01/29/14)
Daughter to Clayton Wayne and Amy Marie Church of Millersville, Southeast Hospital, 4:21 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. Name, Ella Sophia. Weight, 7 pounds, 1 ounce. Mrs. Church is the former Amy Jaco, daughter of Lenzel and Debbie Jaco of Millersville. She is a nurse assistant at Southeast. Church is the son of Boyce and Pam Church of Cape Girardeau and Beth King of Morley, Mo. He is office manager at Service Four Equipment...
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Bruce Wichern
(Obituary ~ 01/29/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Bruce A. Wichern, 65, of Perryville died Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was an Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday and from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Saturday at Young and Sons Funeral Home...
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Road work 1/29/14
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
Drainage work closes Route C in Perry County Route C in Perry County, between Highway 51 and County Road 236, will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a pipe under the road. The work will be performed today, from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m...
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Prayer 1/29/14
(Prayer ~ 01/29/14)
O Lord God, we humbly ask for wisdom in all that we do. Amen.
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Winter storm causes wrecks, gridlock across the South
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Cities rolled out snow plows that rarely leave the garage, a hardware store sold feed scoops for use as snow shovels and alligators in the Okefenokee Swamp burrowed into mud to stay warm Tuesday as a winter storm brought snow, ice and cold to the Deep South, a part of the country more accustomed to hurricanes...
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Four shot at NC church; boy critically hurt
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Police in a North Carolina town are searching for a man who sprayed a church playground with gunfire, striking four youths and leaving a 12-year-old boy gravely wounded. The Rev. James Gailliard at Word Tabernacle Church in Rocky Mount said the shooting happened shortly before 6 p.m. Monday, as about two dozen neighborhood teens played basketball on courts behind the sanctuary...
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Central banks in emerging markets taking action
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
LONDON -- Following a bout of market turmoil that's weighed on their currencies, central banks in emerging economies are moving fast to contain the damage. Late Tuesday, Turkey's central bank raised its key interest rate to 12 percent from 7.75 percent to try to stave off inflation and support the national currency, which has fallen sharply in recent weeks...
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A more-controlled Morsi appears in Egyptian court
(International News ~ 01/29/14)
CAIRO -- The second court appearance for ousted President Mohammed Morsi was very different from his first: He wore a white prison uniform Tuesday instead of a trim dark suit. And when the Islamist leader wanted to speak, a judge controlled his microphone in the soundproof glass cell...
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Toddlers love selfies amid the iPhone age
(Community ~ 01/29/14)
LOS ANGELES -- Every so often, Brandi Koskie finds dozens of photos of her 3-year-old daughter, Paisley, on her iPhone -- but they aren't ones Koskie has taken. "There'll be 90 pictures, sideways, of the corner of her eye, her eyebrow," said Koskie, who lives in Wichita, Kan. "She's just tapping her way right into my phone."...
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Mannequins get makeover to look more realistic
(Community ~ 01/29/14)
NEW YORK -- The one-size-fits-all mannequin is getting a makeover. Wings Beachwear's mannequins in Miami sport flower tattoos like some of the women who shop there. The mannequins at American Apparel's downtown New York City store have pubic hair peeking through their lingerie. And at David's Bridal, mannequins soon will get thicker waists, saggier breasts and back fat to mimic a more realistic shape...
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Missouri Senate committee adopts gun law nullification bill
(State News ~ 01/29/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A state Senate committee dismissed warnings from a Missouri doctor that nullifying federal gun laws would lead to greater firearms access and, consequently, more gun-related deaths and voted to advance such a measure Tuesday...
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Missouri House panel considers an expansion of Bright Flight
(State News ~ 01/29/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Concern about top Missouri students going to college and taking jobs in other states is prompting lawmakers to consider sweetening financial assistance that the highest performers can receive by staying closer to home. The House Higher Education Committee examined legislation Tuesday that would add a forgivable loan worth up to $5,000 to Missouri's existing Bright Flight scholarship. ...
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Lawmakers take new tactic with cell towers
(State News ~ 01/29/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- After getting stymied in court, Missouri legislators are taking a new approach to limit local regulations that telecommunications companies claim hinder the expansion of high-speed Internet service across the state. A Senate commerce committee heard testimony Tuesday on five bills limiting city and county regulations on cellphone towers, utility poles and right-of-way rules...
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More implicated in nuclear cheat probe
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
WASHINGTON -- The cheating scandal inside the Air Force's nuclear missile corps is expanding, with the number of service members implicated by investigators now about double the 34 reported a week ago, officials said Tuesday. It wasn't clear whether the additional 30-plus airmen suspected of being involved in cheating on proficiency tests are alleged to have participated in the cheating directly or were involved indirectly...
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Fact-checking Obama's speech, Republican response
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama promised to clear red tape from highway projects that are stalled because there's no money for them, not because rules are in the way. He's ordering a higher minimum wage for a sliver of the workforce. Going it alone -- without Congress making a law -- doesn't go as far as President Barack Obama made it sound at times Tuesday in his State of the Union speech...
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Ill. lawmaker holds forum on expanding gambling
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A state lawmaker believes his latest bid to expand Illinois gambling may finally bear fruit now that the state's thorny pension crisis has been resolved to the satisfaction of the governor who twice spiked measures that would have added casinos...
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Pressure mounts for Apple to accelerate its growth
(National News ~ 01/29/14)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple reshaped technology and society when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone seven years ago. Now, the trendsetting company is losing ground to rivals that offer what Apple has stubbornly refused to make: smartphones with lower prices and larger screens than the iPhone...
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Cape police report, 1/29/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/29/14)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest DWI Summonses Property damage Thefts Burglary Miscellaneous...
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Mo. House panel considers Bright Flight expansion
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Concern about top Missouri students going to college and taking jobs in other states is prompting lawmakers to consider sweetening the financial assistance that the highest performers can receive by staying closer to home...
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Planning commission agrees to help Dutchtown
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Southeast Missouri Regional Planning Commission on Tuesday agreed to help the village of Dutchtown if it receives the buyout grants it seeks. The flood-prone community has applied for a Federal Emergency Management Agency buyout program...
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High school robotics tournament set for Sunday
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
Forty-six area high school teams will compete in the fifth annual FIRST Technology Challenge robotics competition from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Show Me Center, according to a news release from Southeast Missouri State University. The challenge will be the largest qualifying event in the state, the release said. The free event is one of more than 100 taking place in 15 countries with the objective of getting to the world championship in St. Louis...
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Degree mapping by the numbers
(Local News ~ 01/29/14)
* According to Lumina's "A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education" report, which shows where the nation is on college degree attainment, 65 percent of U.S. jobs will require some form of postsecondary education by 2020...
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Blues avenge lopsided loss to Devils
(Professional Sports ~ 01/29/14)
ST. LOUIS -- A week ago, Jaroslav Halak couldn't wait to get off the ice and find a place to hide. He'd been no relief at all after replacing Brian Elliott in net in New Jersey and was embarrassed along with the rest of St. Louis Blues. "I can speak for myself: I was hoping the game was over after the second period," Halak said...
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Missouri finally wins on Razorbacks' floor
(Professional Sports ~ 01/29/14)
Missouri lost its previous six games at Walton Arena, but won 75-71 on Tuesday
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Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team steps out of OVC play tonight
(College Sports ~ 01/29/14)
Southeast men play their final nonconference game against UMKC
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Ukraine PM resigns, concessions offered
(International News ~ 01/29/14)
KIEV, Ukraine -- In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and parliament repealed anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police. The developments were significant concessions to the anti-government protesters who have fought sporadically with police for the last 10 days after two months of peaceful around-the-clock demonstrations...
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High school roundup: Hornets, Cardinals win tourney openers
(High School Sports ~ 01/29/14)
All the local high school events reported Tuesday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Southeast Missouri State releases its 2014 football schedule
(College Sports ~ 01/29/14)
The Southeast Misosuri State football team will open its first season under coach Tom Matukewicz on Aug. 28 at Houck Stadium against Missouri Baptist, an NAIA member. That date became official Tuesday when Southeast released its schedule for the 2014 season...
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Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in New York
(Entertainment ~ 01/29/14)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Unable to carry his beloved banjo, Pete Seeger used a different but equally formidable instrument, his mere presence, to instruct yet another generation of young people how to effect change through song and determination two years ago...
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Stars line up to pay tribute to The Beatles
(Entertainment ~ 01/29/14)
LOS ANGELES -- There's an easy way to give pop music's most performance-hardened stars a case of the butterflies: Ask them to perform in front of The Beatles. Many of today's top artists gathered Monday night to honor The Beatles' legacy, with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in attendance and late members John Lennon and George Harrison in mind, at The Recording Academy's taping of "The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles."...
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Out of the past 1/29/14
(Out of the Past ~ 01/29/14)
The congregation of St. Mark Lutheran Church celebrates the elimination of the debt on its church building and property during worship services; started as a mission congregation by the Lutheran Church in America, St. Mark purchased the property on Cape LaCroix Road in 1966...
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