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High court voids overall contribution limits
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees. The justices said in a 5-4 vote that Americans have a right to give the legal maximum to candidates for Congress and president, as well as to parties and PACs, without worrying that they will violate the law when they bump up against a limit on all contributions, set at $123,200 for 2013 and 2014. ...
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Cape council has 60 days to appoint someone to replace Summers
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
April is set to be a month of change for the Cape Girardeau City Council as it prepares to say farewell to some longtime members and welcome a few new ones. Ward 1 Councilman John Voss and Ward 2 Councilman Meg Davis will be replaced after the election next week because Voss reached his term limit and Davis is moving out the ward. Then, on Monday, Trent Summers unexpectedly announced his decision to resign as Ward 3 representative because he is moving out of the ward...
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Saturday will be a Messy Morning
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
It's going to be a Messy Morning at the Show Me Center for about 3,000 children and their families Saturday. Doors open at 10 a.m., and the eighth annual event runs through 1 p.m., coordinator Janice Jones said. Admission is free, but those attending are encouraged to bring canned foods for the Southeast Missouri Food Bank...
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Missouri House bill would curb regulations on wood stoves
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
Members of the Missouri House of Representatives came together in a bipartisan effort Tuesday morning to approve a bill that prohibits the implementation of regulations on wood-burning heaters. House Bill 1302 prohibits the Department of Natural Resources from regulating the manufacture, performance, or use of residential wood burning heaters or appliances unless first authorized by the general assembly. ...
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Magnitude-8.2 quake strikes northern Chile
(International News ~ 04/02/14)
SANTIAGO, Chile -- A magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off northern Chile on Tuesday night, setting off a small tsunami that forced evacuations along the country's entire Pacific coast. Officials reported two deaths and several serious injuries, but the area apparently escaped major damage as landslides blocked roads, power failed for thousands, an airport was damaged and several businesses caught fire...
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House OKs gun law nullification bill
(State News ~ 04/02/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri House endorsed legislation Tuesday that attempts to nullify some federal gun-control laws after scaling back the measure to remove the threat of jail time for federal agents who enforce those laws. The Republican-led House voted 112-37 to remove the possibility for criminal prosecution of federal law enforcement officers who knowingly enforce gun policies the state deems to "infringe on people's right to keep and bear arms."...
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Central wins battle of big seventh innings vs. Jackson
(High School Sports ~ 04/02/14)
For six innings Tuesday, the Central and Jackson baseball teams were locked in a tight, classic pitcher's duel. Then came the seventh inning, and pandemonium ensued. Josh Morse's two-run single keyed a five-run top of the inning for Central, and Jackson saw its three-run rally in the bottom of the seventh fall just short as the Tigers held on for a thrilling 6-4 victory at Whitey Herzog Stadium...
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East Cape couple burned; woman believed set afire
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- The Alexander County, Ill., Sheriff's Department is investigating a suspected domestic dispute that left a woman and her husband with severe burns. Deputies responded to "a domestic situation" between 5 and 5:30 a.m. Saturday at 28 Comanche Drive in East Cape Girardeau, Sheriff Tim Brown said Tuesday...
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Women First Partners with Southeast Medical Group
(Submitted Story ~ 04/02/14)
Women First, an established obstetrics and gynecology practice in Cape Girardeau, has partnered with the Southeast Medical Group of SoutheastHEALTH, effective Tuesday, April 1. Joining the Southeast Medical Group from Women First are Eric Morton, DO; Chris Rosenquist, MD; Heather Cugini, MD; and Marianne Cook, APRN, BC-FNP. Women First of SoutheastHEALTH will remain in its current location at 1111 North Mount Auburn Road...
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HealthPoint to Host Kids Extravaganza Health & Fitness Fair
(Submitted Story ~ 04/02/14)
Children will enjoy plenty of activities at the Kids Extravaganza Health & Fitness Fair on Saturday, April 26, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Southeast HealthPoint Fitness in Jackson. The event is free for kids, ages 2 to 12. The fair will feature a wide range of activities, including face painting, a bounce house and hands-on nutrition as well as information on summer youth programs, diabetes and dental health...
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Venturing Crew 5 Boy Scout Stop for a Photo at Tom Sauk Mountain
(Submitted Photo ~ 04/02/14)
Venturing Crew 5 Boys Scouts, Harrison Ayers, James Scheller and Alex Huggins pose for a photo at Tom Sauk Mountain. Tom Sauk Mountain is the highest elevation in the state of Missouri. Venturing Crew 5 is open to boys and girls age 14 to 21.
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Southeast Cancer Center Hosts Journeys Support Group
(Submitted Story ~ 04/02/14)
SoutheastHEALTH physical therapist Paula Stout will discuss fatigue, oncology rehab and lymphedema at the Journeys Cancer Support Group meeting on Tuesday, April 22, from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Southeast Cancer Center in Cape Girardeau. The support group will meet quarterly, with each session focusing on a different cancer topic. The remaining sessions for 2014: "Understanding Cancer Treatment" on June 24, "Nutrition and Clinical Research" on Sept. 23 and "Celebrating Life" on Dec. 16...
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Venturing Crew 5 Boy Scouts visit pet Kangaroo
(Submitted Photo ~ 04/02/14)
Boy Scouts Venturing Crew 5 stopped on March 29 to visit the pet Kangaroo of Darren and Karyn Brown of Fredericktown, MO. The scouts were enjoying a road trip to Elephant Rock and Tom Sauk Mountain. Those pictured are Harrison Ayers, James Scheller, Darryl Huggins, Asst. Scout Master and Alex Huggins...
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Medication Adherence is Vital to Your Health
(Submitted Story ~ 04/02/14)
Recently, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun to address the health care system issues by developing the 5-star rating system. It aims to help improve quality of patient care, and compliance and adherence of their medication. Part D plans will be rated in part on how easy beneficiaries say it is for them to fill prescriptions or resolve issues related to their medications under the plan, in hopes to save billions of dollars in federal health care spending...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
Today is Wednesday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2014. There are 273 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 2, 1914, British actor Sir Alec Guinness, whose roles in a 66-year career ranged from Hamlet to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars," was born in London...
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Uncertainty abounds with health care law
(Editorial ~ 04/02/14)
If you are a business owner or managing your personal finances, having some degree of certainty is key. Sure, there will be changes to the plan. An unexpected health expense. A downturn in the economy. But for someone looking at a budget and trying to manage expenses, the more confidence in numbers the better...
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A void of trust
(Column ~ 04/02/14)
A few months back, I penned a column that talked about trust in our government and specifically trust in this administration. The theme then -- as it remains today -- is that absent trust, virtually any act or proposal coming from government officials will be viewed with some level of skepticism...
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Catholic bishops celebrate Mass along border with Mexico
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
NOGALES, Ariz. -- Roman Catholic leaders made a rare visit to the border and celebrated Mass on Tuesday in the shadow of the fence separating the U.S. and Mexico, offering Holy Communion through the steel barrier to people on the Mexican side as they sought to bring attention to the plight of immigrants...
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Texas prison agency pushes to keep execution drug source secret
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
HOUSTON -- Two days before Texas is set to execute its first inmate with a new batch of drugs, the state prison agency remained determined Tuesday to keep its supplier a secret, citing threats of violence to pharmacies that sell drugs used in lethal injections...
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Ryan unveils House GOP budget claiming balance
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
WASHINGTON -- House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan unveiled an updated Republican budget plan Tuesday that would slash $5.1 trillion in federal spending over coming decade and promises to balance the government's books with wide-ranging cuts in programs like food stamps and government-paid health care for the poor and working class...
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Study's low marks on youth well-being surprise some states
(Community ~ 04/02/14)
A new report on child well-being, measured by state and race, has turned an unflattering spotlight on some places not used to being at the bottom of such lists, including Wisconsin, with a worst-in-the-nation ranking for its black children, and South Dakota, with abysmal results for its American Indian youths...
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Refuge near Bloomfield set aside for disabled veterans
(State News ~ 04/02/14)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A 125-acre tract in Southeast Missouri is set aside as a haven in the wilderness for a specific group -- disabled veterans. The Dexter Daily Statesman reported since Tom Love and Alan Hedrick turned over the land near Bloomfield in Stoddard County to an American Legion post nearly two years ago, nearly 100 veterans have used the opportunity...
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Missouri Senate panel weighs medical marijuana
(State News ~ 04/02/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Heidi Rayl's 4-year-old son has multiple seizures a day, and Rayl on Tuesday took her fight to state lawmakers in the hope of winning access to a currently banned treatment: medical marijuana. Rayl drove to the Capitol from her home in Versailles, Mo., to tell a Missouri Senate panel how legalizing medical marijuana could help treat her son's seizures, saying other treatment options haven't worked...
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Tax cut bill advances despite Nixon worries
(State News ~ 04/02/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Despite concerns from the Democratic governor, Missouri's Republican-led Legislature passed an income tax cut Tuesday that could reduce state tax revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Missouri's top individual income tax rate would be cut for the first time in almost a century, benefiting more than 2 million taxpayers. ...
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GOP senator floats state Medicaid proposal
(State News ~ 04/02/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Although he acknowledges his prospects are slim, a Republican senator is circulating a plan he says would use federal Medicaid dollars to expand Missouri's health care coverage to low-income adults without busting the state budget...
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Spy's release in play for peace deal
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
WASHINGTON -- Every president since Ronald Reagan has refused to release Jonathan Pollard from prison. A CIA director once threatened to resign when Bill Clinton considered freeing the convicted spy as part of Mideast peace talks. But now, in a gamble to extend negotiations that appear on the brink of collapse, the Obama administration is bringing the U.S. closer than it has been in years to granting Pollard an early release...
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People who missed health-care deadline may have second chance
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
It's not too late to get covered. A few routes remain open for those who missed the health-care law's big enrollment deadline. Millions may be eligible for a second chance to sign up for subsidized insurance this year. And people who get coverage after the deadline can still avoid, or at least reduce, the fine for going uninsured...
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23 students injured in school bus accident
(State News ~ 04/02/14)
EWING, Mo. -- Nearly two dozen students were injured in northeast Missouri on Tuesday when a school bus overturned in a ditch on a rural road near the Illinois border, the state Highway Patrol reported. The accident happened about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday north of Ewing in Lewis County. The injured students attended Highland Elementary and Highland High schools in the Lewis County C-1 District...
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John Hill Jr.
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
John L. Hill Jr., 91, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, March 26, 2014, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee, Mo. He was born Jan. 19, 1923, in Cape Girardeau, to John and Della Robinson Hill Sr. John and Virginia Ann Jungers were married Sept. 7, 1942. She preceded him in death...
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Births 4/2/14
(Births ~ 04/02/14)
Son to Ryan Michael and Tiffani Lynn Stanley of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 9:38 a.m. Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Name, Trenton Alexzander. Weight, 8 pounds, 4 ounces. Sixth son. Mrs. Stanley is the former Tiffani Hendrix, daughter of Kimberlee Parkerson of Jackson and Thad Parkerson of state of Indiana. She is employed at Country Mart. Stanley is the son of Christina Struburg of Jackson and Mike Stanley of Cape Girardeau...
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Christian Rivers-Bell
(Obituary ~ 04/02/14)
Christian Rivers-Bell, 3 months, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, March 31, 2014, at Southeast Hospital. He is the son of Teresa Rivers and Hubert Bell. Family and friends may gather from 1:30 p.m. until time of service Thursday at Crain Funeral Home...
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Cape Girardeau police report 4/2/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/02/14)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest Summonses Miscellaneous...
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Suspect detained in Chaffee school threat
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
A suspect has confessed he wrote the message threatening to shoot Chaffee High School principal Brad Blackman, investigators reported. Chaffee Police Chief Jim Chambers told the Scott County Signal on Tuesday that a 14-year-old boy was turned over to juvenile authorities Friday. The boy confessed to the threat Saturday at the detention center...
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Murder suspect's lawyer seeks to suppress confession
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Chauncey Hughes' lawyer is seeking to suppress his confession to police in the murder case against him. Hughes, 30, faces felony murder charges in connection with the Nov. 1 shooting death of his wife, Heather Davis, 22. At a preliminary hearing in December in Alexander County Circuit Court, an Illinois State Police special agent said Hughes changed his story under questioning by law enforcement...
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Blues blank Flyers 1-0 in shootout
(Professional Sports ~ 04/02/14)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Blues acquired Ryan Miller for moments such as these. Miller stopped 31 shots and kept the net empty in a shootout, too. He was precisely as advertised, a goalie that be a difference-maker when there's no room for mistakes...
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Another sign of spring
(Local News ~ 04/02/14)
LAURA SIMON ~ lsimon@semissourian.com Winnie Ting, an intern at the Charles L. Hudson Horticulture Greenhouse at Southeast Missouri State University, trims dark red geraniums for disease prevention Tuesday. Sales at the greenhouse begin for the season April 14....
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13 GM traffic deaths tied to 57-cent part
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
WASHINGTON -- The fix for a faulty ignition switch linked to 13 traffic deaths would have cost just 57 cents, members of Congress said Tuesday as they demanded answers from General Motors' new CEO on why the automaker took 10 years to recall cars with the defect...
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Atlanta archbishop repents for $2.2 million residence
(National News ~ 04/02/14)
ATLANTA -- Archbishop Wilton Gregory seems to have gotten the pope's message about modest living. Days after Pope Francis removed a German bishop for his lavish spending on a new residence, the Atlanta archbishop apologized for building a $2.2 million mansion as his residence. He bowed to criticism from parishioners and said he'd consider selling the new home in Buckhead, Atlanta's toniest neighborhood...
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Industry group seeks continuous flight tracking
(International News ~ 04/02/14)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- An aviation industry group is creating a task force to make recommendations this year for continuously tracking commercial airliners because "we cannot let another aircraft simply vanish" like Malaysia Airlines Flight 370...
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Palestinians resume bid for further UN recognition
(International News ~ 04/02/14)
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- In a surprise move that could derail U.S. peace efforts, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday resumed a campaign for further international recognition of a state of Palestine, despite a previous promise to suspend such efforts during nine months of negotiations with Israel...
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NATO meets on Ukraine; seeks to reassure Baltics
(International News ~ 04/02/14)
BRUSSELS -- Facing their biggest security challenge in years, NATO foreign ministers discussed how to react to Russia's annexation of Crimea and what measures to take reassure the alliance's rattled eastern members in the face of a newly assertive Russia...
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High school roundup: Woodland's McCormick throws no-hitter
(High School Sports ~ 04/02/14)
All the local high school events reported Tuesday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Southeast Missouri State baseball team shuts down Arkansas State
(College Sports ~ 04/02/14)
The Southeast Missouri State pitching staff, led by Scott City alumni Skylar Cobb who made his starting pitching debut for the Redhawks, dominated Arkansas State batters and combined to pitch a shutout against the Red Wolves on Tuesday at Capaha Field...
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Southeast Missourian's Crader earns APSE honor for columns
(Community Sports ~ 04/02/14)
Southeast Missourian sports editor Rachel Crader received a top 10 finish in the Associated Press Sports Editor 2013 contest in column writing. Crader finished fifth in the under 30,000 circulation division for her five-column entry. Contestants in the national competition were judged on style, writing quality, originality and local appeal...
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Rams sign ex-Titan wide receiver Britt
(Professional Sports ~ 04/02/14)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Rams have signed Kenny Britt to a free agent deal, adding depth to a young group at wide receiver. The Rams also added defensive lineman Alex Carrington on Tuesday. In other recent moves, St. Louis added backup quarterback Shaun Hill, linebacker Etienne Sabino and cornerback Greg Reid...
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'Van Dyke' DVDs spotlight Moore's comedic genius
(Entertainment ~ 04/02/14)
NEW YORK -- Like any "Dick Van Dyke Show" fan, he's happy to catch a rerun of the show while flipping channels. "If there's nothing new to watch, I'll let the episode play out," said Carl Reiner. "I'm always pleased to see how well those episodes have aged."...
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Out of the past 4/2/14
(Out of the Past ~ 04/02/14)
Pastor Louis Launhardt of St. Andrew Lutheran Church presents an Ephesian/Greek event at the church; the evening program includes a picture of the life and times of the Biblical setting of Ephesus and Greece; Launhardt is pursuing his continuing education through and independent study of Paul's ministry in Greece and is organizing a group to travel there in June...
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Prayer 4/2/14
(Prayer ~ 04/02/14)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for your Holy Word and that we can worship you freely. Amen.
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