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Sinkholes at lead mine site raise concerns
(State News ~ 07/07/14)
CENTERVILLE, Mo. -- The Doe Run Co. is working with several governmental agencies to address sinkhole problems at a mine site in Southeast Missouri. The Daily Journal newspaper in Park Hills, Missouri, reported that in addition to two sinkholes at the West Fork mine site in Reynolds County, Doe Run has acknowledged surface settling and surface cracking. The company also recently announced it had successfully filled in three other sinkholes that first appeared in April...
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Branson magician sends big cats into retirement
(State News ~ 07/07/14)
BRANSON, Mo. -- A Branson magician's decision to downsize his act has sent three tigers and two leopards into retirement and marked an end to big cats performing in the southwest Missouri tourism mecca. All five cats were born in captivity and trained to be an important part of illusionist Kirby VanBurch's show on the Branson strip, the Springfield News-Leader reported. Last week, they arrived at the National Tiger Sanctuary just off U.S. 65 between Springfield and Branson...
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Anglers can click before casting
(State News ~ 07/07/14)
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. -- When Bob Bueltmann pulled his boat into a cove behind his condo unit at Lake of the Ozarks one day this spring, he used an unusual fish finder to locate bass. After cutting his motor, he was greeted by a worker leaning over the railing on the third floor. Studying the clear water below, the worker pointed and said, "There's a big bass hiding in those rocks. I've been watching him come in and out."...
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Research: Chemical alters development of turtles
(State News ~ 07/07/14)
ST. LOUIS -- The turtles are in trouble. A chemical found in Missouri's rivers and streams can influence the sex organs of developing turtles, making males more like females, researchers say. A pilot study conducted at the University of Missouri showed the synthetic chemical bisphenol A -- or BPA, which is known to mimic estrogen and disrupt hormone levels in animals -- can alter a turtle's reproductive system after exposure in the egg. ...
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Cape house fire determined accidental
(Local News ~ 07/07/14)
About 9:30 p.m. Saturday, a house fire was reported at 2026 Perryville Road in Cape Girardeau. The fire report stated firefighters at the scene found light to moderate smoke coming from the garage. The resident of the home, Bruce Blankenship, smelled smoke and called 911. It was reported the homeowner had already extinguished the bulk of the fire before firefighters arrived...
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Kan. groups seek creation of dental practitioner status
(State News ~ 07/07/14)
WICHITA, Kan. -- Several Kansas groups are pushing for a new level of dental provider they believe could help remedy a severe shortage of dentists across the state. A proposed bill in the last legislative session to create registered dental practitioners, who would rank somewhere between a hygienist and dentist, didn't receive a hearing. Advocates say they will try again, The Wichita Eagle reported...
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Sikeston teen faces felony charges for allegedly stealing from cars
(Local News ~ 07/07/14)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston teenager is facing felony charges for allegedly stealing a handgun out of a vehicle. Tyler Blake McClinton, 17, was arrested last week by Sikeston Department of Public Safety officers after they learned one victim of a number of previous car break-ins had managed to get her item back...
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Sikeston burglary suspect in custody
(Local News ~ 07/07/14)
BENTON, Mo. -- A man is in custody following a burglary that occurred Saturday night in Sikeston, Missouri. Jimmy Garrett, 26, of 213 Ruth St. in Sikeston, has been charged with burglary and possession of burglary tools, according to a Sunday news release...
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Analysis: Election timing affects Missouri issues
(State News ~ 07/07/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's Aug. 5 elections could provide a case study for the ability of governors to affect proposed ballot measures, both politically and legally. Five proposed constitutional amendments will go before voters this summer, instead of during the November elections, because of a decision by Gov. Jay Nixon...
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Construction schedule moved up for Southeast business lab
(Business ~ 07/07/14)
Southeast Missouri State University is looking at an early 2015 soft launch for its Creative Labs and Industries Incubator on Broadway. The board of regents recently approved the design concept and budget for the incubator and authorized the administration to proceed with construction documents...
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Severity of alleged crimes, costs weighed in extradition cases
(Local News ~ 07/07/14)
The 97-mile drive from St. Louis to Murphysboro, Illinois, usually takes less than two hours. A murder suspect from Cape Girardeau needed 78 days to make the trip. Brandon Banks, 28, is accused of killing Marsha Ann Brown, 40, of Cape Girardeau. A passing motorist found Brown's body Jan. ...
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Sheriff says 3 deaths a murder-suicide
(State News ~ 07/07/14)
NEVADA, Mo. -- A southwest Missouri sheriff says three bodies found in a rural Nevada home were family members who were killed in a murder-suicide. KOAM-TV reported Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher said all three people found Friday night died of gunshot wounds. ...
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Jackson to begin annual water-flushing program today
(Local News ~ 07/07/14)
Jackson plans to begin its annual water flushing program today. The purpose of the flushing is to remove any mineral sediment buildup in pipes as well as improve water quality and maintain the valves and hydrants within the city. Erica Bogenpohl, staff engineer for Jackson, said that each year the city flushes a portion of the hydrants in Jackson. ...
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Debate grows around right-to-farm measure as election approaches
(Local News ~ 07/07/14)
Jeremie Nothdurft has farmed all his life. He still remembers his first farm job and sitting behind the wheel of a tractor at age 5. His daughter, Eve, isn't quite old enough to help harvest this year's winter wheat, but he said there will be plenty of room for her to join the family farm one day...
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Cape council to move forward on fire sales tax
(Local News ~ 07/07/14)
The Cape Girardeau City Council will take its first action toward calling an election for the fire sales tax at its regular meeting tonight. The question to extend the one-eighth-cent portion of the fire tax initially was planned to go before voters in August. ...
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Now That's A Head of Cabbage
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/07/14)
Nephew helping pick the cabbage
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Independence Day Run
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/07/14)
Independence Day Run on Friday, July 4, drew some 400 runners. Southeast HealthPoint Fitness in Jackson hosted the race.
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'A Bench in the Sun' opens this Thursday
(Submitted Story ~ 07/07/14)
After many weeks of rehearsals opening night is this coming Thursday, July 10 for River City Players second show of the season, "A Bench in the Sun." The play was written by Ron Clarke and is being directed by Brenda Ferguson. The stars of the production are Lloyd Williams, Claudette Hency, Larry Reiminger, and Susie Ryan. ...
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Mayor Rediger and Troop 5 Boys Scouts on July 4th
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/07/14)
Scouts from Boy Scout Troop 5 of Cape Girardeau distributed US Flags before the July 4th festivities at downtown Cape Girardeau. Pictured are Tanner Smith, Mayor Harry Rediger, T.K. Babers and Dylan Hackler.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/07/14)
Today is Monday, July 7, the 188th day of 2014. There are 177 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 7, 1865, four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln...
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Whiffle ball tourney supports good causes
(Editorial ~ 07/07/14)
Professional baseball's All-Star game in scheduled for next week in Minnesota. The Midsummer Classic will feature many of the game's best, and the Home Run Derby is always fun. But there's another "classic" game coming up this week locally. The Summer Classic will be held Friday through Sunday at Arena Park. The Whiffle ball tournament will include good-natured fun, and on Saturday there will be a home run derby...
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Alma Schrader and character
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/07/14)
How very proud I am of the leadership from Ruth Ann Orr and Julie Unnerstall at Alma Schrader School. They continue to seek out new methods to involve their students in ways that will develop these young lives into responsible, contributing adults in our great city on the Cape. Two programs recently recognized were Tigers Across the Ages and Courtyard Crashers...
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Unaffordable rate increase
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/07/14)
Thirty-one percent gas rate increase is being requested by Liberty Gas Co. The Public Service Commission held a hearing at noon Monday in Jackson for the public to have input as to the legitimacy of this rate hike. Five local consumers showed up to question a dozen or more state and Liberty personal upon the merit of this 31 percent rate increase. ...
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‘Transformers' tops ‘Tammy' on weak July 4 weekend
(Entertainment ~ 07/07/14)
NEW YORK -- The Fourth of July went off like a dud at the box office, as the Michael Bay sequel "Transformers: Age of Extinction" and the Melisa McCarthy comedy "Tammy" led the weakest summer holiday weekend in at least a decade. The North American box office was down a whopping 44 percent over the July Fourth weekend last year, when "Despicable Me 2" and "The Lone Ranger" opened...
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Cape Girardeau police report 7/7/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/07/14)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt...
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Speak Out 7/7/14
(Speak Out ~ 07/07/14)
Hey, what's going on with the mail service? I have got two late charges because of the mail being delivered late. It doesn't take 15 days for mail to reach that location. They need to do something about it. Cottonwood In regard to the closing of the Cottonwood, I think it's time. The taxpayers have been soaked long enough. Any time you have to have 95 employees to serve 24 patients, there's something wrong here. You know, get real. They need to close...
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Anna Szabelski
(Obituary ~ 07/07/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Anna Ruth Szabelski, 72, of Perryville died Sunday, July 6, 2014, at Perry Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Perryville. A private memorial service will be at a later date. Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville is in charge of arrangements...
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Barbara Simon
(Obituary ~ 07/07/14)
Barbara I. Kaufmann Simon, 97, died Sunday, July 6, 2014. Barbara was the beloved wife of the late Lawrence T. Simon; dear mother of Larry (Carol) Simon and Karen Jones; dear grandmother of Gary Jones, Nick Simon and Laura Simon; loving sister of Frank Kaufmann and the late John, Anton and Charlie Kaufmann; and the dear sister-in-law of Evelyn Kaufmann...
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Glenn Pruitt Sr.
(Obituary ~ 07/07/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Glenn G. Pruitt Sr., 68, of Perryville died Sunday, July 6, 2014, at his home after a brief illness. He was born April 28, 1946, in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, son of the late Glenn G. and Winona Kiefer Pruitt. He married Cardine M. Vernon Pruitt on May 11, 1963. She preceded him in death Nov. 21, 2003...
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Anthony Hempstead
(Obituary ~ 07/07/14)
Anthony Lynn Hempstead, 26, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, June 28, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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The Rev. James Hackney
(Obituary ~ 07/07/14)
The Rev. Dr. James W. Hackney, 87, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, July 2, 2014, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Jan. 5, 1927, at Eldon, Missouri, to the late Clifford and Edith McKinley Hackney. He graduated from Eldon High School in 1944. ...
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Gary Gilbert
(Obituary ~ 07/07/14)
Gary Kenneth Gilbert, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, July 4, 2014. He was the son of Charles Wooten and Violet Markhart Gilbert, born in the family home on North Middle Street in Cape Girardeau on Feb. 3, 1933. Family and friends knew him as "Sonny," given to him as a young boy by his mother who exclaimed that, "he was so bright, we had to put a washtub on him to let the sun come up."...
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What's making U.S. economy a world beater? 5 factors
(Business ~ 07/07/14)
WASHINGTON -- How does the U.S. economy do it? Europe is floundering. China faces slower growth. Japan is struggling to sustain tentative gains. Yet the U.S. job market is humming, and the pace of economic growth is steadily rising. Five full years after a devastating recession officially ended, the economy is finally showing the vigor that Americans have long awaited...
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Prominent authors back anti-Amazon letter
(Business ~ 07/07/14)
NEW YORK -- Stephen King, Nora Roberts and Donna Tartt are among the hundreds of authors who have added their names to an online letter criticizing Amazon.com for restricting access to works published by Hachette Book Group. The letter, initiated by Hachette author Douglas Preston, urged Amazon to resolve its standoff with Hachette over e-book prices and other issues. ...
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6 Jewish suspects arrested in slaying of Arab teen
(International News ~ 07/07/14)
JERUSALEM -- Israel arrested six Jewish suspects Sunday in the grisly slaying of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned alive last week -- a crime that set off a wave of violent protests in Arab sections of the country. Leaders of the Jewish state appealed for calm amid signs the death was revenge for the recent killings of three Israeli teenagers...
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States look to gun-seizure law after mass killings
(National News ~ 07/07/14)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- As state officials across the country grapple with how to prevent mass killings like the ones at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and near the University of California, Santa Barbara, some are turning to a gun-seizure law pioneered in Connecticut 15 years ago...
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Legal and political hurdles abound in child migrant crisis
(National News ~ 07/07/14)
WASHINGTON -- The legal, humanitarian and political constraints facing the Obama administration as it copes with thousands of Central American children entering the country illegally came into focus in a series of interviews Sunday. A George W. ...
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Not-for-profits' contraceptive cases next for high court
(National News ~ 07/07/14)
WASHINGTON -- How much distance from an immoral act is enough? That's the difficult question behind the next legal dispute over religion, birth control and the health law that is likely to be resolved by the Supreme Court. The issue in more than four dozen lawsuits from faith-affiliated charities, colleges and hospitals that oppose some or all contraception as immoral is how far the Obama administration must go to accommodate them...
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TSA: Some on U.S.-bound flights must turn on phones
(National News ~ 07/07/14)
WASHINGTON -- Passengers at some overseas airports that offer U.S.-bound flights will be required to power on their electronic devices in order to board their flights, the Transportation Security Administration said Sunday. The TSA said it is requiring some overseas airports to have passengers turn on devices such as cellphones before boarding. It says devices that won't power up won't be allowed on planes, and those travelers may have to undergo additional screening...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda 7/7/14
(Local News ~ 07/07/14)
City hall 401 Independence St. Study session, 5 p.m. today Items for discussion...
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Positive numbers, but politicians hedge bets
(National News ~ 07/07/14)
WASHINGTON -- Does anyone in politics dare talk up the economy? Apparently not. After five months of steady job growth and with unemployment hitting a six-year low, the reaction Thursday in Washington was a collective "Yeah, but ..." Across the political spectrum, liberals and conservatives still found reason to despair and point fingers -- a function of election-year politics, been-there-before skepticism and honest perceptions by many Americans that the recovery has yet to improve their lives.. ...
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Capahas nicked by Spikes in tournament championship
(Community Sports ~ 07/07/14)
~ Plaza Tire fell 6-2 in the championship game of the Valmeyer Tournament The St. Louis Golden Spikes proved to be a nemesis for the second time in eight days for the Plaza Tire Capahas on Sunday. After the Capahas plated 13 runs in the first two games of the Valmeyer Tournament, Plaza Tire could muster just a pair of runs on a Sean Bard home run in a 6-2 loss to the Golden Spikes in the championship game...
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Area digest 7/7/14
(Community Sports ~ 07/07/14)
Wanda Verhines of Cape Girardeau carded her second career hole-in-one Saturday at Kimbeland Country Club. Verhines used a 9-iron to ace No. 12, a par 3 playing 77 yards. Gayle Gorham and Elaine Hayden witnessed the shot. Gene Garrison of Jackson recorded his second career hole-in-one June 30 at Kimbeland Country Club...
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Cardinals drop series to Marlins
(Professional Sports ~ 07/07/14)
ST. LOUIS -- Matt Adams had a sweet swing against Henderson Alvarez, finishing the day with a career-best four hits. Kolten Wong homered in his return from the disabled list. The St. Louis Cardinals didn't get anything from the rest of the lineup, losing 8-4 to the Miami Marlins on Sunday and dropping two of three to their spring training partners...
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Prayer 7/7/14
(Prayer ~ 07/07/14)
O Jesus, may all come to know you as Lord and Savior. Amen.
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Out of the past 7/7/14
(Out of the Past ~ 07/07/14)
Large dirt-moving equipment is being used to grade the 25-acre plot purchased by the Jackson School District for construction of $5 million worth of new facilities on Orchard Drive; after Potashnick Construction Co. completes dirt work at the site in about 20 days, construction of a new elementary school and gymnasium will begin...
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Business Notebook: Isle of Capri may consolidate with Pa. company
(Business ~ 07/07/14)
According to Reuters news service, Isle of Capri is consolidating with Gaming and Leisure Properties, a Wyomissing, Pennsylvania-based owner of casino real estate properties. If Gaming and Leisure Properties makes a bid for the firm, Isle of Capri shares will be worth nearly $16 a share...
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Bargains for boomers: As the last baby boomers turn 50 this year, discounts kick in
(07/07/14)
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- The last of the baby boomers turn 50 this year, and if they want to cry into their beer about getting older, at least they can now buy it at a discount. That's because the first of the so-called senior discounts kick in at age 50, generally along with an AARP card...
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First pitch into retirement: Lavern Wachter retires after 38 years of teaching, and celebrates in a big way
(07/07/14)
After teaching school for 38 years, Lavern Wachter is retiring from St. Paul Lutheran School in Jackson in a big way: She threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game on June 13 at Busch Stadium...
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On the road again: Marc and Becky Fulgham log thousands of miles on their motorcycle, with goal of touring all 50 states
(07/07/14)
Marc Fulgham has had a motorcycle since he was 14. His wife, Becky, had never been on a motorcycle before she met him. "I was a bad influence," he teases. The pair were in college, and she was no match for his rakish allure. More than 37 years later, hopping on their Honda Gold Wing touring bike is still one of their favorite activities. They put in about 15,000 miles per summer in pursuit of their ultimate goal: ride in all 50 states...
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National Civil Rights Museum reopens after renovations
(07/07/14)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- One of the first exhibits visitors see at the newly renovated National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis displays statues of shackled and branded black men, sitting in a line with knees near their chins, on the deck of a creaking slave ship headed across an ocean...
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Show your green side: Healthy vegetable sides for your summer barbecue season
(07/07/14)
Burgers? Check. Brats? Check. Potato salad, baked beans and potato chips? Check, check, check. We're well into cookout season in Southeast Missouri, and every family has its favorite dishes. Just be sure your smorgasbord comes with a side of something healthy, too. Here are three ideas for nutritious -- and delicious! -- sides for your next get-together:...
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Five 'cool' things to do this summer in Southeast Missouri
(07/07/14)
1. Hang out at the bookstore or library. I don't know about you, but most times when I go to the bookstore or library, I'm in a hurry to find the specific book I'm looking for and be on my merry way. But when I have the chance, it's so relaxing to take my time to browse new titles, flip through the magazines, maybe even see what CDs and DVDs are available. ...
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