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Digital marketing now commonplace and continues to grow
(Business ~ 05/11/15)
Digital devices are everywhere, and people are using them constantly -- to the point where digital marketing has become commonplace. "There's so much digital that is going on in the world of advertising and promotion," said Dr. John Cherry, a professor at Southeast Missouri University who teaches advertising, marketing, promotions and public relations. "Everybody is being buffeted by this technology."...
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Southeast Missourian taking nominations for Spirit of America Award
(Local News ~ 05/11/15)
The Southeast Missourian again is accepting nominations for its Spirit of America Award, presented July 4. Celebrating its 13th year, the award recognizes an individual who embodies the spirit of America. Past recipients include John "Doc" Yallaly, Dr. Dan Cotner, Melvin Gateley, Neal Edwards, James Harnes Sr., Jane Randol Jackson, Harry Rediger, Rob Callahan, David Hitt, Kent Zickfield and Kenneth Bender...
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Southeast moves ahead with Greek village plans
(Local News ~ 05/11/15)
With approval by Southeast Missouri State University's board of regents Friday, university staff will move forward with designing and finalizing financing options for a Greek village. In December, the board approved the feasibility of a Greek village concept and gave administrators the OK to pursue design development on nine acres on the west side of North Sprigg Street...
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Medicaid missteps gave reluctant state lawmakers a line of attack
(Local News ~ 05/11/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Two years ago, Echo Garrett lost her job at a call center. The 35-year-old Cape Girardeau woman was left to scramble without income and the health insurance she had counted on. She was hired at a fast-food chain in August, but the job has no health benefits, and she doesn't earn enough to purchase private health insurance...
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Salvation Army to host annual fundraising dinner
(Local News ~ 05/11/15)
The Salvation Army in Cape Girardeau is inviting community members to join them Tuesday for "A Night With the Stars." That's the theme for this year's dinner, which celebrates those who have volunteered for the organization to help serve their community...
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Thompson leads PHS Class of 2015
(Submitted Story ~ 05/11/15)
Daria Marie Thompson will lead the Perryville High School Class of 2015 as it graduates this Friday. Commencement begins at 8 pm Friday, May 15 at Perry Park Center. Thompson is the daughter of Michael and April Thompson. She has six siblings -- Daniel, Christen, D.J., Nathan, Megan, Josiah, and she is the granddaughter of Alice Burlingame...
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Archangel House Champions
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/11/15)
The archangel house of Raphael at Guardian Angel School, Oran, MO won House Champions for the 2nd year in a row. The announcement was made on Monday, May 11 and was followed by a day of celebration. The students desks were decorated by the teachers, a candy treat was given to them, and the students were first in line at lunch. ...
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Notre Dame de Forurvier
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/11/15)
The stunning and amazing Notre Dame de Fourvier, in Lyon, France.
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My favourite bakery in Lyon - Jocteur
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/11/15)
My favourite bakery in Lyon - Jocteur
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Full Moon
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/11/15)
photo taken May 6, 2015
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Downtown corner converted into student-art garden
(Local News ~ 05/11/15)
A space at the corner of Broadway and Sprigg Street has been transformed into a student-art showcase garden by a historic preservation major at Southeast Missouri State University. Lydia Ness, a senior at Southeast, recently finished the urban rejuvenation project, titled "Bridging Space through Placemaking," marking the completion of her honors distinction project...
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Moon before Sunrise
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/11/15)
I was able to capture this amazing image of the moon before sunrise on May 7th. I thought it looked absolutely beautiful with the natural glow.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/11/15)
Today is Monday, May 11, the 131st day of 2015. There are 234 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 11, 1945, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill was attacked and severely damaged by two kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa; according to the U.S. Navy's official website, 346 men were killed, 43 were left missing, and 264 were wounded...
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Missouri site helping in effort to repopulate wolves
(State News ~ 05/11/15)
EUREKA, Mo. -- A secluded Missouri conservation center heralded for helping repopulate the wild with endangered wolves is tending to its latest puppy season -- a ritual that now is bittersweet in the absence of the site's furry matriarch. With 41 Mexican gray wolf pups to her credit until she died April 21, a day before her 14th birthday, Anna came to symbolize the Endangered Wolf Center's quest to save North America's rarest subspecies of gray wolf...
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State briefs 5/11/2015
(State News ~ 05/11/15)
DEXTER, Mo. -- A 36-year-old man died in an accident while walking across the eastbound lanes of U.S. 60 near the Highway AD overpass Saturday night. According to Dexter Police, Terry Edmond Belcher Jr. was struck by an eastbound pickup truck just before 9 p.m. ...
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Governor says nuclear plant fire produced Hudson oil slick
(National News ~ 05/11/15)
BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- Part of a New York nuclear power plant remained offline Sunday after a transformer fire created another problem: thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the Hudson River, officials said. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said emergency crews were out on the water near Buchanan, trying to contain and clean up transformer fluid that leaked from Indian Point 3...
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Lawmakers face Friday deadline to pass bills
(State News ~ 05/11/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's Republican-controlled Legislature already has powered through many GOP priorities as lawmakers approach a Friday deadline to pass bills, and legislative leaders said that means the final days will be spent tackling so-called right to work and voter photo-identification requirements...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 5/11/15
(Local News ~ 05/11/15)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Approval of minutes n Minutes of the May 7 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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Deluge
(Local News ~ 05/11/15)
A downpour of rain shoots from gutters Sunday in downtown Cape Girardeau.
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Congressional votes for May 11
(Local News ~ 05/11/15)
Besides roll call votes, there were three other key votes in the Senate and six key votes in the House. The Senate, on voice vote, passed the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act (S. 125) to reauthorize through fiscal 2020 a grant program for local governments to purchase bulletproof vests...
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Castro: Pope Francis so impressive, he might return to church
(International News ~ 05/11/15)
VATICAN CITY -- Cuban President Raul Castro paid a call Sunday on Pope Francis at the Vatican to thank him for working for Cuban-U.S. detente -- and said he was so impressed by the pontiff, he is considering a return to the Catholic church's fold. "Bienvenido (welcome)!" Francis said in his native Spanish, welcoming Castro to his studio near the Vatican public audience hall. ...
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Obama will try to allay Gulf leaders' fears about Iran
(International News ~ 05/11/15)
WASHINGTON -- Leaders of Gulf nations unnerved by Washington's nuclear talks with Iran and Tehran's meddling across the Mideast look to President Barack Obama to promise more than words and weapons at Thursday's Camp David summit. They want commitments from Obama the United States has their backs at a time when the region is under siege from Islamic extremists, Syria continues to unravel, Iraq is volatile, and Yemen is in chaos...
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Hezbollah leads fight in strategic Syrian mountain range
(International News ~ 05/11/15)
QALAMOUN MOUNTAINS, Syria -- Here in pockets of the rugged mountains near the Lebanese border, the distinctive yellow flag of Hezbollah flies where al-Qaida militants once held sway. These gains in the Qalamoun Mountains represent a bright spot for embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, reeling from a unified insurgent assault in the country's northwest. ...
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2 slain officers mourned in Mississippi town
(National News ~ 05/11/15)
HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- One was a decorated officer of the year. The other was a proud recent graduate of the academy who had wanted to be a policeman since he was a boy. A routine traffic stop led to their shooting deaths Saturday night -- the first Hattiesburg police officers to die in the line of duty in more than 30 years -- and four people were arrested, including two who were charged with capital murder...
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Trauma, stigma face girls, women rescued from Boko Haram
(International News ~ 05/11/15)
YOLA, Nigeria -- The taunts wouldn't stop. "Boko Haram wives," the schoolgirls were called because they had been held briefly by Nigeria's Islamic extremists before escaping. The teasing was so relentless, some of the Chibok girls left their town and families...
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'Avengers' sequel tops charts, crushes 'Hot Pursuit'
(Entertainment ~ 05/11/15)
LOS ANGELES -- The "Age of Ultron" is not over. The Avengers sequel topped the domestic box office for the second weekend in a row with an estimated $77.2 million, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. The film has earned $312.9 million in 10 days in theaters, tying with "The Dark Knight" to become the second-fastest film to do so...
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Severe weather casts a wide net
(National News ~ 05/11/15)
South Dakota was the center of weather extremes Sunday, with a tornado damaging a small town and injuring at least nine people on the eastern side of the state and more than a foot of snow blanketing the Black Hills to the west. Parts of several Great Plains and Midwest states were in the path of severe weather, including north Texas, where the National Weather Service said a likely tornado damaged roofs and trees near Denton and torrential rain caused flash flooding...
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Out of the past: May 11
(Out of the Past ~ 05/11/15)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- An estimated $250,000 to $300,000 in property went up in smoke yesterday, and a four-building corner of the downtown area was engulfed in flames; 50 firefighters battled the blaze about two hours before bringing it under control. Teachers in the Nell Holcomb R-4 School District will make $1,600 more during the coming school year; the school board voted Thursday to give teachers an across-the-board $1,400 raise; counting an automatic, $200 salary-schedule increase for each teacher, the overall pay increase comes to $1,600.. ...
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Boats with 600 refugees land in Indonesia
(International News ~ 05/11/15)
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Boats carrying nearly 600 Bangladeshis and long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar landed in western Indonesia on Sunday, with some migrants needing medical care, officials and a not-for-profit organization said. Thousands more are believed to be stranded at sea...
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Births 5/11/15
(Births ~ 05/11/15)
Daughter to Stephen Brandon and Veronica Lynn Langston of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 7:48 p.m. Friday, May 1, 2015. Name, Hannah Isabel. Weight, 8 pounds, 12 ounces. Fifth child, third daughter. Mrs. Langston is the former Veronica Marquart, daughter of Eric and Karla Marquart of Cape Girardeau. Langston is the son of Stephen and Paula Langston of Cape Girardeau...
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Louis Hartje
(Obituary ~ 05/11/15)
Louis H. Hartje Jr., 91, of Jackson, died Saturday, May 9, 2015 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until time of service Friday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. at the funeral home with the Rev. Jason Shaw officiating. Interment will follow in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson with full Military Honors...
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Southeast first lady Jeanine Larson Dobbins leads as a lifelong learner
(Business ~ 05/11/15)
Jeanine Larson Dobbins came to Southeast Missouri State University with her husband, university president Kenneth Dobbins, in 1991. After coming to Southeast, she founded and developed the Missouri Statewide Early Literacy Intervention Program, which has helped more than 275,000 children across the state of Missouri learn to read. She has worked with her husband to leave a lasting effect on the university, and she has left her mark with her passion for education...
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Business notebook: Innovative Orthodontics opens Jackson location
(Business ~ 05/11/15)
Innovative Orthodontics has opened its new Jackson location at 404 S. Hope St. It was at 430 W. Independence St. The company also has locations at 2103 Broadway in Cape Girardeau and at 334 N. Main St. in Perryville. The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority is scheduled to meet at 1:30 p.m. today at the Port Office, 10 Bill Bess Drive in Scott City...
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St. Louis Zoo welcomes 850-pound bear via FedEx
(State News ~ 05/11/15)
ST. LOUIS -- Sometimes, shipping an 850-pound beast can be a real bear. The St. Louis Zoo on Friday announced the arrival of its latest resident, a 2-year-old male polar bear named Kali that was orphaned as a cub. The bear was shipped in by FedEx plane and truck ahead of its scheduled June 6 debut at the zoo's new Polar Bear Point Exhibit...
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Understand the signs of human trafficking
(Editorial ~ 05/11/15)
Kimberly Ritter addressed an audience at Southeast Missouri State University on April 29 to discuss a subject she acknowledged was uncomfortable: human sex trafficking. Ritter leads Nix Conference and Meeting Management's social responsibility trafficking initiative, and has been battling child sex trafficking at hotel properties since 2008...
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Speak Out 5/11/15
(Speak Out ~ 05/11/15)
** Texting, pants; ** End of times; ** Athletic record
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Southeast Missouri State baseball team endures third straight one-run loss
(College Sports ~ 05/11/15)
If there was any consolation to be found in a frustrating weekend of baseball in Terre Haute, Indiana, this weekend, it was the fact Southeast Missouri State was playing out of conference. The Ohio Valley Conference-leading Redhawks completed a weekend of one-run losses Sunday with an 8-7 setback to host Indiana State of the Missouri Valley Conference...
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Cardinals drop first series this season
(Professional Sports ~ 05/11/15)
PITTSBURGH -- Trailing by a run in the ninth inning, the St. Louis Cardinals were in position to pull out another win and series.
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Teen takes great-grandmother to junior prom
(National News ~ 05/11/15)
SEYMOUR, Ind. -- A teenager who took his 93-year-old great-grandmother to his junior prom says he had a great time, even though her early bedtime nearly cut the night short. Drew Holm says his classmates thought it "was pretty cool" he asked Kathryn Keith to Crothersville High School junior prom. Keith, who wore a blue dress, said she's proud he asked her. Their night ended by 9 p.m. because Keith has an early bedtime. Holm took his girlfriend to an after-prom event at a bowling alley...
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West Point names barracks for black graduate who was shunned
(National News ~ 05/11/15)
WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Benjamin O. Davis Jr. entered West Point in 1932 as its only black cadet and spent the next four years shunned. He roomed alone, and no one befriended him. The future Tuskegee Airman and trailblazing Air Force general later said he was "an invisible man."...
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A Holocaust survivor remembers: Lost in the rubble of Warsaw
(International News ~ 05/11/15)
WARSAW, Poland -- The young boy emerged from the rubble of Warsaw, clinging to the skirt of a woman he knew only as Mrs. Wala. Then she turned and walked away, and 7-year-old Mieczyslaw Kenigswein was alone, lost in the Holocaust. It was 1944. That boy now is 78, an Israeli with a Hebrew name, Moshe Tirosh. ...
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People on the Move 5/11/2015
(Business ~ 05/11/15)
Christa Akridge of Oran, Missouri, recently joined Century 21 Ashland Realty in Cape Girardeau after earning her real estate license. Her focus will be on residential properties in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties. Richard Cuba and Tyler Cuba of Cuba Financial Group recently attended the Masters Program of Wealth Management at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. ...
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Cape Girardeau police report 5/11/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/11/15)
Arrests n Matthew Rider, no age given, 536 S. Middle St., was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear for failure to register a motor vehicle. n Levi Grammer, no age given, 2045 Woodland Hills Drive, was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting from Kmart, 11 S. Kingshighway...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 5/11/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/11/15)
n Medical assist calls were made to: North Sprigg Street at 5:05 a.m.; Themis Street at 6:53 a.m.; Stoddard Court at 7:29 a.m.; North Mount Auburn Road at 12:24 p.m.; South Lorimier Street at 5:34 p.m.; and William Street at 9:11 p.m. n At 12:32 a.m., a call was dispatched and canceled en route to North Kingshighway...
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Prayer 5/11/15
(Prayer ~ 05/11/15)
We praise you, O Lord Jesus, for by your wounds we are healed. Amen.
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