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Gunman arrested in Planned Parenthood fatal shooting
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A gunman who opened fire inside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic was arrested Friday after killing a police officer, wounding multiple people and engaging in gun battles during an hours-long standoff with authorities, officials said...
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Hollywood for the holidays
(Entertainment ~ 11/27/15)
The holiday season typically comes with an array of highly anticipated blockbuster film debuts at movie theaters. With family-friendly comedies, action-packed thrillers and hard-hitting dramas, this year's lineup of releases seems certain to deliver...
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Man jumps fence; White House goes into lockdown
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
WASHINGTON -- A man draped in an American flag climbed over the fence at the White House on Thursday, prompting a lockdown as the first family celebrated Thanksgiving. The man immediately was apprehended and taken into custody pending criminal charges, the Secret Service said in a statement. The incident took place about 1:45 p.m...
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Arrests for drunken boating plummet on Missouri waterways
(State News ~ 11/27/15)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Arrests for drunken boating on Missouri waterways have fallen by 63 percent since the Missouri State Water Patrol merged with the Highway Patrol in 2011. State records show arrests for boating while intoxicated fell from 352 in 2010, the last year before the merger, to 131 arrests in 2014. So far this year, the arrest total stands at 131...
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Volunteers pitch in to help serve Salvation Army's annual meal
(Local News ~ 11/27/15)
More than 100 volunteers served a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings, plus desserts, at the annual Salvation Army Thanksgiving Day meal. On the front lines, serving spoons in hand, were many first-time volunteers. Brenda Newbern said she never had volunteered for a function such as the dinner before. Her reason for wanting to do so was simple...
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Residents come to aid of firefighter who loses home, grandfather to fire
(Local News ~ 11/27/15)
A GoFundMe account set up for Cape Girardeau firefighter Tyler Grovenor and his family has raised $2,950 of a $4,000 goal as of Thursday afternoon after he was rendered homeless by a fire that also killed his grandfather. The account was set up by one of Grovenor's friends in St. Louis County...
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Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team plenty puts 4-game winning streak to the test
(College Sports ~ 11/27/15)
Coach Rekha Patterson and the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team had plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Patterson's fulfilling her dream of being a head coach, and the Redhawks have won four in a row for their best start since 2008-09...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
Today in History Today is Friday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2015. There are 34 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 27, 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special U.S. envoy to China by President Harry S. Truman to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists...
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Missy Kitty's many reasons to be thankful this year
(Column ~ 11/27/15)
While most of us will still be easing through the post-Thanksgiving gluttony on this Black Friday, Missy Kitty will be filing away her annual list of reasons to be thankful. Many cats here in Cape Girardeau, across the country and around the world won't have a very long list. They are strays, or abandoned, or ignored. Missy Kitty, by comparison, is pampered beyond words...
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Prayer 11-27-15
(Prayer ~ 11/27/15)
O God, may we remember the true reason for the Christmas season. Amen.
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Shoe box project for children
(Editorial ~ 11/27/15)
This has been a busy week for families, churches and other groups, locally and elsewhere, who have been packing shoe boxes full of holiday treats for children overseas. The effort, known as Operation Christmas Child, is led by international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan's Purse...
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'Annie' on national tour is led by a keeper of the flame
(Entertainment ~ 11/27/15)
NEW YORK -- If you catch the latest national tour of "Annie," you're in for a treat -- the original director and lyricist is running the show. The new "Annie" making its way to New York City to play the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn this Christmas is the 19th time Martin Charnin has directed a production of his heartwarming tale of a Depression-era orphan girl and her scruffy dog. It's the real thing...
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Artifacts 11/27/15
(Entertainment ~ 11/27/15)
The opening reception for the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri's Regional Juried Art Exhibition will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 4 at the council's gallery, 32 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau. Awards will be announced at 6 p.m. as part of First Friday with the Arts. Painter James F. Wilson is the juror for the show...
- Best Bet: Parade of Lights (Entertainment ~ 11/27/15)
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Southeast, Potosi bands to present holiday spectacular
(Entertainment ~ 11/27/15)
A Holiday Spectacular will feature sounds of the season in a program performed Dec. 8 by the Southeast Missouri State University Wind Symphony and Marching Band along with the Potosi High School Concert Band at Southeast's River Campus. The concert is slated for 7:30 p.m. in the Bedell Performance Hall...
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Art Guild student members exhibit in Dobbins Center Hallway Gallery
(Entertainment ~ 11/27/15)
Student members in the Art Guild in the Department of Art at Southeast Missouri State University are exhibiting their work in the Dobbins Center Hallway Gallery. The exhibit, which features drawings, prints, graphic design, paintings and mixed media, will stay on display through Dec. 9...
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Joshua Wiley
(Obituary ~ 11/27/15)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Joshua Heath Wiley, 39, of Carbondale passed away Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, at his home. He was born Sept. 8, 1976, in Cape Girardeau to Ronald and Janey Kelley Wiley. He was a regular attendee of The Door Christian Fellowship Church in Carbondale...
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Jackson fire report 11/27/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/27/15)
JACKSON Firefighters responded to the following calls Wednesday: n Emergency medical service calls on Lakeshore Drive and Pecan Lane.
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jackson police report 11/27/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/27/15)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest n Charles Strop, 21, of Oran, Missouri, was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant. Summons n Kyle P. Randen, 20, of Cape GIrardeau was issued a summons for a stop-sign violation...
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Roy Wendel
(Obituary ~ 11/27/15)
** Roy Wendel Roy W. Wendel, 82, of Whitewater died Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Cape Girardeau police report 11/27/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/27/15)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of possession of a controlled substance. n Christie Stallings, no age given, 3011 Themis St., was arrested on suspicion of stealing clothes and perfume at Wal-Mart, 3439 William St...
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John Auer
(Obituary ~ 11/27/15)
John Gus Auer, 45, of Scott City died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 23, 1970, at Fairfield, California, the son of John Bernard and Mary Ellen Corne Medel Auer. He married Denean Shirrell on Oct. 23, 2000, at Benton, Missouri...
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Charles Knapp
(Obituary ~ 11/27/15)
MEXICO, Mo. -- Charles Bradford Knapp, 57, of Mexico, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, at Golden Living Center-Pin Oaks in Mexico. He was born Dec. 6, 1957, in Perryville, Missouri, to Dennis Albert and Betty June Triller Knapp...
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North Carolina troopers on food stamps amid pay fight
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- State troopers suing North Carolina for millions of dollars in back pay said the state's broken promises have forced them into tough spots: working second jobs, moving in with parents, even going on food stamps. About 800 troopers -- half the force -- have joined a class-action lawsuit arguing the state promised a schedule of regular pay increases when they were hired but reneged because of budget problems. ...
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Balloon launch at Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
The Angry Bird balloon is walked through Columbus Circle on Thursday during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
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Woman fined for trashing office with glitter
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
AKRON, Ohio -- A former clerk at a county's fiscal office was fined $1,000 for trashing a co-worker's office with glitter and purple Silly String. A judge also ordered Samantha Lockhart, 25, to complete 50 hours of community service and write an apology. Police said she had been working for Summit County when she smashed photos, threw glitter and sprayed Silly String in the office after sending a resignation notice. Prosecutors said she also destroyed computer equipment...
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Researchers try to turn roadside weed into biofuel
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
RENO, Nev. -- Three decades ago, a University of Nevada researcher who obtained one of the first U.S. Energy Department grants to study the potential to turn plants into biofuels became convinced a roadside weed -- curly top gumweed -- was growing along the road to the future...
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Teen killed by Chicago officer had broken, troubled family
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
CHICAGO -- A black teenager shot 16 times by a white Chicago police officer was a ward of the state when he died, having spent years being shuttled between relatives' homes and foster care from the time he was 3. Laquan McDonald, whose name demonstrators have shouted for two days and will shout again during a planned rally to disrupt the city's famed Magnificent Mile shopping corridor today, lived a troubled, disadvantaged life and had at least one previous brush with the law...
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Family-owned farm to celebrate 275 years
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
MIDDLEFIELD, Conn. -- Through wars, financial panics and a freeze that destroyed its peach crop a century ago, eight generations of the Lyman family have sustained its farm in the hills of central Connecticut. The family behind Lyman Orchards now is looking to cultivate the next generation of owner-operators, concerned not enough younger members will step up to keep the farm run by the family as it has been since it was established nearly 275 years ago...
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Study: Skin-care drug prices up 401 percent since 2009
(National News ~ 11/27/15)
WASHINGTON -- The cost of prescription skin treatments has skyrocketed since 2009, as the burden of escalating drug prices increasingly weighs on family budgets. Retail prices have surged 401 percent since 2009 for brand-name drugs for skin conditions, according to research published in JAMA Dermatology, a medical journal. That compares to an overall inflation rate of 11 percent during the same period...
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Out of the past: Nov. 27
(Out of the Past ~ 11/27/15)
The former Cape Girardeau WISER building, 1111 Linden Ave., will be auctioned off next month, but an agency board member said the sale won't bring enough money to pay final salaries to the defunct agency's former workers. Original artwork by Jake Wells, Al Agnew and John Boos will be sold at a benefit auction for the SEMO Council on the Arts. The silent auction will be held Dec. 9. The artwork, dating from 1974 to 1981, was donated from the collection of Boatmen's Bank...
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Surging Arkansas looks to end Pinkel's Missouri career
(College Sports ~ 11/27/15)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Brandon Allen and the rest of Arkansas' fifth-year seniors have experienced nearly every high and low imaginable, from an 11-win season in 2011 to the bottom of the Southeastern Conference following Bobby Petrino's firing. The Razorbacks (6-5, 4-3 SEC) quarterback and his emotionally tested teammates hope to put a positive finishing touch on their home careers when they cap the regular season against Missouri today...
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Southeast Missouri State softball team's 2016 schedule released
(College Sports ~ 11/27/15)
The Southeast Missouri State softball team's 2016 schedule was announced on Tuesday. The Redhawks are slated to play 56 regular-season games in coach Mark Redburn's second season at the helm. There are plenty of opportunities to see the team in action at home with 32 games at the Redhawk Softball Complex in Cape Girardeau...
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'Motown the Musical' to Broadway: 'I'll Be There' again
(Entertainment ~ 11/27/15)
NEW YORK -- We've heard it through the grapevine: "Motown the Musical" is coming back to Broadway. Motown Records founder Berry Gordy and producer Kevin McCollum said Monday that the musical that tells the story of how the record label rose and fell and then rose again will return to New York starting in July for an 18-week stand...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 11/27/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/27/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Firefighters responded to the following calls Tuesday: n Medical assist calls were made at 12:29 a.m. on North Kingshighway; 10:25 a.m. on South Hanover Street; 11:38 a.m. on North Kingshighway; 2:06 p.m. on Interstate 55; 5:49 p.m. on South Hanover Street; and 7:16 p.m. on North Sprigg Street...
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$10 million push to extend Grant's Trail advances
(State News ~ 11/27/15)
ST. LOUIS -- A long-awaited extension of Grant's Trail near St. Louis is moving ahead, with the promise of what will become a continuous 17-mile route for bicyclists, walkers and runners. Adding two miles to the trail to link it to the River Des Peres Greenway will cost $10.2 million, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. That extension includes adding two bridges and a tunnel...
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Missouri Planned Parenthood says legal action likely
(State News ~ 11/27/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A regional Planned Parenthood official said the organization likely would take legal action against the state of Missouri after a Columbia clinic halted abortions this week, leaving one in the state that still performs them. Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said the organization would sue the state Department of Health and Senior Services if it revokes the clinic's abortion license...
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State briefs 11/27/2015
(State News ~ 11/27/15)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri hunters are killing more deer after restrictions were lifted in some areas to prevent the spread of chronic-wasting disease. Nearly 190,000 deer were killed during the first phase of the Missouri firearms season, which ended Tuesday. ...
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Turkey, Russia escalate spat over downed Russian warplane
(International News ~ 11/27/15)
ANKARA, Turkey -- A tug-of-war over a Russian warplane downed by a Turkish fighter jet at the border with Syria escalated Thursday, with Moscow drafting a slew of economic sanctions against Turkey and the Turkish president declaring his military will shoot down any new intruder...
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Russia, France agree to tighten cooperation against ISIS
(International News ~ 11/27/15)
MOSCOW -- The presidents of France and Russia agreed Thursday to tighten cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State group, although they remained at odds over their approach toward Syrian President Bashar Assad. IS has claimed responsibility for deadly attacks against both of the countries in recent weeks: Nov. 13 shootings and suicide bombings in Paris that killed 130 people and the Oct. 31 bombing of a Russian passenger jet over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that claimed 224 lives...
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Springfield police shoot, kill 23-year-old man
(State News ~ 11/27/15)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Springfield police said an officer shot and killed a man during a struggle over the officer's gun. Police identified the man killed as Magnum E. Phillips, 23, of Springfield. Police stated in a news release the shooting occurred late Wednesday after officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a mobile-home park...
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Man accused of choking former girlfriend, stealing her phone
(Local News ~ 11/27/15)
An arrest warrant was filed Tuesday for a Cape Girardeau man accused of choking his former girlfriend until she passed out, then stealing her phone. Brian Eugene Clemons Jr., 32, of Cape Girardeau is charged with second-degree domestic assault, a felony...
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Jackson police foil burglary attempt, arrest suspect
(Local News ~ 11/27/15)
A Cape Girardeau man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of burglary in the 700 block of Dallas Street in Jackson. Christopher Thomas Sample, 29, was charged with felony burglary, possession of burglars' tools and misdemeanor property damage. Police responded to a call at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday about a burglary in progress. A man was seen entering the residence through a bathroom window, Jackson Police Sgt. Ryan Thieret wrote in a probable-cause statement...
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