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Regional briefs 12/2/15
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
ESSEX, Mo. -- The Essex Fire Department was busy over the weekend when two homes were destroyed by fire. The John Hunter home south of Frisco, Missouri, and a house owned by Mike King in the Peaceful Acres subdivision south of Essex were engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, and there was little they could do to save the houses...
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Apartment fire damages downtown building
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
An early morning fire Tuesday at an apartment building at 124 S. Lorimier St. spread from a kitchenette in a basement apartment to the first and second floor via the dead space between remodeled walls. The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the call at 5:37 a.m. Tuesday...
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St. Louis man charged with intent to distribute
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
Casey Lamont Lowery of St. Louis was pulled over Saturday for driving 13 miles over the speed limit, but he ended up being arrested and charged with felony intent to distribute a controlled substance. Scott City police officer Brooks Brockmire conducted the stop on southbound Interstate 55 on the vehicle with Michigan registration, Brockmire wrote in a probable-cause statement...
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Cape bank robber to be sentenced in February
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
Thirty-five-year-old Jeron S. Mister will be sentenced for bank robbery in February. Mister of Fairview Heights, Illinois, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Nov. 17 to robbing The Bank of Missouri at 3427 William St. in Cape Girardeau. Mister's plea agreement admits to the Sept. 2 robbery and taking $4,240 by force, violence or intimidation...
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Woman faces gun charge after Thanksgiving confrontation
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
Reportedly upset with her ex-boyfriend, a Cape Girardeau woman is accused of showing up at his sister's home on Thanksgiving and pulling a gun on him and his new girlfriend. An arrest warrant was filed Tuesday for Rosie Lee Jackson, 36, who is charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon...
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Man accused of setting sister's camper on fire
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
A family dispute led to a Sikeston, Missouri, man allegedly lighting his sister's camper on fire Thanksgiving evening in Benton, Missouri, police reported. Travis DeWayne Nelson, 30, was arrested on the scene Nov. 26 and charged Monday with second-degree domestic assault and property damage, both felonies...
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Handel's 'Messiah' performed at River Campus
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
Contralto soloist Leslie Jones performs during Handel's "Messiah" as Peter Durow conducts the Southeast Missouri Symphony, University Choir and Choral Union on Tuesday in the Bedell Performance Hall at the River Campus of Southeast Missouri State University. Other faculty vocalists included Lori Shaffer, Christopher Goeke and Timothy Schmidt. The concert was a technical sellout, with 912 tickets sold...
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Volunteers prepare to pack meals for people in impoverished nations
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
It's a feat of almost epic proportions, but this year's Feed My Starving Children effort appears to be well in hand as thousands of volunteers prepare to pack meals at Cape Girardeau's Osage Centre. Linda Tenkhoff, one of the event's longtime organizers and a parishioner at LaCroix Church, said the goal this time around is to pack 925,000 nutritious meals for people in impoverished nations...
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Training in recognizing bias proposed for Missouri officers
(State News ~ 12/02/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri police officers would need to complete annual training in recognizing bias, de-escalating situations and dealing with people with mental illness under rules proposed in response to calls for change after a fatal Ferguson shooting last year...
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Buckner's Brewing Co. has begun making beer
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
Just shy of three years after Buckner shut its doors, the smell of brewing beer is in the air again at the building at the corner of Main Street and Broadway in Cape Girardeau. The new incarnation of the business, now owned by Dr. Sonjay Fonn, will be known as Buckner's Brewing Co...
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Rep. Smith's chief of staff quits to take new job with health-care company
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
Josh Haynes, a fixture in 8th Congressional District Republican politics for more than a decade, has resigned as chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo. Haynes is taking a position as director of government affairs for Wellcare, a Florida-based company that has a contract with the state of Missouri to manage health care for Medicaid patients. ...
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Legionnaires' disease bacteria found at hotel; 1 guest died
(State News ~ 12/02/15)
ST. LOUIS -- The bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease were found in rooms of a hotel in a popular Missouri tourist town associated with Mark Twain, and health officials said Tuesday one of three people who contracted the disease after staying there has died...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/02/15)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2015. There are 29 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 2, 1995, NASA launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint project of the United States and the European Space Agency, on a $1 billion mission to study the sun and interplanetary space; since then, SOHO has discovered 3,000 comets...
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Meal-packing event example of the true Christmas spirit
(Editorial ~ 12/02/15)
Friday through Sunday, local volunteers will take part in an annual meal-packing effort for Minnesota-based Feed My Starving Children, an organization that seeks to make food available to youngsters in places devoid of sustenance around the globe. The venue for packing the meals is the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau, and, as in years past, the chief organizers are the folks at LaCroix Church...
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Support for Trump means help for Hillary
(Column ~ 12/02/15)
Like many others, I consider Hillary Clinton a textbook example of all that is wrong in our current political circus. Dishonest, arrogant and sadly absent any hint of trust. But, God forbid, if Donald Trump should be the GOP nominee, our choices come next November will be the worst in history...
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Prayer 12-2-15
(Prayer ~ 12/02/15)
O Lord, give us one pure and holy passion to know and follow hard after you. Amen.
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Births 12/2/15
(Births ~ 12/02/15)
Son to Brandon Claude Sims and Delnisha La'Shay Williams of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 12:12 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015. Name, Brandon Claude Jr. Weight, 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Third child, first son. Ms. Williams is the daughter of Nina and Jessie Davis of Cape Girardeau and Albert and Ginger Lewis of Champaign, Illinois. Sims is the son of Gordon Sims of Chicago and Verlinda Nelson of Crest Hill, Illinois...
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Out of the past: Dec. 2
(Out of the Past ~ 12/02/15)
A fine-arts print gallery has opened in downtown Cape Girardeau; Steve-Mark Inc., 16 N. Spanish St., has added the gallery to its store; in addition to prints, the gallery also has some original artwork, including work from local artists Candy Mecham, Tom Kloppenburg and Gary Lucy; the store is co-owned by brothers Steve and Mark Mueller...
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Jackson police report 12/2/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/02/15)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n Chelsea S.M. Sullivan, 21, 1038 Clark St., was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. n Zachary D. Humphrey, 26, 5089 Highway 72 West, was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated...
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Emma Pettit
(Obituary ~ 12/02/15)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Emma Rosetta Spane Pettit, 73, of Chaffee passed away Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015. She was born to Irene Elsie Rehkoff and Robert Dunn on Jan. 28, 1942, in Cape Girardeau County. She previously worked for 20 years with Florsheim Shoe Factory and in 1981 became a licensed practical nurse, working 20 years with Saint Francis Medical Center, retiring in 2001...
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Dorothy Blackman
(Obituary ~ 12/02/15)
Dorothy Blackman, 87, of Jackson passed away Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 30, 1928, in Cape Girardeau to Sloan and Ida Floyd Watkins. She and Kelly Blackman were married Jan. 6, 1948. Dorothy was a graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School and the former Cape Girardeau Business College. She worked 33 years as deputy city clerk for the city of Jackson, retiring in 1992...
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Shirley Bell
(Obituary ~ 12/02/15)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Shirley Marie Bell, 61, of Mounds died Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Shirley was born July 25, 1954, in Quincy, Illinois, daughter of Paul Harrett and Pauline Tournear Harrett. Shirley married George M. Bell on Jan. 3, 1976, in Carbondale, Illinois...
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Road work 12/2/15
(Local News ~ 12/02/15)
Route 34 in Cape Girardeau County from Huber Crest Drive and Old Orchard Road will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews add a turn lane, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. The work will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Dec. 18...
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Mexico experts: passageway may lead to Aztec ruler's tomb
(International News ~ 12/02/15)
MEXICO CITY -- A Mexican archaeologist said his team has found a tunnel-like passageway that apparently leads to two sealed chambers, the latest chapter in the search for the as-yet-undiscovered tomb of an Aztec ruler. The Aztecs are believed to have cremated the remains of their leaders during their 1325 to 1521 rule, but the final resting place of the cremains never has been found. Outside experts said Tuesday the find at Mexico City's Templo Mayor ruin complex would be significant...
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Iraqi forces surround Ramadi, but it could be a long siege
(International News ~ 12/02/15)
BAGHDAD -- After months of sluggish progress, stalled advances and outright failures, Iraqi troops and militias backed by U.S.-led airstrikes have surrounded the key city of Ramadi and appear poised to launch a new attempt to wrest it from the Islamic State group...
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Report blames crash on pilot, rudder issue
(International News ~ 12/02/15)
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A rudder-control system problem that had occurred nearly two dozen times in the previous 12 months, coupled with the pilots' response, led to last year's crash of an AirAsia plane in Indonesia that killed all 162 people on board, investigators said Tuesday. ...
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U.S. sending new force to fight Islamic State
(National News ~ 12/02/15)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military will deploy a new special operations force to Iraq to step up the fight against Islamic State militants unleashing violence in Iraq and Syria and determined to hold territory they have seized across the Middle East, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress on Tuesday...
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For gays under IS rule, isolation and fear of a cruel death
(International News ~ 12/02/15)
REYHANLI, Turkey -- Before a crowd of men on a street in the Syrian city of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State group judge read out the sentence against the two men convicted of homosexuality: They would be thrown to their deaths from the roof of the nearby Wael Hotel...
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Coroner: Remains from Kansas are from a juvenile
(National News ~ 12/02/15)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Human remains found at a Kansas barn are those of a juvenile, but tests to determine whether the remains belong to a missing 7-year-old boy could take weeks, a coroner said Tuesday. Police found the remains after investigating a domestic disturbance, when they were notified the boy -- whom authorities identified as A.J. ...
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Police investigate death of Juneau mayor
(National News ~ 12/02/15)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The newly elected mayor of Alaska's capital city had suffered injuries when he was found dead, but police are awaiting autopsy results to announce a possible cause of death, officials said Tuesday. The adult son of Stephen "Greg" Fisk, 70, found the mayor's body Monday afternoon and alerted police...
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Obama says parts of climate deal must be legally binding
(International News ~ 12/02/15)
PARIS -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday parts of the global-warming deal being negotiated in Paris should be legally binding on the participating countries, setting up a potential fight with Republicans at home. Obama's stand won praise at the U.N. climate conference from those who want a strong agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas...
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Appalachia grasps for hope as coal jobs fade
(National News ~ 12/02/15)
WELCH, W.Va. -- The seams of coal in some of Eddie Asbury's mines in McDowell County are so thin, workers barely can squeeze down them. They enter on carts nearly flat on their backs, the roof of the mine coursing by just a few inches in front of their faces. They don't stand up all day...
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Chicago mayor fires police chief
(National News ~ 12/02/15)
CHICAGO -- Rahm Emanuel sought for months to keep the public from seeing a video that shows a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. Now, a week after the video's release, the Chicago mayor has fired the police superintendent, created a new task force for police accountability and expanded the use of body cameras...
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Mississippi-bound dog ends up in Hawaii
(National News ~ 12/02/15)
HONOLULU -- A dog bound for its new owner in Mississippi ended up in Honolulu instead. The Pembroke Welsh corgi was headed from Seattle to her new owner in Mississippi on Saturday when she made a wrong connection in Dallas, American Airlines spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said. American Airlines said the company is looking at its procedures to figure out how the corgi ended up on the wrong plane. Bethany left the islands Monday for Dallas...
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Southeast coach Bieser has history with Matheny
(College Sports ~ 12/02/15)
At some point during Mike Matheny's visit to Cape Girardeau this evening, the St. Louis Cardinals manager almost certainly will shake the hand of Southeast Missouri State University baseball coach Steve Bieser. It won't be the first or last time, as the two baseball head men have built a relationship through the years...
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High school roundup: Perryville boys reach semifinals of Woodland Tournament
(High School Sports ~ 12/02/15)
All the local high school events reported Tuesday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Mackenzie powers Panthers past Blues 3-1
(Professional Sports ~ 12/02/15)
ST. LOUIS -- Derek MacKenzie scored twice, and the Florida Panthers beat the St. Louis Blues 3-1 on Tuesday night. Brandon Pirri also scored for Florida, which has won three in a row. Roberto Luongo made 29 saves. David Backes scored for the Blues. Jake Allen made 12 saves in two periods, and Brian Elliott made eight stops in the third...
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Smithsonian launches music Web site for fan photos
(Entertainment ~ 12/02/15)
NEW YORK -- If you've got any rock or rap star photos stored on your iPhone or stashed somewhere in your attic, the Smithsonian wants to hear from you. On Tuesday, Smithsonian Books and Smithsonian Media launched rockandroll.si.edu, which will feature images taken by fans along with words and pictures from such musicians as Graham Nash and the Flaming Lips and from Roberta Bayley and other professional photographers. ...
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