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Cultural Exchange Network Awards Foreign Language Scholarships to Local Students
(Submitted Story ~ 06/15/16)
Cultural Exchange Network (CENET), a nonprofit based in Cape Girardeau, has awarded four scholarships to local students for summer language study, the organization announced today. CENET awarded the scholarships in cooperation with Concordia Language Villages (CLV) in Bemidji, Minnesota. CLV is one of the world’s premier immersion language learning programs...
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Birthday gifts go to pets
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
Tye Thorne stacks bags of dog and cat food during a fundraiser Tuesday for the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri. Thorne decided he would spend his 12th birthday collecting supplies for the Humane Society instead of receiving gifts.
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Sales-tax revenue provides fuel to Cape government
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
Consumer spending fuels Cape Girardeau city government, generating more than $29 million in sales-tax revenue for everything from general operations to road improvements, budget figures show. Nearly half of the city's general operating fund is supported by sales taxes, city finance director John Richbourg said...
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Mom arrested after toddler escapes house twice, walks to park
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
Multiple witnesses saw a 2-year-old walking alone at Scott City Park on two occasions Saturday. The mother said her daughter had learned to unlock the deadbolt of their door and walked nearly a quarter-mile to the pool. Brandi L. Jackson, 26, of Scott City was detained by Scott City police Saturday and placed in a 24-hour hold. She was issued a criminal summons Monday to appear in front of Judge Scott Horman at 9 a.m. July 12 to face a charge of first-degree endangering the welfare of a child...
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Ranken Technical College to open satellite campus in Perryville
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
In an effort to bring more skilled workers to the region to fill a possibly rising glut of job openings, a new vocational-education facility is in the works. Ranken Technical College is opening a satellite campus in Perryville, Missouri. The announcement was made Tuesday morning at the Perryville Area Chamber of Commerce's morning networking event, Coffee and Connections...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
Today is Wednesday, June 15, the 167th day of 2016. There are 199 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state. On this date: In 1215, England's King John put his seal to Magna Carta ("the Great Charter") at Runnymede...
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Heat safety should be priority during hot summer months
(Editorial ~ 06/15/16)
Summer is just beginning, but the area is already in the middle of its first big heat wave. The National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky, advises that temperatures will be in the mid-90s for most of the week. A few thunderstorms could pop up, as well, according to Kelly Hooper with the National Weather Service...
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Sanders' last stand
(Column ~ 06/15/16)
Though the outcomes are virtually assured, there remains a final breath in the presidential primary season. Small rumbles still can be heard concerning a potential push-back to Donald Trump on the GOP side and the ever-popular Sen. Bernie Sanders remains optimistic that his voice will be heard on the convention floor...
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Speak Out 6/15/2016
(Speak Out ~ 06/15/16)
People hoping to advance their political agendas posted lightning quick responses to the terrorist attack in Orlando. It was almost as if they had prepared their responses in advance, just waiting (cynics would say "hoping") for such a tragedy. Sadly, very few of those whose goal was to further their political goals bothered to post one word about the victims and their families...
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Actress Jaime King aims to inspire with gender-bending children's clothing line
(Community ~ 06/15/16)
LOS ANGELES -- Jaime King believes lessons about tolerance should start young. The actress and mother of two recently launched a gender-neutral children's clothing line she hopes will inspire acceptance and self-expression among kids and adults alike...
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There she is ... area contestant for Miss Missouri
(Community ~ 06/15/16)
By the end of this week, 20-year-old Jackson native Aimee Stockard could be catapulted into the national spotlight if she emerges victorious in the Miss Missouri Scholarship Pageant in Mexico, Missouri. "If I win that, I go to Miss America," she said...
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Opioids linked with deaths other than overdoses, study says
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
CHICAGO -- Accidental overdoses aren't the only deadly risk from using powerful prescription painkillers -- the drugs also may contribute to heart-related deaths and other fatalities, new research suggests. Among more than 45,000 patients in the study, those using opioid painkillers had a 64 percent higher risk of dying within six months of starting treatment compared to patients taking other prescription pain medicine. ...
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Iraq detains men fleeing IS-held Fallujah
(International News ~ 06/15/16)
FALLUJAH, Iraq -- At a checkpoint outside militant-held Fallujah, hundreds of civilians who fled the fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group huddled late at night in packed mini-buses on the side of a highway as security forces separated out those suspected of supporting the extremists...
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Police: Armed worker took hostages, fatally shot at Wal-Mart
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
AMARILLO, Texas -- Officers fatally shot an armed man inside a Wal-Mart store in Amarillo on Tuesday after he took two people hostage, including a manager with whom he had a work-related dispute, according to police. Amarillo police identified the suspect as 54-year-old store employee Mohammad Moghaddam and said neither hostage was injured...
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FBI looks at whether gunman led secret gay life
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The murky picture of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen grew more complex Tuesday with word the FBI is investigating whether he had been a regular at the gay dance club he attacked and had been leading a secret life as a gay man. As victims described the horror of the massacre during a hospital news conference, investigators continued to gather information on the 29-year-old American-born Muslim -- and took a close look at his wife -- for clues to the attack that left 49 victims dead...
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Democratic Party's computers breached by Russian hackers
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
WASHINGTON -- Sophisticated hackers linked to Russian intelligence services broke into the Democratic National Committee's computer networks and gained access to confidential emails, chats and opposition research on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, people familiar with the breach said Tuesday...
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Mosque shot at by neighbor to recommend no prison time
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The congregation of a mosque that was shot at by a neighbor will ask for the man to be spared from prison at his sentencing this week. Mosque members urged forgiveness despite federal prosecutors' call for him to serve time behind bars...
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France stabbing suspect: 'I just killed a police officer'
(International News ~ 06/15/16)
PARIS -- In a video released by the Islamic State group and recorded in the suburban Paris home of his victims, a former jihadi recruiter confessed to killing a police officer and his female companion and listed other prominent people he planned to target...
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Jury to decide whether 'Stairway to Heaven' copied
(Entertainment ~ 06/15/16)
LOS ANGELES -- A jury was selected Tuesday for a federal copyright trial over Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." Guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant, long hair pulled back and dressed in dark gray suits and white shirts, watched as eight jurors were chosen...
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'Not the America we want': Obama blasts Trump plan for Muslims
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama angrily denounced Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric on Tuesday, blasting the views of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a threat to American security and an echo of some of the most shameful moments in U.S. history...
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'Highly offensive': GOP lawmakers distance selves from Trump
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
WASHINGTON -- Dismayed Republicans scrambled for cover Tuesday from Donald Trump's inflammatory response to the Orlando massacre, while Democrat Hillary Clinton delivered a denunciation that underscored potential peril for the GOP. Republican hopes are fading for a new, "more presidential" Trump as the party's divisions around him grow more acute...
- Tuesday field trip at nature center (Local News ~ 06/15/16)
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Out of the past: June 15
(Out of the Past ~ 06/15/16)
After about eight months of dormancy, the Cape Girardeau-Bollinger County Lake Committee is scheduled to meet next week with county commissioners to discuss whether a once-considered 7,700-acre lake has a future. PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Navy and government officials got a look at the "new" modified T-39N jet aircraft here yesterday; the T-39Ns, to be used for the Undergraduate Naval Flight Officers training program at Pensacola, Florida, were rolled out of Sabreliner's maintenance and modification center at Perryville Municipal Airport.. ...
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Leon Whitler
(Obituary ~ 06/15/16)
Leon Whitler, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 13, 2016, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Dec. 15, 1926, in Gordonville to Pauline Brase and Elbert Whitler. Leon was a member of Zion United Methodist Church in Gordonville. Leon retired from Cape Mutual Insurance Co...
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Harold Schweer
(Obituary ~ 06/15/16)
Harold "Skeeter" Schweer, 81, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, June 13, 2016, at his home. A memorial visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Interment will be in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Catherine 'Kitty' Rueseler
(Obituary ~ 06/15/16)
Catherine "Kitty" Leah Rueseler, 90, passed away Sunday, June 12, 2016, at The Chateau Girardeau. A native of Waynesboro, Burke County, Georgia, she was born Dec. 15, 1925, to Joseph and Bertha McGowan. She attended school in Augusta, Georgia, and graduated from Augusta Junior College. During World War II, she was employed as a secretary at the Augusta Arsenal...
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Zene Helderman
(Obituary ~ 06/15/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Zene Helderman, 79, of St. Louis, formerly of Jackson, passed away Sunday, June 12, 2016, at the National Healthcare Nursing Home in Park Hills, Missouri. Zene was born Sept. 13, 1936, at Whitewater to Rowland Dale and Margarette Howard Helderman...
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Jerry Followell
(Obituary ~ 06/15/16)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Jerry Don Followell, 61, of Chaffee died Tuesday, June 14, 2016. There will be no visitation or funeral service. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Joyce Cashman
(Obituary ~ 06/15/16)
Joyce Lorrine Cashman, 72, of Scott City died Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. A private memorial service will be at a later date at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Donald Adams
(Obituary ~ 06/15/16)
Donald "D.C." Adams, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 13, 2016, at the Missouri Veterans Home. The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the chapel of McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 6/15/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/15/16)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Monday: n Medical assists were made at 1:39 a.m. on South Benton Street; 1:59 a.m. on Water Street; 10:22 a.m. on Jefferson Avenue; 10:30 a.m. on Bessie Street; 12:45 p.m. on Nash Road; 6:58 p.m. on Rose Street; and 10:36 p.m. on South Sprigg Street...
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Cape Girardeau police report 6/15/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/15/16)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Christopher C. Hendrix, 46, 428 Pearl St., was arrested at 1201 Broadway on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for failure to appear for dangerous drugs...
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Kansas roofing company accused of forced labor, kickbacks
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Two owners of a longtime Kansas City-area roofing company forced workers who are in the U.S. illegally to either pay kickbacks and obey other demands or be reported to immigration authorities, an indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges...
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Missouri medical school opens Springfield campus
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The University of Missouri School of Medicine has opened a physician-training campus in Springfield. The Springfield News- Leader reported the medical school, CoxHealth and Mercy Springfield hospitals celebrated the opening of the clinical campus Monday...
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Student sues university in St. Louis over drug accusation
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
ST. LOUIS -- A women's basketball player at Harris-Stowe University in St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against the school, saying she was wrongly accused of drug possession and suspended for a year after denying a dean's sexual advances. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the suit filed by Brittany Jackson names the university and three school officials...
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Missouri county's flags lowered for Orlando after dispute
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A mid-Missouri county switched course Tuesday, lowering its flags in honor of the victims of the deadly shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. There was initial disagreement among Cole County commissioners over lowering the flags, which President Barack Obama called for Sunday out of respect for the 49 victims of what was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. ...
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Police: Man going to gay pride event had rigged magazines
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
LOS ANGELES -- Police found a loaded assault rifle with magazines rigged to allow 60 shots to be fired in quick succession, along with 15 pounds of chemicals mixed and ready to explode in the car of an Indiana man who said he was headed to a gay pride event, authorities revealed Tuesday...
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Fister leads Astros past Cardinals with arm, bat
(Professional Sports ~ 06/15/16)
ST. LOUIS -- The Houston Astros have won nine straight with Doug Fister on the mound. The right-hander did more than his part in this one. Fister pitched effectively into the eighth inning and gave his team breathing room with a two-run single in the seventh in a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night...
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Strategic plan for Jackson nears finalization
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
After more than five years of planning and organizing, Jackson’s DREAM Initiative community development strategy is nearing finalization. More than 30 Missouri communities, including Cape Girardeau, were selected for inclusion in the Downtown Revitalization and Economic Assistance for Missouri program, which selected Jackson in 2010...
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Hopper Road to close for construction work
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
Hopper Road in Cape Girardeau near the Interstate 55 overpass will be closed to traffic for construction work, starting today. The road is being closed so work can begin on construction of the extension of Veterans Memorial Drive from Scenic Drive to Hopper Road...
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Cape cop helps boy swap defective bicycle for a new one
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
It was a close call. Cape Girardeau police officer Matthew Peters was in the middle of a three-hour detail June 7, blocking the intersection of Sprigg Street and Morgan Oak Street during a fire at 238 S. Sprigg St. He saw Shont-tez Bell, 7, bicycling east across Morgan Oak from the Outlet convenience store, headed for a nearby alley. ...
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Mega-donor PAC gives $280K to Missouri governor hopeful
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A political action committee funded by Missouri mega donor Rex Sinquefield has donated close to $280,000 to Republican gubernatorial candidate Catherine Hanaway. Great St. Louis gave Hanaway roughly $278,000 this past week. Hanaway is a former Missouri House speaker and U.S. attorney ...
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Not-for-profit: Government fragmentation hurting St. Louis region
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
ST. LOUIS — A not-for-profit group supporting consolidation of government in St. Louis city and St. Louis County has issued a final report, saying fragmentation has created an “us vs. them” mentality in the region.
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Teen pleads guilty in girl's Kansas City water park killing
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A teenager has pleaded guilty in the killing of a middle-school student at a south Kansas City water park. The Kansas City Star reported 19-year-old Dominic McDaniel was one of three people charged in the death of 14-year-old Alexis Kane. ...
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Police say man apparently killed girlfriend, then himself
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
CARTHAGE, Mo. — Authorities are investigating the death of a man and woman in Carthage as a murder-suicide. Police said in a news release officers found 54-year-old David Tindell and 53-year-old Suzanna Hobbs dead inside a home Monday night while checking on the well-being of the residents. The release states it appears Tindell shot and killed Hobbs before killing himself. Police said it also appears they were boyfriend and girlfriend...
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57-year-old man charged in 2 Missouri killings
(State News ~ 06/15/16)
SLATER, Mo. — A man has been charged with killing his daughter’s estranged husband and his former mother-in-law. Fifty-seven-year-old Donald Bruce Owens of Marshall was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 35-year-old Ryan Sanders and 83-year-old Bonnie Charlene Hupp. ...
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Elvis Presley producer 'Chips' Moman dies at 79
(Entertainment ~ 06/15/16)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Lincoln "Chips" Moman, a Memphis producer, musician and songwriter who helped Elvis Presley engineer a musical comeback in the late '60s and then moved to Nashville to record Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and other top country performers, died Monday in LaGrange, Georgia. He was 79...
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Births 6/15/16
(Births ~ 06/15/16)
Daughter to Alexis Raye Markland of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 3:44 p.m. Sunday, June 5, 2016. Name, Finley Mae. Weight, 7 pounds. Second child, first daughter. Markland is the daughter of Brenda White and Christopher Markland of Cape Girardeau. She is a server at Texas Roadhouse...
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New bride gives CPR to woman on street
(National News ~ 06/15/16)
PITTSBURGH -- A new bride didn't let her white gown stop her from reviving a woman who was unconscious on a bench. Julie Stroyne, a trauma nurse, was walking downtown Saturday night after her wedding reception when she and others from her wedding party saw the ailing woman. Stroyne kicked off her heels, got down on her knees and began performing CPR while others called 911. Stroyne said "there's no time off" a nurse's duties...
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Prayer 6/15/16
(Prayer ~ 06/15/16)
O Father God, we give thanks to you in all things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Capaha Park hosting vigil tonight for Orlando victims
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
A local LGBTQ group has organized a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. today in Capaha Park for the victims of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Amber Moyers, president of LGBT +: Ally and Advocate Alliance, said people should gather in the park at the corner of Broadway and West End Boulevard. She said 1,000 Facebook invitations have been submitted with people wanting to attend...
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Jackson teachers will receive a 3 percent raise
(Local News ~ 06/15/16)
Teachers in the Jackson School District will earn 3 percent more next year because of an across-the-board raise for certified staff. That means the base salary for beginning teachers will rise from $34,000 a year to $34,700 annually, as approved by the school board at its meeting Tuesday night...
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Buy the River: Sikeston's rue21 store expands, adds plus sizes
(Community ~ 06/15/16)
I traveled recently to Sikeston, Missouri, to visit the Sikeston Factory Outlet Stores and meet with the manager of rue21, which will have a grand reopening on June 30 for its expanded location. The store will be the first rue21 in our area to carry plus-size styles...
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