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Rhodes 101 Stops Donates $10K to the USO
(Submitted Story ~ 07/06/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (JULY 6, 2016) – Rhodes 101 Stops convenience stores, a 30-location leader in the convenience store industry, is making a $10,000 donation to the United Service Organizations (USO). The USO is a leading military nonprofit that supports of our nation’s service members and military families through more than 180 locations around the world. This donation was generated through Coca-Cola fountain drink purchases made at Rhodes 101 Stops locations...
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Scott City Dolphins headed to the AAU Junior Olympics
(Submitted Story ~ 07/06/16)
Six Scott City Dolphin swimmers, along with their coach are headed to the AAU Junior Olympics in Houston July 27 to 31. Please join in congratulating all the swimmers at a fish fry fundraiser that will take place on Friday, July 22, at Scott City Assembly of God Church from 4:30 to 7 p.m...
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Governor signs Rep. Swan bill that equalizes child-custody criteria
(Local News ~ 07/06/16)
A new Missouri law, signed Friday by Gov. Jay Nixon, seeks to create a more equalized approach to child custody and visitation as championed by state Rep. Kathy Swan. The Cape Girardeau Republican lawmaker crafted the language that made it into the final bill...
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No charges for Clinton over email server, FBI chief says
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- The FBI lifted a major legal threat to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign Tuesday, recommending no criminal charges for her handling of highly classified material in a private email account. But director James Comey's criticism of her "extremely careless" behavior revitalized Republican attacks and guaranteed the issue will continue to dog her...
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Developer: Town Plaza CID falling far short of revenue expectations
(Local News ~ 07/06/16)
The tax-funded Town Plaza Community Improvement District in Cape Girardeau has proved a poorer investment than the developer had hoped. Greater Missouri Builders, based in St. Charles, Missouri, owns the Town Plaza shopping center. The company spent about $3.5 million fixing the former Sears building for use as a call center...
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Saxophone player brings sultry sounds to downtown
(Local News ~ 07/06/16)
Charles Hines improvises with his alto saxophone during a hot Tuesday afternoon on Main Street in downtown Cape Girardeau. "I'm just having fun," he said, noting "people were loving it" when he performed there during the weekend.
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No end to Afghan war: Obama slows U.S. withdrawal
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama scrapped plans Wednesday to cut American forces in Afghanistan by half before leaving office, a blow to his hopes of extricating the U.S. after 15 years of fighting. He said he'll leave 8,400 troops to address the country's "precarious" security situation...
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Cardinals lose four-run lead, third-straight game to Pittsburgh
(Professional Sports ~ 07/06/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Jung Ho Kang drove in two key runs with a seventh-inning double a day after Chicago police said they were investigating an allegation of sexual assault against the Pirates infielder, and Pittsburgh beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-5 on Wednesday night for its sixth straight comeback win...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, July 6, the 188th day of 2016. There are 178 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 6, 1944, an estimated 168 people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut. (One of the survivors of the blaze was future actor Charles Nelson Reilly, then age 13.)...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, July 12, the 194th day of 2016. There are 172 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 12, 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
Today in History Today is Saturday, July 16, the 198th day of 2016. There are 168 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. On this date:...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
Today in History Today is Thursday, July 14, the 196th day of 2016. There are 170 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 14, 1966, the city of Chicago awoke to the shocking news that eight student nurses had been brutally slain during the night in a South Side dormitory. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
Today in History Today is Friday, July 15, the 197th day of 2016. There are 169 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 15, 1976, a 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, California, by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. (The captives escaped unharmed; the kidnappers were caught.)...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
Today in History Today is Sunday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2016. There are 174 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 10, 1962, AT&T's Telstar 1 communications satellite, capable of relaying television signals and telephone calls, was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
Today in History Today is Monday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2016. There are 173 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Hamilton died the next day.)...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, July 13, the 195th day of 2016. There are 171 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 13, 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later...
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Recognizing this year's Spirit of America nominees
(Editorial ~ 07/06/16)
Jim Bollinger accepted this year's Spirit of America Award at the Cape Girardeau Fourth of July celebration. In the last 45 years, he has been assistant fire chief, fire chief, Bollinger County emergency management director, deputy coroner, reserve sheriff's officer and member of the Firefighters Association of Missouri, National Aviation Museum Foundation and Navy Tailhook Association, just to name some of his involvement, all of it unpaid. ...
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The new Democratic platform
(Column ~ 07/06/16)
Just four short years ago, when Barack Obama was running for re-election, the Democratic Party platform addressed the sticky question of illegal immigration this way: "Undocumented immigrants should 'get right with the law, learn English and pay taxes in order to get on a path to earn citizenship.'"...
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Parris Powers
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- Parris Foster Powers, 59, of Goodletsville, Tennessee, was born June 27, 1957, in St. Louis. Parris passed away at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at the Skyline Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Parris was a 1975 graduate of Meridian 101 High School in Mounds, Illinois. ...
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Joseph Campbell
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Joseph "Joe" Campbell, 28, of Chaffee passed away Sunday, July 3, 2016, at Southeast Health. He was born Dec. 1, 1987, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Daniel Campbell and Delola Sue Miller Campbell. He married Jennifer Williams on June 5, 2010, and she survives of the home...
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ClaraBell Zoellner
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
FRIEDHEIM, Mo. -- Stella ClaraBell Zoellner, 82, of Friedheim passed away Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 8, 1934, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Herbert Fred and Stella Matilda Klaus Lohman. ClaraBell married Melvin Floyd Zoellner on July 3, 1954, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim...
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Jeanne and John Long
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
Alice Jeanne Long passed away Friday, June 10, 2016, at her home in Cape Girardeau. She was followed in death by her husband of 70 years, John Long, who passed away Saturday, June 18, 2016, a week and a day after her death. The Longs had celebrated 70 years of marriage with family and friends on May 31, 2016...
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Raymond Faire
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
Raymond Faire, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away peacefully Sunday, July 3, 2016, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. His last breath here on earth was his first in heaven. He was born April 7, 1923, in Deventer, Missouri, to Herschel and Emelene (Patrick) Faire...
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Helen Meier
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
It has pleased our Heavenly Father to call to life eternal Helen Louise (Koschmann) Meier from the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, July 2, 2016, at the age of 87. She was born Aug. 23, 1928, in Milwaukee to Dora (Roehl) and Martin Koschmann...
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Jerry Rednour
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Jerry Lynn Rednour, 66, of Cairo passed away at 9:15 a.m. Sunday, July 3, 2016, at his home in Cairo. He was born Aug. 30, 1949, in Cairo, the son of Floyd and Nellie (Gregory) Rednour. He married Rebecca A. Phillips on May 6, 1991. Jerry graduated from Cairo High School in 1967. He was an excellent athlete in the track and field area. Jerry worked as a deputy sheriff under Donald Turner in Alexander County, Illinois...
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Ruth Hubbert
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
Ruth Helen Hubbert, 89, of Jackson died Thursday, June 30, 2016, at Southeast Hospital. She was born July 30, 1926, in East Prairie, Missouri, to T. M. and Elizabeth McCullough Jones. Ruth engaged in farming and worked in factories. She was a great seamstress and loved to travel. In her younger years, she loved barrel racing...
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Albert Hitt
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
Albert Calvin "Al" Hitt, 91, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, July 2, 2016, at his home. He was born Feb. 14, 1925, in Advance, Missouri, to Albert Jackson and Nora Louise DeLapp Hitt. He and Ella Allmon were married May 12, 1946, at Whitewater. She preceded him in death in 1974. He later married Mary Steddom Goodman on July 12, 1975, at Cape Girardeau...
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Brenda Borgfield
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Brenda S. Borgfield, 71, of Altenburg went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 17, 1945, in Dresden, Missouri, daughter of Rudolph and Louise (Weibrecht) Lorenz...
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Mark Millering
(Obituary ~ 07/06/16)
Mark John Millering, 58, of Jackson died Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. He was born Nov. 7, 1957, in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Benjamin and Evelyn Marie Schulz Millering. He and Catherine Johnson were married July 22, 2000, at Patton, Missouri...
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Out of the past: July 6
(Out of the Past ~ 07/06/16)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Bollinger County officials are collecting ballots that apparently will decide the fate of a proposed Cape Girardeau-Bollinger counties recreational lake. The informal straw poll is asking Bollinger County voters whether they want the lake issue to be decided in a November election...
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Spelling it out
(Local News ~ 07/06/16)
Adam Copeland of Signs Etc. hangs a "c" Tuesday on the Clark Sports and Recreation Complex in Jackson.
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Grocery shopping at Jackson Farmers Market
(Local News ~ 07/06/16)
Bob LeGrand picks out long English cucumbers from Lance Menard at the Jackson Farmers Market on Tuesday.
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Springfield woman pleads guilty in mother's death
(State News ~ 07/06/16)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Springfield woman who authorities say was kept a virtual prisoner and forced by her mother to pretend she was handicapped has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for arranging the woman's death. Gypsy Blanchard, 24, agreed to the plea deal Tuesday in the June 2015 stabbing death of Clauddinnea "Dee Dee" Blanchard, 48, at their home near Springfield...
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Senate panel: No evidence of Planned Parenthood tissue sales
(State News ~ 07/06/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri Senate investigation into Planned Parenthood found no evidence the organization illegally sold fetal tissue but raised questions about the procedures for disposal or testing of such tissue, Republican leaders of the probe said Tuesday...
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'Ready to pass the baton:' Obama campaigns with Clinton
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- President Barack Obama vigorously vouched for Hillary Clinton's trustworthiness and dedicationTuesday, making his first outing on the campaign stump for his former secretary of state hours after his FBI director blasted her handling of classified material...
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Iraq minister resigns as bombing death toll reaches 175
(International News ~ 07/06/16)
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interior minister -- the man largely responsible for security in Baghdad -- submitted his resignation Tuesday, two days after a massive bombing in the center of the capital killed 175 people and wounded almost 200. Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban said the government had failed to get various bodies charged with securing the capital to operate according to a "unified plan."...
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Trump's VP shortlist heavy with Washington insiders
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- Republican Donald Trump's vice-presidential short list is heavy with Washington insiders who could help usher a President Trump's agenda through the jungle of Congress. He has narrowed it to a handful of contenders fewer than two weeks before the GOP is expected to nominate him for president...
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Conservative Party begins choosing leader as pound sinks
(International News ~ 07/06/16)
LONDON -- The race to succeed Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron intensified Tuesday as Britain grappled with growing signs of economic strain resulting from the country's vote to leave the European Union. With the British currency plunging to its lowest point in three decades, home secretary Theresa May scored a victory in the first round of voting to determine who will follow Cameron as party leader and prime minister. ...
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Islamic State tightens grip on captives held as sex slaves
(International News ~ 07/06/16)
KHANKE, Iraq -- The posting in Arabic is chilling. A girl for sale: "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old. ... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon." The advertisement, with others for kittens, tactical gear and weapons, appeared on an encrypted Telegram app and was shared by an activist with Iraq's persecuted Yazidi community, which is trying to free an estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves by IS extremists...
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Delays mount at State Department for Clinton records
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- Just five months before the presidential election, the State Department is under fire in courtrooms over its delays in turning over government files related to Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. In one case, the agency warned it needed a 27-month delay, until October 2018, to turn over emails from Clinton's former aides, and the judge in another case, a lawsuit by The Associated Press, wondered aloud whether the State Department might be deliberately delaying until after the election.. ...
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Smokey Robinson honored with national pop music prize
(Entertainment ~ 07/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- Whether he was singing his own compositions or writing for other artists, Smokey Robinson was instrumental in shaping the Motown sound that changed American popular music in the 1960s. Now, his accomplishments have won him the pop-music prize from the national library...
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Construction finished on Saint Francis' center in Dexter
(Local News ~ 07/06/16)
Construction of the Saint Francis Health Center in Dexter, Missouri, is complete. The milestone was marked by the announcement of the opening of the Saint Francis Outpatient Center in its new permanent location at 1212 Saint Francis Drive. The outpatient clinic opened in a temporary location in 2015 when the new health center facility was under construction...
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Cape council approves pact with Marquette Tech District Foundation
(Local News ~ 07/06/16)
The Cape Girardeau City Council approved an agreement with the not-for-profit Marquette Tech District Foundation, setting the stage for fiber-optic improvements downtown. Council members unanimously approved the agreement Tuesday night, allowing the foundation to use two of the city's fiber-optic strands to provide high-speed internet to the Marquette Tower, formerly the Marquette Hotel, and the adjacent H-H Building on Broadway...
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Perryville teachers, administrators get $400 raise to base pay
(Local News ~ 07/06/16)
Teachers and administrators in Perry County's District 32 will be getting a $400 raise to their base pay next year, bringing beginning teacher salaries to $32,000. Classified, or non-certified, staff members will get a 40-cent hourly raise that will put their pay at $10 an hour...
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Bowers sinks second hole-in-one
(Community Sports ~ 07/06/16)
Ron Bowers of Cape Girardeau recorded his second career hole-in-one Sunday at Kimbeland Country Club. Bowers used a 7-iron to ace No. 6, a par 3 playing 150 yards. Craig Horky witnessed the shot. -- From staff reports
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Nation briefs 6/7/16
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas cannot cut off Medicaid funding for two Planned Parenthood affiliates, a federal judge said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kansas, issued the temporary ruling in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and the organization's St. ...
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Festival to feature kale-eating contest
(National News ~ 07/06/16)
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- An event at a food festival is being billed as the world's healthiest eating championship. Competitors sanctioned by Major League Eating are famous for downing hot dogs by the dozen but will compete for the Kale Cup at this year's Taste of Buffalo food festival Saturday. They'll have eight minutes to consume as much of the leafy green vegetable as possible. The winner will take home $2,000...
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Cape Girardeau police report 7/6/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/06/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Joshua Stanley, 30, of Oran, Missouri, was arrested on suspicion of stealing miscellaneous items from Wal-Mart, 3439 William St. n A juvenile was cited on suspicion of resisting or interfering with arrest and a fireworks violation at 1415 Independence St...
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Jackson police report 7/6/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/06/16)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Property damage n Property damage was reported in the 1200 block of Broadridge Drive. Miscellaneous n Check the welfare was requested in the 2900 block of East Main Street...
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Uptown
(Column ~ 07/06/16)
Jackson is unique in that our historical business district is referred to as "uptown." Most cities have a downtown or Main Street area, but not too many have the designation of "uptown." Our historical uptown area has as its centerpiece the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse, and surrounded by historical buildings on the Square, High and Main Streets...
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Prayer 7/6/16
(Prayer ~ 07/06/16)
Thank you, O Lord, that wherever your Spirit is, there is freedom. Amen.
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