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No repeal for ‘Obamacare’ — a defeat for Trump
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
WASHINGTON — In a humiliating failure, President Donald Trump and GOP leaders yanked their bill to repeal “Obamacare” off the House floor Friday when it became clear it would fail badly — after seven years of nonstop railing against the health care law. Democrats said Americans can “breathe a sigh of relief.” Trump said the Affordable Care Act was imploding “and soon will explode.” ...
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Friends provide flight stability for musical-duo Holy Crow
(Entertainment ~ 03/24/17)
Marc Richey and Travis England slowly are realizing a crow flies with two wings. Richey came up with the idea of a band as well as the name, Holy Crow, last summer and starting with his longtime friend began to assemble members to the rock-blues group...
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Cape Girardeau tourism looks up with August total solar eclipse
(Local News ~ 03/24/17)
Tourism literally is looking up these days in Cape Girardeau as a total solar eclipse Aug. 21 is expected to draw countless sky gazers to the area. Half of Cape Girardeau’s nearly 1,000 hotel rooms have been booked for Aug. 20, the day before the eclipse, said Brenda Newbern, executive director of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau...
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Mall aboard: Future requires evolution at West Park Mall
(Local News ~ 03/24/17)
For three and a half decades, Cape Girardeau’s West Park Mall has helped bolster the city’s reputation as a regional hub. While some malls have struggled as a result of internet retailers’ increasing share of sales, others, such as West Park, have been rethinking what it means to be a mall, why people come and how to attract them in the years ahead...
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Guardian Angel Varsity Girls Basketball Win 3rd in Tournament & League
(Submitted Story ~ 03/24/17)
The Guardian Angel Lady Redwings Varsity team ended their season with a 3rd place seeding in the tournament held at the New Hamburg Parish center. They also won 3rd place in the tournament which was held from March 16 to 18. They were awarded trophies for both the Christian League and the Varsity tournament. Congratulations Lady Redwings!!...
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Southeast’s polytech department works with local companies to produce technical engineers
(Local News ~ 03/24/17)
Michael Mayor is climbing the ladder at Toyoda Gosei Missouri in Perryville. He started on the floor and has worked his way into an office position. A degree from Southeast Missouri State University would get him securely to another rung in the company -- an engineering position...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
Today in History Today is Friday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2017. There are 282 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 24, 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers...
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The sights, sounds and smells of a new spring
(Column ~ 03/24/17)
Spring arrived in our part of the world back in -- when was it? Late January? Early February? Trees budded. Flowers bloomed. Then it snowed. And tornadoes struck. The daylong spate of winter was the best kind where beautiful snowflakes dance over clear streets too warm to accumulate any drifts...
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Tornado victim passes history on to neighbors, friends
(Editorial ~ 03/24/17)
When a tornado struck Perryville, it took a life and destroyed dozens of homes. Unfortunately, it took some history with it as well. The Feb. 28 twister took out Kevin Schemel's house that was built around an 1886 log cabin. "I hate to see her go, because she saved my life and my wife's life," Kevin Schemel said...
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Israeli suspect arrested in threats on U.S. Jewish targets
(International News ~ 03/24/17)
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in the case...
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Islamic State claims UK attack
(International News ~ 03/24/17)
LONDON -- Authorities on Thursday identified a 52-year-old Briton as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament, saying he had a long criminal record and once was investigated for extremism but was not on a terrorism watch list...
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Pennsylvania 'Town That Garbage Built' for sale
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
REDUCTION, Pa. -- "The Town That Garbage Built" is up for sale for $1.5 million. A family that has owned the Village of Reduction for nearly 70 years has decided to divest itself of the 75-acre property. The village once was home to about 400 employees of the American Reduction Company, which processed tons of garbage a day from Pittsburgh. The property once was described in a newspaper headline as "The Town That Garbage Built."...
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Cardinal who led Baltimore archdiocese dies
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
CATONSVILLE, Md. -- Cardinal William Keeler, who helped ease tensions between Catholics and Jews and headed the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S. for 18 years, died Thursday. He was 86. Archbishop William Lori announced in a statement Keeler died at St. Martin's Home for the Aged in Catonsville. No cause of death was released...
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WikiLeaks: CIA hacked Apple devices in ways users can't fix
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
NEW YORK -- New documents from WikiLeaks point to an apparent CIA program to hack Apple's iPhones and Mac computers using techniques users couldn't disable by resetting their devices. Security experts said the exploits are plausible but suggest they pose little threat to typical users. They said many of the tricks are older -- the iPhone hack involves the 3G model from 2008, for instance...
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Maryland high school thrust into immigration debate
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
BETHESDA, Md. -- A Maryland high school has been thrust into the national immigration debate after a 14-year-old student said she was raped in a bathroom there by two classmates, including one authorities said came to the U.S. illegally from Central America...
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Border Patrol union takes center stage under Trump
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
SOLANA BEACH, Calif. -- Once a week, union leaders representing U.S. Border Patrol agents host a radio show from a sleepy office park near San Diego, where studio walls are covered with an 8-by-12-foot American flag and portraits of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence...
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White House defends GOP lawmaker's decision to brief Trump
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday defended the House intelligence committee chairman's extraordinary decision to discuss openly and brief President Donald Trump on typically secret intelligence intercepts, even as Rep. Devin Nunes privately apologized to his congressional colleagues...
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Probe of ex-Trump aide extends to Cyprus
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government investigation of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, crossed the Atlantic earlier this year to the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, once known as a haven for money laundering by Russian billionaires...
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Democrats threaten delay on Supreme Court nominee
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats vowed Thursday to impede Judge Neil Gorsuch's path to the Supreme Court, setting up a political showdown with implications for future openings on the high court. Still irate that Republicans blocked President Barack Obama's nominee, Democrats consider Gorsuch a threat to a wide range of civil rights and said he was too evasive during 20 hours of questioning...
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Death rates up for middle-aged whites with little education
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- A sobering portrait of less-educated middle-aged white Americans emerged Thursday with new research showing them dying disproportionately from what one expert calls "deaths of despair" -- suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases...
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Unavoidable typos in DNA help fuel cancer
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- Cancer patients often wonder "why me?" Does their tumor run in the family? Did they try hard enough to avoid risks such as smoking, too much sun or a bad diet? Lifestyle and heredity get the most blame, but new research suggests random chance plays a bigger role than people realize: Healthy cells naturally make mistakes when they multiply, unavoidable typos in DNA that can leave new cells carrying cancer-prone genetic mutations...
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Coal ash: 'Why in the world would we be importing it?'
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
RICHMOND, Va. -- Shipping containers full of coal ash from China, Poland and India have come into the U.S. through the Port of Virginia as foreign companies find a market for the same industrial waste America's utilities are struggling to dispose of...
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White House, in gamble, demands make-or-break health vote
(National News ~ 03/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- Abandoning negotiations, President Donald Trump demanded a make-or-break vote on health-care legislation in the House, threatening to leave "Obamacare" in place and move on to other issues if today's vote fails. The risky move, part gamble and part threat, was presented to GOP lawmakers behind closed doors Thursday night after a long and intense day that saw a planned vote on the health-care bill scrapped as the legislation remained short of votes amid cascading negotiations among conservative lawmakers, moderates and others.. ...
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Out of the past: March 24
(Out of the Past ~ 03/24/17)
The Cape Girardeau Historic Preservation Commission last week passed a resolution opposing the Salvation Army's plans to demolish its building at 701 Good Hope St. to make room for a new facility; the current Salvation Army building, the former Farmers & Merchants Bank, has historic value, according to members of the commission, and should be preserved...
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Carrie Key
(Obituary ~ 03/24/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Carrie D. Key Rodebaugh, 54, of Perryville died Saturday, March 18, 2017, at St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri. A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Remnant Church, 25 N. Main St. in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, with the Rev. Dean Bader officiating...
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Rev. Alphonse Hoernig
(Obituary ~ 03/24/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Rev. Alphonse X. Hoernig C.M. entered into eternal life Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at the Apostle of Charity Residence. He was 88 years of age. Father Alphonse was born in Zell, Missouri, just a few miles from the Vincentian motherhouse in Perryville, to August and Anna Greuel Hoernig on April 17, 1928...
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Pansy Campbell
(Obituary ~ 03/24/17)
MORLEY, Mo. -- Pansy Sue Campbell, 80, of Morley passed away Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 12, 1936, in Morley to the late Hiram and Myrtle May Dockins Warner. She married John Thomas Campbell Sr. on Dec. 26, 1956, and he preceded her in death Jan. 1, 1987...
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Jackson police report 3/24/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/24/17)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n David Cornelius, 30, of Oran, Missouri, was arrested on suspicion of stealing. Thefts n Theft was reported in the 1400 block of Woodland Drive...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 3/24/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/24/17)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Tuesday n Medical assists were made at 5:25 a.m. on Vincent Park Drive; 6:22 a.m. on North Silver Springs Road; 7:45 a.m. on Patriot Drive; 9:03 a.m. on Timmar Lane; 6:15 p.m. on Linden Street; 6:31 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; and 9:12 p.m. on North Lorimier Street...
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Cape Girardeau police report 3/24/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/24/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Tommy S. Dudley, 57, 510 N. Fountain St., was arrested at 618 Lafayette Place on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for probation violation...
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Births 3/24/17
(Births ~ 03/24/17)
Daughter to James Robert Neel and Lindsey Denee Ladner of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 3:41 a.m. Thursday, March 16, 2017. Name, Braylee Denee. Weight, 7 pounds, 8 ounces. Fifth child, fourth daughter. Ladner is the daughter of Tracey and Keith Seabaugh of Jackson and Richard and Denise Ladner of Orlando, Florida. Neel is the son of Tom and Patty Pogue of Fredericktown, Missouri. He is a deputy with the Madison County Sheriff's Department...
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Netflix/Marvel's 'Iron Fist' epic fail, say viewers, critics
(Entertainment ~ 03/24/17)
NEW YORK -- If your web connection seems sluggish while you're watching "Iron Fist," don't blame your internet provider. The problem is the listless pace of this new Netflix series. But such languor isn't the only failing of this latest offering from the Marvel factory, judging from critical pans and fan unrest since the 13-episode season was unveiled last week...
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#SemoSelfie 3/24/17
(Entertainment ~ 03/24/17)
@bebe_ruthmarie’s first #semoredhawks game #semoselfie #redhawks #sistersister #beatmurray #capegirardeau
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St. Louis police: Crash victim's body went unnoticed
(State News ~ 03/24/17)
ST. LOUIS — The husband of a woman whose body was found near a St. Louis freeway two days after a car crash is accusing police of negligence. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported a utility worker March 17 found the body of 40-year-old Gretchen Roberdes of St. Peters off of an interstate highway. ...
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Webster U. professor collapses during class, dies
(State News ~ 03/24/17)
ST. LOUIS — Webster University in St. Louis is mourning the death of an adjunct professor who collapsed during class and could not be revived by a student who also was an emergency medical technician. Webster spokesman Patrick Giblin told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that 66-year-old Renee Hirshfield was typing at a computer and showing images to students during a film class Tuesday when she started shaking and fell out of the chair. ...
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Missouri man charged with sex trafficking of a minor
(State News ~ 03/24/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A Missouri man has been indicted on chargs of sex trafficking three female victims, including a minor. The Columbia Missourian reported 25-year-old Kenneth Jones was arrested Feb. 23 and accused of forcing a runaway 17-year-old girl into sex work. ...
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Schlafly daughter alleges brothers sabotaged her inheritance
(State News ~ 03/24/17)
ST. LOUIS -- The daughter of outspoken conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly alleges in a new lawsuit several of her brothers effectively diminished her inheritance by influencing their mother to amend a family trust before her death. The amendment means all legal bills in ongoing litigation between the siblings will come out of Anne Schlafly Cori's share of the inheritance, according to the suit filed this week in St. ...
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Government: Ferguson making 'meaningful progress' in reforms
(State News ~ 03/24/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Ferguson, Missouri, is making "meaningful progress" in enacting policing and court reforms agreed upon with the U.S. government after Michael Brown's 2014 police-shooting death, a Justice Department lawyer said during a status hearing on the consent decree...
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Speak Out 3/24/17
(Speak Out ~ 03/24/17)
Welcome to Trumpcare, also known as the Titanic plan. There aren't enough lifeboats to go around, the rich get all of the breaks, the young are free to swim for their lives, and old folks get soaked. I am so sick of every time I turn the news on there is something about how this group or that group fighting President Trump. ...
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Best bet: Mother/Son Game Night to be Saturday
(Entertainment ~ 03/24/17)
The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will present a night of fun and games, obstacle courses, relay races and more from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Osage Centre, 1625 N. Kingshighway. Moms are invited to bring their sons to play. Food and refreshments will be provided. Dress is active wear and tennis shoes.
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Prayer 3/24/17
(Prayer ~ 03/24/17)
O Hosanna in the highest, praises be to you, our God. Amen.
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Artifacts 3/24/17
(Entertainment ~ 03/24/17)
The Xquisite Women's Leadership Conference, sponsored by the Perryville Area Chamber of Commerce's women's network, is set for 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today at the Robinson Construction Event Center, 2411 Walters Lane in Perryville, Missouri. National, regional and local speakers and presenters will discuss several topics in various breakout sessions and special presentations. ...
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