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Business notebook: Area soap-maker offers a wide array of scents
(Business ~ 03/27/17)
Everyone needs soap, Autumn Abernathy knew. There are what she calls "bath enthusiasts," those deep-soakers for whom cleanliness is near to goddess- ness. There are the stoic morning scrubbers, with perfunctory rinsing rituals. However they do it, they're all the same to Abernathy in one regard: Her business is making bathing better...
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Southeast offers classes, readies for research on solar eclipse
(Local News ~ 03/27/17)
Southeast Missouri State University will offer solar eclipse-themed classes this spring, and some of the school's students will participate in an eclipse research project, school officials said. A total solar eclipse will occur in the region Aug. 21...
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Recital at church honors longtime Jackson piano teachers
(Local News ~ 03/27/17)
Nearly 250 people gathered for a piano recital Sunday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson honoring two of Jackson's most well-known piano teachers, Julia LaPierre and Susan Venable. Pianists Pat Palisch, Christy Shinn, Joe Melchior and Matt Palisch performed together, alternating between piano four hands and two pianos eight hands -- that is, playing together on one or two grand pianos...
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Southeast professor's Fulbright Scholar trip to Bangladesh canceled by State Department
(Local News ~ 03/27/17)
A Southeast Missouri State University professor was scheduled to teach green chemistry in Bangladesh as a part of Fulbright Scholar grant program, but that trip has been canceled by the U.S. State Department because of safety concerns in Bangladesh...
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Wide array of candidates run for Cape school board
(Local News ~ 03/27/17)
The five Cape Girardeau school board candidates are strikingly different, offering an array of skills, perspectives and goals to the three open positions voters will fill April 4. Voters have the opportunity to choose the candidates that fit their values...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
Today in History Today is Monday, March 27, the 86th day of 2017. There are 279 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 27, 1977, in aviation's worst disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife...
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Consider Fruitland Fire District
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/27/17)
Voters in the Fruitland Fire District being asked to approve a tax increase need to ask themselves: Does the need really justify the nearly doubling of the current tax? Take out your recent personal and home property tax bill and see how much you paid, then figure that it will be about twice as much if Proposition F passes. ...
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Recycle those old shoes; they could save a life
(Editorial ~ 03/27/17)
Soles4Souls on Campus began its annual shoe collection fundraiser for people in poverty last week and will continue until April 3. Modeled after the national Soles4Souls, which started in 2006, the Southeast Missouri State University offshoot began its campus campaign in 2011 and this year has set the goal at 10 thousand pairs of shoes...
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Speak Out 3/27/17
(Speak Out ~ 03/27/17)
These bleeding-heart Democrat liberals that are all for these sanctuary cities would be singing a different tune if it was a family member of theirs who was murdered or raped by someone in this country illegally. Maybe we should just make California a sanctuary state, cut off all federal funding to them and let every low life illegal alien move there and they could all live in harmony?...
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Jackson police report 3/26/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/27/17)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Dakota Bryant, 22, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of speeding and driving while intoxicated. Arrest n Zechariah James, 38, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of second-degree domestic assault and endangering the welfare of a child...
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Out of the past: March 27
(Out of the Past ~ 03/27/17)
A National Guard engineer battalion in Southeast Missouri that had been targeted for elimination has been spared under a Pentagon proposal; the Pentagon's National Guard Bureau is recommending keeping the 1140th Engineer Battalion headquartered in Cape Girardeau and instead eliminating the 110th Engineer Battalion based in Kansas City, Missouri...
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Podiatrist who set free throws world record dies at 94
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A California podiatrist who made history when he shot 2,750 consecutive free throws has died. He was 94. Dr. Tom Amberry died in Long Beach on March 18, said his granddaughter, Roxanne Amberry. The retired podiatrist earned a spot in Guinness World Records and brief celebrity in 1993 after he lobbed in shot after shot for 12 hours...
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Medical pot bill in S. Carolina bolstered by conservatives
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina Rep. Eric Bedingfield once shunned all marijuana use, but when his eldest son's six-year struggle with opioid addiction ended with his overdose a year ago, the conservative Republican co-sponsored medical cannabis legislation...
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London attacker used WhatsApp; firm must help police get access
(International News ~ 03/27/17)
LONDON -- Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood sent a WhatsApp message that cannot be accessed because it was encrypted by the popular messaging service, a top British security official said Sunday. British news reports suggest Masood used the messaging service owned by Facebook minutes before the Wednesday rampage that left three pedestrians and one police officer dead and dozens more wounded...
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Family of missing ex-FBI agent files lawsuit against Iran
(International News ~ 03/27/17)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The family of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran a decade ago on an unauthorized CIA assignment has filed a lawsuit against the Islamic Republic, accusing it of using "cold, cynical and false denials" to torture his loved ones...
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Settler leader: Population growth is end of 2-state solution
(International News ~ 03/27/17)
JERUSALEM -- The number of Israeli settlers living in the West Bank has soared by nearly one-quarter over the past five years to over 420,000 people, a prominent settler leader said Sunday, presenting new population figures he said put to rest the internationally backed idea of a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians...
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Nationwide protests bring thousands to Russia's streets
(International News ~ 03/27/17)
MOSCOW -- Russia's opposition, often written off by critics as a small and irrelevant coterie of privileged urbanites, put on a nationwide show of strength Sunday with scores of protest rallies spanning the vast country. Hundreds were arrested, including Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic...
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Police cite sixth-grader for trespassing
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
WEST HARWICH, Mass. -- Police in Massachusetts served a sixth-grader with no-trespass orders after neighbors grew weary of the girl cutting through their properties to get to and from her school bus stop. The mother of 11-year-old Autumn Blanchard said her daughter received three pink no-trespass notices from the Harwich Police Department on March 2...
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US-backed forces capture Syrian air base from IS
(International News ~ 03/27/17)
BEIRUT -- U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces captured a strategically important air base from Islamic State militants Sunday in north Syria in the first major victory for the group since the U.S. airlifted the forces behind enemy lines four days ago...
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Blaming conservatives, Trump signals new openness to Dems
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked conservative lawmakers for the failure of the Republican bill to replace former president Barack Obama's healthcare law as aides signaled a greater willingness to work with moderate Democrats on upcoming legislative battles from the budget and tax cuts to health care...
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Trump's border-wall plan faces many obstacles
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has laid out exactly what he wants in the "big, beautiful wall" he's promised to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. But his effort to build a huge hurdle to those entering the U.S. illegally faces impediments of its own...
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Seattle plant failure dumps millions of gallons of sewage
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
SEATTLE -- Millions of gallons of raw sewage and untreated runoff have poured into the United States' second-largest estuary since a sewage treatment plant experienced equipment failures that forced it to stop fully treating Seattle's waste. The county-run facility has been hobbling along at about half-capacity since the Feb. 9 electrical failure resulted in catastrophic flooding that damaged an underground network of pumps, motors, electric panels and other gear...
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Teens wearing leggings barred from United flight
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
DENVER -- Two teenage girls were barred by a gate agent from boarding a United Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday because they were wearing leggings, according to an airline spokesman. The girls, whose ages were not specified, were not allowed onto the morning flight because they were traveling under an employee travel pass that includes a dress code, United spokesman Jonathan Guerin said...
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GOP struggles to govern despite a monopoly in Washington
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
The Republican Party of "no" for Democrat Barack Obama's eight years is having a hard time getting to "yes" in the early Donald Trump era. The failure of the GOP bill to replace Obamacare underscored Republicans are a party of upstart firebrands, old-guard conservatives and moderates in Democratic-leaning districts. Despite the GOP monopoly on Washington, they are pitted against each other and struggling for a way to govern...
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1 dead, 15 injured in Cincinnati nightclub gunfight
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
CINCINNATI -- A gunfight broke out inside a crowded Cincinnati nightclub early Sunday, leaving one man dead and 15 others wounded after a dispute among several patrons escalated into a shootout, authorities said. No suspects were in custody by Sunday night in the shooting at the Cameo club, which has a history of gun violence, and police said there was no indication of a terrorism link...
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Poker tables keep decreasing on Nevada casino floors
(Business ~ 03/27/17)
LAS VEGAS -- When the Monte Carlo casino closes its eight-table poker room in about a month as part of a $450 million overhaul, the Las Vegas Strip will be down nearly a quarter of the tables it had a decade ago. Casinos constantly adjust their floors to meet customer demand. And unlike the boom years, when they competed for card fans after everyman Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker's main event in 2003, poker's appeal in Sin City has been weakening this decade...
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Trump OKs Keystone pipeline, calling it 'great day' for jobs
(Business ~ 03/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump greenlighted the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline Friday, declaring it a "great day for American jobs" and siding with energy advocates over environmental groups in a heated debate over climate change. The presidential permit comes nearly a decade after Calgary-based TransCanada applied to build the $8 billion pipeline, which will snake from Canada through the United States. ...
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Now what? Options for consumers as health law drama fades
(Business ~ 03/27/17)
As the political drama over health-care legislation in Washington fades, the rest of the country faces a more immediate concern: getting insurance for next year. The Republican health plan designed to replace the Obama-era health law known as the Affordable Care Act would not have taken full effect for a few years anyway -- and now it's dead...
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St. Louis tears down abandoned homes to absorb rainfall
(State News ~ 03/27/17)
ST. LOUIS -- About 1,000 of St. Louis' delinquent properties are expected to face the wrecking ball to create more green space to absorb rainfall. The move will help the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District comply with a court order to cut sewer overflows, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported...
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Missouri man poised to crisscross U.S. on bike
(State News ~ 03/27/17)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri man who for more than a decade envisioned criss-crossing the United States by bicycle is about to try to make the 7,000-mile trek a reality. Richie Wolfe, 26 and of Kansas City, expects to launch his journey next Saturday 30 miles east of San Diego in Escondido, California, The Kansas City Star reported...
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Emanuel UCC in Jackson marks 150th anniversary
(Local News ~ 03/27/17)
In 1867, people in Jackson began to hold meetings at First Baptist Church. From those meetings grew Emanuel United Church of Christ, which celebrated its 150th anniversary Sunday. The church marked the occasion with an open house at the church and an exhibit at the Cape Girardeau County History Center at 102 S. High St. in Jackson...
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People on the move 3/27/17
(Business ~ 03/27/17)
Family nurse practitioner Tessa Hill, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, joined Southeast Primary Care in Cape Girardeau. Hill earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master of science nursing degree from Maryville University in St. Louis. She is board-certified in family medicine and previously worked in the intensive-care unit at Southeast Hospital...
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Entertainment briefs 3/27/17
(Entertainment ~ 03/27/17)
NEW YORK -- Barry Manilow is adding his legendary voice to a concert series in New York City that raises money for human-rights organizations. The Grammy-winning singer of songs such as "Mandy," "I Write the Songs" and "Looks Like We Made It" will appear at the next monthly "Concert for America: Stand Up, Sing Out!" on April 18 at The Town Hall. ...
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Elderly couple put on wrong flight; end up in New York, not Michigan
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A 96-year-old woman and an 89-year-old man were wheeled to the wrong gate at a Florida airport and ended up on a flight to upstate New York instead of Michigan. Helen Wheeker and her husband, George Nobel, ended up Ogdensburg, New York, instead of Grand Rapids, Michigan, after being put on the wrong Allegiant Air flight. An Allegiant Air spokeswoman blamed a malfunctioning boarding-pass scanner for not catching the mix-up...
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Colorado weighs strategy for guarding against pot crackdown
(National News ~ 03/27/17)
DENVER -- Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown, even at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax collections. A bill pending in the Legislature would allow pot growers and retailers to reclassify their recreational pot as medical pot if a change in federal law or enforcement occurs...
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Jackson fire report 3/27/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/27/17)
JACKSON The Jackson Fire Department responded to the following calls. Saturday n Emergency medical service on Old Cape Road. n Emergency medical service on Broadridge Street. n An anhydrous leak on Lee Avenue. Sunday n Emergency medical service. n Emergency medical service on East Main Street...
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Prayer 3/27/17
(Prayer ~ 03/27/17)
O Heavenly Father, guide us along the paths of righteousness for your glory. Amen.
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Chaffee School Board candidate James Reischman
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name James Reischman Age 32 Place of Birth Chaffee Amy-wife Brooklyn and Rolen-children Occupation Letter Carrier Employer United States Postal Service None None Email jamesdr3@yahoo.com Telephone number 5738871584 I've been a lifelong Chaffee resident and would like to give back to my school and community...
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Kelly School Board candidate Clint Tyler
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name Clint Tyler Age 38 Place of Birth Cape Girardeau, MO Wife: Courtnie Son: Jonathon Daughters: Jada, Landry Step daughter: Miranda Step son: Carson Occupation Route Sales Representative Employer G&K Services None None Email clint_tyler12@ymail.com...
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Cape Girardeau School Board candidate Missy Herbst Smith
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name Missy Herbst Smith Age 44 years Place of Birth Cape Girardeau, MO Husband: Lee Smith Children: Cooper Smith, 12 years and Emma Grace Smith, 9 years Occupation Child Care Supervisor Employer Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services...
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Cape Girardeau School Board candidate Tracy Gibbar Curtis
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name Tracy Gibbar Curtis Age 38 Place of Birth Cape Girardeau, MO Trey Curtis-husband Gibson Curtis-son Morgan Curtis-daughter Occupation Pilates and Yoga Instructor Employer The Edge Concept Ag Alma Schrader PTO President Email tdcurtis@gmail.com...
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Scott City Ward 3 councilman candiddate Gary R. Spinks
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Age 65 Place of birth Cape Girardeau, MO Garett Spinks, Adam Spinks, Philip Spinks, & Rachel Spinks Occupation Retired, From Do It Best Employer Do It Best Businesses owned, all or part NO NO Seems to be a lot of frivolous spending goin on. Look for a 5 year plan for the city, assess the needs by evaluating them and progress in steps. ...
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Leopold School Board candidate Chris Horrell
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name Chris Horrell Age 40 Place of Birth Leopold Nicole and 3 children Occupation Pest Control Employer Bug Zero Bug Zero Current Board of Education Member Leopold School Current Perryville Chamber of Commerce Board Member Telephone number 5734504669...
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Altenburg School Board candidate Lucas Hager
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name Lucas Hager Age 37 Place of Birth Frohna, MO Kristin Hager, wife Jackson Hager, son Occupation Electrician Employer East Perry Lumber Company None. Altenburg Public School Board, 2 terms. Email hagerlucas@yahoo.com Telephone number 573-824-1179...
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Altenburg School Board candidate Amy Ussery
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name Amy Ussery Age 39 Place of Birth St. Louis Missouri John Welker significant other 2 sons Charlie(14)and Robert(12) Occupation Pursuing Graduate Degree at Southeast Missouri State Employer Full time student None None Email amy.ussery@hotmail.com...
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Delta School Board candidate Amy White
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name Amy White Age 39 Place of Birth Cape Girardeau Spouse: Mitchell Children: Austin, Cameron, Colton & Ashley Occupation Cashier Employer Delta Quick Mart None School Board member/secretary- 1 term Email anmwhite2@gmail.com Telephone number 5732751362...
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Chaffee Ward 1 councilwoman candidate Leah Warner
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Age 38 Place of birth Casper, WY Spouse: Timothy Warner Children: Thomas Robbins, Brianna Robbins, Kayla Warner, Devin Robbins Occupation Accounting Clerk Employer Missouri Veterans Home - Cape Girardeau Businesses owned, all or part None None...
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Advance School Board candidate Ron Simmons
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Name Ron Simmons Age 38 Place of Birth St. Louis Jenifer Simmons Tyler Simmons Occupation Supply Chain Operations Employer Ameren UE none none Email rsimmons2@ameren.com Telephone number 573-421-5714 I grew up in Southeast Missouri and moved to Advance in 2007. ...
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Soles4Souls Shoe Drive This Week!
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
1,203 pairs of shoes have been donated during the first two days of our annual shoe drive. Thank you! Please clean out your closets and donate those shoes! Drop off locations are St. Andrew Lutheran Church and Marcy's Planet Shoes. Since 2011, our campus and community have donated more than 36,000 pairs of shoes during one week out of the year!...
- Girls in Flamenco Dresses (Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
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Commerce Bank's Field Goal Pledge Benefits The United Way
(Submitted Story ~ 03/27/17)
Commerce Bank supported the United Way by pledging $5 for every yard on field goals made by the Southeast Missouri State football team during home games in the 2016 season. This pledge resulted in a donation of $990.00. The check presentation was made during the halftime of a recent Southeast basketball game. Pictured from left is Southeast football coach Tom Matukewicz, United Way Executive Director Elizabeth Shelton, and Nick Burger and Jeff Hotop, both representing Commerce Bank.
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