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Man accused of using stolen RV to break into airport
(Local News ~ 05/16/17)
A man is accused of using a stolen RV to break into the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport grounds after also stealing a truck in Cape Girardeau. Cape Girardeau police went to a call of a suspicious person at Wal-Mart Supercenter at 7:55 a.m. Monday, said the police department's public-information officer, Sgt. Rick Schmidt...
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Attorney general to review request to probe Oran timecard allegations; claims spark denials on Facebook
(Local News ~ 05/16/17)
ORAN, Mo. -- The Missouri Attorney General's office said Monday it is reviewing a request for the Missouri State Highway Patrol to investigate accusations of timecard fraud involving a former Oran police officer. The former officer, Jason Ourth, and Oran Mayor Gary Senciboy took to Facebook over the weekend in an effort to refute the accusations...
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Broadway floodgate reopens to the public
(Local News ~ 05/16/17)
Passersby inspect the Mississippi River's receding water levels Monday in Cape Girardeau after the city reopened the floodgate on Broadway to the public. Water levels were at over 37 feet Monday -- more than 5 feet above flood stage. The river is forecast to drop below flood stage next week...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 16, the 136th day of 2017. There are 229 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on the eleven articles of impeachment against him...
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I will not be silenced
(Column ~ 05/16/17)
Again, the left has done what they do when they run into a black conservative they cannot control. The script never flips. The narrative never changes. On Thursday, Breitbart News released its latest video in a series we have been running. Each video features a person on the Breitbart team speaking about a particular subject -- their unique story, their passion, their take on an issue. ...
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Alma Schrader earns national recognition for character
(Editorial ~ 05/16/17)
We are so proud of Alma Schrader School in Cape Girardeau. What an honor it is to be designated a 2017 national School of Character. We value learning concepts and excelling in academics; we know how important education is to our young people. Good character is no less important, and the more schools exemplify it, the better. After all, it's hard for students to concentrate on grades when they're dealing with the character flaws their peers too often display...
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Time for second opinion on health care
(Column ~ 05/16/17)
The health care debate has flooded the news as Congress attempts to repeal and craft a replacement for the Affordable Care Act -- an increase of governmental involvement and regulation albeit considerably less than a single-payer system such as Canada's. The costs of the law, it seems, have been the impetus for calls to replace it. In fact, enthusiasm for single-payer coverage plummets when people find out the coverage's costs...
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Juanita Riggs
(Obituary ~ 05/16/17)
Juanita Hobbs Riggs, 99, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 14, 2017, at the Lutheran Home with her daughter at her side. She was born May 6, 1918, in Swinton, Missouri, to Harry and Myrtie Jackson Hobbs. She and Leeman Mann were married Nov. 24, 1937. She later married Robert E. Riggs on Feb. 5, 1945, at San Antonio. He passed away March 1, 1991...
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Lois Burchyett
(Obituary ~ 05/16/17)
McCLURE, Ill. -- Lois E. Burchyett, 89, of McClure died Saturday, May 13, 2017, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 1, 1928, in McClure to Jess and Jenny Murphy Colyer. She graduated from McClure High School. She and Raymond Howard "Bud" Burchyett were married March 25, 1945, at Blytheville, Arkansas. He passed away Feb. 20, 2013...
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Out of the past: May 16
(Out of the Past ~ 05/16/17)
Teachers at Thomas Kelly Schools in Benton, Missouri, this week turned down an offer of a pay increase to help keep the district financially sound. As a result, teachers in the Kelly district, like many others in the region, will work for the same pay next year as they received this year. In some districts, the pay freeze continues for the third year...
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First lady: Barron to attend private Episcopal school
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
WASHINGTON -- First lady Melania Trump announced Monday her son, Barron, will attend a private Episcopal school in Maryland, beginning this fall. The announcement answered one of the lingering questions surrounding the first family's unusual living arrangement. Melania Trump and 11-year-old Barron have been living at Trump Tower in New York since Donald Trump took office in January, while the president has lived at the White House...
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Judge tells Uber to return Waymo files taken by engineer
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
DETROIT -- A federal judge's order that bars Uber from using technology taken by a star engineer before he left Waymo is bad news for Uber and likely will hurt the ride-hailing company's self-driving research, according to legal experts. The ruling Monday by District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco was mainly a victory for Waymo, the autonomous car unit spun off from Google, though the judge refused to order a halt to Uber's autonomous car research as Waymo had requested, the experts said...
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Toshiba reports massive loss for year over Westinghouse woes
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
TOKYO -- Toshiba, whose U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse has filed for bankruptcy protection, is reporting an $8.4 billion net loss for the fiscal year ended in March. The Japanese electronics giant's results have failed to win auditors' approval from the previous quarter, after questions were raised over the acquisition of U.S. nuclear construction company CB&I Stone and Webster...
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Man thanks iPhone's Siri for saving his life in explosion
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
WILMOT, N.H. -- A New Hampshire man who was injured in a house explosion is thanking Siri for saving his life. Christopher Beaucher said he was checking on his mother's vacant cottage in Wilmot on May 1 when he saw something suspicious and went inside...
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Global tailpipe tests vastly underestimate diesel pollution
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
WASHINGTON -- Pollution from diesel trucks, buses and cars globally is more than 50 percent higher than levels shown in government lab tests, a new study says. That extra pollution translated to another 38,000 deaths from soot and smog in 2015, the researchers estimated...
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U.S.: Syria is burning bodies to hide proof of mass killings
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
WASHINGTON -- The United States on Monday accused Syria of executing thousands of imprisoned political opponents and burning their bodies in a crematorium to hide the evidence. The allegation could test the Trump administration's willingness to respond to atrocities other than chemical-weapons attacks it blames on President Bashar Assad's government...
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Federal judges ask if travel ban is biased against Muslims
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
SEATTLE -- Federal judges on Monday peppered a lawyer for President Donald Trump with questions about whether the administration's travel ban discriminates against Muslims and zeroed in on the president's campaign statements -- the second time in a week the rhetoric has faced judicial scrutiny...
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Israel-U.S. spat erupts before Trump visit
(International News ~ 05/16/17)
JERUSALEM -- A diplomatic spat Monday erupted between U.S. and Israeli officials, days before a planned visit by President Donald Trump, after an American representative questioned Israel's claim to one of the holiest sites in Judaism. Israel angrily demanded an explanation from the White House, casting a cloud over the highly anticipated visit by the new president, which is being greeted with a mix of excitement and nervousness by Israeli officials...
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Fox looks to sci-fi, fantasy this fall; MacFarlane in space
(Entertainment ~ 05/16/17)
NEW YORK -- Fox TV is calling on superpowers and Seth MacFarlane to draw viewers this fall. "The Orville," a new space adventure starring and produced by MacFarlane, is set 400 years in the future. It follows the adventures of an exploratory spaceship...
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101-year-old veteran breaks skydiving record
(International News ~ 05/16/17)
Verdun Hayes, bottom, tandem skydives Sunday in Devon, England. The 101-year-old D-Day veteran broke the world record for the oldest tandem skydiver. Hayes, a great-grandfather, jumped out of a plane from 15,000 feet, accompanied by four generations of his family. The jump raised money for the Royal British Legion, a veterans' organization...
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Busy day for French president: Names PM, meets with Merkel
(International News ~ 05/16/17)
BERLIN -- French President Emmanuel Macron hit the ground running Monday on his first full day in office by naming a prime minister from the center-right and flying to Germany, where he and Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to work together to undertake European reforms...
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Expert who beat cyberattack says he's no hero
(International News ~ 05/16/17)
ILFRACOMBE, England -- A young British computer expert credited with cracking the WannaCry cyberattack told The Associated Press he doesn't consider himself a hero but fights malware because "it's the right thing to do." In his first face-to-face interview, Marcus Hutchins, who works for Los Angeles-based Kryptos Logic, said Monday hundreds of computer experts worked throughout the weekend to fight the virus, which paralyzed computers in about 150 countries...
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Man holding human head stabs store clerk; mother found dead
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
ESTACADA, Ore. -- A man killed his mother on Mother's Day at a rural Oregon home, then showed up at a grocery store in a nearby town carrying a decapitated human head and began stabbing a checkout clerk before being subdued, authorities said Monday...
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2 dead as Venezuela protests turn violent outside capital
(International News ~ 05/16/17)
CARACAS, Venezuela -- A day that began with largely peaceful protests against Venezuela's socialist government took a violent turn Monday as clashes between state security and demonstrators killed at least two people. Thousands hauled folding chairs, beach umbrellas and protest signs onto main roads for a 12-hour "sit-in against the dictatorship," the latest in a month and a half of street demonstrations that have resulted in dozens of deaths...
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St. Louis TV reporter John Auble dies
(State News ~ 05/16/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Longtime St. Louis television reporter John Auble has died. KTVI-TV reported Auble died Saturday of cancer. He was 77. Auble began his career in St. Louis at the Globe-Democrat newspaper before turning to TV. He worked for KMOX-TV (now KMOV) and KSD-TV (now KSDK) before joining KTVI-TV in 1988...
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Anheuser-Busch boosts spending to adapt to fragmented market
(State News ~ 05/16/17)
NEW YORK -- Anheuser-Busch is upgrading its U.S. breweries and plans to build two new distribution centers as it adapts to an increasingly fragmented beer market. The maker of Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois said the upgrades and new distribution centers in Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio will allow it to store a greater variety of products and get them to customers faster...
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Missouri governor going to Miami resort owned by Trump
(State News ~ 05/16/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's new governor is going to a luxury resort owned by President Donald Trump for a Republican Governors Association event. The Kansas City Star reported Eric Greitens is among Republican governors attending the two-day corporate policy summit at the Trump National Doral golf course in Miami. The event begins today and is closed to the media...
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Pre-K funding could expand under Missouri budget proposal
(State News ~ 05/16/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Increased funding for public education is expected to be a boon to early childhood programs in Missouri. Extra money is available because Republican lawmakers passed a bill to fully fund the school finance formula for the first time in recent memory. That full funding triggered a 2014 law that allows districts to receive money for pre-K...
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John Danforth recipient of Churchill Leadership Medal
(State News ~ 05/16/17)
ST. LOUIS -- John Danforth, a former Missouri attorney general, U.S. senator and ambassador to the United Nations, is the latest recipient of the Winston Churchill Leadership Medal. The award, announced Monday, is from the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946...
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Council pushes for shipping-container ban
(Local News ~ 05/16/17)
Cape Girardeau City Council members Monday instructed city staff to draw up a proposed ordinance that would ban the use of shipping containers as building materials for homes and businesses. The measure would allow their use for public-storage units commercial or industrial zones with council approval of a special-use permit...
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Ste. Genevieve firm awarded contract for Jackson water-main project
(Local News ~ 05/16/17)
Plans are moving ahead for water-main replacement in Jackson. Four companies placed bids, and Horner & Shifrin of St. Louis, the overseeing engineer on the project, gave an estimated cost of $1,148,107.80. Jokerst Inc. of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, submitted the low bid on the project of $752,972.10, which was 34 percent below the estimate...
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Major Case Squad disbands; probe into Cape homicide continues
(Local News ~ 05/16/17)
The Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad has disbanded, but the investigation into the shooting death of Demetric L. Atchison continues, police said. Atchison was shot near a residence at 41 N. Henderson Ave. about 12:20 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the Cape Girardeau Police Department...
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Stray emu lassoed on highway
(National News ~ 05/16/17)
LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- A stray emu that had become notorious during a three-day span in southern New Mexico was captured. Authorities caught up with the emu last week after about 40 minutes of trying to lasso it on an interstate. Sheriff's spokeswoman Kelly Jameson said the bird first led authorities through a residential area and onto I-10. She said two truckers helped stop traffic while officers caught the bird. The owner wasn't identified. Authorities said it's unclear how the bird got loose...
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Cape Girardeau police report 5/16/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/16/17)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Justin Brewer, no age given, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, unlawful use of a weapon and driving while suspended at South Spanish and Merriwether streets...
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James Kyle
(Obituary ~ 05/16/17)
James Parker Kyle, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, May 15, 2017, at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with Pastor Brian Gill officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau...
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Billy Barnett Jr.
(Obituary ~ 05/16/17)
Billy Gene Barnett Jr., 63, of Scott City died Monday, May 15, 2017, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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John Lamkin Sr.
(Obituary ~ 05/16/17)
John Tucker Lamkin Sr., 94, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 14, 2017, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau, with the Rev. Terry Epling officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Doris Oberle
(Obituary ~ 05/16/17)
Doris Ann Oberle, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 13, 2017, at her daughter's home in Juneau, Alaska. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Paul Poole
(Obituary ~ 05/16/17)
Paul J. Poole, 91, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, May 15, 2017, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Dogwood Cemetery in East Prairie, Missouri...
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Betty Jaynes
(Obituary ~ 05/16/17)
Betty Jaynes, 70, formerly of Sikeston and Chaffee, Missouri, died Friday, May 5, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center. A "celebration of life" memorial service is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday at Ray's Banquet Center, 3257 William St. Randy Thomas will officiate...
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Prayer 5/16/17
(Prayer ~ 05/16/17)
Lord Jesus, may your name be exalted; may all know your love and grace. Amen.
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2017 Scholarship Winner
(Submitted Story ~ 05/16/17)
Noah M Pettit from Oran was presented a $600 scholarship by Missouri Heritage Mutual Insurance Company, Gordonville. Noah a recent Notre Dame Regional High School graduate plans to attend Southeast Missouri State Regional Campus in Sikeston to work in the field of Wildlife/Conservation...
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