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Scott County man charged with child molestation
(Local News ~ 07/07/17)
A Scott County man molested two children over a two-year period a total of six times, police said. The Scott County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Austin W. Maxwell Jr., 36, with four counts of first-degree child molestation, a class A felony, and two counts of second-degree child molestation, a class A misdemeanor...
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Southeast offering free tickets to Michio Kaku presentation
(Local News ~ 07/07/17)
Free tickets are available for an Aug. 21 presentation by worldwide science icon Michio Kaku. Southeast Missouri State University will host Kaku as part of the eclipse celebration. Kaku, whose latest book, “The Future of the Mind,” delves into neuroscience research, will present “The Next 20 Years: How Science Will Revolutionize Business, the Economy, Medicine, and Our Way of Life” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Show Me Center...
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Cape County to upgrade data-storage system
(Local News ~ 07/07/17)
Cape Girardeau County is getting a data-storage upgrade. County Information Technology director Eric McGowen said at Thursday’s Cape Girardeau County Commission meeting the current data-storage system, installed in April 2015, has a 12-terabyte capacity, of which less than 3 percent is free. ...
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Jackson native Nick Murphy returns to area to produce nostalgic short film
(Entertainment ~ 07/07/17)
Nick Murphy has come a long way from "Mortal Kombat." The independent filmmaker and Jackson native started out in high school, when, with a hand-held VHS camcorder in his grandmother's backyard, Murphy and a buddy acted out scenes from the "Mortal Kombat" video game, dressed in costumes his grandmother had made for the shoot...
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City wants private development at site of former juvenile-detention center
(Local News ~ 07/07/17)
A 2-acre plot near a Cape Girardeau city park that once housed the Juvenile Detention Center is going up for sale. A rubble heap sits where Cape Girardeau County’s former Juvenile Detention Center was demolished in March, and at Thursday’s regular meeting, the county commission voted to remove the rubble and put the property up for sale...
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Woman claims she hit child in face with thrown butcher knife by accident, police say
(Local News ~ 07/07/17)
A Cape Girardeau woman threw a butcher knife, hitting a 9-year-old girl in the face in what she claimed was an accident, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Lataisha E. Roberts, 26, with endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful use of a weapon, both felonies...
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Proposals could provide local air service to Chicago, Nashville or other destinations
(Local News ~ 07/07/17)
Area residents could fly from the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport to destinations beyond St. Louis under plans being considered by city officials. Destinations could include cities such as Chicago; Atlanta; or Nashville or Memphis, Tennessee, under federally subsidized Essential Air Service proposals city officials are considering...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
Today in History Today is Friday, July 7, the 188th day of 2017. There are 177 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 7, 1865, four people were hanged in Washington, D.C. for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the federal government...
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4 kids, father slain; mother charged in deaths
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
LOGANVILLE, Ga. -- Four young children and their father were found slain in a home outside Atlanta early Thursday, and police said the mother -- now charged with their deaths -- called 911 to report the killings. The five apparently were stabbed to death. A fifth child, a girl, survived and was hospitalized with injuries described as serious, police said...
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Salon helps special needs children with 'Special Sunday' events
(Editorial ~ 07/07/17)
Not long ago, we wrote a story about a church that was holding a special Vacation Bible School for those with special needs. Last week, we had the pleasure of publishing a story about a local hairstylist, Chrissie Shay, who provides free haircuts to special-needs children...
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Oh, how we miss the Boston Pops, and other musings
(Column ~ 07/07/17)
Ordinarily, most columns about national holidays would be presented to readers before, or maybe even on, the holiday. Lots of good writers do that, so there must be something right about such a sequence of events. But, here I am, a so-so writer at best. If I were a good writer, I wouldn't be so willing to bend the established protocol for wordsmiths. Not being a good writer does have its advantages...
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Alligators, snakes found at residence
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Authorities found alligators and venomous snakes at a Southern California home where animal-control officers said a cobra had gotten loose and terrified neighbors. Los Angeles County officials served search warrants Thursday at a home in Thousand Oaks and a rural property just outside the city. The Los Angeles Times reported the warrants were requested after a neighbor reported seeing a cobra slithering through the area...
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Painkiller maker stops sales at FDA request because of abuse
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
The maker of opioid painkiller Opana ER is pulling the drug off the market at the request of federal regulators because it's being abused. Endo International PLC said Thursday it will voluntarily stop selling the pills, approved for use in patients with severe, constant pain, after consulting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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Pence gets insider look at Kennedy Space Center
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vice President Mike Pence got an insider's look at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday and promised more glory days ahead for "this gateway to the stars." Pence is heading up a newly revived National Space Council. President Donald Trump re-established the advisory group last week...
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Floods in southern Japan force hundreds to flee; 2 dead
(International News ~ 07/07/17)
TOKYO -- Troops worked Thursday to rescue hundreds of people stranded by flooding in southern Japan. At least two people were found dead and nearly 20 were still unaccounted for in flooding that wrecked homes, roads and rice terraces. Heavy rain warnings were in effect for much of the southern main island of Kyushu after Typhoon Nanmadol swept across Japan earlier in the week...
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Tumor-gene testing urged to tell whether drug targets your cancer
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
WASHINGTON -- Colon cancer. Uterine cancer. Pancreatic cancer. Whatever the tumor, the more gene mutations lurking inside, the better chance your immune system has to fight back. That's the premise behind the recent approval of a landmark drug, the first cancer therapy ever cleared based on a tumor's genetics instead of the body part it struck first. ...
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McConnell says limited bill needed if GOP health bill dies
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
GLASGOW, Ky. -- A bill focused on buttressing the nation's insurance marketplaces will be needed if the full-fledged Republican effort to repeal much of President Barack Obama's health-care law fails, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday...
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U.S. military strike on North Korea is unlikely
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
WASHINGTON -- A pre-emptive military strike may be among the "pretty severe things" President Donald Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it's a step so fraught with risk, it ranks as among the unlikeliest options. Even a so-called surgical strike aimed at the North's partially hidden nuclear and missile force is unlikely to destroy the arsenal or stop its leader, Kim Jong Un, from retaliating swiftly with long-range artillery that could kill stunning numbers in South Korea within minutes.. ...
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Illinois House approves state budget, ends impasse
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois House voted Thursday to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's vetoes of a budget package, giving the state its first spending blueprint in more than two years and ending the nation's longest fiscal stalemate since at least the Great Depression...
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Merkel hopes for G-20 solutions; 100,000 protesters expected
(International News ~ 07/07/17)
HAMBURG, Germany -- U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders of the Group of 20 top industrial and developing countries arrived Thursday in Hamburg as police in Germany's second-biggest city braced themselves for a major protest by anti-globalization activists...
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Trump on Russian meddling: 'Nobody really knows for sure'
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
WARSAW, Poland -- Ahead of a crucial meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump stopped short Thursday of condemning Moscow for meddling in the U.S. presidential election and refused to say whether he would raise the issue when the leaders go behind closed doors...
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Out of the past: July 7
(Out of the Past ~ 07/07/17)
One of seven bills passed this year, designed to make health care more accessible and affordable for Missourians, was signed into law here yesterday by Gov. John Ashcroft. The measure is a small-employer health-insurance program. Thirteen members of the Missouri National Guard's 1140th Engineer Battalion at Cape Girardeau recently aided federal authorities in finding drugs at checkpoints along the U.S.-Mexico border. ...
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Roy Stone
(Obituary ~ 07/07/17)
Roy Lee Stone, 76, of Jackson unexpectedly passed away Wednesday, July 5, 2017, at his home. He was born Oct. 20, 1940, in Bollinger County, Missouri, to Hessie E. and Blanche Conrad Stone. He and Judy Ann Hahs were married Dec. 31, 1968. They had been married 28 years when Judy passed away April 5, 1997...
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Barbara Nichols
(Obituary ~ 07/07/17)
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. -- Barbara Nichols, 58, of Fredericktown died Wednesday, July 5, 2017, at the home of her daughter in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 9, 1959, in St. Louis to John and Ruby Fisher French. She married Jeffrey Nichols on Aug. 12, 2006. He survives...
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Alfrae Kroninger
(Obituary ~ 07/07/17)
Alfrae Darnell Kroninger, 41, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, June 30, 2017, at Southeast Hospital. A private family memorial service will be held at a later date. Arrangements are by McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Matthew Glastetter
(Obituary ~ 07/07/17)
Matthew Ryan Glastetter, 38, of Scott City died Wednesday, July 5, 2017, at his home. He was born June 19, 1979, to Michael John and Vicki Lynn Modglin Glastetter. He is survived by his mother, Vicki Glastetter of Scott City; maternal grandmother, Barb Modglin of Scott City; maternal grandfather, Alvie (Pat) Modglin of Scott City; and paternal grandmother, Dorothy Glastetter of Scott City...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 7/7/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/07/17)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Wednesday. n Medical assists were made at 10:34 a.m. on Linden Street; 11:39 a.m. on Kingsway Drive; 2:56 p.m. on Earleen Drive; 4:41 p.m. on Independence Street; 6:32 p.m. on South Hanover Street; 7:11 p.m. on North West End Boulevard; and 11:10 p.m. on North Spanish Street...
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Births 7/7/17
(Births ~ 07/07/17)
Son to Curt Wesley and Whitney Elizabeth Dixon of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 1:43 p.m. Sunday, June 18, 2017. Name, Cooper Raymond. Weight, 7 pounds, 11 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Dixon is the former Whitney Eastman, daughter of Tim and Sue Eastman of Everton, Missouri. She is employed by the Cape Girardeau School District. Dixon is the son of Raymond and Jan Dixon of McAlester, Oklahoma. He is employed by Southeast Missouri State University...
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First Friday receptions 7/7/17
(Entertainment ~ 07/07/17)
The Flights of Fantasy National Juried Exhibit will be featured. The Visual Arts Cooperative will display new works, along with new miniature works. The window exhibitors for July are Joni Hand and Annie Schuchart. 16 N. Spanish St., (573) 334-9233 5 N. Main St.,...
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Arts Council announces Art for the Health of It winners
(Entertainment ~ 07/07/17)
Winners of the Art for the Health of It exhibition have been announced. The 25th annual exhibit, jointly sponsored by the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri and SoutheastHEALTH, will focus on the healing benefits of art. Artwork will remain on display until Aug. 23 in Southeast Hospital's transport hallway between elevators A and C, according to an Arts Council news release...
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#SemoSelfie 7/7/17
(Entertainment ~ 07/07/17)
Ruthie's 1st #firstfriday Tunes at Twilight #downtowncg #tunesattwilight #capegirardeau #semoselfie #babymullet
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Reliant Care Group to pay $8.3M to settle Medicare claims
(State News ~ 07/07/17)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri-based nursing-home operator has agreed to pay more than $8.3 million to settle claims it and its affiliates provided unnecessary therapy and falsely billed Medicare. The deal announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice resolves claims Reliant Care Group and its affiliates provided unwarranted physical, speech and occupational therapy from January 2008 to April 2014. ...
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Ex-deputy's murder trial to take place in St. Charles County
(State News ~ 07/07/17)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- The Missouri Court of Appeals has ordered a former Missouri sheriff's deputy accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 2011 to stand trial for capital murder in suburban St. Louis' St. Charles County...
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Missouri doctor takes American Medical Association helm
(State News ~ 07/07/17)
MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. — A south-central Missouri native and University of Missouri alumnus is the new president of the American Medical Association. The Springfield News-Leader reported the appointment of Dr. David Barbe of 4,800-resident Mountain Grove to the top role of the nation’s biggest and oldest physicians group marks the first time in 90 years a small-town doctor has led the AMA. ...
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New law will alert Missourians of violence against police
(State News ~ 07/07/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A new system soon will alert Missourians when a law-enforcement officer is killed or injured. Gov. Eric Greitens on Thursday signed a bill creating the “Blue Alert” system. Similar to Amber Alerts, the system would notify the public when someone who injured or killed a law-enforcement officer is on the run. ...
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Groups say Missouri not following voter registration rules
(State News ~ 07/07/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Several voter-rights advocacy groups say the state of Missouri is not following federal requirements on providing voter registrations. The League of Women Voters of Missouri and four other groups sent a letter Thursday to Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and to Joel Waters, director of the state Department of Revenue. ...
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Missouri elderly prison population on the rise
(State News ~ 07/07/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- When Verdia Miller celebrated her 75th birthday last month, she had been incarcerated for 35 years, five months and one day. Under her sentence, she is ineligible for release until at least 2029, when she will be 87. She is serving a life sentence for capital murder...
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Missouri Gov. Greitens expands call for abortion legislation
(State News ~ 07/07/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has broadened his call for new abortion restrictions in the state and wants to ensure they would survive any potential court challenge, his spokesman said Thursday. The Republican quietly issued a proclamation Wednesday citing provisions he didn't explicitly include in his order calling lawmakers into a special legislative session last month to address abortion issues. ...
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Best Bet: Poetry slam to be held Monday at Cup 'n' Cork
(Entertainment ~ 07/07/17)
Words on Fire! Poetry Slam! at Cup ’n’ Cork celebrates the art of slam poetry, a literary and performative genre. Poets are invited to perform original slam poems individually or as a group at Cup ’n’ Cork, 11 S. Spanish St. in Cape Girardeau, with registration starting at 6 p.m. Monday. Three rounds will be judged and awarded points based on content and performance. A different, original poem must be read for each round. Total points from all rounds will determine the winner. Poems should take no more than three minutes to read aloud.
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Artifacts 7/7/17
(Entertainment ~ 07/07/17)
Photographer Brian Alworth's exhibition, "Peaceful Solitude: The Film Photography of Brian Alworth," will open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at Southeast Missouri State University's Crisp Museum on the River Campus, 518 S. Fountain St. in Cape Girardeau. A reception will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the museum, with an artist talk at 6 p.m. The work will be on display through Aug. 20. More information is online at rivercampus.org...
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Prayer 7/7/17
(Prayer ~ 07/07/17)
O Lord Jesus, our Redeemer, we worship you and sing praises to your name. Amen.
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Hobby Lobby fined $3M for smuggling Iraqi artifacts
(National News ~ 07/07/17)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi religious artifacts smuggled from the Middle East that the government alleges intentionally were mislabeled for import, federal prosecutors said...
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Finder of potential game-changing Earhart pix tells story
(Entertainment ~ 07/07/17)
NEW YORK -- The retired federal agent who discovered what he believes is the first photographic evidence of Amelia Earhart alive and well after crash-landing in the Pacific Ocean during her attempted round-the-world flight said he didn't initially capture the significance of the image until years later...
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Kohlfeld Distributing and Food Giant Sponsor SEMO-NASV Chicken Dinner Fundraiser
(Submitted Story ~ 07/07/17)
Over $2,000 was raised on Friday, June 30, by Kohlfeld Distributing and Food Giant for the Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence (SEMO-NASV) through the sale of chicken dinners. Funds raised will be used for SEMO-NASV's Green Bear abuse prevention program which educates thousands of children in southeast Missouri every year on staying safe. ...
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