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Trump's order: Bar all transgender troops from the military
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump abruptly declared a ban Wednesday on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military, catching the Pentagon flat-footed and unable to explain what it called Trump's "guidance." His proclamation, on Twitter rather than any formal announcement, drew bipartisan denunciations and threw currently serving transgender soldiers into limbo...
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Cape theater acts to eliminate bedbugs, closes one of its auditoriums
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
A Cape Girardeau movie theater hired a pest-control company to rid the place of bedbugs after receiving complaints from moviegoers, the company's corporate owner and a public-health official said Wednesday. Marcus Theatres of Milwaukee, which owns Cape West Cine, said Wednesday the problem has been addressed...
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Council OKs Lexington patching, overlay contract; won't be permanent fix
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
Major improvements will be made to a section of deteriorating pavement on Lexington Avenue at a cost of more than $721,000, Cape Girardeau city officials said. The City Council on Monday awarded the contract to Nip Kelley Equipment Co. Inc. City engineer Casey Brunke said the project includes patching the existing concrete street where necessary and the paving the entire section of the road from Sherwood Drive to Cape Rock Drive with a 2-inch overlay of hot-mix asphalt...
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By the numbers: Cape PD adds crime-data analyst to its staff
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
If knowledge is power, it might explain the Cape Girardeau Police Department's recent push to harness data's crime-fighting potential. The department has created a new position, crime analyst, and in April appointed Cpl. Ryan Droege to the job, whom police chief Wes Blair called "scary smart."...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
Today in History Today is Thursday, July 27, the 208th day of 2017. There are 157 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 27, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown told a press conference in Washington that violence was "as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary."...
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Sounds for Hounds to benefit Cape police K9
(Editorial ~ 07/27/17)
Dogs have a way of bringing out the best in us. That's been apparent with the K-9 division of the Cape Girardeau Police Department. The public has gotten behind the drive to expand the division to four dogs, which will provide around-the-clock support for the department in the effort to keep the streets safe. ...
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Senator John McCain is a fighter
(Column ~ 07/27/17)
Last week it was announced that Sen. John McCain had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer. The senator has had several bouts of fighting skin cancer, but this is a new and probable fight to the death with an incurable form of cancer...
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Immaculate Conception youth group volunteers help with Habitat for Humanity home build
(Community ~ 07/27/17)
In a newly-built house on a weedy lot, down a side street in Cape Girardeau, paint rolls onto interior doors and walls, getting everything ready for a family to move in as soon as work is complete. Meg Garner, director of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson's youth group, said she first started working with Habitat for Humanity when she was in high school. She helped build houses then, and said she wanted to bring that same opportunity to serve to the youth group's members...
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Work, nap, clean: Parents and the first day of school
(Community ~ 07/27/17)
NEW YORK -- After a packed, hot summer of family vacations, camp or kids underfoot, what's a parent or caregiver to do with all that free time on the first day of school? For some, the first drop-off of the new year will mean the usual: Head to work...
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Fed leaves rates alone but moves closer to selling off bonds
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is keeping its key interest rate unchanged at a time when inflation remains persistently low. But it signaled Wednesday it's edging closer to gradually shrinking its bond holdings, a step that likely would boost long-term borrowing rates, including mortgages...
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$10B Foxconn plant in Wisconsin announced
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday electronics giant Foxconn will build a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin that's expected to initially create 3,000 jobs, the largest economic development project in state history. The announcement comes at a critical juncture for a Trump administration that pledged to generate manufacturing jobs but has struggled to deliver results as quickly as the president promised. ...
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Out of the past: July 27
(Out of the Past ~ 07/27/17)
Construction is underway on the expansion of the Memorial Park Cemetery Mausoleum by Ford and Sons Funeral Homes and Monument Co.; included in the project plans are expansion of the mausoleum and a chapel. Laurel Adkisson has resigned as marketing coordinator for the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau, effective Aug. 7; Adkisson, who worked for the bureau two years, has accepted a new position with a Cape Girardeau bank...
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Cheryl Warner
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
Cheryl Lynn Warner, 50, of Jackson died Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at Evelyn's House (BJC Hospice) in Creve Coeur, Missouri. A celebration of life memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Funeral Home-Jackson.
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Bob Niederkorn
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
Robert John "Bob" Niederkorn, 66, of Scott City died Tuesday, July 25, 2017, doing what he loved most, farming. He was born Feb. 16, 1951, in Cape Girardeau to Henry Joseph and Betty Marie Larson Niederkorn. Bob was a self-employed farmer, and he never met a stranger...
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Glenn Lohmann
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
Glenn E. Lohmann, 92, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Jackson. He was born Nov. 23, 1924, in Cape Girardeau, son of Alvin J. and Beulah M. Tuschhoff Lohmann. He and Mildred E. Maevers were married July 23, 1950, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. She passed away Oct. 10, 2002...
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Mary Harrison
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
Mary Uline Potashnick Harrison, 87, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, died Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale. She was born Aug. 30, 1929, in St. Louis to R.B. and Uline Fenwick Potashnick. She married Charles Robert Short of Reno, Nevada. She later married Donald Louis Harrison of Cape Girardeau...
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Lavell Durden Jr.
(Obituary ~ 07/27/17)
Lavell Durden Jr., 49, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, July 19, 2017, in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Friday at Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Marston, Missouri. The funeral will be at noon Friday at the church, with the Rev. Richard Lee officiating. Full military honors will follow at the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...
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Jackson police report 7/27/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/27/17)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n Christopher Franklin, 31, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of a sex-offender registry violation. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 600 block of Broadridge Drive...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 7/27/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/27/17)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Tuesday n Medical assists were made at 1:24 a.m. on North Lorimier Street; 10:33 a.m. on South Minnesota Street; 10:47 a.m. on Shenandoah Ridge; 5:18 p.m. on New Madrid Street; and 8:04 p.m. on North Kingshighway...
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Cape Girardeau police report 7/27/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/27/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assault n Domestic assault was reported at 45 S. West End Blvd. Thefts n Theft was reported at 2094 Southern Expressway. n Theft was reported at 701 Good Hope St. n Theft was reported at 540 S. Middle St...
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Births 7/27/17
(Births ~ 07/27/17)
Son to John August Tribout and Magan Michelle McGrew of Bardwell, Kentucky, Saint Francis Medical Center, 8:59 p.m. Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Name, Oliver Dane. Weight, 5 pounds, 4 ounces. First child. McGrew is the daughter of Donald and Donna McGrew of Paducah, Kentucky. She is a customer-service representative with Lynx Services. Tribout is the son of August and Victoria Tribout of Tamms, Illinois. He is a dispatcher with Ingram Barge Co...
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Cape County Commission agenda 7/27/17
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
Approval of minutes n Minutes of the July 20 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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Center called 'powerful first step' as Ferguson still mends
(State News ~ 07/27/17)
FERGUSON, Mo. -- The National Urban League president helped christen a new job training and education center in Ferguson on Wednesday, calling the site a "powerful first step" in helping the St. Louis suburb that's still mending from unrest over the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown nearly three years ago...
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Missouri governor signs new abortion regulations into law
(State News ~ 07/27/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Wednesday signed a bill that tightens abortion regulations and gives the attorney general new authority to prosecute abortion-law violators. The new Republican governor had called lawmakers back to Jefferson City for a second special session this summer to focus on abortion policy, citing as motivation a St. ...
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Boy Scouts chief expected fiery Trump speech
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
NEW YORK -- The Boy Scouts of America anticipated President Donald Trump would spark controversy with a politically tinged speech at its national jamboree in West Virginia but felt obliged to invite him out of respect for his office, its leader said Wednesday in his first public comments on the furor over Trump's remarks...
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Scalise discharged from hospital, beginning rehab
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice last month, has been discharged from a Washington hospital. MedStar Washington Hospital Center said the six-term Louisiana Republican was released from the hospital Tuesday and is beginning "intensive inpatient rehabilitation." It didn't identify the facility...
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Viewers taking wait-and-see attitude toward Megyn Kelly
(Entertainment ~ 07/27/17)
NEW YORK -- After her brassy start at NBC News, viewers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward Megyn Kelly in anticipation of her big test this fall. Her newsmagazine ends its eight-episode run this weekend, featuring Kelly's interview with comic Ricky Gervais. That's a light sign-off after a newsy debut in June interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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Wasserman Schultz fires IT staffer following fraud arrest
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired an information-technology staffer following his arrest on a bank-fraud charge at a Virginia airport where he was trying to fly to Pakistan. Wasserman Schultz spokesman David Damron said Imran Awan was fired Tuesday by the Florida lawmaker...
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Venezuela opposition leader urges public, army, on strike
(International News ~ 07/27/17)
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez called on Venezuelans to support a 48-hour general strike beginning Wednesday in protest of government plans to rewrite the constitution, in his first direct public message since being released from prison to house arrest...
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1 dead, 7 others hurt in ride malfunction at Ohio State Fair
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A swinging and spinning amusement park ride called the Fire Ball malfunctioned and broke apart on the opening day of the Ohio State fair Wednesday, hurling people through the air, killing at least one and injuring seven others. Five of the injured were in critical condition, and the other two were in stable condition Wednesday night at area hospitals, said Columbus fire battalion chief Steve Martin...
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GOP senators blink on a big chance to repeal 'Obamacare'
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
WASHINGTON -- After seven years of campaign promises, Senate Republicans demonstrated they didn't have the stomach to repeal "Obamacare" on Wednesday when it counted. The Senate voted 55-45 to reject legislation to throw out major portions of Barack Obama's law without replacing it...
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Trump nominates Kansas governor as religious-freedom envoy
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Five years ago, Gov. Sam Brownback made Kansas an economic laboratory for the nation by aggressively cutting taxes. He's expected to leave office with his Kansas reputation in tatters and his home state an example of trickle-down economics that didn't work...
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Jerusalem Palestinians find voice through prayer protests
(International News ~ 07/27/17)
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of Palestinian Muslims have been praying in the streets of Jerusalem every evening -- creating a new, surprisingly effective form of protest in their long conflict with Israel. Since the crisis over the city's most contested shrine erupted more than a week ago, they have set up neat rows of prayer rugs after sundown, kneeling and bowing on the hard asphalt in the set rituals of worship...
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The great eight: Saxony Lutheran's valedictorians
(Community ~ 07/27/17)
The 2017 valedictorian speech at Saxony Lutheran High School had a unique quality. "It was one of the better student graduation speeches I've heard in a long time," said Mark Ruark, who heard his fourth such speech as the school's principal in May. However, its most memorable characteristic was the eight-part delivery as Andrew Aufdenberg, Hannah Aufdenberg, Nathan Aufdenberg, Emily Buerck, Ben Daniel, Emily Killen, Rachael Koehler and Jonathan Mueller all stepped to the podium...
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Scott City man killed in I-44 crash
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
ROLLA, Mo. — A 21-year-old Scott City man was killed and two passengers were among seven others injured in a seven-car wreck Sunday afternoon on Interstate 44. The crash occurred at 2:17 p.m. when a tractor-trailer, driven by Gurjit Singh, 31, of Fresno, California, crossed the interstate’s median and began to overturn, striking two vehicles...
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Cape to pay $110,000 to continue bus service
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
A fixed-route bus service in Cape Girardeau will continue to roll along with funding assistance from the city. The city council Monday approved a new contract with the Cape Girardeau County Transit Authority (CTA). Under the contract, the city will pay $110,000 to the CTA during fiscal 2018...
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One-armed, machete-wielding clown arrested
(National News ~ 07/27/17)
HOLLIS, Maine -- A man is accused of drunkenly strolling down a Maine road, wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and a clown mask and brandishing a machete taped to where his arm had been amputated. Maine State Police said 31-year-old Corey Berry of Hollis was arrested Tuesday and charged with criminal threatening. He was released after posting $200 bond. Police said Berry was intoxicated but cooperative. He told officers he was copying previous clown sightings as a prank...
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Road work 7/27/17
(Local News ~ 07/27/17)
Route K in Perry County from the city limits of Millheim, Missouri, north to Route O will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a pipe under the roadway. The work will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, according to a MoDOT news release...
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Learning briefs 7/27/17
(Community ~ 07/27/17)
Cape Girardeau Girl Scout Ella Valleroy earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting. To earn the award, each girl must complete extensive leadership requirements, including 30 hours in a leadership role, 40 hours of career exploration and 65 hours of research, preparation, service and evaluation for a project that serves a need in their community. ...
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Hooked on Science: Soda can shake
(Community ~ 07/27/17)
n 2 cans of regular soda n Transparent cup n STEP 1: Pour one of the cans of regular soda into the transparent cup. Describe the soda by its observable properties. n STEP 2: Excite the carbon dioxide gas bubbles inside the other can of soda by rapidly shaking...
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Top of the class: Saxony Lutheran's valedictorians
(Community ~ 07/27/17)
Parents: Mark and Wanda Aufdenberg Hometown: Gordonville Post-graduation plans: I plan to attend the University of Missouri-Columbia to double major in mechanical engineering and agricultural systems management. High-school activities: FFA, National Honor Society, Beta Club, pep club, baseball, cross country, band...
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Prayer 7/27/17
(Prayer ~ 07/27/17)
O Lord God, with all our hearts we praise your holy name. Amen.
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$5,000 Reward
(Submitted Story ~ 07/27/17)
A 7 x 16' gray enclosed trailer was stolen from Chaffee around 5am Thursday July 27th Reward is being offered for arrest and conviction Call Chaffee Police Dept @ 573-887-6911
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