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North Korea outlines plan to launch missiles toward Guam
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea today announced a detailed plan to launch a volley of ballistic missiles toward the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, a major military hub and home to U.S. bombers. It also dismissed President Donald Trump's threats of "fire and fury" if it doesn't back down...
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Mondi, Mineral Area College roll out apprenticeship program
(Local News ~ 08/10/17)
Mineral Area College and Mondi are partnering to start an apprenticeship program to help train skilled workers and fill a growing need in manufacturing. Representatives from both entities unveiled the program Wednesday at Mondi in Jackson. Students now will have the opportunity to take apprenticeships to become technicians for flexible manufacturing or flexible packaging printers, said Bev Hickam, workforce development director at Mineral Area College...
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3 more rundown structures added to city's demolition list
(Local News ~ 08/10/17)
The city of Cape Girardeau has condemned 95 dilapidated structures over the past six fiscal years, resulting in the demolition of 64 buildings, according to data provided Wednesday by development-services director Alex McElroy. Steve Williams, housing assistance coordinator for the city, said the city has made progress in removing vacant, rundown structures...
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Central Junior High students will see many changes today after renovations
(Local News ~ 08/10/17)
New features for Cape Girardeau Central Junior High's first day of classes will be unveiled today to about 600 students. Several areas of the junior high have been updated, principal Carla Fee said. The upgrade was funded by Proposition 1, part of the $20 million bond issue passed in April 2015 for several capital projects in the district...
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As ‘Violin Dragoness,’ Cape Central senior Lydia Gentry discovers her love for playing the electric violin
(Community ~ 08/10/17)
Rush. It can be a sudden movement in a direction. It can be a flow of euphoria. It also can be the name of a classic rock band. For Lydia Gentry, a freshly minted senior at Cape Girardeau Central High School, all the above apply to her violin -- a sleek, red, electric one at that...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
Today in History Today is Thursday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2017. There are 143 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 10, 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam," the gunman who killed six people and wounded seven others in the New York City area. (Berkowitz is serving six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences.)...
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Organizations making a difference around the world
(Editorial ~ 08/10/17)
This big world gets small at times. If we think we have problems, a look at other places around the globe will reveal those less fortunate. And after truly seeing and learning of people in desperate need, it can weigh on one's heart to try to bring care and hope where there is little...
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World War II veteran returns
(Column ~ 08/10/17)
Many people have heard of the Battle of the Bulge but few know the details or the importance of the battle. That information will be easily available when the National Museum of the U.S. Army is completed in 2019 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, just south of Washington, DC. The museum is currently under construction and when completed it will have displays and artifacts to tell the history of the U.S. Army in peace, during the Cold War, and in our nation's wars...
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Critics say vote fraud panel could create target for hackers
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
CHERRY HILL, N.J. -- Officials from both major political parties had a consistent answer last year when asked about the security of voting systems: U.S. elections are so decentralized, it would be impossible for hackers to manipulate ballot counts or voter rolls on a wide scale...
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FBI agents searched former Trump campaign chair's home
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
WASHINGTON -- FBI agents looking for financial documents have searched one of the homes of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, whose past foreign political work has been swept into the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election...
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U.S. expels 2 Cuban diplomats after incidents in Cuba
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
WASHINGTON -- The two-year-old U.S. diplomatic relationship with Cuba was roiled Wednesday by what U.S. officials believe was a string of attacks on a group of American diplomats in Havana with a covert sonic weapon that left the victims with severe hearing loss...
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DeVos says she didn't decry racism enough
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
WASHINGTON -- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday distanced herself from her comment earlier this year about the nation's historically black colleges and universities being pioneers of school choice, saying in the past, "there were no choices" for African-Americans in higher education...
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Trump hits McConnell for Senate crash of Obama health repeal
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump scolded his own party's Senate leader Wednesday for the crash of the Republican drive to repeal and rewrite the Obama health-care law, using Twitter to demand of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, "Why not done?" Trump fired back at the Kentucky Republican for telling a home-state audience this week the president had "not been in this line of work before, and I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process."...
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Man ambushes French soldiers in car attack
(International News ~ 08/10/17)
LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France -- A man rammed his car into a group of soldiers near Paris, injuring six of them, and then was cornered by police in a highway manhunt -- the latest in what's become a familiar pattern of attacks targeting French security forces...
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Pentagon: British firm billed U.S. over $50M for iffy expenses
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
WASHINGTON -- A British company hired to train Afghan intelligence officers billed the U.S. government for high-end cars, including Porsches and an Aston Martin, and paid the "significant others" of the firm's top executives six-figure salaries, though there's no proof they did any work, according to details of a Pentagon audit made public Wednesday...
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Migrants flood Canada at remote outpost
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. -- They have come from all over the United States, piling out of taxis, pushing strollers and pulling luggage, to the end of a country road in the north woods. Where the pavement stops, they pick up small children and lead older ones wearing Mickey Mouse backpacks around a "road closed" sign, threading bushes, crossing a ditch and filing past another sign in French and English that says "No pedestrians." Then they are arrested...
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Kenya awaits vote results amid violence, hacking allegations
(International News ~ 08/10/17)
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenyan police opened fire Wednesday to disperse rioters in several areas after presidential challenger Raila Odinga alleged election fraud, saying hackers used the identity of a murdered official to infiltrate the database of the election commission and manipulate results in favor of President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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Mom says she didn't want incident to define Swift's life
(Entertainment ~ 08/10/17)
DENVER -- Taylor Swift's mother and confidante took the witness stand Wednesday, saying she and her daughter's managers had told the bosses of a disc jockey accused of groping the singer-songwriter they hoped he would be fired but didn't ask them to do so...
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'Game of Thrones' fans shun spoilers from HBO hack
(Entertainment ~ 08/10/17)
NEW YORK -- For many "Game of Thrones" fans, the routine spoilers are bad enough: You miss an episode, then stumble on an unsought plot twist before you've had a chance to catch up. Worse than that is the threat of leaked details, or even a whole episode, by hackers currently targeting HBO and its most doted-on series...
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Study boosts hope of 'liquid biopsies' for cancer screening
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
Scientists have the first major evidence blood tests called liquid biopsies hold promise for screening people for cancer. Hong Kong doctors tried it for a type of head and neck cancer, and boosted early detection and one measure of survival. The tests detect DNA tumors shed into the blood. ...
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Out of the past: Aug. 10
(Out of the Past ~ 08/10/17)
Construction begins on a 32-room addition to the Victorian Inn at Cape Girardeau by MidAmerica Hotels Corp.; with the expansion, the hotel will have a total of 132 rooms. A Cape Girardeau woman and her two sons were slain Saturday night or early Sunday at their home on North Henderson Avenue. The area's Major Case Squad is investigating the violent deaths of Sherry Scheper, 47, and her sons, Curtis Scheper, 22, and Randy Scheper, 17...
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Charlie Wilson
(Obituary ~ 08/10/17)
Charlie Wilson, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, at his home surrounded by family. Visitation will be at noon Saturday at Futrell Memorial Church of God in Christ in Jackson. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the church, with Minister Steve Gipson officiating. Burial will follow at Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Donne Williams
(Obituary ~ 08/10/17)
Donne Balee Chamberlain Williams of Cape Girardeau died peacefully in her sleep Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, at Chateau Girardeau, where she was a resident. She was 80 years old. Donne grew up in St. Louis and moved to Cape Girardeau to attend Southeast Missouri State University. She subsequently studied art and fashion design in London, where her mother was an exchange teacher...
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Harold Stoverink
(Obituary ~ 08/10/17)
ST. PETERS, Mo. -- Harold Stoverink, 73, of St. Peters, formerly of Jackson, died Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, at St. Joseph Hospital in St. Charles, Missouri. A memorial Mass will be at 11 a.m. Aug. 19 at St. Cletus Catholic Church in St. Peters. Local announcement by McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson...
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Shirley Reimann
(Obituary ~ 08/10/17)
Shirley Reimann, 79, of Fruitland died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Mike Parry officiating. Interment will be in Hitt Cemetery near Arbor...
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Leola Poirrier
(Obituary ~ 08/10/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Leola F. Poirrier, 90, of Perryville died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, at her home. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Home Cemetery in Perryville, with the Rev. Stan Hargis officiating. Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville provided the arrangements...
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Tiffany Copeland
(Obituary ~ 08/10/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Tiffany "Princess" Copeland, 28, of Columbia, formally of Cape Girardeau, passed away Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, at Women's and Children's Hospital in Columbia. She was born Aug. 8, 1988, in Sikeston, Missouri, to Gary and Claudette Radford Copeland...
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Flora Berkbuegler
(Obituary ~ 08/10/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Flora M. Berkbuegler, 100, of Perryville died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, at Estates of Perryville. She was born Sept. 6, 1916, in Longtown, Missouri, daughter of Louis and Theresa Unterreiner Leible. She and Christian M. Berkbuegler were married Nov. 4, 1944. He preceded her in death Nov. 7, 1992...
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Marianne Bargo
(Obituary ~ 08/10/17)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Marianne Karcher Bargo, 72, of Cairo died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Friends and family may gather from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Elks Lodge in Cairo. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, with the Rev. Kelly Cox officiating...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 8/10/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/10/17)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Tuesday n Medical assists were made at 2:26 a.m. on South Sprigg Street; 3:51 a.m. on North Sprigg Street; 4:09 a.m. on Lynwood Hills Drive; 7:09 a.m. on Sycamore Circle; 10:40 a.m. on Linden Street; 10:48 a.m. on Stonebridge Drive; 3:55 p.m. on South Kingshighway; 5:19 p.m. on Pine Hill Spur; and 8:01 p.m. on North Main Street...
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Cape Girardeau police report 8/10/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/10/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of assault in the 500 block of Themis Street. Charge n A 14-year-old boy was charged with theft at Save-A-Lot, 121 S. Sprigg St...
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Trial ends but verdict will wait in St. Louis cop's trial
(State News ~ 08/10/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Attorneys made their final pitches Wednesday for why a former St. Louis police officer should or shouldn't be found guilty of murder in the 2011 killing of a suspect, leaving his fate in the hands of a judge, who won't rule until late next week at the earliest...
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Alert driver's tip led to capture of police killing suspect
(State News ~ 08/10/17)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A man charged in the shooting death of a western Missouri police officer was arrested after an alert driver provided a tip the fugitive was wandering within miles of where the killing took place, a law-enforcement official said. The driver reported seeing Ian McCarthy walking along a state highway near Bucksaw Marina, just east of Clinton, and he was arrested without incident late Tuesday, Sgt. ...
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Conduit replacement at courthouse Wednesday
(Local News ~ 08/10/17)
Chris Graff, left, and Mike Loberg with Cotner Electric dig a trench Wednesday along the steps of Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau. They installed a new conduit and replaced a temporary electrical cable for the lighting.
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Rep. Smith hears concerns during Farm Tour
(Local News ~ 08/10/17)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — For a fifth year, U.S. Rep. Jason Smith traveled the 8th District to visit farms and learn about the diverse agricultural enterprises as part of his annual Farm Tour. Smith visited Cane Creek Sod Farm on Monday in Poplar Bluff and talked with area farmers and local officials to hear some of their concerns...
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New scholarship offered at Southeast
(Local News ~ 08/10/17)
A new scholarship is available to students enrolled in the Harrison College of Business at Southeast Missouri State University. The Sherri L. Jenkins Business Scholarship is established through the university’s foundation. The renewable scholarship gives first preference to a non-traditional student enrolled in the college...
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Scott County Route ZZ closed for railroad repairs
(Local News ~ 08/10/17)
Route ZZ in Scott County will be closed as railroad crews repair the crossing west of U.S. 61 in Sikeston, Missouri. The work will performed from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. ...
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'Son of Sam' killer arrested 40 years ago this week
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
NEW YORK -- For a year, David Berkowitz terrorized New York. The papers called him the ".44 Caliber Killer." In taunting notes to police and a journalist, he called himself "Mr. Monster," the "Son of Sam." When the police finally got him, 40 years ago today, the man behind the killings was unmasked as a schlubby civil servant with a boyish face and a dopey smile...
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Cheetos-themed restaurant to open in NYC
(National News ~ 08/10/17)
NEW YORK -- Frito-Lay is getting in on New York City's restaurant week by opening a pop-up eatery with a menu of Cheetos-themed cuisine. The Spotted Cheetah opens its doors in lower Manhattan for three days next week. Some of the dishes on the three-course menu created by chef Anne Burrell include Cheetos crusted fried pickles, Mac n' Cheetos and Cheetos Sweetos crusted cheesecake. Prices run from $8 to $22 per dish...
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Prayer 8/10/17
(Prayer ~ 08/10/17)
Lord God, may we extend mercy and forgiveness to others as you have to us. Amen.
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Paradise Express in Scott City 20 Year Anniversary Ribbon Cutting
(Submitted Story ~ 08/10/17)
On August 1, 2017. Paradise Express celebrated 20 years in business.Owner, Ronald Mason and manager, Chaundra Mason along with members of the Scott City Chamber of Commerce celebrated with a ribbon cutting.
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