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Stormy Daniels to visit East Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
An adult film actress embroiled in a legal battle with President Donald Trump will visit The Pony in East Cape Girardeau on Sunday. Stormy Daniels will perform at The Pony strip club on Father’s Day and be available for meet and greets, according to a recent news release...
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Jackson officials give advice for water use as hydrants, water system flushed
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
Jackson city crews will be flushing the fire hydrant and water distribution system from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily until the program is complete, the city announced Tuesday. Fire department crews flush water mains and hydrants once a year to remove mineral sediment that builds up in the pipes, a release stated — this helps improve water quality and maintain the valves and hydrants in the system...
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Southeast restructures departments, creates five new colleges
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
After months of working to restructure and streamline academic departments and colleges in an effort to reduce expenses to meet a potential budget shortfall, Southeast Missouri State University has created five new colleges. The changes will take effect Aug. 1...
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Southeast regents approve $151 million spending plan, no pay raises
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
Southeast Missouri State University plans to spend $151 million to educate students in fiscal 2019 under a budget approved Tuesday by the school’s board of regents. Regents unanimously adopted a $114 million operating budget, and a $37 million budget for operation of residence halls, Show Me Center and other auxiliary services designed to be self supporting...
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Feeding deer in Bollinger, Cape and Perry counties prohibited soon to help curb spread of CWD
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
The Missouri Department of Conservation is taking action to stop the spread of chronic wasting disease, or CWD, in deer populations, by expanding its CWD management zone from 41 to 48 counties. The zone will now include Bollinger, Cape Girardeau and Perry counties...
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New Zaxby's restaurant open in Cape
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
Cape Girardeau’s first Zaxby’s — a fast food chain restaurant offering a variety of chicken — hatched Monday. Franchisee Chip Hults said he opened his first Zaxby’s in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2009 alongside long-time business partner Chris Manwell. The Cape Girardeau location is his ninth, he said, after opening a Zaxby’s in Sikeston, Missouri, two months ago...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/13/18)
Today is Wednesday, June 13, the 164th day of 2018. There are 201 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 13, 1978, the movie musical "Grease," starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, had its world premiere in New York. On this date:...
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Summer Arts Festival is can't-miss event
(Column ~ 06/13/18)
If you have kids or grandkids or are simply young at heart, you don't want to miss the 2018 Summer Arts Festival at the River Campus on Saturday, June 16. Activities are free! If you've been before -- this is the fifth annual event, and it gets bigger every year -- you already know how much fun the day is...
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Jon Steinhoff
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
Jon Lynn Steinhoff, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, June 10, 2018, surrounded by family. He was born Oct. 11, 1934, in Cape Girardeau to Hubert Harry and Clara Willamina Lange Steinhoff. He and Marie Anthony were married Sept. 12, 1959, at Ocean Springs, Mississippi...
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Lisa Potenski-Wood
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Lisa M. Potenski-Wood, 54, of Perryville died Monday, June 11, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. A celebration of life will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Vintage Room at Mary Jane's. Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville provided the arrangements...
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Clyde McDonald
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
Clyde "Mac" McDonald Jr., 85, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Mark Martin officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery...
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Marcellus Jones
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
Marcellus Jones, 50, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 9, 2018, at his home. He was born Jan. 7, 1968, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Selina Jones-Kearney. Marcellus was a graduate of Rockbridge High School in Columbia, Missouri. He attended Southeast Missouri State University, where he played on the football team...
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Larry Jones
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
** Larry Jones Larry Wayne Jones, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, June 8, 2018. Private services will be held. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Nedra Johnson
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Nedra Vernelia Johnson, 97, of Marble Hill died Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at Woodland Hills in Marble Hill. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the El Nathan Cemetery in Marble Hill. Hutchings Funeral Chapel is assisting the family...
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Carl Isreal
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Carl Wayne Isreal, 65, of Perryville died Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. Memorial service will be at noon Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Don Estes officiating...
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Ruth Hailey
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Ruth Ann Hailey, 74, of Chaffee passed away Saturday, June 9, 2018, at her home. She was born April 8, 1944, in Chaffee to Henry and Stella Sander Nordin. Ruth worked at Procter & Gamble for more than 20 years. Loving survivors include two daughters, Lana (Rusty) Rister of Chaffee and Laura (David) Halter of Scott City; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Scott Nordin and Ronnie Carroll; and a sister, Jean McGuire of Chaffee...
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Joe Girard
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
Joe Lynn Girard, 41, of Oak Ridge died Saturday, June 9, 2018, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Jackson Funeral Home in Jackson. Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Kathy Driscoll
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. -- Kathy Marie Driscoll, 68, of Jacksonville, formerly of McClure, Illinois, passed away Friday, June 8, 2018, at New Hanover Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina. She was born July 23, 1949, in Lilbourn, Missouri, to Bill and Cloie Wylie Greer. She and James Driscoll were married March 26, 1966. He preceded her in death Feb. 16, 2002...
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Ruth Dillingham
(Obituary ~ 06/13/18)
** Ruth Dillingham Ruth A. Dillingham, 89, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Jackson, passed away Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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DC unveils exhibits as 'Hamilton' arrives
(Entertainment ~ 06/13/18)
WASHINGTON -- The blockbuster musical "Hamilton" is finally coming to the nation's capital, and the city is preparing in ways only Washington can. Lin-Manuel Miranda's genre-bending historical musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton started a three-month run Tuesday at the Kennedy Center...
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Consumer prices up 0.2 pct. in May
(National News ~ 06/13/18)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in May, with surging gasoline costs driving much of the increase. The Labor Department said Thursday the consumer price index climbed 2.8 percent last month from a year earlier, putting inflation on its fastest annual pace since February 2012. But core prices -- which exclude the volatile food and energy categories -- have risen a milder 2.2 percent over the past 12 months...
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Puerto Rico issues new data on Maria deaths
(International News ~ 06/13/18)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Efrain Perez felt a pain in his chest. Doctors near his small town sent him to Puerto Rico's main hospital for emergency surgery for an aortic aneurysm. But when the ambulance pulled into the parking lot in the capital, San Juan, after a more than two-hour drive, a doctor ran out to stop it...
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Israel: Social media monitoring foils terrorists before attacks
(International News ~ 06/13/18)
JERUSALEM -- Israeli authorities have foiled more than 200 Palestinian attacks by monitoring social media and sifting through vast amounts of data to identify prospective assailants ahead of time, according to Israel's public security minister. These pre-emptive actions put Israel at the forefront of an increasingly popular -- and controversial -- trend used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world using big data technology to track would-be criminals. ...
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U.S.-Taiwan enhance ties
(International News ~ 06/13/18)
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The U.S. dedicated a new de-facto embassy Tuesday in Taiwan in what officials described as an indicator of robust ties with the self-governing island democracy China claims as its own territory. The ceremony, which drew an angry response from Beijing, is the latest sign of how the administration of President Donald Trump has strengthened relations with Taipei amid a litany of disputes with China and rising tensions in the highly militarized Taiwan Strait...
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Seattle officials repeal tax to battle homelessness
(National News ~ 06/13/18)
SEATTLE -- Seattle leaders on Tuesday repealed a tax on large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks after a backlash from businesses, a stark reversal from a month ago when the City Council unanimously approved the effort to combat a growing homelessness crisis...
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SCOTUS voter roll decision may have limited impact
(National News ~ 06/13/18)
ATLANTA -- A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for states to take a tougher approach to maintaining their voter rolls, but will they? Ohio plans to resume its process for removing inactive voters, which was affirmed in Monday's 5-4 ruling, after the November elections. It takes a particularly aggressive approach appearing to be an outlier among states...
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House aims at bills battling opioid abuse
(National News ~ 06/13/18)
WASHINGTON -- The House is diving into a two-week vote-a-thon on dozens of bills aimed at opioids abuse, as lawmakers seek to bolster efforts to curb a crisis killing tens of thousands a year and to score a popular win they can tout for the midterm elections...
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MeToo cases in the spotlight as Southern Baptists convene in Dallas
(National News ~ 06/13/18)
DALLAS -- The Southern Baptist Convention opened its annual national meeting Tuesday in an anxious mood as the denomination's all-male leadership grappled with the fallout of multiple sexual misconduct cases. One order of business was a draft resolution co-signed by dozens of SBC leaders calling on the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. ...
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Trump and Kim shake hands in scene complex as their rivalry
(International News ~ 06/13/18)
SINGAPORE -- Donald Trump approached from the right, striding down the long portico at the colonial-era Singapore resort. Kim Jong Un, dressed in his familiar Mao suit, emerged from the left. They met in the middle, on a red carpet, dozens of cameras recording their every move as the world watched. And counted...
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Trump's vow to end military drills with Seoul stuns a region
(International News ~ 06/13/18)
SINGAPORE -- President Donald Trump rocked the region with the stunning announcement Tuesday he was halting annual U.S.-South Korean military drills -- and wants to remove the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in the South as a deterrent against North Korea...
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Analysis: By Trump's own yardstick, pact falls short
(International News ~ 06/13/18)
SINGAPORE -- After all the hype, all the vows to tackle what's perhaps the world's most urgent crisis, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fell short of the kind of deal the U.S. president himself has long said is needed to settle the North's decadeslong pursuit of nuclear weapons...
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Trump sees 'new future' for North Korea, but path unclear
(International News ~ 06/13/18)
SINGAPORE -- President Donald Trump wrapped up his five-hour nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with surprisingly warm words and hope for "a bright new future" for Kim's isolated and impoverished nation. Yet he immediately faced pointed questions at home about whether he got little and gave away much in his push to make a deal with the young autocrat -- including an agreement to halt U.S. military exercises with South Korea...
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Out of the past: June 13
(Out of the Past ~ 06/13/18)
The Rev. Walter J. Keisker of Jackson was one of three persons who received a doctor of divinity degree at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis on May 28; Keisker, who has been affiliated with St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson more than 50 years, currently teaches Sunday school and weekly Bible classes...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 6/13/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/13/18)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Monday n Medical assists were made at 2:34 a.m. on North Middle Street, 5:20 a.m. on Dunklin Street, 7:04 a.m. on South West End Boulevard, noon on North Kingshighway, 12:56 p.m. on North Frederick Street, 3:05 p.m. on Water Street, 6:36 p.m. on Whitener Street, 6:59 p.m. on South West End Boulevard, 7:33 p.m. on Themis Street and 8:12 p.m. on North Kingshighway...
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Cape Girardeau police report 6/13/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/13/18)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Richard Cantrell, 27, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a warrant for a probation violation. n Zachary Howard, 23, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant...
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Missouri House chairman: State shouldn't pay Greitens' bills
(State News ~ 06/13/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The chairman of a Missouri House panel that investigated former Gov. Eric Greitens said the state shouldn't pay more than $150,000 of legal bills submitted by attorneys who represented Greitens' office. State Rep. Jay Barnes sent a letter to the Office of Administration urging it to reject the payments requested by the Kansas City-based Graves Garrett law firm and the Connecticut-based Shipman & Goodwin law firm. The letter was publicly released Tuesday...
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Experts say Missouri bear sightings normal for time of year
(State News ~ 06/13/18)
ST. LOUIS -- Bears have been suddenly showing up, dead and alive, in Missouri neighborhoods and on its roadways, but it's pretty normal for this time of year and is often just male bears looking for food or love in the wrong places. A 400-pound male black bear was found dead Sunday in the Current River near Van Buren. On Monday, one or two bears wandered into a mobile home park in Pevely, south of St. Louis. And three times in recent weeks, bears were found dead on southwestern Missouri roads...
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Governor revives education board with appointments
(State News ~ 06/13/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Mike Parson appointed two people to the State Board of Education on Tuesday, giving the group supervising the state's public schools enough members to meet for the first time since January. The board had been in disarray since lawmakers balked after then-Gov. ...
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Doggy dippin' at Ivers Square
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
While taking an evening walk Tuesday evening, Nancy Aguinaga pauses as LuRay decides to take a dip in the fountain at Ivers Square in downtown Cape Girardeau.
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Catch of the day at Capaha Park
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
Marty Carter catches a tiny bluegill Tuesday at the Capaha Park lagoon in Cape Girardeau. Carter, owner of a lawn service, quit for the day when a soaking rainstorm moved through. "When I can't mow, I go fishing," he said. His brother, Shon Carter, witnessed the catch before the two decided to pack it in.
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Prayer 6/13/18
(Prayer ~ 06/13/18)
O Lord Jesus, precious Savior, thank you for your love and grace. Amen.
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Discussions, debates a central role in good government
(Column ~ 06/13/18)
"Government of the people" is a challenge. There are differences of opinions on many, if not most subjects. This is why we discuss, debate, deliberate, hold public hearings, and the public votes directly on some issues. During my time as mayor, the board of aldermen has made many decisions in which there were different opinions and views. ...
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'Little Women' and author Alcott resonate 150 years later
(Community ~ 06/13/18)
CONCORD, Mass. -- A century and a half before the #MeToo movement gave women a bold, new collective voice, Louisa May Alcott was lending them her own. Society had far different expectations of women in 1867, when publisher Thomas Niles asked Alcott to write a "girls' story." At a time when women were expected to marry, often did not hold employment and could not vote, Alcott had her doubts about the success of "Little Women."...
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Birth 6/13/18
(Births ~ 06/13/18)
Son to Dr. Douglas Marvin and Katherine Suzanne Overbey of Denver, University of Colorado Hospital, 10:12 a.m. Friday, June 1, 2018. Name, Jaxon Charles. Weight, 7 pounds, 5 ounces. Second child. Mrs. Overbey is the former Katherine Brown, daughter of John and Melissa Strickert of Jackson. ...
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Couple charged in beating death at Brick's
(Local News ~ 06/13/18)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Authorities say a highly intoxicated Brick's Off-Road Park patron died after being severely beaten inside the park Saturday night by the parents of a young boy he was accused of physically striking. Joe Girard of Oak Ridge was killed during the eighth annual Trucks Gone Wild event, which ran from Thursday through Sunday at the County Road 484 park...
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