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Woman accused of stealing $120K from animal rescue turns herself in
(Local News ~ 08/04/18)
A Cape Girardeau woman wanted on two counts of felony stealing from an animal rescue organization turned herself in Friday, an official confirmed. Elizabeth Hann turned herself in to the Cape Girardeau County Jail, jail administrator J.P. Mulcahy confirmed...
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New gum tree planted Friday
(Local News ~ 08/04/18)
Sven Svenson, left, and Corey Jones plant a black gum tree, Nyssa sylvatica "Wildfire," on Friday at the top of "Cardiac Hill," the intersection of North Pacific Street, Alta Vista Drive and Cheney Drive, at Southeast Missouri State University. ...
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Contested races, tax issues on Tuesday's ballot
(Local News ~ 08/04/18)
Presiding commissioner races, a battle for a state representative seat, contests for prosecuting attorney and circuit judge, and tax measures in Perryville, Missouri, and Gordonville top local ballots for Tuesday’s primary election. Polls will open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m., election officials said...
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Sikeston DPS loses evidence in murder case
(Local News ~ 08/04/18)
The Sikeston (Missouri) Department of Public Safety has lost surveillance video evidence in a murder case. The video was used, in part, to establish probable cause for the arrest of Antoine Harris-Applewhite in the shooting death of Samuel Sanders. A detective’s written and oral description of what the video showed has changed over the course of the case, including his testimony in a motion to dismiss, after the DPS could not provide a copy of the video to the defense...
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Cape Girardeau County, others sue Big Pharma over opioid problem
(Local News ~ 08/04/18)
Ten Missouri counties, including Cape Girardeau County, and the City of Joplin have filed suit against pharmaceutical companies over the opioid epidemic. The suit, filed Wednesday in circuit court in St. Louis, seeks damages for “reimbursement of public costs expended fighting this opioid epidemic and a claim for future costs” in efforts to address the problem...
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Sen. McCaskill visits Cape, talks tariff 'damage'
(Local News ~ 08/04/18)
Siding with an organization she often opposes, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill attacked President Donald Trump’s tariff actions during a campaign stop Friday in Cape Girardeau. McCaskill spoke at the Democratic Party field office at 20 N. Pacific St. alongside Cap America chairman and CEO Phillip Page and Cap America president and COO Mark Gammon to discuss how Trump’s newly enacted tariffs are affecting Missouri’s economy...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
Today in History Today is Saturday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2018. There are 149 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 4, 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.)...
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Out of the past: Aug. 4
(Out of the Past ~ 08/04/18)
Once again, the crest prediction for Cape Girardeau has been lowered; the Mississippi River is expected to crest here the day after tomorrow at 47.2 feet The few voters who turned out in Cape Girardeau yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed a measure that will enable the city to move from at-large to ward city council elections in April; in addition voters authorized the expansion of the city limits westward with approval of a measure to annex the Twin Lakes subdivision...
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To get there, go there
(Community ~ 08/04/18)
For such a tall landmark, Inspiration Point in Illinois does an impressive job of maintaining a low profile and remaining out of sight from everyday travelers. Near the Jackson County line, behind Big Muddy River and towering nearly 200 feet over LaRue Swamp, Inspiration Point's natural overlook can provide a vantage point over hundreds of acres of forestry interspersed with swampy, marshy ponds as far as the eye can see. The tricky part is making it there...
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Adopt Scooter 8-5-18
(Community ~ 08/04/18)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary This cute little orange guy is Scooter. He is 8 weeks old and needs a loving home! He is available for adoption at Safe Harbor; call (573) 243-9823.
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Senior Center Menus for Aug. 6-10
(Community ~ 08/04/18)
Monday: Sweet and sour meatballs or chicken and snow peas, brown and wild rice pilaf, lima beans, steamed carrots, whole-grain hot roll and fruid salad or Texas sheet cake. Tuesday: Smothered pork cutler or Philly cheese steak sandwich, sweet potatoes, roasted cauliflower, whole-grain bread or bun and warm apples and raisins or cherry delight...
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Getting ready to garden for fall
(Column ~ 08/04/18)
Can't hardly believe we are into August. It seems like summer was just beginning and here we are but a couple months away from our first frost. Doesn't seem real. My red tomatoes did really well for most of the summer up to now but have seriously slowed down. ...
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Club news 8-5-18
(Community News ~ 08/04/18)
FCE Lamplighter Club met July 19 at the home of Beverly Meyer. Since Judy Strickland, president, was attending a meeting in Dallas, Texas, Karen McLane, vice president, presided over the meeting. Meyer gave the devotion which was, "May the good Lord bless and keep you." For roll call, each member told about a preventive burglar measure...
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Learning briefs 8-5-18
(Community ~ 08/04/18)
Garrett Todd Orr of Cape Girardeau has received the Paul & Joe Anne Ripley Scholarship from Three Rivers College to attend Southeast Missouri State University. Orr is the son of Kim and Jeana Orr of Doniphan, Missouri, and is a 2017 graduate of Doniphan High School. Orr graduated from Three Rivers College with an Elementary Education Degree and plans to begin Southeast in the fall...
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Share what we love
(Column ~ 08/04/18)
Sometimes I wonder, what would the social media feed of the great men and women of history be like? What type of photos would Theodore Roosevelt publish? Would Hemingway dominate Twitter? What would Jesus do on Instagram? Would Susan B. Anthony Snapchat?...
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One Lord. One Faith. One Baptism.
(Column ~ 08/04/18)
Five years ago, I had the opportunity to travel to Romania. I was there to teach a class to pastors and we were attending worship at the Providence Baptist Church in the heart of Bucharest. It was a lovely congregation full of energy and vitality. At the front of the sanctuary were these words: "Un Domn, O Credinta, Un Botez." Those words are Romanian for: "One Lord. ...
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Drying flowers
(Community ~ 08/04/18)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- "The delicate, ephemeral nature of flowers adds to our appreciation of them," said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. "Many literally are 'here today, gone tomorrow.'" To prolong their useful life and your enjoyment of them well beyond the normal growing season, try drying flowers...
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Recipe grab bag: no theme, just lots of interesting recipes to try
(Column ~ 08/04/18)
In cooking we add a little of this and a pinch of that, and somehow end up with a delicious meal. Like in cooking, today's column is a little of this and a little of that and just a hodgepodge of various recipes that I just think sound interesting. Instead of having a theme for the week, it is a wide variety of new recipes to try...
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Suicide bombing at mosque in Afghanistan kills at least 29
(International News ~ 08/04/18)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing at least 29 people and wounding another 81, officials said. Abdullah Asrat, spokesman for the governor of Paktia province, said the heavily armed attackers, disguised in the all-encompassing burkas worn by conservative Afghan women, opened fire on private security guards outside the mosque in the city of Gardez. ...
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Astronauts picked for SpaceX, Boeing test flights
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has assigned the astronauts who will ride the first commercial capsules into orbit next year and bring crew launches back to the U.S. SpaceX and Boeing are shooting for a test flight of their capsules by the end of this year or early next, with the first crews flying from Cape Canaveral, Florida, by next spring or summer...
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Judge: Reuniting families is government's burden
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge Friday said the Trump administration was solely responsible for reuniting hundreds of children who remain separated from their parents after being split at the U.S.-Mexico border, puncturing a government plan putting the onus on the American Civil Liberties Union...
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Income was disguised to help Manafort, tax preparer says
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- One of Paul Manafort's tax preparers admitted Friday she helped disguise $900,000 in foreign income as a loan in order to reduce the former Trump campaign chairman's tax burden. The testimony of tax preparer Cindy Laporta came as prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office focused on the heart of their financial fraud case against Manafort, with jurors hearing testimony he inflated his business income by millions of dollars and concealed foreign bank accounts he was using to buy luxury items and pay personal expenses.. ...
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Supreme Court nominee elusive on abortion
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
Twice in the past year, Brett Kavanaugh offered glimpses of his position on abortion strongly suggesting he would vote to support restrictions if confirmed to the Supreme Court. One was in a dissent in the case of a 17-year-old migrant seeking to terminate her pregnancy. The other was a speech before a conservative group in which he spoke admiringly of Justice William Rehnquist's dissent in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case establishing a woman's right to abortion...
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Campaigns on their own as cyber threats roil midterms
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
NEW YORK -- Kamala Harris has been the target of social media misinformation campaigns since she became a U.S. senator. Every month for the last 18 months, her office has discovered on average between three and five fake Facebook profiles pretending to be hers, according to a Harris aide. It's unclear who creates the pages, which are often designed to mislead American voters about the ambitious Democratic senator's policies and positions...
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Florida lobster fishermen fear trade war amid Irma recovery
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
KEY LARGO, Fla. -- Just as they prepare for a crucial harvest in the wake of Hurricane Irma, lobster fisherman in the Florida Keys fear a trade war with China could undermine storm recovery in the island chain. Lobsters are among the seafood and other U.S. goods hit by Chinese tariffs in early July, after the Trump administration put tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of Chinese goods...
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U.S. businesses cast wider net as jobless rate hits 3.9 percent
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
WASHINGTON -- With the U.S. unemployment rate near a five-decade low, companies are looking harder for employees, and in some cases finding them right at their own workplaces. Businesses are adding more hours for part-timers and converting contractors to full-time workers. Americans with fewer skills are also benefiting from hiring managers' desperation: The unemployment rate for those without a high-school degree fell to a record low in July...
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China announces $60B in tariffs on U.S.-made goods
(International News ~ 08/04/18)
BEIJING -- China on Friday announced a $60 billion list of U.S. goods including coffee, honey and industrial chemicals for retaliation if Washington goes ahead with its latest tariff threat. The Finance Ministry accused the Trump administration of damaging the global economy after it proposed increasing duties on $200 billion of Chinese goods in the second round of a dispute over technology...
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Police: Suspect in doctor's death killed self
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
HOUSTON -- A man accused of killing one of former President George H.W. Bush's doctors fatally shot himself during a confrontation Friday morning with authorities in Houston, the city's police chief said. Joseph James Pappas, 62, was accused of shooting Dr. ...
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Las Vegas gunman became unstable, didn't raise suspicions
(National News ~ 08/04/18)
LAS VEGAS -- In the months before unleashing a hail of bullets into a Las Vegas concert crowd, Stephen Paddock burned through more than $1.5 million, became obsessed with guns and increasingly unstable and distanced himself from his girlfriend and family, according to an investigative report released Friday...
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Area police report 8-5-18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/04/18)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Antwon Beasley, 46, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for driving on a revoked license. n Ymani Brown, 26, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Miner, Missouri, warrant...
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Road work 8/5/18
(Local News ~ 08/04/18)
U.S. 61/Highway 34 in Cape County reduced for bridge work U.S. 61/Highway 34 in Cape Girardeau County, between Highway 25 and Kent Street, will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance. A MoDOT news release says periodic lane reductions will be necessary on Highway 25 and Highway 72 as crews complete the repairs. The work will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, Monday through Thursday...
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Area fire report 8-5-18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/04/18)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Thursday n Medical assists were made at 1:24 a.m. on Lexington Avenue, 11:02 a.m. on South Kingshighway, 12:31 p.m. on South Mount Auburn Road, 1:34 p.m. on Independence Street, 1:36 p.m. on Village Drive, 2:21 p.m. on South Ellis Street and 9:12 p.m. on Stoddard Street...
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Joyce Taylor
(Obituary ~ 08/04/18)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Joyce Loretta LaRose Cox Taylor, 83, of Perryville died Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Bethlehem Baptist Cemetery in Crosstown, Missouri...
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John Schwartz
(Obituary ~ 08/04/18)
John F. Schwartz, 74, of Cape Girardeau passed away Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Southeast Hospital. He was born Feb. 11, 1944, in Cape Girardeau to the late John and Johanna Backfish Schwartz. John and Neisha A. Castleman were married in June 1964. She survives...
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Dorothy Oehl
(Obituary ~ 08/04/18)
Dorothy Lee Simpher Oehl, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at Southeast Hospital. She was born Feb. 20, 1925, in Cape Girardeau to the late Albert J. and Nellie E. Ramsey Simpher. She and Howard N. Oehl were married Feb. 26, 1949, at Friedheim. He preceded her in death May 20, 2002...
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Ella Dowd
(Obituary ~ 08/04/18)
** Ella Dowd CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Ella Nora Dowd, 88, of Chaffee died Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.
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Sue Ade
(Obituary ~ 08/04/18)
Carlyn S. "Sue" Ade, 90, of Chesterfield, Missouri, passed away Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. Sue was a successful executive secretary and a multimillion-dollar real estate agent in St. Louis. Surviving is her husband of 50 years, Bill Ade of Chesterfield; two bonus daughters, Nancy Ade of St. Louis and Kristine (Jim) Laws and children Courtney, Kate and David, all of Texas; nephew, Patrick McCauley of Florida; and niece, Lynne McCauley of Jackson...
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Truth, grace and the benefit of local media
(Column ~ 08/04/18)
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has a new book out titled "The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President." The book is a memoir, but shares Spicer's approach of communicating to the media. Spicer operated differently than many of his predecessors. In the book he shared several examples of how he shook up the daily press briefing...
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Judge sets June date for Pamela Hupp murder trial
(State News ~ 08/04/18)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A suburban St. Louis woman accused of fatally shooting a man to divert attention from the investigation of another killing will go to trial in June. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported a judge Friday set the trial date for Pamela Hupp of O’Fallon. ...
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Missouri brewery removes Hindu deity from beer artwork
(State News ~ 08/04/18)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Missouri brewery has apologized and removed artwork depicting a Hindu deity from one of its beers. Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, had objected when Springfield Brewing Co. introduced an IPA beer label showing Hindu deity Lord Ganesha holding a drink. ...
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Officials: No incentive for false seat-belt tickets
(State News ~ 08/04/18)
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Law enforcement officials in Kansas and Missouri have no reason to issue bogus traffic tickets for not wearing a seat belt instead of citing motorists for more serious traffic infractions, according to transportation officials in both states...
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Former corrections officers seek to block execution of Russell Bucklew
(State News ~ 08/04/18)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Nearly two dozen former corrections officers from across the country have filed a court brief in support of a Missouri death row inmate's claim his medical condition could cause an unconstitutionally cruel execution. Russell Bucklew was sentenced to death in 1997 for killing a Southeast Missouri man. ...
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The Cape Girardeau Public Library Youth Summer Reading Program winners.
(Submitted Story ~ 08/04/18)
The Cape Girardeau Public Library would like to thank all of the children and teens who participated in the 2018 Summer Reading Program. Bike donations were generously donated by the Friends of the Library Foundation, UCT Council 534, VFW Post 3838, and VFW Post 3838 Auxiliary...
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Surprise Lily Season
(Submitted Story ~ 08/04/18)
It’s this time of year when the Surprise Lilies start bursting out all over the region. Hope you take the time to enjoy them. They smell good too.
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Prayer 8/5/18
(Prayer ~ 08/04/18)
O Lord Jesus, thank you that in you we find strength. Amen.
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