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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/23/18)
Today is Sunday, Sept. 23, the 266th day of 2018. There are 99 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 23, 1955, a jury in Sumner, Mississippi, acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of murdering black teenager Emmett Till. (The two men later admitted to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.)...
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Out of the past: Sept. 23
(Out of the Past ~ 09/23/18)
Cape Girardeau County Emergency Operations Center director Brian Miller says more than 1 million sandbags were used around the county during the flood of 1993 -- nearly half of them at Dutchtown; now that the river is receding, many of the sandbags will be used to fill ditches; while some farmers have collected bags at Cape Girardeau to use in filling gullies, most will be taken to the city landfill for use as daily cover...
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