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Business opportunities with MoDOT subject of workshop held in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 11/09/18)
The Missouri Department of Transportation primarily handles highway construction, but has other needs as well, and looks for subcontractors to perform those functions. That was the subject of a workshop Thursday afternoon at the Economic and Business Engagement Center at 920 Broadway in Cape Girardeau...
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Cape becomes Purple Heart City to show support of wounded veterans
(Local News ~ 11/09/18)
Cape Girardeau is now officially a Purple Heart City thanks to a proclamation delivered during Wednesday’s city council meeting. The proclamation marks an agreement between the city and the Missouri Military Order of the Purple Heart, a veterans advocacy organization based in Springfield, Missouri...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/09/18)
Today is Friday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2018. There are 52 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom or deliberate persecution that became known as "Kristallnacht."...
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Be careful as another deer hunting season begins
(Editorial ~ 11/09/18)
This weekend is a holiday for some — the opening of firearms deer season for Missouri. This means an extra dose of safety is in order. The hunting season is timed such that it coincides with mating season, meaning deer are on the move. For drivers, that means extra caution is needed on the roads and highways at all times, but particularly around dawn and dusk hours, when deer are their most active. ...
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VintageNOW 9 a success; thanks to community
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/09/18)
On behalf of the clients, staff and board of directors of the Safe House for Women, I would like to convey my sincere appreciation and gratitude for our community’s tremendous support of VintageNOW 9: The Big Show held Oct. 20 at the Show Me Center. The success of VintageNOW is credited to our generous and supportive sponsors and donors, our amazing and dedicated volunteers, and to the event-planning committee, a group of remarkable individuals who spent countless hours in planning and organizing the event. ...
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Google reforms sexual misconduct rules
(National News ~ 11/09/18)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is promising to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week after high-paid engineers and others walked out in protest over its male-dominated culture. CEO Sundar Pichai spelled out the concessions in an email sent Thursday to Google employees. ...
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Central American migrants in Mexico want buses to U.S. border
(International News ~ 11/09/18)
MEXICO CITY -- Central American migrants in a caravan that has stopped in Mexico City demanded buses Thursday to take them to the U.S. border, saying it is too cold and dangerous to continue walking and hitchhiking. Mexico City authorities say of the 4,841 registered migrants receiving shelter in a sports complex, 1,726 are younger than 18, including 310 children younger than 5...
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Victory aside, Pelosi's return as House speaker not a given
(National News ~ 11/09/18)
WASHINGTON -- Vilified by Republicans on the campaign trail, Nancy Pelosi emerged as President Donald Trump's preferred choice to become speaker of the House, arriving on Capitol Hill with an air of inevitability after leading her party back to the majority...
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Indictments? Final report? White House braces for Mueller
(National News ~ 11/09/18)
WASHINGTON -- The White House is bracing for the probe of Donald Trump's presidential campaign to fire up again. Trump's advisers are privately expressing worries the special counsel, who's been out of the news for the past month, has been stealthily compiling information and soon could issue new indictments or a damning final report...
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Gunman kills 12 at popular Southern California bar before taking own life
(National News ~ 11/09/18)
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Terrified patrons hurled barstools through windows to escape or threw their bodies protectively on top of friends as a Marine combat veteran killed 12 people at a country music bar in an attack that added Thousand Oaks to the tragic roster of American cities traumatized by mass shootings...
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'Brady Bunch' cast members reunite at TV family home
(Entertainment ~ 11/09/18)
LOS ANGELES -- Marcia, Marcia, Marcia was in the house. Six cast members of "The Brady Bunch" gathered Thursday in Los Angeles at the home that was featured in the opening and closing of the sitcom. HGTV purchased the home in the Studio City neighborhood in Los Angeles for its new series, "A Very Brady Renovation."...
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Out of the past: Nov. 9
(Out of the Past ~ 11/09/18)
Charles I. Rankin, director of the Midwest Desegregation Assistance Center in Manhattan, Kansas, told a Cape Girardeau Board of Education meeting Monday that May Greene School isn't in compliance with the 14th Amendment; he said, "Basically, you have taken a group of citizens and gerrymandered them into a situation that makes them racially identifiable."...
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Wilson Sikes
(Obituary ~ 11/09/18)
MORLEY, Mo. -- Wilson Davis Sikes, 86, of Morley, formerly of Paducah, Kentucky, died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. He was born Aug. 2, 1932, in Livingston County, Kentucky, to Woodrow Wilson and Ruby Marie Wadley Sikes. He married Coy O. Phillips on Nov. 14, 2004...
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Donald James
(Obituary ~ 11/09/18)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Donald James, 73, of Advance passed away Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Donald was born Dec. 22, 1944, at Advance, the son of Virgil and Flossie Morlan Loughary. Don began working at the Lutesville Pallet Co., and moved on to working for Shell Feed and Supply in Lutesville, Missouri. ...
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Bobby Carlton
(Obituary ~ 11/09/18)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Bobby "Buck" Kenneth Carlton, 86, of Advance passed away Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 26, 1932, at Toga, Missouri, the son of Austin and Christina Livers Carlton. Buck worked for Operators Engineer Local No. ...
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Gene Bollinger
(Obituary ~ 11/09/18)
OVERLAND, Mo. -- Gene Raymond Bollinger, 79, of Overland passed away Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. He was born Nov. 12, 1938, in Sedgewickville, Missouri, son of Odie Rutherford and Wilma Pauline Seabaugh Bollinger. He married Judith Mae Meller on Jan. 31, 1970...
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Tim Barnes
(Obituary ~ 11/09/18)
Perry Moore "Tim" Barnes, 70, of Jackson died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, at Senior Life Style in Sikeston, Missouri. Tim will be privately laid to rest with military rites at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Cremation was accorded by McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 11/9/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/09/18)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Wednesday n Medical assists were made at 12:39 p.m. on Boutin Drive, 4:13 p.m. on North Frederick Street and 7:46 p.m. on good Hope Street. n At 12:40 a.m., motor-vehicle accident, with injuries, on Broadway...
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Cape Girardeau police report 11/8/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/09/18)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of assault at 920 Clark Ave. n Timothy Jacob Lieberman, 37, 3117 Themis St., was arrested at 2145 Independence St. on an Alexander, Illinois, County warrant...
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Jefferson City diocese sexual abuse inquiry names 33 priests, brothers
(State News ~ 11/09/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Thirty-three priests or religious brothers in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, have been "credibly accused" and/or removed from the ministry over sexual abuse of minors, the bishop of the central Missouri diocese said Thursday...
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Captain charged in duck boat tragedy
(State News ~ 11/09/18)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The captain of a tourist boat that sank in southwest Missouri and killed 17 people, including nine members of an Indiana family, didn't tell passengers to put on flotation devices or prepare them to abandon ship even after waves crashed into the boat during a severe storm, according to an indictment released Thursday...
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Passing out pasta for Spaghetti Day
(Local News ~ 11/09/18)
Doyle Privett of Jackson goes through the serving line during the annual Spaghetti Day on Thursday at the Arena Building in Cape Girardeau. The event is presented by the Parks & Recreation Foundation.
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Local artist, SEMO Museum catalyst James Parker dies at 93
(Local News ~ 11/09/18)
The Cape Girardeau arts community lost a leading patron this week in James Parker, an accomplished multimedia artist and Otto F. Dingeldein award winner, who died at 93. Parker was the driving force behind the creation of the SEMO University Museum, which later became the Crisp Museum at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus...
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Prayer 11/9/8
(Prayer ~ 11/09/18)
Lord God, blessed be your name, the name above all names. Amen.
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Speak Out 11/9/8
(Speak Out ~ 11/09/18)
The Wall Street Journal reports that 61 state legislative chambers are still in GOP control, compared with 37 for the Democrats. Before Tuesday’s voting, it was 66 chambers in Republican control and 31 with Democrats in power, with one other where the parties were tied. Nebraska’s unicameral legislature is considered nonpartisan, but Republicans are the dominant party there. There was no Blue Wave...
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Birth 11/9/18
(Births ~ 11/09/18)
Son to Joseph Wood and Ashley Trout of Jackson, Southeast Hospital, 11:31 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Name, Kaysen Thomas. Weight, 7 pounds, 2 ounces. Second son. Trout is the daughter of Bernie Bechtold and Marianne Bechtold of Jackson. She works at Mobil in Jackson. Wood is the son of Gary Wood of Chaffee, Missouri, and Robbin Easley of Rockview, Missouri. He is employed by B-Mac...
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Weekend Outlook: Lights, camera, America!
(Entertainment ~ 11/09/18)
We're beginning this Veterans Day weekend with some original art by students at the Fault Line Film Festival main gala and awards ceremony on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. And don't miss the River City Players Community Theatre performance of "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play," through Sunday at Port Cape Girardeau...
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Culture & Entertainment Notebook: Marine makes homemade American flags
(Entertainment ~ 11/09/18)
United States Marine Corps veteran and self-taught woodworker Robert E. Pinkley Jr. of St. Genevieve, Missouri, owns True Allegiance Flag Co., a one-person dream built on the passion of "giving back" in the form of handcrafted, wooden American flags...
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4-H members learn about college while participating in a Fashion Revue
(Submitted Story ~ 11/09/18)
Anna Ahrens, Maggie Howe, and Reagan Howe from Cape Girardeau County were one of 76 Missouri youth that participated in a clothing construction and consumerism contest during State 4-H Fashion Review on September 22 on the University of Missouri campus...
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Youth Find Their Voice at State 4-H Public Speaking Contest
(Submitted Story ~ 11/09/18)
Anna Ahrens, Asher Ahrens, Kasen Ahrens, Adam Koenig, Samuel Koenig, and Lyla Sands from Cape Girardeau County 4-H competed alongside 84 other youth from 34 counties at the State 4-H Public Speaking Contest on September 29, 2018 on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. ...
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