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Jackson debris cleanup wrapping up
(Local News ~ 07/06/19)
Storm debris cleanup in Jackson will wrap up in the coming week, according to city officials who say most of the trees and limbs downed by the severe storm June 21 have now been removed from yards and streets throughout the city. Rodney Bollinger, Jackson’s director of administrative services, said city crews have made “excellent progress” in the removal of trees and branches damaged by the brief storm that brought heavy rain and winds in excess of 60 mph...
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River expected to fall below 40 feet; Illinois towns looking for sandbagging help
(Local News ~ 07/06/19)
The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau is predicted to fall below 40 feet Monday for the first time in more than two months. The river gauge reading at Cape Girardeau on Friday afternoon was 41.2 feet. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district office in St. Louis, the river is expected to fall to about 39.9 feet by Monday evening, barring any substantial rainfall along the river basin in the next 48 hours...
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Charleston, Mo.-based farming operation receives nearly $2.8 million in tariff bailout money; most in nation
(Local News ~ 07/06/19)
A large farming operation based in Charleston, Missouri, collected more than $2.78 million from the Trump administration’s farm bailout program, making it the biggest beneficiary of the federal payments nationwide. The payments, made between September 2018 and April of this year, were part of a $12 billion aid package to provide a financial safety net for farmers hurt by the ongoing trade war with China. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/06/19)
Today is Saturday, July 6, the 187th day of 2019. There are 178 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On July 6, 1885, French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies...
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Out of the past: July 6
(Out of the Past ~ 07/06/19)
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Christopher John McDonald is looking forward to duty on the USS Squall, a Navy coastal patrol boat that was christened in St. Louis Monday; the Squall, McDonald and a number of crewmen were in Cape Girardeau yesterday, where they welcomed more than 500 visitors to the ship...
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Bevins - 50 years
(Anniversary ~ 07/06/19)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Jim and Kathy Blevins of Chaffee will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, July 6. A vow renewal and reception will be held at Oran Baptist Church. Blevins and the former Kathy Phillips were married July 5, 1969, at Oran Baptist Church. The Rev. Kenneth Threet performed the ceremony...
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Groshong - 55 years
(Anniversary ~ 07/06/19)
Charles M. and Marilyn Groshong of Cape Girardeau will celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary on July 11. They were married July 11, 1964, at St. Ferdinand Catholic Church in Chicago. Monsignor Matthew Canning performed the ceremony. Judy Krempel was maid of honor and Dennis Romanczyk was best man...
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'Sunshine in a can'
(Community ~ 07/06/19)
If ever a color were to be associated with an emotion (OK, blue, we see you), it's got to be yellow. Upbeat and welcoming, it's a hue that's easy to love. But it can be tricky to use when decorating. Bold yellows are eye-catching, but color experts advise caution. Unless you're prepared to live with bright yellow's peppy assertiveness, softer, creamier versions might be more prudent choices...
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Balls, notable people and events at the St. Charles Hotel
(Column ~ 07/06/19)
Union soldiers in faded blue uniforms chose their ladies for a dance at the popular St. Charles Hotel. It was a celebratory cotillion held on April 26, 1863, following the Union success during the Battle of Cape Girardeau. Hoop skirts twirled to tunes such as "Soldiers Joy," "Lancers Quadrille" and "Money Mush Reel."...
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July yard of the month
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/06/19)
Submitted by Nancy Bahn The Ramblewood Garden Club awarded the July Yard of the Month to Steve and Jackie Griffith of 213 Windwood Lake Drive. The Griffiths maintain two acres of lush lawn landscaped with mature oak, pine, dogwood and redbud trees. Their front retaining wall supports low growing rug junipers and borders of lirope, with yellow calla lilies and red burning bushes planted on either side of their driveway entrance. ...
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Adopt kittens 7-7-19
(Community ~ 07/06/19)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary These sweet black male and female kittens are waiting for a loving home! They are available for adoption at Safe Harbor; call (573) 243-9823.
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Senior Center menus for July 8-12, 2019
(Community ~ 07/06/19)
Monday: Chicken and rice or Mexican casserole, California-blend veggies, sweet peas, whole-grain bread slice and mixed fruit or ice cream and cookie. Tuesday: Sweet and sour meatballs or chicken Parmesan, buttered egg noodles, corn O'Brien, Brussels sprouts, whole-grain garlic bread and apple crisp or cherry delight...
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Ants milking aphids
(Column ~ 07/06/19)
Aphids are very small common insects. They have tiny, sharp, pointed mouths which they stick into the skin of tender stems and new-growth leaves of specific plants. Once an aphid's mouth is stuck in place on a plant, the aphid will stay there for many days...
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Does this bug you?
(Column ~ 07/06/19)
Years ago I believe the ministerial here in Scott City decided to clean up the right of way through town. Every so often we would meet as a body of believers and pick up trash. Didn't take but half a day at the most, and it was enjoyable. When one begins to pick up trash along some road, it makes one more aware of others who show no regard to dumping trash or chucking trash out the windows...
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Learning 7-7-19
(Community ~ 07/06/19)
Ross Essner of Benton, Missouri, is participating in the MFA Incorporated's Ag Expericne Program as a retail intern in Southeast Missouri. Essner is a student at Southeast Missouri State University. The internship program is sponsored by MFA Incorporated, a reginal farm supply and marketing cooperative serving 45,000 active farmers and ranchers in Missouri and adjacent states. Students are hired by MFA into a professional or technical position that correlates with their area of study...
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Generosity 7-7-19
(Community ~ 07/06/19)
JAY WOLZ ~ jwolz@semissourian.com About 900 pairs of shoes are being shipped to school children in Haiti thanks to the efforts of the Cape Girardeau Zonta club, Nearly Perfect Shoes, Ruopp Family Dentistry and people who donated to the project. According to Zonta member Andrea Sachse, children are required by the Haitian government to wear black dress shoes in order to attend school. ...
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We need women to serve as pastors and leaders
(Column ~ 07/06/19)
The Houston Chronicle recently featured a heartbreaking series of articles that catalogued decades of abuse and cover-up by Southern Baptist pastors across the country. In the past two decades there have been over 700 instances of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches. And we have heard stories that have plagued the Roman Catholic church of abusive priests who have been protected by their superiors rather than prosecuted for their crimes...
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Suffering is good (at least it can be)
(Column ~ 07/06/19)
Anything worth having is worth struggling for. Not the message most want to hear, and even fewer will embrace. Yet the good that comes from struggle is not just a motivation poster hung in the entryway of the local gym. The good from struggle, the good that emerges from suffering is a biblical principle that will propel your faith in ways you cannot imagine. Hardships should not be avoided but embraced...
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Hollywood doesn't want to film in pro-life states. More reason to refuse their handouts.
(Column ~ 07/06/19)
It should come as no surprise to us in rural Missouri, and around the state, that Hollywood elites continue to look down their noses at our values and beliefs. The same industry that is plagued by sex predators, violence, and an anti-Christian mentality wants to now scold its viewers for their pro-life beliefs. Hollywood in recent years has been focused on pushing a...
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Christie's set to auction King Tut statue
(Entertainment ~ 07/06/19)
LONDON -- Christie's is going forward with the auction of a 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun despite protests from the Egyptian government. The sale could generate more than $5 million. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has demanded the auction house provide documents proving the statue's ownership and said Egypt holds rights to the piece based on its current and previous laws...
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Maduro shows military might on Independence Day
(International News ~ 07/06/19)
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro oversaw a grand military parade to mark the country's independence day Friday, reveling in his might as commander in chief as the embattled socialist leader comes under mounting criticism for using brutal tactics to crush his opponents...
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Russia outraged by case of long-abused sisters
(International News ~ 07/06/19)
MOSCOW -- One evening last summer, Mikhail Khachaturyan decided his living room wasn't tidy enough, so he summoned his three teenage daughters one by one and doused each with pepper spray. Such violence and abuse was not unusual in the Khachaturyan household, according to court records. ...
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Military, civilians agree to share power in Sudan
(International News ~ 07/06/19)
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan's ruling military council and its pro-democracy movement both welcomed a new power-sharing agreement reached Friday, raising hopes the deal would end a three-month political crisis paralyzing the country and leading to scores of deaths following a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters by authorities...
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Former Guard commander urges UK tanker seizure
(International News ~ 07/06/19)
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran should consider seizing a British oil tanker in response to authorities detaining an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar, a former leader of the Islamic Republic's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Friday. The striking comment by Mohsen Rezaei came amid heightened tensions over Iran's unraveling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, an accord the U.S. withdrew from last year...
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At Tehran symphony, music lovers seek escape from reality
(International News ~ 07/06/19)
TEHRAN, Iran -- Aficionados of Western classical music have carved out a niche for themselves in Iran, where cultural expression remains tightly controlled by strict rules imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. And perhaps surprisingly, musicians in their 20s and 30s perform for overwhelmingly young audiences...
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Utah teachers practice responding to shootings
(State News ~ 07/06/19)
SPANISH FORK, Utah -- Nancy Miramontes had 30 seconds to find the gunman. The Utah school psychologist weaved through a maze of dusty halls before spotting him in the corner of a classroom, holding a gun to a student's head. She took a deep breath and fired three shots, the first time she's ever used a gun. One bullet pierced the shooter's forehead...
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California towns survey quake damage amid more aftershocks
(National News ~ 07/06/19)
LOS ANGELES -- Communities in the Mojave Desert tallied damage and made emergency repairs to cracked roads and broken pipes Friday as aftershocks from Southern California's largest earthquake in 20 years kept rumbling. The small town of Ridgecrest, close to the epicenter, assessed damage after several fires and multiple injuries were blamed on the magnitude 6.4 quake. A shelter drew 28 people overnight, but not all of them slept inside amid the shaking...
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W.Va. coal billionaire Cline, daughter killed in helicopter crash
(National News ~ 07/06/19)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Coal tycoon Chris Cline, who worked his way out of West Virginia's underground mines to amass a fortune and become a major Republican donor, has died in a helicopter crash outside a string of islands he owned in the Bahamas. Cline and his 22-year-old daughter, Kameron, were on board the aircraft with five others when it went down Thursday, a spokesman for his attorney Brian Glasser said Friday...
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Police: Security officer's warning caused stampede
(National News ~ 07/06/19)
CHICAGO -- A stampede at a Fourth of July fireworks display injuring more than a dozen people at Chicago's Navy Pier started when a private security officer shouted for bystanders to take cover, police said Friday. Chicago police spokeswoman Kellie Bartoli said "approximately 13" people who fell or were trampled during the ruckus were hospitalized with minor injuries. The rush of people occurred shortly after a brawl resulted in at least two stabbings...
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San Francisco finds more homeless living in vehicles
(National News ~ 07/06/19)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Most homeless people in San Francisco sleep in parks and on sidewalks but a growing number are living out of their vehicles, helping fuel an overall 17% increase in homelessness in the last two years, according to a report released Friday...
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Reminder of hurricane may soon come down
(Community ~ 07/06/19)
NEW ORLEANS -- The Zydeco Scream roller coaster stands motionless, and so does the Big Easy Ferris Wheel. Scampering rabbits, slithering snakes and lurking alligators are the only visitors to the abandoned Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans. Once it resounded with children's laughter and the shrieks of passengers on the thrill rides...
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Utah police say body of slain student recovered in canyon miles from home
(State News ~ 07/06/19)
SALT LAKE CITY -- The body of a slain college student has been recovered in a Utah canyon about 85 miles away from a backyard in Salt Lake City where other remains were found last week, police said Friday. The disclosure came in the case involving 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck...
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Feds to pursue citizenship question on census but path unclear
(National News ~ 07/06/19)
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department said Friday it will press its search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, hours after President Donald Trump said he is "very seriously" considering an executive order to get the question on the form...
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Patricia Schlick
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
Patricia Jean Webb Schlick, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, July 5, 2019, at Ratliff Care Center. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral will follow at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Allan Saunders officiating. Burial will be at St. Mary's Cemetery...
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Allene Reaves
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
Allene Reaves, 93, formerly of Jackson, passed away peacefully Thursday, July 4, 2019, in Gordonville at the home of her nephew and his wife, Scott and Rebecca Wright, where she resided the last five years. She was born Sept. 6, 1925, in Cape Girardeau County, daughter of Elmer and Anna Nitsch Wright. She and Harry David Reaves II were married for more than 45 years. A son was born to their union, Harry "David" Reaves III...
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Robert Nowell
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Robert Lee Nowell was born July 29, 1924, in Portageville to Allie Estes Beaton and Columbus Nowell. He passed away Tuesday, July 2, 2019, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 94 years, 11 months and 4 days...
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Dr. Thomas H. Kiehne
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
Dr. Thomas Howard Kiehne, 74, of Jackson died Thursday, July 4, 2019. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center and from 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Lutheran Church. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with the Rev. Eric Longman officiating. Burial will be in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Altenburg, Missouri...
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JoAnn Kesterson
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
JoAnn Kesterson, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, July 3, 2019, at Lutheran Home. She was born Feb. 10, 1933, in New Madrid County, Missouri, to Howard R. and Mabel Gladys Riehn Followell. She and Paul R. Kesterson Sr. were married May 19, 1951, at Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death June 13, 2018...
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Helen Little
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
Helen B. Little, 97, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, July 3, 2019, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. She was born Oct. 3, 1921, in Millwood, Missouri, to Russell and Opal Mudd Clem. She and John Little were married July 19, 1941, at Millwood. He preceded her in death in 1985...
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Jane Landgraf
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
Jane E. Landgraf, 64, of Jackson passed away unexpectedly Monday, July 1, 2019, at her home. She was born June 12, 1955, in Sikeston, Missouri, to Bernard and Betty Hill Johnson. She was baptized and confirmed at Concordia Lutheran Church in Sikeston. Jane and Robert Landgraf Jr. were married Oct. 4, 1975, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pocahontas. Five children were born to their union, Carolinae, Robert III, Nicole, Elijah and Amanda...
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Margaret Husband
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
Margaret Louise Watson Husband, youngest daughter of Henry A. and Melissa D. White Watson, passed away Sunday, June 30, 2019. She was 82 years old. She was born Nov. 11, 1936, in Chaffee, Missouri. On May 19, 1969, she married Roy A. Husband Jr. They were married 47 years, when he passed Sept. 3, 2016...
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Betty Dixon
(Obituary ~ 07/06/19)
DEXTER, Mo. -- Betty Ruth Evans Dixon, daughter of the late Louis Wiley and Laura Geneva Davis Evans of Bloomfield, Missouri, was born Sept. 20, 1941, in Dexter. She entered eternal life with our God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. She passed at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis at the age of 77, surrounded by her family, held with love and lifted in prayer as she ascended to Heaven...
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Missouri wants to raise hunting, fishing fees
(State News ~ 07/06/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri agency is gathering public feedback on a proposed hike in hunting and fishing fees. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday the Conservation Department wants to raise nonresident deer hunting licenses from $225 to $265 starting next year...
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U.S. adds solid 224,000 jobs, making Fed rate cut less certain
(National News ~ 07/06/19)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. employers sharply stepped up their hiring in June, adding a robust 224,000 jobs, an indication of the economy's durability after more than a decade of expansion. The strength of the jobs report the government issued Friday could complicate a decision for the Federal Reserve late this month on whether to cut interest rates to help support the economy. ...
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Police report 7/7/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/06/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Charles M. Garmon Jr., 29, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of unlawful use of a weapon. n Kenneth L. Carter, 48, address unknown, was arrested on suspicion of burglary in the 1400 block of William Street...
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Out of the past: July 7
(Out of the Past ~ 07/06/19)
A group of 150 high school students, attending the Missouri Freedom Forum in Cape Girardeau, yesterday heard of John Plater's World War II experience as a prisoner of the Japanese; relating Plater's story of hardship on the Bataan Death March was Alvin Rohrs, president and chief executive officer of Students in Free Enterprise Inc. of Springfield, Missouri...
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Prayer 7/7/19
(Prayer ~ 07/06/19)
O Heavenly Father, we're comforted by your promise that your words will not pass away. Amen.
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Southeast Spring graduates with academic distinction
(Local News ~ 07/06/19)
Southeast Missouri State University spring 2019 students who graduated cum laude, magna cum laude and summa cum laude and students who received master's degrees and specialist degrees. Brandi Bishop graduated with a Master of Arts with a major in elementary education...
- Captured on Film (Community ~ 07/06/19)
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Blair Moran exemplifies the spirit of America
(Column ~ 07/06/19)
Thursday evening's Fourth of July program in Cape Girardeau was a touching tribute to America filled with patriotic tunes from the municipal band, recognition of our local veterans and the Southeast Missourian's Spirit of America award presentation...
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