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Kelly welcomes new school district superintendent
(Local News ~ 07/17/19)
BENTON, Mo. — Nearly 100 people turned out to meet Scott County “Kelly” School District’s new superintendent during a welcome reception Sunday in the high school gymnasium. After he was introduced by Kelly School Board president David Brashear, Kevin Cogdill spoke briefly to the crowd, which included parents, current and former students, faculty and staff members and community members. ...
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Rainy-day swim Tuesday in Cape
(Local News ~ 07/17/19)
After spending the morning at vacation Bible school, Nicholas Elfrink, center, leaps into the pool while swimming with John Paul Barinque, right, and Declan Vowels, left, as an afternoon rain shower begins to fall Tuesday in Cape Girardeau.
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Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Lucero to headline 55-band Fawkesfest19 in Cape
(Local News ~ 07/17/19)
Homegrown multi-day music festival Fawkesfest19 is joining forces with American rock band The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in support of the Honorable Young Men Club and Safe House for Women on Aug. 30 and 31 in downtown Cape Girardeau. Justin Aden, owner of local promotion company Fawkes Entertainment and former owner of Mixing 10, said this year’s event will be two days and four venues compared to last year’s five-day and four-venue schedule...
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Former Cape councilman John Voss to run for House seat, setting up GOP battle
(Local News ~ 07/17/19)
Former Cape Girardeau City Council member John Voss will run for a state House seat, setting up a Republican primary battle next year with state Sen. Wayne Wallingford. Voss announced his candidacy Tuesday in an emailed news release. Voss said his lack of time in Jefferson City will be an asset, not a hurdle in his campaign. ...
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Trump is wrong to constantly attack others
(Column ~ 07/17/19)
At lunch the other day, a good friend of mine explained he stays away from the national news, and he's all the happier for it. He no longer watches the cable news channels, and he's deleted all but one of the national newspaper apps he used to have on his phone. I totally understand...
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Faith compels new facility for homeless in Cape
(Local News ~ 07/17/19)
On any given night, the Rev. Renita Green says there are a dozen or so homeless men living on the streets in Cape Girardeau. “When I say ‘on the street,’ I mean sometimes they tent, sometimes they sleep in bathrooms, some wedge themselves into boarded-up homes and some sleep in abandoned buildings,” she said. “They sleep under the bridge, under the overpass and in vehicles.” ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/17/19)
Today is Wednesday, July 17, the 198th day of 2019. There are 167 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, New York, shortly after departing John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board...
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Feral hogs proposal is important
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/17/19)
Missouri has a big problem with feral hogs. They damage natural resources, destroy crops and pastures, carry disease, and threaten wildlife and livestock. That will get worse unless we do something different. The L-A-D Foundation and Pioneer Forest own and manage land in several counties in southeast Missouri and we have struggled using both hunting and trapping for the past decade, so we are now focusing on trapping entire packs and closing our lands to hog hunting. ...
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Mildred Wilhite
(Obituary ~ 07/17/19)
ROCKVIEW, Mo. -- Mildred Mattlene Wilhite, daughter of the late Robert T. and Cecile McDaniel Young, was born Jan. 23, 1927, in McGee, Missouri, and departed this life Sunday, July 14, 2019, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau at the age of 92 years...
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Robin McDonald
(Obituary ~ 07/17/19)
Robin J. McDonald, 65, of Scott City went home to be with her Lord on Monday, July 15, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born June 9, 1954, in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, to William T. and Leona Stanton Forbes. She and Patrick McDonald were married March 17, 1985, at Lansdale. He preceded her in death Feb, 6, 2013...
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Trump's new asylum rules go into effect, and opponents sue
(International News ~ 07/17/19)
TIJUANA, Mexico -- Hundreds of immigrants showed up at border crossings Tuesday in hopes of getting into the U.S. but faced the likelihood of being turned away under a new Trump administration asylum rule upending long-standing protections for people fleeing violence and oppression in their homelands...
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Missouri works to settle lawsuit on medicine for foster kids
(State News ~ 07/17/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A federal judge Monday gave preliminary approval to a settlement agreement for a lawsuit alleging Missouri overmedicated children in foster care with psychotropic drugs. The agreement, which still needs final approval, calls for the state to make systemic changes to how it oversees prescriptions given to children in its care, including additional staff training and regular check-ups for kids on psychotropic medications...
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Bayer moving 500 jobs from North Carolina to St. Louis
(State News ~ 07/17/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG is closing its crop science division headquarters in North Carolina and moving 500 jobs to the St. Louis area, Gov. Mike Parson and a company executive announced Tuesday. Lisa Safarian, Bayer's commercial operations-North America president, said the company is moving the crop science North American division headquarters from the Raleigh area to the St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur, Missouri. She did not specify when...
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U.S.: Iran seized UAE-based tanker in Strait of Hormuz
(International News ~ 07/17/19)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker two days ago, leading the U.S. to suspect Iran seized the vessel amid heightened tensions in the region, an American defense official said Tuesday...
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N. Korea: Might lift weapons moratorium
(International News ~ 07/17/19)
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea on Tuesday suggested it might call off its 20-month suspension of nuclear and missile tests because of summertime U.S.-South Korean military drills the North calls preparation for an eventual invasion. The statement by the North's Foreign Ministry comes during a general deadlock in nuclear talks, but after an extraordinary meeting of the U.S. and North Korean leaders at the Korean border raised hopes negotiations would soon resume...
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House condemns Trump 'racist' tweets
(National News ~ 07/17/19)
WASHINGTON -- In an unusual political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist comments" against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump's Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn't "a racist bone in my body."...
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Police officer won't be charged
(National News ~ 07/17/19)
NEW YORK -- After years of silence, federal prosecutors said Tuesday they won't bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man whose dying words -- "I can't breathe" -- became a national rallying cry against police brutality...
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Facebook's new currency plan under scrutiny in Congress
(National News ~ 07/17/19)
WASHINGTON -- Facebook's ambitious plan to create a financial eco-system based on a digital currency faces questions from lawmakers, as it's shadowed by negative comments from President Donald Trump, his treasury secretary and the head of the Federal Reserve...
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Cyberattacks cripple technology-rich schools
(National News ~ 07/17/19)
AVON, Conn. -- Over six weeks, the vandals kept coming, knocking the school system's network offline several times a day. There was no breach of sensitive data files, but the attacks in which somebody deliberately overwhelmed the Avon Public Schools system in Connecticut still proved costly. Classroom lesson plans built around access to the internet had come to a halt...
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Prayer 7/17/19
(Prayer ~ 07/17/19)
We praise you, O Lord Jesus, that your promises are yes and amen. Amen.
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Jackson police report 7/17/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/17/19)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following item. Arrests do not imply guilt DWIs n Alexis Hardesty, 25, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, first-degree endangering the welfare of child, failure to drive within a single lane, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia and failure to provide proof of insurance...
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Out of the past: July 17
(Out of the Past ~ 07/17/19)
More than 500 people from 14 states and Peru met at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Cape Girardeau over the weekend to trace their family roots during the Maryland and Kentucky Catholic Reunion. A truck being loaded with supplies to help flood victims in Georgia remains open on the Schnucks parking lot; Capt. Elmer Trapp of the Salvation Army says the truck is about 40% filled, and they're hoping to have it completely full when it heads to Macon, Georgia, on Monday...
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Birth 7/17/19
(Births ~ 07/17/19)
Daughter to Timothy A. and Rachel R. Wencewicz of St. Louis, Mercy Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri, 12:44 a.m. Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Name, Emory Clara. Weight, 7 pounds, 4 ounces. Third daughter. Mrs. Wencewicz is the former Rachel Ruopp, daughter of Jack and Janice Ruopp of Cape Girardeau. She is an attorney. Wencewicz is the son of Tom and Dotty Wencewicz. He is a chemistry professor at Washington University...
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Apollo 11 astronaut returns to launch pad 50 years later
(National News ~ 07/17/19)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Collins had the spotlight to himself this time -- Armstrong has been gone for seven years and Aldrin canceled. Collins said he wished his two moonwalking colleagues could have shared the moment at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A, the departure point for humanity's first moon landing...
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Southbound I-55 in Scott County reduced for bridge work
(Local News ~ 07/17/19)
Southbound Interstate 55 in Scott County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform maintenance to the bridge at mile marker 80 in Benton, Missouri. According to the MoDOT news release, the work will be done July 29 through Aug. 1 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily...
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