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KGIR is operating again but with weak signal following flood damage
(Local News ~ 08/15/19)
A spokesperson for Cape Girardeau radio station KGIR, also known as SEMO ESPN 1220AM, says he hopes the station can resume full power by later this week. The station was knocked off the air June 17 when flood water damaged the station's transmitter. The transmitter building, located near East Cape Girardeau, Illinois, could only be reached by boat for much of the summer during record flooding in Alexander County...
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Cape teacher trains others in South America, learns new appreciation for teaching here
(Local News ~ 08/15/19)
A monthlong stay in South America working alongside teachers in overcrowded classrooms with no air conditioning is all it took for Cape Girardeau Junior High school educator Brandi Compass to realize how fortunate students are in Southeast Missouri...
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Starting over: Condemnation leaves mobile home owner struggling after the flood
(Local News ~ 08/15/19)
About two dozen flood-damaged mobile homes and several A-frame houses in East Cape Girardeau have been condemned, forcing their former occupants to find new places to live. "It's a total loss," said Brandi Walters who owned one of the mobile homes and had lived there with her 15-year-old daughter for four years. They, along with other residents of the mobile home park on the east side of town were forced to evacuate in May as Mississippi River seep water flooded that part of the village...
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SoutheastHEALTH signs deal with SEMO to provide service to athletes
(College Sports ~ 08/15/19)
Southeast Missouri State University and SoutheastHEALTH announced a five-year partnership Wednesday in which the health care organization will provide orthopedic and sports medicine services for the university's NCAA Division I athletics program as well as its intermural and club sports participants and the school's performing arts students...
- Dog Yoga is pet-friendly exercise (Local News ~ 08/15/19)
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/15/19)
Today is Thursday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2019. There are 138 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. On this date: In 1483, the Sistine Chapel was consecrated by Pope Sixtus IV...
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Fans should be proud of Catfish team in their inaugural season
(Editorial ~ 08/15/19)
Most of us figured the Cape Catfish would be bottom feeders, let's face it. First-year teams and programs usually take some time to develop. We would have been happy with competitive. But that's not what happened at all. The Cape Catfish turned out to be a really big fish in the Prospect League pond...
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Subscriber exclusive: Scott Co. presiding commissioner shared many vulgar memes on Facebook before winning election
(Local News ~ 08/15/19)
Before he was elected to the county's highest government office last fall, Scott County Presiding Commissioner Jim Glueck shared several misogynistic and sexist memes on his Facebook timeline depicting women in various stages of undress and compromising positions...
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Administration takes step to relax trucker drive-time rules
(National News ~ 08/15/19)
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has taken a step closer to relaxing federal regulations governing the amount of time truck drivers can spend behind the wheel, winning praise from the trucking industry and drawing scorn from highway safety advocates...
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Lazarus biographer: Statue poem embraces all migrants
(National News ~ 08/15/19)
Long before a Trump administration official suggested the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty welcomed only people from Europe, the words captured America's promise to newcomers at a time when the nation was also seeking to exclude many immigrants from landing on its shores...
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Dow slumps 800 points after bonds flash warning of possible recession
(National News ~ 08/15/19)
The threat of a recession doesn't seem so remote anymore for investors in financial markets. The yield on the closely watched 10-year Treasury fell so low Wednesday that, for the first time since 2007, it briefly crossed a threshold that has correctly predicted many past recessions. Weak economic data from Germany and China added to recent signals of a global slowdown...
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Satellite photos: Chinese armored vehicles appear in sports complex near Hong Kong
(International News ~ 08/15/19)
BEIJING -- Satellite photos show what appear to be armored personnel carriers and other vehicles belonging to the China's paramilitary People's Armed Police parked in a sports complex in the city of Shenzhen, in what some have interpreted as a threat from Beijing to use increased force against pro-democracy protesters across the border in Hong Kong...
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Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts' still could qualify at 2020 Grammy Awards
(Entertainment ~ 08/15/19)
NEW YORK -- Lizzo's breakthrough hit "Truth Hurts" is a two-year-old song, but it still has a chance at the 2020 Grammy Awards. Typically older songs that become hits long after their initial release -- from Pharrell's "Happy" to John Legend's "All of Me" -- can compete at the Grammys when a live version of the song, released during the current Grammys eligibility period, is submitted...
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Michael Wandrick
(Obituary ~ 08/15/19)
Michael Wandrick, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Charles Martin
(Obituary ~ 08/15/19)
WACO, Texas -- Charles Edward Martin, 84, of Waco, formerly of Glen Allen, Missouri, died Sunday, July 21, 2019. A graveside memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Bollinger County Memorial Park Cemetery near Marble Hill, Missouri. Hutchings Funeral Chapel is assisting the family...
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Rick Haupt
(Obituary ~ 08/15/19)
Ricky Lee "Rick" Haupt, 66, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, at his home. He was born Aug. 14, 1952, in Cape Girardeau to Roy and Pauline Reed Haupt. He was baptized at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. He and Lillian "Lynn" Gosche were married Feb. 14, 1996, in Cape Girardeau...
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Lois Cloyd
(Obituary ~ 08/15/19)
Lois Annette Cloyd, 96, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Charleston, Illinois, and Staunton, Illinois, died Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, at Auburn Creek Assisted Living in Cape Girardeau. Lois was born Feb. 6, 1923, in Kirksville, Missouri, to Ollin and Opal Goehegan Drennan...
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Donald Burchyett
(Obituary ~ 08/15/19)
ANNA, Ill. -- Donald Louis Burchyett passed peacefully Tuesday, Aug.13, 2019. His first wife, Deloris Victoria Craig Burchyett, preceded him in death in 1998. His survivors include his wife, Peggy Bridgeman Burchyett. Donald is also survived by three children, Christine (Ross) Brewer, Steven (Mary) Burchyett and Jeffrey Burchyett...
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Joseph Adams
(Obituary ~ 08/15/19)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Joseph Andrew Adams, 57, of Perryville passed away Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, at his home, surrounded by his family. He was born Aug. 26, 1961, in Cairo, Illinois, to Ernest and Marjorie Winn Adams. He married Elsa "Gerri" Harris on Feb. 28, 1980, in Cape Girardeau...
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Deadly Russia missile explosion raises questions, comparisons to Chernobyl disaster
(International News ~ 08/15/19)
MOSCOW -- A deadly explosion at a naval weapons testing range in northwestern Russia. A brief spike in radiation levels. An evacuation order issued, then rescinded, for a nearby village. The mysterious Aug. 8 accident on the White Sea, along with changing or contradictory information from Russian authorities, has led to speculation about what happened and what type of weapon was involved, and has even raised comparisons to the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant...
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SEMO athletes take time to wind down
(Submitted Story ~ 08/15/19)
SEMO football player Justin Smith and his girlfriend, SEMO softball player Rachel Anderson, made time to go fishing between his two-a-day football practices over the weekend.
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Speak Out 8/15/19
(Speak Out ~ 08/15/19)
ICE is just doing their job. What everyone seems to leave out when they are commenting on this is that they are not just immigrants. They are illegal immigrants. They are breaking the law. If you or I break the law we should expect the same. They were working, but how can they pay taxes if they don't have a Social Security number? Then they are breaking other laws by not paying taxes...
- Prayer 8/15/19 (Prayer ~ 08/15/19)
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Scientists say monster penguin once swam New Zealand oceans
(International News ~ 08/15/19)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Scientists in New Zealand said Wednesday they've found fossilized bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of an adult human and swam the oceans some 60 million years ago. They said the previously undiscovered species is believed to have stood about 5 feet and 2 inches tall and weighed up to 176 pounds. It's believed to have been one of several species of giant penguins that thrived soon after dinosaurs died out...
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Route D in Perry County reduced for pavement work
(Local News ~ 08/15/19)
Route D in Perry County, from U.S. 61 to Route C, will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews repair the pavement. A MoDOT news release states the work will take place Monday through Aug. 29, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily...
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Cape Girardeau County agenda 8/15/19
(Local News ~ 08/15/19)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. today 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Minutes for Aug. 12 meeting Communications/reports — other elected officials n Purchase order Riverside Roofing — approve taking cost from Capital Improvement Fund...
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Out of the past: Aug. 15
(Out of the Past ~ 08/15/19)
1994 A tome containing 1,400 pages of complex health care reform is more than U.S. Sens. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, and Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, can stomach; neither senator will endorse the Clinton-Mitchell health care reform package because, they say, it gives too much power to Washington while it takes decision-making away from the American public; Bond and Mitchell were in Cape Girardeau on Sunday for a press conference at Saint Francis Medical Center...
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Impossible Whopper goes nationwide at Burger King
(Community ~ 08/15/19)
MIAMI -- Burger King will soon begin selling the plant-based Impossible Whopper nationwide next week after a successful test run in seven markets. From next Thursday until September, Burger King will offer delivery and mobile customers two sandwiches -- an original Whopper and an Impossible Whopper -- for $7 so they can compare them...
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New Kahala brings the steam buns in Carbondale
(Community ~ 08/15/19)
I took a short trip a little off of my beaten path last week and ended up in Carbondale, Illinois. It's been a bit since I've been able to go there, and now that the bridge and connected highways are thankfully open, we were on our way. Of course, I took the opportunity to try somewhere new and hopefully exciting. ...
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Chicken recipes for all occasions
(Community ~ 08/15/19)
The versatility of chicken is seemingly never ending. You can prepare chicken in a wide variety of ways and still enjoy chicken several times a week. My husband smiled and said recently he can't believe how much chicken he eats now. He always has loved his beef and pork entrees, but now, chicken is the forefront of our supper menus...
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