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Cape museum exhibits interest in city hall
(Local News ~ 09/28/19)
Cape River Heritage Museum, housed in the city's old police and fire station, needs more exhibit space, and city hall could hold the answer. Longtime museum supporter Jerry Ford said he and others would like to see the museum move into city hall once the city government vacates the building for new quarters at the Common Pleas Courthouse site...
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Cape police investigate shooting
(Local News ~ 09/28/19)
A Cape Girardeau man was shot multiple times outside his home Thursday night in the 1400 block of North Water Street in the Red Star neighborhood, police said. The victim, whose identity has not been released, ran to a neighbor's home and asked him to call 911, police Sgt. Joey Hann said...
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Cape VA health center dedication postponed
(Local News ~ 09/28/19)
The site dedication of the Veterans Affairs health care center in Cape Girardeau, which had been scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, has been postponed due to "unforeseen circumstances," according to Angela Smith, public affairs officer and congressional liaison with the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. A rescheduled date for the site dedication has not been announced...
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Rolling on the river: Kayaker plans weeklong journey on the Mississippi from Cape Girardeau to St. Louis
(Local News ~ 09/28/19)
Danny Rees was 43 before he learned how to kayak. It was a childhood dream three decades delayed, but Rees wasn't going to let age keep him off the water. And anyway, for Rees, a birthday's just an excuse for some self-assigned challenges -- feats of strength, just because...
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Shipyard: Music, food, fun for all ages
(Local News ~ 09/28/19)
Shipyard Music and Culture Festival kicked off Friday evening at Ivers Square in Cape Girardeau, and music fans traveled from a wide area to hear their favorites. Here's what they had to say: "Colony House and the New Respects are here, and they were on The Rock Boat with us this year."...
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Fred Burgard talks Christian education and being about the things of God
(Column ~ 09/28/19)
Fred Burgard is a self-described utility man. No, he’s not a doctor, lawyer or Indian chief — but he’s not far off. The longtime pastor and his wife Sharon, former advisor to student athletes at Southeast Missouri State University, have lived in Cape Girardeau for 26 years.
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Vintage firetrucks could be on their way out of Cape museum
(Local News ~ 09/28/19)
Two 1950s-era fire trucks may seem right at home in Cape Girardeau's old fire station turned into a city museum. But they could be on their way out. Cape River Heritage Museum's Jerry Ford said the museum needs more space. If the city were to sell the trucks, the museum would gain space for more exhibits, said Ford, whose wife, Margaret, serves as the museum's director...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/28/19)
Today is Saturday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2019. There are 94 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 28, 1920, eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. (All were acquitted at trial, but all eight were banned from the game for life.)...
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SEMO District Fair winners
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
Angus Champion junior heifer calf: Greg Meier, Hat Creek Genetics, Jackson Reserve champion junior heifer calf: Bradley Going, Nashville, Illinois Champion heifer calf: Greg Meier, Hat Creek Genetics, Jackson Reserve champion heifer calf: Emmalee Mueller, Perryville, Missouri...
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Dr. Floyd Kinsolving of Dunklin County
(Column ~ 09/28/19)
When Dr. Floyd Kinsolving died May 5, 1942, at Presnell Hospital in Kennett, Missouri, news of what was found at his home in Hornersville, Missouri, went "viral" in today's parlance. Found on his property were every car he ever owned since 1911, piles of tires as a rubber reserve, and $160,000 in the basement. News of his eccentric habits made it all the way to a newspaper in Plattsburgh, New York...
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Adopt Louie
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary Louie is a beautiful 2-year-old cat looking for a loving, forever home. He is available for adoption at Safe Harbor; call (573) 243-9823.
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Senior Center Menus for Sept. 30 through Oct. 4
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
Monday: BBQ pork chop or chopped steak with bacon and onion gravy, baked potato, Brussels sprouts, whole-grain hot roll and sugar-free peach crisp or blonde brownie. Tuesday: White chicken chili with 1/2 peanut butter sandwich or French dip sandwich, buttered corn, carrot and celery sticks with ranch dip, whole-grain crackers and chilled pears or brownie...
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A major wildflower pollinator
(Column ~ 09/28/19)
(Editor's note:The wrong photograph was published with this column last Sunday.) Shown here is the bright yellow flower of a plant called Jerusalem artichoke. Also called sunchoke, this plant is a member of the sunflower family. It has a rather spindly but woody stem that branches out and can become profuse with wonderful flowers. It can grow to a height of about 8 feet...
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Club news 9-29-19
(Community News ~ 09/28/19)
The Lamplighter FCE Club gathered Sept. 19 at the home of Beverly Meyer. President Judy Strickland called the meeting to order. Jackie Kurre led the members in singing. The devotional, given by Meyer was title "Listening" and "Proverbs." Each member answered roll call by telling what her most dreaded household chore is and her favorite spice...
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Train enthusiast donates large collection to Poplar Bluff museum
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
A retired missionary, who began collecting English trains in New Zealand, desired to make a wonderful gift to the Moark Regional Railroad Museum. Before he died on Oct. 24, 2018, the Rev. Richard Brosseau arranged for his wife, HaeJa, of Silva, and son, Matthew, of Oakville, Ontario, in Canada, to donate his extensive collection of English trains and 16-foot long layout to the museum where he was a member...
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Former Sikeston man who has ALS publishes book about his battle
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
When former Sikeston resident Jeff Lester was diagnosed with ALS, he was 27 and given three years to live. Now, 26 years later, Lester has published a book about his battle with the disease. Lester grew up in Sikeston, the son of Dr. Larry Lester, a dentist and Marie Lester Weiskircher. He graduated from Sikeston High School in 1985 before attending Southwest Missouri State University, graduating in 1990...
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Veggies are good
(Column ~ 09/28/19)
Marge was gone the other evening, and I was late getting home, so I did the chores. With it being hot, the steers drink a bunch of water, so I went to filling the stock tanks. When I got that done, I shut up the end doors on the three high tunnels and fed the cats and called it a day. ...
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Learning briefs 9-29-19
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
Nicole Sotak, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2021, has earned the spring 2019 Dean's Award for Academic Excellence. Sotak is from Jackson and is a graduate of Jackson High School Students who receive a term grade-point average of 3.3 or higher while completing at least three courses earn the spring 2019 Dean's Award for Academic Excellence...
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FYI 9-29-19
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
The VFW wants to identify and recognize America's best educators who instill a sense of national pride in students. It offers cash awards, commeroative plaques and all-expenses-paid trips to the VFW National Convention for these worthy teachers. Local posts will recognize one outstanding teacher in kindergarten through fifth grade, sixth through eighth grade and ninth through 12th grade. ...
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Gibson Center transforms lives
(Column ~ 09/28/19)
I recently was honored to be in attendance at the Gibson Recovery Center's celebration of 40 years of service to the Southeast Missouri region. While there, I learned Gibson has served more than 50,000 clients working to get sober throughout the past 40 years -- an incredibly meaningful fact, when, as mayor Bob Fox stated, it is taken into consideration each of these 50,000 people's transformed lives also touched their family's and friends' lives, too...
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Affirmation
(Column ~ 09/28/19)
Affirmation is powerful. To have someone who has identified the excellent qualities in your life and then comes alongside you to help call out a vision for your life is irreplaceable. Paul in 1 Timothy 4:4 does this for Timothy by affirming his giftedness and his capability for ministry. This one verse reveals several traits of someone who sows affirmation...
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Textiles and other home furnishings with the unique look of hand-drawn art are popular
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
Hand-crafted is popular these days, and many home decorators are looking for unique textiles and other furnishings featuring the look of hand-drawn art. Items like the eclectic, playful wallpapers of Brooklyn-based artist Aimee Wilder, who designed for brands like DwellStudio, Martha Stewart and Vans before starting her own studio. ...
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Prayer 9-29-19
(Prayer ~ 09/28/19)
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for being the Great Physician and healer. Amen.
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Germany shuts down illegal data center; arrests seven
(International News ~ 09/28/19)
BERLIN -- German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs and other illegal activities. Seven people were arrested. The main suspect in the long-running investigation leading to raids Thursday is a 59-year-old Dutchman who authorities believe acquired the former military bunker in Traben-Trarbach, a picturesque town on the Mosel River in western Germany, in 2013, prosecutor Juergen Bauer told reporters.. ...
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Protests cap week focused on climate action
(International News ~ 09/28/19)
BERLIN -- Students took to the streets across the globe in the hundreds of thousands Friday for a second wave of worldwide protests demanding swift action on climate change. The protests were inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who spoke to world leaders this week at a United Nations summit in New York...
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Pakistan PM warns of 'bloodbath'
(International News ~ 09/28/19)
UNITED NATIONS -- Insisting he wasn't making a threat, Pakistan's leader denounced his Indian counterpart Friday and warned any war between the nuclear rivals could "have consequences for the world." India's prime minister took the opposite approach, skipping any mention at the United Nations of his government's crackdown in the disputed region of Kashmir...
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Afghan voters torn between fear, frustration and sense of duty
(International News ~ 09/28/19)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Torn between fear, frustration and a sense of duty, Ahmad is undecided about defying Taliban warnings not to vote in this weekend's Afghan presidential election. He has good reason to think twice: His index finger was chopped off by Taliban members after he voted in the presidential election five years ago...
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UK's Boris Johnson defends his fraught Brexit language
(International News ~ 09/28/19)
LONDON -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday rebuffed allegations he was inciting violence by accusing his Brexit opponents of "surrender" and "betrayal," saying the only way to calm the simmering tensions was to stop delaying and leave the European Union...
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Iran releases tanker seized from Britain
(International News ~ 09/28/19)
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran on Friday released a British-flagged oil tanker it had seized in July, while the country's president, returning from an annual United Nations meeting, said he had been told the United States had offered to lift sanctions if Tehran returned to the negotiating table over its nuclear program...
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Ukraine's prosecutor says no investigation of Biden
(International News ~ 09/28/19)
MOSCOW -- Ukraine's top anti-corruption official said Friday his agency hasn't investigated former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden or his son as U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested. Trump's call on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate his political rival Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of directors of an energy company in Ukraine, has triggered a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump in the U.S. Congress...
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For Ukraine help, Giuliani turned to unlikely Fla. fixers
(National News ~ 09/28/19)
WASHINGTON -- When President Donald Trump wanted Ukrainian authorities to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden, Rudy Giuliani turned to a pair of Soviet-born business partners from Florida who made more than a half-million dollars in political donations to Republicans while facing lawsuits from disgruntled investors over unpaid debts...
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Dem senator: NRA acted as Russian 'asset'
(National News ~ 09/28/19)
WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association acted as a "foreign asset" for Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election, and NRA insiders provided access to the American political system to advance personal business interests, a Democratic senator charged Friday in a new report...
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Harry echoes Diana in mine field walk
(International News ~ 09/28/19)
JOHANNESBURG -- A body armor-wearing Prince Harry on Friday followed in the footsteps of his late mother, Princess Diana, whose walk through an active mine field in Angola years ago helped to lead to a global ban on the deadly weapons. The prince walked through a dusty mine field marked with skull-and-crossbones warning signs, and was visiting the spot where Diana was famously photographed on a similar walk during her own Africa visit in 1997. ...
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Top chef upset by loss of third star takes Michelin to court
(Community ~ 09/28/19)
PARIS -- Chef Marc Veyrat, known for his black chapeau and his mountain cuisine, is taking the Michelin Guide to court to find out why he lost his third star this year -- and how the publication that makes, and sometimes breaks, reputations in the world's prestigious kitchens could allegedly claim he used cheddar cheese in a recipe...
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Warren faces test in winning black voters in South Carolina
(National News ~ 09/28/19)
WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden's path to the Democratic presidential nomination centers on South Carolina, where he's counting on support from black voters who are critical to victory. But Elizabeth Warren is working to prove she can also be a force there -- potentially disrupting the former vice president's strategy...
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Police report 9-29-19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/28/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Kristian R. Troxel, 24, of Fruitland was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia...
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Feds crack Medicare gene test fraud that peddled cheek swabs to seniors
(National News ~ 09/28/19)
WASHINGTON -- Federal agents took down an alleged Medicare fraud scheme Friday exploiting seniors' curiosity about genetic medicine by enticing them to get their cheeks swabbed for unneeded DNA tests. Medicare was billed about $2 billion. Dubbed "Operation Double Helix," the crackdown targeted telemarketing companies, doctors and labs, in a joint effort by the FBI, U.S. attorneys' offices, and the Health and Human Services inspector general. More than 30 people were charged around the country...
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Dallas cop says she wishes neighbor had killed her instead
(National News ~ 09/28/19)
DALLAS -- A Dallas police officer broke her silence Friday about the night she killed a young accountant who lived in the apartment right above her, telling jurors she has to live with the guilt every day and she wished their roles were reversed. Amber Guyger, who is charged with murder, tearfully said she was sorry about killing 26-year-old Botham Jean last September, explaining she mistook his fourth-floor apartment for her own right below it on the third floor of their building...
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Virginia Walter
(Obituary ~ 09/28/19)
Virginia Mae Walter, 90, of Jackson passed away Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at her home. She was born Jan. 21, 1929, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Frank and Helen Franck Andrews. She and Otto William "Pete" Walter were married Jan. 26, 1946, in Illmo. He passed away April 22, 1982...
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Bill Shelton
(Obituary ~ 09/28/19)
Bill F. Shelton, 75, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, at his home, with family by his side. He was a family man who greatly enjoyed country cruising. He was an operator through the Laborers Union at SEMO Stone until he retired in 2006...
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Terry Pearman
(Obituary ~ 09/28/19)
Terry R. Pearman, 72, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Olive Branch, Illinois, passed away at 2:10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at Hunter Acres Care Center in Sikeston, Missouri, with his daughters by his side. Terry was born April 17, 1947, in Cairo, Illinois, to Robert and Freida Sissom Pearman...
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Kathryn McLeod
(Obituary ~ 09/28/19)
EL PASO, Texas -- Kathryn Steck McLeod, 92, died Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, in El Paso, while in hospice care for cancer. Kathryn, or "Kay" as she was known by her friends, was born Nov, 8, 1926, in Cape Girardeau to Phillip H. and Emalie Illers Steck...
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Billoma Bell
(Obituary ~ 09/28/19)
** Billoma Bell Billoma Bell, 42, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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David Hutson
(Obituary ~ 09/28/19)
David O. “Dave” Hutson, 61, of Jackson passed away Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, at Saint Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with Deacon Walter Biri and the Rev. David Crites officiating. Interment will be in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Theresa Wibbenmeyer
(Obituary ~ 09/28/19)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Theresa M. Wibbenmeyer, 94, of Perryville died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, at Independence Care Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Young Funeral Home. Rosary will be recited at 8 a.m. Thursday...
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Williene 'Martha' Gee
(Obituary ~ 09/28/19)
Williene “Martha” Gee, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at the Lutheran Home. She was born June 16, 1926, in Cape Girardeau to the late Willis Leonard and Mattie Martha Ford Reed. Martha was a member of Lynwood Baptist Church...
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Out of the past: Sept. 29
(Out of the Past ~ 09/28/19)
A British Broadcasting Corp. television crew is in Cape Girardeau this week filming a 30-minute documentary about flying squirrels; the team is working with biology professor John Scheibe of Southeast Missouri State University, who has studied the animals the past eight years, gaining international attention in the process...
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Out of the past: Sept. 28
(Out of the Past ~ 09/28/19)
A dry spell followed by damp, cloudy weather may have set the stage for less-than-impressive fall foliage this season; but Charles H. Korns, horticulturist at Southeast Missouri State University, says this year's colors won't be a complete wash; while dogwoods and pin oaks won't be as attractive as last year, Korns says by mid-October, other trees like maples, hickories and hackberries will display their colors...
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