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Vehicle overturns in William Street crash, all occupants hospitalized
(Local News ~ 12/11/19)
Three people were injured Monday night when the Chevrolet Equinox they were in was overturned in a collision with another vehicle at the intersection of South Mount Auburn Road and William Street in Cape Girardeau...
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Playing fetch Tuesday at Dogtown
(Local News ~ 12/11/19)
Emily Daly of Cape Girardeau prepares to throw a ball as 6-year-old Duke takes off Tuesday at Dogtown dog park at Kiwanis Park in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Candlelight vigil for victims of gun violence to be held Thursday
(Local News ~ 12/11/19)
A candlelight vigil in memory of victims of gun violence will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bridge Outreach Center, 500 S. Frederick St. in Cape Girardeau, according to a news release. The Southeast Missouri chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, with Stop Needless Acts of violence Please (SNAP) will host the vigil to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. ...
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School hosts coon hunt despite external protests
(Local News ~ 12/11/19)
Nobody seemed tired, even well after midnight. Perhaps it was the post-hunt camaraderie. Or maybe it was the chili and beef stew. Even the youngest ones seemed spry. More than 150 people crowded into the high school agriculture building in Patton early Sunday morning to hear the results of the annual FFA coon hunt -- a tradition dating back 37 years at Meadow Heights...
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Caruthersville woman missing since Monday, vehicle found in Arkansas
(Local News ~ 12/11/19)
Michele L. Bell of Caruthersville, Missouri, has been missing since Monday, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol missing persons list. The advisory described the missing 36-year-old woman as 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighing 105 pounds with green eyes, blonde hair and a light complexion. She is believed to be wearing a pink shirt and pink leggings. ...
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First Presbyterian partners with The People's Shelter to form warming center
(Local News ~ 12/11/19)
For the last two winters, The People’s Shelter in Cape Girardeau has helped homeless and unsheltered people in the city find warmth, a hot meal and a place to rest when the temperature drops below 32 degrees. But due to the time commitment it takes to staff the makeshift shelter with volunteers, opening the doors of St. James AME Church for the night at 5 p.m. was becoming increasingly difficult...
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Albert Lowes remembered as a legendary litigator
(Local News ~ 12/11/19)
Cape Girardeau attorney Albert C. Lowes, described by friends and colleagues as a tenacious, cigar-smoking jurist whose gruff exterior cloaked a heart of gold, died Monday night at a long-term care facility in Cape Girardeau. A resident of Jackson, Lowes had recently been hospitalized in St. Louis before transferring to the Cape Girardeau nursing facility last week for rehabilitation. He was 87 years old...
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Unclaimed property event set for next week in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 12/11/19)
The Missouri State Treasurer’s Office will be in Cape Girardeau next week to help residents discover whether they have a portion of the $12 million in unclaimed property in Cape Girardeau County and the surrounding area. Statewide, the office holds more than $1 billion in unclaimed property for Missouri residents, in more than 5 million owner accounts, according to treasurer.mo.gov...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2019. There are 20 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 11, 2001, in the first criminal indictment stemming from 9/11, federal prosecutors charged Zacarias Moussaoui (zak-uh-REE'-uhs moo-SOW'-ee), a French citizen of Moroccan descent, with conspiring to murder thousands in the suicide hijackings. (Moussaoui pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2005 and was sentenced to life in prison.)...
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The Big 9-0!
(12/11/19)
I have seldom thought about getting old, but it happened. Before this year winds down (on the last day of December) I will, God-willing, mark another birthday — the big 9-0. From that cold December morning arrival in a modest house along Angelica Street in north St. ...
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LaCroix Church hits 7 million mark with meal-packing events
(Editorial ~ 12/11/19)
Clad in hairnets and plastic gloves, volunteers of all ages came out over the weekend to pack meals for destitute children in foreign lands. It was the annual Feed My Starving Children meal-packing event sponsored by LaCroix Church, which includes not only members of the church but from other churches and organizations, too...
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Photo of sick boy roils UK campaign
(International News ~ 12/11/19)
LONDON -- A photo of a sick boy sleeping on a hospital floor because no beds were available has become one of the defining images of Britain's bruising election campaign. It forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson onto the defensive and ignited a fierce online debate over whether it was real or fake...
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Finland gets world's youngest prime minister
(International News ~ 12/11/19)
HELSINKI -- Finland became the country with the world's youngest sitting head of government Tuesday when the Nordic country's parliament chose a 34-year-old woman with liberal views and a down-to-earth style as prime minister. Lawmakers in the 200-seat Eduskunta voted 99-70 to make Sanna Marin, a Social Democrat who served as transport and communications minister in the outgoing administration, the leader of a five-party, center-left coalition government...
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U.S. shuts down deciding body at World Trade Org.
(International News ~ 12/11/19)
GENEVA -- Global commerce lost its ultimate umpire Tuesday, leaving countries unable to reach a final resolution of disputes at the World Trade Organization and instead facing what critics call "the law of the jungle." The United States, under a president who favors a go-it-alone approach to economics and diplomacy, appears to prefer it that way...
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U of Phoenix agrees to $50M settlement
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
The University of Phoenix and its parent company have agreed to pay $50 million in cash and cancel $141 million in student debt to settle allegations of deceptive advertisement brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The deal, announced Tuesday, settles a dispute over an ad campaign the for-profit college unrolled in 2012 touting partnerships with companies including Microsoft, Twitter and Adobe. ...
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Six killed in New Jersey gunbattle; police officer among the fallen
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders, were killed in a furious gunbattle Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City with the sound of heavy gunfire for hours, authorities said. The dead included two suspects, Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly said...
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Exxon prevails in lawsuit on climate
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
NEW YORK -- Exxon Mobil won Tuesday in a closely watched lawsuit over the costs of climate change, with a judge saying there was no proof the energy giant duped investors about the toll that regulations could take on its business. New York Attorney General Letitia James' office didn't prove the company made any material misstatements "that misled any reasonable investor," state judge Barry Ostrager in Manhattan wrote in dismissing the case...
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Dems, White House forge new N. American trade deal
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats and the White House announced a deal on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win Tuesday on the same day impeachment charges were announced against him. Both sides hailed the deal as a win for American workers...
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Navy: Flight training now suspended for Saudi students
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
WASHINGTON -- Flight training has been suspended for more than 300 Saudi Arabian students at three bases in Florida in the wake of the deadly shooting by a Saudi Air Force officer on Friday, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday. Navy Commander Clay Doss said classroom training is going to start again this week, and flight training for other students will resume. ...
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Trump meets with Russian official as impeachment advances
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump met Tuesday with the Russian foreign minister at the White House just hours after articles of impeachment were unveiled against him and a day after a Justice Department watchdog report declared the FBI was justified in opening an investigation into ties between Moscow and Trump's 2016 campaign...
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Dems unveil impeachment charges; Trump left 'no choice'
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, declaring his actions toward Ukraine "betrayed the nation" as they pushed toward historic proceedings that are certain to help define his presidency and shape the 2020 election...
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Eddie Wood
(Obituary ~ 12/11/19)
Harvey Edward "Eddie" Wood, 57, of Jackson died Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Clifford Thomas
(Obituary ~ 12/11/19)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Clifford J. Thomas, 92, of Perryville died Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, at his home. He was born Sept. 24, 1927, in Friedheim to Rudolph J. and Cordia Ruesler Thomas. He and Erma Lohman were married Oct. 2, 1949. She preceded him in death Nov. 9, 2016...
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Martin Roberts
(Obituary ~ 12/11/19)
Martin W. Roberts, 85, of Jackson died Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Joshua Schmidt officiating. Interment will follow in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson, with full military honors...
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Vivian Petty
(Obituary ~ 12/11/19)
Vivian Petty, 95, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, at Lutheran Home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Jan, 24, 1924, in Hardin County, Tennessee, to W.R. and Elita M. Duke Owen. She and William Petty Jr. were married Jan. 18, 1946, in Portageville, Missouri...
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John David 'Dave' Kasten
(Obituary ~ 12/11/19)
John David "Dave" Kasten, 83, of Jackson, passed away Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 28, 1936, in Jackson to John M.C. and Ardena E. Lowes Kasten. John David was a member of Hanover Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. He was baptized Aug. 16, 1936, and confirmed April 12, 1950, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson...
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Sibra Glover
(Obituary ~ 12/11/19)
Sibra J. Glover, 70, of Jackson died Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. A graveside service will be at 1 p.m. today at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson, with the Rev. Stan Hargis officiating. Arrangements are by McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson...
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Mabel Forehand
(Obituary ~ 12/11/19)
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. -- Mabel Forehand, 100, of Fredericktown, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, at ClaRu DeVille Nursing Center. She was born July 13, 1919, in Thebes, Illinois, to Albert and Mary Perry Dover. Mabel is survived by her daughter, Lois Henderson of McClure, Illinois; and many nieces, nephews and other relatives...
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Michael Allmon
(Obituary ~ 12/11/19)
Michael William Allmon, 66, of Jackson passed away peacefully Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, at his home, with his family by his side. He was born Dec. 15, 1952, in Cape Girardeau, son of James and Lorene McCormick Allmon. Mike was a 1971 graduate of Jackson High School. He then served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War on the destroyer USS Glennon and was awarded the National Defense, Vietnam Service and Combat Action medals. He was honorably discharged in 1977...
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Speak Out 12/11/19
(Speak Out ~ 12/11/19)
The Southeast Missourian and the communities it covers are fortunate to have such talented staff. Ben Matthews, especially, is an amazing photographer. While House Democrats pander to their radical base, the GOP-controlled Senate confirmed eight of President Trump's court picks this week...
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Prayer 12/11/19
(Prayer ~ 12/11/19)
You, O Lord Jesus, are the resurrection and the life and we praise your name. Amen.
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Newspaper criticizes film's take on Olympic bombing coverage
(National News ~ 12/11/19)
ATLANTA -- After a bomb exploded in a downtown Atlanta park midway through the 1996 Olympics, a security guard initially cast as a hero was recast as a villain virtually overnight. More than 20 years later, a movie to be released later this week, "Richard Jewell," explores the roles played by law enforcement and the media in the guard's ordeal...
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Out of the past: Dec. 11
(Out of the Past ~ 12/11/19)
The third annual German Christmas service is held in the evening at Old Hanover Lutheran Church on Perryville Road; guest preacher is the Rev. Adam Mueller; his sermon theme is "The Meaning of Christ's Birth"; the liturgy and sermon are in English, with familiar Christmas carols sung in both German and English...
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Area police reports 12/11/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/11/19)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Thefts n Burglary was reported in the 700 block of South Ranney Avenue. n Theft was reported in the 3000 block of Wisteria Drive. n Theft was reported in the 1500 block of Rand Street...
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Sponsored: Inspect for termites before you buy a home
(Insiders Advice ~ 12/11/19)
Termites never hibernate, and they never stop working all year round, 24/7, looking for a food source. When buying a home, it is important you know that the property you are investing in is not invaded by termites. In addition to the procedural things you deal with when utilizing a real estate agent, it’s extremely important to have your home inspected by professionals. Termite inspections are a highly-recommended part of a general home inspection process...
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TOYS FOR TOTS
(Submitted Story ~ 12/11/19)
Each year Manac Trailers asks for donations from our employees for the Toys for Tots. Again this year our employees were gracious again to donate to the "Toys for Tots."
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Births 12/11/19
(Births ~ 12/11/19)
Son to Cortne Devonte Green and Miranda Kathleen Cook of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 1:20 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. Name, Cortne Devonte Jr. Weight, 8 pound, 10 ounces. Fourth child, first son. Cook is the daughter of Jeff and Viki Cook of Oran, Missouri. Green is the son of Stacey Green of Cape Girardeau and Anthony Green Sr. of Sikeston, Missouri. He works at Room Mates and Covenant Care Services. ...
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