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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 2/20/20
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
Approval of minutes n Minutes for Feb. 10 Communications/reports n Purchase order -- approval request No. 24 to UMB Bank for direct payment to Missouri Vocational Enterprises Public comments...
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A special dinner for two
(Community ~ 02/20/20)
When we are celebrating a special occasion at our house, I try to plan a nice menu for the celebration meal. It may not be over-the-top fancy, but something we would not have for a weeknight supper. This week I will be planning such a meal as Scott and I celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. ...
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27th annual American Advertising Awards
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
STUDENT DIVISION AWARDS Print Advertising -- Single Bronze ADDY MK 443/AR 417 Group 1 Southeast Missouri State University for Gear Heads Newspaper Ad Credits: Kaity Davis Racheal Davis Ashlyn Kinman Sydney Poat Julia A. Helferstay Shania McGregory Emma D. Petty...
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Balancing act
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
Student Triston King maintains his balance while slacklining with Sierra Mertz, left, and John Bowdle on Wednesday at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Structure fire in 1900 block of Grandview Street in Cape
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
Members of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to a structure fire in the 1900 block of Grandview Street on Wednesday. The working fire was dispatched at 8:14 a.m. as an all-station call and responding firefighters contained the bedroom blaze within 10 minutes, according to Cape Girardeau fire Capt. Kelly Allen...
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One critically injured in accident involving Sikeston firetruck
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- An accident involving a Sikeston Department of Public Safety firetruck has left a woman in critical condition. According to Evelyn Aceves, Sikeston DPS public information officer, DPS Fire Division responded to a grass fire along Interstate 57 at the 2 mile marker...
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Jackson aldermen table B&B permit
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
The Jackson Board of Aldermen on Wednesday night tabled a special-use permit request for a bed-and-breakfast in a residential area when the aldermen decided to reduce the maximum number of parking spaces for the proposed B&B. Christine Pagano had requested the special use permit in order to operate a bed-and-breakfast at 736 Greensferry Road, which is zoned as an R-2 single family residential area...
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Construction milestone for behavioral health facility marked with beam signing
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
In partnership with Universal Health Services, SoutheastHEALTH held a beam-signing ceremony Wednesday to celebrate a construction milestone for its new free-standing behavioral health facility at 639 S. Silver Springs Road, scheduled to open by year’s end...
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Retired Catholic priest who pastored several local churches arrested on sex crime charges
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
A retired Catholic priest was arrested Wednesday on a Stoddard County warrant for alleged sex crimes perpetrated while serving as the priest at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Advance, Missouri, according to information released by Stoddard County prosecutors...
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University earns military-friendly designation
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
Southeast Missouri State University was recently awarded the 2020-2021 Military Friendly Schools Silver Designation, ranking it among this year’s list of “Better for Veterans” institutions nationally, according to a news release. The university earned the designation for providing the best opportunities for veterans and their spouses...
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Murder at the Dew Drop Inn
(Community ~ 02/20/20)
The "Dew Drop Inn" is a great name, isn't it? The moment I read it I immediately imagined the distinctive voice of Dateline's own murder mystery king, Keith Morrison, narrating my story. The scary part was, I had plans to meet there for a first date. ...
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Local professional, student advertising campaigns recognized by AAF
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
The American Advertising Federation of Cape Girardeau hosted its annual awards ceremony Wednesday evening to recognize outstanding print, online and multimedia advertising in the region. Held at the Drury Convention Center, this marks the 27th year the organization has hosted the awards ceremony...
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'Fake news' headlines Kent Library lecture
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
“Fake news” is a contradictory term, and it’s also not new — use of the term predates the United States. That was the subject of a lecture Wednesday, part of Kent Library’s Athenaeum Series, from Pam Parry, professor and chairwoman of the Department of Mass Media at Southeast Missouri State University...
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U.S. director of drug control policy discusses drug addiction while in Cape
(Local News ~ 02/20/20)
As the nation’s director of drug control policy, James Carroll says “one thing is clear” when it comes to dealing with what he describes as the nation’s “unprecedented crisis” of drug addiction. “We’re not going to solve this in Washington, D.C.,” he said Wednesday morning as he and other state and federal officials met with staff and clients of the Gibson Recovery Center in Cape Girardeau...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/20/20)
Today is Thursday, Feb. 20, the 51st day of 2020. There are 315 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Project Mercury's Friendship 7 spacecraft, which circled the globe three times in a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds before splashing down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles southeast of Bermuda...
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Sponsored: The Importance of Loving Yourself
(Insiders Advice ~ 02/20/20)
It’s already the end of February 2020, and Valentine’s Day has come and gone. With so much focus on loving and taking care of your significant other, we often forget to love ourselves. This matters more than you know. A Harvard study in 2016 points out the importance of loving yourself in order to give more to others...
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Speak Out 2-20-20
(Speak Out ~ 02/20/20)
To the nice gentleman who paid for our lunch at Don Carlos on Saturday, Feb. 8: We haven't been married 60 years, but if we had met earlier in our lives we might have been. Again that was a very nice thing you did. God Bless I can't speak to the efficiency of diverging diamond interchanges, but the ones I've been on are everything, except straight...
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Prayer 2-20-20
(Prayer ~ 02/20/20)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for loving us despite our failures. Amen.
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Jackson bricklayer cracks top 10 at national competition
(Editorial ~ 02/20/20)
Jackson resident J.T. Payne knows a thing or two about bricklaying -- and he's apparently pretty efficient at the craft. The 27-year-old bricklayer competed in the 18th annual Bricklayer 500 Championship earlier this month held in Las Vegas. Payne and his brother, Jake, who tendered bricks, finished in the top 10...
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China's government is like something out of '1984'
(Column ~ 02/20/20)
The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern authoritarian society leaps wildly into the brave new world of high-tech science in a single generation?...
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A guide to all the new condiments lining grocery shelves this year
(Community ~ 02/20/20)
Sauces, dressings, salsas, mustards, honeys, international ingredients: The selection of condiments at grocery stores has expanded dramatically in recent years. Some are hardly new, except to those unfamiliar with certain cuisines. Others are contemporary twists on classic products, or hybrids...
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Technicality extinguishes sparkler record attempt in Wyoming
(National News ~ 02/20/20)
GILLETTE, Wyo. — An attempt in Wyoming to break a world record for the most sparklers lit simultaneously failed on a technicality. Guinness World Records officials ruled each participant was required to light his or her own sparkler during the attempt in Gillette, The Gillette News Record reported. ...
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Fed seems inclined to keep rates low for now
(National News ~ 02/20/20)
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve officials were mostly optimistic about the U.S. and global economies last month, though they noted the risk posed by China's viral outbreak and said they were ready to keep their benchmark interest rate at its current low level in the coming months...
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Trump ousts defense official over Ukraine aid
(National News ~ 02/20/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has ousted the Pentagon's top policy official who had certified last year Ukraine had made enough anti-corruption progress to justify the Trump administration's release of congressionally authorized aid to Kyiv in its conflict against Russian-backed separatists...
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Dem debate gets fiesty in a hurry
(National News ~ 02/20/20)
LAS VEGAS -- From the opening bell, Democrats unleashed an aggressive verbal assault on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised new questions about Bernie Sanders' take-no-prisoners politics in a contentious debate Wednesday nightthat threatened to scramble even further the party's urgent quest to defeat President Donald Trump...
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Out of the past: Feb. 20
(Out of the Past ~ 02/20/20)
A survey just completed by two Southeast Missouri State University faculty members shows almost a third of students at the university think hazing can be a "positive force in a student's college experience"; the surprising results come a year after the death of Michael Davis, a Southeast student killed while pledging Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity...
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James Schindler
(Obituary ~ 02/20/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- James H. Schindler, 77, of Perryville died Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, at his home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m., with a rosary at 8:30 a.m., Saturday at Ford and Young Chapel in Perryville. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Christ the Savior Catholic Church in Brewer, Missouri, with the Rev. Joe Geders officiating. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville...
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Deanna Peterman
(Obituary ~ 02/20/20)
Deanna Marie Peterman, 78, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born Feb 18, 1941, in Chaffee, Missouri, the daughter of Marvin and Lois Amos Eichhorn. She and Russell "Sam" Peterman were married Sept. 12, 1959, in Chaffee. Sam passed away Oct. 3, 2009...
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Joyce Johnson
(Obituary ~ 02/20/20)
Joyce Ann Johnson, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, at Southeast Hospital. She was born Jan. 29, 1947, in Cape Girardeau to Joseph and Christine "Dena" Brucker Schabbing. She and James W. "Jay" Johnson were married June 8, 1968, at Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death July 24, 1998. She was a lifetime member of St. Mary's Cathedral...
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Patricia Hodges
(Obituary ~ 02/20/20)
NEW MADRID, Mo, -- Patricia M. Hodges, 92, of New Madrid, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Visitation will be from 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday inside Cape County Memorial Park Mausoleum. The funeral will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at the mausoleum, with Gary Hodges and Brian Abbott officiating. Entombment will then follow...
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Velma Hester
(Obituary ~ 02/20/20)
BRANSON, Mo. -- Velma Lois Hester, 75 of Branson died Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, at Cox Hospital in Branson. She was born Jan. 10, 1945, in Chaffee, Missouri, to Lawrence and Jessie Bailey Glency. She married Watson Hughes Hester on Oct. 6, 1967. She was a member of Arbor General Baptist Church...
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Police report 2/20/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/20/20)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n David Bollinger, 32, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of stealing. Theft n Theft was reported in the 2800 block of South Old Orchard Road. n Theft was reported in the 400 block of East Jackson Boulevard...
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Young adult authors aim at older readers
(Community ~ 02/20/20)
NEW YORK -- After gaining millions of young readers for her "Divergent" fantasy series, Veronica Roth decided she and her characters were ready for the next phase -- a novel for adults. "I grew up on stories like 'Dune' and 'Harry Potter,' and 'Ender's Game' about people who shoulder burdens when they're too young to bear them," says Roth, who tells the story of Sloane Andrews and her fellow fighters against the havoc of the Dark One in "Chosen Ones," scheduled for April. ...
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Lawyer: Assange offered pardon if he cleared Russia
(International News ~ 02/20/20)
LONDON -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, a lawyer for Assange said Wednesday...
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