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A new Sheriff is coming to Southeast
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
Southeast Missouri State University announced Monday that Brad Sheriff will be the school’s new vice president for finance and administration, effective Aug. 1. Sheriff will succeed Kathy Mangels, who will work alongside Sheriff until her planned retirement this fall...
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More than 200 total coronavirus cases reported in Cape County
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
Ten new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Cape Girardeau County on Tuesday. Six of those cases are in the City of Cape Girardeau, two in Jackson and two were reported elsewhere in the county. The county reports 203 total cases, 132 recoveries and three deaths...
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Jackson roundabout at Shawnee/Main open ahead of schedule
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
The roundabout at East Main Street and Shawnee Boulevard in Jackson is complete, according to a news release from city engineer Clint Brown. “The new roundabout is fully open to traffic in all directions, ahead of the originally scheduled opening date” ...
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Nell Holcomb figuring out how to run school buses during coronavirus
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
Most schools are required to provide bus transportation for students, even if the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t run its course. The small, rural Nell Holcomb District in eastern Cape Girardeau County isn’t sure how it will carry out the mandate when classes resume Aug. 24...
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Steve Schaffner fiddles through Cape in YouTube series
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
For Steve Schaffner, music is a way of life. When COVID-19 disrupted plans for events and other opportunities to make music for others, Schaffner, like so many other musicians, got creative. He’s producing a series of videos on YouTube, “Fiddlin’ Around Cape,” which sees him with his trusty fiddle at a significant spot in or near Cape Girardeau, playing a classic tune and talking up the history of the place...
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Online petitions seek to change, save Jackson 'Indian' mascot
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
A campaign to abolish the Jackson School District’s “Indian” mascot has been endorsed by thousands of online petition signers. Meanwhile, a second online campaign is underway to “Save the name, save the mascot.” According to the initial petition, created Friday by Jackson resident Beck Hamilton and Hamilton’s friend, Kyra Pearl, “Native Americans are people who have suffered great injustice at the hands of white people for centuries and deserve more than to be used as a school mascot.”...
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EDITORIAL: David Cantrell represents the Spirit of America through military service, community involvement
(Editorial ~ 07/01/20)
As we near Independence Day, it's important to consider the things that make America exceptional. The American experiment focuses on freedom, the inalienable rights endowed by our Creator. Preserving that freedom takes men and women of courage. Yes, those individuals who defend the nation in the armed services. But also those who get involved in their community through service and others who lead through business enterprise...
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Mobile food pantries slated in area
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
Southeast Missouri Food Bank has scheduled upcoming mobile food pantries in response to COVID-19. Included are: n 5 p.m. Thursday, Marquand City Park in Marquand, Missouri n 5 p.m. July 10, Red Star Baptist Church, 1301 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau...
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Cape firefighters respond to Tuesday morning flash-flooding incidents
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to two weather-related incidents as a result of a severe thunderstorm Tuesday morning. The storm dumped more than a half-inch of rain on Cape Girardeau from 3:53 to 4:53 a.m., according to National Weather Service data observed from the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport...
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Essex, Mo., students, teacher honored at National History Day competition
(Local News ~ 07/01/20)
The 2020 National History Day contest saw 57 Missouri students compete, and a student team and teacher from Essex, Missouri, earned honors. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held online instead of at the University of Maryland...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 183rd day of 2020. There are 183 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 1, 1863, the pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, began in Pennsylvania...
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Madonna of the trail defies statue-toppling culture
(Column ~ 07/01/20)
BEALLSVILLE, Pa. If you are driving too fast, you'll miss her. It often happens at the pitch of the rolling Appalachian Mountain, where she has stood for nearly 100 years: the statue of a sturdy frontier woman holding a rifle in one arm and an infant in another, with another child clinging to her long skirt...
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Our age of superstition
(Column ~ 07/01/20)
We live in a society gripped by a quasi-religious fervor and obsessed with symbols and irrational fears. Anything that is thought to have the slightest association with racism, no matter how attenuated the connection or how innocent the explanation, must be crushed and expunged. ...
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No smoking, drinking or eating as Atlantic City casinos open
(Community ~ 07/01/20)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Atlantic City tried Prohibition once before. It worked so well that Nucky Johnson, the legendary politician and racketeer, built a Boardwalk empire immortalized on HBO nearly a century later. It also tried banning smoking, too. That lasted for 20 days as smokers stayed away, sending casino revenue plummeting...
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Venezuela sanctions set off fight for 'plundered' oil cargo
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
MIAMI -- For two months, the Malta-flagged oil tanker Alkimos has been quietly floating off the Gulf Coast of Texas, undisturbed by the high-stakes legal fight playing out in a federal courtroom as a result of American sanctions on Venezuela. The commercial dispute, which hasn't been previously reported, has all the drama of a pirate movie: a precious cargo, clandestine sea maneuvers and accusations of a high seas heist...
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Fed's program for loaning to Main Street off to slow start
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- Michael Haith, owner and CEO of a Denver-based restaurant chain called Teriyaki Madness, is in an unusual position for people like him: He's making money through food delivery and pickup and wants to borrow funds so he can expand. Yet so far, a Federal Reserve lending program set up specifically for small and medium-sized businesses like his hasn't been much help. ...
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Biden: Trump has a 'lot to answer for' on Russian bounties
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
WILMINGTON, Del. -- Joe Biden said Tuesday that President Donald Trump has a "lot to answer for" amid reports that he was advised as early as March 2019 of intelligence that suggested Russia was offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans...
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As virus roars back, so do signs of a new round of layoffs
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- The reopening of Tucson's historic Hotel Congress lasted less than a month. General manager Todd Hanley on June 4 ended a two-month coronavirus lockdown and reopened the 39-room hotel at half-capacity, along with an adjoining restaurant for outdoor dining. Yet with reported COVID-19 cases spiking across Arizona, Hanley made the painful decision last weekend to give up, for now...
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'White power' flare-up in Villages reveals tensions
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
THE VILLAGES, Fla. -- There has always been a low-boil tension in The Villages retirement community between the Republican majority and the much smaller cohort of Democrats, but a veneer of good manners in "Florida's Friendliest Hometown" mostly prevailed on golf courses and at bridge tables...
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'Pooled testing' for COVID-19 holds promise, pitfalls
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- The nation's top health officials are banking on a new approach to dramatically boost U.S. screening for the coronavirus: combining test samples in batches instead of running them one by one. The potential benefits include stretching laboratory supplies, reducing costs and expanding testing to millions more Americans who may unknowingly be spreading the virus. ...
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Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- States can't cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education, a divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. By a 5-4 vote with the conservatives in the majority, the justices upheld a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling in which almost all the recipients attend religious schools...
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Democrats call WH briefing on Russian bounties inadequate
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats returning from a briefing at the White House Tuesday said they still have many questions about explosive allegations that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan and questioned why President Donald Trump won't condemn Vladimir Putin over the issue...
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Europe restricts visitors from U.S. amid resurgence
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
The European Continent on Tuesday decided to reopen to visitors from 14 countries but not the U.S., where some of the states that pushed hardest and earliest to reopen their economies are now in retreat because of an alarming surge in confirmed coronavirus infections...
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Alex Roach
(Obituary ~ 07/01/20)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Martin Alexander 'Alex' Roach, 33, passed away Tuesday, June 30, 2020, at the family home in Sikeston. He was born Dec. 3, 1986, in Sikeston, son of Diane Martin Roach and the late Carl Roach. Alex had worked as an engineer for Cable One and was a member of Sikeston Jaycees, a car enthusiast, a St. Louis Blues fanatic, computer geek and a talented drummer...
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Christy Ellis
(Obituary ~ 07/01/20)
DEXTER, Mo. -- Christy Lea Naile Ellis, daughter of Charles (Sandy) Naile of Farmington, Missouri, and Barbara Turner (Robert) Criss of Benton, Missouri, was born Oct. 18, 1975, in Cape Girardeau. She departed this life Saturday, June 27, 2020, at her home in Dexter at the age of 44...
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Joseph Blessing Jr.
(Obituary ~ 07/01/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Joseph H. Blessing Jr., 92, of Perryville died Saturday, June 27, 2020, at his daughter's home in Perryville. He was born July 15, 1927, in Perryville to Joseph H. and Mary Taylor Blessing Sr. He and Sylvia Mae Mattingly were married Sept. 1, 1956. She preceded him in death May 28, 2006...
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Jerry Aydelott
(Obituary ~ 07/01/20)
Jerry Wayne Aydelott, 65, of Scott City died Monday, June 29, 2020, at his home. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Timothy Lee officiating. Burial will be in Lightner Cemetery in Scott City...
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Stephanie Arrington
(Obituary ~ 07/01/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Stephanie R. Arrington, 28, of Perryville died Sunday, June 28, 2020, at St. Clare Health Center in Fenton, Missouri. Friends may call from 1 to 2 p.m. Friday at Ford and Young Funeral Home. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home...
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Missouri high court says state must pay Planned Parenthood
(State News ~ 07/01/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled lawmakers violated the state constitution when they tried to end all government funding of Planned Parenthood. The 6-1 ruling scraps a provision in a state budget law forbidding Medicaid reimbursements to any Planned Parenthood clinic, even those that don't provide abortions. That means the state will once again be required to pay Planned Parenthood for preventative health care and family planning for Medicaid patients...
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State's coronavirus death toll passes the 1,000 mark
(State News ~ 07/01/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri reached a grim new milestone in its battle with the coronavirus Tuesday, surpassing 1,000 deaths amid a resurgence of the disease that has seen cases skyrocket in recent weeks. "That's 1,000 people that lost their lives due to COVID-19," Gov. Mike Parson said Tuesday. "I think we all need to remember that."...
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Governor cuts $450M from new Missouri budget
(State News ~ 07/01/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the state budget as revenue continues to tank because of the coronavirus pandemic. Parson signed the budget for the fiscal year beginning today while also immediately slashing close to $450 million from it...
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Speak Out 7/1/20
(Speak Out ~ 07/01/20)
I am one very unhappy grandmother! My grandson, in the army for eight years, just recently came home. They have three children. They took time to come and look for a home, and applied for a loan. They were staying with her sister while the loan was being waited on. After doing all they thought they had to do, they have been told he hasn't been on his job long enough! Do they not make loans to veterans anymore? Meanwhile they have lost the home they thought would be theirs! What a shame!...
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Prayer 7/1/20
(Prayer ~ 07/01/20)
O God, we praise you, for our help is through you, the creator of heaven and earth.
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Carl Reiner, beloved creator of 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' dies
(Entertainment ~ 07/01/20)
NEW YORK -- Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a "second banana" to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy's front ranks as creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and straight man to Mel Brooks' "2000 Year Old Man," has died. He was 98...
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With a pen stroke, Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag
(National News ~ 07/01/20)
JACKSON, Miss. -- With a stroke of the governor's pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem -- a symbol that's widely condemned as racist. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed the historic bill Tuesday at the Governor's Mansion, immediately removing official status for the 126-year-old banner that has been a source of division for generations...
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Out of the past: July 1
(Out of the Past ~ 07/01/20)
Cape Girardeau would cash in on riverboat gambling under a Boyd Gaming Corp. development plan; in its first year of operation, Boyd would pay out nearly $1.7 million combined to Cape Girardeau city, the local school district and two civic organizations -- Colonial Cape Foundation and the Greater Cape Girardeau Historical Association -- if the gambling venture attracts 860,000 customers as envisioned; the city would receive nearly $1 million of that; in return, Boyd wants the city to give it exclusive riverboat gambling rights for the next 15 years.. ...
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Business briefs
(B Magazine ~ 07/01/20)
Work on the Missouri's National Veterans Memorial project in Perryville, Missouri, has earned Robinson Construction a national Excellence in Construction(R) Eagle Award, which will be presented during ABC Convention 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee, Aug. 18. The EIC awards program is the industry's leading competition that honors both general and specialty contractors for innovative and high-quality merit shop construction projects...
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Cape police report 7/1/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/01/20)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 500 block of Bellevue Street. n Assault was reported in the 1200 block of Perry Avenue. n Assault was reported in the 400 block of South Ellis Street...
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8th Grade Graduation at Guardian Angel School
(Submitted Story ~ 07/01/20)
The original date of 8th grade graduation was Saturday, May 9, 2020 for Guardian Angel School. It finally got to happen on Saturday, June 6 at the 6 pm Mass at Guardian Angel Church. Although they finally had their graduation, they had missed their 8th grade retreat, AR trip to the Cardinal game, their last music program, their last class Mass in church,their graduation banquet hosted by the 7th grade class and the last 2 months of being the 8th grade class as a group. ...
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First Holy Communion at Guardian Angel Parish
(Submitted Story ~ 07/01/20)
A very special day for several second grade students from Guardian Angel Parish was on Saturday, June 13. Due to social distancing in church and having 10 First Communicants, a special Mass was held at 10:30 am that day to celebrate their First Holy Communion. ...
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