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Notre Dame bingos suspended until February
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
An expected surge of COVID-19 cases has prompted Notre Dame Regional High School officials to suspend regularly scheduled bingo events at Bingo World, 823 Clark Ave. in Cape Girardeau, until Feb. 3. A release from the school stated the suspension will begin Sunday...
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Saint Francis to hold second annual live Nativity
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
Saint Francis Healthcare System will host its second annual live Nativity from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at the Saint Francis Cancer Institute, 211 Saint Francis Drive, Entrance 6, in Cape Girardeau. The roles of Mary, Joseph, wise men, shepherds and angels will be played by volunteers. The demonstration will feature several live animals, including cows, camels, four-horn sheep and a donkey...
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Traffic shift to occur Monday at Center Junction
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
Another traffic shift is coming at Center Junction. Beginning Monday, northbound Interstate 55 traffic will shift to one southbound lane as workers will begin demolishing the existing northbound bridge. Southbound traffic is already using one lane in the area...
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Cape County commissioners vote to accept repayment from Dutchtown promissory note
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
Cape Girardeau County commissioners voted Thursday to accept repayment of $8,000 from the unincorporated village of Dutchtown. In 1998, Cape Girardeau County issued a promissory note to Dutchtown for a flood control study the village was doing with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dutchtown needed to have local matching funds, which Cape Girardeau County provided...
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Thirteen coronavirus deaths reported in area
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
Area health officials reported the highest one-day death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday. Officials attributed 13 deaths to the disease associated with coronavirus. Eight of the deaths were in Cape Girardeau County (78 total). Of the Cape Girardeau County deaths, the ages of the patients were 50 to 59, one; 60 to 69, two; 70 to 79, one; 80 to 89, three; 90 to 99, one. ...
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Low water shouldn't disrupt Mississippi barge traffic
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau is forecast to fall to its lowest point in nearly three years later this month, but the river should remain navigable, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The river gauge at the Cape Girardeau riverfront stood at about 17.5 feet Thursday afternoon, dropping from a crest of nearly 21.4 feet a week earlier. By Dec. 17, the National Weather Service predicts it will fall to 10.3 feet...
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Sounds of the Season's 25th concert features past performances
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
The 25th annual Sounds of the Season concert, sponsored by SoutheastHEALTH Foundation, will be a bit different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than the usual live performance, this year's event will be a televised version of past performances hand-picked by the event's creator, Jerry Ford...
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Suspect indentified in Wednesday shooting incident in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
A man arrested for allegedly firing shots Wednesday has been identified by the Cape Girardeau Police Department as 17-year-old Isaiah Alexander Rose of Cape Girardeau. Rose was issued a warrant Thursday for felony unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, resisting a felony arrest and tampering with evidence...
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Rehder talks legislative priorities for next year
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
State Sen.-elect Holly Rehder (R-Scott City) will be sworn in to the upper chamber of the Missouri General Assembly Jan. 6, and said Thursday she has “pre-filed” legislation for the coming regular session on her signature issue: a statewide prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP).
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Islamic Center asks City of Cape to combine lots for future rebuild
(Local News ~ 12/04/20)
Cape Girardeau’s Planning and Zoning Commission has given unanimous approval to join together three lots at the behest of the Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau, P&Z chairman Bruce Skinner said. The commission voted 8-0 to recommend to the City Council three adjoining lots along West End Boulevard, all zoned C-1 (general commercial), be combined.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/04/20)
Today is Friday, Dec. 4, the 339th day of 2020. There are 27 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On Dec. 4, 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York. On this date: In 1875, William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled the country...
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Prayer 12-4-20
(Prayer ~ 12/04/20)
Great is your name, O Lord Jesus, in all the earth. Amen.
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Speaking up for voiceless victims of COVID-19 pandemic
(Column ~ 12/04/20)
Americans are well versed in the consequences for physical health from COVID-19. Newspapers brim daily with scary headlines alarming us of any risk that it might pose, no matter how minor or remote. But there are other nasty and less often discussed consequences brought on by this pandemic and by our collective reaction to it -- whether that's due to people locking themselves up at home out of fear of encountering others or government-ordered lockdowns...
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Area fall sports teams shine at state level
(Editorial ~ 12/04/20)
With schools shut down and activities canceled last spring, some questioned whether fall sports would begin in August. Thankfully, schools opened and sports were played with proper precuations in place. It's been a welcome bit of normalcy in a year with little. Not only were the games played, but several teams had stellar performances...
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Optimism growing for COVID relief bill as pressure builds
(National News ~ 12/04/20)
WASHINGTON -- Optimism about delivering long-sought COVID-19 relief is building on Capitol Hill after additional rank-and-file lawmakers voiced support for a bipartisan, middle-of-the-road plan taking shape in the Senate and as top congressional leaders connected on the topic for the first time in months...
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Vaccine rollout could ease crisis, but who gets it first?
(National News ~ 12/04/20)
Getting a COVID-19 vaccine to the right people could change the course of the pandemic in the United States. But who are the right people? As the decision looms for President-elect Joe Biden's incoming administration, a new analysis argues for targeting the first vaccines to the same low-income Black, Hispanic and Native American households that have disproportionately suffered from the coronavirus. ...
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Survivors remember Pearl Harbor at home this year amid virus
(National News ~ 12/04/20)
HONOLULU -- Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play in a Pearl Harbor football game as the sun came up Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, he spent the morning -- still wearing his football padding and brown team shirt -- scanning the sky as Japanese planes rained bombs on the U.S. Pacific Fleet...
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Wind fans wildfire in California canyons, residents flee
(National News ~ 12/04/20)
LOS ANGELES -- Powerful gusts pushed flames from a wildfire through Southern California canyons Thursday, one of several blazes that burned near homes and forced residents to flee amid elevated fire risk for most of the region prompting utilities to cut off power to hundreds of thousands...
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Out of the past: Dec. 4
(Out of the Past ~ 12/04/20)
Work continues on the new Country Mart, which will open in Jackson on Sunday; the Jackson store -- 46,000 square feet -- at the intersection of highways 25, 61 and 72, is the sixth Country Mart in Town and Country Grocers' Town and Country Division...
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States plan for vaccines as daily U.S. virus deaths top 3,100
(National News ~ 12/04/20)
States drafted plans Thursday for who will go to the front of the line when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available later this month, as U.S. deaths from the outbreak eclipsed 3,100 in a single day, obliterating the record set in the spring...
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Additional 170,000 COVID vaccine doses coming to Missouri
(State News ~ 12/04/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri's health department director Thursday announced the state is expected to get coronavirus vaccine doses for about 170,000 additional people this month. Director Randall Williams said 64,000 Pfizer vaccine doses and an additional 105,000 from Moderna are scheduled to arrive around Dec. 21. The state is expecting an initial 51,000 doses from Pfizer sometime before then...
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Judge dismisses criminal counts in Missouri duck boat deaths
(State News ~ 12/04/20)
LIBERTY, Mo. -- A federal judge has dismissed neglect and misconduct charges against three employees of a tourist boat that sank on a Missouri lake in 2018, killing 17 people. U.S. District Judge Doug Harpool filed an order Wednesday upholding a recommendation made in September...
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Deborah Spease
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
Deborah Lynn Ray Spease, 66, departed this life Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 24, 1954, in Cape Girardeau to the late Carl Wayne and Lois Phillips Ray. Debbie had retired from teaching kindergarten at Naylor, Missouri, R-II School. ...
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Marvin Popp
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
Marvin N. Popp, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 at the Lutheran Home. He was born March 21, 1930, in Altenburg, Missouri, to Eugene and Alma Popp. He and Virginia Schlegel were married April 12, 1958, at Cape Girardeau. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1954 to 1960...
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Frances McIver
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
Frances Mae McIver, daughter of the late William Russell and Myrtle Richards Russell, was born on Jan. 7, 1934, in Lamar, Arkansas, and departed this life on Dec. 1, 2020, at The Arbors at Auburn Creek in Cape Girardeau at the age of 86 years. McIver was a former hair stylist and owner of Frances Beauty Salon in Cape Girardeau. She attended LaCroix United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau. She was a member of the Veterans Ladies Auxiliary and the Red Hat Society...
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Lanny Koch
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
Lanny Keith "Chief" Koch, son of the late Marion Corbert Koch and Katherine Miller Koch was born May 12, 1945, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life on Dec. 2, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau at the age of 75 years. Mr. Koch proudly served in U.S. Navy aboard the USS Ticonderoga. Lanny was the owner/operator of Girardeau Stevedores and Contractors, Inc in Scott City...
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Judy Kennedy
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
Judy Kennedy, daughter of the Edward Pawlak and Wilma Pawlak was born on March 13, 1945, in St. Louis and departed this life peacefully surrounded by family at her residence in Scott City on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 at the age of 75 years. Kennedy was a former Medical Technician for Alternative Opportunities Assistant Living, member of the First Assembly of God Church in Scott City and a member of the Elks Ladies Auxiliary 639 in Cape Girardeau...
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Becki Gray
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
Becki Jo Gray, 61, of Jackson, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, after a two-year battle with cancer. She passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by her loving husband and three daughters. She was born March 26, 1959 in Waterloo, Iowa, daughter of Jerry and Pat Griffith Busey. She and John B. Gray, Jr. were married July 19, 1980 in St. Louis...
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Jean Burnett
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Jean Ann Dillworth Burnett, 86, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, at the Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. She was born Feb. 6, 1934, in Bloomfield, Missouri, the daughter of Earl Dillworth and Eunice Barfield Dillworth...
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Gerald Bell
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
Gerald (Jerry) Bell passed away on Nov. 24, 2020, at the age of 90. He was born in 1930 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Arthur and Juanita Bell. He spent his childhood in Kennett, Missouri, where he attended Kennett North School for 12 years and played on the basketball and football teams. ...
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Paul Abbott
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
Paul Abbott died peacefully in his sleep at Saint Francis Hospital on Dec. 1, 2020, following a brief battle with cancer. He was born Feb. 20, 1955, to Jerry and Glenda Abbott. He married Jane, and son, Asa, on Oct. 7, 2000. Paul graduated Cape Girardeau Central High School in 1973. He had several occupations, but the most consistent one was body work, which he first studied at The Academy...
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Nancy Hager
(Obituary ~ 12/04/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Nancy Lea Hager, 79, of Perryville died Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at her residence in Perryville. Visitation will be held 8:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Young Funeral Home. The funeral will be held at 11 Wednesday at the funeral homem with Deacon John Darin officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery...
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