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Funding to expand broadband access in region
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
An Federal Communications Commission auction will result in millions of dollars in broadband internet access investment in Southeast Missouri. All locations in Missouri that were eligible for the auction will be receiving access to gigabit-speed broadband, according to an FCC release...
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Pearl Harbor remembered during river ceremony
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
American Legion Post 63 Chaplain Dennis Woeltje, left, leads a prayer during the Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony Monday on the Cape Girardeau riverfront. ...
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Former Cape Central teacher booked for allegedly sexually assaulting student in 2009
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
A former Cape Girardeau Central High School teacher was booked last week on a charge of second-degree statutory sodomy by the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office. Freeman Fouts, 35, was booked Dec. 1 and faces charges for allegedly sexually assaulting one of his former Cape Girardeau Central students...
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Five virus-related deaths reported in Stoddard County
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
Six new COVID-19-related deaths were reported by area health officials Monday. Five of the deaths came from Stoddard County, Missouri, and pushed the county’s death toll from the disease associated with coronavirus to 52. To date, 2,329 county residents have contracted the virus, while 2,114 have recovered...
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Cape Police Department introduces new K-9, Freedom
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department has added a new member to the force. On Thursday, the department announced the addition of a new K-9, Freedom, a 20-month-old, 80-pound German shepherd. The addition of Freedom brings the number of K-9s at the department back up to four after a previous K-9, Dallas, was euthanized July 24 because of an acute non-compressive nucleus pulposus extrusion, which caused spinal failure and paralysis, and left him in a constant state of discomfort and pain...
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Cape Mayor Fox returns to duties after bout of coronavirus
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
Cape Girardeau’s mayor, Dr. Bob Fox, was diagnosed with COVID on Nov. 9 and has resumed his duties as the city’s top elected official. “I’ve still got a cough now and then, (but) I’m thankful that we didn’t have the severe respiratory symptoms that are part of the disease,” said Fox, 72, whose wife, Connie, also contracted the coronavirus...
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Show Me Hope Missouri counselors provide material aid, emotional support
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
A local office of crisis counselors at Show Me Hope Missouri have been answering the call to help those in the area affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic through counseling and providing various resources. “Take advantage of it, this program won’t be here forever, thankfully,” said Kyle Schott, local program director and outreach specialist...
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Next Project honors young people trying to make difference
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
Young people improving our and their world. It’s the driving concept behind The Next Project, a program identifying young leaders and matching them with those who can not only mentor but help realize their ideas and ideals. Eleven members of the inaugural class were announced Monday evening at an event at Rock ’n’ Roll Drive-In, and the young people have already hit the ground running...
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Cape City Council considers allowing out-of-state police applicants
(Local News ~ 12/08/20)
In a meeting held remotely via Zoom because of COVID-19 concerns, the Cape Girardeau City Council gave first reading approval Monday to a new ordinance allowing out-of-state applications for the city’s police department. The way the city’s employment policy is currently written, only people who live in Missouri may be hired as officers in Cape Girardeau...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/08/20)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Dec. 8, the 343rd day of 2020. There are 23 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor...
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Argentina and the wrong lessons about abortion
(Column ~ 12/08/20)
Argentina -- the home country of Pope Francis -- is currently in a fight over abortion. The pope has even weighed in -- talking, among other things, about making it clear that abortion isn't a religious issue. It's a fact issue. A matter of science. When a woman is pregnant, there is a child developing inside her. It's not a leap of faith to say it; we see it on sonograms. She is a mother and will always be, whatever happens to that child. That's why women mourn when they suffer miscarriages...
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Area police reports 12/8/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/08/20)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 500 block of South Spring Avenue. n Assault was reported in the 1800 block of Longview Drive. n Assault was reported in the 2800 block of Independence Street...
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Judith Williams
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Judith Ann Williams, age 79, passed away Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, at Advance Assisted Living in Advance, Missouri. She was born Dec. 8, 1941, in Bertrand, Missouri, daughter of the late Calvin "Son" and Annalee Wilkerson Singleton. She was a receptionist at H&R Block for over 20 years and was the director of Miner Baptist Daycare for 10 years. She was a member of Cape County Cowboy Church in Oak Ridge...
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Bebe Watkins
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
WILLARD, Mo. -- Bebe Florence Watkins, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Koch, was born Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1930, in Cape Girardeau and died Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, surrounded by her family as she went to be with the Lord. She was united in marriage to Billy Watkins, also of Cape Girardeau, on Oct. ...
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Don Thiele
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Don Eugene Thiele, 85, of Egypt Mills died Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, at his home. He was born Aug. 27, 1935, in Egypt Mills to Julius G. and Mildred Fornkohl Thiele. Don and Mary Jane Lange were married April 7, 1956, at Egypt Mills. He worked at Spartech Plastics Manufacturing for 25 years, retiring in 1997...
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Juanita Rees
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Juanita Rees, 82, of Cape Girardeau, passed away Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 29, 1938, in Peppertown, Arkansas, to Robert and Novella Neal Nelson. She attended Holcomb High School. She and Donald Rees were married Dec. 24, 1955, in Hernando, Mississippi. Three children were born to their union, Doug, Danny, and Penny...
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Dianna Morton
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Dianna Lee Morton, age 79, of Cape Girardeau passed away Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 17, 1941, in Granite City, Illinois, the daughter of Leroy and Thelma May Kurre Watkins. She and Ronald Raymond Morton married April 17, 1960. He passed away April 27, 2011...
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Ethel Jane Joy
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Ethel Jane Joy of Jackson died Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 90 years. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, Missouri.
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Charles Hanners
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Charles L. "Charlie" Hanners, 86, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 14, 1934, to Charley W. and Lottie Revelle Hanners, on the family farm, outside of Jackson. He and Gloria Ann Hellman were married June 23, 1956, by Rev. Jens Larson, at Sedgewickville Lutheran Church...
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Steve Glenn
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Steve Cary Glenn, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Steve was born Jan. 22, 1951, in Houston, Texas, to James Arthur and Naomi Bowman Glenn. He graduated from East Prairie High School, continuing his education at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau...
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Herbert Forrester
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Herbert G. Forrester, Sr. 87, of Jacksonville, Illinois, and formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, at Heritage Health in Jacksonville. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Friday, at Church of Our Saviour in Jacksonville. Due to the current pandemic, face mask and social distancing compliance will be required. There will be no visitation. A graveside service will be held at noon Saturday at St. Mary's Cemetery in Cape Girardeau, Missouri...
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Michael Eakins
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
Michael Richard Eakins, 70, passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in Delta Friday, Nov. 20. 2020. He had recently been placed in hospice following challenging years of COPD. He was born to Coy and Mary Moreland Eakins Aug. 1, 1950, and lived most his childhood in the Des Peres/Kirkwood, Missouri, area...
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David Dunker
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- David W. Dunker, age 73, of Perryville died Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Services for David will be private. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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U.S. schools go back and forth on in-person learning
(National News ~ 12/08/20)
New York City reopened classrooms to many of its youngest students Monday in what has become a frustrating, stop-and-start process in many school systems around the U.S. because of the surge in the coronavirus. The nation's largest school district, with 1 million students, had shut down in-person learning just two weeks ago but decided to bring back preschoolers and elementary school children after parents pushed for it and the mayor concluded it was safe to do so with beefed-up testing...
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COVID-19 forcing some jails, police departments in Missouri to close
(State News ~ 12/08/20)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- The coronavirus surge is creating problems for Missouri police departments and sheriff's offices, forcing some to temporarily close to the public and prompting others to relocate jail inmates. Springfield police on Monday shut down the lobby of the police station, citing "a staffing shortage, made worse recently due to the impact of COVID-19," according to a news release. ...
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Prayer 12/8/20
(Prayer ~ 12/08/20)
O Lord Jesus, we sing your praises and lift your name on high. Amen.
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Out of the past: Dec. 8
(Out of the Past ~ 12/08/20)
After hearing both sides of the issue, Missouri Farm Bureau Federation delegates reversed themselves and voted unanimously to oppose academic assessment standards outlined in Missouri's Outstanding Schools Act; the Farm Bureau's opposition to the standards is included in the organization's overall resolution on education issues; the resolution was passed earlier this week during the annual Farm Bureau Convention at Lake of the Ozarks; a presentation by state Sen. ...
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Sponsored: SHOP LOCAL: Achieve your wellness goals with Dr. Anne Heisserer
(Shop Local ~ 12/08/20)
Dr. Anne Heisserer, a Cape Girardeau native, began her mission to help people feel their best in 1996 in Nashville before moving to Southeast Missouri. After moving, Dr. Heisserer graciously invited patients into her home for private appointments before opening a practice in Cape Girardeau in 1997. ...
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Marie Robert
(Obituary ~ 12/08/20)
BENTON, Mo. -- Evelyn Marie Robert, 86, of Benton died Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, at Country Place in Scott City. She was born Sept. 22, 1934, to John Herbert and Eunice Marie Kirby Hency. Marie and Jordan "Gus" Theon Robert were married Sept. 20, 1956, at St. Denis Catholic Church in Benton...
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Distinguished Principal of the Year
(Submitted Story ~ 12/08/20)
Dr. Shawn Nix, principal at Kelly Elementary, was awarded the Distinguished Principal of the Year by the Southeast Region of the Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals. Area principals were nominated with the selected principal being announced on Friday December 4, 2020. Dr. Nix is now preparing to be a candidate for the Missouri Distinguished Principal of the Year. Interviews will take place at the 2021 leadership conference that will be held in early spring...
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Why reasonable people resist coronavirus rules
(Column ~ 12/08/20)
A perfect world. What does it look like? What does it consist of? And can just one thing break the deal? For nearly two decades, I taught the book "The Giver" to seventh-graders. I am currently doing another online book club of this book, which I also did three years ago. ...
- A look back (Local News ~ 12/08/20)
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