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Wreck leaves about 200 without electricity Saturday night
(Local News ~ 05/03/21)
Approximately 200 people lost electric services Saturday night in Cape Girardeau as a result of a single-vehicle collision involving a utility pole. A four-door sedan struck the pole about 11 p.m. on Broadway near Penny Street, Cape Girardeau Police Department’s Sgt. Joey Hann said in a text message Sunday afternoon...
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Three injured in shooting at Pink Pony
(Local News ~ 05/03/21)
Three people sustained gunshot wounds in a shooting early Sunday at the Pink Pony nightclub in McClure, Illinois. According to the Illinois State Police investigative report, District 22 troopers responded to a reported shooting at 2:48 a.m. The three injured people were transported to area hospitals. According to the report, two of the victims were treated and released and the other remains in the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury...
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Human remains found in Cape
(Local News ~ 05/03/21)
Cape Girardeau police officers were dispatched Friday to the area of Giboney, Willow and Maple streets after receiving a call human remains had been found. The remains were in a decomposed state. The area where the three streets intersect has no residential housing, although there are homes and a park nearby...
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Average price of gas flattens in Missouri
(Local News ~ 05/03/21)
The statewide gas price average has flattened but is still more than a dollar higher than this time last year. According to the AAA Missouri Weekend Gas Watch, the statewide gas price average in Missouri is $2.66 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel. The price is the same compared to the same time last week but is $1.21 more per gallon compared this time last year...
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Elias Ace Hardware has new owner
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
Elias Ace Hardware, 1719 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, became Cory's Ace Hardware last week after it was purchased by Huskey Investments LLC. The new ownership took effect Friday. Cory Huskey, the new owner, was the store's manager the past three years and began working on the transition last summer with former owners Fred and Tammy Elias...
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Codefi seeks entries for 2021 1ST50K competition
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
Are you an entrepreneur with a great business plan but no startup funding? Then Codefi's 1ST50K may be able to help. Applications are being accepted online through May 31 for the 2021 1ST50K competition in which up to four startup companies will be selected to receive $50,000 in startup capital...
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Consumer spending up in most areas, except clothing
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
The nation's economy made huge rebounds in the first quarter of 2021, according to new data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Personal income in March increased $4.21 trillion, or 21.1%, while consumer spending jumped $616 billion during the month, a 4.2% increase over the previous month...
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The 'Rigdon's Special' races again in 'fun' event for all
(Local News ~ 05/03/21)
The world-renowned All-American Soap Box Derby is a dozen years shy of its centennial celebration, having had its origins in 1933 Dayton, Ohio. The Rigdon family of Cape Girardeau has its ties to the event nearly that long and its legacy continued Saturday as local residents David and John Rigdon served as “team owners” for 8-year-old Tate Diebold of Jackson, who drove the “Rigdon’s Special” in the annual event, which was sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Rotary Club...
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Perryville teenager begins training mustang for competition
(Local News ~ 05/03/21)
Almost 60 days ago, a 2 year-old wild horse — soon to be named Jade — and Kylee Lukefahr, 15, met at a horse holding facility in Illinois where Kylee and her mother, Misty Abbott, were trying to pick a mustang to compete with in Extreme Mustang Makeover...
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Illinois State Police investigating fatal traffic crash Sunday
(Local News ~ 05/03/21)
A single-vehicle traffic crash early Sunday left one person dead and another with non-life-threatening injuries. According to the Illinois State Police District 12 preliminary investigation, the crash occurred at 2:48 a.m. on westbound Illinois Route 146 at the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge in Alexander County. ...
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Employers ponder vaccination rules
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
Can a business require its employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations? That question is being asked more often as the COVID-19 vaccines have become available to virtually everyone older than 16 in the United States. Although there are no federal employment requirements for vaccinations, the question of whether a state, local government or employer mandates the inoculation of employees as a condition of employment is often a matter of state or other applicable law...
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Slow Food Southeast Missouri off to fast start in Cape
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
A group of local growers wants to bring Southeast Missouri back to its roots, literally. Slow Food Southeast Missouri, or Slow Food SEMO, launched on Earth Day last month with a mission to educate the region on clean, fair and sustainable foods. Part of that mission involves bringing back food from the past that's been forgotten, according to Lance Green, one of Slow Food SEMO's five board members...
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American universities have lost their prestige
(Column ~ 05/03/21)
Nothing is stranger than the contemporary American university. Not long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine and business, many of these meritocratic departments and schools remain among the top-ranked in the world...
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How Republicans lost interest in fighting big spending
(Column ~ 05/03/21)
Once upon a time, Joe Biden’s spending proposals would have launched mass demonstrations in opposition. Little else would have been talked about in conservative media, and ambitious Republican politicians would have competed with one another to demonstrate the most intense resistance, up to and perhaps including chaining themselves to the U.S. Treasury building in protest...
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Speak Out 5/3/21
(Speak Out ~ 05/03/21)
How about using the 10 Commandments as a way to live our lives, save lives, and rid the country of 99.9999% of the problems we are now witnessing on an hourly basis!!!???? End of discussion! ...
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Finalists for fall, winter sports announced for 8th annual Semoball Awards
(Editorial ~ 05/03/21)
Last week, 105 finalists from 13 sports categories were announced for this year’s Semoball Awards, the area’s top award show for high school sports. The fall and winter sports categories are football offense, football defense, boys soccer, boys swimming, girls swimming, boys cross country, girls cross country, girls tennis, volleyball, boys basketball, girls basketball, boys wrestling and girls wrestling...
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Building permit issued for work at Hot Shots
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
The City of Cape Girardeau reports issuing one commercial building permit last week. The permit was issued to Thornton's Handyman Services for the opening of a wall allowing Hot Shots Sports Bar & Grill, 15 N. Main St., to expand into an adjacent building. The work is being done at an estimated cost of $2,000...
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Business license application filed for bar's new ownership
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
Erik Harper of Jackson filed a business license application last week with the City of Cape Girardeau on behalf of Midpaw LLC, doing business as Shakers, 284 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau, in connection with an ownership change of the business, which was formerly owned by David Creech of Cape Girardeau...
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Chamber Notes — New gift shop and First Friday Coffee
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
A ribbon-cutting, hosted by the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday to mark the opening of Inspire Boutique, the new gift shop at Saint Francis Medical Center, 211 Saint Francis Drive. n The Cape Girardeau chamber's May First Friday Coffee will be Friday morning at the Century Casino Event Center. Doors open at 7 a.m. with a program beginning at about 7:40 a.m...
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People News — New positions for Sherrill, Powers, Siebert, Obradovic and Reeves
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
Occupational therapist Wynnette Sherrill has joined the therapy staff at Mid America Rehab Sports & Physical Therapy in Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Sherrill graduated from the occupational therapy program at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1998 and became certified in hand therapy in 2005. She has spent much of her career in the outpatient therapy setting, with an emphasis on the treatment of work-related and complex hand injuries...
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Tyson Foods provides grant to SEMO Food Bank
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
SIKESTON, Mo. — Tyson Foods, which has a production facility in Dexter, Missouri, recently selected the Southeast Missouri Food Bank in Sikeston to receive a grant valued at $40,000 to help fight food insecurity in the region. The funds will be used to support the mobile food pantry programs in Scott, Stoddard and Dunklin counties...
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Small Business Development Center offering free online workshops
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
The Small Business Development Center at Southeast Missouri State University is hosting a pair of free online workshops this month intended to help business owners strengthen their brands and development plans for strategic growth. The workshop times, dates, topics and registration information are:...
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Uptown Jackson merchants hosting event Thursday night
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
Merchants in uptown Jackson will hot a "Picnic Around the Square" from 4 until 8 p.m. Thursday. The event, which will take place along High Street between Main and Adams streets, will feature live music, food trucks and extended store hours by many of the participating merchants...
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Citizens Electric conducts virtual shareholder meeting
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Citizens Electric Corp., the Perryville, Missouri-based utility cooperative serving all of Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties along with eastern St. Francois and northern Cape Girardeau counties, held its annual shareholder's meeting Thursday...
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Survey seeks opinions for Jackson retail study
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
What sort of retail businesses would residents of Jackson and the surrounding area like to see added to their community? The City of Jackson and the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce want to know what you think. They've teamed up with NaviRetail, a retail consulting firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, to study the potential of retail development in Jackson, especially near the East Main Street and East Jackson Boulevard interchanges with Interstate 55 (exits 99 and 102)...
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Coalter Insurance opens Jackson branch
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
Coalter Insurance Group has established a new office at 120 S. Missouri St. in Jackson. The company, which also has offices in Cape Girardeau and Perryville, Missouri, specializes in commercial and personal insurance products, including auto, home, life, Medicare supplements and specialty lines for watercraft, recreation vehicles and similar items...
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Area McDonald's giving free beverages to educators
(Business ~ 05/03/21)
In recognition of National Teacher Appreciation Day, observed annually May 4, McDonald's restaurants throughout Southeast Missouri will offer free beverages to teachers through May 14. To qualify for free beverages, teachers must show a valid educator ID when ordering. No purchase is necessary. Offer is valid at participating location drive-throughs while supplies last...
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Louis Null
(Obituary ~ 05/03/21)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Louis A. "Doc" Null, 94, of Marble Hill passed away Friday, April 30, 2021, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 14, 1927, in Lutesville, Missouri, son of Leander H. and Louisa B. Beel Null. He and Mary Jean Elledge were united in marriage April 16, 1948...
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Mildred Chapman
(Obituary ~ 05/03/21)
Mildred Chapman, daughter of the late Edward Chasteen and Mildred Pauline Priest Chasteen, was born Jan. 12, 1941, in Rector, Arkansas, and departed this life Friday, April 30, 2021, at her home in Allenville at the age of 80 years. She was a member of New Life Fellowship Church of God of Prophecy in Delta...
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Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era
(Entertainment ~ 05/03/21)
WASHINGTON -- From Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Al Franken and Donald Trump, there's a rich history of celebrities trying out new careers in politics. The list could soon grow. In California, former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner is running for governor. ...
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Vaccination rates vary widely across Missouri and Kansas
(State News ~ 05/03/21)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Vaccination rates vary widely across Missouri and Kansas as officials work to persuade more people to get the coronavirus shots. Statistics on the vaccination campaign show some communities making good progress distributing the shots while other, often rural areas, lag behind. In Missouri, a 33-percentage point gap exists between the county with the highest vaccination rate and the lowest. In Kansas, that gap is 26 percentage points...
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Missouri latest state to thwart voter-approved policies
(State News ~ 05/03/21)
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers recently shut down attempts to pay for Medicaid expansion, in what is the latest example of a statehouse fighting to undo voter-enacted polices. Critics argued during a contentious debate in the state Senate on Thursday that voters didn't understand the potential cost of the federal health insurance program. ...
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Prayer 5/3/21
(Prayer ~ 05/03/21)
O Lord Jesus, we praise you, for where your Spirit is, we have freedom. Amen.
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Out of the past: May 3
(Out of the Past ~ 05/03/21)
Loyd Ivey grew up dirt poor in Bollinger County, Missouri; he left home at 16 and made a fortune in high-tech electronics; now he wants to return to Marble Hill, Missouri, and build a 40,000- to 60,000-square-foot plant at the city's industrial park, adjacent to the local airport; the plant initially would employ 50 workers and ultimately about 200 people; Ivey also plans to build a home in the Marble Hill area; he hopes to move back to Bollinger County this year...
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