- Photos: Zach Williams performs at SEMO District Fair (Local News ~ 09/15/21)
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Inmate escapes in Scott County
(Local News ~ 09/15/21)
Scott County authorities are looking for an escaped inmate. A news release from Scott County Sheriff's Office said Austin Mason, 20, escaped from Chaffee (Missouri) Police Department on Monday night. Mason was in custody for numerous felony charges and was last seen wearing a blue shirt and black shorts or pants...
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Cape Girardeau police investigating two Monday night shootings
(Local News ~ 09/15/21)
Cape Girardeau police are currently investigating two Monday night shootings occurring within 20 minutes of each other. According to Sgt. Joey Hann, officers responded to reports of shots fired in the 2800 block of WhitenerStreet at 7:20 p.m. Monday. Officers were still canvassing the scene when at 7:40 p.m., they responded to another report of shots fired in the 2000 block of Brink Avenue...
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Ringing Bell of Remembrance for 9/11
(Local News ~ 09/15/21)
A member of Jackson Fire Rescue rings a bell as he enters the Sept. 11, 2001, monument, located at Fire Station 1 in Jackson. Jackson Fire Rescue held a memorial march and service Saturday to honor those who died in the terrorist attacks 20 years ago. Members of Jackson Fire Rescue marched 3.43 miles from Kohlfeld Distributing to Fire Station 1, where firefighters read the names of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001. More photos of the event are in a gallery at semissourian.com
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Cape Girardeau native Blattner to be sworn in to lead Fontbonne
(Local News ~ 09/15/21)
Nancy H. Blattner, a 1976 graduate of Notre Dame High School, will be inaugurated Sunday as president of Fontbonne University in Clayton, Missouri. Blattner has been serving in the role since July 2020 but her formal swearing-in was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a release from the St, Louis County Catholic institution stated Tuesday...
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SEMO art faculty, students collaborate on Shipyard Music Festival project
(Local News ~ 09/15/21)
Printmakers Hannah and Blake Sanders married at a collaborative art event in St. Louis after living in multiple places across the country. They competed for the same printmaking position at Southeast Missouri State University in 2014. Now, they are both art educators at the university and work at Catapult Creative House in Cape Girardeau...
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Haskin, Fox push internet sales tax vote
(Local News ~ 09/15/21)
Kenneth Haskin, Cape Girardeau city manager since July, has vowed to have a singular focus over the next seven weeks -- getting a 2.75% use tax, or internet sales tax -- approved by voters on the first Tuesday in November. "One of the things that struck me when I arrived (in Cape Girardeau) is that the tax is not already in place," Haskin said, in remarks Monday to the city's Parks and Recreation Advisory Board...
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Parents voice mask-mandate concerns at Jackson school board meeting
(Local News ~ 09/15/21)
Parents with children in Jackson School District schools spoke at the chool board meeting Tuesday night to voice their concerns with the district's mask policy. Jackson's current mask policy highly recommends students and staff to wear face coverings but does not require them to do so...
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A Century of History: The residents and history of three Sikeston historical homes
(09/15/21)
In the early 20th Century, Sikeston is said to have had more millionaires per capita than any other city in America its size. Many of the homes still standing in Sikeston were built by these millionaire families in the 20th Century or by wealthy farmers in the 19th Century, and some are still occupied by the same families. Behind the ornate walls of three historical homes, residents reveal the century of history associated with their space and their special connection to it...
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Prime Time Living: I Quit!
(09/15/21)
My parents raised me to not be a quitter. When I was 8 years old, I told them I wanted to stop taking piano lessons just a few months after starting. They explained it was wrong to walk away from something just because it was no longer fun. Throughout my childhood, I watched my parents follow through on commitments and finish projects I was sure they’d love to walk away from. ...
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Prayer 9/15/21
(Prayer ~ 09/15/21)
Praise be to you, O Lord God and Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Amen.
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Shipyard Music Festival returns this weekend
(Editorial ~ 09/15/21)
Southeast Missouri's big outdoor music event of the year returns this weekend. Following a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Shipyard Music Festival will be held Friday and Saturday outside Century Casino in Cape Girardeau. The two-day music festival, produced by rustmedia, features 18 bands -- a mix of nationally touring acts and local talent. ...
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Why Democrats can't pay for their ambitions
(Column ~ 09/15/21)
Benjamin Franklin was right about death and taxes, but new taxes only become inevitable when a Democrat is elected president, and here we are. The House Ways and Means Committee released an outline of tax proposals to offset President Biden's jaw-dropping spending plans, and it's the expected assortment of tax increases on business and the affluent that Democrats like to pretend can fund a social welfare state of the sort that Bernie Sanders has long pined and advocated for...
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Biden's stance will feed pandemic culture war
(Column ~ 09/15/21)
Maybe President Biden should handle COVID-19 the way he's handled Afghanistan. It's a strange thought, given how badly he botched the U.S. withdrawal. But at least Afghanistan Joe had a clear idea about what we needed to do. COVID Joe has no such exit strategy. He's making it up as he goes...
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Norm Macdonald, former 'Saturday Night Live' comic, dies
(Entertainment ~ 09/15/21)
NEW YORK — Comedian Norm Macdonald, a former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer who was "Weekend Update" host when Bill Clinton and O.J. Simpson provided comic fodder during the 1990s, has died. Macdonald, who was 61, died Tuesday after having cancer for nine years, but keeping it private, according to Brillstein Entertainment Partners, his management firm in Los Angeles...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 9/15/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/15/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 8 n Medical assists were made at 9:17 a.m. on Jefferson Avenue; 9:22 a.m. at Good Hope and Morgan Oak streets; 10:58 a.m. on Themis Street; 11:44 a.m. on West Cape Rock Road; 1:33 p.m. on Ranchito Drive; 4:59 p.m. on North Sprigg Street; 8:43 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; and 10:38 p.m. on William Street...
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Cape Girardeau County Police report 9/15/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/15/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n Christine M. Stanton, 31, of Gypsy, Missouri, was arrested on a Scott County warrant for failure to appear for possession of controlled substance...
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Robert Hurt
(Obituary ~ 09/15/21)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Robert Dewayne Hurt, 53, of Jackson, son of the late Robert Hurt and Mary Ann Cox Howell was born Dec. 8, 1967, in St. Louis and departed this life on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, at his home surrounded by his wife and stepdaughter. On May 10, 2020, he married Myra Miller in Cape Girardeau. She survives of the home...
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Doug Hamm
(Obituary ~ 09/15/21)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- William "Doug" Hamm, 79, son of the late William Avery Hamm and Dorothy Elizabeth Walter Hamm was born on May 11, 1942 in Little Blue, Missouri, and departed his life on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, at his home in Chaffee. On July 5, 1961, he was united in marriage to Shelby Jean McVay in Oak Ridge. She preceded him in death on May 4, 2013...
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Emily Fuemmeler
(Obituary ~ 09/15/21)
Emily Fuemmeler, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 18, 1947, in Cape Girardeau to Robert and Dora Faircloth Grueneberg. She and Stephen H. Fuemmeler were married Jan. 26, 1974, at Scott City. He preceded her in death March 26, 2016...
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Deborah Fornkohl
(Obituary ~ 09/15/21)
Deborah Fornkohl, 68, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021, at her daughter's home in Scott City. She was born Nov. 26, 1952, in Mississippi County, Missouri, to Jesse W. and Edna Marie Vanpool Teague. She married Larry Fornkohl on Dec. 31, 1990, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death Feb. 23, 2019...
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John Burian
(Obituary ~ 09/15/21)
John Burian, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. John was born July 28, 1941, in St. Louis to Edward and Edith Burian. John went to Sigel Grade School and graduated from McKinley High School in 1959. He was a well-rounded student, earning such honors as class president and valedictorian of his senior class and lettering in swimming and football. ...
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Ollie Brewer
(Obituary ~ 09/15/21)
BENTON, Mo. -- Ollie Massingille Brewer, 87, of Benton passed away Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, at her home. She was born March 9, 1934, in Celina, Tennessee, to the late Porter and Velma Neely Massingille. On Oct. 6, 1952, in Corinth, Mississippi, she married Joe William Brewer, who preceded her in death Nov. 28, 1984...
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Barbara Barklage
(Obituary ~ 09/15/21)
Barbara Hoche Barklage, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021, at Morningside Assisted Living in Mayfield, Kentucky. She was born April 30, 1927, in Cape Girardeau to David Edmund and Frances Betts Hoche. She was a sixth generation Cape Girardeau resident, who was raised in the family home built in the early 1800s that still stands at 151 S. Spanish St...
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Secretary of State Blinken defense of Afghan policy clouded by al-Qaida warning
(National News ~ 09/15/21)
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday sought to parry bipartisan congressional criticism of the Biden administration's Afghanistan withdrawal, as new intelligence estimates warned al-Qaida could soon again use Afghan soil to plot attacks on the United States...
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Census: Relief programs staved off hardship in COVID crash
(National News ~ 09/15/21)
WASHINGTON -- Massive government relief passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic moved millions of Americans out of poverty last year, even as the official poverty rate increased slightly, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The official poverty measure rose 1 percentage point in 2020, with 11.4% of Americans living in poverty, or more than 37 million people. It was the first increase in poverty after five consecutive annual declines...
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Nicholas, now a tropical depression, still douses Texas, Louisiana
(National News ~ 09/15/21)
SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas -- Tropical Storm Nicholas weakened to a tropical depression early Tuesday evening after slowing to a crawl over southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana but still drenching the area with flooding rains. The downgrade came the same day Nicholas blew ashore as a Category 1 hurricane, knocking out power to a half-million homes and businesses and dumping more than a foot of rain along the same area swamped by Hurricane Harvey in 2017...
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COVID-19 cases climbing, wiping out months of progress
(National News ~ 09/15/21)
COVID-19 deaths and cases in the U.S. have climbed back to levels not seen since the winter, erasing months of progress. The cases -- driven by the delta variant combined with resistance among some Americans to getting the vaccine -- are concentrated mostly in the South...
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State House Republicans pick speaker designee
(State News ~ 09/15/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republicans on Tuesday named suburban St. Louis Rep. Dean Plocher as their next pick for Missouri House speaker. The full Missouri House must vote on GOP Speaker Rob Vescovo's successor during the 2023 session. But Republicans have a sizable majority, and the GOP's designee is expected to be officially elected by the full House...
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Emails reveal conflict over Missouri LGBTQ history exhibit
(State News ~ 09/15/21)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri State Museum employees tried to defend an LGBTQ history exhibit to state officials before it was removed from the state Capitol after being displayed only four days, according to emails between museum and state officials...
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Mo. cave with ancient Native American drawings sold
(State News ~ 09/15/21)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- A Missouri cave containing Native American artwork from more than 1,000 years ago was sold at auction Tuesday, disappointing leaders of the Osage Nation who hoped to buy the land to "protect and preserve our most sacred site." A bidder agreed to pay $2.2 million to private owners for what's known as "Picture Cave," along with the 43 hilly acres surrounding it near the town of Warrenton, about 60 miles west of St. Louis...
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Missouri K-12 test scores drop statewide amid coronavirus
(State News ~ 09/15/21)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri's K-12 students did worse in all subject and grade-level statewide tests during the coronavirus pandemic, data released Tuesday show. Roughly 45% of public school students scored at least proficiently at English in the 2020-2021 school year, according to results provided by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. That's down from the closer to 49% of students who tested that well in the 2019 school year...
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Out of the past: Sept. 15
(Out of the Past ~ 09/15/21)
The Rev. Paul J. Short is installed as pastor of St. Andrew Lutheran Church; the service is followed by a reception in the fellowship hall; Short, a native of Katy, Texas, has served churches in Texas, Kentucky and British Columbia. The Rev. Brendan P. Dempsey is installed as pastor of First Presbyterian Church; leading the service is Emily Wigger, moderator of Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery, and the Rev. Robert C. Reynolds, executive presbyter; a reception follows in the church's fellowship hall...
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S. M. WILSON & CO. AND MISSOURI SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION SKILLED CENTENNIAL AWARDS DEADLINE OCTOBER 1
(Submitted Story ~ 09/15/21)
St. Louis, Mo., Sep. 15, 2021 - With labor shortages in the A/E/C industry at an all-time high, S. M. Wilson & Co.’s trademarked construction career education program, SKILLED®, partnered with the Missouri School Board Association (MSBA) to launch the Centennial Awards to inspire the next generation...
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