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Two arrested in Cape County for alleged DWI
(Local News ~ 10/23/21)
Two people were arrested Thursday in Cape Girardeau County for alleged driving while intoxicted A Cape Girardeau man was arrested Thursday night within the county for alleged driving while intoxicated. According to a state Highway Patrol report, Jreice Harrington, 23, was taken into custody shortly after 10 p.m. for alleged DWI...
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Local domestic violence survivor shares her story
(Local News ~ 10/23/21)
Leslie Washington didn't plan to move to Cape Girardeau, but she moved into a local shelter for abused people to avoid her violent ex-husband. Having survived domestic and gun violence, she recounts her past to help others. "I mean, I'm grateful for his nieces and nephews," she said of her ex-husband's relatives. ...
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VintageNOW brings the energy, fundraising excellence
(Community ~ 10/23/21)
The Safe House of Southeast Missouri held the 11th annual VintageNOW fashion show Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. This year's theme was "A Tale of Time: 1920 to 2021," featuring fashion, music, world news and entertainment from the past 100 years, and guests were encouraged to dress in attire from their favorite decade. ...
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Hotshots reopens after temporary closure
(Local News ~ 10/23/21)
Hotshots Sports Bar & Grill reopened at 15 and 17 N. Main St. on Thursday evening after being closed earlier in the week because of structural issues with the building. A representative of the business said Friday officials took immediate steps to shore up the building's front facade and reopened after city officials and a structural engineer approved the measures...
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Learning taxidermy
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
I'm not real sure how old I was when I saw an advertisement in one of the magazines Mom and Dad subscribed to for me. It was an ad describing how one could learn how to do taxidermy work, or stuff birds and animals and fish and all critters. It was a nine-lesson course, and it seems like it was for nine weeks, but then it could have been nine months. It's been more than 60 years ago. It was from J.W. Elwood down in Lincoln or Omaha, Nebraska...
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'Threat' against 'Central High School' not targeted at local school
(Local News ~ 10/23/21)
Three people are in custody after a social media “threat” made against "Central High School," which prompted Cape Girardeau authorities to investigate the matter.
- Diverging diamond interchange opens at Center Junction (Local News ~ 10/23/21)
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Wildwood: Former home of presidents
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
One of the most historic homes in Cape Girardeau is on the Southeast Missouri State University north campus. It was given the descriptive name of "Wildwood" by President Dr. W.W. Parker's wife in 1923. The rambling home has rustic beginnings back to the 1860s, when the two-story stone wine cellar (still a part of the home) was used for wine making from 1865-79 on the land of Michael Dittlinger, Civil War soldier and judge, who bought the property in 1865. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/23/21)
Today is Saturday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2021. There are 69 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica...
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Brazel-Kersey
(Engagement ~ 10/23/21)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Larry Rand "Randy" and Michelle Thompson Brazel of Charleston announce the engagement of their daughter, Natalie Lenn to Leighton "Trey" Harmon Kersey III, son of Leighton "Leigh" Harmon Kersey, Jr., and Teresa Mabe Kersey of Elko, Georgia...
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Club news 10-24-21
(Community News ~ 10/23/21)
The Town & Country FCE club met on Oct. 14 at the University of Missouri Extension Center in Jackson. Darlene McCain presented a game "Name the Product" to members. Sue Jones won the prize of a fall throw pillow. Roll call was given by Jones, secretary, and she also read the September minutes. The minutes were approved as read. Brenda Pender, treasurer, gave the report on finances and collected "Pennies for Friendship."...
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Avoid common mistakes in family history research
(Community ~ 10/23/21)
Many things hinder family history research. The first of these is accepting others' conclusions without question. This has always been a problem, but has become worse with the internet. There is an expression from Cold War days: "Trust, but verify." Use existing family trees for clues, and always examine the records that can support or disprove them. Above all, don't just pass along what you find in others' family trees. Errors and wrong information become no more accurate by repetition...
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GT Adopt Sweettart 10-24-21
(Community ~ 10/23/21)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary This pretty little girl is Sweettart. She is 6 months old and is waiting for the perfect, loving home. If you are ready for a rewarding experience, come see us at Safe Harbor. Call (573) 243-9823.
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The autum yellow-winged grasshopper
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
You might think that a grasshopper is a grasshopper is a grasshopper. But you'd be wrong. There are hundreds of kinds of grasshoppers, and they exist in a variety of colors, designs and sizes. This grasshopper is called the autumn yellow-winged grasshopper. There are at least four kinds of yellow-winged grasshoppers in North America. Adult males flash their yellow hind wings during autumn when they fly. They sing in flight, sounding much like a speeded up cricket song...
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Senior Center Menus for Oct. 25-29
(Community ~ 10/23/21)
Monday: Lasagna or chicken cordon bleu, buttered corn, lettuce salad, whole-grain garlic bread and tropical fruit or chocolate cream pie. Tuesday: Ham and beans or chuck wagon steak with potatoes, zucchini and tomatoes, seasoned spinach, cornbread or biscuit and mixed fruit or spice cake with caramel icing...
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Continue
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
I recently discovered the song "Airplane" by The National Parks, and it has been a gift. It's simple and marvelous, and you should look it up when you finish reading this. Here's what it says: "I've been a farmer where nothing grows. Like a sailor when no wind blows. ...
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Consider your ways as year closes
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
October is the month of fear. Scary movies, haunted houses, ghosts, goblins and zombies. The scariest thing about October, though, is not the 5-year-old dressed up as the Wicked Witch of the West but that there are at this time of writing fewer than 75 days left in 2021. The shortness of days makes today the perfect time to consider your ways...
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FYi 10-24-21
(Community ~ 10/23/21)
PC Medical Centers is collecting carbon monoxide detectors for Fire Prevention Month. For donating, your name will go in a drawing for cool prizes. Eisleben Lutheran Church in Scott City is having a to-go/pickup-only chili and chicken noodle dinner 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 24. For more information, go to lutheranchurchscottcity.org or call (573) 264-2762...
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Dozens missing in Nepal as floods, mudslides kill over 100
(International News ~ 10/23/21)
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepalese authorities on Friday searched for dozens of people missing in this week's heavy rains, floods and landslides, as survivors complained they were yet to receive any government help. The death toll has crossed 100 in the country's eastern and western parts, said police spokesperson Basanta Bahadur Kunwar...
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China: No Taiwan concessions after Biden comments
(International News ~ 10/23/21)
BEIJING -- China on Friday said there is "no room" for compromise or concessions over the issue of Taiwan, following a comment by U.S. President Joe Biden that the U.S. is committed to defending the island if it is attacked. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin reasserted China's longstanding claim that the island is its territory at a daily briefing after Biden made his comment a day before at a forum hosted by CNN...
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Greenpeace chief warns of 'greenwashing' at climate talks
(International News ~ 10/23/21)
BERLIN -- The head of environmental group Greenpeace on Thursday warned against efforts by countries and corporations at the forthcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow to "greenwash" their ongoing pollution of the planet. The summit hosted by Britain has been described as "the world's last best chance" to prevent global warming from reaching dangerous levels, and is expected to see a flurry of new commitments from governments and businesses to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases...
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Ethiopian airstrikes in Tigray force UN flight to turn back
(International News ~ 10/23/21)
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Ethiopian military airstrikes on Friday forced a United Nations humanitarian flight to abandon its landing in the capital of the country's Tigray region, aid workers said, and a government spokesman confirmed that authorities were aware of the inbound flight...
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Biden, top Dems strategize; Pelosi says deal 'very possible'
(National News ~ 10/23/21)
Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden and Congress' top two Democrats strategized Friday trying to wrap up their giant domestic legislation, as the party continued scaling back the measure and determining ways to pay for it ahead of new deadlines...
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Nation's budget deficit hits near-record $2.77 trillion
(National News ~ 10/23/21)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.77 trillion for 2021, the second highest on record but an improvement from the all-time high of $3.13 trillion reached in 2020. The deficits in both years reflect trillions of dollars in government spending to counteract the devastating effects of a global pandemic...
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U.S. intel says China could dominate advanced technologies
(National News ~ 10/23/21)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials issued new warnings Friday about China's ambitions in artificial intelligence and a range of advanced technologies that could eventually give Beijing a decisive military edge and possible dominance over health care and other essential sectors in America...
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Supreme Court doesn't block Texas abortion law
(National News ~ 10/23/21)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November. The justices said Friday they will decide whether the federal government has the right to sue over the law. ...
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Where are the workers? Cutoff of jobless aid spurs no influx
(National News ~ 10/23/21)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many people, they argued, would then come off the sidelines and take the millions of jobs that employers were desperate to fill...
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Is Trump's grip on the GOP weakening?
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
Republican politicians can be forgiven for thinking that the GOP is Trump's world and they only live in it at his sufferance. He not only survived Jan. 6 and his second impeachment -- he has thrived since. Trump's rallies are still remarkably well-attended, he is making progress in his project of killing the careers of Republicans who supported his impeachment, and big majorities of Republicans tell pollsters they want Trump to run for president again...
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Why Cape Girardeau needs to support the use tax
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
On Nov. 2 you are being asked to vote and support the use tax to cover out-of-state sales and Internet sales. This community has been very supportive of the City of Cape Girardeau and its various needs throughout the years and has passed various sales taxes to support very worthy projects...
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Progressives versus independent contractors
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
Despite being a politician all his life, and never having worked in a blue-collar job, President Joe Biden declared, "I'm a union man," when he announced his presidential campaign at a Teamsters union hall in Pittsburgh in April 2019. What our president really loves is big government and political power, and there is no more reliable money trough for Democrats than unions...
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Why goldenrod doesn't deserve its bad rap
(Column ~ 10/23/21)
Cooler weather has finally arrived here in the Midwest. It's time for trips to your favorite pumpkin patch, u-pick apple orchard and corn maze. Outdoor activities are glorious in a pair of jeans and a comfortable sweatshirt. It's my favorite time of year, and yet I cannot stop sneezing...
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Prayer 10-24-21
(Prayer ~ 10/23/21)
O Lord Jesus, we lift our eyes to you, our Deliverer and Savior. Amen.
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Fire report 10-24-21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/23/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Oct. 20 n Medical assists were made at 7:15 a.m. on William Street; 11:13 a.m. on Brink Avenue; 1208 p.m. on Briarcliff Drive; and 6:46 p.m. on Pioneer Drive. n At 1:51 a.m., lift assist on Jefferson Avenue...
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Out of the past: Oct. 24
(Out of the Past ~ 10/23/21)
Gerd Sollid of Norway, who was the Sagamore queen her senior year at Southeast Missouri State College in 1951, is back in Cape Girardeau to celebrate her 45th graduation anniversary with classmates; Sollid, one of the first international students to attend Southeast, received a scholarship from the Missouri Association of Women's Clubs in 1949; she graduated with a degree in education two years later...
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Births 10-24-21
(Births ~ 10/23/21)
Daughter to Daniel and Katherine Graham of Chaffee, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, 4:12 p.m., Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. Name, Vivian Elise. Weight, 5 pounds, 9 ounces. First child. Mrs. Graham is the daughter of Jeanna Horman-Nance and Jeff Martin of Chaffee and Christopher and Jackie Nance of Whitewater. ...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda for 10/25/21 meeting
(Local News ~ 10/23/21)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. today 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Minutes of stated meeting of Oct. 21, 2021 Communications/reports -- other elected officials n COVID-19 Update: In an effort to keep Cape Girardeau County residents safe and aware regarding the status of the virus, Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director Mark Winkler will be issuing an update at County Commission meetings. ...
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Jenny Zhong
(Obituary ~ 10/23/21)
Jenny Zhong, 4-year-old daughter of Fang "Tom" Zhong and Meng "Helen" Li of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, at St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau...
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Rachael Young
(Obituary ~ 10/23/21)
Rachael Helen Young, 86, of Cape Girardeau passed from this life Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, at Southeast Hospital surrounded by her family. She was born Nov. 3, 1934, in Garden City, Kansas, to Leslie Harold and Helen Halleck Tubbs Pennington. During the western Kansas dust bowl days, her family moved to the Labette County, Kansas, area where other relatives were living. ...
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Tom Walker
(Obituary ~ 10/23/21)
DELHI, Calif. -- Charles Thomas "Tom" Walker of Delhi passed away Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. He was born Oct. 28, 1932, in Cape Girardeau to John Perry Walker and Francis Pearl Kennedy. He was raised and went to school in Cape Girardeau, where he met Delores McGraw. When they were kids, he fondly remembers always teasing her when they were on the church bus...
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Allan Reinagel
(Obituary ~ 10/23/21)
KELSO, Mo. -- Allan Wayne Reinagel, 67, of Kelso died surrounded by his loved ones Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, at NHC-Health Care in Desloge, Missouri. He was born Nov. 4, 1953, in Cape Girardeau to Leroy Lawrence and Bernice Cecilia Glastetter Reinagel. He married Barbara Joyce Smith on Jan. 31, 1975...
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Lester Maevers
(Obituary ~ 10/23/21)
Lester Maevers, 86, of Jackson passed away Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. The youngest of five siblings, Lester was born Sept. 7, 1935, in Tilsit to August and Amanda Nagel Maevers. He and Ruth Ann Hartle were married Jan. 12, 1958, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. They were blessed with three sons who left a legacy of grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
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Joanna Johnannes
(Obituary ~ 10/23/21)
Joanna Johannes, 76, of Jackson, died Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, in St. Louis. Visitation will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 30, at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Memorial service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 30 at the funeral home...
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Carmen Hoffman
(Obituary ~ 10/23/21)
Carmen C. Mainer Hoffman died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, in Jackson at the age of 93. She was born in McClure, Illinois, Feb. 6, 1928, to Leslie Elden and Flossie Willie Mainer. Carmen and Alvin Daniel "A.D." Hoffman were married Aug. 11, 1950. They had been married 49 years when A.D. passed away Nov. 19, 1999...
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James Grindstaff
(Obituary ~ 10/23/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- James Edward Grindstaff, 83, of Perryville died Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 8 to 10 a.m. Tuesday at United Methodist Church in Perryville. Funeral will follow at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church, with the Rev. Kevin Baron officiating. Burial will be at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Perryville...
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Police report 10-24-21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/23/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Devon M. Webb, 28, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and failure to dim headlights...
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Out of the past: Oct. 23
(Out of the Past ~ 10/23/21)
Another 240 acres of prime industrial property may soon be added to the Greater Cape Girardeau Development Co.'s portfolio; the development group last weekend signed a purchaser's agreement with Armstrong World to purchase a large tract of land adjacent to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, about a half-mile from Interstate 55...
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