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Signal improvements at U.S. 61/Veterans Memorial Drive
(Local News ~ 06/07/22)
Beginning Monday, the flashing yellow arrow at U.S 61 and Veterans Memorial Drive in Cape Girardeau will be in use, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. This signal is just east of the Center Junction diverging diamond interchange. ...
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One dead after vehicle carrying gunshot wound victims crashes
(Local News ~ 06/07/22)
SIKESTON, Mo. — A vehicle with two individuals who suffered gunshot wounds was involved in a crash Sunday night in Sikeston, leaving one dead. According to Sikeston Department of Public Safety Sgt. Tyler Rowe, officers responded to Main and Malone streets for a motor vehicle crash at 9:06 p.m. Sunday. Officers found a tan passenger car lying on its passenger side and a blue truck, both of which sustained extensive damage from the collision...
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Area students compete at international science fair; Jackson's Luker honored
(Local News ~ 06/07/22)
Three young Southeast Missourians have returned after competing recently at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Atlanta. Kaden Luker and Emma Shields of Jackson High School along with Hiren Parekh of Saxony Lutheran competed in the event...
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Jackson aldermen OK marketing of wastewater bond issue to city voters
(Local News ~ 06/07/22)
By a unanimous 7-0 vote, the Jackson Board of Aldermen voted Monday to hire Cape Girardeau's BOLD Marketing to help sell a more than $10 million wastewater treatment plant bond issue to the public. City administrator Jim Roach told the Southeast Missourian a no-tax increase referendum will go before municipal voters Aug. 2...
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GOP lawmaker Holly Thompson Rehder of Scott City pens memoir
(Local News ~ 06/07/22)
This story is updated. Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder of Scott City (R-27) is coming out with a book later this summer titled "Cinder Girl: Growing Up on America's Fringe." The 320-page memoir, which publisher Bombardier Books calls "a towering literary triumph which melds searing and tragic personal history with an incredible story of resilience, hope and civic success," will be out in hardcover and on Kindle on Aug. 9...
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Pop Culture Happenings: June
(06/07/22)
Looking back, it’s easy to wonder where the time went. Science has figured out how to get some of it back, even if it’s only a second here and there. Let’s use those seconds to indulge in some nostalgia about our favorite alien and wizard. 1972 · 50 years ago...
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Cape Airport service in holding pattern
(Local News ~ 06/07/22)
The Cape Girardeau City Council won't be making a decision on a new carrier to service the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport for at least another couple of weeks. On Friday, the Airport Advisory Board announced its plans to recommend the City Council accept Contour Aviation's proposal to take over carrier services from SkyWest. But on Monday night, council members approved a motion to table the discussion on the airport...
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Sponsored: How to weather 2022’s decline in the stock market
(Insiders Advice ~ 06/07/22)
One thing you are probably not enjoying is seeing your account balances being reduced due to the stock and bond markets declining in value. Obviously, the headline topic and cause of this decline is the heightened level of current inflation. This is thrusting some people into panic-selling of their portfolios...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/07/22)
Today is Tuesday, June 7, the 158th day of 2022. There are 207 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 7, 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples...
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Prayer 6-7-22
(Prayer ~ 06/07/22)
O Lord God, may those in turmoil experience your perfect peace. Amen.
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America at a crossroads
(Column ~ 06/07/22)
"Who are we? Where are we going?" These are fundamental questions that Monsignor James P. Shea, president of the University of Mary in North Dakota, asked repeatedly while speaking at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty's recent annual dinner. We witness slaughters of children in school, of people in a grocery store. ...
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Stopping future school shootings starts at home
(Column ~ 06/07/22)
Why is it that whenever we dig into the details of a mass shooting we wind up finding nothing but screw ups? Police, schools, mental health officials, parents -- they've all messed up in ways to make mass shootings possible or deadlier. At the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, we learned that police responded within minutes but then stood around for almost an hour in the hallway while the shooter was barricaded in a classroom and still killing children...
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Why working together should matter to us all
(Column ~ 06/07/22)
We have a bamboo problem at our house. The previous owners planted it and while it's great for privacy, it's also super invasive. It has gotten to the point where unless we adopt a panda family, we need to eradicate the bamboo forest in our backyard...
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Speak Out 6-6-22
(Speak Out ~ 06/07/22)
A recent Speak Out caller said the moments of silence after mass shootings have been on the part of Republicans. Well, then answer this very simple question that liberals and Democrats are so relieved no reporter has the intelligence to ask. Why, if Democrats are so concerned about gun violence, didn't they pass a law in the entire two years the Democrats had Obama in the White House and a majority in both houses? When you can answer that, you can start pointing fingers at Republicans!...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 6/7/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/07/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. June 5 n Medical assists were made at 10:55 a.m. on South Sprigg Street; 12:18 p.m. on Broadway; 7:26 p.m. on Good Hope Street; 8:19 p.m. on South West End Boulevard. n At 2:27 p.m., fire alarm on South Pacific Street...
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Cape Girardeau Police report 6/7/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/07/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Siemers Drive. n A warrant arrest was reported on Bloomfield Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on North Kingshighway...
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Lenora Ziegler
(Obituary ~ 06/07/22)
BENTON, Mo. -- Lenora Lou Ziegler, 72, of Benton, loving mother of two and adoring wife to husband Roy Ziegler, passed away unexpectedly in the early hours of June 4. She was born in Oct. 26, 1949, in Dexter, Missouri to Gene and LouElla Jeffries. She grew up surrounded by her large family -- she had three brothers and six sisters. Lenora was influenced by her family to be a loving and caring woman, always giving her time to others and she incorporated that into her motherhood...
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Marjorie Walker
(Obituary ~ 06/07/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Marjorie Walker, 83, of Perryville died Sunday, June 5, 2022, at the Camelot Nursing and Rehab Center in Farmington, Missouri. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Young Funeral Home and from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville...
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Scott Taylor
(Obituary ~ 06/07/22)
Scott Alan Taylor, son of the late Richard Lee and Linda Mae Taylor, was born Sept. 17, 1975, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life Friday, June 3, 2022, in Cape Girardeau at the age of 46 years. Besides his mother, Scott is survived by a son, Scott Alan Taylor II of Cape Girardeau; daughter, Katherine (Kathleen) Elizabeth Taylor of Cape Girardeau; brother, Richard (Angela) Lee Taylor II of Morley, Missouri; sister, Michelle Lynn Taylor of Miner, Missouri; and grandchild, Liam Taylor...
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Ray Shock
(Obituary ~ 06/07/22)
Floyd "Ray" Shock, 83, of Jackson passed away Saturday, June 4, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Ray was born July 2, 1938, in Austin, Arkansas, to the late Clarence and Beatrice Burns Shock. He and Nancy White were married at Lynwood Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau on July 9, 1992...
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Herbert Prater
(Obituary ~ 06/07/22)
THEBES, Ill. -- Herbert Clifton "Buddy" Prater, 92, of Thebes passed away Sunday, June 5, 2022, at Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 24, 1930, in Cache, Illinois, son of Herbert and Ollie Busby Prater. He and Francis Houchens were married Nov. 1, 1951, in Blytheville, Arkansas. She passed away Sept. 2, 2008...
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Frances Moore
(Obituary ~ 06/07/22)
BENTON, Mo. -- Frances "Becky" Moore, passed away peacefully Monday, June 6, 2022. at her home in Benton with her husband and family by her side. Frances was born Nov. 5, 1937. to Thomas Marshall and Eva Mae Davidson Hensley at the family home in Benton. She was united in marriage to Roy William Moore Sr. on May 20, 1956, celebrating 66 years of marriage...
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Peggy Kelley
(Obituary ~ 06/07/22)
Peggy A. Kelley, 63, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 4, 2022, at Southeast Hospital. Cremation rites will be accorded. No services will be held at this time. Arrangements have been entrusted to Crain Funeral Home.
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Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal
(National News ~ 06/07/22)
DETROIT -- Elon Musk is threatening to walk away from his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot and fake accounts. Lawyers for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the threat in a letter to Twitter dated Monday that the company disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
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Biden orders emergency steps to boost U.S. solar production
(National News ~ 06/07/22)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar manufacturers and declared a two-year tariff exemption on solar panels from Southeast Asia as he attempted to jumpstart progress toward his climate change-fighting goals...
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In blow to Biden, Mexico president to skip Americas Summit
(National News ~ 06/07/22)
LOS ANGELES -- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed Monday that he will skip the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, dealing a blow to the U.S.' efforts to rally governments to work together to address surging migration in the hemisphere...
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Ukraine recovers bodies from steel-plant siege
(International News ~ 06/07/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia has begun turning over the bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance against Moscow's invasion...
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Crowds honor WWII veterans at Normandy D-Day celebrations
(National News ~ 06/07/22)
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France -- When D-Day veterans set foot on the Normandy beaches and other World War II sites, they express a mix of joy and sadness. Joy at seeing the gratitude and friendliness of the French toward those who landed June 6, 1944. Sadness as they think of their fallen comrades and of another battle now being waged in Europe: the war in Ukraine...
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U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal over McCloskeys' law licenses
(State News ~ 06/07/22)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the husband-and-wife attorneys whose law licenses were placed on probation for pointing guns at racial injustice protesters outside their St. Louis home in 2020...
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Cape Girardeau Evening Lions Club Welcomes Two New Members
(Submitted Story ~ 06/07/22)
Cape Girardeau Evening Lions Club Secretary, Lion Kory Thoma (l) and Club Membership Chair, Lion Jake Leet (r) introduce new members, Lions Lindsey Riley and Amanda Koehler at the 30th Annual Banquet held at the Knights of Columbus located in downtown Cape...
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Out of the past: June 7
(Out of the Past ~ 06/07/22)
Making way for a bank, Eagle Excavation this week demolished the former Airline building, most recently housing the Golden Dragon Restaurant, at 217 N. Kingshighway; the lighted, revolving, 4-foot world globe that stood high atop the structure and the Golden Dragon sign are all that remain, purchased by Les Lindy Jr., owner of Lucky Find Antiques at Gordonville...
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A Look Back: June
(06/07/22)
Commerce Clowns, Published June 11, 1990 Every parade needs clowns, so these women of Commerce, Mo., dressed the part for the town’s bicentennial celebration, along with three younger ones. From left are Sam Wright with Katlin Vetter, Nita Brazel with Eric Scheper and Glenna Wright with Joshua Wright...
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The Best Books Club: A mystery to solve
(06/07/22)
I owe my love for mystery books to my older sister and Osterloh’s Book Store in Cape Girardeau. When I was in second grade, I borrowed a Nancy Drew book from her bookshelf when she was at a sleepover. I was hooked, and every time I saved enough of my allowance, I walked downtown to Main Street with my grandmother and bought the next book in the series. I’ve loved mysteries ever since...
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Senior Moments: Reflections on Graduating From High School
(06/07/22)
As I write this, the internal countdown that’s been ticking away inside me for the past four years is five hours away from running out. In just five hours, I’ll be one person in a line of more than 100, in a blue gown that becomes suffocating after 10 minutes, the ugliest hat I’ve ever worn and so many decorative things around my neck I feel like a Christmas tree. ...
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Five Social Security Resources That Can Protect Elders From Scams
(Submitted Story ~ 06/07/22)
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is on June 15. On this day, communities, seniors, caregivers, governments, organizations, and the private sector unite to prevent the mistreatment of and violence against older people. Social Security scams are widespread across the United States. Scammers use sophisticated tactics to deceive you into providing sensitive information or money. They target everyone – especially the elderly – and their tactics continue to evolve...
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Trail of Tears Composite Squadron Competes in the National Civil Air Patrol High-Altitude Balloon Challenge
(Submitted Story ~ 06/07/22)
Cape Girardeau, MO – The Trail of Tears Composite Squadron is one of 176 Civil Air Patrol Squadrons from around the country and one of only 4 from Missouri who have registered to compete in this year’s High-Altitude Balloon Challenge. The squadron’s cadets are responsible for designing an experiment or experiments that fit into a 50-mL centrifuge tube and has a total weight under 40 grams. The cadets’ projects are currently in the design phase...
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