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Street Level asks Cape officials to consider funds for homeless
(Local News ~ 08/29/22)
A local not-for-profit organization is hoping to lobby the City of Cape Girardeau to build a homeless shelter. Street Level is focused on providing help and outreach to homeless individuals in Cape Girardeau. The ultimate goal for the organization is to get a shelter in place in the city, founder Allison Miles said. Currently there is no full-time shelter in Cape Girardeau...
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Ulysses Grant exhibit opens Friday in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 08/29/22)
An exhibit in celebration of the 200th anniversary of President Ulysses Grant's birth goes on display beginning Friday in downtown Cape Girardeau. Kellerman Foundation for Historical Preservation will host the 275-square-foot exhibit at the former Chrisman Art Gallery, 32 N. Main St...
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SEMO District Fair coming soon
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
SEMO District Fair is returning to Arena Park Fairgrounds in Cape Girardeau in less than two weeks. The eight-day event kicks off with the fair parade at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 10 from Capaha Park to the fairgrounds. Parade pre-entry is required by Sept. 7. Theme for 2022 is “No Time Like Fair Time.” ...
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Area food bank to take part in Feeding America events
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
Southeast Missouri Food Bank, headquartered in Sikeston and with a satellite office to open this fall in Jackson, will take part next month in Feeding America’s Hunger Action Month campaign. Using the 2022 theme “Food Shouldn’t Be an Impossible Choice,” food bank officials say mobile distributions will occur Thursday with Hunger Action Day slated later in September. ...
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New Restaurants — Cape Girardeau County
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center reported last week seven new restaurants have won approval through its environmental services process. Approved: Seven7; Ron’s Meat Shop, Spectrum Record Lounge, Abbey Road Christian Church, Burrows Family Concessions, Speck Pizza + Street Food and Oehl’s Bakery...
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New business coming to Cape Girardeau's Town Plaza
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
Buddy’s Home Furnishings, a Florida-based rent-to-own retailer specializing in furniture, appliances and electronics, plans to open a 7,500-square-foot store in Cape Girardeau’s Town Plaza Shopping Center at 2136 William St. by mid-to-late October, a Buddy’s spokesperson said Friday...
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SEMO prof David Yaskewich on recession, state income tax cut, loan forgiveness
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
The Southeast Missourian asked Southeast Missouri State University's David Yaskewich three questions about the current economy. Yaskewich, who has been on the SEMO faculty for 10 years, is the current chairperson of Southeast's Accounting, Economics and Finance Department...
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Sushi eatery to open this week in downtown Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
Spend a few minutes with Angel Carrasquillo, owner and proprietor of Omakase by Sushi by Angel -- expected to launch Thursday in Cape Girardeau's Scout Hall at 430 Broadway -- and you'll quickly discover you're talking to an energetic entrepreneur with impressive life experience on his resume...
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Russia, Ukraine trade claims of nuclear plant attacks
(National News ~ 08/29/22)
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine -- Russia and Ukraine traded claims of rocket and artillery strikes at or near Europe's largest nuclear power plant on Sunday, intensifying fears that the fighting could cause a massive radiation leak. Russian forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant soon after the war began and hold adjacent territory along the left bank of the wide Dnieper River. ...
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Judge plans to appoint special master
(National News ~ 08/29/22)
Former President Trump had asked for third-party review of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago resort by FBI earlier this month WASHINGTON -- A federal judge in Florida told the Justice Department on Saturday to provide her with more specific information about the classified records removed from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate and said it was her "preliminary intent" to appoint a special master in the case...
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Army program gives poor-performing recruits a second chance to succeed
(National News ~ 08/29/22)
FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- Chaz Andrews has wanted to join the Army since he was 19, but he has failed the service's academic test more than 10 times over the past decade. Now, at age 29, Andrews thinks he has a real shot to pass, thanks to a new Army program that gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards...
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Low fuel inventories cause special concern in US Northeast
(National News ~ 08/29/22)
PORTLAND, Maine -- Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said. Fuel supplies are lower than normal across the country for a variety of reasons, including the war in Ukraine. But it's the worst in the Northeast...
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Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in 'climate catastrophe'
(International News ~ 08/29/22)
ISLAMABAD -- Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country's climate minister called the deadly monsoon season "a serious climate catastrophe." Flash flooding from the heavy rains has washed away villages and crops as soldiers and rescue workers evacuated stranded residents to the safety of relief camps and provided food to thousands of displaced Pakistanis...
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US sails warships through Taiwan Strait in 1st since Pelosi
(International News ~ 08/29/22)
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy...
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NASA moon rocket on track for launch despite lightning hits
(National News ~ 08/29/22)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad. The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket is the most powerful ever built by NASA. It's poised to send an empty crew capsule into lunar orbit, a half-century after NASA's Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon...
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At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates facing mountain of debt
(National News ~ 08/29/22)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished. When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed $83,762 to cover the cost of her 2 1/2 year imprisonment for drug crimes...
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Richard Wild
(Obituary ~ 08/29/22)
Richard Wild, 81, of Mounds, Illinois, passed away Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 16, 1940, to Louis and Verda May (Thompson) Wild in Valmeyer, Illinois. Richard was a retired mail carrier for the U.S. ...
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Out of the past: Aug. 29
(Out of the Past ~ 08/29/22)
Kris Buchheister, a St. Louis native who has been an assistant gymnastics coach at the University of Missouri the past 11 years, has been named Southeast Missouri State University's new women's gymnastics coach; she succeeds longtime coach Bill Hopkins, who resigned in June after leading the Otahkians for 18 years...
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Business licenses
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
City of Cape Girardeau’s Community Development Department has received applications for three business licenses: n Edgar Becerril of Jackson for Mexico on Wheels LLC, a food truck with physical address of 3316 E. Main St., Apt. B, in Jackson. n Allen Michael Rhodes of Cape Girardeau for AutoVada, 622 S. Kingshighway, an auto sales business. n Enterprise Rent-a-Truck, 2080 Rusmar St....
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Chamber news
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will postpone First Friday Coffee until 7:40 a.m. Sept. 9 at Century Casino Event Center in acknowledgment of the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend. At 1 p.m. Friday, the chamber will host a ribbon-cutting at Kellerman Foundation for Historic Preservation’s second location, the former Chrisman Art Gallery at 32 N. Main St. Perryville Area Chamber of Commerce will hold Business After Hours at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Catalyst Business Center, 508 N. Main St. ...
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Thoma wins award from Cape Girardeau Lions
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
Kory Thoma, partner at Leet Eye Care, has won the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award from Lions Club International. Thoma, in addition to his work as an optometrist and as head boys basketball coach at Jackson High School, is a member of Cape Girardeau Evening Lions. ...
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Missouri state student debt ranking
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
Student debt in Missouri on average ranks at No. 25 among U.S. states, according to www.stacker.com in its analysis of Federal Reserve of New York data. Last week, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to forgive up to $10,000 in student debt for individuals with incomes below $125,000...
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Mortgage rates up, gas prices still falling
(Business ~ 08/29/22)
Mortgage rates leaped higher last week with Freddie Mac reporting the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.55% for the week ending Aug. 25, making it more expensive for Americans to buy a new home. A week earlier, the rate was 5.13%. A year ago, a 30-year FRM stood markedly lower at 2.87%. ...
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