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Change of venue for Kasten
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Kasten, founded in 1895 manufacturing clay face brick and diversifying in the intervening 127 years to a variety of products and services, told the Southeast Missourian it consolidated its Cape Girardeau location into its operations in Jackson at 713 Kasten Drive late last month...
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Missouri attorney general seeks journalism school records
(State News ~ 09/06/22)
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed an open records request seeking correspondence between two journalism professors connected to the University of Missouri and the executive director of a fact-checking group. In a move that appears to be unprecedented in Missouri, Schmitt, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, filed a request in June asking for three years of emails sent and received by the professors while they worked at the Columbia Missourian...
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Two children die, five others injured in New Madrid Co. crash
(Local News ~ 09/06/22)
MARSTON, Mo. — Two Memphis, Tennessee, children were killed, and five others injured in a two-vehicle crash Friday in New Madrid County. According to the state Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 12:01 p.m. on Interstate 55, 2 miles south of Marston, as a northbound sport utility vehicle driven by Startisha M. Brown, 34, of Memphis failed to yield and pulled into the path of a northbound International operated by Daniel L. Wiggins, 55, of Pineville, Louisiana...
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'Giving Day' aims to offers support to first responders, families
(Local News ~ 09/06/22)
Blue Springs, Missouri-based HeroFund USA, a not-for-profit established in 2016, is holding a series of "Giving Day" initiatives in cities in three states this week, including Cape Girardeau. Officials of the organization, registered with Missouri Secretary of State John "Jay" Ashcroft's office, said on its website HeroFund USA "was founded to meet the expanding needs of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical personnel and their loved ones by providing direct funding for preventative/safety measures and equipment.". ...
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Fatalities up double-digits in MoDOT's Southeast District
(Local News ~ 09/06/22)
Missouri Department of Transportation's 25-county Southeast District has seen 89 fatalities on state roadways thus far in 2022, as of Aug. 28. The figure is up 11.3% from the 80 deaths recorded during the first eight months of 2021. n Cape Girardeau: 7...
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Brickwood Boutique — Cape Girardeau native Edmonds started small and grew
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Christen Edmonds, owner and proprietor of women's clothing store Brickwood Boutique, has a new location in Cape Girardeau at 430 Broadway‚— known as Scout Hall. The business is by no means new, however. Edmonds, a 2009 Cape Girardeau Central High School graduate, started Brickwood in April 2016 in the Indie House, a couple of blocks away at 605 Broadway...
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Manifolds on Main Street car show returning to downtown Cape
(Local News ~ 09/06/22)
The largest car show between St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee, returns to Cape Girardeau on Sept. 18. The 44th Manifolds on Main Street Car Show presented by River City Rodders and Old Town Cape regularly brings in hundreds of attendees to downtown Cape Girardeau...
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Sponsored: Life Insurance Awareness Month
(Insiders Advice ~ 09/06/22)
September is here, and that means it’s Life Insurance Awareness Month. Most people understand and value the benefits of life insurance: In the case of a tragedy, the death benefit proceeds can provide financial peace of mind and freedom. There are many reasons to purchase life insurance, including but not limited to replacing income, paying off debt, educational expenses for children and covering funeral services. ...
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Prayer 9-6-22
(Prayer ~ 09/06/22)
Bless us and keep us, O Lord, and may your face shine down upon us. Amen.
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SAPA is having dangerous impact on crime in Cape Girardeau
(Paid Letter ~ 09/06/22)
Today, Governor Parson opens a special session of the General Assembly. Very special, in fact, because it allows him to use your tax dollars to grandstand on what he hopes will be the hottest issues defining the 2022 campaign -- tax cuts and agricultural support. He hopes you will forget about his failed leadership on multiple fronts. Let's start with crime...
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Why relationships are best when we take time to work on ourselves
(Column ~ 09/06/22)
We've all heard that relationships take work, and it's true. When love is at its best it is a verb. Our relationships have meaning when we value them enough to actively protect, nurture and honor their places in our lives. But what many people get wrong about relationships, particularly romantic love and marriage, is not realizing that to foster a relationship we must also work on ourselves...
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Shooting back at President Biden
(Column ~ 09/06/22)
How much does President Biden dislike America? Let us count the ways. Last week, our phony uniter-in-chief called about half of the country -- Republicans and all red-hatted supporters of Donald Trump -- semi-fascists. His press secretary -- the person who has the impossible job of trying to clarify, excuse or walk-back Biden's daily gaffes and deranged attacks on his fellow Americans -- said later that the president was not exaggerating by using the political f-word...
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Taking from the working class, giving to the laptop class
(Column ~ 09/06/22)
If you had any doubts that those in power have dropped the pretense of fighting for the working class, you can dispense with them after the Biden administration's latest concessions to the laptop class. From student loan forgiveness to subsidies for people who drive pricey electric cars and profitable semiconductor company CEOs, this administration is working hard to shower its friends with handouts paid for by hardworking lower-wage Americans...
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Cape business licenses
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Business license applications have been received by the City of Cape Girardeau's Community Development Department: n Trey Anton Paige of Cape Girardeau for Crown Jewel, 1629 Broadway, a barbershop-based vending machine company n Cora Turrell Reed of Sikeston, Missouri, for Bodacious Crab Legs, a food truck specializing in fish and assorted seafood...
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Craig Clippard promoted by Saint Francis
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Craig Clippard, RPh, has been promoted by Saint Francis Healthcare System to manager of the Healing Arts & Specialty Pharmacy. Clippard, a University of Missouri-Kansas City graduate, started with Saint Francis in 2004 as a staff pharmacist.
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Julie Riley assumes new role at Saint Francis
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Julie Riley, BSN, RN, has assumed a new role with Saint Francis Healthcare System as practice manager for Cape Gastroenterology Specialists, Center for Digestive Diseases and Cape Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine. Riley, who began her career with Saint Francis in 2011, received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Southeast Missouri State University...
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Matt Underwood promoted by health system
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Matt Underwood has been named director of facilities management by Saint Francis Healthcare System, assuming his new responsibilities last month. Underwood has worked for Saint Francis since 2009 and became manager of facilities management eight years ago...
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Edward Meixner joins Saint Francis
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Edward Meixner Jr., MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, a Southeast Missouri State University graduate holding both nursing bachelor's and master's degrees from SEMO, has joined Cape Physician Associates (CPA), a Saint Francis Medical Partner. He will serve CPA as a nursing practitioner...
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Zachary Barker joins Ferguson Medical group
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Zachary Barker, D.O., a Southeast Missouri State University graduate and a primary care physician, has joined Ferguson Medical Group in East Prairie, Missouri, Barker's hometown. Ferguson Medical, a Saint Francis Medical Partner, also has locations in Scott City, Sikeston and Charleston, Missouri...
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Laura Coalter Parker named to food bank board
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Laura Coalter Parker, president and partner at Coalter Insurance Group in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Perryville, has been named to Southeast Missouri Food Bank Board of Directors. The Sikeston-based food bank provides food to 143 charitable and disaster-relief programs in the region...
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Marcus Theatres join rivals in wooing audiences
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Marcus Theatres, based in Milwaukee, operator of the 14-screen Marcus Cape West Cinema in Cape Girardeau, joined AMC and Regal movie chains Saturday in a one-day ticket price cut to $3. Saturday was the first-ever National Cinema Day, and more than 3,000 participating movie theaters marked the occasion with Saturday's deeply discounted pricing...
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Anthem makes donation to SEMO Food Bank
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Anthem, the largest for-profit managed health care company within the Blue Cross/Blue Shield association, presented a $100,000 check last week to Sikeston, Missouri-based Southeast Missouri Food Bank. The check presentation, part of Hunger Action Month's kickoff, included a Thursday local mobile food pantry sponsored by Anthem, which served 155 households, 93 which had never before attended a SEMO Food Bank distribution...
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Saint Francis Home Health wins recognition
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Saint Francis Home Health announced receipt of a five-star patient survey rating from Medicare's Care Compare in recognition of SFHH's "commitment to developing a personalized plan of care to each patient and delivering consistent, quality care."...
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Old Town Cape unveils 2022 Xmas ornament
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Old Town Cape has announced the former B'Nai Israel Synagogue in downtown Cape Girardeau is the organization's 2022 Christmas ornament. OTC said the latest ornament is the 26th in a series with only 228 items produced this year, and is available for $30 with a stand or $25 without one...
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B Magazine Difference Makers to be recognized this week
(Editorial ~ 09/06/22)
Our regional business publication, B Magazine, recently released its annual Difference Makers edition. Unlike the other five editions of the publication each year, which center on long-form storytelling of major business issues, this one largely focuses on a group of individuals who have made their mark in big ways throughout Southeast Missouri...
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Groundbreakings, ribbon-cutting, coffee
(Business ~ 09/06/22)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce and Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce will play host to the following events this week: n 11:30 a.m. today, Houck Multiuse Complex groundbreaking, 1118 Broadway. n 4 p.m. Wednesday, First Missouri State Bank ribbon cutting, 2480 E. Main St., Jackson. Additionally, the Cape Chamber will host the following: n Noon on Wednesday, Celebrations Restaurant's 25th anniversary groundbreaking, 615 Bellevue St...
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Births 9/4/22
(Births ~ 09/06/22)
Daughter to Samuel D. Brown III and Jalishia R. Draper of Sikeston, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 10:37 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Name, Samiyah Sha'Nyc. Weight, 7 pounds, 10 ounces. Eighth child, fourth daughter. Draper is a machine operator with Alan Wire. Brown is the son of Sammy and Glenda Brown of Sikeston. He works for Big River Steel...
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Michael Roberds
(Obituary ~ 09/06/22)
Michael Dana Roberds, 42, of Millersville died Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, surrounded by his family and many friends. Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Fruitland Community Church in Fruitland. Memorial service will be at 5 p.m. Saturday at the church, with Pastor Mike Parry officiating...
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Marjorie Martin
(Obituary ~ 09/06/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Marjorie Ann Martin, 78, of Perryville passed away Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, at her home. She was born April 7, 1944, in Perryville, daughter of John and Mary Schemel Blechle. She and Wayne Martin were married Jan. 4, 1964, in Perryville...
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Allen Korando
(Obituary ~ 09/06/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Allen R. Korando, 84, of Perryville died Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. Visitation will be from 7:30 to 9:20 a.m. today at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral Mass will follow at 10 a.m. today at Christ the Savior Catholic Church in Brewer, Missouri, with the Rev. Mark Pranaitis, C.M., officiating. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville...
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William Howard
(Obituary ~ 09/06/22)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. — William Earl Howard, 55, of Marble Hill died Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, surrounded by his family and friends. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pulliam Cemetery near Scopus, Missouri...
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Chile's Boric tries to turn page after constitution fails
(International News ~ 09/06/22)
SANTIAGO, Chile -- After voters in Chile rejected a progressive constitution that would have fundamentally changed the country, political leaders on Monday started working on finding a path forward to reform the current charter which dates back to the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet...
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UN refuge agency rushes aid to Pakistan amid raging floods
(International News ~ 09/06/22)
ISLAMABAD -- The U.N. refugee agency rushed in more desperately needed aid Monday to flood-stricken Pakistan as the nation's prime minister traveled to the south where rising waters of Lake Manchar pose a new threat. Two UNHCR planes touched down in the southern port city of Karachi and two more were expected later in the day. ...
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Southwest China quake leaves 46 dead, triggers landslides
(International News ~ 09/06/22)
BEIJING -- At least 46 people were reported killed and 16 missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China's southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a COVID-19 lockdown...
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Russia revokes media license of top independent newspaper
(International News ~ 09/06/22)
MOSCOW -- A court in Moscow on Monday upheld a motion from Russian authorities to revoke the license of a top independent newspaper that for years has been critical of the Kremlin, the latest move in a months-long crackdown on independent media, opposition activists and human rights groups...
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Medicaid extensions for new moms grow, may run into limits
(National News ~ 09/06/22)
States around the country are making it easier for new moms to keep Medicaid in the year after childbirth, a time when depression and other health problems can develop. But tight government budgets and the program's low reimbursement may ultimately limit this push or make it hard for women with extended coverage to find doctors...
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'Tale of two borders': Mexicans not seen at busy crossings
(National News ~ 09/06/22)
YUMA, Ariz. -- As hundreds of migrants line up along an Arizona border wall around 4 a.m., agents try to separate them into groups by nationality. "Anyone from Russia or Bangladesh? I need somebody else from Russia here," an agent shouts and then says quietly, almost to himself, "These are Romanian."...
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17 states weigh adopting California's electric car mandate
(National News ~ 09/06/22)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state's strictest-in-the nation new rules requiring all new cars, pickups and SUVs to be electric or hydrogen powered by 2035...
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Liz Truss set to become new UK Conservative prime minister
(International News ~ 09/06/22)
LONDON -- Liz Truss has been elected as the Conservative Party's new leader, the party announced Monday, and she will take office today as Britain's new prime minister to steer the country through an acute cost-of-living crisis. The 47-year-old Truss, who is currently foreign secretary, beat former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak after a leadership contest in which only about 170,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. ...
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Canadian police: 1 suspect in stabbings found dead
(International News ~ 09/06/22)
WELDON, Saskatchewan -- One of the suspects in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has been found dead, and his injuries are not self inflicted, police said Monday as they continued the search for a second suspect...
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Ukraine says nuclear plant offline after Russian shelling
(International News ~ 09/06/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Europe's largest nuclear plant was knocked off Ukraine's electricity grid Monday after its last transmission line was disconnected as a result of a fire caused by Russian shelling, the facility's operator and the U.N. atomic watchdog said...
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Biden visits swing states as midterm crunch begins
(National News ~ 09/06/22)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden hit the campaign trail to boost Democrats as crunch time ahead of the midterm elections kicked off, visiting the swing states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to mark Labor Day with trade unionists he hopes will turnout in force for his party in November...
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Man charged in jogger abduction kidnapped attorney in 2000
(National News ~ 09/06/22)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The man charged with kidnapping a Tennessee woman jogging near the University of Memphis last week spent 20 years behind bars for a previous kidnapping. U.S. Marshals arrested 38-year-old Cleotha Abston on Saturday after police detected his DNA on a pair of sandals found near to where Eliza Fletcher was last seen, according to an arrest affidavit. Police also linked the vehicle they believe was used in the kidnapping to a person at a residence where Abston was staying...
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Judge grants Trump bid for special master in FBI document search
(National News ~ 09/06/22)
WASHINGTON -- In a legal victory for former President Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also temporarily halted the Justice Department's own use of the records for investigative purposes...
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OPEC+ makes trim to world oil supplies as prices fall
(International News ~ 09/06/22)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, made a small trim in their supplies to the global economy Monday, underlining their unhappiness as recession fears help drive down crude prices -- along with the cost of gasoline, to drivers' delight...
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Out of the past: Sept. 6
(Out of the Past ~ 09/06/22)
Volunteers are being credited with the completion of Scott City's newest community event; the first Railroad Day attracts more than 400 people who witness the dedication of a historical marker and pageants, all in front of the city's newest tourist attraction: a refurbished 1978 Southern Pacific Railroad caboose; the event commemorated the town's heritage as a railroad hub...
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Community Cookbook: Goulash, by Phyllis Johnson from the Golden Angels in Cape Girardeau
(09/06/22)
Recipes tell the stories of communities and the people who shape them. Each recipe is more than a list of ingredients and steps: It is a written legacy of the individual who created the dish, their family and history. This monthly series highlights one of these legacies and gives readers the chance to create the recipe themselves...
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Pop Culture Happenings: September
(09/06/22)
September history saw the U.S. play a queen’s gambit to beat the communists. Later, we finally had a place where everyone knows your name, and then, some candles burned out long before their legend ever did. 1972 A chess prodigy by age 14 and named a grandmaster at 15, Bobby Fischer went on to become chess world champion at age 29 on Sept. ...
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Spirituality: Truing
(09/06/22)
I am standing in front of a contraption that looks like a vise got mixed up with a bunch of threaded shafts and knobs, then grew arms. In my hand is a triangle-shaped little block of nickel-plated steel marked “Park Tool SW-7,” short for “spoke wrench seven.” A nipple and spoke at a time, I’m releasing the tension from a bicycle wheel...
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Senior Moments: Last First Day
(09/06/22)
You may have heard someone say there’s a first time for everything. My first time walking through the doors of Oak Ridge School took place when I was five. I wish I remembered it. Knowing myself, I probably spent all morning getting breakfast stains on my shirts and chasing my cats. I was most likely upset not because I was starting school, but instead, because I couldn’t spend all day at my nana’s house. I didn’t know then I was beginning the next 13 years of my life...
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The Best Books Club: A cautionary tale
(09/06/22)
Mistakes. Destruction. Selflessness. Forgiveness. Four concepts I’ve pondered more frequently since, a couple of years ago, entering into what experts say is probably the final quarter of my life. From discussions with friends, I know I’m not alone in that regard...
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Health + Wellness: Live Longer, Live Stronger
(09/06/22)
One of the very surprising things I discovered early in my studies is that “good nutrition” is so much more than the foods we choose! Yes, as the saying goes, “We are what we eat” when it comes to building the foundation for health and longevity, but there are so many other factors that set the stage within us to make it possible for us to process and assimilate nutrients in the best possible ways. ...
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