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Faces of Southeast Missouri: Dan Woods
(09/09/22)
Public radio helps people learn about things they didn’t know they didn’t know about, KRCU general manager Dan Woods says. That leads to great conversation, creating a bond with other listeners who have heard the same stories. That ability to create connection, Woods says, is what he loves about radio...
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Route A in Scott County reduced for pavement repairs
(Local News ~ 09/09/22)
Route A in Scott County — between Route RA and U.S. 61, near Chaffee, Missouri — will be reduced as Missouri Department of Transportation crews make pavement repairs. A MoDOT news release indicated work will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday...
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Woman killed, two seriously injured in crash in New Madrid County
(Local News ~ 09/09/22)
NEW MADRID, Mo. — A New Madrid woman was killed and two others seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday in New Madrid County. According to the state Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 7:45 p.m. at the junction of Interstate 55 and U.S. ...
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Suspect found hiding in cotton field in New Madrid County
(Local News ~ 09/09/22)
NEW MADRID, Mo. — A suspect was taken into custody after law enforcement officers discovered him hiding in a cotton field. According to New Madrid County (Missouri) Sheriff Bud Cooper, on Tuesday an officer with the New Madrid County Sheriff's Office was assisting the Malden (Missouri) Police Department in the pursuit of a vehicle driven by Mark Parks. Parks had outstanding felony warrants from Dunklin County, Missouri...
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Jackson's Oktoberfest is coming
(Local News ~ 09/09/22)
Uptown Jackson Revitalization Organization announced Thursday the annual Uptown Jackson Oktoberfest celebration — featuring food, seasonal craft beers and shopping — will be held the first weekend of October: from 7 to 11 p.m. Oct. 7 and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 8...
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MMA fighter Ronald Coleman to give talk on 'The Ultimate Fight'
(Local News ~ 09/09/22)
Mixed martial arts fighter Ronald "The Servant" Coleman will be keynote speaker for The Men's Conference on Saturday at Connection Point Church. Starting at 4:30 p.m., 353 E. Deerwood Drive in Jackson, the event will have plenty of activities, according to lead pastor Chris Vaught. ...
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2022 Difference Makers honored
(Local News ~ 09/09/22)
Cape Girardeau City Councilman Robbie Guard shakes hands with Grant Skelton, who was selected as one of B Magazine's 2022 Difference Makers ...
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Material delays setback Capaha construction, close Broadway later than expected
(Local News ~ 09/09/22)
The renovations of Cape Girardeau's Penny-Capaha Drainage Improvement Project will force the closure of Broadway between North Sunset Boulevard and Penny Avenue beginning Sept. 19. The closure is expected to last two weeks, pending weather. Nip Kelley Equipment Co. ...
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Local British subject, former professor react to Queen Elizabeth II’s death
(Local News ~ 09/09/22)
When Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne of the United Kingdom after the death of her father, King George VI, more than 70 years ago, Missouri's Harry Truman was still president of the United States. Jeanette Lawson, associate director of development for KRCU Public Radio at Southeast Missouri State University, is a native of Scotland and has never known another British head of state...
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Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's monarch for 70 years, dies
(International News ~ 09/09/22)
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability in a turbulent era that saw the decline of the British empire and disarray in her own family, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. The palace announced she died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland, where members of the royal family had rushed to her side after her health took a turn for the worse. ...
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Prayer 9-9-22
(Prayer ~ 09/09/22)
We trust in your unfailing love, O God. Our hearts rejoice in your salvation. Amen.
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Alberta and Neil Dougan make big impact through estate gifts
(Editorial ~ 09/09/22)
A recent story in the Southeast Missourian highlighted the generosity of one local couple. Alberta Macke Dougan was a longtime history faculty member at Southeast Missouri State University. Her husband, R. Neil Dougan, served in the Marine Corps during Vietnam and was a journeyman for Local 562 of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union. Both died last year, but through their estate decided to leave nearly $4 million to various charities -- several having significant local impact...
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Speak Out 9-9-22
(Speak Out ~ 09/09/22)
Hands down, the best Jackson football team to ever suit up was the one who lost to Carthage in overtime. The state champion team was very good, but had COVID on their side. Last year's team was lucky to make it in the playoffs before getting kicked by Webb City. This year's team proves there is no Jackson dynasty. Y'all better recognize the work that goes into a Valle and Webb City program, and you got some work to do...
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Trump is sucking the air out of the GOP's momentum
(Column ~ 09/09/22)
It's one of the most enduring rules of thumb in American politics. Since 1862, the president's party has lost seats in the House in every midterm election but three (1934, 1998 and 2002). Until very recently, it seemed like the 2022 midterms would provide one more data point to this long-standing trend. And that is still likely. But talk of a "red wave," never mind a "red tsunami," has given way to talk of a Republican "ripple," as handicappers keep downgrading the GOP's chances for big gains...
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Fire report 9/9/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/09/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 7 n Medical assists were made at 12:55 a.m. on Lynwood Hills Drive; 4:08 a.m. on Pioneer Drive; 2:25 p.m. on William Street; 3:06 p.m. on Kingsway Drive; 9:38 p.m. on Maple Street; and 9:45 p.m. on Boxwood Drive...
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Police report 9/9/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/09/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported. n A warrant arrest was reported. n A warrant arrest was reported. n A warrant arrest was reported...
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Catherine Scherer
(Obituary ~ 09/09/22)
KELSO, Mo. — Catherine Mary Scherer, 87, of Kelso, died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, at The Arbors in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. Parish prayers will be at 6:30 p.m. today. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso. Burial will be at St. Augustine Catholic Cemetery in Kelso...
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Minnie Pennebaker
(Obituary ~ 09/09/22)
Minnie Florence Pennebaker, 87, of Oak Ridge died Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, at her home. A private family service will be held at a later date. McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson assisted the family with final arrangements...
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Ricky Ludwig
(Obituary ~ 09/09/22)
WOODSON, Ill. — Ricky Gene Ludwig, 53, of Woodson passed away Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, at home, surrounded by his family. He was born on Aug. 21, 1969, in Maryville, Missouri, the son of Larry and Charlotte Ludwig of Woodson. He was recently diagnosed with colon and liver cancer...
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Trial begins in killing of Miss Sweetie Pie's grandson
(State News ~ 09/09/22)
ST. LOUIS -- A murder-for-hire trial involving former stars of the reality TV show "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" got underway in St. Louis, where prosecutors allege James "Tim" Norman arranged his nephew's killing because he needed money from a life insurance policy that he took out on the victim...
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Hearing to determine whether Mo. boarding school will close
(State News ~ 09/09/22)
A Missouri boarding school already under scrutiny amid physical and sexual abuse allegations may soon be shut down, following a judge's ruling. Cedar County Circuit Judge David Munton signed an order Wednesday night to close Agape Boarding School in Stockton after the Missouri Attorney General's Office and the state Department of Social Services filed petitions citing evidence someone on the state registry for child abuse and neglect was actively working there...
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Judge: Greitens child custody case sent to Texas partly to limit publicity
(State News ~ 09/09/22)
AUSTIN, Texas -- The judge in the child custody case involving former Gov. Eric Greitens ruled that it should move to Texas because his two sons now spend most of their time there, and to better protect the boys from public scrutiny, according to a court document obtained Thursday by The Associated Press...
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Lawsuit on recreational marijuana in Missouri nears end
(State News ~ 09/09/22)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Lawyers for a Missouri woman suing to block a recreational marijuana ballot measure panned the top state election official's involvement and claimed the proposal is unconstitutionally broad during Thursday court arguments. At issue is a proposal to allow those age 21 and older to buy and grow marijuana for personal consumption and automatically erase records of some past marijuana-related crimes...
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Trump documents probe: US ready to appeal judge's hold
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is preparing to appeal a judge's decision granting the appointment of an independent arbiter to review records seized in a criminal investigation by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida home. Citing national security concerns and other factors, the department also asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to put on hold her directive prohibiting it from using the seized classified records for investigative purposes while it contests her ruling...
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Bernard Shaw, CNN's 1st chief anchor, dies at 82
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
NEW YORK -- Bernard Shaw, former CNN anchor and a pioneering Black journalist remembered for his blunt question at a presidential debate and calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 from Baghdad as it was under attack, has died. He was 82...
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Cheetahs from South Africa go to parks in India, Mozambique
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
BELA-BELA, South Africa -- South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as part of ambitious efforts to reintroduce the distinctively spotted cats in regions where their population has dwindled. Four cheetahs captured at reserves in South Africa have been flown to Mozambique this week after being held in quarantine for about a month and cleared for travel. Conservationists are preparing to fly 12 more cheetahs, reputed to be the world's fastest land mammals, to India in October...
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UK to cap energy prices, end fracking ban to ease crisis
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
LONDON -- New British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced Thursday that her Conservative government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease a cost-of-living crisis that has left residents across the United Kingdom facing a bleak winter...
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European Central Bank makes largest-ever interest rate hike
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The European Central Bank made its largest-ever interest rate increase Thursday, following the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks in a global stampede of rapid rate hikes meant to snuff out the inflation that is squeezing consumers and pushing Europe toward recession...
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Hunt for shooting suspect shut down much of fearful Memphis
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Two college campuses locked down. City buses stopped running. A baseball stadium halted a game, and frightened residents stayed indoors as a gunman spent hours cruising around Memphis and shooting people, apparently at random. Authorities said the assailant suspected of killing four people and wounding three livestreamed some of the carnage using his cellphone. He was arrested late Wednesday after crashing a stolen car while fleeing police...
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Bannon pleads not guilty in 'We Build the Wall' scheme
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
NEW YORK -- Former President Donald Trump's longtime ally Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty Thursday to duping donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S. southern border. The case, brought by New York prosecutors, is a state-level reboot of a federal case cut short last year by a presidential pardon...
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Utah rep. told Mormon bishop not to report abuse, docs show
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
A Utah lawmaker and prominent attorney for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints advised a church bishop not to report a confession of child sex abuse to authorities, a decision that allowed the abuse to continue for years, according to records filed in a lawsuit...
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Study: Four major climate tipping points close to triggering
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate "tipping points" are still likely to be triggered with a lot more looming as the planet heats more after that, a new study said...
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US may expand monkeypox vaccine eligibility to men with HIV
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
NEW YORK -- U.S. officials are considering broadening recommendations for who gets vaccinated against monkeypox, possibly to include many men with HIV or those recently diagnosed with other sexually transmitted diseases. Driving the discussion is a study released Thursday showing that a higher-than-expected share of monkeypox infections are in people with other sexually transmitted infections...
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Judge approves $2.46 billion Boy Scouts reorganization plan
(National News ~ 09/09/22)
A bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a $2.46 billion reorganization plan proposed by the Boy Scouts of America, which would allow it to keep operating while compensating tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children while involved in Scouting...
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Playing Marilyn Monroe was life-changing for de Armas
(Entertainment ~ 09/09/22)
VENICE, Italy -- Andrew Dominik had been trying to make a movie about Marilyn Monroe for more than a decade. The film wouldn't be a biopic, but an experiential portrait delving into the psyche of Marilyn Monroe and Norma Jeane. It kept falling apart, but the New Zealand native couldn't let it go. Then he found Ana de Armas, and, he said, the movie came alive...
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Ukraine: Russia trying to 'steal' nuclear plant
(International News ~ 09/09/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- The head of Ukraine's atomic energy operator accused Russia on Thursday of trying to "steal" Europe's largest nuclear plant by cutting it off from the Ukrainian electricity grid and leaving it on the brink of a radiation disaster. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been without an outside source of electricity since Monday and receives power for its own safety systems from the only one of its six reactors that remains operational, Enerhoatom chief Petro Kotin told The Associated Press.. ...
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Conservation plan highlights Arabs' fraught ties within Israel
(International News ~ 09/09/22)
HILF, Israel -- Ayoub Rumeihat opened his palms to the sky in prayer as he stood among tombstones for Bedouins killed in action while serving the state of Israel. Finishing the holy words, he gazed at the distant Mediterranean Sea across a valley full of olives and oak where his community has grazed goats for generations...
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Canada rampage suspect death prompts fresh investigation
(International News ~ 09/09/22)
ROSTHERN, Saskatchewan -- The last suspect in a horrific stabbing rampage that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dead following his capture, but how he died after being taken into custody has prompted fresh investigations. One official said Myles Sanderson, 32, died from self-inflicted injuries Wednesday after police forced the stolen car he was driving off a highway in Saskatchewan. Other officials declined to discuss how he died ...
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Out of the past: Sept. 9
(Out of the Past ~ 09/09/22)
Hopes for a levee to protect Dutchtown from flooding have been rekindled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; the Corps has received the go-ahead to do a feasibility study for a levee, but it needs $8,000 in local money to continue; cost of the study, which would include examination of environmental and economic impacts, is $116,000...
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