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Mobile abortion clinic planned in Illinois
(State News ~ 10/05/22)
Planned Parenthood officials on Monday announced plans for a mobile abortion clinic — a 37-foot RV that will stay in Illinois but travel close to the borders of adjoining states that have banned the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year...
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Mo. lawmakers approve $40M in tax breaks for farmers
(State News ~ 10/05/22)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri senators passed $40 million in annual tax breaks for farmers, which Republican Gov. Mike Parson said he'll sign today along with an income tax cut. Senators voted 26-3 Tuesday in favor of the tax incentive package, which primarily renewed tax credits that had expired. The measure includes tax credits to benefit companies involved in meat processing, biodiesel, ethanol fuel and urban farms. It also expands government loan programs for farmers...
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Highway 34 in Cape County reduced for bridge work; Highway 74/Emerson Bridge reduced for routine inspection
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
Highway 34 in Cape Girardeau County, from Route UU to Highway 72 near Jackson, will be reduced as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance. According to a MoDOT news release, the work will take place from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. today...
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Cape man sentenced to prison for sex crimes
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
A Cape Girardeau man has been sentenced to two 30-year prison terms for sex crimes. A release from Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Welker said Tyrese Huff, 20, was sentenced to the concurrent terms after being convicted of first-degree statutory rape and first-degree statutory sodomy...
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Pets under same rules as humans during boil advisory
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
Pet owners are encouraged to take extra precautions for their animal friends while Cape Girardeau is under a boil advisory. "We suggest that people do the same thing with their pets as they are doing for themselves," said Charlotte Craig, president of Southeast Missouri Pets...
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Presbyterian church installs community lunch box in downtown Cape
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
Those struggling with hunger have a new option in downtown Cape Girardeau. Members of First Presbyterian Church have installed a community lunch box structure on their property at 235 Broadway. The covered structure, located on the eastern end of the church's property, will contain free meals and water...
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Governor's wife, Teresa Parson, visits Jackson to discuss education
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
Teresa Parson, wife of the 57th governor of Missouri Mike Parson, spoke Tuesday to a crowd of 40 at Jackson Civic Center, in an event sponsored by SEMO Pachyderms Club. Parson came to the Cape Girardeau County seat after visiting students in 10 Southeast Missouri school districts since Monday, including Scott City...
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Cape hospitals, restaurants, businesses dealing with water woes
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
A boil water advisory in Cape Girardeau is not only affecting individuals but hospitals, businesses and restaurants as well. Hospitals are among the entities changing operations, at least somewhat. Sally Owen at SoutheastHEALTH said the issue is forcing some operational changes...
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Boil advisory to remain in place for rest of week in Cape
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
The 14-inch water main that broke Monday forcing Cape Girardeau officials to issue a boil water advisory was repaired Tuesday afternoon, according to a news release from the city. At a noon news conference Tuesday, city manager Kenneth Haskin characterized the break as "unprecedented."...
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Free water available today in Cape
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
Cape Girardeau Fire Department will have free bottled water, one case per vehicle, available at two drive-throuth locations today while supplies last — Osage Centre, 3 to 6 p.m.; Shawnee Park Center, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
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Mirror image — Identical twins serve together in Cape Girardeau clinic
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
Krisman and Kaylee Eakin began working as medical assistants at Cape Girardeau's EBO MD direct primary care clinic Sept. 7. Aside from their varying choice of hairstyles and a conscious decision to wear different colored scrubs to work each day, it is extraordinarily difficult to tell the two of them apart...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2022. There are 87 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 5, 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson...
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Fire report 10-5-22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/05/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Oct. 3 n Medical assists were made at 1:03 p.m. on Sherwood Drive and 1:50 p.m. on Linden Street. n At 1:24 p.m., fire alarm on Towers Circle. n At 3:51 p.m., fire alarm on South Ellis Street...
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Joan Weeks
(Obituary ~ 10/05/22)
Joan M. Weeks, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, at Chateau Girardeau. A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Geneva Ruesler
(Obituary ~ 10/05/22)
Geneva B. Ruesler, 86, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 24, 1936, in Friedheim, daughter of Jessie L. and Opal Crites Seabaugh. She and Darwin F. Ruesler were married Dec. 23, 1954, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim. He preceded her in death Aug. 16, 2000...
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Musk's plan to end Russian war infuriates Ukraine on Twitter
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
Elon Musk has gotten into a Twitter tussle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the tech billionaire floated a divisive proposal to end Russia's invasion. The Tesla CEO, who on Tuesday revived a $44 billion deal to take control of Twitter, argued in a tweet that to reach peace Russia should be allowed to keep the Crimea Peninsula that it seized in 2014. ...
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Haiti at breaking point as economy tanks and violence soars
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Daily life in Haiti began to spin out of control last month just hours after Prime Minister Ariel Henry said fuel subsidies would be eliminated, causing prices to double. Gunshots rang out as protesters blocked roads with iron gates and mango trees. Then Haiti's most powerful gang took a drastic step: It dug trenches to block access to the Caribbean country's largest fuel terminal, vowing not to budge until Henry resigns and prices for fuel and basic goods go down...
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Herschel Walker paid for girlfriend's abortion, report says
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
DUNWOODY, Ga. -- Herschel Walker, who has vehemently opposed abortion rights as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, paid for an abortion for his girlfriend in 2009, according to a new report. The candidate called the accusation a "flat-out lie" and said he would sue...
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Hurricane Ian shakes SW Florida's faith but can't destroy it
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- As Hurricane Ian approached last week, Jane Compton and her husband -- who lost their home and possessions to the storm -- found sanctuary at their Baptist church, huddling with fellow parishioners through wind, rain and worry. They prayed for the gusts to subside and for God to keep them from harm as the hurricane made landfall last Wednesday. ...
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Kids with disabilities face off-the-books school suspensions
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
The phone call from her son's school was alarming. The assistant principal told her to come to the school immediately. But when Lisa Manwell arrived at Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth, Michigan, her son wasn't sick or injured. He was sitting calmly in the principal's office...
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Deal back on? Elon Musk gets closer to buying Twitter
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
The tumultuous saga of Elon Musk's on-again off-again purchase of Twitter took a turn toward a conclusion Tuesday after the mercurial Tesla CEO proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion. Musk made the surprising turnaround not on Twitter, as has been his custom, but in a letter to Twitter that the company disclosed in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. ...
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Flint water crisis charges dropped for 7 former officials
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
A Michigan judge threw out felony charges Tuesday against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires' disease. The dismissal was significant but not a complete surprise after the Michigan Supreme Court in June said a different judge acting as a one-person grand jury had no authority to issue indictments...
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Oath Keepers founder: Be 'ready to fight' after Trump loss
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
WASHINGTON -- Hours after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group was discussing how to push President Donald Trump to go further in his fight to cling to power, according to messages shown to jurors Tuesday in his U.S. Capitol attack trial...
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3 physicists share Nobel Prize for work on quantum science
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
Three scientists jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for proving that tiny particles could retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon once doubted but now being explored for potential real-world applications such as encrypting information...
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California wells run dry as drought depletes groundwater
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
FAIRMEAD, Calif. -- As California's drought deepens, Elaine Moore's family is running out of an increasingly precious resource: water. The Central Valley almond growers had two wells go dry this summer. Two of her adult children are now getting water from a new well the family drilled after the old one went dry last year. She's even supplying water to a neighbor whose well dried up...
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Smacked asteroid's debris trail more than 6,000 miles long
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. Their remarkable observation two days after last month's planetary defense test was recently released a National Science Foundation lab in Arizona...
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Justices mull latest challenge to landmark voting rights law
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared open Tuesday to making it harder to create majority Black electoral districts, in an Alabama case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the United States...
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Retreating Russians leave comrades' bodies behind
(International News ~ 10/05/22)
LYMAN, Ukraine -- Russian troops abandoned a key Ukrainian city so rapidly that they left the bodies of their comrades in the streets, offering more evidence Tuesday of Moscow's latest military defeat as it struggles to hang on to four regions of Ukraine that it illegally annexed last week...
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Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate, escalating a dispute over the powers of an independent arbiter appointed to inspect the records...
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What's Putin thinking? Tough to know for nuclear analysts
(International News ~ 10/05/22)
PARIS -- Will President Vladimir Putin pull the nuclear trigger? For Kremlin watchers trying to figure out whether the Russian leader's nuclear threats are just bluffs, there is no more pressing -- or tough -- question. For now, analysts cautiously suggest that the risk of Putin using the world's biggest nuclear arsenal still seems low. The CIA says it hasn't seen signs of an imminent Russian nuclear attack...
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N. Korea sends missile soaring over Japan
(International News ~ 10/05/22)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea conducted its longest-ever weapons test Tuesday, a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that flew over Japan and could reach the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam and beyond, forcing the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and halt trains...
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Floridians endure slow wait for power knocked out by Ian
(National News ~ 10/05/22)
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. -- Hurricane Ian may be long gone from Florida, but workers on the ground were pushing ahead Tuesday to restore power and search for anyone still trapped inside flooded or damaged homes. The number of storm-related deaths has risen to at least 84 in recent days, both because of the dangers posed by cleaning up and as search and rescue crews comb through the hardest-hit areas. Officials said that as of Monday, more than 2,350 people had been rescued throughout the state...
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Restaurants, businesses coping with water woes
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
A boil water advisory in Cape Girardeau is not only affecting individuals but businesses and restaurants as well. Aaron Geis, manager of Culver's, said the issue is forcing significant changes at the restaurant. "We are not able to use any of our soda fountains or any of our ice or tea urns or hot coffee," he noted. ...
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Cape under boil advisory for remainder of week, order forthcoming
(Local News ~ 10/05/22)
Cape Girardeau residents on city water are under a boil advisory following a water main break Monday. The advisory will be in effect all week and a boil order is reportedly forthcoming. According to the state Department of Natural Resources website, a boil advisory is issued by a public water system when water may be contaminated, normally due to low-pressure events. They are issued while waiting for test results to confirm whether water has been contaminated, results can take up to two days...
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Missouri man convicted in brothers' deaths admits to fraud
(State News ~ 10/05/22)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a cattle fraud scheme that he tried to cover up by killing two Wisconsin brothers. The U.S. attorneys office said 28-year-old Garland Nelson, of Braymer, must forfeit more than $215,000 after admitting to mail fraud and being a felon in possession of a firearm...
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Out of the past: Oct. 5
(Out of the Past ~ 10/05/22)
About a dozen union supporters stood outside the Cape Girardeau Post Office yesterday, chanting slogans and circulating petitions to call attention to sweatshops and child labor; at one time, union leaders say, Florsheim Shoe had about 60 shoe plants in the United States; today, the Cape Girardeau plant is the company's only production facility in the U.S.; all the rest are in places like Indonesia, India and Mexico where wages are low...
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SEMO makes good call on Himmelberger house
(Editorial ~ 10/05/22)
Earlier this year, Southeast Missouri State University announced it would demolish a historic house it owns which had fallen into disrepair. Known as the Himmelberger House, located on North Henderson Avenue, the facility has most recently been used as the Jane Stephens Honors building...
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Joe Biden is becoming a quasi-lame duck
(Column ~ 10/05/22)
Joe Biden's highly touted political comeback is failing to live up to the hype. He's up from his midsummer trough of an approval rating that averaged below 40%, but he's still at about 42%. This represents a shift from the cataclysmic to the merely dismal...
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The thinnest veneer of civilization
(Column ~ 10/05/22)
Civilization is fragile. It hinges on ensuring the stuff of life. To be able to eat, to move about, to have shelter, to be free from state or tribal coercion, to be secure abroad, and safe at home -- only that allows cultures to be freed from the daily drudgery of mere survival...
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Prayer 10-5-22
(Prayer ~ 10/05/22)
Lord Jesus, thank you for coming to save us, giving us a hope and future. Amen.
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