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The Golden Angels: Senior ladies’ group gathers to eat, learn and share life
(03/10/23)
The Golden Angels Senior ladies’ group gathers to eat, learn and share life Words and photos by Jasmine Jones Every Thursday, a group of women known as the Golden Angels meet at the old May Greene School on Ranney Avenue in Cape Girardeau. Phyllis Johnson, who became a member of the Golden Angels in 2008, acts as the leader, taking attendance, coordinating activities and contacting members to make sure they’re up-to-date on the group’s happenings. ...
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Missouri voters could restore abortion rights in 2024
(State News ~ 03/10/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri voters could decide whether to restore abortion rights in the state if constitutional amendments made public Thursday make it to the 2024 ballot. The proposals would amend the Missouri Constitution to protect abortion rights and pregnant women, as well as access to birth control...
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Altercation at apartment leads to Sikeston man's arrest on multiple felony charges
(Local News ~ 03/10/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston man faces multiple felony charges following an altercation at an apartment complex. Ruben Ramirez, 26, is formally charged through Scott County with first-degree assault/special victim, first-degree domestic assault, first-degree burglary, three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm, defacing a firearm and possession of a defaced firearm...
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Notre Dame inducting 2 into Performing and Visual Arts Hall of Fame
(Local News ~ 03/10/23)
Notre Dame Regional High School will have two of its own be inducted into the Performing and Visual Arts (PAVA) Hall of Fame. Ellen Seyer and Jacob Seyer will be inducted Saturday, April 1, during a luncheon at Notre Dame Regional High School. Ellen Seyer has been a faculty member at Notre Dame for 30 years. ...
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SEMO ranked top 10 military friendly school
(Local News ~ 03/10/23)
Southeast Missouri State University has been listed as a top 10 military friendly school. Surveyed by the program Military Friendly, SEMO was ranked No. 4 in the category of Large Public schools. According to a news release from SEMO, the university moved up in rankings from last year's list. Southeast has been a Gold category school for the last two years...
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10 ways area police departments are using technology
(Local News ~ 03/10/23)
Within the last several weeks, policing technology has made local headlines. Scott City Police Department, for example, announced they had new technology in their dispatch center that could access video from a 911 caller with their permission. That technology, while new to Scott City, is being used in other jurisdictions in the area as well...
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Two Cape men convicted in connection with 2018 gang murder
(Local News ~ 03/10/23)
Two Cape Girardeau men were among the four found guilty in federal court of racketeering conspiracy involving multiple murders, including a 2018 gang-related shooting in Bridgeton, Missouri, that left one dead and two injured. According to court documents, Sean Clemon, 52, and Dominique Maxwell, 30, -- both from Cape Girardeau -- along with Frank Smith and Warren Griffin -- both from Illinois -- were members of the Gangster Disciples, a gang with a presence across the U.S...
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Shootings began over pool game, according to official accounts
(Local News ~ 03/10/23)
The mass shooting Saturday, March 4, at Hotshots Bar and Grill in Cape Girardeau started out as a brawl near the pool tables, then erupted into a gunfight involving three people firing guns. Four of the five gunshot victims appear to be "innocent bystanders" who were not involved in the fight at all. None of the three men arrested in connection with the incident were the first to draw their weapons...
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Editorial: Cape Girardeau Police Department responds well to high-profile incidents
(Editorial ~ 03/10/23)
Cape Girardeau Police Department's response in two recent incidents deserves recognition. When initial bystander video of a March 2 altercation between an officer and a theft suspect at a Rhodes station on North Sprigg Street blew up on social media, it didn't look good -- an officer on top of the suspect, striking him repeatedly...
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Local leaders push for regional advocacy in Jefferson City
(Local News ~ 03/10/23)
Numerous leaders across Southeast Missouri, including Cape Girardeau Mayor Stacy Kinder, traveled to Jefferson City last week to further the idea of regional advocacy at the state level. "The concept, really, is to better develop a common set of regional goals, of regional priorities, thoughts on legislation, better develop a regional personality, maybe, if you will, and advocate that on the state level," Kinder said...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
Today is Friday, March 10, the 69th day of 2023. There are 296 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee, to assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)...
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Prayer 3-10-23
(Prayer ~ 03/10/23)
O Lord Jesus, thank you that we have peace because of you, our overcomer. Amen.
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Irene Prost
(Obituary ~ 03/10/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Irene C. Prost, 99, of Perryville passed away Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at her home. She was born Oct. 27, 1923, in Milheim, Missouri, to Joseph I. and Anna C. Behrle Hennemann. Irene and Edward D. Prost were married May 3, 1947, at Assumption Church in Perryville...
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Carolyn Klueppel
(Obituary ~ 03/10/23)
FENTON, Mo. — Carolyn Klueppel, 78, of Fenton passed away Wednesday, March 8, 2023. She was born to the late George "Dewey" and Eileen Hinton on March 10, 1944, in Cape Girardeau. Carolyn graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School in 1961. While in high school, she worked at Sunny Hill Dairy, which is where she met her husband...
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Adam Hoss
(Obituary ~ 03/10/23)
Adam Richard Hoss, 42, of Jackson passed away Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at his home. He was born Feb. 9, 1981, in St. Charles, Missouri, son of Richard and Lisa Ann Peters Hoss. He graduated in 2000 from St. Charles High School. Adam moved to Jackson in 2008. He was a dedicated bowler, bowling and working for St. Charles Lanes and Jackson Bowling Lanes. Adam also worked for J.P. Sides Mazda, formerly Benning Mazda in Cape Girardeau...
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Meet America's most delicate snowflake: The Fox News viewer
(Column ~ 03/10/23)
If you search for "safe space" on the Foxnews.com website you'll get over 46,000 results. All of them aren't about those woke snowflakes who need trigger warnings and cry rooms. But a whole lot of them are. For instance, in 2017, shortly after Donald Trump's inauguration, Tucker Carlson grilled a college professor about a student who came into her classroom crying about the election. ...
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College industrial complex's left-wing lies
(Column ~ 03/10/23)
Families saving for college and encouraging their kids to aim for the top are getting scammed by the left-wing college industrial complex. Colleges distort and outright lie about who gets accepted, education quality and what it costs. If they were selling auto loans and used the same deceptive tactics, they'd be in jail...
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Police: Missouri man killed wife and her dad, then himself
(State News ~ 03/10/23)
FOLEY, Mo. -- A rural Missouri man killed his wife and her father before fatally shooting himself, authorities said. Four children were in the home at the time of the incident but were unharmed. The shooting happened around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday near Foley, a town of 160 residents about 50 miles northwest of St. Louis, authorities said. Lincoln County deputies responding to a call from one of the children found a woman and two men with gunshot wounds...
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2 Missouri women charged after 5-year-old girl found dead
(State News ~ 03/10/23)
WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- Two Southwest Missouri women are charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 5-year-old girl at their home, police said. The Waynesville police department said in a news release that one of the girl's siblings told a school resource officer Tuesday that he had seen her unconscious and unresponsive at their home that morning...
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Robert Blake, actor acquitted in wife's killing, dies at 89
(Entertainment ~ 03/10/23)
LOS ANGELES -- Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89. A statement released on behalf of his niece, Noreen Austin, said Blake died from heart disease, surrounded by family at home in Los Angeles...
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Chaim Topol, Israeli actor known for Fiddler's Tevye, dies
(Entertainment ~ 03/10/23)
JERUSALEM -- Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in "Fiddler on the Roof," has died in Tel Aviv, Israeli leaders said Thursday. He was 87...
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Mental health test ordered for man who disrupted flight
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
BOSTON -- A federal judge ordered a mental health evaluation Thursday for the man charged with attempting to open an airliner's emergency door on a cross-country flight last weekend and trying to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon...
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Court records show political pressure behind Fox programming
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
NEW YORK -- In May 2018, the nation's top Republicans needed help. So they called on the founder of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were trying to stop West Virginia Republicans from nominating Don Blankenship, who had been convicted of violating mine safety standards during a lethal accident in one of his coal mines, to challenge the state's incumbent senator, Democrat Joe Manchin...
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Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
JACKSON, Tenn. -- When he looked to the future, Grayson Hart always saw a college degree. He was a good student at a good high school. He wanted to be an actor, or maybe a teacher. Growing up, he believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life...
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Mexican president to US: Fentanyl is your problem
(International News ~ 03/10/23)
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's president said Thursday that his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary. President Andres Manuel L--pez Obrador appeared to depict the synthetic opioid epidemic largely as a U.S. problem, and said the United States should use family values to fight drug addiction...
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Letter claims cartel handed over men who killed Americans
(International News ~ 03/10/23)
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico -- A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement source, the Scorpions faction of the Gulf cartel apologized to the residents of Matamoros where the Americans were kidnapped, the Mexican woman who died in the cartel shootout, and the four Americans and their families.. ...
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Russian missile barrage slams into Ukrainian cities; 6 dead
(International News ~ 03/10/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- A barrage of more than 80 Russian missiles and a smaller number of exploding drones hit residential buildings and critical infrastructure across Ukraine on Thursday, killing six people and leaving hundreds of thousands without heat or electricity...
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Multiple dead in Jehovah's Witness hall shooting in Germany
(International News ~ 03/10/23)
BERLIN -- Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah's Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, with several people killed and wounded, police said. "We only know that several people died here; several people are wounded, they were taken to hospitals," police spokesman Holger Vehren said of the shooting in the Gross Borstel district of Germany's second-biggest city...
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Biden rolls out budget plan, challenges GOP to follow suit
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
PHILADELPHIA -- As political gridlock puts the government at risk of defaulting, President Joe Biden on Thursday made an opening bid with a budget plan that would cut deficits by $2.9 trillion over the next decade -- a proposal Republicans already intend to reject...
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Yeti recalls 1.9 million coolers, cases for magnet hazard
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
U.S. product regulators said Thursday that Yeti has recalled 1.9 million coolers and gear cases because magnets can come detached from them, posing a risk of serious injury or death. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said consumers should immediately stop using the four recalled products and contact Yeti for refund information...
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Railroad CEO 'sorry,' but avoids specifics at Senate hearing
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- Norfolk Southern's CEO earnestly apologized before Congress on Thursday for last month's fiery hazardous materials train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and pledged millions of dollars to help the local town recover. But he stopped short of fully endorsing tougher safety regulations or specific commitments to pay for long-term health and economic harm...
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La Nina -- which worsens hurricanes, drought -- is gone
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- After three nasty years, the La Nina weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. That's usually good news for the United States and other parts of the world, including drought-stricken northeast Africa, scientists said...
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Medicaid coverage for new moms gaining support in Republican states
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- After years of refusing to expand Medicaid benefits for new moms, Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states are now reversing course and trumpeting that coverage as central to their conservative, anti-abortion agenda. The shift in GOP support for postpartum Medicaid coverage is occurring in some states that have severely limited or outlawed abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion last June. ...
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McConnell remains in hospital after concussion from fall
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was being treated Thursday for a concussion and is expected to remain in the hospital for "a few days" after he tripped and fell at a hotel dinner the night before, his spokesman said. The Kentucky senator, 81, was at a Wednesday evening dinner after a reception for the Senate Leadership Fund, a campaign committee aligned with him, when he tripped and fell. ...
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New atmospheric river storm pushes into Calif.
(National News ~ 03/10/23)
LOS ANGELES -- The first in a new series of atmospheric rivers flowed into California on Thursday, and forecasters warned that widespread heavy rain would raise the threat of flooding in a state still digging out from earlier storms. Rain spread across the north by early afternoon. But forecasters said the heart of the atmospheric river wouldn't arrive until late in the day. The heaviest downpours were expected to last into early Friday, followed by lesser precipitation...
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Out of the past: March 10
(Out of the Past ~ 03/10/23)
Fishing promises to improve at the two large lakes in the Cape Girardeau County parks; on Monday, the County Commission approved the restocking of the lakes with 2,000 channel catfish; Bruce Watkins, park superintendent, said 1,000 of the catfish will be stocked in each lake; in addition, 75 pounds of minnows will be added to the lakes to serve as food for the catfish and bass...
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New business press release
(Submitted Story ~ 03/10/23)
New Art Studio and Gift Shop in Daisy MO. The Daisy Art House has paint your own pottery, with lots of styles and paints to choose from for a creation that is truly your own. They also have several other projects including watercolor, windchimes, jewelry making and many more. There’s a gift shop curated with unique items and their own wire jewelry made by Village Designs. It’s a great place to bring the family or have an event!...
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