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30th annual Mayfest Car and Truck Show planned
(Local News ~ 04/26/23)
HIWAY RODDERS Car Club will be holding its 30th annual Mayfest Car and Truck Show on Saturday, May 13. The car and truck show will be held at the Knights of Columbus parking lot, 31 Church St., in Perryville, Missouri. Throughout the day, there will be raffles, food and drink available, T-shirts for souvenirs and music...
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Cape River Heritage Museum to reopen
(Local News ~ 04/26/23)
Cape River Heritage Museum will reopen this week for its annual season. The local history museum located in an old fire station in downtown Cape Girardeau will be open starting Thursday, April 27. The museum, open noon to 4 p.m. Thursday through Sunday until it closes in December, is free and open to the public...
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Church building nominated for National Register of Historic Places
(Local News ~ 04/26/23)
First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, also known as Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, has been nominated to be added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the application has been submitted to the National Park Service for approval...
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SEMO concert and clinic to offer different 'perspectives'
(Local News ~ 04/26/23)
The Southeast Missouri State University Wind Symphony and Concert Band will perform a show called "Perspectives" that explores different ways of seeing life, history and our world. The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, in Bedell Performance Hall at the River Campus in Cape Girardeau...
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Jackson school officials must regroup after proposal failure
(Local News ~ 04/26/23)
Jackson Schools superintendent Scott Smith is seeking clarity. The district's April 4 dual tax proposition failed. The first proposal, Proposition I, which would have infused millions of dollars into the operations budget primarily for raising teacher compensation, failed by 3% -- 333 votes to be specific...
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Jackson in Bloom ready for Saturday
(Local News ~ 04/26/23)
Jackson in Bloom, Uptown Jackson Revitalization Organization's annual celebration of all things spring, will be held -- weather permitting -- 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 29, in Jackson. Due to remodeling work underway at the 1908-era Cape Girardeau County Courthouse, patrons should look for activities in different spots near the square this year, UJRO executive director Janna Clifton said...
- One dead, another seriously injured following shooting incident at Sikeston park (Local News ~ 04/26/23)
- Exonerated men push for reform (Local News ~ 04/26/23)
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
Today is Wednesday, April 26, the 116th day of 2023. There are 249 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 26, 1986, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine caused radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere. (Dozens of people were killed in the immediate aftermath of the disaster while the long-term death toll from radiation poisoning is believed to number in the thousands.)...
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Joe Biden prepares his next basement campaign
(Column ~ 04/26/23)
Joe Biden is going to run for reelection. One question this raises: How is anyone going to tell? The basement presidency is about to embark on another basement campaign. Biden's political genius turns out to be not provoking strong negative emotions because no one particularly thinks of him as being in charge or as having anything interesting to say...
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Two organizations helping students with prom formal wear
(Editorial ~ 04/26/23)
It's prom season for local high schools. It's a fun experience for local students, but it's also an expensive one. We know prom dresses and tuxedos can challenge the budget for many families. Thankfully there are a couple organizations in the area doing what they can to help those in need with free formal dresses and tuxedos for their special events...
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Prayer 4-26-23
(Prayer ~ 04/26/23)
O Lord Jesus, give us wisdom as we face the issues of the day. Amen.
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A new mission
(Column ~ 04/26/23)
"My cousin has twins. She got pregnant again. Her boyfriend is a gang member. She had an abortion. How can anyone say she should have had the baby?" This question came after a talk I was giving at a Christian college. The student was opposed to abortion, but was also struggling with the reality of life's complications. Her question should be a challenge to anyone who has ever had a word to say about abortion in a political context...
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Fire report 4-26-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/26/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. April 23 n Medical assists were made at 10 a.m. on South Ellis Street; 4:17 p.m. on Bellevue Street; 7:46 p.m. on West Lorimier Place; 7:53 p.m. at North Silver Springs Road and Independence Street; and 11:02 p.m. on Linden Street...
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Police report 4-26-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/26/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported. Thefts n Shoplifting and resisting/interfering with arrest, detention or stop were reported on William Street...
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Marilyn Riehn
(Obituary ~ 04/26/23)
Marilyn Marie Riehn, 85, of Millersville passed away Monday, April 24, 2023, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Marilyn was born April 9, 1938, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of the late Edvene and Anita Henry Smith. She and Jerry F. Riehn were married Nov. 26, 1960. Their union blessed them with a son, Mark Riehn. Jerry preceded her in death March 20, 2003...
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Marystelle Penner
(Obituary ~ 04/26/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Marystelle Penner, 91, of Perryville died Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at Independence Care Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 27, at Ford and Young Funeral Home. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday, April 28, at the funeral home, with Deacon Direk Hunt officiating. Burial will be at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Hilbert Jones
(Obituary ~ 04/26/23)
LAKE CHARLES, La. — Hilbert Monroe Jones, 85, of Lake Charles, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, April 14, 2023. He is in the care of Johnson Funeral Home of Lake Charles.
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Linda Gendron
(Obituary ~ 04/26/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Linda Rae Gendron, 63, of Perryville died Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at her home. Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, April 29, at Trinity Baptist Church in St. Mary, Missouri. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 29, at the church, with Pastor Ed Carter and Pastor Ronnie Coleman officiating...
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Myron Anderson
(Obituary ~ 04/26/23)
Myron "Whitey" Anderson, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, April 23, 2023, at Ratliff Care Center. He was born July 15, 1929, in Advance, Missouri, to Harvey Lee and Oma Winchester Anderson. The family moved to Cape Girardeau when he was 16 years old...
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32 more years in prison for Mo. man who killed brothers
(State News ~ 04/26/23)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri man already imprisoned for life for killing two brothers from Wisconsin over a cattle contract has been sentenced to more than 30 additional years for a related federal crime. Garland Joseph Nelson, 28, of the northwestern Missouri town of Braymer was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City to 32 additional years in prison and also ordered to pay $261,000 in restitution for defrauding Diemel's Livestock of Wisconsin...
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Judge: No contempt of court for St. Louis prosecutor
(State News ~ 04/26/23)
ST. LOUIS -- The city's elected prosecutor was not in contempt of court as a result of her office's failure to have a prosecutor present when a murder trial was due to begin, a St. Louis judge ruled Monday. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's office let "fall through the cracks" the fact the prosecutor for the case, Alex Polta, was out on medical leave and no replacement was assigned, Judge Scott A. ...
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Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
WASHINGTON -- A ground assault by the Taliban killed the Islamic State militant who spearheaded the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. troops and about 170 Afghans dead during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Tuesday...
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Drug for rare form of Lou Gehrig's disease OK'd by FDA
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
WASHINGTON -- Food and Drug Administration regulators on Tuesday approved a first-of-a-kind drug for a rare form of Lou Gehrig's disease, though they are requiring further research to confirm it truly helps patients. The FDA approved Biogen's injectable drug for patients with a rare genetic mutation that's estimated to affect less than 500 people in the U.S. ...
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Rosalind Franklin's role in DNA discovery gets a new twist
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
NEW YORK -- The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science -- and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit. Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: that James Watson and Francis Crick -- the first to figure out DNA's shape -- stole data from another scientist named Rosalind Franklin...
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Jury to deliberate in major Jan. 6 case against Proud Boys
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
WASHINGTON -- The seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants went to the jury on Tuesday after dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol...
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Coronation gives tourism boost, but UK economy still reeling
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
LONDON -- Kelly Curto is taking her first trip outside the U.S., and the die-hard fan of the British royal family is making it the one at the top of her bucket list -- heading to London for King Charles III's coronation. After arriving on May 5, the 44-year-old school bus driver from Long Island and a friend will head to the Mall, the ceremonial avenue to Buckingham Palace where the monarch's pomp-filled procession will pass by the following day...
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Changes planned for College Board's Black history class
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
The College Board is revamping its Advanced Placement African American studies course again, vowing to give students an "unflinching encounter with the facts" following criticism it watered down curriculum on slavery reparations and the Black Lives Matter movement after pressure from conservative politicians...
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East Palestine families living in limbo months after fire
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand -- his pickup truck parked just outside the door at the roadside motel where he's taken refuge since early February...
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FACT FOCUS: COVID vaccines are not in the food supply
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
Anti-vaccine advocates have for years used foreboding imagery of syringes to paint immunizations as dark and dangerous. But recent vaccine conspiracy theories are casting an air of fear around more mundane things -- like cows and lettuce. In widespread posts online in recent weeks, misinformation purveyors have spread an erroneous narrative that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are being quietly added to the food supply, threatening staunch vaccine holdouts...
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Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges army to end violence in Myanmar
(International News ~ 04/26/23)
BANGKOK -- Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Myanmar's ruling military to take the initiative in finding a way out of the country's violent political crisis, including releasing political detainees, after a surprise meeting with the army leader who seized power two years ago...
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Sudan fighting eclipses new truce as aid groups raise alarm
(International News ~ 04/26/23)
CAIRO -- Sudanese and foreigners streamed out of the capital of Khartoum and other battle zones, as fighting Tuesday shook a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Aid agencies raised increasing alarm over the crumbling humanitarian situation in a country reliant on outside help...
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Tokyo company loses contact with moon lander in likely crash
(International News ~ 04/26/23)
A Japanese company lost contact with its spacecraft moments before touchdown on the moon Wednesday, saying the mission had apparently failed. Communications ceased as the lander descended the final 33 feet, traveling around 16 mph. Flight controllers peered at their screens in Tokyo, expressionless, as minutes went by with no word from the lander, which is presumed to have crashed...
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Long days of gravediggers tell story of Ukraine's dead
(International News ~ 04/26/23)
KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine -- The graves are dug in the morning. Four plots, each 6 feet deep in the section of a cemetery in a central Ukrainian city devoted to the nation's fallen soldiers. The day begins for Oleh Itsenko, 29, and Andrii Kuznetsov, 23, shortly after dawn, when the two diggers report for the grueling work. A day in their lives tells the story of Ukraine's mounting war dead. They won't be finished until sunset...
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President announces bid for reelection: 'Let's finish this job'
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to "finish this job" and extend the run of America's oldest president for another four years. Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first-term legislative achievements and more than 50 years of experience in Washington will count for more than concerns over his age. ...
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As epic snow melts, a California community braces for floods
(National News ~ 04/26/23)
LEMOORE, Calif. -- Ron Caetano is packed and ready to go. His family photos and valuables are in the trailer and he's put food in carry totes. He moved the rabbits and chickens and their automatic feeders to higher ground. He and his family and dogs could get out in less than an hour, they figure, should more heavy rain or hot weather melt so much mountain snow that gushing water overwhelms the rivers and channel that surround their tight-knit, rural Central California community and give it its name, the Island District.. ...
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Harry Belafonte, entertainer and activist, dies at 96
(Entertainment ~ 04/26/23)
NEW YORK -- Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist and humanitarian, has died. He was 96. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife, Pamela, by his side, said publicist Ken Sunshine...
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Out of the past: April 26
(Out of the Past ~ 04/26/23)
One hundred thirty five years ago today, Confederate and Union troops squared off in the Battle of Cape Girardeau; by most standards, it wasn't really much of a battle, says Dr. Frank Nickell, director of the Regional History Center at Southeast Missouri State University; Confederate troops commanded by Gen. ...
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The budget, line by line
(Column ~ 04/26/23)
What does "government" mean to you? If you think roads and bridges, you're right. If schools come to mind, you're right about that, too. Medicaid and health care for seniors and the disabled? Yes, that's a huge part of what government does. Incarcerating offenders is a function of government, but maintaining state parks and providing places for Missourians to hunt and fish is too. ...
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Part 107/Remote Pilot Certification Workshop
(Submitted Story ~ 04/26/23)
The SEMO Engineering and Technology Department will be offering a Part 107/Remote Pilot certification workshop that will prepare participants to take the FAA Remote Pilot Exam. The workshop is open to the public, university staff, faculty and students. The fee is $60 and involves four days of instruction (3 hours per session). The workshop will take place Monday-Thursday, May 1st-4th from 4pm to 7pm each day at Seabaugh Polytechnic Building on the SEMO Campus...
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FAA Drone Safety Day
(Submitted Story ~ 04/26/23)
Saturday, April 29 is the Federal Aviation Administration's "Drone Safety Day.” Drone Safety Day is designed to promote safe drone and RC aircraft operation, certification, responsibility and awareness. For Drone Safety Day, the Southeast Missouri State University Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drone) program is partnering with the Southeast Missouri Modelers Association (SEMMA), the remote control (RC) hobby organization in this region. ...
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NOVUS Health Opens Satellite Clinic in Cape Girardeau
(Submitted Story ~ 04/26/23)
On May 15, St. Louis based NOVUS Health will open its satellite clinic in Cape Girardeau located at 24 North Sprigg Street, Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63701. Through a collaboration with Cape Medical Family Clinic and BioReference Lab; NOVUS Health will offer HIV Specialty Care, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care, behavioral health counseling, psychiatric assessments, assistance with Medicaid and ACA enrollment and in partnership with BioReference on site and in home lab services. ...
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