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Carter County employees moving into new courthouse after historic flooding in 2017
(Local News ~ 05/01/23)
VAN BUREN, Mo. — Carter County, Missouri, employees are relocating to their new, larger building. The new structure will house not only the sheriff's office and jail cells, but also all court offices, including the clerk, assessor, collector, treasurer and prosecuting attorney, according to Carter County Clerk Debi Reynolds...
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Vehicle dealership coming to Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
Autovada LLC plans to open a motor vehicle dealership at 622 S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, and construction of a 2,500-square-foot building is underway. "It's a good spot, a good corner," Autovada co-owner Allen Rhodes said. "We have a volume-based, semi-wholesale and retail car business," added Rhodes, who also co-owns 74 Auto and ReCar in Sikeston and Benton, Missouri, respectively...
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Kellerman Foundation for Historic Preservation to buy old Cape Girardeau City Hall
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
The historic former Lorimier School, site of Cape Girardeau City Hall from 1978 to 2021, is under contract to be sold to Kellerman Foundation for Historic Preservation. Both parties to the pending transaction confirmed the deal Friday, April 28, for 401 Independence St...
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Local teacher lauds toy company for Barbie with Down syndrome
(Local News ~ 05/01/23)
The toy manufacturer Mattel released its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome last week. The doll is dressed in a floral dress with the butterflies around the flowers. The flowers are yellow and blue, which are the colors associated with Down syndrome awareness. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
Today is Monday, May 1, the 121st day of 2023. There are 244 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. commando operation. (Because of the time difference, it was early May 2 in Pakistan, where the al-Qaida leader met his end.)...
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Prayer 5-1-23
(Prayer ~ 05/01/23)
O Father God, thank you that we may lay our burdens at your feet. Amen.
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I'm sick. You're sick. We've all been sick for a year — here's why.
(Column ~ 05/01/23)
In the past year, my family has had COVID-19, the flu, strep throat, ear infections and many colds. This was even after we had our recommended flu and COVID-19 vaccines. When I mentioned this fact, my doctor kindly reminded me that my flu vaccine was why I was sitting in her office and not at the hospital. ...
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South Side Farms takes an important step forward
(Editorial ~ 05/01/23)
The 16-acre South Side Farms development took another step forward recently. Cape Girardeau City Council members voted unanimously to approve the project's Phase 1 final development plan at the April 17 meeting. The plan will receive a second vote at the council's meeting Monday, May 1...
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Business quote
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
We're looking at putting work requirements on able-bodied healthy adults without children for Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which will save over $135 billion and could help address the (current) labor shortage. ...
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Cape business licenses
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
City of Cape Girardeau Community Development has received two applications for business licenses. n James D. Sams of Cape Girardeau for ITB Wealth Management & Insurance Services at 1435 N. Mount Auburn Road, Suite 200. n Dung N.T. Pham of Cape Girardeau for Golden Nails & Spa at 1430 N. Kingshighway, Business purchased from Jimmy Tran...
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Cape Girardeau Chamber news
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
First Friday Coffee, featuring a presentation by Cape Girardeau Regional Airport manager Katrina Amos, is on tap at 7:45 a.m. Friday, May 5, at Century Casino Cape Girardeau Event Center, 777 N. Main St. ...
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Rhodes helps with vets’ transportation expenses
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
Rhodes Convenience Stores is providing $2,500 in support for military veterans who need assistance with transportation expenses related to health care visits. ...
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MRV promotes Heather Jokerst
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
Heather Jokerst has been named senior compliance officer of MRV Banks. A 2007 Maryville University graduate, Jokerst started with MRV in 2019, and in her new role will be responsible for ensuring the bank's practices align with state and federal regulations...
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Kelsie Jansen with new SoutheastHEALTH role
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
Kelsie Jansen, APRN, has joined Southeast Women’s Integrated Health’s caregiver team. ...
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Missouri middle of the pack in filling jobs
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
Missouri is No. 27 of the 50 states when it comes to filling job vacancies, according to a WalletHub analysis based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. U.S. civilian labor participation rates hit an all-time low in April 2020, the first full month following the arrival of COVID-19...
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Area gas prices
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
The average price at the pump has fallen by a nickel in the last seven days in the U.S., with auto club federation AAA seeing a rosier short-term future for consumers. "As long as the oil cost keeps wobbling around the low-to-mid $70s per barrel, drivers will benefit when they fuel up," AAA's Andrew Gross said...
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Stooges Restaurant in Jackson for sale
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
Stooges Restaurant, a 2,159-square-foot restaurant on .62 acres at 507 W. Main St. in Jackson, is for sale with an asking price of $439,900. Included in the sale is the building, business and land. Rodney Barnes, who bought the eatery in 2018, is a 30-year law enforcement veteran who spent 22 years as a captain in Jackson Police Department.
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Turk Dawgs to add food truck
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
Turk Dawgs, a local pop-up hot dog operation by Suzana Long and her fiance, Brian Higgins, is looking to grow with a mobile food truck from Oklahoma being added in the next few weeks. Long and Higgins quit their 9-to-5 jobs to go all-in on hot dogs and made what was previously a side hustle into their main vocation...
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Lori Emmons
(Obituary ~ 05/01/23)
Lori Ann Emmons, 55, of Jackson passed away Thursday, April 27, 2023, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 5, 1968, in Cape Girardeau to Kenneth and Martha Stroder Hett. She and Duane Emmons were married Nov. 15, 1986, in Cape Girardeau...
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Howard Douglas
(Obituary ~ 05/01/23)
Howard Taft Douglas, 82, of Scott City died Friday, April 28, 2023, at his home. Born April 1, 1941, in East Prairie, Missouri, to Amos Ray Douglas and Mable Marie Hedges Douglas, he grew up in East Prairie, and after high school entered the National Guard, where he served in various places for over six years...
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Grace Cole
(Obituary ~ 05/01/23)
THEBES, Ill. — Grace Ann Cole, 76, of Thebes died Friday, April 28, 2023. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 1, at Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 2, at the funeral home, with Clyde Tatum officiating. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery in Thebes...
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Food prices fall on world markets but not on kitchen tables
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis -- a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread -- to save on cooking oil. Cash-strapped Pakistanis reluctantly go vegetarian, dropping beef and chicken from their diets because they can no longer afford meat. In Hungary, a cafe pulls burgers and fries off the menu, trying to dodge the high cost of oil and beef...
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Kicked off Medicaid: Millions at risk as states trim rolls
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
WASHINGTON -- Days out from a surgery and with a young son undergoing chemotherapy, Kyle McHenry was scrambling to figure out if his Florida family will still be covered by Medicaid come Monday. One form on the state's website said coverage for their sick 5-year-old son, Ryder, had been denied. ...
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Pope speaks of secret peace 'mission,' help for Ukraine kids
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE -- Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that a secret peace "mission" in Russia's war in Ukraine was underway, though he gave no details, and said the Vatican is willing to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the war...
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Pope in final Mass in Budapest urges Hungary to open doors
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Pope Francis urged Hungarians to open their doors to others on Sunday, as he wrapped up a weekend visit with a plea for Europe to welcome migrants and the poor and for an end to Russia's war in Ukraine. Francis issued the appeal from the banks of the Danube as he celebrated Mass on Budapest's Kossuth Lajos Square, with the Hungarian Parliament and Budapest's famed Chain Bridge as a backdrop. ...
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Deadly heat waves threaten older people as summer nears
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
PHOENIX -- Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer found an 80-year-old woman slumped inside her mobile home, enveloped in the suffocating 99-degree heat she suffered for days after her air conditioner broke down. Efforts to revive her failed, and her death was ruled environmental heat exposure aggravated by heart disease and diabetes...
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Should school use 'Warrior' nickname? Tribe to have last say
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
SALAMANCA, N.Y. -- The profile of a Native American man, a braid trailing down and feather jutting up, is tiled into a high school hallway, dyed into the weight room carpet and laid into the turf of the football field at Salamanca city schools. School leaders say the omnipresent logo and "Warrior" name for the school athletic teams are sources of pride here, in the only U.S. city built on land leased from a Native American reservation...
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A powerhouse US doctor slain in Sudan, 'killed for nothing'
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
WASHINGTON -- Bound to Sudan by ailing parents and his devotion to treating the poor there, American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman kept working as long as he could after fighting engulfed Sudan's capital. For days after battles between two rival Sudanese commanders erupted in Khartoum on April 15, the 49-year-old Sulieman treated the city's wounded. ...
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GOP election officials walking fine line on fraud, integrity
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Republican secretaries of state in Ohio, West Virginia and Missouri have promoted their states' elections as fair and secure. Yet each also is navigating a fine line on how to address election fraud conspiracies as they gear up campaigns for U.S. Senate or governor in 2024...
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How will we know if the US economy is in a recession?
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
WASHINGTON -- The government's report Thursday that the economy grew at a 1.1% annual rate last quarter signaled that one of the most-anticipated recessions in recent U.S. history has not arrived. Many economists, though, still expect a recession to hit as soon as the current April-June quarter -- or soon thereafter...
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Fed faults Silicon Valley Bank execs, itself in bank failure
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve blamed the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March on poor management, watered-down regulations and lax oversight by its own staffers, and said the industry needs stricter policing on multiple fronts to prevent future bank failures...
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First Republic up in air as regulators juggle bank's fate
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
NEW YORK -- Regulators continued their search for a solution to First Republic Bank's woes over the weekend before stock markets were set to open Monday. San Francisco-based First Republic has struggled since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in early March, as investors and depositors have grown increasingly worried that the bank may not survive as an independent entity for much longer. ...
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Widening manhunt for Texas gunman slowed by 'zero leads'
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
CLEVELAND, Texas -- A widening manhunt for a Texas gunman who fatally shot five neighbors continued coming up empty Sunday as officers knocked on doors, the governor put up $50,000 in reward money and the FBI appeared no closer to catching the killer after nearly two days of searching with a team that has grown to hundreds of people...
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US facing persistent shortages of some meds
(National News ~ 05/01/23)
Shortages of drugs such as Adderall are growing in the United States, and experts see no clear path to resolving them. For patients, that can mean treatment delays, medication switches and other hassles filling a prescription. In recent months, unexpected demand spikes, manufacturing problems and tight ingredient supplies have contributed to shortages that stress patients, parents and doctors. ...
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When states limit care, some trans people do it themselves
(State News ~ 05/01/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- With her insurance about to run out and Republicans in her home state of Missouri ramping up rhetoric against gender-affirming health care, Erin Stille nervously visited a foreign pharmaceutical site as a "last resort" to ensure she could continue getting the hormones she needs...
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Missouri man sentenced in death of caged, dismembered woman
(State News ~ 05/01/23)
BUFFALO, Mo. -- A Missouri man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for his role in the death of a woman who authorities said was kept in a cage and dismembered. James Phelps, 60, entered an Alford plea Friday to first-degree murder, kidnapping and abandonment of a corpse in the death of 33-year-old Cassie Rainwater, The Springfield News-Leader reported. Under an Alford plea, Phelps does not admit guilt but acknowledges enough evidence exists to convict him...
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Out of the past: May 1
(Out of the Past ~ 05/01/23)
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson has raised seven times as much money as her leading Democratic opponent so far this year; as of the end of March, the Cape Girardeau Republican was sitting on a war chest of $292,511; in contrast, Democrat and former Scott County circuit judge Anthony "Tony" Heckemeyer had only $19,290 in his campaign coffer; the candidates disclosed their campaign finances in first-quarter reports filed in mid-April with the Federal Election Commission...
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Michael and Mary Trueblood honored
(Business ~ 05/01/23)
Michael and Mary Trueblood have been awarded the Saint Francis Foundation’s Healing Hands Lifetime Giving Award. ...
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VOLKERDING RECEIVES LIFE LEADER AWARD
(Submitted Story ~ 05/01/23)
For release immediately, with photo May 1, 2023 VOLKERDING RECEIVES LIFE LEADER AWARD Ken Volkerding of Jackson, a financial representative with Modern Woodmen of America, was Life Leader in the Missouri East Region for the month of April. Volkerding joined Modern Woodmen in November 2004. ...
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VOLKERDING FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MONTH
(Submitted Story ~ 05/01/23)
For release immediately, with photo May 1, 2023 VOLKERDING FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MONTH Ken Volkerding of Jackson, a financial representative with Modern Woodmen of America, was financial representative of the month in the Missouri East Region for the month of April...
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