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Route Z in Scott County closed for drainage work
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
Route Z in Scott County -- between County Road 480 and County Road 481 near Morehouse, Missouri -- will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a culvert under the road. According to a MoDOT news release, the work will take place from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, July 31...
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Centenary Methodist Church holds Hero Hotline VBS
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
Children sing at the end of Centenary Methodist Church’s Hero Hotline vacation Bible school Thursday, July 20. The vacation Bible school brought together 90 children and 40 adult leaders for the program...
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Missouri resident wins $1M playing Powerball
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
The latest Powerball cycle produced a $1 million winner in Saline County, Missouri, as the billion-dollar cycle was concluded with the Wednesday, July 19, drawing. The winning ticket matched all five drawn white-ball numbers, missing only the Powerball number of 24...
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Two-vehicle crash at Andy's Frozen Custard
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
Two vehicles collided at approximately 10 a.m. Thursday, July 20, on North Kingshighway in front of Andy’s Frozen Custard, located at 809 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau...
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Fox Royale, a touring company of sorts, performs Saturday
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
Taking inspiration from bands such as the Everly Brothers, Vampire Weekend and the All-American Rejects, Fox Royale is making a mark in indie rock. Brothers Nathan (guitar and vocals) and Caleb (bass and vocals) Hurley formed the band in 2020 in Joplin, Missouri...
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'Barbenheimer'-- Bombs-Brunch-Barbie
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
"Barbenheimer" is the term for when Barbie and Oppenheimer are combined. For the better part of the last year there have been memes surrounding the release of Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer". This weird mashup movie release has turned into a night for a double feature at the theater...
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Cape Girardeau Public Library to receive access to more books
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
The Cape Girardeau Public Library will be joining Missouri Evergreen, a consortium of over 60 library systems statewide, giving patrons additional access to a combined collection of more than 4 million items, including books, CDs and DVDs. A news release from Cape Girardeau Public Library states access to an online catalog will be temporarily unavailable beginning Sunday, July 23, through Thursday, July 27, while it switches over to the Missouri Evergreen system. ...
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SEMO to remove dying state champion tree at River Campus
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
A non-curable root fungus is killing a state champion tree on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus and, for safety reasons, a tree-cutting service will remove the tree next week. A release from the university says evidence of the tree's poor health began in August, when one of the tree's main structural branches fell because of rot in the main trunk. The limb, multiple feet in diameter, landed on a walking path...
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Cape Girardeau County rescinds burn advisory as rain soaks region
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
Even as most of Southeast Missouri officially remains in various levels of drought, Cape Girardeau County lifted its "no burn advisory" Thursday, July 20, as copious amounts of rainfall continued locally. Three weeks ago, the County Commission issued the advisory, which in a June 29 news release stated: "All county residents are advised to postpone open outdoor burning until the fire danger decreases."...
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Todt donates screen to Historic Rodgers Theatre in Poplar Bluff
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
Cape Girardeau resident and owner of Todt's Roofing Brennon Todt donated a screen to the Historic Rodgers Theatre in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Todt heard about the theater's need through Ben Traxel when Todt was taking Traxel on a tour through the former Broadway Theatre building in May. Traxel grew up in Poplar Bluff and moved to Cape Girardeau five years ago...
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Anticipating Oppenheimer debut, SEMO professor, Cape mayor weigh in
(Local News ~ 07/21/23)
Nearly 78 years ago, an American B-29 bomber nicknamed "Enola Gay" dropped the world's first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. The date was Aug. 6, 1945. The blast instantly killed an estimated 80,000 people with tens of thousands more succumbing to radiation exposure in the weeks and months following...
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Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday...
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Difference Maker: Brady Barke leading Redhawks to success on the field and through challenging times
(B Magazine ~ 07/21/23)
The job of athletic director at Southeast Missouri State University is much more than raising funds and hiring coaches. “You're trying to ultimately solve the problems that by the time they get to you, everyone else has tried and nobody's been able to solve it,” Brady Barke said. “And ultimately, it falls to you. I think that a big part of it is being able to support people and being able to let them know that you care and that you're in it together.”...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
Today in History Today is Friday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2023. There are 163 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 21, 1925, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)...
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Cape mayor outlines what city is doing about public safety
(Editorial ~ 07/21/23)
The world is full of filters. Social media image filters can create a movie-star version of a person. Water filters remove all kinds of impurities. Even self-imposed language filters can keep conversation on a suitable-for-many level. Filters can be good. Sometimes, though, the best filter is no filter...
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Prayer 7-21-23
(Prayer ~ 07/21/23)
O Father God, may we seek wisdom from you as we lead others. Amen.
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Fire report 7-21-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/21/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 19 n Medical assists were made at 1 a.m. on Themis Street; 4:12 a.m. on Victoria Drive; 7:03 a.m. on Randol Avenue; 9:10 a.m. on Laurel Lane; and 4:23 p.m. on North West End Boulevard...
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Police report 7-21-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/21/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n A warrant arrest was reported on William Street. Assault n Fourth-degree domestic assault was reported on Merriwether Street. Thefts...
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Russell Polen
(Obituary ~ 07/21/23)
Russell W. Polen, 85, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at his home, surrounded by family. He was born June 23, 1938, to Russell H. and Esther Polen in Peoria, Illinois. He married Velma Parsons on May 10, 1964. Russell retired from Crane Co. in 1991 after 26 years of service as a welder. He then went on to own and operate a self-service gas station in Marble Hill, Missouri, for several years...
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Pilot dies after small plane crashes into field in western Missouri
(State News ~ 07/21/23)
KEARNEY, Mo. -- A pilot died Thursday after a small plane crashed into a field in western Missouri. The Clay County Sheriff's Office said a 911 caller reported the crash at 9:37 a.m. First responders found the plane engulfed in flames in a soybean field near Kearney, a town 25 miles northeast of Kansas City, Missouri...
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Missouri Supreme Court orders GOP attorney general to stand down in fight over abortion costs
(State News ~ 07/21/23)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Republican attorney general to stand down and allow an initiative petition to legalize abortion in the state to move forward. Supreme Court judges unanimously affirmed a lower court's decision that Attorney General Andrew Bailey must approve the cost estimate provided by the auditor, despite Bailey's insistence the cost to taxpayers of restoring abortion rights could be as much as a million times higher than what the auditor found.. ...
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Awash in pink, everyone wants a piece of the 'Barbie' movie marketing mania
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
NEW YORK -- Pink sauce on that Burger King burger? What about "Barbie-fying" your pet with sweaters and beds with Barbie motifs? If that's too low-brow, perhaps you'd be interested in hot pink Barbie monogrammed knit leggings by luxury designer Balmain instead, selling at Neiman Marcus for a cool $2,150...
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Tornado damage to Pfizer plant will probably create long-term shortages of some drugs hospitals need
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
The fallout from a Pfizer factory being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts say. Wednesday's tornado touched down near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and ripped up the roof of a Pfizer factory that makes nearly 25% of Pfizer's sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals, according to the drugmaker...
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Universal theme park in Florida plans to open new DreamWorks land with Shrek, Trolls
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Universal Orlando Resort theme park in Florida plans to open a new land next year based on characters from DreamWorks Animation, company officials said Thursday. The new DreamWorks land opening next year will feature characters from the "Shrek" franchises, the "Trolls" film series and "Kung Fu Panda."...
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Florida rulings ease concerns about drag performers at Pride parades, drag queen story hours
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Librarians who feared fines for hosting drag queen story hours and Pride parade organizers who worried about citations for including drag performers can breathe easier now that a judge has ruled that his injunction blocking Florida's anti-drag law extends to all Florida venues, an attorney who is helping challenge the law said Thursday...
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Protesters storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad after man threatens to burn Quran in Stockholm
(International News ~ 07/21/23)
BAGHDAD -- Protesters angered by an Iraqi man in Sweden who threatened to burn a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, overrunning the diplomatic compound and starting a fire. Hours later, Iraq's prime minister cut diplomatic ties with Sweden in protest over the desecration of the Islamic holy book...
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Russia bombards Odesa and other southern Ukraine port cities for third night since end of grain deal
(International News ~ 07/21/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia pounded Ukraine's southern cities with drones and missiles for a third consecutive night Thursday, keeping Odesa in the Kremlin's crosshairs after a bitter dispute over the end of a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine to send grain through the key Black Sea port...
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In a refugee camp in Kenya, food shortages left kids hungry even before Russia ended grain deal
(International News ~ 07/21/23)
DADAAB, Kenya -- Abdikadir Omar was trapped in an extremist-controlled town in Somalia for years until May, when he slipped out to make a 12-day journey with his wife and seven children to neighboring Kenya in search of food and safety. To his surprise, "I found peace but no food," the 30-year-old told The Associated Press. He stood near the withered maize he tried to plant around his family's makeshift shelter of branches and plastic sheeting outside one of the world's largest refugee camps...
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Australian castaway recounts comfort he felt adrift at sea, thanks to meditation, swimming and dog
(International News ~ 07/21/23)
MANZANILLO, Mexico -- He quit his corporate job and moved to Mexico to pursue his dream of sailing solo across the ocean. Australian Timothy Shaddock, 54, bought his 30-foot catamaran two years ago in the Mexican Pacific resort of Puerto Vallarta. He needed a place to live and he liked the isolation...
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Actors and writers on strike rally in Philadelphia and Chicago as union action spreads
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
Striking screenwriters and actors held rallies in Philadelphia and Chicago on Thursday as the labor dispute that has halted Hollywood spreads to more cities. While Los Angeles and New York are the epicenters of strike actions, there are dozens of mid-sized and small locals across the country representing performers and writers...
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Police seized laptops and a memoir from the home of a witness to Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
LAS VEGAS -- A home that Las Vegas police raided this week in connection with the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur is tied to one of the only surviving witnesses to the crime, a man long known to investigators whose nephew was seen as a suspect shortly after the rapper's killing...
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RFK Jr. denies making antisemitic comments as congressional Republicans give him a platform
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. worked to defend himself Thursday against accusations that he traffics in racist and hateful online conspiracy theories, testifying at a House hearing on government censorship despite requests from outside groups to disinvite the Democratic presidential candidate after his recent antisemitic remarks...
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US worried about well-being of American soldier who ran across border as North Korea remains silent
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday expressed deep concern about the well-being of a U.S. soldier who bolted across the heavily armed North Korea border earlier this week as North Korean officials have yet to respond to U.S. requests for basic information about the AWOL soldier...
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Tiny LA store sells winning Powerball jackpot ticket
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
LOS ANGELES -- A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles sold the winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion, the sixth largest in U.S. history and the third largest in the history of the game. The winning numbers for Wednesday night's drawing were: white balls 7, 10, 11, 13, 24 and red Powerball 24...
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Legislation approved to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court justices
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court would have to abide by stronger ethics standards under legislation approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, a response to recent revelations about donor-funded trips by justices. The bill faced united opposition from Republicans, who said it could "destroy" the court...
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FBI memo with unverified claims about Hunter Biden released
(National News ~ 07/21/23)
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley released an unclassified document Thursday that Republicans claim is significant in their investigation of Hunter Biden as they delve into the financial affairs of the president and his son, and revive previously debunked claims of wrongdoing...
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Out of the past: July 21
(Out of the Past ~ 07/21/23)
Horrid heat and humidity rule the Southeast Missouri weather forecast; the same hot-weather system that is baking Texas and Oklahoma has spread into the Mississippi River Valley; temperatures here today and tomorrow are expected to be in the mid-to-upper 90s; some areas could reach 100 degrees; with humidity of more than 50%, heat indexes have reached 105 or higher the past several days, high enough to prompt a heat advisory for the region...
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Helping families caught in domestic violence
(Column ~ 07/21/23)
There are few things more terrifying than setting out to completely start a new life, yet far too many women have to take that step in order to keep themselves and their children safe. It is one of my top priorities as your state senator to make sure these women are empowered and not hindered by bureaucracy and red tape...
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