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National Night Out returns to Cape on Tuesday
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
Cape Girardeau Police Department will be hosting National Night Out from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug 1, on the downtown parking lot at the corner of Main and Independence streets. The program features live music and a fireworks show. There will be several food vendors and games for children...
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Sikeston man seeks change of venue
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
PLAINFIELD, Ind. -- An 18-year-old Sikeston, Missouri, man charged with murder in the traffic death of Indiana State Police Trooper Aaron Smith has requested a change of venue for his upcoming trial, online court records show. The request on July 18 seeks to move the trial of Eddie Jones of Sikeston to another county or to bring a jury in from another county, news outlets reported...
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Scott City teacher named finalist for regional teacher of the year
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
For Heather Helle, being a music educator is much more than songs and instruments. Helle, who teaches music at Scott City Elementary, was recently named one of the two finalists for regional Teacher of the Year by Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education...
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D.L. Transmission featured in issue of trade journal
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
D.L. Transmission in Cape Girardeau was featured in the July issue of Transmission Digest magazine for the business's "great service, strong online presence and success in the industry". Transmission Digest magazine selects a transmission shop that has a unique story or does something out of the ordinary every month, according to Gina LeGrand, co-owner of D.L. Transmission...
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Cape schools to incentivize early notification of retirement
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
Cape Girardeau Public Schools Board of Education members approved increases in reimbursements for unused sick leave days upon an employee's retirement at their Monday, July 24, meeting. The board also approved the continuation of reimbursing district employees $25 per day worked beyond the set maximum accumulation of sick leave days...
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Sikeston Depot readies for rodeo festival
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- The Cowboy Up Arts Festival is one way for families to kick off the 71st Annual Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo. On Saturday, Aug. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the event will be inside Sikeston Depot Museum at 116 W. Malone St. in Historic Downtown Sikeston, as well as in the depot parking area and Legion Park...
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Wes Blair marks 10 years with Cape PD
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
Wes Blair, one of the longest-tenured chiefs of police in the history of the city of Cape Girardeau, began his second decade Saturday as the municipality's top law enforcement official. The native of the Dallas metroplex took over the job July 29, 2013, succeeding the late Roger W. Fields...
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Out of the past: July 29
(Out of the Past ~ 07/29/23)
Notre Dame High School staff members are settling into their new facility this week as contractors complete work on the 114,000-square-foot facility scheduled to open this fall; the new school occupies about 25 of the nearly 48 acres of land along Route K donated to the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese by the James and Wanda Drury Family Trust; the project, worth $6.7 million, was financed by a capital campaign and is the largest ever undertaken through the diocese...
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Derby leader Rigdon named Cape Rotarian of the Year
(Community ~ 07/29/23)
The Rotary Club of Cape Girardeau named Dave Rigdon the 2023 Rush Limbaugh Rotarian of the Year. According to a Rotary Club news release, the award is given to a club member who goes above and beyond the Rotary mission of "Service Above Self". Rigdon exemplifies the Rotary mission, the release states. In taking leadership of the club's long-standing Soap Box Derby, Rigdon instituted changes to make the event "safer and more fun for area youth"...
- Adopt Mila 7-30-23 (Community ~ 07/29/23)
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Senior Center Menus for July 31 through Aug. 4
(Community ~ 07/29/23)
Monday: Chicken tenders or ham and cheese on croissant with soup, green peas, broccoli salad, whole-grain bread and blushing pears or fresh baked cookies. Tuesday: Open-faced roast beef with mashed potatoes or chicken Alfredo pasta bake, green beans, fried okra, whole-grain bread and Mandarin oranges or Texas sheet cake...
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Who should you ask for advice?
(Column ~ 07/29/23)
Back when I was little, I liked to sit around with a bunch of old-timers and just listen. They'd talk about most everything. Always talked about the grass in the pastures and the hay and the weather or how much rain they'd got. Seemed like they would talk about the taxes. ...
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Learning briefs 7-30-23
(Community ~ 07/29/23)
Brynn Elizabeth Myers of Oak Ridge was named to the president's honor roll at the University of Central Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The following students graduated with academic distinction from Missouri State University: Allison Bray of Cape Girardeau graduated with a Master of Business Administration...
- Jackson Knights of Columbus awards scholarships (Community ~ 07/29/23)
- Seabees award scholarship (Community ~ 07/29/23)
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A Missouri state symbol
(Column ~ 07/29/23)
The pawpaw tree was designated as the Missouri state fruit tree Aug. 28, 2019. The pawpaw is an understory tree native to Missouri. It's a safe bet to say the fruit of the pawpaw has been picked and eaten by the people of this land for hundreds of years. This made it a perfect choice to become Missouri's state fruit tree...
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Pray for our small town
(Column ~ 07/29/23)
Although I am from St. Louis, I grew up listening to country music. One thing I love about living in Cape Girardeau is that we have a strong sense of community. People from this county and surrounding areas tend to share common values. When I heard about the controversy concerning Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town," I was surprised...
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Prayer 7-30-23
(Prayer ~ 07/29/23)
O Father God, may we always be faithful in serving you. Amen.
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Chris Christie's grade B candidacy
(Column ~ 07/29/23)
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is getting a lot of media -- way out of proportion to the impact he has made as a candidate, measured by his low standing in the polls and the very modest amount of money he has raised. The explanation for this seems clear. The media loves his sharp and aggressive animosity to and criticism of former President Donald Trump...
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Thank you, Dr. Oppenheimer
(Column ~ 07/29/23)
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren't depicted in the movie "Oppenheimer," but they haunt the film -- literally. The eponymous physicist and "father of the atomic bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer, is plagued by visions of the terrible destruction wrought by the weapon he helped create...
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Sudan conflict brings new atrocities to Darfur as militias kill, rape, burn homes in rampages
(International News ~ 07/29/23)
CAIRO -- Amna al-Nour narrowly escaped death twice. The first was when militias torched her family's home in Sudan's Darfur region. The second was two months later when paramilitary fighters stopped her and others trying to escape as they tried to reach the border with neighboring Chad...
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Woman charged for faking abduction
(National News ~ 07/29/23)
ATLANTA -- Authorities in Alabama said Friday they filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of the interstate. Carlee Russell was charged with false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors that carry up to a year in jail, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said. Russell turned herself into jail Friday and was released on bond, he said...
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Senators rebuke congressman who yelled vulgarities at pages
(National News ~ 07/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- A freshman Republican congressman from Wisconsin is refusing to apologize after he yelled and cursed at high school-aged Senate pages during a late night tour of the Capitol this week, eliciting a bipartisan rebuke from Senate leaders...
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Moscow blames Kyiv for attacks in south Russia
(International News ~ 07/29/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces on Friday struck the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro and pounded a key village in the southeast that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing two missiles at southern Russia and wounding 20 people...
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Soldiers declare Niger general as head of state
(International News ~ 07/29/23)
NIAMEY, Niger -- Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that the political crisis could hinder the nation's fight against jihadists and boost Russia's influence in West Africa...
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Trump, DeSantis and other 2024 GOP candidates set to address Iowa Republicans at Lincoln Day Dinner
(National News ~ 07/29/23)
OSKALOOSA Iowa -- Donald Trump and rival Ron DeSantis will appear for the first time at the same campaign event in early voting Iowa on Friday at a pivotal moment for the Republican presidential candidates. Trump, the early front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination, is making a rare appearance with the rest of the field at an Iowa Republican Party fundraiser a day after he was charged with additional counts over his retention of classified documents after leaving office. ...
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Out of the past: July 30
(Out of the Past ~ 07/29/23)
Andrew Ostrowski quit his job at the local Procter & Gamble plant at the end of March so he could campaign full time for the U.S. Senate; the Democratic candidate estimates he has spent about $3,500 of his own money in his effort to win Tuesday's primary; Ostrowski is one of the four, largely unknown candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri; the fifth and favored candidate is Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon...
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Police report 7-30-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/29/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on North Pacific Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on South Main Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on North Fountain Street...
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Fire report 7-30-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/29/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 26 n Medical assists were made at 2:27 a.m. on Independence Street; 7:30 a.m. on South Sprigg Street; 9:30 a.m. on South Park Avenue; 11:59 a.m. on Linden Street; 4:50 p.m. on South Silver Springs Road; and 7:40 p.m. on South Ellis Street...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda for 7/31/23 meeting
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. Monday, July 31 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Approval of minutes of the Monday, July 24, meeting n Approval of closed session minutes of Monday, July 17 Communications/reports -- other selected officials/department heads...
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NB I-55 in Scott County reduced for pavement work
(Local News ~ 07/29/23)
NB I-55 in Scott County reduced for pavement work Northbound Interstate 55 in Scott County -- from mile marker 70.0 to mile marker 76.0 -- will be reduced to one lane with a 12-foot width restriction as contractor crews make pavement repairs. According to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release, the work will take place from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9...
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Lillie Wade
(Obituary ~ 07/29/23)
ST. LOUIS -- Lillie Ruth Swan Wade of East St. Louis, Illinois, was the second child born to the late Fred and Altha Barber Swan. She came into the world July 29, 1939, in Oak Ridge. She passed Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, in St. Louis, so this will be her first Heavenly birthday...
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Montez Moss
(Obituary ~ 07/29/23)
Montez Dewayne Moss, 50, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, July 24, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Services for beloved father, son, brother, nephew and friend will be Saturday, Aug. 5, at Ford and Sons Funeral Home at 1001 N. Mount Auburn Road in Cape Girardeau...
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Betty Miller
(Obituary ~ 07/29/23)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Betty Jean Miller, 90, Friday, July 28, 2023, at the Meadowview Memory Care Center in Arnold, Missouri. Memorial visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to noon Monday, July 31, at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Chaffee. Celebration of life service will then be conducted at noon Monday with the Rev. Randy Conn officiating...
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David Homan
(Obituary ~ 07/29/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- David Ronald Homan, 59, of Perryville died Saturday, July 22, 2023, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Don't sell diseased meat
(Column ~ 07/29/23)
At the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center, we are forever in the process of updating each index to make our files more accessible, or to better comply with the law. Such is the case with an index of Justice of the Peace criminal cases. It named victims of sexual assault and, by Missouri law, that's no longer allowed, so archives assistant Tiffany Fleming has been working to redact victim names...
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