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Traffic crash in Cape Girardeau County injures two
(Local News ~ 09/29/23)
A man from Advance, Missouri, was seriously injured and a Ste. Genevieve County man was also hurt in a two-vehicle mishap Tuesday, Sept. 26 in Cape Girardeau County. State Highway Patrol said Cody G. Gaither, 34, was driving a 2012 Subaru Impreza, which went off Highway 25 southbound in Delta at 12:20 p.m., veered back onto the roadway and struck a northbound 2018 Ford F550 pickup...
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Kennett woman sentenced to prison
(Local News ~ 09/29/23)
A Kennett, Missouri, woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on drug and firearm charges. A release from U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Sayler Fleming said U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. in Cape Girardeau sentenced Paula Laboone, 64, to the prison term for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon...
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Fraternal Order of Police says five arrested in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 09/29/23)
Five people were arrested in Cape Girardeau on Wednesday, Sept. 27, after an alleged vehicle theft. According to a social media post from Missouri Fraternal Order of Police-Lodge 51 -- an organization comprised of Cape Girardeau police officers -- officers took a report of a stolen vehicle and later found the vehicle at a residence in the city. ...
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Cape schools to hold free child developmental screenings
(Local News ~ 09/29/23)
Cape Girardeau Public Schools will host free developmental screenings for children, ages 6 months to 34 months, who reside in the district. According to a CGPS news release, screenings will be held Friday, Sept. 29, Oct. 27, Dec. 1, Feb. 9 and March 15...
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Did you know - Disclosures necessary in a Missouri home sale
(Local News ~ 09/29/23)
The largest single financial transaction in the lives of most Americans is the sale or purchase of a residence. There are requirements baked into state law, known as Revised Statutes of Missouri, which govern the sharing, or disclosure, of information when a property goes up for sale...
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Local bands to march for the 79th year at Jackson festival
(Local News ~ 09/29/23)
The annual Jackson Band Festival, featuring high school bands from throughout the region, will be held Tuesday, Oct. 3. This is the 79th year the festival has been held. The day's event will start with the Parade of Bands through Jackson at 4 p.m. The parade will go through the uptown Jackson area along High, Main and Russell streets. According to the City of Jackson, much of South High and West Main streets will be closed as the parade heads north and west to and from the high school campus...
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Bus ridership up almost 100% since 2022 in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 09/29/23)
Bus ridership in Cape Girardeau has increased by almost 100% since last year, Cape Girardeau County Transit Authority officials reported. "In July of 2022, our total monthly ridership was 819. It slowly increased every month and, by May, it was up to 1,595. It seemed to level off around there for now," said Susan Redford, operations manager at CGCTA...
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SoutheastHEALTH's $50 million renovation project complete
(Local News ~ 09/29/23)
Wielding a gigantic pair of scissors, Ken Bateman and Lauren Thomas cut through a pair of ribbons Thursday, Sept. 28, symbolizing the completion of SoutheastHEALTH's renovated 1708 Lacey St. building in Cape Girardeau. Bateman, SoutheastHEALTH's president and CEO, and Thomas, its executive director of laboratory and outreach services, spoke before a crowd of several dozen in front of the building before the ribbon-cutting...
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Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California dies at age 90, sources tell the AP
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
Updated 8:18 AM CDT, September 29, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman” and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
Today is Friday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2022. There are 93 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 29, 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland...
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Speak Out 9-29-23
(Speak Out ~ 09/29/23)
The United States Treasury would be wise to create a new $30 and $75 dollar bill. A lagoon is an enclosed body of water connected to a body of salt water. Capaha Park does not have a lagoon, no matter how loudly people proclaim it is. Why are people opposed to using the 14th Amendment to disqualify Trump from holding office again? The Constitution is very clear that anyone who engaged in and/or gave aid and support to anyone who was part of a rebellion or insurrection to overthrow the government will be banned from holding any office ever again. ...
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Prayer 9-29-23
(Prayer ~ 09/29/23)
O Lord Jesus, we trust in you, the author and perfecter of our faith. Amen.
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SEMO District Fair, Shipyard Music Festival -- home run family events
(Editorial ~ 09/29/23)
If August means back to school and October truly heralds the arrival of cooler weather, September in Southeast Missouri is the time for family events. Two of the largest annual draws in the region didn't disappoint. SEMO District Fair kicked off with its annual parade on Sept. ...
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Tackling the rural health care crisis
(Column ~ 09/29/23)
For too long, Congress has allowed special interests and the politically connected to shape health care policies and legislation. As a result, we have a health care system that puts corporate interests -- not patients -- first. And no one has felt the consequences more than our rural communities, where the average life span is shorter compared to bigger towns and cities...
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What the GOP and the 1960s radicals have in common
(Column ~ 09/29/23)
This week, yet another government shutdown appears inevitable because a sizable chunk of the House Freedom Caucus believes, in the words of Otter in "Animal House," that "this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."...
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Carolyn Neese
(Obituary ~ 09/29/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Carolyn Rose Neese, 81, of Sikeston, formerly of Jackson and Alton, Illinois, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at Convalescent Center in Sikeston. She was born Jan. 14, 1942, in Pemiscot County, Missouri, to Louis Tucker and Frances LaNell Griggs Woodard. Carolyn and Gary Neese were married June 12, 2004, at the city park in Jackson. She and her former husband, Herman Lucey, had three children, Penny, Kenny and Carol...
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Fire report 9-29-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/29/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 27 n Medical assists were made at 2:09 p.m. at Johnson and Roberts streets and 4:04 p.m. on South Benton Street. n At 5:44 a.m., fire alarm on Princeton Drive.
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Police report 9-29-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/29/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Christine Street. n A warrant arrest and theft of a vehicle were reported on South Middle Street...
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Over half of Nagorno-Karabakh's population flees as the separatist government says it will dissolve
(International News ~ 09/29/23)
YEREVAN, Armenia -- The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh said Thursday it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by year's end after a three-decade bid for independence, while Armenian officials said over half of the region's population has already fled...
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NATO's secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to discuss 'ending Russia's aggression'
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- NATO's secretary-general met with Ukraine's president to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops Thursday, the day after Russia accused Ukraine's Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week's missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet's headquarters in the annexed Crimean Peninsula...
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Court rejects Trump's bid to delay trial in wake of fraud ruling
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
NEW YORK -- An appeals court Thursday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay a civil trial in a lawsuit brought by New York's attorney general, allowing the case to proceed days after a judge ruled the former president committed years of fraud and stripped him of some companies as punishment...
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Utah and Arizona will pay to keep national parks open if federal government shutdown occurs
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
PHOENIX -- Arizona and Utah will keep iconic national parks in those states open if a shutdown of the federal government threatens access to Arizona's orange-striped Grand Canyon and the sheer red cliffs of Utah's Zion Valley. Most importantly for state budgets, visitors can keep spending their money near the parks...
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New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour, among nation's highest
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A new law in California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour next year, an acknowledgment from the state's Democratic leaders that most of the often overlooked workforce are the primary earners for their low-income households...
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A man is shot and wounded as tempers flare in New Mexico over the statue of a Spanish conquistador
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
ESPANOLA, N.M. -- Chaos erupted Thursday as a gunshot rang out during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate, an event that county officials had already postponed anticipating that tempers would flare...
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President Biden offers dire warnings about Trump
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
TEMPE, Arizona -- President Joe Biden issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy, declaring Thursday that the former president is more interested in personal power than upholding the nation's core values and suggesting even mainstream Republicans are complicit...
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Menendez tells Senate colleagues he won't resign
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez remained defiant in the face of federal bribery charges Thursday, telling a room full of his Senate Democratic colleagues he has no plans to resign. Speaking behind closed doors at the Capitol, Menendez echoed his previous public statements in response to last week's indictment, according to a person who attended the private luncheon and requested anonymity to discuss it. ...
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McCarthy rejects Senate spending bill
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- A government shutdown appeared all but inevitable as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dug in Thursday, vowing he will not take up Senate legislation designed to keep the federal government fully running despite House Republicans' struggle to unite around an alternative...
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House Republicans make case for Biden impeachment inquiry at first hearing
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to "provide accountability" as they probe the family finances and lucrative business dealings of his son, Hunter, and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate...
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Trump won't try to move Georgia case to federal court
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
ATLANTA -- Former President Donald Trump will not seek to get his Georgia election interference case transferred to federal court, his attorneys said in a filing Thursday, three weeks after a judge rejected a similar attempt by the former president's White House chief of staff...
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American soldier who bolted into North Korea returns to US
(National News ~ 09/29/23)
SAN ANTONIO -- The American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas more than two months ago was whisked to a Texas Army base Thursday for medical checks and interviews after his return to the U.S., according to the Pentagon...
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Michael Gambon, veteran actor who played Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter' films, dies
(International News ~ 09/29/23)
LONDON -- Michael Gambon, the Irish-born actor knighted for his illustrious career on the stage and screen and who went on to gain admiration from a new generation of moviegoers with his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight "Harry Potter" films, has died. He was 82...
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Out of the past: Sept. 29
(Out of the Past ~ 09/29/23)
Southeast Missouri State University isn't the only four-year school offering college courses in the Missouri Bootheel; William Woods University, which serves over 1,000 students on its Fulton, Missouri, campus, will be offering a master's in education degree program at Chaffee; a master's in business administration program at the New Madrid industrial park for employees of Associated Electric and Noranda Aluminum and additional classes in Poplar Bluff...
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CAPE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES DELTA DENTAL GRANT OPPORTUNITY
(Submitted Story ~ 09/29/23)
The Cape Area Community Foundation (CACF) an affiliate of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks (CFO) announces a grant program with support from Delta Dental to improve dental health for children attending rural schools. Nonprofits that provide dental services to children can apply for up to $10,000 from the Delta Dental Rural Youth Program. ...
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