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Leaders We Lost in 2023: John Keusenkothen
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
John Joseph Keusenkothen, former president and CEO of Saint Francis Medical Center, died Nov. 9. Keusenkothen, known as John K. by staff, worked at Saint Francis for 23 years, starting as controller, then financial administrator. He retired as the president and CEO in 1991...
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Leaders We Lost in 2023: Miki Gudermuth
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
A Southeast Missouri trailblazer for those with disabilities died Sept. 6. MaryAnn "Miki" Gudermuth founded SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence in 1993, where she served as executive director. Gudermuth was diagnosed with polio as a baby and spent much of her childhood in hospitals, undergoing various surgeries on her hips, legs and feet...
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Leaders We Lost in 2023: Paul Stehr
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
Paul Stehr, who served in the role as Cape Girardeau mayor from 1978 to 1981 and was known in his younger years for his athletic prowess, died Sept. 5. Stehr, given the nickname "Herk", was the MVP on the Cape Girardeau Central High School basketball team that won the school's first state championship in the sport. ...
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Fire damages home in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
A fire Wednesday night, Dec. 27, extensively damaged a home at 915 Hickory St. in Cape Girardeau. The owner of the home, alerted by smoke detectors, called 911 at 8:30 p.m., and was not injured. The fire was contained in about 45 minutes. The damage was estimated at $100,000, according to a release issued by the Cape Girardeau Fire Department...
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Championship on their mind
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
The top-seeded Cape Central Tigers, led by Jaydon Reynolds, center, who scored a game-high 16 points, routed fourth-seeded Notre Dame 58-23 on Thursday, Dec. 28, to reach the championship game of the 2023 Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. Find out more about all the games in today's Sports section, and see more photos in galleries at www.semoball.com...
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Woman pleads guilty in murder of developmentally disabled man
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
Heather Watson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for her role in the killing of Josh Taylor, a 32-year-old developmentally disabled man. Taylor was found by Bollinger County deputies April 2, 2021, lying face up and partially submerged in a pond on Bollinger County Road 346. Deputies found several injuries to Taylor's face, including bruises on his eyes and nose as well as other abrasions and lacerations...
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Tennessee woman charged with assault following Cape County crash
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
A Memphis, Tennessee, woman was booked into Cape Girardeau County jail Wednesday, Dec. 27, on four felony charges, including two charges of endangering the welfare of a child following a two-vehicle traffic wreck on Interstate 55 near the 116-mile marker. Judge Frank Miller issued a $50,000 cash-only bond...
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Cape Girardeau Public Library says no pornographic or obscene materials in collection
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
The Cape Girardeau Public Library doubled down on its message that there are no pornographic or obscene materials in its collection. The library issued a statement Wednesday, Dec. 27, saying it is fully compliant with all state laws regarding pornography or obscene material in any form...
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County commissioners approve ordinance to help solar project
(Local News ~ 12/29/23)
The Cape Girardeau County Commission approved an ordinance during its regular meeting Thursday, Dec. 28, to help the Lutesville Solar Project in the southern part of the county. The ordinance reads that the county can issue its taxable industrial revenue bonds, series 2024, in a principal amount not exceeding $300 million to provide funds for the acquisition, construction and installation of the solar project...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/29/23)
Today is Thursday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2022. There are two days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 29, 1845, Texas was admitted as the 28th state. On this date: In 1170, Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was slain in Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II...
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Prayer 12-29-23
(Prayer ~ 12/29/23)
Lead us, O Lord Jesus, in your righteousness that we may glorify you. Amen.
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Stop funding the 'Rights for Migrants' legal scam
(Column ~ 12/29/23)
As a record number of migrants invade the U.S., wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big-time: the public advocacy lawyers. Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants. Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health care, even the right to vote in local elections...
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A new year begins
(Editorial ~ 12/29/23)
Few of us may actually know the meaning of the words that are often the first notes heard by many at the stroke of midnight, whether in Times Square in New York or in your own New Year's celebration. According to scotland.org, here is how the first verse and chorus translate into modern English:...
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Fire report 12-29-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/29/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Dec. 27 n Medical assists were made at 9:32 a.m. on Independence Street; 4:37 p.m. on Louis Street; and 6:26 p.m. on Montgomery Street. n At 6:31 p.m., residential fire on Hickory Street...
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Police report 12-29-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/29/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest n A warrant arrest was reported on Cousin Street. Assault n Second-degree domestic assault was reported. Thefts n Theft was reported...
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Patrick Clifford
(Obituary ~ 12/29/23)
CAMPBELL, Mo. — Patrick Wayne Clifford, 83, of Campbell passed away peacefully with family by his side Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, at Campbell Healthcare and Senior Living after a brief illness. Pat, middle son of Everett and Mildred Ramsey Clifford, was born Thursday, July 25, 1940, in Campbell...
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State school board to reinstate Black history classes with new curriculum
(State News ~ 12/29/23)
ST. LOUIS -- Students at a suburban St. Louis school district can continue to take elective Black history courses, school leaders announced Thursday in a reversal of a vote last week by the conservative- led school board to end the classes. But the Francis Howell School District board must first approve a new curriculum "that is rigorous and largely politically neutral," the board president and superintendent said in a statement Thursday to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
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Venezuela will hold military exercises off its shores
(International News ~ 12/29/23)
BOGOTA, Colombia -- President Nicolás Maduro ordered Venezuela's armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the Eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom sent a warship toward Guyana's territorial waters as the South American neighbors dispute a large border region...
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Independent lawyers begin prosecuting cases of sexual assault and other crimes in the US military
(National News ~ 12/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military on Thursday opened a new chapter in how it investigates and prosecutes cases of sexual assault and other major crimes, putting independent lawyers in charge of those decisions and sidelining commanders after years of pressure from Congress...
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Nikki Haley doesn't mention slavery when asked what caused the Civil War. She later walks that back
(National News ~ 12/29/23)
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked at a New Hampshire town hall about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn't mention slavery in her response. She walked back her comments hours later. Asked during Wednesday night's town hall in Berlin what she believed had caused the war -- the first shots of which were fired in her home state of South Carolina -- Haley talked about the role of government, replying that it involved "the freedoms of what people could and couldn't do.". ...
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World population up 75 million this year, standing at 8 billion Jan. 1
(National News ~ 12/29/23)
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. The worldwide growth rate in the past year was just under 1%. At the start of 2024, 4.3 births and two deaths are expected worldwide every second, according to Census Bureau figures...
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Thousands arrested at the Texas border
(National News ~ 12/29/23)
EAGLE PASS, Texas -- Before settling in New York City like thousands of other migrants this year, Abdoul, a 32-year-old from West Africa, took an unexpected detour: weeks in a remote Texas jail on local trespassing charges after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border...
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New weight loss drugs are out of reach for millions of older Americans because Medicare won't pay
(National News ~ 12/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- New obesity drugs are showing promising results in helping some people shed pounds but the injections will remain out of reach for millions of older Americans because Medicare is forbidden to cover such medications. Drugmakers and a wide-ranging and growing bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year...
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American-Canadian-Israeli woman believed to be held hostage in Gaza pronounced dead
(International News ~ 12/29/23)
TEL AVIV, Israel -- A hard-hit Israeli kibbutz Thursday announced the death of Judih Weinstein -- an American-Canadian-Israeli woman who had been thought to be held hostage in Gaza. The news came six days after Weinstein's husband, Gad Haggai, was also pronounced dead...
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Mexican officials clear border camp as US pressure mounts to limit migrant crossings
(International News ~ 12/29/23)
MATAMOROS, Mexico -- A ragged migrant tent camp next to the Rio Grande is a long way from Mexico's National Palace, where a U.S. delegation met this week with Mexico's president seeking more action to curb a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. border...
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Federal judge accepts redrawn districts in Georgia that will favor Republicans
(National News ~ 12/29/23)
ATLANTA -- A federal judge Thursday accepted new Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts that protect Republican partisan advantages, saying the creation of new majority-Black voting districts solved the illegal minority vote dilution that led him to order maps to be redrawn...
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Israeli strikes across Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians
(International News ~ 12/29/23)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli forces bombarded cities, towns and refugee camps across Gaza on Thursday, killing dozens of people in a widening air and ground offensive against Hamas that has forced thousands more to flee from homes and shelters in recent days...
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Maine bars Trump from ballot
(National News ~ 12/29/23)
PORTLAND, Maine -- Maine's Democratic secretary of state Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot under the Constitution's insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to return to the White House...
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Out of the past: Dec. 29
(Out of the Past ~ 12/29/23)
The idea of a establishing a court in Cape Girardeau County specifically to handle drug-related cases has received only limited support among county residents; the results of a survey, released Monday by Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle, indicate Cape Girardeau County residents favor establishing a drug court in the county to handle misdemeanor drug cases and to provide misdemeanor offenders intensive treatment rather than punishment; but the county overwhelming rejects the drug court concept for felony offenders and drug pushers.. ...
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