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City of Cape Girardeau warns about utility bill phone call scam
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
The City of Cape Girardeau issued a reminder in its newsletter Monday, Feb. 26, against picking up scam phone calls posing as the utility office. According to the city, staff received reports from customers about scam calls posing as city utility office employees. The calls included the scammer demanding payments to keep city services available. ...
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Cape Girardeau Endangered Buildings List open for 2024 nominations
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
Cape Girardeau’s Historic Preservation Commission is seeking nominations for its 2024 Endangered Buildings List, with the deadline of Friday, March 8. The list identifies buildings with historic value that are in “a state of deterioration” or about to be demolished. ...
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World premiere of ‘Our Play’ set for Wednesday at River Campus
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
The world premiere of the award-winning "Our Play" by Jessica Moss will take place Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Rust Flexible Theatre on the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus in Cape Girardeau. The play won SEMO’s Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival competition in 2023. It is an annual competition honoring new American plays that provide performance opportunities for college-aged actors. ...
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Blue Collar Tour highlights importance of trade work at CTC
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
Western Welding Academy was founded by Tyler Sasse in 2019 to help fill the demand for skilled labor by training the next generation of pipe welders and fitters. In 2020, Sasse and his team decided to embark on their first tour. ...
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Service group donates griddle, popcorn machine to Veterans Home
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
Since 1991, the Veterans and Fallen Heroes organization has been raising money for the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Instead of donating directly to the home, it uses its funds to purchase items the home’s staff and residents need. “We’ll come out and spend time with the residents, talk to them, see what they need. If there are any special requests that they have, we try to accommodate and get those items for them,” volunteer Toni Welker said. “No item (is) too big or too small.” ...
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Arrest made in Cape Girardeau stabbing murder
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
Cape Girardeau County authorities have charged a man in connection with a weekend stabbing that left a Jackson man dead in Cape Girardeau. ...
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State Senate passes initiative reform measure
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
After weeks of heated debate, the Missouri Senate was finally able to pass Senate Joint Resolution 74 — an initiative petition reform bill — on to the House of Representatives. Following a 20-plus hours long filibuster from Senate Democrats that began Monday, Feb. 19, and ran into Tuesday afternoon, SJR 74 initially passed with an 18-12 vote...
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Officials issue 'no burn advisory' for Cape Girardeau County
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
Cape Girardeau County commissioners have issued a "no burn advisory" for the county because of increased fire risk. A release from the county's Emergency Management office says county fire officials asked commissioners to consider the advisory, citing temperature, low humidity, dry ground covering and possible increasing winds as risk factors. They noted natural cover fires have increased in recent days...
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Two injured in Cape Girardeau shooting
(Local News ~ 02/27/24)
Two people suffered gunshot wounds Tuesday, Feb. 27, at CVS Pharmacy, 2161 William St. in Cape Girardeau. A release from Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad said police located the victims at the scene, and they were transported to a local hospital...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/27/24)
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2024. There are 308 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until the following May.)...
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Sponsored: Find the opportunity with your retirement plan
(Insiders Advice ~ 02/27/24)
When it comes to your retirement plan at work, we don’t usually talk about opportunity because most plans are very similar in structure. However, if you have worked for a company for several years and leave that job, you may have an opportunity to move your funds...
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Blue laws for red citizens
(Column ~ 02/27/24)
One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from former President Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million. Trump awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other federal, state, and local indictments...
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It makes no sense to abandon Ukraine
(Column ~ 02/27/24)
Millions for defense, but not one cent for Ukraine. That's the rallying cry of opponents of a new $60 billion tranche of aid for Ukraine led by Ohio's Republican senator, J.D. Vance. Vance deserves credit for taking his perspective directly into the belly of the beast at the Munich Security Conference, where he rowed against the tide by advocating for abandoning the embattled Western ally...
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Battle to the bottom
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/27/24)
Something is wrong with the system if the American people are left to pick between the same two candidates for president in the year 2024 as they were in the year 2020. This can not be a step into the future. At best it can only be considered as either a side step or no step at all. ...
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The COVID agenda
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/27/24)
Science had nothing to do with the following two tyrannical covid "interventions". If not based on science, then why were they mandated? Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who famously once claimed, "I am the science," admitted when questioned by the House Oversight Committee last month that the 6-foot rule of social distancing during covid "sort of just appeared" and wasn't based on science. ...
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Prayer of the Day 2-27-24
(Prayer ~ 02/27/24)
O Heavenly Father, please give us strength to meet life’s challenges. Amen
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Fire report 2-27-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/27/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Feb. 25 n Medical assists were made at 8:22 a.m. on Woodlawn Avenue; 11:54 a.m. on Perry Avenue; 2:56 p.m. on Walnut Street; and 5:17 p.m. on Hopper Road. ...
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Police report 2-27-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/27/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on William Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on Super Bowl Drive. n A warrant arrest was reported on South Louisiana Avenue. ...
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James Tyler
(Obituary ~ 02/27/24)
James Edward “Jim” Tyler, 89, of Jackson passed away Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, at his home. He was born Feb. 16, 1935, in Winkle, Illinois, to Louis and Lucille Rainey Tyler. Jim enlisted in the U.S. Marines on April 2, 1952. While serving in Japan, he and Seiko Okamoto were married June 25, 1954. Three children — Edward, David and Edrye — were born to their union. They had been married 60 years when Seiko passed away July 10, 2014. ...
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Anna Stark
(Obituary ~ 02/27/24)
PERRYVILLE — Anna Marie Stark, 97, of Perryville died Friday, February 23, 2024, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. Visitation will be from 8 to 9:45 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, at Ford and Young Funeral Home. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, with the Rev. Ben Melaku officiating. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. ...
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Carol Brinkopf
(Obituary ~ 02/27/24)
Carol E. Goldsmith Brinkopf passed away peacefully Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, on her family farm in Jackson. She was born Dec. 4, 1943, to Major Bryan and Mary B. Franz. She married Louis Campbell Brinkopf on Nov. 29, 2010, and he preceded her in death Oct. 26, 2017. ...
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Jerry Brewer
(Obituary ~ 02/27/24)
PERRYVILLE — Jerry Lee Brewer, 77, of Perryville died Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 29, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville, and will continue from 8 to 9:20 a.m. Friday, March 1, at the funeral home. The rosary will be recited at 8:30 a.m. Friday. ...
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Biden and Trump will face tests in Michigan's primaries that could inform a November rematch
(National News ~ 02/27/24)
WASHINGTON -- While Joe Biden and Donald Trump are marching toward their respective presidential nominations, Michigan's primary on Tuesday could reveal significant political perils for both of them. Trump, despite his undoubted dominance of the Republican contests this year, is facing a bloc of stubbornly persistent GOP voters who favor his lone remaining rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and who are skeptical at best about the former president's prospects in a rematch against Biden...
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Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states' efforts to regulate social media platforms
(National News ~ 02/27/24)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on state laws that could affect how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The cases are among several this term in which the justices could set standards for free speech in the digital age...
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Putting Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not 'ruled out' in the future, French leader says
(International News ~ 02/27/24)
PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not "ruled out" in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia's full-scale invasion grinds into a third year...
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Navalny aides say the Russian opposition leader was close to being freed before his death
(International News ~ 02/27/24)
Associates of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that talks were underway shortly before his death to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany. "Alexei Navalny could have been sitting here now, today. It's not a figure of speech," Maria Pevchikh, a close associate who lives outside Russia, said in a video statement posted on social media. She said she received confirmation the talks were in the "final stages" on Feb. 15, the day before Navalny was reported dead...
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Hungary's parliament ratifies Sweden's NATO bid, clearing the final obstacle to membership
(International News ~ 02/27/24)
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Hungary's parliament voted Monday to ratify Sweden's bid to join NATO, ending more than 18 months of delays that frustrated the alliance as it sought to expand in response to Russia's war in Ukraine. The vote, which passed with 188 votes for and six against, was the culmination of months of wrangling by Hungary's allies to convince its nationalist government to lift its block on Sweden's membership. ...
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Protesting farmers spray Brussels police with liquid manure near EU's base in a new display of power
(International News ~ 02/27/24)
BRUSSELS -- Farmers clashed with police in Belgium on Monday, spraying officers with liquid manure and throwing eggs and flares at them in a fresh show of force as the European Union's agriculture ministers met in search of ways to address the protesters' concerns...
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US airman dies after setting himself ablaze outside Israeli Embassy in Israel-Hamas war protest
(National News ~ 02/27/24)
WASHINGTON -- An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force has died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he "will no longer be complicit in genocide." The 25-year-old airman, Aaron Bushnell, of San Antonio, Texas, died from his injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said Monday...
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Barrage of gunfire as officers stop shooter at Joel Osteen's megachurch, newly released video shows
(National News ~ 02/27/24)
HOUSTON -- The gunfire that shattered the calm at pastor Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston only lasted about four minutes. But surveillance video and police body camera footage released Monday, more than two weeks after the Feb. 11 shooting at Lakewood Church, showed the terror of the brief attack: Parishioners scattering, searching for safety in rooms and hallways. ...
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Wild weather hits Northwest with snow even as Midwest gets a taste of summer
(National News ~ 02/27/24)
BOSTON -- February's end is bringing wild weather to much of the United States, with record heat allowing for golf in Wisconsin and outdoor food trucks in Minnesota, along with an increased fire risk across much of the Great Plains. But blinding snow in the Northwest is blowing eastward, and places like Chicago should see temperatures swinging dramatically from balmy to bitter cold again...
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Manhattan DA wants gag order for Trump, seeks to play 'Access Hollywood' tape at hush-money trial
(National News ~ 02/27/24)
NEW YORK -- Prosecutors in Donald Trump's New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to impose a gag order on the former president ahead of next month's trial, citing what they called his "long history of making public and inflammatory remarks" about people involved in his legal cases...
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Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, dueling for advantage on immigration
(National News ~ 02/27/24)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S-Mexico border on Thursday, as both candidates try to turn the nation's broken immigration system to their political advantage in an expected campaign rematch this year...
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Israel is ready to halt its war in Gaza during Ramadan if a hostage deal is reached, Biden says
(International News ~ 02/27/24)
TEL AVIV, Israel -- United States President Joe Biden said Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan if a deal is reached to release some of the hostages held by the militants. Negotiators from the U.S., Egypt and Qatar are working on a framework deal under which Hamas would free some of the dozens of hostages it holds, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and a six-week halt in fighting. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 27
(Out of the Past ~ 02/27/24)
Sister Mary Ann Fischer, who has served 11 years as principal at Notre Dame Regional High School, says the time is right for her to leave the high school she helped bring into its prime; Fischer is leaving here to pursue another career that allows her to use her master’s degree in religious education; but first, she will participate in a summer program with the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Japan, where she will work with the international order and perform some Third World outreach activities. ...
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