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SEMO alums Dodd and Dirden fight for big league dreams
Tony Capobianco ~ Southeast Missourian
Joey Lucchesi was the last Southeast Missouri State baseball player to play in the big leagues. His last season was in 2016, a year in which the Redhawks won the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship, just before Andy Sawyers began his coaching tenure in SEMO...
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    SEMO moves 150th anniversary street fair indoors - 11:46 pm
    Following all-day rain Tuesday, March 21, and with a forecast for winds up to 20 miles per hour Wednesday, March 22, Southeast Missouri State University has announced a change for Wednesday's planned...
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    Candidates for Cape Giradeau school board double-down on their positions - 11:27 pm1
    The five candidates running for three seats on the Cape Girardeau Public Schools Board of Education addressed voters during a forum Monday, March 20. The forum, held at the Richard D. Kinder...
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    Cape Girardeau assistant chief honored at state level - 11:26 pm
    A member of the command staff at the Cape Girardeau Police Department received a statewide honor this week. Cape Girardeau assistant police Chief Rodney Barker was named the Law Enforcement Officer...
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    State House approves cut to income tax amid surpluses - 11:25 pm
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Just six months after passing what was billed as the largest tax cut in Missouri history, the Republican-led state House voted Tuesday for an even bigger income tax cut that...
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    ALDI preparing for site prep work in Jackson - 11:18 pm
    A long-awaited retail development is about to come to fruition as ALDI is expected to begin site development work for a new Jackson grocery next week at 2502 E. Jackson Blvd., adjacent to Alliance...
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    Jackson seniors look back on historic hoops season
    Cole Lee ~ Southeast Missourian
    It isn’t easy to learn a coach’s system, play under it for three years and then, for your senior season, shift into a completely new system and have immediate success. The 2022-23 Jackson boys’ basketball seniors faced that exact adversity and, in turn, appeared in three regular season tournament title games for the first time in a decade and made a run all the way to the state semifinals for the first time since 1934...
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    The boys’ and girls’ All-SEMO Conference Team was recently released. Those selected were Sikeston junior Dontrez Williams, Charleston sophomore PJ...
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    The St. Vincent Indians started the 2023 season on the right foot as they cruised to a 5-1 win over the Cape Central Tigers on Monday in Perryville....
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    BENTON, Mo. — Kennett defeated Kelly 8-0 on Saturday, March 18 to spoil the Hawks' (0-1) season opener. Matthew Gardner earned the win for the...
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    EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — The season got off to a rocky start as the East Prairie softball team committed six errors in a 13-2 loss to Kennett. “We hung...
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    AI, ChatGPT and its implications for life and work (3/20/23)
    By Jeff Long ~ Southeast Missourian
    Alan Turing (1912-1954), a British mathematician, is considered by some to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence....
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    New hotel planned near Exit 99 in Cape Girardeau (3/20/23)
    By Jeff Long ~ Southeast Missourian
    Midamerica Hotels Corp. has entered into an agreement to bring a 92-room Tru by Hilton hotel to a parcel in front of Cape Girardeau SportsPlex and...
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