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Hodges, Smith attack each other with TV spots

Independence Street traffic

Memorial to Alexander Buckner

Caruthers Avenue concreted

Frizel-Welling House named to Most Endangered List

Girardeans mourn with Moore

100-mile yard sale starts Thursday!

Welcome, Bailey

Lorberg Furniture & Undertaking crowd

Missouri's Most Endangered Historic Places list to be announced Tuesday in Bloomfield

Fire Prevention 1930s

William Vedder's interesting life

Memories of the Plaza Galleria?

Mystery photos solved 5/15/2013

Cape Girardeau's first modern bank

University Demolition Is Just Part Of Its Nature

Bridge toll house razed

Three steamers at Cape riverfront

Hodges attacks Congress, Jason Smith

Community bloggers
Ruffle the Feathers: Gatsby Is the Word

I Am Pit Bull Strong

MISSOURI FASHION WEEK MODEL CALL TOMORROW!!!

Compassion + Fashion

Legislation Sent -or Soon to be Sent- to the Governor for His Signature

End of Session Capitol Report

Shocking True Story of Catherine Engelbrecht vs. The Obama Government

WHAT'S NEXT?

THE SHOW MUST GO ON......

Hear the Thunder

Final Week of Session

THE FINAL REHEARSAL....

OPENING NIGHT....

Has Obama's Administration Crossed a Constitutional Red Line?

Make a Summer Bucket List

"RUMORS" OPENS THURSDAY.......

Capitol Report XVI

Hats On To Your Personality

Roman

Fiscal Year 2014 State Budget & Other Legislative Actions

Creating an Executive Assistant Resume that Gets Results

Opt to Adopt this Weekend

The Glory Days of Hatpins

DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN: ELIMINATE THE FEDERAL DEPT. OF EDUCATION

DATE CHANGES.......

Rep. Swan to Speak at MAC Commencement

Capitol Report XV

LIVE FREE!

Two Weeks of Session Remaining

Trinity

2013 Dunklin County Legion baseball schedule released

Notre Dame baseball postponed, soccer still on

2013 Class 3 District 1 Baseball Team

2013 Bootheel Conference Baseball Team

Nutt attracting several potential walk-ons

Column: Swinging at 6 with the Jackson baseball team

Update with quotes: Mitch Wood stepping down as Oran baseball coach

2013 All-Ozark Foothills Conference Baseball Team

District baseball tournament brackets set for all teams in the Missouri Bootheel

Ozark Invitational final scores

Day 1 of Ozark Invitational

QB should be an interesting position to watch at SEMO

Updated: SEMO Conference baseball tournament schedule

Tee times for 67th Ozark Invitational

Two baseball tournaments start Monday -- Bootheel Conference and Black River League

2013 Tri-County Baseball Tournament

Brackets set for Tri-County baseball and softball tournaments

Bat Testing Canceled

2013 SCAA Baseball Tournament -- Bernie wins

Column: Otto Porter stays true to form all the way to NBA


Facebook recipes reflect personalities
Lately, it seems like several of my friends have posted recipes on facebook, and they look wonderful. It is interesting that the recipes my friends post actually reflect the personalities of the person. I can guess certain friends will always post desserts and some will always post entrees or salads. ...
How to treat azalea leaf gall
The unusual spring weather is causing all kinds of plant problems. One that has recently been brought to the attention of gardeners is azalea leaf gall. This plant disease is caused by an infection of azalea leaf and flower parts by the fungus Exobasidium vaccinii...
Build me up, buttercup
The scientific name for this flower's genus is ranunculus. There are several hundred different species of ranunculus spread across the world. Many of them are difficult to distinguish from one another. Most buttercup plants have five slick bright yellow petals on each flower. Individual flowers of the buttercup are small, but this spring blooming plant can colonize an untilled field or pasture and present a breath-taking sight...
Breezes, winds, dust devils, cyclones, hurricanes, twisters
Experts might disagree, but I think fear is a key factor in the survival of the human race. I'm afraid of many things. As a result, many of the things I fear pretty much leave me alone. Remember when you asked your uncle why he double knotted his shoelaces? "To keep the tigers away," he said, matter-of-factly...
Afghanistan: Lessons from the British Empire
In the 19th century, Central Asia was the scene of a struggle for dominance between the British and Russian Empires, a conflict that became known as "The Great Game." Each of the major powers vied for tribal influence, military bases, trade agreements and cultural influence across a complex region of conflicting loyalties, warring ethnic groups and few resources...
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Do you agree with the Boy Scouts decision to allow boys who are openly gay to join the organization?
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Weird news
Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668,000
BERLIN (AP) -- An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers - a functioning 1976 model - has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000)....
Police: 'Thong Cape Scooter Man' not breaking law
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man who wears thong underwear and a cape while riding his scooter through Wisconsin's capital city may be a strange sight. But police say he isn't breaking any laws....
Stocks barely budge; market ends week with loss
NEW YORK (AP) -- Major stock indexes closed out their first weekly loss in a month in quiet trading Friday....
Brown hounded for calling Manila 'gates of hell'
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital....
Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant....
Council members abstain from vote on abstaining
YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) -- Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes....
For Philadelphia bicyclist, a cat is his co-pilot
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot....
Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid....
Goat on the lam snarls NJ's Pulaski Skyway traffic
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase....