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Sanchez uses brains, brawn with Redhawks
(College Sports ~ 08/09/10)
J.J. Sanchez considered it an honor when he was voted to the preseason all-Ohio Valley Conference football team late last month. Sanchez said he was even more honored just a few days earlier when he found out he had been named an OVC Medal of Honor winner for the 2009-2010 academic year for achieving the highest grade-point average in a conference-sponsored sport...
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Governor to float Current River
(Local News ~ 08/09/10)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and his wife are heading on a float trip. The governor and Georganne Nixon planned to start their trip Monday on the Current River in southern Missouri. State conservation and parks leaders were expected to join the Nixons on the seven-mile float...
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Heat index expected to hit 115 in Missouri, Kansas
(Local News ~ 08/09/10)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Heat indexes were back in the triple digits Monday in northeast Kansas and Missouri, where heat was blamed for four deaths last week. The National Weather Service issued heat warnings Monday for much of the area with temperatures expected to be in the upper 90s to about 100 through Friday. Nighttime lows, which would likely hover around 80 degrees, were unlikely to provide much relief...
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Archive center continues work documenting county's cemeteries
(Local News ~ 08/09/10)
Last month the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center completed work for two more cemeteries in its ongoing cemetery cleaning and documenting program. The program, which started in April 2009, was originally going to take a year or two to complete, however the center keeps discovering additional cemeteries...
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Talking Shop with Karen Freeman, founder, Avery's Amazing Marinade
(Business ~ 08/09/10)
Karen Freeman of Gordonville turned a recipe she created into a new career and growing business with Avery's Amazing Marinade. Freeman now sells and demonstrates the product at several local stores and hopes to soon take the product, named after her dog, to stores nationwide...
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Unoccupied car catches fire Sunday in downtown Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 08/09/10)
An unoccupied car caught fire at the Common Pleas Courthouse on Lorimier Street in downtown Cape Girardeau on Sunday, creating a thick column of black smoke.
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For Jackson officer, family comes before career
(Local News ~ 08/09/10)
In his 10th year with the Jackson Police Department, Sgt. Jim Barker, a native of Marble Hill, Mo., said his greatest accomplishments are not even career related. Barker said being a husband and a father of 12 is what he's most proud of. His career as a police officer dates to 1974, when he joined the U.S. ...
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Guardsmen volunteer at special-needs camp
(Submitted Story ~ 08/09/10)
LAKE OF THE OZARKS STATE PARK, Mo. -- Archery, arts and crafts, boating and a trip to the water park. These activities suggest an ordinary summer camp that thousands of American children flock to every summer. But Camp Guardian -- where Missouri National Guard Soldiers volunteered for a week this summer -- is much more than that; it's a place where special-needs children and adults can get that sense of normalcy for five days a year that most take for granted...
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albino hummingbird
(Submitted Photo ~ 08/09/10)
albino hummingbird at feeder
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Strike a Note for Memory
(Submitted Story ~ 08/09/10)
Sunday, September 12, there will be a free concert to benefit the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk at New McKendree United Methodist Church South Campus in Jackson. The night will feature Justin & Merideth Pobst, Brad Davis, and Kara Whitledge. Also performing will be Christy Shinn & Beth St. ...
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Cape Air continues to attract more passengers with low fares, regular service
(Local News ~ 08/09/10)
When Chalhukya Reddy got off his Cape Air flight to Cape Girardeau on Friday, he was happy to see his luggage. A native of India, Reddy is here to attend Southeast Missouri State University for two years. He finished two years at a Florida school in the spring and said he knows firsthand the frustration of lost bags...
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Cape Girardeau set to welcome 700 Special Olympians to town
(Local News ~ 08/09/10)
More than 700 Special Olympics athletes will arrive in Cape Girardeau on Friday bringing with them an estimated $400,000 economic boost according to the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau. "It's just a very neat event, and it's a pleasure to have them in the community," Chuck Martin, executive director of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau, said of the Special Olympics State Outdoor Championships...
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Prayer 8/9/10
(Prayer ~ 08/09/10)
Watch over us, O God, and hold us in your arms whenever we stumble. Amen.
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Asia flooding plunges millions into misery
(International News ~ 08/09/10)
BEIJING -- Floods and landslides across Asia left millions in peril Sunday as rubble-strewn waters killed at least 127 in northwestern China and 4 million Pakistanis faced food shortages amid their country's worst-ever flooding. In Indian-controlled Kashmir, rescuers raced to find 500 people still missing in flash floods that have already killed 132, while North Korea's state media said high waters had destroyed thousands of homes and damaged crops...
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St. Louis church votes against settlement
(State News ~ 08/09/10)
ST. LOUIS -- Members of a predominantly Polish parish in St. Louis have voted against approving a settlement with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a majority of St. Stanislaus Kostka parishioners voted Sunday that they did "not agree with the direction the Board is pursuing toward settling a lawsuit."...
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Grace Craft
(Obituary ~ 08/09/10)
Grace Lee Craft, 93, of Jackson, formerly of Leemon, passed away Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. She was born July 30, 1917, near Oriole, daughter of Robert and Lela Singleton Abernathy. She and Wilson "Woody" Craft were married Dec. 9, 1939, at Jackson. He preceded her in death Oct. 31, 2008...
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Maurice Eagan
(Obituary ~ 08/09/10)
Maurice E. Eagan, 82, of Roanoke, Ill., passed away at 8:50 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill. He was born April 12, 1928, at Arkansas City, Kan., a son of Ray Chapel and Treva Berdeen Holdredge Eagan. He married Patricia R. Stanley on July 3, 1959, at St. Maries, Idaho. She survives...
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Out of the past 8/9/10
(Out of the Past ~ 08/09/10)
Although normally competitive, Cape Girardeau's two hospitals will soon cooperate in the shared use of an MRI unit. Southeast Missouri Hospital and Saint Francis Medical Center submitted a joint application to the Missouri Health Facilities and Review Committee for the unit...
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Will money decide the race?
(Paid Letter ~ 08/09/10)
Will money spent be the final determinant of who represents us in the 8th District? Tuesday's primary showed how vulnerable 14-year incumbent Jo Ann Emerson could be in the general election. According to the Federal Election Commission, through June 30 she had spent $724,785 on her campaign. Opponent Bob Parker spent $29,688 and lots of personal energy. Among constituents of her own party, Jo Ann could only get 65.6 percent of the votes, while Bob Parker got 34.4 percent...
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Cross Trails will open new clinic in Advance
(Business ~ 08/09/10)
Cross Trails Medical Center will open a new $1.8 million medical and dental clinic this fall in Advance, Mo., to replace its small medical clinic at 106 N. Oak St. Services offered at the new 7,500-square-foot facility on Gabriel Avenue include primary medical care, general dental services, chronic disease management, behavioral health and case management...
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Special Olympics athlete enjoys making friends, being part of a team
(Local News ~ 08/09/10)
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of profiles of local athletes who will participate along with about 700 others in the Special Olympics State Outdoor Championships to be held Friday through Sunday in Cape Girardeau. Name: Dary McIntyre...
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Death toll rises to 11 in flooding in Europe
(International News ~ 08/09/10)
WARSAW, Poland -- The death toll in flooding in central Europe rose to 11 as Poland's interior minister said Sunday that two more people had died in the southwestern region of the country. The flooding has struck an area near the borders of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic...
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People on the move 8/9/10
(Business ~ 08/09/10)
*** Doctor completes surgical reconstruction training course Dr. Zenon Duda recently attended a Foot and Ankle Reconstruction Skills Surgical Course in Miami at the DaVinci Anatomical Surgery Laboratory. The course featured new hardware and instrumentation developed by Deputy Surgical supplies. It allowed an opportunity to work with anatomical specimens and the biomedical engineer who was project manager for the development of adaptable metallic hardware for the fixation of complex fractures and surgical procedures, Duda said.
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New Southeast scoreboard is in the works
(Sports Column ~ 08/09/10)
Southeast Missouri State athletic director John Shafer had good news and bad news for Redhawks football fans tired of and embarrassed by the tiny, junior-high caliber scoreboard at Houck Stadium. Shafer told me Friday that the university has purchased an impressive new scoreboard for this season. That's the good news...
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Cape Girardeau police report 8/9/10
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/09/10)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Summonses Assault Thefts Burglary Property damage Miscellaneous...
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Area digest 8/9/10
(Community Sports ~ 08/09/10)
William Zoughaib covered the course in 28 minutes, 6 seconds to win the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department's youth triathlon. Madeleine McDonald was the top girls finisher, crossing the line in 30:20. Results Triathlon Boys 11 to 13 -- William Zoughaib, Ste Genevieve, Mo., 28:06; Reagan Ragsdale, Doe Run, Mo., 39:09...
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Rain washes away Cards, Marlins
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/10)
St. Louis begins a pivotal three-game series today with the division-leading Reds
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Forced to retire, some take Social Security benefits early
(National News ~ 08/09/10)
MIAMI -- Paul Skidmore's office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18-month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned. "All I want to do is work," said Skidmore of Finksburg, Md., who was an insurance claims adjuster for 37 years before his company downsized and closed his office last year. "And nobody will hire me."...
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