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Woman accused of abandoning corpse set to be tried in June
(Local News ~ 04/08/13)
KENNETT, Mo. -- It has been more than a month since Lisa McCormick's jury trial was canceled, and now a new trial date has been released. On April 1, it was decided that McCormick, who is being charged with felony abandonment of a corpse, will next appear in court at 10:30 a.m. May 22 for a pre-trial conference. She then will be tried by a jury beginning at 9 a.m. June 14...
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Cape man arrested Friday in Illinois after police pursuit
(Local News ~ 04/08/13)
MURPHYSBORO, Ill. -- A Cape Girardeau man was arrested Friday in Murphysboro after allegedly fleeing from police in a high-speed pursuit along with two other men, including an attempted-murder suspect. According to Murphysboro police, Nigelle Bird, 20, of Cape Girardeau, Daivon L. ...
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Jeff Corwin to speak about animal culture, behavior
(Local News ~ 04/08/13)
A passionate voice for animal and nature conservation is bringing his message to Cape Girardeau. Jeff Corwin, best known as host of the Animal Planet television programs "The Jeff Corwin Experience" and "Corwin's Quest," will deliver a speech, "Tales From the Field," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Show Me Center...
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Student group working for gay, lesbian acceptance
(Local News ~ 04/08/13)
Polls show more people are accepting of same-sex couples, and people at the higher education and K-12 level in Cape Girardeau say acceptance is growing among students for those of all sexual orientations. A new poll released Thursday by the Quinnipiac [Conn.] University Polling Institute puts nationwide support for same-sex marriage at 50 percent, the first time that support has reached the 50 percent mark in Quinnipiac polling. ...
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Holocaust Remembered
(Submitted Story ~ 04/08/13)
Saturday evening, April 13th, a Holocaust survivor, Rachel Miller, will speak prior to the Cape Central High School Red Dagger production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Ms. Miller lives in St. Louis and will present, from a child's point of view, that very difficult time in our worlds' history...
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Oliver House showing off renovations during tours
(Local News ~ 04/08/13)
The historic Oliver House in Jackson is celebrating the return of warm weather by showing off its spring face lift. Within the last year, the house has undergone numerous renovations and additions, said Pat Fosse, board member and past president of the Jackson Heritage Association. Although some of the renovations were completed several months ago, he said it's all finally coming together...
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Mo. agency faces audit over cleanup oversight
(State News ~ 04/08/13)
ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Auditor's office will review the Missouri Hazardous Waste Program following newspaper reports that exposed oversight concerns about the cleanup of the former Carondelet Coke site in St. Louis. Stories in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch raised concerns about the cleanup that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/08/13)
Today is Monday, April 8, the 98th day of 2013. There are 267 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On April 8, 1913, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for popular election of United States senators (as opposed to appointment by state legislatures), was ratified. President Woodrow Wilson became the first chief executive since John Adams to address Congress in person as he asked lawmakers to enact tariff reform...
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People on the Move 4/8/13
(Business ~ 04/08/13)
Jeff Maurer of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri was named chairman of the Southern region development board. Maurer is the managing director of Mayson Capital Partners. Also on the board are Pat Allen of Celebrations Restaurant; Brock Alspaugh of Innovative Financial Solutions; Charlie Herbst, county commissioner; and Scott Rhodes of Plaza Tire Service Inc. ...
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Baseball conversations
(Editorial ~ 04/08/13)
If you're a St. Louis Cardinals fan, you know what today is. It's opening day at Busch Stadium, the day the Sea of Red celebrates the history of baseball and the game that bonds fans of multiple generations. This editorial is not intended for you, Cardinal fan...
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Mo. House failed on two levels
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/08/13)
I had the great privilege of meeting my idol and one of the most respected heroic military leaders of our time at a book signing at Regis University in Denver. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf signed my copy of his autobiography and looked me square in the eye and asked, "How are you doing today, son?" I wanted to thank him for his service to our county and tell him how much I respected him but could only respond, "Aaaah." I was frozen like a deer staring into a car's head lights...
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Kevin Morgan
(Obituary ~ 04/08/13)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Kevin "Scott" Morgan, 53, of Perryville died Sunday, April 7, 2013, at his home. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until time of service Thursday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Steve Gallegos officiating...
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John Moore
(Obituary ~ 04/08/13)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- John E. Moore, 75, of Perryville died Sunday, April 7, 2013, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Young and Sons Funeral Home and from 6:30 a.m. until time of service Wednesday at the funeral home...
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Carrie McCommack
(Obituary ~ 04/08/13)
Carrie Lee McCommack, 61, of Scott City died Saturday, April 6, 2013, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 11, 1951, in Roanoke, Va., to Howard Milton "Mac" and Sylvia Lee Porterfield McCommack. She was a nurse's aide and a member of Eagles Club in Cape Girardeau...
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Joe Masterson
(Obituary ~ 04/08/13)
Joe David Masterson, 84, of Jackson died Saturday April 6, 2013, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 9, 1928, in Jackson to Samuel DuRee and Lenora Weltecke Masterson. He and Hazel Lee Meyer were married June 17, 1951, in Jackson. Joe graduated from Jackson High School in 1945. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, stationed in Thule, Greenland...
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Marvin Kline
(Obituary ~ 04/08/13)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Marvin J. Kline, 73, of Perryville died Saturday, April 6, 2013, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Home and from 6:30 a.m. until time of service Tuesday at the fineral home...
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Cold case arrest prompts cross-country probe
(National News ~ 04/08/13)
LOS ANGELES -- When Los Angeles cold case detectives caught up with Samuel Little this past fall, he was living in a Christian shelter in Kentucky, his latest arrest a few months earlier for alleged possession of a crack pipe. But the LA investigators wanted him on far more serious charges: The slayings of two women in 1989, both found strangled and nude below the waist -- victims of what police concluded had been sexually motivated strangulations...
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Cardinals hit Giants with nine-run inning
(Professional Sports ~ 04/08/13)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Matt Carpenter has no explanation for the sudden turn of events, other than a little bit of luck and a lot of aggression. Matt Cain became the first Giants pitcher to allow nine runs in an inning since 1902 when Carpenter and the St. Louis Cardinals tagged him Sunday in a 14-3 romp over San Francisco...
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Southeast Missouri State's Tellor belts two HRs in comeback baseball win vs. SIUE
(College Sports ~ 04/08/13)
Southeast Missourian The Southeast Missouri State baseball team used a big comeback sparked by two home runs from Matt Tellor to win its second straight Ohio Valley Conference series. Southeast trailed 7-1 after two innings and 8-3 after three innings but stormed back for a wild 13-11 victory at SIU Edwardsville Sunday afternoon...
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Louisville is living up to overall No. 1 seed
(Sports Column ~ 04/08/13)
Another exciting NCAA basketball tournament has just about reached its end. After an early spate of upsets by unheralded, low-seeded teams, the Final Four featured three blue-blood, high-major programs from power conferences along with surprise qualifier Wichita State from the mid-major Missouri Valley Conference...
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Blues defeat Red Wings 1-0 to extend winning streak to four games
(Professional Sports ~ 04/08/13)
DETROIT -- The St. Louis Blues are getting back to their effective, grind-it-out ways of last season. Brian Elliott made 28 saves for his 19th career shutout and Chris Porter scored the game's only goal in St. Louis' 1-0 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday...
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Race to build driverless cars is moving forward full throttle
(State News ~ 04/08/13)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- To call Tim Sylvester a road builder misses the point. The streets he intends to build are embedded with electronic sensors that may keep cars of the future from speeding, veering and crashing. A few blocks from Sylvester's Integrated Roadways office in Kansas City, doctoral candidate Amol Khedkar is toiling on his own prototype for a software system that would let cars talk to one other, synchronizing their own movements. ...
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Firm hopes to change crowdfunding
(State News ~ 04/08/13)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- It's hard to talk about Jason Graf's new Springfield-based crowdfunding company without mentioning Kickstarter and Indiegogo. They're the "800-pound gorillas" of the industry, as he puts it. But they're also, he believes, "first-generation crowdfunding platforms."...
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Rare Amur leopard on display at K.C. Zoo
(State News ~ 04/08/13)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A critically endangered Amur leopard is on display at the Kansas City Zoo. The Kansas City Star reported the 10-year-year-old leopard is named Natalia. She lived at the Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, N.D., until it flooded in the summer of 2011. Since then, she's been at the Tanganyika Wildlife Park near Wichita...
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Prayer 4-8
(Prayer ~ 04/08/13)
O Lord Jesus, may we follow your example and show Christ-like love to all. Amen.
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Speak Out 4/8/13
(Speak Out ~ 04/08/13)
I was just wondering how many people who regularly eat out, really look at where they are eating. Sometimes the places are very dirty. Look around and see where you're eating and how clean it is. Great story about the happy village, Joe. Sounds like our tax-and-spend Congress. Just wait until they get the bill for the sewer tax, which will be twice as much...
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Out of the past 4/8/13
(Out of the Past ~ 04/08/13)
Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft praises the cooperative efforts of all levels of government in making possible the construction of a veterans' nursing home here; Ashcroft speaks at ground-breaking ceremonies in the morning at the Highway 61 site. The Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission approves the department's recommended location of a new Mississippi River bridge site at Cape Girardeau and a cross-city highway linking it with Interstate 55; the $73,043,000 project involves the construction of a four-lane bridge just to the south of the existing bridge and an east-west, 4.25-mile, four-lane highway across the city.. ...
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Jackson fire report 4/8/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/08/13)
Jackson firefighters responded to the following calls Saturday:...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 4/8/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/08/13)
Firefighters responded to the following calls Thursday:...
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Cape Girardeau police report 4/8/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/08/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI The Southeast Missouri State University Department of Public Safety released the following item. DWI The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt...
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No County Commission meeting today
(Local News ~ 04/08/13)
The Cape Girardeau County Commission will not meet today, according to an email sent by the office. The commission regularly meets at 9 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Pertinent address: 1 Barton Square, Jackson, Mo.
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Facebook barges into Google turf
(National News ~ 04/08/13)
NEW YORK -- Facebook Home, the new software that takes over the front screen of a smartphone, is a bit of a corporate home invasion. Facebook is essentially moving into Google's turf, taking advantage of software the search giant and competitor created...
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5,000 NYC pay phones will take you back to 1993
(Entertainment ~ 04/08/13)
NEW YORK -- Want to journey to a grittier time in New York City's not-too-distant past, when the murder rate was sky-high, Times Square was a crossroads of crime and porn, Starbucks had yet to arrive, and hardly anyone owned a cellphone? A project designed to promote an art exhibit has turned 5,000 Manhattan pay phones into time machines that take callers back to 1993, a pivotal year in the city's art, culture and politics...
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Complaints from airline passengers surged in 2012
(National News ~ 04/08/13)
WASHINGTON -- Airline passengers are getting grumpier, and it's little wonder. Airlines keep shrinking the size of seats to stuff more people onto planes, those empty middle seats that once provided a little more room are now occupied and more people with tickets are being turned away because flights are overbooked...
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In northern New England, this season's name is mud
(National News ~ 04/08/13)
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- It's known in northern New England as the fifth season: mud. But the time of year when the thawing winter landscape turns dirt roads into mucky seas and paved highways into frosty roller coasters sprinkled with potholes isn't featured on tourist calendars...
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Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert win big at ACMs
(National News ~ 04/08/13)
LAS VEGAS -- Everything went according to the script Sunday night at the Academy of Country Music Awards until the end, when Luke Bryan pulled off an amazing upset and won entertainer of the year. Bryan immediately overshadowed top winner Miranda Lambert's big night by beating out some of country music's top performers, including Lambert and her husband Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean and two-time entertainer of the year Taylor Swift in an upset that few would have predicted because of his relatively recent move into the spotlight.. ...
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Analysis: Mo. GOP pans Real ID passed by GOP in Washington
(State News ~ 04/08/13)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Republicans bristling over new procedures for issuing driver's licenses also are expressing fears that the state's new policy will lead to compliance with federal rules they loathe even more. Lawmakers in Jefferson City have objected and legislated against Real ID, a federal law passed in 2005 by fellow Republicans in Washington in the midst of national security concerns following the Sept. ...
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New businesses move in as older businesses move on
(Business ~ 04/08/13)
MRV Banks will open a full-service branch in Cape Girardeau at 1602 N. Kingshighway, Suite 102, in the Regent's Parc Building. Doug Watson, president and chief executive officer, said the anticipated opening date is May 6. Local banking veterans Brian Rivenburgh and Robbie Guard will lead the team at the new location. ...
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Talking Shop with Debbie Hadler Statler of Grandma Bea's All-Natural Products
(Business ~ 04/08/13)
Debbie Hadler Statler has had a long-running interest in natural products and home remedies. She created Grandma Bea's All-Natural Products and recently opened a storefront in an old bank in Perryville. She specializes in homemade, all-natural products, home remedies, produce and more...
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