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Ride of the Week: 1976 CJ5 Jeep Renegade-bought new in December 1975
(Submitted Story ~ 07/29/13)
Make and model: 1976 CJ5 Jeep Renegade-bought new in December 1975 Owner(s): Mike & Nancy Reiminger Owner's hometown: Rural Delta, MO Frame off restoration, custom built 390 AMC motor, 727 Chrysler automatic transmission with Quick Silver shifter, Dana differentials, Rough Country suspension, and M/T wheels...
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Street preacher says he's being silenced for views
(State News ~ 07/29/13)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Springfield street preacher who has been repeatedly ticketed for disturbing the peace says video footage of an incident a week ago shows he is being singled out because of his Christian views and not the volume of his amplifier...
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Judge fires 34-year court veteran for good deed
(State News ~ 07/29/13)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City man freed from prison three decades after being wrongfully convicted of rape considers Sharon Snyder his "angel" for giving him a public document that showed him how to properly seek DNA tests. A Jackson County Circuit judge considers the 34-year court employee an insubordinate for offering legal advice and being too chatty about courthouse matters...
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Missouri panel urged to expand Medicaid
(State News ~ 07/29/13)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Barton County cattle rancher Darvin Bentlage drove 400 miles roundtrip this weekend to put a human face on the contentious, confounding and convoluted debate over Medicaid expansion in Missouri. A 57-year-old survivor of hepatitis B who said he eschews private health insurance to avoid adding more debt to his $700,000 farm loan, Bentlage came to Columbia to implore a 52-person panel of citizens and Missouri lawmakers on Saturday to cast aside partisan differences and help out the state's poorest and neediest residents. ...
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KC trees damaged in effort to track ash borer
(State News ~ 07/29/13)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City parks officials spent the spring deliberately damaging about 700 ash trees as part of a plan to save other trees from the emerald ash borer, which kills ash trees by feeding on their bark. The trees that have been "stressed" will be checked in the fall so the parks department can track which Kansas City neighborhoods are harboring the insect, The Kansas City Star reported. ...
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Cardinals lose 5-2 as Braves complete 3-game sweep
(Professional Sports ~ 07/29/13)
ATLANTA -- The St. Louis Cardinals' bats fell flat in Atlanta during a three-game series between NL division leaders. That leaves little margin for error in their upcoming four-game showdown for the Central lead. The Cardinals were swept in three games at Atlanta for the first time in 10 years Sunday night as Jason Heyward homered and drove in two runs to help the Braves beat St. Louis 5-2...
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ALL-SE MISSOURIAN SOCCER: Finally healthy, Crusaders' junior enjoys a stellar season
(High School Sports ~ 07/29/13)
The 2013 season was going to be different. A concussion she sustained early in the 2011 girls soccer campaign never really allowed her to get untracked as a freshman. The following year, she severely sprained an ankle in her first game and was sidelined for half of her sophomore season...
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Market raises funds for equine-therapy program
(Local News ~ 07/29/13)
COBDEN, Ill. -- By midafternoon Sunday, Patrik Cates hadn't seen more than a dozen prospective customers stop to look at his handmade wooden flutes, but he didn't let that interfere with his enjoyment of a pretty afternoon. Cates was part of a handful of vendors who turned out to sell crafts and other items Sunday at Black Diamond Market, a new monthly fundraiser for equine-assisted learning and therapy programs at Black Diamond Ranch, 2715 State Route 127 North in Cobden...
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Cellphone tower locations depend on population
(Local News ~ 07/29/13)
Much like cellphones have evolved from awkward and unattractive to sleek and trim, cellphone towers also have taken on new appearances. They are erected near churches, farms and businesses, and often go unnoticed, despite their growing numbers. According to Jim Kientzy, director of radio access network at AT&T, the network has about 15 sites in and around the Cape Girardeau area. ...
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Jackson High Attends FBLA National Conference
(Submitted Story ~ 07/29/13)
Jackson, MO. -- Anaheim is one of the country's most populous metropolitan areas -- a place well-suited for over 8,500 future business leaders who ignite innovation. Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL), the largest and oldest student business organization, held their National Leadership Conference (NLC) at the Hilton Anaheim, June 27-30. ...
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Cape Girardeau general fund balance up
(Local News ~ 07/29/13)
Although a full budget picture for the city of Cape Girardeau won't be available for several months, officials are looking toward another good year thanks to above-trend sales tax and franchise tax revenue. A general fund balance that sat at $416,000 in 2008 has grown to roughly $3 million, said city finance director John Richbourg. ...
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VanMatre Receives Mark of Excellence Award
(Submitted Story ~ 07/29/13)
General Motors highest honor, the Mark of Excellence Award, was presented for the fourth consecutive year to VanMatre Buick GMC Cadillac. Established in 1980, VanMatre Buick GMC Cadillac has been a Cape Girardeau, family business committed to excellence in sales and service satisfaction...
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Auditions Set....
(Submitted Story ~ 07/29/13)
River City Players will be holding auditions for the last show of the season,"Nuts, Bolts, & Carnations" written by Don Rausch and directed by Debbie Barnhouse. There are roles for 2m and 3f. The audition date is ...... Sunday, August 4, 2013. They are being held at Port Cape at 1:00 p.m. in the Yacht Club. No prep is needed as this will be a cold reading. The show dates are November 7,8,9,10...
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GREATER DIMENSION MINISTRIES -- BREAKING BARRIERS C
(Submitted Story ~ 07/29/13)
Greater Dimension Ministries will host a Breaking Barriers Conference, August 1-4, 2013. The conference theme is: "The Power of Partnership". Guest speakers include: Apostle Sharon Billins, Columbus, GA, Pastor Larry Lee, Marion, IL and Pastor Calvin Bird, Sikeston, MO. Dr. William and Rosemary Bird, Sr. conference hosts...
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Pirates rock Westbrook, Cardinals 9-2
(Professional Sports ~ 07/29/13)
PITTSBURGH -- Jake Westbrook's struggles against the Pittsburgh Pirates have veered from statistical curiosity to something more troubling for the veteran right-hander and the St. Louis Cardinals. The Pirates roughed up Westbrook again in a 9-2 loss on Monday night to pull within a half-game of the Cardinals for the lead in the NL Central. Westbrook (7-5) fell to 1-8 against Pittsburgh in his otherwise solid career after the Pirates jumped on him for four runs in the first.
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Saffold adjusting to life at right tackle
(Professional Sports ~ 07/29/13)
ST. LOUIS -- Rodger Saffold was the St. Louis Rams' left tackle his first three NFL seasons, wearing his boyhood idol Orlando Pace's No. 76 jersey and leading the protection for Sam Bradford. He's had several months to handle the reality that it is no longer his position...
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Capahas win in 14 innings
(Community Sports ~ 07/29/13)
The Plaza Tire Capahas have certainly not lacked for drama during their 32nd consecutive National Baseball Congress World Series appearance. Plaza Tire notched another thrilling marathon victory Monday, scoring the game's only run in the bottom of the 14th inning to knock off the Kansas Cannons 1-0...
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Competing ideas pop up on new road's path
(Local News ~ 07/29/13)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- People in the Poplar Bluff area are being asked to support a proposed U.S. 60 corridor that would bypass two old, narrow bridges connecting Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky -- an alternative to the route Cape Girardeau interests hope to see as a connection among the states...
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Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein hoping to bounce back
(Professional Sports ~ 07/29/13)
ST. LOUIS -- Greg Zuerlein's secret is out. The St. Louis Rams' second-year kicker cheated a bit during his coach-ordered, three-month rest period earlier this year. Last season as a rookie, Zuerlein came from out of nowhere to convert his first 15 field goal attempts. He bottomed out over the second half, missing eight of his final 16 tries, and special teams coordinator John Fassel attributed the drop-off to fatigue and told Zuerlein to rest from January to March...
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Hoosier Ryan Newman wins Brickyard 400 at Indy
(Professional Sports ~ 07/29/13)
INDIANAPOLIS -- A born and bred Hoosier, Ryan Newman spent his childhood racing everywhere from Anderson to Winchester and every short track he could find in a state mad about racing. He graduated from Purdue and landed a summer job working in Jeff Gordon's old race shop in Pittsboro. One of the perks? He got to live in the shop and sleep alongside the cars...
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Capahas wait out the rain in Wichita
(Community Sports ~ 07/29/13)
By MARTY MISHOW Southeast Missourian The Plaza Tire Capahas barely beat the rain late Saturday night to pull out a thrilling 13-inning victory during their opening game at their 32nd consecutive National Baseball Congress World Series appearance. Rain got the better of the Capahas on Sunday as they never took the field for their scheduled 7 p.m. second-round contest of the 79th annual 32-team, double-elimination tournament in Wichita, Kan...
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Sapp smiling all the way to the Hall
(Professional Sports ~ 07/29/13)
n First in a series on 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees By FRED GOODALL Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. -- Now headed into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Warren Sapp smiles as he remembers accepting the challenge to turn around one of the worst franchises in pro sports history...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/29/13)
Today is Monday, July 29, the 210th day of 2013. There are 155 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 29, 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (However, the couple divorced in 1996.)...
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Drugs and sports
(Editorial ~ 07/29/13)
Yet another high-profile Major League Baseball player was exposed last week as a user of performance-enhancing drugs. Ryan Braun, the former National League MVP and star with the Milwaukee Brewers, was issued a 65-game suspension without pay after an investigation into his dealings with Biogenesis, a clinic exposed to be dealing drugs to professional athletes under the table...
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Speak Out 7/29/13
(Speak Out ~ 07/29/13)
About 47 million Americans received food stamps last year, but only a relative few are required to work or look for a job as a condition of receiving the aid. Now, House Republicans are considering whether the work requirement should be strengthened as they seek cuts to the $80 billion-a-year program, which has doubled in cost over the last five years. ...
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Out of the past 7/29/13
(Out of the Past ~ 07/29/13)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Demolition of the nearly 50-year-old Chaffee High School gymnasium got underway this week and is expected to be completed in about two weeks; last year, Chaffee junior and senior high school students moved into a new high school building...
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Shirley Russell
(Obituary ~ 07/29/13)
Shirley Ann Russell, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, July 26, 2013, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews, Mo. She was born Feb. 1, 1938, in Randles to Floyd David and Amy Grace McNeely Bond. Shirley received her bachelor's degree in 1988 and master's degree in 1990 from Southeast Missouri State University. She first taught at Meadow Heights School and then taught at Southeast Missouri State University. She retired from teaching in 2003 from Missouri Street Christian Academy in West Memphis, Ark...
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Louis Maze
(Obituary ~ 07/29/13)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. — Louis Maze, 80, of Olive Branch died Sunday, July 28, 2013, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, Ill.
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Gary Hughes
(Obituary ~ 07/29/13)
SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. -- Gary Eugene Hughes, 65, of Sedgewickville passed away Friday, July 26, 2013, at his home. He was born Nov. 12, 1947, in Leadwood, Mo., son of Loman Lee and Mary Redith Coffman Hughes. Hughes was a self-employed recycler and attended the New Salem Baptist Church...
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Indianapolis church mourns 3 in bus crash
(National News ~ 07/29/13)
INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis congregation on Sunday mourned the deaths of their youth pastor, his pregnant wife and another member who were killed when a church bus overturned with just a mile to go in a return trip from a Michigan summer camp...
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Florida apartment gunman was described as lonely, angry
(National News ~ 07/29/13)
HIALEAH, Fla. -- The gunman who went on a shooting rampage at his South Florida apartment building, killing six people, was a lonely man who spoke about having pent up anger, those who knew him said Sunday. Pedro Vargas, 42, lived on the fourth floor of a barren, concrete apartment complex in the Miami suburb of Hialeah with his elderly mother. ...
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Morsi backers continue defiance
(International News ~ 07/29/13)
CAIRO -- Escalating the confrontation after clashes that left 83 supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president dead, the interim government moved Sunday toward dismantling two pro-Mohammed Morsi sit-in camps, accusing protesters of "terrorism" and vowing to deal with them decisively...
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Rescuers say 37 were killed in Italy bus accident
(International News ~ 07/29/13)
ROME -- A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers...
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U.S. designers take trunk shows to China
(Business ~ 07/29/13)
NEW YORK -- Rag & Bone, Marchesa and Proenza Schouler, among the top in their class of cool, youngish New York-based fashion houses, took a field trip to China recently to start a dialogue with consumers there as they all have their eye on expansion...
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People on the Move 7/29/13
(Business ~ 07/29/13)
Myer joins Broadway Prescription Shop Jason D. Myer has joined the staff of Broadway Prescription Shop, 710 Broadway, as a pharmacist. Myer, from Kelso, Mo., attended pharmacy school at University of Missouri-Kansas City, and he brings with him many years of experience acquired as a pharmacist at several big-box and chain stores in Cape Girardeau and Sikeston, Mo. Since starting at Broadway earlier in the year, Myer has also received certification in immunization administration...
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Business Notebook 7/29/13
(Business ~ 07/29/13)
Two local businesses won awards for their parties celebrating the visit of the 2013 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty to Cape Girardeau on June 25, according to a news release from the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau...
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Best man's body found in river downstream that of bride-to-be
(National News ~ 07/29/13)
PIERMONT, N.Y. -- A day after a bride-to-be was pulled dead from the Hudson River, the body of her fiance's best man was found Sunday a mile downstream, the second victim of a nighttime crash involving a speedboat and a barge north of New York City...
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Prayer 7-29
(Prayer ~ 07/29/13)
O Lord God, with all our hearts we praise your holy name. Amen.
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Jackson police report 7/29/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/29/13)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Assault Thefts Miscellaneous...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 7/29/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/29/13)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Thursday:...
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Cape Girardeau police report 7/29/13
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/29/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 7/29/13
(Local News ~ 07/29/13)
1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Open session Pertinent address: 1 Barton Square, Jackson, Mo...
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Jim Blue
(Obituary ~ 07/29/13)
Jim L. Blue, 78, of Randles passed away Saturday, July 27, 2013, at his daughter's home in Gordonville. He was born Nov. 27, 1934, in Randles to the late Floyd Dee and Bulah Beatrice Spain Blue. He married Joyce G. Smith on June 13, 1959, and she preceded him in death May 22, 1990...
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Radio, TV personality David ‘Kidd' Kraddick dies
(Entertainment ~ 07/29/13)
Radio and TV personality David "Kidd" Kraddick, the high-octane host of the "Kidd Kraddick in the Morning" show heard on dozens of U.S. radio stations in national syndication, died at a charity golf event near New Orleans, a publicist said. Kraddick was 53...
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Judge freezes challenges to Detroit bankruptcy
(Business ~ 07/29/13)
DETROIT -- A federal judge on Wednesday swept aside lawsuits challenging Detroit's bankruptcy, settling the first major dispute in the scramble to get a leg up just days after the largest filing by a local government in U.S. history. After two hours of arguments, U.S. ...
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