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Justices rule for broadcasters in fight with Aereo
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/14)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a startup Internet company has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices. The justices said by a 6-3 vote that Aereo Inc. ...
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Justices rule for broadcasters in fight with Aereo
(State News ~ 06/25/14)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a startup Internet company has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices. The justices said by a 6-3 vote that Aereo Inc. ...
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38 apply for Poplar Bluff city manager job
(Local News ~ 06/25/14)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- The Poplar Bluff Advisory Search Committee is ready to tackle the big job of interviewing applicants for city manager. "We have received 38 applications," city clerk Pam Kearbey said during a meeting late last week. The job came open in early May, when the city council terminated the contract of former city manager Doug Bagby. Mark Massingham has been serving in an interim role since then...
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Jake Owen to perform at Show Me Center; tickets on sale Friday
(Local News ~ 06/25/14)
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the Jake Owen Days of Gold Tour, which is coming to the Show Me Center at 7 p.m. Sept. 18. The Eli Young Band and the Cadillac Three will perform with the country musician. Owen, who in 2013 earned his fourth consecutive No. 1 hit with "Anywhere With You," drew a crowd of more than 20,000 for a Nashville summer block party...
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Schools do repairs, construction while students are gone
(Local News ~ 06/25/14)
With most buildings empty or sparsely populated, it's prime time for school districts to work on upkeep or even new construction. The River Campus expansion is moving toward completion at Southeast Missouri State University; Jackson continues building East Elementary School at 455 N. Lacey St., and Cape Girardeau Public Schools is tending to its 10 campuses...
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Deer disease a hot topic at agency's open house
(Local News ~ 06/25/14)
The containment of chronic wasting disease, a fatal ailment to white-tailed deer, and the effect proposed amendments to curb its spread could have on deer farmers remained a hot topic at an open house hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation on Tuesday...
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Notre Dame graduate New will throw for Southeast Missouri State track team
(College Sports ~ 06/25/14)
Notre Dame graduate Marissa New started attending Southeast Missouri State track and field meets as a sophomore in high school, which quickly led her to believe that's where she wanted to attend college, and hopefully compete as a thrower. That's exactly what happened as New signed a letter of intent with Southeast on Monday...
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SoutheastHEALTH Helps Fund Relay for Life
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/25/14)
SoutheastHEALTH representatives present a check for $10,000 to the American Cancer Society. The check presentation reflects the health system's sponsorship of Relay for Life, which annually raises funds for the American Cancer Society and the fight against cancer. Pictured at the Southeast Cancer Center, from left: Terri Stuckey and Mitzi Richter of the Cancer Center, Kelli Schenimann of the American Cancer Society and SoutheastHEALTH's Scott Givens, manager of HealthPoint Fitness in Jackson...
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No foul play suspected in shooting death of teen
(Local News ~ 06/25/14)
BENTON, Mo. -- An outpouring of support is being shown for the victim of an accidental shooting in the parking lot of Kelly High School. Prayer vigils, makeshift memorials, social media posts and signs throughout the rural community sent thoughts and prayers to the friends and family of 15-year-old sophomore Kaden Robert, remembered by many as always smiling and as a giving and caring person...
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Governor's budget actions could hit region hard
(Local News ~ 06/25/14)
Gov. Jay Nixon's decision Tuesday to veto or freeze more than $1.1 billion in Missouri's 2015 fiscal year budget could have a significant effect on Southeast Missouri. The cuts reach across the board, from education to health to tax assistance. After announcing the decision, the Democratic governor said the cuts were necessary because the budget approved by the Republican-led Legislature was "dangerously out of balance."...
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The Humane Society's Featured Pet
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/25/14)
Larry & Moe are looking for love! They are available for adoption at the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri 573-334-5837.
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Chaffee Girl Scout Troop 71102
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/25/14)
The girls from the Chaffee Girl Scout troop 71102 enjoyed a tour of the radio station with Kirby Ray.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/25/14)
Today is Wednesday, June 25, the 176th day of 2014. There are 189 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 25, 2009, death claimed Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, California, at age 62...
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Speak Out 6/25/14
(Speak Out ~ 06/25/14)
The City Parks and Recreation Department could put sand there where the old swimming pool used to be in Capaha Park. Haul in sand. Put up a volleyball net for the public. The students would really like it, I think. The students from the university would have something to do...
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Voting begins for People's Choice Awards
(Editorial ~ 06/25/14)
If you are in business you know the importance of being the best. Selling the best product. Delivering the best service. It's quality that helps drive the economic engine, and the area has many companies and individuals who daily strive for excellence...
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The truth on lost emails
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/25/14)
Enough is enough! How much longer does the Obama regime think the American populace can be mislead? The latest atrocity is the IRS claiming that two years worth of Lois Lerner's email was lost to a computer crash. The internal ones within the IRS were intact, but the ones to the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, the White House and the Democrat Party went to cyber hell...
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Thanks for supporting Capahas
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/25/14)
I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to Plaza Tire and all the fine persons/organizations who stepped up to make this season of Capahas baseball happen. The Capahas are the oldest amateur baseball team in this great nation, and it just wouldn't be summertime without sitting in the stands with my friends rooting on one of my two favorite teams...
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Smith is right on ag industry
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/25/14)
In the June 13 edition, Bill Weber seems to have a chip on his shoulder against agriculture by scolding Congressman Jason Smith for playing loose with numbers. Here are some "facts" according to the latest U.S. Census of Agriculture (Source: USDA). In 2012, Missouri cash receipts for all commodities were $9.94 billion with farm expenses totaling $8.29 billion. ...
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Illegal immigration question
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/25/14)
Somebody, anybody, tell me how from 20 to as many as 80,000 homeless children from thousands of miles away in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama can go through Mexico (no other country touches our southern border), without a problem, but one American is caught immediately at our southern border and imprisoned for a wrong turn at maybe less than a mile. ...
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River Campus board to meet Friday
(Local News ~ 06/25/14)
The River Campus Board of Managers is scheduled to meet at noon Friday in Conference Room 305 of the Seminary Building at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. City representatives on the board are Ruth Knote, Dennis Vollink and Jerry Ford. ...
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Births 6/25/14
(Births ~ 06/25/14)
Son to Joshua Ean Vallotton and Jessica Jo Maglone of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 6, 2014. Name, Maxwell Alexander. Weight, 8 pounds, 14 ounces. Second child, first son. Ms. Maglone is the former Jessica Tolbert, daughter of Dena Tolbert of Oran, Missouri, and Kevin Tolbert of Calvert City, Kentucky. Vallotton is the son of the late Neil Vallotton and Denise Feilder. He is employed by Limbaugh Concrete and Construction LLC...
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Out of the past 6/25/14
(Out of the Past ~ 06/25/14)
Three women from Cape Girardeau Lutheran churches will be among approximately 7,000 delegates and guests attending the 23rd biennial convention of the International Lutheran Women's Missionary League in Rapid City, South Dakota, next week; attending will be Shirley Tiehes, Becky Heuer and Charlotte Mirly...
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Jackson police report 6/25/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/25/14)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Summonses...
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Cape Girardeau police report 6/25/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/25/14)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests...
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Kelly Middle School Honor Roll
(Honor Roll ~ 06/25/14)
A Honor Roll 6th grade: Matthew Agin, Bri'Anna Buchanan, Samantha Coffee, Rylee Crumley, Allison Ferrell, Timothy Hooper, Noah Hupp, Kelly Ivy, Mariah Juarez-Draves, Kaitlynn Masterson, Caleb Morrison, Jacob Ott, Macey Senciboy, Christian Williams. 7th grade: Sydney Dittlinger, Anna Goering, Landon Hahs, Alison Hise, Abigail Hupp, Nathan Kiehl, Kenzi Koepp, Lauren Lambert, Katherine Wade...
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Washington prepares for marijuana retail sales
(National News ~ 06/25/14)
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- As Washington prepares to issue the first licenses for marijuana retail stores, Gov. Jay Inslee and other state leaders Tuesday announced a coordinated campaign to make sure pot stays out of the hands of minors once products start hitting store shelves next month...
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Judge: Government no-fly list violates constitutional rights
(National News ~ 06/25/14)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- The U.S. government offers no adequate method for people to challenge their placement on its no-fly list, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a case involving 13 Muslims who believe they're on the list. U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown found people lack a meaningful way to challenge their placement on the list, which bars them from flying to or within the United States. ...
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Massachusetts mayor: Stop sending my city refugees
(National News ~ 06/25/14)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end to refugee resettlement in his city, saying Somali families are putting pressure on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line...
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Bessie Tucker
(Obituary ~ 06/25/14)
Bessie L. Tucker, 78, of Jackson passed away Monday, June 23, 2014, at her home. She was born July 20, 1935, in Cape Girardeau, to Emory and Ethel Riehn Crites. She was a 1953 graduate of the former College High School in Cape Girardeau. She and Norman N. Tucker were married Sept. 6, 1953, in Cape Girardeau...
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Forrest Slinkard
(Obituary ~ 06/25/14)
Forrest W. Slinkard, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 23, 2014, at Southeast Hospital. He was born Dec. 12, 1932, in Cape Girardeau, to Henry and Pearl Fowler Slinkard. He and Vonda Lea Hammack were married June 5, 1976, in Cape Girardeau. Forrest was a veteran of both the Navy and Air Force and served in the Korean War...
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Emery Moore
(Obituary ~ 06/25/14)
Emery Alvin Moore, 82, of Delta passed away Sunday, June 22, 2014, at the family home. He was born Jan. 4, 1932, in Qulin, Missouri, to Jess and Stella Deckard Moore. He married Lenora Louise Williamson, who preceded him in death in February 1969. He then married Yonetta Gibbons on Aug. 1, 1970...
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Robert Goodwin
(Obituary ~ 06/25/14)
Robert Goodwin, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at the Lutheran Home. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Charles Baumgartner Jr.
(Obituary ~ 06/25/14)
Charles Francis "Chuck" Baumgartner Jr., 53, of Oak Ridge, formerly of Farmington, Missouri, passed away Monday, June 23, 2014. He was born Jan. 1, 1961, in Farmington, to Charles F. and Aline "Peggy" Fraser Baumgartner Sr. Chuck was the first baby born New Year's Day in St. Francois County that year...
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Researcher is charged in HIV vaccine fraud case
(National News ~ 06/25/14)
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Responding to a major case of research misconduct, federal prosecutors have taken the rare step of filing charges against a scientist after he admitted falsifying data that led to millions in grants and hopes of a breakthrough in AIDS vaccine research...
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Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' draft sells for $2M
(Entertainment ~ 06/25/14)
NEW YORK -- A draft of one of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," sold Tuesday for $2 million, which the auction house called a world record for a popular music manuscript. A working draft of the finished song in Dylan's hand went to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby's. The selling price, $2.045 million, included a buyer's premium...
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Putin nixes request of force in Ukraine
(International News ~ 06/25/14)
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin asked parliament Tuesday to cancel a resolution sanctioning the use of military force in Ukraine, a move his Ukrainian counterpart heralded as a "practical step" toward bringing peace to a region roiled by a separatist insurgency...
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Ex-Murdoch newspaper editor convicted in phone-hacking case
(International News ~ 06/25/14)
LONDON -- Two powerful British political insiders met starkly different fates Tuesday as former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was convicted of phone hacking but fellow editor Rebekah Brooks was acquitted, after a monthslong trial centering on illegal activity at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire...
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Archivist: IRS didn't follow law with lost emails
(National News ~ 06/25/14)
WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service did not follow the law when it failed to report the loss of records belonging to a senior IRS executive, the nation's top archivist told Congress on Tuesday, in the latest development in a congressional probe of the agency's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status...
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Road work 6/25/14
(Local News ~ 06/25/14)
Route Y in Bollinger County will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a pipe under the roadway. This section of road is 2.2 miles from Highway 34, according to a MoDOT news release. The work will be done from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today...
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Pilot 'mismanagement' cited in Asiana air report
(National News ~ 06/25/14)
WASHINGTON -- Asiana Flight 214's pilots caused the crash last year of their airliner carrying more than 300 people by bungling a landing approach in San Francisco, including inadvertently deactivating the plane's key control for airspeed, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday...
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Pastor defrocked over gay wedding is reinstated
(National News ~ 06/25/14)
PHILADELPHIA -- A Pennsylvania pastor who broke church law by presiding over his son's same-sex wedding ceremony and then became an outspoken activist for gay rights can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him...
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60 girls, 31 boys abducted in Nigeria
(International News ~ 06/25/14)
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Extremists have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys in weekend attacks on villages in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said Tuesday, another sign of the Nigerian military's failure to curb an Islamic uprising. Some married women were taken with their children who range in age from three to 15, said witnesses...
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Signs grow of a permanently divided future Iraq
(International News ~ 06/25/14)
IRBIL, Iraq -- Iraq's top Kurdish leader warned visiting Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday that a rapid Sunni insurgent advance has already created "a new reality and a new Iraq," signaling the U.S. faces major difficulties in its efforts to promote unity among the country's divided factions...
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Cardinals' Miller has rocky start in Colorado
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/14)
The right-hander pitched 2 2/3 innings before leaving with 'back tightness' in 10-5 loss to Rockies
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A new standard for unbridled arrogance
(Column ~ 06/25/14)
The Russian army is on full battle alert on the Ukrainian border, ISIS is beheading their way to Baghdad, the Israelis have launched a rocket strike inside Syria and just for good measure, a few thousand immigrant children are streaming across our southern borders each day...
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Prayer 6/25/14
(Prayer ~ 06/25/14)
O Lord Jesus, may those with heavy hearts feel your presence and comfort. Amen.
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