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House heavily damaged in Tuesday night fire
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
A late-night fire Tuesday caused extensive damage to a house on South Hanover Street, Cape Girardeau firefighters reported. Battalion Chief Mark Starnes of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department said no one was injured in the fire, which broke out while the house was unoccupied...
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Tony Stewart will not face charges in deadly crash
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) -- A grand jury has decided against charging NASCAR star Tony Stewart in the August death of another driver at a sprint car race in upstate New York. The decision was announced Wednesday, nearly seven weeks after Stewart's car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. at a dirt-track race on Aug. 9 in Canandaigua (can-uhn-DAY'-gwah). District Attorney Michael Tantillo also said Ward was under the influence of marijuana that night "enough to impair judgment."...
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Police to collect unwanted drugs Saturday
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
Used correctly, prescription medications can reduce pain or fight infections. But in the wrong hands, authorities worry those same medications could feed addictions, poison children or contaminate drinking water. To reduce that risk, the Jackson Police Department is one of several local law-enforcement agencies participating in the federal Drug Enforcement Administration's nationwide drug takeback initiative this weekend...
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Fire destroys Michael Brown memorial in Ferguson
(State News ~ 09/24/14)
The cause of the blaze remained unclear. Hours later, the memorial already had been rebuilt with fresh teddy bears, a blanket and new signs.
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Cape school board votes to oppose Amendment 3
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
At its meeting Tuesday, the Cape Girardeau School Board unanimously approved a resolution opposing Amendment 3, a proposed change to the state constitution that would tie teacher evaluations to student performance. Teachgreat.org, the group that spearheaded the amendment, has stopped campaigning for it, but the initiative remains on the Nov. 4 general election ballot...
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Woodland runners take top spots at Oak Ridge
(High School Sports ~ 09/24/14)
Woodland senior Garret Reynolds finished with a time of 17 minutes, 26 seconds to win the boys race, while teammate and sophomore Cheyenne Wells finished in 22:46 to lead the girls.
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Candidates sound off about issues at political forum
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
Candidates seeking nomination to Missouri's 8th Congressional District and the 147th State Representative District answered submitted questions from voters about poverty, spending, medical marijuana, health care and immigration during a Tuesday forum sponsored by radio station KRCU and the League of Women Voters...
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Obama: Airstrikes are just the start
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
WASHINGTON -- The one-two-three punch of American and Arab airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq was just the beginning, President Barack Obama and other leaders declared Tuesday. They promised a sustained campaign showcasing a rare U.S.-Arab partnership aimed at Muslim extremists...
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'Gone Girl' inspires lawmaker to revive film tax credits
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
While "Gone Girl" may be a fictitious story, the impact it's had on Cape Girardeau is real. Last fall, crowds flocked to downtown to take a peek at the stars filming near the Common Pleas Courthouse, the old federal building on Broadway and The Bar on Spanish Street. While many stood on the outside looking in, other locals had the opportunity to participate in the filming as extras...
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Southeast Missouri State WR McRoberts out indefinitely with broken foot
(College Sports ~ 09/24/14)
The Ohio Valley Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week McRoberts injured his foot during the third quarter, and it turned out to be a Lisfranc fracture in his right foot.
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Eleventh Annual Multi-County Women's Conference
(Submitted Story ~ 09/24/14)
Time's running out, only 23 more days and the conference will take place. Call today & register to attend!! Conference Theme: "THE INVINCIBLE WOMAN" Fit, strong, healthy...mind and body Keynote Speaker: Daniel Domjan, M.D. Topic: "It's A Miracle"...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2014. There are 98 days left in the year. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins at sunset. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 24, 1789, President George Washington signed a Judiciary Act establishing America's federal court system and creating the post of attorney general...
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Failure in War on Poverty
(Column ~ 09/24/14)
Any time the federal government declares a "War on....", you can bet your bottom dollar -- or tax dollar, in most cases -- the outcome will be utter failure at a massive taxpayer expense. The long-ago declared War on Drugs has turned into full surrender with nary a dip in the drug usage or availability after massive resources for law enforcement, education and an array of other tools...
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Faith summit a good opportunity for parents
(Editorial ~ 09/24/14)
There's no higher calling than shepherding your children in their faith. Yes, there are many things to parenting. But faith is of seminal importance to many families, and becoming better equipped to train your child in the way he or she should go, as the Scripture points out in Proverbs 22:6, is of utmost importance...
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Springfield police officers, city can't reach contract agreement
(State News ~ 09/24/14)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The first contract negotiations ever between the city of Springfield and a union representing its police force continue to founder, prompting some police officers to picket outside a city council meeting. Protests such as the one held Monday night by about 25 people will continue at every city council meeting and lunch until a contract agreement is reached, said Mike Evans, president of the Springfield Police Officers Association, which represents officers lower in rank than lieutenant.. ...
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Branson eases proposed smoking ban
(State News ~ 09/24/14)
BRANSON, Mo. -- Officials in Branson have eased some provisions of a proposal to ban smoking of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes in most public places. KOLR-TV reported the board of aldermen has rewritten the proposal to allow smoking in up to 20 percent of hotel and motel rooms...
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University ends investigation into grants
(State News ~ 09/24/14)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The University of Missouri said Tuesday that it's ended its investigation into federal grant spending that was prompted by a wildlife biologist's complaint to the federal government, saying the assistant professor won't agree to an interview with the school...
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Velda City, Mo., plans ticket forgiveness program
(State News ~ 09/24/14)
VELDA CITY, Mo. -- Velda City residents will get a chance next month to clear a bundle of unpaid traffic tickets by paying a one-time fee. The St. Louis County municipality will offer its 1,420 residents the opportunity to pay a $200 failure-to-appear charge for up to three traffic tickets, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Residents can also pay $100 more to take care of six additional tickets...
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Students can use online service to report bullies
(State News ~ 09/24/14)
BELTON, Mo. -- Belton middle school students used to drop complaints about bullies into slotted-lid boxes bolted to hallway walls. This year, the "Bully Boxes" are gone. But student reporting of bullies is trending up, because Belton now subscribes to an online reporting service that allows students to call out bullies with discretion, The Kansas City Star reported...
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Missouri woman accused of trying to hire man to kill rival
(State News ~ 09/24/14)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri woman turned to Facebook to find someone to kill the wife of an ex-boyfriend, offered to use student loan money to pay for it and discussed her plans with the woman herself, who was posing online as someone else, federal prosecutors said...
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74-year-old man dies on Current River
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
VAN BUREN, Mo. -- A night of gigging turned tragic Sunday for a Van Buren family when their boat capsized on the Current River and an older relative died. About 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Darrel R. Culpepper, 57, of Van Buren was operating a johnboat in near the Pinoak Campground north of Van Buren when his boat capsized, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report...
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More events crop up as 'Gone Girl' premiere approaches
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
Two showings of "Gone Girl" are scheduled Oct. 2 and 3 -- one as a benefit and the other as a celebration. Student Santas, a local not-for-profit organization that distributes food and toys at Christmas to under-privileged children and their families, has been granted a special "Gone Girl" screening at 7:45 p.m. Oct. 2 at Cape West 14 Cine, 247 Siemers Drive...
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KC keeps pressure on Tigers with win
(Professional Sports ~ 09/24/14)
CLEVELAND -- Rookie Yordano Ventura blanked Cleveland's punchless offense for seven innings as the Kansas City Royals kept pressure on first-place Detroit in the AL Central with a 7-1 win over the Indians on Tuesday night. The hard-throwing Ventura (14-10) allowed four singles and threw a 100 mph fastball on his 104th pitch...
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911 calls allegedly involved Bironas
(Professional Sports ~ 09/24/14)
Ex-Titans kicker was reported missing and accused of driving erratically before crash
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Florida man admits to killing family in 911 call
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- With an edgy yet calm voice, Donald Spirit told a 911 dispatcher he had just killed his six grandchildren, including a baby, and would wait until authorities arrived before going to his back porch and killing himself. "Yes, ma'am. I just shot my daughter and shot all my grandkids. And I'll be sitting on my steps and when you get here I'm going to shoot myself," Spirit, 51, said in the 911 call released Tuesday...
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Former al-Qaida aide gets life term
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
NEW YORK -- Defiant to the end, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for acting as the voice of al-Qaida after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, telling a judge there would be a price to pay for trying to "bury me alive."...
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Oil near its low for the year despite turmoil
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
NEW YORK -- The oil market has lost its jitters. Some regions around the world are seeing the type of unrest that in the past sent oil prices soaring. Yet oil is down about $15 since midsummer and near its low for the year. Even with escalating violence in Iraq, OPEC's second largest exporter, and multiple rounds of sanctions by Western nations against Russia, the biggest exporter outside of OPEC, oil keeps on flowing. ...
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UPS gunman was 'troubled' over work before shooting
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The man who killed two former co-workers and then himself at a UPS shipping center Tuesday had told some people he was having problems at work but never suggested the situation might turn violent, his pastor said. A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to release the information, identified the shooter as Joe Tesney of suburban Trussville, Alabama...
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Israeli forces kill suspects of teenagers' kidnapping
(International News ~ 09/24/14)
JERUSALEM -- Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout Tuesday and killed two Palestinians suspected in the June abduction and slaying of three Israeli teenagers, an attack that triggered a chain of events that led to the war in Gaza this summer...
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China sentences scholar to a life-in-prison term
(International News ~ 09/24/14)
BEIJING -- A life sentence given to a moderate Chinese scholar Tuesday shows the ruling Communist Party is cutting off dialogue on ethnic tensions that could backfire by radicalizing minorities, scholars and analysts said. A court found economics professor Ilham Tohti, an ethnic Uighur Muslim, guilty of separatism and sentenced him to life in prison. ...
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Out of the past 9/24/14
(Out of the Past ~ 09/24/14)
Members of Evangelical United Church of Christ began cleaning and cooking apples Friday morning for the annual apple butter fundraiser; 55 bushels of apples, 550 pounds of sugar and three pounds of cinnamon were cooked in copper kettles over open fires for seven to eight hours behind the church yesterday, yielding around 600 pints and 375 quarts of apple butter...
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Jackson police report 9/24/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/24/14)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWIs...
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Cape Girardeau police report 9/24/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/24/14)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests...
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Verna Svoboda
(Obituary ~ 09/24/14)
A graveside service for Verna June Svoboda of Carson City, Nevada, formerly of Jackson, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Old Salem Cemetery in Millersville. Verna, 95, died Saturday, July 12, 2014, at home. FitzHenry's Funeral Home in Carson City is in charge of arrangements...
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Mae Morris
(Obituary ~ 09/24/14)
MOUNDS, Ill. — Zelpha Mae Morris, 74, of Mounds died Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Jones Funeral Home in Villa Ridge, Illinois.
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Sandra Leverenz
(Obituary ~ 09/24/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Sandra K. Leverenz, 72, of Perryville died Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. There is no service. Burial will be in Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Wonewoc, Wisconsin. Young and Sons Funeral Home was in charge of local arrangements...
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Bobbie Henderson
(Obituary ~ 09/24/14)
Bobbie Olean Henderson, 83, of Bentonville, Arkansas, formerly of Scott City, died Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, at Northwest Medical Center in Bentonville. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City is in charge of arrangements.
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Jeanette Finger
(Obituary ~ 09/24/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Jeanette V. Finger, 75, of Perryville died Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, at her home. She was born Aug. 7, 1939, at Longtown, Missouri, to Bernard W. and Clara L. Lappe Hennemann. She married Walter Finger on May 25, 1957, at Perryville. He preceded her in death Aug. 10, 2013...
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Jerry Burchyett
(Obituary ~ 09/24/14)
ST. LOUIS -- Jerry H. Burchyett, 78, of St. Louis passed away Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Jerry fought a courageous battle against cancer nine years. Dear husband of 57 years of Mary Frogge Burchyett; father of Todd Burchyett and Kelly Burchyett; grandfather of Adam Aton and Audrey Aton; brother of Don Burchyett, Kathryn Wagnor and Grace Fitzpatrick; his honorary son, Doug McIlhagga (Jackie)...
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Charles Allen
(Obituary ~ 09/24/14)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Charles "Chuck" Allen, 69, of Cairo, formerly of Port Reading, New Jersey, died Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, in Mississippi County. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. A celebration of life service will be at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 3 at Mound City National Cemetery. Military honors will be provided by American Legion Post 178 and the Illinois National Guard...
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Cards fall to Cubs in 10 innings
(Professional Sports ~ 09/24/14)
CHICAGO -- Welington Castillo homered and drove in the winning run with a 10th-inning single, giving the Chicago Cubs a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals that tightened the NL Central race Tuesday night. St. Louis' lead was reduced to 1 1/2 games over second-place Pittsburgh, which clinched a playoff berth by beating Atlanta...
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Highway 72 in Bollinger County reduced for shoulder work
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
Highway 72 in Bollinger County, from Old Highway 72 to Route B, will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews make shoulder repairs. The work will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily today and Thursday, according to a MoDOT news release...
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Rights of same-sex military spouses vary by state
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. -- On the wall over her bunk in Kuwait, Marine Cpl. Nivia Huskey displays a collection of sonogram printouts of the baby boy her pregnant spouse is carrying back home in North Carolina. If all goes as planned, the 28-year-old military policewoman will return to Camp Lejeune in time for a January delivery at an on-base hospital...
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Suspect charged in case of missing student
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A suspect has been charged in the disappearance of a University of Virginia student, but the man has not been apprehended, police said Tuesday night. Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said at a news conference officers obtained an arrest warrant charging Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., 32, with abduction with intent to defile...
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Cadillac to ditch Detroit for trendy New York City address
(National News ~ 09/24/14)
DETROIT -- Cadillac wants a jolt from the city that never sleeps. General Motors' 112-year-old luxury car division, founded in Detroit and named for the city's founder, is moving its headquarters to New York. Cadillac, which has been steadily losing sales to its German rivals, wants to get closer to its ideal buyers. Executives and marketing staffers will set up shop in a loft office in Manhattan's trendy SoHo neighborhood starting next year...
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U.S. warns Ebola virus could infect 1.4 million
(International News ~ 09/24/14)
NEW YORK -- U.S. health officials Tuesday laid out worst-case and best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, warning the number of infected people could explode to at least 1.4 million by mid-January -- or peak well below that, if efforts to control the outbreak are ramped up...
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Obama urges world to follow U.S. lead on climate change
(International News ~ 09/24/14)
UNITED NATIONS -- In the first international test for his climate-change strategy, President Barack Obama pressed world leaders Tuesday to follow the United States' lead on the issue, even as a United Nations summit revealed the many obstacles that still stand in the way of wider agreements to reduce heat-trapping pollution...
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End-of-World War II smooch sculpture lands in Normandy
(Entertainment ~ 09/24/14)
CAEN, France -- A sculpture honoring a photograph of a kiss in Times Square that captured New York's celebration as World War II ended has gone up in Normandy for a one-year visit. Cranes and construction crews in the French city of Caen on Tuesday hoisted and locked together pieces of "Unconditional Surrender," a 25-foot cast-bronze sculpture in color of a sailor and a nurse in a lip-locked embrace...
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Prayer 9/24/14
(Prayer ~ 09/24/14)
O Lord God, may we be kind to all, showing the love of Jesus to one another. Amen.
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High school roundup: Notre Dame golfers win playoff to claim title
(High School Sports ~ 09/24/14)
All scores were reported to the Southeast Missourian on Wednesday.
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'Gone Girl' extra: Ben Affleck and Albert Pujols, no big deal
(Local News ~ 09/24/14)
Susan Smith shared her experiences in being an extra on the set of 'Gone Girl'. This Q&A is a part of a project with the Southeast Missourian and rustmedia. Coming soon: Video interviews with several of the extras. This is one of several stories to be published online.
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