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Ed Martin stepping down as chairman for Missouri GOP
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
Missouri Republican Party chairman Ed Martin announced Monday he will soon leave the position and serve as president of the Eagle Forum, a conservative, pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly. Martin was elected chairman in 2013 and will not seek re-election at the party's Reagan Lincoln Days meeting Feb. 20 in Kansas City, according to a news release from the Missouri Republican Party...
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Zoning fight continues for Crystal City cave owners
(State News ~ 02/03/15)
CRYSTAL CITY, Mo. -- Tom Kerr and his wife, Kathy, purchased a dormant sand mine in 2007 with visions of conventions, concerts, sporting events and underground offices in the climate-controlled cave just south of St. Louis. Crystal City Underground remains open for business but as a far more modest venture because some investors have been deterred by a long-simmering legal dispute with county officials who once embraced the plan. ...
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Hearing continued in Kennett murder case
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
KENNETT, Mo. -- A Kennett man charged with several felony counts has had his hearing continued to Feb. 10 after appearing in Circuit Court late last week. Glen D. Morgan is charged with second-degree murder, two counts of distribution of a controlled substance and an alternative count of second-degree and felony murder in the death of Autumn Medley, also of Kennett...
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Man shot during struggle with thief in Poplar Bluff
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Local authorities are investigating a Sunday home invasion/robbery in which a man was shot in the neck as he struggled with one of the alleged suspects. At about 4:30 p.m., Poplar Bluff police were called to a home in the 1600 block of Sanders Avenue, chief Danny Whiteley said...
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Poplar Bluff street chief held in shooting
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Poplar Bluff's street department superintendent is free on bond after being charged with shooting a woman Saturday during what apparently began as a child custody dispute. Jeremy W. Grable, 37, of the 2200 block of Barron Road was charged with felony first-degree assault and felony armed criminal action by Butler County assistant prosecuting attorney Paul Oesterreicher...
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Couple seriously injured after trying to save grandsons who died in fire
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff couple were hospitalized in St. Louis after an early morning house fire Sunday critically injured them and killed two of their grandchildren. Daniel Pierce, 46, and his 47-year-old wife, Erma, were in the burn unit at St. John's Mercy Hospital at press time...
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Two Zalma men arrested in connection with Wayne County killing
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
A joint investigation by several law enforcement agencies has led to the arrests of Russell Dale Mayberry and his father, Roger Dale Mayberry, in connection with the death of Kenneth Willard. Both suspects are from Zalma, Missouri. Willard's body was recovered in the Black River in Wayne County on Jan. ...
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Scott City council discusses amphitheater in city park
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
This past week, the Scott City Parks Board chose a design for what a future amphitheater is going to look like in Scott City Park. At Monday night's Scott City City Council meeting, city administrator Ron Eskew showed council members the chosen design and said a construction date has not yet been set. The parks department is continuing to raise money...
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Jackson mulls land annexation
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
The Jackson Board of Aldermen held a public hearing about a proposed residential development during their meeting Monday evening. The items on the agenda concerned the future of 33.22 acres on Old Cape Road East near Klaus Park, which is set to be annexed into Jackson...
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Missouri bill would bar access to police camera footage
(State News ~ 02/03/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Two Republican state legislators concerned about privacy issues are trying to restrict public access to videos from any police body cameras, as police departments in Missouri and across the country push to outfit officers with cameras following the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in Ferguson...
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Obama sends Congress record $4 trillion budget
(National News ~ 02/03/15)
WASHINGTON -- Promising to help America's middle class, President Barack Obama on Monday sent Congress a record $4 trillion budget that would hammer corporate profits overseas and raise taxes on the wealthy while boosting tax credits for families and the working poor...
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Senior centers face budget cuts
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
The senior centers in Scott, Perry and Cape Girardeau counties all have one main goal: to keep the elderly fed. But with recent funding changes, some of these centers are struggling to maintain their operations. After $55,000 in planned cuts to the 2015 budget for the Perryville Senior Center in Perryville and the East Perry County Senior Center in Altenburg, Missouri, employee hours and meal prices are going to be affected at each facility...
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St. Louis County municipal courts mull voluntary reform
(State News ~ 02/03/15)
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis County municipal courts are considering several proposed changes to how they do business amid widespread calls for reform after the fatal Ferguson police shooting. KWMU-FM reported that a committee of judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys working in the county's 82 municipal courts recommends setting consistent fine amounts for identical violations in the local courts...
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Station apologizes for broadcast interruptions during Super Bowl
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
The Paducah, Kentucky, NBC affiliate that experienced broadcast interruptions during this year's Super Bowl apologized to viewers Monday and pointed to a faulty power supply as the reason the area missed much of the game's second half on Sunday. WPSD Local 6 vice president of news and operations Bill Evans said in a news release Monday afternoon that "dips and spikes" in electrical service that supplies the station's transmitter were found to have caused a series of outages that led to the interruption.. ...
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Contract for street improvements approved by Cape Council
(Local News ~ 02/03/15)
The Cape Girardeau City Council approved Monday night a resolution to allow construction to begin on two Transportation Trust Fund 4 projects, while making announcements about public involvement in the program's fifth installment. The resolution approves a contract with Fronabarger Concreters Inc. ...
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100 days of school-Guardian Angel School Kindergarten class
(Submitted Photo ~ 02/03/15)
The kindergarten class of Guardian Angel School of Oran celebrated the 100th day of school on Monday, February 2. The students in the class each brought 100 pieces of food that they combined to make a trail mix and then ate. They made and colored a caterpillar by counting by 10 to 100 and also made groundhog pictures to commemorate Ground Hog Day. They read books about the 100 days of school and then played the counting to 100 game...
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100 Days of School-1st Grade Guardian Angel School
(Submitted Photo ~ 02/03/15)
The Guardian Angel School 1st Grade class celebrated the 100th day of school on Monday, February 2. The students gave out 100th day stickers to 100 students, teachers, staff, etc. They made 100 link paper chains, wore hats with 100 stickers on them, and celebrated by eating a giant cookie decorated with "100" on it...
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Jackson boys basketball team routs Charleston 85-43
(High School Sports ~ 02/03/15)
Ten years is a long time to go without beating a team in the regular season. For the Jackson boys basketball team, it was time to erase that statistic against a Charleston team it had not defeated in a regular season game since 2005. Jackson coach Darrin Scott challenged his team to do something about it Tuesday, and they responded...
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Belladona Salon & Spa Named to the Salon Today 200 by Salon Today Magazine
(Submitted Story ~ 02/03/15)
Belladona Salon & Spa in Cape Girardeau, Missouri owned by Linda Springs and Becky Davidson recently was named to the SALON TODAY 200 by SALON TODAY magazine, the top business publication for salon and spa owners. The magazine's 18th annual SALON TODAY 200 issue profiled the selected salons in its January 2015 edition. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/03/15)
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2015. There are 331 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens held a shipboard peace conference off the Virginia coast; the talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy...
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Solutions offered for immigration
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/03/15)
Despite support from both parties, the House of Representatives failed to act on a comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate. President Obama took common-sense steps to fix our broken immigration system. 1) Our current system has no physical way to equitably address the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living and working in the U.S...
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Semoball Awards selection show to be held Saturday
(Editorial ~ 02/03/15)
The first annual Semoball Awards in June 2014 was an event rarely seen for high school athletes. A red carpet. An ice sculpture. A 30-foot screen. Inspiring keynote speaker. The list goes on. The event was an opportunity to recognize the best in sports from 57 schools in Southeast Missourian...
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Tax and spend is bipartisan
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/03/15)
The tea party was formed near the end of the George W. Bush administration because many Republicans felt federal spending was excessive. They felt the Republican Party had strayed from its roots and they cited the Iraq War, Medicare Part D and the bank bailouts as examples. ...
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Exxon, Chevron set to boost production just as prices fall
(National News ~ 02/03/15)
NEW YORK -- Exxon Mobil has been working for years on a fleet of enormous new oil and gas projects in places such as Abu Dhabi, Russia, Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Mexico designed to turn around what has been a consistent and alarming slide in oil and gas production...
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Low prices raise alarm in N. Dakota oil patch
(National News ~ 02/03/15)
WATFORD CITY, N.D. -- High crude prices catapulted North Dakota into the top tier of the global oil market and doubled or tripled the size of once-sleepy towns that suddenly had to accommodate a small army of petroleum workers. But now that those prices have tumbled, the shifting oil market threatens to put the industry and local governments on a collision course. ...
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Ebola vaccines testing starts in Liberia
(International News ~ 02/03/15)
MONROVIA, Liberia -- Large-scale human testing of two potential Ebola vaccines got underway in Liberia's capital Monday, part of a global effort to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that has now claimed nearly 9,000 lives in West Africa. Yet even as Liberians volunteered to take part, it remains unclear whether either vaccine ultimately will work, and if so how quickly they could be mass produced. ...
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Ukraine troops fight to avoid being surrounded by rebels
(International News ~ 02/03/15)
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine -- As Ukrainian troops fought Monday to defend a strategic railway hub, Russian-backed separatists pledged to boost the size of their force and Washington pondered whether to expand its assistance to Ukraine to include lethal aid...
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Groundhog: 6 more weeks of winter
(National News ~ 02/03/15)
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- The handlers of Pennsylvania's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, said Monday the furry rodent has forecast six more weeks of winter. Members of the top hat-wearing Inner Circle announced the "prediction" Monday morning. A German legend has it that if a furry rodent sees his shadow on Feb. 2, winter will last another six weeks. If not, spring comes early...
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Speak Out 2/3/15
(Speak Out ~ 02/03/15)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said it was inappropriate for Boehner to invite Netanyahu to address Congress in the shadow of that election and give the appearance of endorsing the prime minister. Inappropriate. This coming from a person who pushed a health care system down the throats of the American people? Well, Nancy. If merely inviting someone to speak to Congress is inappropriate, that what you did should be equivalent to treason...
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Jackson police report 2/3/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/03/15)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests to not imply guilt. Arrest n Darrell M. Isaac, 30, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of stealing and possession of drug paraphernalia. Summonses n Jeanette C. Beck, 53, of Chaffee, Missouri, was issued a summons for failure to register a motor vehicle...
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Cape Girardeau police report 2/3/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/03/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Jessica M. Johnson, 52, of Cape Girardeau was issued a summons for driving while intoxicated. n Stephen W. Beydler, 23, of Cape Girardeau was issued a summons for driving while intoxicated...
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Winfrey, 'Selma' filmmaker team on new drama series for OWN
(Entertainment ~ 02/03/15)
LOS ANGELES -- Oprah Winfrey and the director of the Oscar-nominated movie "Selma" are creating a drama series for Winfrey's TV channel. The project from Winfrey and filmmaker Ava DuVernay is inspired by the Natalie Baszile novel "Queen Sugar," the OWN channel said Monday...
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Black breast-feeding gatherings battle troubling health gaps
(Community ~ 02/03/15)
MILWAUKEE -- Once a month, baby-toting young women gather in a YMCA conference room to share tips, talk about and demonstrate breast-feeding -- an age-old yet sometimes shunned practice in their community. It's part of a grass-roots movement that breast-feeding advocates think just might yield profound benefits -- potentially helping diminish health gaps facing black Americans, from higher rates of infant mortality and childhood obesity, to more breast cancer deaths and heart disease in adults...
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Emma Henrichsen
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
Emma Jane Henrichsen, 90, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, in Sebring, Florida. She was born April 28, 1924, in Advance, Missouri, daughter of Franklin and Edith Irene Humphrey Farrar. She and Dr. Arthur Henrichsen were married April 29, 1978, in Carson City, Nevada. He preceded her in death Jan. 7, 1995...
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Dora Koehler
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
Dora L. "Johnny" Koehler, 92, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 31, 1922, in Oran, Missouri, daughter of Lawrence and Matilda Bullinger Schaefer. She and Henry C. "Clem" Koehler were married Jan. 7, 1941. He preceded her in death March 10, 1989...
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Hulda Wichern
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Hulda L. Wichern, 94, of Perryville died Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, at Independence Care Center of Perry County in Perryville. She was born June 27, 1920, in Jacob, Illinois, daughter of Herman and Rose Stueve Kranawetter. She and Leonard Wichern were married Dec. 26, 1948. He preceded her in death Oct. 8, 1972...
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Doris Schaefer
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. -- Doris Elizabeth Schaefer, 85, of Bellefontaine Neighbors died Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015. She was born April 14, 1929, at Fisk, Missouri, daughter of Burette and Pearl Whitener. She and Harold E. Schaefer were married April 21, 1956. They were together 56 years before he preceded her in death...
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Pius Robert
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
KELSO, Mo. -- Pius Frank Robert, 96, of Kelso died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 5, 1919, in Kelso, son of Charles and Ida Hohmann Robert. He and Arvella Mary Ledure were married May 1, 1945, at Kelso...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 2/3/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/03/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday: n At 1:10 a.m., a medical assist on North Clark Avenue. n At 2:40 a.m., a medical assist on North Frederick Street. n At 4:38 a.m., an alarm system activation, no fire, on North Silver Springs Road...
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Wrong number leads to drug arrest
(National News ~ 02/03/15)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Police say a woman selling drugs mistakenly called an Albuquerque police detective. KOB-TV reported 30-year-old Renea Lucero was arrested recently when she called the detective at his department-issued cellphone and made the officer an unexpected offer. ...
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High school roundup: Rams find win column
(High School Sports ~ 02/03/15)
All the local high school events reported Monday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Blues' Shattenkirk to have abdominal surgery
(Professional Sports ~ 02/03/15)
BLUES HOCKEY The St. Louis Blues announced on their website Monday that defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk will undergo abdominal surgery after sustaining an injury in Sunday's 4-3 win over the Washington Capitals. The news release said Shattenkirk will have the procedure performed in the next seven to 10 days, and then he will be listed as week-to-week...
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Mederith Holland
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
Mederith Holland, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at the Lutheran Home. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Dannie Butler
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Dannie Butler, 49, of Mounds died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at his home. Visitation will be from 8:30 a.m. until service time Friday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, Illinois. The funeral will be at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the funeral home, with Lee Thompson officiating. Burial will be in Olive Branch Cemetery...
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Jerome Hoffman Jr.
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
Jerome F. "Jerry" Hoffman Jr., 71, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Parish prayers will be at 7 p.m., with a...
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Prayer 2/3/15
(Prayer ~ 02/03/15)
Father God, we seek and ask you to give us wisdom in all decisions. Amen.
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James DePriest
(Obituary ~ 02/03/15)
ORAN, Mo. -- James G. DePriest, 79, of Mountain Home, Arkansas, died Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, after a brief illness. He was born Jan. 21, 1936, in St. Louis, and raised in Southeast Missouri. He graduated from Oran High School in 1953 where he played on the varsity basketball team...
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