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House committee subpoenas Clinton emails in Benghazi probe
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
WASHINGTON -- A House committee investigating the Benghazi, Libya, attacks issued subpoenas Wednesday for the emails of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who used a private account exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state -- and used a computer email server now traced back to her family's New York home...
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Hunger Banquet postponed
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
A Hunger Banquet scheduled for 6 p.m. today at Southeast Missouri State University has been postponed because of inclement weather. Rebekah Lawson, a senior at Southeast who co-organized the banquet, said the event will be rescheduled for early April, but an exact date has not yet been decided. Tickets purchased for the event can be redeemed at the April banquet...
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City issues instructions for plowed snow spots
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
When snow falls, it can be a bittersweet feeling to watch plows coming down the road. While everyone wants their roads cleared, shoveling the mounds of snow pushed off the road and on your driveway can be an unpleasant experience, to say the least. There's no way to prevent the snow plowed from the road from pushing over onto roadway shoulders, sidewalks and driveways, but the city of Cape Girardeau and the Missouri Department of Transportation are promoting a driveway shoveling technique that could save residents some grief.. ...
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Community garden effort ready to sprout
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
Some may find it difficult to think of spring in the midst of persistent winter weather, but the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department already is looking forward to planting its newest community garden at the Shawnee Park Center. The demonstration garden is one of about four community gardens in the city. ...
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Olympic champion Jennie Finch to speak at Semoball Awards
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
Finch was announced as the speaker for the second annual event on Wednesday morning at HealthPoint Fitness in Cape Girardeau. The Semoball Awards will be held July 11 at the Southeast Missouri State River Campus.
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Vargas-Aburto chosen as SEMO's next president
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
The Southeast Missouri State University board of regents announced Wednesday the appointment of Carlos Vargas-Aburto as the 18th president of Southeast. Vargas, acting president at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, will succeed president Kenneth Dobbins on July 1...
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Winter weather brings slick conditions to area
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
Winter weather on Wednesday dealt a second blow in just a few weeks to Southeast Missouri, causing slick and snow-covered roads and forcing closings and cancellations across a large area. At 10 a.m. Wednesday, rain had changed into freezing rain in Cape Girardeau as the temperature dropped, the National Weather Service reported, and sleet fell quickly in downtown. Large snowflakes began to come down by 1 p.m., and the ground became covered...
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U.S. clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force
(State News ~ 03/05/15)
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department cleared a white former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old on Wednesday, but issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices it called discriminatory and unconstitutional...
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Relaxed but focused Saxony Lutheran girls basketball team has special relationship -- and bet -- with coach Sam Sides
(High School Sports ~ 03/05/15)
While winning the program's first title remains the ultimate goal for Saxony, there are many driving factors that have helped make that goal a very real possibility, including one that will keep the Crusaders both focused and laughing right up until they hoist the state trophy.
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Chaffee girls basketball team finds new success under fourth-year coach
(High School Sports ~ 03/05/15)
From the moment he first set foot in the gym at Chaffee High School, all Darrin Pruitt wanted was to bring success to a girls basketball program that hadn't seen it in more than 30 years.
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Winter weather slows high school basketball postseason play
(High School Sports ~ 03/05/15)
Wednesday's winter storm continues to slow down the high school basketball postseason, but Missouri State High School Athletics Association communications director Jason West said Saturday's quarterfinals are still scheduled to resume as planned.
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Neighbor helping neighbor
(Submitted Photo ~ 03/05/15)
Our Good Samaritan on Ford Drive. He just showed up and starts working! Bless him!
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snow drift
(Submitted Photo ~ 03/05/15)
looked outside after the snow & seen this snow drift on the side of the yard. It had several waves in it.
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Greystone: Legacy Lost?
(Submitted Story ~ 03/05/15)
Our city is one that has its own unique charm: a scenic river town with rolling hills and limestone bluffs; amidst the landscape are fine, distinguished buildings from a wide range of historical eras and architectural styles. Greystone, c. 1921, built and once owned by J. W. Gerhardt, is one such building, and is on the verge of--or perhaps already is--being demolished by SEMO University (the other being the Ochs-Shivelbine home, built by Theodore Ochs--the man who started Pioneer Orchards)...
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Former mayor to lead board of regents at Southeast
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
The Southeast Missouri State University board of regents recently elected Jay Knudtson, former mayor of Cape Girardeau, as its new president. Knudtson's appointment became effective March 1. He succeeds Doyle Privett, whose term on the board of regents officially expired Jan. 1...
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Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team falls to Morehead State in OVC tourney opener
(College Sports ~ 03/05/15)
It was those 17 turnovers that made all the difference in No. 8 Southeast's 79-74 loss to No. 5 Morehead State on Wednesday at Municipal Auditorium.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
Today is Thursday, March 5, the 64th day of 2015. There are 301 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people...
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2 southwest Missouri districts approve 4-day school week
(State News ~ 03/05/15)
PIERCE CITY, Mo. -- Students in two southwest Missouri school districts will no longer attend school on Mondays starting next school year. Students in Miller and Pierce City will have four-day school weeks and Stockton also is considering a Tuesday through Friday schedule...
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Missouri Republican wants to bar health insurance subsidies
(State News ~ 03/05/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- While the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether premium health-care insurance subsidies could be used in states that did not set up their own exchange, one Republican lawmaker told a Missouri Senate panel Wednesday the state should bar such subsidies on its own...
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Grizzly bear at St. Louis Zoo dies
(State News ~ 03/05/15)
ST. LOUIS -- A popular resident of the St. Louis Zoo has died. Zoo officials say the grizzly bear "Bert" was euthanized Tuesday at age 25. He had been in ill health with age-related problems. His brother, "Ernie," died at age 21 in 2011. The two bears were rescued by zoo officials in 1991 after being orphaned in Alaska. Their mother had been shot by a state wildlife agent after raiding homes in suburban Anchorage...
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Missouri House panel OKs budget with more K-12 school money
(State News ~ 03/05/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri House panel has added money for K-12 schools and higher education to next year's budget, including restoring $12 million for colleges and universities that Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon had recommended but that had been left out of previous proposals...
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Missouri House endorses lawsuit caps for medical malpractice
(State News ~ 03/05/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri House gave initial approval Wednesday to a bill to reinstate limits on how much juries can award in noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases against health care providers. Supporters said the limits, approved 101-53, are needed to make sure doctors do not leave the state because of increasing insurance costs. ...
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Winter weather wrath? Pooches' paws feel the pain, too
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
LOS ANGELES -- People aren't the only ones suffering from a seemingly endless winter of bone-rattling cold, record-busting snow and ice-slick sidewalks. Pooches' paws feel the pain, too. While millions of residents from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast shovel snow deep into the season and hunker down awaiting relief, their dogs are either missing out on walks or left vulnerable to injury with each salt-coated step...
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Transcripts reveal Fed confronting chaotic banking system
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
WASHINGTON -- Transcripts of Federal Reserve meetings in 2009 showed central bank officials struggling to contain the worst financial crisis in seven decades and searching for the right policies to halt a deepening economic downturn. The transcripts released Wednesday revealed officials were worried about the precedents being set by providing billions of dollars of government support to the nation's largest banks. ...
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Exxon CEO: Get used to lower oil prices
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
NEW YORK -- Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson expects the price of oil to remain low over the next two years because of ample global supplies and relatively weak economic growth. "People need to kinda settle in for a while," Tillerson said at the company's annual investor conference in New York...
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Hooked on Science: Rocket balls
(Community ~ 03/05/15)
How high can you bounce a tennis ball? How about a pingpong ball? Find out the science secret behind making both balls shoot high through the air. n Basket ball n Tennis ball n Pingpong ball STEP 1: Hold the pingpong ball directly above the tennis ball and the tennis ball directly above the basketball, so that the balls are touching...
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McDonald's chicken gets new standard: No human antibiotics
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
NEW YORK -- McDonald's says it plans to require chicken suppliers to stop using antibiotics important to human medicine within two years. The company says its suppliers still will be able to use a type of antibiotic called ionophores that keeps chickens healthy and isn't used in humans. Later this year, McDonald's also said it no longer will serve milk from cows treated with a particular artificial growth hormone...
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Senate fails to override Obama's veto of pipeline bill
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday failed to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, the first of many confrontations between the Republican-controlled Congress and the White House this year over energy policy...
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Out of the past: March 5
(Out of the Past ~ 03/05/15)
Members of the City Council view plans developed for a new recreational pool in Capaha Park, which have been recommended by the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board; the complex, which would replace the aging municipal pool, would include a serpentine-shaped area featuring a main pool and a children's pool, a new bath house, water slides, sandy beach, and volleyball courts...
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Births 3/5/15
(Births ~ 03/05/15)
Son to Mark Douglas Kilhafner and Jessica LeahAnn Cox of Whitewater, Saint Francis Medical Center, 5:03 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Name, Jackson Michael. Weight, 7 pounds, 1 ounce. Fourth child, first son. Ms. Cox is the daughter of Lola Cox of Whitewater and Russell Cox of Crocker, Missouri. Kilhafner is the son of Mike and Michele Kilhafner of Marble Hill, Missouri. He is employed by Security Alarms of America...
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Gloria Wiggins
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Gloria Wiggins, 25, of Cairo died Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, at her home. Arrangements are in complete at Massie Funeral Home in Mounds, Illinois.
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Harold McDowell
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
Harold J. "Mac" McDowell, 63, of Jackson died Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home.
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Bertha Curry
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Bertha Curry, 93, of Villa Ridge died Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 6, 1921, in Olmsted, Illinois, to Werner and Josephine Holhubner Schnaare. She married John Curry on Oct. 5, 1940. He preceded her in death Feb. 9, 2004...
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Clinton Wunderlich
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
Clinton Martin Wunderlich, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Jan. 14, 1930, in St. Louis to Herbert Martin and Esther Emilie Mangels Wunderlich. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, serving during the Korean War. He was a member of the American Legion Post 63...
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Ricky Brown
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
Ricky "Rick" Dee Brown, 60, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau, with the Revs. Jack Faries and William Faries officiating...
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Lonnie Hughes
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
Lonnie Hughes, 73, of Cedar Hill, Texas, formerly of Mounds, Illinois, died Thursday. Feb. 26, 2015, at the Crestview Court Nursing Home in Cedar Hill. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Mounds...
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Laverne Hopkins
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
Laverne H. "Vern" Hopkins, 92, of Clearwater, Florida died Monday, March 2, 2015 at Brookdale at Beckett Lake in Clearwater. He was born Jan. 31, 1923, in Herrin, Illinois, to Hersel and Maggie Bird Hopkins. He and Grace Allene "Cherry" Hopkins were married July 24, 1947, at Mayfield, Kentucky. She preceded him in death May 8, 2006...
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Deal with 72 Asiana passengers leaves many cases unresolved
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
SAN FRANCISCO -- While 72 passengers have settled their personal-injury claims stemming from the crash of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco two years ago, other people are continuing their legal fight with the airliner and others involved in the accident that killed three Chinese teenagers and injured nearly 200 people...
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A defiant Alabama regains ground against gay marriage
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Alabama's stand against same-sex marriage regained ground Wednesday after the state's highest court ruled its ban remains legal, despite federal court pressure to begin issuing licenses to gays and lesbians. But advocates said they're not giving up, either -- and that the justices in Montgomery will find themselves on history's losing side...
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Coal mine blast kills at least 24 in Ukraine
(International News ~ 03/05/15)
DONETSK, Ukraine -- A rebel-held city scarred by months of conflict in eastern Ukraine suffered more tragedy Wednesday when a methane gas explosion in a coal mine killed at least 24 workers and left nine missing. As rescue efforts stretched well past sundown, separatist authorities were accused by Ukraine's government of failing to do enough to save the lives of the miners...
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Italy rescues more than 1,000 migrants at sea
(International News ~ 03/05/15)
ROME -- In dramatic sea rescues north of Libya, a flotilla of ships saved more than 1,000 migrants and refugees, while 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean, Italian officials said Wednesday. Rescue vessels, including from Italy's coast guard and navy, and three cargo ships saved 941 people in seven separate operations that began Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said. ...
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Defense admits suspect bombed marathon
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
BOSTON -- The question, for all practical purposes, is no longer whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took part in the Boston Marathon bombing. It's whether he deserves to die for it. In a blunt opening statement at the nation's biggest terrorism trial in nearly 20 years, Tsarnaev's lawyer told a jury the 21-year-old former college student committed the crime...
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Kerry pushes back on Israeli criticism of Iran nuke talks
(International News ~ 03/05/15)
MONTREUX, Switzerland -- U.S. officials sought Wednesday to tamp down expectations of a substantial preliminary nuclear deal with Iran by the March deadline while working to move past the political dust kicked up by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's criticism of an emerging agreement's contours...
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Russian court keeps hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot in jail
(International News ~ 03/05/15)
MOSCOW -- A Moscow court refused Wednesday to release a Ukrainian military officer who has been on hunger strike in a Russian prison since mid-December and has become a national hero in Ukraine. The case of 33-year-old Nadezhda Savchenko has attracted global attention in recent weeks as concerns rise about her health. ...
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U.S. ambassador to South Korea slashed on face, wrist
(International News ~ 03/05/15)
SEOUL, South Korea -- U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert was slashed on the face and wrist by a man wielding a weapon with a 10-inch blade and screaming the rival Koreas should be unified, South Korean police said today. Media images showed a stunned-looking Lippert staring at his blood-covered left hand and holding his right hand over a cut on the right side of his face, his pink tie splattered with blood...
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'Guardians of the Galaxy' tops MTV Movie Awards nominations
(Entertainment ~ 03/05/15)
LOS ANGELES -- And you thought Hollywood's award season was over. A teenage tearjerker, a foul-mouthed coed comedy and a raucous space adventure featuring a talking tree lead the nominees for the 2015 MTV Movie Awards, airing live April 12 from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles...
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Justices pepper health care law opponents with questions
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court justices peppered opponents of President Barack Obama's health care law with skeptical questions during oral arguments Wednesday on the latest challenge to the sweeping legislation. Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote is seen as pivotal, suggested that the plaintiffs' argument raises a "serious" constitutional problem affecting the relationship between states and the federal government...
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Early morning fire inflicts pricy damage on home
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
Firefighters from three area departments battled a Cape Girardeau house fire early Wednesday morning. The fire, at 213 S. Middle St., was reported shortly after 1 a.m., according to information from battalion chief Brad Dillow of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department. On arrival, firefighters saw heavy smoke and fire from the roof on the north side of the building...
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Commission meeting canceled, county offices closed
(Local News ~ 03/05/15)
Cape Girardeau County government offices in Jackson and Cape Girardeau will remain closed today because of inclement weather, according to a news release. The County Commission meeting scheduled for today also has been canceled, the release stated. Pertinent address:...
- Wednesday morning workout (Local News ~ 03/05/15)
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Winter weather forces changes to basketball playoffs
(High School Sports ~ 03/05/15)
A winter storm moved through the area Wednesday, forcing schedule and location changes for several high school basketball sectional games.
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Jason Heyward brings needed presence to Cardinals
(Professional Sports ~ 03/05/15)
JUPITER, Fla. -- Jason Heyward can provide both a veteran presence and youth to the St. Louis Cardinals. Going into the Cardinals' first Grapefruit League game, manager Mike Matheny had already made up his mind on what Heyward brings to the team. "I see him as a veteran player," Matheny said. "He's accomplished quite a bit in a short amount of time. He's still a young guy, but I see him with leadership qualities."...
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Fossil jaw sheds light on turning point in human evolution
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
NEW YORK -- A fragment of jawbone found in Ethiopia is the oldest known fossil from an evolutionary tree branch that eventually led to modern humans, scientists reported Wednesday. The fossil comes from close to the time our branch split away from more apelike ancestors best known for the fossil skeleton Lucy, so it gives a rare glimpse of what early members of our branch looked like...
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Find bathrooms for bus drivers for $97,000
(National News ~ 03/05/15)
SEATTLE -- It's a job that might make you flush: Find easily accessible restrooms for Seattle-area bus drivers and get paid nearly $100,000 a year. King County Metro Transit is looking to hire a "comfort station coordinator," which comes with an annual salary as high as $97,000, depending on experience. The state Department of Labor and Industries cited Metro Transit last November after an audit found drivers were not provided unrestricted access to restrooms, and some wore diapers...
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Microsoft co-founder says he found sunken Japan WWII warship
(International News ~ 03/05/15)
TOKYO -- Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago, he said Wednesday. The apparent discovery of the Musashi, one of the largest battleships in history, comes as the world marks the 70th anniversary of the war's end...
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Southeast Missourian Athlete of the Week: Scott County Central's Jeffery Porter
(High School Sports ~ 03/05/15)
Scott County Central's Jeffery Porter scored a game-high 39 points to lead the top-seeded Braves to a 73-63 win over the second-seeded Bernie Mules in the Class 2 District 1 championship Friday in Bloomfield, Missouri. "He's our playmaker," SCC senior forward Matthew Blissett said about Porter. "He's the guy we look to when we need some buckets."...
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Kathy Crader
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
Kathy M. Crader, 65, of Delta died Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at home. Arrangements are imcomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, Missouri.
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University makes right choice in next president
(Column ~ 03/05/15)
On Wednesday Dr. Carlos Vargas-Aburto was announced by the Board of Regents to succeed Dr. Ken Dobbins as president of Southeast Missouri State University. Vargas is acting president of Kutztown University, a regional university (like Southeast) of around 9,500 students located in rural Pennsylvania. He has a distinguished record in higher education, both as an educator and as an administrator...
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Jennie Finch to speak at Semoball Awards
(Editorial ~ 03/05/15)
The road to the Semoball Awards continued Wednesday as the keynote speaker for the 2nd annual show was announced at HealthPoint Fitness in Cape Girardeau. Olympic softball player Jennie Finch will speak in Cape Girardeau on July 11 at the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus as the Semoball Awards recognizes many of the best high school athletes from the area...
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Whose boots on the ground?
(Column ~ 03/05/15)
Who's boots on the ground? Successful warfare is a team effort with the team consisting of air and naval forces in support of ground operations. In World War II heavy destruction by bombing did not end the fighting. In Europe it took multiple invasions and heavy fighting across Europe to defeat Germany. ...
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Prayer 3/5/15
(Prayer ~ 03/05/15)
Lord Jesus, our hope is in you for you are our Savior and Redeemer. Amen.
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John Mills Jr.
(Obituary ~ 03/05/15)
John Lee Mills Jr., 77, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. March 14 at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home, with the Rev. Donny Ford officiating. Entombment with full military honors will follow at Cape County Memorial Park Mausoleum...
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