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Suspects sought in shooting that wounded two
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
Police are looking for suspects in a Tuesday night shooting in Cape Girardeau. The shooting left two victims with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Police believe the two were wounded in different locations and ended up at the address police responded to on Bloomfield Street, according to Sgt. Darren Estes of the Cape Girardeau Police Department...
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Poplar Bluff default on redevelopment deal costing $1,500 a day
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Poplar Bluff has been in default of a redevelopment agreement since Dec. 20, a representative of Eight Points development said Monday at a city council meeting. It is costing the city more than $1,500 a day, or $50,000 a month, the longer it delays issuing bonds as stipulated under the redevelopment agreement, Eight Points representative Alan Bornstein said...
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Chaffee resident wants vicious-dog ordinance repealed
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- A Chaffee resident is taking steps to try to put an end to the city's breed-specific vicious-animal ordinance. Brittany Brewer has started an online Care2 petition that has gathered more than 33,000 signatures. "I had no idea it was going to get this much attention," Brewer said Wednesday of the number of signatures on the petition...
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Governor releases student transportation, scholarship funds
(State News ~ 05/07/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon released $67 million in restricted spending for this year's budget Wednesday, while the Senate overwhelmingly approved nearly $300 million of bonding for state building repairs that had been delayed because of lagging revenues...
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Scott City softball team defeats Leopold for second straight district title
(High School Sports ~ 05/07/15)
Led by a stellar performance in the circle and 14 hits at the plate, top-seeded Scott City took care of third-seeded Leopold 11-1 in six innings at Scott City High School.
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Picking partner for sports complex now rests with city
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
Selecting a partner to build and operate an indoor sports complex will not be a simple decision for the city of Cape Girardeau. The project joins a list of other tourism-friendly projects funded by a 1 percent restaurant tax, including the Show Me Center, Osage Centre and most recently, Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus...
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Enjoying the ride
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/07/15)
Craig Friese and Shari Seyer enjoying cruising Cape Rock Drive overlooking the Mississippi River on a beautiful Sunday morning.
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Miller, Bulldog Awards recipients Named
(Submitted Story ~ 05/07/15)
Bob Miller Award Bob Miller was a 1952 graduate of Notre Dame. In 1972, Mr. Miller gathered a group of volunteers and formed the Notre Dame Booster Club. Thanks to Mr. Miller and his group, the Notre Dame Booster Club continues to grow. After the passing of Mr. ...
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Redneck Racing Benefit For Debbie Carlton
(Submitted Story ~ 05/07/15)
Redneck Racing - Mud Run Rustic Lodge - Zalma, MO May 30, 2015 Benefit for Debbie Carlton Admission: $5.00, kids 10 and under FREE Gates open at 10:00 a.m. Drivers meeting at 1:00 p.m. Race starts at 2:00 p.m. All trucks welcome! No trucks turned down!...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/07/15)
Today is Thursday, May 7, the 127th day of 2015. There are 238 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 7, 1915, in an incident that sparked international outrage, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, out of the nearly 2,000 on board...
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Strong presentations shown by Leadership Cape groups
(Editorial ~ 05/07/15)
Two convention centers, monthly event in downtown Cape Girardeau, a website to recruit industry to Cape Girardeau and a "maker space" all were ideas presented last Friday as part of the Leadership Cape program. Leadership Cape is a seven-month program that connects community leaders with the area and challenges participants to work together in groups to develop project ideas that benefit the area...
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Brown lawns loom this summer in California
(National News ~ 05/07/15)
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- It was with more hope than accuracy that the founder of this Orange County city picked the name Garden Grove in 1874 for what was little more than an open plain under the sweltering Southern California sun. More than a century later, this middle-class suburb of 175,000 people is true to its name, with parks, trees and lush lawns -- for now at least...
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Government waste of natural gas costing taxpayers millions
(National News ~ 05/07/15)
WASHINGTON -- Significant amounts of natural gas on federal lands are being wasted, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year and adding to harmful greenhouse gas emissions, a congressional investigation has found. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office also said the Bureau of Land Management failed to conduct production inspections for hundreds of high-priority oil and gas wells -- roughly 1 in 5 -- to ensure full payment of royalties to the U.S...
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Tornadoes rake Oklahoma City suburbs
(National News ~ 05/07/15)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A tornado grazed Oklahoma City and its suburbs Wednesday, threatening rush-hour drivers and prompting schools to hold children in safe rooms until the danger passed. No injuries were reported. The Storm Prediction Center had warned bad weather would come to Tornado Alley...
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Germanwings co-pilot tested descents before crash
(International News ~ 05/07/15)
PARIS -- A co-pilot who purposely crashed a Germanwings A320 plane into the French Alps appeared to have rehearsed sending the jet into a deadly descent on another flight two hours earlier, investigators said Wednesday. Authorities still are puzzling over why Andreas Lubitz, who had suffered from suicidal tendencies and depression in the past, locked the captain out of the cockpit March 24 and sent Flight 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf straight into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board.. ...
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Netanyahu completes formation of Israeli government
(International News ~ 05/07/15)
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu completed the formation of a new coalition late Wednesday, putting him at the helm of a hard-line government that appears to be set on a collision course with the U.S. and other key allies. Netanyahu reached a deal with the nationalist Jewish Home party shortly before a midnight deadline, clinching a slim parliamentary majority and averting a scenario that would have forced him from office...
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Baltimore mayor seeks federal civil-rights probe of police
(National News ~ 05/07/15)
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore's mayor was emphatic last week: She did not want federal oversight of her police department. "Nobody wants the Department of Justice to come in here and take over our city," Stephanie Rawlings-Blake declared as the National Guard enforced a 10 p.m. curfew...
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Amount of carbon dioxide in air keeps rising, hits milestone
(National News ~ 05/07/15)
WASHINGTON -- Global levels of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent heat-trapping gas, have passed a daunting milestone, federal scientists say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says in March, the global monthly average for carbon dioxide hit 400.83 parts per million. That is the first month in modern records the entire globe broke 400 ppm, reaching levels that haven't been seen in about 2 million years...
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Bollywood star gets 5 years for fatal hit-and-run
(Entertainment ~ 05/07/15)
MUMBAI, India -- One of India's biggest and most popular movie stars, Salman Khan, was sentenced to five years in jail Wednesday on charges of running over five men sleeping on a sidewalk and killing one in a hit-and-run case that dragged for more than 12 years...
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Benton neighborhood used for national Stihl ads
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
BENTON, Mo. -- On Tuesday morning, a quiet neighborhood on the north side of Benton was transformed into a video- and still-photography set by Red Letter Communications of Cape Girardeau for its biggest client, Stihl Inc. of Virginia Beach, Virginia...
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21-year-old woman dies at Mississippi County jail
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- The death of a 21-year-old Charleston woman being held on suspicion of a driving under the influence is under investigation after she died Sunday at the Mississippi County Detention Center. About 6 a.m. Sunday, officers found Somer Dawn Nunnally dead in her cell, Mississippi County Coroner Terry Parker said. There were no signs of foul play, injury or trauma, he said...
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Man's death not from knife wound, autopsy finds
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- An autopsy has ruled out a Friday knife injury as the cause of a man's death Monday. An autopsy Tuesday at Mineral Area Hospital in Farmington, Missouri, found Tony Allen Burns, 30, who had been stabbed in the neck allegedly by his girlfriend the previous week, probably did not die because of the wound...
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St. Louis mayor signs police oversight bill into law
(State News ~ 05/07/15)
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay signed into law Wednesday a measure establishing a civilian oversight board to review complaints against police. The bill officially becomes law June 5. Slay, who took the unusual step of being a co-sponsor of the bill, is expected to nominate the seven members of the board by Aug. 5. They must be confirmed by the board of aldermen, who approved the plan last month...
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Bird flu virus creeps into northeastern Missouri
(State News ~ 05/07/15)
ST. LOUIS -- A strain of bird flu responsible for the deaths of millions of chickens and turkeys in several states has surfaced in northeastern Missouri, weeks after it was detected elsewhere in the state, the Missouri Department of Agriculture said Wednesday...
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Births 5/7/15
(Births ~ 05/07/15)
Son to Jim and Anna Phillips of Cape Girardeau, St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis, 6:13 a.m. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Name, Jackson Emmett. Weight, 2 pounds, 8 ounces. Seventh son. Mrs. Phillips is the former Anna Fornkahl, daughter of Glenda Fornkahl of Cape Girardeau and the late Ronald Fornkahl. She is manager at My Daddy's Cheesecake. Phillips is the son of Mike and Jackie Phillips of Mounds, Illinois. He is the curator at Crisp Museum at Southeast Missouri State University...
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Out of the past: May 7
(Out of the Past ~ 05/07/15)
A groundbreaking ceremony has been tentatively slated for June 29 for construction of a youth group home on the Southeast Missouri State University campus; the $1.19 million facility will be funded with bonds issued through the University Foundation...
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Speak Out 5/7/15
(Speak Out ~ 05/07/15)
Hey, where's the EPA when we need them? If they think Fruitland's going to stand still for all the dust they're raising at the quarry, they need to think twice. They can run some trucks with water in it and water those roads down. There's no sense in that. Dust is everywhere. We need help, EPA...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 5/7/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/07/15)
* Medical assist calls were made to: Cape Meadows Circle at 1:13 a.m.; South Hanover Street at 11:35 a.m.; William Street at 2:22 p.m.; North Kingshighway at 4:37 p.m.; Good Hope Street at 7:36 p.m.; Broadway at 9:50 p.m.; and Bloomfield Street at 10:47 p.m...
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Cape Girardeau police report 5/7/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/07/15)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n Wesley Michael Hileman, 22, of Jackson was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for probation violation for stealing. n Justin Argenal, 29, 20 N. Main St., was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for failure to appear for improper registration...
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Robert 'Bob' Tiehes
(Obituary ~ 05/07/15)
Robert E. "Bob" Tiehes, 81, of Oak Ridge died Wednesday at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. A graveside service with full military rites will follow immediately at Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery in Perryville, Missouri...
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Margaret 'Peg' Lottes
(Obituary ~ 05/07/15)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Margaret "Peg" Byron Lottes, 73, of Perryville died Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at her home. She was born Sept. 6, 1941, in Chicago, daughter of Phillip and Margaret Egan Byron. She and John W. "Jay" Lottes Sr. were married Sept. 5, 1964. He survives in Perryville...
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Kelsey Kelley
(Obituary ~ 05/07/15)
Kelsey Claude Kelley, 89, of Gordonville died Tuesday, May 5, 2015, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 31, 1925, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, to Benjamin and Melissa Spears Kelley. He and Frieda Clark were married in January 1952 in Piggott, Arkansas...
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Kathleen Geoghegan
(Obituary ~ 05/07/15)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Kathleen Geoghegan, 69, of Perryville died Friday, May 1, 2015, at Independence Care Center. There is no service. Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.
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John Ford
(Obituary ~ 05/07/15)
John David Ford, 55, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Glenn Davis
(Obituary ~ 05/07/15)
MORLEY, Mo. -- Glenn Ray Davis, 71, of Morley, formerly of Oran, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at the family home. He was born March 6, 1944, in Oran to the late Dick and Mary Emley Buell Davis. Glenn served in the United States Army...
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Norman Birk
(Obituary ~ 05/07/15)
Norman W. Birk, 91, of Jackson died Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. Visitation will be at from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the chapel of McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Jason Shaw officiating. Burial will be at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 5/7/15
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today n Minutes of the May 4 meeting n None at this time n Items listed on agenda n Purchase orders n Payroll change forms n None at this time n Approve agreement for service and repair on Jackson Courthouse clock. n Discuss participating in the Back-to-School No Sales Tax Holiday on Aug. 7 through 9...
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Missouri woman pleads guilty in relatives' poisoning deaths
(State News ~ 05/07/15)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Missouri woman has admitted she plotted with her mother to fatally poison her brother and father using antifreeze, and that she attempted to kill her sister the same way. Rachel Staudte, 24, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder and agreed to testify against her mother, Diane, in the April 2012 death of her father, Mark, and the September 2012 death of her brother, Shaun...
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Missouri House endorses higher caps for some to get Medicaid
(State News ~ 05/07/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A proposal that would expand Missouri's Medicaid rolls by increasing the amount of assets elderly and disabled people can have and still qualify for the program is heading back to the Missouri Senate. The Missouri House on Wednesday voted 136-8 for a measure that would increase the limit set in 1968. The current limits are $1,000 for a single person and $2,000 for a married couple...
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Gov. Nixon OKs easing taxes for Missouri-based companies
(State News ~ 05/07/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Service and technology companies based in Missouri will have the option of calculating their taxes in a way supporters of the measure say avoids double taxation. Gov. Jay Nixon signed a bill Wednesday that gives more companies a tax calculation option lawmakers say they always intended to apply to all businesses, not just manufacturing companies...
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Missouri Senate OKs time limit for challenges to ballots
(State News ~ 05/07/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Legislature is close to sending Gov. Jay Nixon a measure that would move up the deadline for deciding court challenges to ballot measures. The Senate voted 29-5 Wednesday for a bill requiring legal challenges to be resolved two months before an election, instead of the current six weeks. The measure still needs final House approval to go to Nixon...
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High school roundup: Bell City baseball team upends Gideon
(High School Sports ~ 05/07/15)
All scores were reported to the Southeast Missourian on Wednesday.
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Cubs end Cardinals' 8-game streak with 6-5 win
(Professional Sports ~ 05/07/15)
ST. LOUIS -- Anthony Rizzo homered with three RBIs and Jon Lester had a strong outing for the Chicago Cubs, who ended the St. Louis Cardinals' eight-game winning streak and their own four-game skid with a 6-5 victory on Wednesday night. Jhonny Peralta hit a 447-foot homer and Yadier Molina had two hits and two RBIs for the Cardinals, who erased deficits of five and three runs the first two games of the four-game series but couldn't quite make up a three-run, fifth-inning deficit. ...
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Our mistake on the sports complex story
(Column ~ 05/07/15)
Providing accurate information to the community is a paramount goal of this newspaper. On a big story this week, we messed up. The City of Cape Girardeau is deliberating the development of a sports complex, funded by taxpayer dollars, to draw visitors to town for major sports tournaments during times of the year when hotels here traditionally have higher vacancy. ...
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Fruitland rest area closed for repairs
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
The Fruitland rest area on southbound Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau County will be closed from 1 to 4 p.m. today as contractor crews perform repairs. All work is weather permitting. The work zone will be marked with signs. Motorists are urged to use caution while traveling near the area. For more information, contact MoDOT's Customer Service Center at 888-275-6636 or visit modot.org/southeast...
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Former House Speaker Jim Wright dies at age 92
(National News ~ 05/07/15)
DALLAS -- Former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright, the longtime Texas Democrat who became the first House speaker in history to be driven out of office in midterm, has died at age 92. The World War II veteran and author, often praised for his eloquence and oratorical skills, was living in a nursing home when he died early Wednesday morning, according to the Harveson and Cole funeral home in Fort Worth. Funeral arrangements were pending...
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Woman accused of running crack delivery service
(National News ~ 05/07/15)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- With her four adult children watching, a woman has pleaded not guilty to running a crack cocaine delivery service from her pickup. Donna McLeod, 60, entered the plea Tuesday on the trafficking cocaine charge at her arraignment. She was ordered held on $10,000 bail. Prosecutors say police raided her apartment Monday and seized about 1.6 ounces of packaged crack cocaine. Prosecutors say McLeod drove around the city, making crack deliveries...
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Afghan men sentenced to death over mob killing
(International News ~ 05/07/15)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Four Afghan men were sentenced Wednesday to death by hanging over the filmed mob killing in downtown Kabul of a young woman falsely accused of burning the Quran -- a case that horrified the country and showed the dangers women face in the conservative society...
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Southeast Missourian Athlete of the Week: Jackson's Tyler Slinkard
(High School Sports ~ 05/07/15)
Jackson's Tyler Slinkard pitched a complete game and had six strikeouts in the Indians' 9-3 win over Dexter last week in an opening-round game of the SEMO Conference baseball tournament at Whitey Herzog Stadium. The senior right-hander, who lost more than an inch of the middle finger on his throwing hand in an offseason accident, allowed only six hits in the Indians' victory...
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Listen and read as a skeptic
(Column ~ 05/07/15)
This is a drastic change in subject for my column in preparation for the upcoming election affecting the military, veterans and everyone else. An increasing number of political ads on television, radio, billboards, newspapers and emails will soon be inundating all of us...
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Prayer 5/7/15
(Prayer ~ 05/07/15)
We praise you, O Lord, for you give us beauty for ashes. Amen.
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Small-business owners share stories, give advice to Southeast students
(Local News ~ 05/07/15)
As part of National Small Business Week, the Missouri Innovation Corp. at Southeast Missouri State University on Wednesday hosted a presentation titled "Dream Big, Start Small," where successful entrepreneurs shared their small-business stories with students...
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Southeast Missouri State's softball season ends with 12-inning loss
(College Sports ~ 05/07/15)
Eastern Illinois senior second-team all-conference catcher Hannah Cole recorded just one hit in the Panthers' Ohio Valley Conference tournament opener on Wednesday and recorded outs in her first two at-bats against Southeast Missouri State starting pitcher Madeline Krumrey...
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