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Nominate Spirit of America Award winner for chance to win $1,000 for your charity
(Community News ~ 06/02/15)
Time remains to send in your nominations for the Southeast Missourian Spirit of America Award. Each year the Southeast Missourian recognizes one individual at the City of Cape Girardeau's Great American Fourth of July celebration. Previous recipients include: John "Doc" Yallaly, Dr. Dan Cotner, Melvin Gateley, Neal Edwards, James Harnes Sr., Jane Randol Jackson, Harry Rediger, Rob Callahan, David Hitt, Kent Zickfield, Kenneth Bender and Mary Kasten...
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Racial disparity of Missouri police stops hits high in 2014
(State News ~ 06/02/15)
ST. LOUIS -- The disparity in the rate at which Missouri authorities pulled over black drivers compared with whites last year surged to its highest level since the state began compiling data 15 years ago, the state's top law enforcer said Monday. Attorney General Chris Koster's annual report analyzing traffic stops by race found African-American drivers were 75 percent more likely than white motorists to be stopped on Missouri's roads based on their proportionate share of the driving-age population. ...
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Braden Cox's gem leads Scott City baseball team to Class 3 championship game
(High School Sports ~ 06/02/15)
Scott City's sophomore ace allowed just five hits in the Rams' 4-1 victory over Warsaw on Monday.
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Cape council nixes sales-tax holiday, parking permit program
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
The Cape Girardeau City Council on Monday voted to opt out of participating in the annual back-to-school sales-tax holiday, citing the loss of tax revenue. Council members also rejected an ordinance calling for a residential permit parking program. In 2013, the council brought back the sales-tax holiday with a unanimous vote in favor of its reinstatement. Before then, the city hadn't participated since 2008...
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Cape council gives initial OK to swelling budget
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
Shaping up this year's budget came down to identifying the highest priorities, Cape Girardeau City Council and staff members said at a Monday night council meeting. The council gave initial approval to the $79.4 million budget, as well as an ordinance increasing water and trash rates. The previous year's budget was about $71 million. The proposed budget for the coming year is 11.6 percent higher...
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Fugitive sex offender recaptured near Delta
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
A sex offender who had who removed his GPS monitoring device last week was apprehended Monday, the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department reported. Derek K. Kinder, 27, of Jackson was arrested after a short foot chase near Delta, according to a post on the department's Facebook page...
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Council clears resolution for possible TIF district in downtown
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
The Cape Girardeau City Council approved a resolution Monday night authorizing the distribution of a request for proposals, related to the possible formation of a tax increment financing district in downtown. By soliciting the proposals to redevelop portions of downtown, the city may identify projects and possible use of tax-increment financing -- TIF -- as a redevelopment tool...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
Today is Tuesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2015. There are 212 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 2, 1995, a U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by a Bosnian Serb surface-to-air missile while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, was rescued by U.S. Marines six days later...
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Speak Out 6/2/15
(Speak Out ~ 06/02/15)
** Complicated; ** Troops; ** Pot progression; ** Solitary; ** Koster, Wybert
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Stealing from Medicaid
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/02/15)
The government has a plan to improve our economy and create jobs through increased international trade via the recently negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). My problem is coordinated legislation to help retrain workers of some industries who will lose jobs, to the greater benefit of all. ...
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Eugene Kasten
(Obituary ~ 06/02/15)
Eugene W. Kasten, 90, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, June 1, 2015, at Southeast Hospital. He was born Nov. 15, 1924, at Pocahontas to Willie T. and Mary Morton Kasten. He and Evelyn Rauh were married May 9, 1948. Eugene served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War...
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Lela Rost
(Obituary ~ 06/02/15)
Lela Rost, 32, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 30, 2015, at Southeast Hospital. The funeral will be at a later date in Springfield, Missouri. Crain Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Charlotte Miller
(Obituary ~ 06/02/15)
Charlotte Gayle Miller, 75, of Millersville passed away Saturday, May 30, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 1, 1939, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Zeno and Zola Cowan Drum. She and Joe Hal Miller were married May 16, 1960, in Millersville. They were married nearly 55 years when he passed away April 12, 2015...
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Eugene Kemper
(Obituary ~ 06/02/15)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Eugene "Gene" Kemper, 63, of Altenburg passed away Sunday, May 31, 2015, at his home, surrounded by family. He was born Aug. 24, 1951, in St. Louis, son of James R. and Francis McConell Kemper. He and Diana Thiess were married April 4, 1974, in Santa Barbara, California...
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Kaye Wilson
(Obituary ~ 06/02/15)
Kaye D. Wilson, 56, of Delta passed away Sunday, May 31, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, following a brief battle with lung cancer. She was born April 4, 1959, in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, to Edwin and Helen Cannon Juedes. She and Lloyd Wilson were married Feb. 19, 1991, in Oconto, Wisconsin. He preceded her in death July 10, 2002...
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Cancer treatments got gentler, yet kids' survival improved
(Community ~ 06/02/15)
CHICAGO -- The move to make cancer treatments gentler for children has paid a double dividend: More young patients are surviving than ever before, and without the long-term complications that doomed many of their peers a generation ago, new research shows...
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I am proud to be a cancer survivor
(Community ~ 06/02/15)
Editor's Note: The following is part of series of guest pieces by local cancer survivors in the lead-up to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life of Cape Girardeau County on June 13 at Arena Park. I received my diagnosis of stage 3 follicular non-Hodgkins lymphoma on Feb. 6, 2008...
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Don't delay: Study confirms early treatment is best for HIV
(Community ~ 06/02/15)
WASHINGTON -- A major international study says HIV patients shouldn't delay in seeking treatment: Starting medication soon after diagnosis helps keep people healthy longer. People who started anti- AIDS drugs while their immune system was strong were far less likely to develop AIDS or other serious illnesses than if they waited until blood tests showed their immune system was starting to weaken, the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday...
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Snapshot
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
Alice Cai looks over the shoulder of her niece, Tracy Cai, at the photos Tracy took of her Monday on the lawn of the Common Pleas Courthouse. They were out taking photos for fun with their friend Vinson Hua.
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Lawyer pleads not guilty to drunken boating; woman loses arm
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
BOSTON -- A lawyer who specializes in defending people charged with drunken driving pleaded not guilty Monday to operating a boat while drunk after a passenger went overboard and lost her arm in the propeller. Benjamin Urbelis, 33, of Boston was held on $75,000 bail and ordered to surrender his passport at his arraignment...
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Pool industry touts water savings in California drought
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
ORANGE, Calif. -- Leigh McDonough stood in her backyard on a hot spring day and listened to the steady shush-shush-shush of two garden hoses filling her new pool and hot tub with water. Her family installed the 21,000-gallon pool despite a state mandate to cut overall water consumption by 25 percent amid a crushing, four-year drought...
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Global Leadership Summit to be broadcast at Charleston prison
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
When the annual Global Leadership Summit returns in August, one new congregation will be able to view the broadcast: inmates at the Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston, Missouri. The two-day event Aug. 6 and 7 is broadcast from Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago to more than 375 "host sites" around the world, according to willowcreek.com...
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Mom faces 13 felonies after daughter dies, 2 found malnourished
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
KENNETT, Mo. -- A Stoddard County judge ordered a Malden, Missouri, woman to stand trial Friday on more than a dozen felony counts stemming from the 2014 death of her adopted daughter and the alleged neglect of two other adopted daughters. Tina Diann Burton, 46, originally was charged with second-degree murder and child abuse...
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Out of the past: June 2
(Out of the Past ~ 06/02/15)
Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh III comes home to Cape Girardeau, telling a crowd at the Show Me Center, "It's good to come to a place where I'm not greeted with 'Rush is obnoxious' signs." Limbaugh brings his 1990 "Rush To Excellence Tour" here as a benefit for the Patty McQuay Trust Fund...
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SSM Health to acquire Saint Louis University Hospital
(State News ~ 06/02/15)
ST. LOUIS -- A prominent St. Louis hospital is changing hands. SSM Health announced plans Monday to acquire Saint Louis University Hospital as part of a three-way agreement. Saint Louis University is buying the hospital from Tenet Healthcare Corp., then giving it to SSM in exchange for minority financial and governance interest in SSM Health St. Louis, a subsidiary of SSM...
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Airlines try to save time with speedier boarding
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
DALLAS -- Airlines are trying to save time by speeding up a part of flying that creates delays even before the plane leaves the gate: boarding. This summer travel season, Delta plans to preload carry-on bags above passengers' seats on some flights. Southwest wants to get families seated together more quickly...
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Pilot averts emergency landing at regional airport
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
A pilot managed to avert an emergency landing at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport on Monday afternoon. Around noon, scanner traffic indicated a plane carrying four passengers needed to land at the airport, with a possibility of fire on board. Cape Girardeau Fire Department assistant chief Mark Hasheider said the situation was cleared by the pilot a short time later, and he returned to his home base...
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Cape mail-processing center may keep some tasks for a while
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
The Cape Girardeau Processing and Distribution Center is among dozens of United States Postal Service facilities throughout the country expected to hang on to some of its operations until 2016. The postal service announced last week it would push back planned consolidation activities for facilities to or shift some operations to larger cities...
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Cape school board OKs 2.5 percent average pay raise for employees
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
The Cape Girardeau School Board approved an average 2.5 percent pay increase across the board for its employees at a recent special meeting. Neil Glass, assistant superintendent of administrative services, said Monday the percentage is approximate, because it depends on where an individual's pay is on the salary schedule...
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Justices boost workplace religious protections
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court strengthened civil-rights protections Monday for employees and job applicants who need special treatment in the workplace because of their religious beliefs. The justices sided with a Muslim woman who did not get hired after she showed up to a job interview with clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch wearing a black headscarf...
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NSA getting out of phone spying
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
WASHINGTON -- However Congress resolves its impasse over government surveillance, this much is clear: The National Security Agency ultimately will be out of the business of collecting and storing Americans' calling records. Aiming for passage this afternoon, the Senate on Monday prepared to make modest changes to a House bill that would end the collection while preserving other surveillance authorities. But while Congress debated, the law authorizing the collection expired at midnight Sunday...
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Teamwork
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
Mallory Sheehan, right, measures out a length of yarn for Sydnee Williams' finger knitting project Monday during Girl Scout Day Camp at the Elks Lodge in Cape Girardeau. About 25 volunteers helped run the camp of nearly 200 girls.
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Justices throw out conviction for Facebook threats
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday threw out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man prosecuted for making threats on Facebook but dodged the free-speech issues that had made the case intriguing to First Amendment advocates. Chief Justice John Roberts said it was not enough for prosecutors to show the comments of Anthony Elonis about killing his ex-wife and harming others would make a reasonable person feel threatened. ...
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Unscheduled stop for solar plane
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
Nagoya Airport crew members gather around the Solar Impulse 2 as it lands Monday in Toyoyama, Japan. The solar plane attempting to fly around the world without a drop of fuel made an unscheduled stop late Monday in Nagoya because of bad weather. Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg took off from Nanjing, China, on Sunday on what was to be the longest leg of the journey -- a six-day, 5,079-mile flight to Hawaii...
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Scott City hosts citywide yard sale Friday and Saturday
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
Scott City will host its 12th citywide yard sale this weekend. From 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, the city will be filled with residents cleaning out closets and packing their yards with possible treasures, hoping to make a little extra spending money...
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Scott City buys $140,000 in mowing equipment
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
Keeping Scott City more attractive was an item of discussion at the Scott City council meeting Monday night. Concerned residents have asked city councilors who's cutting vegetation in the easements between city property and a residential property and who is mowing the culverts, ditches and overpasses. The city took action Monday to acquire better equipment to help the public works department resolve such issues...
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Brewers' first-inning run beats Cardinals 1-0
(Professional Sports ~ 06/02/15)
Four Brewers relievers combined on an eight-hitter against the Cardinals on Monday.
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Bell City baseball team began its rise to the Class 1 final four during the fall
(High School Sports ~ 06/02/15)
The school adopted a fall baseball season this year and accelerated the growth of a young team.
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Jackson approves $1.4 million contract for bridge replacement
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
The Jackson board of aldermen on Monday night approved a contract of nearly $1.4 million to replace a bridge on South Old Orchard Road, but not without some wrangling about the contractor. The proposed contract for $1,388,756.60 for the bridge was with Lappe Cement Finishing of Friedheim...
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Road work 6/2/15
(Local News ~ 06/02/15)
Highway 77 in Scott County reduced for bridge repairs Highway 77 in Scott County, between County Road 403 and Maui Street, will be reduced to one lane with a 9-foot width restriction as contractor crews make bridge repairs. The work zone includes two bridges, one over a drainage ditch and the other over Interstate 55. According to a news release from the Missouri Department of Transportation, the work will be done Thursday through July 3, from 6 a.m.-8 p.m. daily...
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Nation, world briefs 6/2/15
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
BEIJING -- A yacht carrying more than 450 people sank overnight in the Yangtze River during a cyclone in southern China, and eight people have been rescued, the state broadcaster CCTV reported today. Rescue work was underway, but strong winds and rain were hampering the search, CCTV said. ...
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Police take aggressive stray pig into custody
(National News ~ 06/02/15)
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Officers in suburban Detroit took a stray pig into custody, holding the animal in the back of a police vehicle before reuniting it with its owner. Debbie DeRiemaecker said she was doing yard work Thursday evening at her home when the pig came barreling toward her. ...
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Births 6/2/15
(Births ~ 06/02/15)
Davis Daughter to Tristan Nathaniel and Presley Michelle Davis of Bloomfield, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 8:28 a.m. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Name, Paisley Faith. Weight, 7 pounds, 12 ounces. Third daughter. Mrs. Davis is the former Presley Strauser, daughter of Pamela Cowart and Tim Cowart of Bloomfield. Davis is the son of Angela Davis of Advance, Missouri...
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Cape Girardeau police report 6/2/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/02/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest n A suspect is in custody pending filing of formal charges of assault, domestic assault, endangering the welfare of a child, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 6/2/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/02/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday: n Medical assist calls were made to: Grandview Drive at 8:24 a.m.; Hackberry Street at 2:14 p.m.; West Rodney Drive at 4:45 p.m.; and Cape Meadows Circle at 8:44 p.m...
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A tie for first is still first place
(Editorial ~ 06/02/15)
Rejecting the competitive expression, "anything you can do, I can do better," and espousing the "two are better than one" adage are Cape Central High School co-valedictorians Tessa Valleroy and Alex Gentle. The two battled it out for solo valedictorian honors, but in the end, neither superseded the other. So, for the first time in 13 years, two students in the district share the title...
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Prayer 6/2/15
(Prayer ~ 06/02/15)
Give us guidance, O God, and lead us to be kind and merciful. Amen.
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Final four notebook: Bell City baseball team welcomes early success against Northwest
(High School Sports ~ 06/02/15)
Bell City scored in the first inning, which has been a rarity this year.
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Final four notebook: Freshmen pitchers take center stage for Scott City baseball team
(High School Sports ~ 06/02/15)
The Scott City baseball team reached the eighth inning of the Class 3 state championship game with just a sophomore and two freshmen appearing on the mound at the final four.
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