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Cape to hold hearings on downtown sidewalks
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
The city of Cape Girardeau will host the first of two public meetings Sept. 3, presenting information and asking for input on the Downtown Sidewalk Replacement Project. A 30-minute presentation by city staff and project consultants will be given, followed by an open house where attendees can view displays of possible improvement projects and speak with the project team...
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Fired reporter kills two former co-workers on live TV
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
MONETA, Va. -- He planned it so carefully -- a choreographed execution of two former colleagues, broadcast live to a television audience and recorded by him and then shared worldwide across social media. Vester Lee Flanagan's own video shows him approaching WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, gun in hand, as they conduct an interview. He points the gun at Parker, then at Ward, but he waits patiently to shoot until he knows Parker is on camera, so she will be gunned down on air...
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Schools work to place child-abuse hotline posters by Friday deadline
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
Missouri school districts are working to post a child-abuse and neglect hotline number in every student restroom in light of new legislation recently signed into law by Gov. Jay Nixon. The act, which goes into effect Friday, requires all public and charter schools to post the hotline in all student restrooms. It also requires signs be posted in a visible location in a public area of the school -- in English and Spanish -- with the toll-free number...
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Southeast enrollment drops for first time since 1994
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
After 20 consecutive years of enrollment growth at Southeast Missouri State University, there is a slight decline in the number of students enrolled this fall, according to totals released by the university. Total fall enrollment at the university was 11,411 as of Tuesday, according to a Southeast news release. The enrollment figure comes second to the university's historic high of 11,580 in fall 2014 and represents a decline of 1.5 percent...
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Bell, Bray lead young Notre Dame girls golf team
(High School Sports ~ 08/27/15)
Notre Dame junior Zoe Schumer hit from the far end of the driving range with mixed results Tuesday afternoon at Dalhousie Golf Club. Her drives traveled fairly straight and long, impressive for a teenage girl who had just taken up the sport, but her iron shots were proving a little harder to tame...
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Teens charged as adults in June drive-by shooting
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
Criminal charges have been filed against two teens accused of critically injuring a Cape Girardeau woman during a drive-by shooting in late June, according to a news release from the Cape Girardeau County Prosecutor's office. Ajai J. McReynolds and Zachary A. ...
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Local Heroes on National Dog Day!
(Submitted Story ~ 08/27/15)
I am actually from New Jersey, but was lucky enough to meet Rochelle Steffen at an animal advocacy event in Washington DC a few years ago, and have been following Mac's Mission ever since. Rochelle, founder of Mac's Mission is from Cape Girardeau, MO. ...
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Tay Bender named Southeast Missouri State's starting quarterback
(College Sports ~ 08/27/15)
Bender beat out Jackson graduate and Southeast freshman Dante Vandeven, who was promoted to the No. 2 jersey at the beginning of the week, and senior Alex Niznak for the starting nod.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
Today is Thursday, August 27, the 239th day of 2015. There are 126 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 27, 1975, Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia's 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown...
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Southeast students learn how tech, soil can mix
(Editorial ~ 08/27/15)
It's a new generation of farming at Southeast Missouri State University. With new technology and more on the horizon, the university is training today's students to be tomorrow's farmers. A recent story in the Southeast Missourian explained a new technology that allows a farmer to gauge soil moisture...
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No improvement: ACT says college exam scores are stagnant
(Community ~ 08/27/15)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. high schools haven't shown much improvement in the past four years when it comes to preparing college-ready graduates, according to the Iowa-based not-for-profit group that administers the ACT college-entrance exam. The group says only about 40 percent of graduating high school students who took the ACT exam this year show a "strong readiness" for college in most subject areas. Meanwhile, 31 percent of these students aren't meeting readiness levels in any core subject areas...
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Inertia antenna
(Community ~ 08/27/15)
n Metal clothes hanger n Play-Doh n STEP 1: Bend the metal clothes hanger into an "M" shape. n STEP 2: Place equal amounts of Play-Doh on the legs of the "M." n STEP 3: Balance the metal clothes hanger on your head, so the legs of the "M" are next to your ears...
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Trump proud he booted Univision's Ramos from event
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
PENSACOLA, Florida -- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday he's proud of kicking one of the country's best-known Spanish-language journalists out of an Iowa news conference. "I think I handled that well. I got a lot of credit for it," Trump boasted to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham a day after his bodyguards escorted Univision's Jorge Ramos out of the event...
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Court upholds gay marriage ruling in Kentucky
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
MOREHEAD, Ky. -- A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling ordering a Kentucky county clerk to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis objects to same-sex marriage for religious reasons. She stopped issuing marriage licenses the day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned state bans on same-sex marriage...
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Feds warns Montana it faces cutoff of abuse program funding
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
The federal government says it will strip Montana of a child-abuse prevention grant if the state does not start providing the public with mandatory details about children who die from abuse and neglect. The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services for years has kept secret details about children who die at their caregivers' hands -- including those killed while the agency had reason to know they were in danger -- saying a state confidentiality law prevents release of the information.. ...
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Louisiana police officer shot dead; victim stabbed to death
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
SUNSET, La. -- A police officer was shot and killed Wednesday when he responded to a call from a house where three women had been stabbed, one fatally, said the sheriff of St. Landry Parish. The man accused in the attacks drove from the house in Sunset and into a convenience store about three blocks away, barricading himself in an office, St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said...
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Colorado theater gunman's sentencing caps grueling trial
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Belittled by the judge and jeered by spectators, James Holmes was sent to prison for the rest of his life Wednesday, while survivors of his attack on a Colorado movie theater wondered aloud how they would spend the rest of their days...
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Out of the past: Aug. 27
(Out of the Past ~ 08/27/15)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. James Thompson expressed moral support to reservists at the Illinois National Guard Armory here yesterday, telling them their families would be taken care of if they are called to duty; the 1244th Transportation Unit in Cairo was put on mobilization alert Friday...
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Airfare deals pop up as airlines wage limited fare wars
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
ABOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 1223 -- Airline fare wars are making a comeback. Don't expect widespread sales or cheap flights home for Thanksgiving. But a number of cities are seeing ridiculously low prices at off-peak hours -- prices the industry has spent the years trying to eliminate...
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Wal-Mart to stop selling AR-15s and similar weapons
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Wal-Mart will stop selling the AR-15 rifle and other semi-automatic weapons at its stores because fewer people are buying them, a spokesman said Wednesday. The AR-15 rifles and other modern sporting rifles were being sold at less than a third of the company's 4,600 U.S. stores. Company spokesman Kory Lundberg said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will remove the remaining inventory as stores transition from summer to fall merchandise, which should take a week or two to complete...
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Burger King to McDonald's: Let's make a McWhopper
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
NEW YORK -- This probably isn't what the United Nations had in mind when it established the International Day of Peace: Burger King is asking McDonald's to join forces to create a "McWhopper." In full-page newspaper ads Wednesday, Burger King said it's calling for a truce with McDonald's so that they can create a mashup of their most famous burgers -- the Big Mac and the Whopper. ...
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U.S. stocks surge, snapping 6-day losing streak
(National News ~ 08/27/15)
The Dow Jones industrial average rocketed more than 600 points Wednesday, its biggest gain in seven years, snapping a six-day losing streak that had Americans nervously checking their investment balances. While the surge came as a relief to many, Wall Street professionals warned more rough days lie ahead, in part because of weakness in China, where signs of an economic slowdown triggered the sell-off that has shaken global markets over the past week...
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St. Louis police, city accused of 'sham investigation'
(State News ~ 08/27/15)
ST. LOUIS -- A man who spent three years in prison before his robbery conviction was overturned has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of St. Louis, its prosecutors and police. Cornell McKay's lawsuit, filed Tuesday, accuses the plaintiffs of a "sham investigation" that failed to follow obvious leads that would have led to the true culprit, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported...
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Woman may cast sole vote on Columbia district sales tax hike
(State News ~ 08/27/15)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- An oversight by representatives of a business community improvement district in Columbia means a 23-year-old woman might be the only one voting on a proposed sales tax increase needed to make the district successful. The Columbia City Council established the Business Loop 70 Community Improvement District in April at the request of some property owners within the district's boundaries. ...
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Springfield district identifies 807 homeless students
(State News ~ 08/27/15)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Springfield School District, the largest in Missouri, has a record number of homeless students starting school this year. More than half of the 807 students considered homeless at the beginning of the 2015-2016 academic year are in elementary schools, while 213 are in high school, 166 are in middle school and three are in preschool, the Springfield News-Leader reported...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 8/27/15
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today n Minutes of the Aug. 24 meeting n None at this time n Items listed on agenda n Purchase orders n Payroll change forms n Sheriff office monthly report n Cape courthouse gazebo agreement n Public hearing for 2015 proposed tax rates. Citizens may be heard on the property tax rates proposed to be set by the Cape Girardeau County Commission...
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Missouri couple accused of multistate sex trafficking
(State News ~ 08/27/15)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A Missouri couple is accused of orchestrating a cross-country prostitution ring involving at least five girls. A federal complaint accuses 28-year-old Marcus Dewayne Thompson and 24-year-old Robin Thompson of conspiracy and sex trafficking. The Thompsons are from Park Hills, Missouri...
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Jackson police report 8/27/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/27/15)
The Jackson Police Department reported the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n Thomas J. Sandman, 35, of Sedgewickville, Missouri, was arrested on a Jackson warrant for failure to appear on an original charge of failure to register a motor vehicle...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 8/27/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/27/15)
* Medical assist calls were made to South Park Avenue at 2:18 a.m.; Brenda Kay Court at 8:49 a.m.; North Sprigg Street at 10:33 a.m.; and South Sprigg Street at 12:59 p.m. n At 1:42 a.m., good-intent call on Stonebridge Drive. n At 1:10 p.m., passenger vehicle fire on Interstate 55...
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Cape Girardeau police report 8/27/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/27/15)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department reported the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n William M. Brown, 22, of Crown Point, Indiana, was arrested on suspicion of trespassing at the Billiard Center, 22 N. Main St. n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of assault, resisting arrest and unlawful use of a weapon...
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Speak Out 8/27/15
(Speak Out ~ 08/27/15)
This great country was founded on Godly principles. Until people start standing up and start letting people know of our wonderful Savior Jesus Christ, our country will continue to slide downhill. Thank God the sheriff has a backbone and is willing to stand up for God and not wimp out. We have bowed down to those trying to dilute and silence Christianity for way too long. The silent majority needs to be less silent and the new stickers is a welcome start!...
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David Vogel
(Obituary ~ 08/27/15)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- David Gordy Vogel, 60, of St. Louis, formerly of Perryville, died Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, at his home. He was born Oct. 26, 1954, in Perryville to Curt Vogel Sr. and Billie Jean Bumgarner Vogel. Gordy was a biomedical technician for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was an active collector of stereo viewers and related items. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam era...
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Marion Schamburg
(Obituary ~ 08/27/15)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Marion F. Schamburg, 83, of Perryville died Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and from 6:30 to 8:15 a.m. Friday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville, with the Rev. Matthew Marks officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery...
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Mark Friga
(Obituary ~ 08/27/15)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Mark E. Friga, 56, died Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Chaffee. Arrangements are incomplete with Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.
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Tom Dees
(Obituary ~ 08/27/15)
Tom Dees, 52, of Scott City died Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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Francis Alipala
(Obituary ~ 08/27/15)
Francis Peter Montano Alipala of Jackson, the infant son of Fortunato and Catherine Alipala, earned his angel wings Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Francis was born at 22 weeks, 5 days on July 24, 2015, at Saint Francis Family Birthplace in Cape Girardeau...
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Louis Aydt II
(Obituary ~ 08/27/15)
VILLA HILLS, Ky. -- Louis Thomas "Tom" Aydt II, 65, of Villa Hills, Kentucky, passed away peacefully Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. Tom is survived by his loving wife of 44 years, Rosana Whitis Aydt. He will be greatly missed by his mother, E. Archie Hatcher Aydt. Tom was a loving father to Maria (Shawn) Borchardt and Jonathan (Teri) Aydt. He was the proud grandfather of Brian, Lilah and Patrick. Tom also leaves behind his two sisters, Beth Pace and Dr. Sarah (Dr. Mike Jedlinski) Aydt...
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Barbara Allen
(Obituary ~ 08/27/15)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- Barbara Jean Allen, 52, of O'Fallon passed away Friday, June 26, 2015, at Progress West Hospital in O'Fallon. She was born June 13, 1963, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, daughter of Harold J. and Teresa McCabe Hinkebein. Loving survivors include her mother, Teresa Hinkebein of Jackson; three children, Jesse, Alicia and Zachary Allen, all of O'Fallon; four brothers, Dr. ...
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Cape park to host history, religion rally
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
The public is invited to attend the "Never Again Is Now Rally" on Friday at Cape County Park North. The event's main topic is "A History and Religion Tour," according to a news release from the Cape County Tea Party. William Federer will be the keynote speaker. He's a nationally known speaker, a best-selling author and president of publishing company Amerisearch Inc., and leads the television program "Faith in America," the news release said. He was born and raised in south St. Louis...
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Woman appeals conviction in methadone overdose case
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
A St. Mary, Missouri, woman has taken her case to the Eastern District Court of Appeals. Sandra Dallas, 58, recently began serving a 52-year sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections for her role in supplying methadone to two men hours before they died...
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Missing brother of congressman found unharmed
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
The brother of U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Salem, who was missing since Monday morning has been found safe, the family said Wednesday afternoon. A missing-person report was filed with the Dent County Sheriff's Office on Monday for Billy G. Smith Jr., 41, of Salem, Missouri...
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New technical programs coming to Three Rivers
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
Three Rivers College is offering new technical programs at its campuses, as well as some of the newer courses soon to be offered that are geared to making people employable in the Bootheel region. The three classes offered at the Career and Technical Center of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, High School are Intro to MIG (metal inert gas), Intro to Shield and Metal Arc (stick welding) and Weld Fabrication, in which students learn measurement, cutting precisely and being able to fabricate small projects accurately.. ...
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Man sentenced to 10 years for Cape stabbing
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
A man involved in a 2014 stabbing has been sentenced to 10 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. Billy Joe McGee, 43, of Cape Girardeau was sentenced by Judge Michael Gardner in July. McGee had been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action after stabbing a man with a steak knife in February 2014...
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Blunt during Cape stop: No excuse for homeless vets, expanded care needed
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt made a stop in Cape Girardeau late Wednesday morning to chat with veterans about their physical and mental health needs. "If the (Department of Veterans Affairs) wants to provide health care to veterans, they need to do a better job of that," Blunt told reporters during a question-and-answer session after a meeting at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center off William Street...
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Active shooter training at Jackson High School
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
Members of the Jackson Police Department Special Response Team and the Sikeston, Missouri, Department of Public Safety Special Operations Group move through a stairwell during an active-shooter building-clearing exercise Wednesday at Jackson High School's old A Building...
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Rams WR Quick back from significant shoulder injury
(Professional Sports ~ 08/27/15)
ST. LOUIS -- It's been a long road back for Brian Quick. The finish line is in sight for the St. Louis Rams wide receiver. Quick's breakout season in 2014 was cut short by a shoulder injury that the team feared might be career-threatening. The former second-round pick out of Appalachian State was diligent with rehab, and he's expected to return for Week 3 of the preseason Saturday against the Indianapolis Colts...
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High school roundup: Notre Dame softball team opens season with win over Chaffee
(High School Sports ~ 08/27/15)
All scores wer reported to the Southeast Missourian on Wednesday.
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Cardinals beat Diamondbacks 3-1 behind Lackey
(Professional Sports ~ 08/27/15)
PHOENIX -- John Lackey pitched seven strong innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Arizona 3-1 on Wednesday night, their seventh straight win over the Diamondbacks. The Cardinals scored four first-inning runs off Robbie Ray on Tuesday, but had to wait a little longer Wednesday with Patrick Corbin limiting them to Mark Reynolds' homer in six innings...
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Road work 8/27/15
(Local News ~ 08/27/15)
U.S. 61 in Cape Girardeau County from Mount Auburn Road to Cape Rock Drive will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform pavement repairs. The work will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, according to a MoDOT news release...
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Homeless pythons headed to sanctuary
(State News ~ 08/27/15)
NORTH CLARENDON, Vt. -- Two southeast Asian pythons rescued by a longtime snake collector and turned over to state game wardens are headed to a sanctuary. The larger of the pythons picked up Tuesday by experts from the Massachusetts-based Rainforest Reptile Shows was a female between 17 and 18 feet long. A slightly smaller male was about 15 feet long. The collector, Pat Howard, said he's "smart enough to realize that snake is bigger than I can safely take care of."...
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Do something
(Column ~ 08/27/15)
During training, a few fellow trainees bestowed the nickname "Captain America" on Airman First Class Spencer Stone. As fate would have it, Stone showed the nickname was more accurate than most would realize. Stone is one of the three Americans who recently were traveling from Amsterdam to Paris and leapt into action, stopping a suspected terrorist aboard a high-speed train in France...
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Prayer 8/27/15
(Prayer ~ 08/27/15)
When anxiety is great within me, your consolation, O God, brings me joy. Amen.
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Briefly
(Community ~ 08/27/15)
Ashlee Long of Sedgewickville, Missouri, is a winner of the Military Police Regimental Association's Scholarship Program. Long is a nursing major at Southeast Missouri State University. Whitney Welker, a junior at Southeast Missouri State University, was awarded the Southeast Missouri District Fair Foundation Educational Scholarship. Welker, of Patton, Missouri, is a graduate of Meadow Heights High School and is a public-relations major at Southeast...
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Eyes on the sky: Notre Dame students see stars, planets and asteroids from their campus observatory
(Community ~ 08/27/15)
When it comes to stargazing, students at Notre Dame Regional High School have a definite leg up on their peers. In 2006, a 20-by-20-foot observatory, or "Glastetter Hall," was built behind the school to accommodate the need for storage and activity space for its recently acquired telescopes. Since its completion, a single-semester astronomy course was created and is offered to eligible seniors twice per school year...
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Notre Dame softball team clobbers Naylor at home
(High School Sports ~ 08/27/15)
The Bulldogs scored 10 runs in the first inning on their way to a 15-0 win in three innings.
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