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Ground delays at airports on the rise
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
NEW YORK -- On a recent morning, Delta Air Lines Flight 435 pushed back early from the gate at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Passengers watched a safety video and settled in for a six-hour trip. Then they waited. And waited. Still within sight of the gate, their jet sat motionless due to airport congestion. It wasn't until 30 minutes after passengers buckled in they finally were in the sky...
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Ferguson sees progress a year after grand jury announcement
(State News ~ 11/24/15)
FERGUSON, Mo. -- A year has passed since parts of Ferguson burned in the rage that followed a grand jury's decision not to prosecute the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown. In that time, signs of hope have emerged. Some of the nearly two dozen businesses destroyed in the Nov. ...
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Law-enforcement officials explain line between free speech, criminal acts
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
Much of the discussion surrounding the recent upheaval at the University of Missouri has centered around creating an inclusive culture on campus for minorities. The conflict between what is socially unacceptable and what is illegal is one officials and law enforcement personnel have to consider when complaints of racism are made. ...
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Area women celebrated at Zonta Club's achievement luncheon
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
Nancy Hunter Stiegemeyer said she was shocked when she learned the Zonta Club of Cape Girardeau was honoring her with its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award during the club's 11th annual Women of Achievement Luncheon on Friday. While she's lost most of her sight, Stiegemeyer, 88, a retired library trustee, hasn't lost her sense of humor or energy...
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Seven-period school day plan comes under fire
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
The mood was tense at the Cape Girardeau School Board's regular meeting Monday, as nearly 40 people spoke their opinions on moving the district from an eight-period to a seven-period school day. Of top concern to many students who addressed the board was the loss of opportunities to take electives...
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Sunset 11/24/15
(Submitted Photo ~ 11/24/15)
Sunset Nov 24, 2015, taken from our front door between Cape and Fruitland.
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Sunset Cape County
(Submitted Photo ~ 11/24/15)
Sunset at Cape Country South park on Friday 20, 2015
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Guardian Angel to Salvation Army
(Submitted Photo ~ 11/24/15)
The 6th grade class of Guardian Angel School, accompanied by Katrina Kluesner, principal, and Madrigail Reed, parent, traveled to the Salvation Army in Cape Girardeau on Monday, November 23, to help the workers prepare for the upcoming Thanksgiving meal. ...
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Guardian Angel to Salvation Army
(Submitted Photo ~ 11/24/15)
The 6th grade class of Guardian Angel School, accompanied by Katrina Kluesner, principal, and Madrigail Reed, parent, traveled to the Salvation Army in Cape Girardeau on Monday, November 23, to help the workers prepare for the upcoming Thanksgiving meal. ...
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First Midwest Bank donates to United Way
(Submitted Photo ~ 11/24/15)
The employees of the Cape Girardeau & Jackson branches of First Midwest Bank donated $3,166.06 to United Way of Southeast Missouri's 2015 campaign to meet the need.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2015. There are 37 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 24, 1865, Mississippi became the first Southern state to enact laws which came to be known as "Black Codes" aimed at limiting the rights of newly freed blacks; other states of the former Confederacy soon followed...
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Consider giving to Toybox, elderly programs this year
(Editorial ~ 11/24/15)
In addition to its spiritual meaning, Christmas brings out the generosity in us. We find ourselves making lists of things to buy for people -- things we may have known all along they would like, but things we tend to reserve for the Christmas season to give. ...
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Speak Out for 11/24/2015
(Speak Out ~ 11/24/15)
Southeast Missourian editor Bob Miller's column on microaggressions was balanced, fair and very informative. The only problem I have with objective or subjective discussions in the Southeast Missourian about the benefits or lack thereof to society of the current emphasis on microaggesssions is that 92.7 percent of the content on the opinion page of the Southeast Missourian I consider not micro but macro aggressions of the highest magnitude...
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Bob Dixon steps down from governor's race
(State News ~ 11/24/15)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- State Sen. Bob Dixon no longer is running for Missouri governor in 2016. The Springfield News-Leader reported the Republican from Springfield said Monday he's dropping out of the race. Dixon's departure narrows the expected Republican primary to four candidates: suburban St. Louis businessman John Brunner, former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens, former House Speaker Catherine Hanaway and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder...
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Out of the past: Nov. 24
(Out of the Past ~ 11/24/15)
For the first time this year, the Cape Girardeau Evening Optimist Club is selling locally grown Christmas trees. The Optimists' tree lot is in the Town Plaza. Pete's Pumps and Deli, 1001 Broadway, is under new ownership. Chuck and Paula Goodale recently purchased the business from Basil and Tish Barnes. Chuck Goodale previously worked 12 years as a United Parcel Service driver...
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Pauline Jacobs
(Obituary ~ 11/24/15)
Pauline Wise Jacobs, 94, of Cape Girardeau and formerly of Commerce, Missouri, died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 22, 1921, in Commerce to Walter "Pete" and Elsie Sanders Wise. She married Marion Leslie Jacobs on July 26, 1941...
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Births 11/24/15
(Births ~ 11/24/15)
Son to Jason T. Blechle and Christina L. Brewster of Perryville, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 10:16 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. Name, Rollinz Brewster. Weight, 7 pounds 15 ounces. Second child, first son. Brewster is the daughter of Lloyd Brewster and Edna Brewster, both of St. Mary, Missouri. She works at the Park-et Restaurant. Blechle is the son of Bev Duvall and Dale Blechle, both of Perryville. He is employed by Bey Insulating...
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Shirley Childers
(Obituary ~ 11/24/15)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Shirley Ann Childers, 73, of Chaffee passed away Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015, at the family home in Chaffee. She was born in Rockview, Missouri, on June 15, 1942, to the late Tony and Ida Earhart Carroll. She married Jerry A. Childers on March 19, 1988, and he survives...
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Larry Rogers
(Obituary ~ 11/24/15)
SEATTLE -- Larry G. Rogers, 61, of Seattle, formerly of Chaffee, Missouri, died unexpectedly Nov. 19, 2015, in Seattle. He was born in Macon, Mississippi, on April 26, 1954, to the late James Roby and Phyllis Rae Jones Rogers. Larry grew up in Chaffee and graduated high school in 1972, where he was president of his class all four years and an outstanding athlete in both football and baseball. ...
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Social media helps drive historic Cuban exodus to U.S.
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
PENAS BLANCAS, Costa Rica -- As summer began to bake the central Cuban city of Sancti Spiritus, Elio Alvarez and Lideisy Hernandez sold their tiny apartment and everything in it for $5,000 and joined the largest migration from their homeland in decades...
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Adele Mailer, former wife of Norman Mailer, dead at age 90
(Entertainment ~ 11/24/15)
NEW YORK -- Adele Morales Mailer, an actress and artist who studied under Lee Strasberg and Hans Hoffman, but found unwanted fame as the stabbing victim of her then-husband Norman Mailer, died Sunday at age 90 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The cause was pneumonia, daughter Danielle Mailer said Monday...
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$160B deal to combine Pfizer and Allergan raises outcry
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
A $160 billion deal announced Monday to merge Pfizer and Allergan and create the world's biggest drug company renewed the outcry in Washington over "inversions," in which U.S. corporations combine with companies overseas to lower their tax bill. The combination -- the second-largest merger in history -- could have ramifications around the globe, pushing up drug prices and spurring more such deals in the fast-consolidating health-care sector and other fields...
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New York bills for costs of care after alleged cases of abuse
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Bill Liblick was shocked to learn his sister, a disabled woman with the mind of a 1-year-old, had been sexually assaulted repeatedly at a state-run group home. Then, after her death, he was astonished again when he received a $1.6 million bill from the state for the cost of her care...
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Holiday of Lights preparations
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
Jess Dakin, left, and Gary Stevens install a holiday display Monday for VIP Industries at Cape County Park North. The annual Holiday of Lights display, which began in 1987, will be lighted at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
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Auditor finds most Sunshine Law violations in closed meetings
(State News ~ 11/24/15)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The most common Sunshine Law violations in Missouri include closed-session discussions on issues that should be open to the public, according to a report released Monday by state Auditor Nicole Galloway. In 25 of 187 audits conducted between January 2014 and June 2015, there was some sort of violation of the state's open-meetings-and-records laws, spokeswoman Gena Terlizzi said...
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Citing 'imminent' threat, Brussels extends high alert
(International News ~ 11/24/15)
BRUSSELS -- Citing a "serious and imminent" threat of attack, Belgium's prime minister announced Monday that Brussels will remain at the highest alert level for at least another week, maintaining security measures that have disrupted normal life in the capital...
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Police hunt suspects in mass shooting in New Orleans park
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
NEW ORLEANS -- Police on Monday sought to determine what touched off a wild shootout in a crowd of hundreds of people at a New Orleans playground, where an evening of fun at a block party turned into a nightmare. The shootout, combined with the recent shooting of a good Samaritan who tried to help a woman who was being dragged toward a vehicle, put a city that has struggled with violence on edge...
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Adele sells 2.3M albums in 3 days
(Entertainment ~ 11/24/15)
NEW YORK -- Adele's new album "25" has sold more than 2.3 million copies in the United States during its first three days on the market, a stunning number for a music industry that has seen sales fall steadily in the digital era. To put that into perspective, only three other discs have sold more than a million copies all year so far...
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Using new gene drive to create malaria-resistant mosquitoes
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
WASHINGTON -- California researchers hatched some malaria-resistant mosquitoes, then gave evolution a shove -- using a groundbreaking technology to ensure the insects pass on that protective gene as they reproduce, with implications far beyond the promise of fighting malaria...
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2 men charged with murder in killing of pastor's wife
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Authorities charged two young men with murder Monday in the fatal shooting of a pastor's pregnant wife during a home invasion that happened after the minister left the couple's home without locking the front door. Amanda Blackburn, 28, was found partly nude, with her underwear nearby and her shirt pulled up, lying in a pool of blood on her living room floor. She died one day after the Nov. 10 attack on Indianapolis' northwest side...
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As protests flare, college presidents issue reminders on importance of free speech
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- As debates about race and other social issues flare on campuses, college presidents are increasingly intervening to draw a line when cultural sensitivity conflicts with freedom of speech. At schools including Yale, Williams College and Wesleyan University, leaders have in recent weeks taken steps to assert the importance of the free expression of ideas, even those some might find objectionable...
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Marticia "Marty" Schrader
(Obituary ~ 11/24/15)
Marticia "Marty" Schrader, 89, of Cape Girardeau passed away peacefully Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, surrounded by her daughters and son-in-law, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 25, 1926, in Commerce, Missouri, to J. Edwin and Freida Will Blank. ...
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Scott County man wanted on sex charges detained in Ohio
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
Henry County, Ohio. authorities have arrested a man wanted on sex-related charges in Scott County, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said. Robert B. Azinger, 54, was arrested Thursday on a Scott County warrant. Anzinger is charged with one count of statutory rape, four counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and five counts of second-degree statutory rape based on an ongoing investigation in Scott County, according to a Scott County sheriff's department news release...
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Fire damage to banquet hall listed as $50,000
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
Firefighters have determined the fire Sunday that destroyed the banquet hall of Celebrations Restaurant and Bar in Cape Girardeau caused $50,000 in damage. Owners James and Pat Allen said Sunday the only things in that building were tables and chairs, along with a furnace and hot water heater...
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Missouri loses by 24 points to Kansas State in CBE Classic semis
(College Sports ~ 11/24/15)
The Tigers will face Northwestern for third place.
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Struggling offense at center of Rams' three-game skid
(Professional Sports ~ 11/24/15)
St. Louis is ranked 31st overall in total offense.
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Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team visits Western Illinois today
(College Sports ~ 11/24/15)
The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball will have to weather a barrage of 3-pointers today. The Redhawks face one of the top 3-point shooting teams in the country in Western Illinois. Tip-off is set for 11 a.m. from Western Hall in Macomb, Illinois...
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Rams' handling of Keenum's concussion is under review
(Professional Sports ~ 11/24/15)
The quarterback remained in Sunday's game against the Ravens after sustaining a concussion.
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Man detained after traffic stop reveals warrant, pistol
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
It began as a traffic stop for a motorist driving without headlights about 2 a.m. Thursday on William Street. Cape Girardeau officers said they found a pistol and a passenger with an outstanding warrant for first-degree robbery. When the three occupants of the vehicle were taken to police headquarters, one of the passengers said he had picksed up Darrell Montero Isaac, 31, of Cape Girardeau on Themis Street, and Issac showed the passenger a 9 mm handgun with a band around it, Cape Girardeau police officer Chris Close wrote in a probable-cause statement.. ...
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Man beaten, robbed at Cape motel after offer of sex
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
A man, after allegedly being lured for sex with a woman to the Townhouse Inn in Cape Girardeau, was punched repeatedly in the face by another man and his wallet taken, according to a police report. Carlie K. McCauley, 24, of Du Quoin, Illinois, and Jeffrey T. Dancy, 32, of Sparta, Illinois, were arrested Nov. 16 after a traffic stop near the Townhouse Inn and were charged with second-degree robbery and felonious restraint...
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Blues defeat Sabres 2-1 with unusual goal
(Professional Sports ~ 11/24/15)
A Buffalo player inadvertently put a rebound into his own net.
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Region briefs 11/24/2015
(Local News ~ 11/24/15)
FORT SMITH, Ark. -- A former Dexter, Missouri, doctor, Donald W. Lamoureaux, will spend 15 years in federal prison for coercion and enticement of a minor. Lamoureaux, 69, of Hardy, Arkansas, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release. ...
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Opponent of Japanese-Americans' WII treatment to be honored
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Relatives of a civil-rights attorney being honored posthumously this week with a Presidential Medal of Freedom for challenging the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II are alarmed by opposition to Syrian refugees resettling in the U.S...
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Rapper throws wads of money to fans at mall
(National News ~ 11/24/15)
PARAMUS, N.J. -- Rapper Fetty Wap gave fans a run for his money this weekend, tossing wads of cash over a balcony at a mall, to the delight of onlookers. Videos posted to social media show him throwing money as he walked through the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus on Saturday. The rapper posted on Twitter he was so happy to be shopping with his daughter, he threw $2,000 to fans. He tweeted: "never no who needed it."...
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Pete Garner
(Obituary ~ 11/24/15)
Pete W. "Petenis" Garner, 49, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Dec. 6 at the 4-H Building in Arena Park in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Cape Girardeau police report 11/24/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/24/15)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n David Wayne Williams, no age given, of Cairo, Illinois, was arrested on suspicion of stealing food at Wal-Mart, 3439 William St. n Nicole A. Carelton, no age given, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and failure to drive on the right half of the roadway at William and Broadview streets...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 11/24/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/24/15)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday: n Medical assists were made at 4:44 a.m. on William Street; 4:09 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 5:02 p.m. on East Rodney Street; 5:04 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; and 8:57 p.m. on North Street...
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Jackson police report 11/24/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/24/15)
Jackson The Jackson Police Department released the follwing items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Haley N. Cato, 21, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Summonses n Benjamin L. Spiecker, 20, of Jackson was issued a summons for opearting a motor vehicle without an operator's license in possession...
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Prayer 11/24/15
(Prayer ~ 11/24/15)
Thank you, O Lord God, for your abundant grace and mercy. Amen
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Charles Brockett
(Obituary ~ 11/24/15)
Charles Kenneth Brockett, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, at Southeast Hospital. He was born June 9, 1921, in Oran, Missouri, to Thomas Martin and Nona Hughes Brockett. He and Frances Painton were married Oct. 12, 1946. Kenneth was a graduate of Oran High School and the University of California, Berkeley. He earned a master of business administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...
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High school roundup: Freshman sparks Oran girls basketball team in opener
(High School Sports ~ 11/24/15)
All the local high school events reported Monday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team runs winning streak to four games
(College Sports ~ 11/24/15)
The Redhawks defeated Western Illinois on the road for the first time.
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Vandeven, McRoberts, MuCullough lead seven Southeast Missouri State football players honored by OVC
(College Sports ~ 11/24/15)
Vandeven was named the OVC Freshman of the Year, while McRoberts and Mcullough were named All-OVC first team.
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