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Chicago officer charged with murder in killing of black teen
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
CHICAGO -- A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing many people fear could spark unrest. City officials and community leaders have been bracing for the release of the dash-cam video, fearing the kind of unrest that occurred in cities such as Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, after young black men were slain by police or died in police custody...
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Turkey shoots down Russian warplane; Putin warns of 'consequences'
(International News ~ 11/25/15)
MOSCOW -- Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on Tuesday it said ignored repeated warnings and crossed into its airspace from Syria, killing at least one of the two pilots in a long-feared escalation in tensions between Russia and NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced what he called a "stab in the back" and warned of "significant consequences."...
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Official: Communication is key to Bollinger County's direction
(Local News ~ 11/25/15)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Nearly a year ago, members of the University of Missouri Extension met with the Bollinger County Commission to talk about where the county was headed. Since then, the extension held a large public meeting to check the pulse of the county, then it held several smaller sessions throughout the county. The extension compiled statistics based on those meetings and on available data that reflect the county's condition so its leaders can assess its future...
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Humane Society soon will have new shelter
(Local News ~ 11/25/15)
More local dogs and cats will have a better chance at finding a home, thanks to a new shelter at the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri. "This is something that we have worked hard for and dreamt of for a very, very long time," the Humane Society's Holly Godwin said...
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Saxony Lutheran girls basketball team opens season with win over Sikeston
(High School Sports ~ 11/25/15)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- When the Saxony Lutheran girls basketball team lost starting guard Raegan Wieser to a torn ACL before the start of the volleyball season, there already were questions about how the team was going to make up for the senior standout's production...
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Cape stores will be on lookout for Black Friday thieves
(Local News ~ 11/25/15)
'Tis the season for long lines, people camping for days outside a store waiting to get a good deal, and for thieves looking to take advantage of maximum shopping populations and a busy retail workforce. "You still get customers who love the excitement and the instant gratification. ...
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Oran girls basketball team routs Scott County Central
(High School Sports ~ 11/25/15)
MORLEY, Mo. -- Thanks to big performances by a pair of freshman, the Oran girls basketball team rolled past Scott County Central 70-35 on Tuesday night on Otto Porter Jr. Court at Ronnie Cookson Gymnasium. The Eagles (2-0) pushed the pace early and broke things open with a 10-0 run to start the second quarter, leaving the Bravettes (1-1) scrambling and unable to find any answers...
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St. Michael's Group of Guardian Angel School Expresses Gratitude
(Submitted Photo ~ 11/25/15)
Guardian Angel School, Oran, MO, would like all of the area businesses in Oran and the surrounding area how much they appreciate everything that the businesses do for them. All of the students and the house leaders of the archangel groups traveled to the area businesses on Wednesday, November 25 to tell the businesses how much Guardian Angel School appreciated everything they do for our school. ...
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4 small earthquakes rattle Southeast Missouri
(State News ~ 11/25/15)
LILBOURN, Mo. -- Several people in Southeast Missouri felt the earth move early Wednesday after a series of small earthquakes. The U.S. Geological Survey reported four quakes of between magnitude 2.6 and magnitude 3.0 started shortly after midnight, all centered near the town of Lilbourn, in New Madrid County...
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More than 30 downtown stores taking part in Small Business Saturday
(Local News ~ 11/25/15)
Shoppers taking a calmer, more personal approach to holiday gift-buying will have an opportunity Saturday morning to support local businesses while possibly taking home a little something for themselves. For the second year, Old Town Cape has arranged a more organized Small Business Saturday for downtown businesses...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2015. There are 36 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 25, 1915, a new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, was founded by William Joseph Simmons, who proclaimed himself the Imperial Wizard of the group as he staged a cross-burning on Stone Mountain outside Atlanta...
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4 local business professionals absorb training at Harvard
(Editorial ~ 11/25/15)
Being a professional is valuable. Being a talented professional is even better. But being a professional who leads effectively is in a class all its own. Leadership is a quality increasingly necessary in today's business environment, in which people need not only to be told what to do, but also shown how to do it well, and where they seem to rely on motivation to be productive. ...
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Speak Out 11/25/2015
(Speak Out ~ 11/25/15)
I would like to formally apologize to an evidently very upset member of the Cape Public School Board who apparently was contacted multiple times concerning a controversial proposal and victimized by vicious verbal assaults, thus being at the receiving end of what might be called a crude awakening...
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Obama, Hollande pledge solidarity against ISIS
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
WASHINGTON -- Pledging solidarity after the Paris attacks, President Barack Obama promised Tuesday to work with France and other allies to intensify the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State, saying America would not be cowed by the scourge of terrorism...
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Traffic deaths rise sharply after small decline in 2014
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
DETROIT -- After declining for most of the past decade, traffic deaths spiked 8 percent in the first half of this year, prompting a call from the nation's highway-safety chief to find ways to reduce the human errors that cause most fatalities. The new estimate released Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration comes as millions of Americans prepare to hit the road for the Thanksgiving holiday. AAA predicts 42 million people will drive 50 miles or more over the coming weekend...
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Since '01, Clintons collected $35M from financial firms
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to know she is no friend of Wall Street. But Wall Street has frequently been a friend to her. In the 18 months before announcing her second campaign for president, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination addressed private equity investors in California and New York, delivered remarks to bankers in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and spoke to brokers at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida...
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GOP sets Senate push against health law, Planned Parenthood
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans hope a post-Thanksgiving drive to obliterate President Barack Obama's health-care law and block Planned Parenthood's federal funds will spotlight their support for top-tier conservative causes. The certain veto waiting at the White House will help them sharpen their stance for voters, they say...
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Emails reveal Coke's role in anti-obesity group
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
NEW YORK -- A not-for-profit group founded to combat obesity says the $1.5 million it received from Coke has no influence on its work. But emails obtained by The Associated Press show the world's largest beverage maker was instrumental in shaping the Global Energy Balance Network, led by a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Coke helped pick the group's leaders, edited its mission statement and suggested articles and videos for its website...
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Group raised suspicions before 5 shot at protests
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Protesters demanding justice for a black man fatally shot by Minneapolis police were settling in for their ninth night of demonstrations when something didn't seem right. Lingering in the crowd were four people who seemed out of place. They were asked to leave. Moments later, shots rang out a block away...
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Births 11/25/15
(Births ~ 11/25/15)
Son to Charlie Ray Armstrong and Rachel Lynn Grubbs of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. Name, Dakota Ray. Weight, 7 pounds, 10 ounces. Fourth child, third son. Grubbs is the daughter of Rodger Grubbs and Sherry Grubbs, both of Patton, Missouri. She is employed by Dairy Queen. Armstrong is the son of Wanda Armstrong of Cape Girardeau. He is employed by Mayfield Concrete...
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Missouri man's murder convictions in sisters' deaths tossed
(State News ~ 11/25/15)
ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the first-degree murder convictions and the death sentence for one of four men convicted of raping two sisters and throwing them to their death from an abandoned Mississippi River bridge in St. Louis 24 years ago...
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Out of the past: Nov. 25
(Out of the Past ~ 11/25/15)
The Rev. Robert Henrichs is the new associate pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson; the 40-year-old minister is a native of St. Louis and came to this area from Centralia, Missouri. Several area Christmas tree sellers say the unseasonably warm weather, coupled with the Dec. 3 earthquake prediction, are hindering their sales; all but one says the near-70-degree temperatures this weekend are bad for sales...
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Columbia police to expand community outreach unit
(State News ~ 11/25/15)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Columbia Police Department is planning to cut back its traffic enforcement unit so it can expand a unit for community outreach. Deputy chief Jill Schlude said the department will shuffle officers to give the community outreach unit six officers, in three teams of two, assigned to specific areas in the city and a sergeant overseeing its operations. Positions to fill the outreach unit will come from the traffic unit...
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U.S. consumer confidence falls hard in November
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
WASHINGTON -- Confidence in the economy eroded this month as Americans became more worried about the job market. A business research group said Tuesday its consumer confidence index fell to 90.4 in November, down from 99.1 in October. The index is at its lowest level since September 2014...
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HIV now treatable but most states keep laws criminalizing it
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
LOS ANGELES -- Charlie Sheen's recent revelation he's HIV-positive served as a reminder his home state of California remains among a large group of states with HIV-specific criminal laws activists consider outdated and the U.S. Justice Department says should be revised...
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Mall stores must open on Thanksgiving but expect to be busy
(National News ~ 11/25/15)
NEW YORK -- Some big retailers face scrutiny for opening on Thanksgiving, but many small stores have no choice. Take jeweler Jerry Amerosi, who has three stores in New York's Staten Island Mall. Amerosi said he'd rather not work on the holiday, and if his stores were on a downtown or neighborhood street, he wouldn't...
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In Mexico, victims vanish at hands of police
(International News ~ 11/25/15)
TELOLOAPAN, Mexico -- Carlos Sanchez and his family had nearly completed the harrowing drive, hurtling along a dark and dangerous highway out of the mountains to a hospital when they collided with a state police truck parked across the highway, lights out...
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Official: Attacks organizer planned more carnage
(International News ~ 11/25/15)
PARIS -- The man believed to have planned the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more likely planned to carry out another suicide bombing days later in the French capital's business district, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday...
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Adele album officially sets first-week sales record
(Entertainment ~ 11/25/15)
NEW YORK -- In just days, Adele's "25" has officially set a first-week sales record, moving 2.433 million albums since its release Friday. On Tuesday, Nielsen Music said in four days, the British singer broke the record set by 'NSYNC in 2000. The boy band's "No Strings Attached" sold 2.416 million albums in its first week...
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Sherrill Wright
(Obituary ~ 11/25/15)
STILLWATER, Minn. -- Sherrill Sue Kinder Wright, 83, passed away Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, as the result of a severe stroke. Sherrill was born in Cape Girardeau and graduated from Iowa State University in 1955 with a bachelor of science degree in dietetics. Sherrill was an excellent homemaker and mother, and was proud of her work as a dietitian. She worked at North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, and was manager of the tea room at the American Women's Club in Brussels, Belgium...
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Charles Watkins
(Obituary ~ 11/25/15)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Charles Watkins, 58, of Cairo died Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Massie Funeral Home in Mounds, Illinois. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Interment will be in Green Lawn Memorial Garden in Villa Ridge, Illinois...
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Jay Warner
(Obituary ~ 11/25/15)
Larry Dean Charles "Jay" Warner Jr., 43, of Whitewater died Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Edith Walton
(Obituary ~ 11/25/15)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Edith Walton, 88, of Mounds died Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from noon until time of service Friday at Massie Funeral Home in Mounds. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Interment will be at Spencer Heights Memorial Park in Mounds...
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Helen Leimbach
(Obituary ~ 11/25/15)
Helen Marie Leimbach, 90, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Feb. 24, 1925, in Pocahontas to Walter W. and Della Winter Leimbach. She was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Pocahontas and was a 1943 graduate of Jackson High School...
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Cape Girardeau police report 11/25/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/25/15)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n Abdulrahman F. Alshammari, no age give, of Cape Girardeau was issued a summons for driving while intoxicated and following too closely. n Stephen D. Sheldrake II, 33, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for failure to appear for improper registration...
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Bridge connecting St. Louis, East St. Louis set to reopen
(State News ~ 11/25/15)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- The Martin Luther King Bridge connecting East St. Louis to St. Louis is set to reopen after being closed for construction. The bridge crossing the Mississippi River is scheduled to reopen to traffic the week of Dec. 21, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The bridge has been closed since July 20 for a $15.9 million reconstruction project, which includes removal of its deck, replacing the middle truss span, steel structural repairs and painting...
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Hannibal hotel closes after Legionnaires' bacteria found
(State News ~ 11/25/15)
HANNIBAL, Mo. -- A hotel in northeast Missouri's Hannibal is temporarily closed after health officials found evidence of the respiratory-related Legionnaires' disease there. The Hannibal Courier-Post reported the Best Western in Hannibal closed last week after state and federal health officials said samples taken from there Nov. 10 tested positive for Legionella bacteria...
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Police: Autopsy findings confirm 18-year-old killed self
(State News ~ 11/25/15)
NORMANDY, Mo. -- An autopsy report shows an 18-year-old who exchanged gunfire with police in suburban St. Louis died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was not hit by any officer's bullets. St. Louis County police released autopsy findings Tuesday in the case of Amonderez Green. A pathologist concluded he died 14 hours after sustaining a gunshot wound under the chin in Normandy...
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Suit seeks to restore parental rights in lost-baby case
(State News ~ 11/25/15)
ST. LOUIS -- Fifty years after a St. Louis gospel singer said she was told her daughter died at birth -- a claim disputed by authorities -- and months after the 76-year-old woman learned her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother's parental rights...
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Missouri men's basketball team unable to catch Northwestern
(Professional Sports ~ 11/25/15)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Tre Demps and Bryant McIntosh scored 13 points apiece, and Northwestern survived after blowing most of a 20-point first-half lead for a 67-62 victory over Missouri on Tuesday night in the third-place game of the CBE Classic. The Wildcats (4-1), who lost to ninth-ranked North Carolina in the semifinals, did not make a field goal for the final 5 minutes, 41 seconds as the Tigers made one final run...
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High school roundup: Woodland girls basketball team christens season with win over Charleston
(High School Sports ~ 11/25/15)
All scores were reported to the Southeast Missourian on Tuesday.
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Southeast Missouri State men's basketball season drops fourth
(College Sports ~ 11/25/15)
Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Rick Ray could point to a couple of statistics from his team's game against the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday night as the culprit for the Redhawks' latest loss. "I thought we played a good first half there, did a really good job on the offensive rebounds," Ray said. ...
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Tickets for Students Santas dinner available Tuesday
(Local News ~ 11/25/15)
Tickets for the Student Santas Christmas dinner will be available beginning Tuesday. The meal is free, but each person who attends at Jefferson Elementary School on Christmas Day needs a ticket, organizer Jennifer Icaza-Gast said. Tickets will be available at the Osage Centre, 1625 N. ...
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Prayer 11/25/15
(Prayer ~ 11/25/15)
O Lord God, may we choose our words wisely, glorifying you in all we do. Amen.
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