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Obama moves to require background checks for more gun sales
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama moved Monday to expand background checks to cover more firearms sold at gun shows, online and anywhere else, aiming to curb a scourge of gun violence despite unyielding opposition to new laws in Congress. Obama's plan to broaden background checks forms the centerpiece of a broader package of gun-control measures the president plans to take on his own in his final year in office...
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Wells' 3-pointer sends Woodland girls basketball team into Delta New Year's semifinals
(High School Sports ~ 01/05/16)
DELTA, Mo. -- With less than 10 seconds left and in possession of the basketball, Woodland girls basketball coach Robert Stein called a timeout and tried to take the pressure off his girls. Worst case scenario, he told them, this is going to overtime...
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Suspect fleeing police drowns in floodwater
(Local News ~ 01/05/16)
CAMPBELL, Mo. -- A man drowned in floodwaters Thursday morning near the Dunklin-Butler County border while attempting to escape from police after a high-speed chase. Rickey G. Lerma, 40, of Risco, Missouri, was pronounced dead at 11 a.m. by Dunklin County Coroner James Powell after Lerma's body was recovered from the St. Francis River near Route DD...
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Jackson puts use tax on April ballot
(Local News ~ 01/05/16)
Residents of Jackson will vote in April on whether the city imposes a local use tax. After a public hearing in which two residents spoke in favor of the proposed use tax, the Jackson Board of Aldermen approved a measure that would put the use tax on the April 5 ballot and an initiative continuing the existing motor vehicle use tax...
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Cape council agrees to funding plan for use tax
(Local News ~ 01/05/16)
The Cape Girardeau City Council agreed to fund public-safety improvements and eliminate gross-receipts tax paid by some businesses if voters approve a use tax. The use tax would generate an estimated $1.25 million annually to fund public safety improvements and eliminate a gross receipts tax paid by some businesses, Cape Girardeau city officials announced Monday night...
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Area counties begin to assess flood damage
(Local News ~ 01/05/16)
He watched the parade of airplanes, tractors, combines and trucks filled with grain, and Perry County emergency management director Hank Voelker was never so happy to be inconvenienced. "When the airplanes started coming over the levee, that was pretty awesome," Voelker said of the Sabreliner Aviation aircraft. "I almost got choked up."...
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Bootheel Bluegrass Festival Returns
(Submitted Story ~ 01/05/16)
The Annual Bootheel Bluegrass Festival returns to the Bavarian Halle by Drury Inn in Fruitland on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Jan 28th -30th, 2016. Thursday nights show will start at 7 PM in the Halle and will be Gospel Night. Tickets are $8 at the door. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2016. There are 361 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 5, 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England since 1042, died after a reign of nearly 24 years. On this date:...
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Wanda Durham
(Obituary ~ 01/05/16)
TROY, Mo. -- Wanda Durham, 91, of Troy passed away peacefully Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, at the Elsberry Health Care Center. She was born on Sept. 30, 1924, in Hiram, Missouri, a daughter of the late Ulus Edger and Maude (Shetley) Haynes. Wanda married the love of her life, Edward Durham, on Nov. 20, 1942, and shared 71 years of marriage until his passing Dec. 24, 2013...
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Anna Rebert
(Obituary ~ 01/05/16)
CARTHAGE, Texas -- Funeral services for Anna Lou Rebert, 90, of Carthage will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Freddy Mason officiating. Burial will follow in the Six Mile Cemetery. Visitation will begin one hour prior to the service at the funeral home...
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Births 1/5/16
(Births ~ 01/05/16)
Son to Gary Shane Kitchen and Cammi Crystal Corbin/Kitchen of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 5:38 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. Name, Garrison Scott. Weight, 9 pounds. Third child, second son. Corbin/Kitchen is the daughter of Christi Corbin of Cape Girardeau. She is employed by the Lutheran Home. Kitchen is the son of Gary Kitchen. He is employed by Ross Furniture...
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Lucille Miller
(Obituary ~ 01/05/16)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Lucille (Willis) Miller, 87, of Olive Branch passed away Friday, Jan. 1, 2016, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 14, 1928, at Miller City, Illinois, the daughter of Roy Arnold and Georgia Ersa (Morningstar) Willis. She was married on Oct. 5, 1947, to Lloyd "Jack" Miller. He preceded her in death on April 13, 2013...
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Out of the past: Jan. 5
(Out of the Past ~ 01/05/16)
A dramatic drop in December boardings at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport was nearly enough to drop enplanements below 10,000 for the year, but despite inclement weather in late December, the airport managed to show 10,016 for the year. That's enough for the port to maintain its primary airport designation and receive $300,000 in annual federal entitlement money...
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Stocks sink on first day of 2016 on China, Mideast worries
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
NEW YORK -- The new year got off to an inauspicious start on Wall Street as stocks tumbled Monday in a global sell-off triggered by new fears of a slowdown in China and rising tensions in the Middle East. Less than an hour before the closing bell, the Dow Jones industrial average was down more than 2 percent, its biggest drop since September, after sharper declines in Asia and Europe...
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General Motors invests $500m in Lyft, forms partnership
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
DETROIT -- The automotive industry is placing its biggest bet yet that using a device to hail a ride -- with or without a driver -- is the future of transportation. General Motors Co. said Monday it is investing $500 million in ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. and forming an unprecedented partnership that could eventually lead to on-demand, self-driving cars...
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Body of missing country singer recovered at Oklahoma lake
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
PONCA CITY, Okla. -- The body of a country singer was recovered Monday at an Oklahoma lake, one week after he disappeared while going duck hunting with a companion who had sent an ominous tweet about threatening weather. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Craig M. Strickland, 29, of Springdale, Arkansas, had died at Kaw Lake, near the Kansas-Oklahoma state line...
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Military children sexually abused hundreds of times every year
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
WASHINGTON -- The children of service members are sexually assaulted hundreds of times each year, according to data the Defense Department provided exclusively to The Associated Press. The abuse of military dependents is committed most often by male enlisted troops, the data show, followed by family members...
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Contempt urged for Planned Parenthood leader
(State News ~ 01/05/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Republican-led Missouri legislative panel has recommended the leader of a Planned Parenthood chapter should be held in contempt for refusing to share abortion-related documents with lawmakers. The request targeting Mary Kogut, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. ...
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U.S. sues VW over emissions-cheating software in diesel cars
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department sued Volkswagen on Monday over emissions-cheating software found in nearly 600,000 vehicles sold in the United States, potentially exposing the company to billions of dollars in penalties for clean-air violations...
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Artist charged with attempted murder in theme-park attack
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A recently fired caricature artist at Universal Orlando Resort tried to kill his manager by stabbing him in the neck with scissors on New Year's Day, according to a police report released Monday. Frederick Torres, 33, was charged with attempted first-degree murder for his attack on Glenn Ferguson at the Islands of Adventure park. Both artists draw caricatures at Universal's parks but work for an outside firm, Orlando-based Fasen Artists, Inc...
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Missouri State University official at center of racism probe resigns
(State News ~ 01/05/16)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Missouri State University's top black official announced his resignation Monday, less than a week after the school said an investigation by outside attorneys found "no credible evidence" the university discriminated against him. The school released a statement saying Ken Coopwood, vice president of diversity and inclusion since October 2011, will be on leave until his resignation takes effect April 30. ...
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Workers return to San Bernardino offices following massacre
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Behind a chain-link fence and under heavy security, workers Monday returned to their offices at the San Bernardino campus where 14 people died last month in a massacre. Inland Regional Center employees flashed identification badges to security guards, who ushered them into a parking lot surrounded by a mesh-wrapped fence as dozens of reporters stood outside...
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Two Clintons, plenty of GOPers go into in campaign motion
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
BOONE, Iowa -- The sprint to the Iowa caucuses opened Monday with nearly a dozen presidential candidates in motion, a restrained Bill Clinton stepping up for his wife and a pledge by the only billionaire in the race to start spending serious money. From Iowa to New Hampshire -- on the air, on the bus and on the stump -- candidates vying to become America's next president roared out of the holidays in full force with less than a month to go before voting begins...
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Ranchers who inspired Oregon occupation report to prison
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
BURNS, Ore. -- Father-and-son ranchers convicted of setting fire to federal grazing land reported to prison Monday as the armed anti-government activists who have taken up their cause maintained the occupation of a remote Oregon wildlife preserve. Federal authorities made no attempt to retake the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in the remote high desert of eastern Oregon, which about two dozen activists seized over the weekend as part of a decades-long fight over public lands in the West...
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Swan song for 'American Idol' begins after 15 years
(Entertainment ~ 01/05/16)
LOS ANGELES -- It started June 11, 2002, with a couple of unfamiliar hosts posing in an empty theater and making an overblown declaration to TV viewers. "Live on this stage, an unknown talent will be launched into superstardom," said Brian Dunkleman...
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Sweden, Denmark introduce border checks to stem migrant flow
(International News ~ 01/05/16)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark and Sweden tightened border checks Monday to stem the flow of migrants coming in from Germany, dealing fresh blows to the vision of a Europe without national boundaries. As of midnight Sunday, Sweden demanded all passengers traveling by train from Denmark show ID -- something that hasn't been required since the 1950s...
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Strong quake kills at least 8 in India's remote northeast
(International News ~ 01/05/16)
GAUHATI, India -- A strong earthquake damaged buildings, killed at least eight people and injured more than 100 in India's remote northeast region early Monday. Deaths and injuries were caused by falling debris. Manipur state's home minister, G. Gaikhangam, said several areas suffered extensive damage, especially the capital, Imphal. He did not give details but said the situation was still being assessed...
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Allies follow Saudis in cutting ties with Iran amid tensions
(International News ~ 01/05/16)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Allies of Saudi Arabia followed the kingdom's lead Monday and scaled back diplomatic ties to Iran after the ransacking of Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic Republic, violence sparked by the Saudi execution of a prominent Shiite cleric...
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AP Analysis: With execution, Saudis ignite regional tensions
(International News ~ 01/05/16)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- By executing a senior Shiite cleric, Saudi Arabia effectively lit a match to set off regional sectarian tensions and its rivalry with Iran, threatening to derail already-shaky peace efforts over the wars in Syria and Yemen...
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High school roundup: Chaffee girls basketball team picks up conference win over Kelly
(High School Sports ~ 01/05/16)
All scores were reported to the Southeast Missourian on Monday.
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Rams RB Todd Gurley hopeful of playing in Pro Bowl
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Todd Gurley hopes to play in the Pro Bowl. "Heck, yeah," the St. Louis Rams rookie running back said Monday while cleaning out his locker. "Everything's been going good and just got to keep treating it and rehabbing." Rams coach Jeff Fisher was more circumspect, saying the Rams wouldn't alter the rehab plan to speed Gurley's return...
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Saxony Lutheran, Oran, Scott County Central girls basketball teams advance at Delta New Year's Tournament
(High School Sports ~ 01/05/16)
Top-seeded Saxony Lutheran launched its bid for a fourth consecutive Delta New Year's Tournament title with a 73-20 victory over eighth-seeded Meadow Heights on Monday night. Brianna Mueller led the way with 14 points for the Crusaders, who improved to 8-2. Grace Mirly, who had six assists, and Tess Daniel, who had four steals, each added 12 points. Maddie Brune led the way on the boards with 10 rebounds...
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Chargers, Raiders, Rams file for relocation to Los Angeles
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/16)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Rams have filed an application to relocate to the Los Angeles area after 21 seasons in the Midwest. The franchise currently has a year-to-year lease with the Edward Jones Dome. Owner Stan Kroenke is part of a group planning a $1.8 billion stadium in Inglewood, California, and the team said on its web site that it sought to relocate to the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, where the team played from 1946-94...
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Ryan scores 2, gets OT winner to lift Senators past Blues
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Bobby Ryan scored twice, including the game-winner at 2:33 of overtime, to lift the Ottawa Senators to a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Monday night. Mike Hoffman also scored and Andrew Hammond made 36 saves for the Senators, who had lost three straight and been shut out in back-to-back games against the Chicago Blackhawks and New Jersey Devils...
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Cape schools soon will begin junior-high gym demolition
(Local News ~ 01/05/16)
Now that asbestos has been removed from Cape Girardeau Central Junior High School, the next leg of improvements is poised to begin there and elsewhere in the school district. "We're on target to start demolition (of the junior high's gymnasium) in late winter and start the remodeling projects the first of the summer," said Neil Glass, assistant superintendent for administrative services of Cape Girardeau Schools...
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Police: Man stabs father after being told to wear different shirt
(Local News ~ 01/05/16)
A Cape Girardeau man is accused of stabbing his father in back four times on New Year's Eve. What supposedly sparked the attacker's ire was his mother asking him to wear a different shirt. Cape Girardeau police went to the 2500 block of Saddlegate Court about 6:15 p.m. and saw Michael D. Croyle, 26, on his stomach with his father lying on top of him, according to a probable-cause statement from officer Brett Hellmann...
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Regional briefs 1/5/16
(Local News ~ 01/05/16)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Dr. Patricia L. Ten Haaf was named director of the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced. It's anticipated she will begin her duties by Sunday, the Daily American Republic reported. Ten Haaf was associate director for patient care services at VA medical centers in Tomah, Wisconsin, and Kansas City, Missouri, and acting director of the St. ...
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Levees among possible cause of more-frequent flooding
(National News ~ 01/05/16)
ST. LOUIS -- The Mississippi River floods more often than it used to, and at higher levels. Richard Knaup thinks he knows why. The veteran emergency management director for Cape Girardeau County is fighting floods again, just as he did last year, and the year before that, and the year before that...
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Kyrgyzstan to deport Briton who 'insulted country'
(International News ~ 01/05/16)
MOSCOW -- Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry said a British citizen who made rude remarks about the country on social media will be deported. A statement Monday on the ministry's website did not specify what Michael McFeat said, but media reports said his offending post likened a local sausage called chukchuk to the genitals of a horse. According to the ministry, McFeat's comment sparked labor unrest at a gold mine, where he is an employee...
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Andrea Jones
(Obituary ~ 01/05/16)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Andrea D. Jones, 58, of rural Cairo died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Services are incomplete at Massie Funeral Home in Mounds, Illinois.
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Marty Wachter
(Obituary ~ 01/05/16)
Martin Wilhelm "Marty" Wachter, 74, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Old Appleton, died Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the chapel of McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson and from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown, Missouri. An American Legion service will be at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home...
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Cape Girardeau police report 1/5/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/05/16)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Timothy L. Mize, 23, 1927 N. Kingshighway, No. 21, was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest at Peach Tree Drive and Kingsway Drive...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 1/5/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/05/16)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday: n Medical assists were made at midnight on South Sprigg Street; 1:15 a.m. on Washington Street; 1:48 a.m. on North Mount Auburn Road; 2:03 a.m. on Cape Meadow Drive; 9:25 a.m. on Lexington Avenue; 2:57 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 5:44 p.m. on Linden Street; and 7:52 p.m. on North Frederick Street...
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In support of 'All Lives Matter Act'
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/05/16)
The revelation of Planned Parenthood's horrible travesties against the most innocent of us has awakened a contingent of Americans. Missourians for the Unborn was created to address this generational genocide. MFTU is a coalition of individuals and organizations united to be the voice of the unborn, proclaiming "All Lives Matter" and working diligently to protect the life of every Missourian. ...
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Gene Brockett
(Obituary ~ 01/05/16)
Thomas E. "Gene" Brockett, 81, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 25, 1934, in Oran, Missouri, to Thomas M. and Nona Hughes Brockett. He and Barbara Schmidt were married July 28, 1956. They were married nearly 40 years when she passed away June 10, 1996...
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Jackson's goals for 2016
(Column ~ 01/05/16)
As we begin 2016, I would like to review some of the key goals of the City of Jackson. The goals center around three areas: road projects, infrastructure improvement plans and financial planning. The Missouri Department of Transportation's major project will be the improvements to the Main and Hope intersection with the building of a roundabout. ...
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United Way invites community to converse
(Editorial ~ 01/05/16)
The United Way of Southeast Missouri is holding meetings with the public to collect information to steer future programming. The next of these Community Conversations will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Shawnee Park Center, and will focus on the topic of health...
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Speak out for 1/5/16
(Speak Out ~ 01/05/16)
Tax code Am I naive in believing very few if anyone knows about this? After an arduous study of the U.S. tax code, I have shockingly discovered that over the past number of years the ultra wealthy have paid less and less in federal income taxes. I am beyond shocked to learn that what was supposed to be a progressive income tax (the higher your income, the higher the rate) has been turned on its head, with the burden of taxation falling on the beleaguered middle class. ...
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Prayer 1/5/16
(Prayer ~ 01/05/16)
O God, may we walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us. Amen.
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CDC offers tips for returning to a flooded home
(Local News ~ 01/05/16)
As the waters recede, those displaced by the flood are returning home, ready to assess the damage and begin the cleaning process.
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