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Bray wins MGA Jr. Amateur golf title
(Community Sports ~ 07/12/16)
Allison Bray of Cape Girardeau shot a 1-over-par 73 to win the MGA 2016 Junior Amateur Championhip girls ages 16-18 age division and the overall girls title at the Paradise Point Golf Club in Smithville, Missouri. Bray, a rising junior at Notre Dame Regional High School where she has been a two-time all-state golfer, finished four strokes ahead of Inia Gaume and Emma Solovic in the weather-shortened event, which had about 30 girls in the 18U division. ...
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Conrad Family 82nd Consecutive Reunion
(Submitted Story ~ 07/12/16)
The Conrad reunion is always on the fourth Sunday in June at the Whitewater Presbyterian Church near Lixville and Sedgevickville, Missouri. This remarkable family first came to the area from North Carolina and traces their ancestors back through the Revolutionary War and through the Royal Lines to mention a few: King Henry I, II, III, King Edward I, II, III, William the Conqueror, King John and the list goes on...
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Capahas baseball breezes past Bulls for road win, eighth straight victory
(Community Sports ~ 07/12/16)
The Burger King Capahas baseball team romped to an eighth straight win Monday night, picking up a 10-0 road victory over the St. Louis Bulls. Drew Harper went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs and Ross James and Ebon Brooks combined on the mound to get the shutout...
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Southeast Missouri State pitching coach will join Bieser at Mizzou
(College Sports ~ 07/12/16)
Southeast Missouri State pitching coach and recruiting coordinator Lance Rhodes was announced as Steve Bieser's recruiting coordinator at Missouri on Tuesday morning. Rhodes, a 2008 graduate of Southeast and former Redhawks pitcher, had spent the last four years on Bieser's staff at Southeast and was part of the Redhawks' three straight Ohio Valley Conference regular-season titles and the program's first OVC tournament title and NCAA regional berth since 2002...
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Family says military changed Dallas suspect
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
DALLAS -- Military service changed the Dallas gunman from an extrovert into a hermit, his parents said in an interview excerpt published Monday. Micah Johnson's mother, Delphine Johnson, told TheBlaze website in an interview her son wanted to be a police officer as a child...
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Jackson approves first step of water-upgrade project
(Local News ~ 07/12/16)
The first step of the water-system improvement plan voters approved in August in a bond issue was approved Monday night by the Jackson Board of Aldermen. The board accepted the $1,481,652 bid of Robertson Incorporated Bridge and Grading Division of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to begin the multi-year project...
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Cape tourism powers up with influx of Pokemon players
(Local News ~ 07/12/16)
People are flocking to local parks, churches, landmarks and a variety of other places throughout the region. And their purpose is clear: They want to "catch 'em all." The video game Pokemon Go was released last week for Android and iPhone devices. It uses real-life locations and encourages players to wander streets and neighborhoods searching for Pokemon characters to capture, so they may be trained for battle at designated as "gyms."...
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Library branches to serve lunches for poor during summer reading programs
(Local News ~ 07/12/16)
Beginning this week, several Riverside Regional Library branches will begin serving free meals to children as they stop by for summer reading program activities. Director Jeff Trinkle said participating branches will include Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Scott City, Benton, Oran, Perryville and Altenburg...
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Cape Girardeau Police Department reports 7/12/2016
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/12/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Makenzie A. Willard, 23, of St. Louis was arrested on a St. Louis County warrant for failure to appear for possession of heroin. n A 41-year-old woman was taken into protective custody and arrested on suspicion of resisting lawful detention at Masters Drive and David Street...
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Laura Gadberry
(Obituary ~ 07/12/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Laura Sue Gadberry, 47, of Perryville died Sunday, July 10, 2016, at her residence. Services will be private for the family. Burial will be in Immaculate Conception Cemetery in St. Mary, Missouri. Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville provided the arrangements...
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James Kluesner
(Obituary ~ 07/12/16)
James "Jim" G. Kluesner, 57, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, July 9, 2016, at his home. He was born June 7, 1959, in Cape Girardeau to Joe and Elizabeth "Betty" (Welter) Kluesner. Jim worked at Southeast Hospital and Cardiovascular Consultants as a sonographer for many years...
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Jackson Police Department reports 7/12/2016
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/12/16)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Blake P. Bening, 17, 3575 Leming Lane, was arrested on suspicion of failure to comply with provision of an intermediate driver's license, possession of alcohol by a minor and being a minor visibly intoxicated...
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Billy Aycock
(Obituary ~ 07/12/16)
Billy West Aycock, son of the late Robert and Pauline West Aycock, was born May 19, 1944, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 72. Aycock was a veteran of the U.S. National Guard...
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Viola Weiss
(Obituary ~ 07/12/16)
Viola M. "Odie" Weiss passed away Sunday, July 10, 2016, at the Assisted Living Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 27, 1928, in Cape Girardeau to George and Ruby Koerber and was raised on her parents' dairy farm north of Cape Girardeau...
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Taylor Swift tops Forbes' list of highest-paid celebs
(Entertainment ~ 07/12/16)
LOS ANGELES -- There's no "Blank Space" in Taylor Swift's bank account. The singer-songwriter tops Forbes' annual list of the 100 highest-paid celebrities with $170 million. Swift is ahead of fellow chart-topping pop stars Adele at No. 9 with $80.5 million, Madonna at No. 12 with $76.5 million, Rihanna at No. 13 with $75 million and Katy Perry at No. 63 with $41 million...
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Out of the past: July 12
(Out of the Past ~ 07/12/16)
Proposition B, the tax-and-reform education measure, was endorsed unanimously by the Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Regents on Thursday. The measure would raise about $385 million for elementary, secondary and higher education and job training...
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New kidneys 40 years apart show transplant progress, hurdles
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
WASHINGTON -- Brenda Hudson recalls weeks spent in a glass-enclosed isolation room after her first kidney transplant, her family allowed to visit only when suited up against germs. That transplant lasted four decades -- and now Hudson's recovery from a second one, this time faster and surrounded by germy visitors, showcases how far transplants have come and the hurdles that still await...
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Advocates fear more heroin withdrawal deaths in jails
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
LEBANON, Pa. -- In the days following her 18-year-old daughter's arrest on heroin charges, Stephanie Moyer took solace in thinking she would be safe in jail until she got into a treatment program. However, Victoria "Tori" Herr sounded disoriented on a call home three days later. She feared she was dying and complained of being thirsty, her mother said...
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Former U.S. officials criticize ad by state attorney general candidate
(State News ~ 07/12/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Former high-ranking U.S. officials are criticizing an attack ad accusing Republican Missouri attorney general candidate Josh Hawley of working for terrorists. In statements released Monday from Hawley's campaign, a former U.S. attorney general and former assistant U.S. attorney general slammed the ads by fellow GOP candidate Sen. Kurt Schaefer as misleading...
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Republican candidates for governor talk LGBT issues
(State News ~ 07/12/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's four Republican candidates for governor are weighing in on national and state policies that would affect LGBT people amid nationwide discussions that gained traction after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in all states...
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Tobacco tax faces uncertainty after court ruling
(State News ~ 07/12/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A cloud of uncertainty is hanging over a proposed cigarette-tax hike after a Missouri appeals court panel changed the summary voters would see on the November ballot. The appeals panel ruled late last week the initiative's summary was insufficient and unfair, because it failed to say one of the measure's new fees could rise annually with inflation...
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U.S. sending 560 more troops to Iraq as Mosul push intensifies
(International News ~ 07/12/16)
BAGHDAD -- The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to transform a freshly retaken air base into a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday. The new American forces should arrive in the coming weeks...
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Sheriff: Inmate shot, killed 2 bailiffs after getting gun
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. -- A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was shot fatally by other officers, a sheriff said. People scrambled for cover inside the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph in the southwestern corner of Michigan, about 100 miles northeast of Chicago...
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Many holes remain in GOP presidential ground game in key states
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Presidential battleground states were supposed to be swarming with Republican Party workers by now. "We've moved on to thousands and thousands of employees," party chairman Reince Priebus said in March, contrasting that with the GOP's late-blooming staffing four years earlier. "We are covering districts across this country in ways that we never had before."...
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Theresa May to be British PM after Cameron quits Wednesday
(International News ~ 07/12/16)
LONDON -- A political era ended Monday -- unexpectedly and without an election -- as Prime Minister David Cameron said he will step down in two days in favor of Theresa May, a senior member of his Cabinet who will become Britain's second female leader...
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Democrat Evan Bayh expected to run for Indiana Senate seat
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
WASHINGTON -- Former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh is expected to make another run for Senate in Indiana, Democratic officials said Monday, a development that would improve the party's chances to win back the vacant seat and Senate control with it. Democrats have courted Bayh for over a year to run for the seat now held by Republican Sen. Dan Coats, who is retiring...
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Israel puts Palestinians on defensive over 'martyrs' fund'
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
BANI NAIM, West Bank -- The family of a Palestinian high-school dropout who killed a 13-year-old Jewish settler girl in her sleep last month before being shot dead now is eligible for $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for "martyrs." Israel argues such stipends for families of Palestinians killed or wounded in the conflict promote violence by rewarding attacks and has stepped up a campaign against the fund after a series of killings of West Bank settlers...
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Aerosmith's Perry doing well after getting ill at show
(Entertainment ~ 07/12/16)
NEW YORK -- Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is "doing well" after he walked off a New York City stage during a performance with Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper and was taken to a hospital, a representative said Monday. Perry became ill about 9:30 p.m. Sunday while performing with the Hollywood Vampires rock group at the Ford Amphitheater in Brooklyn's Coney Island...
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Obama stepping into storm of emotion in Dallas speech
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
WASHINGTON -- When he pays tribute today to fallen police officers in Dallas, President Barack Obama will be aiming to comfort the mourning and calm the angry. After a week of rising racial tensions in a restless summer, Obama will step into a storm of strong emotions about race, justice, policing and guns in America. ...
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Writers can pitch book ideas at weekend conference
(Local News ~ 07/12/16)
Local writers can pitch their book ideas or have their manuscripts critiqued by literary agents from New York City at the All Write Now! Writers Conference on Saturday at the Southeast Missouri State University Center. Janet L. Cannon will be in charge of the pitch sessions for about 30 writers. Authors will have five minutes or less to describe their book and captivate an agent who could get their work published. Cannon said the author should know his or her audience...
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One hurt in Center Junction crash
(Local News ~ 07/12/16)
The driver of a Pontiac Torrent SUV was transported to a hospital Monday afternoon after the vehicle came to rest against a utility pole following an accident with a GMC Sierra pickup truck at Center Junction of Interstate 55 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson. According to Cape Girardeau police, the SUV was leaving the interstate off-ramp and the pickup truck was traveling west on North Kingshighway toward Jackson...
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Boy catches shark off Cape Cod
(National News ~ 07/12/16)
EASTHAM, Mass. -- "We're going to need a bigger boat." That's what Lars White told his 6-year-old son, Blake, after the boy hooked a great white shark while fishing Saturday off Cape Cod. The Houston resident said the 10- to 12-foot-long shark swam into the hook and spent 90 minutes trying to free itself. When the shark surfaced, White's wife took some photos, and the family cut the fishing line to free it. State shark scientist Gregory Skomal confirmed Blake had caught a great white...
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James 'Bulldog' Turner
(Obituary ~ 07/12/16)
James "Bulldog" Turner, 84, of Jackson died Monday, July 11, 2016. at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Joanie Kerby
(Obituary ~ 07/12/16)
BENTON, Mo. -- Joanie Kerby, 71, of Benton died Monday, July 11, 2016, at Chateau Girardeau Assisted Living in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton.
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Births 7/12/16
(Births ~ 07/12/16)
Daughter to Matthew Allen and Rachel Danielle Waite of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 5:48 p.m. Saturday, July 2, 2016. Name, Violet Soph'a. Weight, 6 pounds, 9 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Waite is the former Rachel Hendrix, daughter of Travis and Kathy Hendrix of Chaffee, Missouri. She is a teacher with the Chaffee School District. Waite is the son of Stan and Ellie Waite of Joplin, Missouri. He is a welder with Manac...
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New child-custody law will be good for families
(Editorial ~ 07/12/16)
"We know spending time with both parents is invaluable to a child's growth and security," State Rep. Kathy Swan said. "This law is about the child." Swan's comment comes on the heels of a bill she crafted pertaining to child-custody court cases. Gov. Jay Nixon signed into law July 1...
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Speak Out 7/12/16
(Speak Out ~ 07/12/16)
Pokemon GO It's miraculous. At a time when ethnic, racial, religious, demographic, economic, geographic and other barriers dividing us seemed insurmountable, they all appear to have come tumbling down, virtually at the same time. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Pokemon Go!...
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Prayer 7/12/16
(Prayer ~ 07/12/16)
O Lord Jesus, bless those who selflessly help others in need. Amen.
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Pain in America: hearts in need of healing
(Column ~ 07/12/16)
Pain in America: hearts in need of healing Last week, we celebrated America's birthday with joyful family gatherings, fireworks and waving flags. A wave of violence and pain soon followed. I cannot rehash in detail what took place when two black men were killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Falcon Heights, Minnesota. ...
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