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Dr. Andrew Moore wins trivia night wing-eating contest
(Submitted Story ~ 10/18/16)
Wings eating champion Dr. Andrew Moore with John Thompson on his left.
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City officials: Habitat for Humanity development plan would require variances to meet code
(Local News ~ 10/18/16)
A proposed Habitat for Humanity residential subdivision in Cape Girardeau does not meet all Cape Girardeau city development regulations, city officials said Monday. That information is contained in a written question-and-answer sheet made available to the public at the city council study session and subsequent regular meeting...
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New building for Cape College Center, Career and Technology Center is on schedule
(Local News ~ 10/18/16)
During an unseasonably warm Monday afternoon, workers laid brick on the exterior of the Cape Girardeau school district's forthcoming facility, a task they will continue throughout the week. The building that will house Cape College Center and serve the Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center is under-roof and on schedule...
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Community Counseling Center soon will expand services to Perry County students
(Local News ~ 10/18/16)
The Community Counseling Center plans to expand its services to students in Perry County by the time winter break is over in early January. The not-for-profit behavioral-health organization already provides services to students in Cape Girardeau and Ste. Genevieve counties...
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CNN pundits disagree civilly in debate at Southeast Speaker Series
(Local News ~ 10/18/16)
Liberal pundit Van Jones discussed the idea of "Liberty and Justice" as an analogy for both sides of political discourse in the United States near the end of a debate Monday against fellow CNN contributor Kayleigh McEnany as a part of the Southeast Speaker Series...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Oct. 18, the 292nd day of 2016. There are 74 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 18, 1962, James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA...
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Report card on Governor Nixon
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/18/16)
Nixon is near the end of his eight years as governor, and from my distant perspective, I rate his performance as slightly above average. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give him a six. If he had more charisma, he could be a seven, and if he had better speaking skills, he could be an eight. Indeed, if he had had a friendlier legislature to work with, he could have been knocking on nine's door...
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Amendment 6 and voter obstacles
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/18/16)
The League of Women Voters has devoted almost 100 years to protecting the integrity of free and fair elections. We oppose Constitutional Amendment 6 on the Nov. 8 ballot because it would put unnecessary obstacles in many voters' way to the polls. If passed, it would:...
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Portion of historic Broadway receives designation
(Editorial ~ 10/18/16)
Add a three-block section of Broadway in Cape Girardeau to the National Register of Historic Places. Steve Hoffman, a history professor at Southeast Missouri State University, and several of his historic-preservation students submitted the application that yielded the designation for the Broadway Commercial Historic District...
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Three weeks and then what?
(Column ~ 10/18/16)
I heard a message in church Sunday that was centered in politics -- not the way you may be thinking. It was not a message praising a particular party or bashing a particular candidate. Rather, it was a message of unity, regardless of party affiliation, a message that implored us to stand together as brothers and sisters no matter the Nov. ...
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Jackie Green
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
Jacqueline "Jackie" Carol Green, 71, of Scott City died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, at Southeast Hospital. She was born April 9, 1945, in Bloomfield, Missouri, to Bernal Clayton and Beulah Irene Covington Murphy. She and Barney R. Green were married Sept. 15, 1993, at Dexter, Missouri...
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Teddy Jones Sr.
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
Teddy Norman Jones Sr., 74, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, at his home. He was born Feb. 20, 1942, in Cape Girardeau to Norman and Hazel (Adams) Jones. He and Kathy Hamilton were married Friday, Aug. 15, 1969. Teddy served in the U.S. Army and owned Key West Painting Company for many years...
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Jim Martin
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
James R. "Jim" Martin, 76, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 7, 1940, in Cape Girardeau to Richard C. and Addie L. Atkins Martin. He and Elisabeth "Babs" Martin were married Jan. 18, 1964, at First Baptist Church in Jackson...
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Births 10/18/16
(Births ~ 10/18/16)
Daughter to Nathan and Melissa McWilliams of Bloomfield, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 11:36 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Name, Presley RaeLynn. Weight, 8 pounds, 11 ounces. Fourth child, second daughter. Mrs. McWilliams is the former Melissa Griffin, daughter of Lisa and Eric Griffin of Advance, Missouri. McWilliams is the son of Dan and Alice McWilliams of Jackson. He is self-employed...
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Out of the past: Oct. 18
(Out of the Past ~ 10/18/16)
Training for volunteer and some paid firefighters in the state may be reduced sharply because of state budget cuts. The cuts would affect mainly small-town and rural fire departments in Southeast Missouri that have limited budgets. The cuts also may affect future attendance at the Southeast Missouri Regional Fire School, held in October in Cape Girardeau County...
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Netflix tests limits of price increases for original shows
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Netflix is testing the financial limits of its streaming video service as the rising cost of producing original programming pushes up subscription prices. The latest reminder came Monday with the company's third-quarter earnings report, which revealed Netflix added 370,000 U.S. ...
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Why tomatoes lose flavor in fridge: their genes chill out
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
NEW YORK -- If you buy tomatoes from John Banscher at his farmstand in New Jersey, he'll recommend keeping them out of the fridge or they'll lose some of their taste. Now scientists have figured out why: It's because some of their genes chill out, states a study that may help solve that problem...
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Zombie banks are stalking Europe's economy
(International News ~ 10/18/16)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The walking dead are gnawing at Europe's weak economy -- zombie banks and zombie companies. Almost a decade after the financial crisis that ravaged the global economy, analysts and top officials are warning too many banks in Europe are struggling financially, keeping them from lending to companies and fostering growth...
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Iraqis push toward IS-held Mosul in long-awaited operation
(International News ~ 10/18/16)
KHAZER, Iraq -- The long-awaited offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group began Monday with a volley of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and heavy artillery bombardments on a cluster of villages along the edge of Iraq's historic Nineveh plain east of the militant-held city...
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St. Louis seeks to clear warrant cases
(State News ~ 10/18/16)
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Municipal Court officials began an effort to help many of those with outstanding warrants to clear their cases at no cost. For a two-week period that began Monday, people can reschedule court dates for warrants for failing to appear in court...
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Shooting after rap show kills 1, hurts 2
(State News ~ 10/18/16)
FLORISSANT, Mo. -- St. Louis County police are investigating a shooting after a rap concert in north St. Louis that killed one man and left two other people injured. The shooting happened about 1 a.m. Sunday after a concert by Gucci Mane at The Ambassador, a concert and event center in north St. Louis County...
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Man gets 4 years for explosives found in home
(State News ~ 10/18/16)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A southwestern Missouri man was ordered to spend four years in prison after admitting in court he had homemade explosives in his home. KOLR-TV reported 53-year-old William Rush was sentenced earlier this month after pleading guilty to two counts of unlawful possession of an explosive weapon...
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Park may be renamed after slain officer
(State News ~ 10/18/16)
AFFTON, Mo. -- Thousands of people have signed a petition pressing to rename a park in Missouri's St. Louis County after a police officer shot and killed earlier this month. KSDK-TV reported Dawn Oppy and Kathy Bosch launched the idea to rename Clydesdale Park in honor of late St. Louis County police officer Blake Snyder...
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Clinton campaign fans out into 'red' states
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
WHITE PLAINS, New York -- Hillary Clinton is advancing into states the Democrats haven't won in decades, confidently expanding her offensive against Donald Trump and aiming to help her party win back control of Congress. There's a new $2 million push in Arizona, aides said Monday, including a campaign stop in Phoenix by first lady Michelle Obama, one of Clinton's most effective surrogates...
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Melania Trump breaks silence, defend husband
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
NEW YORK -- Melania Trump on Monday dismissed her husband's sexually aggressive language as "boy talk," insisting his remarks do not reflect "the man I know." Trump's wife, in a series of interviews, said she has accepted her husband's apology, and the couple is "moving on."...
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GOP office reopens after firebombing in North Carolina
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. -- Investigators combed through shards of glass, looked for residue of flammable accelerant and tried to narrow down the overnight hours when someone torched a local Republican Party office by throwing a flammable device through the window...
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FBI records: Effort to reduce Clinton email classification
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
WASHINGTON -- A senior State Department official asked the FBI last year to help reduce the classification of an email from Hillary Clinton's private server, according to FBI investigative files made public Monday. It was to be part of a bargain that would have allowed the FBI to deploy more agents in foreign countries, according to the files...
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High-school graduation rate hits record high of 83.2 percent
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
WASHINGTON -- The nation's high school graduation rate has reached a record 83.2 percent, continuing a steady increase that shows improvement across all racial and ethnic groups, according to federal data released Monday. President Barack Obama welcomed the higher rate as good news, but the gains come against a backdrop of decreasing scores on national math and reading tests...
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U.S. policing leader apologizes for historical racial abuse
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
SAN DIEGO -- The president of one of the largest police organizations in the United States on Monday apologized for historical mistreatment of minorities, calling it a "dark side of our shared history" that must be acknowledged and overcome. The reaction from leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement was mixed, saying words needed to be backed by actions, while the head of an officers' union in Minnesota said there was no need to apologize...
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Judge drops charge against 'Democracy Now' reporter
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
MANDAN, N.D. -- "Democracy Now!" reporter Amy Goodman won't face a riot charge stemming from her coverage of a protest against construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota, with a judge saying Monday there was no cause for it. Judge John Grinsteiner refused to sign off on the misdemeanor riot charge, which prosecutor Ladd Erickson had pursued after dismissing a misdemeanor criminal trespass charge against the journalist Friday. ...
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Man gets 20 years for shooting at Zimmerman's vehicle
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
SANFORD, Fla. -- A Florida man who fired at George Zimmerman's vehicle during a road-rage confrontation has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Orlando Sentinel reported at the sentencing hearing Monday morning, Zimmerman said 38-year-old Matthew Apperson showed no regard for human life during the May 2015 confrontation and even seemed joyful because he mistakenly thought he'd killed Zimmerman...
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Three plead not guilty in death of sprinter Tyson Gay's daughter
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Three men charged in connection with the shooting death of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay's 15-year-old daughter pleaded not guilty Monday and face an Oct. 25 court date. The three appeared via video before Fayette County, Kentucky, District Court Judge T. Bruce Bell...
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NBC News fires Billy Bush after lewd Trump tape airs
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
NEW YORK -- NBC News fired "Today" show host Billy Bush, who was caught on tape in a vulgar conversation about women with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before an "Access Hollywood" appearance. Bush was suspended at the morning show two days after contents of the 2005 tape were reported Oct. 7. NBC and Bush's representatives had been negotiating terms of his exit before Monday's announcement...
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Rocket launch reignites space station deliveries in Virginia
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- One of NASA's main delivery companies made a triumphant comeback seen up and down the East Coast on Monday night, launching its first space station shipment from Virginia since a rocket explosion two years ago. It was the first flight of Orbital ATK's unmanned Antares rocket since the Oct. 28, 2014, blast that wrecked the pad and destroyed everything on the space-station supply run...
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Man accused of local carjacking before his arrest in Scott County
(Local News ~ 10/18/16)
A Kansas City, Missouri, man committed a carjacking in Cape Girardeau County before dumping the vehicle on Interstate 55 near Benton, Missouri, and his arrest by Scott County sheriff's deputies Saturday in Benton, deputies said. Prosecuting attorneys from Scott and Cape Girardeau counties charged Patrick E. Jones, 35, according to news releases from both sheriff's departments...
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Man accused of holding gun to woman's head, firing shot near child
(Local News ~ 10/18/16)
An Advance, Missouri, man was arrested Saturday after he was accused of holding a gun to the head of a woman and firing a shot in front of a child, according to Cape Girardeau County sheriff's deputies. Deputies arrested Lonnie E. Masters, 45, and the Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney's office charged him with second-degree domestic assault, unlawful use of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child, according to a sheriff's office news release...
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Randy Travis stuns crowd, sings at Hall of Fame induction
(Entertainment ~ 10/18/16)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country singer Randy Travis found his distinctive voice three years after a life-threatening stroke and sang "Amazing Grace" during his induction Sunday into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Grammy-winning singer battled back from the stroke in 2013 to sing during the medallion ceremony in Nashville. He was inducted with fiddler Charlie Daniels and record producer Fred Foster...
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Washington University stops intubation training using cats
(State News ~ 10/18/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Washington University in St. Louis said Monday it has stopped using sedated cats to train medical students to insert breathing tubes in babies' throats, effectively ending the practice in the U.S., according to a medical ethics group. The university's School of Medicine said in a statement after a "significant investment" in its simulation center, it will provide neonatal intubation training using only mannequins and advanced simulators, effective immediately...
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Donors behind $2M check to Greitens remain a secret
(State News ~ 10/18/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A mysterious political-action committee that gave nearly $2 million to Missouri's Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens remains shrouded in secrecy after a recent Federal Election Commission report revealed little about its sole donor...
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Jackson to ask area lawmakers to draft law allowing public-safety tax
(Local News ~ 10/18/16)
Jackson aldermen on Monday night passed a resolution that will allow area state Sen. Wayne Wallingford and state Rep. Donna Lichtenegger to propose legislature on the city's behalf that would enable it to put a public-safety sales tax on the ballot next year, if needed...
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Macy's in Cape to be open Thanksgiving Day
(Local News ~ 10/18/16)
Though West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau will be closed, at least one store in the shopping center will be open Thanksgiving Day to cater to those looking to begin their Black Friday shopping early. Macy's will open at 5 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. Holly Thomas, Macy's group vice president, said in an email the stores will be staffed by employees who volunteer for the Thanksgiving shift...
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Man gets jail for Advil theft, his 12th conviction
(National News ~ 10/18/16)
LANCASTER, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania man has been jailed for stealing a $4.49 bottle of Advil because it was the 12th time he's been convicted of shoplifting. A Lancaster County jury convicted David Springer, 51, in June of taking the Advil from a Giant store last year. He was charged with a felony because of previous retail-theft convictions. Police said Springer stole the pills by stashing the bottle in his pocket, even though he paid for other items that day...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 10/18/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/18/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday. n Medical assists were made at 1:06 a.m. on South Spring Street; 10:16 a.m. on La Terra Street; and 2:44 p.m. on North Frederick Street. n At 3:48 a.m., a malicious, mischievous false call on William Street...
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Patricia Lansmon
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Patricia Jo Lansmon, 60, of St. Louis, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, at Missouri Veterans Home in St. Louis. Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Allan Saunders officiating. Burial will be at Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield, with military honors by the Missouri Honors Team...
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Jackson police report 10/18/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/18/16)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n David O. Litchford, 53, of Sikeston, Missouri, was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication. n Amanda M. Allen, 33, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, was arrested on a Jackson warrant for failure to appear on a show-cause order...
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Jeremy Burgess
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
Jeremy William Burgess, 35, of Scott City died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, at his home. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Scott City Park horseshoe pavilion.
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Barbara Patton
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- Barbara Patton, 82, of Farmington Hills died Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, at William Beaumont Hospital in Farmington, Michigan. Graveside service will be at noon Thursday at Rock Hill Cemetery in Puxico, Missouri. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, Missouri, is in charge of arrangements...
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Kenneth Gurney
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
Kenneth Gurney, 44, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, at his home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery in Thebes, Illinois...
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Cape Girardeau police report 10/18/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/18/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Driving while intoxicated was reported. Arrests n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of stealing copper wire from Menards, 535 Siemers Drive...
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Michael Stephens
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
Michael P. Stephens, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Mildred Duvall
(Obituary ~ 10/18/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Mildred E. Duvall, 96, of Perryville died Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, at Independence Care Center of Perry County in Perryville. Visitation will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville...
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Prayer 10/18/16
(Prayer ~ 10/18/16)
O Lord God, thank you for redeeming us through the blood of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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