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Business notebook: Cape native goes from farm to mobile-food operation
(Business ~ 03/20/17)
Some food trailers branch out from brick-and-mortar roots, while others grow into conventional restaurants. But the newest addition to Cape Girardeau's mobile-food scene started on a farm. Cape Girardeau native Karlios Hinkebein bought his farm in 1992 and got into meat processing before taking his products to local farmers markets. He said he began catering to satisfy his love of cooking and decided to take Hinkebein Hills Farm BBQ on the road...
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For many older Americans, costs rise under GOP health plan
(National News ~ 03/20/17)
NEW RINGGOLD, Pa. -- Among the groups hardest hit by the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is one that swung for Donald Trump during last year's presidential race -- older Americans who have not reached Medicare age. Many of those who buy their own health insurance stand to pay a lot more for their coverage. ...
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Re-enactor tells tale of former slave who became nurse aboard Civil War ship
(Local News ~ 03/20/17)
Clad in a dark dress with a black head scarf and starched white apron, Marlene Rivero incorporated song, props and stories to tell about the life of Ann Stokes, a nurse on Civil War hospital ship USS Red Rover built in Cape Girardeau. Hanover Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau offered the program as part of their Cape Girardeau Civil War Roundtable, which meets the third Sunday of every month...
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Fruitland Fire District seeks tax vote for full-time staffing
(Local News ~ 03/20/17)
Voters in the Fruitland Area Fire Protection District will vote April 4 on a tax measure that would provide added revenue to pay for full time staffing. The move would allow for quicker response times and lower the cost of fire insurance for residents and businesses in the district, fire chief Rob Francis said...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/20/17)
Today in History Today is Monday, March 20, the 79th day of 2017. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 6:28 a.m. Eastern time. Today's Highlight in History: On March 20, 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, having evacuated the Philippines at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, told reporters at a train station in Terowie, Australia: "I came out of Bataan, and I shall return."...
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Oran boys win first state basketball title
(Editorial ~ 03/20/17)
The NCAA is not the only place where March Madness is in full swing. This is the time of year that teams have one shot to advance or go home -- for good. Anything can happen. Just ask the Oran Eagles boys' basketball team, which defeated the Crane Pirates 70-63 on March 11 to win their first state championship...
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Prayer 3/20/17
(Prayer ~ 03/20/17)
O Lord God, with joy in our hearts we sing your praises. Amen.
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Speak Out 3/20/17
(Speak Out ~ 03/20/17)
The discussion needs to change from health insurance to affordable heath CARE. If 30+ percent of healthcare cost is insurance, we need to get rid of the insurance. It might be a rough few years but eventually costs will come down if no one can pay the health care bills. Of course, without tort reform the lawyers will be getting the 30 percent when lawsuits escalate...
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Sherry Jordan
(Obituary ~ 03/20/17)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Sherry E. Jordan, 63, of Tamms passed away at 1:20 p.m. Friday, March 17, 2017, at home. Sherry was born June 22, 1953, in Anna, Illinois, daughter of the late Jimmy D. Cline and Bertha E. (Coleman) Cline. She was a housewife and homemaker...
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La Vonne Huter
(Obituary ~ 03/20/17)
Cora La Vonne Huter, 81, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Chateau Girardeau. She was born March 7, 1936, in Nampa, Idaho, daughter of Walter and Cora Bodenstein Huter. Ms. Huter was a graduate of Jackson High School and received a B.S. ...
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Susan Diane York
(Obituary ~ 03/20/17)
Susan Diane Masterson York, 62, of Cape Girardeau departed this world and met her Savior and Lord face to face March 12, 2017. Diane was born Aug. 14, 1954, to Gerald "Bud" Masterson and Melba Nichols Masterson in Cape Girardeau and spent her childhood years in Cape Girardeau...
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Erma Freeman
(Obituary ~ 03/20/17)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Erma J. Freeman, 78, of Marble Hill passed away Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born on Nov. 11, 1938, in Marshalltown, Iowa, she was the daughter of Roy A. and Alice P. Holland Meyer. She first married the late Ronald A. Brown in Moline, Illinois. Later, she married Charles "Sonny" Freeman on Aug. 11, 1972. He preceded her in death Jan. 1, 2010...
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Births 3/20/17
(Births ~ 03/20/17)
Son to Travis Wade and Jessica Nicole Smith of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 12:08 p.m. Thursday, March 9, 2017. Name, Trevor Ryan. Weight, 7 pounds, 5 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. Smith is the former Jessica Sides, daughter of Jeffrey Sides and Agnes Sides of Cape Girardeau. Smith is the son of Russell Wade Smith of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Cheryl Smith of Cape Girardeau. He is employed by Plaza Tire...
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Wilma Miller
(Obituary ~ 03/20/17)
TAMMS, Il. -- Wilma (Jordan) Miller, 88, of Tamms died at 11:50 a.m. Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. Wilma was born Aug. 26, 1928, in Thebes, Illinois, the daughter of James and Lucille (Hill) Jordan. She married Roy Eugene Miller on Aug. 13, 1954...
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Friend: Chuck Berry's 1st album in decades is 'sensational'
(Entertainment ~ 03/20/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Chuck Berry's death came just weeks before the debut single off his first new studio album in nearly four decades was scheduled to go on sale, a friend of the rock 'n' roll legend said. Joe Edwards, the owner of the Blueberry Hill club in University City, Missouri, just west of St. Louis, where Berry performed regularly, said the tracks he has heard off the upcoming album, titled "CHUCK," are "sensational."...
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Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, dies
(Entertainment ~ 03/20/17)
NEW YORK -- Author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the embodiment of the old-time, street-smart New Yorker, died Sunday. He was 87. Breslin died at his Manhattan home of complications from pneumonia, his stepdaughter, Emily Eldridge, said...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen Agenda 3/20/17
(Local News ~ 03/20/17)
Jackson Board of Aldermen City hall 101 Court St. Regular meeting, 7 p.m. today n Approval of Minutes n Minutes of Regular Meeting of 03/06/2017 n Financial affairs n Monthly bills Action Items n Power and light committee n Street committee n Consider a motion to set a public hearing for 7 p.m. ...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda 3/20/17
(Local News ~ 03/20/17)
Cape Girardeau City Council agenda City Hall 401 Independence St. Study session, 5 p.m. today Items for discussion n Planning and Zoning Commission report Regular session, 7 p.m. Presentations n Proclamation for Soles4Souls n Recognition of Barry Hovis for retirement from the police department...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 3/20/17
(Local News ~ 03/20/17)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Approval of minutes n Minutes of the March 16 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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Out of the past: March 20
(Out of the Past ~ 03/20/17)
For the first time since making Cape Girardeau a port of call in 1984, neither the Delta Queen nor the Mississippi Queen are scheduled to make any regular stops at Cape Girardeau this year; a spokesman for the Delta Queen Steamboat Co. said that is because of continuing changes in the two steamboats' itineraries...
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Effort to replace pipes to Flint homes off to slow start
(National News ~ 03/20/17)
FLINT, Mich. -- Flint residents still could be a few years away from drinking unfiltered tap water as the city makes incremental progress on an ambitious -- if not overly optimistic --timeframe to replace old water service lines that leached lead into homes and businesses...
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Meetup takes risky leap into the Trump resistance
(National News ~ 03/20/17)
NEW YORK -- Meetup is taking a leap into the Trump resistance. The New York-based networking site will unveil plans in the coming days to partner with a labor group -- under the guidance of a former Hillary Clinton aide -- to coordinate protests among more than 120,000 activists already involved with anti-Trump Meetup groups...
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Former dairy farmer leads Trump-Russia investigation
(National News ~ 03/20/17)
WASHINGTON -- Devin Nunes once said all he wanted to do was work on a dairy farm. Now the Republican from the rural Central Valley of California is running one of the most scrutinized, complex and politically fraught congressional investigations in recent memory...
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No opioids, please: Clearing the way to refuse prescriptions
(National News ~ 03/20/17)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The ease of relapsing into opioid addiction has led a growing number of states to help residents make it clear to medical professionals they do not want to be prescribed the powerful painkillers. Connecticut and Alaska are two of the latest considering legislation this year that would create a "non-opioid directive" patients can put in their medical files, formally notifying health-care professionals they do not want to be prescribed or administered opioid medications...
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North Korea tests newly developed high-thrust rocket engine
(International News ~ 03/20/17)
TOKYO -- North Korea has conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine leader Kim Jong Un is calling a breakthrough for the country's space program, the North's state media said Sunday. Kim attended Saturday's test at the Sohae launch site, according to the Korean Central News Agency, which said the test was intended to confirm the "new type" of engine's thrust power and gauge the reliability of its control system and structural safety...
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Penn State ex-president heads to trial in Sandusky scandal
(National News ~ 03/20/17)
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Penn State's former president faces trial today on charges children were put at risk by how he responded to complaints about Jerry Sandusky more than 15 years ago, and two of his former top lieutenants who just pleaded guilty in the case could testify against him...
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Missouri childhood home of late Maya Angelou up for sale
(State News ~ 03/20/17)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis childhood home of late poet Maya Angelou is up for sale. With a listed price of $159,000, the 1,100-square-foot place at 3130 Hickory St. was Angelou's home for her first three years and, after her death in 2014 at the age of 86, was given local landmark status...
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Man gets 25 years for shooting 2 cops in Ferguson protest
(State News ~ 03/20/17)
ST. LOUIS -- A man convicted of shooting two police officers during a 2015 protest in the fallout over the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison. Jeffrey Williams, 22, was found guilty in December of first-degree assault and other crimes for the shooting March 12, 2015...
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University of Missouri makes plan to cover budget gap
(State News ~ 03/20/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The University of Missouri's Columbia campus will cover a $17 million gap between budgeted spending and available revenue with the help of the medical school and campus operations. The university released figures outlining how unrestricted reserve funds could make up for lost state revenue withheld in January by Gov. Eric Greitens, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported...
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Coroner: Man in fatal house fire was shot in the head
(State News ~ 03/20/17)
A man found dead inside a burned home in metro- east Illinois had been shot in the head, and a gun was found in his ex-wife's SUV after she drove into a nearby lake and died shortly after the fire was reported, authorities said. The pair's infant son was pulled from the submerged SUV by a paramedic who swam through frigid water, realized a baby and not a doll was floating inside and performed CPR on the boy atop the vehicle's roof. ...
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'Beauty and the Beast' roars with monstrous $170M debut
(Entertainment ~ 03/20/17)
NEW YORK -- Disney's live-action "Beauty" was a beast at the box office, opening with an estimated $170 million in North American ticket sales and setting a high mark for family movies. "Beauty and the Beast" blew past the previous record-holder for G- or PG-rated releases, according to studio estimates Sunday. Last year, Disney's "Finding Dory" debuted with a then-PG-best $135 million...
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Autopsy to learn if Paris airport attacker was drunk or high
(International News ~ 03/20/17)
PARIS -- French officials were conducting an autopsy Sunday to determine whether a suspected Islamic extremist was drunk or high on drugs when he took a soldier hostage at Paris' Orly Airport and was shot dead by her fellow patrolmen. The suspect, Ziyed Ben Belgacem, stopped at a bar in the wee hours Saturday morning, about four hours before he first fired birdshot at traffic police...
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Saffron growers look to get a foothold in the U.S. market
(Business ~ 03/20/17)
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- As spring crocus blooms approach, some growers have visions of a fall-flowering crocus that produces saffron, the world's most valuable spice. University of Vermont researchers have been raising the exotic spice now grown primarily in Iran and are encouraging growers to tap into what they hope will be a cash crop...
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Program boosts exports from small Missouri companies
(Business ~ 03/20/17)
JOPLIN, Mo. -- Imagine skate parks and ramps manufactured in Joplin being used throughout the Middle East, in such countries as the United Arab Emirates. That's a possibility after a state program persuaded American Ramp Co., one of the nation's largest skate-park and ramp manufacturers, to dream about the Middle East as a potential market...
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Top economies yield to U.S., drop no-protectionism pledge
(Business ~ 03/20/17)
BADEN-BADEN, Germany -- The world's top economic powers dropped a pledge to oppose trade protectionism amid pushback from the Trump administration, which wants trade to benefit American companies and workers more clearly. Finance ministers from the Group of 20 countries meeting in the southern German town of Baden-Baden issued a statement Saturday, saying only countries "are working to strengthen the contribution of trade" to their economies...
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Ban on Irish butter sparks fight in butter-loving Wisconsin
(Business ~ 03/20/17)
MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin resident Jean Smith snatches up entire stocks of her beloved Kerrygold Irish butter from stores when visiting family in Nebraska, thanks to an antiquated law in her dairy-obsessed state that bans it and any other butter that hasn't been graded for quality...
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People on the move 3/20/17
(Business ~ 03/20/17)
Realty Executives of Cape County agent M.A. Bell received the 2016 Mid-America Region Top 18 Agent Award from Realty Executives International. Her region includes Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. Southeast Missouri REALTORS named her as a Top 2 Agent, and Realty Executives of Cape County honored her with the Platinum Executive Club Award...
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French officers find thief stuck in window
(International News ~ 03/20/17)
PARIS -- Arrests can't come any easier than this. French officers called to a robbery found the suspected thief stuck in a hole he'd made with a hammer in a shop window. A published photo showed the man half-in and half-out of the hole. "Drunk, he robbed a shop but got stuck ... in the window before being arrested," the tweeted caption read, with the hashtag "ThugLife." Firefighters were called to free the man, who then was taken into custody, said the officer...
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Saving a plum tree
(Submitted Story ~ 03/20/17)
A plum tree in the cemetery near St Vincent's was sprayed with water to protect it from our recent freeze.
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