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Washington sends most tax dollars per person on Tax Day; Missouri ranks 17th
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
WASHINGTON -- As Tax Day approaches, show some love for the good people who live in the nation's capital. Washington, that swampy den of iniquity politicians love to scorn, sends the most tax dollars per person to the U.S. government. By a lot. Last year, the District of Columbia paid Uncle Sam $37,000 per person in federal income, payroll and estate taxes...
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City wants to put hold on shipping container houses for now
(Local News ~ 04/17/17)
The Cape Girardeau City Council may decide Monday whether to impose a 90-day moratorium on issuing building permits for construction projects that use shipping containers as building materials. At its meeting, the council is scheduled to vote on all three readings of the proposed ordinance to allow the moratorium to take effect sooner...
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Cape Fire Department adds six new trucks to fleet
(Local News ~ 04/17/17)
Cape Girardeau's fire department has six new trucks at a total cost of $3.8 million. The department took the delivery Wednesday, which included three pumpers, one rescue/pumper, one heavy rescue truck and one 100-foot aerial ladder truck. This makes up the entire front-line fleet, according to a news release from the office of fire chief Rick Ennis...
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Business notebook: Cape salon picked as one of nation's top 200
(Business ~ 04/17/17)
Being recognized among Salon Today's top 200 salons in the nation is an honor, Belladona Salon and Spa owner Becky Davidson said. Especially, as her co-owner Linda Springs jokingly pointed out, since there may be 200 salons in Cape Girardeau alone...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
Today in History Today is Monday, April 17, the 107th day of 2017. There are 258 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 17, 1937, cartoon character Daffy Duck made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated short "Porky's Duck Hunt," directed by Tex Avery...
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Speak Out 4/16/17
(Speak Out ~ 04/17/17)
Why has the cigarette tax went up when the voters voted against it? I can attest from first-hand experience that if you want to destroy the peace and quiet and neat appearance of a middle class neighborhood, simply have one of the houses in the neighborhood designated as a HUD house...
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Farmers markets have started in the area
(Editorial ~ 04/17/17)
We all love to eat. Eating fresh, wholesome food is twice as nice. And locally grown food is the icing on the cake -- and the leaves on the lettuce. This is the season, and patrons of farmers markets that opened last week will have their choice of food from a multitude of vendors at the Cape Farmers Market in the West Park Mall parking lot in Cape Girardeau and the Bollinger County Farmers Market behind the Co-Op in Marble Hill...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 4/17/17
(Local News ~ 04/17/17)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Approval of minutes n Minutes of the April 13 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda 4/17/17
(Local News ~ 04/17/17)
Cape Girardeau City Council City Hall 401 Independence St. Study session, 5 p.m. today Item for discussion n Planning and Zoning Commission report Regular session, 7 p.m. Presentations n Downtown Cape Girardeau Community Improvement District 2018 budget review and presentation...
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Births 4/17/17
(Births ~ 04/17/17)
Son to Tyler Michael and Alexis Brooke Rogers of Oran, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 7:20 a.m. Thursday, April 6, 2017. Name, Jameson Lane. Weight, 8 pounds, 1 ounce. Third son. Mrs. Rogers is the former Alexis Whitmore, daughter of Sandra Robison of Chaffee, Missouri, and Jarrett Whitmore of Oran. Rogers is the son of Michelle Rogers of McClure, Illinois, and Kevin Robers of Raymore, Missouri. He is a greens keeper at Dalhousie Golf Course...
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Jean Schremp
(Obituary ~ 04/17/17)
SERENO, Mo. -- Jean M. Schremp, 86, of Sereno died April 16, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 13, 1930, in Perry County, Missouri, daughter of Leslie and Agnes (Sutterer) Hunt Sr. She married Howard P. Schremp on Sept. 1, 1951. He preceded her in death Jan. 22, 2009...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda 4/17/17
(Local News ~ 04/17/17)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Approval of minutes n Minutes of the April 13 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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University of Michigan unveils 1,500-pound Rubik's Cube
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan mechanical engineering students have made one of the most popular puzzle games much larger. And tougher to solve. Seven former and current students unveiled a 1,500-pound Rubik's Cube during a ceremony Thursday inside the G.G. Brown engineering building on the Ann Arbor campus...
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Pope decries 'vile' attack on Syrians in Easter address
(International News ~ 04/17/17)
VATICAN CITY -- On Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the "latest vile" attack on civilians in Syria. Both in his impromptu homily during Mass in St. ...
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Dana Woldow, crusader for healthy school lunches, dies at 65
(Community ~ 04/17/17)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dana Woldow, who drew national attention when she began a fight to rid California schools of junk food, has died. She was 65. Woldow died Monday in her San Francisco home. She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. A mother of three and school volunteer, Woldow was horrified when she saw how easily available soda, potato chips, ice cream and other junk foods were in San Francisco public schools...
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Out of the past: April 17
(Out of the Past ~ 04/17/17)
Ground was broken yesterday for a new Cape Girardeau Nutrition Center at 921 N. Clark Ave.; construction of the facility could begin in May. MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- If a petition is successful in forcing a state audit of the Marble Hill treasury, thousands of dollars of city money would be wasted, city officials said. The petition questions the use of a $700,000 trust donated to the city by a St. Louis woman between 1988 and 1990 for a city pool...
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Mass-transit advocates seek boost from highway collapse
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
ATLANTA -- The collapse of an interstate in the heart of Atlanta has more than 2 million metro residents sitting in even more traffic in the already congested city, and mass-transit advocates hope the headaches will spur new interest in expanding rail and bus routes...
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Mass evacuation in Syria postponed after blast kills 80 children
(International News ~ 04/17/17)
BEIRUT -- The evacuation of more than 3,000 Syrians that was scheduled to take place Sunday from four areas as part of a population transfer has been postponed, opposition activists said, a day after a deadly blast that killed more than 120 people, including 80 children...
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Amid tensions, Pence visits military camp near Korean DMZ
(International News ~ 04/17/17)
CAMP BONIFAS, South Korea -- President Donald Trump on Sunday asserted China was working with the United States on "the North Korea problem," and his vice president visited a military base near the Demilitarized Zone separating the Koreas a day after the North conducted a failed missile launch...
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Turkey votes to expand president's powers; critics cry fraud
(International News ~ 04/17/17)
ISTANBUL -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a historic referendum Sunday that will greatly expand the powers of his office, although opposition parties questioned the outcome and said they would challenge the results. With nearly all ballots counted, the "yes" vote stood at 51.41 percent, while the "no" vote was 48.59 percent, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency...
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Lawmakers across U.S. move to include young people in voting
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Donald Trump's characterization of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists during his presidential campaign angered Heidi Sainz, whose family is from Mexico and who has close friends who are immigrants. She also was upset she couldn't do anything about it at the ballot box because she was a year shy of being able to vote...
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Border wall could leave some Americans on 'Mexican side'
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- The last time U.S. officials built a barrier along the border with Mexico, they left an opening at the small road leading south to Pamela Taylor's home on the banks of the Rio Grande. Taylor hadn't been told where the fence would be built, and she doesn't know now whether officials are coming back to complete it...
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A year later, few answers from probe into Prince's death
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
MINNEAPOLIS -- It's been nearly a year since Prince died from an accidental drug overdose in his suburban Minneapolis studio and estate, yet investigators still haven't interviewed a key associate or asked a grand jury to consider whether criminal charges are warranted, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation...
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Supreme Court, with Gorsuch, set to hear Missouri church-state case
(State News ~ 04/17/17)
WASHINGTON -- Justice Neil Gorsuch's first week on the Supreme Court bench features an important case about the separation of church and state that has its roots on a Midwestern church playground. The outcome could make it easier to use state money to pay for private, religious schooling in many states...
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Phones and social media turn consumers into whistleblowers
(Business ~ 04/17/17)
NEW YORK -- Look out, corporate America. Customers armed with smartphones and video cameras are watching when you screw up. The viral video of a ticketed passenger dragged forcefully off a United flight is only the latest example of bad behavior exposed in the age of social media...
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Aspiring tech prodigy tries to re-route self-driving cars
(Business ~ 04/17/17)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Austin Russell, now 22, was barely old enough to drive when he set out to create a safer navigation system for robot-controlled cars. His ambitions will be tested. Five years ago, Russell co-founded Luminar Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup trying to steer the rapidly expanding self-driving car industry in a new direction...
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The iPhone of cars? Apple enters self-driving car race
(Business ~ 04/17/17)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple is joining the competitive race to design self-driving cars, raising the possibility a company that already has reshaped culture with its iPhone may try to transform transportation, too. Ending years of speculation, Apple's late entry into a crowded field was made official Friday with the disclosure the California Department of Motor Vehicles had awarded a permit for the company to begin testing its self-driving car technology on public roads in the state...
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People on the move 4/17/17
(Business ~ 04/17/17)
Sonny Lee Deimund joined Ritter Real Estate on April 6. He has been a Realtor since May 2008, previously working for Century 21 Ashland and Realty One Associates. The American Water Works Association named Cape Girardeau water department manager Kevin Priester the recipient of the Donald R. Boyd Water Utility Manager Award...
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Virginia Tech marks 10 years after shooting that killed 32
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Ten years after a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people at Virginia Tech, survivors and families of the slain returned to campus to honor the lives that were lost that day. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, known as Virginia Tech, held a series of events Sunday to mark the anniversary of the campus shooting April 16, 2007...
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Professor sues Wal-Mart over description
(National News ~ 04/17/17)
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- A Montana State University professor is suing Wal-Mart for libel after he said an employee at the Bozeman store listed his occupation on a fishing license as a "toilet cleaner." According to the complaint, Gilbert Kalonde, bought a state fishing license in April 2015, showing the Wal-Mart employee identification of his employment at MSU. But the employee entered "clean toilets" into the state database as Kalonde's occupation...
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Charles Wiley
(Obituary ~ 04/17/17)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Charles Wiley, 76, of Advance died Saturday, April 15, 2017, at Southeast Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Prayer 4/17/17
(Prayer ~ 04/17/17)
Father God, may those in mourning be comforted and feel your loving arms around them. Amen.
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Parkinson's patients fight back with Rock Steady Boxing program
(Submitted Story ~ 04/17/17)
April is Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month This April, Rock Steady Boxing Perryville at Therapy Solutions in Perryville is joining millions in observing Parkinson’s Awareness Month. Parkinson’s is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects the ability to walk, talk, balance and move. ...
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New policy for semissourian.com online commentary: No pseudonyms
(Column ~ 04/17/17)
The Southeast Missourian's web and mobile site, www.semissourian.com, is changing its "online comments" policy, effective 9 a.m., April 17. Pseudonyms -- or anonymous comments -- will no longer be allowed at the end of news stories or in news forums. Those already making comments will need to confirm that they know their real names will now be attached before new comments can be made...
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Missouri Youth Catch the Wave of Leadership at Teen Conference
(Submitted Story ~ 04/17/17)
Cape Girardeau County 4-H’ers discovered energy abounds when 366 people gather to help 11-13 year olds build leadership skills. "I had an absolute blast,” said professional speaker Camille Yameen, who spoke at the MU Extension 4-H Teen Conference. “Nothing is more inspiring for me than seeing youth excited about their own leadership potential.” Attending the two-day Teen Conference March 25-26 were Lauren Crutsinger and Micheal Kieninger of Cape Giardeau County 4-H. ...
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Lawless Harley Davidson to Host Humane Society ‘Raise the Woof’ Fundraiser
(Submitted Story ~ 04/17/17)
The local Humane Society will hold its annual ‘Raise the Woof’ fundraiser on April 22. ‘Raise the Woof’ is a comedy event raising money and spreading awareness for the animals of Southeast Missouri. The event, hosted by Lawless Harley-Davidson, will raise money to assist with care and any other medical needs for the animals at the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri...
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