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Students return to Cape elementaries
(Local News ~ 08/11/17)
Patty Herod and her granddaughters, Lexie Bard, center, and Brooke Bard, walk to the car Thursday after the twins’ first day in first grade at Alma Schrader Elementary School in Cape Girardeau.
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Cara Louise Band to deliver eclectic performance tonight at Rude Dog Pub
(Entertainment ~ 08/11/17)
Cara Louise Band defies easy definition, as something approaching country and indie but not quite either, but that just adds to the interest, band members say. Cara Louise, lead singer of the St. Louis band, said there have been a lot of changes and a lot of musical influences since the group began in 2012...
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SEMO students put on residence-hall wait list; Cheney opened for temporary housing
(Local News ~ 08/11/17)
Southeast Missouri State University’s residence halls are filling up fast, with more than 3,100 housing contracts already in place for a semester start date of Aug. 21. University officials said they’ve had to put some residence-hall requests on a wait list and open temporary housing at Cheney Hall, which has been closed the last two years. Repairs have been made to Cheney, but officials said the building needs renovations...
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Sands Pancake House moving to Morgan Oak location
(Local News ~ 08/11/17)
Sands Pancake House will move to a new location next month, owner Betty Collins said Thursday. “We’re looking at the middle of September, maybe the second week of September,” she said. The new location is 602 Morgan Oak St., which formerly housed another restaurant, Brenda’s Place...
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Cape movie theater to feature recliners, new food and drink options
(Local News ~ 08/11/17)
Area moviegoers will watch films in “comfy” recliners when renovations are completed at Cape West Cine, a spokeswoman for the parent company said Thursday. Wisconsin-based Marcus Theatres, which operates Cape West Cine, plans to install the red recliners in 13 of the 14 auditoriums, said Mari Randa, director of communication for the Milwaukee company...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
Today in History Today is Friday, Aug. 11, the 223rd day of 2017. There are 142 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 11, 1997, President Bill Clinton made the first use of the historic line-item veto, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills. (However, the U.S. Supreme Court later struck down the veto as unconstitutional.)...
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Deeper look at cuts
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/11/17)
The Aug. 6, 2017 Southeast Missourian printed an Op-Ed column by former Senator Phil Gramm and Michael Solon. They advocated reducing taxes as a pathway to economic growth and increased federal revenue. To support their contentions they cited the record of Ronald Reagan. ...
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The Trump presidency
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/11/17)
The current situation of President Trump reminds me of a tragic situation I dealt with many years ago. As ordered by a court, I did a psychiatric evaluation on a 29-year old man charged with a heinous crime. To get relevant background information, I met with his parents, who seemed surprised that their "wonderful son" had committed a heinous crime. ...
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A half-century of change, and staying the same
(Column ~ 08/11/17)
Sometimes there are connections in life that surprisingly tie us to people and events. Sometimes such links are simple and obvious. Sometimes they aren't. One thing that happens, if you grow old enough, is that the changes you witnessed half a century ago have rarely stayed unchanged. Some might call this evolution...
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Woman earns bachelor's degree at 91 in Thailand
(International News ~ 08/11/17)
BANGKOK -- A 91-year old woman in Thailand has earned a college degree after spending more than 10 years studying for it and has received her diploma from the country's king. Public television broadcaster ThaiPBS said Kimlan Jinakul was granted the Bachelor of Arts degree in human and family development Wednesday at the government-run Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University. Her diploma was handed to her by King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun...
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Yemen's civil war turns country into cholera breeding ground
(International News ~ 08/11/17)
SANAA, Yemen -- Collapsing on sidewalks and constantly vomiting, some of the Yemeni villagers barely make it to the tiny health center where doctors spread cardboard sheets in the backyard and use trees to hang bags of IV fluids for patients. They are part of a stream of hundreds of suspected cholera victims that continues to converge on the center from the impoverished town of Bani Haydan in Yemen's northern Hajja province. ...
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Trump suggests Senate GOP leader McConnell must deliver or step aside
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump escalated a stunning feud against his top Senate partner Thursday, suggesting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might have to think about stepping aside if he doesn't deliver on the president's agenda of health care, taxes and infrastructure...
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2016 weather report: Extreme and anything but normal
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
WASHINGTON -- Last year's global weather was far more extreme or record-breaking than anything approaching normal, according to a new report. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday released its annual checkup of the Earth, highlighting numerous records including hottest year; highest sea level; and lowest sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctica...
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Kenya election dispute intensifies with conflicting claims
(International News ~ 08/11/17)
NAIROBI, Kenya -- A dispute over Kenya's presidential election intensified Thursday when supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga said an unofficial tally showed he won -- a claim that conflicted with a provisional official result that put incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta in the lead...
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Canadian diplomat in Cuba also suffered hearing loss
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
WASHINGTON -- The Canadian government said Thursday at least one Canadian diplomat in Cuba has been treated for hearing loss after disclosures a group of American diplomats in Havana suffered severe hearing loss U.S. officials believe was caused by an advanced sonic device...
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Texas cuts aid to 'colonias' after years of offering help
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
ALAMO, Texas -- While the economy in Texas has boomed over the last 20 years, along the border with Mexico, about a half-million people live in clusters of cinderblock dwellings, home-built shacks, dilapidated trailers and small houses. Texas has more than 2,300 of these communities known as colonias, the Spanish word for "colony."...
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Beware at the pump: Black-market fuel is making millions
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A black market for diesel and gasoline has spread rapidly around the nation, with organized-crime gangs using fraudulent credit cards to siphon millions of dollars in fuel from gas stations into large tanks hidden inside pickup trucks and vans...
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Frustrated with Trump, McCain promotes Afghanistan plan
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
WASHINGTON -- In a rebuke of President Donald Trump, Republican Sen. John McCain declared Thursday that "America is adrift in Afghanistan" as he promoted a war strategy that would expand the U.S. counterterrorism effort and provide greater support to Afghan security forces...
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As North warns of missile plan, U.S.-South Korea wargames near
(International News ~ 08/11/17)
SEOUL, South Korea -- U.S. and South Korean military officials plan to move ahead with large-scale exercises later this month that North Korea, now finalizing plans to launch a salvo of missiles toward Guam, claims are a rehearsal for war. The exercises are an annual event but come as Pyongyang says it is readying a plan to fire off four Hwasong-12 missiles toward the U.S. ...
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Maggot case gives rare look at neglect probes
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
ROME, N.Y. -- In his bed at a New York state group home for the severely disabled, Steven Wenger lay helpless against a silent invader. A slimy, wriggling clump was growing around the hole in his throat near his breathing tube. Nurses peered closer and made a discovery almost unheard of in modern American health care: maggots...
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Trump threatens North Korea with 'trouble,' escalating tensions
(National News ~ 08/11/17)
BEDMINSTER, N.J. -- Not backing down, President Donald Trump warned Kim Jong Un's government Thursday to "get their act together" or face extraordinary trouble and suggested his earlier threat to unleash "fire and fury" on North Korea was too mild. "Maybe that statement wasn't tough enough," Trump said in the latest U.S. salvo in an escalating exchange of threats between the nuclear-armed nations...
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Facebook envisions Watch feature as TV for social media
(Entertainment ~ 08/11/17)
NEW YORK -- Facebook envisions its new Watch feature as TV designed for social media, a place where users comment, like and interact with show creators, stars and each other -- and never leave. It's a potential threat to Twitter, YouTube, Netflix and other services for watching video, including old-fashioned TV. Yet its success is far from guaranteed...
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Taylor Swift doesn't sugar-coat testimony in groping case
(Entertainment ~ 08/11/17)
DENVER -- A defiant and occasionally exasperated Taylor Swift insisted during a whirlwind hour of testimony Thursday a Denver disc jockey grabbed her bare backside and held on for a long time during a meet-and-greet before a concert. The pop superstar used explicit language that seemed designed to avoid sugar-coating what she said was a sexual assault when she posed for a picture with David Mueller in 2013...
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Artifacts 8/11/17
(Entertainment ~ 08/11/17)
Tunes at Twilight returns with a performance by Jed Zimmerman at 6:30 p.m. today at the Common Pleas Courthouse gazebo in Cape Girardeau. Bring a lawn chair for this free concert. Join the fun at Sikeston's Depot Museum from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at 116 W. ...
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#SemoSelfie 8/11/17
(Entertainment ~ 08/11/17)
With the best study hall & Sociology teacher of all time, Mr. Mosley! He was also the proud 1999 recipient of the "One of the Heartland's Best Teachers" award #semoselfie
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Out of the past: Aug. 11
(Out of the Past ~ 08/11/17)
The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority is one step closer to securing a new tenant that could increase shipping volume tenfold at the port. Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. in April signed a letter of intent to lease up to 20 acres of land at the port and construct a $3.5 million facility. Yesterday, Ed Case, regional manager and corporate vice president for the company, presented a $41,000 check to the port authority for the lease...
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Elizabeth Vance
(Obituary ~ 08/11/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Elizabeth A. Vance, 79, of Perryville died Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, at Estates of Perryville. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Monday at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, 12397 Natural Bridge Road, Hazelwood, Missouri, and from 8 to 10 a.m. Tuesday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville...
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Shirley Reimann
(Obituary ~ 08/11/17)
Shirley Ann Reimann, 79, of Fruitland passed away Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 5, 1938, in Delta, daughter of Benjamin Elvis and Neva Marie Shelton Dunning. She and Carl Reimann married Aug. 20, 1960, at Delta Baptist Church. They had been married nearly 55 years when he passed away July 16, 2015...
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Ed Groves
(Obituary ~ 08/11/17)
Ed Groves, 67, of Jackson died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at Ford and Sons Funeral Home-Jackson. Memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home...
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Louise Colon
(Obituary ~ 08/11/17)
Louise Colon, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Cape Girardeau police report 8/11/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/11/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n Joshua I. Howard, 24, 507 Cape Meadows Circle, was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for improper registration. Burglary n Burglary and theft were reported at 1815 Cape La-Croix Road...
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Rifle believed linked to Missouri officer's slaying found
(State News ~ 08/11/17)
CLINTON, Mo. -- Investigators said they have found a rifle believed to have been used in last weekend's shooting death of a western Missouri police officer. Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Bill Lowe said the unspecified gun was found Thursday in a creek about two miles north of Clinton, where 37-year-old officer Gary Michael was shot and killed Sunday night...
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Audit: Rural Missouri hospital involved in billing scheme
(State News ~ 08/11/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway on Wednesday released a report alleging a rural hospital under financial strain in northern Missouri billed insurance companies for lab tests that didn't occur at the hospital and received a cut of payments funneled to another lab company...
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Invention lab allows Missouri Boy Scouts to build ideas
(State News ~ 08/11/17)
GRAVOIS MILLS, Mo. -- In 1923, Boy Scouts earned the first woodworking merit badge by designing a project on paper and using hand tools to build it. Today, in a small workshop overlooking the Lake of the Ozarks, Scouts are using design software and digital lasers to earn that same badge...
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McCaskill plans another round of rural Missouri town halls
(State News ~ 08/11/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is holding another round of town halls in rural Missouri. McCaskill's office said Wednesday the Democrat will spend the Senate's August recess touring the state. She'll be in cities including Cuba, Potosi, Sullivan and Farmington today...
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Road work 8/11/17
(Local News ~ 08/11/17)
According to a news release from the Cape Girardeau Public Works Department, travel along Broadway at Sprigg Street in Cape Girardeau will be blocked from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, while a damaged traffic signal is replaced. Both east- and westbound lanes on Broadway will be blocked at the intersection during the work. ...
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Best Bet: Wappstock VII on Saturday at Lake Wappapello
(Entertainment ~ 08/11/17)
An all-day event to raise money to send children to camp, Wappstock VII, will run from 10 a.m. to midnight Saturday at The Camp, 153 University Forest Drive in Wappapello, Missouri. The event will feature music by Jerry Foster. Appearing later in the day will be Silver Fox, Dr. Fever and the Venus Flytrap, Black River Blues, Cynderblok and more. Admission will be $10, and it is an all-ages show. More information can be found at www.facebook.com/CampWappapello or by calling (573) 222-2267.
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Prayer 8/11/17
(Prayer ~ 08/11/17)
Lord Jesus, may our focus be on your kingdom and not our own selfish interests. Amen.
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Chambers join effort to market manufacturing jobs
(Editorial ~ 08/11/17)
The chambers of commerce in Cape Girardeau and Jackson announced they are joining a larger initiative to help young adults prepare to enter the manufacturing sector. Manufacturers are having difficulty finding skilled workers. "Certainly, within the last 18 to 24 months, the thing that comes up over and over again is employees," John Mehner, president and CEO of the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce told reporter Tyler Graef...
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United Way Plans Fun Surprises at 2017 Campaign Kickoff
(Submitted Story ~ 08/11/17)
United Way of Southeast Missouri promises a few fun changes and surprises to those who attend the organization’s 2017 Campaign Kickoff. This year’s event will look very different from previous kickoffs. In years past, United Way has invited the public to enjoy a free sandwich at the local cinema. This year the ticketed event includes a more formal lunch and venue. The event to launch the annual community drive will be August 24th from 11a.m.-1p.m. at the Isle Event Center...
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