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On the Record: Ivas John breaks out some new tunes (video)
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
Local musician Ivas John visited the Southeast Missourian newsroom to play a couple of new songs and talk about his songwriting inspiration, which includes the Mighty Mississippi. Ivas John plays Friday night at The Library, and have a show coming up in Carbondale, Illinois, on Oct. 28...
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TG Missouri to hold 30th-anniversary celebration Saturday in Perryville
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
Olympic gold-medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee will deliver the keynote address during TG Missouri Corp.’s 30-year anniversary celebration Saturday. General manager of corporate administration Rhonda Ruark, who will emcee the event, said the day’s theme will be fostering community relationships...
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Hitting the Cape La Croix Trail on Thursday in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
“It’s nice now that it’s not so congested when we have runners, bikers and moms pushing strollers,” Amy Rusthoven said as she jogged, pushing her son Judah Rusthoven, 1, in a stroller along the Cape La Croix Trail on Thursday in Cape Girardeau. The path recently has been widened.
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Pastor frustrated with persistent vandalism at Cape church
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
A string of vandalism has left a small Cape Girardeau church with nearly $1,500 in damage, the pastor said. Robert Hendrix Jr., pastor at Emerald Street Church of God at 500 Emerald St., east of Sprigg Street and not far from the Show Me Center, said the incidents have been going on for more than a year, beginning with the church’s July 2016 anniversary celebration. ...
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Democrats call for Medicaid buy-in plan at Cape Girardeau meeting
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
More effective prescription-drug monitoring, lowering drug prices and increasing health-care access formed in part the Missouri Democratic Party’s vision for health-care reform as outlined by party chairman Stephen Webber on Thursday during a meeting in Cape Girardeau...
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Waller pleads guilty; deal calls for 35-year sentence
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
Convicted murderer James Clay Waller II will serve a 35-year prison sentence on a federal charge stemming from the 2011 murder of his estranged wife under terms of a plea agreement, federal prosecutors said Thursday. If approved by the court, the sentence would run concurrent to a 20-year sentence he is serving after pleading guilty in state court in 2013 to second-degree murder in the death of estranged wife, Jacque Waller, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said...
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Project Homeless Connect on Friday at Osage Centre
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
Project Homeless Connect aims to connect the Cape Girardeau region’s most vulnerable individuals and families with resources they need to build self sufficiency. Doors will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the Osage Centre, 1625 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau...
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The Artist Studio to close this month after 12 years downtown
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
There’s a saying Judy Barks-Westrich loves: “The best part of being an artist is having one’s imagination for a boss, but the worst part is paying the rent.” That’s one factor in her decision to close The Artist Studio, her working studio and gallery at 38 A N. Main St. in downtown Cape Girardeau, where she’s created and taught since 2005...
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Annual Uptown Jackson Oktoberfest returns Saturday
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/17)
There's little doubt the Uptown Jackson Oktoberfest is a growing event. After a humble start amid rainy conditions in 2013, it since has become as robust as some of the lagers it touts. German apparel such as Alpine hats, dirndls and lederhosen have become staples along with steins, as the event pulled in an estimated crowd of about 12,000 people last year, its largest to date, according to organizers...
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City, property owners voice their sides in historic land condemnation court case
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
The owner of a historic Bloomfield Road property wants the city of Cape Girardeau to pay him another $45,000 in “heritage value” in a condemnation case involving reconstruction and widening of the road and the addition of a recreational trail. Both sides pitched their arguments in an evidentiary hearing Thursday in a small, basement courtroom at the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson before Judge Rob Fulton...
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Southeast president addresses budget during state of university address
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
The 2017 State of the University address delivered Thursday by Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas-Aburto highlighted challenges and opportunities. Vargas said he believes events such as the address are very important, both for communication of challenges the university is facing and to spread the word about institution achievements...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
Today in History Today is Friday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2017. There are 86 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, a feature containing both silent and sound-synchronized sequences...
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Looking for answers in a sea of confusion
(Column ~ 10/06/17)
It's hard to think of anything but senseless death and mayhem in the hours following the events in Las Vegas. The death counts and the injury counts and the blurry, shaking videos caught on smart phones are recycled. Again and again and again. Despite this around-the-clock barrage of what passes these days as information, we know so little about the "why" of Las Vegas -- despite the fact that our nation and much of the world have experienced so many such tragedies. Again and again and again...
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Manufacturing Day 2017
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/06/17)
Many economists agree that there are three ways to create wealth. To mine it, grow it, or make it. Missouri is rich in natural and agricultural resources, and Missouri manufacturers make everything from automobiles to aircraft parts to food products to furniture, chemicals and electrical equipment, including products sold directly to consumers and parts of other manufactured goods...
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Discover local arts scene and Food Truck Friday
(Editorial ~ 10/06/17)
October is a busy time of year for events in Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri. We'd like to remind you about the First Friday with the Arts event. This in an opportunity every month to visit places where art is on display and see what downtown has to offer...
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South Dakota dog breaks record for longest tongue
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A St. Bernard in South Dakota has set a new, slobbery world record. Mochi, also known as Mo, holds the Guinness World Records title for having the longest tongue on a dog. According to Guinness World Records, Mochi's tongue measures in at 7.31 inches. ...
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Novelist Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
NEW YORK -- Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British novelist who in "The Remains of the Day," "Never Let Me Go" and other novels captured memory's lasting pain and dangerous illusions in precise and elegant prose, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday...
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Spain's top court orders meeting suspended amid fear of secession
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
BARCELONA, Spain -- Spain's Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered a suspension of Catalonia's parliamentary session next week during which the region has said it might declare independence and further fuel Spain's worst crisis in decades. Catalan regional authorities previously have ignored Constitutional Court orders, so it was not immediately clear whether the session would go ahead and whether all parties would attend...
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Analysis: Current 30-year period has produced most major hurricanes
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
WASHINGTON -- It's not just this year. The monster hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Jose and Lee that have raged across the Atlantic are contributing to what appears to be the most active period for major storms on record. And the busiest part of hurricane season isn't even over...
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Mental health concerns on rise in Puerto Rico
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Locked out of his home and with nowhere else to go, Wilfredo Ortiz Marrero rode out Hurricane Maria inside a Jeep, which was lifted off its wheels by floodwaters in the parking lot. He then endured days without enough food or running water...
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U.S. House passes budget that may cut social programs
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday passed a $4.1 trillion budget plan that promises deep cuts to social programs while paving the way for Republicans to rewrite the tax code later this year. The 2018 House GOP budget reprises a controversial plan to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for future retirees as well as the party's efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act health law. ...
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Las Vegas shooter booked rooms near other festivals
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
LAS VEGAS -- Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago -- and perhaps Boston's Fenway Park -- before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans...
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Off-duty officers jumped in, saved Vegas victims
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Fred Rowbotham's plan was to leave job stress behind with a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate his 45th birthday at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. But when the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire rained down, the police officer from Chula Vista, California, sprang into action as if he were in uniform. Joining him were many other off-duty police and firefighters in the terrified crowd of 20,000...
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NRA joins in restriction of 'bump stock' devices
(National News ~ 10/06/17)
WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association joined the Trump administration and top congressional Republicans on Thursday in a swift and surprising embrace of a restriction on Americans' guns, though a narrow one: to regulate the "bump stock" devices the Las Vegas shooter apparently used to horrifically lethal effect...
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Out of the past: Oct. 6
(Out of the Past ~ 10/06/17)
The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 16, now using the facilities of the Naval Reserve Center, wants its own permanent home in Cape Girardeau; the group is kicking off a $10,000 fundraising campaign to help buy a former brick church at 1000 Big Bend Road for its new location...
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Dolores Mier
(Obituary ~ 10/06/17)
Dolores Mier, 90, of Jackson died Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete with Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, Missouri.
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Bill Dockins
(Obituary ~ 10/06/17)
William "Bill" P. Dockins, 83 of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, at Chateau Girardeau. He was born Feb. 22, 1934, in Lutesville, Missouri, son of Glen and Stella Lee Teeters Dockins. He and Marcella "Marcy" Mitchell were married July 19, 1991...
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Sarah Crites
(Obituary ~ 10/06/17)
LEACHVILLE, Ark. -- Sarah Marlene Crites, 80, of Leachville passed from this life Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, at Monette Manor Nursing Center. Born at Essex, Mississippi, she was the daughter of the late Clay and Artie Mae Rea Marberry and was raised in Darling, Mississippi...
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Hazel Carter
(Obituary ~ 10/06/17)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Hazel Lee May Carter, 91, of Tamms died Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, at the home of her granddaughter in Olive Branch, Illinois. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. A celebration of life will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with family and friends sharing memories of Hazel. Bring your favorite Hazel story to tell. Interment will follow in Jonesboro City Cemetery in Jonesboro, Illinois...
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Larry Biggs
(Obituary ~ 10/06/17)
Larry Allen Biggs, 55, of Scott City died Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, at his home. He was born Nov. 10, 1961, in Chaffee, Missouri, to Sharon Allen and Imogene Gendron Biggs. He married Milissa Mary Foulk on Aug. 4, 1986. He worked for Foeste Masonry. He is survived by his wife, Milissa; two sons, Larry Allen (Amber) Biggs Jr of Chaffee and Jordan Andrew Biggs of Scott City; a brother, Gary Biggs of Charleston, Missouri; and three grandchildren...
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Cape Girardeau police report 10/6/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/06/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of shoplifting at Save-A-Lot, 121 S. Sprigg St. n Casandra A. Mann, 27, of Piedmont, Missouri, was arrested on a Butler County, Missouri, warrant and was charged with making a false declaration at 1981 Longview Drive...
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#SemoSelfie 10/6/17
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/17)
Mommy & Nolan playtime #babiesofinstagram #boymom #babyface #babyboy #babysmiles #babyspam #babysidepart #semoselfie
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'Reasons to be Pretty' to be performed at Southeast's River Campus
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/17)
America's obsession with beauty is central to "Reasons to Be Pretty," a play set to be performed Thursday through Oct. 14 in the Rust Flexible Theatre at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. A love story about the impossibility of love, "Reasons to Be Pretty" is a romantic drama focusing on the extreme appeal to physical appearances. ...
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Police: Interstate protesters arrested for trespassing
(State News ~ 10/06/17)
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis police said the 143 people arrested after a protest on a busy highway near downtown are accused of trespassing. The protest happened Tuesday night on Interstate 64. Police late Wednesday released the names of those arrested, saying all of them will face the same municipal charge. ...
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Conservative group launches $1.2M ad buy targeting McCaskill
(State News ~ 10/06/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Americans for Prosperity is launching a $1.2 million television ad buy encouraging Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill to support a tax overhaul. The group backed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch on Thursday announced the ads will run for three weeks starting today. ...
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Illinois woman wins $1 million with Missouri-bought ticket
(State News ~ 10/06/17)
ST. LOUIS — An Illinois resident has won a $1 million Powerball prize with a ticket purchased in Missouri. The Missouri Lottery said Thursday that Krystal Ringling of Edwardsville matched all five white-ball numbers in the Sept. 16 Powerball drawing. The prize was claimed at the St. Louis Lottery office Sept. 18. Ringling purchased the ticket at Charlie’s Food Mart in the Spanish Lake area of St. Louis County.
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Judge rules Springfield can prohibit women's exposed nipples
(State News ~ 10/06/17)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Women will have to cover their nipples in public but men can continue to go shirtless in Springfield, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Beth Phillips ruled Wednesday the city's current public indecency ordinance didn't violate the Constitution by allowing men, but not women, to show their nipples...
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New wave of protest leaders emerged after Ferguson
(State News ~ 10/06/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Young people thrust into activism by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson are leading a new wave of civil disobedience in St. Louis, mentored by a civil-rights movement veteran and driven by the belief change won't happen until the entire region is confronted with the uncomfortable reality of racism...
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Judge in Boone County aims to relieve public-defender shortage
(State News ~ 10/06/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A judge in central Missouri has appointed nearly 40 private lawyers to represent criminal defendants after announcing last week the public defenders' office needs assistance. Boone County Presiding Judge Kevin Crane announced Sept. 27 the public defenders' office needs help. Public defenders have more representation requests than they can fulfill because of stricter limitations on their caseloads, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported...
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Prayer 10/6/17
(Prayer ~ 10/06/17)
O Lord God, may the words we say be pleasing to you. Amen.
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Speak Out 10/6/17
(Speak Out ~ 10/06/17)
Wow! Talk about a feel-good story when we need it. Thank you for the excellent piece on Cape-based barber, Billy Sisco. Sisco personifies the absolute best in our community, a humble, generous, friendly and good-natured gentleman whom I have been lucky enough to know for decades. As an added bonus, I was thrilled with the photograph of Mr. Sisco and customer, Kent "Charles" Cargle, a longtime friend and unrivaled living legend...
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First Friday receptions 10/6/17
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/17)
This will be the Arts Council's annual Trick-Art-Treat stamp-card event. Join local art galleries and downtown businesses for a ghoulish good time. Catapult Creative House will have a Photo-BOO-th. Painted Wren Art Gallery will have The Gooey Cake Caper. ...
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October full of events, activities to help get in Halloween spirit
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/17)
Many fun and exciting events are coming up this month in preparation and celebration of Halloween. From haunted hayrides to family-friendly festivals, the month is full of activities and programs for all ages.
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Artifacts 10/6/17
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/17)
Paintings by brothers Jason and Stanley Bly will be on display at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus Art Gallery, 518 S. Fountain St. in Cape Girardeau. An artist talk will be at 4:30 p.m. today, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the gallery...
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Best bet: Indie-film fundraiser today at Coin-Op Cantina
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/17)
Spoon Pictures of Los Angeles is holding a fundraiser for its upcoming indie film, “All Nite Skate,” to be filmed in 2018 in Jackson, directed by Jackson native Nick Murphy. The fundraiser will go from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. today at Coin-Op Cantina, 46 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau, and will be broadcast via Facebook Live. Interactive games will be on the event page during the event. Several items from local businesses will be raffled off at the fundraiser.
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Road work 10/6/17
(Local News ~ 10/06/17)
Southbound Interstate 55 in Scott County will be reduced to one lane with a 16-foot width restriction as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform maintenance to the bridge between mile markers 88.4 and 88.8. The work will take place, from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. daily Tuesday through Thursday, according to MoDOT news release...
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October Sunrise
(Submitted Story ~ 10/06/17)
Took this photo this morning, Oct. 6th, looking across the Mississippi River with the Nina and Pinta replicas in the foreground.
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