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Delta R-V schools look to possibly adopt Leader in Me program
(Local News ~ 01/04/18)
Self-improvement and honing leadership skills are two things Delta superintendent of schools Mellisa Heath is passionate about. That passion translates to the upcoming Leader in Me presentation that will be hosted Wednesday in the Delta High School Cafeteria. The presentation is for the district employees, parents, business owners and other members of the six to seven communities serviced by Delta R-V schools...
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Cape autism institute hopes for restoration of state funding this year to prevent closing
(Local News ~ 01/04/18)
A local autism institute is struggling financially to make up for the loss of all of its state funding, but hopes lawmakers will restore some funding for the fiscal year that begins July 1. "We are in a mess now," said Carrie Tracy, director of the Tailor Institute. "It has been such a hard time."...
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Nearly all hoarded Yorkies already adopted from Humane Society
(Local News ~ 01/04/18)
Of the 70 rescue dogs brought into the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri just after the new year began, almost all are already on their way home. Executive director Tracy Poston said several of the dogs processed Tuesday had already been adopted out as of early Thursday afternoon. She expects the rest to be adopted by Friday...
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Cape Co. Commission OKs small pay raise for employees
(Local News ~ 01/04/18)
Most Cape Girardeau County government employees will receive a small pay raise this year as part of the 2018 budget approved Thursday by the county commission. Elected officeholders will not receive a pay raise, officials said. Commissioners voted to approve a $500 increase in compensation, which covers pay and benefits, for full-time employees. ...
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Singing at sea, in Cape, Nashville and now Florida, Jessie Ritter's music keeps on working
(Entertainment ~ 01/04/18)
Singer/songwriter and Cape Girardeau native Jessie Ritter is home, briefly for the holidays with big plans for the New Year. Ritter, a Notre Dame Regional High School graduate, will spend 2018 planning her wedding, building a house and finishing up her first full-length album "Coffee Every Morning." Embedded in the story are two videos of her singing her original songs...
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Public meeting in Cape to focus on Miss. River flood management
(Local News ~ 01/04/18)
Missouri wants to know what residents in Cape Girardeau and other communities along the Mississippi River desire to improve flood-plain management. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will hold a public meeting Tuesday in Cape Girardeau as part of its effort to seek public comment as the U.S. Corps of Engineers considers conducting a watershed study of the upper Mississippi River basin...
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Alleged poachers busted in Bollinger County; remains of 7 deer seized
(Local News ~ 01/04/18)
A recent felony drug arrest in Bollinger County led to the recovery of seven illegally possessed deer, at least one of which had been poached by spotlight, a conservation official said. Narcotics also were seized and charges filed against three men. The deer meat found by law enforcement was given to families in need...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/04/18)
Today is Thursday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2018. There are 361 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 4, 1868, "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins, considered by some the first full-length English detective novel, began to be serialized in Britain and the U.S. in All the Year Round and Harper's Weekly (it was published in book form in July 1868)...
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Larry Ferrell served as prosecutor with class and respect for justice
(Editorial ~ 01/04/18)
Larry Ferrell, the longtime federal prosecutor, has called it a career after six years of public service as a prosecutor for Cape Girardeau County then 26 years at the federal level. He also worked in a private practice for several years. His resume is quite impressive. ...
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Arkansas panel stands by proposed dicamba ban
(State News ~ 01/04/18)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas regulators stood by their plan Wednesday to ban an herbicide that farmers in several states say has drifted onto their crops and caused damage, despite a request from lawmakers to reconsider the restriction and a lawsuit by a maker of the weed killer...
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Work stalls on finding Missouri education leader
(State News ~ 01/04/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Efforts to pick Missouri's next top education official after a controversial shake-up in leadership ground to a halt Wednesday after a technical move by the governor left the board without enough voting members to choose a replacement...
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North Korea's Un reopens communication line with South
(International News ~ 01/04/18)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reopened a key cross-border communication channel with South Korea for the first time in nearly two years Wednesday as the rivals explored the possibility of sitting down and talking after months of acrimony and fears of war...
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Pro-government rallies held in Iran
(International News ~ 01/04/18)
TEHRAN, Iran -- Tens of thousands of government supporters took to the streets across Iran on Wednesday as authorities tried to project a sense of stability after a week of nationwide protests sparked deadly clashes and calls for the downfall of the Islamic Republic...
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Missouri Legislature begins 2018 with focus on ethics, tax changes
(State News ~ 01/04/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Republican-controlled Missouri Legislature launched the 2018 annual session Wednesday with a call for stronger ethics laws from the House, talk of tax changes and interest in revisiting issues that took a center stage last year...
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Treatment price tag for rare form of blindness: $850K
(National News ~ 01/04/18)
WASHINGTON -- A first-of-its kind genetic treatment for blindness will cost $850,000, less than the $1 million price tag that had been expected, but still among the most expensive medicines in the world. Spark Therapeutics said Wednesday it decided on the lower price for Luxturna after hearing concerns from health insurers about their ability to cover the injectable treatment...
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Hatch's retirement lets him leave at the height of his power
(National News ~ 01/04/18)
SALT LAKE CITY -- Orrin Hatch's decision to retire from the Senate after four decades lets the Utah Republican walk away at the height of his power after helping to push through an overhaul of the tax code and persuading President Donald Trump to downsize two national monuments...
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Manafort sues Mueller, Justice Dept. over probe
(National News ~ 01/04/18)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman sued special counsel Robert Mueller and the Justice Department on Wednesday, saying prosecutors had overstepped their bounds by charging him for conduct that he says is unrelated to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election...
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Logan Paul apologizes extensively for video posted on YouTube
(National News ~ 01/04/18)
TOKYO -- Logan Paul has issued a more extensive apology for posting a YouTube video showing what appeared to be a body in a Japanese forest known as a suicide destination. The initial video he posted Sunday showed the prolific social media user trekking with friends in the Aokigahara forest near Mount Fuji. He seems aware the forest is sometimes chosen for suicides but is surprised to see what appears to be a body hanging from a tree...
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J.P. Harrell
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Jon Paul "J.P." Harrell passed away Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, at his home in Scott City. He was born Jan. 28, 1982, in Cape Girardeau to Cindi Davidson and John Harrell. J.P. attended school in Jackson and worked for many years as a groundskeeper at Cape Girardeau Country Club...
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Melba McCulley
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Melba McCulley left this earth to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017. She was born Aug. 14, 1927, in Bell City, Missouri, the daughter of Harrison and Ida Drew McCulley. She celebrated her 90th birthday in her usual style with friends and family in Cape Girardeau...
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Eugenie Wessel
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Eugenie F. Wessel, 88, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, at the Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 24, 1929, near Tilsit, the daughter of Albert and Ida Lange Siebert. She was married to Harold Wessel on June 18, 1950, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. Harold preceded her in death in 2015...
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Bonita Fuller
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Bonita D. Fuller, 67, of Jackson died Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017. She was born Jan. 10, 1950, in Shawneetown, Illinois, to Eugene Fuller. She was raised by her father and stepmother, Mattie Fuller. Bonita received her nursing degree from Webster University...
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Joe Anders
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Joe H. Anders, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, at the Lutheran Home. He was born March 12, 1936, in Caruthersville, Missouri, to Joe and Fern Bennett Anders. He and Shannon Burnette were married June 2, 1963, at Brownsville, Tennessee...
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James Buster
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
BARDWELL, Ky. -- James Norman Buster, 86 years old, of Bardwell passed away Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, at Countryside Nursing Home in Bardwell. He was born July 26, 1931. He was a veteran of the Korean War and a retired crane operator for Shell Oil. He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Vera G. ...
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Thelma Bell
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Thelma Louise Bell, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 22, 1925, in Tamms, Illinois, to James Cleveland and Eva Marie Bergen Poole. She and Robert Cecil Bell were married May 14, 1943, in Cape Girardeau. He died Dec. 15, 1989...
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Jeffery Allen
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Jeffery Smyth Allen, son of the late Kenneth Lee Allen, Sr. and Malinda G. Allen, was born on March 23, 1949, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and departed this life Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, in Cape Girardeau at the age of 68. Mr. Allen was a veteran in the United States Marine Corps from Feb. ...
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Edward Campbell
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
GERMANTOWN, Tenn. -- Edward Allen Campbell, 88, of Germantown passed away Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. Edward was born to Silas Edwin and Acenith Ann (Vangilder) Campbell on March 15, 1929, in Cape Girardeau. He graduated from Campus High School in 1948. He married Norma Jean Jones Feb. 27, 1954...
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Medal of Honor honors heroes
(Column ~ 01/04/18)
If a soldier, sailor, Marine, or airman is the recipient of the Medal of Honor, he or she will be saluted by any military member regardless of rank. When a colonel passes a sergeant, who was awarded the Medal of Honor (MOH), the colonel will salute the sergeant...
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Winter storm hits Southeast, rolls up East Coast
(National News ~ 01/04/18)
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A brutal winter storm smacked the coastal Southeast with a rare blast of snow and ice Wednesday, hitting parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina with their heaviest snowfall in nearly three decades. Forecasters warned that the same system could soon strengthen into a "bomb cyclone" as it rolls up the East Coast, bringing hurricane-force winds, coastal flooding and up to a foot of snow...
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Prayer 1/4/18
(Prayer ~ 01/04/18)
O Father God, blessed be your name, the name about all names. Amen.
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Impatient passenger takes emergency exit
(International News ~ 01/04/18)
MADRID -- A passenger on a delayed Ryanair flight from London who apparently got fed up waiting to get off a plane after it landed in the southern Spanish city of Malaga surprised fellow passengers by using the emergency exit to jump onto a wing.The incident on New Year's Day took place 30 minutes after the flight from Stansted Airport landed. The man, who has not been named but is said to be a non-Spanish citizen, was coaxed back onto the plane while police were called...
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Marilyn Dodge
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
MOREHOUSE, Mo. -- Marilyn Dodge, 70, of Morehouse died Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. There will be no services. Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.
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Brenda Whiteside
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Brenda S. Whiteside, 64, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, at her home. There will be no services. Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, Illinois, is in charge of arrangements.
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Susan Meade
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Susan Jane Meade, 67, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 13 at the Bethel Assembly of God in Cape Girardeau. A memorial service will follow at 1 p.m. at the church...
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Marcella Kirn
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Marcella C. Kirn, 91, of Perryville died Jan. 3, 2018, at Independence Care Center of Perry County in Perryville. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m., with parish wake at 7 p.m., Thursday, and from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. Friday with rosary at 8:30 a.m. at Young & Sons Funeral Home...
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Out of the past: Jan. 4
(Out of the Past ~ 01/04/18)
A rare mayoral race between 11-term Mayor Carlton Meyer and Ward 1 Alderman Paul Sander will likely highlight this spring's Jackson's municipal election; Sander, who is completing his third term as alderman, is expected to announce tomorrow whether he will seek the seat held by Meyer for 22 years...
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Colin Higgins
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Colin Patrick Higgins, 16, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Cape Girardeau. Parish prayers will be at 8 p.m. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the church...
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Irene McBride
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Irene McBride, 76, of Jackson died Friday, Dec. 29, 2017, at the Monticello House in Jackson. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until noon Saturday at the Greater Dimension Ministries in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at noon Saturday at the church with Pastor William Bird Jr. officiating...
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State briefs 1/4/18
(State News ~ 01/04/18)
ST. LOUIS -- A lawsuit alleging that Missouri's new voter identification law was intended to make it harder for poor and minority residents to cast their ballots has been dismissed. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem on Tuesday threw out the suit filed in June by the ACLU and the Advancement Project on behalf of the Missouri NAACP and the League of Women Voters...
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Trump barreling into 2018 on all fronts
(National News ~ 01/04/18)
WASHINGTON -- You thought President Donald Trump might mellow out in 2018? Refrain from taunting world leaders tweet by tweet? Think again. Trump is storming into the new year in exceptionally aggressive fashion, picking fresh fights on Twitter with such speed that his aides, international partners and the public are struggling to catch up. If he was brash on the global stage in Year 1, the first days of Year 2 suggest he was just warming up...
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Trump unleashes fury over Bannon, new critical book
(National News ~ 01/04/18)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on former top adviser Steve Bannon on Wednesday, responding to a new book that portrays Trump as an undisciplined man-child who didn't actually want to win the White House and quotes Bannon as calling his son's contact with a Russian lawyer "treasonous."...
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Judy Buckles
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Judy A. (Davis) Buckles, age 69, of Mounds, formerly of Mound City, Illinois, passed away at 2:12 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 26, 1948, in Cairo, Illinois, daughter of the late James D. Davis and Sarah (Koen) Davis...
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Rita Helen Hartmann
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Rita Helen Hartmann, age 93, of Cairo died Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, at Oakview Nursing and Rehab in Calvert City, Kentucky. She was born in Cairo on April 14, 1924, to William F. and Rita Rose Lehning Hartmann. Rita Helen was Vice President of First Bank and Trust Company, now National Bank in Cairo, before her retirement. ...
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Cynthia Halter
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Cynthia Anne Gamewell Halter, known to all as Cindy, went home to her Heavenly Father on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center, surrounded by her family. Cindy was born Jan. 22, 1952, in St. Louis to the late Joseph T. and Joyce C. Hoff Gamewell...
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Colin Higgins
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Colin Patrick Higgins, 16, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. He was born Aug. 26, 2001, in St. Louis to Patrick Joseph and Amy Smith Higgins. Colin was a student at Notre Dame Regional High School, where he was a member of the tennis team...
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Devin Eastman
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Devin Lee Eastman, 29, a licensed riverboat pilot of Jackson, passed away Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, on a tugboat while he was on his rest shift on the west bank of the Mississippi River in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Devin was born July 9, 1988, in Cape Girardeau to Lea Eastman and Jeffery Overbeck. He attended school in Jackson and was active in junior high sports. He and Kelly Bowman were married Dec. 5, 2009, and three daughters were born to their union...
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Jackie Kaufman
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
Jackie Lee Kaufman, Sr., 78, of Thebes died Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, at his home. Arrangements are pending at Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Vernon Gowen Jr.
(Obituary ~ 01/04/18)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Vernon G. Gowen Jr., 69, of Perryville died Jan. 3, 2018, at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Services will be private at a future date. Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville is in charge of arrangements.
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