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Suspect blows up self
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas -- As a SWAT team closed in, the suspected bomber whose deadly explosives terrorized Austin for three weeks used one of his own devices to blow himself up. But police warned that he could have planted more bombs before his death, and they cautioned the city to stay on guard...
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McCaskill touts passing of bill targeting sex trafficking
(Local News ~ 03/22/18)
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Wednesday to make it easier to prosecute websites facilitating sex trafficking and allow victims to pursue federal civil claims, The vote was 97-2. The House earlier this year passed similar legislation...
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Foodie panel talks variety at local restaurants
(Local News ~ 03/22/18)
Applebee's Bar and Grill = Jack-of-all-trades, master of... uhm... mozzarella sticks? When it comes to options, no other restaurant in town comes close. American? Mexican? Chinese? Italian? Thai? Steaks? Salads? Pasta? Pub Food? Sandwiches? Cajun? Southern? Burgers? Healthy food? Dessert? They literally have it all. ...
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Shots fired at Jackson home
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/22/18)
Jackson police reported shots fired Thursday afternoon at a residence on South Bast Street. According to a release from Capt. Scott Eakers, five bullet holes were found in the front side of the residence, and though the resident was home at the time of the incident, no injuries were reported...
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SCC School district seeks tax increase
(Local News ~ 03/22/18)
The financially-strapped Scott County Central School District is asking voters in the April 3 election to approve a 95-cent increase in its operating tax levy. Supt. Howard Benyon, who took charge of the district last summer, said, "It is a considerable increase."...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
Today is Thursday, March 22, the 81st day of 2018. There are 284 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On March 22, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the commander of American forces in Vietnam, would leave that post to become the U.S. ...
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Col. Robert Lewis Howard
(Column ~ 03/22/18)
Most people have never heard of U.S. Army Col. Robert Lewis Howard who was the most decorated soldier of the Vietnam War. He served five tours of duty in Vietnam and was nominated for the Medal of Honor three times, but a soldier can only be awarded the Medal of Honor once. ...
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Thanks to kind people
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/22/18)
Recently my wife and I were shopping at Menard's in Cape Girardeau. We received an emergency message and had to leave. In the rush we left our shopping cart sitting in the aisle with merchandise along with two rebate checks. Some very nice person or persons returned the cart with everything along with our two rebate checks to the front desk. Menard's mailed the rebates back to us. My wife and I would like to thank all the kind people who did this for us...
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Volunteers important to county archive
(Editorial ~ 03/22/18)
If you have some extra time on your hands and enjoy history, you might consider helping out the people at the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center. They need help digitizing records. The center opened in 2001 at 112 E. Washington St. in Jackson. The number of volunteers at the center has decreased over the years. Having digital records that can be easily researched will help preserve the paper records. Plus, it'll make the archive center more user-friendly...
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Tempest over Trump call turns into leak uproar
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
WASHINGTON -- The tempest over President Donald Trump's congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin quickly grew on Wednesday into an uproar over White House leaks, sparking an internal investigation and speculation over who might be the next person Trump forces out of the West Wing...
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Zuckerberg admits mistakes, offers no apology for data leaks
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
NEW YORK -- Breaking five days of silence, Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data in light of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm. Zuckerberg said Facebook has a "responsibility" to protect its users' data and if it fails, "we don't deserve to serve you."...
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Fed raises rate, sees more hikes
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is raising its benchmark interest rate to reflect a solid U.S. economy and signaling it's sticking with a gradual approach to rate hikes for 2018 under its new chairman, Jerome Powell. The Fed said it expects to increase rates twice more this year. At the same time, it increased its estimate for rate hikes in 2019 from two to three, reflecting an expectation of faster growth and lower unemployment...
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Race set for Illinois governor
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
CHICAGO -- Democrats are giddy following Illinois' primary about their chances of reclaiming the governor's office from a GOP incumbent who barely survived his own nomination fight. Billionaire J.B. Pritzker received almost 575,000 votes on Tuesday, consolidating support from Democratic voters who turned out in midterm numbers not seen in more than a decade to defeat his closest rival by 20 points. ...
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Britney Spears lands Kenzo gig
(Community ~ 03/22/18)
PARIS -- Britney Spears has landed her first high fashion modeling campaign as the new face of Paris-based Kenzo. The 36-year-old singer said she had been waiting for the "right fit and the right opportunity" to represent a luxury brand. Celebrity photographer Peter Lindbergh snapped Spears in relaxed styles featuring denim, baseball caps and florals, as well as the princess of pop's signature exposed midriff...
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Northeast braces for fourth nor'easter in three weeks
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
PHILADELPHIA -- The fourth nor'easter in three weeks pushed its way Wednesday up the East Coast, the first full day of spring, with high winds and the potential for a foot or more of snow from West Virginia to New England. Airlines canceled thousands of flights, and school districts throughout the Northeast canceled classes ahead of the storm that's expected to intensify in the afternoon, with heavy, wet snow likely to knock out power across the region. ...
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Suspect's family expresses shock
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
The family of the man suspected of planting the bombs this month killing two people and injured four others in the Texas capital expressed shock, saying they don't know what could have motivated him. "I mean this is coming from nowhere. We just don't know what. I don't know how many ways to say it, but everyone is caught off guard by this so, yeah I don't know. I don't know. I mean I don't know," Mike Courtney, the uncle of 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt, said Wednesday...
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Crisis-management lesson 101: What not to do in a bad news cycle
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
NEW YORK -- The crisis-management playbook is pretty simple: Get ahead of the story, update authorities and the public regularly, assume responsibility and take decisive action. Crisis-management experts say Facebook is 0-for-4. Facebook's two top executives, chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, went radio silent since news broke on Sunday political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica may have used data improperly obtained from roughly 50 million Facebook users to try to sway elections, including the 2016 White House race.. ...
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Maryland school shooter used his father's handgun
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
GREAT MILLS, Md. -- A teenager used his father's legally-owned handgun in an attack inside his high school in Maryland, police said Wednesday. Austin Rollins, 17, was killed Tuesday morning at Great Mills High School when a school resource officer fired off a shot at the attacker. It was not yet clear whether Rollins took his own life with his father's semi-automatic Glock handgun or was killed by the officer's bullet...
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Study: Medical bankruptcies not too common
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
Medical bills can push patients over the financial cliff, but a new study says this may not happen as often as previous research suggested. Hospitalizations cause only about 4 percent of personal bankruptcies among non-elderly U.S. adults, according to an analysis published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine...
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Students, women, teachers embrace activist roles in advance of midterms
(National News ~ 03/22/18)
Suddenly, America is on the march. Saturday's March for Our Lives, planned for Washington and hundreds of other locations, is just the most recent sign an extraordinary number of Americans are taking to heart the old truism democracy should not be a spectator sport...
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Russia-UK war of words escalating after poisoning
(International News ~ 03/22/18)
MOSCOW -- The war of words between Russia and Britain over an ex-spy's poisoning got uglier Wednesday as the U.K. foreign secretary called it vomit-inducing Russian President Vladimir Putin is rejoicing over hosting the World Cup. Russia shot back that Boris Johnson is "poisoned with venom of malice and hate."...
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Facebook: Should you leave or stay?
(Community ~ 03/22/18)
NEW YORK -- Sure. Take the quiz about which hair-metal band is your spirit animal. Share a few snaps of your toddler at the beach and watch the likes pile up. Comment on pointed political opinion from the classmate you haven't seen since the Reagan administration...
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Iraq holding more than 19,000 because of IS, militant ties
(International News ~ 03/22/18)
BAGHDAD -- Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of connections to the Islamic State group or other terror-related offenses, and sentenced more than 3,000 of them to death, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. The mass incarceration and speed of guilty verdicts raise concerns over potential miscarriages of justice -- and worries jailed militants are recruiting within the general prison population to build new extremist networks...
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Burgers outselling baguette in France
(Community ~ 03/22/18)
PARIS -- Forget the baguette. The French are going crazy for burgers. Figures released this week revealed that sales of the jambon-beurre -- the ham and butter baguette sandwich, a classic of French snacking -- have been surpassed by sales of American-style burgers...
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DMZ? Washington? Trump-Kim summit site rumors swirl
(International News ~ 03/22/18)
TOKYO -- With just weeks to go, there's still no official word on where President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will hold their unprecedented summit. Will they pick an obvious place like one of their own capitals, or something off the wall, like a ship at sea? Or a place so obscure the curious will be sent frantically searching Google Earth?...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 3/22/18
(Local News ~ 03/22/18)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Approval of minutes n Minutes of March 19 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on the agenda Routine business...
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Out of the past: March 22
(Out of the Past ~ 03/22/18)
Jess Bolen Plumbing and Heating has opened in Cape Girardeau; Bolen, who has been in the plumbing business for 32 years, worked with A.E. Birk & Son the past decade; that firm recently closed after 69 years in Cape Girardeau, and Bolen will continue to serve Birk customers...
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Walter Wilde
(Obituary ~ 03/22/18)
Walter "Wayne" Wilde, 68, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at Southeast Hospital. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Mark Martin officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Myrtle Scivally
(Obituary ~ 03/22/18)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Myrtle Scivally, 95, of Cobden died Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at Metropolis Rehab and Healthcare Center. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at Crain Funeral Home in Anna-Jonesboro, Illinois. Funeral will follow at 1 p.m. at the funeral home, with the Rev. Larry Buckles officiating. Interment will be in Casper Cemetery...
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Loretta Reynolds
(Obituary ~ 03/22/18)
Loretta B. Reynolds, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery...
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Charlotte Dow
(Obituary ~ 03/22/18)
Charlotte M. Dow, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at Ratliff Care Center. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will follow at 11 a.m. at the funeral home, with Elijah Allen officiating. Burial will be in Lightner Cemetery in Scott City...
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Dorothy Craft
(Obituary ~ 03/22/18)
ST. ANN, Mo. -- Dorothy Craft, 93, of St. Ann passed away Sunday, March 18, 2018, at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis. She was born in Lecoma, Missouri, daughter of Joseph W. and Mildred Leonard Case. She and Harlan Craft married March 20, 1953. He passed away Sept. 7, 2005...
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Truck crashes into house
(Local News ~ 03/22/18)
Emergency personnel respond Wednesday after a truck went off-road through two lawns before crashing into a home at 1561 Greenbrier Drive in Cape Girardeau. Two people were transported by ambulance from the scene. No one was home at the time of the collision. More photos can be viewed at semissourian.com...
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SEMO students going to March for Our Lives
(Local News ~ 03/22/18)
Following the recent National School Walkout that took place in high schools across the country, another national movement is gearing up to take place Saturday: March for Our Lives. The March 14 walkouts were in response to the recent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that took the lives of 17 students and teachers. ...
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Southeast Cyber Defense team eyes regional, national contests
(Local News ~ 03/22/18)
After winning the state competition for the sixth straight year and regionals ahead, the Southeast Cyber Defense team ultimately has its eyes set on San Antonio, where the national competition will be held. The latest win came March 3 at Dempster Hall. The team's skills will be tested again Friday and Saturday at the Midwest Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in Illinois, where they will be competing against other teams in the region...
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Prayer 3/22/18
(Prayer ~ 03/22/18)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for showing us what it means to serve one another. Amen.
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Cape Girardeau fire report 3/22/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/22/18)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Monday n Medical assists were made at 5:22 a.m. on Independence Street; 7:17 a.m. on Themis Street; 8:35 a.m. on North Frederick Street; 10:10 a.m. on Linden Street; 12:40 p.m. on East Rodney Drive; 4 p.m. on South Silver Springs Road; 6:09 p.m. on Edgewood Road; 6:27 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; 8:40 p.m. on William Street; and 10 p.m. on North Lorimier Street...
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Cape Girardeau police report 3/22/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/22/18)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following item. Arrests n Torian Hence, 28, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for driving with no license. n Shalique Porter, 34, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Mississippi County (Missouri) warrant...
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Births 3/22/18
(Births ~ 03/22/18)
Son to Austin Michael Wilson and Brittney Danielle Ledbetter of Marble Hill, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 12:01 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Name, Kamdyn David. Weight, 8 pounds, 6 ounces. Second child, first son. Ledbetter is the former Brittney Spencer, daughter of Alvin and Lisa Spencer, and Doris Spencer of Jackson. She is a dialysis technician with Fresenius Kidney Care. Wilson is the son of Sharlyn Wilson of Marble Hill. He is a floor layer with Richardet Floor Covering...
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