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Repair work to close southbound lane of West End Boulevard on Thursday
(Local News ~ 05/16/18)
The southbound lane of North West End Boulevard, between Broadway and Bessie Street, will be closed to traffic Thursday for street repairs, city traffic operations manager Andrew Stone said in a news release. The closure is expected to last from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., depending upon work and weather, Stone said...
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Parties look to settle wrongful death lawsuit over death of Mississippi County inmate
(Local News ~ 05/16/18)
A federal, wrongful-death lawsuit against embattled Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson and others could be settled in June, court records show. Federal Judge John Ross has scheduled a hearing on the proposed settlement for 4 p.m. June 18 at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau...
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Opening day for summer makes its splash soon
(Local News ~ 05/16/18)
Memorial Day weekend is quickly approaching, which signals another summertime holiday opening day for public swimming pools and water parks May 26. ...
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Saving the doughboy: Jackson American Legion post steps up to preserve WWI memorial
(Local News ~ 05/16/18)
On the county courthouse lawn in Jackson, a statue stands at the southeast corner. Hes a doughboy, so called because he stands to honor the men and women who served in World War I. Since its dedication in 1925, the 16-feet-tall white marble statue has eroded, but thanks to the American Legion post in Jackson, the statue is sealed against further damage...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 136th day of 2018. There are 229 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 16, 1868, at the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, 35 out of 54 senators voted to find Johnson guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors" over his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. ...
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Dems' partisanship, obstruction is not a good look
(Column ~ 05/16/18)
It's far from a tidal wave but Democrats are reluctantly arriving at the conclusion that Trump bashing is not working. Perhaps Democrats are poll testing their anti-Trump messaging and recognizing that the constant barrage of criticism is wearing thin with the American public...
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NAFTA important to the nation and Missouri
(Column ~ 05/16/18)
As a member of the Missouri State Senate and Chairman of Missouri Vets4Energy, there is little that I can do to influence one of the most serious and immediate issues facing our state and nation, namely the Trump Administration's decision regarding the termination of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). However, like you, I can make my opinion known and that is the purpose of this opinion piece...
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Trump pays tribute to fallen officers in emotional ceremony
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump paid emotional tribute Tuesday to fallen law enforcement officers and the loved ones who carry on without them, saying those who wore the uniform "were among the bravest Americans to ever live." "They made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could live in safety and in peace," Trump said...
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Missouri House loosens regulation of security deposits
(State News ~ 05/16/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. The Missouri House has voted to allow landlords to keep security deposits in their business bank accounts instead of in separate trust accounts. The bill, approved Monday in a 101-43 vote, would let security deposits be mixed in with other funds. ...
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Missouri Senate OKs tax credits for gifts to soup kitchens
(State News ~ 05/16/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Missouri lawmakers are considering giving out tax credits for donations to soup kitchens, homeless shelters and diaper banks. Senators voted 30-3 in favor of the proposal Tuesday. It now heads back to the House because of Senate changes. ...
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Missouri House votes to amend constitution for right to work
(State News ~ 05/16/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. The Missouri House has approved a constitutional amendment to ban mandatory union fees. If both chambers sign off on the proposal, voters would decide the issue Nov. 6 or on another date set by the governor. The proposal, approved 93-54 on Monday, is intended to protect right-to-work legislation Republicans passed last year. ...
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Lawmakers press governor probe despite dropped case
(State News ~ 05/16/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Eric Greitens may have gained an argument against impeachment when a St. Louis prosecutor dropped a criminal charge against him, but the governor's "great victory" seems to have done little to slow legislative momentum for an effort to try to remove him from office...
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Israel faces diplomatic fallout after 59 killed, 2,700 wounded in Gaza
(International News ~ 05/16/18)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel faced a growing backlash Tuesday and new charges of using excessive force, a day after Israeli troops firing from across a border fence killed 59 Palestinians and wounded more than 2,700 at a mass protest in Gaza. Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador, while Ireland and Belgium summoned Israeli envoys. Leading European countries and the U.N. human rights office called for an investigation of the bloodshed...
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U.S. says Israel using restraint
(International News ~ 05/16/18)
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N.'s Middle East envoy said there was no justifying the killings of more than 50 Palestinians by Israeli fire at the Gaza border, and several Security Council members called for an independent investigation, but the council had no unified message Tuesday as the U.S. said Israel had acted with "restraint."...
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N. Korea threatens to cancel U.S. summit
(International News ~ 05/16/18)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea canceled a high-level meeting with South Korea and threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over military exercises between Seoul and Washington, which Pyongyang has long claimed are invasion rehearsals...
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GOP senators, Trump hold hourlong conversation
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump appeared to be in a good mood Tuesday when he met privately with Senate Republicans, buoyed by primary election results and talks with North Korea, and bypassing any serious discussion of high-profile trouble spots in the administration...
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U.S. intensifies pressure on Iran, sanctions finance official
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
WASHINGTON -- The United States intensified its financial pressure Tuesday on Iran, slapping anti-terror sanctions on the head of its central bank and barring anyone around the world from doing business with him. That dealt a further blow to European hopes of salvaging the Iranian nuclear deal in the wake of President Donald Trump's withdrawal...
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Parkland parents running for school board
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Two parents who lost children in February's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School announced their candidacies for county school board seats Tuesday, saying they want to improve safety and increase accountability. Ryan Petty, a telecom and technology entrepreneur, said he wants to help restore the Broward County School Board to its proper function as an oversight body for the administration, saying he thinks accountability has been lost. ...
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NC teachers set to protest low pay
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The recent wave of teacher activism sweeping through conservative, tax-cutting states has washed into North Carolina, where educators have pledged to fill the streets and bring their demands for better pay and school resources to legislators' doorstep...
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Groups challenge Iowa abortion law
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A lawsuit challenging the nation's most restrictive abortion law was filed Tuesday in Iowa, a state for years was largely left out of Republican efforts to overturn abortion protections and where the Democratic attorney general has refused to defend the law...
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Putin opponent gets 30-day sentence
(International News ~ 05/16/18)
MOSCOW -- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was ordered Tuesday to spend 30 days in jail for staging an unsanctioned protest in Moscow and resisting police, charges he dismissed as unlawful. Navalny organized a series of protests May 5 in the Russian capital and other cities before President Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a new term. Demonstrations under the slogan "He is not our czar" took place throughout the country...
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Muslim fasting month of Ramadan to start Thursday
(International News ~ 05/16/18)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Millions of Muslims around the world will begin the fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday. Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations, such as Indonesia, declared Ramadan would not begin today based on a moon-sighting methodology. That means the month of dawn-to-dusk fasting will most likely begin Thursday...
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Europe, Iran seek to save nuclear deal after U.S. pullout
(International News ~ 05/16/18)
BRUSSELS -- Major European powers sought Tuesday to keep Iran committed to a deal to prevent it from building a nuclear bomb despite deep misgivings about Tehran's Middle East politics and President Donald Trump's vehement opposition. The U.S. already pulled out of the pact of the major global powers with Iran and promised tough economic sanctions potentially hurting companies in the European Union as well. Instead, the EU nations sought to show Iran they stand by diplomatic commitments...
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CIA nominee picks up support
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's CIA nominee appeared to be on a path toward confirmation as she picked up support Tuesday from key Democrats and toughened her public stance against harsh interrogation. "With the benefit of hindsight and my experience as a senior agency leader, the enhanced interrogation program is not one the CIA should have undertaken," Gina Haspel said in written answers to more than 60 questions released by the Senate intelligence committee...
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Racist 'alt-right' movement reeling after string of setbacks
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Led from a courtroom in handcuffs Tuesday, one of the nation's most recognizable white nationalists will have 38 days behind bars to ponder the dizzying demise of the group he led before his arrest exposed a bizarre sex scandal. Matthew Heimbach's jail sentence for a probation violation is just the latest setback for the "alt-right" fringe movement, reeling after becoming emboldened and energized by Donald Trump's presidential campaign and election...
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Trump pays return visit to see hospitalized first lady
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump visited his wife, Melania, in the hospital Tuesday as she continues to recover after a kidney procedure. Trump said earlier Tuesday the first lady is "doing really well" and he expected her back at the White House before the end of the week. He arrived by helicopter at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington on Tuesday afternoon...
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U.S. firms seek tariff relief as U.S. and China try to mend rift
(National News ~ 05/16/18)
WASHINGTON -- Corporate America is seeking relief from President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on at least $50 billion in Chinese goods as negotiators seek to prevent a trade war between the world's two biggest economies. Best Buy wants televisions to be spared from the tariffs. ...
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Out of the past: May 16
(Out of the Past ~ 05/16/18)
A retirement reception was held yesterday for Sam Jarrell, principal of May Greene School, at the Vo-Tech Building; Jarrell will retire at the end of the school year, after 26 years with the Cape Girardeau Public Schools. Legislation to allow Sunday package liquor sales is drawing mixed reactions locally; Gov. ...
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Barbara Wallace
(Obituary ~ 05/16/18)
Barbara Wallace, 87, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, May 15, 2018, at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau and from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at First General Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau...
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Arthur LeGrand
(Obituary ~ 05/16/18)
Arthur "Art" J. LeGrand, 92, of Cape Girardeau went home to be with the Lord on Monday, May 14, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born July 26, 1925, in Chaffee, Missouri to Lawrence F. and Katherine Klipfel LeGrand. He and Vivian Gardiner were married Jan. 21, 1950, at Dutchtown...
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Barbara Baker
(Obituary ~ 05/16/18)
Barbara J. Baker of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, May 9, 2018, with her daughter by her side. She was born to the late Harry and Alma Carrow Palmer in McClure, Illinois, and was the youngest of their 11 children. She and Howard Baker were married March 6, 1960, at the Marquette Hotel in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death in July 1968...
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Prayer 5/16/18
(Prayer ~ 05/16/18)
O Lord Jesus, may your peace rule in our hearts forevermore. Amen.
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Tom Wolfe, pioneering 'New Journalist,' dead at 88
(Entertainment ~ 05/16/18)
NEW YORK -- Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of "New Journalism" who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full," has died. He was 88...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 5/16/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/16/18)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Monday n Medical assists were made at 10:30 a.m. on South Mount Auburn Road, 1:47 p.m. on Champion Drive and 3:17 p.m. on William Street. n At 8:57 a.m., smoke detector activation, no fire, was reported on Veterans Memorial Drive...
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Cape Girardeau police report 5/16/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/16/18)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Alan Aspley, 50, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Scott County warrant. n Leonard McAdory, 43, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant...
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Births 5/16/18
(Births ~ 05/16/18)
Son to Seth and Rochelle Compaore of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 4:12 a.m. Thursday, May 3, 2018. Name, William Isaac. Weight, 7 pounds, 11 ounces. First child. Mrs. Compaore is the former Rochelle Baldridge, daughter of Sandy and Roxanne Baldridge of Jenks, Oklahoma. She is a French instructor at Southeast Missouri State University. Compaore is the son of Zarata Tiemtore of Ouagadougou, Berkina Faso. He is a graduate instructor at the University of Missouri-Columbia...
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Beware the lava, the quicksand, President Trump and Speaker Pelosi!
(Column ~ 05/16/18)
Anyone with young kids today has probably heard the phrase, "Stop. The ground is hot lava!" I have no idea where the game originated, but each of my girls has bellowed it out at some point, followed by careful walking on ground free of the pretend, hot magma. Sometimes, when traversing, say, a checkered green-and-white floor, the lava might only be the green squares, leaving a relatively safe way to cross a room...
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