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Southeast Missouri man severely injured by fighting bulls
(Local News ~ 08/22/18)
A Harviell, Missouri, man who was injured by two bulls on his property last week is making gradual steps forward, but remained on a ventilator at a St. Louis hospital as of Saturday, according to family. Bob Newcomb sustained 16 broken ribs, a collapsed lung and two fractured vertebrae during the incident Aug. 10 at his home on County Road 359...
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Aslinger Foundation to host Summer Music Fest
(Local News ~ 08/22/18)
The Howard Aslinger Memorial Scholarship Foundation — which began in 2009 — is hosting Summer Music Fest rain or shine at 4 p.m. Saturday at Arena Park’s Red Show Barn in Cape Girardeau to benefit local individuals with disabilities. Jean Aslinger, president of the Howard Aslinger Memorial Scholarship Foundation, said the foundation also hosts the annual 24-hour endurance run in March, and the idea for the event this weekend came about shortly after the competition’s inception...
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Cape First Church expects thousands to attend Family Day event, demo derby
(Local News ~ 08/22/18)
Cape First Church in Cape Girardeau is hosting its annual Family Day at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Arena Park as a free, community outreach event providing nearly 3,000 hot dogs, followed by a 12-car demolition derby in the Arena Park grandstand. Jeff Wilson, Cape First Church staff pastor, said since the event originated, he has seen growth in attendance and participation...
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Police: Cape city sees drop in serious crimes
(Local News ~ 08/22/18)
Cape Girardeau has seen a decline in serious crimes overall and is on the right track when it comes to combating crime, city officials said. According to police records, total serious crime in Cape Girardeau dropped nearly 11 percent for the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2017...
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Central student scores perfect 36 on ACT, tutors on popular YouTube channel
(Local News ~ 08/22/18)
Earning a 36 on the ACT is a great achievement, but for Cape Girardeau Central senior Michael Hwang, it’s just part of the overall picture: a successful YouTube channel, studies at Southeast Missouri State University and a solid foundation in teaching are already in place...
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River Heritage Museum eyes vacant annex for new home
(Local News ~ 08/22/18)
The now-vacant Common Pleas Courthouse Annex could become the new home of the Cape River Heritage Museum if the organization’s board of directors has its way. “We think it would be wonderful,” museum director Margaret Ford said Tuesday. She said the board has toured the annex...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2018. There are 131 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 22, 1972, President Richard Nixon was nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach...
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The Obama seeds of discontent
(Column ~ 08/22/18)
As hard as you may try, it's impossible to escape the political rhetoric that so divides this nation. It's easy and understandable to blame the national media for this obsessive push against the Trump administration. Facts are facts, and the overwhelming majority of the major media are clearly less than objective in their reporting of this administration...
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Crews recover body of man swept away in Wisconsin flooding
(Community ~ 08/22/18)
MADISON, Wis. -- Searchers on Tuesday recovered the body of a man who was wrenched away from would-be rescuers during flash flooding forcing evacuations around Wisconsin's capital city and cutting power to many homes. More than 11 inches of rain fell overnight in places in or around Madison, according to the National Weather Service. The worst of the weather seemed to have passed by midday Tuesday, with the forecast calling for dry conditions Tuesday night and sunshine today and Thursday...
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Mark Siegel
(Obituary ~ 08/22/18)
Mark Alan Siegel, 56, of Old Appleton passed away Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, at his home. He was born Dec. 10, 1961, in Hammond, Indiana, to Robert and Dolores Kotul Siegel. He and Michele D'Alessio were married Sept. 18, 1992, in Livingston, New Jersey...
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Willard Rehkopf
(Obituary ~ 08/22/18)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Willard Allen Rehkopf, 68, of Advance died Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, at Advance Nursing Home. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. to noon Friday at Zion Lutheran Church in Gordonville. Funeral will be at noon Friday at the church, with the Rev. Wayne Schwiesow officiating. Burial will be at Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Gordonville...
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Hazel James
(Obituary ~ 08/22/18)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Hazel Lucille James, 94, of Marble Hill died Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, at Woodland Hills Nursing Home. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with burial to follow in Point Pleasant Cemetery near Marble Hill...
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Darold Dunning
(Obituary ~ 08/22/18)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Darold K. Dunning, 60, of Tamms died Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, at his home. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Jones Funeral Home in Tamms. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Curt Alderson officiating. Interment will follow in the McCrite Cemetery in Tamms...
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Amanda Davis-Scheffer
(Obituary ~ 08/22/18)
Amanda "Mandy" Nichole Davis-Scheffer, 38, of Millersville died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, at her home. She was born July 29, 1980, in Chaffee, Missouri, to Shane and Joyce Anne Priest Johnston. Mandy married Robert Gene Davis on April 21, 2001. Together they had a son, Brayden Noah Davis. Robert died while serving in Afghanistan on Aug. 18, 2005. She later married Robert Scheffer on July 10, 2012, in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and together they have a daughter, Olivyia Grey Scheffer...
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Anita Coomer
(Obituary ~ 08/22/18)
Anita Raye Coomer, 70, of Whitewater passed away Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, surrounded by her loving family. Born Sept. 25, 1947, in St. Louis, she was daughter of the late Henry and Ruby Baker Daust. She and Jackie Coomer married Aug. 17, 1967, and he survives...
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El Salvador breaks ties with Taiwan
(International News ~ 08/22/18)
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan broke off diplomatic ties with El Salvador on Tuesday as the Central American country defected to rival Beijing in the latest blow to the self-ruled island China has been trying to isolate on the global stage. The break in ties means Taiwan is recognized as a sovereign nation by only 17 mainly small, developing countries. In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced his government had established ties with El Salvador...
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Indian military scales down flood rescue operations as rains ebb
(International News ~ 08/22/18)
KOCHI, India -- The Indian military is scaling down rescue operations in the southern state of Kerala, a tropical tourist haven where intense floods killed more than 200 people and drove hundreds of thousands from their homes. Decreasing rains and floodwaters mean the navy can cut back on its rescue teams in Kerala, navy spokesman Capt. D.K. Sharma said in a statement Monday. The navy has rescued nearly 16,000 people in the state...
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U.S. deports 95-year-old ex-Nazi guard to Germany
(International News ~ 08/22/18)
BERLIN -- A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived quietly in New York City for decades was carried out of his home on a stretcher by federal agents and flown to Germany early Tuesday in what could prove to be the last U.S. deportation of a World War II-era war-crimes suspect...
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Rockets strike Afghan capital in latest spike of violence
(International News ~ 08/22/18)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Rockets slammed into the heart of the capital of Kabul on Tuesday as President Ashraf Ghani delivered a speech marking a Muslim holiday, the latest in a series of brazen attacks highlighting Afghanistan's deteriorating security...
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Small firms thrive as customers seek more unique clothing
(International News ~ 08/22/18)
LONDON -- Claudio Belotti knows he cut the denim for the jeans Meghan Markle wore on one of her first outings as the fiancee of Britain's Prince Harry. That's because he cuts all of the fabric for Hiut Denim Co., a 7-year-old company making jeans in Cardigan, Wales. Belotti is a craftsman with 50 years of experience giving his work a personal touch -- something not quite couture but not exactly mass-produced either...
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In Salvadoran town, U.S. politics play role
(International News ~ 08/22/18)
INTIPUCA, El Salvador -- In a quiet, cobblestoned town near the Pacific coast of El Salvador, residents are unfazed by the Trump administration seeking to lock up families indefinitely and ending temporary protected status for people from their country. They're still going north...
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Separated Korean families have second day of reunions
(International News ~ 08/22/18)
SEOUL, South Korea -- A mother wails as she embraces a son she hasn't seen since the 1950-1953 Korean War. A woman weeps as she greets a grandfather she never got to know. The scenes of Koreans meeting this week, likely for the last time before they die, are heartbreaking, but they often bely a highly political and tightly controlled event in which participants often struggle to have genuine conversations...
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Poll: Support for school choice growing among Republicans
(Community ~ 08/22/18)
WASHINGTON -- Support for charter schools and private school voucher programs has gone up over the past year, with Republicans accounting for much of the increase, according to a survey published Tuesday. The findings by Education Next, a journal published by Harvard's Kennedy School and Stanford University, come as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos promotes alternatives to traditional public schools...
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Arrest made in missing Iowa woman's death
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
MONTEZUMA, Iowa -- A man from Mexico living in the U.S. illegally has confessed to kidnapping college student Mollie Tibbetts while she was running in her small Iowa hometown, killing her and dumping her body in a rural field, authorities said Tuesday...
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After plea deals, what is Trump's legal exposure?
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
Tuesday was a bad day in court for former associates of President Donald Trump, and it could foreshadow hard days ahead for the president. What do the developments mean for the president? Trump's lawyers have been negotiating with Robert Mueller about whether the president would submit to an interview as part of Mueller's Russia investigation. ...
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Trump looking to better Obama's campaign schedule for midterms
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is preparing for an aggressive campaign schedule this fall to boost Republican candidates on the ballot in 2018. Trump is aiming to spend more than 40 days on the campaign trail between the beginning of August and the Nov. ...
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Sen. Collins, potential swing vote, meets with nominee Kavanaugh
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh met Tuesday with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist who's seen as a potential swing vote on his confirmation, while Democrats push him to release more documents from his years in the George W. Bush White House...
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Microsoft's anti-hacking efforts pay off
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
Intentionally or not, Microsoft has emerged as a kind of internet cop, thanks to its efforts to thwart Russian hackers. The company's announcement Tuesday it disrupted fake internet domains mimicking conservative U.S. political institutions sparked confusion and alarm on Capitol Hill and led Russian officials to accuse the company of participating in an anti-Russian "witch hunt."...
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Trump attacks Manafort conviction
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump faced one of the most perilous moments of his presidency Tuesday after two onetime members of his inner circle simultaneously faced the words "guilty." The back-to-back legal blows in a pair of courtrooms in different states came as Trump tore into the prosecution as he headed to a rally with supporters in West Virginia...
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Manafort guilty on 8 charges
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Paul Manafort stood stoic and unblinking, his hands clasped in front of him, as a court clerk read off eight guilty counts against him -- a list of offenses possibly sending President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman to prison for more than a decade...
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Cohen pleads guilty, implicates Trump in hush-money scheme
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
NEW YORK -- Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying Trump directed him to arrange the payment of hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election...
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Prayer 8/22/18
(Prayer ~ 08/22/18)
Lord Jesus, may all our words and deeds point others to you, our Savior. Amen.
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Out of the past: Aug. 22
(Out of the Past ~ 08/22/18)
The annual homecoming of Trinity Methodist Church and Cemetery Association, also known as The Little German Church, is held on the church grounds, three miles west of Delta on Route N; guest speaker is Larry Dowdy of Cape Girardeau, who is with the Little River Drainage District...
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Births 8/22/18
(Births ~ 08/22/18)
Son to Cassie Wilburn of Chaffee, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, 11:35 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Name, Amari Michael. Weight, 6 pounds, 12 ounces. First child. Wilburn is the daughter of Stephanie Wilburn and Chris Wilburn of Chaffee. Daughter Kristopher and Brittany Sander of Scott City, Southeast Hospital, 9:15 a.m. ...
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1959 racial slaying of Mississippi teen could get fresh look
(National News ~ 08/22/18)
CORINTH, Miss. -- Eberlene King remembers her 15-year-old brother as he lay dying, after white teenagers cruised through their black neighborhood in a pickup on Halloween night 1959 and shot him in the face. "His eyes ... were hanging out," King recalled. "His head was full of pellets."...
- Ann Brookman (Obituary ~ 08/22/18)
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Driving by Cape Girardeau, noticing changes, progress
(Column ~ 08/22/18)
My dad loves Cape Girardeau and its progress, so when I was growing up and we went out of town as a family, the first thing we did upon arriving back was drive downtown, checking out the traffic, the lights, the people, any changes. Mind you: This was done even after the long drive from a rare family vacation to Florida -- hours of my parents and six kids squeezed into a station wagon. ...
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