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Cape County collector candidates seek to upgrade office
(Local News ~ 10/23/18)
Cape Girardeau County collector candidates Barbara Gholson and Carrie Michelle Robert want to upgrade the tax-collecting office. Both women said they want to make greater use of technology if elected to the $78,000-a-year job. Republican candidate Gholson, a deputy collector for the county, said, if elected, she would work with state government “to get our tax files online so that the license bureaus would be able to find paid tax receipts or citizens of the county could renew their licenses online.” ...
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Perry County presiding commissioner candidates push for affordable housing
(Local News ~ 10/23/18)
Perry County suffers from a shortage of housing, according to presiding commissioner candidates Mike Sauer and Mark Gremaud. Both candidates said, if elected, they would push for more affordable housing. Sauer, a Republican who resides in Perry County, and Gremaud, a Democrat from Perryville, Missouri, outlined their views in emailed responses to a candidates’ questionnaire from the Southeast Missourian...
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Sales tax revenue mostly flat, unlikely to grow over last year's pace during holidays
(Local News ~ 10/23/18)
Ahead of the 2018 holiday shopping season, sales tax revenue in Cape Girardeau County is roughly flat, and holiday sales aren’t likely to affect that much, said a county official. Online sales keep ratcheting upward, while the local tax base treads water...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/23/18)
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2018. There are 69 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers...
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Out of the past: Oct. 23
(Out of the Past ~ 10/23/18)
Nine World War I veterans -- Elves "Hap" Goodman, Bennett J. "Ben" Crites, Roy Gill, Clem Walker, Wiley Macke, George Vandeven, Pertle Probst, John I. Harris and Ruel Swank -- will be honored tomorrow at a special ceremony at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau; the ceremony is part of a nationwide effort to locate and honor the estimated 40,000 surviving World War I veterans...
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Court: Ross can't be questioned
(National News ~ 10/23/18)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration to block the questioning of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about his decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The unsigned order Monday overrides lower federal courts in New York allowing the questioning of Ross to proceed in lawsuits challenging the addition of a citizenship question on the decennial census for the first time since 1950...
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12-pound lunar meteorite sells for more than $600,000
(National News ~ 10/23/18)
BOSTON — A 12-pound chunk of the moon that fell to the Earth as a lunar meteorite has been sold at auction for more than $600,000. Boston-based RR Auction announced Friday the $612,500 winning bid for the meteorite, composed of six fragments that fit together like a puzzle, came from a representative working with the Tam Chuc Pagoda complex in Ha Nam Province, Vietnam...
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Affordable Care Act shapes opioid grant spending
(National News ~ 10/23/18)
With Republicans and Democrats joining forces again in a bipartisan effort to target the U.S. opioid crisis, an Associated Press analysis of the first wave of emergency money from Congress finds states are taking very different approaches to spending it...
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Missouri GOP sends 10,000 voters wrong ballot information
(State News ~ 10/23/18)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Republican Party says a miscommunication caused 10,000 voters in the state to receive mailers with incorrect information about when their absentee ballots are due. Ray Bozarth is the party's executive director. He told The Kansas City Star there was a miscommunication between the party and the vendor that printed the postcards. The mailers say mail--in ballots must be returned by Oct. 30, but they're not due until Election Day on Nov. 6...
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Missouri House Speaker Richardson to become Medicaid chief
(State News ~ 10/23/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri House Speaker Todd Richardson was appointed Monday as the next director of Missouri's multi--billion--dollar Medicaid program, vowing to improve health care for hundreds of thousands of low--income residents while restraining rising costs...
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Ice cream, you scream ... at Jefferson Elementary
(Local News ~ 10/23/18)
Kelley Branch enjoys her ice cream in front of the Sugar Chic ice cream truck Monday at Jefferson Elementary School in Cape Girardeau.
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Crader lecture will dive into religion, politics
(Editorial ~ 10/23/18)
The overlap of politics, government and religion creates complications. In a nation that guarantees freedoms in religion and speech, are there limits? How much religion should be injected into our politics vs. our government? These are questions that have been debated since the country's founding...
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Cape restaurant owner endorses minimum wage ballot issue
(Column ~ 10/23/18)
Since I was a child, watching my mother make the traditional meals of Sicily, I knew I wanted to build a life around cooking. But after years of working in hotels and restaurants around the world, I wanted greater opportunity. I wanted my own restaurant, a place that -- like my mother's kitchen -- would not only showcase Italian cooking but embody the warmth and inclusiveness of the hospitality I grew up with...
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Leaked video shows Khashoggi 'body double' leaving consulate
(International News ~ 10/23/18)
ISTANBUL -- Just hours after writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, a man strolled out of the diplomatic post apparently wearing the columnist's clothes as part of a macabre deception to sow confusion over his fate, according to surveillance video leaked Monday...
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Trump says he’s cutting Central American aid
(National News ~ 10/23/18)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Monday the U.S. will begin cutting aid to three Central American countries he accused of failing to stop thousands of migrants heading for the U.S. border. But across his administration there was no indication of any action in response to what he tweeted was a “National Emergy.” ...
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Vida Loberg Stanard
(Obituary ~ 10/23/18)
POLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Funeral services for Vida Loberg Stanard, who died Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, were held Saturday in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church in Poplar Bluff. The Rev. Byron Beck, pastor of Fellowship General Baptist Church, officiated in the absence of the Rev. David Stewart, lead pastor at First Methodist. Burial followed in the family plot in Memorial Gardens Cemetery...
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Fredric McGruder
(Obituary ~ 10/23/18)
PATTON, Mo. -- Fredric Alan McGruder, 68, of Patton died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, at his home. Visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Hutchings Funeral Home in Marble Hill, Missouri. Funeral, with military honors, will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home...
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Fern Harris
(Obituary ~ 10/23/18)
Fern Harris, 98, a retired teacher died Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born near Advance, Missouri, Aug. 11, 1920, daughter of Dewey S. and Myrtle Revelle Harris, in the home built by her pioneer ancestors in 1859...
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Genetter Beardsley
(Obituary ~ 10/23/18)
Genetter Ann Beardsley, 64, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, at her home. Family and friends may gather from 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau. A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at the funeral home...
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Births 10/23/18
(Births ~ 10/23/18)
Daughter to Matthew John and Jessica Nicole Meyer of Perryville, Missouri, 12:33 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. Name, Autumn Elizabeth. Weight, 6 pounds, 5.4 ounces. Fourth daughter. Mrs. Meyer is the former Jessica Lottes, daughter of Charlie and Sue Lottes of Perryville and Dave Jenkins of Lithium, Missouri. Meyer is the son of Frank and Mary Meyer of Perryville. He is a diesel technician with Scheffer Truck Service...
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Holocaust memorial in U.S. merges past with new technology
(Community ~ 10/23/18)
PHILADELPHIA -- In 1964, the first public memorial to the Holocaust in the United States was unveiled in a solemn ceremony in Philadelphia. The bronze--on--black granite sculpture called "Six Million Jewish Martyrs" was the work of artist Nathan Rapoport, who fled his native Poland when the Nazis invaded Warsaw. ...
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PBS docuseries 'Native America' recreates cultures pre--1492
(Entertainment ~ 10/23/18)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The story of Native America taught in U.S. public schools usually begins at contact with European explorers. Children then get lessons about Thanksgiving, maybe the Trail of Tears or the 19th century wars over the removal of tribes in the American West. Rarely discussed is life in the Americas before Columbus' 1492 voyage...
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Prayer 10/23/18
(Prayer ~ 10/23/18)
O Father God, thank you for blessing us and sending your son Jesus for our salvation. Amen.
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Take the challenge to find defiant joy
(Column ~ 10/23/18)
When was the last time you intentionally participated in something that would add joy to your life? When did you shun negativity in favor of the positive? Or do you see such conscious decisions as weird things weird people do? I invite you to take the challenges that were issued to me last week...
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