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U.S. 61 pavement repairs continue in Jackson
(Local News ~ 08/20/19)
An excavator operator with Emery Sapp and Sons Inc. loads gravel in front of the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse during full-depth pavement repairs Monday at the intersection of Washington and High streets in Jackson. ...
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Cape council fills vacancy only after tie vote
(Local News ~ 08/20/19)
Having only six members on the Cape Girardeau City Council made it difficult to choose a seventh member Monday to fill a vacant seat. Choosing from among three finalists, the council initially cast a tie vote. Three council members voted for Nathaniel Thomas and three for Christina Mershon...
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Council fails to pass motions, assuring renewal of liquor license for banquet hall
(Local News ~ 08/20/19)
A Cape Girardeau banquet hall will have its liquor license renewed after the city council Monday failed to secure the necessary four votes to uphold the city manager’s decision to deny it. Council members initially voted 3-2 to grant a provisional license for six months rather than the regular one-year license with Mayor Bob Fox and council members Daniel Presson and Shelly Moore supporting the motion. Council members Ryan Essex and Stacy Kinder dissented. ...
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'Key project' might get put on hold for reconstruction of Bloomfield Street, parts of Lexington, Notre Dame traffic signal
(Local News ~ 08/20/19)
The hefty price tag to extend Veterans Memorial Drive has a Cape Girardeau city advisory committee looking at the possibility of doing it in stages. With the help of city staff, the committee is drawing up a list of projects to be funded if Cape Girardeau voters extend the transportation sales tax next year. ...
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Options for future Jackson Homecomers discussed by aldermen, American Legion, merchants
(Local News ~ 08/20/19)
Should the Jackson Homecomers celebration be moved? Should it be shortened from five days to three? Or should it be left where it is and it remain a five-day event? And what are the chances First Baptist Church in Jackson would permit a beer garden on church property?...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/20/19)
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2019. There are 133 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 20, 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself...
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Safety net becomes entanglement
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/20/19)
When food commodities from the government became available to poor people, my grandfather wouldn't take any. I was just a kid, and I didn't understand. Here was free food, and grandpa said no. He said they could get by without the free food so they shouldn't take it...
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Dental health organization looks to expand services
(Editorial ~ 08/20/19)
One of the United Way of Southeast Missouri's new funding partners for the next three years aims to provide or assist oral health services to adults, including the elderly. The Oral Health Coalition of Southeast Missouri was formed nearly 15 years ago with the goal of improving dental health for children and elderly in the region. With the funding from the United Way, the organization will extend those services...
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Planned Halperin book faces wide criticism
(Entertainment ~ 08/20/19)
NEW YORK -- A reported book deal for Mark Halperin, the "Game Change" co-author and political commentator who has faced multiple allegations of sexual harassment, is being greeted with widespread outrage. Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson called the deal "a slap in the face to all women."...
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Area police reports 8/20/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/20/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Mariah Smith, 25, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a warrant at West End Boulevard and Independence Street. n Kyrese Beason, 18, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a warrant at William and South Pacific streets...
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Thousands flee from 'monster' wildfire on Canary Islands
(Community ~ 08/20/19)
LISBON, Portugal -- A major, out-of-control wildfire in Spain's Canary Islands was throwing flames 160 feet into the air Monday, forcing emergency workers to evacuate more than 9,000 people, authorities said. The blaze -- described by the local fire department as "a monster" -- was racing across parched woodlands into Tamadaba Natural Park, regarded as one of the jewels on Gran Canaria, a mountainous volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago off northwest Africa...
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Memorial completed for victims of 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
(Community ~ 08/20/19)
BOSTON -- Three stone pillars were placed Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, marking the final step in a $2 million effort to memorialize the bombing that killed three people. The understated monument of granite and bronze, which took four years to plan and develop, was supposed to be ready last year for the fifth anniversary of the April 15, 2013, attack, but underwent significant redesigns and other delays...
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U.S. prisons chief removed after Epstein's death
(National News ~ 08/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position Monday, more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life while in federal custody. Hugh Hurwitz's reassignment comes amid mounting evidence guards at the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York abdicated their responsibility to keep the 66-year-old Epstein from killing himself while he awaited trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls.. ...
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U.S. talks secretly to Venezuela socialist boss, Trump official says
(International News ~ 08/20/19)
BOGOTA, Colombia -- The U.S. has made secret contact with Venezuela's socialist party boss as close allies of President Nicolas Maduro's inner circle seek guarantees they won't face prosecution for alleged abuses and crimes if they cede to growing demands to remove him, according to a senior Trump administration official...
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Airstrikes target Turkish convoy in Syria
(International News ~ 08/20/19)
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Airstrikes targeted a Turkish army convoy inside a rebel-held part of northwestern Syria on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding 12 others, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. Syria, however, said the Turkish convoy was carrying ammunition to rebels who have lost ground this month amid a government offensive to retake their last stronghold in the country...
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Wide implications as Germany teetering toward recession
(International News ~ 08/20/19)
BERLIN -- Germany, Europe's industrial powerhouse and biggest economy, with companies such as Volkswagen, Siemens and BASF, may be entering a recession, according to a gloomy report from the country's central bank Monday -- a development with repercussions for the rest of the eurozone and the United States...
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Ex-Gov. Kathleen Blanco dies, led La. through Katrina
(National News ~ 08/20/19)
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Even after Hurricane Katrina ended her political career and as cancer ate away her strength, former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco still described her life as "charmed." With strength in her faith and her family, the state's first elected female governor time and again refused to wallow in disappointment or disaster...
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Planned Parenthood leaves federal program over rules changes
(National News ~ 08/20/19)
NEW YORK -- Planned Parenthood said Monday it's pulling out of the federal family planning program rather than abide by a new Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions. Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood's acting president and CEO, said the organization's nationwide network of health centers would remain open and strive to make up for the loss of federal money. ...
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NYPD fires officer in chokehold death
(National News ~ 08/20/19)
NEW YORK -- After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the unarmed man whose dying gasps of "I can't breathe" gave voice to a national debate over race and police use of force...
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Rep. Omar: Go to Israel, witness 'cruel reality of the occupation'
(National News ~ 08/20/19)
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sharply criticized Israel on Monday for denying them entry to the Jewish state and called on fellow members of Congress to visit while they cannot. Omar, of Minnesota, suggested President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were suppressing the lawmakers' ability to carry out their oversight role...
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Michael Wandrick
(Obituary ~ 08/20/19)
Michael Wandrick, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, at Lutheran Home. He was born Sept. 30, 1925, to Michael and Mary Vidlicka Wandrick of Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Stafford County High School in Virginia, in May 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Sept. 17 of that year. He served aboard the USS Princeton light aircraft carrier in the Philippines as a pilot, flying a Grumman TBM torpedo bomber...
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Jane Trudell
(Obituary ~ 08/20/19)
Jane Carol Norton Trudell, 83, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Kalamazoo, Michigan, passed away Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 16, 1936, in Munising, Michigan, daughter of Howard J. and Zelma G. Christian Norton. She and Richard Trudell were married July 5, 1957, in Marquette, Michigan. He passed away June 6, 2013...
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Dayton King
(Obituary ~ 08/20/19)
Dayton King, son of the late Floy and Zona Hodge King, was born June 9, 1943, in Delta and passed away Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, at his home in Delta at the age of 76 years. He was united in marriage to Janet Sue Menz on Nov. 7, 1964, in Delta. She preceded him in death June 5, 2018...
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Harold Hitt Jr.
(Obituary ~ 08/20/19)
TUPELO, Miss. -- Harold L. Hitt Jr., 84, died Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, at Sanctuary Hospice in Tupelo. He was born March 10, 1935, in Cape Girardeau. Harold graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School in 1952 and Southeast Missouri State University in 1956. He was a custom home builder in Jackson, Mississippi, for many years, and served as president of the Home Builders Association of Mississippi...
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Rick Ebaugh
(Obituary ~ 08/20/19)
Eric Ried "Rick" Ebaugh, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, at Southeast Hospital. Family and friends may gather from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau. Memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with Dr. Mike Cowan officiating...
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David Bergstrom Jr.
(Obituary ~ 08/20/19)
David Ray Bergstrom Jr., 38, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Funeral will follow at noon Thursday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Randy Morris officiating. Burial will be at Fairmount Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Raccoon freed after being trapped in vending machine
(National News ~ 08/20/19)
DELTONA, Fla. — Police said a raccoon trapped in a vending machine at a Florida high school is now free. Volusia County Sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant said a deputy stationed at Pine Ridge High School was notified of the trapped raccoon last week and called animal control for assistance. ...
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Education lacking on Missouri ID law, critics argue in court
(State News ~ 08/20/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Critics of Missouri's new voter identification law argued in court Monday election officials hadn't done enough to help residents navigate the changes, countering the secretary of state's position his 18-month informational campaign "far exceeded" the legal requirements...
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Speak Out 8/20/19
(Speak Out ~ 08/20/19)
Democrats' faux outrage comes and goes with the blowing of the wind. The causes of the day won't matter tomorrow. Remember when they were going to close Gitmo? Pass meaningful immigration reform? End the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? I'm not sure what teachers in Jackson are buying out of their own pockets. ...
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Prayer 8/20/19
(Prayer ~ 08/20/19)
O Lord Jesus, in everything we do may we do it for your glory. Amen.
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Out of the past: Aug. 20
(Out of the Past ~ 08/20/19)
Former Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft pounded on doors in Jackson yesterday morning in an effort to gain support for his U.S. Senate bid; Ashcroft walked door to door, dropping off literature in Jackson during his latest trip to Southeast Missouri; last week, he stumped at Cape Girardeau Public Library...
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Births 8/20/19
(Births ~ 08/20/19)
Daughter to Ricky K.O. Hunter and Lacey Danielle Tankersley of Advance, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 8:05 a.m. Monday, July 15, 2019. Name, Gypsy Reign. Weight, 6 pounds, 4 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Tankersley is the daughter of Beth Tankersley and Scott Tankersley of Advance. She is a clerk at Ross Minit Mart No. 7. Hunter is the son of Ruby Edwards of Cape Girardeau...
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Three signs you're a political drug addict
(Column ~ 08/20/19)
Some people are clueless about politics, which is ill-advised; not long ago, I was one of those people. Some stay informed about politics, which is wise. And some smoke politics like an addict smokes weed, which is downright scary. That last group merits attention...
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Sponsored: What your cat wants you to know about going outside the litter box
(Insiders Advice ~ 08/20/19)
Often, the trickiest part about being a pet owner is simply not knowing what your pet is trying to tell you. This is especially true for independent, lovable cats. In fact, noting your cat’s bathroom routine can tell us a lot about what your pet is experiencing...
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