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Doniphan man sentenced 64 months on firearms charge
(Local News ~ 11/07/19)
A Doniphan, Missouri, man was sentenced to 64 months in prison on a felony firearm conviction Wednesday, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Terrance Malkowski, 28, was convicted on one count of felony possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon...
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Rainy days and Wednesdays
(Local News ~ 11/07/19)
Alisa McFerron, associate director of admissions at Southeast Missouri State University, uses an umbrella to shield herself from rain while walking on the university's campus Wednesday in Cape Girardeau.
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Area businesses offer deals to veterans
(Local News ~ 11/07/19)
Area businesses are offering specials to veterans in observance of Veterans Day. ...
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Perry County family honors farmer through Adopt-a-County-Road Program
(Local News ~ 11/07/19)
In memory of a Perryville, Missouri, farmer who died at the age of 48 in December, a new beautification program has hit the streets of the city. The Lohmann family of Perry County has adopted Perry County Road 502 in honor of Todd Lohmann — making them the first family to participate in the Adopt-A-County-Road Program, according to a news release...
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Subscriber exclusive — Move over Charlie; Chocolate Works has mastered the chocolate factory
(Community ~ 11/07/19)
Tucked away on Broadway in Cape Girardeau is an honest-to-goodness chocolate factory. Chocolate Works has an adorable storefront window where you can see long glass cases filled with all manner of tiny, intricately crafted fresh chocolates and fudges...
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Notre Dame's production of '12 Angry Jurors' debuts today at the high school
(Local News ~ 11/07/19)
With a different take on the play “12 Angry Men,” the students and faculty at Notre Dame Regional High School in Cape Girardeau are debuting a more “inclusive” version at 7 p.m. today: “12 Angry Jurors.” We talked with director Cynthia King to find out how this season’s performance — made up of 13 cast members and more than 30 crew members — stacks up among the rest...
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No injuries from two-alarm fire at Scott City grain facility
(Local News ~ 11/07/19)
Local fire departments responded to a two-alarm fire at Midwest Grain and Barge late Tuesday morning in Scott City, where a blaze began in an electrical building near a loading area and spread up grain elevators. Scott City fire chief Trent August said firefighters responded to a 10:46 a.m. call at 179 Rushing Road and discovered a large working fire, which was determined to have originated from an electrical control room behind a set of silos...
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Cape Mayor Bob Fox: Spanish Street upgrades could tie in with courthouse project
(Local News ~ 11/07/19)
Cape Girardeau Mayor Bob Fox wants to see improvements made to Spanish Street in conjunction with plans to renovate the Common Pleas Courthouse as part of the new city hall project. “It needs to be discussed right now,” Fox said Wednesday. The City Council on Monday approved a design-build agreement with Penzel Construction Co., in partnership with architecture firm TreanorHL, to renovate the 165-year-old Common Pleas Courthouse and the adjacent Annex and construct a connecting addition. ...
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Gourmet food, dessert to benefit Humane Society
(Entertainment ~ 11/07/19)
The Humane Society of Southeast Missouri is holding its annual gourmet food and dessert auction and you’re invited. You’ll get to sample from the best cooks and chefs in the area. Appetizers and drinks will be served. Auctioneer will be Tom Jones. All proceeds will support animal care...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
Today is Thursday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2019. There are 54 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 7, 1972, President Richard Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern. On this date: In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln replaced Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac with Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside...
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Sponsored: Have a mice day!
(Insiders Advice ~ 11/07/19)
Although he is the mascot of the world's most popular theme park and entertainment brand, the mouse is usually not a welcomed guest inside your home or business. In years past, with our experience, colder weather is synonymous with increased rodent activity. But can you blame them? I would certainly want to find a warmer place to live and nest if I were a mouse. Unfortunately, this is not acceptable and is absolutely not a healthy thing you want to live with...
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Speak Out 11-7-19
(Speak Out ~ 11/07/19)
The McCarthy Hearings are remembered today basically as a witch hunt whose only real accomplishment was to ruin the reputation and lives of a great many innocent people. I predict the Pelosi/Schiff hearings will be remembered in the same light by future generations...
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Prayer 11-7-19
(Prayer ~ 11/07/19)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for grace and the gift of salvation through you. Amen.
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Zonta to recognize women of achievement
(Editorial ~ 11/07/19)
The women of Zonta are an impressive bunch. They regularly meet and engage in philanthropic causes for the betterment of our community and women around the world. The organization's annual Women of Achievement luncheon is a joyous celebration of these ladies' personal and professional contributions to our community...
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Cranberries galore
(Community ~ 11/07/19)
I was at the grocery store last week and saw a new display of fresh cranberries. I love fresh cranberries, so I stock them up in freezer bags to last me all year long. In thinking about cranberry recipes, in addition to fresh berries, I've tried to include canned cranberry sauce and dried cranberries in the recipes I have compiled...
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Police seek to ID suspect in death over chicken sandwich
(Community ~ 11/07/19)
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- A man who had been cutting in a line for chicken sandwiches at a crowded Popeyes restaurant in Maryland was stabbed to death by another customer who confronted him, police said Tuesday. Prince George's County Police Chief Hank Stawinski appealed for the public's help in identifying the man who fatally stabbed 28-year-old Kevin Tyrell Davis once after their argument spilled outside the Oxon Hill restaurant Monday evening...
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Sense of empathy, kindness floats over 'Sesame Street' set
(Community ~ 11/07/19)
Associated Press NEW YORK -- There's something circular about Matt Vogel's career, which is perfectly appropriate for the star of an educational children's show. As a boy, he watched Big Bird on TV. As an adult, he worked alongside Big Bird. Now he is Big Bird...
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Alaska university taking PB&J as payment for parking tickets
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — What a lip-smacking offer! Anyone with unpaid parking fines at the University of Alaska Anchorage campus has the option to reduce or cover the cost of his or her tickets with peanut butter and jelly. KTUU-TV reported the university would take donations for its annual payment tradition until Friday to help combat student hunger. ...
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Johnson tries to shake off rocky start as UK election begins
(International News ~ 11/07/19)
LONDON -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson told British voters Wednesday they have to back his Conservatives if they want an end to Brexit delays, as he tried to shake off a rocky start to the governing party's election campaign. Speaking outside his No. 10 Downing St. office on the first official day of Britain's five-week campaign, Johnson said the political impasse over Britain's departure from the European Union made him want to "chew my own tie in frustration."...
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Iraq protesters storm Baghdad bridge, medic killed
(International News ~ 11/07/19)
BAGHDAD -- Anti-government protesters in Iraq stormed a fourth bridge Wednesday in central Baghdad, where security forces pushed them back with batons and tear gas, wounding dozens, and a medic was killed near another bridge while aiding demonstrators...
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Deadly ambush shows Mexico lost control of area
(International News ~ 11/07/19)
COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico -- When drug cartel gunmen opened fire on American women and children in northern Mexico, the Mexican army, the national guard and Sonora state police were not there to protect them. It took them about eight hours just to arrive...
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Judge strikes down new Trump rule on religious objections
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a new Trump administration rule that could open the way for more health care workers to refuse to participate in abortions or other procedures on moral or religious grounds. U.S. District Judge Paul A. ...
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Bevin seeks vote recanvass while Beshear starts transition
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Republican Gov. Matt Bevin asked Wednesday for a recanvass of Kentucky election results that showed him more than 5,000 votes behind Democrat Andy Beshear, who discounted the challenge and began preparing to take office. Beshear, the state's attorney general, said he's confident in the election outcome, saying any review would show he won the hard-fought campaign...
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Congress approves bill expanding animal cruelty law
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
WASHINGTON -- Congress has passed a bill making certain types of animal cruelty a federal felony. The bill would expand a 2010 law that made creation or distribution of "animal crushing" videos illegal. The new bill would make the underlying acts of cruelty a federal crime...
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US productivity falls for first time in nearly four years
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
WASHINGTON -- American workers were less efficient in the July-September quarter, pushing down productivity for the first time since late 2015. With economic growth slowing, in part because the stimulus from Trump administration tax cuts is fading, many economists worry worker productivity will follow suit. ...
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Europeans look to China as global partner, shun Trump's US
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
PARIS -- When France's president wants to carry European concerns to the world stage to find solutions for climate change, trade tensions or Iran's nuclear ambitions, he no longer calls Washington. He flies to Beijing. President Emmanuel Macron's visit to China this week suggests the United States risks being sidelined on the global stage under President Donald Trump. ...
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Trump attacks whistleblower anonymity, but won't utter name
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is blasting the media for not reporting the name of a person who has been identified in conservative circles as the whistleblower who spurred the impeachment inquiry. Yet Trump has carefully avoided using the name himself...
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Safety questions still swirl in Paradise one year after wildfire
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
PARADISE, Calif. -- There was "no way in hell" Victoria Sinclaire was rebuilding in Paradise. She'd thought she was going to die during the six hours it took her to escape the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The town where she'd raised her family was nearly wiped out, two of her three cats had disappeared into the flames, and she "was done."...
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Impeachment going public: Hearings next week for all to see
(National News ~ 11/07/19)
WASHINGTON -- Democrats announced Wednesday they will launch public impeachment hearings next week, intending to bring to life weeks of closed-door testimony and lay out a convincing narrative of presidential misconduct by Donald Trump. First to testify will be William Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine, who has relayed in private his understanding there was a blatant quid pro quo with Trump holding up military aid to a U.S. ally facing threats from its giant neighbor Russia...
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Ella Shepherd
(Obituary ~ 11/07/19)
MOUNDS, Illinois -- Ella Nora "Norie" Newell Shepherd, 95, of Mounds passed away at 2:34 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at her home, following two episodes of atrial fibrillation in August. Ella was born June 21, 1924, in Mounds, daughter of the late Fred and Eva Jordan Newell...
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Cameron Schwettman
(Obituary ~ 11/07/19)
Cameron T. Schwettman, 54, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, at his home. He was born March 12, 1965, in St. Louis to Jack and Evon Evans Schwettman. He is survived by his parents, Jack and Evon Schwettman of Cape Girardeau; daughters, Brooke Schwettman of Springfield, Missouri, and Amber Schwettman of Sikeston, Missouri; and nieces, nephews and other relatives...
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Billy Ford
(Obituary ~ 11/07/19)
Billy Gene Ford, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Nov.6, 2019, at Missouri Veterans Home. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Lynwood Baptist Church. The funeral will follow at noon Saturday at the church, with the Rev. Mark Anderson officiating. Burial will be at Stroderville Cemetery in Whitewater...
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Helen Farrar
(Obituary ~ 11/07/19)
Helen Marie Farrar, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at Heartland Care and Rehab. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Monday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at noon Monday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Donny Ford officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Grace Albrecht
(Obituary ~ 11/07/19)
Grace M. Albrecht, 101, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Sparta, Illinois, passed away Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, at Lutheran Home. She was born March 1, 1918, in Shobonier, Illinois, to William and Sophie Ehrat. Grace was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother...
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Birth 11/7/19
(Births ~ 11/07/19)
Son to Andrew and Christy Wilson of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Name, Finnley Joseph. Weight, 6 pounds, 14 ounces. First child. Mrs. Wilson is the daughter of Carrie Reynolds and Nick Reynolds of Cape Girardeau. Wilson is the son of Troy Cagle of Benton, Missouri, and Sheila Sanders of Poplarville, Mississippi. He works at Pavestone...
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St. Louis County Prosecutor's Office: 100 cases under review
(State News ~ 11/07/19)
CLAYTON, Mo. -- A pattern of improper analysis in the St. Louis County Police Department's crime lab by a forensic scientist has led to a review of at least 100 criminal cases involving DNA evidence, the county prosecutor's office said. Sam Alton, chief of staff for St. ...
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Missouri process to certify minors as adults challenged
(State News ~ 11/07/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's process for certifying juveniles as adults is unconstitutional and discriminates against African Americans, a public defender for a black 16-year-old boy told Missouri Supreme Court judges Wednesday. Public defender Tim Honse said the minor, identified only as D.E.G. in court documents, was 15 at the time of the alleged offense and 16 when he was certified as an adult...
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Democrats say St. Louis County victory signals hope for 2020
(State News ~ 11/07/19)
ST. LOUIS -- Democrats in Missouri are hoping a red-to-blue flip of a once safely Republican suburban St. Louis state House seat is a sign of things to come in 2020. Democrat Trish Gunby defeated Republican Lee Ann Pitman on Tuesday in a special election in House District 99, a western St. Louis suburb Donald Trump carried by 5 percentage points in 2016 on the way to winning the presidency. Gunby won with 56% of the vote to Pitman's 44%...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 11/7/19
(Local News ~ 11/07/19)
Approval of minutes n Minutes for Nov. 4 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n Approve purchase order for payment to Penzel Construction -- application No. 14...
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Out of the past: Nov. 7
(Out of the Past ~ 11/07/19)
Nancy Mattingly, Southeast Hospital cancer program coordinator, has received the American Cancer Society's Distinguished Service Award for Missouri, the highest award presented to an individual by the Missouri Division. Cape Girardeau's minimum property maintenance code, which is scheduled for final readings at tonight's City Council meeting, could hamper public safety officers from doing their jobs, fire chief Robert Ridgeway says; Ridgway wants the council to revise the code before giving final approval to the measure; he wants the code amended to allow police or fire officials to file complaints when they observe life- and property-threatening violations; he also wants the council to waive the five-workday waiting period to allow city inspection of properties when warranted.. ...
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Jackson police report 11/7/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/07/19)
Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Katelynn Schuler, 19, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, failure to use turn signal, seat-belt violation and failure to provide proof of insurance...
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