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United Way of SEMO greets increased need with car parade
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
In a time of increased need, United Way of Southeast Missouri is rallying for donations by holding a car parade Tuesday, #GivingTuesdayNow. Elizabeth Shelton, UWSEMO executive director, said in a news release several United Way partners in Southeast Missouri are facing an uptick in requests for help...
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Lazy day in the sun at Kiwanis Park in Cape
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
Jennifer Ifland of Portageville, Missouri, smiles while sharing a hammock with her boyfriend, Justin Pruitt of Sikeston, Missouri, on Thursday at Kiwanis Park in Cape Girardeau.
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Shawnee roundabout work continues in Jackson; traffic reroutes expected
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
Construction at the East Main Street and Shawnee Boulevard roundabout in Jackson will move into phase three Monday, the city announced Thursday. Access to southbound Shawnee Boulevard from eastbound East Main Street will not be available for the remainder of the project, the announcement stated. Traffic on East Main Street will be diverted onto the newly constructed portion of the roundabout, but only one lane of traffic will be allowed through the intersection at a time...
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Scott County reports five new COVID-19 cases; Union County, Illinois, adds six cases
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
Two area counties reported a total of 11 new COVID-19 cases Thursday. Scott County Health Department reported five new cases of the virus, bringing the total number in the county to 68. Officials reported 10 county residents have recovered from the virus. Two county resident have died because of the disease...
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Zoom talent show highlights creativity among Alma Schrader students
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
Since mid-March, Alma Schrader Elementary School teacher Sarah Cook has had the unique challenge of keeping 22 second-graders engaged over Zoom calls. Wednesday night, she used the video-conferencing tool to host a talent show. “They come to school and they talk about the things that they like to do, but we don’t ever really have time to just stop and let them express themselves in that way,” Cook said. ...
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Local economy will 'gradually' reopen
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
The first phase of Missouri’s plan to reopen the state’s economy starts Monday, but if you think that means things will be back to “normal” next week, think again. Missouri residents have been under a “stay-at-home” order for several weeks, and many nonessential businesses have been closed since March as the state tried to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Cape, Jackson school district employees back to work next week
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
As Gov. Mike Parson’s stay-at-home order expires this weekend, professionals employed by local school districts are preparing to return to work and reopen school buildings, sans the students. Cape Girardeau School District administrators, administrative assistants, custodians, technology department and nutrition services staffers, and all Central Administrative Office employees will return to work Monday, according to a Wednesday email to district employees from superintendent Neil Glass...
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Material and spiritual help offered in Jackson church's 'blessing box'
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
Historians will no doubt regard the COVID-19 spring of 2020 as a dark time, full of stories of sickness and loss of life, layoffs, cancellations and basic disruptions in the ebb and flow of daily life. It may also be recalled as a time when people reached out to others...
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Soft open projected for new Cape County courthouse in Jackson
(Local News ~ 05/01/20)
The estimated $20 million Cape Girardeau County Courthouse is expected to host its first court sessions the week of May 18. Six courtrooms will be in use when the facility is fully operational. Two of the courtrooms will be available for visiting judges...
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Two local students show ingenuity, heart for service with projects
(Editorial ~ 05/01/20)
The next time your child complains about being bored, have them read the stories about two local students making use of their time at home by focusing on impressive projects. The Arrow student newspaper at Southeast Missouri State University reported on Andrew B. Hyatt, a senior a Saxony Lutheran High School who made an intubation box for his father who is a doctor at SoutheastHEALTH...
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Satire: We need social distancing on social media
(B Magazine ~ 05/01/20)
So this is what lab rats must feel like. They run mazes hoping to find the exit and score a dopamine hit. We post things on social media hoping to get a "like" and score a dopamine hit. Safe at home while we wait out the pandemic, our every move online is tracked, compiled, tabulated, aggregated, correlated and analyzed, plus other verbs we don't understand. We're in the middle of the greatest sociology experiment in the history of sociology experiments...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/01/20)
Today is Friday, May 1, the 122nd day of 2020. There are 244 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 1, 1992, on the third day of the Los Angeles riots, a visibly shaken Rodney King appeared in public to appeal for calm, pleading, "Can we all get along?"...
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No 'Black Widow' or 'F9' leaves a muted summer movie season
(Entertainment ~ 05/01/20)
LOS ANGELES -- The six-year fan campaign for a standalone Black Widow movie was paying off: at long last, a film would put Scarlett Johansson's popular Avenger front and center. And, like many of Marvel's biggest spectacles, it was set to open the weekend of May 1...
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This is his quest: An actor serenades the front-line workers
(National News ~ 05/01/20)
NEW YORK -- It's a stunning sound, emerging amid the clanging and the whooping and the banging and the honking at 7 p.m. each night as New Yorkers cheer front-line workers: the velvety, buttery baritone of Brian Stokes Mitchell. For decades, Mitchell's voice has been one of the most celebrated in the Broadway theater, evoking goosebumps in musicals like "Kiss Me, Kate," for which he won a Tony, and "Man of La Mancha," in which he played Don Quixote. ...
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This time, Pence wears mask as he tours Indiana GM plant
(National News ~ 05/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- This time, he wore a mask. Vice President Mike Pence donned a face covering Thursday as he toured a General Motors/Ventec ventilator production facility in Indiana after coming under fire for failing to wear one earlier this week in violation of Mayo Clinic policy...
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Sex assault allegation raises questions for Biden, Dems
(National News ~ 05/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- A sexual assault allegation is Joe Biden's first big challenge as the Democrats' presidential nominee, fueling Republican attacks and leaving many in his own party in an uncomfortable bind. Biden's campaign has denied the allegation from his former Senate staffer Tara Reade, who has said Biden assaulted her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the 1990s. ...
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Wall Street ends best month in 33 years; gained 12.7% in April
(National News ~ 05/01/20)
A crush of dismal data about the economy helped send markets lower Thursday, a meek ending to a historic, juggernaut month for stocks. The S&P 500 fell 0.9% after reports showed millions more U.S. workers filed for unemployment benefits last week and the European economy crumpled to its worst performance on record last quarter, among other lowlights. It was the biggest loss for the U.S. stock market in more than a week, but it was still just a wiggle within the S&P 500's best month in decades...
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Intel: Virus not manmade, still considers Chinese lab
(National News ~ 05/01/20)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence agencies are debunking a conspiracy theory, saying they have concluded that the new coronavirus was "not manmade or genetically modified." But they say they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab...
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Lisa Wilder
(Obituary ~ 05/01/20)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Lisa Faye Wilder, 63, longtime resident of Little Rock, passed away Tuesday, April 28, 2020, surrounded by her loving family. By her sheer will and determination to live, she fought a courageous battle with brain cancer for more than 25 years, achieving a survival rate classified as statistically rare. ...
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Ryan Weibrecht
(Obituary ~ 05/01/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Ryan Alan Weibrecht, 39, of Perryville died Wednesday, April 29, 2020, at his home. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Mark Johnson
(Obituary ~ 05/01/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Mark W. Johnson, 53, of Perryville died Tuesday, April 28, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. A celebration of life memorial service will be held at a later date. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Columbia police to build levee in search for missing Missouri woman
(State News ~ 05/01/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A levee will be built on a river in Missouri where police have previously searched for the body of a missing Chinese woman. Columbia police announced Wednesday a levee will be extended into the Lamine River near Boonville to help in the search for the body of Mengqi Ji Elledge, who was reported missing Oct. 10. Her husband, Joseph Lamine, is charged with first-degree murder in her death...
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Missouri state workers seek more protection from COVID-19
(State News ~ 05/01/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Advocates for Missouri state workers on Thursday called on Gov. Mike Parson to do more to protect employees from the coronavirus. Union leaders, Democratic state lawmakers and other advocates for worker rights want no-strings-attached premium pay for workers, more N95 masks and the chance for more employees to work from home...
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Speak Out 5/1/20
(Speak Out ~ 05/01/20)
The majority of the public doesn't trust the media, so it's comical when they fact check anything. The media doesn't include the traditional definition of journalists, but instead is nothing more than a group of narrative peddlers. The Governors of all states adjacent to the Mississippi River were to discuss why the Mississippi River flooding of 2019 lasted for such a long duration and why it reached the levels that it did. ...
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Prayer 5/1/20
(Prayer ~ 05/01/20)
O God, may we be a blessing to others as you have been to us. Amen.
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Out of the past: May 1
(Out of the Past ~ 05/01/20)
State militias have been under increased government and media scrutiny in the 12 days since the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City; now, local officials are keeping their eye on a Missouri militia group interested in organizing in Cape Girardeau; a St. Louis-area militia, 1st Missouri Volunteers, is recruiting men and women for a Cape Girardeau company...
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Births 5/1/20
(Births ~ 05/01/20)
Daughter to Garrick Barnelle Madison Jr. and Jaleria Nachelle Dent of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 5:15 a.m. Saturday, April 11, 2020. Name, Amira Reign. Weight, 5 pounds, 15 ounces. First child. Dent is the daughter of Lawrence Lewis and Tonya Dent of Cairo, Illinois. Madison is the son of Mable Madison and Kwneshia Dorsey of Sikeston, Missouri...
- Sharing and Caring (Submitted Story ~ 05/01/20)
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Two new grants for SEMO agencies from the CFO
(Submitted Story ~ 05/01/20)
With eight new grants awarded to nonprofits supporting vulnerable citizens during the coronavirus pandemic, discretionary grantmaking by the Community Foundation of the Ozarks for COVID-19 response now exceeds $600,000. Two agencies serving southeast Missouri — United Way of Southeast Missouri and Madison County Food Pantry — are among this week's recipients...
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