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Eight new coronavirus cases reported in region Thursday
(Local News ~ 06/26/20)
Cape Girardeau County reported five new COVID-19 cases Thursday, bringing the county’s total to 161, with 126 recoveries and three deaths. Scott County reported two new cases Thursday (117 recoveries, 11 deaths). Stoddard County reported one new case, bringing the county’s total to 129 (94 recoveries, eight deaths)...
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Cape County Recorder's Office reopens doors
(Local News ~ 06/26/20)
Cape Girardeau County Recorder Drew Blattner announced Thursday the office door is now open for walk-in business and searches. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays at 1 Barton Square, Suite 203, in Jackson, or the second floor of the county administration building...
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Software upgrade will affect county collector's office services
(Local News ~ 06/26/20)
Installation of new software in the Cape Girardeau County Collector’s Office next week will cause some temporary limitation of services, according to County Collector Barbara Gholson. “Due to the change, there will be limited collection services from July 1 through July 10,” she said in a news release Thursday about the software upgrade...
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Commission accepts audit report, makes reappointments
(Local News ~ 06/26/20)
The Cape Girardeau County Commission on Thursday accepted results of the county’s 2019 audit and acted on several routine business items, including reappointments to the boards of several county agencies and organizations. The audit, conducted by the accounting firm of Stanley, Dirnberger, Hopper and Associates LLC, found no irregularities in the county’s financial records...
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Jackson wedding cake maker persevering during the pandemic
(Local News ~ 06/26/20)
By long tradition, June is regarded as a top month for weddings. Katie Goodpasture has made five specialty cakes for June nuptials in the basement of her Jackson home. But until this month, Goodpasture’s business, Fancy That Cake, struggled due to COVID-19...
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Cape Girardeau Municipal Band season opens Wednesday night at Capaha Park
(Local News ~ 06/26/20)
The Cape Girardeau Municipal Band’s season opens Wednesday at the Dan Cotner Amphitheatre in Capaha Park, and band director Neil Casey said he’s excited to bring a bit of normalcy to Cape Girardeau’s summer nights. “We have a long-standing place in the summertime of Cape Girardeau,” Casey said, noting the band has existed since the early 1900s, and has been under city sponsorship since the 1920s. ...
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Night and Day at the Races
(06/26/20)
Note: I’ve long enjoyed horse racing, but not without mixed feelings. Recent years have seen more humane treatment of the horses, but improvements are still needed. By the time I was 16 and our family visited friends in Colorado, I considered myself (naively) a veteran horse-player. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
Today is Friday, June 26, the 178th day of 2020. There are 188 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 26, 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin...
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Be safe with fireworks this Fourth of July
(Editorial ~ 06/26/20)
Fireworks will go on sale Saturday in Cape Girardeau. Some towns have already started selling the Independence Day staple, though individuals must adhere to local rules and regulations regarding when they can be deployed. Both Cape Girardeau and Jackson will host professional fireworks displays on the Fourth. These are great opportunities to enjoy tremendous displays while maintaining proper social distance as we continue to battle the coronavirus...
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Pandemic takes a bite, Chuck E. Cheese files for bankruptcy
(Community ~ 06/26/20)
Chuck E. Cheese -- where kids could be kids while parents nursed headaches -- is filing for bankruptcy protection. The 43-year-old chain, which drew kids with pizza, video games and a singing mouse mascot, was struggling even before the coronavirus pandemic. But it said the prolonged closure of many venues due to coronavirus restrictions led to Thursday's Chapter 11 filing...
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'Grief mode': What the loss of summer camp means for kids
(Community ~ 06/26/20)
NEW YORK -- It wasn't just the leadership opportunities or seeing his best friends or even escaping months stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic that had Rory Sederoff thinking 2020 would be one of his best summers ever. This would have been the Toronto teenager's 15th year at Camp Walden, a sleepaway camp in upstate New York where he has spent every summer since he was 3 months old. ...
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Rebuking China, Senate moves to protect Hong Kong autonomy
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- In a bipartisan rebuke of China, the Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to impose sanctions on business and individuals -- including the police -- that undermine Hong Kong's autonomy or erode freedoms promised to Hong Kong residents...
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House Democrats push toward policing vote, challenge Senate
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- After a policing overhaul collapsed in the Senate, House Democrats returned to Washington for a day heavy with emotion and symbolism to vote on their sweeping proposal to address the global outcry over the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans...
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Man runs 218 miles to virus-stricken 'Nana's' nursing home
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
SCRANTON, Pa. -- Endurance athlete Corey Cappelloni once ran six days through the Sahara Desert in what's considered the most grueling foot race on Earth. But a 218-mile run to grandma after she was sickened with COVID-19 turned out to be the longest, toughest and most rewarding of his life...
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Texas putting reopening on 'pause' as virus cases soar
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
AUSTIN, Texas -- Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday halted elective surgeries in Texas' biggest counties and said the state would "pause" its aggressive re-opening as it deals with a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations that has made it one of the nation's virus hotspots...
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Justices boost Trump administration's power in asylum cases
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday strengthened the Trump administration's ability to deport people seeking asylum without allowing them to make their case to a federal judge. The high court's 7-2 ruling applies to people who are picked up at or near the border and who fail their initial asylum screenings, making them eligible for quick deportation, or expedited removal...
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Report: 'Baffling' errors at vets home amid deadly outbreak
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
The leadership of a home for aging veterans in Massachusetts where nearly 80 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died packed dementia patients into a crowded unit as the virus spread, one of several "utterly baffling" decisions that helped the disease run rampant, investigators said in a report released Wednesday...
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Dueling Trump-Biden events offer contrasting virus responses
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
LANCASTER, Pa. -- A presidential campaign that has largely been frozen for several months because of the coronavirus took on a degree of normalcy on Thursday when President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden swung through critical battleground states presenting starkly different visions for a post-pandemic America...
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Law enforcement struggles with policing in reckoning moment
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- As calls for police reform swell across America, officers say they feel caught in the middle: vilified by the left as violent racists, fatally ambushed by extremists on the right seeking to sow discord and scapegoated by lawmakers who share responsibility for the state of the criminal justice system...
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U.S. health officials estimate 20M Americans have had virus
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials estimate that 20 million Americans have been infected with the coronavirus since it first arrived in the United States, meaning the vast majority of the population remains susceptible. Thursday's estimate is roughly 10 times as many infections as the 2.3 million cases that have been confirmed. Officials have long known that millions of people were infected without knowing it and that many cases are being missed because of gaps in testing...
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AP-NORC poll: Support for restrictions, virus worries wane
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- After months of steady progress, new confirmed cases of COVID-19 climbed to near record levels in the U.S. this week. Experts blame a nation that's become complacent, and a new poll finds evidence to back them up: Support for measures to slow the virus' spread has declined from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic...
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Job market's improvement may be stalling, officials say
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- The number of laid-off workers seeking U.S. unemployment aid barely fell last week, and the reopening of small businesses has leveled off -- evidence that the job market's gains may have stalled just as a surge in coronavirus cases is endangering an economic recovery...
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Virus testing, tracking still plagued by reporting delays
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
ATLANTA -- As part of the plan to restart its season next month, the NBA is preparing to test hundreds of players, coaches and others for the coronavirus each night inside a "basketball bubble" -- a space at the Disney complex near Orlando, Florida, with extra protection against the disease...
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U.S. officials change virus risk groups, add pregnant women
(National News ~ 06/26/20)
NEW YORK -- The nation's top public health agency on Thursday revamped its list of which Americans are at higher risk for severe COVID-19 illness, adding pregnant women and removing age alone as a factor. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also changed the list of underlying conditions that make someone more susceptible to suffering and death. Sickle cell disease joined the list, for example. And the threshold for risky levels of obesity was lowered...
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Norma Winn
(Obituary ~ 06/26/20)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Norma Fern Winn, 86, of Olive Branch and Lake Wales, Florida, went to her heavenly home Sunday, June 21, 2020, at Forsythe Hospice House in Auburndale, Florida. She was born July 19, 1933, in Woodriver, Illinois, to John Nelson and Dorothy Irey Isom. She married Orman E Winn Jr. on April 2, 1955, in Corinth, Mississippi...
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Robert Skaggs
(Obituary ~ 06/26/20)
ST. LOUIS -- Robert Lee Skaggs, 64, of St. Louis passed away Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at his home. He was born Feb. 2, 1956, in St. Louis, son of William Carl and Sadie Grace Melton Skaggs. Robert worked as a maintenance mechanic. Survivors include his son, Aaron Johnston of Michigan City, Indiana; brother, Donald Tune of Freeport, Illinois; sister, Kathleen Skaggs Schmid of Jackson; and many nieces and nephews...
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Police report 6/26/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/26/20)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 1700 block of Lacey Street. n Assault was reported in the 1700 block of Lacey Street. n Assault was reported in the 3200 block of William Street...
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Black population continues to decline in St. Louis
(State News ~ 06/26/20)
ST. LOUIS -- New census estimates show St. Louis is continuing to lose Black residents while the white population holds steady. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed 136,168 Black residents as of last July, or 45.3% of the city's population. That represented declines of 3,490 from the 2018 estimate and of 21,727 from the 2010 census...
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Missouri's only abortion clinic gets license
(State News ~ 06/26/20)
ST. LOUIS -- Missouri's health department on Thursday issued another license to the state's only abortion clinic following a yearlong legal battle over whether the Planned Parenthood center could stay open. "We are pleased to put the licensure issue to rest after more than a year of being targeted by Missouri's health department," said Yamelsie Rodriguez, president and CEO of Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, in a statement...
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Cities consider requiring face masks as virus cases surge
(State News ~ 06/26/20)
LIBERTY, Mo. -- As coronavirus cases increase across Missouri, city officials are wrestling with how to slow that rise when many residents are resistant to more government restrictions. In southwest Missouri, where some counties have become hot spots for the virus since Gov. Mike Parson allowed the state to reopen for business June 16, the discussion has focused on whether to require citizens to wear face masks...
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Thomas Jefferson must stand
(Column ~ 06/26/20)
They're coming for Thomas Jefferson. This was always obvious, but now it's even more plain. Protesters in Portland, Oregon used axes and ropes to topple a statue of President Thomas Jefferson. The New York City Council is agitating to remove a statue of the author of the Declaration of Independence from its chambers...
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Prayer 6/26/20
(Prayer ~ 06/26/20)
O Heavenly Father, we stand in awe of you and praise your name. Amen.
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Speak Out 6/26/20
(Speak Out ~ 06/26/20)
Senator Kamala Harris couldn't cut it as a presidential candidate, but now Democrats are falling all over themselves to make her Joe Biden's VP. Trump's "silent majority" didn't show up to his Tulsa rally because of one small thing -- it doesn't exist! That is a figment of his sick mind. He can talk about it all he wants but the majority isn't silent and it's not on his side. It's extremely vocal and it's speaking out against him...
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Out of the past: June 26
(Out of the Past ~ 06/26/20)
Worship services were somber yesterday at the Salvation Army, evoking more tears than a typical funeral; it was the going-away meeting for Majors Elmer and Sandra Trapp, who came to Cape Girardeau seven years ago; the pews were filled with their friends and converts, all sad to see the charismatic couple go...
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Births 6/26/20
(Births ~ 06/26/20)
Son to Devin Wireman and Jessi VanDeveer of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 4:18 a.m. Friday, June 19, 2020. Name, Collin Dean. Weight, 8 pounds, 14.6 ounces. Second son. VanDeveer is the daughter of Jeffrey VanDeveer of Redgranite, Wisconsin, and Angel Schmid of Cape Girardeau. She is a receptionist at J.C. Penney Salon. Wireman is the son of Donald Wireman Jr. and Jennifer Wireman of Ottawa, Illinois. He is a carpenter with The Handyman Can...
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Sponsored: Why Isn’t Your Home “The Ritz?”
(Insiders Advice ~ 06/26/20)
We’re now at the end of June and some time has passed since we were all asked to stay at home. You’ve had more than a little time to look around and lots of time to think. Maybe you were presented with the challenge of working from home and you loved it, or maybe it didn’t quite work out the way you planned. ...
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