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I-55/57/U.S. 60 interchange ramps closed overnight Tuesday
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
Contractor crews will repair the pavement at the Interstate 55/57/U.S. 60 cloverleaf interchange in Sikeston, Missouri, at mile marker 66. As work is underway, motorists should anticipate ramp and exit closures near the interchange. According to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release, the work will take place overnight Tuesday, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. ...
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House shot in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
Cape Girardeau police responded to the 2200 block of Good Hope Street just after midnight Thursday morning to a report of shots fired. Upon arrival, they discovered spent shell casings in the roadway and bullet holes in the side of a home, according to Sgt. Joey Hann. He said there were no injuries, and no suspects have been identified...
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Two seriously injured in crash
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
A crash Oct. 16 on Highway 25 south of Jackson left two people seriously injured and two others with minor injuries. According to a report, filed by Missouri Highway Patrol Troop E, a 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt driven by Colton Friese, 19, of Jackson was northbound on Highway 25 about 4:30 p.m. and failed to yield ...
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Notre Dame cancels craft fair scheduled for November
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
Notre Dame Regional High School has canceled the upcoming Crafts, Gifts & Collectibles Show, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and current health department guidelines, the school announced in a news release. “I truly love working with all of the vendors and will miss the energy and excitement this year,” craft show organizer Deana Pecord said in the release. ...
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Illinois seeking to extradite alleged child sex offender
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
Illinois authorities are working to extradite a man from Washington state who is wanted on several child sexual abuse charges. Dmitriy Seregeyevic Seleznev was arrested Oct. 7 in Vancouver, Washington, on a Union County, Illinois, warrant for five counts involving child pornography, two counts of indecent solicitation of a minor, two counts of traveling to meet a minor and two counts of grooming (defined as using online systems to, or attempt to, seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child or child’s guardian to commit any sex offense or to otherwise engage in unlawful sexual conduct with a child or with another person believed by the offender to be a child). ...
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Positive trends seen in coronavirus numbers
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
After several weeks of steadily increasing COVID-19 cases and deaths in the region, Cape Girardeau County officials got a bit of good news Thursday morning from the county’s emergency management agency director. Mark Winkler updated county commissioners Clint Tracy, Paul Koeper and Charlie Herbst on several virus-related statistics:...
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More CARES Act distribution ok'd by Cape County
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
Cape Girardeau County commissioners approved the distribution of $60,105.97 in coronavirus relief money to non-public sector entities at its meeting Thursday. Businesses seeking COVID-19 expense reimbursements were required to produce receipts or invoices to Cape Girardeau Area Magnet, which, in turn, submitted reimbursement applications to county commissioners Clint Tracy, Paul Koeper and Charles Herbst for their consideration...
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Student creates mural to commemorate coronavirus pandemic
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
Tenth-grader Khamani Rutherford, 15, is in the third week of developing a mural about the COVID-19 pandemic on the walls of Central Academy in Cape Girardeau that will outlast the pandemic and be a reminder of this time to future students who walk the halls...
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Honorable Young Men Club seeks to expand reach with new initiative
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
Local youth mentorship program the Honorable Young Men Club is looking to take its initiative to another level. The organization was founded in 2016 by four former Southeast Missouri State University football players — Kweku Arkorful, Wyky Jean, Cantrell Andrews and Aaron Adeoye — and they’ve just established HYMC Empowerment Inc., a new foundation created to help the program grow into its next chapter...
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Trump, Biden fight over the raging virus, climate and race
(National News ~ 10/23/20)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden fought over how to tame the raging coronavirus in Thursday's final 2020 debate, largely shelving the rancor that overshadowed their previous face-off in favor of a more substantive exchange highlighting their vastly different approaches to the major domestic and foreign challenges facing the nation...
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Hollis out, Morris in as Cape fire chief
(Local News ~ 10/23/20)
The City of Cape Girardeau announced Randy Morris Jr. has become the city’s interim fire chief, succeeding Travis Hollis, according to a statement from city manager Scott Meyer on Thursday. “Chief Hollis and the city have mutually agreed to separate employment,” Meyer said, ending Hollis’ brief 13-month tenure as head of the city’s fire and emergency medical services...
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Yes, please: Sedona’s pastry chef in the kitchen
(Health ~ 10/23/20)
AJ Jausel received her first kitchen aid mixer when she was in the fifth grade. Even before that, though, while growing up watching the Food Network on television, she knew she wanted to spend her life baking. “There’s something about just being in the kitchen,” says Jausel, pastry chef at the new Cape Girardeau restaurant Sedona. “You can turn on some music, and you’re just in there by yourself, and you can just zone out. That is my favorite.”...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/23/20)
Today is Friday, Oct. 23, the 297th day of 2020. 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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SEMO Football raises $13,000 through car wash for police scholarship
(Editorial ~ 10/23/20)
Those in law enforcement have some of the most challenging jobs. But in today's environment where anti-police rhetoric dominates much of the national news coverage, the day-to-day pressures of the job are a challenge not only for the officers but also their families...
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Koch and Hooks inspire with their new book
(Column ~ 10/23/20)
Every year witnesses the publication of countless books. Some are interesting, and a few are inspiring. The forthcoming book by Charles Koch (business owner and philanthropist) and Brian Hooks (CEO of philanthropic community Stand Together), "Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World," is both interesting and inspiring...
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Stimulus spending benefits politicians, not taxpayers
(Column ~ 10/23/20)
I recall several presidential elections ago, an elementary school teacher wrote a newspaper column about a mock election he held in his class. Two students were nominated by their classmates, and then they campaigned for their votes. Who won the election? One of the students presented an agenda and reasonably argued for the merits of that agenda. The other student promised ice cream for everyone who voted for her. She won...
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Santa Claus won't be coming to Macy's this year
(Community ~ 10/23/20)
NEW YORK -- Macy's said Santa Claus won't be greeting kids at its flagship New York store this year due to the coronavirus, interrupting a holiday tradition started nearly 160 years ago. More than a quarter of a million people come to see Santa at Macy's in New York each year, the company said, making it hard to create a safe environment during a pandemic. ...
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Jacob Lawrence painting missing for 60 years rediscovered
(Community ~ 10/23/20)
A painting by American artist Jacob Lawrence that has not been seen in public for 60 years has been found and will soon take its designated place in a 30-piece exhibit of Lawrence's work, officials at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts said Thursday...
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Teachers parse clues to student well-being in video classes
(National News ~ 10/23/20)
Christi Brouder had finally gotten her 10-year-old daughter settled on the hallway floor with a laptop and signed into a video class on Google Meet when the girl's 6-year-old brother leaped over the computer screen "in his birthday suit" to get a juice box...
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U.S. jobless claims drop to 787,000, but layoffs remain high
(National News ~ 10/23/20)
WASHINGTON -- The number of laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 787,000, a sign job losses may have eased slightly but are still running at historically high levels. Last week's figure was down from 842,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday. ...
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U.S. regulators seek advice on thorny issues as vaccines near
(National News ~ 10/23/20)
WASHINGTON -- With vaccines against COVID-19 inching closer, U.S. regulators took an unusual step Thursday in asking outside scientists: Are the government's standards high enough to adequately judge the shots? The Food and Drug Administration may have to decide by year's end whether to allow use of the first vaccines against the coronavirus, amid growing public fears that politics are overriding science. ...
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GOP-led Senate panel advances Barrett as Democrats boycott
(National News ~ 10/23/20)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past a Democratic boycott Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate, keeping President Donald Trump's pick on track for confirmation before the Nov. 3 election...
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Rev. David E. Schaffner
(Obituary ~ 10/23/20)
The Rev. David E. Schaffner, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Robert Penrose
(Obituary ~ 10/23/20)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Robert Alan Penrose, son of Alan Penrose of Chaffee and the late Taryn Ann Vogel, was born Feb. 11, 1979, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, at the Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau at the age of 41...
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Robin Koeppel Payson
(Obituary ~ 10/23/20)
BELLEVUE, Neb. -- Robin Jean Koeppel Payson of Bellevue, formerly of Cape Girardeau, passed away at her home Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. She was born in Cape Girardeau Oct. 9, 1951, to Robert E. and Jessie Koeppel. She and Andre' Payson married Aug. 8, 1970. They were married 50 years...
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Sherri Mehner
(Obituary ~ 10/23/20)
Sherri Lynn Mehner, 66, of Cape Girardeau died at 8:47 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, at her home. A private family graveside service will be held at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery with Pastor Ron Watts officiating. A celebration of life will be at 11 a.m. Oct. 31 at La Croix United Methodist Church...
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Kurt May
(Obituary ~ 10/23/20)
Kurt Nelson May, 68, of Burfordville died Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born July 27, 1952, in Fort Collins, Colorado, to Harry Acton and Marie Lillian Smedegaard May. Kurt was married to Erin Summers on June 8, 1975. He was a loving husband; beloved father to twins, Bevin and Cody; and the consummate family man...
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Nancy Green
(Obituary ~ 10/23/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Nancy J. Green, age 80, of Perryville died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call from 10 a.m. until time of the memorial service at 11 a.m. Sunday at Ford and Young Funeral Home.
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Area police reports 10/23/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/23/20)
Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 100 block of Garden Lane. n Assault was reported in the 100 block of East Rodney Drive. n Assault was reported in the 1600 block of David Street...
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Births 10/23/20
(Births ~ 10/23/20)
Daughter to Jonathan and Rachael Bremer of Jackson, Southeast Hospital, 11:10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. Name, Ruth Marie. Weight, 7 pounds, 11 ounces. Third child, first daughter. Mrs. Bremer is the daughter of Curtis and Stephanie Weidenbenner. She is employed by St. Ambrose School. Bremer is the son of Dale and Juanita Bremer of Jackson and Mark and Ann Winkler of Cape Girardeau. He works for Thrivent Financial...
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Prayer 10/23/20
(Prayer ~ 10/23/20)
We praise you, O God, for the joy of the Lord is our strength. Amen.
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Speak Out 10/23/20
(Speak Out ~ 10/23/20)
The Democrats blame President Trump for the surge in Covid-19. They are the ones who ignored the warnings before the first case was detected in this country. President Trump listened to the scientists and shut down the country. He made sure the states got everything they needed to keep our health care system from going bankrupt and save lives. ...
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Out of the past: Oct. 23
(Out of the Past ~ 10/23/20)
A sales tax case involving the Southeast Missourian will be heard by the Missouri Supreme Court next month and could have a major impact on the state's newspaper industry; the case, Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian and Concord Publishing House vs. Director of Revenue, involves an appeal of a sales tax ruling; it will be argued Nov. 2 in the Supreme Court Building in Jefferson City...
- Appealing to the Great Spirit. (Submitted Story ~ 10/23/20)
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