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Couple arrested following erratic incident in Cape apartment
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
Cape Girardeau police officers arrested two suspects Tuesday evening in response to a couple allegedly acting erratically involving two young children. According to police department public information officer Sgt. Joey Hann, at 5:21 p.m. officers were called to the 500 block of South Spring Avenue for a report of an unidentified man with a gun and an unidentified woman with two children claiming they were being chased by someone. ...
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Cape man arrested for allegedly sending sexual text messages to child
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
A Cape Girardeau man was arrested last week for allegedly sending sexually-charged text messages to a minor. George A. Henry, 33, was arrested by Cape Girardeau Police Department officers Dec. 29 and is charged with enticement or attempted enticement of a child under the age of 15...
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Investigation underway for missing Scott City man
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
BENTON, Mo. -- The investigation of a motor-vehicle crash involving a missing Scott City man is underway in Scott County. According to detective Eric Dunn, public information officer for the Scott County Sheriff's Office, on Dec. 23, a motor-vehicle crash was reported on U.S. 61 and Azalea Drive in Kelso, Missouri. When law enforcement arrived, no occupants were found at the crash site, Dunn said in a news release...
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Shipyard Festival dates announced
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
Rustmedia announced Tuesday the dates of the third Shipyard Music Festival, Sept. 17 and 18, 2021. What was planned to be the third festival in September 2020 was canceled because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Managing director of rustmedia and festival organizer Jeff Rawson said there is a lot of optimism for the fall in relation to the pandemic, which was considered when trying to move forward with a festival for this year...
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Cape Girardeau County surpasses 8,000 total coronavirus cases
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
Cape Girardeau County surpassed 8,000 total cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, and area health officials reported seven more deaths in the region. Cape Girardeau County now has 8,007 total cases of the coronavirus, an increase of 77 from Monday, and the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center reported four deaths in the county since Monday. The number of active cases in the county, however, has decreased by nine, from 1,628 to 1,619...
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Hawley says Virginia home vandalized, family terrorized by antifa group
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
The Northern Virginia residence of Missouri’s junior U.S. senator was vandalized Monday night while his wife and youngest child were home, according to Sen. Josh Hawley. Hawley shared on social media late Monday that while he was in Missouri, his wife and daughter, unable to travel, were threatened by a group of protesters. ...
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Virtual learning numbers drop in Cape, Jackson public schools
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
The two largest school systems in Cape Girardeau County will continue to educate students virtually in the new year, but fewer families are availing themselves of the stay-at-home option. In the 5,620-student Jackson School District, classes resume today with 264 students still in the district’s Ignite Online program, a 53.4% decrease from the 566 registered virtually in the fall...
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Cape Girardeau Macy's to close this spring
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
Macy’s in Cape Girardeau, one of the original anchor stores at West Park Mall when it was known as Famous Barr, will close this spring as the national department store chain pursues a multiyear streamlining strategy. “After careful consideration, Macy’s has decided to close our West Park Mall location,” company spokeswoman Julianne Olivo said in an email to the Southeast Missourian on Tuesday afternoon...
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Harry Blackwell remembered as giving pioneer of community
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Community and business leaders chronicle Harry Lee Blackwell's legacy to the Poplar Bluff community and the Southeast Missouri region as one of giving and creating a positive impact. Blackwell, 78, of Naylor, Missouri, died Christmas Day. He and his family owned The Harry Blackwell family of vehicle dealerships in Dexter and Malden, Missouri. He formerly co-owned a dealership in Poplar Bluff...
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Chateau Girardeau residents, staff receive first COVID-19 vaccinations
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
The first round of the two-shot Moderna vaccine regimen was administered Tuesday to long-term care residents of Chateau Girardeau, a continuing care retirement community at 3120 Independence St. in Cape Girardeau. Stephanie Holland, Chateau’s media and communications director, said Walgreens employees vaccinated 93% of Chateau’s assistant-living and skilled-nursing residents, who were required to sign documentation accepting the dose...
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Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority
(National News ~ 01/06/21)
ATLANTA (AP) – Democrat Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs Wednesday, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party’s reach. A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/06/21)
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2021. There are 359 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 6, 2001, with Vice President Al Gore presiding in his capacity as president of the Senate, Congress formally certified George W. Bush the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 presidential election...
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Here's to new life in the new year
(Column ~ 01/06/21)
The current president of Planned Parenthood is unafraid to use the word "abortion." In a Christmas-season interview with The Washington Post, Alexis McGill Johnson scolded those who would downplay the importance of abortion in her organization's work. She says it is "stigmatizing" to do so...
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Cape Central wins 76th annual Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament
(Editorial ~ 01/06/21)
Cape Girardeau Central High was the No. 1 seed coming into the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament. The expectations were high. But entering Day 1 of the tournament, the Tigers were 0-3 to begin their season. That would soon change. Central defeated Bell City, Woodland and Charleston to make it to the championship game of the annual tournament at the Show Me Center. ...
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Election results should stand
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/06/21)
The clear results of the 2020 election must not be overturned. The Republican Party is on trial this week. Do they believe in our democratic republic? Do they truly believe in elections, or only in elections their side wins? Are they truly opposed to tampering with elections, or is it okay when their president does it?...
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Trump's shameful Georgia call
(Column ~ 01/06/21)
President Donald Trump has turned a narrow electoral defeat into a bid for infamy. His goal in the postelection interlude has been more and more explicitly to overturn the results of the election. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago he tweeted simply, "#OVERTURN."...
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Judith Vavak
(Obituary ~ 01/06/21)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Judith Ann Vavak, 68, of Advance passed away Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, at her home. She was born July 6, 1952, in St. Louis, the daughter of William and Mary Livingston Robertson. Judy spent her life as a homemaker. She was a member of the Advance Eagles for over 30 years...
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Betty Haynie
(Obituary ~ 01/06/21)
Betty Ellen deCelis Haynie, 92, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Advance, Missouri, died Jan. 4, 2021, at Chateau Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the chapel, with the Rev. Keith Price officiating. Burial will follow at McGee New Hope Cemetery in McGee, Missouri...
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Norma Emerson
(Obituary ~ 01/06/21)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Norma Gene Emerson, 78, of Sikeston died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021, at her home. There will be no services. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City was in charge of arrangements.
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Thomas Brewer
(Obituary ~ 01/06/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Thomas S. Brewer, 76, of Perryville died Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, at Missouri Baptist Hospital. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 6:30 to 10 a.m. Friday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home, with Brother Charlie Mangels officiating. Burial, with military graveside service provided by the American Legion and U.S. Army, will be at Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville...
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Missouri congressman defends 'A-woman' end to prayer
(State News ~ 01/06/21)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said he was caught off guard by the negative response after he ended his opening prayer on the first day of the new Congress by saying, "Amen and A-woman." Cleaver, a United Methodist minister and former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, is in his ninth term in Congress. He told the Kansas City Star his "A-woman" reference Sunday was intended to recognize the record number of women serving in the new Congress...
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Two-fifths of Missouri COVID-19 deaths were in last 2 months
(State News ~ 01/06/21)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- Two-fifths of all of Missouri's COVID-19 deaths were reported in the last two months of 2020, according to the state health department. Data on the department's COVID-19 dashboard shows 2,369 deaths were reported in November and December. That's about 41% of the 5,825 deaths attributed to the virus since March...
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Theft leads to community giving in Miami
(Community ~ 01/06/21)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Two days before Thanksgiving, on the eve of a turkey giveaway for dozens of jobless residents in an impoverished Miami neighborhood, Sherina Jones got word that one of the free community refrigerators she'd been stocking was stolen...
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U.S.: Hack of federal agencies 'likely Russian in origin'
(National News ~ 01/06/21)
WASHINGTON -- Top national security agencies confirmed Tuesday that Russia was likely responsible for a massive hack of U.S. government departments and corporations, rejecting President Donald Trump's claim that China might be to blame. The rare joint statement represented the U.S. ...
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No charges against Wisconsin officer who shot Jacob Blake
(National News ~ 01/06/21)
KENOSHA, Wis. -- A Wisconsin prosecutor declined Tuesday to file charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back in Kenosha, concluding he couldn't disprove the officer's contention he acted in self-defense because he feared the man would stab him...
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Pandemic haunts new year as virus growth outpaces vaccines
(National News ~ 01/06/21)
LONDON -- Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the coronavirus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California, filling hospitals and threatening livelihoods anew as governments lock down businesses and race to find solutions...
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Dividing party, Republicans poised to challenge Biden win
(National News ~ 01/06/21)
WASHINGTON -- Republicans mounting a challenge to Joe Biden's election win are setting up a congressional showdown today that threatens to divide their party and the country for years to come. With protesters already gathering in Washington to support President Donald Trump, the House and the Senate will convene a joint session to count the electoral votes cast in November's election. ...
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Georgia tallies votes as U.S. Senate control hangs in balance
(National News ~ 01/06/21)
ATLANTA -- Georgia officials counted the final votes of the nation's turbulent 2020 election season Tuesday night as polls closed in two critical races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate and, in turn, the fate of President-elect Joe Biden's legislative agenda...
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Speak Out 1/6/21
(Speak Out ~ 01/06/21)
It's very sad that schools can find a way to be good at a sport, but can't find a way to graduate 95% of their students. Stop wasting resources on turf and balls until we have enough money for computers and science teachers. It's just sad that administrators think schools are where kiddos receive inspiration, motivation, hope and love. ...
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Prayer 1/6/21
(Prayer ~ 01/06/21)
O Lord, may we be careful how we live -- not as unwise but as wise. Amen.
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Out of the past: Jan. 6
(Out of the Past ~ 01/06/21)
You may not be able to fight city hall, but the parishioners of New McKendree United Methodist Church bought it Friday; the church paid $206,000 for the old Jackson City Hall at public auction; the church property and that of the old city hall join each other on South High Street...
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Cape fire report 1/6/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/06/21)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Jan. 4 n Medical assists were made at 8:24 a.m. on North Henderson Avenue; 8:30 a.m. on Lexington Avenue; 8:49 a.m. on South Sprigg Street; 11:03 a.m. on Twin Lake Court; 12:22 p.m. on South Kingshighway; 2:16 p.m. on Big Bend Road; 8:12 p.m. on Village Drive; 8:33 p.m. on Themis Street; 9:52 p.m. on Perryville Road;...
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Cape police report 1/6/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/06/21)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. DWI n Driving under the influence was reported in the 2100 block of William Street. Assault n Assault was reported at South Sprigg and La Cruz streets. Thefts n Theft was reported in the 700 block of North Mount Auburn Road...
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Birth 1/6/21
(Births ~ 01/06/21)
Daughter to Travis and Kelsie Friese of Sikeston, Missouri, Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, 3:55 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Name, Lillie Belle. Weight, 6 pounds, 6 ounces. First child. Mrs. Friese is the daughter of Tim and Tonya Brown of Sikeston. She is a kindergarten teacher at Bernie, Missouri. Friese is the son of Claude and Martha Friese of Jackson. He is an art teacher at Sikeston...
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Missouri lawmakers return to work amid coronavirus pandemic
(Local News ~ 01/06/21)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers on Wednesday will begin what's guaranteed to be an unusual legislative session as the state continues its battle with the coronavirus pandemic. Precautions will be in place to avoid the spread of COVID-19 during the Republican-led Legislature's roughly five-month annual session, although rules primarily apply to staffers and not lawmakers...
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