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Ex-cop guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd case
(National News ~ 04/21/21)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, the explosive case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S...
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Fifty-four new Eagle Scouts honored at River Campus ceremony
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
Fifty-four new Eagle Scouts from Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois, along with class sponsor Ronald Green, were honored with a ceremony Saturday in the Bedell Performance Theater at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. Green provided the keynote address at the event, and presented medals to this year's class -- officially named the 2020 Ronald S. Green Class of Eagle Scouts...
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Chaffee bolsters emergency preparedness supplies
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
The City of Chaffee, Missouri, has purchased enough freeze-dried food to serve 25,000 meals in the event of a future disaster. In a 6-2 vote Monday, Chaffee City Council approved spending $4,000 for food with an expected shelf life of 20 years that is now housed in the rear of the city's fire house at 222 N. Main St...
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Jackson mayor makes appointments
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
Jackson by Mayor Dwain Hahs made several appointments to boards and committees during the Board of Aldermen meeting Monday night. New and reappointed members to those panels were: n Harry Dryer to the Jackson Planning & Zoning Commission for a four-year term ending in 2025...
- U.S. 61 at Center Junction to close overnight next week (Local News ~ 04/21/21)
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Unwind Wednesdays offers family-friendly fun at Ebb & Flow
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
Ebb & Flow Fermentations has partnered with the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri to host a new weekly, family-friendly art therapy event. Unwind Wednesdays will take place on Ebb & Flow's patio, 11 S. Spanish St. in Cape Girardeau, from 5 to 8 p.m. each Wednesday through Aug. 11, and will allow attendees to kick back and participate in an optional arts and crafts project...
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Carlisle Construction Materials announces plans to build new manufacturing facility in Sikeston
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- A new manufacturing facility in Sikeston is slated to bring 100 jobs and will be the first industry in Sikeston's South Industrial Park. On Tuesday, Carlisle Construction Materials officially announced plans to invest $62 million at a new 455,000-square-foot production and manufacturing facility in Sikeston...
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Southeast Missouri native named acting director of DHSS
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
A Southeast Missouri native has been named acting director of the state’s Department of Health and Senior Services. Robert Knodell, who had been serving as Gov. Mike Parson's deputy chief of staff since 2017 and has been one of the governor's key staffers on the state's COVID-19 plans, will serve in the post, according to a release from the governor...
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Red Star Church property sold to local developer
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
The Red Star Baptist Church property, a landmark on North Main Street in Cape Girardeau, has been sold to a local property development company. Landmark Lodging LLC confirmed Monday it has completed acquisition of the main church building, 1301 N. Main St., along with an adjacent activity center and parsonage...
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Incoming Cape city manager's accomplishments detailed
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
Kenneth Haskin, announced Monday as the next city manager of Cape Girardeau, has provided municipal officials with a detailed list of successes during his recently concluded tenure in Texarkana, Arkansas. Haskin, 52, resigned as Texarkana's city manager in late March following eight years in the position...
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Endangered buildings offer historical connection to region
(B Magazine ~ 04/21/21)
It’s often said we live in a disposable society — a culture in which everything is destined for obsolescence. From appliances to automobiles, lumber to lawn mowers and socks to software, everything we make, purchase or use begins wearing out from the moment we build it, buy it or drive it off the lot...
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Historic building is stabilized; traffic flow open
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
The former Broadway Theatre building that caught fire March 31 was stabilized Friday by Foeste Masonry, according to Cape Girardeau development services director Anna Kangas. The 800 block of Broadway, where the building is located was closed to traffic for 16 days until the structure was stabilized. The building is being supported by an apparatus while vehicles pass by on Tuesday
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Rural King confirms plans for Cape Girardeau store
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
Rural King, a general merchandise "farm and home" retailer, plans to open a location in the former Toys R Us building near the intersection of William Street and South Silver Springs Road in Cape Girardeau. "I can tell you we have acquired the property, but we have not finalized our timeline for anything yet," Rural King director of real estate Blake Pierce told the Southeast Missourian on Tuesday...
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New church begins services in Cape
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
A new church has opened its doors for worship in Cape Girardeau. Grace Church, located behind One City Community Center at 610 Independence St., held its first service Sunday. Brett Smith, co-lead pastor at Grace Church along with his wife, Taylor, said 150 people attended...
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Cape Girardeau pastor, local NAACP president react to the Chauvin verdict
(Local News ~ 04/21/21)
This story is updated. The vice president of the Pastoral Assembly of Cape Girardeau, pastor Adrian Taylor Jr., did not mince words after hearing Derek Chauvin had been convicted on all counts in the May 25 death of George Floyd Jr. "I'll be very honest. I was shocked and surprised," said Taylor...
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Prayer 4/21/21
(Prayer ~ 04/21/21)
Lord Jesus, may we be filled with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Amen.
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SEMO Cyber Defense program takes home ninth win at competition
(Editorial ~ 04/21/21)
The SEMO Cyber Defense Team won the Missouri Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition back in February. It was the ninth consecutive year for the program to take home the top honors. Held virtually this year, the 12-person team was challenged to defend a network from active threats and attacks. The team advanced to the Erich J. Spenger Midwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition where they finished third...
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GOP establishment still doesn't get it on immigration
(Column ~ 04/21/21)
It's not 2007 again. But apparently no one has told George W. Bush. To coincide with the release of a book of his paintings of immigrants, "Out of Many, One," the former Republican president wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post plugging the sort of immigration package that went down to defeat in both his administration and in the administration of his successor, Barack Obama. ...
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Mad queen of the Anglo-Saxons abdicates her throne
(Column ~ 04/21/21)
Marjorie Taylor Greene was readying her assault, like that legendary Anglo-Saxon warrior Canute the Great at Assandun. The QAnon-friendly first-term Georgia congresswoman, who was banned from any committee assignments shortly after she was sworn in, was poised to launch her "America First Caucus" with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist so odious that his siblings cut an ad in 2018 endorsing his opponent...
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Ex-Jack Daniel's distiller to make new whiskey in Tennessee
(Community ~ 04/21/21)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The former top distiller at Jack Daniel's announced Tuesday he and several partners are opening a new whiskey distillery near the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Company Distilling will first open a 4,000-square-foot tasting room and restaurant in Townsend, Tennessee, former Jack Daniel's master distiller Jeff Arnett and his partners said. A 20,000-square-foot main distillery in Alcoa and a tasting room in Thompson Station, closer to Nashville, will follow next year...
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Rebels vow to take capital after Chadian president killed
(International News ~ 04/21/21)
N'DJAMENA, Chad -- Chad's president of three decades died of wounds suffered during a visit to front-line troops battling a shadowy rebel group, the military announced Tuesday, as the insurgents vowed to take the capital in what could become a violent battle for control of the oil-rich Central African nation...
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Navalny's doctors prevented from seeing him at prison clinic
(International News ~ 04/21/21)
MOSCOW -- Several doctors were prevented Tuesday from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison hospital amid his three-week hunger strike, and authorities stepped up actions against his supporters on the eve of protests called by his team...
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Wealthy Latin Americans flock to U.S. in search of vaccines
(International News ~ 04/21/21)
MONTERREY, Mexico -- They travel thousands of miles by plane from Latin America to the U.S., in some places taking a shuttle directly from the airport to COVID-19 vaccination sites. Their ranks include politicians, TV personalities, business executives and a soccer team...
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U.S. takes steps to protect electric system from cyberattacks
(National News ~ 04/21/21)
WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is taking steps to protect the country's electricity system from cyberattacks through a new 100-day initiative combining federal government agencies and private industry. The initiative, announced Tuesday by the Energy Department, encourages owners and operators of power plants and electric utilities to improve their capabilities for identifying cyberthreats to their networks. ...
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Missouri House passes bill for guns in churches, buses
(State News ~ 04/21/21)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri's Republican-led House on Monday passed a bill allowing guns in churches and on public transportation. House lawmakers voted 109-36 in favor of the proposal, which now goes to the GOP-led Senate for consideration. Currently, people need permission from religious leaders to bring firearms into places of religious worship in Missouri...
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Laverne Tucker
(Obituary ~ 04/21/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Laverne F. Tucker, 78, of Perryville died Sunday, April 18, 2021, at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral Mass will be Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville with the Rev. Rich Wehrmeyer, C.M., officiating. Burial will be at St. Maurus Catholic Cemetery in Biehle, Missouri...
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Lora Jacobs
(Obituary ~ 04/21/21)
Anna Lora Jacobs, 100, of Jackson, Missouri died Saturday, April 17, 2021, at The Villas of Jackson. She was born Dec. 5, 1920, in Morley, Missouri, to F.M. and Grace Portis Murphy. She and Donald E. Jacobs Sr. were married June 5, 1943, at St. Louis. He preceded her in death Jan. 13, 2001...
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June Hunt
(Obituary ~ 04/21/21)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- June Hunt, 87, formerly of Scott City, died Saturday, April 17, 2021, at the home of her daughter in Tallahassee. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd's death
(National News ~ 04/21/21)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man's neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S...
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Out of the past: April 21
(Out of the Past ~ 04/21/21)
As a 300-voice choir sang the hymn "Wherever He Leads, I'll Go," dozens of people filed down the metal staircases at the Show Me Center yesterday; they were answering a call similar to one heard by the 4,161 people commissioned by the Southern Baptist Convention to spread the gospel around the world; about 4,500 people from Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois attended a Foreign Mission Board appointment service Saturday afternoon at the Show Me Center; the Foreign Mission Board is an agency of the Southern Baptist Convention.. ...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 4/21/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/21/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. April 18 n Medical assists were made at 2:15 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 5:54 p.m. on William Street; 7:33 p.m. on Bloomfield Road; 7:38 p.m. on Kingsway Drive; 11:17 p.m. on Boutin Drive; 11:20 p.m. on Whitener Street...
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Area police reports 4/21/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/21/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported on Saint Francis Drive. n Assault was reported in the 600 block of South Sprigg Street. n assault was reported in the 1100 block of South Sprigg Street...
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SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ROOTS: LESSONS MOMS TEACH
(Submitted Story ~ 04/21/21)
During this Covid pandemic era and thoughts of Mother’s Day, whether our mothers are alive or deceased, this is a time to reflect on their contribution to who we are and how we respond to circumstances. Dorothy (Williamson) Campbell, Ph.D., reflects on her childhood in southeast Missouri. ...
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