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Sponsored: SoutheastHEALTH first in the region to introduce rapid diagnostic technology aimed at optimizing antibiotic therapies
(B Magazine ~ 07/23/21)
SoutheastHEALTH has implemented a state-of-the-art rapid diagnostic technology focused on helping clinicians deliver optimal antibiotic therapies more quickly for patients suffering from serious bloodstream infections. Southeast is the pioneer in bringing this technology to the region.
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Editorial: If you've been hesitating, now is the time to get COVID vaccine
(Editorial ~ 07/23/21)
After months of declining COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, both are on the rise. According to health officials, more than 97% of people getting hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated. And according to surgeon general Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, 99.5% of deaths are among those who weren't vaccinated. Meanwhile, the Delta variant is causing problems all around Southwest Missouri, though it has yet to hit us hard. That's why now is a good time for the vaccine...
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Malden man found guilty in drug case
(Local News ~ 07/23/21)
A Cape Girardeau jury found a Malden, Missouri, man guilty Thursday of distributing a controlled substance. A news release from Saylor Fleming, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, said Marcrease Farmer, 36, was found guilty of distributing methamphetamine after a two-day trial...
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Jackson Homecomers will require street closures next week
(Local News ~ 07/23/21)
Several streets in uptown Jackson will be closed during part of all of next week to accommodate the 2021 Homecomers activities. Homecomers will begin Tuesday evening and run through July 31. However, some streets will close Sunday afternoon to allow time for vendors, carnival employees and volunteers to set up carnival rides, food tents, booths and other attractions...
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Arts Council to host 'Seeing Stars' quilt exhibition
(Local News ~ 07/23/21)
Beginning Aug. 6, the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri in Cape Girardeau will host the work of the region's best quilters in its exhibition "Seeing Stars: 2021 Regional Quilt Exhibition." "Seeing Stars" was developed to demonstrate the talent, skill and diversity of quilt makers in the area, according to Kelly Downes, the art council's director...
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Artists to paint a series of murals in downtown Perryville
(Local News ~ 07/23/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Downtown Perryville is about to get a little more colorful. Leaders behind Perry County Heritage Tourism and the City of Perryville plan a series of four murals to be painted throughout downtown Perryville. Trish Erzfeld, director of Perry County Tourism, said the murals have been a goal of hers to complete since she began her position in 2015. To her, murals and other types of public artwork are important for a community to share its culture...
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Cape Girardeau County seeks best uses for courthouse, other facilities
(Local News ~ 07/23/21)
What is the best use of the old Cape Girardeau County Courthouse? That's one of the questions Cape Girardeau County Commissioners want answered as part of a facility review study they authorized Thursday during a brief County Commission meeting. The commissioners unanimously approved a motion to engage Navigate Building Solutions of St. Louis to conduct a study of its facilities to help the county plan for and accommodate the space needs of various county government functions...
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Smoke from western wildfires blankets region in haze
(Local News ~ 07/23/21)
A haze blanketed Southeast Missouri on Thursday -- smoke from wildfires burning in the western part of the United States and Canada. Derrick Snyder, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky, confirmed the source of the haze and said it has reduced the visibility from the usual 10 miles to about 5 miles. He said the smoke is usually in the upper levels of the atmosphere but has been closer to the ground recently...
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500,000 visit vaccine incentive website
(Local News ~ 07/23/21)
The goal of the state's COVID-19 vaccination incentive program -- MO VIP -- is to encourage Missourians to consider receiving the inoculation. According to state health officials, more than 500,000 people looked at the program's website in its first day...
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PB native enjoying time in one of world's most isolated places
(Local News ~ 07/23/21)
Poplar Bluff, Missouri, native Lara Christy arrived on Ascension Island from the United States in mid-April. After three months, it is safe to say she is enjoying life on the remote island in the south Atlantic Ocean...
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Prayer 7/23/21
(Prayer ~ 07/23/21)
O Lord Jesus, may we train our children in your ways. Amen.
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Don Sester
(Obituary ~ 07/23/21)
Edward Don Sester, 71, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, July 22, 2021 at his home. Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. on Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Elmer Peetz
(Obituary ~ 07/23/21)
Elmer Dean Peetz, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, July 21, 2021, at his home. He was born June 28, 1940, to Ferdinand and Andora Keller Peetz. He married June Smith on Nov. 7, 1964. He was a farmer and served with the National Guard. Elmer is survived by his wife, June; his children, Dana (Tim) Cook of Jackson, Dustin (Haley) Peetz of St. ...
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Maggie Lancaster
(Obituary ~ 07/23/21)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Maggie Lancaster, daughter of the late Walter Cleveland and Clara Mae Myers Jackson, was born Jan. 24, 1927, in Cardwell, Missouri, and departed this life Thursday, July 22, 2021, at the Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee at the age of 94 years...
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Patrick Foster
(Obituary ~ 07/23/21)
Patrick Wayne Foster, 71, of Oak Ridge died Wednesday, July 21, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born to Harry and Luella Wilkening Foster. He and Susan Turpin were married July 3, 1988, at Old Appleton. He was an officer in the Navy and later in life sold (legal) drugs, liquor and lottery. He relished living on the family farm and spending time with his grandchildren and goldens...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 7/23/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/23/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 21 n Medical assists were made at midnight on Mississippi Street; 12:26 a.m. on Jefferson Avenue; 2:06 a.m. on Linden Street; 8:54 a.m. on Sycamore Circle; 9:24 a.m. on North Fountain Street; 11:15 a.m. on Silver Springs Road; 4:13 p.m. on South Broadview Street; 4:19 p.m. on South Ellis Street; 6:06 p.m. on South Sprigg Street...
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Amazon's mission: Getting a 'key' to your apartment building
(National News ~ 07/23/21)
NEW YORK -- Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells. The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the country -- sometimes with financial incentives -- to give its drivers the ability to unlock apartment-building doors themselves with a mobile device...
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China rebuffs WHO's terms for further COVID-19 origins study
(International News ~ 07/23/21)
BEIJING -- China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday. Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health Commission, said he was "rather taken aback" the plan includes further investigation of the theory the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab...
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Bin there, done that: Crafty cockatoos master dumpster diving, teach each other
(National News ~ 07/23/21)
WASHINGTON -- A few years ago, a Sydney scientist noticed a sulfur-crested cockatoo opening his trash bin. Not every resident would be thrilled, but ornithologist Richard Major was impressed by the ingenuity. It's quite a feat for a bird to grasp a bin lid with its beak, pry it open, then shuffle far enough along the bin's edge that the lid falls backward -- revealing edible trash treasures inside...
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AP-NORC poll: Parties split on some infrastructure proposals
(National News ~ 07/23/21)
WASHINGTON -- The overwhelming majority of Americans -- about 8 in 10 -- favor plans to increase funding for roads, bridges and ports and for pipes supplying drinking water. But that's about as far as Democrats and Republicans intersect on infrastructure, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research...
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Pelosi says 'deadly serious' Jan. 6 probe to go without GOP
(National News ~ 07/23/21)
WASHINGTON -- Unfazed by Republican threats of a boycott, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared Thursday a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will take on its "deadly serious" work regardless of whether Republicans participate...
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Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections
(National News ~ 07/23/21)
Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients...
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Missouri would get $500M under opioid settlement
(State News ~ 07/23/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The state attorney general on Thursday said Missouri could get as much as $500 million to help victims of the opioid epidemic as part of a tentative settlement with the three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson...
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Some school districts discussing return to mask mandates
(State News ~ 07/23/21)
An official with the Kansas City school district says students will likely be required to wear masks when classes begin next month Students and staff in the Kansas City public school district will likely be required to wear masks when school starts next month because of an uptick in COVID-19 cases in the region, a district official said...
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Missouri Supreme Court reverses Medicaid expansion decision
(State News ~ 07/23/21)
ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the state's voter-approved Medicaid expansion plan, overturning a lower court's ruling the constitutional amendment would wrongfully force lawmakers to set aside additional money...
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Out of the past: July 23
(Out of the Past ~ 07/23/21)
After more than a half century of providing musical entertainment for Cape Girardeau residents, the Community Concert Association plans one curtain call before it disbands; the organization will hold a farewell concert Nov. 5 as a tribute to concert association members; the concert features pianist Robert Levin of the New York Philomusica; the board of directors decided dissolution was the best answer to lagging interest in the organization and falling attendance at concerts...
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