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Standing out -- Albino deer in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 12/03/21)
A new spotting of an albino deer, seen Tuesday evening in the front yard of a home on Valley View Drive in Cape Girardeau.
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Cape County's 'I Voted' sticker contest opens for voting
(Local News ~ 12/03/21)
Voting has opened for the Cape Girardeau County Clerk's "I Voted" sticker contest. The county clerk's office narrowed down all entries received for the 2022 and 2023 election cycle to six finalists. Now, citizens will vote to narrow submissions down to one winner...
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Arrowed deer seen again in Cape Girardeau; information sought
(Local News ~ 12/03/21)
A tough-as-steel whitetail deer that survived a misplaced arrow shot continues to be seen in Cape Girardeau. Word of the deer with an arrow sticking out of the right side of its head first came last month. It was unclear where the deer was in the city...
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Being Young at heart with Santa
(Local News ~ 12/03/21)
Taking their turn for a photo with Santa Claus are, from left, Ron Ethridge, Eveline Poole, Judy Niswonger and Beckie Figliolo during Thursday's Seniors and Lawmen Together (SALT) Senior Christmas Party at the Cape Girardeau Eagles. More photos of the party are in a gallery at semissourian.com.
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Cape use tax could begin next month for certain purchases
(Local News ~ 12/03/21)
For some Cape Girardeau shoppers, a use tax may start sooner than expected. City of Cape Girardeau officials expected to start collecting use tax revenue in 2023. However, a recent notice from the Missouri Department of Revenue stated collection of the use tax would commence in January for certain purchases...
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City of Chaffee announces free alert mass notification system
(Local News ~ 12/03/21)
The northern Scott County city of Chaffee, Missouri, knows a little something about natural disasters and municipal officials announced Thursday a new notification system for emergencies and general citywide notifications. Chaffee has experienced three twisters in the past 81 years -- in 1940, in 1957 and in 2011...
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Cape fire inspector dies after COVID battle
(Local News ~ 12/03/21)
COVID-19 claimed the life Wednesday of Capt. Ivan LaGrand, fire inspector with Cape Girardeau Fire Department. According to a social media post from the department, LaGrand died after a "brief battle" with the virus. LaGrand had served with the department since 1996...
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Toybox, elderly need your support this Christmas
(Editorial ~ 12/03/21)
The Christmas season has begun, but there are many local children and seniors this holiday season who could use your help. The Cape Jaycees have kicked off the Toybox and Christmas for the Elderly programs, two important efforts the Southeast Missourian has partnered in for many years...
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Prayer 12-3-21
(Prayer ~ 12/03/21)
O Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your son, Jesus, to save us. Amen.
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Speak Out 12-3-21
(Speak Out ~ 12/03/21)
People seem surprised to see prices rise on everything we buy. Do they not know how our economy works? When the labor costs rise on businesses and fuel prices double, businesses have to pass that cost on to the consumer or close. Businesses have to make a profit. ...
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Capitol riot committee has interviewed 250 people so far
(National News ~ 12/03/21)
WASHINGTON -- The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has interviewed about 250 people so far, its chairman said Thursday, a staggering pace over just five months as lawmakers work to compile the most comprehensive account yet of the violent attack and hold public hearings next year...
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Charges weighed for Michigan shooting suspect's parents
(National News ~ 12/03/21)
OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A prosecutor on Thursday repeated her criticism of the parents of a boy who is accused of killing four students at a Michigan school, saying their actions went "far beyond negligence" and a charging decision would come by today...
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'The fire that's here': U.S. is still battling delta variant
(National News ~ 12/03/21)
While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., sending record numbers of patients to the hospital in the Midwest and New England. "Omicron is a spark that's on the horizon. Delta variant is the fire that's here today," said Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the state Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Maine, where an unprecedented 334 people were in the hospital with COVID-19 as of midweek...
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U.S. will resume policy for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico
(National News ~ 12/03/21)
SAN DIEGO -- Migrants seeking to enter the United States will again have to stay in Mexico as they await immigration hearings, as the Biden administration announced plans Thursday to reinstate the Trump-era policy and agreed to Mexico's conditions for resuming it...
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Pushing COVID-19 boosters, Biden says 'we need to be ready'
(National News ~ 12/03/21)
BETHESDA -- With rising numbers of COVID-19 cases predicted this winter, President Joe Biden on Thursday appealed for Americans to get their boosters and get behind his plan to tackle the new omicron variant through wider availability of vaccines and shots, but without new major restrictions on daily life...
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Lawyers allied with Trump ordered to pay $175,000 in sanctions
(National News ~ 12/03/21)
LANSING, Mich. -- Nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump were ordered Thursday to pay Detroit and Michigan a total of $175,000 in sanctions for abusing the court system with a sham lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results. The money, which must be paid within 30 days, will cover the legal costs of defending against the suit, which were more than $153,000 for the city and nearly $22,000 for the state...
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Tensions grow over Ukraine with trading of threats
(National News ~ 12/03/21)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met face-to-face with his Russian counterpart Thursday to demand Russia pull back troops from the border with Ukraine, as tensions and suspicions grow in a confrontation over Ukraine's increasingly close ties with NATO and the West...
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Susan Gilley
(Obituary ~ 12/03/21)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Susan Marie Gilley, 79, of Mounds passed away Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, at 3:10 a.m. surrounded by her family at her home. Susan was born on Nov. 23, 1942, in Aurora, Illinois, to Virgil Marion and Lois Irene Schindler Stout. She married Bobby Ray Gilley on Aug. 23, 1963, and he preceded her in death on June 16, 2012...
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Out of the past: Dec. 3
(Out of the Past ~ 12/03/21)
After a four-month search for police and fire chiefs, Cape Girardeau has both; city officials have hired Daniel White, fire chief in Springdale, Arkansas, to take over the Cape Girardeau department on Jan. 2; Richard Hetzel, police chief in Norcross, Georgia, starts his new job here Jan. 13...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 12/3/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/03/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Dec. 1 n Medical assists were made at 6:28 a.m. on Stoddard Street; 7:23 a.m. on Linden Street; 12:41 p.m. on South Lorimier Street; 3:36 p.m. on Bloomfield Road; 5:08 p.m. on Park Place Drive...
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Investigators track ammunition in fatal film set shooting
(Entertainment ~ 12/03/21)
SANTA FE, N.M. -- Authorities pursued new leads earlier this week on possible sources of live ammunition involved in actor Alec Baldwin's fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of a western movie, as they searched the premises of an Albuquerque-based firearms and ammunition supplier...
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Biden helps light National Christmas Tree near White House
(Entertainment ~ 12/03/21)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden helped light the National Christmas Tree on Thursday while remembering those lost to the COVID-19 pandemic and crediting the American people for his optimism. Biden also paid tribute to service members, thanking them for their sacrifices...
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Christmas tree buyers face reduced supplies, higher prices this season
(Community ~ 12/03/21)
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Even Christmas trees aren't immune to the pandemic-induced shortages and inflation plaguing the economy. Extreme weather and supply chain disruptions have reduced supplies of both real and artificial trees this season. American shoppers should expect to have fewer choices and pay up to 30% more for both types this Christmas, industry officials said...
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Officer, suspect killed in police chase crash near St. Louis
(State News ~ 12/03/21)
BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. -- A St. Louis County police detective died in the line of duty and a suspect he was trying to stop also died in a head-on collision of their vehicles. The crash happened Wednesday afternoon in north St. Louis County after officers with the department's drug unit tried to stop a car that had been reported stolen, police said. The car fled, and police gave chase...
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Convicted K.C. officer to be sentenced March 4
(State News ~ 12/03/21)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A white Kansas City police detective who was convicted of shooting and killing a Black man will be sentenced March 4, a judge ruled Thursday. Eric DeValkenaere, 43, was convicted last month of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the shooting death of 26-year-old Cameron Lamb...
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Records: Missouri planned to thank glitch-finding journalist
(State News ~ 12/03/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Just before Gov. Mike Parson condemned a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter for exposing a state database flaw, records show the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education was instead preparing to thank him for finding the glitch...
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Pamela Davenport
(Obituary ~ 12/03/21)
ORAN, Mo. — Pamela Davenport, 61, died on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, at her home in Oran. There will be a memorial service at a later date. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapels is in charge of arrangements.
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Sponsored: Shop Local: Huckstep Body & Paint Shop
(Shop Local ~ 12/03/21)
Huckstep Body & Paint Shop is the first name in auto bodywork; hail damage repair and paint matching because this family has created a level of craftsmanship that only comes with 87 years of experience. Chances are your grandparents (or even great-grandparents) trusted them to fix fender benders, hailstorm damage and faded paint jobs when they were driving because their car was their most expensive purchase and the vehicle had to last. ...
- Walmart Neighborhood Market donates to Shop with a Hero (Submitted Story ~ 12/03/21)
- Scott City PD receives donation from Sams Club for Shop with a Hero (Submitted Story ~ 12/03/21)
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