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Cape organizations prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
(Local News ~ 01/11/22)
Across the Cape Girardeau area, community organizations will be hosting celebrations in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. Southeast Missouri State University will hold its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Dinner. This year's theme is "CommUNITY: Justice. Equity. Love." Keynote speaker for the dinner will be Judge Brian S. Miller of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas...
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Cape Girardeau County OKs 2022 spending plan amid inflationary fears
(Local News ~ 01/11/22)
Cape Girardeau County commissioners approved Monday a final 2022 budget referred to as "healthy" and "strong" by County Auditor Pete Frazier. Cape Girardeau County did set a historic record for general sales tax receipts in 2021 by collecting nearly $8.5 million — an 8.7% increase from the previous record of $7.8 million set in 2020...
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Cape terminates Esquire Theatre TIF; council approves TIF agreement with Morning Star
(Local News ~ 01/11/22)
Development on one of Cape Girardeau's historic theaters may soon be underway. On Monday, Cape Girardeau City Council members voted to terminate tax increment financing (TIF) for a redevelopment area designated for improvements to the former Esquire Theater building, 824 Broadway...
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Gov. Parson pushes 5.5% pay raise for state workers
(State News ~ 01/11/22)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Gov. Mike Parson's administration on Monday pushed lawmakers to approve a 5.5% state employee raise that would kick in as soon as Feb. 1. Missouri Budget Director Dan Haug asked members of the House Budget Committee for $91 million for raises this year, which includes $52 million in state funding. Parson's plan also would bring state worker pay to a minimum of $15 an hour...
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SEMO Health Network encourages Obamacare signups before weekend cutoff
(Local News ~ 01/11/22)
This story is updated with new information from SEMO Health Network. Saturday is the open enrollment deadline for the federal Health Insurance Marketplace, an outgrowth of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as "Obamacare." Aaron Griffin, policy director of Benton, Missouri-based SEMO Health Network, said "navigators" are ready to walk potential applicants through the process...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/11/22)
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2022. There are 354 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument (it became a national park in 1919). On this date:...
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Prayer 1-11-22
(Prayer ~ 01/11/22)
O Lord God, thank you for giving us your wonderful peace. Amen.
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A crisis in America
(Column ~ 01/11/22)
"When I hear a firecracker, I panic." As the new year brought the news that a million people in the United States have died of opioid overdoses since 1999, Andrew Doran wrote a piece in The American Conservative that deserves nationwide attention. The piece is titled "American Orphans in the Wasteland." While it's not about opioids, it's about the kind of trauma that exists in our country...
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Birth 1/11/22
(Births ~ 01/11/22)
Son to Dwight and Emilie Nance of Marble Hill, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, 7:57 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Name, Wesley Holden. Weight, 8 pounds, 6.9 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Nance is the daughter of Debbie Beard and Charles Beard of Oak Ridge. She works for Sovereign Healthcare Group. Nance is the son of Jeanna and Jeff Martin of Chaffee, Missouri, and Chris and Jackie Nance of Whitewater. He is employed by Fronabarger Concreters...
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Milford Welker
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
Milford R. Welker, 96, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, at the Chateau Girardeau. He was born Dec. 16, 1925, in Bollinger County to the late Charley and Eva Rhodes Welker. He and Dixie Lee Shoemate were married April 29, 1950, in Advance, Missouri...
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Gabe Mandry
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
Gabriel Alexander "Gabe" Mandry, 31, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, near Nashville, Tennessee, in an automobile accident. Gabe was born Aug. 3, 1990, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Kevin and Emily Friedrich Mandry. He and Samantha Purifoy were married Oct. 11, 2014, in an outdoor ceremony at the home of a cousin near Allenville. Two sons were born to their union, David and Micah Mandry...
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Betty Lunsford
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
Betty Louise Lunsford, 89, died Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. There will be a memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Murray Lane Baptist Church in Sikeston, Missouri, with Pastor Joe McCullough officiating...
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Shirley Kester
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
Shirley Kester, 76, of Jackson, passed away Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, at St. Francis Medical Center. Visitation is from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to service time Thursday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The Rev. Kyle Long will office the funeral at 11 a.m. Thursday, at the funeral home. Burial will follow at New Bethel Baptist Cemetery near Pocahontas...
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Tom Halter
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
Tom Halter, 71, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Aug. 14, 1950, in Cape Girardeau to Adolph and Irma Lee Schwepker Halter. He and Cindy McLaird Essner were married April 22, 1988, in Las Vegas. She preceded him in death Aug. 15, 1997...
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Louise Foulk
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
Louise "Jean" Foulk, 90, daughter of the late Louis and Rosa Estes Gremard, was born Feb. 7, 1931, in Portageville, Missouri, and departed this life Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. On Nov. 20, 1949, she married Leroy "Pete" Foulk in Scott City. He preceded her in death Dec. 20, 1990...
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John Duncan
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
GLEN ALLEN, Mo. -- John Stanley Duncan, 83, of Glen Allen died Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, at Stonebridge Senior Living in Marble Hill, Missouri. Visitation and funeral will be Thursday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time. Funeral service will begin at 1 p.m., with burial to follow in Garden of Memories Cemetery in Sikeston, Missouri...
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Rev. Terry Culberson
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
The Rev. Terry Culberson, 77, of Friedheim went to be with the Lord Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, peacefully at his home with family. Terry was a loving husband, father and grandfather who will be missed by all. Those who knew him as pastor felt the love he showed them from a Shepherd's heart and came to know God by his profound ability to minister and teach the word...
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Safety doors failed in NYC high-rise fire that killed 17
(National News ~ 01/11/22)
NEW YORK -- Investigators sought answers Monday for why safety doors failed to close when fire broke out in a New York high-rise, allowing thick smoke to rise through the tower and kill 17 people, including eight children, in the city's deadliest blaze in more than three decades...
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Tax season begins two weeks early because of virus, IRS funding
(National News ~ 01/11/22)
WASHINGTON -- This year's tax filing season will begin Jan. 24, 17 days earlier than last year, the Internal Revenue Service announced Monday. The IRS is warning that a resurgence of COVID-19 infections on top of less funding authorization from Congress than the Biden administration had requested could make this filing season particularly challenging...
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Medicare told to reassess premium hike for Alzheimer's drug
(National News ~ 01/11/22)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra on Monday ordered Medicare to reassess a big premium increase facing millions of enrollees this year, attributed in large part to a pricey new Alzheimer's drug with questionable benefits. Becerra's directive came days after drugmaker Biogen slashed the price of its $56,000-a-year medication, Aduhelm, to $28,200 a year -- a cut of about half...
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No progress seen after Russia-US talks over Ukraine tensions
(International News ~ 01/11/22)
GENEVA -- The United States and Russia locked horns over Ukraine and other security issues Monday with no sign of progress from either side at highly anticipated strategic talks. Low expectations from both Washington and Moscow about the high-stakes session in Geneva appeared to have been met as senior diplomats from the two countries emerged without offering any hint of success...
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In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
(National News ~ 01/11/22)
In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. While it's too soon to know whether the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. ...
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Because of staff shortages, health officials let COVID-infected staff stay on the job
(National News ~ 01/11/22)
Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all. The move is a reaction to the severe hospital staffing shortages and crushing caseloads the omicron variant is causing...
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Speak Out 1-11-22
(Speak Out ~ 01/11/22)
There is no question that the public education system in our country has failed many students. The students who thrive and do well are students who have goals and have the determination to reach those goals. These students come from many backgrounds, but one thing they have in common is they all desire knowledge and most learned the value of reading at a young age. And parents or grandparents or someone in their young lives encouraged them to read...
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Anti-abortion group urges pro-GOP Missouri congressional map
(State News ~ 01/11/22)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The leader of Missouri's largest anti-abortion group on Monday urged state lawmakers to adopt an aggressively Republican congressional map that could leave Democrats holding just one of the state's eight U.S. House seats after the next election...
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Out of the past: Jan. 11
(Out of the Past ~ 01/11/22)
Strong northerly winds coupled with bitterly cold air turned the snow-covered Missouri into a big deep freeze yesterday, and little letup is expected; the National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory Friday, cautioning people against temperatures of zero or below Friday night; with gusty winds, the wind chill in the Cape Girardeau area made it feel like minus 15 to minus 30 degrees...
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David Powers
(Obituary ~ 01/11/22)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- David Dalton Powers, 80, of Advance passed away Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, at the Advance Nursing Center. He was born April 1, 1941, in Tallapoosa, Missouri, the son of True Victor and Wilma Gladys Bryant Powers. David and Shelba Senciboy were united in marriage on Aug. 29, 1959, in Shawneetown, Illinois, and she preceded him in death in 1991...
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UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI OPENS GRANT APPLICATION FOR 2022-2025 FUNDING
(Submitted Story ~ 01/11/22)
Southeast Mo. - United Way of Southeast Missouri announces the official opening of their grant application on January 10th for agencies and programs that desire to join the United Way network of partners. Applications for the organization’s 2022-2025 funding cycle will be accepted until February 4th at 4 pm (CST)...
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