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Missouri House rejects bid to bolster GOP congressional map
(State News ~ 01/19/22)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House endorsed a congressional redistricting plan Tuesday that is projected to maintain the state's Republican edge but turned back an attempt by some GOP members to more aggressively redraw districts to their advantage...
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Scott City Council approves bid for drainage improvements
(Local News ~ 01/19/22)
Efforts to improve drainage in Scott City will soon be underway. On Tuesday, the Scott City Council unanimously voted to approve a bid from Roper Excavating Inc. to carry out a project to clear drainage ditches in certain parts of the City of Scott City...
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Another Cape Girardeau native picked as state's broadband chief
(Local News ~ 01/19/22)
B.J. Tanksley has been tapped by the Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) to direct the state's Office of Broadband Development -- replacing Tim Arbeiter, who left the role earlier this month to take a job in the private sector. Both men are graduates of Cape Girardeau Central High School and are alumni of Southeast Missouri State University...
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Fire units battle Tuesday morning fire for four hours
(Local News ~ 01/19/22)
An early morning structure fire in Cape Girardeau destroyed one building and left approximately 100 residents without internet Tuesday. Cape Girardeau Fire Department received a call at 5:35 a.m. of a fire in the 2100 block of Big Bend Road. Fire units remained on scene for four hours...
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Former SEMO DPS officer charged with child molestation
(Local News ~ 01/19/22)
A former Southeast Missouri State University Department of Public Safety officer has been fired after law enforcement arrested him on child molestation charges. John Reyna, 36, faces two charges of first-degree child molestation and one charge of statutory sodomy for deviate sexual intercourse with a victim who was younger than 12 at the time of the alleged crime...
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Film on Mississippi County sharecropper protest to have free screening
(Local News ~ 01/19/22)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- An Emmy-Award-winning documentary about Missouri's sharecropper protest of 1939 will be available for viewing later this month at Charleston High School. The community is invited to a free showing of the hour-long film, "Oh Freedom After While," at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 at Charleston High School's Clara Drinkwater Newnam Auditorium...
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Cape Girardeau business owner on Show Me Recovery recommendations
(Local News ~ 01/19/22)
Gov. Mike Parson announced this week the concluding report of his Show Me Recovery Task Force has been received. The task force was charged with studying the ongoing impact of the pandemic on small - business owners and coming up with actionable solutions...
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Safe House of Southeast Missouri serves record number of requests
(Local News ~ 01/19/22)
Safe House of Southeast Missouri in Cape Girardeau served a total of 146 individuals in its last fiscal year, including 142 women and four men. Its previous fiscal year the agency served 84 and in 2018 it served 119 according to its fiscal year annual report...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/19/22)
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2022. There are 346 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 19, 1981, the United States and Iran signed an accord paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 1/18/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/19/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Jan. 17 n Medical assists were made at 6:45 a.m. on Themis Street; 8:19 a.m. on North Frederick Street; 12:24 p.m. on Masters Drive; 2:49 p.m. on Linden Street. n At 12:30 p.m., lift assist was made on Gordonville Road...
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Area Police report 1/19/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/19/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Thefts n Shoplifting, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting/interfering with an arrest were reported on South Kingshighway. Miscellaneous n Shots fired and unlawful use of a weapon were reported on North Sprigg Street...
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Lawrence Seyer
(Obituary ~ 01/19/22)
ORAN, Mo. -- Lawrence Louis "Lefty" Seyer, 93, of Oran passed away Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 20, 1928, to Philip J. and Alvina Dohogne Seyer. On Sept. 12, 1950, he married Ida Mae Glasscock at Guardian Angel Catholic Church in Oran. In 2021 they celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary...
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Jerry Pirtle Sr.
(Obituary ~ 01/19/22)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Jerry Pirtle Sr., 75, son of the late Loomis and Emma Edwards Pirtle, was born March 26, 1946, in Painton, Missouri, and departed this life Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, at his home in Chaffee. On May 18, 1966, he was united in marriage to Shirley Faye Daniels in Perkins, Missouri. She survives of the home in Chaffee...
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Tina Kaufman
(Obituary ~ 01/19/22)
ORAN, Mo. -- Tina Diane Sander Kaufman, 62, of Oran passed away peacefully in her sleep Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. She was born March 26, 1959, in Cape Girardeau to Clarence Fred and Evelyn Marie Cotner Sander. She and John Edward Kaufman were married Feb. 18, 1978, at Four Square Gospel Church in Cape Girardeau...
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Dr. David Johnson
(Obituary ~ 01/19/22)
RIDGEDALE, Mo. -- Dr. David S. Johnson passed away peacefully in his sleep at Big Cedar Resort in Ridgedale Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. He was born Oct. 15, 1945, in Franklin Park, Illinois. He grew up in Melrose Park, Illinois. In 1969, he married Florence Loeffler in Columbus, Ohio. They celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary on July 5...
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Alice Harvell
(Obituary ~ 01/19/22)
Alice Marie Scheffer Harvell of Jackson, formerly of Charleston, Missouri, died peacefully surrounded by her family Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis after a long battle with mantle cell lymphoma. Alice was born June 27, 1961, in Sikeston, Missouri, to the late John and Rita Scheffer. Alice grew up in Charleston as part of a large loving family. She was an active member in St. Henry Catholic Church. In 1979 Alice graduated from Charleston High School...
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Thomas Fadler Jr.
(Obituary ~ 01/19/22)
Thomas Travis Fadler Jr., 71, of Sedgewickville, Missouri, died Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, at Baptist Health of Paducah, Kentucky. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday and 8 to 10 a.m. Friday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville, Missouri...
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Johnny Brandel
(Obituary ~ 01/19/22)
JONESBURG, Mo. -- Johnny D. Brandel, 81, of Jonesburg died Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, at Aspire Health Rehab in Jonesburg. A private service will be held at a later date. Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville, Missouri, is in charge of arrangements...
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Prayer 1-19-22
(Prayer ~ 01/19/22)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for your abundant grace and mercy. Amen.
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Finding gratitude in the little gifts of online learning
(Column ~ 01/19/22)
The omicron variant of COVID-19 has surged to the point that many school districts are back to remote learning. When the transition was announced in my son's school, I felt a rush of relief. Though he's fully vaccinated, I knew he would be safer at home from the highly infectious omicron variant. We've seen many around us suffer breakthrough cases and as a person with autoimmune disease, I really want to get through this pandemic without testing my luck with infection...
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Youngkin is right on masks
(Column ~ 01/19/22)
Glenn Youngkin promised to be on the side of parents as Virginia governor, and on his first day in office, he delivered. The Republican issued an executive order allowing parents to decide whether their kids will wear masks in school, and met an instant wall of resistance from Democratic-controlled counties and criticism from White House press secretary Jen Psaki. A Washington Post headline said Youngkin is "terrifying people."...
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A popular bluegrass festival returns to Fruitland
(Editorial ~ 01/19/22)
A popular bluegrass festival returns to Fruitland this week, and this year's event will be extra meaningful to organizers. Tammy and Bull Harman have been regular promoters and organizers of the Bootheel Bluegrass Festival, which will celebrate its 15th annual gathering beginning Thursday and continuing through Saturday. But in December, Tammy's parents, in their 80s, lost their Reynolds County home to an EF2 tornado. Thankfully, the couple survived...
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Study nixes Mars life in meteorite found in Antarctica
(National News ~ 01/19/22)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported late last week. In 1996, a NASA-led team announced organic compounds in the rock appeared to have been left by living creatures. ...
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Judge signs plan, resolves Puerto Rico bankruptcy battle
(National News ~ 01/19/22)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico's nearly five-year bankruptcy battle is ending after a federal judge Tuesday signed a plan slashing the U.S. territory's public debt load as part of a restructuring and allows the government to start repaying creditors...
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Giuliani among Trump allies subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel
(National News ~ 01/19/22)
WASHINGTON -- The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas Tuesday to Rudy Giuliani and other members of Donald Trump's legal team who filed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election that fueled the lie the race had been stolen from the former president...
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AT&T, Verizon pause some new 5G service after airlines raise alarm
(National News ~ 01/19/22)
AT&T and Verizon will delay launching new wireless service near key airports after the nation's largest airlines said the service would interfere with aircraft technology and cause widespread flight disruptions. The decision from the companies came Tuesday as the Biden administration tried to broker a settlement between the telecoms and airlines over a rollout of new 5G service...
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Russia moves more troops westward amid Ukraine tensions
(International News ~ 01/19/22)
MOSCOW -- Russia is sending an unspecified number of troops from the country's far east to Belarus for major war games, officials said Tuesday, a deployment that will further beef up Russian military presence near Ukraine amid Western fears of a planned invasion...
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US faces wave of omicron deaths in coming weeks, models say
(National News ~ 01/19/22)
The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. ...
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Freed Missouri inmate sues over medical care in prison
(State News ~ 01/19/22)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City man released from prison after serving more than 40 years for a wrongful conviction is suing the company that provides medical care for Missouri prison inmates. Kevin Strickland alleges in his lawsuit medical care provided by Corizon LLC officials left him dependent on a wheelchair and able to stand for only brief periods, KMBC-TV reported...
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Out of the past: Jan. 19
(Out of the Past ~ 01/19/22)
Ford Groves Motor Co. at Jackson is operating out of a new $350,000, 5,000-square-foot facility at 825 Highway 61 East; the building has a two-car showroom, two bays in the back, six salesmen's offices and two manager's offices; Ford Groves Motor of Cape Girardeau first opened a Jackson branch in 1986...
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Henry Sessoms Sr.
(Obituary ~ 01/19/22)
Henry Morris Sessoms Sr., 86, of Cape Girardeau, died peacefully Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau, after a year of declining health. Henry was born May 14, 1935, in Nashville, Tennessee, the youngest of five children born to John Broadus and Adelene Lackey Sessoms...
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