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Cape clinic to give away COVID-19 masks, tests
(Local News ~ 01/22/22)
Starting Monday, Cape Family Medical Clinic will give free COVID-19 medical supplies to whomever needs them. Cape Family Medical Clinic and 180 Healthcare teamed up to provide the community with the free supplies on a first-come, first-served basis starting 8:30 a.m. on Monday...
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Cape Girardeau woman sentenced in federal court for fraud
(Local News ~ 01/22/22)
A federal judge in Cape Girardeau has sentenced Brandy McKay, 42, of Cape Girardeau to three years imprisonment and ordered her to pay $7.52 million in restitution for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark handed down the sentence Tuesday following a plea agreement between McKay and federal prosecutors...
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Event to mark anniversary of Sikeston lynching
(Local News ~ 01/22/22)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Eighty years after a Black man accused of assaulting a white woman was dragged through the streets of Sikeston by a vehicle and set on fire, the community will for the first time acknowledge the tragic incident with a remembrance and reconciliation event Sunday...
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Missouri AG Schmitt files suit against 36 school districts on COVID-19 mask requirements
(State News ~ 01/22/22)
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Friday he filed suit against 36 school districts in the state that are requiring students to wear masks. He was joined in the lawsuit by a total of 76 parents. "It's time to give the power back to parents and families to make these decisions themselves," Schmitt said on social media...
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State's hospitals report rise in coronavirus patients
(Local News ~ 01/22/22)
For a while, things calmed down. The number of COVID-19 patients at Saint Francis Medical Center dropped to zero after Southeast Missouri's second surge in the fall. Now, to the dismay of healthcare professionals, COVID-19 patients have begun to grow in number in hospitals once again...
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Stoddard prosecutor announces reelection bid
(Local News ~ 01/22/22)
DEXTER, Mo. -- Stoddard County Prosecutor Russ Oliver announced in a news release he is running for re-election. Oliver is seeking his fourth term as prosecuting attorney. "We are so very proud of the work we have done over the last 12 years. When I took office, Stoddard County Law Enforcement had not won a jury trial in over seven years," Oliver said. ...
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Realtor Edgar of Cape Girardeau to run for state rep
(Local News ~ 01/22/22)
Elaine Edgar, owner of SEMO Home Realty in Cape Girardeau, will seek the Aug, 2 Republican nomination for Missouri House District 147 -- a seat currently vacant due to the resignation of Wayne Wallingford. Edgar, who grew up on a farm in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has lived in Cape since 2006...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/22/22)
Today is Saturday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2022. There are 343 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, declared a nationwide constitutional right to abortion. On this date:...
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Zellmer-Cooper
(Engagement ~ 01/22/22)
Bill and Shelley Zellmer of Jackson announce the engagement of their daughter, Larissa Marie Zellmer, to Nicholas Clay Alan Cooper, both of Jackson. He is the son of Chris Cooper and Toshia and Keith Campbell, all of Jackson. Larissa is a graduate of Saxony Lutheran High School and received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. She works in dental sales for Dentsply Sirona...
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Genealogical gems from the U.S. Federal Census
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
Perhaps no other record source provides as much useful information for family historians as censuses. I will discuss using this type of record in this column and two subsequent ones. Different levels of government have taken censuses in various forms from colonial times. ...
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The community memory of Louis Napoleon Nelson
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
It seemed Cape Girardeau's historical awareness of African American participation in the Civil War had 150-year amnesia. When local history-keepers were queried, a vague memory of only one Black Civil War military man surfaced. Long-ago patrons of the People's Cafe recalled the portrait of an old, stoic, uniformed man displayed in the restaurant. ...
- Adopt Kittens 1-23-22 (Community ~ 01/22/22)
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Senior Center Menus for Jan. 24-28
(Community ~ 01/22/22)
Monday: Scrambled eggs and sausage or chicken tenders, hash browns with onions, biscuit and gravy and citrus fruit dessert with bananas. Tuesday: Sweet and sour pork or cranberry-glazed chicken breast, seasoned rice, Asian-veggie blend, green peas, whole-grain hot roll and baked pineapple or pineapple cake with topping...
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Frost on a window
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
This frost formation was on the outside of my truck window the early morning of Jan. 11. Rain a day or two earlier caused there to be enough humidity in the air to produce this frost. Air temperatures must go below freezing and there should be no wind in order for this kind of frost to form. It is anybody's guess which direction the little ice crystals will go and what kind of fancy designs they will make...
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Individual or person?
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
Howard Thurman is a name this columnist had not heard since seminary, more than 30 years ago. Thurman, who died in 1981, a long-time faculty member at Boston University School of Theology, wrote 22 books and founded the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco -- the first large interracial, interdenominational church in the United States...
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The Golden Rule
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
Most people have heard of the Golden Rule. I saw an interview with Elon Musk by the Babylon Bee, a group that produces religious satire. At the end of the interview, they jokingly asked him to accept Jesus. When he started asking questions, they fell silent as if they had no idea what the Bible teaches about salvation or how to answer his elementary questions. ...
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The Golden Rule still triumphs
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
Kindness is a much used word in our vocabulary. If you're Christian, you've undoubtedly read Bible Scriptures pertaining to the importance of kindness. You've, at least, heard about or participated in performing acts of kindness. In a world that has always been filled with struggle and pain, kindness is like sunshine, beaming on a cold dreary day. ...
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Today's work for future benefits
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
I grew up in a region of Nebraska commonly called "The Sandhills." It probably was at one time a pretty big desert with pure sand hills that covered maybe a quarter of the state of Nebraska, but little by little the sand hills began to grass over. Today the Sandhills are covered by numerous varieties of grass with a fairly thick sod covering...
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Club news 1-23-22
(Community News ~ 01/22/22)
The Torchbearer Iota Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met Jan. 10 at the home of Linda Belote with eleven members present. Marilyn Schwab was co-hostess. Bobbie Woodard and Gwen Nussbaum were unable to attend. Patty Taylor presided. A vote was taken for the chapter Valentine Queen...
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Learning briefs 1-23-22
(Community ~ 01/22/22)
Cape Girardeau: Samuel Traxel. Frohna, Missouri: Tabitha Petzoldt. Jackson: Jasmine Owens, Abigail Schmitz. Perryville, Missouri: Tuler Heberlie. Sikeston, Missouri: Malyn Hodges. Benton, Missouri: Chloe Dumey Cape Girardeau: Hannah Dodson Sikeston, Missouri: Emily Limbaugh...
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FYI 1-23-22
(Community ~ 01/22/22)
LaCroix Church in Cape Girardeau will hold a griefshare seminar: Loss of spouse from 1 to 3 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in room 110 at the Cape Girardeau campus. The daily emotions and challenges can seem too hard to bear when you've lost a spouse. You'll hear practical advice from others who've been there, what to expect in your grief, how to cope with life without your spouse and why it won't always hurt this much. For more information, call Mary at (573) 429-5181...
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Speak Out 1-23-22
(Speak Out ~ 01/22/22)
Republicans want to hit Biden on his slow response to COVID. Um ... do they remember a guy named Trump? We visited Capaha Park this morning and see the beautiful restrooms are closed due to vandalism. What the heck is wrong with people? Do you think the world is a dark place and the country is coming to an end? Maybe you should turn off your television or change the channel. ...
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Checking my privilege as an adult and removing the labels of my childhood
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
I have two older sisters. Our parents deemed me "the talented one." I took music and dance lessons. My middle sister was "the smart one." She was a certified SCUBA diver as a teen and a member of the Junior Zoologists Club. My eldest sister was "the pretty one." She took modeling lessons and even participated in a pageant...
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Is America heading for a systems collapse?
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a "systems collapse." The term describes the sudden inability of once-prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured the good life as they knew it. Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities. They feel their streets are unsafe. Laws go unenforced or are enforced inequitably. Every day things stop working. The government turns from reliable to capricious if not hostile...
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End of the Roe v. Wade Era?
(Column ~ 01/22/22)
After a COVID-19 driven timeout last year, March for Life returns this year to Washington, D.C., for the 49th year, noting the anniversary of and support to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision of Jan. 22, 1973. This began the era of legal abortion in the USA...
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Prayer 1-23-22
(Prayer ~ 01/22/22)
O Lord Jesus, in all we say and do, may we be leaders of integrity. Amen.
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda for 1/24/22
(Local News ~ 01/22/22)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. today 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Minutes of stated meeting of Jan. 20, 2022 Appointments and possible action items n None at this time Discussion and possible action n Humane Society contract...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda for 1-24-22
(Local News ~ 01/22/22)
Cape Girardeau City Council 5 p.m. Tuesday, City Hall Presentations n ShotSpotter Presentation n Geospatial Intelligence Presentation - Jim Riley Communications/reports n City Council staff Items for discussion n Appearances by Advisory Board applicants...
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Births 1/20/22
(Births ~ 01/22/22)
Son to Spencer Wayne and Megan Jo Hill of Marble Hill, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 3:14 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Name, Wesley Wade. Weight, 7 pounds, 13 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Hill is the former Megan White, daughter of Wayne and Denise White of Marble Hill. She works at the Bollinger County Courthouse. Hill is the son of Charles and Carolyn Burns of Marble Hill and Stanley Hill of Forrest City, Arkansas. He is employed by Pace Construction Inc...
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Fire report 1-23-22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/22/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Jan. 19 n Medical assists were made at 2:40 a.m. on South Broadview Street; 8:22 a.m. on Sapphire Lane; 9:24 a.m. on Broadway; 10:15 a.m. on Gordonville Road; 10:53 a.m. on North Mount Auburn Road; 10:56 a.m. on Merriwether Street; 11:18 a.m. on South Kingshighway; 1:09 p.m. on North Sunset Boulevard; 3:19 p.m. on North Kingshighway; 3:32 p.m. on Independence Street; and 7:28 p.m. on Albert Rasche Drive...
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Police report 1-23-22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/22/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Theft n Theft was reported on Bloomfield Street. n Shoplifting was reported on William Street. n Theft from a vehicle and second-degree property damage were reported on William Street...
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CDC studies show booster shots needed against omicron
(National News ~ 01/22/22)
NEW YORK -- Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots. They are the first large U.S. studies to look at vaccine protection against omicron, health officials said...
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Giuliani associate gets year in prison in foreign donor case
(National News ~ 01/22/22)
NEW YORK -- A Florida man who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $10,000 Friday in an unrelated campaign finance case. Igor Fruman was told to report to prison March 14. He pleaded guilty in September to a single charge of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national...
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US, Russia to try more diplomacy amid tensions over Ukraine
(International News ~ 01/22/22)
GENEVA -- Top U.S. and Russian diplomats agreed Friday to keep talking in the standoff over Ukraine, even though their meeting produced no movement in the crisis that has seen Moscow mass tens of thousands of troops at the border and the West ramp up supplies of weapons to Kyiv...
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Norway killer Breivik tests limits of lenient justice system
(International News ~ 01/22/22)
STAVANGER, Norway -- Convicted mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik spends his days in a spacious three-room cell, playing video games, exercising, watching TV and taking university-level courses in mathematics and business. Halfway through a 21-year sentence and seeking early release, Breivik, 42, is being treated in a way that might seem shocking to people outside of Norway, where he killed eight in an Oslo bombing in 2011, and then stalked and gunned down 69 people, mostly teens, at a summer camp.. ...
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Yemeni rebels say Saudi-led airstrike on prison killed 70
(National News ~ 01/22/22)
SANAA, Yemen -- A Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a prison run by Yemen's Houthi rebels on Friday, killing at least 70 detainees and wounding dozens, a rebel minister said. The strike was part of a pounding aerial offensive that hours earlier knocked the Arab world's poorest country off the internet...
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Louie Anderson, comic, Emmy winner for 'Baskets,' dies at 68
(National News ~ 01/22/22)
LOS ANGELES -- Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series "Baskets," died Friday. He was 68. Anderson died at a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from cancer, said Glenn Schwartz, his longtime publicist. Anderson had a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Schwartz said previously...
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Nation's largest abortion protest could be last under Roe
(National News ~ 01/22/22)
WASHINGTON -- Arriving by the busloads, thousands of anti-abortion protesters rallied in the nation's capital Friday with a growing sense of optimism that their goal was finally in reach: a sweeping rollback of abortion rights. The March for Life, for decades an annual protest against abortion, was held as the Supreme Court has indicated it will allow states to impose tighter restrictions on abortion with a ruling in the coming months -- and possibly overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. ...
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Muriel Walke
(Obituary ~ 01/22/22)
LYMAN, S.C. -- Lawanna Muriel Walke passed away Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, at Ashian Village at Lyman at the age of 97 years. She was born July 31, 1924, in Jackson to Clarence and Nellie Scheper. Muriel was in the Jackson High School Class of 1942. She worked at the Malden (Missouri) Army Air Force Training Base during World War II as a telephone operator, where she met her husband, Ted Walke...
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Linda Thomason
(Obituary ~ 01/22/22)
Linda S. Thomason, 70, of Cape Girardeau and formerly of Kennett, Missouri, died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, at her home. The family will hold a private memorial service at a later date. Arrangements have been entrusted to Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau...
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Debra Seals
(Obituary ~ 01/22/22)
McCLURE, Ill. -- Debra "Debbie" Seals, 63, of McClure died Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born June 14, 1958, in Cape Girardeau to C.V. and Dorothy Fuller Dunn. She and Alfred Seals were married June 26, 1976, at McClure Baptist Church in McClure...
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Joyce Schmitz
(Obituary ~ 01/22/22)
Joyce Bernice Schmitz, 81, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 30, 1940, to Lester Charles and Stella Park Burger in Cape Girardeau. She and Richard L. Schmitz were married July 26, 1958, in Collinsville, Illinois, and they had three children...
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Larry and Wilma Phillips
(Obituary ~ 01/22/22)
MARYVILLE, Ill. -- Larry Gene Phillips, 89, of Maryville passed away Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, at Anderson Hospital in Maryville. Eighteen hours later, his wife of 61 years, Wilma Jean Phillips, also passed away at Anderson Hospital in Maryville. Larry was born Nov. 26, 1932, in Stoddard County, Missouri, to Otis and Gladys Mayo Phillips...
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Terry Payne
(Obituary ~ 01/22/22)
Terry Lee Payne, 64, of Cape Girardeau passed away Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, at his home. He was born Nov. 4, 1957, in Advance, Missouri, the son of Elvin "Bob" and Ruth Carver Payne. Terry and Gina Lee Eckert were united in marriage Aug. 15, 1981, in Mitchell. Illinois, and she survives...
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David Parks
(Obituary ~ 01/22/22)
CAIRO, Ill. -- David M. Parks, 63, of Cairo died suddenly at 7:39 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, at home. He was born Feb. 28, 1958, to Guy and Lola McCoy Parks Jr. in Petersburg, Virginia. David worked for Lowe's in Cape Girardeau, where he made many friends. He previously worked at Med Care as a delivery driver and Bass Sales for many years as a machine worker...
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Out of the past: Jan. 22
(Out of the Past ~ 01/22/22)
The Cape Girardeau City Council opted yesterday to approve a smaller hike in water rates than initially approved; acting on an amended ordinance, the council voted unanimously to raise rates by 3%; the increase, effective Feb. 1, will generate an estimated $114,000 in additional revenue annually...
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Out of the past: Jan. 23
(Out of the Past ~ 01/22/22)
Gov. Mel Carnahan's proposed Missouri budget includes $3.15 million for half the cost of a new vocational-technical school in Cape Girardeau; the money would help construct a 90,000-square-foot vocational-technical school to serve the area; state funding would be contingent upon approval of a bond issue by Cape Girardeau School District voters...
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