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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda for 6/9/22 meeting
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. today 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Minutes of stated meetings of June 6 Communications/reports — other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on the agenda Appointments and possible action items...
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Recipes for those June bridal showers or special event
(Community ~ 06/09/22)
An upcoming special event always calls for a party, and that always includes food! Our friends, Lauren Dumey and David Muscat are going to be married in a few weeks, and that calls for a bridal shower to celebrate the happy couple. In planning the shower with friends, we tried to think of a few foods that would give a nod to Lauren's most recent residence in St. ...
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Arrest made in Charleston shooting
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
CHARLESTON, Mo. — One arrest has been made in the shooting death of a Charleston resident Sunday. According to Charleston Department of Public Safety director Robert Hearnes, Tyrese Tate, 21, of Cape Girardeau and formerly of Charleston, was taken into custody Monday...
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Episcopal Church supports inclusivity through Red Door Jubilee Center
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
As Pride Month continues, the Episcopal Church promotes full inclusion of members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The Red Door Jubilee Center is a LGBTQIA+ outreach program provided through the Christ Episcopal Church of Cape Girardeau. The program's ministry engagement states the "Episcopal Church has long embraced the gifts of the LGBTQIA+ community," according to the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri's website. ...
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Remember the Removal Memorial bike ride makes its way through Missouri
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
A years-old Cherokee Nation tradition travels through Missouri for its 14th time since its inaugural event in 1984. The Remember the Removal Memorial bike ride comes back to the state with riders from the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, spanning "almost 1,000 miles" from Georgia to Oklahoma. The ride follows the path of the Trail of Tears, which relocated Native Americans to reservations in Oklahoma...
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Law Enforcement Appreciation Week: Deputy, K-9 fight crime in Cape area
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
Gabriel Yoder has been surrounded by dogs his entire life and had plans of becoming a veterinarian while he attended Iowa State University before falling ill and returning home. As he recovered over several months, he witnessed the events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing unfold. It was then he made the decision to pursue a career in law enforcement as a deputy K-9 handler...
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Law Enforcement Appreciation Week: A sandwich, a Coke and a career in law enforcement
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
Sgt. Brad Haggett's law enforcement journey did not have a Hollywood beginning. It did not start with witnessing a terrible crime, and it wasn't a flashy television show, with staged explosions and high speed chases that first seduced Haggett with the glamor of law enforcement super heroes...
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Law Enforcement Appreciation Week: Lt. Jason Ladner's work changing the county jail
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
Lt. Jason Ladner "kind of stumbled into law enforcement." The former U.S. Army medic was looking for a job in 2005, after leaving the military, and the jail division within Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office needed people. "I started off in law enforcement as a corrections officer because it was a job I can go do that sounded appealing to me being, you know, military," Ladner said with a chuckle...
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Law Enforcement Appreciation Week: Scott Eakers ready to put a bow on his police career, most of it in Jackson
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
Jackson assistant police chief Scott Eakers, who started as a patrolman in the county seat town before turn of the century, will turn in his shield later this summer. "I'm retiring Aug. 1 on my 55th birthday," said Eakers, who said he "fell in love" with being a policeman. "I've gotten to do everything I wanted to do. I've worked everything from traffic tickets to DWIs to homicides. Child deaths are the worst ones."...
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Former Marble Hill police chief sentenced on civil rights charge
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
A former Southeast Missouri police chief was sentenced to nine months behind bars for using excessive force while detaining a woman during a custody dispute. Marc F. Tragesser, 55, former Marble Hill police chief, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark in St. Louis...
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Armed man arrested for threat to kill Justice Kavanaugh
(National News ~ 06/09/22)
WASHINGTON -- A man carrying a gun, a knife and zip ties was arrested Wednesday near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house in Maryland after threatening to kill the justice. Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, was charged with the attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice. During a court hearing, he consented to remain in federal custody for now...
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Former home of Broadway Theatre set for demolition in coming months
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
A long-simmering question in downtown Cape Girardeau moved closer to a resolution Wednesday. The City of Cape Girardeau took the first steps to demolish the building that formerly housed Broadway Theatre, located at 805 Broadway, as crews removed the scaffolding from the facade of the building...
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Finding more time with Marco's Pizza
(Community ~ 06/09/22)
I try to spend more time outside in the warmer months in a futile attempt to tame nature and nurture my plants. I know that the weeds will regrow, but that's OK. Year by year, I get to watch my plants grow taller and stronger, bloom more and spread their own offspring across the flower beds. ...
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Law Enforcement Appreciation Week: Hutson — police chief, county sheriff — respected before line-of-duty death
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
In the early 1900s, the Haarig Commercial District in Cape Girardeau was a rough and tumble area. Mixed in with general merchandise and feed stores were bars and saloons. Maintaining law and order was no easy task and required a serious lawman. Enter Nathaniel Jefferson "Jeff" Hutson...
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Law Enforcement Appreciation Week: Prosecutor seeks justice tempered by 'Golden Rule'
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
Mark Welker didn't grow up wanting to be the prosecuting attorney for Cape Girardeau County. In fact, he didn't really have a specific interest in being a lawyer at all. "It was always something that was in the back of my mind, but it wasn't really a burning desire," said Welker who was elected prosecuting attorney in 2018 and is running unopposed in 2022...
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Anti-Semitic vandalism reported in Cape
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
A spate of recent vandalism incidents in Cape Girardeau has included anti-Semitic imagery. According to Cpl. Ryan Droege of Cape Girardeau Police Department, the incidents, more than half a dozen, occurred over days in late May at several locations...
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Free beer-tasting planned Friday in Cape
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
Marika Josephson and Aaron Kleidon of the Southern Illinois Scratch brewing company will be hosting a beer tasting at Cask Craft Spirits & Beer Lounge, 1610 N. Kingshighway, Suite 105, from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday. The event will include tastes of signature Scratch beers free of charge...
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Southeast Missouri lawmakers weigh in on ranked choice voting
(Local News ~ 06/09/22)
This story is updated. Two U.S. states, Alaska and Maine, plus more than 20 American cities now use a voting system in which voters may prioritize, or rank, their choice of candidates at election time. If a current petition effort gathers enough steam, it appears Missouri voters may one day get the chance to decide whether ranked choice voting should be used in Missouri...
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The Jan. 6 committee is a symptom of our democracy's failure -- and maybe a means of its salvation
(Column ~ 06/09/22)
On Thursday, the Jan. 6 committee will make its televised prime-time debut, some 519 days after the event that gave the committee its name and purpose. For its ardent supporters, the committee's mission is nothing less than an effort to save democracy. For its harshest critics, it's both a waste of time and part of that partisan witch hunt against Donald Trump...
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The US has an empidemic of gang shootings
(Column ~ 06/09/22)
The headlines coming out of the weekend were grim. Axios: "At least 54 injured, 11 killed in 7 separate mass shootings this weekend." NBC News: "At least 12 dead in another weekend of mass shootings across America." Yahoo! News: "At least 12 dead in 10 mass shootings in U.S. over the weekend."...
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Prayer 6-9-22
(Prayer ~ 06/09/22)
O Father God, may we love others as you love us. Amen.
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Thomas Brewer
(Obituary ~ 06/09/22)
Thomas "Tom" Brewer, 79, of Friedheim died Monday, June 6, 2022. A memorial visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at New Salem United Methodist Church in Daisy. The Rev. Kathleen Myers will conduct a memorial service at 4 p.m. Saturday at the church...
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Nancy Berkbuegler
(Obituary ~ 06/09/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Nancy Lee Berkbuegler, 77, of Perryville died Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at the Estates of Perryville. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 8 to 9:20 a.m. Tuesday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville,. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. at St. Maurus Catholic Church in Biehle, Missouri, with the Rev. Patrick Christopher officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery...
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Jennie Bell
(Obituary ~ 06/09/22)
Jennie Lee Bell, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 28, 2022, at her home. She was born June 22, 1952, in Lilbourn, Missouri, to Frank and Josiephine Jones Jr.. Jennie was a retired employee for the State of Missouri, where she worked at the Sikeston regional office specializing in helping families with special needs children...
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Cape Girardeau Police report 6/9/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/09/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported. n A warrant arrest was reported...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 6/9/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/09/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. June 7 n Medical assists were made at 8:17 a.m. on South Henderson Avenue; 11:15 a.m. at Bertling and North Sprigg streets; 2:54 p.m. on South Mount Auburn Road; 3:03 p.m. on William Street; 4:14 p.m. on David Street; 10:11 p.m. on West Lorimier Place; 10:53 p.m. on Hackberry Street...
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Births 6/9/22
(Births ~ 06/09/22)
Daughter to Kurt and Holly Ritter of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 5:39 a.m. Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Name, Harley Sue. Weight, 8 pounds. First child. Mrs. Ritter is the daughter of Stephanie Leis of Fort Madison, Iowa, and the late John Stauffer. Ritter is the son of Karen Ritter of Evergreen Park, Illinois, and the late Keith Ritter. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter are both employed by Southeast Missouri State University...
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Reports: Twitter to provide Musk with raw daily tweet data
(National News ~ 06/09/22)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter plans to offer Elon Musk access to its "firehose" of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets in an effort to push forward the Tesla billionaire's agreed-to $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform, according to multiple news reports...
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Mexican megachurch leader gets more than 16 years for abuse
(National News ~ 06/09/22)
LOS ANGELES -- The leader of the Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo was sentenced Wednesday to more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young female followers who said he made them his sex slaves. Naason Joaquin Garcia, 53, abruptly pleaded guilty last week in Los Angeles Superior Court to three felonies on the eve of a long-awaited trial...
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Iran says 2 UN watchdog devices at nuclear site turned off
(International News ~ 06/09/22)
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran turned off two surveillance devices Wednesday used by U.N. inspectors to monitor the Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment, further escalating the crisis over its atomic program as Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers remains in tatters...
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Moderna says updated COVID shot boosts omicron protection
(National News ~ 06/09/22)
Moderna's experimental COVID-19 vaccine that combines its original shot with protection against the omicron variant appears to work, the company announced Wednesday. COVID-19 vaccine makers are studying updated boosters that might be offered in the fall to better protect people against future coronavirus surges...
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Climate-driven flooding poses well water contamination risks
(National News ~ 06/09/22)
ST. LOUIS -- After a record-setting Midwestern rainstorm that damaged thousands of homes and businesses, Stefanie Johnson's farmhouse in Blandinsville, Illinois, didn't have safe drinking water for nearly two months. Flood water poured into her well, turning the water a muddy brown and forcing Johnson, her husband and their two young children to use store-bought supplies. ...
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More bodies found in Mariupol as global food crisis looms
(International News ~ 06/09/22)
BAKHMUT, Ukraine -- Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an "endless caravan of death" inside the devastated city of Mariupol, authorities said Wednesday, while fears of a global food crisis escalated over Ukraine's inability to export millions of tons of grain through its blockaded ports...
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4th grade Uvalde survivor: 'I don't want it to happen again'
(National News ~ 06/09/22)
WASHINGTON -- An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, recounted in video testimony to Congress on Wednesday how she covered herself with a dead classmate's blood to avoid being shot and "just stayed quiet."...
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Out of the past: June 9
(Out of the Past ~ 06/09/22)
Hoffman Family Fireworks has expanded; Rick and MaryAnn Hoffman have purchased the wholesale-retail fireworks business from E.C. Younghouse of Younghouse Distributing Co., Inc.; Younghouse Distributing will continue its wholesale gift and novelty business at its site at Interstate 55 and Highway 74; the Hoffmans have opened a new fireworks warehouse at 2976 E. Outer Road, across from Rhodes City Truck Stop in the Nash Road Industrial Park...
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