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NB I-55 in Cape County reduced for bridge maintenance; Highway 74 reduced for bridge repairs
(Local News ~ 07/29/22)
NB I-55 in Cape County reduced for bridge maintenance Northbound Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau County -- from mile marker 89.2 to mile marker 90.2, near Scott City -- will be reduced to one lane with a 14-foot width restriction as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance. According to a MoDOT news release, the work will take place from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 21...
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Shelters experience increase in returned rescues, dumped dogs
(Local News ~ 07/29/22)
As inflationary pressures are pinching pocketbooks across the nation, animal shelters across the country are experiencing an increase in rescue animals being returned to their facilities and strays dropped off at shelters by good Samaritans or law enforcement, according to a national organization...
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Hartzler makes U.S. Senate campaign stop in Cape
(Local News ~ 07/29/22)
U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler speaks Thursday on her key voting issues such as abortion, border security and more at her meet-and-greet in a conference room at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Cape Girardeau. Hartzler is a Republican candidate running for Missouri's open U.S. Senate seat.
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Raney's 'Breath of Heaven' is third in Camfield family book series
(Local News ~ 07/29/22)
"Breath of Heaven", local author Deborah Raney's latest novel, was released on July 5. This is the third installment in her Camfield Legacy series. It has been almost 20 years since the first two books in the series were published. "Over the years, I've received so many requests for a third book," she said, "that I always knew I'd write it as soon my other deadlines allowed."...
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Ridin' Round at Jackson Homecomers
(Local News ~ 07/29/22)
Brothers Jaden and Kolten Ritter spend some time Thursday at Jackson Homecomers going around and around on the umbrella car ride. The 115th annual event runs each evening through Saturday with carnival rides, games, live music and food vendors. More photos of Thursday's activities are in a gallery at semissourian.com
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Contested races, Jackson referendum expected to drive Tuesday turnout
(Local News ~ 07/29/22)
Kara Clark Summers, Cape Girardeau County clerk, said she expects to see "close" to 40% voter turnout countywide for Tuesday's primary election. If Summers's projection is realized, such a turnout percentage would be the highest for an August vote in at least 20 years, according to data accessible on capecounty.us...
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Cape Girardeau County COVID, monkeypox update
(Local News ~ 07/29/22)
COVID-19 cases in Cape Girardeau County increased more than 115% from May to June, according to data presented to the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center (PHC) Board of Trustees, which met Tuesday for its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. A total of 266 cases were reported in May, which jumped to 573 in June, a probable indication of the local impact of the BA.5 viral strain...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
Today in History Today is Friday, July 29, the 210th day of 2022. There are 155 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 29, 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in a glittering ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)...
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Cape Girardeau Police report 7/29/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/29/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on South Kingshighway. n A warrant arrest was reported on Barberry Street. n A warrant arrest was reported...
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Norma Thompson
(Obituary ~ 07/29/22)
OAK RIDGE -- Norma Jane Thompson, 83, of Oak Ridge died Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at her home. She was born Oct. 1, 1938, in Sedgewickville, Missouri, to Virgil Ray Bollinger and Letha Camille Seabaugh Bollinger. She and Robert E Thompson were married Dec. 30, 1955, at The First Baptist Church in Perryville, Missouri...
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Elmer Morgan
(Obituary ~ 07/29/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Elmer Joseph Morgan, 91, of Perryville died Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at Garden Place Senior Living in Columbia, Missouri. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Aug. 5 at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Aug. 6 at the funeral home. Burial will be at Christ the Savior Catholic Cemetery in Brewer, Missouri...
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Nelson Birk
(Obituary ~ 07/29/22)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- Surrounded by his family, Nelson Albert Birk, 95, of O'Fallon passed away Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at his home. Born May 11, 1927, near Tilsit, Nelson was the seventh of nine children born to Alvin M. and Amanda Lange Birk. Nelson was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Tilsit. He and Mary Jeanne Gross were wed on March 25, 1952, at Christ Lutheran Church in Gordonville...
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Rain resumes in St. Louis region recovering from Tuesday's flooding
(State News ~ 07/29/22)
ST. LOUIS -- Parts of the St. Louis region that are recovering from record-setting rains earlier this week were under a flash flood warning Thursday as another storm moved through the area. The National Weather Service in St. Louis issued a flash flood warning Thursday afternoon for St. Louis, a large portion of St. Louis County and part of the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis...
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New this week: 'Not Okay,' 'Amber Brown,' 'Honor Society'
(Entertainment ~ 07/29/22)
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press's entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. n Modern influencer culture is skewered in the smart new satire "Not Okay," streaming on Hulu starting today. ...
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'Rescind the Doctrine' protest greets pope in Canada
(International News ~ 07/29/22)
ST-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRE, Quebec -- Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday at Canada's national shrine and came face-to-face with a long-standing demand from Indigenous peoples: to rescind the papal decrees underpinning the so-called "Doctrine of Discovery" and repudiate the theories that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property law today...
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Pope ends Canadian visit with stop in small, far-north city
(International News ~ 07/29/22)
In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed farther north than Iqaluit, capital city of the Inuit--governed territory of Nunavut. Today, it will be the final stop of his somber six-day visit to Canada. It is a distinctive destination -- home to about 7,500 people but not a single traffic light, with no road or rail links to the outside world. Its lone Catholic church serves parishioners from at least five continents; more than 100 of them routinely fill the pews each Sunday...
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'New Cold War': Russia and West vie for influence in Africa
(International News ~ 07/29/22)
JOHANNESBURG -- Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the continent since the Cold War. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and French President Emmanuel Macron are each visiting several African countries this week. ...
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Russia attacks Kyiv area for the first time in weeks
(International News ~ 07/29/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday and pounded the northern Chernihiv region as well, in what Ukraine said was revenge for standing up to the Kremlin. Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced a counteroffensive to take back the occupied Kherson region in the country's south, territory seized by Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces early in the war...
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Congress OKs bill to aid computer chip firms, counter China
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday passed a $280 billion package to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the United States and help it better compete with international rivals, namely China...
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DC requests National Guard help with busloads of migrants
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a "growing humanitarian crisis" prompted by thousands of migrants that have been sent to Washington by a pair of southern states. Mayor Muriel Bowser formally asked the White House last week for an open-ended deployment of 150 National Guard members per day as well as "suitable federal location" for a mass housing and processing center, mentioning the D.C. ...
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Biden shrugs off recession talk, talks up fighting inflation
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden and his administration went all out Thursday to play down a troubling new economic report that added to the evidence of a recession, trying to pull focus instead to major legislative progress on measures to tame inflation, reduce debt and preserve America's competitive edge...
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Extended triple-digit heat suspected in 4 deaths in Oregon
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Triple-digit heat was being investigated Thursday as the cause of death for four people in Oregon as a sweltering heat wave enveloped the Pacific Northwest -- and the forecast showed no sign of letting up soon in a region unaccustomed to such temperatures...
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Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
BARRE, Mass. -- One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek emerged from the dark, cluttered display cases where they've sat for more than a century in a museum in rural Massachusetts. Moccasins, necklaces, clothing, ceremonial pipes, tools and other objects were carefully laid out on white backgrounds as a photographer dutifully snapped pictures under bright studio lights...
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JetBlue Airways is buying Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion after bidding war
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
JetBlue Airways is buying Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion in a deal that could increase competition at the top end of the U.S. airline industry while eliminating the largest discount airline for travelers on a tight budget. The agreement announced Thursday capped bidding war that began in April, and it came one day after Spirit's attempt to merge with rival discount carrier Frontier Airlines fell apart...
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Unexpected deal would boost Biden pledge on climate change
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- An unexpected deal reached by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the United States to address global warming and could help President Joe Biden come close to meeting his pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, experts said Thursday, as they sifted through a massive bill that revives action on climate change weeks after the legislation appeared dead...
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Under fire, US officials say monkeypox can still be stopped
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- The country's monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said Thursday, despite rising case numbers and so far limited vaccine supplies. The Biden administration's top health official pushed back against criticism about the pace of the response and worries the U.S. has missed the window to contain the virus, which has been declared a global emergency...
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Biden, China's Xi could meet in person, US official says
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping are exploring meeting in person, a senior administration official said after the leaders spent more than two hours Thursday talking through the future of their complicated relationship, with tension over Taiwan once again emerging as a flashpoint...
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Flooding in central Appalachia kills at least eight in Kentucky
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
JACKSON, Ky. -- Torrential rains unleashed devastating floods in Appalachia on Thursday, as fast-rising water killed at least eight people in Kentucky and sent people scurrying to rooftops to be rescued. Water gushed from hillsides and flooded out of streambeds, inundating homes, businesses and roads throughout eastern Kentucky. Parts of western Virginia and southern West Virginia also saw extensive flooding. Rescue crews used helicopters and boats to pick up people trapped by floodwaters...
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US economy shrinks for a 2nd quarter, raising recession fear
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy shrank from April through June for a second straight quarter, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace and raising fears that the nation may be approaching a recession. The decline that the Commerce Department reported Thursday in the gross domestic product -- the broadest gauge of the economy -- followed a 1.6% annual drop from January through March. Consecutive quarters of falling GDP constitute one informal, though not definitive, indicator of a recession...
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Governments ramp up demands for user info, Twitter warns
(National News ~ 07/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- Twitter warned Thursday that governments around the globe are asking the company to remove content or snoop on private details of user accounts at an alarming rate. The social media company revealed in a new report that it fielded a record number of legal demands -- nearly 60,000 during a six-month period last year -- from local, state or national governments that wanted Twitter to remove content from accounts or reveal confidential information such as direct messages or user locations.. ...
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Out of the past: July 29
(Out of the Past ~ 07/29/22)
The Kohlfeld Capahas are in a financial pinch -- and the Southeast Missourian is stepping to the plate to help get Cape Girardeau's tradition-rich baseball team to the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kansas; the newspaper has pledged $500 to the Capahas and challenges other area businesses to do the same; Kohlfeld Distributing has paid the team's tournament entry fee, but at least $4,000 more is needed for lodging and gasoline expenses...
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Aleda Whitener
(Obituary ~ 07/29/22)
Aleda Jane Whitener was born Sept. 9, 1942, at Fredericktown, Missouri, the daughter of Clarence and Nora (Wright) Tinnin. She passed away Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at Jackson at the age of 79 years. Jane was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Len Whitener, who she married at Benton, Missouri; sister, Beverly Page; great-granddaughters, Brandy Hobeck and Natalie Wood; and son-in-law, Eddie Wood...
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Speak Out 7-29-22
(Speak Out ~ 07/29/22)
I'm not an economist. I never attended college, but even I know the main causes of our inflation: It's the policies of the Biden administration, their determination to destroy the oil industry, and the reckless spending. Now they are trying to convince us that we are not in a recession. ...
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Prayer 7-29-22
(Prayer ~ 07/29/22)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for forgiveness made possible by your sacrifice on the cross. Amen.
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How connections may determine our karma
(Column ~ 07/29/22)
The older I get, the smaller the world seems. I attended a Zoom meeting this week after being invited to be part of a journalism project in my state. It was a small meeting of just three of us. A fourth person signed on and I smiled: a familiar face. ...
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Jackson's Homecomers is part of the fabric of a community
(Editorial ~ 07/29/22)
There are certain events that are a staple of a community. For Jackson, few are more significant than one held this time of year during the heat of summer: Homecomers. This week, the annual outdoor festival returned to Uptown for a week of food, rides, music and fun with friends. ...
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