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Rehab work continues on I-55 bridges over U.S. 62 at Miner
(Local News ~ 09/16/22)
The rehabilitation of the Interstate 55 bridges over U.S. 62 at Miner, Missouri, began in May with construction on the northbound bridge. According to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release, traffic will soon shift as work begins on the southbound bridge. ...
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Six detainee deaths at St. Louis jail prompt groups to demand investigation
(State News ~ 09/16/22)
ST. LOUIS Civil rights advocates in St. Louis on Wednesday demanded an investigation into the conditions at the city jail, where six detainees have died since April. A coalition made up of the ArchCity Defenders law firm, Action St. Louis, Freedom Community Center, Metropolitan Congregational United, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center and the St. ...
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Special session on Missouri tax cuts drags on
(State News ~ 09/16/22)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Missouri lawmakers ended work early Thursday as private negotiations over potential tax cuts continued. Republican Gov. Mike Parson had called on the GOP-led Legislature to start a special session on tax cuts last week, but they delayed it in an attempt to reach an agreement over several proposed bills...
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Perryville man killed in two-vehicle crash
(Local News ~ 09/16/22)
A Perryville, Missouri, man died in a two-vehicle crash Thursday in Perry County, Missouri. A state Highway Patrol report said Timothy Tarrillion, 36, died in the crash when his 2021 Chevrolet pickup collided with a 2003 Kentworth driven by Jacjiwan Billange, 46, of Ontario, Canada, on Highway 51, south of Perry County Road 206...
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Jackson man arrested after allegedly threatening family members with ax
(Local News ~ 09/16/22)
A Jackson man was arrested overnight Thursday after allegedly attempting to gain entry into a family member's residence while wielding an ax. Raymond J. Halter, 39, was allegedly terrorizing family members and attempted to get into their residence at the 700 block of North Hope Street in Jackson while holding the weapon, according to a news release from the Jackson Police Department...
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Protecting kids online program offered at CTC
(Local News ~ 09/16/22)
Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence (SEMO NASV) will host a "Parent Night" event to educate adults 18 years and older about ways to keep their children safe from online predators. SEMO NASV has invited parents from the Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City school districts to attend at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 27 at Cape Girardeau's Career and Technology Center (CTC), 1080 S. Silver Springs Road...
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Getting the word out Scott City launches CodeRED
(Local News ~ 09/16/22)
Scott City is taking advantage of technology to inform residents of emergencies, advisories and community information. An alert system known as CodeRED was launched Wednesday in the northern Scott County town, home to 4,594 people. "Up to this week, when we sent out a boil-water notice, for instance, we contacted the news media and put information on Facebook," said Dustin Whitworth, city administrator...
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Tentative labor deal averts threat of rail strike
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
WASHINGTON Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nations freight trains and devastated the economy less than two months before the midterm elections. President Joe Biden announced the deal, which emerged from a marathon 20-hour negotiating session at the Labor Department and came just one day before the threatened walkout...
- New Cape ward map takes effect, thousands under new representation (Local News ~ 09/16/22)
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
Today is Friday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2022. There are 106 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On Sept. 16, 2001, President George W. Bush, speaking on the South Lawn of the White House, said there was "no question" Osama bin Laden and his followers were the prime suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks; Bush pledged the government would "find them, get them running and hunt them down."...
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U.S. Grant exhibit recalls Cape Girardeau ties to Civil War leader, president
(Editorial ~ 09/16/22)
Locales here and there sometimes highlight ties to historical figures. Sometimes, those ties are ... shall we say ... tenuous. Such is not the case with Cape Girardeau's history with U.S. Grant, Union Army commanding general and later the 18th president of the United States. He not only visited the city but assumed command of military forces in the region during the Civil War...
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Protecting freedom of religion
(Column ~ 09/16/22)
LGBTQ advocates are winning political backing and legal guarantees with lightning speed. Only a decade ago, President Barack Obama still claimed to oppose same-sex marriage, a position that would be unthinkable for him now. He evolved. But politics and religion are different. ...
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Prayer 9-16-22
(Prayer ~ 09/16/22)
Father God, we worship you. For great and mighty are your works, O Lord. Amen.
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The Democrats have a culture-war midterm strategy
(Column ~ 09/16/22)
Who's using the culture war to distract from the economy now? Democrats have long believed -- going back at least to the famous 2005 Thomas Frank book, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" -- that Republicans cynically deploy cultural issues to divert attention from kitchen-table concerns...
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Fire report 9/16/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/16/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 14 n Medical assists were made at 7:24 a.m. on South West End Boulevard; 7:43 a.m. on Independence Street; 1:12 p.m. on Hazel Street; 3:36 p.m. on William Street; 5:49 p.m. on Fitzgerald Drive; 7:37 p.m. on Broadway; 9:05 p.m. on South Sprigg Street; 11:08 p.m. on Broadway; and 11:36 p.m. on South Ellis Street...
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Police report 9/16/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/16/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on South Sprigg Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on South Sprigg Street. Thefts n Shoplifting was reported on Independence Street...
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Linda Wood-Lummus
(Obituary ~ 09/16/22)
Linda Faye Wood-Lummus, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 3 at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at noon Oct. 3 at the funeral home, with the Rev. Ed Rothenberger officiating. Burial will be at Fairmount Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Florence Seibert
(Obituary ~ 09/16/22)
Florence K. Seibert, 103, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. Florence was born Aug. 29, 1919, the eldest of five daughters, to John R. and Elizabeth K. Ellermeyer in Washington County, Illinois. She graduated from Ashley (Illinois) High School in 1939 and went on to graduate from Brown's Business College in St. Louis...
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Keith Little
(Obituary ~ 09/16/22)
BENTON, Mo. Keith Little was born May 6, 1939, in Holland, Missouri, to Joseph Frank and Lura Frankie Henderson Little. He passed away Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, in St. Louis at the age of 83. He was a graduate of Arkansas State University and was employed by the federal government as a soil conservationist. He was of the Catholic faith and a member of Elks Club in Cape Girardeau...
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Donald Ikerman
(Obituary ~ 09/16/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. Donald Lee Ikerman, 93, of Perryville died Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, at his home. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Sam Roethemeyer officiating. Interment, with full military honors, will follow at Cape County Memorial Park Mausoleum in Cape Girardeau...
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E. Jeanette Bollinger
(Obituary ~ 09/16/22)
E. Jeanette Bollinger, 86, of Jackson died Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. A memorial visitation will be from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The Rev. Brian Anderson will conduct a memorial service at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the funeral home...
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Missouri woman acquitted of killing daughter to be free soon
(State News ~ 09/16/22)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. A Missouri woman who was acquitted in July of killing her teenage daughter but convicted of abandoning the girl's corpse was sentenced Thursday but will be released from prison soon. Rebecca Ruud was acquitted in the death of 16-year-old Savannah Leckie, who moved to Ruud's farm after leaving her adoptive home in Minnesota. Ruud gave the girl up for adoption as a baby...
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A new space race? China adds urgency to US return to moon
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
WASHINGTON -- It's not just rocket fuel propelling America's first moonshot after a half-century lull. Strategic rivalry with China's ambitious space program is helping drive NASA's effort to get back into space in a bigger way, as both nations push to put people back on the moon and establish the first lunar bases...
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'Torment of hell': Ukraine medic describes Russian torture
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
WASHINGTON -- A volunteer Ukrainian medic held captive three months by Russian forces in Ukraine's besieged port city of Mariupol told U.S. lawmakers Thursday of cradling and comforting fellow prisoners as they died of torture and inadequately treated wounds...
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Pastor-led group seeks missing migrants in border desert
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
IRONWOOD FOREST NATIONAL MONUMENT, Arizona -- After strapping on knee-high snake guards and bowing his head to invoke God's protection, Oscar Andrade marched off into a remote desert at dawn on a recent Sunday to look for a Honduran migrant. His family said he had gone missing in late July "between the two hills where the backpacks are."...
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Biden approval rises sharply ahead of midterms: AP-NORC poll
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's popularity improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Support for Biden recovered from a low of 36% in July to 45%, driven in large part by a rebound in support from Democrats just two months before the November midterm elections. ...
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Florida, Texas escalate flights, buses to move migrants
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
EDGARTOWN, Mass. -- Republican governors are escalating their partisan tactic of sending migrants to Democratic strongholds without advance warning, including a wealthy summer enclave in Massachusetts and the home of Vice President Kamala Harris, to taunt leaders of immigrant-friendly "sanctuary" cities and stoke opposition to Biden administration border policies...
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Cruel or harmless? Pastors mixed on GOP migrant transports
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
As Republican governors ramp up their high-profile transports of migrants to Democratic-run jurisdictions, the practice is getting a mixed reaction from Christian faith leaders -- many of whom, especially evangelicals, have supported GOP candidates by large numbers in recent elections...
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Ukrainian president: Mass grave found near recaptured city
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
IZIUM, Ukraine -- Ukrainian authorities found a mass burial site near a recaptured northeastern city previously occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Thursday night. The grave was discovered close to Izium in the Kharkiv region...
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New atlas of bird migration shows extraordinary journeys
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
WASHINGTON -- A bay-breasted warbler weighs about the same as four pennies, but twice a year makes an extraordinary journey. The tiny songbird flies nearly 4,000 miles between Canada's spruce forests and its wintering grounds in northern South America...
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Pope urged to avoid 'supermarket of religions' in Kazakhstan
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan -- Pope Francis reaffirmed the critical value Thursday of interfaith dialogue to contrast the "folly of war," even as one of his own bishops warned that Francis' participation in a big interfaith peace conference in Kazakhstan could imply papal endorsement of a "supermarket of religions."...
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Montana defies order on transgender birth certificates
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Just hours after a Montana judge blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate, the Republican-run state on Thursday said it would defy the order...
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State of unease: Colorado basin tribes without water rights
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. -- Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he's driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing into one of the plastic tanks on the truck's flat bed...
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House OKs bill to curb political interference with census
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
WASHINGTON -- The House passed legislation Thursday intended to make it harder for future presidents to interfere with the once-a-decade census that determines political power and federal funding, a move that comes in response to the Trump's administration's failed effort to make a citizenship question part of the 2020 headcount...
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Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig Nobels
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
BOSTON -- The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement...
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Ex-Kansas police detective charged with preying on women
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who has long been accused of sexually preying on Black women during criminal investigations was indicted Thursday on charges that he sexually abused two women, the FBI said. Roger Golubski, 69, was arrested at his home in Edwardsville after a federal grand jury indicted him on six counts of civil rights violations...
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Lebanese cheer as their dancers win 'America's Got Talent'
(Entertainment ~ 09/16/22)
Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- The news of a Lebanese dance group winning the TV competition show "America's Got Talent" brought a rare moment of joy on Thursday to many in this crisis-hit Mideast country. Mayyas, an all-female dance troupe, dazzled the show's judges and audience on the competition's 17th season before winning $1 million and a headlining show at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. ...
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Governor: Mississippi capital's water is again safe to drink
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
JACKSON, Miss. -- After nearly seven weeks of being forced to boil their water before drinking it or using it to brush teeth, people in Mississippi's largest city were told Thursday that water from the tap is safe to consume -- but Jackson's water system still needs big repairs that the mayor says the cash-strapped city cannot afford on its own...
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US moved online, worked more from home as pandemic raged
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home in the United States tripled, home values grew and the percentage of people who spent more than a third of their income on rent went up, according to survey results released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau...
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Veteran NY judge named as arbiter in Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago probe
(National News ~ 09/16/22)
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Thursday appointed a veteran New York jurist to serve as an independent arbiter and review records, including highly classified documents, that were seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month...
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Under COVID lockdown, Xinjiang residents complain of hunger
(International News ~ 09/16/22)
BEIJING -- Residents of a city in China's far western Xinjiang region say they are experiencing hunger, forced quarantines and dwindling supplies of medicine and daily necessities after more than 40 days in a virus lockdown. Hundreds of posts from Ghulja riveted users of Chinese social media last week, with residents sharing videos of empty refrigerators, feverish children and people shouting from their windows...
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Putin, Zelenskyy court major allies as Ukraine makes gains
(International News ~ 09/16/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy are each courting major allies on Thursday, seeking to prop up their efforts in a war whose fortunes have tilted toward Ukraine in recent days. In Uzbekistan's ancient Samarkand, Putin was hoping to break through his international isolation and further cement his ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a geopolitical alliance increasingly seen as potent counterweight to the Western powers...
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Putin thanks China's Xi for his 'balanced' stand on Ukraine
(International News ~ 09/16/22)
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan -- Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday for his "balanced" approach to the Ukrainian crisis and blasted Washington's "ugly" policies at a meeting that followed a major setback for Moscow on the battlefield...
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London mourners wait hours to say goodbye to Elizabeth II
(International News ~ 09/16/22)
LONDON -- Thousands of mourners waited for hours Thursday in a line that stretched for nearly 4 1/2 miles (7 kilometers) across London for the chance to spend a few minutes filing past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin while she lays in state at Britain's Parliament. King Charles III spent the day in private to reflect on his first week on the throne...
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Out of the past: Sept. 16
(Out of the Past ~ 09/16/22)
Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle says he won't file criminal charges against members of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity in connection with a hazing incident late last year; Swingle says there is insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution of the fraternity chapter at Southeast Missouri State University...
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Grandparents Day
(Submitted Story ~ 09/16/22)
Grandparents are pretty special people and we even have a day to celebrate them. Grandparent's Day was Sunday, September 11. Guardian Angel School in Oran celebrated our students' grandparents on Tuesday, September 13. The grandparents were invited to join the school children for Mass and then come to the cafeteria for cookies, milk and coffee. ...
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