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New voter ID cards to be mailed today for Sikeston
(Local News ~ 10/03/22)
SIKESTON, Mo. — Some Sikeston residents will soon receive new voter identification cards in the mail. Beverly Riley, deputy clerk for the Scott County Clerk's Office in Benton, Missouri, said not all Scott County registered voters will receive new voter ID cards. Only those in Sikeston whose voting precinct changed because of the latest census data will be mailed new cards, which will be needed for the Nov. 8 election, she said...
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Cape man killed in St. Louis County wreck
(Local News ~ 10/03/22)
A Cape Girardeau man was killed early Friday morning in a pedestrian/vehicle wreck in St. Louis County. Releases from St. Louis County Police Department indicated Adam Levi, 24, died after being struck by a vehicle near the intersection of Telegraph Road and Sappington Barracks Road. The incident occurred shortly before 6:30 a.m. Friday...
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Companies with local presence reach out in Ian's wake
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Hurricane Ian corporate response, including among those businesses with a Southeast Missouri footprint, is noted in the wake of destruction brought by the hurricane, now a tropical storm, which moved from Florida into North and South Carolina over the weekend...
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Cape Girardeau's Brian Noto on EVS — nonpolluting, fun to drive
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Brian Noto is director of energy for EVTV Motor Verks, located at 601 Morgan Oak St. in Cape Girardeau — a company in business since 2008, long before federal subsidies were made available for electric vehicle adopters and others. Noto, a California native, was asked to give an "elevator speech" about EVTV's work...
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Old Lutesville Emporium offers a one-stop shopping experience in Marble Hill
(Local News ~ 10/03/22)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Walk through the black front door at Old Lutesville Emporium at 203 First St. in Marble Hill, and customers will find merchandise they might remember from years past, things they haven't been able to get locally for years, and other items they didn't know they needed...
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Perry County Commission appoints coroner interim sheriff
(Local News ~ 10/03/22)
Perry County Coroner William "Bill" Bohnert has been appointed to serve as interim Perry County, Missouri, sheriff. His appointment was effective midnight Saturday. Bohnert gave Perry County detective Jason Klaus managerial authority over the department...
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New technology gives first responders another tool to respond effectively
(Editorial ~ 10/03/22)
Local law enforcement and first responders will have a new tool at their disposal as they respond to emergency situations. A system called Prepared Live enables dispatchers to text a web link to callers that allows them to provide a live video feed of the situation, giving first responders better knowledge of the situation they are heading into. It's a new technology for the City of Cape Girardeau but is also being used by Cape Girardeau County's Sheriff's Office and dispatch center...
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Prayer 10-3-22
(Prayer ~ 10/03/22)
Lord Jesus, thank you for your unfailing love, and the gift of eternal life through you. Amen.
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Playing politics with Hurricane Ian
(Column ~ 10/03/22)
Hurricane Ian hadn't slammed into the Florida coast yet and already the idiots were playing politics. The climate scientists on "The View" were somehow trying to blame Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis for Ian because of his skeptical position on global warming...
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How remote work expanded my professional options with chronic illness
(Column ~ 10/03/22)
One year ago, I accepted the opinion editor position at The Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. This is my first "real job" since 2010 when I worked as the executive director of a small community center in Michigan while freelance writing for magazines on the side...
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Don't blame me for 'pro-business' policies
(Column ~ 10/03/22)
During my many battles fighting against cronyism, I have often been accused of being hard on government while letting businesses off the hook. This accusation is weird. Defending the free market is quite different from a blanket defense of businesses. I am pro-business only insofar as I am pro-market — that is, I'm "pro"-allowing consumers to spend their money as they choose, and "anti"-special privileges given by government to any business...
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Cape, Perryville chamber news
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will hold First Friday Coffee with 7:40 a.m. program Friday at Century Casino Event Center, 777 Main St. Sponsors are Bug Zero and PC Medical Centers. The event will also be available to view via Facebook Live...
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Farm Bureau awards grant to Zalma educator
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Missouri Farm Bureau has awarded a "mini-grant" to Misty Blankenship of Zalma School District in Zalma, Missouri. MFB has awarded grants of either $250 or $500, judged on a competitive basis, for 25 years. The financial awards, given across the state, are aimed at improving agricultural understanding by helping educators purchase "accurate educational materials and consumables" to connect students to farming and ranching...
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Garrett Ozbun receives Forbes recognition
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Garrett Ozbun of the Cape Girardeau financial adviser firm Ozbun, Deimund, Beckham Group has been recognized in Forbes's 2022 "Best-in-State Next-Generation Wealth Advisors" list. According to a news release, Ozbun is among the nation's top 1,000 next-generation wealth managers...
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Saint Francis's Barnette feted by health industry group
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Alan Barnette, MD, FAAP, a neonatologist at Cape Neonatology Specialists, a Saint Francis Medical Partner in Cape Girardeau, has received a Missouri Chapter Award from American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Barnette is recognized for his role as a "subject matter expert" in the collaborative grant awarded to Kansas and Missouri AAP for the performance improvement project on adolescent immunization...
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Saint Francis Healthcare with new officers, board members
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Saint Francis Healthcare System is welcoming new officers and members to the Healthcare System Board and Health Development Services Board. Steven K. Dirnberger, a Cape Girardeau certified public accountant, has been named chairman. Laura L. Younghouse, president of Midwest Energy, Cape Girardeau, is now vice chairwoman...
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Paddlewheeler returns to Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
American Heritage, formerly known as Queen of the Mississippi paddlewheeler, will be docked from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at the Cape Girardeau riverfront. The vessel, owned by American Cruise Lines, will be carrying 130 passengers, according to VisitCape, formerly known as Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau...
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Sculpture by late Marble Hill artist Tom Runnels donated
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
A work by late sculptor Tom Runnels, a native of Bollinger County, Missouri, who spent most of his life practicing his craft at Cat Ranch outside Marble Hill, has been donated by Saint Francis Healthcare System to Poplar Bluff (Missouri) Municipal Library Foundation...
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Schnucks to hold career fair
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Schnucks will hold a career fair from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday at its Cape Girardeau supermarket, 19 S. Kingshighway, and at all of its 112 outlets in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. The family-owned store chain, which opened in 1939, said it has a variety of positions open, including availabilities at its bakery plant...
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Buchheit announces No One Fights Alone campaign
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Buchheit, operator of eight retail stores in cities in Missouri — including Jackson and Perryville — and Illinois, has announced its eighth annual No One Fights Alone campaign throughout October. This year's effort, according to a news release, is aimed at bringing attention to kidney cancer with an announced fundraising goal of $20,000...
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Property for sale in Cape Girardeau's Doctors' Park
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
The property at No. 61 Doctors' Park on the western side of Cape Girardeau, at one time occupied by Aureus Health Services, was put on the market in mid-September. Asking price for the 5,126-square-foot structure, at the corner of Mount Auburn Road and Doctors' Park entrance D, is $420,000...
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Sunny Hill property sold in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
The property of former Sunny Hill Gardens & Florist, operated by Paul and Marilyn Schnare for 30 years at 206 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau until its closure in the spring, has been sold for $1,065,000. ...
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Former Sears building in Cape Girardeau gets temporary tenant
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
Spirit Halloween, with an estimated 1,450 pop-up locations in North America, temporarily has set up shop in the former Sears Grand building at 330 Siemers Drive in Cape Girardeau. "We've been here since the end of August and will remain until the first week of November," said Spirit Halloween-Cape Girardeau's store manager Tanya Poppen, who added that the local pop-up location last year was in the former Macy's department store in West Park Mall...
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September stock market results worst in 30 months
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
It was a rough September for Wall Street and for many investors in the stock market as the S&P 500 saw its worst monthly skid since COVID-19 struck the U.S. in March 2020. The benchmark index also posted its third losing quarter as a possible recession looms and as interest rates soar in hopes of arresting the nation's high inflation...
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Gas prices still heading upward in U.S., down in Missouri
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
National average price recorded Sunday for a gallon of regular gasoline in the U.S. has gone up 8 cents in a week's time to $3.79. The full impact on pump prices because of Hurricane Ian, now downgraded to a tropical storm, is unknown, but AAA analysts say the gasoline supply is tightening and demand by consumers is increasing...
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Horror pic 'Smile' happy at No. 1; 'Bros' starts in 4th
(Entertainment ~ 10/03/22)
Moviegoing audiences chose the horror movie over the romantic comedy to kick off the month of October. Paramount's " Smile " topped the North American charts with $22 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, leaving Billy Eichner's rom-com "Bros" in the dust...
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Trump: 'King' to some in Pennsylvania, but will it help GOP?
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
MONONGAHELA, Pa. -- The Trump-Pence sign still hangs on the older building off Main Street in this historic town, a lasting vestige of the campaign fervor that roused voters, including many who still believe the falsehood that the former president didn't lose in 2020 and hope he'll run in 2024...
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Bolsonaro, Lula headed to runoff after tight Brazil election
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright Sunday in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world's fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office...
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10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
IZIUM, Ukraine -- The first time the Russian soldiers caught him, they tossed him bound and blindfolded into a trench covered with wooden boards for days on end. Then they beat him, over and over: Legs, arms, a hammer to the knees, all accompanied by furious diatribes against Ukraine. Before they let him go, they took away his passport and Ukrainian military ID -- all he had to prove his existence -- and made sure he knew exactly how worthless his life was...
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Cat. 3 Hurricane Orlene heads for Mexico's Pacific coast
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
MEXICO CITY -- Hurricane Orlene lost some punch, but remained a dangerous Category 3 storm on Sunday as it headed toward Mexico's northwest Pacific coast between the tourist towns of Mazatlan and San Blas. After growing into a hurricane Saturday, Orlene quickly added power, peaking as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph) early Sunday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. But winds slipped back to 115 mph (185 kph) by late Sunday...
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Jimmy Carter celebrating 98 with family, friends, baseball
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
ATLANTA -- Jimmy Carter, already the longest-living U.S. president in history, turned 98 on Saturday, celebrating with family and friends in Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he and his wife, 95-year-old Rosalynn, were born in the years between World War I and the Great Depression...
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Justice Jackson says she has 'a seat at the table'
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
WASHINGTON -- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday she has "a seat at the table now and I'm ready to work," leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Jackson spoke at the Library of Congress several hours after she made her first appearance on the Supreme Court bench in a brief ceremony that was attended by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses...
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Haiti reports cholera deaths for first time in 3 years
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti's government on Sunday announced that at least eight people have died from cholera, raising concerns about a potentially fast-spreading scenario and reviving memories of an epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people a decade ago...
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US shift away from coal hits tribal community in New Mexico
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
KIRTLAND, N.M. -- The clamor of second graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work. At Judy Nelson Elementary, 1 in 4 students have left in an exodus spurred by decisions made five years ago to shutter a coal-fired power plant and mine that sit just up the road from the school in a largely Navajo community. ...
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S. Korean activists clash with police over anti-Kim balloons
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean activists say they clashed with police while launching balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda materials across the North Korean border, ignoring their government's plea to stop such activities since the North has threatened to respond with "deadly" retaliation...
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Ousted Burkina Faso leader leaves country for Togo
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- Burkina Faso's ousted coup leader Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba left the country for Togo Sunday two days after he himself was overthrown in a coup, while the new junta urged citizens not to loot or vandalize. Damiba's departure was confirmed by two diplomats who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. It was not known whether Togo was his final destination...
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Amid crises, rural roots anchor Southern Baptists' president
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
FARMERSVILLE, Texas -- On the first Saturday of fall, a sweating Bart Barber trekked across a weedy pasture in search of Bully Graham, the would-be patriarch of the rural Baptist pastor's fledgling cattle herd. With the afternoon temperature in the mid-90s, the 52-year-old Texan found the bull -- whose nickname reflects his owner's deep affection for the late Rev. Billy Graham -- and 11 heifers cooling under a canopy of trees...
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Biden pledge to make federal fleet electric faces slow start
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden, a self-described "car guy," often promises to lead by example on climate change by moving swiftly to convert the sprawling U.S. government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles. But efforts to eliminate gas-powered vehicles from the fleet have lagged...
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Election officials brace for confrontational poll watchers
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
GOLDSBORO, N.C. -- The situation with the poll watcher had gotten so bad that Anne Risku, the election director in North Carolina's Wayne County, had to intervene via speakerphone. "You need to back off!" Risku recalled hollering after the woman wedged herself between a voter and the machine where the voter was trying to cast his ballot at a precinct about 60 miles southeast of Raleigh...
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Ukraine presses on with counteroffensive; Russia uses drones
(International News ~ 10/03/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia attacked the Ukrainian president's hometown and other targets Sunday with suicide drones, and Ukraine took back full control of a strategic eastern city in a counteroffensive that has reshaped the war. Russia's loss of the eastern city of Lyman, which it had been using as a transport and logistics hub, is a new blow to the Kremlin as it seeks to escalate the war by illegally annexing four regions of Ukraine and heightening threats to use nuclear force...
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Feds vow major aid for Ian victims amid rescues
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- With the death toll from Hurricane Ian rising and hundreds of thousands of people without power in Florida and the Carolinas, U.S. officials vowed Sunday to unleash a massive amount of federal disaster aid as crews scrambled to rescue people stranded by the storm...
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Supreme Court begins new term today
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
WASHINGTON -- With public confidence diminished and justices sparring openly over the institution's legitimacy, the Supreme Court today will begin a new term that could push American law to the right on issues of race, voting and the environment. Following June's momentous overturning of nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion rights, the court is diving back in with an aggressive agenda that seems likely to split its six conservative justices from its three liberals...
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NerdWallet: Deciding how to prioritize savings goals can be overwhelming, experts recommend ordering by urgency
(National News ~ 10/03/22)
Saving money sounds straightforward -- set cash aside for a future purpose -- but in reality, people often face competing savings priorities. We want it all: the travel, the house, the flush savings account. So how do we figure out which savings goals to put first, especially when we're working toward so many things at once?...
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June Peetz
(Obituary ~ 10/03/22)
June Peetz, daughter of the late Arlie William Smith Sr. and Viola Mowery Smith, was born Aug. 16, 1943, in Fornfelt and departed her life Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 79 years. She was a proud homemaker and a dedicated and loving mother. She was a high school graduate from Illmo-Scott City, and went on to Metro Business College in Cape Girardeau...
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Execution set for Missouri inmate who killed ex-girlfriend
(State News ~ 10/03/22)
The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday set a January execution date for Scott McLaughlin, who was convicted of raping and killing an ex-girlfriend 19 years ago. The execution at the state prison in Bonne Terre, scheduled for Jan. 3, would come six weeks after another convicted killer is scheduled to die. Kevin Johnson faces the death penalty on Nov. 29 for killing Kirkwood Police Sgt. Bill McEntee in suburban St. Louis in 2005...
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Out of the past: Oct. 3
(Out of the Past ~ 10/03/22)
A relative newcomer to the Cape Girardeau manufacturing scene has been accorded the Chamber of Commerce's highest honor for industry; Miltenberger & Willing (M&W) Packaging U.S. Inc., which opened the doors to a $41 million, eight-building complex in early 1990, was recognized as the 1997 Industry of the Year, at the chamber's annual Industrial Appreciation Dinner last night...
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New this week: Lena Dunham, Mila Kunis and Charlie Puth
(Entertainment ~ 10/03/22)
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 Lena Dunham adapts Karen Cushman's young-adult novel in "Catherine Called Birdy," a spirited medieval coming-of-age tale about a 14-year-old girl named Birdy (Bella Ramsey) in medieval England. ...
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Fitness, insurance ribbon-cuttings this week
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
n River City Fitness, 10 a.m. Wednesday at 1131 N. Kingshighway, sponsored by Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce. n Tomling Insurance Group, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at 2737 E. Jackson Blvd. Sponsored by Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce...
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New Start Dates For Medicare Part B Coverage Coming In 2023
(Submitted Story ~ 10/03/22)
Changes are coming next year for when Medicare Part B coverage starts. What is not changing: If you are eligible at age 65, your Initial Enrollment Period (IEP): • Begins three months before your 65th birthday. • Includes the month of your 65th birthday...
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Cape Girardeau's casino attendance statistics show up and down pattern
(Business ~ 10/03/22)
This story is updated. Century Casino Cape Girardeau had 95,268 admissions in July, a 9% drop from 104,293 in the same month a year earlier, according to Fiscal 2023 statistics culled from Missouri Gaming Commission's website — the most recent figures available for public view...
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