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Jackson Burger King razed, new one to be built
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Burger King restaurant at 2235 E. Jackson Blvd. (U.S. 61) was razed last week as owner Midamerica Hotels plans to put a newer version of the franchise in its place no later than March. Demolition of the old structure, which first opened Nov. 15, 1986, began Oct. 24...
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Local experts opine on the risk of little or no personal savings
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
On Oct. 21, a federal judge issued a temporary block, or stay, of the Biden administration's student-loan forgiveness plan. The plan, first revealed by President Joe Biden two months earlier, promised to cancel up to $10,000 student debt for non-Pell Grant recipients and $20,000 for those who had received Pell Grants...
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Sikeston paranormal investigators seek to capture proof of the unseen
(Local News ~ 10/31/22)
SIKESTON, Mo. — A Sikeston-based paranormal investigation group works year-round to capture proof of the unseen, but during the Halloween season, it invites members of the public to a firsthand experience of their investigations. Throughout the weekends this month, American Ghost Project offered "Sip and Spook" sessions where it met registered participants at a nearby winery and proceeded by caravan to the Commerce manor, which is the 120-year-old Anderson home in the small Scott County town just off the Mississippi River. ...
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Drought snarls Mississippi River transit in blow to farmers
(State News ~ 10/31/22)
ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Adam Thomas starts harvesting soybeans on his Illinois farm when the dew burns off in the morning. This year, dry weather accelerated the work, allowing him to start early. His problem was getting the soybeans to market...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
Today is Monday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2022. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 31, 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh security guards. On this date: In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state as President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation...
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Prayer 10-31-22
(Prayer ~ 10/31/22)
O Heavenly Father, may we be a shining light and point others to you, our Almighty God. Amen.
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LA's homeless problem is no joke
(Column ~ 10/31/22)
I just called our Realtor. My wife and I just put our house in Los Angeles on the market. We're selling everything except our washer and dryer. Then we're going to buy a really nice tent and move to Encino and live on the street. We'll find a fire hydrant and a long extension cord, hook up the washer and dryer and live happily ever after for free. .....
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Will the 'experts' ever learn their lesson?
(Column ~ 10/31/22)
Debate now rages about whether the Federal Reserve should continue to raise interest rates to tame inflation or slow down these hikes and see what happens. This is not the first debate we've had recently about inflation and Fed actions. The lesson we should learn, and I fear we won't, is that government officials and those advising them from inside or outside the government don't know as much as they claim to about the interventions they design to control the economy...
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Cape recognizes its own 'River City Music Man'
(Editorial ~ 10/31/22)
For 77 years Dr. Dan Cotner was a fixture in the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band. "Cape Girardeau's own River City Music Man" could be seen each year providing the soundtrack to summer with his fellow bandmates in Capaha Park. Cotner and his trombone just felt right. ...
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Cape Girardeau business licenses
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
City of Cape Girardeau Community Development Department has received one new business license application from Hugo Esquivel for Mireyas Mexican Food Truck. Mireyas has operated previously in Poplar Bluff, Dexter, Bloomfield, Kimmswick, Doniphan, Greenville, Piedmont, Williamsville, Campbell and Steele, Missouri...
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Cape, Perryville, Jackson chamber news
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will hold First Friday Coffee at 7:40 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4, at Century Casino Cape Girardeau Event Center, 777 Main St. Program: Not-for-profit members on the mic. Remarks will be carried via Facebook Live...
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Cape Girardeau County restaurant approvals
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center has approved five restaurants for operation within county limits, according to a Tuesday, Oct. 25, report. n Good Time Daiquiris n Superfresh Kitchen at Simple Fitness n Fresh Healthy Cafe n Zayar Mobile...
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Lathum promoted, Seiler hired, by Alliance Bank
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Matt Lathum has been promoted to commercial lender at Alliance Bank's Cape Girardeau location, while Benjamin Seiler joins Alliance's Jackson branch as agriculture and commercial lender. In mid-October, Alliance Bank celebrated its 25th anniversary with a ribbon-cutting at 217 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau...
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SEMO Food Bank names new finance chief
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Natalie Buell, a graduate of Thomas W. Kelly High School in Benton, Missouri, and an alumna of Southeast Missouri State University, has been named finance director of Sikeston-based Southeast Missouri Food Bank. Buell has 10 years' experience in not-for-profit finance...
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Dana Newell joins Saint Francis
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Dana Newell has joined Saint Francis Healthcare System as assistant manager of Food and Nutrition Services. Newell studied commercial foods and hospitality at Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center and has more than 14 years of food management experience...
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Schnucks introduces new fast delivery service
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Family-owned and St. Louis-based Schnucks is offering a new 30-minute delivery service in all of its 112 stores, including Cape Girardeau. Schnucks said it is partnering with Instacart to introduce its online "Schnucks Now" program, ideal for smaller orders, during regular store hours...
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Warning from U.S. Postal Service
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
U.S. Postal Service officials are warning about the targeting of familiar blue collection receptacles for theft. "The biggest variable attracting these criminals to steal are (postal) customers depositing mail into blue collection boxes after the last collection of the day or during Sundays and federal holidays" ...
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Hobby Lobby founder to give away Company
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Hobby Lobby, the privately-held arts and crafts company based in Oklahoma City that has a store at 207-A S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, will be given away. David Green, Hobby Lobby's founder and CEO, announced the decision to give away his ownership in an October opinion piece written for Fox News...
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Missouri funding to recruit new law enforcement officers
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Gov. Mike Parson announced Friday, Oct. 28, a $1 million Missouri Blue Scholarship intended to attract more Missourians to law enforcement careers. The one-time $5,000 financial awards, aimed at addressing police officer shortages throughout the state, will be given on a first-come, first-served basis until the funding source is exhausted...
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Gas prices fall a little locally, demand lower
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Prices at the pump continue to fall marginally as AAA says customer demand remains low as the Midwest begins to move toward colder weather. The auto club federation said Saturday, Oct. 29, the average U.S. price for a gallon dropped 4 cents in a week's time to $3.76, while in Missouri, the one-week drop was 5 cents to $3.36...
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Mortgage rate jumps again
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Residential home mortgages will cost more to finance following a report Thursday, Oct. 27, showing the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has risen to the highest level in 20 years. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac) said the rate rose last week from 6.94% to 7.08%. The last time the 30-year FRM topped 7% was in April 2002. A year ago, the average rate was 3.14%...
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Enterprise opens truck leasing office in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Enterprise Truck Rental opened its first location in Cape Girardeau at 2080 Rusmar St. this month. According to a news release, the new Cape Girardeau truck rental office is Enterprise's 10th in Missouri and one of 500 combined across the U.S. and Canada...
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Out of the past: Oct. 31
(Out of the Past ~ 10/31/22)
Longtime JC Penney manager Harry Rediger retires from his job today, but that doesn't mean he won't be working; the 38-year veteran of the Penney company will be far from idle, as he still has unfinished business in the community; Rediger is a member of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education, chairman of the board at Saint Francis Medical Center, chairman of the Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association, a member of the Cape Girardeau City Planning and Zoning Commission and is still involved in the Area Wide United Way Campaign.. ...
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'Black Adam' takes top spot at box office again
(Entertainment ~ 10/31/22)
"Black Adam," the Dwayne Johnson-fronted DC superhero film, kept its hold on the No. 1 spot at the North American box office in its second weekend in theaters. Down 59% from its launch, and facing little new competition, "Black Adam" added $27.7 million in ticket sales, bringing its domestic total to $111.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday...
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New this week: Radcliffe gets weird, 'Causeway' and Phoenix
(Entertainment ~ 10/31/22)
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press's entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. n Elvis, Elton John and Freddie Mercury have all gotten the biopic treatment. Now, it's finally Weird Al's turn. ...
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Cholera overwhelms Haiti as cases, deaths spike amid crisis
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The sun shone down on Stanley Joliva as medical staff at an open-air clinic hovered around him, pumping air into his lungs and giving him chest compressions until he died. Nearby, his mother watched. "Only God knows my pain," said Viliene Enfant...
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AP source: Pelosi attacker carried zip ties, in Jan. 6 echo
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
WASHINGTON -- The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband carried zip ties with him when he broke into the couple's San Francisco home, according to a person briefed on the investigation, in what is the latest parallel to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021...
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Biden faces 'unpredictable' era with China's empowered Xi
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's administration is taking stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as the Chinese president begins a third, norm-breaking five-year term as Communist Party leader. With U.S.-Chinese relations already fraught, concerns are growing in Washington that more difficult days may be ahead...
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Families get final say before Parkland shooter is sentenced
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison this week -- but not before the families of the 17 people he murdered get the chance to tell him what they think. A two-day hearing is scheduled to begin Tuesday that will conclude with Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer formally sentencing Cruz for his Feb. ...
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Somalia car bombings kill at least 100, president says
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- At least 100 people were killed in two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital, Somalia's president said, and the toll could rise in the country's deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five years ago killed more than 500...
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Philippine storm victims feared tsunami, ran toward mudslide
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
MANILA, Philippines -- Victims of a huge mudslide set off by a storm in a coastal Philippine village that had once been devastated by a killer tsunami mistakenly thought a tidal wave was coming and ran to higher ground where they were buried alive by the boulder-laden deluge, an official said Sunday...
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Thousands commemorate Italy's fascist dictator Mussolini
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
PREDAPPIO, Italy -- Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on Sunday as they marched to his crypt, 100 years after Mussolini entered Rome and completed a bloodless coup that gave rise to two decades of fascist rule...
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Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil's president
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
SAO PAULO -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics...
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Suspension bridge collapse kills at least 132 in India
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
MORBI, India -- At least 132 people died and many are injured after a century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into a river Sunday evening in the western Indian state of Gujarat, sending hundreds plunging in the water, officials said. Authorities said the 19th-century, colonial-era pedestrian bridge over the Machchu river in the state's Morbi district collapsed because it could not handle the weight of the large crowd, as the Hindu festival season drew hundreds of people to the recently opened tourist attraction. ...
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S. Korea in shock, grief as 153 die in Halloween crowd surge
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Koreans mourned and searched for relatives lost in the "hell-like" chaos that killed more than 150 people, mostly young adults, when a huge Halloween party crowd surged into a narrow alley in a nightlife district in Seoul...
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Permitless carry laws raise new dilemmas for police officers
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Police saw Carmon Tussey walking briskly toward a crowded Louisville bar carrying a semi-automatic weapon. With people running away, officers moved in, service weapons drawn. They put the 26-year-old in handcuffs and confiscated his gun. Tussey was later charged with terroristic threatening, wanton endangerment and disorderly conduct, prosecutors said, and could face up to 20 years in prison...
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Powerball grand prize climbs to $1B without a jackpot winner
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Powerball jackpot keeps getting larger because players keep losing. It happened again Saturday night, Oct. 29, as no one matched all six numbers and won the estimated $825 million grand prize. That means the next drawing Monday night, Oct. 31, will be for a massive $1 billion, according to a statement by Powerball...
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Group can monitor Arizona ballot drop boxes, US judge rules
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
PHOENIX -- A federal judge Friday refused to bar a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona's largest county where watchers have shown up armed and in ballistic vests, saying to do so could violate the monitors' constitutional rights. U.S. ...
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Arizona AG gives county OK for full ballot hand counts
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
PHOENIX -- Arizona's Republican attorney general has issued an opinion saying county officials can hand-count all ballots in at least five races from the Nov. 8 election, a move that gives a green light to GOP officials in at least two counties who have been clamoring for hand counts...
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Abortion access in many parts of country could hinge on state election results
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The online commercials in a state senate race in some Raleigh suburbs make an ominous claim, similar to one repeated across the country ahead of the Tuesday, Nov. 8, election: The Republican candidate "wants to strip away our reproductive rights."...
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Black church tradition survives Georgia's voting changes
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
ATLANTA -- Black church leaders and activists in Georgia rallied Sunday in a push to get congregants to vote -- a longstanding tradition known as "souls to the polls" that is taking on greater meaning this year amid new obstacles to casting a ballot in the midterm elections...
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Concerns rise as Russia resumes grain blockade of Ukraine
(International News ~ 10/31/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia resumed its blockade of Ukrainian ports on Sunday, cutting off urgently needed grain exports to hungry parts of the world in what U.S. President Joe Biden called a "really outrageous" act. Biden warned that global hunger could increase because of Russia's suspension of a U.N.-brokered deal to allow safe passage of ships carrying grain from Ukraine, one of the world's breadbaskets...
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NerdWallet: How to change Medicare plans — and why you might want to
(National News ~ 10/31/22)
Medicare open enrollment starts soon, but 7 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries say they don't compare Medicare plans during this period, according to a 2021 analysis by KFF, a health policy not-for-profit. That's not great, since Medicare Advantage plans -- which operate much like the private insurance you may have had through an employer -- change from year to year. ...
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Branson's God and country tourism draws patriotic Christians
(State News ~ 10/31/22)
BRANSON, Mo. — A night at the Dolly Parton Stampede is a microcosm of life in these polarized United States. For nearly two hours, on a hot August night, a capacity crowd divided by North and South, Red and Blue, tried to outshout the other side, egged on by leaders who referred to the other side by creative, G-rated terms of derision. The tension ramped up as two teams of riders dressed as cowboys and pioneers of the Old West competed to show which side could ride fastest, dodging obstacles and the occasional ring of fire — then breaking into songs or corn-pone jokes, while the audience cheered and devoured Cornish hens, biscuits and corn on the cob by the truckload. ...
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Inside testing done, soil sampling begins at St. Louis-area school
(State News ~ 10/31/22)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed testing inside a Missouri school closed amid concerns of radioactive contamination, and sampling of soil outside the school has begun, Corps officials said Friday, Oct. 28. A suburban St. Louis school board voted earlier this month to close Jana Elementary School in Florissant, Missouri, after testing by a private firm found levels of radioactive isotope lead-210 that were 22 times the expected level on the kindergarten playground. ...
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Bella Italia closed until further notice in downtown Cape
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
This story is updated. Bella Italia Restaurant, a downtown Cape Girardeau culinary mainstay since 2003, remains closed until further notice, as the establishment continues to deal with what its Facebook page called equipment problems. The seven-day-a-week Italian eatery at 20 N. Spanish St. temporarily shut down Oct. 24...
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Donald Prevallet
(Obituary ~ 10/31/22)
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. — Donald Elmer Prevallet, 88, of Blytheville, Arkansas, formerly of Perryville, Missouri, died Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, at Heritage Square Nursing Home. A private graveside service will be held at a later date. Burial will be at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Perryville...
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Employer showcase coming to Jackson High
(Business ~ 10/31/22)
Jackson High School will host an employer showcase, a job expo, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in JHS's Events Center. Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce requests RSVPs from interested employers by Friday, Nov. 18, by calling the chamber at (573) 243-8181 or emailing to assistant@jacksonmochamber.org...
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