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Author to discuss book 'Sgt. Dinwiddie's War' at Jackson library
(Local News ~ 02/06/23)
Local author Terry H. Irwin will discuss his research and writing of his book "Sgt. Dinwiddie's War: B-17s, POWs and the Belgian Underground in World War II" from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at Riverside Regional Library in Jackson. Sgt. Don Dinwiddie served as radioman of the B-17 bomber GI Sheets, which was shot down over Belgium in January 1944. ...
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Local bankers react to Fed's latest interest rate move
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell's announcement Feb. 1 of a quarter point — or 25 basis point — increase in the key federal funds rate is eliciting reaction from three local bank executives contacted by the Southeast Missourian...
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Vestia expands to Cape — Firm headed by Jackson grad Lauren Oschman focuses on financial advising for physicians
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Jackson High School alumna Lauren Law Oschman is not a medical doctor nor does she play one on TV. As a daughter of SoutheastHEALTH cardiologist David A. Law and Laura Law, a former pediatric nurse, Oschman is nonetheless putting her lifelong exposure to the medical community to use as CEO of Nashville, Tennessee-based Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors...
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Century-old engineering marvel revisited at Cape Girardeau Chamber's First Friday Coffee
(Local News ~ 02/06/23)
Attendees at Friday, Feb. 3's Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee braved frigid temperatures to step back in time to hear about a vital period in Southeast Missouri history. In remarks titled "Flood Control and Drainage", W. Dustin Boatwright, executive vice president of Cape Girardeau-headquartered Little River Drainage District, described for a crowd gathered at Century Casino Event Center the district's historic impact...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
Today is Monday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2023. There are 334 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI, 56, died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by his 25-year-old elder daughter, who became Queen Elizabeth II...
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Prayer 2-6-23
(Prayer ~ 02/06/23)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for your unfailing love for us. Amen.
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The IRS tightens the screws on the gig economy
(Column ~ 02/06/23)
The IRS is so kind. Our most beloved federal agency has delayed until next year a new income-reporting law it has carefully designed to squeeze the last drops of tax revenue out of many of us. The new IRS rule is aimed at millions of self-employed people and small-business people who sell goods or services on places such as eBay, drive part-time for Uber or earn income through social media companies such as Airbnb...
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Night to Shine is a fun event for those with special needs
(Editorial ~ 02/06/23)
There are community galas. High school proms. But you'd be hard pressed to find more joy on the faces of attendees than at Night to Shine, an annual prom-style event organized for individuals with special needs. Started in 2015 by the Tim Tebow Foundation, Night to Shine is a first-class event complete with limo rides, red carpet entrances, paparazzi photography, food and music. ...
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Business quote
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ...
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Cape Girardeau business licenses
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Two applications for business licenses have been received by City of Cape Girardeau's Community Development Department: n Timothy Carl McDonald of Rolla, Missouri, for Code 3 Security & Investigation, a security guard service to deter theft at retail or construction sites...
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Cape Girardeau, Jackson chamber news
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
The inaugural Brew & Business event will be held Tuesday, Feb. 7, at Minglewood Brewery, 121 Broadway in Cape Girardeau. Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting, with Minglewood and Media Leaf as sponsors. n There are four ribbon-cuttings scheduled this week:...
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Vivek Malek resigns SEMO role
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Vivek Malek, the newly appointed state treasurer, has resigned his role on Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Governors. Malek, a 45-year old immigration lawyer from Wildwood, Missouri, was named to his current post as the state's chief financial officer Dec. 20 by Gov. Mike Parson...
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Katie Britt to compete for coffee crown
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Katie Britt, co-owner of Cape Girardeau's Red Banner Coffee, will compete in the Cup Tasters competition at U.S. Coffee Championships from April 21 to 23 in Portland, Oregon. According to previous reporting, competitors in the Cup Tasters category are given several sets of medium roast coffee. ...
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Larry Miller promoted by City of Jackson
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Larry Miller is the new Planning and Building manager for the City of Jackson. Miller, who has worked for the municipality for nearly 20 years, succeeded Janet Sanders on Jan. 27. Sanders is now the city's Public Works director following the retirement of Kent Peetz...
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Joey Keys named to hunger panel
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Joey Keys, president and CEO of Southeast Missouri Food Bank in Sikeston and Jackson, recently was named to Feeding America's Policy Engagement and Advocacy Committee (PEAC). PEAC is a representative body of Feeding America network members focused on advocacy to provide input on legislative priorities and strategy...
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Cape Girardeau optometrist joins Leet Eye Care
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Cape optometrist joins Leet Eye Care Kyle E. Brost, O.D., of Cape Girardeau's Brost & Associates Family Eye Care has joined Leet Eye Care. Leet Eye Care has locations at 3140 Blattner Drive in Cape Girardeau and 1014 E. Jackson Blvd. in Jackson...
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General Motors announces major investment in EV lithium
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
General Motors announced Jan. 31 a planned $650 million investment in Lithium Americas, a company producing the critical component of lithium for electric vehicle batteries. Cable network CNBC called the move the largest investment an automaker has made to-date to secure necessary raw materials for battery production...
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Car wash to occupy former Sunny Hill property
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Club Car Wash has purchased the former Sunny Hill Gardens & Florist property at 206 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. Paul and Marilyn Schnare operated Sunny Hill for 30 years on 1.6 acres until its closure in the spring of 2022. The company previously opened a car wash in Cape Girardeau at 1902 N. Kingshighway...
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Ritter opens real estate office in Perryville
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Ritter Real Estate opened its third real estate office Jan. 20 at 6 W. Sainte Marie St. in Perryville, Missouri. The company also has offices on North Main Street in Cape Girardeau and East Jackson Boulevard in Jackson. The brokerage, founded in 2014, has been led by Jared Ritter since 2018...
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Supply keeping gas prices steady
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
Pump prices in Missouri are 4 cents lower than a week ago but remain 32 cents higher than one month ago. The average statewide gas price Saturday, Feb. 4, was recorded at $3.14, while the U.S. average is $3.48. Analysts for auto club federation AAA say despite rising gas demand and recently elevated oil prices, the growth in supply has helped to limit any price spikes...
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Sherri Jackson
(Obituary ~ 02/06/23)
Sherri Kay Jackson, daughter of the late David and Jackie Walton Myers, was born March 11, 1949, in Gordonville, and departed her life Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau at the age of 73 years. On June 23, 1989, she married Jackie Jackson at Arrowhead Camp Grounds in Grassy, Missouri. He survives...
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Nelta Haupt
(Obituary ~ 02/06/23)
Nelta Marie Haupt, 74, of Millersville passed away, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. The youngest of five children, Nelta was born March 3, 1948, near Millersville to Lloyd L. and Sarah J. Smith Smith. She and Loy Denzil Haupt were married June 25, 1976, at Caney Fork Baptist Church near Oak Ridge. They had one son, Brian. They had been married nearly 38 years when Loy passed away April 3, 2014...
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Judy Fish
(Obituary ~ 02/06/23)
ZALMA, Mo. — Judy Ruth Owens Fish, a longtime Zalma resident, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. She was born Jan. 24, 1947, to Thomas Earl Owens and Ruth Lorraine Miller Owens in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Judy had a love for people and a joy that exhibited itself in music and laughter. ...
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Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler in 9/11 wars, dies
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
ISLAMABAD -- Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 79. Musharraf, a former special forces commando, became president through the last of a string of military coups that roiled Pakistan since its founding amid the bloody 1947 partition of India. ...
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Cubans respond with zeal to new US migration policy
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
HAVANA -- In barely a week, 25-year-old engineer Marcos Marzo went from riding his small electric motorcycle past the low buildings of Havana's Vedado district to traveling the mega-highways of Florida, amazed by the towering high-rises and giant supermarkets...
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EU migration impasse leaves many refugees out in the cold
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
BRUSSELS -- Some refugees and asylum-seekers in Brussels have been spending months in between the Street of Palaces and the Small Castle -- quite literally. Unfortunately, it's not a dream come true at the end of their fearful flight from halfway across the globe. It's a perpetual nightmare...
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Turmoil risks financial stability Peru long took for granted
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
CUSCO, Peru -- Marco Gonzales ventured to the Andean city of Cusco from his home in the Peruvian Amazon in 2007 with little more than $20, a smidgeon of English and a change of clothes poorly suited for the icy mountain air. He started offering walking tours of the former Incan Empire capital in exchange for tips. Along the way he fell in love with a British backpacker, Nathalie Zulauf, and together the couple built a travel business and family...
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Program's head says Iowa school shooting won't deter him
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
The founder of an educational program for at-risk youth in Des Moines says he will remain "all in on helping kids that are not reachable in so many peoples' eyes" after he was wounded in last month's shooting that killed two students. Will Keeps, 49, a former Chicago gang member who moved to Iowa in his 20s and later founded the Starts Right Here program, made his first public comments about the shooting this weekend in a video the police department posted online...
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Pope makes final bid for peace, forgiveness in South Sudan
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
JUBA, South Sudan -- Pope Francis made a final appeal for peace in South Sudan on Sunday as he celebrated Mass before tens of thousands of people to close out an unusual mission by Christian religious leaders to nudge forward the country's recovery from civil war...
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Along Ukraine-Belarus border, a war of nerves -- and drones
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
BELARUS BORDER, Ukraine -- The reconnaissance drones fly several times a day from Ukrainian positions deep inside the thick forest that marches across the border into Belarus, a close Russian ally, scouring sky and land for signs of trouble on the other side...
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US officials offer Congress briefing on Trump, Biden papers
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials have offered to brief congressional leaders on their investigation into the classified documents found at former President Donald Trump's Florida residence as well as President Joe Biden's Delaware home and former private office, people familiar with the matter said Sunday...
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Why a new Alzheimer's drug is having a slow US debut
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
The first drug to show that it slows Alzheimer's is on sale, but treatment for most patients is still several months away. Two big factors behind the slow debut, experts say, are scant insurance coverage and a long setup time needed by many health systems...
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Dems reshuffle primaries to stress diversity over tradition
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
PHILADELPHIA -- The Democratic Party on Saturday approved reordering its 2024 presidential primary, replacing Iowa with South Carolina in the leadoff spot as part of a major shake-up meant to empower Black and other minority voters critical to its base of support...
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Election skeptics slow to get sweeping changes in GOP states
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Republicans in some heavily conservative states won their campaigns for secretary of state last year after claiming they would make sweeping changes aimed at keeping fraud out of elections. So far, their efforts to make good on their promises are mixed, in some cases because their rhetoric has bumped up against skepticism from members of their own party...
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Pope, Anglican, Presbyterian leaders denounce anti-gay laws
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE -- Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister together denounced the criminalization of homosexuality on Sunday and said gay people should be welcomed by their churches. The three Christian leaders spoke out on LGBTQ rights during an unprecedented joint airborne news conference returning home from South Sudan, where they took part in a three-day ecumenical pilgrimage to try to nudge the young country's peace process forward...
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'Died suddenly' posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
Results from 6-year-old Anastasia Weaver's autopsy may take weeks. But online anti-vaccine activists needed only hours after her funeral this week to baselessly blame the COVID-19 vaccine. A prolific Twitter account posted Anastasia's name and smiling dance portrait in a tweet with a syringe emoji. A Facebook user messaged her mother, Jessica Day-Weaver, to call her a "murderer" for having her child vaccinated...
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Fact focus: Egg shortage breeds chicken-feed conspiracies
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
Social media users claim to have found a new culprit for sky-high egg prices: chicken feed. The theory gained steam on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter in recent weeks, with some users reporting that their hens stopped laying eggs and speculating that common chicken feed products were the cause. Some went a step further to suggest that feed producers had intentionally made their products deficient to stop backyard egg production, forcing people to buy eggs at inflated prices...
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Ukraine defense minister expects help from West on warplanes
(International News ~ 02/06/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's defense minister expressed confidence Sunday that Western allies would agree to the country's latest weapons request -- warplanes to fight off Russian forces that invaded nearly a year ago. Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov told a news conference in Kyiv that Ukraine has already received everything from its "wish list to Santa," except planes...
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NerdWallet: What's new for Medicare in 2023?
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
A new year means changes to Medicare, including updated premiums and deductibles and sometimes big policy moves. In 2023, there's a little of everything: Some costs have gone down, others have increased, and there are some notable tweaks to how Medicare works...
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New rules would limit sugar in school meals for first time
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
U.S. agriculture officials on Friday proposed new nutrition standards for school meals, including the first limits on added sugars, with a focus on sweetened foods such as cereals, yogurt, flavored milk and breakfast pastries. The plan announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also seeks to significantly decrease sodium in the meals served to the nation's school kids by 2029, while making the rules for foods made with whole grains more flexible...
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Route to Super Bowl dangerous for Mexico's avocado haulers
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
SANTA ANA ZIROSTO, Mexico -- It is a long and sometimes dangerous journey for truckers transporting the avocados destined for guacamole on tables and tailgates in the United States during the Super Bowl. It starts in villages such as Santa Ana Zirosto, high in the misty, pine-clad mountains of the western Mexico state of Michoacan. ...
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US states take control of abortion debate with funding focus
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Though the Insight Women's Center sits at the epicenter of a reinvigorated battle in the nation's culture wars, the only hint of its faith-based mission to dissuade people from getting abortions is the jazzy, piano rendition of "Jesus Loves Me" playing in a waiting room...
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Biden's State of the Union expected to tout policy wins on economy
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden will use his second State of the Union address on Tuesday to remind Americans of how their lives have been improved over his first two years in office, as he tries to confront pessimism in the country and navigate the tricky politics of a newly divided Washington...
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Balloon bickering over president's actions, China's intentions
(National News ~ 02/06/23)
WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers on Sunday accused China of deliberately surveilling sensitive U.S. military sites with a suspected spy balloon and said the Biden administration had given Beijing an intelligence opening by not downing the balloon during its high-altitude drift through American airspace...
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2 abducted Missouri children found in a Florida supermarket
(State News ~ 02/06/23)
HIGH SPRINGS, Fla. -- Two abducted children who had been missing from Missouri for almost a year were found in a central Florida grocery store with their non-custodial mother, who was taken into police custody, authorities said. Kristi Gilley was arrested Wednesday on an out-of-state fugitive warrant. Court records show Gilley, 36, remained in jail Sunday...
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'Knock at the Cabin' knocks off 'Avatar' at the box office
(Entertainment ~ 02/06/23)
NEW YORK -- For the first time in almost two months, the box office doesn't belong to blue people. After seven weeks as the top film in theaters, "Avatar: The Way of Water" was finally knocked out of the No. 1 spot by the M. Night Shyamalan thriller "Knock at the Cabin" and the octogenarian comedy "80 for Brady."...
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New this week: 'Your Place or Mine', 'All That Breathes', Paramore album
(Entertainment ~ 02/06/23)
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 6
(Out of the Past ~ 02/06/23)
A wood stove is being blamed for a house fire that nearly destroyed the Scott City home of a woman and her three children Thursday afternoon; Scott City Fire Department Deputy Chief Bill Crump says preliminary investigations revealed the fire began in or around a first-floor wood stove and spread quickly to the attic of the house, 713 Chestnut; the family, Cindy McClellan and her children, lost most of their belongings in the fire...
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New Vision Counseling appoints New Executive Director Shari Boxdorfer
(Submitted Story ~ 02/06/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU – New Vision Counseling’s Board of Directors has name Shari Boxdorfer the new executive director. “We are so pleased to make this exciting announcement,” reports Brooke Watson – New Vision’s Board of Directors President. “Shari will bring energy, creativity and leadership to the organization”. “Shari will help to grow the organization, by adding new counselors, programs and additional members to the Board of Directors”...
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Newbridge Retirement plans spring opening in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 02/06/23)
This story is updated. Newbridge is preparing to open a 75,000-square-foot retirement community at 1205 S. Mount Auburn Road in Cape Girardeau in April, with residents moving in starting in May. According to company representatives who made remarks before the Friday, Feb. 3, First Friday Coffee of Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce, Newbridge Retirement will feature 82 units, including assisted living units and memory care...
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