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Bill would compel Missouri teachers to tell parents about gender talk
(State News ~ 02/15/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri public school teachers would be required to tell parents if their children question their gender identity under a bill advanced Tuesday in the state Senate. K-12 school staff would be required to notify parents if students "express discomfort or confusion" about their gender identity under the bill, which passed a Senate education committee. One Republican joined Democrats in voting against it...
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Missouri man accused of confining woman faces new charges
(State News ~ 02/15/23)
LIBERTY, Mo. — A Missouri man accused of keeping a woman hidden in his basement while repeatedly sexually assaulting her was indicted by a grand jury on nine new charges, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Timothy M. Haslett of Excelsior Springs was indicted on one count of rape, four counts of sodomy, two counts of second-degree assault and one count each of kidnapping and endangering the welfare of a child, Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson said...
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Judge vacates conviction of Missouri man imprisoned nearly 3 decades
(State News ~ 02/15/23)
ST. LOUIS — A Missouri judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who has served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing he has always said he didn't commit. Lamar Johnson, 50, closed his eyes and shook his head slightly as a member of his legal team patted him on the back when Circuit Judge David Mason issued his ruling. ...
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Leather Tooling Workshop this weekend at Crisp Museum
(Local News ~ 02/15/23)
It is never too late to learn something new. Crisp Museum will host a Leather Tooling Workshop on Saturday, Feb 18, and Sunday, Feb. 19. The workshops will run from 1 to 4 p.m. both days, and is open to anyone age 12 and older. Attendees will be introduced to basic leather tooling skills by Gary Tyler. The skills involve wetting and hammering a design with a metal die into a leather coaster. Each guest will be able to make two coasters using various tools to make different patterns and designs...
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Annual Father Daughter Dance this Saturday at Osage Centre
(Local News ~ 02/15/23)
The 15th annual Father Daughter Dance will be held Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. The dance, with the theme of "I Love You to the Moon and Back", will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets for the dance are $20 and are available at the Arena Building and Osage Centre. Tickets will not be available on the day of the event. Included with the tickets are admission, dinner and a goody bag...
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Scott City dispatch center gets upgraded
(Local News ~ 02/15/23)
Officials in Scott City have rolled out new technology upgrades at the dispatch center that will save time locating callers and give responders a better idea of the situation they're about to roll up to. One of the upgrades gives dispatchers access to video from the caller. The technology sends a link to a caller. If and when the caller clicks on the link and gives permission, the dispatch center can get a live view of the caller's cellphone video. This video feed can be shared to responders...
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Alleged 'after-hours club' in Cape receives numerous citations
(Local News ~ 02/15/23)
One Cape Girardeau renter has been arrested several times for allegedly operating an unlicensed after-hours club. Keith McFerren is the tenant for the building at 1621 Independence St. He has been the recipient of 13 calls for service and numerous citations since June for incidents on the premises...
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Cape Airport reaches important enplanement milestone
(Local News ~ 02/15/23)
The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport was able to reach an important enplanement milestone despite a somewhat tumultuous 2022. Airport manager Katrina Amos presented her 2022 annual report to Airport Advisory Board members Tuesday, Feb. 14. Cape Girardeau was able to clear the 8,000 enplanement marker — making the airport eligible for $600,000 in federal finding — with 8,132 enplanements this past year in spite of former carrier SkyWest's termination of service in March. ...
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Cape Girardeau stats show crime decline in many areas
(Local News ~ 02/15/23)
The number of robberies in Cape Girardeau has dropped ninefold over the last decade, according to numbers released by the police department. It's one of many crimes that are decreasing in the city, the city's numbers show, but it's perhaps the most impressive, police chief Wes Blair said...
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Column: Music Memories, Narvel Felts
(02/15/23)
Most The Best Years readers who are country music fans instantly recognize the name Narvel Felts. Felts was born near Keiser, Ark., in 1938, raised on a family farm in Poe, Mo., attended Bernie High School and has called Malden home since 1962. Some of his most-recognizable country hits from the 1970s include “Driftaway,” “Somebody Hold Me (Until She Passes By),” “Lonely Teardrops” and “Reconsider Me.”...
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Rising toll makes quake deadliest in Turkey's modern history
(International News ~ 02/15/23)
ANTAKYA, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Tuesday that more than 35,000 people have died in Turkey as a result of last week's earthquake, making it the deadliest such disaster since the country's founding 100 years ago. While the death toll is almost certain to rise even further, many of the tens of thousands of survivors left homeless were still struggling to meet basic needs, like finding shelter from the bitter cold...
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Prayer 2-15-23
(Prayer ~ 02/15/23)
O Heavenly Father, we praise you for you generously give grace and mercy. Amen.
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Biden vs. the UFOs
(Column ~ 02/15/23)
It's best never to take White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's word for anything, but we can presumably believe her when she says that the flying objects shot down by the United States in recent days aren't from an alien civilization. Although she left herself some wiggle room -- "there is no indication" of extraterrestrial activity, she said, displaying the weasel-word instincts of someone whose job involves dancing around the truth...
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Controversy at the Grammys
(Column ~ 02/15/23)
There was some outrage surrounding the "Unholy" performance of Sam Smith and Kim Petras at the Grammys, which involved Smith dressing up like the devil, against a backdrop of someone's cartoonish idea of hell. What deserves more reflection than Sam Smith's horned hat is singer Kim Petras. I confess both Petras and Smith are new to me. And I did a doubletake when Petras was heralded as a first transgender woman to win a Grammy...
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Area lawmakers take a more regional approach to budget requests
(Editorial ~ 02/15/23)
We understand each community has its own identity, its own opportunities and its own challenges. There is a certain amount of community pride. And some of that is good. However, working together in a collaborative way is almost always the best path...
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Fire report 2-15-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/15/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Feb. 13 n Medical assists were made at 1:37 a.m. on La Mesa Drive; 6:11 a.m. on Independence Street; 6:58 a.m. on North Frederick Street; 10:06 a.m. on South Benton Street; 12:38 p.m. on William Street; and 12:46 p.m. on Northwoods Court...
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Police report 2-15-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/15/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on North Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on La Mesa Drive. Assaults n Third-degree assault was reported on William Street...
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Janet Merrick
(Obituary ~ 02/15/23)
Janet Daisey Merrick, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau. Services are pending at this time. Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Beverly Jeffries
(Obituary ~ 02/15/23)
FESTUS, Mo. — Beverly Jane Jeffries, 67, of Festus passed away Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Feb. 28, 1955, in Sikeston, Missouri, the daughter of the late Leonard Eugene and Louella Adkins Jeffries. Beverly was a huge St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan and enjoyed watching their games on television. She loved her nieces and nephews dearly and will be greatly missed...
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In which Winnie the Pooh stars in an R-rated slasher movie
(Entertainment ~ 02/15/23)
NEW YORK -- The Hundred Acre Wood has seen some pretty unsettling things over the years. A honey jar shortage. Rather blustery days. The omnipresent threat of a Heffalump. But in "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey," a new microbudget R-rated horror film, Pooh wades into far darker territory than even Eeyore could have ever imagined. ...
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In Trump probe, US seeks to pierce attorney-client privilege
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
WASHINGTON -- Justice Department prosecutors investigating the mishandling of classified documents at Donald Trump's Florida estate are seeking to pierce the attorney-client privilege and want to again question one of the former president's lawyers before a grand jury, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night...
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Pence to fight special counsel subpoena on 2020 election
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Mike Pence is planning to fight a subpoena by the special counsel overseeing investigations into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to people familiar with his thinking...
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Love blossoms in Serbia between Ukrainian, Russian 'enemies'
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
BELGRADE, Serbia -- She is from Ukraine and he is from Russia. Their love blossomed online, but with their nations at war, the odds of carrying on their relationship were stacked against them. Even so, it didn't take long for the young couple to beat the odds...
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US inflation slows to 6.4%, but price pressures re-emerge
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
WASHINGTON -- The pace of consumer price increases eased again in January compared with a year earlier, the latest sign that the high inflation that has gripped Americans for nearly two years is slowly easing. At the same time, Tuesday's consumer price report from the government showed that inflationary pressures in the U.S. ...
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Nicaragua's vote to strip opponents of citizenship
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
MEXICO CITY -- Last week Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega packed off 222 political leaders, priests, students, activists and other dissidents to the United States, their release long demanded by the international community. Shortly after, Ortega's government voted to strip the former prisoners of Nicaraguan citizenship. ...
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US arrests 4 tied to assassination of Haitian president
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
MIAMI -- U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, including the owner of a Miami-area security company that hired ex-Colombian soldiers for the mission, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The squad of former Colombian soldiers are among dozens of suspects who carried out the July 2021 attack that authorities say originally was envisioned to be a coup rather than an assassination. ...
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Post-Roe, Native Americans face even more abortion hurdles
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
A few months after South Dakota banned abortion last year, April Matson drove more than nine hours to take a friend to a Colorado clinic to get the procedure. The trip brought back difficult memories of Matson's own abortion at the same clinic in 2016. The former grocery store worker and parent of two couldn't afford a hotel and slept in a tent near a horse pasture -- bleeding and in pain...
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US renews warning it'll defend Philippines after China spat
(International News ~ 02/15/23)
MANILA, Philippines -- The United States renewed a warning that it would defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under attack in the disputed South China Sea, after a Chinese coast guard ship allegedly hit a Philippine patrol vessel with military-grade laser that briefly blinded some of its crew...
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Kyiv clamors for fighter jets as war nears 'critical' phase
(International News ~ 02/15/23)
BRUSSELS -- Ukraine on Tuesday renewed its appeal to Western countries for fighter jets to help frustrate Moscow's invasion, as senior defense officials from the United States and its NATO allies said the war with Russia is approaching a critical stage...
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Who should lead? Democrats, Republicans struggle to decide
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
WASHINGTON -- While President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, are preparing for a possible rematch in 2024, a new poll finds a notable lack of enthusiasm within the parties for either man as his party's leader and a clear opening for new standard-bearers...
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Latest downed objects could well be 'benign,' US says
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
WASHINGTON -- The three still-unidentified aerial objects shot down by the U.S. in the past week likely had merely a "benign purpose," the White House acknowledged Tuesday, drawing a distinction between them and the massive Chinese balloon that earlier traversed the U.S. with a suspected goal of surveillance...
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Nikki Haley announces run for president
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, announced her candidacy for president on Tuesday, becoming the first major challenger to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination...
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Ohio derailment aftermath: How worried should people be?
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
Plumes of smoke, questions about dead animals, worries about the drinking water. A train derailment in Ohio and subsequent burning of some of the hazardous chemicals has people asking: How worried should they be? It's been more than a week since about 50 cars of a freight train derailed in a fiery, mangled mess on the outskirts of East Palestine near the Pennsylvania state line, apparently because of a mechanical issue with a rail car axle. ...
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Winner of California's $2 billion lottery gets largest U.S. jackpot
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The winner of the largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history is a former student in the California public school system who wants to mostly stay out of the spotlight. California lottery officials on Tuesday said Edwin Castro won the record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball prize in November. But they couldn't say anything else about him. State law says Castro's name is in the public record, but nothing else is -- including his age and where he lives...
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Police seek motive of gunman who killed 3 at Michigan State
(National News ~ 02/15/23)
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The 43-year-old gunman who killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University had no apparent connection to the campus, police said Tuesday as they searched for a motive for shootings that terrified the community for hours...
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Out of the past: Feb. 15
(Out of the Past ~ 02/15/23)
State Sen. Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, won't be running for state auditor this year after all; he announced yesterday he is backing out of the race and will instead support Republican contender Chuck Pierce, who announced Friday he will seek the office; Pierce is deputy state auditor under incumbent Margaret Kelly...
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