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Republican lawmakers push for state control of St. Louis police
(State News ~ 04/24/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Ten years after gaining local control of its police for the first time since the Civil War, the City of St. Louis has more murders than ever before — and Missouri's Republican lawmakers are again pressuring for a state takeover of the police force...
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Carter County staff moves next week to new courthouse
(Local News ~ 04/24/23)
VAN BUREN, Mo. — Officials who once occupied the historic Carter County Courthouse — a cobbled-rock building dating back to 1871 — have been displaced since the historic flooding of the Current River in April 2017. Next week, they will leave the temporary quarters they have called home in the years since for a newly constructed courthouse at 1122 Main St. in Van Buren...
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Ex-NFL star Bleier raises money for Perryville memorial
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Robert "Rocky" Bleier, a U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient who earned four Super Bowl rings while in the starting backfield for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, keynoted a recent fundraiser on behalf of Missouri's National Veterans Memorial in Perryville...
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Shelly Kaiser brings 'passion' as Jackson's new retail chief
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Shelly Wessell Kaiser, a 1990 graduate of Jackson High School, became retail and membership director nearly three months ago of both the City of Jackson and Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce. Kaiser, who succeeded Jen Berti in the role, is clear about what persuaded her to leave a more than 30-year career in banking...
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Cape Girardeau librarian set to retire in May after 22 years
(Local News ~ 04/24/23)
After more than two decades of shaping young minds by providing books, storytimes and showing her love through different reading programs, Sharon Anderson will retire from Cape Girardeau Public Library in May. Anderson has worked as the Youth Services coordinator for 22 years...
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Rep. Jason Smith: Republicans, Democrats need to negotiate on debt ceiling
(Local News ~ 04/24/23)
U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee and a lawmaker who has represented 28 Southern Missouri counties since 2013, said both parties must get to the negotiating table to head off a federal debt limit crisis...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
Today is Monday, April 24, the 114th day of 2023. There are 251 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 24, 1962, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, between Camp Parks, California, and Westford, Massachusetts...
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Prayer 4-24-23
(Prayer ~ 04/24/23)
Lord Jesus, thank you for grace and the gift of eternal life through you. Amen.
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One stat rarely tells the story
(Column ~ 04/24/23)
Government debt as a share of the U.S. economy is falling. This must mean the Biden administration and Congress are practicing fiscal responsibility, right? No, it doesn't. The main driver behind the reduction is inflation — inflation that politicians in Washington created with their irresponsible spending and refusal to engage in austerity after the COVID-19 crisis...
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Our wild kids have America on edge
(Column ~ 04/24/23)
Violent events in the last few days prove how edgy Americans are. A 16-year-old boy who knocked on the wrong door was shot through the glass by a scared old man. A cheerleader was shot because she pulled into the wrong driveway. Another person was shot after she accidentally got in the wrong car at a shopping center...
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Local farmers markets kick off 2023 season
(Editorial ~ 04/24/23)
The 2023 farmers markets season has begun in Southeast Missouri. Area farmers markets are a good opportunity to pick up fresh produce, baked goods and other items from local merchants. But for many, the gatherings are as much about the experience as they are about the goods purchased. Many people, for example, make Saturday morning visits to Cape Riverfront Market a weekly habit from May to October...
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Business quote
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Don't ask about what we're going to do if we don't get a bonus. You can visit pity city but you can't live there. So people — leave pity city. Let's get it done. ...
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Cape Girardeau business licenses
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
City of Cape Girardeau Community Development Department has received three applications for business licenses. n Robert Lee Schooley II of Jackson, for Ground-A-Bout, 211 Saint Francis Drive, Entrance 1, inside Saint Francis Medical Center. n Ravindra S. Patel of Somerset, Kentucky, for Prime Time Internet Cafe, 623 S. Silver Spring Road, Suite 520...
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Cape Girardeau chamber news
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, ribbon-cutting for the new office of Stan Irwin of Edward Jones, 326 S. Mount Auburn Road, Suite 102.
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Buchheit names scholarship winners
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Buchheit Inc. has awarded its 2023 scholarships to university students who are either company employees or children of the Buchheit workforce. Among the 15 winners of the $500 awards are London Popp of Jackson and eight students from Perryville, Missouri: Megan LeClere, Hailee Wengert, Moladi Chikowore, Cameron Young, Mylee Schilling, Lucas Schilling, Alex Seibel and Sierra Welch.
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MRV Banks promotes Pam Hopkins
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Pam Hopkins has been promoted by MRV Banks to senior vice president/senior administrative officer. Hopkins has been with Ste. Genevieve-based MRV for more than 16 years and has 42 total years of banking experience. In addition to its headquarters, MRV also has two locations in Cape Girardeau, plus single branches in Festus and St. Charles, Missouri...
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Tina Weber named private banker at Banterra
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Tina Weber has joined Banterra Bank as senior private banker for Southeast Missouri. Weber, who attended Southeast Missouri State University and was most recently with The Bank of Missouri, is a board member of Uptown Jackson Revitalization Organization and SEMO Network Against Sexual Violence.
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Cassidy Sawyer joins Southeast Primary Care
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Cassidy Sawyer, affiliated with SoutheastHEALTH since 2016, has joined Southeast Primary Care as a family nurse practitioner. Sawyer, who holds degrees from SoutheastHEALTH College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Cox College in Springfield, Missouri, formerly served as a registered nurse in Southeast's Cardiothoracic ICU.
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Jordyne Payne transitions to new SoutheastHEALTH role
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Jordyne Payne, a SoutheastHEALTH family nurse practitioner, has joined the caregiver team at Southeast Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Payne, who formerly served as a registered nurse and clinical staff leader at Southeast Hospital, holds degrees from Maryville University in St. Louis and Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College.
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Gas prices level off as oil drops
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Pump prices fell back slightly late last week because of what may be a temporary weakening in the cost of crude oil. Saturday's U.S. average price for petrol stood at $3.67, a penny less than Friday, while Missouri's average also dropped by the same amount Saturday to $3.38 a gallon for unleaded...
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Allergy alert from Schnucks
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Schnucks issued an allergy alert Friday, April 21, for its 111 stores in four states, including 19 S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, for select Schnucks-brand pretzel products that may contain undeclared milk, a known allergen. Those with an allergy or sensitivity to milk, the grocery chain said in a statement, may run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if consumed...
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Ice cream, potato chips lead grocery price increases
(Business ~ 04/24/23)
Ice cream, in one-half gallon cartons, is one of the grocery items that saw a jump in price between February and March, up 3.5% in a 30-day period, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the past year, the confection is up 17% in price,...
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Michael Short
(Obituary ~ 04/24/23)
Michael "Mick" Short, son of the late Frank and Verna Mae Rogers Short, was born Sept. 24, 1958, in Bonne Terre, Missouri, and departed his life Friday, April 21, 2023, at his home in Scott City at the age of 64 years. He was a loving brother who was very family oriented. He enjoyed his work as an owner and operator of Mickey's Trucking, and in his spare time enjoyed riding his motorcycle and tinkering with his old cars...
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Jack Hawk
(Obituary ~ 04/24/23)
Jack Edward Hawk, 81, of Jackson died Friday, April 21, 2023, at his home. Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, April 28, at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, April 28, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Jason Shaw officiating. Interment and military honors will follow at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Unprepared for long war, US Army under gun to make more ammo
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
SCRANTON, Pa. -- One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory in this city built by coal barons, where tons of steel rods are brought in by train to be forged into the artillery shells Kyiv can't get enough of -- and that the U.S. can't produce fast enough...
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39 bodies dug up in cult investigation of pastor in Kenya
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Thirty-nine bodies have been found so far on land owned by a pastor in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death. Malindi sub-county police chief John Kemboi said that more shallow graves have yet to be dug up on the land belonging to pastor Paul Makenzi, who was arrested on April 14 over links to cultism...
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AP-NORC poll: Extreme weather is nearly universal experience
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
WASHINGTON -- An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows, and most of them attribute that to climate change. But even as many across the country mark Earth Day on Saturday, the poll shows relatively few say they feel motivated when they talk about the issue...
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Fox's settlement with Dominion unlikely to cost it $787.5M
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
Fox Corp.'s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges is eye-popping, but the ultimate cost to the media company is likely to be much lower. On Tuesday, Fox settled with Dominion over charges that Fox News baselessly accused the company of rigging its voting machines against former President Donald Trump in 2020. It was the most-watched media libel case in decades...
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Brazil's school violence mirrors US. Its reaction doesn't
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
Little has been revealed about the unprecedented crackdown, which risks judicial overreach, but it underlines the determination of the country's response across federal, state and municipal levels. Brazil's all-hands effort to stamp out its emerging trend of school attacks stands in contrast to the U.S., where such attacks have been more frequent and more deadly for a longer period, yet where measures nowadays are incremental...
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Faith lifted Pittsburgh Jews in long wait for massacre trial
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
PITTSBURGH -- Three Jewish congregations, resolute in their defiance of the hatred that tried to destroy them, are still waiting for justice. But united in their horror and grief, they haven't been standing still as the criminal case for the massacre that changed everything has crawled through the federal court system...
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Biden expected to tap Julie Rodriguez to run 2024 campaign
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden is expected to tap Julie Rodriguez, a senior White House adviser, to manage his reelection campaign, two people familiar with deliberations on the matter said Sunday. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because Rodriguez's appointment has not been finalized and Biden has yet to formally launch his reelection campaign. CBS News was first to report that Biden has decided to pick Rodriguez...
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Diplomats flee Sudan fighting as citizens struggle to escape
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others from Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday. While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese desperately sought to flee the chaos. Many risked dangerous roads to cross the northern border into Egypt...
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Lawmakers war-game conflict with China, hoping to deter one
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
WASHINGTON -- It's April 22, 2027, and 72 hours into a first-strike Chinese attack on Taiwan and the U.S. military response. Already, the toll on all sides is staggering. It was a war game, but one with a serious purpose and high-profile players: members of the House select committee on China. The conflict unfolded on Risk board game-style tabletop maps and markers under a giant gold chandelier in the House Ways and Means Committee room...
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Guyana birdsong competitions flourish amid oil boom
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
METEN-MEER-ZORG, Guyana -- The judges leaned in, hands clasped behind their backs. Everyone grew quiet as they stared at the two tiny black birds flitting before them, wondering which one would break the silence. "One. Two," a judge called out softly as the bird on the right erupted into tinkly chirps. ...
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'People are suffering': Food stamp woes worsen Alaska hunger
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
EAGLE RIVER, Alaska -- Thousands of Alaskans who depend on government assistance have waited months for food stamp benefits, exacerbating a long-standing hunger crisis worsened by the pandemic, inflation and the remnants of a typhoon that wiped out stockpiles of fish and fishing equipment...
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A deeply divided Israel limps toward its 75th birthday
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
JERUSALEM -- Orit Pinhasov strongly opposes the Israeli government's proposed judicial overhaul, but you won't find her anywhere near the mass protests against the plan. She says her marriage depends on it. Pinhasov's husband sits on the opposite side of Israel's political divide, and joining the protests will only deepen what she says already are palpable tensions in her household...
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Struggling Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy protection
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
NEW YORK -- Bed Bath & Beyond -- one of the original big box retailers known for its seemingly endless offerings of sheets, towels and kitchen gadgets -- filed for bankruptcy protection, following years of dismal sales and losses and numerous failed turnaround plans...
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Dying patients protest looming telehealth crackdown
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer, Teri Sheridan was ready to end her life using New Jersey's law that allows medically assisted suicide -- but she was bedbound, too sick to travel. So last Nov. 17, surrounded by three of her children, Sheridan drank a lethal dose of drugs prescribed by a doctor she had never met in person, only online. She died within minutes...
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NerdWallet: Doing the bare minimum with debt can cost you
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
When you're carrying a credit card balance, paying at least the minimum due each month is certainly a start. If those payments aren't making your overall budget feel squeezed, you have all the more reason to put payments on autopilot and not think about the total cost of your debt...
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Pollution lawsuit could curb use of aerial fire retardant
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A legal dispute in Montana could drastically curb the government's use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires after environmentalists raised concerns about waterways that are being polluted with the potentially toxic red slurry that's dropped from aircraft...
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Troop positions spark counteroffensive speculation in Ukraine
(International News ~ 04/24/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian military forces have successfully established positions on the eastern side of the Dnieper River, according to a new analysis, giving rise to speculation Sunday that the advances could be an early sign of Kyiv's long-awaited spring counteroffensive...
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The front door, threshold of welcome -- and perilous border
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
NEW YORK -- The American front door is a place where the welcome mat offers friendly greetings, where affable neighbors knock or ring, where boxes brimming with possibility are delivered. It is where home meets a world full of potentially good things...
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NerdWallet: How to ease your children into estate planning
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
When parents talk with their children at the dinner table, estate planning probably doesn't come up. But considering we aren't immortal, it should. It's worth having age-appropriate conversations to introduce children to the idea of estate planning. As children grow older, parents can provide more specifics about their plans and eventually assist their children in developing their own plans as adults...
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'Champagne of Beers' leaves French producers frothing
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
BRUSSELS -- The guardians of Champagne will let no one take the name of the bubbly beverage in vain, not even a U.S. beer behemoth. For years, Miller High Life has used "The Champagne of Beers" slogan. Last week, that appropriation became impossible to swallow...
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Thefts prompt 17 states to urge recall of Kia, Hyundai cars
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Attorneys general in 17 states Thursday urged the federal government to recall millions of Kia and Hyundai cars because they are too easy to steal, a response to a sharp increase in thefts fueled by a viral social media challenge...
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New this week: David Bowie, 'Fatal Attraction' and Smokey
(Entertainment ~ 04/24/23)
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. n Filmmaker David Lowery ("The Green Knight", "Ain't Them Bodies Saints") brought a lyrical magic and a quiet sweetness to his remake of "Pete's Dragon" and now is trying his hand at a live action take on the Peter Pan story. ...
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Wahoo! 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' is No. 1 for third week
(Entertainment ~ 04/24/23)
NEW YORK -- "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" continued to rack up coins at the box office, leading ticket sales for the third straight weekend, as the animation hit neared $1 billion after just 18 days in theaters. The weekend's top new release, the horror reboot "Evil Dead Rise" debuted solidly, launching with $23.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. But that was no match for Universal Pictures' "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," which grossed $58.2 million in its third weekend...
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Push to bolster security of key election technology
(National News ~ 04/24/23)
ATLANTA -- An effort to create a national testing program for technology central to U.S. elections will be launched later this year, aiming to strengthen the security of equipment that has been targeted by foreign governments and provided fertile ground for conspiracy theories...
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Solo Bicycle Rider On An Epic 3,500-Mile Ride In Support Of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) Will Be Riding Through Cape Girardeau, Missouri, This Week
(Submitted Story ~ 04/24/23)
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Out of the past: April 24
(Out of the Past ~ 04/24/23)
Maxine Breezeel had been thinking about having the oak tree on the east side of her house cut down; but Mother Nature made the decision for her yesterday, when the giant tree crashed into Breezeel's home at 1952 Briarwood; no one was hurt, but the house suffered extensive damage and is no longer safe for habitation...
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