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Six St. Louis inmates face charges stemming from abduction of jail guard
(State News ~ 08/29/23)
ST. LOUIS — Six inmates at the downtown St. Louis jail are facing charges related to the abduction last week of a 73-year-old jail guard. Charging documents released Monday by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office offered insight into how the guard was taken hostage around 6 a.m. Aug. 22. He was freed by a police SWAT team more than two hours later and treated at a hospital for minor injuries...
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Missouri death row inmate sues governor
(State News ~ 08/29/23)
ST. LOUIS — A Missouri death row inmate is suing Gov. Mike Parson over the governor's decision to dissolve a board of inquiry that was convened to investigate the man's innocence claim. The lawsuit on behalf of Marcellus Williams asks a state judge to invalidate Parson's June order that did away with the inquiry board. ...
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Missouri law banning minors from beginning gender-affirming treatments takes effect
(State News ~ 08/29/23)
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Two new laws restricting the access of transgender youth in Missouri to gender-affirming health care and school sports took effect Monday. One law bans minors from beginning puberty blockers and hormones and outlaws gender-affirming surgeries for youths. The other law requires student athletes from kindergarten through college to play on sports teams that align with their sex as assigned at birth...
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Man in custody after allegedly shooting, injuring girlfriend Sunday in Sikeston
(Local News ~ 08/29/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. — A woman is recovering, and her boyfriend is in custody after he allegedly shot her Sunday, Aug. 27. About 3 p.m. Sunday, Sikeston Department of Public Safety officers responded to the 400 block of Lynual Street in Sikeston in New Madrid County, Missouri, for a report of a female with a gunshot wound to the side, according to Sgt. Tyler Rowe, public information officer. Officers arrived on scene of the incident and located the female victim...
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Cape Girardeau police rescue alligator hatchling
(Local News ~ 08/29/23)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department dealt with an unusual trespasser Saturday, Aug. 26, when officers were dispatched to apprehend an alligator. Officers responded to the 600 block of Red Bud Circle around 7 p.m. after a resident reported they'd found an alligator in their yard. The reptile was still a hatchling, just 16 inches long...
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Community Cookbook: Pat's Pastries recreates nostalgic small-town bakery experience
(08/29/23)
Recipes tell the stories of communities and the people who shape them. Each recipe is more than a list of ingredients and steps; it is a written legacy of the individual who created the dish, their family and history. This monthly series highlights one of these legacies and gives readers the chance to create the recipe themselves...
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Cape Girardeau City Council election season starts Sept. 25
(Local News ~ 08/29/23)
Want to serve on Cape Girardeau City Council? The election process will soon begin. Nominating petitions for 2024 election for Wards 3, 4 and 5 will be available in the Office of the City Clerk starting Monday, Sept. 25. Candidates must have the petitions signed by at least 50 voters registered in their ward...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2023. There are 124 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast near Buras, Louisiana, bringing floods that devastated New Orleans. More than 1,800 people in the region died...
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Billy Joe Thompson
(Obituary ~ 08/29/23)
Billy Joe Thompson Jr., 73, of Jackson, passed away Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, after a brief hospitalization at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, at Cape County Cowboy Church in Oak Ridge...
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Prayer 8-29-23
(Prayer ~ 08/29/23)
O Father God, thank you that we can come to you in prayer. Amen.
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The Biden clan's con is coming to an end
(Column ~ 08/29/23)
Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that President Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden -- and ultimately Joe Biden himself...
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Leaving no stone unturned
(Column ~ 08/29/23)
When the American people entrusted Republicans with the responsibility of running the House of Representatives, we promised to use every tool at our disposal to hold this administration accountable to the American people. Unsurprisingly, the Biden administration has stonewalled our efforts to get Americans the answers they deserve about the numerous scandals and crises that have come out of this White House. ...
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The shape of politics to come
(Column ~ 08/29/23)
SHARON, CT -- "The Founders were not afraid of religion," James L. Buckley wrote in his book "Gleanings from an Unplanned Life." Buckley was a one-term senator from New York, elected on the Conservative Party line. His funeral Mass was the morning after the first Republican presidential primary this year, and just about everything about it seemed like a stark contrast to our current politics. ...
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Billy Joe Thompson Jr.
(Obituary ~ 08/29/23)
Billy Joe Thompson Jr., 73, of Jackson passed away Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, after a brief hospitalization. He was born March 2, 1950, in Cape Girardeau to Billy Joe Sr. and Alice Faye Mason Thompson. He and Robin Gross were married Dec. 18, 1981, at New McKendree United Methodist Church in Jackson...
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Mae Sprengel
(Obituary ~ 08/29/23)
Mae Sue Sprengel, 88, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at the Lutheran Home. She was born July 27, 1935, in Oak Ridge to Emory and Oma Thompson Beal. She and Archie H. Sprengel were married May 15, 1954, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death June 2, 2021...
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Patricia Scheel
(Obituary ~ 08/29/23)
Patricia L. Scheel, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at Chateau Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Marie Conley
(Obituary ~ 08/29/23)
Marie Susan Conley, 102, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at Southeast Hospital. Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Barbara Bollinger
(Obituary ~ 08/29/23)
ORAN, Mo. — Barbara Jean Bollinger, daughter of the late J.C. and Juanita Blue Joyce, was born Sept. 18, 1943, in Oran and departed her life Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at her home in Oran, while surrounded by her family. On March 2, 1962, she was united in marriage to Buster Bollinger in Oran. She was married for 61 years to Buster as of March 2...
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Fire report 8-29-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/29/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Aug. 28 n Medical assists were made at 9:37 a.m. on South Mount Auburn Road; 11:09 a.m. on North Kingshighway; and 3:30 p.m. on North West End Boulevard. n At 12:55 p.m., hazardous condition on South Hanover Street...
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Police report 8-29-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/29/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported. n A warrant arrest was reported on South Sprigg Street. n A warrant arrest was reported. Assaults n Assault was reported on William Street...
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8 US Marines remain hospitalized after fiery aircraft crash killed 3 during drills in Australia
(International News ~ 08/29/23)
CANBERRA, Australia -- Eight U.S. Marines remained in a hospital in the Australian north coast city of Darwin on Monday after they were injured in a fiery crash of a tiltrotor aircraft that killed three of their colleagues on an island. All 20 survivors were flown from Melville Island 50 miles south to Darwin within hours of the Marine V-22 Osprey crashing at 9:30 a.m. Sunday during a multinational training exercise, Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles said...
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Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
BARCELONA, Spain -- Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as part of an intensifying campaign against the emissions-spewing lifestyles of the ultrawealthy...
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US, China agree to discuss export controls as commerce secretary visits to warm up chilly ties
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
BEIJING -- Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said she and her Chinese counterpart agreed Monday to exchange information on U.S. export controls that frustrate Beijing and set up a group to discuss other commercial issues, but neither side appeared ready to make concessions on disputes that have plunged relations to their lowest level in decades...
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An evacuation order finds few followers in northeastern Ukraine despite Russia's push in the region
(International News ~ 08/29/23)
KUPIANSK, Ukraine -- The thunder of mortar fire echoes in the distance as 5-year old David approaches his mother with an innocent request: Can he play with the baseball bat a relative gave him as a gift? Valeria Pototska rolls her eyes and tells her son no for the umpteenth time. It's a toy for big kids, she scolds. The boy, who doesn't so much as flinch when the weapons not far from their town in northeast Ukraine shoot off more rounds, pouts and pedals away on his bicycle...
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Pope says 'backward' U.S. conservatives have replaced faith with ideology
(International News ~ 08/29/23)
ROME -- Pope Francis has blasted the "backwardness" of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time. Francis' comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the U.S. ...
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Trump's top aide Meadows testifies at hearing
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
ATLANTA -- Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows took the witness stand at a hearing Monday to deny two of the allegations made against him in a Georgia indictment accusing him of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election...
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Biden will observe 9/11 in Alaska instead of the traditional NYC, Virginia or Pennsylvania events
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden will observe next month's 22nd anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil at an Alaska military base with service members and their families, the White House announced. Biden will not participate in any of the observances at 9/11 memorial sites in New York City, Virginia or Pennsylvania. ...
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Michigan man linked to extremist group gets year in prison for gun crimes
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
DETROIT -- A Detroit-area man linked to an anti-government group and arrested just before the 2022 election was sentenced to a year in prison Monday for gun-related crimes. Timothy Teagan had attended various rallies with an AR-style rifle while dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, clothing favored by the Boogaloo Boys, a group bracing for a U.S. civil war...
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Florida prays Idalia won't join long list of destructive storms with names starting with 'I'
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
Floridians pray that when Idalia hits the Gulf Coast it won't join the long list of destructive Atlantic Ocean storms whose names started with "I." Since 1955, 13 Atlantic storm names beginning with "I" have been retired, according to the National Weather Service. That happens when a storm's death toll or destruction is so severe that using its name again would be insensitive, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which oversees storm naming...
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Illinois judge refuses to dismiss case against father of parade shooting suspect
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
CHICAGO -- A judge Monday refused to dismiss the case against a father who helped his son obtain a gun license three years before authorities say the younger man fatally shot seven people at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago. Illinois prosecutors charged Robert Crimo Jr. under a unconstitutionally vague law, his lawyer argued at a hearing earlier this month in Waukegan, north of Highland Park where the shooting took place...
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Hawaii power utility takes responsibility for first fire
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
HONOLULU -- Hawaii's electric utility acknowledged its power lines started a wildfire on Maui but faulted county firefighters for declaring the blaze contained and leaving the scene, only to have a second wildfire break out nearby and become the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century...
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Jacksonville killings refocus attention on city's racist past, struggle to move on
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
By some measures, Jacksonville was making strides to emerge from its racist past. But the killing of three Black people by a young, white shooter was a painful and startling reminder that the remnants of racism still fester in the Florida city. What happened Saturday in Jacksonville, said 79-year-old longtime resident Rodney Hurst, "could have happened anywhere, except it did happen in Jacksonville."...
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AP-NORC poll: Biden too old for office, Trump 'crooked'
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term. Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age. But they have plenty of other problems with Trump, who at least for now far outdistances his rivals for the Republican nomination despite his multiple criminal indictments. Never mind his advanced years -- if anything, some say, the 77-year-old ought to grow up...
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Florida Gov. DeSantis declares widespread state of emergency
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
TAMPA, Fla. -- Florida residents loaded up on sandbags and evacuated from homes in low-lying areas along the Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Idalia intensified Monday and forecasters predicted it would hit in days as a major hurricane with potentially life-threatening storm surges...
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Trump trial set for March 4 in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election
(National News ~ 08/29/23)
WASHINGTON -- A judge Monday set a March 4 trial date for Donald Trump in the federal case in Washington charging the former president with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting a defense request to push back the case by years...
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Out of the past: Aug. 29
(Out of the Past ~ 08/29/23)
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against the Woodland School District accusing it of violating a student's right to freedom of speech; Brandon Beussink, 16, of Marble Hill, Missouri, contacted the ACLU in February after he received a 10-day suspension for creating a home page on the World Wide Web that criticized the district...
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Sponsored: Learn to sew with Bohemian Scrapsody owner Kelly Irvin
(08/29/23)
Kelly Irvin has a quilt she calls “Bohemian Scrapsody.” She says she had a lot of fun making it entirely from scrap material a few years ago while listening to the radio. For her, the quilt is a testament to the fact “you can make a silk purse from a sow’s ear:” It’s now the namesake of her quilt shop in Scott City, Mo...
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New Beta Club Officers Elected at Guardian Angel School
(Submitted Story ~ 08/29/23)
The start of a new school year brought change to the Jr. Beta Club at Guardian Angel School in Oran, MO. Jr. Beta had its first meeting of the new school year on Thursday, August 24. New officers were elected: President-Kasyn Seabaugh; Vice President-Harper Gadberry; Secretary-Elaina Hahn; Treasurer-Adisyn Seabaugh; Chaplain-Dylan Levan; and Peace Keeper-Rylie Priggel...
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