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Sikeston man charged with murder following Monday assault
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston man has formally been charged with the murder of another man following an assault early Monday, Sept. 11, in Sikeston. Anthony Tyron Pearson, 53, is charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and first-degree burglary, according to Sgt. Tyler Rowe, public information officer with Sikeston Department of Public Safety,...
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Gospel music festival to be held in Poplar Bluff
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- The 91st annual Missouri Mid-South Gospel Music Singing Convention is coming to Poplar Bluff, presenting residents with the chance to enjoy two nights of live gospel music celebration. It will be held at New Covenant Fellowship Church at 3396 Kanell Blvd. Eight special guest performers will appear at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, and Saturday, Sept. 16...
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Motoring down to view the Motorcycle Cannonball
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
From left, friends Natt, Nick, Phil and Steve from St. Louis rode down Highway 3 to see the Motorcycle Cannonball stop Tuesday, Sept. 12, in Cape Girardeau...
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Suicide prevention walk scheduled this weekend in Jackson
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
Suicide has been described as a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Famous American poet Maya Angelou once wrote the following to deter the impetus to take one's own life. "No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on and it will be better," wrote the St. Louis native, who died in 2014 at age 86...
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SEMO student named Giffords Courage Fellow
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
A Southeast Missouri State University graduate student was named a 2023 Giffords Courage Fellow and traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in gun violence prevention advocacy. Camille Shoals, 22, is pursuing a master's in public administration at SEMO and was one of 13 students from schools across the country to be named a Courage Fellow this summer...
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Gov. Parson chooses Supreme Court judge; Michael Gardner, appellate justice, not picked
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that Judge Kelly Broniec will join the Missouri Supreme Court, creating a female-majority court for the first time in the state's history. Broniec was appointed to replace Justice George W. Draper III, who retired in August...
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Rib City: How Dexter became Missouri’s barbecue capital
(B Magazine ~ 09/13/23)
Dexter, Missouri, is known as “Rib City,” and West Business U.S. Highway 60 is where that name truly comes to life. On that highway, all within less than a mile of each other, exist some of the most popular and well-known barbecue restaurants in Southeast Missouri. And it goes beyond restaurants. Convenience stores, gas stations and small mom-and-pop shops are all advertising their barbecue products.
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Local experts weigh in on rising unemployment rates
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
The rate of joblessness is on the rise in Cape Girardeau, Perry and Scott counties, according to the latest available data from the state Department of Labor, even as unemployment overall remains at near-historic lows in Missouri. n Cape Girardeau: 3.2% in June, up from 2.7% in May and 2.2% in April;...
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Cape Girardeau's Green's Garden combines restaurant, market and family
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
A new restaurant and market in downtown Cape Girardeau is taking the idea of a family business to the next level. As of now, Green's Garden at 2 N. Main St. is staffed entirely by members of the Green family -- dad Lance, mom Sharla and their five oldest children, Becky, Frank, Job, Mercy and Titus. The couple's five younger children help out when needed...
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Cape council to hold special closed-session meeting
(Local News ~ 09/13/23)
Cape Girardeau City Council members will hold a special closed-session meeting Thursday, Sept. 14. A release from municipal officials said the videoconference meeting at 3:30 p.m. will involve a discussion with legal counsel. The announcement did not indicate the subject of the meeting...
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A look to the future with a celebration of innovative in Southeast Missouri
(B Magazine ~ 09/13/23)
As I’m writing this column in the third week of August, there’s a major baseball tournament being held one mile from our downtown Cape Girardeau offices. Fourteen teams are competing in the Babe Ruth World Series for 16- to 18-year-olds at Capaha Field and Central High School. ...
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Seven people, seven thoughts about the impact of technology
(B Magazine ~ 09/13/23)
Some folks seem to have a second sight, an ability to look around corners, to imagine what’s coming next. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a controversial French Jesuit priest, scientist and philosopher, may have been one of those visionaries. He made a January 1947 speech in Paris in which he wondered aloud about the possibilities and threats of technology...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2023. There are 109 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 13, 1971, a four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages...
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Difference Makers serve communities in important ways
(Editorial ~ 09/13/23)
Some might identify them as pillars of their communities -- building, improving, expanding. Others might recognize them as behind-the-scenes organizers -- the folks who get things done without regard to who gets the credit. We call them Difference Makers...
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Prayer 9-13-23
(Prayer ~ 09/13/23)
Father God, thank you for sending your son as a propitiation for our transgressions. Amen.
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The electric car sham
(Column ~ 09/13/23)
Joe Biden has seen the future, and it is electric cars. Lots of electric cars. Electric cars -- or else. Donald Trump has seen the future, and it is a backlash against the mandate for the mass adoption of electric cars. The former president is promising to "stop this Madness, IMMEDIATELY!"...
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Police report 9-13-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/13/23)
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 Saint Francis Drive. Assaults n Third-degree domestic assault and fourth-degree assault were reported on Whitener Street...
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Fire report 9-13-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/13/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Sept. 11 n Medical assists were made at 1:55 p.m. on Marlin Drive; 2:07 p.m. on North Henderson Avenue; 2:23 p.m. on Linden Street; and 3:39 p.m. on Broadway. n Hazardous condition call was made at 2 p.m. on East Cape Rock Drive...
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Daniel Weinhold
(Obituary ~ 09/13/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Daniel Paul Weinhold, 62, of Perryville died Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, at Riverview at the Park Care and Rehab Center. Arrangements are pending at Ford and Young Funeral Home.
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Doris Stueve
(Obituary ~ 09/13/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Doris Lavern Stueve, 79, of Perryville died Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Paul Oliver
(Obituary ~ 09/13/23)
Paul Edward Oliver, 91, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. Parish prayers will be at 7 p.m., with Knights of Columbus rosary immediately following...
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Miki Gudermuth
(Obituary ~ 09/13/23)
MaryAnn "Miki" Gudermuth, 74, of Cape Girardeau went to her heavenly home Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, after a short but hard-fought battle with a recently diagnosed disease. Born Oct. 7, 1948, Miki was no stranger to hard battles. She contracted polio when she was 9 months old and spent the majority of her younger years in Shriners Hospital, where she endured multiple surgeries on her hips, legs and feet...
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John Geringer
(Obituary ~ 09/13/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — John K. Geringer, 72, of Perryville died Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, and from 8 to 10:50 a.m. -- rosary will be recited at 9 a.m., and there will be an Elks wake service at 10:15 a.m. -- Saturday, Sept. 16, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville...
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Sponsored: A bright future in economic development for Southeast Missouri
(B Magazine ~ 09/13/23)
Southeast Missouri is at a critical moment in the future of economic development. After a reorganization effort, Southeast Missouri Regional Economic Development, Inc. (SE MO REDI) is entering the final stages of a strategic planning effort. With the continued expansion of private and public partners, the organization is well-positioned to play a key role in helping add jobs and private investment throughout the region.
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Growing programs at Southeast Missouri State University reflect job market demands
(B Magazine ~ 09/13/23)
It’s safe to say COVID-19 changed everything. Within the last three years, the job market has shifted substantially to adjust to the needs of our post-pandemic world. For example, when workplaces and schools shifted to remote work, this showed the importance of technical expertise. ...
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Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
Most Americans should get an updated COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said Tuesday. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months and older and the agency's director quickly signed off Tuesday on the panel's recommendation. That means doses should be available this week, some as early as Wednesday...
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AP Sources: UAW may strike at small number of factories if it can't reach deals with automakers
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
DETROIT -- Leaders of the United Auto Workers union are considering targeted strikes at a small number of factories run by each of Detroit's three automakers if they can't reach contract agreements by a Thursday night deadline. The union's leadership discussed smaller-scale strikes at a meeting on Friday, and local union leaders were told about the strategy on Tuesday afternoon, two people with knowledge of the moves said...
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Google exploited exclusive search engine deals to maintain its advantage over rivals, DOJ argues
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice said Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. "This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google's search engine will ever face meaningful competition," said Kenneth Dintzer, the Justice Department's lead litigator...
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Thousands are feared dead and thousands more are missing in flood-ravaged eastern Libya
(International News ~ 09/13/23)
CAIRO -- Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya's eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city...
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Israeli Supreme Court hears first challenge to Netanyahu's divisive judicial overhaul
(International News ~ 09/13/23)
JERUSALEM -- Israel's Supreme Court heard the first challenge Tuesday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious judicial overhaul, deepening a showdown with the far-right government that has bitterly divided the nation and put it on the brink of a constitutional crisis...
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At impeachment, lawyer recounts Texas AG Ken Paxton supervising his investigation into FBI and judge
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton coordinated through encrypted communications with a lawyer he hired to investigate law enforcement officials probing one of the Republican's wealthy donors, the lawyer testified at Paxton's impeachment trial Tuesday...
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Iran identifies 5 prisoners it wants from US in swap for Iranian-Americans and billions in assets
(International News ~ 09/13/23)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran on Tuesday identified the five prisoners it hopes to see freed in the United States in exchange for five Iranian-Americans now held in Tehran and billions in assets once held by South Korea. The acknowledgment by the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York comes as the Biden administration has issued a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions...
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Defense attorney for BTK serial killer says his client isn't involved in teen's disappearance
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
PAWHUSKA, Okla. -- The defense attorney for the BTK serial killer insisted Tuesday that his client was not involved in the 1976 disappearance of an Oklahoma teenager, even as the dispute between the sheriff and prosecutor over the investigation intensified...
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Hillary Clinton joins Jill Biden at the White House to honor recipients of a prestigious arts prize
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton, the first lady and a former first lady, on Tuesday introduced the recipients of a prestigious Japanese award for lifetime achievement in the arts, an event that led Clinton to her first public appearance at the White House since the Obama administration...
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Taylor Swift and her 'Anti-Hero' tops MTV VMAs in a show dominated by hip-hop, K-pop and Latin jams
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards her "Anti-Hero" music video on a night full of surprises. "This is unbelievable. The fact that this is a fan-voted award means so much to me," Swift said in her acceptance speech. "I can't believe it was a year ago that I announced the Midnights album."...
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Explosives drop steel trestle Missouri River bridge along I-70
(State News ~ 09/13/23)
ROCHEPORT, Mo. -- Onlookers online and on the banks of the Missouri River had to wait more than an hour to watch officials use explosives to drop a historic steel trestle bridge into the river that for years carried cars across the waterway along Interstate 70...
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5 former officers charged with federal civil rights violations in Nichols death
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Five former Memphis police officers were charged Tuesday with federal civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols as they continue to fight second-degree murder charges in state courts arising from the killing. Tadarrius Bean, Desmond Mills, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin and Justin Smith were indicted in U.S. ...
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Missouri clinics put halt on transgender care for minors
(State News ~ 09/13/23)
ST. LOUIS -- At least two Missouri health care centers have stopped prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors for the purpose of gender transition, citing a new state law one clinic says "creates unsustainable liability" for health care workers...
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Missouri jury awards $745 million in death of woman struck by driver who used inhalants
(State News ~ 09/13/23)
CLAYTON, Mo. -- A Missouri jury has awarded $745 million to the parents of a young woman killed on a sidewalk outside an urgent care center by a driver who huffed nitrous oxide canisters right before the accident. The verdict was reached Friday in the lawsuit brought by the parents of Marissa Politte, 25, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Politte was leaving her workplace at Ballwin Total Access Urgent Care in St. Louis County on Oct. 18, 2020, when she was struck by an SUV...
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Police: Escaped inmate still believed to be within specific perimeter
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
POTTSTOWN, Pa. -- Escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante is still believed to be within a search perimeter in a rural stretch of southeastern Pennsylvania hours after he stole a rifle from a garage and fled a homeowner's gunfire, authorities said Tuesday...
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Man sentenced to probation after wife recorded fight that ended with her found dead near stadium
(State News ~ 09/13/23)
ST. LOUIS -- A newlywed prison guard was sentenced Tuesday to probation after his wife recorded a fight that ended with her being found dead at the bottom of a parking garage near the stadium where the St. Louis Cardinals play. Bradley Jenkins, of Taylorville, of Illinois, was initially charged with third-degree felony domestic assault after 27-year-old Allissa Martin's 2019 death. ...
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Putin welcomes Kim Jong Un at cosmodrome for meeting that shows how leaders are coming together
(International News ~ 09/13/23)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived at a cosmodrome in Russia's Far East on Wednesday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that underscores how the two leaders' interests are aligning in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States...
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House to open impeachment inquiry into President Biden
(National News ~ 09/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday he is directing the U.S. House to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his family's business dealings, launching historic proceedings ahead of the 2024 election. McCarthy said House investigations so far "paint a picture of a culture of corruption" around the Biden family as Republicans probe the business dealings of the president's son, Hunter Biden, from before the Democratic president took office...
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State's sports teams push for legal sports gambling
(State News ~ 09/13/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A coalition of Missouri's professional sports teams is backing a new effort to legalize sports betting that could put the issue to voters on the 2024 ballot. After missing out on millions of dollars in betting revenues over the past several years, the sports teams decided they are done waiting for the Missouri Legislature to act and instead have taken the first step toward an initiative petition drive that would circumvent lawmakers...
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Dry states taking Mississippi River water not a new idea, but some mayors want to kill it
(State News ~ 09/13/23)
ST. LOUIS -- Community leaders along the Mississippi River worried that dry southwestern states will someday try to take the river's water may soon take their first step toward blocking such a diversion. Mayors from cities along the river are expected to vote on whether to support a new compact among the river's 10 states at this week's annual meeting of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative, according to its executive director Colin Wellenkamp. ...
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Out of the past: Sept. 13
(Out of the Past ~ 09/13/23)
St. John's Lutheran Church in Pocahontas celebrates its 130th anniversary in conjunction with its annual mission festival; guest speaker at the morning worship service is Kudud Natru from Papua, New Guinea; the Sweet Adelines perform, followed by a potluck meal...
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Branden Weccele
(Obituary ~ 09/13/23)
Branden Weccele, 33, of Jackson died Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, in Jackson. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Friday, Sept. 15, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will be at noon Friday, Sept. 15, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Donny Ford officiating...
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The Motorcycle Cannonball Rolls into Town
(Submitted Story ~ 09/13/23)
Found myself a good spot to catch some of the Motorcycle Cannonball Participants as they rolled toward Cape.
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Paint for a Cause/Mississippi Valley Therapeutic Horsemanship Fundraiser
(Submitted Story ~ 09/13/23)
Paint for a Cause has completed a fundraiser mural for Mississippi Valley Therapeutic Horsemanship (MVTH). Aaron Horrell and Barb Bailey own the Painted Wren Art Gallery and also run Paint for a Cause. They create a mural and have the community donate $1 to paint a portion of the mural. ...
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