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Government shutdown temporarily averted
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
In separate votes Saturday, Sept. 30, Congress passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government operating for the next 45 days. Missouri's junior U.S. senator, freshman Eric Schmitt, was among nine senators to vote "no" on the measure to enable Washington to keep functioning until Friday, Nov. 17, effectively kicking the budget can down the road...
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Sikeston High School's esports team fills niche with students
(Local News ~ 10/02/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. — Sikeston High School has entered the digital arena with its recently added electronic sports, or esports, team. The league is an organized competitive video gaming team for girls and guys. SHS esports head coach Alex Mays assisted in getting esports launched at the high school and said he's looking forward to Sikeston's first full school year with esports. The district launched the program in January...
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Decision time nearing on farm bill
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
Relatively ignored of late because of the national focus on a potential government shutdown — the U.S. Farm Bill, formally known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 — also expired Saturday, Sept. 30, and is slated for a five-year reauthorization...
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SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence unveils new logo at 30th anniversary celebration
(Local News ~ 10/02/23)
SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence Inc. unveiled a new logo at the organization's 30th anniversary celebration Friday, Sept. 29, in Cape Girardeau. SADI provides services to people with disabilities, enabling them to remain in their own home and community, not in an institution...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
Today is Monday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2023. There are 90 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 2, 1944, German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed. On this date:...
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Prayer 10-2-23
(Prayer ~ 10/02/23)
O Father God, may we love one another, always pointing others to you. Amen.
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Biden is a threat to democracy
(Column ~ 10/02/23)
President Joe Biden is pitching himself as the savior of democracy. "I will always defend, protect, and fight for our democracy," he said at a campaign event last month in New York City. He's been saying it for four years. It's a blatant lie. He's the king of censorship, silencing his critics like a despot and even trying to defend his censorship regime before the Supreme Court...
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W.K. Kellogg was more than a cereal king
(Column ~ 10/02/23)
Starting Oct. 2, Kellogg Company announced it will be dividing into two independently traded companies. Kellanova will handle all the snacks and WK Kellogg Co. will handle cereal brands. When people think of Kellogg's, they tend to think cornflakes, Pop Tarts and Raisin Bran. But I think of the Canada goose...
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Solving America's housing woes or making them worse?
(Column ~ 10/02/23)
America needs more housing. Pressure for reform is only growing as available homes get less and less affordable. Unfortunately, rather than addressing the root cause of high housing prices — an epidemic of local overregulation that prevents enough homes from being built — some legislators continue to flirt with social experiments that can harm both landlords and renters...
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Our local marching bands deserve a round of applause
(Editorial ~ 10/02/23)
Several area bands will come together Tuesday, Oct. 3, as part of the 79th annual Jackson Band Festival. There are a dozen high school marching bands from throughout the region participating, including: Chaffee Marching Red Devil Band, Scott City Marching Rams, Kelly Marching Hawks, Cape Central Marching Tigers and Jackson Chiefs Band. The Southeast Missouri State University marching band is also set to perform...
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Notable quote
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
If you want to buy an electric car, that's absolutely fine. I'm all for it. But we should not be forcing consumers to buy electric vehicles they don't want to buy. ...
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Cape Girardeau business license
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
City of Cape Girardeau Community Development Department has received one application for a business license: ...
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Cape Girardeau, Perryville chambers news
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly First Friday Coffee on Oct. 6 at Century Casino Event Center, 777 N. Main St. The program, a manufacturing day panel with Penzel Construction as event sponsor, will begin at 7:45 a.m...
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Sullivan named Red Cross director
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
Micheal Sullivan is the new executive director of Cape Girardeau-based American Red Cross of Southeast Missouri & Northeast Arkansas (SEMO NEAR). Sullivan, a Doniphan, Missouri, native, comes to Red Cross after serving for nine years as executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Jonesboro, Arkansas...
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Gas prices coming down heading into fourth quarter
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
Motor fuel prices continue their downward arc as the calendar turns to October but it is a slow decline. Auto club federation AAA reports there is "tepid demand" at the pump with drivers not taking to the road as much as in the past years as fall beckons...
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Student loan repayments resume this month
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
U.S. Department of Education is reminding student loan borrowers it's time to pay up. After a more than three-year break from payments, debt repayment is resuming in October for borrowers who collectively owe more than $1 trillion in loans. Student loan repayments were paused in March 2020, when former President Donald Trump issued the first of many pauses during the pandemic...
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Governor touts Missouri's black walnuts
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
Gov, Mike Parson declared the last week of September as Black Walnut Week in Missouri. "Missouri is consistently the nation's leader in black walnut production, which shows the tremendous diversity of state agriculture," Parson said in a statement...
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Inspections, approvals report
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
Nine restaurants have been approved recently by Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center. At the Tuesday, Sept. 26, meeting of the county's health department board of trustees, the following culinary operations were reported as approved: Izakaya Yuzu, Turk Dawgs food truck, Armstrong Outdoors bar, Serve trailer, Southern Style Cooking on Wheels, Broadway Bistro, Green's Garden, Houck Stadium concessions and Marble Hill Cakes...
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Tri-county unemployment exceeds state average
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
Missouri unemployment, according to the state Department of Labor and Industry, stood at 2.8% for August, the most recent statistic available for joblessness. Unemployment remains higher in the three-county Cape Girardeau region, for which data is no fresher than June...
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Progress on Perryville ALDI
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
Construction progress on an ALDI grocery outlet is seen Saturday, Sept. 30, at 300 N. Perryville Blvd. in Perryville, Missouri. ...
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Autoworkers' strike and threat to EV
(Business ~ 10/02/23)
United Auto Workers union strike, which began Sept. 15, comes as General Motors, Ford and Stellantis — parent of Chrysler — have all made what U.S. News & World Report magazine calls "aggressive" moves to retool existing factories to build electric vehicles...
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Billie Lou Criddle
(Obituary ~ 10/02/23)
Billie Lou Criddle, 92, formerly of Oak Ridge, died Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 21, 1931, in Evansville, Indiana, daughter of Willie G. and Agnes L. Dillender McCanless. She and Charles W. "Bill" Criddle were married Sept. 18, 1948, in Osceola, Arkansas. He passed away Feb. 18, 2019...
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Armenia grapples with multiple challenges after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
Tens of thousands of now-homeless people have streamed into Armenia from the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled by its emboldened adversary, Azerbaijan. Swarms of protesters are filling the streets of the Armenian capital of Yerevan, demanding the prime minister's ouster. Relations with Russia, an old ally and protector, have frayed amid mutual accusations...
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Pope Francis creates 21 new cardinals who will help him to reform the church and cement his legacy
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals at a ritual-filled ceremony Saturday, including key figures at the Vatican and in the field who will help enact his reforms and cement his legacy as he enters a crucial new phase in running the Catholic Church...
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A populist ex-premier who opposes support for Ukraine leads his leftist party to victory in Slovakia
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
PRAGUE -- A populist former prime minister and his leftist party have won early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, staging a political comeback after campaigning on a pro-Russian and anti-American message, according to complete results announced Sunday...
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Turkey strikes suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq after suicide attack in Ankara
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Sunday following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry announced. Some 20 targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, were "destroyed" in the latest aerial operation, including caves, shelters and depots, the ministry said, adding that a large number of PKK operatives were "neutralized" in the strikes...
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Borrowers are reassessing their budgets as student loan payments resume after pandemic pause
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
NEW YORK -- Millions of Americans must start repaying their federal student loans again in October, with monthly payments averaging hundreds of dollars. To get ready, borrowers are cutting expenses, taking on additional work, and looking for options to reduce their monthly payments...
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In New York City, scuba divers' passion for the sport becomes a mission to collect undersea litter
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
NEW YORK -- On a recent Sunday afternoon, the divers arrived on a thin strip of sand at the furthest, watery edge of New York City. Air tanks strapped to their backs, they waded into the sea and descended into an environment far different from their usual terrestrial surroundings of concrete, traffic and trash-strewn sidewalks...
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Anti-abortion groups are at odds on strategies ahead of Ohio vote. It could be a preview for 2024
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds not only over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights initiative on the state's November ballot but also over their longer-term goals on how severely they would restrict the procedure...
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Biden says there's 'not much time' to keep aid flowing to Ukraine and Congress must 'stop the games'
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden said Sunday that American aid to Ukraine will keep flowing for now as he sought to reassure allies of continued U.S. financial support for the war effort. But time is running out, the president said in a warning to Congress...
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An arrest has been made in Tupac Shakur's killing. Here's what we know about the case and the rapper
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
LOS ANGELES -- An arrest has been made in Tupac Shakur's killing, the latest twist in one of the biggest unsolved cases in hip-hop history. Duane "Keffe D" Davis was arrested on suspicion of murder early Friday morning and has been indicted on a murder charge in Las Vegas...
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Supreme Court will take up abortion, gun cases in new term while ethics concerns swirl
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is returning to a new term to take up some familiar topics -- guns and abortion -- and concerns about ethics swirling around the justices. The year also will have a heavy focus on social media and how free speech protections apply online. ...
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NerdWallet When to repair or replace your appliances
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
When our 17-year-old refrigerator started wheezing, I fully expected we'd need a new one. I was shocked -- and frankly a little disappointed -- when a repair technician fixed it for less than $200. I had to postpone my dream of a shiny French-door replacement, but our no-frills Frigidaire is still working fine eight years later...
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Fight over groundwater in rural California town rooted in carrots
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
NEW CUYAMA, Calif. -- In the hills of a dry, remote patch of California farm country, Lee Harrington carefully monitors the drips moistening his pistachio trees to ensure they're not wasting any of the groundwater at the heart of a vicious fight. He is one of scores of farmers, ranchers and others living near the tiny town of New Cuyama who have been hauled into court by a lawsuit filed by two of the nation's biggest carrot growers, Grimmway Farms and Bolthouse Farms, over the right to pump groundwater.. ...
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Gaetz says he will seek to oust McCarthy as speaker this week. 'Bring it on,' McCarthy says
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Matt Gaetz said Sunday he will try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his leadership position this week after McCarthy relied on Democratic support to pass legislation that avoided a government shutdown. "Bring it on," McCarthy responded...
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Officials: Attempt to pass tanker may have led to deadly chemical crash
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The tanker truck crash in central Illinois that killed five people may have started when another vehicle tried to pass the chemical-laden truck, a federal transportation official said Sunday. The tanker truck was carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia when it jackknifed Friday night, and hit a utility trailer parked just off the highway, according to Tom Chapman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board. ...
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Jimmy Carter turns 99 at home with Rosalynn and other family as tributes come from around the world
(National News ~ 10/02/23)
ATLANTA -- Jimmy Carter has always been a man of discipline and habit. But the former president broke routine Sunday, putting off his practice of quietly watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Plains...
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Out of the past: Oct. 2
(Out of the Past ~ 10/02/23)
The SEMO District Fair has established a new fund-raising foundation and accepted its first contribution: $10,000 from NationsBank; the foundation is collecting money to build permanent structures and make improvements to the fair. Former Southeast Missourian reporter Cecelia "Skeets" Sonderman, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Sept. ...
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DARBY FINANCIAL REPRESENTIVE OF THE MONTH
(Submitted Story ~ 10/02/23)
For release immediately, with photo October 1, 2023 DARBY FINANCIAL REPRESENTIVE OF THE MONTH Kelly Darby of Jackson, a financial representative with Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial, was named District Representative of the Month for September...
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DARBY RECEIVES LIFE LEADER AWARD
(Submitted Story ~ 10/02/23)
For release immediately, with photo October 1, 2023 DARBY RECEIVES LIFE LEADER AWARD Kelly Darby Jackson, a financial representative with Modern Woodmen of America, was Life Leader in the Missouri East Region for the month of September. Darby joined Modern Woodmen in November 2010. Modern Woodmen of America is a fraternal life insurance society headquartered in Rock Island, IL. Modern Woodmen provides life insurance, annuity, and security products to over 717,000 members nationwide...
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