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Sikeston man honored for his Sept. 11 efforts
(Local News ~ 10/30/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. — After 22 years, a Sikeston resident was honored as a Federal Bureau of Investigation first responder to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks during an event at the New York Police Department headquarters in New York City, along with other FBI 9/11 first responders from across the country...
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SEMO's Yaskewich on 'impressive' US GDP report
(Local News ~ 10/30/23)
Count economist David Yaskewich of Southeast Missouri State University among those who found the Thursday, Oct. 26, third quarter estimated report on America's gross domestic product "impressive and surprising." U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimate said July through September GDP rose at an annualized rate of 4.9%, better than the 4.3% predicted by a consensus of economists...
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Phishing — Ways to avoid being 'caught' in the scam
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Phishing and fishing are homophones — two words that sound the same but have quite different meanings. The latter is fun and can yield a catch of trout, bass, perch, et al. The former can be trouble, and the American Bankers Association and local leaders have spent the month of October warning people not to be "caught" in a phishing scam during National Cybersecurity Awareness Month...
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Senate candidate Lucas Kunce visits Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 10/30/23)
Lucas Kunce, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, held a town hall meeting Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Laborers International Union hall in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Cape Walmart Supercenter Grand reopening
(Local News ~ 10/30/23)
Tim Spinks, store manager of the Cape Girardeau Walmart Supercenter, thanks shoppers and employees at the store's grand reopening after a remodel Friday, Oct. 27. ...
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Missouri State Archives produces video series on preserving photographs
(Local News ~ 10/30/23)
The Missouri State Archives is offering a YouTube series on preserving photographs. The seven-part series includes information on how to identify certain types of photography, the inherent preservation challenges with each type of photograph, as well as processes on properly storing, handling and displaying them...
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ALDI Jackson, Perryville opening dates set
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
ALDI plans to open its new 21,682-square-foot discount grocery store at 2502 E. Jackson Blvd. in Jackson on Wednesday, Dec. 6, a Jackson city official told the Southeast Missourian on Friday, Oct. 27. According to Larry Miller, Jackson's building and planning manager, Chesterfield, Missouri general contractor Knoebel Construction has informed the city construction should be wrapped on the project by Thursday, Nov. 23, to permit the early December debut...
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Cape Girardeau group pursues paranormal in Missouri, Illinois
(Local News ~ 10/30/23)
CAIRO, Ill. — The Southern Medical Center in Cairo has been abandoned since 1986. Its hallways are covered in graffiti and debris. Broken equipment and decades of trash litter most rooms. Even the stairs are crumbling apart. Most people steer clear of this abandoned hospital, especially after dark, but it's one of Riley Schloss' favorite haunts...
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How gardens and farms can transform the health of communities in Southeast Missouri
(B Magazine ~ 10/30/23)
Along the interstates, highways and backroads of Southeast Missouri, there are countless fields of grain crops. Corn, soybeans, wheat and rice abound. According to the Missouri Department of Agriculture, the state ranks fourth in rice production for the country — with most of the rice growing in southeastern counties.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/30/23)
Today is Monday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2023. There are 62 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the "Rumble in the Jungle," to regain his world heavyweight title...
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Prayer 10-30-23
(Prayer ~ 10/30/23)
O Lord God, may we first seek your righteousness and honor you always. Amen.
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New book helps Americans make plan about readdressing segregation
(Column ~ 10/30/23)
Jim Crow laws are often thought of (especially by white people) as a thing of the past. Something that the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s worked to undo. We think of lunch counter sit-ins, Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington. We do not look in the faces of the people of our community who endured the fight in their daily lives. ...
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Discovery Playhouse has new leadership and updated exhibits
(Editorial ~ 10/30/23)
There's new leadership at Discovery Playhouse in downtown Cape Girardeau. For the last several years, Christa Weber would bring her children — now ages 15, 13 and 8 — to the children's museum on Broadway. But she notes her first experience with the facility likely was before moving here four years ago from Festus, Missouri...
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Restaurant approvals
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center, in its Oct. 24 report to its board of trustees, has approved six restaurant operations: Spanish Street Mercantile, Newbridge Retirement Community bar, Pasta + Sauce, Roost Home Design Marketplace bar, Leap of Faith Nutrition (new location) and Wat's Smokin'...
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Cape Girardeau chamber news
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will hold First Friday Coffee at 7:45 a.m. Nov. 3 at Century Casino Event Center, 777 N. Main St. Program is "Members on the Mic". Two ribbon-cuttings are scheduled for the upcoming: n 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 30, at Jimmy John's, 3465 William St. It is the company's second location in Cape Girardeau...
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Katie Earnhart named to CACF board
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Katie Hill Earnhart of Jackson, director of Cape Girardeau Public Library since August 2018, has been named to the board of governors of Cape Area Community Foundation (CACF). Earnhart, who holds degrees from McPherson College and Emporia State University, is the president-elect of Cape Girardeau Rotary...
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SEMO grad Kester wins state teaching honor
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Greg Kester, a 1995 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University and a social studies teacher at Potosi High School in Potosi, Missouri, has been named 2024 Teacher of the Year by Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)...
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Camille Peters named to SEMO Food Bank role
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Camille Peters has been named chief impact officer for Southeast Missouri Food Bank, with facilities in Jackson and Sikeston, Missouri. Peters has been on the food bank staff for more than five years. SEMO Food Bank reports it serves more than 80,000 people per month in its 16-county service area — some of which have the highest rates of food insecurity in the state...
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Janna Clifton named to Jackson Chamber
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Janna Clifton has been named retail and membership director of Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce, effective Monday, Dec. 4. Clifton succeeds Shelly Kaiser in the role. Kaiser became membership engagement specialist for Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce on Sept. 18...
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Ford, Stellantis, UAW find labor peace
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
United Auto Workers union officials said Saturday, Oct. 28, they have reached a tentative deal with Chrysler's parent firm Stellantis to end a nearly seven-week strike. UAW officials had previously announced an agreement earlier in the week with 57,000 hourly workers with Ford Motor Co...
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Motor fuel drops despite global tensions
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
The Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars are keeping motor fuel from dropping more precipitously, report industry experts. The U.S. and Missouri average prices for regular unleaded dropped in the past week, to $3.50 and $3.17, respectively Despite slackening demand, the pace of falling gas prices is being held up by the cost of oil, which is hovering in the mid-$80s per barrel, according to auto club federation AAA...
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Area brokers comment on rising mortgage rates
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Local real estate broker managers surveyed by the Southeast Missourian, while acknowledging recent increases that have pushed the 30-year fixed rate mortgage to 7.79% — the highest in 23 years — are suggesting a broader historical view of rates...
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Cape Girardeau Walmart grand reopening
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
Cape Girardeau Walmart celebrated the finish of recent remodeling efforts with a Friday, Oct. 27, celebration at company store No. 188 at 3439 William St. With SEMO's Rowdy the Redhawk and children from Nell Holcomb School leading an inside-the-store parade, various business and government leaders gathered outside for remarks and to sample wares from various food trucks on site...
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Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
An otherwise unremarkable 1999 film features the following words: "I am suddenly very aware of the lateness of things." The aforementioned line of dialogue has particular poignancy for me. Retirement beckons Wednesday, Nov. 1, as I have reached the magic Medicare-eligible age...
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Billy Joe Dunivan
(Obituary ~ 10/30/23)
SWINTON, Mo. — Billy Joe Clois Dunivan, 86, of Swinton passed away Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, at Aspire Senior Living in Advance, Missouri. He was born April 5, 1937, near Zadock, Missouri, the son of William Lesley and Georgia Maybelle Page Dunivan...
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Marilyn Bartels
(Obituary ~ 10/30/23)
Marilyn June Bartels, 87, of Jackson died Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, at Barks Chapel Cemetery in Crump, with the Rev. John Huffman officiating. Burial will be at Barks Chapel Cemetery in Whitewater...
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Matthew Perry, Emmy-nominated 'Friends' star, dead at 54
(Entertainment ~ 10/30/23)
LOS ANGELES -- "Friends" star Matthew Perry, the Emmy-nominated actor whose sarcastic, but lovable Chandler Bing was among television's most famous and most quotable characters, has died at 54. The actor was found dead at his Los Angeles home, according to coroner's records. An investigation into how Perry died is ongoing, and it may take weeks before his cause of death is determined...
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Boys graduate high school at lower rates than girls, with lifelong consequences
(National News ~ 10/30/23)
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- They attend the same classes with access to the same programs, and even come from the same families. But girls consistently are outperforming boys, graduating at higher rates at public high schools around the country. The gap between them is wide, often as wide as the achievement gap between students from affluent and low-income families, a problem that officials have tracked closely for years. But the reasons why boys are falling short are not as clear...
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Hurricane Otis death toll rises to 48, missing now number 36 as search and recovery work continues
(National News ~ 10/30/23)
ACAPULCO, Mexico -- At least 48 people died when Category 5 Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico's southern Pacific coast, most of them in Acapulco, Mexican authorities said Sunday as the death toll continued to climb and families buried loved ones. Mexico's civil defense agency said in a statement that 43 of the dead were in the resort city of Acapulco and five in nearby Coyuca de Benitez. ...
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Gaza receives largest aid shipment so far; Israel widens military offensive
(International News ~ 10/30/23)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Nearly three dozen trucks entered Gaza on Sunday in the largest aid convoy since the war between Israel and Hamas began, but humanitarian workers said the assistance still fell desperately short of needs after thousands of people broke into warehouses to take flour and basic hygiene products...
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Poll: Many Americans say household expenses outpacing earnings this year
(National News ~ 10/30/23)
NEW YORK -- About 2 in 3 Americans say their household expenses have risen over the last year, but only about 1 in 4 say their income has increased in the same period, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research...
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Less boo for your buck: For second Halloween in a row, US candy inflation hits double digits
(National News ~ 10/30/23)
Spooked by the high price of Halloween candy? There's not much relief in sight. For the second year in a row, U.S. shoppers are seeing double-digit inflation in the candy aisle. Candy and gum prices are up an average of 13% this month compared to last October, more than double the 6% increase in all grocery prices, according to Datasembly, a retail price tracker. That's on top of a 14% increase in candy and gum prices in October 2022...
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Salty problem for people near mouth of Mississippi is wakeup call for New Orleans
(National News ~ 10/30/23)
NEW ORLEANS -- The heating element removed from Monique Plaisance's water heater in September was disintegrating, streaked with rust and covered in a dry crust. She blamed the corrosion on the water piped in from the area's longtime drinking water source: the Mississippi River...
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More than 1,000 pay tribute to Maine's mass shooting victims on day of prayer, reflection on tragedy
(National News ~ 10/30/23)
LEWISTON, Maine -- More than 1,000 people packed a cavernous church Sunday night, and hundreds more spilled outside, to hug, sing, weep and seek comfort in the wake of Maine's most deadly mass shooting. The crowd gathered for the vigil at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, where days earlier a gunman fatally shot 18 people...
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Out of the past: Oct. 30
(Out of the Past ~ 10/30/23)
Cape Girardeau's downtown merchants and property owners have pledged to raise $1 million for the River Campus project; Downtown Merchants Association members, residential property owners in the downtown area and a number of related organizations have promised to raise the money...
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Empowering Hope: The Giving Branch Non Profit Grants $5,000 to Cape County Breast Cancer Survivor
(Submitted Story ~ 10/30/23)
Kimberly Wilkinson, two-time breast cancer survivor was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from, The Giving Branch, for her heroic battle against breast cancer. The Giving Branch is a 5013c non-profit and is the philanthropic arm for Flat Branch Home Loans. In the month of October, The Giving Branch, has given over $67,000 to women who are in the fight against breast cancer currently or who have survived the deadly disease and are in the process of recovery...
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Elite Travel, Inc. attends Event Planning Premier Event in Branson
(Submitted Story ~ 10/30/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. --- Elite Travel, Inc. travel advisor and public relations travel specialist, Jamie D Shultz, attended the Destination Midwest event in Branson, Missouri. Destination Midwest is a premier conference for event planners from across the country to connect with Midwest meeting suppliers. ...
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Changes at Doctors' Park in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 10/30/23)
This story is updated Two medical businesses have moved from 62 Doctors Park Drive in Cape Girardeau and the building is now for sale, with Lorimont Commercial Real Estate acting as listing agent for the 2,546-square-foot property. Asking price is $250,000. Southeast Lab Services relocated to 1111 N. Mount Auburn Road, formerly Women First; LabCorp has moved to 37 Doctors Park, Suite 4...
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