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Missouri prosecutor seeks to overturn conviction of inmate who has spent decades on death row
(State News ~ 01/30/24)
ST. LOUIS A Missouri prosecutor now believes inmate Marcellus Williams is innocent of the crime that landed him on death row and very nearly cost him his life, and he is seeking to overturn Williams' conviction. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell filed a court motion Friday to vacate the conviction of Williams, 55, who narrowly escaped execution seven years ago for the stabbing death of Lisha Gayle. ...
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Route C in Cape County reduced for bridge maintenance; Route B in Bollinger County reduced for shoulder repairs
(Local News ~ 01/30/24)
Route C in Cape Girardeau County will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform bridge maintenance. According to a MoDOT news release, this section of road is between Anemone Lane and County Road 458 near Altenburg. The work will be done from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31...
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Cape Girardeau County commissioners approve burial, culvert bid
(Local News ~ 01/30/24)
During their four-minute regular meeting Monday, Jan. 29, Cape Girardeau County commissioners approved a construction project bid and an indigent burial. They accepted a $38,160 bid from McCann Concrete Products of Dorsey, Illinois, for a precast concrete box culvert project...
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Saxony Lutheran hopes to break ground on new ag building in spring
(Local News ~ 01/30/24)
Saxony Lutheran High School in Jackson recently announced it soon will begin construction on a new building on its campus. According to Saxony Lutheran principal Mark Ruark, the need for a new building stems from the school adding agriculture science and a Future Farmers of America (FFA) program in 2014...
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New area code going into effect in February
(Local News ~ 01/30/24)
The new 235 area code for parts of Missouri will take effect Saturday, Feb. 24. On and after Feb. 24, the previous 573 area code geographic footprint will also include the 235 area code. Anyone dialing a number in the affected region will need to use the full 10-digit number area code and seven-digit number for all calls...
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Five candidates compete for Jackson School District seats; Cape Girardeau incumbents face sole opponent
(Local News ~ 01/30/24)
Jackson School District and Cape Girardeau Public Schools each have two open seats to fill in the upcoming general municipal election Tuesday, April 2. Five candidates will vie for Jackson's openings, including incumbent Sheila King. The district's other incumbent whose seat will be voted on, Kelly Waller, will not run for reelection...
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Faces of Southeast Missouri: Donna Gales
(01/30/24)
Donna Gales earned a degree in floral design from the American Institute of Floral Design and went on to become head spokesperson for the American Floral Society (AFS), traveling around the United States to attend and run floral conventions. From the halls of the White House to exclusive NFL Superbowl parties, from Broadway to the Rose Bowl, Gales designed for significant audiences throughout the U.S...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2024. There are 336 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. On this date: In 1649, England's King Charles I was executed for high treason...
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Sponsored: Find the opportunity with your retirement plan
(Insiders Advice ~ 01/30/24)
When it comes to your retirement plan at work, we dont usually talk about opportunity because most plans are very similar in structure. However, if you have worked for a company for several years and leave that job, you may have an opportunity to move your funds...
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Will Margot Robbie survive?
(Column ~ 01/30/24)
Sometimes the universe has a sense of humor. Could there be a more amusing coda to the "Barbie" phenomenon than the Ken doll, played by Ryan Gosling, getting a best supporting actor nomination, while Barbie herself, played by Margot Robbie, got snubbed?...
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Prayer 1-30-24
(Prayer ~ 01/30/24)
O Father God, we ask for discernment that we may honor you. Amen.
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Impact of primary repeal
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/30/24)
I am concerned about the negative impact of Missouri House Bill 1878 and the dreadful burdens it places on voters who wish to participate in the upcoming presidential primary. This partisan, Republican-sponsored bill went into effect in August 2022 and it "repealed" the presidential primary system in Missouri...
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House pushing legislation through committee hearings
(Column ~ 01/30/24)
Inclement weather once again proved to be an issue, forcing House committees to cancel on the first day of the week, but members of the House managed to make up some of the work in the following days. As the Missouri Senate faces gridlock, more than two dozen House committees met this week, holding public hearings for more than 50 bills and voting on more than two dozen more. Here is a breakdown on some of the bills heard in committee this week:...
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Fire report 1-30-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/30/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Jan. 28 n Medical assists were made at 8:53 a.m. on Dunklin Street; 9:27 a.m. on Earleen Drive; and 12:37 p.m. on Bloomfield Road.
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Police report 1-30-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/30/24)
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. n A warrant arrest was reported. n A warrant arrest was reported...
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Joe Nunley
(Obituary ~ 01/30/24)
Joe Willie Nunley, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2, at the funeral home, with Mea Triplett, the Rev. Ralph Stafford Moore and the Rev. Tommy Robinson officiating. Burial will follow at Missouri Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield...
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Truman Barkley 'TJ' Jackson Sr.
(Obituary ~ 01/30/24)
Truman Barkley "TJ" Jackson Sr., 74, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, at his home. He was born Jan. 31, 1949, in Cape Girardeau, son of Claude L. and Edward "Eddie" Kennedy Jackson. He and Marlene Pulliam Golden were married June 3, 2017...
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Robert Hemperley III
(Obituary ~ 01/30/24)
LAFAYETTE, La. Robert Franklin Hemperley III, 71, of Lafayette and a longtime resident of Tampa, Florida, died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. He was a native of Cape Girardeau. A memorial service will be planned at a later date. Girdner Funeral Home in Abilene, Texas, is in charge of arrangements...
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Gene Bock
(Obituary ~ 01/30/24)
Gene Richard Bock, 77, of Uniontown passed away Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Perryville. He was born May 26, 1946, in Cape Girardeau to Elmer Benjamin and Erna Amanda Hemmann Bock. He and Leola R. Renner Bock were married May 24, 1969, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Apple Creek...
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Billy Barks
(Obituary ~ 01/30/24)
Billy Wayne Barks, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, at his home. Visitation will be from 8 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, at the funeral home, with Kevin Barron officiating. Burial will be at Crossroads Methodist Cemetery in Sedgewickville...
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Inflation has slowed. Now Federal Reserve faces expectations for rate cuts
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
WASHINGTON -- Chair Jerome Powell will enter this week's Federal Reserve meeting in a much more desirable position than he likely ever expected: Inflation is getting close to the Fed's target rate, the economy is still growing at a healthy pace, consumers keep spending and the unemployment rate is near a half-century low...
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France's protesting farmers encircle Paris with tractor barricades, vowing 'siege' over grievances
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
JOSSIGNY, France -- Protesting farmers encircled Paris with traffic-snarling barricades Monday, using hundreds of lumbering tractors and mounds of hay bales to block highways leading to France's capital to pressure the government over the future of their industry, which has been shaken by repercussions of the Ukraine war...
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Republican legislatures in some states trying to keep abortion off ballot
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
CHICAGO -- Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights, building on anti-abortion strategies seen in other states, including last year in Ohio. Democrats and abortion rights advocates say the efforts are evidence that Republican lawmakers and abortion opponents are trying to undercut democratic processes meant to give voters a direct role in forming state laws...
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Under bombing in eastern Ukraine and disabled by illness, unknown painter awaits his fate
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine -- Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. His landscapes of eastern Ukraine, records of a lost time, lie tucked away in a modest home under threat of Russian attack. Soloviov can't hear or walk and barely speaks. Disabled since a 2017 stroke, he spends his days bedridden in an apartment in Sloviansk, a city 15 miles from the front line in the region of Donetsk...
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Biden marking 15th anniversary of landmark pay equity law with steps to help federal workers
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is marking Monday's 15th anniversary of a landmark federal pay equity law with new action to help close gaps in pay for federal employees and employees of federal contractors. Despite progress since the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law in January 2009, President Joe Biden said women who work outside the home are still paid an average of 84 cents for every dollar earned by a man, and that the pay disparities are greater for many women of color.. ...
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Dying thief who stole 'Wizard of Oz' ruby slippers from Judy Garland Museum gets no prison time
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
DULUTH, Minn. -- A dying thief who confessed to stealing a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz" because he wanted to pull off "one last score" was given no prison time at his sentencing hearing Monday. Terry Jon Martin, 76, stole the slippers adorned with sequins and glass beads in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor's hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. ...
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Alex Murdaugh denied new double-murder trial after judge hears jury tampering allegations
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina judge Monday denied Alex Murdaugh's bid for a new trial after his defense team accused a clerk of court of tampering with a jury. Judge Jean Toal said she wasn't sure whether Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill was telling the truth that she never spoke to jurors about the case, saying she was "attracted by the siren call of celebrity."...
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Dissolving Trump's businesses stands apart in history of NY fraud law
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
NEW YORK -- Within days, Donald Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered "dissolved" for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders, adding him to a short list of scam marketers, con artists and others who have been hit with the ultimate punishment for violating New York's powerful anti-fraud law...
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China Evergrande ordered to liquidate; real estate giant owes more than $300 billion
(International News ~ 01/30/24)
HONG KONG -- A Hong Kong court ordered China Evergrande, the world's most heavily indebted real estate developer, to undergo liquidation following a failed effort to restructure $300 billion owed to banks and bondholders that fueled fears about China's rising debt burden...
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Document spells out allegations against 12 UN employees
(International News ~ 01/30/24)
TEL AVIV, Israel -- An Israeli document obtained Monday spelled out allegations against a dozen U.N. employees the country says took part in Hamas' Oct. 7 assault. The allegations against staffers with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees prompted the United States and several other countries to freeze funds vital for the body, which is a lifeline for desperate Palestinians in Gaza. ...
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Enemy drone that killed US troops in Jordan mistaken for US drone, preliminary report suggests
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces may have mistaken an enemy drone for an American one and let it pass unchallenged into a desert base in Jordan where it killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens more, officials said Monday. Details of the Sunday attack emerged as President Joe Biden faced a difficult balancing act, blaming Iran and looking to strike back in a forceful way without causing any further escalation of the Gaza conflict...
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British painting stolen by mobsters returned to owner's son -- 54 years later
(National News ~ 01/30/24)
An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI's Salt Lake City field office announced Friday. The 40-inch-by-50-inch John Opie painting -- titled "The Schoolmistress" -- is the sister painting of a similar work housed in the Tate Britain art gallery in London...
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Out of the past: Jan. 30
(Out of the Past ~ 01/30/24)
CAIRO, Ill. -- The U.S. Coast Guard late yesterday morning reopened a section of the Ohio River north of Cairo to one-way traffic following a barge crash into a pier of the Illinois-Kentucky highway bridge; the motor vessel Megan Beesecker, owned by Northstar Navigation Inc. of Paducah, Kentucky, struck the pier about 5:10 a.m. Friday; one of its 12 barges sank; the barges were loaded with non-hazardous dry bulk cargo...
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Cape Area Community Foundation Announces Grant Cycle
(Submitted Story ~ 01/30/24)
The Cape Area Community Foundation (CACF) is currently accepting applications for its 2024 Community Grantmaking Program. The grant cycle will begin February 1 and final applications must be submitted by February 15. A total of $3,500 will be awarded...
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