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Southeast Missouri State baseball team rallies to avoid weekend sweep by NDSU
(College Sports ~ 02/25/13)
It's way too early in the college baseball season to consider any game a must-win situation. But Southeast Missouri State certainly was relieved to rally past North Dakota State University 13-7 on Sunday afternoon, thus avoiding a three-game series sweep at Capaha Field...
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Program could help farmers keep land
(Local News ~ 02/25/13)
Travelers and shoppers headed west on William Street just past the Interstate 55 interchange ride the line of commercial development in Cape Girardeau. To the left, a series of big box stores fill the landscape; on the right are the rolling hills of a dairy farm. In an effort to help farmers and ranchers protect their lands from nonagricultural development, the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced a March 15 deadline for the Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (FRPP). The program provides funding to help alleviate pressure on farmers to sell land to developers. ...
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Lecture to weave together Till, Faulkner and 'Mockingbird'
(Local News ~ 02/25/13)
American history and literature will collide in the illustrated lecture "Emmett Till, William Faulkner, and 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' sponsored by the Southeast Missouri State University Center for Faulkner Studies. Retired professor Henry Outlaw will speak about the case of Emmett Till, an African-American teenager brutally murdered in 1955 in Southern Mississippi. Till's story helped kick-start the civil-rights movement....
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Dexter men charged with Bernie man's death
(Local News ~ 02/25/13)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Two Southeast Missouri men were behind bars on murder and robbery charges Sunday night in connection with the death of 34-year-old heavy-equipment operator Sean Crow, whose body was found last week inside a truck on a fast-food restaurant parking lot. Matt Cook, 29, and Glen Scott Evans, 45, both of Dexter, Mo., were charged Sunday with first-degree murder, robbery and armed criminal action, ..
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Learn to Swim This Spring in Cape Girardeau
(Submitted Story ~ 02/25/13)
Learn to Swim with the City of Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department this spring. Classes are enrolling now for March and April, from ages 6 months through adults. Many class levels and sections are available, and will address everything from water basics through some life guarding skills...
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Summer Boys Basketball League - Register Now
(Submitted Story ~ 02/25/13)
The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department is hosting the Junior High and High School Boys' Summer Basketball League for boys entering grades 7-12 for 2013-2014 school year. The league is open to school teams and traveling teams. League play will begin on June 3 for the Junior High League and June 4 for the High School League. ...
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10 and Under Tennis Classes in Cape Girardeau
(Submitted Story ~ 02/25/13)
Tennis classes for children ages 6-10 will be offered at the Arena Park Tennis Courts, beginning at 5:30 p.m. on March 14. Classes will be on Thursday evenings through April 4. Register by March 8. Classes are $20 for Cape Girardeau residents and $25 for non-residents...
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GOP governors take a pragmatic turn
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- Many Republican governors who worked to thwart much of President Barack Obama's first-term agenda are shifting gears and softening their rhetoric now that his run was extended for four more years and they're facing their own re-election...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
Today is Monday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2013. There are 309 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 25, 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox...
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Talking Shop with Mike Smythe
(Business ~ 02/25/13)
Q: You retired from KFVS in November 2011 and moved to Ohio. What brought you out of retirement? A: I retired from KFVS on Nov. 30, 2011, and was going to be a sales consultant for the company that currently works with KFVS 12. ...
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Southeast men still look for big finish
(Sports Column ~ 02/25/13)
The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team is a virtual lock to earn its third straight Ohio Valley Conference tournament berth. In fact, although no official announcement has been made yet, it appears as if, based on potential tie-breakers, the Redhawks already have clinched a tourney spot...
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Jackson police report
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/25/13)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrest...
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Jackson fire report
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/25/13)
*** JACKSON Jackson firefighters responded to the following calls: * An emergency medical call on Elm Street. * An emergency medical call on Ridge Road. * An emergency medical call on West Mary Street.
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Cape Girardeau fire report
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/25/13)
Firefighters responded to the following calls Thursday: Firefighters responded to the following calls Friday:...
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Cape Girardeau police report
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/25/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department reported the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt...
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NYC cop a cannibal only in online fantasy, defense says
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
NEW YORK -- Gilberto Valle's mind is full of sick thoughts -- and he wants a jury to know it. The New York City police officer accused of kidnapping conspiracy admits to thinking about abducting, cooking and devouring young women. His own lawyer has shown prospective jurors a kinky staged photo of a woman trussed up in a roasting pan to test their tolerance for the officer's "weird proclivities."...
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James Stepp
(Obituary ~ 02/25/13)
ADVANCE, Mo. — James Ivan Stepp, 78, of Advance died Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the Advance Nursing Center. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. Burial will follow at Cato Cemetery near Arab, Mo.
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Ivan McLain
(Obituary ~ 02/25/13)
Ivan Ernest McLain, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born June 1, 1930, in Oriole to Monroe and Myrtle Comer McLain. Ivan was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the Navy. He and Betty Lois Jauch were married June 19, 1954, at Oriole...
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Pearl Cook
(Obituary ~ 02/25/13)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Pearl Fuller Cook, 89, of Marble Hill died Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at Woodland Hills Nursing Home. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, with Bros. Kelly Francis and Kenny Francis officiating. Burial will be in Bollinger County Memorial Park Cemetery near Marble Hill with full military honors...
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Donald Berg
(Obituary ~ 02/25/13)
Donald James Berg, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Yasuko Ashcraft
(Obituary ~ 02/25/13)
BROWNWOOD, Mo. -- Yasuko Ashcraft, 88, of Brownwood passed away Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, near her home. She was born Dec. 21, 1924, at Chiba, Japan, the daughter of Tomiji and Sen Isono. Yasuko and Howard Ashcraft were united in marriage June 7, 1962, at Xokohama, Japan, and he preceded her in death Feb. 23, 2010...
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Prisoner's death stokes fears of uprising
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The mysterious death of a 30-year-old Palestinian gas station attendant in Israeli custody stoked new West Bank clashes Sunday, along with Israeli fears of a third Palestinian uprising. A senior Palestinian official alleged that Arafat Jaradat was tortured by Israel's Shin Bet security service, citing an autopsy he said revealed bruising and two broken ribs...
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Dozens more in Pa., Ohio claim abuse by late friar
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
TOLEDO, Ohio -- An attorney says about 50 more people have come forward to say they were sexually abused at schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania by a Franciscan brother who killed himself in January. Attorney Mitchell Garabedian on Sunday said the accusers say the abuse happened between 1982 and 2007...
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Volunteers in Newtown writing thank-you notes
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Some letters come from church groups, others from parents who've lost children of their own. One came from a police officer who responded to the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. They're some of the estimated 175,000 cards and letters of support and condolences that have poured into Newtown, Conn., from around the world since December's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school, and volunteers are working to preserve them and say thank you to as many senders as they can, one handwritten note at a time.. ...
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Pistorius' brother facing charge in traffic death
(International News ~ 02/25/13)
JOHANNESBURG -- The murder case involving Olympic star Oscar Pistorius took another unexpected turn Sunday with the news that his older brother, Carl, is facing charges for the death of a woman in a traffic accident. Carl Pistorius faces a charge of unlawful, negligent killing for a 2008 road death, "in which a woman motorcyclist sadly lost her life," Kenneth Oldwage, the Pistorius family lawyer said on Sunday. The charge of "culpable homicide" will be challenged in court, he said...
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U.S. scrambling to salvage Syrian opposition talks
(International News ~ 02/25/13)
LONDON -- The U.S. is frantically trying to salvage a Syrian opposition conference set for this coming week that John Kerry plans to attend during his first overseas trip as U.S. Secretary of State. A senior Obama administration official on Sunday said Kerry has sent his top Syrian envoy to Cairo in hopes of convincing opposition leaders that the Rome conference will be critical to securing additional aid from the United States and Europe...
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Voting-rights provision in the crosshairs
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration and civil-rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law's strictest provision...
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All condemn pending budget cuts
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
WASHINGTON -- The White House and Republicans kept up the unrelenting mudslinging Sunday about who is to blame for roundly condemned budget cuts set to take effect at week's end, with the administration detailing the potential fallout in each state and governors worrying about the mess...
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Judge will sentence 10 from area today on assortment of charges
(Local News ~ 02/25/13)
Ten defendants are set to be sentenced today in a Cape Girardeau County courtroom after admitting to roles in crimes ranging from the high-dollar theft of a sandwich shop to felony drug possession. Judge Benjamin Lewis will preside over more than 70 cases today during law day proceedings starting at 9 a.m. in Jackson...
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McCarthy's ‘Identity Thief' tops at box office again
(Entertainment ~ 02/25/13)
NEW YORK -- Hollywood's latest films performed tepidly at the box office on Oscar weekend, with Melissa McCarthy's "Identity Thief" returning to the top spot in its third week of release. The Universal comedy earned $14.1 million during the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, enough to regain the box-office title after losing it last week to 20th Century Fox's "A Good Day to Die Hard." The Bruce Willis action sequel faded domestically, but not overseas, where it took in $35.7 million.. ...
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Speak Out 2/25/13
(Speak Out ~ 02/25/13)
I totally agree with whoever said Boehner should step down. It would be in the interest of the whole country if he stepped down. He was totally disgusting and disrespectful and looked ridiculous behind President Obama. I am tired of every time I turn on the TV, hearing Obama isn't doing this or that. ...
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Notre Dame girls will begin district play without point guard Powers
(High School Sports ~ 02/25/13)
The path through the Class 4 District 1 playoffs just got a little more difficult for the Notre Dame girls basketball team. The Bulldogs (20-5), who defeated Poplar Bluff 54-48 Friday night, will be without starting point guard Karsen Powers for the forseeable future. Powers, a junior, was admitted to St. Louis Children's Hospital last week with a staph infection...
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Seniors will play final home game for Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team
(College Sports ~ 02/25/13)
Most college basketball players experience considerable team success in high school. That holds true for the seniors on the Southeast Missouri State women's squad who have found wins hard to come by with the Redhawks -- but they emphasize they have no regrets as their college playing days near the end...
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Brown hopes to enter in 8th as independent
(Local News ~ 02/25/13)
A child of a working-class family from Bernie, Mo., Thomas W. Brown worked his way through college, spent decades as a teacher and retired recently after 10 years as a basketball coach at Meadow Heights School District. To help fund a new interest, he has taken a job at a hardware store...
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Southeast Missouri State softball team goes 1-4 in weekend tournament
(College Sports ~ 02/25/13)
The Southeast Missouri State softball team went 1-4 over the weekend at the Blues City Classic in Southaven, Miss. Three of the losses were by one run. Southeast (3-7) began the tournament Friday with a 10-7, 10-inning win over Detroit. The Redhawks lost to Samford 2-1 in eight innings and to Nicholls State 8-7 on Saturday...
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Cardinals fall to 0-2 in exhibition play with loss to Red Sox
(Professional Sports ~ 02/25/13)
JUPITER, Fla. -- Jon Lester pitched two scoreless, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 5-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Shortstop Rafael Furcal served as the Cardinals' designated hitter in his first game experience of the spring, and he led off the bottom of the first by lining out to first. He'd later ground out to short...
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People on the move 2/25/13
(Business ~ 02/25/13)
The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce hired John Haggerty as a business development specialist to assist area businesses with their growth and development needs. He earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and studied public administration at Southeast Missouri State University. ...
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Raul Castro will retire in 5 years
(International News ~ 02/25/13)
HAVANA -- Raul Castro announced Sunday he will step down as Cuba's president in 2018, for the first time putting a date on the end of the Castro era. He tapped rising star Miguel Diaz-Canel as his top lieutenant and first in the line of succession...
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Out of the past: Feb. 25
(Out of the Past ~ 02/25/13)
Dr. John T. Crowe, 69, a longtime civic leader and physician who practiced medicine here for 37 years, dies at a local hospital following a lengthy illness; at the time of his retirement in 1985, Crowe estimated he delivered nearly 3,000 babies during his medical career...
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Prayer 2/25/13
(Prayer ~ 02/25/13)
Lord Jesus, may we fully trust in you, leaning not on ourselves but seeking your will. Amen.
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School board member faces child porn charge
(State News ~ 02/25/13)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Child porn was found on a southwest Missouri school board member's electronic devices while authorities were investigating reports he exposed himself to students, according to federal court documents filed Friday. The U.S. attorney's office said John Lewis, 67, of Sarcoxie, Mo., was arrested before Thursday night's Sarcoxie school board meeting...
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Missouri adds sex offenders to program
(State News ~ 02/25/13)
FULTON, Mo. -- The number of people held in Missouri as sexually violent predators is climbing dramatically, leading mental-health officials to seek millions of additional dollars for their care. Gov. Jay Nixon has recommended more than $2.6 million this year for nearly 60 additional positions within the Sex Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Services program at the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center in Farmington, Mo., and at the Fulton State Hospital in Fulton, Mo...
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New blizzard bearing down on Plains
(State News ~ 02/25/13)
DODGE CITY, Kan. -- A second major winter storm was bearing down on the central Plains on Sunday, forcing cancellations and sending public works crews scrambling for salt and sand supplies less than a week after another system dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the region...
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Births 2/25/13
(Births ~ 02/25/13)
Son to Brett D. and Abigail M. Griffin of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 8:42 a.m. Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Name, Vance Oliver. Weight, 9 pounds, 5 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Griffin is the former Abigail Honold, daughter of Charles and Donna Honold of Davenport, Iowa, and Dolores and George Sierra of East Moline, Ill. Griffin is the son of Dave and Rita Griffin of Milan, Ill. He is general manager at Menard's...
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How automatic budget cuts could affect Missouri
(State News ~ 02/25/13)
agencies and its budget office to review how automatic budget cuts set to take effect Friday would affect each state. Numbers released Sunday evening are based only on the $85 billion in cuts for this fiscal year, from March-September. Examples for Missouri are as follows:...
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A lot of 'new' appears on local business scene
(Business ~ 02/25/13)
Wings Etc. opened Tuesday at 2003 E. Jackson Blvd. It is a sports bar chain with locations in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and North Carolina and has won awards in several markets, including being voted "best wings" for "18 straight years by the rabid, discerning sports fans of South Bend, Ind," according to its Facebook page. Owner Joe Hobbs and his family live in Jackson. For menu and hours information, visit http://www.facebook.com/WingsEtcJackson or call 243-9464...
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85th annual Academy Award winners
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
2. Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, ''Lincoln.'' 3. Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, ''Silver Linings Playbook.'' 4. Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, ''Django Unchained.'' 5. Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, ''Les Miserables.''...
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VIP's Valentine Kings & Queens
(Submitted Photo ~ 02/25/13)
VIP Industries held its 33rd annual Sweetheart Dance on Friday, February 22nd at the VIP Plant in Fruitland. There was food, music, dancing, and of course, the crowning of the Kings and Queens from each of the three plant locations. Happy Valentine's Day!...
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Operation Teen Safe Driving Week
(Submitted Story ~ 02/25/13)
Tamms- Egyptian High School was honored to host an Operation Teen Safe Driving (OTSD) program. This initiative is designed to help educate teens about the importance of safe and responsible driving. The event is sponsored by Ford Driving Motor Skills for Life, Allstate, I.D.O.T., and of course, OTSD...
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River City Players New Season Begins
(Submitted Story ~ 02/25/13)
River City Players will kick off the 2013 season with "Retro Radio." This is a tribute to the golden age of radio. The show is being directed by Tana Howard. The players will take you back to the time of well known radio shows. You will hear The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, The Bickersons, and Who's on First. ...
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Affleck's 'Argo' takes Best Picture Oscar
(National News ~ 02/25/13)
LOS ANGELES -- Ben Affleck's "Argo," a film about a fake movie, has earned a very real prize: Best Picture at the Academy Awards. From the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Jack Nicholson to help present the final prize. "There are eight great films that have every right, as much a right to be up here as we do," Affleck said of the other Best Picture nominees...
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Like others, Southeast is relying more often on adjunct professors
(Local News ~ 02/25/13)
When students register for classes at Southeast Missouri State University, some may expect to be taught by tenured professors with years of experience. But Southeast, like other universities, increasingly is relying on part-time instructors, or adjuncts, to teach a variety of courses -- particularly those viewed as entry-level...
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