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Project list outlines eight recommendations, four alternates
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
The following is a project list recommended by the local TTF 5 Committee and presented to the Cape Girardeau City Council Monday night: n Independence Street - Gordonville Road/East Rodney Drive to Caruthers Avenue: Widen street, widen bridge over Cape La Croix Creek, sidewalks, alleviate pinch point on Cape La Croix Trail at bridge ($4 million)...
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Proposed Missouri tax credits aimed at enlisting new farmers
(State News ~ 01/13/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State Sen. Brian Munzlinger announced legislation Monday that would create tax incentives for Missouri landowners to work with beginning farmers, an effort he says could help attract a younger generation to agriculture. The Republican lawmaker from Williamstown said he worries it's too expensive for some young farmers to start out in the state, where the average age for farmers and ranchers is 56...
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Cape Girardeau murder suspect's trial set for next week
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
As Kenneth Bell prepares to go to trial next week on murder charges, family members are placing their trust in a higher court. "We are not nervous at all," Bell's sister-in-law, India Williams, said Monday outside the courtroom where lawyers were preparing to discuss several pretrial matters. "... You best believe God's got him."...
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Reward offered in construction-site thefts
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
After a series of thefts that occurred at Saint Francis Medical Center on Dec. 30, Kiefner Brothers Construction Co. is offering a reward for information leading to arrests. About 9:30 a.m. Dec. 30, officers from the Cape Girardeau Police Department were dispatched to the construction site at the medical center after a report that construction tools and equipment had been stolen. ...
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License office to relocate to Town Plaza later this month
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
Cape Girardeau's license office will move from downtown next week; it will be closed for two days before opening in a new location in the Town Plaza. Gina Raffety, managing officer of MCLB Management Co. LLC, which was recently awarded a five-year contract from the state to operate the license office, said the office will be closed Jan. ...
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More than 200 animals remain at Safe Harbor
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
More than 200 animals waiting for permanent homes will have to keep waiting while the state's lawsuit against a Jackson animal shelter makes its way through court. Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary has been closed since late October, when a Cape Girardeau County circuit judge approved an agreement between Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster and the shelter that required the shelter to close for 30 days...
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Two charged with murder in Sunday shooting in Sikeston; suspects still at large
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Police are looking for two men who have been charged with murder in connection with a homicide that occurred at 5:40 p.m. Sunday in Sikeston. The victim, Christopher Qurvon West, 31, of Sikeston was still in his vehicle, which was facing north in the middle of North Main Street, near College Street, when he was shot once in the head and died immediately, according to Capt. James McMillen of the Sikeston Department of Public Safety...
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McCaskill says she won't run for Missouri governor in 2016
(State News ~ 01/13/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday she won't run for Missouri governor in 2016, avoiding a potential Democratic primary with Missouri's attorney general in favor of a continued role in Washington. McCaskill said she considered a gubernatorial bid but ultimately decided she could accomplish more in the Senate, even though Democrats are now in the minority...
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Cape Girardeau resident from France reacts to attack in Paris
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
France native Marine Perot had just finished lunch Wednesday when a friend sent her a text asking if she would still be able to travel back to the United States over the weekend. Charlie Hebdo, a well-known satirical newspaper in Paris, had been attacked...
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Cape Girardeau City Council hears proposed TTF5 list
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
It was a discussion of needs versus wants when the Cape Girardeau City Council heard a presentation regarding the project list proposed for the fifth installment of the Transportation Trust Fund sales tax. The half-cent, pay-as-you-go tax has been approved by voters every five years since 1995. The measure is up for renewal again this year...
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Missouri bill would ban domestic assailants from owning guns
(State News ~ 01/13/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A bill would make it illegal for Missourians found guilty of domestic assault to possess a firearm. The legislation recently filed by Democratic state Rep. Stacey Newman of St. Louis would restrict gun possession in multiple instances of domestic violence or suspected domestic assault...
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Cape Girardeau transfer station project in works
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
A project that has been among the top of Cape Girardeau's list of major infrastructure needs for many years could soon be realized. Along with a police station, a transfer station has been identified as one of the city's top priorities, but until recently officials were unable to identify a revenue stream...
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Commerce Bank Donates to Blanchard Elementary School
(Submitted Story ~ 01/13/15)
Commerce Bank donated $2,000.00 to Blanchard Elementary School for the purchase of iPads to be used as learning devices.
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SEMO student shot, killed in St. Louis
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
Southeast Missouri State University sophomore Bobby Christman has died after wounds sustained from a gunshot just after midnight Sunday. Christman, 19, was in the passenger seat of a parked car on the 700 block of North 15th Street in St. Louis with a 17-year-old boy and a 19-year-old woman when an unknown suspect opened the rear passenger door, displayed a firearm, and demanded the woman's purse...
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2004 silverado 2500HD "big champagne"
(Submitted Story ~ 01/13/15)
Seen the truck and thought "that would look good jacked up". Turns out I was right
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Jackson Middle School Students of the Month for January
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/13/15)
Jackson Middle School Students of the Month for January, from left: (front row) Owen Boyer, Dalton Schroeder, Katelyn Miller and Destinee Monighan; (second row) Assistant Principal Mike Martin, Maddie Bell, Doug Cook, Jesse Yount, Ella Outman and Principal Janelle Pope. Not pictured is Caitlin Meinke. SoutheastHEALTH recognizes these students in its role as a Partner in Education with Jackson Middle School...
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Kayaking after Christmas 400 feet underground.
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/13/15)
We went kayaking after Christmas in an abandoned mine in Crystal City. There are NO lights in the 150 acres of clear as crystal spring fed tunnels, except those on the bottom or our kayaks. Oh my gosh this was sooooo fun. It is open to the public, but I had never known about it before...
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Kayaking tunnel
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/13/15)
The water is so clear & the lights on the bottom of the kayaks are all you need. A flashlight was used to illuminate this passage.
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Air shaft light behind
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/13/15)
An air shaft is behind us allowing light to show the tunnel. the water is absolutely clear.
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Silhouette by opening, Crystal City mine kayaking
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/13/15)
By an air shaft it was pretty darn cold, but in the tunnels it was not.
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Kayaking in a mine, approaching a chamber with an opening
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/13/15)
This shows a chamber with an opening to the right, so there is light (and cold air) coming in. The fog is at the top of the at the top in the distant room and is from cold air meeting the warm air in the mine. The mirror image at the bottom, is just that, the reflection from the crystal clear water...
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Great trip to Cape Girardeau with a side trip to Crystal City mine in December
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/13/15)
Kayak trip. Coming into a room that has an opening to the outside in a flooded tunnel of an old mine in Crystal City. Worth the trip! Great time!
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TRH Accounting donates to United Way
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/13/15)
Employees of TRH Accounting donated $2,944.00 to United Way of Southeast Missouri's 2014 campaign.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/13/15)
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2015. There are 352 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 13, 1915, a magnitude-7 earthquake centered in Avezzano, Italy, claimed some 30,000 lives. On this date: In 1733, James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia...
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Anti-Islam rally draws big crowd in German city of Dresden
(International News ~ 01/13/15)
DRESDEN, Germany -- A weekly anti-Islam rally in the eastern German city of Dresden drew its biggest crowd yet on Monday, after organizers declared it a tribute to the victims of the terror attacks in Paris. Organizers said 40,000 people participated in the march, while Dresden police put the figure at over 25,000 people -- still considerably more than the 18,000 who came last week...
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CBS says Colbert to bow on Sept. 8
(Entertainment ~ 01/13/15)
PASADENA, Calif. -- CBS has hosts and starting dates for its remade late-night lineup -- Stephen Colbert on Sept. 8 and James Corden on March 23 -- and now is waiting to find out what kinds of shows the two men create. The network announced Monday that Colbert will take over the "Late Show" after Labor Day. He's replacing David Letterman, who is retiring and will have his last show May 20. CBS will air reruns of prime-time programming in the time slot until Colbert starts...
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Iran eclipses U.S. as Iraq's ally in fight against militants
(International News ~ 01/13/15)
BAGHDAD -- In the eyes of most Iraqis, their country's best ally in the war against the Islamic State group is not the United States and the coalition air campaign against the militants. It's Iran, which is credited with stopping the extremists' march on Baghdad...
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Miriam Wallenmeyer
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
Miriam Penzel Wallenmeyer, 101, formerly of Jackson, passed away Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, at Huntsville Health and Rehabilitation in Huntsville, Alabama, where she was undergoing therapy for a broken leg. The third of five children, she was born Aug. 11, 1913, to Linus and Mathilda Kies Penzel at their family home in Jackson. She and Kermit A. Wallenmeyer were married Oct. 8, 1938. They had been married 57 years when he passed away Nov. 6, 1995...
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Mary Carroll
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
Mary Evelyn Carroll, 71, of Scott City died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 15, 1943, in Commerce, Missouri, to Edward F. and Aleene Hockersmith Ellinger. Mary was a housekeeper at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau...
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Dr. Rudie Slaughter jr.
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
Dr. Rudie Wright Slaughter jr., 83, died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at his home in Cape Girardeau, after a brief struggle with cancer. He was born April 11, 1931, at Kennett, Missouri, to Rudie Wright Slaughter Sr. and Margaret Evelyn Blankinship Slaughter. He grew up on the family farm near Senath, Missouri, where he was a youth member of First Baptist Church and valedictorian of the Senath High School class of 1949...
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Roy Clark
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Roy L. Clark Jr., 69, of Perryville died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Oct. 7, 1945, in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. He married Judith Otte Clark on July 23, 1966. He was a member of the VFW in Perryville, AmVets in Perryville, American Legion in Jackson and the Masons...
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Ellouise Conway
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
Ellouise Conway, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Feb. 16, 1931, in Southfork, Arkansas, to Crawford and Vesta Meaks Boyd. She and Lester Conway were married Aug. 1, 1952, in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He preceded her in death April 12, 1996...
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Out of the past: Jan. 13
(Out of the Past ~ 01/13/15)
A bill that would allow cities and counties along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to decide whether to permit gambling on river excursion boats is being pushed by Rep. Herb Fallert of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri; the bill is patterned after one passed last year in Iowa and is being promoted as a way of boosting tourism in the state...
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Jackson police report 1/13/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/13/15)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Caleb P. Burton, 24, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of trespassing and peace disturbance. n Tyler D. Jennings, 21, of Whitewater was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant...
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Cape Girardeau police report 1/13/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/13/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Assault n Domestic assault was reported. Thefts n Money was reported stolen at Good Hope and Independence streets. n Shoplifting was reported at Nearly Perfect Shoes...
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Medicare pays doctors to coordinate seniors' chronic care
(Community ~ 01/13/15)
WASHINGTON -- Adjusting medications before someone gets sick enough to visit the doctor. Updating outside specialists so one doctor's prescription doesn't interfere with another's. Starting this month, Medicare will pay primary care doctors a monthly fee to better coordinate care for the most vulnerable seniors -- those with multiple chronic illnesses -- even if they don't have a face-to-face exam...
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Risks to mothers trying for test-tube babies rare, study says
(Community ~ 01/13/15)
CHICAGO -- Complications are uncommon for women undergoing test-tube fertility procedures: A new 12-year U.S. study shows the most frequent involve drugs used to stimulate ovaries, but it suggests problems are rarely fatal. Overstimulated ovaries occurred in 154 out of every 10,000 pregnancy attempts; rates of other complications were fewer than 10 per 10,000 attempts. ...
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Hospice care can take care of 'spiritual and emotional' needs of patients, family members
(Community ~ 01/13/15)
Hospice is a charged word. It conjures images of sickness, separation and not much hope, so people tend to avoid confronting it. But its negative connotation is largely misappropriated. However painful the idea may be, hospice care, when confronted realistically, can greatly increase a patient's quality of life, making the unfortunate ordeal more bearable...
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Washington says higher U.S. official should have gone to Paris
(National News ~ 01/13/15)
WASHINGTON -- In a rare admission of error, the White House said Monday that President Barack Obama or another high-level representative should have joined dozens of world leaders at an anti-terror rally in Paris. While leaders from Europe, the Middle East and Africa linked arms for Sunday's march through the boulevards of Paris, the United States was represented by its ambassador to France. Attorney General Eric Holder was in Paris for security meetings but did not attend the march...
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Allene Ehlers-Schwab
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
Allene Ehlers-Schwab, 97, of Jackson died Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, at Jackson Manor. She was born Oct. 23, 1917, in Cape Girardeau County, to Robert and Cora Metje. She and Arnold Ehlers were married in 1937. He preceded her in death in 1977. She then married Otto Schwab in 1981. He preceded her in death in 1995...
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St. Vincent boys basketball team holds off Oak Ridge in final minute
(High School Sports ~ 01/13/15)
OAK RIDGE -- The St. Vincent boys basketball team faced a task they had not yet confronted this season against Oak Ridge on Monday night.
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Highway 34 in Bollinger County reduced for pavement work
(Local News ~ 01/13/15)
Highway 34 in Bollinger County, from Highway 51 to Route B, will be reduced as Missouri Department of Transportation crews make pavement repairs. The work will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily today through Friday, according to a MoDOT news release...
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Man steals money, is caught after crash
(National News ~ 01/13/15)
ROCHESTER, N.H. -- Police in Rochester say a man suspected of stealing money from a gas station was captured about an hour later after he crashed his car while driving drunk. WMUR-TV reported police arrested 27-year-old Daniel Wilson after responding to the accident scene about 3 p.m. ...
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High school roundup: Top seeds advance at Scott-Mississippi Conference Tournament
(High School Sports ~ 01/13/15)
There were no surprises during Monday's first round of action in the Scott-Mississippi Conference girls basketball tournament as the top four seeds easily advanced to Thursday's semifinals at Thomas W. Kelly High School in Benton, Missouri. Top-seeded Chaffee coasted in its 64-29 rout of eighth-seeded Scott City as the Red Devils defeated the Rams for the third time this season. ...
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Ohio State adds to national football championship collection
(College Sports ~ 01/13/15)
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Ohio State can add the newest version of the national championship trophy to a case that already has a bunch of the old ones.
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Mildred Bachmann
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
FARRAR, Mo. -- Mildred E. Bachmann, 84, of Farrar died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville, Missouri. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and 6:30 to 8 a.m. Thursday at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville...
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Helen Stump
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Helen Lucille Stump, 90, of Chaffee, formerly of Harrisburg, Illinois, died Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, at Chaffee Nursing Center. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Reed Funeral Chapel in Harrisburg. The Rev. Scott Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Garden Cemetery in Harrisburg...
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Tom Sawyer
(Obituary ~ 01/13/15)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Tom L. Sawyer, 48, of Marble Hill died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at St. Louis University Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill.
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Cape airport ends 2014 flying high
(Editorial ~ 01/13/15)
The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport had a successful year in 2014. Several years ago Commander Premier Aircraft Corp. was to begin a small plane production company at the Cape Girardeau airport. However, the company failed to make lease payments dating back to 2007. It was evicted in 2011 but had not vacated the hanger. In May that changed, and the company cleared the 52,000-square foot facility...
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Prayer 1/13/15
(Prayer ~ 01/13/15)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for forgiving us of our sins. Amen.
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Republican presidential politics and the world
(Column ~ 01/13/15)
One of the truisms of politics is that, given the difficulties many presidents have in implementing their domestic agenda, confronted as they are by Congress, budgetary inertia and a skeptical electorate, many turn to foreign policy as an arena to make an impact. ...
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