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Voter turnout mirrors predictions in Tuesday election
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Voter turnout seemed to meet the expectations of local county clerks, in some cases falling just shy of predictions made in the days before the election. Throughout the day, Cape Girardeau County election judges said they were expecting the typically low turnout, but still were impressed by the fairly steady stream of voters coming through the doors in the morning and early afternoon...
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Foster chosen as Altenburg's new mayor
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
The voters of Altenburg, Missouri, have chosen Daniel Foster as their new mayor. Unofficial results show Foster received more than 82 percent of the vote, unseating incumbent Mayor Harold France, who received the remaining 17 percent. The same record shows that 63 voters cast ballots in the mayor's race...
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Proposition Keep Advance Safe passes by wide margin
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Voters in the Advance School District on Tuesday approved a $1.9 million bond issue for a storm shelter that will double as a gymnasium. According to election results from Bollinger, Stoddard and Cape Girardeau counties, 434 voted in favor of Proposition Keep Advance Safe and 280 voted against...
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Library tax cut approved in Bollinger County
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Bollinger County residents voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to roll back the local library tax, with 62 percent in favor. That means the tax will go from 20 cents per $100 of valuation to 10 cents. The final unofficial tally was 1,110 to 675. Although area election judges predicted a light turnout Tuesday, participation seemed lively, one observer said, and the interest appeared to surround downsizing the library tax...
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Prop 2 passes in Nell Holcomb School District
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Voters in the Nell Holcomb School District on Tuesday approved Proposition 2, allowing for local control of the annual tax rate by eliminating the mandated Proposition C rollback. Election results from Cape Girardeau County show 266 people voted in favor of the rollback waiver and 120 voted against...
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Shovel to the head sends Steele man to hospital
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
STEELE, Mo. -- A man was injured when struck by a shovel during an assault. Steele Police reported Monday the arrest of a 39-year-old man on charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Officers went to a residence on North First Street in reference to an assault, according a police report. When they arrived, officers spoke with a 42-year-old Steele resident who had suffered a head injury from being struck with a shovel...
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Summer gas prices expected to be 32 percent lower this year
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
NEW YORK -- Drivers will see the lowest summer gasoline prices in about six years, according to the Energy Department. The national average price is forecast to fall 32 percent from a year ago to $2.45 a gallon between April and September, the period when Americans do most of their driving. That would mark the lowest seasonal average since 2009...
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Use tax passes on razor's edge in Cape County
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
The Cape Girardeau County use tax question was almost too close to call. The measure seemed to win by a narrow margin, with uncertified results showing 3,532 votes in favor and 3,520 against -- a 12-vote difference. Precinct totals reported by the county clerk's office showed a difference of 10 or fewer votes, in many cases. Results reported Tuesday night are not certified. That process will take place Friday, said Cape Girardeau County Clerk Kara Clark Summers...
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$20M bond extension for Cape Girardeau schools easily passes
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Voters in the Cape Girardeau School District on Tuesday approved a $20 million bond issue that will pay for renovations across the district, including larger projects at Central Junior High School and the Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center...
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Hahs overwhelms Lohr in Jackson mayor's race
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Jackson voters elected Dwain Hahs mayor Tuesday by a margin of more than 2-to-1. Hahs garnered over 69 percent of the vote to unseat incumbent mayor Barbara Lohr. Hahs was raised in Jackson before spending more than 30 years in sales and management at Bausch & Lomb, which included a stint in China. Upon retiring, he moved back to Jackson and became a member of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce before beginning his campaign for mayor...
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Southeast roundup: Redhawks softball team walks off against SIU
(College Sports ~ 04/08/15)
The Southeast Missouri State softball team pushed its winning streak to four games with a 4-3 extra innings walk-off victory over Southern Illinois on Wednesday. The Redhawks and Salukis were tied through nine innings before Savannah Carpenter scored on an error in the 10th to help Southeast secure a victory at the Southeast Softball Complex...
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Multiple sources: List of Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coaching candidates narrowed
(College Sports ~ 04/08/15)
At least five men have been contacted about the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coaching vacancy, the Southeast Missourian has learned.
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Pobst powers Scott City baseball team to 9-1 win over Oran
(High School Sports ~ 04/08/15)
In four at-bats, he had three of the four phases of the cycle, only missing a triple to complete the feat in the Rams 9-1 home win over Oran on Wednesday.
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4th Grade Students take a trip to Jefferson City
(Submitted Story ~ 04/08/15)
On April 2, 2015, Oak Ridge 4th Grade took a field trip to Jefferson City. They were able to tour the Governor's Mansion, the Capitol Building, and had a short amphibian presentation at Runge Nature Center. Our kids had a wonderful time and had been looking forward to this trip all year. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
Today is Wednesday, April 8, the 98th day of 2015. There are 267 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 8, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which provided money for programs such as the Works Progress Administration...
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Waste, fraud and abuse
(Column ~ 04/08/15)
Politicians of all stripes like to talk endlessly about "waste, fraud and abuse," primarily because it's a popular theme with voters. Granted, the Democrats tend to focus on corporate abuse while the Republicans turn their eyes toward welfare abuse...
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Tornado season is here; plan now, know what to do
(Editorial ~ 04/08/15)
Lately, the topic on many people's minds in Southeast Missouri has been earthquakes. No sooner had reporter Katherine Webster written on April 1 about elevated potential for a quake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, than a magnitude-4.0 temblor hit two miles southeast of nearby Steele, Missouri. Webster's report seemed almost prophetic...
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wins 2nd term in runoff victory
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
CHICAGO -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel won a second term Tuesday in a runoff election campaign that hinged on serious financial challenges facing the nation's third-largest city and the brusque management style of the former White House chief of staff...
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Missouri elections: 2 black candidates elected to Ferguson City Council
(State News ~ 04/08/15)
FERGUSON, Mo. -- Two black candidates are among three people elected to the Ferguson City Council, substantially in- creasing African-American representation in the St. Louis suburb at the center of a national debate about how police interact with minority residents...
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Senators announce agreement to update education law
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
WASHINGTON -- School children would still take annual standardized tests, but states would have more control in how the results are used to scrutinize schools under a bipartisan plan to update the No Child Left Behind education law announced Tuesday by two key senators...
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Illinois State athletic staffers among 7 dead in plane crash
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- A private plane returning from the NCAA basketball tournament in Indianapolis crashed in a central Illinois field Tuesday, killing all seven people on board, including Illinois State University's associate head basketball coach and a deputy athletics director...
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Utility removed stolen electric meter before 8 were poisoned
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
PRINCESS ANNE, Md. -- A divorced kitchen worker and his 7 children were accidentally poisoned in their sleep by carbon monoxide from a gas-powered generator after the utility disconnected a stolen meter at their rental home, authorities said Tuesday...
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Pakistan judge orders CIA lawyer, officer charged for drone strike
(International News ~ 04/08/15)
ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani judge on Tuesday ordered criminal charges be filed against a former CIA lawyer who oversaw its drone program and the one-time chief agency operative in Islamabad over a 2009 strike that killed two people. Former acting general counsel John A. ...
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Court considers when dementia makes person unable to consent
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A former state lawmaker accused of raping his wife in a nursing home is forcing an Iowa court to confront a little-discussed question of aging: When is a person suffering from dementia unable to consent to sex? The case centers on Henry and Donna Lou Rayhons, both 78, who got married seven years ago in a union that seemed to offer a second chance at love for the two, who both had been widowed. ...
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Iraqi teams start exhuming mass grave of soldiers in Tikrit
(International News ~ 04/08/15)
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi forensic teams in the newly recaptured city of Tikrit have started exhuming bodies from mass graves believed to contain some of the hundreds of soldiers killed by Islamic State militants last year, a government spokesman said Tuesday...
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Blues legend B.B. King tells fans he's leaving hospital
(Entertainment ~ 04/08/15)
LAS VEGAS -- Blues patriarch B.B. King is telling fans he's feeling better and will be released from a hospital Tuesday. The 89-year-old musician's daughter, Claudette King, told the Los Angeles Times he had been hospitalized since the weekend for treatment of dehydration caused by Type 2 diabetes...
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Rand Paul begins presidential run with litany of woes to fix
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Sen. Rand Paul launched his 2016 presidential campaign Tuesday with a challenge to Washington and his fellow Republicans, cataloging a lengthy list of what ails America and pledging to "take our country back." Paul's message, delivered in his home state of Kentucky before he flew to four early-nominating states, was designed to broaden his appeal outside the typical GOP coalition as well as motivate supporters of his father's two unsuccessful bids for the Republican presidential nomination.. ...
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560 dead amid fears of humanitarian collapse in Yemen
(International News ~ 04/08/15)
SANAA, Yemen -- As tons of needed medical supplies await clearance to be flown into Yemen, aid workers warned Tuesday of an unfolding humanitarian crisis, saying at least 560 people, including dozens of children, have been killed, mostly in a Saudi-led air campaign and battles between Shiite rebels and forces loyal to the embattled president...
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White officer charged in shooting of black man
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder Tuesday in the weekend shooting death of a black motorist after a traffic stop. City Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager was arrested and charged after law-enforcement officials saw a video of the shooting after a Saturday traffic stop, North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey said at a hastily called news conference...
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Births 4/8/15
(Births ~ 04/08/15)
Son to Lance Thomas and Emily Nicole Young of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 12:48 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Name, Nathan Thomas. Weight, 7 pounds, 13 ounces. First child. Mrs. Young is the former Emily Williams, daughter of Teresa Crawford Williams of Cape Girardeau and Steve and Theresa Williams of Smyrna, Tennessee. ...
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Out of the past: April 8
(Out of the Past ~ 04/08/15)
First Federal Savings and Loan is for sale, the final step in the resolution process to bail out troubled S&Ls; the Resolution Trust Corp. hopes to find a buyer by June. Owner Dennis Stockard says the old Opera House, a historic building at Broadway and Lorimier Street, will retain its 1860s exterior when it is rebuilt but will feature a modern interior that will include corporate offices, luxury hotel suites and the Royal N'Orleans Restaurant...
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Fruitland fire report 4/8/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/08/15)
* Medical assist calls were made to County Road 544 and County Road 525. n Vehicle fire at North Interstate 55 and U.S. 61. n Medical assist call on Autumn Ridge. n Mutual aid to Scott City. n Vehicle fire on Highway 177. n Medical assist calls to Holly Circle and Skyline Drive...
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Mary Tyler
(Obituary ~ 04/08/15)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Mary Alice Tyler, 83, of Advance, formerly of Scott City, died Monday, April 6, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 9, 1931, in Illmo, to Ernest Clayton and Jennie Christina Sanders Tyler. Mary was a machine operator at Florsheim Shoe Co., and was a member of Church on the Rock in Morehouse, Missouri...
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Donald Mayfield
(Obituary ~ 04/08/15)
Donald McGlendon Mayfield, 73, of Festus, Missouri, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, April 4, 2015, at his home. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. A memorial gathering will be from 10 to 11 a.m. today at Mahn Twin City Chapel in Festus. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. today at the chapel...
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U.S. court OKs Larry Flynt's push for Missouri execution info
(State News ~ 04/08/15)
ST. LOUIS -- A federal appeals court Tuesday signed off on allowing porn publisher Larry Flynt to join a lawsuit seeking to force Missouri to disclose more details of its execution methods, reversing a lower court's ruling that the Hustler magazine founder lacked standing to intervene...
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Storms pummel St. Louis region; more severe weather expected
(State News ~ 04/08/15)
ST. LOUIS -- Lightning-packing storms pummeled the St. Louis region Tuesday with inches of rainfall and two-inch hail, causing flash flooding that turned streets and yards into makeshift ponds of standing water as the nation's midsection girded for more potential severe weather...
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Carole Churchill
(Obituary ~ 04/08/15)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Carole Anne Parker Churchill, 71, of Mesa, Arizona, formerly of Cairo, died Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, at The Villa Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mesa, from complications of cancer, heart and back problems. A celebration of life will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at Cairo Elks Lodge...
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Voters approve forgoing uncontested elections in small towns
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Becoming a member of a municipal board just became a little easier in several small Southeast Missouri towns, as voters Tuesday approved forgoing yearly elections for uncontested seats. In Cape Girardeau County, voters in Allenville, Gordonville, Oak Ridge, Pocahontas and Whitewater approved no longer holding annual municipal elections when the number of candidates who file for a particular office equals the number of positions to be filled. ...
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Sales tax extended in Scott County
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Once again, the sales tax in Scott County was approved. Of 4,292 voters, 2,993 approved the tax and 1,299 voted against it. "I'm elated," Scott County commissioner Jamie Burger said. "People seemed to be very supportive, but you always wonder when people come to vote."...
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Men charged in connection with Scott City robberies
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Men from Scott City and Cape Girardeau are both facing felony charges after being involved in a series of robberies. Larry Tanner of Scott City was charged Monday with possession of stolen property, and his bond was set at $25,000 cash or surety. Charles E. Depauw of Cape Girardeau was charged with attempted burglary, property damage, receiving stolen property, burglary, tampering with a motor vehicle and assault. His bond was set at $50,000 cash or surety...
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Pretrial hearing held in Illinois murder case
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- One of the suspects in an Anna, Illinois, homicide was in court again Tuesday for a pretrial hearing. Travis Turner, 26, of Dongola, Illinois, faces first-degree murder charges in the April beating death of James H. "Jimmy" Morrison, 46, of Anna. Turner has pleaded not guilty...
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April designated Donate Life Month in Scott City
(Local News ~ 04/08/15)
Scott City Mayor Tim Porch announced a resolution at Monday's city council meeting proclaiming April as Donate Life Month. "The city council recognizes the valuable service donors make and ... commends the generous gift of life provided by individuals who indicate their wish to become an organ donor," he read from the proclamation...
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FCC asked to determine whether phone companies can block 'robocalls'
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
WASHINGTON -- Jeri Vargas put her elderly mother on the "Do Not Call" list years ago. So why is the 88-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease still getting several recorded phone calls a day pitching her everything from vacation cruises to medical alert devices and fire extinguishers?...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 4/8/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/08/15)
* Medical assist calls were made to: William Street at 12:30 a.m.; South Plaza Way at 1:33 a.m.; South Sprigg Street at 2:50 a.m.; North Street at 4:53 a.m.; Lorraine Drive at 8:17 a.m.; Whitener Street at 9:08 a.m.; Perry Avenue at 11:28 a.m.; Cord's Way at 11:43 a.m.; and William Street at 1:57 p.m...
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Cape Girardeau police report 4/8/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/08/15)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n Frederick J. Brown Jr., 32, of Festus, Missouri, was arrested on a Pulaski County, Missouri, warrant for larceny, and a Festus warrant for failure to appear for driving while revoked...
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Southeast Missouri State baseball team loses to Missouri State
(College Sports ~ 04/08/15)
The Southeast Missouri State baseball team took a lead over nationally-ranked Missouri State into the seventh inning of its game Tuesday night in Springfield, Missouri.
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Actor who played 'Dukes of Hazzard' sheriff dies at age 88
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Prolific character actor James Best, best known for playing the giggling and inept Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on "The Dukes of Hazzard," has died. He was 88. His wife of 29 years, Dorothy Best, said that Best died Monday night in hospice care in Hickory from complications of pneumonia...
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Nation briefs 4/8/15
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
WASHINGTON -- Problems at a Maryland electrical station caused widespread power outages across the nation's capital Tuesday, affecting the White House, the Capitol, museums, train stations and other sites. Many of the outages were brief, but some were longer and forced evacuations. ...
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Burger King to pay for Burger-King wedding
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Burger King is paying the expenses for the wedding of a couple with an interesting connection to the restaurant. Joel Burger and Ashley King have been known as Burger-King since they were in fifth grade together in New Berlin, Illinois. The couple announced their engagement this spring with a photo next to the sign at a local Burger King. A Burger King spokesman says the company felt an overwhelming urge to help the couple celebrate their July 17 wedding...
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High school roundup: Kelly baseball squeaks by St. Vincent in 8 innings
(High School Sports ~ 04/08/15)
All the local high school events reported Tuesday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Prayer 4/8/15
(Prayer ~ 04/08/15)
Lord Jesus, we're thankful that you are the resurrection and the light. Amen.
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Chair in which Lincoln was shot center stage on anniversary
(National News ~ 04/08/15)
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Jeff Buczkiewicz stood before the chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when he was assassinated 150 years ago. He peered silently into the glass-enclosed case at the rocking chair, then snapped pictures for posterity. "You just get drawn into these things," said Buczkiewicz, 47, who came from suburban Chicago with his family to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. "It is a tragic part of our history and our country. I think it's important to take it all in."...
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Eastern Kentucky hires Dan McHale as Colonels coach
(College Sports ~ 04/08/15)
RICHMOND, Ky. -- Eastern Kentucky has hired former Minnesota and Louisville assistant Dan McHale as the Colonels' 20th head coach. McHale will be introduced Thursday at a news conference. He replaces Jeff Neubauer, who left after 10 seasons to become head coach at Fordham; the Colonels finished 21-12 last season...
- Rainbow connection (Local News ~ 04/08/15)
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