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Delta High School's Haunted Hallways of Horror
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/16)
The Delta High School Student Council hosted the "Haunted Hallways of Horror" on Saturday, Oct. 29, to benefit Toys for Tots. The Haunting featured an insane asylum, a hay bale maze and plenty of scary creatures. There also was a costume contest, games for the kids and trunk-or-treating in the parking lot. A great time was had by all and $731 was raised to buy gifts for Toys for Tots...
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Evening run.
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/16)
The mist rises to claim the night as the sun sets on spook night.
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Jackson contestants advance to regional soccer shoot out competition
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/16)
On Oct. 8 the Jackson Elks Lodge sent seven contestants to the State Soccer Shoot Out competition in Columbia, Missouri. We are proud to say that ALL SEVEN of our contestants won their age division and advanced to the regional round to be held in Eldorado, Kansas, on Nov. 5 and 6!...
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Legends
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/16)
Local Jackson martial arts school goes to tournament in Memphis, Tennessee and brings 6 gold medals.
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Kander, Blunt make repeated visits to Cape in hot Senate race
(Local News ~ 11/01/16)
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander has made a habit of campaigning in traditionally Republican Cape Girardeau. Kander visited with more than 30 students and other supporters at the University Center on the Southeast Missouri State University campus on Monday, the third campaign stop he has made in Cape Girardeau in the past three weeks...
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Roundabout path: Building owners soon will open coffee shop in uptown Jackson
(Local News ~ 11/01/16)
When Bob and Serena Schooley bought two properties from the First Baptist Church of Jackson, they imagined renting one of the spaces out to a coffee shop or bakery. That was their vision for the storefront at 107 E. Adams St., but it was not something they planned to do themselves...
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Nearby county praises crisis training; court hears assault-case arguments
(Local News ~ 11/01/16)
Six months to the day after Renee Boyd was arrested in Cape Girardeau during a mental-health episode, officers in neighboring Perry County, Missouri, found a man walking in the southbound lane of Interstate 55. He was acting strangely when detective Jason Klaus and his partner, Matt Schamburg, arrived on the scene...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Nov. 1, the 306th day of 2016. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 1, 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America unveiled its new voluntary film rating system: G for general, M for mature (later changed to GP, then PG), R for restricted and X (later changed to NC-17) for adults only...
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Holiday Extravaganza and displays in the park
(Column ~ 11/01/16)
Halloween is over, Thanksgiving is our next holiday and Christmas is right around the corner. The Jackson Community Outreach Board will again be organizing the Holiday Extravaganza with an amazing light display in our Jackson City Park. The display begins at the park entrance by the swimming pool (North High and Independence Streets) and has been extended all the way to the Union Street exit. ...
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VintageNOW fashion show has record-setting year
(Editorial ~ 11/01/16)
Helping others can be both nostalgic and fun. On Oct. 22, the VintageNOW fashion show charity event personified each of those qualities. As a fundraiser for the Safe House for Women, the Osage Centre was transformed into a 1940s USO hangar, and participants played a part in bringing the past into the present to build a new shelter for women in the near future...
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Max Amos
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
Max Adam Amos, 88, of Cape Girardeau was called to his heavenly home Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. He was born June 10, 1928, in Delta, son of Robert N. and Myrtle Burns Amos. He and Mary Emma Scheible were married Dec. 16, 1951. Mary passed away July 23, 1995. He then married Doris Baker on June 5, 1998. Doris passed away Dec. 29, 2010...
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Shirley Knupp
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
FLORISSANT, Mo. -- Shirley F. (Smith) Knupp of Florissant died Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. She was the loving wife of Paul R. Knupp; loving mother of the late Vicki (Gary) Ludwinski; loving grandmother of Angela (Mike) Riley, Steve (Gabbi) Ludwinski and Josh Ludwinski; and dear sister of Nina Mehrle and the late Joyce Hartley...
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Sister Marie Diebold
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
WHEATON, Ill. -- Sister Marie Diebold, age 80, breathed into the fullness of God on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, at the Our Lady of the Angels Motherhouse in Wheaton. She entered the Franciscan order in 1955 and professed perpetual vows in 1963. She was preceded in death by her parents, Leona (Heisserer) and George Diebold, and her sister Lucille Grojean...
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Gary Mabrey
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Gary Wayne "Pard" Mabrey, 76, of Carbondale, formerly of Cape Girardeau, passed away peacefully at his home in Carbondale after a tough battle with cancer at 2:06 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Gary was born Aug. 7, 1940, in Cape Girardeau, a son to the late William Martin and Lorene Evelyn (Schulberg) Mabrey. He formerly was married to Norma Glueck of Cape Girardeau...
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Zika ravages testes of mice; study raises concern about men
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
NEW YORK -- Zika virus ravages the testes of male mice, sharply reducing sperm counts and fertility, states a study that raises a new specter about its threat to people. Experiments found testes of infected mice shrank about 90 percent by weight, while their output of useful sperm fell by three-quarters on average and often more. Now it's time to find out whether Zika causes similar damage in men, experts said...
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Ruby Propst
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
Ruby Pauline Propst, 94, of Cape Girardeau passed away Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, at the Stockoff Nursing Home in Fredericktown, Missouri. Ruby was born June 4, 1922, in Alliance, Missouri, to John Thomas Edward and Emma Louise Cook Stanfill. She and Howard Monroe Propst were united in marriage July 17, 1937, and he passed away Oct. 12, 1991...
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Out of the past: Nov. 1
(Out of the Past ~ 11/01/16)
Edward M. Spicer, associate to the president at Southeast Missouri State University, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at age 60. Spicer had been at Southeast since 1977, returning to his hometown from a post at the University of Wisconsin...
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Gerald Wachter
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
Gerald Lee Wachter, 55, of Cape Girardeau passed away after a short battle with cancer on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 14, 1961, in Cape Girardeau, son of Eugene H. and Lavern Schmidt Wachter. He and Brenda Dubs were married March 12, 1984...
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Justices sympathetic to girl suing school over service dog
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
WASHINGTON -- A fluffy white goldendoodle named Wonder waited patiently outside the Supreme Court on Monday while the justices inside debated the legal rights of disabled children who want to bring their service dogs to school. The court was considering the case of Ehlena Fry, a 12-year-old Michigan girl with cerebral palsy who was barred from bringing Wonder to class when she started kindergarten in 2009...
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Who cares?
(Column ~ 11/01/16)
Just when we thought we had seen it all in this presidential election, along comes something else. This something is the announcement last Friday, eleven days before Election, Day, that the FBI, under the leadership of Di-rector James Comey, was reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, reportedly focusing on "hundreds of thousands" of Clinton-related emails involving former Congressman Anthony Weiner, apparent sexting aficionado, and his estranged wife and close Clinton aide, Huma Abedin.. ...
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Justice Breyer, fashion maven, makes a colleague swoon
(Community ~ 11/01/16)
WASHINGTON -- A Supreme Court copyright dispute over cheerleading uniforms Monday brought out the fashion maven in Justice Stephen Breyer. "The clothes on the hanger do nothing. The clothes on the woman do everything," Breyer said during an argument about whether the design of cheerleading uniforms can be protected under copyright law...
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Trump sticks to attacks, insults, hoping to overtake Clinton
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Donald Trump plunged Monday into his final-week sprint to Election Day decidedly on his terms: unleashing a new attack against Democrat Hillary Clinton in Michigan, a state that hasn't favored a Republican for president in nearly three decades...
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Defense dubs Christie a coward; jury gets case
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
NEWARK, N.J. -- A defense attorney thundered in closing arguments Monday in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing trial that Gov. Chris Christie and his inner circle were "cowards" for not testifying against a former staffer on trial for using gridlock for political retaliation...
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FBI review involves thousands of newly discovered emails
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
WASHINGTON -- The FBI will have to sort through thousands of newly discovered emails in its renewed examination of the practices of Hillary Clinton and her aides, a U.S. official said Monday, raising questions whether any findings might be released before Election Day...
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Gun battle in Oklahoma ends with fugitive dead
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A gun battle with Oklahoma troopers left a homicide suspect dead and ended a weeklong manhunt for the man suspected in a string of violent crimes across the state, including the killing of two relatives and the shooting of three law-enforcement officers...
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Clinton challenges FBI, declaring, 'There's no case here'
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
KENT, Ohio -- Hillary Clinton challenged the FBI's new email inquiry Monday, declaring during a campaign rally in battleground Ohio, "There's no case here." Clinton's comments were her most pointed on the subject, and they underscored her campaign's decision to fight back against FBI director James Comey...
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Two women unite to take 'honor' out of killing in Pakistan
(International News ~ 11/01/16)
ISLAMABAD -- Naeema Kishwar shrouds herself in a burqa, showing only her eyes. She belongs to a Pakistani political party that has been linked to the Taliban. And she comes from deeply conservative tribal lands where girls have been killed for going to school...
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17 dogs die at St. Louis shelter due to virus
(State News ~ 11/01/16)
ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis animal shelter said seventeen dogs have died at the facility after an outbreak of a virus called distemper. Stray Rescue founder Randy Grim said most of the dogs are puppies. About 24 dogs at the facility have tested positive for the virus...
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Source: Connecticut provost to lead University of Missouri
(State News ~ 11/01/16)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A University of Connecticut provost is about to be named president of the University of Missouri, nearly a year after the Columbia campus was roiled by protests over administrators' handling of racial and other issues on the Columbia campus, a person familiar with the search said Monday...
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Kander gives away $25,000 donation
(State News ~ 11/01/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Jason Kander's Missouri Senate campaign said Monday it sent a $25,000 check to the U.S. Treasury after learning a Massachusetts law firm may have violated federal election law by reimbursing its partners for their political donations. According to a report in the Boston Globe, the Democratic challenger to Republican Sen. ...
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Iraqi special forces poised on eastern edge of Mosul
(International News ~ 11/01/16)
BAZWAYA, Iraq -- Iraqi special forces stood poised to enter Mosul in an offensive to drive out Islamic State militants after sweeping into the last village on the city's eastern edge Monday while fending off suicide car bombs without losing a soldier...
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Man accused of intentionally striking woman with his car
(Local News ~ 11/01/16)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Charges are pending against a driver accused of hitting a pedestrian intentionally. The East Prairie Police Department is reporting Colby Durst is facing several charges in connection with an incident at 2:58 p.m. Sunday. According to police, officers were notified a woman was struck intentionally by a vehicle driven by Durst...
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Parking to be restricted for homecoming parade
(Local News ~ 11/01/16)
Parking will be restricted downtown beginning 9:30 a.m. Saturday for the Southeast Missouri State University homecoming parade, police say. Motorists will not be allowed to park on either side of Broadway from North West End Boulevard to Main Street, Main Street from Park Drive to William Street, North West End Boulevard from Broadway to Parkview Drive, Perry Avenue from Broadway to Parkview, either side of Bellevue Street in front of Houck Stadium and both sides of Houck place, according to a Cape Girardeau Police Department news release.. ...
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Perry County commission candidates focus on issues, not 'finger pointing'
(Local News ~ 11/01/16)
Democratic candidate Marion Brown and Republican Jay Wengert don't have a bad thing to say about each other in their race for Perry County District 1 associate commissioner. Brown, a farmer who worked for Mississippi Lime Co. at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, for 43 years before retiring, doesn't think of himself as a politician...
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Little Free Libraries materialize in Cape
(Local News ~ 11/01/16)
The Little Free Library movement is alive and well in Cape Girardeau. On Sunday, a new box was dedicated along Frederick Street between William and Good Hope streets, and another officially will open outside the Cape Girardeau Police Department at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday...
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Study: Drilling may have caused deadly 1933 California quake
(National News ~ 11/01/16)
LOS ANGELES -- New research suggests oil drilling decades ago may have triggered earthquakes in the Los Angeles region, including the 1933 quake that killed more than 100 people. If confirmed, it would be the first time oil operations have been linked to a deadly quake in the United States...
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Man renames himself iPhone 7 to win one
(International News ~ 11/01/16)
KIEV, Ukraine -- A Ukrainian man officially changed his name to iPhone 7 after an electronics store offered the latest Apple product to the first five people who did that. Twenty-year-old iPhone Sim (Seven) got the prize Friday. He said he might change it back to his original name, Olexander Turin, when he has children. The price of phone starts at $850 in Ukraine, while the name change costs the equivalent of $2. Sim's friends and family were shocked at first but eventually supported the idea...
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Cape Girardeau police report 11/1/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/01/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Shawntel Allen, 25, no address given, was arrested on suspicion of theft at Wal-Mart, 3439 William St. n Mylisha Williams, 21, no address given, was arrested on suspicion of theft at Wal-Mart, 3439 William St...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 11/1/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/01/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday. n Medical assists were made at 6:09 a.m. on Clark Avenue; 6:37 a.m. on Stoddard Street; 10:07 a.m. at Dearmont Hall; 2:14 p.m. on North Main Street; 6:43 p.m. on Pioneer Drive; and 7:10 p.m. on North Lorimier Street...
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Jackson police report 11/1/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/01/16)
JACKSON The Jackson Fire Department responded to the following calls. Monday n An alarm sounding on Kland Drive. n An EMS call on Independence Street. n A mutual-aid call on Highway 72. Tuesday n An EMS call on North West Lane.
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Dwight Williams
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
Dwight Williams, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Rosemary Davis
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
Rosemary Davis, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at her home. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Donny Ford and Dr. Shawn Wasson officiating...
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Wanda Goodman
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
Wanda Lee Goodman, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at Heartland Care and Rehab in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home...
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Prayer 11/1/16
(Prayer ~ 11/01/16)
O Heavenly Father, may all turn to you in life's storms. Amen.
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Cancer and the upcoming election
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/01/16)
Cancer will kill an estimated 12,970 people in Missouri this year. State lawmakers have the power to guarantee access to adequate and affordable health care coverage, fund critical cancer research and screening programs and pass policies to reduce the burden of tobacco in our state...
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Need for Electoral College
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/01/16)
Coffelt is WRONG! The “College” was established to balance the influence of states having high population to those having a low population in the presidential selection process. Further, the U.S. is a constitutional republic not a pure democracy. If the “College” was abolished then about a half dozen eastern states (blue) and California would choose the president. ...
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Jackson to hold hearing today on historic preservation plan
(Local News ~ 11/01/16)
Jackson city government will hold a public hearing this evening to discuss a proposed historic preservation ordinance. The ordinance is designed to "promote the educational, cultural, economic and general welfare of the community," according to its text. It would protect buildings considered historic or architecturally distinctive by regulating what changes can be made to their exteriors...
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Michael Farrow
(Obituary ~ 11/01/16)
SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. -- Michael Jules Farrow, 57, of Sedgewickville passed away Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, at Heartland Care Rehab Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 21, 1959, in Cape Girardeau, son of the late Charles Truman and Elsie Marie Moore Farrow...
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