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Parking, housing among top concerns for downtown plan
(Local News ~ 11/02/16)
Cape Girardeau's downtown needs more off-street parking and added housing options, property owners and neighborhood residents suggested at an open house Tuesday at Broadway Federal that sets the stage for development of a strategic plan. Those were just some of the suggestions offered at the public meeting...
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Southeast Homecoming events planned; merit award winners announced
(Local News ~ 11/02/16)
Southeast Missouri State University's annual Homecoming celebration will be held this weekend as the university celebrates this year's theme: "We Are One." "When our alumni come back to campus, they invariably discover that even though we are many, we are also one in our shared experiences, traditions and overall spirit of Southeast," said Southeast's director of Alumni Relations Jay Wolz in a statement...
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Almost guilty: Boyd goes before judge on felony charges
(Local News ~ 11/02/16)
Renee Boyd and her girlfriend Rachel Hornback looked forward to Oct. 17 for the closure it was supposed to bring. After weeks of haggling, her attorney and the prosecution had arrived at a plea deal: If she pleaded guilty on all counts, the prosecution would seek no more jail time. Only five years' probation, at the end of which her convictions would be removed from her record under what's called suspended imposition of sentence...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Nov. 2, the 307th day of 2016. There are 59 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 2, 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford...
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Adrian Branch to speak locally
(Editorial ~ 11/02/16)
Former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Adrian Branch will be in the area over the next few days as a SportsWorld motivational speaker. One opportunity to hear Branch's inspiring message is at the men's prayer breakfast at the Osage Center on Thursday. Breakfast will be served at 6:15 a.m. with the program to follow at 6:45 a.m. Cost for the event is $7 and it will conclude at 7:30 a.m...
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Jackson teen collects dresses for those in need
(Editorial ~ 11/02/16)
It may only be November, but for at least one organization, efforts to make prom special for others this spring are already underway. When Grace Lysell, 16, of Jackson, was made aware to the fact that many of her peers couldn't attend formal dances because they couldn't afford to buy a dress she joined forces with fellow First Presbyterian parishioner Brenda Randolph to implement a local chapter, only the second in Missouri, of the charity Becca's closet...
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Voters should choose based on character
(Column ~ 11/02/16)
As hard as it is to imagine, a sizable segment of the voting public has yet to decide on their presidential choice. By some polling, that undecided voting bloc may approach 10 percent. At the same time, an estimated 10 percent of voters have taken advantage of early voting laws and have already cast their ballots...
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Clarifying Amendment 3
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/02/16)
There has been a lot of misinformation put out there about Amendment 3, a measure that I personally support, and I wanted to attempt to clear up some of the confusion. Amendment 3 is very clear that none of the funding can go to agencies that provide abortion services. Amendment 3 will improve the lives of Missouri’s youngest children, not directed to hurting children...
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Same-sex marriage controversy
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/02/16)
On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right for same-sex couples to marry in all 50 U.S. states. In 1996, Missouri banned same-sex marriage. Regardless of the current status of same-sex marriage and the legitimacy of it, there was a time when issuing marriage licenses was in the hands of the church rather than the state...
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Obama reveals private living areas of White House
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama likes to say the White House is the "people's house." Now, the people are getting a look at the rooms where he lives. Exclusive photos published Tuesday by Architectural Digest are giving the public its first glimpse of private areas on the second floor of the White House that Obama; his wife, Michelle; daughters, Malia and Sasha; and family dogs, Bo and Sunny, have called home for nearly eight years...
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If Clinton wins, more in GOP say no to 9 on Supreme Court
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has existed with its full complement of nine justices for close to 150 years, no matter who occupied the White House. Now some Republican lawmakers suggest they would be fine with just eight for four years more rather than have Hillary Clinton fill the vacancy...
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Fatal Halloween crash shakes Mississippi town
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
CHUNKY, Miss. -- Every Halloween in the rural eastern Mississippi hamlet of Chunky, families and groups of friends load costumed children onto flatbed trailers and drive from house to widely spaced house for trick-or-treating. It's how things have been done for as long as Joyce Reynolds, co-owner of a local trading post, can remember...
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Drivers among 6 killed in 2-bus crash in Baltimore
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
BALTIMORE -- A school bus was blocks away from its first stop Tuesday morning when it hit a cemetery wall, rear-ended a car and ricocheted off a roadside pillar into an oncoming commuter bus. The predawn accident killed six people and injured 10, authorities said...
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Alabama pipeline blast sparks worries about South gas prices
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
HELENA, Ala. -- A deadly explosion that sparked a geyser of fire shut down a vital pipeline supplying gasoline to millions of people across the Southeast, raising fears of another round of gas shortages and price increases after the pipeline's second accident and shutdown in two months...
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Attorney: Rolling Stone author pushed preconceived narrative
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The reporter of a botched Rolling Stone article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia willfully ignored facts and statements that disproved her preconceived storyline about the school's callousness toward sexual-assault victims, an attorney for the former associate dean of students said in his closing arguments Tuesday...
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Iraqi forces edge into Mosul, major urban warfare lies ahead
(International News ~ 11/02/16)
BAZWAYA, Iraq -- Iraq's special forces fought their way into the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday, taking its state television building despite resistance by Islamic State group fighters that likely will stiffen when combat reaches the inner city. It was the first time Iraqi troops have set foot in the city, Iraq's second-largest, in more than two years...
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Poles honor loved ones on All Saints' Day
(International News ~ 11/02/16)
WARSAW, Poland -- Poles honored their dead Tuesday, All Saints' Day, turning graveyards into seas of flickering candles and whispering prayers to the souls of their departed ancestors. Observing one of the most sacred days on the calendar for this deeply Catholic nation, people solemnly filled cemeteries across the country, the numbers diminished this year only somewhat by an autumn rain that fell on Warsaw and elsewhere...
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'We've returned to the stone age': Quake levels Italian town
(International News ~ 11/02/16)
CASTELLUCCIO DI NORCIA, Italy -- Some houses are collapsed, pancaked piles of stones and plaster. A pair of skis stick out. Some are cracked open neatly, exposing living rooms frozen in time. The central Italian mountain village of Castelluccio di Norcia, among the most heavily hit by Sunday's earthquake, is known for the beautiful blossoms of its lentil fields and historic charm. Now it's a ghost town...
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South Korean man rams office: 'I came here to help her die'
(International News ~ 11/02/16)
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean police detained a man who rammed a large excavator into a gate Tuesday near the office where prosecutors questioned a woman at the center of a scandal that threatens the country's president. The woman earlier had said she "deserves death," and the detained man said he "came here to help her die."...
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Cash, no credit: Libertarians shake up Minneapolis suburb
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
CRYSTAL, Minn. -- When most cities want to build something -- a water plant, a convention center -- they borrow the money on the bond market and pay it off over time with interest. Not Crystal, a middle-class suburb of Minneapolis. It paid $13 million in cash when it needed a new public-works building, taking the money from its savings accounts and shrinking the city's reserves by nearly one-quarter...
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Face-biting attacker: 'I ate something bad ... humans'
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Florida college student accused of killing a couple and chewing on the dead man's face told deputies, "Help me, I ate something bad" and then admitted it was "humans" as he spit out a piece of flesh, court documents show...
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Out of the past: Nov. 2
(Out of the Past ~ 11/02/16)
For the first time since 1987, the Cape Girardeau Fire Department is hiring new firefighters; an agility test is held to help narrow the field of candidates seeking three firefighter positions. Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar opened for business in Cape Girardeau this week; the restaurant at Broadview and Route K is owned by De Stocks Number 13 Inc., and is the 14th restaurant in Missouri and Illinois for Dennis Stockard of Cape Girardeau; manager of the new restaurant is Dan Chandler...
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Dwight Williams
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
Harold Dwight Williams, 83, of Cape Girardeau passed away peacefully Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Dwight was the son of the late Lowell and Nila Adams Williams of Dexter, Missouri. Dwight graduated from Dexter High School in 1951. He married Naomi Norman in 1952. He married Pat Miller in 2004...
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Carletta Streeter
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Carletta Sue Streeter, 71, of Chaffee passed away Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, at her sister's home. She was born July 11, 1945, in Dexter, Missouri, to the late William Sherman and Florence Evelyn Goodman Davenport. Carletta was a LP Nurse with Chaffee General Hospital for many years until she retired. She was a member of First Assembly of God in Chaffee...
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Joyce Schoen
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
Joyce Darlene Schoen, 73, of Scott City died Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at her home. She was born July 3, 1943, in Gray's Point, Missouri, to Francis and Elizabeth Lindemann Cassout. She worked at Brant's Boarding Home and in home care for many years. She attended First Assembly of God in Scott City...
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Nina Reed
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
Nina Fay Reed, 72, of Jackson died Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral is at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Blake Marshall
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
Blake Marshall, 28, of Scott City passed away Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, at Charleston, Missouri, due to injuries sustained in a truck accident. Blake was born March 8, 1988, at Cape Girardeau. He was the son of Karl Marshall and Cassie Eggimann Marshall...
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William Heyde III
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
A memorial service for William Albert "Bill" Heyde III will be Saturday at New McKendree United Methodist Church in Jackson, the Revs. Jimmy Corbin and Jim Woeltje officiating. Time of service is 10 a.m. There will be a visitation beginning at 9 a.m...
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Wanda Goodman
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
Wanda Lee Goodman, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at Heartland Care and Rehab. She was born March 4, 1931, in Cape Girardeau to Joseph and Lela McClard Littleton. She and Floyd R. Goodman were married Oct. 7, 1952, at Piggott, Arkansas. He passed away March 22, 2008...
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Reeva M. Feltz
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Reeva M. Feltz, 103, of Perryville died Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, at the Estates of Perry. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, with rosary at 9:30 a.m., at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville...
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Rosemary Davis
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
Rosemary Davis, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at her home, with family by her side. She was born Oct. 28, 1936, in Egypt Mills to the late Arlis Hall and Mabel Lillie Propst McClard. She and Louis Davis were married Sept. 11, 1980, at Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death in 2008...
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Pat Davenport
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
Patricia "Pat" Davenport, 91, of Jackson passed away Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, at St. David's South Medical Center in Austin, Texas. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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John Cook
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
ST. LOUIS -- John David Cook, 53, of St. Louis passed Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, at Jefferson Barracks VA Medical Center. He was born Sept. 28, 1963, at Patuxent River Naval Air Base at Patuxent River, Maryland, son of Odell R. "Dick" and Eula "Bernice" Younger Cook...
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William 'Bud' Cain
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
TAMMS, Ill. -- William "Bud" Cain, 87, of Tamms died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marion, Illinois, surrounded by his family. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Pete Vinson officiating. Interment will be in McCrite Cemetery, with military honors conducted by American Legion Post 178 and Illinois Honor Guard...
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Joseph Brewer
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Joseph "Glen" Brewer, 79, of Perryville died Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at his home. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 6:30 to 10 a.m. Friday at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery...
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Lillie Braswell
(Obituary ~ 11/02/16)
CREAL SPRINGS, Ill. -- Lillie Stonecipher Braswell, 79, of Creal Springs died Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at her home. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Cosby-Sloan Funeral Home in Creal Springs. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Alan Summers officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery in Dongola, Illinois...
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Jackson police report 11/2/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/02/16)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Amber D. Schlitt, 27, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, failure to maintain a single lane and speeding. Arrests n Trevor K. Grice, 26, of Fredericktown, Missouri, was arrested on a Dexter, Missouri, warrant and a Festus, Missouri, warrant...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 11/2/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/02/16)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Monday: n Medical assists were made at 7:52 a.m. on Lorraine Drive; 8:14 a.m. on Gordonville Road; 8:50 a.m. on Niemann Drive; 8:59 a.m. on Butler Street; 9:07 a.m. on North Silver Springs Road; 11:23 a.m. ...
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Cape Girardeau police report 11/2/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/02/16)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Jamey L. Chiles, 40, 723 Ranney Ave., was arrested at 1014 Bloomfield St. and South Benton Street on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for probation violation...
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Births 11/2/16
(Births ~ 11/02/16)
Son to Zach and Nikki Gowin of Olive Branch, Illinois, Saint Francis Medical Center, 3:31 p.m. Thursday, June 30, 2016. Name, Gibson Miles. Weight, 1 pound, 14 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Gowin is the former Nikki Probst. Gowin is the Alexander County State's Attorney...
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Attorney: Columbia police broke laws by recording phone call
(State News ~ 11/02/16)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- An attorney for Moniteau County Prosecuting Attorney Shayne Healea said in a court filing Columbia police violated state and federal laws when an officer made a video recording of a phone conversation between Healea and his attorney...
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Lincoln University reports shooting, student hospitalized
(State News ~ 11/02/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Authorities at Lincoln University in Jefferson City said police are investigating after a shooting was reported on campus. The university said one student was hospitalized, but officials declined to say whether that person was shot or provide other details...
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Trial underway over man's 2011 stun-gun death in Ferguson
(State News ~ 11/02/16)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A federal trial was underway Tuesday in the wrongful-death lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri, police over the 2011 stun-gun death of a naked, unarmed black man. Jason Moore's mother, wife and son allege in the lawsuit the St. Louis suburb's police force used excessive force and violated Moore's civil rights. ...
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Missouri man says past crimes shouldn't factor in trial
(State News ~ 11/02/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri man charged with a sexual crime against a child asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to bar prosecutors from citing past allegations of sexual misconduct against him at trial, arguing a constitutional amendment allowing prosecutors to do so wasn't in effect when the latest alleged crime occurred...
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Cosby lawyers press judge to exclude deposition from trial
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- Bill Cosby's lawyers pressed a judge Tuesday to keep the comedian's damaging deposition in a decade-old lawsuit out of his sexual-assault trial, saying Cosby agreed to answer questions under oath after being assured he wouldn't be charged with a crime...
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Tyler Perry says 'Boo!' is distraction America needs now
(Entertainment ~ 11/02/16)
ATLANTA -- Tyler Perry felt more grateful than surprised after his latest Madea movie topped the North American box office for a second straight week. "Boo! A Madea Halloween" took the No. 1 spot, earning more than $17.2 million over the weekend for a two-week total of $52.6 million...
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New email discovery raises question: Why didn't Abedin know?
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
WASHINGTON -- The discovery of another cache of emails potentially important to the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices raises a question: How could close Clinton adviser Huma Abedin have been unaware of their existence? The emails were found on a computer seized during an unrelated investigation involving Abedin's estranged husband, disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner. He is being investigated in connection with online communications with a teenage girl...
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Charlamagne tha God has book coming next spring
(Entertainment ~ 11/02/16)
NEW YORK -- After interviewing Hillary Clinton, Kanye West and Jay Z, among others, Charlamagne tha God is ready for something challenging: writing a book. The ever-raw television personality and co-host of the syndicated radio show "The Breakfast Club" has a deal with Simon & Schuster imprint Touchstone for "Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It." The book is scheduled for next spring, the publisher said Tuesday...
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Clinton, Trump warn of dire consequences if rival wins
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
DADE CITY, Fla. -- Donald Trump could draw the United States into nuclear war, Hillary Clinton warns. Clinton would plunge the country into a constitutional crisis, Trump says. As a caustic presidential race lurches toward the finish line, each candidate is casting the other as a catastrophic choice for the White House...
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Johnson: Clinton could be impeached if elected president
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
BELOIT, Wis. -- Hillary Clinton could face impeachment if she is elected president because her use of a private email server as secretary of state broke the law, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said. Johnson told the Beloit Daily News on Monday that Clinton "purposefully circumvented" the law. The Republican said "this was willful concealment and destruction" involving information related to national defense...
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Bono first man to make Glamour's Women of the Year list
(Entertainment ~ 11/02/16)
NEW YORK -- Glamour's annual Women of the Year list always takes in a lot of territory, from noteworthy fashionistas and sports heroes to social-justice activists and business leaders. Enter Bono: The first Man of the Year among the magazine's Women of the Year, all to be honored at a Nov. 14 ceremony in Los Angeles...
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Ex-wife says dad in son's hot-car death 'destroyed my life'
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- A day after she defended her former husband as a loving father, the ex-wife of a Georgia man charged with leaving their toddler son to die in a hot SUV told a jury Tuesday: "He destroyed my life." Justin Ross Harris, 35, is charged with murder in the June 2014 death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper. ...
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More migrants from around the world making way to U.S. border
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
WASHINGTON -- An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world quietly have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department...
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13 grizzly bears gather in Montana foothills
(National News ~ 11/02/16)
GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- Maybe it was a family reunion. Montana wildlife officials spotted 13 grizzly bears together on a private ranch southwest of Dupuyer, Montana. Fish, Wildlife and Parks grizzly-bear management specialist Mike Madel said it seemed like a gathering of females and young who were related or familiar with each other. Madel was tracking radio-collared grizzly bears in October when he spotted and photographed the group...
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New Little Free Libraries welcome book donations
(Local News ~ 11/02/16)
Anyone interested in donating books to Cape Girardeau’s new Little Free Library sites may contact the following people: n For the Cape Girardeau Police Department’s box, call Lt. Brad Smith at (573) 335-6621, ext. 1148. Smith is accepting donations that will be stored at the station to help replenish its Little Free Library drop box as needed...
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Deputies say Marble Hill man threatened to kill woman
(Local News ~ 11/02/16)
A Marble Hill, Missouri, woman was walking her dog about 2 p.m. Friday when she received a phone call from a Marble Hill man who said she had set up his father, he was coming to get her and she was a “dead b----,” Bollinger County sheriff’s deputies said...
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Drury Southwest purchases former Bob Evans building, searching for tenant
(Local News ~ 11/02/16)
The former Bob Evans restaurant building has a new owner — one now on the hunt for a tenant. Adrienne Henry, who handles commercial leasing for Drury Southwest Inc., confirmed the company’s purchase of the building just south of the Drury Plaza Hotel Cape Girardeau Conference Center construction site. It has been vacant since April, when the restaurant was boarded up and closed with little notice given to employees. The sale became final last week...
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Construction underway on new Holiday Inn Express in Perryville
(Local News ~ 11/02/16)
Weary travelers making their way on Interstate 55 soon will have another lodging option. A Holiday Inn Express is under construction in Perryville, Missouri, on the west side of the Interstate 55/Perryville exit. The four-story construction will boast 75 rooms, including 18 suites, an indoor pool and a fitness room when it is finished, said Alex Patel, general manager for Midwest Lodging...
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Prayer 11/2/16
(Prayer ~ 11/02/16)
O Lord Jesus, may we always resist evil, standing firm in our faith in you. Amen.
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