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Guardian Angel School to Jr. Beta Convention
(Submitted Story ~ 12/13/16)
Some of the 7th & 8th grade members of the Jr. Beta of Guardian Angel School, Oran, traveled to the Black River Coliseum in Poplar Bluff on December 8 & 9 for the 14th Annual Mo. Jr. Beta Convention. Several of the students entered contests such as wreath design, sketching, sculpture, woodworking, and painting, as well as academic contests. ...
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Paint for a Cause - Easter Seals
(Submitted Story ~ 12/13/16)
The "Paint for a Cause” project began a year and a half ago at the Painted Wren Art Gallery. Visitors to the gallery can donate $1 to paint on the current cause. All donations, as well as the canvas, goes to the benefiting organization. They can sell the painting to raise more money or keep it if they choose...
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Paint for a Cause - Bollinger County 4-H
(Submitted Story ~ 12/13/16)
The "Paint for a Cause” project began a year and a half ago at the Painted Wren Art Gallery. Visitors to the gallery can donate $1 to paint on the current cause. All donations, as well as the canvas, goes to the benefiting organization. They can sell the painting to raise more money or keep it if they choose...
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Guardian Angel Varsity Basketball Team Wins 1st in Tournament
(Submitted Story ~ 12/13/16)
The Guardian Angel boys basketball team of Oran had a record of 9 wins and 1 loss during the Christian League season of 2016. The league tournament was held December 9-11 at St. Denis School in Benton. The Redwings were 1st place co-champions with St. ...
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Guardian Angel Cheerleaders Win 1st in League and Tournament
(Submitted Story ~ 12/13/16)
The Guardian Angel cheerleaders of Oran had a great year. They were awarded 1st place in the Christian League during the 2016 season. They also won 1st place for cheering at the Varsity Boys Basketball Tournament held at St. Denis, Benton from December 9-11. Their coaches were Jacqui Hobbs & Jill Siebert. Many thanks to their coaches who did a wonderful job of teaching & guiding them with their cheers...
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Top GOP leaders back congressional probes of Russia hacking
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
WASHINGTON -- Congress' top Republicans on Monday endorsed investigations into the CIA's belief Russia meddled in last month's election to help Donald Trump win, suggesting potential battles ahead with the incoming commander in chief over Moscow and U.S. intelligence...
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Report: Accidental shooting suspect thought shotgun was BB gun
(Local News ~ 12/13/16)
A Sikeston, Missouri, man said he was playing around with a gun he thought was a BB gun when he accidentally shot his friend Cole Kirkpatrick, police said. Scott County sheriff's deputies arrested Sean L. Thomas, 18, on Thursday. The Scott County prosecuting attorney charged Thomas with involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action. His bond was set at $5,000 cash or surety...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Dec. 13, the 348th day of 2016. There are 18 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 13, 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.)...
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Prayer 12/13/16
(Prayer ~ 12/13/16)
We praise you, O Lord Jesus, for you are forever faithful. Amen.
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
(Column ~ 12/13/16)
I will begin and end this column with a Merry Christmas and Happy Prosperous New Year of 2017 to all of our citizens in Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area. We truly are an area and region where we thrive together in this place referred to as America's Heartland...
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La Croix Church, volunteers continue to feed the hungry
(Editorial ~ 12/13/16)
When you live in the United States, you're sometimes not mindful that every nation does not enjoy such opulence. Many people throughout the world have no idea where their next meal is coming from. La Croix Church has spent almost 10 years helping to feed those people through Feed My Starving Children, a not-for-profit group whose mission is to fight world hunger...
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Why so many Republicans
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/13/16)
In the last election over half of the voters in Missouri voted for Republicans and over two-thirds in the Cape Girardeau area did. I have thought about this long and hard, and I believe Republicans dominated in Southeast Missouri for three main reasons...
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Speak Out 12/13/16
(Speak Out ~ 12/13/16)
The Hopper Road project was never intended to merely straighten out the approach to the overpass. The whole idea behind that construction is to prepare the area for the extension Veterans Memorial Drive that will eventually run all the way from William to LaSalle. They reopened it early to quit inconveniencing the people who live on the west side of the interstate. Why don't you wait until they actually finish with the project before you start criticizing yet?...
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Lois Huffman
(Obituary ~ 12/13/16)
Lois Huffman passed away Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. She was born Lois Marie Morrison on Dec. 4, 1924, to Chester and Maggie Morrison. She just celebrated her 92nd birthday with her family and friends. Lois married Loren Huffman on April 12, 1947. Loren preceded her in death May 13, 2010...
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Doris Roberts
(Obituary ~ 12/13/16)
BONNE TERRE, Mo. -- Doris Elaine (Brown) Roberts, 82, of Bonne Terre passed away Dec. 11, 2016. She was born Sept. 25, 1934, in Cape Girardeau. She was a member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Bonne Terre. Doris was very devoted to her family and loved her children and grandchildren greatly...
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Lee Stewart
(Obituary ~ 12/13/16)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Lee Frances Stewart, 78, of Marble Hill passed away Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 25, 1937, in Lutesville, Missouri, daughter of Edwin and Thelma Kympton Pomeroy. She and David Stewart were united in marriage Sept. 1, 1962, in Lutesville...
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Norman Niswonger
(Obituary ~ 12/13/16)
KILLEEN, Texas -- Norman Gene Niswonger was born Aug. 10, 1937, in Cape Girardeau, one of 11 children born to Alvin Niswonger and Elizabeth Miller Niswonger. After battling kidney failure for over a year, Norman died peacefully in the arms of Our Lord and Savior on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016...
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Sold: Pristine views in Grand Teton National Park for $46M
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A $46 million deal between Wyoming and the Interior Department put a square mile of land inside Grand Teton National Park into U.S. government hands Monday, eliminating the possibility the pristine property with breathtaking views of the Rocky Mountains' Teton Range might be developed...
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With Fed expected to hike, attention turns to what it says
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
WASHINGTON -- There isn't much doubt about what the Federal Reserve will do when its latest policy meeting ends Wednesday: It's all but certain to raise its benchmark interest rate -- its first increase in a year. The anticipation surrounds what Fed officials may or may not say about the pace of future rate hikes against the backdrop of Donald Trump's election...
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Surge in drug-affected newborns driven by rural opioid use
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
CHICAGO -- A surge in U.S infants born with symptoms of withdrawal from heroin or strong prescription painkillers is driven largely by rising drug use among women in rural areas, a new study found. The study, led by University of Michigan researchers, estimates about 21 percent of newborns in rural counties had withdrawal symptoms in 2013, up from 13 percent in 2004...
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Out of the past: Dec. 13
(Out of the Past ~ 12/13/16)
U.S. Sen. Jack Danforth, in Cape Girardeau yesterday, told area Jaycees tax reform is needed before there will be any long-term economic recovery. Danforth also criticized a recent resurrection of "America first" isolationism and contempt for foreign affairs...
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Trump targets F-35; aircraft means jobs in 45 states
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump is vowing to corral the "out of control" cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But congressional Republicans and Democrats, aware of the tens of thousands of jobs the aircraft generates in 45 states, will be wary of any plans by Trump to cut the program...
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Trump's criticism of Russia hacking claim could haunt him
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump held firm Monday to his skepticism of the huge intelligence apparatus he's about to inherit, doubting anew the CIA conclusion Russia tried to hack its way into tipping the U.S. election his way. Trump emphasized he does not accept the conclusion the Kremlin tried to disrupt the election in his favor, an idea he dismissed as "ridiculous" over the weekend...
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Rebels retreat in Aleppo in 'terrifying' collapse
(International News ~ 12/13/16)
BEIRUT -- Syrian rebels retreated from former strongholds in eastern Aleppo in a "terrifying" collapse Monday, holding onto a sliver of territory packed with fighters and thousands of civilians as government troops pressed on with their advance. The Syrian military said it had gained control of 99 percent of the former opposition enclave in eastern Aleppo, signaling an imminent end to the rebels' four-year hold over parts of the city...
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Ex-Philadelphia congressman gets 10 years for corruption
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
PHILADELPHIA -- Former U.S. representative Chaka Fattah was sentenced Monday to a 10-year prison term by a judge who said he was "astonished" a veteran legislator would steal government and charity funds to pay his son's debts and buy a vacation home...
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Accused shooter had list of other black churches
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- When he was arrested, the man accused of killing nine people during a Bible study in a Charleston church had a list of other area black churches in his car, law-enforcement officials testified Monday. At the time, Dylann Roof told FBI agents he was too "worn out" from the June 2015 shootings at Emanuel AME Church to pursue further shootings...
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Missouri Planned Parenthood seeks to expand abortion access
(State News ~ 12/13/16)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Planned Parenthood officials in Missouri want a federal judge to block abortion regulations so four additional clinics can offer the procedure. The presidents and CEOs of Missouri's Planned Parenthood centers said Monday they've requested some regulations be put on hold during a court case over the constitutionality of the laws...
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Egypt president: Church attack was a suicide bombing
(International News ~ 12/13/16)
CAIRO -- The young man suspected of blowing himself up inside a Cairo chapel during Sunday Mass, killing at least 25 people, had been arrested and beaten by police two years ago after allegedly taking part in an Islamist demonstration, his lawyer said Monday...
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Four years after Newtown, gun-control advocates tailor efforts
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- With the election of NRA-backed Donald Trump as president, gun-control advocates are putting more emphasis on a long-term strategy of electing like-minded lawmakers, passing state legislation and fostering a grassroots network that grew out of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting four years ago...
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Recounts end: Trump wins Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
Presidential-election recount efforts came to an end Monday in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with both states certifying Republican Donald Trump as the winner in contests that helped put him over the top in the Electoral College stakes. Trump's victory in Wisconsin was reaffirmed after a statewide vote recount that showed him defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly 23,000 votes...
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'La La Land' waltzes off with most Golden Globe nominations
(Entertainment ~ 12/13/16)
Damien Chazelle's Los Angeles musical "La La Land" sang and danced its way to a leading seven Golden Globe nominations, with Barry Jenkins' celebrated coming-of-age tale "Moonlight" on its heels with six nods. "La La Land" earned nominations for its lead actors, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, as well as best picture, comedy or musical. ...
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Police accuse Benton man of arson while 3 were inside home
(Local News ~ 12/13/16)
A Benton man set a fire in the storage room with three people inside the house, deputies said. Scott County sheriff's deputies arrested Mark Anthony McTheeney, 50, on Thursday. Scott County's prosecuting attorney's office charged McTheeney with first-degree arson and resisting arrest...
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Cape strategic plan calls for expanding preschool
(Local News ~ 12/13/16)
The Cape Girardeau School District would look to increase the availability of preschool to mitigate the effect of poverty on student learning under a proposed strategic plan. That is one of the proposals contained in a draft of the strategic plan presented to the school board Monday night by consultant Rhett Hendrickson...
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World briefs 12/13/16
(International News ~ 12/13/16)
ISTANBUL -- Turkey's police rounded up more than 200 people, mostly Kurds, as the country Monday mourned the dozens killed in a bombing attack near an Istanbul soccer stadium. The interior ministry stated 235 people were detained in 11 cities for alleged connections to a terrorist organization. ...
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Man uses end loader to drop son's home
(National News ~ 12/13/16)
PARSONSFIELD, Maine -- Authorities say a man used a front-end loader to pick up and drop his son's mobile home repeatedly during a family dispute and stopped only when he learned his 7-year-old grandson was inside. The York County sheriff's department said John Bubar, 50, was involved in a dispute with his son, Michael, 27, on Sunday over rent payments and debris in the yard. The elder Bubar was arrested. His grandson wasn't hurt...
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Lucas Brewer
(Obituary ~ 12/13/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Lucas W. Brewer, 24, of Perryville died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, at his residence. A private service will be held for the family. Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville provided the arrangements.
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Jackson police report 12/13/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/13/16)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Kevin L. Kielhofner, 33, of Oran, Missouri, was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant. n Jesse S. Lowe, 21, of Jackson was arrested on a Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, warrant...
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Cape Girardeau police report 12/13/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/13/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A suspect was in custody pending charges of domestic assault. n A suspect was in custody pending charges of assault at 616 Boxwood Drive...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 12/13/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/13/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday. n Medical assists were made at 3:24 a.m. on Clark Avenue; 10:43 a.m. on Sheridan Drive; 5:12 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; 7:38 p.m. on Independence Street; and 8:56 p.m. on West Rodney Drive...
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Westley Webb
(Obituary ~ 12/13/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Westley D. "Wes" Webb, 31, of Perryville died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 6:30 to 10 a.m. Thursday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Reagan's Chapel Cemetery in Bollinger County, Missouri...
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Political correctness run amok
(Column ~ 12/13/16)
The inclination to coddle young people and protect their fragile sensibilities is growing by the day, and now, it has hit home in a way that bears further criticism.
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Perry County School District may ask for property-tax hike to pay for improvements
(Local News ~ 12/13/16)
The Perry County School District is exploring the idea of a tax levy on April's ballot. On Monday night, officials sought opinions from residents to determine whether such a measure would be supported. The money from a 35-cent property-tax levy, combined with a 55-cent debt-service fund and 20 cents financed through existing district funds, would provide about $15 million in new construction and capital improvements needed in the district...
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