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Cape Parks and Rec Receives $6250 Donation
(Submitted Story ~ 01/31/17)
Members of the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation department receive a donation of $6250 from members of the Cape Girardeau Noon Optimist Club. The Noon Optimist Club is an organization of individuals who give their time in Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area to raise funds for the betterment of the children in the community...
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Southeast Missouri Special Olympics receives a donation of $2000 from the Cape Girardeau Noon Optimist Club
(Submitted Story ~ 01/31/17)
Members of the Southeast Missouri Special Olympics receive a donation of $2000 from members of the Cape Girardeau Noon Optimist Club. The Noon Optimist Club is an organization of individuals who give their time in Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area to raise funds for the betterment of the children in the community...
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Distinguished graduate award presented to St. Mary School teacher
(Submitted Story ~ 01/31/17)
Jane (Essner) Wilson was the recipient of the NCEA 2017 Distinguished Graduate Award presented by the St. Mary Cathedral School Board. Wilson is a 1976 graduate of St. Mary Cathedral School. She is a lifelong member of the parish and has been the first-grade teacher at St. Mary Cathedral School for the past 29 years. Wilson was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the parish and school...
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Jonathan Dohogne wins St. Mary Cathedral School geography bee
(Submitted Story ~ 01/31/17)
Jonathan Dohogne, son of Stuart and Kim Dohogne and seventh-grader at St. Mary Cathedral School, won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee on Jan. 23 for the second consecutive year. Jonathan also earned a chance at a $50,000 college scholarship. The bee, at which students answered oral questions about geography, was the first round in the 29th annual National Geographic Bee...
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Cape Council seeks strategic input, planning public meetings in all 6 wards
(Local News ~ 01/31/17)
Cape Girardeau residents will have an opportunity to speak their minds on shaping the future of the city during six, ward-based public meetings in February and March. Each ward council member will host a meeting in his or her district to hear from their constituents about the city's priorities...
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Cardinals must give Astros top 2 picks, $2M for hacking
(State News ~ 01/31/17)
NEW YORK -- The St. Louis Cardinals were stripped of their top two picks in this year's amateur draft Monday and ordered to give them to Houston along with $2 million as compensation for hacking the Astros' email system and scouting database. It was the final and unprecedented step in an unusual case of cybercrime involving two Major League Baseball teams...
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Cape Muslim doctor: Travel ban unjust, unhelpful
(Local News ~ 01/31/17)
President Donald Trump's travel ban on immigrants, refugees and legal travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries is an injustice, a member of the Islamic Center in Cape Girardeau said Monday. Ahmad Sheikh, a local endocrinologist, said he sees the executive order as causing confusion and distance, which he believes is unhelpful...
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Southeast president tries to reassure students about travel ban
(Local News ~ 01/31/17)
President Trump's executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries has caused worldwide controversy and outrage. But Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas is trying to maintain a calm environment for all the university's students, including those dozen or so from the countries in question...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2017. There are 334 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 31, 1917, during World War I, Germany served notice that it was beginning a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare...
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Chicken rebuttal
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/31/17)
In his Letter to the Editor (Jan. 27), Dan Presson feels as though the Red Star District would be "damaged by the introduction of chickens to our city neighborhoods." The precise opposite is true. Gentrification and revitalization requires sustained residents, young people 25-35 years old who are investing their lives in such neighborhoods. ...
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Speak Out 1/31/17
(Speak Out ~ 01/31/17)
Trump was elected on a promise to repeal Obamacare -- not replace it. He should honor his promises. If Trump is so sure Mexico will pay for the wall, let him pay for it out of his pocket and then Mexico can pay him back. He is so sure he doesn't have anything to worry about. But the working Americans will be stuck with his wall. Congress doesn't care as they and their 1 percent won't have to pay anything...
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Southeast Missouri hospitals provide parents with boxinettes
(Editorial ~ 01/31/17)
The infant mortality rate in Scott, Mississippi, New Madrid, Stoddard, Dunklin and Pemiscot counties are the highest in Missouri and even surpasses the national rate. Many of these deaths result from parents accidentally suffocating their children by rolling on top of them while sleeping in the same bed. Healthcare facilities are now equipping families with "boxinettes" to eliminate this tragedy...
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Prayer 1/31/17
(Prayer ~ 01/31/17)
O Lord God, may we always remember to speak to one another in love. Amen.
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The race to race-bait
(Column ~ 01/31/17)
My desire to honor the peaceful transfer of power on January 20 led me to put off this topic until this week, but I was compelled to return to it. The Martin Luther King Jr. bust debacle both angers and concerns me. The false report by TIME magazine political reporter Zeke Miller on Inauguration Day that President Trump had removed the bust was not the "mistake" some have labeled it. It was willful and despicable -- but not at all surprising...
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RJ McKinney
(Obituary ~ 01/31/17)
RJ McKinney, 87, passed away Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at Saint Louis University Medical Center. He was born Aug. 5, 1929, in Advance, Missouri, to the late Rube and Aria Bird McKinney. RJ was married to Mildred Christine Thompson on Aug. 28, 1948, in Paducah, Kentucky. She preceded him in death March 24, 1993. He married Vicki Kay Connell on June 8, 2001...
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Lucille Ackman
(Obituary ~ 01/31/17)
Mary Lucille Ackman, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at her home. She was born April 1, 1930, in Dutchtown, to Henry B. and Pauline Halter Horrell. Lucille and Thomas E. Ackman were married July 8, 1950, at St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Girardeau. He died Sept. 12, 2014...
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Maggie Holland
(Obituary ~ 01/31/17)
Maggie Ruth Holland of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at SoutheastHEALTH. She was born Jan. 14, 1928, in Jackson, daughter of Garnett and Rispa Johnson Masterson and recently celebrated her 89th birthday. She and William Holland married March 22, 1952, at Piggott, Arkansas...
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Vera Lohmann
(Obituary ~ 01/31/17)
Vera Lohmann, 95, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 29, 1921, in Kelso, Missouri, to the late Killian and Frances (Ziegler) Felter. She was married to Clarence Anton Lohmann on Nov. 18, 1939. He passed away Oct. 12, 2008...
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Fallout from Trump order drags stocks lower
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks fell Monday as investors grew nervous after President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries. Energy companies, which have surged over the last year, took the biggest losses. Airlines skidded after Trump's executive order led to protests and disruption at airports and concerns about travel...
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Thomas Pikey
(Obituary ~ 01/31/17)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Thomas Nelson "Tom" Pikey, 72, of Advance, formerly of Scott City, died Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at Southeast Health of Stoddard County in Dexter, Missouri. He was born Aug. 28, 1944, in Conran, Missouri, to Charlie Cecil and Stella Mae White Pikey. He first married Linda Kay Kinder on Nov. 25, 1964, in Scott City. She preceded him in death March 30, 2012. He married Wanda Lou Bishop on June 27, 2015, in Bloomfield, Missouri...
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George H.W. Bush released from Houston hospital, returns home
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
HOUSTON -- Former president George H.W. Bush was released Monday from Houston Methodist Hospital where he received treatment for pneumonia for more than two weeks. Bush, 92, was experiencing breathing difficulties when he was admitted Jan. 14. During his treatment, which included a stay in intensive care, doctors inserted a breathing tube and connected him to a ventilator...
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Out of the past: Jan. 31
(Out of the Past ~ 01/31/17)
KELSO, Mo. -- Firefighter Terry Lufcy sustained what appears to be a minor back injury yesterday when he fell through the roof of a Kelso home as he attempted to fight a blaze that gutted the structure. The home, about four miles south of Kelso on U.S. 61, was owned by Charlie and Diane Bond...
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Florida airport shooting suspect pleads not guilty
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- One by one, a judge detailed the 22 charges against an Alaskan man accused of killing five people and wounding six others in the Florida airport shooting spree. Then, Esteban Santiago pleaded not guilty. Santiago, 26, stood in chains Monday as U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer took the unusual step of reading the entire 17-page indictment aloud in court -- with repeated emphasis on the victims' names...
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Missouri Senate considers lawmaker pay raises
(State News ~ 01/31/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri senators debated Monday whether to accept a proposed pay raise for themselves and statewide elected officials, a move Republican Gov. Eric Greitens called "outrageous." If senators don't vote to block the pay increase before Wednesday, lawmakers will get a roughly $1,800 raise over two years...
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Missouri death-row inmate appeals to U.S. Supreme Court
(State News ~ 01/31/17)
ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri man convicted of killing a woman and her two children almost 20 years ago asked the U.S. Supreme Court to spare his life Monday, one day before his scheduled execution. Mark Christeson, 37, is set for lethal injection this evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre...
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St. Louis Catholic schools see rise in non-Catholic students
(State News ~ 01/31/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Catholic schools in St. Louis have been seeing a decrease in Catholic students over the past decade while seeing an increase in non-Catholic enrollment. In the 11 counties of the St. Louis Archdiocese, Catholic schools lost 22 percent of their Catholic students, but they experienced a 23 percent hike in non-Catholic enrollment in the last 10 years, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported...
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St. Louis Symphony musicians agree to 5-year contract
(State News ~ 01/31/17)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the union representing its musicians have reached agreement on a new five-year contract. The symphony announced the new contract Monday with the American Federation of Musicians, Local 2-197 -- more than seven months before the old contract expires...
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Washington University dean of students facing porn charge
(State News ~ 01/31/17)
ST. LOUIS -- A dean of students at Washington University in St. Louis has been indicted on federal child pornography charge, the U.S. attorney's office in St. Louis said Monday. Justin Carroll, 67, of University City, Missouri, is charged with access with intent to view child pornography. Bond was set at $100,000...
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6 counts of murder for Quebec mosque attack suspect
(International News ~ 01/31/17)
QUEBEC CITY -- A French Canadian known for far-right, nationalist views was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder over the shooting rampage at a Quebec City mosque that Canada's prime minister called an act of terrorism against Muslims...
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CEOs push back against Trump temporary immigration ban
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
NEW YORK -- CEOs of some of the world's biggest companies are fighting back against President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban, calling it un-American and bad for business. The heads of Apple, Ford and Goldman Sachs said they don't support the executive order the president signed last week, which bans immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S...
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Trump supporters say they are happy with immigration order
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Don't talk about airport protests in Trump Country. In the states that propelled Donald Trump to the White House, the president's fans couldn't be much happier with his executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries...
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Trump's voter-fraud expert registered in 3 states
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
SAN FRANCISCO -- A man President Donald Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud was registered to vote in several states during the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press has learned. Gregg Phillips, whose unsubstantiated claim the election was marred by 3 million illegal votes was tweeted by the president, was listed on the rolls in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi, according to voting records and election officials in those states...
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Trump ousts acting attorney general as outcry grows
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
WASHINGTON -- Defiant in the face of an international backlash, President Donald Trump pressed into his second week in office defending his sweeping immigration ban -- then fired a Cabinet head who refused to enforce it. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates earlier Monday ordered Justice Department lawyers to stop defending the executive order, which temporarily suspends the U.S. refugee program and bars all immigration for citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries for 90 days...
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Miss France crowned Miss Universe in Philippines
(Entertainment ~ 01/31/17)
MANILA, Philippines -- A 23-year-old dental student from France won the Miss Universe crown Monday, saying her triumph will make the beauty contest more popular in Europe and help her efforts to put more underprivileged children in school. Iris Mittenaere of Lille, France, buried her face in her hands in shock as the outgoing winner from the Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach, crowned her and the crowd at the Mall of Asia Arena by Manila Bay cheered...
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Travel ban faces mounting legal questions
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
WASHINGTON -- The legal fight over President Donald Trump's ban on refugees likely will turn on questions of a president's authority to control America's borders and on whether the new immigration policy unconstitutionally discriminates against Muslims...
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Denver man accused of statutory rape of 12-year-old
(Local News ~ 01/31/17)
The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney's Office filed an arrest warrant Friday for a Denver man for three counts of statutory rape dating to April 2013. Cape Girardeau police said Brian M. Martin, 36, remained at large Monday afternoon. Martin's bond was set at $50,000 cash or surety...
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Police: Driver fled from traffic stop, went wrong way on I-55
(Local News ~ 01/31/17)
Cape Girardeau police arrested a man Saturday four days after he drove away from a traffic stop and into oncoming traffic on Interstate 55, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged John James Clary, 34, of Cape Girardeau with felony resisting arrest...
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Lawyer: Fear prompted Cape man to break into house
(Local News ~ 01/31/17)
A lawyer for a Cape Girardeau man accused of felonies from a Jan. 12 incident said his client was scared to death and entered the home of an elderly Cape Girardeau woman out of fear. "He's a victim of a crime," Malcolm Montgomery said of his client, Adrian McKinsley Brown...
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DWI suspect arrested at gunpoint after brief pursuit
(Local News ~ 01/31/17)
A Cape Girardeau man committed several traffic violations before stopping for a patrol car early Sunday near his home on Montgomery Street, police said. The suspect then was arrested at gunpoint, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Ranell Anthony Robinson, 37, with felony driving while intoxicated as a chronic offender and misdemeanor resisting arrest...
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Grass fire causes problems on Interstate 55
(Local News ~ 01/31/17)
Cape Girardeau firefighters work to extinguish a grass fire Monday afternoon on the west side of the southbound lanes of Interstate 55 near the 94.4 mile marker. Heavy smoke became a concern for visibility in the area. Traffic in the right lane was closed during the operation...
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Police: Burglar made himself at home
(National News ~ 01/31/17)
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Police said a burglar made himself at home in houses he broke into by cooking and showering before leaving. Authorities in Youngstown said the 33-year-old homeless man brought his own food to cook during break-ins. Police said the man was arrested after a woman arrived home from work about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday and found her kitchen ransacked, with food all over and her stove used. She heard running water upstairs and found a man in her shower, police said...
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Jackson police report 1/31/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/31/17)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Phillip Galster, 32, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of driving while suspended, speeding and failure to provide proof of insurance. n Zachary O'Bryan, 21, of Jackson was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for failure to appear for a traffic offense...
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Cape Girardeau police report 1/31/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/31/17)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of DWI at William and Hanover streets. Arrests n Cherise R. Hatfield, 37, 1209 Cousin St., was arrested at Merriwether and Sprigg streets on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for probation violation...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 1/31/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/31/17)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Sunday. n Medical assists were made at 4:50 a.m. on Perryville Road; 7:07 a.m. on South Middle Street; and 2:35 p.m. on North Frederick Street. n At 3:15 a.m., a call was dispatched and canceled en route to Old Hopper Road...
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Delores Estes
(Obituary ~ 01/31/17)
Delores J. Estes, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Entombment will be at Cape County Memorial Park Mausoleum in Cape Girardeau...
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