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Wild time in Custer State Park at the Annual Buffalo Roundup
(Submitted Story ~ 02/15/17)
We had a fantastic time in Custer State Park when attending the annual Buffalo Roundup 9/16. These wild donkeys are descendants of the original donkeys used to help mining in the park. When mining ceased, the donkeys were left to roam the wilds of the park and mingle with the visitors...
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Catholic Schools Week at Guardian Angel School
(Submitted Story ~ 02/15/17)
Catholic Schools Week is a special time of year when the Catholic schools celebrate with their students, families, friends, church, and communities. This year the week ran from January 29 to February 3. At Guardian Angel School, Oran, the festivities started with an all school Mass on Sunday, January 29, followed by a book fair held in the school library. ...
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Guardian Angel School 7th &8th Graders Attend March for Life
(Submitted Story ~ 02/15/17)
Every two years, the 7th & 8th grade classes of Guardian Angel School, Oran, travels to Washington, D.C. to participate in the March for Life. This year the group, along with Mrs. Michelle Priggel and several parents, caught a bus in Cape on January 25 and made the trip to D.C. ...
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Ride-hailing operator sees benefits of state bill to regulate industry
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
The operator of a local ride-hailing venture sees no problem with a bill in the Missouri Legislature that would regulate his company and others like it. "It benefits us more than it hurts us," said Gunnar Knudtson, who operates the newly launched carGO ride-hailing program in which customers can summon rides from their smartphones...
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Settlement reached in accidental shooting case at Kelly High
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
Judge Michael Gardner approved a settlement Tuesday in Cape Girardeau between the family of Kaden Robert and two defendants in the case of Kaden's wrongful death during an accidental shooting in a school parking lot in 2014. The terms of the settlement were confidential, but Neal LeDure and Jeffrey B. Gage agreed to pay sums of money to Kaden's parents, Aaron and Rhonda Robert...
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Officials: Trump knew Flynn misled White House weeks before ouster
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
WASHINGTON -- Just six days into his presidency, Donald Trump was informed his national security adviser had misled his vice president about contacts with Russia. Trump kept his No. 2 in the dark and waited nearly three weeks before ousting the aide, Michael Flynn, citing a slow but steady erosion of trust, White House officials said Tuesday...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2017. There are 319 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1867, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube," a waltz by Johann Strauss (the Younger), was publicly performed for the first time by the Vienna Men's Choral Society, garnering a polite, if decidedly less than enthusiastic, audience response. (A revised orchestral version proved much more successful.)...
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Prayer 2/15/17
(Prayer ~ 02/15/17)
O Lord God, we praise you, for your ways are higher than our ways. Amen.
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Silence beyond contempt
(Column ~ 02/15/17)
This is where we find ourselves three months post-2016 presidential election. All semblance of unity has clearly been abandoned by the left in favor of continued protests and disruptions. The United States has given way to disunity by a grievance class financed and supported by those who loathe western values...
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Congrats to Mayor Rediger on parks and rec award
(Editorial ~ 02/15/17)
At last week's Cape Girardeau City Council meeting, Mayor Harry Rediger was surprised with the announcement that he'll receive the Public Official Award from the Missouri Parks and Recreation Association for his "public promotion and support voiced on behalf of recreation and park interests and issues."...
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'What's in your closet?' Find local fashion inspiration
(Community ~ 02/15/17)
The New Fashion Year is underway, and trends start to surface, from the runways to our wardrobe. From the looks of things, 2017 is about breaking all the rules. Pushing limits of conventional designs and personalizing high fashion to fit individuals' everyday lives...
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Furniture line borrows from the red carpet
(Community ~ 02/15/17)
LOS ANGELES -- Design duo Mark Badgley and James Mischka, known for show-stopping red-carpet gowns, are bringing the glamour of their fashion shows to a living room near you. The designers describe their first-ever Badgley Mischka Home Collection, launching today, as "couture furniture" infused with old Hollywood glamour...
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After Flynn resigns, Dems ask what did Trump know and when
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
WASHINGTON -- The resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn elicited a simple but persistent question Tuesday from congressional Democrats: What did President Donald Trump know and when did he know it? But many Republicans brushed past this echo of Watergate and another Republican president, Richard Nixon, to maintain no special investigation was warranted and the existing Republican-led committees will handle the probe, mostly in private...
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U.S. official: Russia deployed missile in violation of treaty
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
WASHINGTON -- Russia has deployed a cruise missile in violation of a Cold War-era arms control treaty, a Trump administration official said Tuesday, a development that complicates the outlook for U.S.-Russia relations amid turmoil on the White House national-security team...
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Out of the past: Feb. 15
(Out of the Past ~ 02/15/17)
A 1,500-pound crossbred Brahma bull brought an unexpected, heart-pounding ending to a rodeo at the Show Me Center last night, when it jumped a fence and ran through the aisles, creating panic among some spectators; the bull quickly was lassoed by rodeo cowboys and brought under control, but not before it sent some in the crowd and members of the rodeo band fleeing for safety...
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MacKinzie Vermillion
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- MacKinzie Marie Vermillion, 27, of Marble Hill died Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis. She was born March 2, 1989, in Sikeston, Missouri, to Paul Pobst and Kayla Morgan Ballard. She and Jedidiah Vermillion were married March 15, 2009, in Las Vegas...
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Norma Trickey
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
DUBLIN, Ga. — Norma Bertha Kaufmann Trickey, 81, of Cape Girardeau passed away Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at Fairview Park Hospital in Dublin. Norma, the daughter of Christian and Bertha Meier Kaufmann, was born July 1, 1935, in Millersville. Norma moved with her family to Cape Girardeau at an early age. She attended Franklin Elementary School and Cape Girardeau Central High School, graduating in 1953. After graduation, Norma worked at Woolworth’s Department Store in downtown Cape Girardeau...
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James Allen Stephens
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
McGEE, Mo. -- James Allen Stephens, 78, of McGee passed away Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, at his home. He was born May 4, 1938, at McGee, the son of Elza and Effie Wymer Stephens. James Allen retired after being a lifelong farmer. The farm he owned and operated will become a century farm Feb. 17. He also enjoyed coon hunting...
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Rev. Clark Sitze
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- The Rev. Clark R. Sitze, 77, passed away Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at his home. He was born Aug. 31, 1939, in Bessville, Missouri, son of Luke W. and Beulah Mae Butler Sitze. He and Cheryle Owens were united in marriage Feb. 12, 1966, at Old Union Methodist Church, and she passed away Aug. 15, 2015...
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Mona Scheeter
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Mona K. Scheeter, 72, died Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born March 10, 1944, in Mountain Grove, Missouri, to the late Fred and Eunice Rutter Sutton, she was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and had worked for Wohl/Brown Shoe Co. before retiring...
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Travis Scales
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
Travis Shantell Scales, 35, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in St. Louis. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home...
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Gladys Nitsch
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
Gladys Naomi Nitsch, 84, of Jackson passed away Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at Heisinger Bluffs in Jefferson City, Missouri. She was born Nov. 23, 1932, in Oak Ridge, daughter of Virgil and Ada Ruesler Thompson. She and Robert "Bob" Nitsch were married Sept. 23, 1951, at New McKendree United Methodist Church in Jackson. They were married for over 56 years before he passed away Feb. 19, 2008...
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Lucille Lyerla
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
Lucille Lyerla, 73, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at Southeast Hospital. She was born April 24, 1943, in Chicago to Henry and Garnette Hollatz Behning. Lucille was employed at the former Venture in Cape Girardeau and previously attended Shawnee Hills Baptist Church in Jackson...
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Kimberley Kennon
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
Kimberley Susan Schwettman Kennon, 54, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, at Westfield Nursing Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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Edward Hutson
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
BENTON, Mo. -- Edward Dwight Hutson, 84, of Benton died Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 18, 1932, in rural Blodgett, Missouri, to Everett D. and Jessie Faye Wheeler Hutson. He married Mary "Lou" Benfield on Dec. 7, 1952. She preceded him in death June 28, 1998...
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Christine Dracopoulos
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
Christine Dracopoulos, 72, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at her home. Born in Feb. 26, 1944, Chester, Pennsylvania, to the late John and Stella Papageorgiou Dracopoulos, she graduated Alvernia College in Pennsylvania in 1976 as valedictorian with a Bachelor of Arts in arts and history. She also attended Temple Law School...
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Raymond Dodson
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
THEBES, Ill. -- Raymond E. Dodson, 76, of Thebes passed away at 12:55 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Raymond was born July 24, 1940, in Elco, Illinois, son of the late Earl Franklin and Flossie L. Hurston Dodson...
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Phyllis Dinger
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
Phyllis G. Dinger, 72, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at her home. Visitation will be from 9:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Donny Ford officiating...
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Joanne Adams
(Obituary ~ 02/15/17)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Joanne M. Adams, 84, of Tamms died Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Jones Funeral Home Tamms and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Cross Road Methodist Church in Ullin, Illinois...
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Jackson police report 2/15/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/15/17)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n Salina Boyher, 36, of Union, Missouri, was arrested on five Franklin County, Missouri, warrants for failure to appear. Property damage n Property damage was reported in the area of West Jackson Boulevard and Parker Place...
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Cape Girardeau police report 2/15/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/15/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of shoplifting at Menards, 535 Siemers Drive. n Zion A. Whitfield, 21, 121 East Rodney Drive, was arrested on North Kingshighway on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for failure to appear...
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2 adults charged after St. Louis girl shot to death
(State News ~ 02/15/17)
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis woman and her boyfriend are charged with involuntary manslaughter after the woman’s 6-year-old daughter was shot to death. Twenty-seven-year-old Ebony Jones and 31-year-old Jeramee Ramey were charged Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter and three counts of misdemeanor child endangerment. ...
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Missouri bill addresses prostitution involving minors
(State News ~ 02/15/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri Senate committee is considering a bill aimed at protecting minors in prostitution cases. The Columbia Missourian reported the bill discussed Monday would prevent minors from being charged or prosecuted for prostitution. ...
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Missouri Republican cuts mic to silence NAACP official
(State News ~ 02/15/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri Republican legislator has come under strong criticism for cutting the microphone to silence the head of the state's NAACP chapter, who was speaking out at a public hearing against a bill that would restrict discrimination lawsuits...
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Evacuation lifted for 200K Californians living below dam
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
OROVILLE, Calif. -- Authorities lifted an evacuation order Tuesday for nearly 200,000 California residents who live below the nation's tallest dam after declaring the risk of catastrophic collapse of a damaged spillway had been reduced. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said residents can return home immediately...
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Yellen: Expect Fed to resume raising rates in coming months
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen pointed Tuesday to a solid U.S. job market and economy and said the Fed likely will resume raising interest rates in the next few months. But with uncertainties surrounding President Donald Trump's proposals, Yellen said the Fed still wants to keep assessing the economy...
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Gene editing may be used to avoid disease
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
WASHINGTON -- Don't expect designer babies anytime soon -- but a major new ethics report leaves open the possibility of one day altering human heredity to fight genetic diseases, with stringent oversight, using new tools that precisely edit genes inside living cells...
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Man found guilty of killing boy in 1979
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
NEW YORK -- Nearly four decades after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished on the way to his school-bus stop, a former convenience-store clerk was convicted Tuesday of murder in a case that influenced American parenting and law enforcement. The verdict against Pedro Hernandez gave Etan's relatives a resolution they had sought since May 1979 and gave prosecutors a conviction that eluded them when a 2015 jury deadlocked...
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North Korea leader's brother slain at airport
(International News ~ 02/15/17)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was assassinated at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, telling medical workers before he died he had been attacked with a chemical spray, a Malaysian official said Tuesday. Kim Jong Nam, 46, was targeted Monday in the shopping concourse at the airport and had not gone through immigration yet for his flight to Macau, said the senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case involves sensitive diplomacy.. ...
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Rumor hat it: German shepherd wins best in show at Westminster
(Entertainment ~ 02/15/17)
NEW YORK -- Quite a rally for Rumor -- a commanding comeback for German shepherds, too. Rumor was crowned America's top dog Tuesday night when, a year after a near-miss, she came out of retirement to win best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club. Cheered loudly all around the ring by a packed crowd at Madison Square Garden, and clearly the crowd favorite, she's just the second German shepherd to win the event that began in 1877...
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Lewis and Carolyn Ford Bock to receive Friends of the University Award
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
Lewis and Carolyn Ford Bock of Cape Girardeau and The Woodlands, Texas, have been named the 2017 Friends of the University by the Southeast Missouri University Foundation. The husband and wife will be honored at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the atrium of the River Campus Cultural Arts Center as part of the annual President’s Council Gala, school officials said in a news release...
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California dam has ties to late Cape construction executive
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
The nation's tallest dam has ties to a now-deceased prominent businessman who hails from Cape Girardeau. Completed in 1968, the Oroville Dam in Oroville, California, was built by a multicompany venture assembled by the late Irvin Garms of Potashnick Construction Inc., according to son Ron Garms of Cape Girardeau...
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Golden Corral set to open Thursday
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
Golden Corral’s Cape Girardeau restaurant will open Thursday, according to a news release. The restaurant had planned to open Monday, pending several inspections, which Kevin Behan, speaking on behalf of the restaurant, said have been completed. “It was just a matter of getting the inspections passed and that sort of thing. I just heard from the folks over there today that everything’s all set to open now on Thursday,” he said...
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Police: Drunken driver fled on foot after accident
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
Cape Girardeau police officers arrested a Perryville, Missouri, man who fled on foot after hitting a wall and overturning his vehicle about 8 p.m. Monday near Gordonville and Silver Spring roads, police said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued a summons to Jamond M. Rush, 23, for operating a motor vehicle while revoked, driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a crash...
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Man accused of driving drunk, hitting Cape police car
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers arrested a drunken driver who struck a Cape Girardeau police car Sunday night, police said. Cape Girardeau officers made a traffic stop at Broadway and Clark Avenue, with two patrol cars parked back to back with emergency lights flashing, according to a Cape Girardeau police news release...
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Tennessee man accused of tampering with witness during trial
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
A Dyersburg, Tennessee, man persuaded his fiancee to lie on the stand during a trial in 2014 in Cape Girardeau County court, and he was at large as of Tuesday afternoon, Cape Girardeau County sheriff’s deputies said. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Dennis Jerome Kimble, 32, with conspiracy to commit perjury and tampering with a witness in a felony prosecution...
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Giving 'Grace': Local salon owner, stylist partner to provide makeovers
(Community ~ 02/15/17)
Stylist Shelby Allee wanted to make women feel beautiful, and since she started PLUSH Salon in downtown Cape Girardeau in 2016, she's been doing exactly that. Now, by starting The Grace Movement with Heaven Kellum, they'll take that vision to the next step...
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Route KK reduced for drainage work
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
Route KK in Cape Girardeau County from Interstate 55 to County Road 407 will be reduced with a 12-foot width restriction as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace several pipes under the roadway. The work will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday, according to a MoDOT news release...
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Suspect returns stolen mortuary van after finding body
(National News ~ 02/15/17)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A man was arrested after police said he stole a van from a mortuary with a dead body inside, returned it and stole a different van from the same business. Riverside police officer Ryan Railsback said a mortuary employee was nearly run over when he tried to stop the man as he drove away the second time. ...
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Jackson board votes to demolish high school building if bond issue passes
(Local News ~ 02/15/17)
The Jackson School District now has a plan for renovations and construction if a proposed $22 million bond issue passes in April. Aaron Harte, senior associate with Incite Design Studio LLC, laid out his company’s design proposal during the school board’s meeting Tuesday night...
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Cardinals pitcher Alex Reyes needs Tommy John surgery
(Professional Sports ~ 02/15/17)
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) – An offspeed pitch during a pre-spring training bullpen session effectively ended Alex Reyes’ season before it began.
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