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Wardell police chief barred from the city following stalking charge
(Local News ~ 03/10/17)
WARDELL, Mo. — Wardell police chief Casey Redden was taken to jail Tuesday after violating a protection order placed against him, and bond conditions now prevent him from entering the city. The charges and restrictions leave his status as police chief in jeopardy. An official at Wardell City Hall could not comment on the status of Redden’s employment after the arrest and restrictions, citing city policy against commenting on personnel issues...
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Storm drainage tops discussion at final strategic planning meeting
(Local News ~ 03/10/17)
One neighborhood’s storm-drainage issues topped the discussion Thursday at the Cape Girardeau City Council’s sixth and final strategic-planning meeting. City officials held the meetings to solicit public input as they look to revise a five-year-old strategic plan...
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Schools, community come together to help in tornado-recovery efforts
(Local News ~ 03/10/17)
Perry County schools still are dealing with the effects of a tornado that destroyed more than 40 homes in the area. District communications director Kate Martin said 30 students and school staff members were displaced by the tornado. Some of the students have sought out counseling services at their schools...
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Expert gives businesses specific tips on avoiding cyber threats
(Local News ~ 03/10/17)
Most people are more vulnerable to hacking than they realize, cybersecurity expert Charles Henson told area business owners and IT professionals during a lecture Thursday. Just ask the CIA, he pointed out, referencing the recent release of hacked CIA documents by WikiLeaks...
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Local musician Ivas John organizes sixth Cross Rivers Roots & Blues Festival, unites area musicians
(Entertainment ~ 03/10/17)
Ivas John likes to get down. Way down. It's deep below the surface that he finds the best, a place where the roots reside. As the blues guitarist and vocalist branches out in his career, he remains loyal to the place that helped establish him along the banks of the Mississippi River...
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Jason Smith: GOP bill first step to replace 'Obamacare'
(Local News ~ 03/10/17)
Republican legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives marks just the first step in efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Rep. Jason Smith said Thursday. Smith said this is just one part of a three-step process to improve the nation’s health-care system...
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Jackson Boulevard medians to get a planting facelift
(Local News ~ 03/10/17)
West Jackson Boulevard's median planting areas are getting a facelift. The Missouri Department of Transportation and the city of Jackson are teaming up to address six median planting areas, referred to as planter boxes, on West Jackson Boulevard between the traffic signals at South Oklahoma Street and East Lane/Old Toll Road, according to a Feb. 17 memo from public-works director Rodney Bollinger...
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Judge sentences Zalma man to 12 years in prison for second-degree murder
(Local News ~ 03/10/17)
Circuit Judge Michael Gardner sentenced a Zalma, Missouri, man to 12 years in prison Thursday for second-degree murder, adding he was “reluctantly” accepting a plea agreement. Gardner sentenced Russell Mayberry in circuit court in Jackson. Mayberry, 32, agreed to a deal with Bollinger County, Missouri, Prosecuting Attorney Heath Robins...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/10/17)
Today in History Today is Friday, March 10, the 69th day of 2017. There are 296 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 10, 1848, the U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War. On this date:...
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Prayer 3/10/17
(Prayer ~ 03/10/17)
O Lord Jesus, may we forgive others as you have forgiven us. Amen.
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Grab a snack. Get comfy. It's time for the DST fuss.
(Column ~ 03/10/17)
OK. I apologize, profusely, in advance. There is a law -- or ought to be -- that every columnist who writes for the free press should be required to spend the week before the switch to daylight-saving time expounding on the rationale for staying on DST year-round...
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Southeast's cyber defense team excels
(Editorial ~ 03/10/17)
For the fifth consecutive year the Southeast Missouri State University Cyber Defense team won its competition against other competitors within the state, recently besting 11 other Missouri schools. Southeast's cyber defense team also will advance to regional competition for the fifth year...
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Out of the past: March 10
(Out of the Past ~ 03/10/17)
Cape Girardeau residents likely will see increased fees for city services and programs over the next several years; the city administrative staff last night told city council members the fee increases are needed to make such programs more self-sufficient...
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Michael Tarrants
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
Michael Denver Tarrants, 67, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Donny Ford officiating. Burial will be at Matthews Cemetery in Matthews, Missouri...
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Nancy Lynn Sander
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
Nancy Lynn Sander, 71, of Jackson passed away peacefully Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at the home of her sister in Jackson. Born Jan. 26, 1946, in Cape Girardeau, Lynn and her twin brother, Lane, were the sixth and seventh of 12 children born to William K. "Bill" and Lillie M. "Mae" Limbaugh Sander...
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James Hodges Jr.
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — James “Jim” Samuel Hodges Jr., 90, of East Prairie died Saturday, March 4, 2017, at Cotton Point Nursing Facility in Matthews, Missouri. He was born Oct. 7, 1926, in Sikeston, Missouri, to the late James Samuel and Emma Thelma Arnold Hodges Sr. From childhood, he lived and worked with the family on a farm west of Sikeston off Salcedo Road until January 1944, when he dropped out of high school and changed his birthdate to make himself of age to join the U.S. Marines and fight overseas in World War II...
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Lala Hendrix
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
Lala Virginia "Sue" Hendrix, 95, of Cape Girardeau danced her way to the Lord on March 8, 2017, at the Lutheran Home. She was born March 11, 1921, in Charleston, Missouri, to Eddie Wade and Frocie Lee Smith Pennebaker. While working at the former Brown Shoe Factory in Charleston, she met the love of her life, Troy I. Hendrix. They were married March 24, 1939, in Charleston, and five children were born to their union...
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Gene Haas
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
FARMINGTON, Mo. -- Gene Joseph Haas of Farmington passed away Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at Presbyterian Manor at the age of 82 years. He was born Jan. 27, 1935, at Cape Girardeau, son of the late Joseph L. and Opal C. Lewis Haas. Gene grew up in Cape Girardeau and attended school there. He later served his country in the U.S. Naval Reserves from 1953 to 1961...
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Charles Gross
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Charles Lloyd Gross, 74, of Tamms died Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Tamms. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Jones Funeral Home in Tamms.
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Roger Crisler
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
ANNA, Ill. -- Roger Dale Crisler, 62, of Anna, formerly of Tamms, Illinois, died Thursday, March 9, 2017, at Jonesboro Health Center in Jonesboro, Illinois. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Jones Funeral Home in Tamms...
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Sue Craig
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
Susan Mary "Sue" Craig, 64, of Jackson died Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. The visitation will be from 4 to 6:45 p.m. Monday in Chapel A of McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson, with a rosary at 6:45 p.m., led by the St. Ann's Sodality...
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Anola Bowerman
(Obituary ~ 03/10/17)
EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- Anola G. Bowerman, 89, of East Cape Girardeau died Thursday, March 9, 2017, at her daughter's home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are pending at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Jackson police report 3/10/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/10/17)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Christopher Franklin, 30, of Jackson was arrested on a Jackson warrant for failure to appear. n Laurie Ford, 42, of Jackson was arrested on susupicion of stealing, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance...
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Cape Girardeau police report 3/10/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/10/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Summonses n Tinesha N. Warren, 30, of Cape Girardeau was issued summonses for displaying prohibited items and failure to maintain property free of litter at 805 S. Ellis St...
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Samuel Jackson: Comments about black Brit actors not a slam
(Entertainment ~ 03/10/17)
LOS ANGELES -- Samuel Jackson said he wasn't trying to slam black British actors when he criticized their casting in American films such as the horror hit "Get Out" and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drama "Selma." Jackson said Wednesday his comments Monday on the radio station Hot 97 weren't necessarily misunderstood, but his criticism was not of the performers but rather of the system that allows black actors from overseas to take prominent roles in American films...
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#SemoSelfie 3/10/17
(Entertainment ~ 03/10/17)
#semoselfie
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U.S. force in Syria to help anti-IS fighters with firepower
(International News ~ 03/10/17)
BEIRUT -- A Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group with the support of U.S. troops will close in on the extremists' de facto capital Raqqa within a few weeks, but the battle for the city will be difficult, a U.S. military official said Thursday...
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Death toll rises to 34 in fire at youth shelter in Guatemala
(International News ~ 03/10/17)
SAN JOSE PINULA, Guatemala -- A blaze that killed at least 34 girls at a shelter for troubled youths erupted when some of them set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution, the parent of one victim said Thursday...
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Doctors tie Zika virus to heart problems in some adults
(National News ~ 03/10/17)
For the first time, doctors have tied infection with the Zika virus to possible new heart problems in adults. The evidence so far is in only eight people in Venezuela and is not enough to prove a link. It's also too soon to know how often this might be happening...
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Dead shark found in Wal-Mart parking lot
(National News ~ 03/10/17)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. ---- Authorities are mystified as to why a 5-foot-long dead shark was left in the parking lot of a Florida Wal-Mart days before another dead shark was found nearby. The St. Augustine Record reported St. Johns County sheriff's deputies were called to the parking lot last week after the shark was found in a shopping cart. Deputies talked to the owner of an RV parked nearby and learned he had awakened to find the shark on his vehicle's hood. The owner said he put it in the cart...
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EPA chief: Carbon dioxide not primary cause of warming
(National News ~ 03/10/17)
WASHINGTON -- The new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus and his own agency. EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said measuring the effect of human activity on the climate is "very challenging," and "there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact" of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
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GOP leaders claim momentum as health bill clears hurdles
(National News ~ 03/10/17)
WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders drove their long-promised legislation to dismantle Barack Obama's health-care law over its first big hurdles in the House on Thursday and claimed fresh momentum despite cries of protest from right, left and center. After grueling all-night sessions, the Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees both approved their portions of the bill along party-line votes. ...
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WikiLeaks aid on CIA software holes could be mixed blessing
(National News ~ 03/10/17)
NEW YORK -- WikiLeaks has offered to help the likes of Google and Apple identify the software holes used by purported CIA hacking tools -- and that puts the tech industry in a bind. While companies have a responsibility -- not to mention financial incentive -- to fix problems in their software, accepting help from WikiLeaks raises legal and ethical questions. And it's not even clear at this point exactly what kind of information WikiLeaks has to offer...
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White House: Trump unaware of Flynn's foreign-agent work
(National News ~ 03/10/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump was not aware his former national-security adviser, Michael Flynn, had worked to further the interests of the government of Turkey before appointing him, the White House said Thursday. The comments came two days after Flynn and his firm, Flynn Intel Group Inc., filed paperwork with the Justice Department formally identifying him as a foreign agent and acknowledging his work for a company owned by a Turkish businessman could have aided Turkey's government...
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House moves to block higher minimum wage in St. Louis
(State News ~ 03/10/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri House lawmakers have passed a bill to block St. Louis from raising the local minimum wage. The GOP-led House on Thursday voted 112-46 to send the measure to the Senate. Republican lawmakers are fast-tracking the legislation to prevent a higher minimum wage from taking effect in St. Louis...
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Missouri Senate approves health, highway patrol appointees
(State News ~ 03/10/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Senate has confirmed Dr. Randall Williams as the next director of the Department of Health and Senior Services and Col. Sandy Karsten as the next superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Both appointees of Republican Gov. Eric Greitens were approved Thursday by unanimous voice votes...
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Missouri House passes change to tort lawsuits
(State News ~ 03/10/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- House members on Thursday passed legislation backers contend is aimed at stopping out-of-state plaintiffs from bringing lawsuits to the state in an attempt to get more favorable rulings, an effort opponents said will limit Missouri residents from banding together to fight back against deceptive or harmful business practices...
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Lawmakers question response to Missouri prisons complaints
(State News ~ 03/10/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri lawmakers Thursday questioned the timing of administrators' response to claims of widespread harassment in state prisons, an issue that's spurred outrage among some elected officials and led to a House review. Outgoing Division of Adult Institutions director Dave Dormire told lawmakers he's had "numerous" meetings with other officials about individual claims of discrimination and harassment of employees in state prisons. ...
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State sued over low funding for public defenders
(State News ~ 03/10/17)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's public-defender system is so badly underfunded and understaffed, its lawyers are unable to provide even rudimentary representation for indigent clients, who often languish in jail or appear in court without attorneys, according to a class-action lawsuit seeking to force the state to increase funding...
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Construction unearths centuries-old coffins in Philadelphia
(National News ~ 03/10/17)
PHILADELPHIA -- Construction crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia's historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact human remains. Now, forensic scientists and students at Rutgers University-Camden are working to recover as many of the 18th-century remains as they can, to analyze them and find out who these people were, said Kimberlee Moran, an associate professor and director of forensics at the university...
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Best Bet: Fashion show to be Saturday
(Entertainment ~ 03/10/17)
The second annual Dreams Don’t Have An Expiration Date Fashion Show will be at 6 p.m. Saturday at Franklin Elementary School, 1550 Themis St. in Cape Girardeau. QueRstyles and CBS present the show, hosted by Heather Marie and Christy Love. Models will display outfits, dance teams will perform, and the hosts will give inspirational speeches. The dance contest will have a $500 cash prize. Tickets are available at www.eventbrite.com or by texting (573) 450-2982. A portion of proceeds will be donated to charity.
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Artifacts 3/10/17
(Entertainment ~ 03/10/17)
The Cape Girardeau Rotary Club will host a trivia night tonight. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m., and trivia starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Isle Casino Cape Girardeau Events Center, 777 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau. Cost to register a team of eight is $160, which includes heavy hors d'oeuvres. Cash bar. To register, call or email Paige Morlan at pmorlan@mac.com or (573) 388-3331...
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Hidden beneath paint, a famed artist's wall decorations
(Entertainment ~ 03/10/17)
CATSKILL, N.Y. -- Not only did Thomas Cole paint the lush mountain landscapes that inspired the Hudson River School art movement of the 19th century, but he also painted on the walls of his home. Lost beneath layers of paint for more than a century, the patterned borders below the ceilings were rediscovered several years ago and now are revealed in their semi-faded glory...
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