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Trump heads into tough week with budget, health care battles
(National News ~ 04/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is heading into one of the most challenging weeks of his presidency, juggling a renewed health-care push and a looming budget deadline. It's all complicated by a potential showdown with Democrats over paying for a border wall...
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Business notebook: Holt Electrical opens new location in Cape
(Business ~ 04/24/17)
St. Louis-based Holt Electrical Supplies' newest branch has opened in Cape Girardeau, offering wholesale electrical distribution. "Anything that has electrical in your home or business, that's what we sell," said Holt's director of operations, Bob Watson. "We sell to contractors and electricians; people who install electrical services."...
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Cape couple turns their home into cozy, comfortable music venue
(Local News ~ 04/24/17)
Walk into the Underberg house and step into a home that's somehow also a music venue: at once welcoming and professional, with a dining room above a den, separated by a railing, all red brick and dark-stained wood with white walls and low lights. It's an intimate setting, with room for 38 people, plus Larry and Jean Underberg, and a few more can squeeze in at the edges. ...
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BBB warns Jackson man's online business might not be legit
(Local News ~ 04/24/17)
The Better Business Bureau is warning customers to use caution in dealing with a Jackson man whose new website it said may not be trustworthy. Jody Williams, 23, previously ran websites including Cigar Lovers Paradise, Apple Refurbishing, Microsoft Refurbishing and Sparked Fashion, all of which have received the lowest possible ratings from the BBB -- "F" -- according to a news release from the organization...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/24/17)
Today in History Today is Monday, April 24, the 114th day of 2017. There are 251 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 24, 1967, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry; he was the first human spaceflight fatality...
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Southeast drone program to start this fall
(Column ~ 04/24/17)
Remember when microwaves, treadmills and flying objects were mere figments of the imagination found on "The Jetsons"? Add drones to the list of amazing inventions, and you have the latest science fiction-turned-Bachelor of Science degree at Southeast Missouri State University. Yes, students may major in drones now...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 4/24/17
(Local News ~ 04/24/17)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Approval of minutes n Minutes of the April 20 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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Alice Smith
(Obituary ~ 04/24/17)
Alice Georgianna Smith, 83, of Jackson, formerly of Hardy, Arkansas, died Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Cape Girardeau. Born in Pocahontas, Arkansas, on Oct. 24, 1933, she was the only child of James Franklin and Mable (Shasshere) Weaver. Early years were spent in Hardy, and she graduated from Messick High School in Memphis, Tennessee. She married George Walter Smith on Jan. 26, 1952. They had been married exactly 56 years when he passed away Jan. 26, 2008...
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Fay Amelunke
(Obituary ~ 04/24/17)
Fay A. Amelunke, 89, of Jackson passed away Saturday, April 22, 2017, surrounded by her family at the Monticello House in Jackson. She was born Nov. 21, 1927, in Jackson, the daughter of Leo and Frieda Maag Nussbaum. She and Otto M. Amelunke were married Sept. 22, 1946. He preceded her in death May 10, 1985...
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Lucille Klipfel
(Obituary ~ 04/24/17)
Lucille M. Klipfel, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, April 22, 2017, at her home. She was born May 16, 1931, in Cape Girardeau to Bernard William and Clara Christine Brockmeyer Jansen. She and Joseph L. Klipfel were married July 7, 1951, at St. Augustine Church in Kelso, Missouri. He preceded her in death June 11, 1997...
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Births 4/24/17
(Births ~ 04/24/17)
Daughter to Jacob Paul Casey and Ashton Nichole Crews of Anna, Illinois, Saint Francis Medical Center, 12:52 p.m. Thursday, April 13, 2017. Name, Paisley Rae. Weight, 7 pounds, 12 ounces. First child. Crews is the daughter of Dee Cruse and Collin Cruse of Anna. She is employed by Complete Family Eyecare. Casey is the son of Ted Johnson and Lesley Johnson of Anna. He is employed by a railroad...
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Altheda Schmelig
(Obituary ~ 04/24/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Altheda A. Schmelig, 107, of Perryville died Saturday, April 22, 2017, at Independence Care Center of Perry County in Perryville. Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with the Rev. Steven Dressler officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery...
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Tiny Oregon community for sale for $3.5M
(National News ~ 04/24/17)
TILLER, Ore. -- In the tiny, dying timber town of Tiller, the cliche is true. If you blink, you might miss it. But these days, this dot on a map in southwestern Oregon is generating big-city buzz for an unlikely reason: Almost the entire town is for sale...
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Giraffe's baby bump boosts tiny zoo's upkeep, conservation
(National News ~ 04/24/17)
April the giraffe has brought a bundle to a tiny zoo in rural upstate New York, thanks to a YouTube video livestream of her pregnancy and birth of a calf that has riveted viewers around the world. Owners of the for-profit Animal Adventure Park won't say exactly how much they've pulled in from all April-related ventures, but internet marketing experts conservatively estimate the haul in the hundreds of thousands of dollars...
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Public window on financial complaints could be closing soon
(National News ~ 04/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. consumers filed nearly 300,000 complaints last year about their dealings with banks, credit-card issuers and other financial-services companies. Most of those complaints were compiled and made available for anyone to see as part of a database administered by the federal government...
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Out of the past: April 24
(Out of the Past ~ 04/24/17)
Four Southeast Missouri State University regents say athletics isn't "a sacred cow," but they oppose making any budget cuts that would jeopardize the university's standing as a NCAA Division I school; the board of regents last week said it wouldn't approve a $250,000 cut in the athletic budget recommended by a divided Budget Review Committee...
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Bloomberg to world leaders: Ignore Trump on climate
(National News ~ 04/24/17)
NEW YORK -- New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg urged world leaders not to follow President Donald Trump's lead on climate change and declared his intention to help save an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions. Bloomberg, who considered a presidential bid after serving three terms as New York City's mayor, addressed his intensifying focus on climate change in an interview with The Associated Press...
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Right to work marks new Missouri governor's first 100 days
(State News ~ 04/24/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, in his first 100 days in office has made good on a top campaign promise to sign a right-to-work law, although another pledge to strengthen ethics laws remains unfulfilled. Progress has been made to advance two top priorities outlined in Greitens' campaign and State of the State address -- economic development and supporting law enforcement. ...
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California moves slowly toward resuming executions
(National News ~ 04/24/17)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California long has been what one expert calls a "symbolic death-penalty state," one of 12 that has capital punishment on the books but has not executed anyone in more than a decade. Prodded by voters and lawsuits, the nation's most populous state now may be easing back toward allowing executions, though observers are split on how quickly they will resume, if at all...
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'The Fate of the Furious' laps new films at box office
(Entertainment ~ 04/24/17)
LOS ANGELES -- "The Fate of the Furious" sped into first place at the box office again, leaving new thriller "Unforgettable" and historical drama "The Promise" in the dust. Universal Pictures' eighth installment in "The Fast and the Furious" franchise earned $38.7 million in North American theaters over the weekend, down 61 percent from its debut, according to studio estimates Sunday...
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State sees improvement in combating feral hogs
(State News ~ 04/24/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Efforts to eradicate feral hogs from Missouri are improving, thanks to better techniques, more resources and the use of aerial hunting, a state wildlife official said. The Missouri Department of Conservation, partner agencies and private landowners have combined to trap and kill 2,332 feral hogs in the first three months of this year, almost half the total of 5,358 feral hogs captured in all of 2016, The Columbia Missourian reported...
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Mizzou's WWII-era housing faces demolition
(State News ~ 04/24/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A man who owns two World War II-era Quonset huts in Columbia is preparing to demolish the housing while a third adjacent hut stays put. City senior building inspector Doug Kenney said Robert Craig had applied for a demolition permit March 21...
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France's next leader: centrist Macron vs. far-right Le Pen
(International News ~ 04/24/17)
PARIS -- Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen advanced Sunday to a runoff in France's presidential election, remaking the country's political landscape and setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union. French politicians on the left and right urged voters to block Le Pen's path to power in the May 7 runoff, saying her nationalist anti- EU and anti-immigration politics would spell disaster for France...
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North Korea detains U.S. citizen, the third American being held there
(International News ~ 04/24/17)
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea has detained a U.S. citizen, officials said Sunday, bringing to three the number of Americans being held there. Tony Kim, who also goes by his Korean name Kim Sang-duk, was detained Saturday, according to Park Chan-mo, chancellor of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology...
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Plight of Palestinian refugees now spans 5 generations
(International News ~ 04/24/17)
JERASH CAMP, Jordan -- As a boy, Palestinian Abdullah Abu Massoud fled the war over the birth of Israel in 1948 and sought refuge in the nearby Gaza Strip. As an adult, Abu Massoud was displaced again when Israeli forces captured Gaza, along with the West Bank and east Jerusalem, in 1967...
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Prospects dimming for LGBT rights in Missouri this session
(State News ~ 04/24/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- It's legal in Missouri to fire people or evict them from an apartment if they are gay, and efforts by some state lawmakers to outlaw such discrimination are dwindling as the session nears a close. The Kansas City Star reported the Missouri House Judiciary Committee debated adding sexual orientation and gender identity as protected statuses under the Missouri Human Rights Act...
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First farmer lawsuit on deck against Syngenta over China trade
(Business ~ 04/24/17)
MINNEAPOLIS -- The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits is about to go to trial against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its decision to introduce a genetically engineered corn seed variety to the U.S. market before China had approved it for imports...
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Raw milk advocates push to expand legalized sales
(Business ~ 04/24/17)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Raw milk advocates' efforts to expand availability across the U.S. have not slowed despite health officials' assertions it's dangerous to drink milk that hasn't been heated to kill bacteria. Efforts to legalize raw milk sales in some form have succeeded in 42 states, and expansion pushes are ongoing this year in states including Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, Rhode Island, North Dakota and Texas...
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Pesticide maker tries to kill risk study
(Business ~ 04/24/17)
WASHINGTON -- Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species...
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American tries to learn from United's mistakes in incident
(Business ~ 04/24/17)
NEW YORK -- Another day, another cellphone video of a conflict on an airplane. American Airlines said it grounded a flight attendant who got into a verbal confrontation with a passenger on a Friday flight from San Francisco to Dallas-Fort Worth. Spokeswoman Leslie Scott said the airline is looking into whether the male flight attendant violently took away a stroller from the female passenger before she boarded a Friday flight from San Francisco to Dallas. ...
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People on the move 4/24/17
(Business ~ 04/24/17)
Of the 1,575 drivers worldwide inducted into the UPS Circle of Honor that recognizes safe drivers, 35 were from Missouri, including two from Cape Girardeau County. Clyde Tatum of Jackson and Robert Tenholder of Cape Girardeau were honored for driving 25 or more years without an accident...
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Police pick up intruders: two pygmy goats
(National News ~ 04/24/17)
BELFAST, Maine -- Police picked up intruders after two miniature goats escaped from their home and wandered the streets. A responding Belfast police officer found the pygmy goats in a woman's garage Sunday morning. They had been snacking on cat food. Officer Daniel Fitzpatrick used a cat leash to lead them into his squad car. The daughter of the goats' owner saw his Facebook post and picked up the pair, named Louis and Mowgli, but not before Fitzpatrick snapped a selfie with the duo...
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Kathryn Kaufmann
(Obituary ~ 04/24/17)
Kathryn Kaufmann, 85, of Jackson died Saturday, April 22, 2017, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Carl McDowell
(Obituary ~ 04/24/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Carl McDowell, 83, of Perryville died April 20, 2017, at Southeast Hospital. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today with parish wake at 7 p.m. and from 6:30 to 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, with the Rev. Rich Wehrmeyer, CM, officiating...
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Prayer 4/24/17
(Prayer ~ 04/24/17)
Lord Jesus, thank you for grace and the gift of eternal life through you. Amen.
- C2E2 Comic & Entertanment Expo Chicago (Submitted Story ~ 04/24/17)
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