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One killed, three injured in Sikeston when tree is uprooted
(Local News ~ 05/19/17)
SIKESTON, Mo. — An employee at Green Meadows Retirement Center died and three residents were injured Wednesday when a tree fell at the center. Richard Flye, 41, of Sikeston was killed when a gust of wind blew over a rotting tree just before 2:30 p.m., causing it to land on a picnic table at the center where employees and residents usually sit to take breaks...
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Four honored in Cape County Sheriff's Department
(Local News ~ 05/19/17)
Four officers Wednesday received special awards from Cape Girardeau County Sheriff John Jordan. Jordan presented Jaime Holloway with the 2016 Timothy J. Ruopp Award for outstanding law-enforcement officer in the department in a presentation at the Cape Girardeau County Justice Center...
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Love INC closes Cape office
(Local News ~ 05/19/17)
Love INC of Southeast Missouri is closed. The agency has been serving Cape Girardeau for nine years. An unsigned news release in an email message from an address attributed to executive director Breita Church announced the closure. Love INC, whose name stands for Love In the Name of Christ, is a national organization dedicated to connecting people in need with faith-based resources, according to the company website. The Cape Girardeau chapter was founded in 2007...
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Arts Council figure-drawing sessions bring together local artists to sketch, socialize
(Entertainment ~ 05/19/17)
Nine artists sat or stood in a loose semicircle around a model in a denim dress, pens and pencils scratching across paper, paint sliding from brush to board, during Wednesday night's weekly figure-drawing session at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri building in downtown Cape Girardeau...
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I-57 group trying to get Chicago-to-Dallas route to go through Poplar Bluff
(Local News ~ 05/19/17)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — With the announcement improvements to U.S. 67 could be paid for in half the time expected, community leaders are looking at another four-lane highway project they said could be crucial for future development. Members of the Highway 67 Corp. made the announcement at a recent meeting before signing a new resolution that will be presented today to elected officials in Washington, D.C...
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Cape Councilman Bowen to resign, take position with Florida university
(Local News ~ 05/19/17)
Cape Girardeau City Councilman Wayne Bowen will resign from the council this summer to take a position with a Florida university. The timing likely will allow the council to appoint someone to fill Bowen’s unexpired term rather than hold a special election, city attorney Eric Cunningham said Thursday...
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Greitens calls special session for job-creation bill to boost Bootheel economy
(Local News ~ 05/19/17)
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has called for a special session in an effort to win passage of a bill that could generate hundreds of jobs for the Bootheel. Legislation passed the House but died in the Senate in the waning hours of the 2017 session May 12...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
Today in History Today is Friday, May 19, the 139th day of 2017. There are 226 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 19, 1927, the silent movie "Wings," a World War I drama starring Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen, had its world premiere in San Antonio, Texas, where it had been filmed. ("Wings" would go on to win the first Academy Award for best picture.)...
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On a bench or sipping coffee, take time to listen
(Column ~ 05/19/17)
A lot of attention is being given, by the news media in particular, to town hall-style meetings conducted by various elected officials who say their aim is to find out what's on our -- voters, taxpayers, citizens -- minds. Some of these meetings, as you have seen and heard, have been a mite unruly. ...
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Statement from East Cape mayor
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/19/17)
The statements on the Karpet Korner sign in East Cape Girardeau, Illinois, are not the view or opinions of the Village Board of East Cape. The views or opinions on the sign are the owner(s) of the property and do not reflect the views or opinions of anybody on the Village Board of Trustees...
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Wiles fills in as dean of business at Southeast
(Editorial ~ 05/19/17)
Southeast Missouri State University announced recently that Judy Wiles, who chairs the management and marketing department at Southeast Missouri State University, will be the interim dean of the Donald L. Harrison College of Business, beginning July 1...
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O'Reilly a victim
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/19/17)
Once again the forces of evil reared their ugly heads and thrust a dagger into the heart of political conservatism. The leftist liberal fascists have managed to raise the political correct banner of sexual harassment, and have Bill O'Reilly removed from Fox News. ...
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Brazil's Temer: 'I won't resign' amid corruption allegations
(International News ~ 05/19/17)
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian President Michel Temer on Thursday rejected calls for his resignation, saying he will fight allegations he endorsed the paying of hush money to a former lawmaker jailed for corruption. Even in this country weary from the constant drip of revelations of a wide-ranging corruption investigation, the incendiary accusation set off a firestorm, and Brazil's highest court opened an investigation. Stocks and the currency plunged, and rumors circulated Temer would step down...
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Harvard student raps his senior thesis
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
BOSTON -- While other Harvard University students were writing papers for their senior theses, Obasi Shaw was busy rapping his. Shaw is the first student in Harvard's history to submit a rap album as a senior thesis in the English department, the university said. The album has earned the equivalent of an A-minus, good enough to guarantee Shaw will graduate with honors next week. Undergraduates aren't obligated to submit theses, but most departments require it to graduate with honors...
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Trump administration announces plans to renegotiate NAFTA
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
WASHINGTON -- Making good on a campaign promise, the Trump administration formally told Congress on Thursday it intends to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer sent a letter to congressional leaders Thursday, starting 90 days of consultations with lawmakers over how to revamp the pact. Talks with Canada and Mexico can begin after that...
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Family lawyer alleges Vegas officer misconduct in fatal case
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
LAS VEGAS -- Relatives of an unarmed man who died after a struggle with a police officer outside a Las Vegas casino want the officer fired and brought up on criminal charges for repeatedly using a stun gun and then placing the man in an unauthorized chokehold, a lawyer for the family said Thursday...
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Black leaders to Tulsa: Act on pledges of racial harmony
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
TULSA, Okla. -- Tulsa community leaders said the acquittal of a white Oklahoma police officer who killed an unarmed black man ripped open a long-festering wound. From the mayor's office to schools and churches, race relations have been terrible in Oklahoma's second-largest city for well over a century...
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Trump, dogged by questions at home, makes first trip abroad
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's maiden international trip, a five-stop marathon across the Middle East and Europe, long has loomed as a crucial first test abroad for the chaos-courting president. That was before he fired his FBI director -- and the chain reaction of scandal that followed...
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Senate chairman: Flynn has not responded to subpoena
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said Thursday ousted national-security adviser Michael Flynn hasn't responded to a subpoena from the panel in its probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina had to retract a statement made hours earlier that Flynn's lawyer had told the committee he would not comply with the subpoena...
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Special-counsel pick could boost faith in Justice Department
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
WASHINGTON -- There could be a side benefit for Rod Rosenstein in appointing a special counsel to head an investigation into possible Russian coordination with the Trump campaign: reviving his own reputation, heavily battered for his role in the firing of James Comey, who had been leading the probe...
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Trump says he's most hounded leader ever
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
WASHINGTON -- Brimming with resentment, President Donald Trump fervently denied Thursday his campaign had collaborated with Russia or he'd tried to kill an FBI probe of the issue, contending "even my enemies" recognize his innocence and declaring himself the most unfairly hounded president in history...
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Car mows down Times Square pedestrians for blocks, killing 1
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
NEW YORK -- A man steered his car onto a sidewalk running through Times Square and mowed down pedestrians for three blocks Thursday, killing a teenager, then emerged from his wrecked vehicle wild-eyed and screaming before he was subdued by police and bystanders...
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Lauded rocker Chris Cornell killed himself by hanging
(Entertainment ~ 05/19/17)
DETROIT -- Chris Cornell, one of the most lauded and respected contemporary lead singers in rock music with his bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, hanged himself Wednesday in a Detroit hotel room, according to the city's medical examiner. He was 52. The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said Thursday it completed the preliminary autopsy on Cornell, but "a full autopsy report has not yet been completed." A police spokesman told two Detroit newspapers the singer was found with a band around his neck.. ...
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Artifacts 5/19/17
(Entertainment ~ 05/19/17)
The Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest's 13th annual showcase and dance is this weekend at the VFW Hall, 1049 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. From 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. today and Saturday, there will be live music, door prizes and grand-prize drawings. For more information, contact Bob or Virginia Dolle at (573) 334-1377 or (573) 576-4143...
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#SemoSelfie 5/19/17
(Entertainment ~ 05/19/17)
Post 5K meal with the gang! #Semoselfie #DexterQueen #Friends
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Out of the past: May 19
(Out of the Past ~ 05/19/17)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Cairo has a new police chief. Harold Nelson, 60, a retired Illinois State Policeman who was named assistant chief here in February, has been elevated to the chief's position. He is the city's first black police chief. Southeast Missouri State University is losing another top administrator. Dorothy Allen, the assistant provost, will leave to become vice president for academic affairs at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico...
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George Yount
(Obituary ~ 05/19/17)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- The Rev. George Andrew Yount, 86, of Marble Hill passed away Thursday, May 18, 2017, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 10, 1930, in Morley, Missouri, son of George Washington and Ada Amderella Wright Yount. He and Mary "Juanita" Cannon were united in marriage March 22, 1952, and she passed away Nov. 18, 2008...
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Roger English
(Obituary ~ 05/19/17)
Roger L. English, 70, of Gordonville died Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. A graveside service with full military honors will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield...
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Thomas Cunningham
(Obituary ~ 05/19/17)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Thomas D. Cunningham, 66, of Chaffee died Thursday, May 18, 2017, at his family home in Chaffee. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.
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Births 5/19/17
(Births ~ 05/19/17)
Son to Brandon Keith Allen and Krystal Dawn James of Advance, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 9:24 p.m. Sunday, May 7, 2017. Name, Tucker Kole. Weight, 8 pounds, 2 ounces. Second son. James is the daughter of Lesa James of Advance and Donald James of Cape Girardeau. She works at the Lutheran Home. Allen is the son of Teresa Allen of Bloomfield, Missouri, and Keith Allen of Springfield, Missouri. He is employed by Tank Tech...
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Woman charged in baseball-bat beating death of aunt in Independence
(State News ~ 05/19/17)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- A 32-year-old woman has been charged with beating her aunt to death with a baseball bat in an Independence home. Courtney Hackney was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the killing of Holly Barnett, who was found dead Tuesday in a recliner. No attorney is listed for Hackney in online court records...
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States scramble to comply with REAL-ID law
(State News ~ 05/19/17)
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Several states have struggled for years to comply with the REAL ID Act, a 2005 federal law that requires state driver's licenses and ID cards to have security enhancements and to be issued to people who can prove they are in the United States legally...
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EPA: No contamination in homes near Bridgeton landfill
(State News ~ 05/19/17)
ST. LOUIS -- An Environmental Protection Agency examination found no radioactive contamination in a neighborhood that sits near a suburban St. Louis landfill where nuclear waste is buried, the agency said Thursday. As a result, no remediation is necessary in the Spanish Village neighborhood in Bridgeton, Missouri, the EPA said...
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GoFundMe effort to take down St. Louis' Confederate monument
(State News ~ 05/19/17)
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones has begun a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for removal of the Confederate Memorial at Forest Park. Mayor Lyda Krewson, who narrowly defeated Jones in the Democratic primary in March before winning the April general election, said this week she wants to remove the 32-foot-tall granite monument. The problem is the cost. The 103-year-old granite monument weighs 40, tons and removing it will be expensive...
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Firefighters in Missouri confront risks posed by cancer
(State News ~ 05/19/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- When he was 44, Marc Wright had the biannual physical required by the city for Columbia firefighters. He'd just returned from a vacation where he'd completed a three-hour volcano hike and felt great -- in good shape for his age. Wright's other, routine physicals in the past several decades with the Columbia Fire Department had come back fine -- normal. ...
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Best Bet: Back the Blue fundraiser set
(Entertainment ~ 05/19/17)
Coldwell Banker Abernathy Realty at 2737 E. Jackson Blvd. in Jackson will host a Back the Blue fundraiser for Jackson’s DARE program from 3 to 6 p.m. today. Free hot dogs will be available for attendees. A K-9 unit and Kona Ice will be there. For more information or to make a donation, contact (573) 243-8811.
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Fox News creator Roger Ailes dies at 77
(National News ~ 05/19/17)
NEW YORK -- Roger Ailes, the communications maestro who transformed TV news by creating Fox News Channel, only to be ousted from his media empire at the height of his reign for alleged sexual harassment, died Thursday, according to his wife, Elizabeth Ailes. He was 77...
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Prayer 5/19/17
(Prayer ~ 05/19/17)
O Lord Jesus, we praise you, our Mighty Warrior and Savior. Amen.
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