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New discrimination, overdose laws take effect today in Missouri
(State News ~ 08/28/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Most new laws passed by Missouri's Republican-led Legislature this year take effect today, including a measure that will raise the standard for suing for workplace or housing discrimination. The change has been praised by Republican Gov. Eric Greitens and business groups, who argue there are too many lawsuits in the state...
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Rescuers pluck hundreds from rising floodwaters in Houston
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
HOUSTON -- Tropical Storm Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the nation's fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers who could not keep up with the constant calls for help...
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Southeast updates student code of conduct over sexual assault, responses
(Local News ~ 08/28/17)
Southeast Missouri State University has updated its student code of conduct to better define sexual assault and to respond more appropriately than was the standard in the past, according to a university official. Debbie Below, dean of students at Southeast, said the student code of conduct is reviewed regularly and is modified over time like many policies and procedures...
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Jackson animal shelter wins $30,000 grand prize from pet foundation
(Local News ~ 08/28/17)
Local animal-rescue organization Mac's Mission soon will install five kennel suites and a specialized intensive-care unit at the Jackson shelter after winning the BISSELL Pet Foundation "Support the Shelters" sweepstakes grand prize of $30,000. The foundation focuses on ending animal homelessness and hosted the vote-based "Support the Shelters" sweepstakes to award the best animal shelters in the nation with funding...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
Today in History Today is Monday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2017. There are 125 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 28, 1917, ten suffragists demanding that President Woodrow Wilson support a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote were arrested as they picketed outside the White House...
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Trump continues the campaign
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/28/17)
Never in my lifetime was there ever another president who, not even a year into a first term, was already embarking on a campaign for a second term. It is especially surprising since Trump's prospects for being elected to a second term are quite blighted by his "performance" so far in his first term...
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Notre Dame earns national recognition
(Editorial ~ 08/28/17)
Schools are usually associated with being the ones to hand out grades and awards. However, like the rest of society, they also are subject to performance evaluations. Recently, Notre Dame Regional High School received special recognition for its overall performance, named a Catholic Education Honor Roll School, a national honor bestowed by the Cardinal Newman Society. ...
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Mizzou warns of extremists recruiting on campus
(State News ~ 08/28/17)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The University of Missouri is warning students, staff and faculty a white-supremacist group appears to be recruiting on and near the Columbia campus. Chancellor Alexander Cartwright and provost Garnett Stokes sent a message Wednesday saying the recruiting is part of a national push by supremacist groups to gain members...
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Trump to push tax overhaul in Missouri this week
(State News ~ 08/28/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump plans to make a public push to overhaul the nation's tax system next week in Springfield, Missouri. The White House said the president will be making the stop in southwest Missouri on Wednesday to begin selling his administration's calls to change the tax system. Administration officials have said Trump plans to hold events around the country in the coming weeks to promote the tax overhaul...
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Sharon Webb
(Obituary ~ 08/28/17)
Sharon Ann Webb, 68, of Jackson died Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. She was born Nov. 28, 1948, in Cape Girardeau to George Raymond and Lillian Marie Miget Lawrence. She married Richard Webb on April 30, 1992, in Jackson. Survivors include her husband, Richard Webb of Jackson; a daughter, Tina (Gary) Meyr of Jackson; two brothers, Richard and Tommy Lawrence, both of Cape Girardeau; a sister, Janet (Don) Berghold of Bonne Terre, Missouri; three nephews, James Berghold, Jessee Lawrence and TJ Shaw; one niece, Sherri Miller; and two grandchildren, Hailey and Keagan Meyr.. ...
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Ethel Thiele
(Obituary ~ 08/28/17)
LEOPOLD, Mo. -- Ethel Ann Thiele, 85, of Leopold passed away Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, at Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau after an extended illness. She was born May 11, 1932, in Leopold, daughter of the late John Henry and Helen Elizabeth Holzum Seiler...
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Cape County Commission agenda 8/28/17
(Local News ~ 08/28/17)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Approval of minutes n Minutes of the Aug. 24 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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Gerald Jackson
(Obituary ~ 08/28/17)
GIPSY, Mo. -- Gerald Dean Jackson, 82, of Gipsy passed away peacefully Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, at his home, with his daughter by his side. He was born Oct. 7, 1934, at Gipsy, the son of Odes and Cora Lemons Jackson. Gerald was a veteran of the U.S. Army. he was also a member of Brushcreek Missionary Baptist Church. He and his wife, "Sis," owned and operated Jackson's Store at Gipsy from 1966 to 1979. He retired from the MoDOT, was an avid golfer and loved to fish...
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Shirley Griffin
(Obituary ~ 08/28/17)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Shirley J. Griffin, 80, of Chaffee passed away Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, at Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 28, 1936, in Chaffee to the late Charles Vincent and Igenia Theresa Strack Griffin. Shirley was a central service tech for 32 years at Southeast Hospial. She was a member of St. Ambrose Church in Chaffee and a member of the Daughters of St. Ambrose...
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Charities try to help Oklahoma teachers survive pay collapse
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Tiona Bowman was overcome with emotion when the walls were erected last spring on her first new home, a three-bedroom, two-bath house in Tulsa built through Habitat for Humanity. Bowman was flanked by her daughter and members of her family, work colleagues and a handful of local reporters who had come to document the event...
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A first: Drug lowers heart risks by curbing inflammation
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
For the first time, a drug has helped prevent heart attacks by curbing inflammation, a new and different approach than lowering cholesterol, the focus for many years. People on the drug also had lower cancer death rates, especially from lung cancer...
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Trump prepares to lift limits on military gear for police
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law-enforcement agencies under a program that had been curtailed by the Obama administration amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters...
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Out of the past: Aug. 28
(Out of the Past ~ 08/28/17)
The Cape Girardeau school board has hired an architectural firm in the next step toward its goal to build new school facilities. The board yesterday approved a contract with The Christner Partnership Inc. of St. Louis to help the district formulate its facilities plan...
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Lamar wins 6 times during emotional, political MTV VMAs
(Entertainment ~ 08/28/17)
Kendrick Lamar was the king of the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, winning six awards on a night full of emotional performances, political moments and a new, eye-popping Taylor Swift music video. Lamar's "Humble" won video of the year, best hip-hop video, direction, cinematography, art direction and visual effects Sunday at the Forum in Inglewood, California...
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Hollywood sees worst weekend in film box office in years
(Entertainment ~ 08/28/17)
NEW YORK -- Hollywood effectively took the weekend off, resulting in one of the most dismal box-office results in 16 years. An already slow August came to a screeching halt at the multiplex, where no major new releases were unveiled. That left the Samuel Jackson-Ryan Reynolds action-comedy "The Hitman's Bodyguard" to top all films for the second week with an estimated $10.1 million in ticket sales...
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Sick puppies spur New York scrutiny of not-for-profit rescues
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Alexis Kozmon and her husband decided to get a dog for their 6-year-old daughter, they chose to adopt rather than buy from a breeder to teach the child the value of rescuing. Four weeks later, the puppy the family named Sugar was dying painfully from distemper...
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South Africa case is opening doors to grim apartheid deaths
(International News ~ 08/28/17)
JOHANNESBURG -- Room 1026 of Johannesburg's Central Police Station looks like any mid-century office needing a fresh coat of paint: Dusty vertical blinds hang in the window, opening onto an unremarkable view of a chip shop, a lunchtime favorite for police officers...
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Divers find remains of all missing from USS McCain collision
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
SINGAPORE -- Divers have recovered the remains of all 10 sailors who went missing after the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker collided near Singapore last week, the U.S. Navy said today. Navy and Marine Corps divers had been searching in flooded compartments of the destroyer for days after the damaged ship docked in Singapore...
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AP sources: Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to lead Uber
(Business ~ 08/28/17)
DETROIT -- Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been named Uber's top executive, taking the job of mending the dysfunctional ride-hailing giant and turning it from money-losing behemoth to a profitable company. Uber's fractured eight-member board voted to hire Khosrowshahi late Sunday, capping three days of meetings and the withdrawal of former top candidate Jeffery Immelt, former CEO and still chairman of General Electric, two people briefed on the decision said. ...
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Black-clad anarchists storm Berkeley rally, assaulting 5
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Black-clad anarchists on Sunday stormed into what had been a largely peaceful Berkeley protest against hate and attacked at least five people, including the leader of a politically conservative group who canceled an event a day earlier in San Francisco amid fears of violence...
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Franklin County leader wants Confederate monument to stay
(State News ~ 08/28/17)
WASHINGTON, Mo. -- A Southeast Missouri county commissioner is suggesting a Confederate monument removed from St. Louis this summer be erected in his county. The monument has been stored at an undisclosed Franklin County location since it was removed from Forest Park in St. Louis...
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Uber ride-hailing service arrives in Sikeston
(Business ~ 08/28/17)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Uber has arrived in Sikeston. Sikeston's Jordan Holifield signed up with the ride-hailing service a few weeks before the Sikeston Jaycees Rodeo to take advantage of the potential offered by all those visitors. "For $10, I transported some passengers from the Drury Inn to Jeremiah's," Holifield said. "Paying $10 is inexpensive compared to the cost of driving under the influence."...
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Verizon tweaks prices, cuts video quality on unlimited plans
(Business ~ 08/28/17)
NEW YORK -- Verizon is raising the price of its unlimited plan while introducing a slightly cheaper, more limited version as wireless carriers battle each other for customers. All major carriers now offer unlimited plans after years of steering people toward paying extra for using more data...
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Business notebook: Signature Packaging CEO to lead state chamber
(Business ~ 08/28/17)
In the decade since moving to the area, Signature Packaging president and CEO Dennis Vinson has served on both boards of the Cape Girardeau and Jackson chambers of commerce. "Actually, both of them at the same time at one point," he recalled in an interview Friday...
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Yellen defends bank regulations passed after 2008 crisis
(Business ~ 08/28/17)
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday emphatically defended the web of regulations the Fed helped enact after the 2008 financial crisis, saying it helped restore the banking system's health and disputing criticism the rules have hurt lending...
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VW engineer gets prison, $200,000 fine in diesel scandal
(Business ~ 08/28/17)
DETROIT -- A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel-emissions scandal was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison and a $200,000 fine -- a steeper punishment than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up, U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox said during the sentencing hearing in Detroit. The judge imposed a 40-month prison sentence...
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Tobe Hooper, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' director, dies at 74
(Entertainment ~ 08/28/17)
LOS ANGELES -- Tobe Hooper, the horror-movie pioneer whose low-budget sensation "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" took a buzz saw to audiences with its brutally frightful vision, has died. He was 74. The Los Angeles County coroner's office on Sunday said Hooper died Saturday in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. It was reported as a natural death...
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Wayward bull corralled on interstate
(National News ~ 08/28/17)
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- State police helped capture a wayward bull found walking along a major interstate highway in New Jersey. The young black bull was spotted about 8:15 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 195, near an exit in the Trenton suburb of Hamilton Township. Troopers helped slow traffic. State police said on Facebook "cowboys with lassos" helped corral the bull and got it into a trailer. No one was injured, and the animal was returned to its owner...
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Cape Girardeau police report 8/28/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/28/17)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Brandon Truong, 22, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated at William and Fountain streets. Arrests...
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Prayer 8/28/17
(Prayer ~ 08/28/17)
O Lord Jesus, may we look to you for strength, for you are Almighty God. Amen.
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Speak Out 8/28/17
(Speak Out ~ 08/28/17)
Elected officials Are Missouri's representatives in Congress hiding from the public? It would seem that the Republicans are. Has Representative Jason Smith held any town meetings? If so, they've apparently not been publicized very well. What's he afraid of?...
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People on the move 8/28/17
(Business ~ 08/28/17)
Conley Clark was named the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri's gallery manager, replacing Bri Dewitt. Clark, a Cape Girardeau native and Southeast Missouri State University alumnus, served as a student studio assistant to Southeast's sculpture department head Chris Wubbena and also served as a gallery attendant in the River Campus Student Gallery...
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Burrito-Ville and Sotheast Music Academy to hold #GiveBacktoCape Event
(Submitted Story ~ 08/28/17)
CAPE GIRARDEAU- Burrito-Ville, a locally owned and operated restaurant, will hold its monthly #GiveBacktoCape fundraising event on September 13 from 5-9 p.m. in support Southeast Music Academy Scholarship. The #GiveBacktoCape event for the Music Academy will donate 10 percent of all sales from 5-9 p.m., including t-shirts, gift certificates, food, beverages, and alcohol. The money raised will go towards the The Music Academy’s Scholarship fund...
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Births 8/27/17
(Births ~ 08/28/17)
Son to Andrew Walker Below and Brittany Elizabeth Kay Foster of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 1:05 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. Name, Gabriel Joseph. Weight, 8 pounds, 4 ounces. Second son. Foster is the daughter of Cheri Sue Foster and Timothy Charles Foster of Cape Girardeau. ...
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