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Harkey found guilty on one assault charge, jury unable to reach decision on second
(Local News ~ 09/29/17)
A Cape Girardeau man has been found guilty of one count of first-degree assault for a 2016 incident in which two men were assaulted in downtown Cape Girardeau. Ryan P. Harkey, 28, testified during the two-day trial, denying involvement in the attack that left the victims with “serious physical injuries,” including broken facial bones, a skull fracture and loss of consciousness, according to a news release from Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Christopher Limbaugh...
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4 Cape officers helped save 4-year-old at fair parade
(Local News ~ 09/29/17)
A 4-year-old is out of the hospital after suffering a serious allergic reaction during the SEMO District Fair parade Sept. 6. Cape Girardeau police officers working the fair rushed the boy to the hospital after he became unresponsive near Burger King on Kingshighway, public-information officer Sgt. Rick Schmidt said...
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Bruce Zimmerman keeps the music alive in more than 60-year career as guitarist, songwriter
(Entertainment ~ 09/29/17)
In a darkened room at Port Cape Girardeau on a Tuesday evening, songwriters sit with their instruments while a patient local musician listens and nods. It's Songwriter's Night, which guitarist and songwriter Bruce Zimmerman said was started about two years ago to encourage songwriting in the area...
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'Epidemic' of addicted, negligent parents puts pressure on juvenile office; 2 officers added, official says
(Local News ~ 09/29/17)
Mounting pressures from an influx of drug-abuse victims and sheer workload are affecting the juvenile office, but some help is on the way, one official said at Thursday’s Cape Girardeau County Commission meeting. Randy Rhodes, chief juvenile officer with the 32nd Judicial District juvenile office, said Thursday that Missouri’s juvenile courts are behind the times...
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Living history: Replicas of Columbus' ships the Nina and the Pinta dock at Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 09/29/17)
When Mayor Harry Rediger dedicated the upcoming week to the visiting historical replica Nina and Pinta, Capt. Stephen Sanger re-dedicated it to the man who made them a reality: Capt. Morgan Sanger, who died Thursday. His father, Sanger later explained, loved all things nautical...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 09/29/17)
Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2017. There are 93 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On September 29, 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)...
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There's truth, and then there's might-be truth
(Column ~ 09/29/17)
Once upon a time -- really, dear readers, I mean it -- most Americans got their news from newspapers. This was before radio, TV, the Internet, Facebook and Twitter. Those were the days when human beings were free. By that I mean human beings were not slaves to electronic devices. Their ears were unplugged. If Grandma died, sometimes these unencumbered human beings didn't find out for days. Or weeks...
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School to be commended
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/29/17)
How very proud I am of the leadership from Dr. Ruth Ann Orr, Julia Unnerstall, Rebecca Gentry and the entire staff at Alma Schrader Elementary School. It is easy to see why they were selected as a National School of Character, one of 83 schools in the entire nation! They continue to seek out new methods to involve their students in ways that will develop these young lives into responsible, contributing adults in our great city on the Cape. ...
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Reader wants all inserts
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/29/17)
I don't take pen to paper very often, so this is of utmost prominence to me. I recently called the Southeast Missourian and talked to three people, to no avail. I am a yearly-paid subscriber, by mail. I recently stopped getting merchant fliers in my paper, much to my disappointment! The "paper" said it was the advertiser's decision to do so. ...
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Nina, Pinta headline heritage weekend
(Editorial ~ 09/29/17)
Downtown Cape Girardeau will try its best this weekend to turn back the clock. Plenty of activities have been planned to remember and celebrate history. The most visible among them will be tours of the replica ships, the Pinta and Nina. The ships, patterned after the original ships led by Christopher Columbus, will be docked today and will give access for tours at Riverfront Park through Oct. 8. Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $6 for students...
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Owners must pay for German donkey's damage
(International News ~ 09/29/17)
BERLIN -- A German court has ordered a donkey's owners to pony up $6,800 to the driver of a McLaren sports car to cover damage caused when the animal chomped the backside of the vehicle. Police said Vitus the donkey may have mistaken the orange McLaren parked next to his enclosure for a giant carrot when he bit the back, damaging the paint and a carbon-fiber piece. The dpa news agency reported the state court in Giessen on Thursday sided with the car owner...
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Job in jeopardy, HHS chief promises to repay charter costs
(National News ~ 09/29/17)
WASHINGTON -- Fighting to keep his job, health secretary Tom Price said Thursday he'd write a personal check to reimburse taxpayers for his travel on charter flights taken on government business and pledged to fly commercial -- "no exceptions." The repayment -- $51,887.31, according to Price's office -- covered only the secretary's seat. Price did not address the overall cost of the flights, which could amount to several hundred thousand dollars and is under investigation...
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Reclusive IS leader rallies followers in purported new audio
(International News ~ 09/29/17)
CAIRO -- The leader of the Islamic State group urged followers to burn their enemies everywhere and target "media centers of the infidels," according to an audio recording released Thursday that the extremists said was by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The reclusive leader of IS, who has appeared in public only once, also vowed to continue fighting and lavished praise on his jihadis for their valor in the battlefield -- despite the militants' loss of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in July...
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Illinois governor agrees to allow Medicaid for abortions
(National News ~ 09/29/17)
CHICAGO -- Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner ended months of speculation Thursday and signed legislation allowing state health insurance and Medicaid coverage for abortions, a reversal of the first-term Republican's stance on the proposal last spring. The Legislature, which is run by Democrats, approved the measure in May but delayed sending it to Rauner until Monday, in part because he has wavered on where he stands...
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Supreme Court, new term near, to hear challenge to unions
(National News ~ 09/29/17)
WASHINGTON -- Its conservative majority restored, the Supreme Court said Thursday it will return to an issue with the potential to financially cripple Democratic-leaning labor unions that represent government workers. After the justices deadlocked 4-4 in a similar case last year, the high court will consider a free-speech challenge from workers who object to paying money to unions they don't support...
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Cheers, tears and hugs as wounded Scalise returns to Capitol
(National News ~ 09/29/17)
WASHINGTON -- Greeted by hugs, tears and a roaring standing ovation, a hobbling Majority Whip Steve Scalise returned to the House on Thursday, more than three months after a gunman sprayed fire at a baseball practice and left the lawmaker clinging to life...
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Mosquito gut bacteria may offer clues to malaria control
(National News ~ 09/29/17)
WASHINGTON -- Mosquitoes harbor gut bacteria just like people do -- and the bugs inside the bugs may hold a key to fighting malaria. Today, bed nets and insecticides are the chief means of preventing malaria, which sickens about 200 million people around the world and kills 400,000 a year, mostly children in Africa. But what if scientists instead could hatch malaria-resistant mosquitoes?...
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Sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris
(National News ~ 09/29/17)
WASHINGTON -- Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States, researchers reported Thursday. It is the largest and longest marine migration ever documented, outside experts and the researchers said...
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Survivors recount amazing escapes from Mexico City quake
(International News ~ 09/29/17)
MEXICO CITY -- A tree branch saved a maintenance mechanic from the collapsing building where a dozen co-workers died when last week's earthquake rocked central Mexico. A slap across the face startled a dazed father back to his senses, spurring him to carry his critically injured daughter to safety. Neighbors, co-workers and passers-by pulled people from the jaws of death, while taxis, private cars and even buses rushed them to hospitals...
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Senator: Twitter's actions on Russia-linked accounts lacking
(National News ~ 09/29/17)
WASHINGTON -- Social-media giant Twitter told congressional investigators Thursday it has suspended at least two dozen accounts that may have been tied to Russia, but the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee was anything but satisfied. Virginia Sen. ...
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Puerto Ricans say relief efforts failing them
(International News ~ 09/29/17)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The Trump administration declared Thursday its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce and disorganized, while food supplies dwindled in some remote towns eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of 3.4 million people...
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Fox's 'Family Guy' launches season 16 on Sunday
(Entertainment ~ 09/29/17)
NEW YORK -- As everyone must know by now, Fox's animated series "Family Guy" lives to lampoon human nature and human frailties and does so without fear or favor. There's something bracing about "Family Guy" as it blows its whistle on a society that seems to grow ever coarser and more mean-spirited, while individuals squawk at any hint of disrespect directed toward them and wilt at every trigger word...
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'Veep' star Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she has breast cancer
(Entertainment ~ 09/29/17)
LOS ANGELES -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus said she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The star of "Veep" and "Seinfeld" posted word of her illness Thursday on social media. A spokeswoman for Louis-Dreyfus confirmed the posts were authentic. On her Twitter account, the actress wrote one in eight women get breast cancer...
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#SemoSelfie 9/29/17
(Entertainment ~ 09/29/17)
CROWDER! #crowder #semofair #semoselfie
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Out of the past: Sept. 29
(Out of the Past ~ 09/29/17)
The presidential campaign spotlight likely will move back to Cape Girardeau on Friday, as preliminary planning is underway for a visit here by Vice President Dan Quayle. The Secret Service and campaign aides have been laying the groundwork for the visit since the middle of last week...
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Leota Priest
(Obituary ~ 09/29/17)
Leota E. Priest, 94, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 29, 1922, in St. Louis, daughter of Martin and Hallie Martin Dillingham. She and George Priest were married in 1943. They had four children together...
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Daniel Lauck
(Obituary ~ 09/29/17)
SPAULDING, Ill. -- Daniel John Lauck, 76, of Spaulding died at 2:40 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, at his home. Daniel was born Feb. 18, 1941, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Anthony Joseph and Frances Elaine Jones Lauck. He was self-employed and was a mechanical and automotive enthusiast...
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Michael Jackson
(Obituary ~ 09/29/17)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Michael Jackson, 62, of Chaffee passed away Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, at Dexter Living Center in Dexter, Missouri. He was born Dec. 29, 1954, in Randles to the late Robert Cleveland and Alma Sue Crowden Jackson. He married Brenda Mason, and she survives of the home...
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Charles Arnold
(Obituary ~ 09/29/17)
MESSLER, Mo. -- Charles Fred Arnold, 69, of Messler passed away Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, at his home after his battle with lung and bone cancer. He was born Oct. 24, 1947, in Perkins, Missouri, to the late A. Paul and Annabelle Head Arnold. He married Linda Eftink on Oct. 25, 1969, and she survives of the home...
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Cape Girardeau police report 9/29/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/29/17)
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 possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in the 200 block of North Lorimier Street...
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Senate confirms North Dakota judge to 8th Circuit
(State News ~ 09/29/17)
ST. LOUIS -- The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly has approved a North Dakota judge to serve on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate voted 95-1 Thursday to confirm Judge Ralph Erickson of Fargo to the St. Louis-based court. Clerk of the Court Michael Gans said Erickson will replace Kermit E. Bye, who retired last year...
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Bar makes doormat out of Marshawn Lynch, Kaepernick jerseys
(State News ~ 09/29/17)
LAKE OZARK, Mo. -- A Missouri bar owner is defending his use of two NFL jerseys, including Colin Kaepernick's, as doormats outside his building's front door. KOMU-TV reported the display outside the SNAFU Bar in Lake Ozark originally showed Marshawn Lynch's Oakland Raiders jersey taped to the ground to the left of Kaepernick's 49ers jersey...
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Documentary filmmakers sue over arrest at St. Louis protest
(State News ~ 09/29/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Two documentary filmmakers are suing the city of St. Louis and three police officers, saying one of them was cursed at and beaten, and they both were sprayed with chemicals when they were arrested during a protest following the acquittal of a white former police officer in the killing of a black man...
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Missouri officials push to expand address-secrecy program
(State News ~ 09/29/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State confidentiality programs aimed at hiding the home addresses of domestic-violence victims could be expanded under federal legislation introduced by Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt on Thursday. Missouri is one of 36 states with programs that let victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking or various other crimes keep their addresses confidential by routing their mail through a post office box run by the state, according to the not-for-profit National Center for Victims of Crime. ...
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Prayer 9/29/17
(Prayer ~ 09/29/17)
O Lord Jesus, we trust in you, the author and perfecter of our faith. Amen.
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Artifacts for 9/29/17
(Entertainment ~ 09/29/17)
The Pinta and the Nina, replicas of Christopher Columbus' ships, will sail to Cape Girardeau and be docked at Riverfront Park from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily today through Oct. 8. While in port, the general public is invited aboard for tours. Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $6 for students ages 5 to 16. For children 4 and younger, admission is free. For more information, visit www.visitcape.com/historicweekend2017 or (573) 335-1631...
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Best Bet: Annual Cape Craft Beer Festival to be held Saturday
(Entertainment ~ 09/29/17)
The sixth annual Cape Girardeau Craft Beer Festival will be held from noon until 4 p.m. Saturday at the First State Community Bank Pavilion in Arena Park, hosted by the Community Counseling Center Foundation Board.
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Births 9/29/17
(Births ~ 09/29/17)
Twin sons to Rodney Benson Oehlert and Skylar Samantha Walker of Scott City, Southeast Hospital, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. Hudson Alexander was born at 12:40 a.m., and weighed 4 pounds, 1 ounce. Bryson Maverick was born at 12:41 a.m., and weighed 5 pounds, 7 ounces. Third and fourth sons. Walker is the daughter of Robin and Joe Walker of Scott City. Oehlert is the son of Kathryn Oehlert of Kennett, Missouri. He works for Havco Wood Products...
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Road work 9/29/17
(Local News ~ 09/29/17)
Route H in Perry County, Missouri, will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a pipe under the roadway. This section of road is between County Road 928 and Route H. A MoDOT news release indicates the work will begin at 6 a.m. Monday and will continue through 6 a.m. Oct. 11...
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