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City seeks ideas for Cape Vision 2040
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
Cape Girardeau city officials will seek the public's input in developing a new comprehensive plan at a "visioning workshop" next month and by offering an "idea booth" at the annual Spaghetti Day event two days later. The workshop will be at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at Cape Girardeau Central Middle School cafeteria...
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Residents: Cape should tackle park projects in south side
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
Residents from various parts of Cape Girardeau offered the same message to city officials Wednesday: Provide a first-rate park and/or improve parks for the south-side neighborhood. About 70 people, including residents, council members and city staff, attended the third and final public meeting on possible parks and stormwater projects that could be funded if voters next year extend a sales tax. The session was at the Osage Centre...
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Some schools say no to costumes, official Halloween parties; others are OK with ghoul in school
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
For three area school districts, Halloween celebrations mean fun and games, with parties and other activities set for Oct. 31, administrators said. At Jackson public schools, communications director Merideth Pobst said elementary schools have fall parties rather than Halloween parties...
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Politics to profits: Brothers launch new investing concept on Wall Street
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
The 2016 presidential election cycle set people talking. Some conversations were about race and gender. Others focused on health care or international trade agreements. But the conversation between Matt Clements and his younger brother Jon was about opportunity...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
Today in History Today is Thursday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2017. There are 73 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value (its biggest daily percentage loss), to close at 1,738.74 in what came to be known as "Black Monday."...
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Congrats to TG Missouri for 30 years in Perryville
(Editorial ~ 10/19/17)
TG Missouri held a 30th-anniversary celebration Saturday in Perryville. The company is a huge contributor to the local economy with 1,600 full-time employees. The company manufactures an array of auto parts for Toyota, GM and Subaru. Employees assemble such things as steering wheels, airbags "just about anything in a dashboard, your radio controls, air-conditioning vents, cupholders, consoles, front and back chrome trim," said Rhonda Ruark, the general manager of corporate administration...
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British surrender
(Column ~ 10/19/17)
On Oct. 19, 1781, a major event in American history occurred in Yorktown, Virginia involving British General Lord Cornwallis and his force of approximately 9,000 British and Hessian troops. Cornwallis saw Yorktown as an ideal site for winter quarters for his troops. One factor in his decision was Yorktown was situated on the banks of the York River and could provide a deep water port for the British fleet to allow ships to bring supplies and reinforcements from the nearby Atlantic...
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Prayer 10-19-17
(Prayer ~ 10/19/17)
O Lord Jesus, may we daily seek to follow you in all things. Amen.
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Out of the past: Oct. 19
(Out of the Past ~ 10/19/17)
The Environmental Protection Agency has completed the first phase of a $2 million project to clean up the Kem-Pest Superfund site near Cape Girardeau; plans for the second phase of the cleanup -- which will include an ongoing plan to monitor groundwater and to determine how best to remove contaminants from the Kem-Pest Laboratories building -- will be completed soon...
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Earnest Petty Jr.
(Obituary ~ 10/19/17)
Earnest Carl Petty Jr., 56, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, at his sister's home in Oran, Missouri. There will be no services. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel of Scott City is in charge of arrangements.
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Dennis Mason Sr.
(Obituary ~ 10/19/17)
Dennis Gene Mason Sr., 90, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, at the home of his son in Kansas City, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Conrad Klusmeier Sr.
(Obituary ~ 10/19/17)
Conrad Paul Klusmeier Sr., 82, went to his heavenly Father on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. He was the son of Conrad and Adaline Farmer Klusmeier from Lynnville, Indiana. Paul was born Aug. 1, 1935, and was raised in Lynnville. He attended Evansville College. He loved to fish and hunt, and collect guns and pistols over his lifetime. Paul loved to tell stories of hunting experiences he shared with his buddies...
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S. Ray Johnson
(Obituary ~ 10/19/17)
PAINTON, Mo. -- S. Ray Johnson, 81, of Painton passed away Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 28, 1935, at East Prairie, Missouri, the son of Tom and Clara Hale Johnson. Ray had been a mechanic for the Sikeston (Missouri) School District and then was a laborer for Leonard Masonry in St. Louis...
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Billie Hansberger
(Obituary ~ 10/19/17)
Alice "Billie" Pauline Hansberger, 97, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, at The Lutheran Home, where she had resided for 12 years. She was born Oct. 17, 1920, in Oblong, Illinois, to Ted and Clara Lavena Connett Grant. The couple had two daughters and expected a boy, so she was nicknamed "Billie."...
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Charles Blattner
(Obituary ~ 10/19/17)
Charles F. Blattner, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Jackson fire report 10/19/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/19/17)
The Jackson Fire Department responded to the following calls: Tuesday n Emergency medical service on Farmington Road. Wednesday n Vehicle fire on South Farmington Road. n Emergency medical service on Orchard Drive.
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Cape Girardeau police report 10/19/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/19/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Adria L. Robinson, 24, homeless, of Cape Girardeau was arrested at Bloomfield and Christine streets on a Cape Girardeau County warrant...
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Births 10/19/17
(Births ~ 10/19/17)
Daughter to Robert Quinten and LaQuishia Ronshe Woods of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 8:27 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. Name, Trinity Ruby Lee. Weight, 4 pounds, 13 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Woods is the former LaQuishia Johnson, daughter of Mark and Angie Cole of Sikeston, Missouri, and Maurice Stewart of Sikeston. Woods is the son of Ruby and Reuben Edwards of Cape Girardeau. He is employed by QPI...
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Mike Pence's brother plans to run for Congress
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Greg Pence, one of Mike Pence's older brothers, has filed a tax document indicating he will seek the eastern Indiana congressional seat the vice president and former governor represented for 12 years. He formed the Greg Pence for Congress Committee on Monday, according to a filing with the Internal Revenue Service that was obtained by The Associated Press...
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Karen Pence: 'All of us could benefit from art therapy'
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
WASHINGTON -- Karen Pence, the vice president's wife, said Wednesday art therapy, a little-known mental-health profession she has championed for years, is the issue she will highlight during the Trump administration. She said in a speech in Florida her goals are to raise awareness about art therapy, help people understand it's available for everyone and encourage more people, particularly students, to choose it as a career...
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Some flowers create blue halo to say 'hello' to foraging bees
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
NEW YORK -- Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. Bees are drawn to the color blue, but it's hard for flowers to make that color in their petals...
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Ex-East St. Louis linebacker sues, says has brain damage
(State News ~ 10/19/17)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A former East St. Louis High School football linebacker has filed a lawsuit seeking compensation, saying he suffered brain damage after playing. The Belleville News-Democrat reported Demond Hunt Jr. filed the lawsuit in St. Clair County Court last week, naming coach Darren Sunkett, the school district, helmet manufacturer Schutt Holdings and Curt Smith’s Sporting Goods in Belleville. ...
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Judge fines Missouri prosecutor for denying public records
(State News ~ 10/19/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A judge has fined a central Missouri prosecutor more than $12,000 for failing to provide records to a man doing research for the marijuana activist group Show-Me Cannabis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the fine stems from records Aaron Malin sought from Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson in 2015 in an effort to show how the drug war is fought in the state. ...
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Report details Springfield hospital's handling of patients
(State News ~ 10/19/17)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A new report sheds light on recent physical confrontations between a Springfield hospital's staff and patients that put the facility at risk of losing Medicare funding. A spokeswoman for Mercy Hospital Springfield told the Springfield News-Leader an August investigation report resulted in the firing of a dozen employees and the threat of losing funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
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Anthem will turn to CVS after troubled Express Scripts deal
(State News ~ 10/19/17)
Anthem has found a new partner to help run prescription-drug coverage after the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer's rocky relationship with Express Scripts ends. The nation's second-largest insurer said it will create a pharmacy-benefits manager called IngenioRx starting in 2020 and will work with CVS Health Corp. to manage the business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 10/19/17
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
Approval of minutes n Minutes of Oct. 16 meeting Communications/ reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business n Purchase orders...
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Wildfires worsen housing crunch in famously costly Bay Area
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Even before fire wiped out the home she rented for 17 years, Suzanne Finzell had thought about leaving this city on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area because of rising prices. A spike in housing and other living costs had driven her friends to Nevada and Oregon...
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Under fire, Trump defends call to soldier's grieving family
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
MIAMI -- President Donald Trump emphatically rejected claims Wednesday he was disrespectful to the grieving family of a slain soldier as the firestorm he ignited over his assertions of empathy for American service members spread into a third day. "I have proof," he insisted...
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Suspect in Maryland office park shooting is apprehended
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
EDGEWOOD, Md. -- A man with a lengthy criminal past who was fired from a job earlier this year for punching a colleague showed up for work at a countertop company Wednesday and shot five of his co-workers has been arrested, authorities said. Three of them were killed and two critically wounded...
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Hotel guard describes getting shot before Las Vegas massacre
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
LAS VEGAS -- The gunman who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history first wounded an unsuspecting hotel security guard in a hallway who promptly radioed for help, according to a TV interview broadcast Wednesday with the guard and a hotel building engineer whose life he is credited with saving...
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Sessions defends Comey firing, ties it to Clinton email case
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump's firing of James Comey, linking the FBI director's abrupt dismissal to his handling of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation. But he refused to discuss any private conversations he had with the president before Comey's firing and would not say whether he had discussed with the president an FBI investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign...
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Uncertainty reigns before health sign-up period
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Jason Sanford has heard so many rumors about the changing health-care landscape, every few weeks he dials a local information desk, seeking a rough estimate of what his diabetes medication soon will cost him. The answer is the same: It's too early to say, even with the next open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act beginning in two weeks...
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Police round young bull on soccer field
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
NEW YORK -- New York City police rounded up an unusual suspect -- a young bull on a soccer field. Police said the Brooklyn bovine was spotted at Prospect Park on Tuesday morning. The bull was herded into a police horse trailer about two hours later and headed toward rescuers on Long Island. Helicopter video showed the bull wandering around the field, staring back at people lined up along a fence and occasionally breaking into a jog. It's unclear from where the bull came...
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Ex-Oklahoma cop in murder trial: 'It was either him or me'
(National News ~ 10/19/17)
TULSA, Okla. -- A white former Oklahoma police officer on trial for the fourth time in the 2014 killing of his daughter's black boyfriend told jurors Wednesday he had no choice but to shoot the young man. Former Tulsa officer Shannon Kepler, 57, was the last witness called in the case. He doesn't deny he shot Jeremey Lake, but he said he did so because he believed Lake was armed...
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Harry Potter exhibit marks 20th anniversary of first book
(Community ~ 10/19/17)
LONDON -- Harry Potter fans owe a debt of gratitude to Alice Newton. Alice was 8 years old when her father, a Bloomsbury Publishing executive, brought home a new manuscript for her to read. "The excitement in this book made me feel warm inside," she scrawled in a note to her dad. "I think it is probably one of the best books an 8/9 year old could read."...
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Pink diamond that was a French crown jewel to be auctioned
(Community ~ 10/19/17)
GENEVA -- A 19-carat pink diamond that once belonged to King Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte and other French rulers is going up for auction for the first time in 130 years, Christie's announced Wednesday. The legendary "Le Grand Mazarin" diamond has been sold at auction once before, at a famous 1887 sale of French crown jewels...
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Thousands march over 'Somalia's 9/11'; attack details emerge
(International News ~ 10/19/17)
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somali intelligence officials shared a detailed account of the country's deadliest attack as thousands marched Wednesday in Mogadishu in a show of defiance against the extremist group blamed for Saturday's truck bombing that left more than 300 dead...
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U.S.-backed Syrian forces clear Raqqa after driving out IS
(International News ~ 10/19/17)
BEIRUT -- U.S.-backed Syrian forces removed land mines and cleared roads in the northern city of Raqqa on Wednesday, a day after commanders said they had driven the Islamic State group from its de facto capital. Mustafa Bali, spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, said preparations were underway for a formal declaration of the city's liberation...
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Portuguese official resigns over 106 wildfire deaths
(International News ~ 10/19/17)
LISBON, Portugal -- The Portuguese minister in charge of emergency services resigned Wednesday after 106 people were killed in unprecedented wildfires this year in the Iberian nation. Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa tendered her resignation and Prime Minister Antonio Costa accepted it, the government announced...
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Sikeston Public Schools Foundation receives $1.7 million gift
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
SIKESTON, Mo. — The Sikeston Public Schools Foundation received a $1.7 million gift from the bequest of the late Bob Depro. At Depro’s request, the funds will be used to establish the Bob Depro Scholarship Fund and have been designated for scholarships for Sikeston High School graduates...
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Southeast welcomes new Air Force ROTC commander
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
When Lt. Col. Anthony Anderson enrolled in the ROTC program at Oklahoma State University and eventually earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace science, he began a journey dedicated to military service. For Anderson, military service runs deep in the family. His father and grandfather served, and their commitment became the driving force for him to join the ROTC 21 years ago...
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Parody play brings Shakespeare to Central High School
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” isn’t a typical Shakespearean play. True, several of the actors are in tights and puffy pants, and familiar names such as Ophelia and Hamlet, Henry VI and Macbeth crop up. But at its heart, this show is a parody of Shakespeare’s works, with improvisation and audience participation in a high-energy production...
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Jackson recycling hours reduced Nov. 4; no trash pickup Nov. 10
(Local News ~ 10/19/17)
Jackson Recycling Center’s winter hours begin Nov. 4. The center will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, excluding holidays, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. The schedule will continue through March. The center, at 508 Eastview Court in Jackson, accepts cardboard; newspaper; magazines; office paper; junk mail; grocery bags; clear, green and brown glass; all plastic containers; aluminum, tin and steel cans; batteries; and electronic waste...
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