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Playing peek-a-boo at the Nature Center
(Local News ~ 12/13/17)
Marilyn and Gary Hoffstetter, left, share a laugh as their granddaughter Claire Beaudean, 1, pokes out her head through a hole Tuesday at the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center in Cape Girardeau.
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Democrat Doug Jones wins in Alabama Senate upset over Moore
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama's special Senate election Tuesday, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and President Donald Trump, who urgently endorsed GOP rebel Roy Moore despite a litany of sexual-misconduct allegations...
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Cape schools to get two new principals, assistant superintendent
(Local News ~ 12/13/17)
Three new administrators will take office July 1 at Cape Girardeau public schools after school board action Monday night. Mandy Keys will become assistant superintendent of special services, replacing Deena Ring, who announced her retirement earlier this year...
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Scott City mayor faces challenge from predecessor
(Local News ~ 12/13/17)
Former Scott City mayor Ron Cummins wants to take charge again to fill out the remainder of his unexpired term. But first, he will have to defeat the current mayor. Cummins filed Tuesday at city hall to return to the post of mayor after resigning in August...
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Today in History 12-13-17
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Dec. 13, the 347th day of 2017. There are 18 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 13, 1937, the Chinese city of Nanjing fell to Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War; what followed was a massacre of war prisoners, soldiers and citizens. (China maintains that up to 300,000 people were killed; Japanese nationalists say the death toll was far lower, and some maintain the massacre never happened.)...
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Moving the goal line on inappropriate actions
(Column ~ 12/13/17)
Let me start with a confession. I am a serial hugger. But in the current social climate, perhaps I need to rethink my absolutely innocent actions. When is an innocent hug inappropriate? Or a peck on the cheek? Or a wink? If there is a line not to be crossed, please help men understand those new limits...
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Voters have opportunity to decide parks, stormwater tax
(Editorial ~ 12/13/17)
Cape Girardeau city officials are polishing the details of a tax proposal that will go before voters in April. The list is a long one that would create new parks, upgrade old ones, add amenities and fix drainage problems within the city. According to recent reporting by Mark Bliss, the three-eighths-cent sales tax will generate the money needed, along with issuance of bonds, to fund $27.1 million in parks projects and $10.6 million in stormwater projects. ...
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Leadership Jackson changing name, direction
(Local News ~ 12/13/17)
A new direction for Leadership Jackson includes more professional development training, Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce director Brian Gerau said. Gerau said even the name is changing — from Leadership Jackson to Jackson Leadership and Development. That’s the result of feedback from graduates who said they’d like more of a focus on developing businesses internally, Gerau said...
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Red-suited man on a sled rescues a deer on frozen pond
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
SALEM, Ore. -- Reindeer are supposed to pull Santa Claus' sleigh, but recently in Oregon, a red-suited man on a sled wound up pushing a deer. The reverse-reality Christmas-season tale played out when a deer wandered onto a frozen golf-course pond in Sunriver, Oregon, on Friday and lost its footing...
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Bruce Brown, whose 'Endless Summer' redefined surfing, dies
(Entertainment ~ 12/13/17)
LOS ANGELES -- Bruce Brown, whose 1966 surfing documentary "The Endless Summer" molded the image of the surfer as a seeker of adventure and fulfillment and transformed the sport, has died. He was 80. Brown died of natural causes Sunday in Santa Barbara, said Alex Mecl, general manager of Bruce Brown Films...
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San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee dies suddenly at 65
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Mayor Ed Lee, who oversaw a technology-driven economic boom in San Francisco that brought with it sky-high housing prices despite his lifelong commitment to economic equality, died suddenly early Tuesday at age 65. A statement from Lee's office said the city's first Asian-American mayor died at 1:11 a.m. ...
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Out of the past: Dec. 13
(Out of the Past ~ 12/13/17)
Vocalist Julia Cowsert of Cape Girardeau has begun a music ministry to spread the Christmas message; she is performing a program titled "For His Glory" throughout the area. A praise and remembrance service is held in the evening at Old Hanover Lutheran Church; guest preacher is the Rev. Adam Mueller, former pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church at Friedheim, who now is retired; the liturgy and sermon are in the German language, with carols sung in English and German...
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David Scherer
(Obituary ~ 12/13/17)
David Henry Scherer, 68, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Lester Ruppel
(Obituary ~ 12/13/17)
Lester Walter "Les" Ruppel, 91, of Jackson passed away Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 20, 1926, in Friedheim to Walter and Annie Sauer Ruppel. He was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim...
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Lilly Ochs
(Obituary ~ 12/13/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Lilly A. Ochs, 94, of Perryville died Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, at DeGreeff Hospice House in St. Louis. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, with the Rev. Matthew Marks officiating. Burial will be at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery...
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James Malugen
(Obituary ~ 12/13/17)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- James M. "Jim" Malugen, 80, of Charleston, formerly of Potosi, Missouri, died Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 30, 1936, in Caruthersville, Missouri, to the late Guffrie Malugen Sr. and Gertrude McGee Malugen...
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Glenda Eddleman
(Obituary ~ 12/13/17)
Glenda Rose Eddleman, 86, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, at the Arbors after a long illness. She was born Dec. 21, 1930, at the family home on North Middle Street in Cape Girardeau, youngest daughter of Glenn H. and Lorena A. Whittaker Deevers...
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Jerry Coffee
(Obituary ~ 12/13/17)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Jerry Dewayne Coffee, 72, of Advance passed away Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 30, 1945, in Lilbourn, Missouri, the son of Jerry and Betty Ford Coffee. Jerry worked as a truck driver for Kranawetter Transport for the last six years. He had been a truck driver since 1966. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...
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Jackson police report 12/13/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/13/17)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n Tommy Tran, 20, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, speeding and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. Citation...
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Cape Girardeau police report 12/13/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/13/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Tonya D. Adams, 26, 240 S. Benton St., was arrested on Cape Girardeau warrants for stealing under $500. n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of theft at the Safe House for Women Thrift Store, 230 N. Spring Ave...
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Births 12/13/17
(Births ~ 12/13/17)
Daughter to Adam and Leah Henley of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 6:55 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. Name, Madilynn Dawn. Weight, 6 pounds, 8 ounces. Third child, first daughter. Mrs. Henley is the former Leah Gerecke, daughter of Carolyn and Gary Gerecke of Cape Girardeau. She is a lab coordinator at Southeast Hospital. Henley is the son of Donnie and Sheryl Henley of Jackson and Becky and Keith Foster of Perryville, Missouri. He is a project manager with Premium Mechanical...
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Senate OKs Trump judicial pick who was rated 'not qualified'
(State News ~ 12/13/17)
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Tuesday narrowly confirmed one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees despite a rare "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association. On a party-line vote of 50-48, the Republican-led Senate backed Leonard Steven Grasz to serve on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is based in St. Louis...
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Ferguson reviewing nearly 8,000 old court cases
(State News ~ 12/13/17)
ST. LOUIS -- The city of Ferguson, Missouri, is reviewing nearly 8,000 municipal court cases from before 2014 to determine which should be thrown out, a process expected to take about six months, the attorney for the St. Louis suburb told a federal judge Tuesday...
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Missouri commission OKs 2 concentrated animal-feeding farms
(State News ~ 12/13/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- New farm-friendly members of Missouri's Clean Water Commission on Tuesday voted to allow two new concentrated animal-feeding operations in the state after years of pushback from opponents worried about possible pollution, smell and other issues...
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Class action lawsuit sought over 1966 Spain H-bombs accident
(State News ~ 12/13/17)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Veterans who say they responded to a 1966 accident involving U.S. hydrogen bombs in Spain and then became ill from radiation exposure asked a federal appeals court Monday to allow a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs...
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Illinois man sentenced in fatal shooting of SEMO student
(State News ~ 12/13/17)
ST. LOUIS -- An Illinois man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in the fatal shooting of a Southeast Missouri State University student during a botched carjacking. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported 21-year-old Christopher Grant of Collinsville was sentenced Monday for second-degree murder and three other charges in the killing of 19-year-old Robert Christman III of south St. Louis County...
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Some of Facebook's early friends now its sharpest critics
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
NEW YORK -- Some of Facebook's former friends are starting to express some serious doubts about the social network they helped create. Facebook exploits a "vulnerability in human psychology" to addict its users, Sean Parker, the company's first president, said in a public forum last month...
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U.S. national parks to slash number of free days for visitors
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- National parks in the U.S. will drop sharply the number of days they allow visitors to get in for free, a move that was criticized by opponents of the parks' plan to raise entrance costs at other times of the year. After waiving fees 16 days in 2016 and 10 days in 2017, the National Park Service announced Tuesday it will have four no-cost days next year...
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House and Senate tax bills treat disaster victims unequally
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
If the House Republican tax bill became law, victims of hurricanes in Texas and Florida who've yet to account for their losses could deduct them on their 2018 taxes. Not so for victims of the California wildfires. If the Senate version prevailed, victims of all federally declared disasters -- a category that cover victims of hurricanes and the wildfires -- could deduct their losses. But people who lost homes in smaller-scale disasters couldn't...
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Tax package would lower top tax rate for wealthy Americans
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans on Tuesday moved toward a deal on a massive tax package that would reduce the top tax rate for wealthy Americans to 37 percent and cut the corporate rate to a level slightly higher than what businesses and conservatives wanted...
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Trump says senator 'would do anything' for cash
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
WASHINGTON -- Pushing into the sexual-harassment debate, President Donald Trump laced into Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday, tweeting the New York Democrat had begged him for campaign contributions in the past and "would do anything" to get them. Democrats accused the president of comments that were crude and worse...
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Opioid crisis strains foster system as kids pried from homes
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
MARION, Ind. -- She was roused awake at 2:30 a.m. by a call seeking an emergency placement for a child. Ninety minutes later, it was a storm of texts telling of a problem at a foster home. Now, after a fitful night and a morning spent juggling 15 foster cases, Rachael Stark is splashed with coffee and running late for a meeting when her phone rings with another request...
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A Georgia mother battles opioids to win back her kids
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
ELLIJAY, Georgia -- The First Baptist Church auditorium was filling with an expectant crowd, friends and family who had been through so much. Kim Silvers' three young daughters were there, all dressed up and eager for the graduation, hoping to mark the end of years of heartache visited on them by their mother's addiction...
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NTSB starts final probe of El Faro's sinking
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
Federal investigators probing the deaths of 33 mariners on the doomed El Faro said Tuesday open lifeboats would not have protected the crew had they been able to launch them. They recommend replacing these old-style lifeboats on any vessel still using them...
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Authorities say bomber mocked Trump before subway attack
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
NEW YORK -- The Bangladeshi immigrant arrested in a botched suicide bombing in the New York subway mocked President Donald Trump on Facebook on his way to carry out the attack, writing "Trump you failed to protect your nation," authorities said Tuesday as they brought federal charges against him...
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As Mueller closed in, pressure mounted on Flynn and family
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
WASHINGTON -- In the days before he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and as he braced for the public revelation he'd morphed from government target to government cooperator, Michael Flynn was reveling in the pleasures of a new grandchild, swapping cheerful observations about babies with a longtime friend and fellow grandfather...
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Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2017: 'feminism'
(Entertainment ~ 12/13/17)
NEW YORK -- This may or may not come as a surprise: Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2017 is "feminism." Yes, it's been a big year or two or 100 for the word. In 2017, lookups for feminism increased 70 percent over 2016 on Merriam-Webster.com and spiked several times after key events, lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, the company's editor at large, said ahead of Tuesday's annual word reveal...
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Crews struggle to keep flames from California neighborhoods
(National News ~ 12/13/17)
LOS ANGELES -- The fifth-largest wildfire in California history expanded, ripping through dry brush atop a coastal ridge while crews struggled to keep flames from roaring down into neighborhoods amid fears of renewed winds. Firefighters protected foothill homes northwest of Los Angeles, making progress in residential areas while much of the fire's growth occurred to the north in unoccupied forest land, Santa Barbara County Fire Department spokesman Mike Eliason said Tuesday...
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Paris hosts major climate summit — and it's all about Trump
(International News ~ 12/13/17)
PARIS -- The global climate summit in Paris was designed to bypass Donald Trump, but the U.S. president ended up playing a starring role. Trump became the villain as world leaders, investors and other Americans assailed him Tuesday for rejecting the Paris climate accord...
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Route C in Perry County closed for pipe replacement
(Local News ~ 12/13/17)
Route C in Perry County will be closed between County Road 350 and County Road 355 as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a pipe under the roadway. The work will take place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, according to a MoDOT news release...
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Prayer 12/13/17
(Prayer ~ 12/13/17)
O Lord Jesus, we ask for discernment so that we will glorify you in all things. Amen.
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First State Community Bank Raises $3,260 for United Way
(Submitted Story ~ 12/13/17)
United Way of Southeast Missouri would like to thank our friends at First State Community Bank in Cape for their generosity during our 2017 campaign! They’re responsible for bringing in $3,000 to help members of our community who need a hand up. This means students will continue to be mentored through various after-school programming, seniors will continue to live independently longer, and families can continue becoming financially stable...
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Mike Mouser: Cape Girardeau Native takes helm of Northwestern Mutual office in Columbia
(Submitted Story ~ 12/13/17)
Like many kids, Mike Mouser grew up with the dream of playing college baseball. “Growing up, baseball was my life, and I got the chance to learn about more than just baseball from my coaches,” he remarked. “I learned that attitude and effort would play the biggest role in my success.”...
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