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Bootheel farmers file lawsuit against Monsanto over dicamba herbicide crop damage
(Local News ~ 12/30/17)
The operators of two Southeast Missouri soybean farms have filed a class-action lawsuit against St. Louis-based Monsanto Co., alleging their crops were damaged by exposure to dicamba herbicide. The 35-page suit was filed Wednesday in Mississippi County Circuit Court...
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Cape woman keeps 2017 resolution and then some, loses 117 pounds
(Community ~ 12/30/17)
Like a lot of people, clothes were on Amy Essner's Christmas wish list this year. Unlike others, however, her list was born of necessity. The need arose from losing 117 pounds in 2017, and her wardrobe is a work in progress. "I'm working on it," Essner said. "I got to where I had to. I couldn't keep my pants up."...
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Adoptees will have access to birth certificates Jan. 1
(Local News ~ 12/30/17)
Steve Hamblin is a reserved man in his 40s, a retired Marine who likes fast cars and owns a construction company in Fredericktown, Missouri. He grew up in Cape Girardeau, adopted by Bob and Kaye Hamblin as an infant, with a sister, Laurie, who also was adopted. He loved his home, his parents, his sister, but the question was always there: what about his birth parents? ...
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Rep. Swan pushes for constitutional amendment to bar state board members from voting before Senate confirmation
(Local News ~ 12/30/17)
Governor-appointed members of state boards in Missouri would have no voting powers until confirmed by the state Senate under a measure proposed by a Cape Girardeau lawmaker. State Rep. Kathy Swan said she plans to introduce a bill in the 2018 legislative session that would seek voter approval of a constitutional amendment that would prevent future actions such as the that taken earlier this month by the state Board of Education...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/30/17)
Today is Saturday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2017. There is one day left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 30, 1922, Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which lasted nearly seven decades before dissolving in December 1991...
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Battle between rock and tree
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
This photo shows how an unfortunate hard maple tree and a big limestone rock compete for the same space. The tree sprouted and grew several years before it came in contact with the rock. The tree has no other choice but to attempt to grow around the rock. We can see the rock is far too big and rigid for the tree to ever achieve such a goal...
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Senior Center Menus 12-31-17
(Community ~ 12/30/17)
Monday: Closed for the New Year holiday. Tuesday: Oven-fried chicken or polish sausage and sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, California-blend veggie, whole-grain hot roll and mixed fruit dessert or gingerbread. Wednesday: Beefy soft taco or chicken-southwest soup, seasoned black beans, lettuce, cheese and tomatoes, tortilla chips and citrus fruit salad or cinnamon streusel cake...
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The good news for 2017
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
We are nearing the first anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration as our president. Most would attest to the fact that this has been one of the most unusual first years by any president in memory. The nay-sayers have been out in force, and if one believed what they say, it would be easy to visualize that our 241-year experiment in democracy was nearing an end. However, this writer is not so pessimistic. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Our demise has been greatly exaggerated."...
- Adopt Ling 12-31-17 (Community ~ 12/30/17)
- Club news 12-31-17 (Community News ~ 12/30/17)
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New Year to be greeted with full moon
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
Happy birthday to Dixie Shaffer, Samantha Lincoln, Kellie Lynn, Tom Essner, Lee Sadler, Ed Wells, Jory Hitt, Bill Beard, Katie Ralph, Georgia Dannenmueller, Kori Brown, Darrell Chapman, Ray Motes, Colby Devenport, Josh Eifert, Chris Whitaker, Norman Graviett, Boyce Boese, Virginia Seyer, Gabe Walter, Ian Eichhorn, Dale Simpson, Mallory Siebert, Bonnie Haney, Danny Lee Finley, Sue Ann Lynn, Kristen Wessel, Annie Ralph, Bonnie Haney, Kathryn Miller, Roger Simpson, John Hampton, Larry Kirn and Sue Wessel.. ...
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Generosity: Huck's Family Christmas Karing for Kids program
(Community ~ 12/30/17)
The Karing for Kids Program, now in its 15th year, was crafted by Huck's to make Christmas special for those children who are less fortunate and to give back to the community. Each child selected receives $150 for their Christmas wishes. Corporate sponsorships, rummage and bake sales and fundraisers at the store level help raise funds. All proceeds go directly to the program, and the monies raised at each store stays in that market...
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Milk and butter on the farm
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
In the early 1950s, when I was little, we used to go down two or three miles east of Mom and Dad's place to visit Lester Summers. He had a windmill out by the corral that pumped water when the wind blew. The water first went through the wall of a little building into a small metal horse tank inside of it. When the tank was full enough, a pipe returned the water back outside into a bigger tank...
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Hoping we remain charitable
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
In the mid-1980s, right around the end of a year, I recall hanging around one afternoon at the church office after work. The pastor ducked his head in the doorway and asked the secretary, "Did it come yet?" "No, not yet," was the reply. Shoulders slumped, the pastor trudged back to his office...
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The new and the old
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
To me, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day always feel like a held breath, a still pause. They are moments within that we reflect on what has passed and wait in hopeful expectation to be set into motion. I think this is how Mary and Joseph must have felt when they brought Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. ...
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FYI
(Community ~ 12/30/17)
The Southeast Metropolitan Planning Organization (SEMPO) will hold community open house events for the draft Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan on Jan. 9. Events will be held at the Jackson Civic Center at 381 W Deerwood Drive in Jackson from 3:30 to 5 p.m., and the Osage Centre at 1625 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The plan and a space for comments are online at surveymonkey.com/r/SEMPOBikePedComments...
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Southeast announces Fall 2017 Dean's List
(Community ~ 12/30/17)
The following students have been named to the fall 2017 Dean's List at Southeast Missouri State University. Students named to the list earned at least a 3.75 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, completed at least 12 hours of standard graded credit, achieved no grade below a B and received no failing grades in enrolled courses, including credit/no credit or pass/fail courses...
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Serve Spanish-style crispy potatoes for New Year's party
(Community ~ 12/30/17)
The classic New Year's libation is champagne, but what to eat is a matter of broader choice. This year why not make it a tapas party -- a feast of various little bites? And, if indeed that's how you choose to roll, one of those dishes should be these crispy baked potatoes with a garlicky, red-pepper mayo sauce...
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Tastily bringing in the New Year
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
On this New Year's Eve, I had trouble deciding if I should do this column on party appetizers or black-eyed-pea recipes. After looking at recipes, I decided to do both. Why do we eat black-eyed peas for the new year? In the southern United States, eating black-eyed peas or Hoppin' John on New Year's Day is thought to bring prosperity in the new year...
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Winging the winter
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
I just looked at the weather forecast on my cell phone for the next few days. Brrrrrrrrrrr! Then I looked out the window and saw one of my feathered friends. I'll bet he also was saying "Brrrrrrrrrr!" When I was growing up, my mother and grandmother always told me to drink plenty of water each day. That I did, without hesitation. But they also told me I had to take a bath every day. Now that was a different story. I wasn't so sure the bath was needed...
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Prayer 12-31-17
(Prayer ~ 12/30/17)
Lead us, O Lord Jesus, in your righteousness that we may glorify you. Amen.
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S. Korea holds ship, claims it transferred oil to North
(International News ~ 12/30/17)
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea said Friday it was holding a Hong Kong-flagged ship and its crew members for allegedly violating U.N. sanctions by transferring oil to a North Korean vessel in October. The Lighthouse Winmore is believed to have transferred about 600 tons of refined petroleum products to the North Korean ship, the Sam Jong 2, in international waters Oct. 19, after leaving the South Korean port of Yeosu, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said...
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Ex-soccer star elected president of Liberia
(International News ~ 12/30/17)
MONROVIA, Liberia -- Former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah has been elected Liberia's new president by a wide margin as the West African nation faces its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years. Vice President Joseph Boakai conceded Friday, congratulating the ex-soccer star. The National Election Commission later declared Weah president-elect and his running-mate, Jewel Howard-Taylor, vice president-elect...
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Gunman kills at least nine in attack outside church in Egypt
(International News ~ 12/30/17)
CAIRO -- A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire Friday outside a church in a Cairo suburb and at a nearby store, sparking a shootout that killed at least nine people, including eight Coptic Christians, authorities said. It was the latest attack targeting Egypt's embattled Christian minority...
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Amazon remains target of Trump
(National News ~ 12/30/17)
NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump returned to a favorite target Friday, saying Amazon.com should be charged more by the U.S. Postal Service for the packages it sends around the world. Amazon has been a consistent recipient of Trump's ire. He has accused the company of failing to pay "internet taxes," though it's never been made clear by the White House what the president means by that...
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Trump administration aims to trim rules on offshore drilling
(National News ~ 12/30/17)
DALLAS -- The Trump administration on Friday proposed to rewrite or kill rules on offshore oil and gas drilling that were imposed after the deadly 2010 rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The administration said the rules are an unnecessary burden on industry and rolling them back will encourage more energy production...
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Officials: Nearly half of customers without power in Puerto Rico
(National News ~ 12/30/17)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico authorities said Friday nearly half of power customers in the U.S. territory still lack electricity more than three months after Hurricane Maria. Officials said 55 percent of the nearly 1.5 million customers have power, marking the first time the government has provided that statistic since the Category 4 storm hit Sept. 20 with winds of up to 154 mph. Officials previously had reported power generation, which stands at nearly 70 percent of pre-storm levels...
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Bronx reels from fire
(National News ~ 12/30/17)
NEW YORK -- A preschooler toying with the burners on his mother's stove accidentally sparked New York City's deadliest fire in decades, an inferno that quickly overtook an apartment building and blocked the main escape route, the fire commissioner said Friday...
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Cold snap keeps tight grip
(National News ~ 12/30/17)
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Already winter-weary parts of the Midwest and East Coast are dealing with a mounting number of weather-related headaches, from highway pileups to frozen pipes and a rash of car thefts. And there's more to come. Bitter temperatures and snow squalls have been blamed for a handful of deaths and canceled a long list of New Year's celebrations...
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Out of the past: Dec. 30
(Out of the Past ~ 12/30/17)
The search for a new Cape Girardeau fire chief may be over; city manager J. Ronald Fischer says the city has extended an offer to one of three candidates who were here this month for interviews with a fire chief selection review board; he declines to release the name of the finalist...
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Daniel Webb
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- "Beloved father, loving husband, inventor, entrepreneur, pilot, mariner, engineer, businessman, tinkerer and lover of life." Daniel A. Webb died Sunday, May 28, 2017, in Corpus Christi after a brief fight with cancer. Dan was born Nov. 16, 1941, to Joseph Alan Webb and Kathryn Frances Lemons Webb in East Prairie, Missouri...
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Paula Tripp
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
Paula Lynn Tripp, 66, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, at her home. She was born June 25, 1951, in Cape Girardeau to Billy Paul and Donovon Delores Collins Snider. She loved her children and grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and great-nieces. She loved all the critters she took in...
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Carolyn Philipps
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
Carolyn B. Philipps, 57, of Jackson passed away Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, at the Monticello House. She was born Dec. 25, 1960, in St. Louis, daughter of Harold and Marian Joly Becker. She and Joel Philipps were married Oct. 22, 1983. He passed away Feb. 19, 2014...
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John Miinch
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. -- John B. Miinch, age 66, of Sedgewickville passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 28, 1951, at Fredericktown, Missouri, son of Lowell and Wilma (Peterman) Miinch. He and Vickie Rhodes were united in marriage on Oct. 29, 1972...
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Larry McCain
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
Larry Otis McCain, 74, of Jackson died Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, at his home. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Jan. 13 at New Bethel Baptist Church near Pocahontas, with the Rev. Jacob Colwell officiating. Arrangements were made by McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson...
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Robert Hutchings
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
Robert Dean "Bob" Hutchings, 70, of Jackson passed away Friday, Dec. 29, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 24, 1947, in Fredericktown, Missouri, to Robert B. and Frances Dollinger Hutchings. He and Patricia "Pat" Altenthal were married June 23, 1973...
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Carl Henneke
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Carl T. Henneke, 84, of Perryville died Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m., with parish and Knights of Columbus wake at 7 p.m., Tuesday and from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m., with rosary at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday at Young and Sons Funeral Home...
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Bill Hatler
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
Willie L. "Bill" Hatler, age 92, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017, at the Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 21, 1925, in Menfro, Missouri, the son of Louis Adolf and Ida Carrie Cordelia Mantz Hatler. On June 22, 1946, he married Hazel Maxine Mainer. She preceded him in death on Feb. 19, 2015...
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Joseph DeClue
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
Joseph C. DeClue, 73, of Jackson died Friday, Dec. 29, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Cape Girardeau police report 12/31/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/30/17)
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 and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia at 2134 Independence St...
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Births 12/31/17
(Births ~ 12/30/17)
Daughter to Randy Lee Woods Jr., and Elizabeth Marie Reagan of Tamms, Illinois, Saint Francis Medical Center, 4:20 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. Name, Rachee Maye. Weight, 8 pounds, 13 ounces. Second daughter. Reagan is the former Elizabeth Wolford, daughter of Kathy Wolford of Cape Girardeau and Tony Wolford of Tamms. Woods is the son of Randy Woods and Melissa Woods of East Prairie, Missouri. He works for Bunge North America...
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Deadly year: Homicides near record level in Kansas City
(State News ~ 12/30/17)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Just three years after Kansas City was being hailed for reducing homicides, the city is seeing a staggering increase in 2017. The Kansas City Star reported 149 people have been killed in homicides this year, the highest total since a record 153 in 1993, at the height of killings fueled by crack cocaine and gangs...
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Report: Tax breaks cost St. Louis $17M in last fiscal year
(State News ~ 12/30/17)
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis missed out on nearly $17 million in revenue during the last fiscal year because of property-tax breaks meant to stimulate development, according to a financial assessment by the city comptroller's office. The annual report, which quantified the value of the tax breaks, discloses the value of commonly used tax cuts in order to comply with new government accounting standards, the St. ...
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St. Louis County ends carriage rides in extreme cold
(State News ~ 12/30/17)
CLAYTON, Mo. -- With bitter low temperatures settled over the St. Louis area, a wintertime tradition is on hold until the weather warms up. St. Louis County officials on Thursday announced carriage rides at the annual Winter Wonderland in Tilles Park in Ladue will not take place when temperatures reach 15 degrees or lower...
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Friends of Lake St. Louis veteran hold hospital waltz
(State News ~ 12/30/17)
ST. PETERS, Mo. -- It was a seemingly small act of bravery that changed the final moments of veteran Bill Hahs' life. It was the fall of 2015, the year after Hahs' wife of 62 years, Opal, died. The 85-year-old spent his days going to Walmart, visiting the library by himself and listening to his favorite big-band music at home alone...
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Student gives $11K in new bikes to soldiers' children
(State News ~ 12/30/17)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- In recent years, Christmas hasn't quite felt the same for Garrett Litherland. There was something missing. "I thought it was because I wasn't a little kid anymore," he said. Eventually, the 16-year-old figured out one of his favorite parts of the holiday was helping with a charity started by his father that provided new bicycles to the children of men and women serving in the military...
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A new year begins
(Editorial ~ 12/30/17)
Few of us may actually know the meaning of the words that are often the first notes heard by many at the stroke of midnight, whether in Times Square in New York or in your own New Year's celebration. According to www.scotland.org, here is how the first verse and chorus translate into modern English:...
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Life in Cape Girardeau: My top stories in 2017
(Column ~ 12/30/17)
With four girls between the ages of 5 and 13, my wife, Victoria, and I don't get to the cinema often. But as part of Thanksgiving festivities, we joined much of our extended family with girls in tow (or, more accurately, the other way around) to watch "Wonder," the heart-tugging, inspiring and uplifting film about a 10-year old boy born with facial differences who enters school with others for the first time. ...
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Freeda Smothers
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
Freeda Smothers, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, at Monticello House in Jackson. She was born Feb. 1, 1927, in Sikeston, Missouri, to William Otis and Lydia L. Wallace Fulkerson. She and Aaron Obed Smothers were married Feb. 26, 1947, at Dexter, Missouri. He preceded her in death June 6, 1989...
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Wilma Summers
(Obituary ~ 12/30/17)
Wilma Summers, 93, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 9, 1924, in Millersville, the daughter of Cornelius and Ellen Welker Hahn. She and Lloyd Russell Summers were married April 21, 1944, in Osceola, Arkansas. He passed away June 15, 2011...
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Mouser -- 60 years
(Anniversary ~ 12/30/17)
George and Maggie Jane Mouser will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Jan. 18. A reception will be held 3 to 5 p.m. Jan. 14 at New Bethel Congregregation Methodist Church gymnasium near Marble Hill, Missouri. Mouser and the former Maggie Mills were married Jan. 18, 1958...
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