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Cape County Commission approves road-paving bid, moving utility lines
(Local News ~ 04/18/18)
Two Cape Girardeau County projects are moving ahead after action by the county commission Monday. For a road-paving project set for this year, Apex Paving Co. of Cape Girardeau submitted the lowest and best bid. Commissioner Paul Koeper said the $46.80 per ton was “a very good price,” as the bids ranged from $46.80 to $64 per ton...
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New principal named at Cape Central High
(Local News ~ 04/18/18)
Cape Girardeau Central High School has named its next principal: Nancy Scheller, effective July 1. Scheller is director of Central Academy, formerly the Alternative Education Center, and, according to a district news release, has proved herself to be an extraordinary school leader...
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Jackson church asks city to abandon street for new building
(Local News ~ 04/18/18)
One church in Jackson is requesting the city close a section of a street between the church and school, citing safety and continuity concerns. Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at 208 S. Hope St. is planning to build a new church, said the Rev. John Harth, pastor/rector of Immaculate Conception, when he spoke to the board of aldermen during Monday night’s study session...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
Today is Wednesday, April 18, the 108th day of 2018. There are 257 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 18, 1938, Superman, AKA "The Man of Steel," made his debut as the first issue of Action Comics (bearing a cover date of June) went on sale for 10 cents a copy. (In 2014, a nearly flawless original copy was sold on eBay for $3.2 million.)...
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Howard Tumbleson
(Obituary ~ 04/18/18)
** Howard Tumbleson Howard Tumbleson, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, April 16, 2018, at Southeast Hospital. There will be a memorial service at a later date. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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James Rohde
(Obituary ~ 04/18/18)
James "Jim" W. Rohde, 71, returned to his heavenly home Monday, April 16, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Jim was born Nov. 30, 1946, to the late Robert and Grace Thompson Rohde in St. Louis. He enjoyed a lifelong love of learning, which led to him attaining a graduate degree from Southeast Missouri State University in 1996. He worked as a counselor in the Cape Girardeau area...
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Gary Reeves
(Obituary ~ 04/18/18)
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- Gary Lynn Reeves, 71, of Chesterfield, formerly of Louisiana, Missouri, passed away Monday, April 16, 2018, at the Mari De Villa Home in Town and Country, Missouri. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until the time of service Thursday at Collier Funeral Home in Louisiana...
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Ed Lewis
(Obituary ~ 04/18/18)
Gary "Ed" Edward Lewis, 82, of Jackson died Saturday, April 14, 2018, at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis of complications from pneumonia. He was born Aug. 14, 1935, in Jackson to Wilson H. and Daisy Godwin Lewis. He and Fern E. Kaiser were married Nov. 25, 1953, in Jackson. She preceded him in death Feb. 8, 2006. He and Fern J. Schuschke were married March 3, 2007. She preceded him in death Dec. 18, 2015...
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Janice Jones
(Obituary ~ 04/18/18)
Janice Ruth Dollar Jones, 82, of Cape Girardeau died peacefully Monday, April 16, 2018, at the home of her daughter. She was born Oct. 26, 1935, in Tippah County, Mississippi, to Sam and Mary Alsup Dollar, the youngest daughter of 13 children. She was married to James Kyle, who is now deceased. She later married Franklin Jones, who also preceded her in death...
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Amid trade rift, China to allow full foreign auto ownership
(International News ~ 04/18/18)
BEIJING -- Facing the risk of a trade fight with the United States, China announced plans Tuesday to allow full foreign ownership of automakers in five years. The change would scrap rules requiring global automakers to work through state-owned partners -- an arrangement forcing those foreign companies to share technology with potential competitors in China. ...
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Cuba set for new leader
(International News ~ 04/18/18)
SANTA CLARA, Cuba -- Raul Castro travels in motorcades of gleaming imported sedans. Rings of grim-faced bodyguards protect him, pistols under crisp guayabera shirts. The 86-year-old president of Cuba arrives at official events moments before they begin, and the audience rises to applaud...
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Chemical arms experts in Syria go to site of attack
(International News ~ 04/18/18)
DAMASCUS, Syria -- International chemical weapons inspectors Tuesday entered Douma, the site of a suspected poison gas attack leading to Western airstrikes against the Syrian government, state media reported. The team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived in the suburb east of the capital, 10 days after the alleged attack, raising concerns any evidence the inspectors find could be useless...
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1 dead after jet's engine fails
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
PHILADELPHIA -- A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blew an engine at about 30,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel smashing a window and damaging the fuselage Tuesday, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said. The plane, a twin-engine Boeing 737 bound from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia just before noon as passengers breathing through oxygen masks said their prayers and braced for impact...
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S.C.'s prisons among U.S.' deadliest
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Twenty South Carolina prisoners have been killed at the hands of fellow inmates in the past 16 months. The staggering amount of violence, which includes the gang-fueled bloodshed leaving seven prisoners dead and 17 injured this week at Lee Correctional Institution, has some legislators calling for more oversight and transparency at the state Department of Corrections...
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Jury hears Cosby's graphic testimony
(Entertainment ~ 04/18/18)
NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- Jurors on Tuesday got a sense of Bill Cosby's view of consent from graphic deposition testimony in which the comedian described reaching an area "somewhere between permission and rejection" during what he claims was a prior sexual encounter with his chief accuser...
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Marijuana-based drug gets positive review from agency
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
WASHINGTON -- A medicine made from the marijuana plant reduces seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and warrants approval in the United States, health officials said Tuesday. British drugmaker GW Pharmaceuticals is seeking permission to sell its purified form of an ingredient found in cannabis as a medication for rare, hard-to-treat seizures in children. ...
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Mississippi model may help save coast
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Scientists working on new ways to battle the erosion threatening Louisiana's coastline have a dramatic new tool: a massive replica of the lower Mississippi River. The Louisiana State University's Center for River Studies is home to the newly opened Lower Mississippi River Physical Model, a 10,000-square-foot reproduction of nearly 200 miles of the lower Mississippi from the town of Donaldsonville northwest of New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. ...
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IRS payment site fails on tax day
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
Americans who waited until the last day to pay their taxes online got an unwelcome surprise: The IRS website to make payments and access other key services is down. The IRS still expects Americans to pay their taxes but U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says extensions will be granted to those impacted when the site is up again...
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High court considers changing online sales tax rule
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court sounded concerned Tuesday about doing away with a rule resulting in shoppers not always getting charged sales tax when they hit "checkout" online. The justices were hearing arguments in a case dealing with how businesses collect sales tax on online purchases at sites from Amazon.com to Zappos. ...
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Defending Trump in Russia probe? Not a dream job
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
WASHINGTON -- Several prominent lawyers asked to help represent President Donald Trump in the last year have spurned the assignment at least partly out of concerns he wouldn't pay his bills and doesn't listen to legal advice, according to people familiar with the conversations...
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McConnell shuts down bill to protect Mueller
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thwarted a bipartisan effort Tuesday to protect special counsel Robert Mueller's job, saying he will not hold a floor vote on the legislation even if it is approved next week in the Senate Judiciary Committee...
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Daniels: This man threatened me
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
WASHINGTON -- Stormy Daniels injected fresh drama into the sensational story of a president, a fixer and a porn actress Tuesday, releasing an artist's sketch of a man she says threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot to stay quiet about her sexual tryst with Donald Trump...
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Less abstract sculptures
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/18/18)
This opinion is a response to the new pieces of art that will be on Broadway. I think the committee would do the people of our city a favor if they would choose pieces in the future that anyone viewing the art will know what the piece is without guesswork on our part...
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Joe Biden is not helping the political divide
(Column ~ 04/18/18)
We talk often about the polarization in this country but increasingly it's not polarization, it's downright hatred. It's beyond dispute that we have reached a cultural and political crossroad where civil discourse and compromise have been abandoned...
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Adult and Teen Challenge plays important role in fighting addictions
(Editorial ~ 04/18/18)
There's no sugar-coating the topic. Addiction is real. It affects nearly every person in some capacity -- through personal experience or knowing a friend or relative who has struggled with a substance. From illegal drugs to alcohol and prescription drugs, billions are spent each year in the United States on drug and alcohol treatment...
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Out of the past: April 18
(Out of the Past ~ 04/18/18)
The Rev. Richard Tragasz is installed as pastor of Scriptural Lutheran Church in an afternoon service; the installation sermon is delivered by the Rev. Klebe Brumble of Richardson, Texas, circuit visitor for churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod in this area...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 4/18/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/18/18)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Sunday n Medical assists were made at 9:43 a.m. on Grant Street and 11:54 p.m. on Lakewood Drive. n At 4:13 p.m., a citizen assist on South West End Boulevard. n At 8:34 p.m., a smoke detector activation, no fire, on West Cape Rock Drive...
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Missouri governor could face charge for charity donor list
(State News ~ 04/18/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Eric Greitens, already facing a felony charge related to an extramarital affair, soon could face another felony count after the state's attorney general cited evidence Tuesday suggesting Greitens' use of a charity donor list for political purposes may have broken state law...
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Potential Greitens impeachment would face legal ambiguities
(State News ~ 04/18/18)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri lawmakers considering whether to impeach Republican Gov. Eric Greitens may first have to wrestle with an unprecedented question: Does it matter the alleged actions occurred before he was in office? There is no definitive answer to that question because only one Missouri executive official has ever been ousted from office following impeachment and her offense was directly related to her job...
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Cape council seeks applications for board vacancy
(Local News ~ 04/18/18)
Cape Girardeau residents in Ward 5 may apply through April 30 to fill a vacancy on the city council, city officials said. Council members decided during a study session Monday to take applications for two weeks and then fill the vacancy at the May 7 council meeting...
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Prosecutor, former sheriff at odds over use of grand jury in Lawless case
(Local News ~ 04/18/18)
Scott County Prosecutor Paul Boyd and former sheriff Rick Walter remain at odds over how the grand jury system was used in the Mischelle Lawless murder case. Walter said, as sheriff, he sought a grand jury in 2015 and again in 2016 after new evidence came to light but both times he was rebuffed by the prosecutor...
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Starbucks to close stores for an afternoon of bias training
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
NEW YORK -- Starbucks, moving swiftly to confront a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia, plans to close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for several hours next month to conduct racial-bias training for nearly 175,000 workers...
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Trump: U.S. and N. Korea talking at 'high levels'
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
PALM BEACH, Fla. -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. and North Korea are holding direct talks at "extremely high levels" in preparation for a potential summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. But White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump and Kim have not spoken directly...
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Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92
(National News ~ 04/18/18)
HOUSTON -- Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. She was 92. Mrs. Bush brought a grandmotherly style to buttoned-down Washington, often appearing in her trademark fake pearl chokers and displaying no vanity about her white hair and wrinkles...
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Prayer 4/18/18
(Prayer ~ 04/18/18)
O Lord Jesus, we praise you for the gift of eternal life through you. Amen.
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Area police reports 4/18/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/18/18)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Sasha Chapman, 33, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant. n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of making a false report and driving while revoked/suspended at South Kingshighway and Southern Expressway...
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Births 4/18/18
(Births ~ 04/18/18)
Daughter to Tanelle Ranae Golden of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 6:02 a.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Name, Ava Dean. Weight, 6 pounds, 14 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Golden is the daughter of Tammy Gant of Cape Girardeau. Son to Joshua Edward and Betsy Mikayla Karn of Perryville, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 11:40 a.m. ...
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Beverly Lewis
(Obituary ~ 04/18/18)
Beverly Ann Lewis, 78, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, April 16, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born March 13, 1940, in Cape Girardeau to Thomas Norval and Martha Kurre Carr. She and Jerry Lewis were married June 2, 1957, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau...
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Lawless murder timeline: Following Mark Abbott, Matt Abbott and Kevin Williams
(Local News ~ 04/18/18)
The events below come from pretrial depositions in the Mischelle Lawless murder. In some cases, information changed from original interviews and police. The events below are essentially what Josh Kezer's defense knew before trial. Evening, Nov. 7, 1992...
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9 reasons the wrong man was convicted in the Lawless case
(Local News ~ 04/18/18)
The Angela Mischelle Lawless murder case from Nov. 8, 1992, is complicated with many wrongdoings and missteps. Here is a list of 9 reasons where the original investigation went askew, and why the wrong man, Joshua Kezer, was sent to prison. (Compiled by Mark Bliss and Bob Miller from new reporting, court records and previous reporting)...
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Pursuit of Proof, The Lawless murder: A grand jury with no indictment but key witnesses not called
(Local News ~ 04/18/18)
Former Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter believes he solved Mischelle Lawless’ murder, and had enough evidence to prove it. DNA tests proved, he said, that one of the suspects was lying about his version of events on Nov. 8, 1992, the night Lawless was found bludgeoned and shot to death in her car at the Benton exit on Interstate 55. ...
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