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Student falls from SEMO shuttle back door
(Local News ~ 10/01/19)
Officials with the Southeast Missouri State University Department of Public Safety and Cape County Private Ambulance employees respond to the scene of a shuttle accident Monday along Normal Avenue in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Teeing off Monday at Arena Park
(Local News ~ 10/01/19)
Dale Pingel works on the “missing piece” of his golf game by hitting a driver Monday in the outfield of Field 5 at Arena Park in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Hahs named to Municipal League board
(Local News ~ 10/01/19)
Jackson Mayor Dwain Hahs has been elected to the Missouri Municipal League Board of Directors. His election took place last month during the MML’s 85th annual conference in St. Charles, Missouri. The Missouri Municipal League is a statewide, independent, not-for-profit association that provides a united voice for municipalities throughout Missouri. Founded in 1934, MML serves more than 640 Missouri communities with training, resources and legislative advocacy for local government success...
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Panel punts on Veterans Memorial Drive project
(Local News ~ 10/01/19)
Members of a Cape Girardeau advisory board failed to reach agreement Monday on the proposed extension of Veterans Memorial Drive, opting instead to present two options to the City Council later this month. One option would be to spend $2.3 million on design, acquisition and dirt work for future extension of the north-south street from Hopper Road to the Route K area. The second option calls for budgeting $200,000 for engineering work only...
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Five reflections of my 48th year
(Column ~ 10/01/19)
Forty-nine years old? When did that happen? I mean, was it not just yesterday I was 21 crossing the stage at college graduation, then 25 walking into the classroom for the first time as a teacher? Ah, I think I remember now: This 49-year-old-thing began when I turned 30 and found myself depressed that I had left my youth behind. But now that I just turned 49 a few days ago, let me share that growing old ain't all bad. I'm just getting started really, and I hope you are, too...
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Road work 10/1/19
(Local News ~ 10/01/19)
U.S. 61 in Scott County, from Messmer Street to Route PP south of Kelso, Missouri, will be closed as contractor crews make pavement repairs. A Missouri Department of Transportation news release states the work will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily Oct. 7 and 8...
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Children's Day held at Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site
(Local News ~ 10/01/19)
Brooklyn Montgomery sends a hoop flying toward Mikey Henry on Saturday at the Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site in New Madrid, Missouri. The state site offered youngsters the opportunity to learn about life during the 1860s during its Children's Day. ...
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Marching band festival set for Tuesday in Jackson
(Local News ~ 10/01/19)
Jackson will be the Missouri epicenter of high school marching bands today when Jackson High School hosts its 75th annual Marching Band Festival. “Believe it or not, this is the oldest continuous marching band festival in the State of Missouri and one of the oldest west of the Mississippi,” noted Tom Broussard Jr., director of bands at the Jackson School District, which is hosting the festival...
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Governor won't stop Bucklew execution
(Local News ~ 10/01/19)
Gov. Mike Parson has declined to block the execution of convicted killer Russell Bucklew. Bucklew is scheduled to die within a 24-hour window beginning at 6 p.m. today. The Missouri Supreme Court set Oct. 1 execution date. The U.S. Supreme Court could still block the execution, but earlier this year, it ruled against Bucklew’s argument that the state’s lethal injection drug would cause him cruel and unusual punishment because of his rare brain condition...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/01/19)
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2019. There are 91 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history; the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself before officers arrived...
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Community Foundation honors Sandfort
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/01/19)
The Cape Area Community Foundation recently hosted an open house to honor Maurice "Moe" Sandfort for his service to the Cape board and to the community. The open house took place in August 2019 at Celebrations Downtown, in Cape Girardeau. Sandfort was a founding member and inspiration for the CACF, which started in 2015. ...
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Church merger serves as an example of what can be
(Column ~ 10/01/19)
Leading with grace. That is the motto of Sikeston pastors Kenny King and William Marshall as they merge their two churches to form a new church, Grace Bible Fellowship. The churches, Smith Chapel, a historically black church and Trinity Baptist, a historically white church, voted to merge earlier this month. That is no small thing in this community...
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CVS stops sale of heartburn drugs with suspect contaminant
(National News ~ 10/01/19)
CVS has halted sales of popular heartburn treatment Zantac and the store generic version after warnings by U.S. health regulators. CVS is the latest retailer to pull the heartburn tablets from store shelves. Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers about a potentially dangerous contaminant in prescription and over-the-counter versions of Zantac...
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Jeanette Tiehes
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Jeanette H. Tiehes, 94, died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with the Rev. Rich Wehrmeyer officiating. Interment will take place in Saint Boniface Cemetery in Perryville...
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Lee Smithey
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- C. Lee Smithey, 74, of Springfield passed away Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at Kindred Long Term Acute Care Hospital in Peoria, Illinois. Lee had been ill since Aug. 12, following his second open-heart surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Sadly, he caught pneumonia and was unable to recover...
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Kerwin Pfeiffer
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
Kerwin Anthony Pfeiffer, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Cremation rites will be accorded. Inurnment will take place at St. Mary's Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements...
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Don Ozbun
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
SENATH, Mo. -- Don Ozbun, 84, of Senath departed this life Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Feb. 9, 1935, to Ollie Clinton and Dora Woods Ozbun Sr. in Bono, Arkansas. He married Shirley Marie Branum on June 28, 1954, in LaCross, Kansas, while Don was on the wheat harvest. She preceded him in death Aug. 13, 2013...
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Joyce Jansen
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
Joyce Marie Jansen, 73, of Cape Girardeau went to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, at her home. She was born Sept. 23, 1946, in St. Louis to Fred L. and Mildred I. Behling Dietiker. She and Leonard Michael Jansen were married Feb. 4, 1967, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death Dec. 27, 2009...
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Wilma Hobbs
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
FANCY FARM, Ky. -- Wilma Elaine Hayden Hobbs, 89, of Fancy Farm passed away Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, at Jackson Purchase Medical Center. She was a member of St. Jerome Catholic Church and owner of Hobbs Home Center in Fancy Farm. She is survived by her husband, Bernard Hobbs; daughter, Mary Ann (Greg) Mayfield of Jackson; sons, Michael (Paula) Hobbs of Ashland, Kentucky, Gary Hobbs of Mayfield, Kentucky, and Allen (Gwen) Hobbs and Paul Hobbs, both of Fancy Farm; 24 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.. ...
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Maudaline Cook
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
Maudaline Randolph Cook, 97, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, at Independence Care Center in Perryville, Missouri. Visitation will be from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Jim Rudolph officiating. Burial will be at Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Bernice Clements
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
Bernice F. Clements, 91, of Old Appleton died Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral Mass was held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Apple Creek, Missouri, with the Rev. Jim French officiating. Burial was in St. Michael Cemetery...
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Willa Cartwright
(Obituary ~ 10/01/19)
SAN ANTONIO -- Willa Ree Cartwright, 84, of San Antonio, formerly of Scott City, passed away peacefully Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. She is survived by her children, Ben Cartwright of Mayfield, Kentucky, Theriesa (Bart) Bloemhard of San Antonio and William (Libbi) Cartwright of Sea Crest, Florida; sister, Wanda Hawkins of Mayfield; 10 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild...
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Happy now? Everyone is talking about 'Joker'
(Entertainment ~ 10/01/19)
LOS ANGELES -- There may be no such thing as bad publicity, but the spotlight on "Joker" is testing the limits of that old cliche. The origin story about the classic Batman villain has inspired pieces both in defense of and against the movie. It's been hailed as the thing to finally get Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar and also decried for being "dangerous," "irresponsible" and even "incel-friendly." Last week, some parents of victims of the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting even wrote to the Warner Bros. ...
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Delaware school sorry for serving Roseanne anthem rendition
(Entertainment ~ 10/01/19)
SEAFORD, Del. — “The Star-Spangled Banner” isn’t an unusual feature of high school pregame festivities, but Roseanne Barr’s screeching 1990s rendition surprised spectators at one Delaware volleyball game. . ...
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Man falls into Yellowstone hot spring
(Community ~ 10/01/19)
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A Yellowstone National Park visitor has been hospitalized with severe burns after falling into thermal water at Old Faithful Geyser. Park spokeswoman Morgan Warthin said Cade Edmond Siemers told rangers he was walking near the famous geyser late Sunday night without a flashlight when he tripped into a hot spring...
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North Korea complains at United Nations about U.S. 'provocations'
(International News ~ 10/01/19)
UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea decried the stalled state of its nuclear standoff with the United States and told the international community Monday the fault lies with Washington's "political and military provocations." "It depends on the U.S.," North Korean Ambassador Kim Song said, whether the negotiations "will become a window of opportunity or an occasion that will hasten the crisis."...
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Johnson denies allegations of patronage, groping
(International News ~ 10/01/19)
MANCHESTER, England -- U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled to fend off allegations of improper patronage and groping a woman as he prepared a final push Monday to fulfill his pledge to lead his country out of the European Union in just more than a month -- and, he hopes, move British politics beyond its fracture over Europe...
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Saudi crown prince takes responsibility for journalist's death
(National News ~ 10/01/19)
NEW YORK -- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a television interview he takes "full responsibility" for the grisly killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but he denied allegations he ordered it. "This was a heinous crime," Prince Mohammed, 34, told "60 Minutes." "But I take full responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia, especially since it was committed by individuals working for the Saudi government."...
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Ukraine's leader: We can't be ordered to investigate Biden
(International News ~ 10/01/19)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's president says his country can't be pressured into opening an investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden or his son. And both Ukraine and rival Russia are pushing back at the White House for releasing a transcript of a private phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and another world leader...
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President's windmill hatred is a worry for booming wind power industry
(National News ~ 10/01/19)
BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. -- The winds are blowing fair for America's wind power industry, making it one of the fastest-growing U.S. energy sources. Land-based turbines are rising by the thousands across America, from the remote Texas plains to farm towns of Iowa. And the U.S. wind boom now is expanding offshore, with big corporations planning $70 billion in investment for the country's first utility-scale offshore wind farms...
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Temperatures drop in Rockies as Montana digs out from snow
(Community ~ 10/01/19)
HELENA, Mont. -- Temperatures plunged across the Rocky Mountains on Monday as residents in Montana dug out from a wintry blast that left several feet of snow and caused the governor to declare an emergency. Freeze warnings were in effect in parts of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, with temperatures forecast to drop into the teens and 20s. ...
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Trump warns of treason, civil war; GOP congressman outraged
(National News ~ 10/01/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is warning the Democrat-driven impeachment proceedings and any move to oust him from office amount to "treason" and would spark a civil war, prompting outrage from a Republican congressman. Trump tweeted a conservative pastor's comment that removing him would provoke a "civil war-like fracture" in America...
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Democrats issue subpoena for Trump lawyer Giuliani as impeachment inquiry accelerates
(National News ~ 10/01/19)
WASHINGTON -- At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the president raged about treason. At the other, the methodical march toward impeachment proceeded apace. Democrats on Monday subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer who was at the heart of Trump's efforts to get Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden's family. ...
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Washington University reports impact of environmental racism
(State News ~ 10/01/19)
ST. LOUIS -- African American residents in St. Louis are exposed to far greater environmental risks than whites, contributing to stark disparities in health, wealth and quality of life, a new report from Washington University has found. Released last month, the report titled "Environmental Racism in St. Louis" piles together data and personal stories to illustrate how city residents contend with eight separate issues, stretching from lead exposure to asthma and limited access to healthy food...
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Prayer 10/1/19
(Prayer ~ 10/01/19)
O God, thank you that we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus. Amen.
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Speak Out 10/1/19
(Speak Out ~ 10/01/19)
Two recent comments rightly pointed out the benefits and ugliness of Jackson's roundabout. However, the suggestion to put one on Highway 61 and Deerwood is nonsensical. The speed limit is 45 mph; the traffic flow is efficient; and that area is already aesthetically boring...
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Out of the past: Oct. 1
(Out of the Past ~ 10/01/19)
Show Me Center director David Ross has never had a worse week in promoting entertainment events; both The Pointer Sisters concert, scheduled for Tuesday, and the Kenny G concert, scheduled Oct. 13, were canceled. Volunteers are helping the Salvation Army move into its new headquarters building at 701 Good Hope St.; the first official function at the new facility will be tomorrow morning's church service...
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Sponsored: Let’s sow, grow and go!
(Insiders Advice ~ 10/01/19)
Holy hot September, that was rough. Seeding season for your yards has come down to the ultimate crunchtime! The ideal soil temperatures for overseeding your yard with cool season grass ranges from 55 to 70 degrees, depending on what type of seed blend you’re utilizing...
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