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New mural on view at Sikeston Depot
(Local News ~ 11/01/19)
Artist Craig Thomas of Cape Girardeau adds a mural to the front alcove of the Sikeston Depot late last month in Sikeston, Missouri. The mural, which took Thomas about a month and a half to complete, features Sikeston's regional connection to cotton and its history in the development of the community. ...
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More than just music: Community Choral Festival set for Sunday in Jackson
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/19)
This weekend marks 10 years for the Community Choral Festival at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson, but it's more than just another concert. Proceeds from donations received will benefit the Jackson Ministerial Alliance and its food pantry. And this year the concert is extra special because it falls on All Saints' Day weekend, an important time of reflection for many churches...
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Southeast Missouri State University announces Homecoming winners
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/19)
Southeast Missouri State University senior Justin Jacobs and senior Francesca Bucci were crowned the 2019 Man and Woman of the Year at halftime of the Southeast Homecoming football game on Saturday at Houck Field, according to a news release from the university...
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You've goat to be kidding me: Goat yoga comes to Cape Girardeau
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/19)
What happens when 25 yoga practitioners, treats and 20 very confused goats are combined? Goat yoga, of course. It's a group yoga session held in a goat pen, barn or area that allows both yoga practitioners and goats to interact while moving through a series of poses and stretches. In many cases, the goats will jump on or around participants...
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Pro-life memorial gone from South Mount Auburn site; VA health care center incoming
(Local News ~ 11/01/19)
The field of crosses at the Cemetery of the Innocent in Cape Girardeau and its adjacent signs bearing Christian, pro-life messages have silently disappeared. Where 500 PVC-pipe crosses once stood prominently along one of the city’s busiest motorways, a vacant lot of 500 holes remains...
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People's Shelter opens day early to help homeless during cold weather
(Local News ~ 11/01/19)
As temperatures begin to dip below freezing, The People’s Shelter is opening its doors to the homeless once again. Located in the basement of St. James A.M.E. Church, the shelter has provided warmth to unhoused citizens since January 2018. Although she initially planned to wait until today to open the shelter, the Rev. Renita Green made the decision early Thursday to open one day earlier...
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One person dead after multiple gunshots Friday in Cape
(Local News ~ 11/01/19)
One person is dead following multiple gunshots Friday at an apartment complex on the 2800 block of Whitener Street in Cape Girardeau, according to the Cape Girardeau Police Department. The incident happened at approximately 12:45 a.m...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
Today is Friday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2019. There are 60 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 1, 1936, in a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin...
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Outside the Office: Keith Holloway
(B Magazine ~ 11/01/19)
While at the University of Missouri in 1974, we were required to take a P.E. course. Growing up in Poplar Bluff, we went swimming a lot in the Black River, private lakes, the Current River, Tenmile Creek and swimming pools, so I decided to take swimming for conditioning as a P.E. ...
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Basketball analyst Adrian Branch to give inspirational message
(Editorial ~ 11/01/19)
Former NBA player and current ESPN basketball analyst Adrian Branch has been in Cape Girardeau this week. The NBA Champion gave talks for several local schools and other organizations, and Branch will speak at 8 a.m. Saturday at La Croix Church. The event, which is free to attend, is sponsored by the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International...
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The American Banana Republic
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/01/19)
Abuse of power and corruption by Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton seem insignificant compared to misdeeds and corruption of Trump and his family. Believing that he is a "stable genius of unmatched wisdom who can do anything he wants," the 'scared-of-his-base' Trumpian lawmakers keep protecting him...
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John Legend and Kelly Clarkson join forces on a reimagined version of the often-criticized Christmas classic 'Baby It's Cold Outside'
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/19)
NEW YORK -- John Legend and Kelly Clarkson, his fellow coach on "The Voice," have joined forces on a reimagined version of the oft-criticized Christmas classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside." The song, written by Frank Loesser in 1944, is a duet that has a man trying to convince a woman to stay overnight at his home on a cold winter's night. It's been a flashpoint of the (hash)MeToo era, with foes calling it everything from sexist to an ode to date rape...
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Apple TV Plus joins streaming wars, has Oprah but no catalog
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/19)
LOS ANGELES -- As the streaming wars near a fever pitch and viewers are targeted from every vantage point -- Disney Plus has the Marvel and Star Wars brands! HBO Max counters with "Game of Thrones" and DC superheroes! -- Apple TV Plus could be cast as the highly pedigreed and improbable underdog...
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TSA finds gun-shaped toilet-paper roller in bag at New Jersey airport
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
NEWARK, N.J. — Transportation Security Administration agents at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Airport uncovered a more decorative than deadly item when they checked a passenger’s carry-on. Agents on Tuesday thought there was a gun in the bag when they put it through the X-ray machine. A closer inspection, however, revealed a gun-shaped toilet-paper roller. ...
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Boy Scouts to boost annual youth fees by more than 80%
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
NEW YORK -- Facing a potentially ruinous wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America is increasing its annual youth membership fee by more than 80%. The group said the move, which has dismayed many of the Scouts' adult volunteer leaders who warn the increase is prohibitively steep for some, is needed to meet rising operating costs, notably for the liability insurance covering all official Scouting activities...
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Storms precede season's first freeze across South
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Storms with heavy rain and strong winds raked across the central United States from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes on Thursday ahead of an arctic blast forecasters said could bring near-record cold to the South. Temperatures were predicted to drop as much as 30 degrees in a few hours, and forecasters said severe storms were possible from Alabama to New England...
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Iraqi president calls for new voting law
(International News ~ 11/01/19)
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's president Thursday called for the drafting of a new election law and said he would approve early elections once it is enacted, bowing to anti-government protesters while insisting the sweeping changes they are demanding be carried out in a constitutional way...
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Survivors say burning Pakistani train took 20 minutes to stop, 74 dead
(International News ~ 11/01/19)
MULTAN, Pakistan -- A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province on Thursday killing 74 people, and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train's brakes...
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Islamic State announces successor to al-Baghdadi
(International News ~ 11/01/19)
BEIRUT -- The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria. In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi -- tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe...
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Buttigieg hunts for support in city halls
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- As Pete Buttigieg works to prove the leader of a city of roughly 100,000 people is ready to assume the American presidency, he's relying on help from politicians who would know best: his fellow mayors. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor has amassed a network of roughly 60 "Mayors for Pete," a collection of local leaders pushing for his underdog bid. ...
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Oil pipeline leaks 383,000 gallons in N.D.
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
BISMARCK, N.D. -- TC Energy's Keystone pipeline has leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons of oil in northeastern North Dakota, marking the second significant spill in two years along the line carrying Canadian tar sands oil through seven states, regulators said Thursday...
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Science Says: How daylight saving time affects health
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
Office workers bemoan driving home in the dark. Night owls relish the chance to sleep in. As clocks tick toward the end of daylight saving time, many sleep scientists and circadian biologists are pushing for a permanent ban because of potential ill effects on human health...
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California endures more fires, one sparked by a hot vehicle
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. -- A stolen car sparked a wildfire in a bone-dry field Thursday as two of Southern California's quintessential themes -- car chases and gusty Santa Ana winds -- collided with potentially devastating consequences. The hot car ignited dry grass in a field in the city of Jurupa Valley east of Los Angeles and strong winds have menaced the region quickly spread the flames, burning homes and forcing residents to flee...
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U.S. role in Syria grows more complex with Trump claim to oil
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
WASHINGTON -- By claiming a right to Syria's oil, President Donald Trump has added more complexity -- as well as additional U.S. forces and time -- to an American military mission he has twice declared he was ending so the troops could come home. Extending the mission to secure eastern Syria's oilfields happens to fit neatly with the Pentagon's view -- supported by some Trump allies in Congress -- a full withdrawal now could hasten a revival of the Islamic State group, even after the extremists lost their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a U.S. ...
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Divided House approves Dems' impeachment rules
(National News ~ 11/01/19)
WASHINGTON -- Democrats swept a rules package for their impeachment probe of President Donald Trump through a divided House on Thursday, as the chamber's first vote on the investigation highlighted the partisan breach the issue has only deepened. By 232-196, lawmakers approved the procedures they'll follow as weeks of closed-door interviews with witnesses evolve into public committee hearings and -- almost certainly -- votes on whether the House should recommend Trump's removal...
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Charles Tucker
(Obituary ~ 11/01/19)
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Charles F. Tucker, 93, of Overland Park, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at Tallgrass Creek Assisted Living in Overland Park. He was born Dec. 14, 1925, in Thebes, Illinois, to Sam F. and Emma Sexton Tucker. He and Leona Lewis were married May 16, 1946, in Jackson, for 73 years...
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Rev. Alvie Surface
(Obituary ~ 11/01/19)
ROCKVIEW, Mo. -- The Rev. Alvie Surface, son of the late Homer and Cora Bass Surface, was born Sept. 2, 1933, in Delta and went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at St. Clare Hospital in Fenton, Missouri, surrounded by his family, at the age of 86 years...
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Kevin Ressel
(Obituary ~ 11/01/19)
NESBIT, Miss. -- Kevin Joseph Ressel, 58, of Nesbit died Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was born Nov. 9, 1960, in Cape Girardeau to Lucas John and Alice Alma Glastetter Ressel. He married Yvonne Lesh on April 30, 1988, in Memphis. She preceded him in death Oct. 9, 2013...
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Willard Lohmann
(Obituary ~ 11/01/19)
FARRAR, Mo. -- Willard J. Lohmann, 95, of Farrar died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at Independence Care Center in Perryville, Missouri. A private graveside service was held Thursday at Salem Lutheran Cemetery in Farrar, with the Rev. Roger Abernathy officiating...
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Norbert Bohnert
(Obituary ~ 11/01/19)
Norbert Bohnert, 92, of Cape Girardeau was called home Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, after living a full life. Norbert was born Sept. 11, 1927, in Apple Creek, Missouri. He was the fourth of five children born to Henry Ignatius and Julia Ann Lappe Bohnert...
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Anna Adams
(Obituary ~ 11/01/19)
Anna Marie Adams, 82, of Scott City died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee, Missouri. She was born Jan. 17, 1937, in Ancell to Andrew and Philomena Hamm Glueck. She married Ronald Dean Adams on Feb. 12, 1966. He preceded her in death Feb. 14, 2014...
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Holiday movie filmed in Missouri hits streaming service
(State News ~ 11/01/19)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- A holiday-themed movie filmed in St. Joseph is hitting the airwaves. The St. Joseph News-Press reported "Christmas at the Chateau" will be available starting today on the Showtime Channel's streaming service. And its premiere broadcast on the Showtime Family Zone will be Saturday...
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Hearing concludes in Missouri abortion clinic licensing case
(State News ~ 11/01/19)
ST. LOUIS -- An administrative hearing to decide whether Missouri can revoke the license for the state's only abortion clinic concluded Thursday with emotional testimony from a clinic official. The hearing in St. Louis before a commissioner with the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission was expected to last five days but wrapped up a day early. A ruling isn't expected until February at the earliest...
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Prayer 11/1/19
(Prayer ~ 11/01/19)
O Lord God, may we resist evil, standing firm in our faith in you. Amen.
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Speak Out 11/1/19
(Speak Out ~ 11/01/19)
That Kentucky kid from Covington who went to Washington and made himself an Internet sensation is just in it for the money now. With his self-righteous attitude and smug face, he can be a conservative star. And with enough lawyers, he can be the new version of a self-made "man."...
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Out of the past: Nov. 1
(Out of the Past ~ 11/01/19)
Beginning today, callers making long-distance telephone calls within their own area codes will be dialing more numbers; what callers used to reach in seven digits now takes 10; in Eastern Missouri, callers will have to dial 1 or 0, plus the 314 area code for all calls beyond the local calling area...
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Birth 11/1/19
(Births ~ 11/01/19)
Son to Cody Jarrell and Shyann Clifton of Dexter, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. Name, Jace Tyler. Weight, 7 pounds, 9 ounces. First child. Clifton is the daughter of Daniel and Sherry Clifton of Dexter and Vanissia Lemons of Chaffee, Missouri. She is employed by W.W. Wood Products. Jarrell is the son of Jimmy and Angie Melson of Advance, Missouri, and Larry Jarrell of Sikeston. He works for Unilever...
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Halloween 2019
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/19)
My three grandchildren Bailey, Lain, and Vince Rees dressed as Beetlejuice for Halloween.
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Halloween 2019
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/19)
My grandchildren Holden, Logan, and Charlee Keele for Halloween
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2nd generation baby girl pumpkin (Ava Lukefahr )
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/19)
Ava’s mother Amy Lukefahr first Halloween (age 3 months ) trick r treating was being in a pumpkin and of course had to be carried. There are family, friends , and previous neighbors that still remember that little baby girl in the pumpkin, going trick r treating. She wanted to do the same with her daughter Ava (9 months )...
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GREGORY RECEIVES LIFE APPLICATIONS LEADER AWARD
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/19)
For release immediately, with photo November 1, 2019 GREGORY RECEIVES LIFE APPLICATIONS LEADER AWARD Kandra Gregory of Jackson a financial advisor with Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial, was Life Application Leader in the Missouri East Region in October...
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DARBY ADVISOR OF THE MONTH
(Submitted Story ~ 11/01/19)
For release immediately, with photo November 1, 2019 DARBY ADVISOR OF THE MONTH Kelly Darby of Jackson, a financial advisor with Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial, was named District Advisor of the Month for October. Darby has been with Modern Woodmen since November 2010...
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