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Magnitude 7 Metals in danger of closing
(Local News ~ 02/29/20)
MARSTON, Mo. -- Just two years after opening in Marston, Magnitude 7 Metals is losing money at such a fast pace it could close within 60 days. This is according to a story released by Reuters Friday morning. In an interview with Reuters, Magnitude 7 Metals chief executive Charles Reali said, "we are in prayer mode. If things don't turn around in the next 60 days, I don't know."...
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Iowa State University's Cow helps track weather
(Local News ~ 02/29/20)
A Cow has become a useful tool in studying historical weather warning information. Iowa State University has produced a database of National Weather Service warnings -- Iowa Environmental Mesonet -- dating to 2005. The database is inexplicably nicknamed "Cow" and is searchable by NWS office issuing the warning, type of warning (tornado, thunderstorm, flood, etc.) and type of expected damage producer (tornado, wind, hail, etc.). ...
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Cape man remembers Iwo Jima 75 years later
(Column ~ 02/29/20)
On Feb. 19, 1945, American forces invaded the Pacific island of Iwo Jima for what became an important five-week battle during World War II. But on Tuesday -- the day we spoke for this interview -- there was another anniversary on the mind of 93-year-old Walter James Wright. It was Feb. 25, 1945, when he was wounded during the Battle of Iwo Jima...
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SEMA campaign to focus on severe weather events
(Local News ~ 02/29/20)
In the event of a severe weather incident, do you have a plan for safety? Monday through Friday, the National Weather Service and State Emergency Management Agency will host Missouri Severe Weather Preparedness Week, in which Missourians are urged to learn about severe weather and how to respond to potentially deadly hazards posed by tornadoes, severe storms, lightning and flash flooding...
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Turnout expected to be low for primary
(Local News ~ 02/29/20)
What if they held an election and nobody came? That's what Cape Girardeau County Clerk Kara Clark Summers is wondering 10 days before Missouri's presidential primary election. "I was originally thinking the turnout might be as high as 40%," Summers said. However, she believes the 16 presidential primaries and caucuses taking place this week on "Super Tuesday" will overshadow Missouri's presidential primary...
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Of leapers and leaplings: Celebrating Feb. 29 (leap day) birthdays
(Local News ~ 02/29/20)
Jerry McClanahan celebrates his 20th birthday today whereas earlier this month he and his wife, Barbara, marked 60 years of marriage. McClanahan is not a time traveler, but rather was born Feb. 29, aka leap day, or the extra day which appears on calendars nearly every four years...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/29/20)
Today is Saturday, Feb. 29, the 60th day of 2020. There are 306 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 29, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a second Neutrality Act as he appealed to American businesses not to increase exports to belligerents...
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Out of the past: Feb. 29
(Out of the Past ~ 02/29/20)
A pre-Easter service is held in the evening at First Baptist Church, Broadway and Spanish Street; the subject for the service is "Players in the Tragedy of the Tree." Arnet Groves, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Groves, leaves in the morning for St. Louis, where he will visit a few days before going on to Mobile, Alabama; his cousin, A. ...
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Adopt Puppy
(Community ~ 02/29/20)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary This cute puppy is a small breed mix. She is 3 1/2 months old and needs a loving forever home. If you are ready for a rewarding experience, come see us at Safe Harbor. Call (573) 243-9823.
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Senior Center Menus for March 2-6
(Community ~ 02/29/20)
Monday: Chicken potpie or beef stew, seasoned cauliflower, fried okra, whole-grain bread or crackers and apples with raisins or apple dump cake. Tuesday: White-chicken chili with cheese sandwich or French dip sandwich, baby carrots, gelatin salad and whole-grain bread or bun and mixed fruit or brownie.,...
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Dead man's fingers
(Column ~ 02/29/20)
This is a colony of black fungus I found in early February. I had seen these a few times in past years, but did not know what they were called. Doing a Google search on black fungus, I discovered they are called dead man's fingers. These were growing on top of a rotting oak log which was lying partly covered in water. Moss was also growing on the log. The tallest of these fingers were about 2 3/4 inches tall. These little mushrooms are NOT good to eat...
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Learning briefs 3-1-20
(Community ~ 02/29/20)
Mychal Golden of Jonesboro, Arkansas, has received and accepted an offer of appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy class of 2024. Acceptance of his appointment is Golden's first step in a journey to being commissioned as an officer in the Navy or Marine Corps. This summer he will report to Annapolis where he will begin his four years at the Naval Academy. An All-State kicker and special teams Player of the Year, Mychal aspires to play football for the Naval Academy...
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Old timey handshake
(Column ~ 02/29/20)
Marge and I were at the meat processors the other day, and the butcher came out to help us. Everyone at a meat processing place has a list of jobs and responsibilities. Some cut the meat, and some package the meat. One at this plant just butchers the critters. ...
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Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl parade
(Submitted Photo ~ 02/29/20)
Submitted by Marcus Schaefer Family members endured the cold weather and enjoyed the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Missouri, on Feb. 5. Shown from left are Marcus Schaefer of Benton, Missouri; Nicholas Porting, Emma Porting and Jon Porting, all of Kansas City; and Quinton Schaefer and Collin Schaefer, both of Benton...
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Club news 3-1-20
(Community News ~ 02/29/20)
Members of Lamplighters FCE met Feb. 20 in the home of Verla Mangels for their monthly meeting. To start the meeting, Judy Strickland, president, led the members in repeating the Pledge of Allegiance and the Club Collect. Mangels shared devotional thoughts titled, "Little Things," "Keep in Touch with Jesus" and "If My Body Was a Car." Jackie Kurre led the group in singing the "Missouri Waltz." As part of the roll call, vintage Valentines were shared; later a Valentine exchange was held...
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Award: Southeast alum receives award
(Community ~ 02/29/20)
Kaci Helms, director of Space Center University in Houston and a aluma of Southeast Missouri Statre University, will be honored with the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award at a special presentation in March. She was selected for the award for her work as the director of Space Center University® at Space Center Houston (Texas) where she develops innovative mission-based content and is responsible for immersive education programs such as Space Center University, Stars & STEM, and other programs and special events. ...
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Tyson Foods awards grant to SEMO Food Bank
(Submitted Story ~ 02/29/20)
Southeast Missouri Food Bank announced it has received a $50,000 grant form Tyson Foods to fund mobile food pantries in Stoddard, Scott and Dunklin counties. The grant will allow the food bank to provide 24 mobile food pantries in these counties from June 2020 through May 2021...
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FYI 3-1-20
(Community ~ 02/29/20)
American Heritage Girls Troop MO1410 is hosting a pulled pork luncheon and bake sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29 at Crossroads Church in Jackson. The meal will include sandwiches, baked beans, coleslaw and chips. Drinks will be available for dine in only...
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Louis Lorimier's land in Kansas -- and the associated headaches
(Column ~ 02/29/20)
Many blame the slow growth of Cape Girardeau in the early 1800s on the slow confirmation process for land claims remaining from the Spanish and French regimes in Missouri. The city sits on a land claim of Louis Lorimier's, Survey No. 2199, a claim not confirmed officially until July 4, 1836, by act of Congress. ...
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Use wisely: There is power in words
(Column ~ 02/29/20)
When I was in my late teens, my grandfather provided me with a subscription to Reader's Digest. One of my favorite sections of the periodical was the "Word Power" quiz. I enjoyed learning new words as much as finding out how many I already knew. It is good to increase our vocabulary. Good word choices help us to communicate more effectively. Poor word choices or a limited vocabulary can cost us in many ways...
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You are dust
(Column ~ 02/29/20)
I love dirt. This deep love of soil and grit and regarding it as sacred comes, I think, from being from a farm that has been in our family for more than 120 years. The dirt gives us what we need, and it provides a place that is ours, lets us reside on it and work with it to create goodness, sustenance, life. It connects us to all who have come before us whom we have loved and who have loved us. It nurtures, it supports, it is...
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Sleep serves health, psyche, soul
(Column ~ 02/29/20)
Sleep is a big business these days. Rather the lack of sleep. Both traditional mattress companies and the mail order bed in a box are hoping your lack of sleep will drive you to purchase their heavenly promised sleep strategies. As a person for whom sleep can often be elusive, these advertisements are tempting. In the Bible, we can read the ability to sleep is more than a mattress strategy but a matter of the heart. There are at least two reasons why sleep matters to the soul...
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Democratic debate doom
(Column ~ 02/29/20)
One overarching truth emerged from the cacophonous Democratic debate this week: The Democrats haven't got game. They're floundering. They're lost. And they're coming up short. Everyone on that stage except maybe the clueless Michael Bloomberg recognized that Sen. ...
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Prayer 3/1/20
(Prayer ~ 02/29/20)
Lord Jesus, may we be a blessing to others today and always. Amen.
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St. Louis officer gets 7 years in Russian roulette shooting
(State News ~ 02/29/20)
CLAYTON, Mo. -- A St. Louis police officer accused of accidentally killing a female colleague while playing a variation of Russian roulette pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Nathaniel Hendren, 30, had been scheduled to go to trial March 23 on charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action. The seven-year sentence was the maximum for involuntary manslaughter...
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Mental health clinic owner billed for therapy to dead woman
(State News ~ 02/29/20)
ST. LOUIS -- The owner of a St. Louis-area mental health clinic was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison for billing for therapy for a patient who was already dead. Naim Muhammad, 56, of St. Charles, pleaded guilty in November to one count of making a false claim to Medicaid. In addition to the prison time, Muhammad must pay $366,185 in restitution to the Missouri Medicaid program...
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Man charged with murder; wife still missing
(State News ~ 02/29/20)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A grand jury on Friday indicted a Missouri man on first-degree murder and other charges in the disappearance of his Chinese wife, who is presumed dead. Joseph Elledge, who has a 1-year-old daughter with his missing wife, Mengqi Ji, had been in jail for months on two counts of child endangerment and one count of child abuse...
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Turkey, Russia talk tensions in Syria as migrants push west
(International News ~ 02/29/20)
REYHANLI, Turkey -- The presidents of Turkey and Russia spoke by phone Friday to try to defuse tensions that rose significantly in Syria after 33 Turkish troops were killed in an airstrike blamed on the Syrian government, and a new wave of refugees and migrants headed for the Greek land and sea border after Turkey said it would no longer hold them back...
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Prayers at bombed mosques as riot toll grows in India
(International News ~ 02/29/20)
NEW DELHI -- Muslims in a northeastern neighborhood of India's capital returned for weekly prayers at fire-bombed mosques on Friday, two days after a 72-hour clash between Hindus and Muslims that left at least 40 dead and hundreds injured. Five days after the riots started, authorities have not said what sparked the worst communal violence in New Delhi in decades. ...
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Fed Chair: Will 'use our tools' to support economy
(National News ~ 02/29/20)
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pledged Friday the Fed will "use our tools" to support the economy, an effort to ease fears over the viral outbreak and a strong signal of a likely rate cut, perhaps at its next meeting March 17-18...
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U.S. reports first drug shortage tied to virus
(National News ~ 02/29/20)
WASHINGTON -- Health officials reported the first U.S. drug shortage tied to the viral outbreak that is disrupting production in China, but they declined to identify the manufacturer or the product. The Food and Drug Administration said late Thursday that the drug's maker recently contacted officials about the shortage, which it blamed on a manufacturing issue with the medicine's key ingredient. Regulators stressed that alternative medicines are available to treat patients...
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International company settles EPA water pollution lawsuit
(State News ~ 02/29/20)
CARTHAGE, Mo. -- A manufacturer of commercial explosives will pay a $2.9 million civil penalty and make substantial improvements to plants in Missouri to settle a federal lawsuit contending it discharged excessive amounts of pollutants into two waterways...
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Financial pain deepens as nearly 60 countries report virus
(International News ~ 02/29/20)
TOKYO -- A deepening health crisis became an economic one too Friday as the coronavirus outbreak sapped financial markets, emptied shops and businesses and put major sites and events off limits. The list of countries hit by the illness edged toward 60 as Mexico, Belarus, Lithuania, New Zealand, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Iceland and the Netherlands reported their first cases. The threats to livelihoods were increasingly as worrisome as the threats to lives...
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Court temporarily halts 'Remain in Mexico' policy
(National News ~ 02/29/20)
SAN DIEGO -- Dealing a blow to a signature Trump administration immigration policy, a federal appeals court ruled Friday the government can no longer make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through the U.S. immigration courts. The same court, based in San Francisco, decided to keep another major change on hold, one that denies asylum to anyone who enters the U.S. illegally from Mexico...
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Afghans view U.S.-Taliban deal with much skepticism
(International News ~ 02/29/20)
Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- Many Afghans view Saturday's expected signing of a U.S.-Taliban peace deal with a heavy dose of well-earned skepticism. They've spent decades living in a country at war -- some their whole lives -- and wonder if they can ever reach a state of peace...
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Mexico confirms first cases of coronavirus
(International News ~ 02/29/20)
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's assistant health secretary announced Friday that the country now has two confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. Hugo Lopez-Gatell said one of the patients is in Mexico City and the other in the northern state of Sinaloa. While a second test is still pending on that case, he said, "We are treating this as confirmed." Neither is seriously ill; one is in isolation at a hospital, the other is isolated at a hotel...
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Sanders-linked group entered into racial discrimination NDA
(National News ~ 02/29/20)
WASHINGTON -- A political advocacy group founded by Bernie Sanders entered into a nondisclosure agreement with an African American political consultant that bars her from discussing a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination at the organization and the Vermont senator's 2016 presidential campaign...
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FCC proposes phone company fines
(National News ~ 02/29/20)
NEW YORK -- The Federal Communications Commission has proposed roughly $200 million in fines combined for the four major U.S. phone companies for improperly disclosing customers' real-time location. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said during a news conference Friday that the fines amounted to $91 million for T-Mobile, $57 million for AT&T, $48 million for Verizon and $12 million for Sprint. ...
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Outbreak starting to look more like worldwide economic crisis
(National News ~ 02/29/20)
NEW YORK -- The coronavirus outbreak began to look more like a worldwide economic crisis Friday as anxiety about the disease emptied shops and amusement parks, canceled events, cut trade and travel and dragged already slumping financial markets even lower...
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Mary Mattes
(Obituary ~ 02/29/20)
Mary Jane Mattes, 95, formerly of Kelso, Missouri, went to her eternal home with Christ on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Nov. 25, 1924, in Altenburg, Missouri, the daughter of John and Emma Noennig Wichern. She married John Dominic Mattes No. 29, 1947 in Perryville, Missouri. She was the Director of Laundry at St. Francis Hospital for over 20 years retiring in 1989...
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John Counts
(Obituary ~ 02/29/20)
John Howard Counts, 83 of Scott City died Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 22, 1936, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to John Wesley and Anna Sue Hendrix Counts. He married Bonnie Lou Roberts on June 17, 1972...
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Adele Wengert
(Obituary ~ 02/29/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Adele V. Wengert, 94, of Perryville died Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, at Independence Care Center in Perryville. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday and from 6:30 a.m. until Mass time at 10 a.m. Monday at Christ the Savior Catholic Church in Brewer, Missouri. A rosary will be recited at 8:30 a.m. Monday at the church. Celebrating the funeral Mass will be the Rev. Joe Geders, C.M. Burial will be in the church cemetery...
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Kelley Sims
(Obituary ~ 02/29/20)
ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Kelley Ray Sims, 61, of Alto Pass passed away Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, following an Alzheimer's journey of more than eight years that was made rich and joyful through much music and unyielding golden friendships, connecting his community with love and generosity in ways that could not have been imagined...
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Kurtis Culver
(Obituary ~ 02/29/20)
Kurtis Michael Culver, 31, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, at Jackson Manor. Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau. Memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the church, with the Rev. Daniel Maske officiating...
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Allen Miles III
(Obituary ~ 02/29/20)
Allen Wayne "Trey" Miles III, 28, of Millersville passed away Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 1, 1991, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Karen (Kenny) Surface of Millersville. Allen "Trey" was a 2011 graduate of Jackson High School. He worked at VIP Industries in Cape Girardeau. Trey enjoyed hunting, fishing and dancing. He was an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan and enjoyed spending time with his niece, nephew and family...
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Area police reports 3/1/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/29/20)
CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. n Alyssa D. Abbott, 30, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia...
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Out of the past: March 1
(Out of the Past ~ 02/29/20)
Monsignor Richard Rolwing, pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Girardeau since 1987, celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving last evening marking the 42nd anniversary of his ordination; 14 members of his seminary class participated in the celebration. The devout line up by the hundreds in Cape Girardeau to have ash crosses marked on their foreheads; it is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the 40 days of Lent; the day is observed by Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches in America...
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