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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 3/30/20
(Local News ~ 03/30/20)
Approval of minutes n Minutes for March 26 Communications/reports -- other elected officials n COVID-19 Update: In an effort to keep Cape Girardeau County residents safe and aware regarding the status of the virus, Emergency Management Agency (EMA) director Mark Winkler will be issuing an update at County Commission meetings. ...
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Outdoor confessions at St. Mary's
(Local News ~ 03/30/20)
The Rev. Allan Saunders, pastor at St. Mary's Cathedral, meets with Jordan Huff of Cape Girardeau while hearing confessions Saturday outside St. Mary Cathedral School in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Community Partnership receives $500,000 grant to renovate former Cape police headquarters
(Local News ~ 03/30/20)
After months of waiting, the Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri can finally move ahead with the acquisition of the former Cape Girardeau Police Department headquarters at 40 S. Sprigg St. On Thursday, Community Partnership executive director Melissa Stickel received a grant agreement by mail for a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant, which the organization has been seeking for nearly a year. ...
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Number of Southeast Missouri coronavirus cases increases
(Local News ~ 03/30/20)
As numbers and information regarding confirmed cases of the new coronavirus continue to change in most Missouri counties, many health departments have begun publishing daily updates to websites and social media accounts. The State of Missouri currently has 903 positive cases and 10 deaths as of 3 p.m. Sunday, according to the most-recent numbers published by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services...
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Business Notebook: Local businesses offer community support amid COVID-19
(Business ~ 03/30/20)
Businesses throughout the area are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in a variety of ways, and during the outbreak, the Missourian's Business Notebook will include a roundup of some of the ways companies and their employees are responding to the health crisis...
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From the (Home) Business Desk: Restaurants dealing with COVID-19 challenges
(Business ~ 03/30/20)
Dennis "Doc" Cain has seen a lot in his 31 years at Port Cape Girardeau. He's seen plenty of floods, dozens of winter storms -- including one that knocked out power for days -- and lots of other restaurants come and go. But he's never seen anything close to what his restaurant -- and practically every other eatery in town -- is going through...
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Humane Society offering discounted adoptions, encouraging fosters
(Local News ~ 03/30/20)
Spending lots of time at home? Now may just be the perfect time to bring home a new furry family member, according to Tracy Poston, executive director of the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri, who said the shelter is trying to get adoptions and fostered pets out in “full force.” ...
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Cape native, hero dies in England at 86
(Local News ~ 03/30/20)
Cape Girardeau native James R. Buckner, who won the Airman’s Medal for saving a life after a military plane crash in England in the 1960s, has died at 86 in England. Buckner and a companion pulled the pilot to safety after the aircraft slammed into the pavement of a parking lot in Felixstone, a port city in the English county of Suffolk...
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Heeter performs online after live shows canceled because of COVID-19
(Local News ~ 03/30/20)
As many musicians all over the world are doing, Cape Girardeau singer-songwriter Jason Heeter is taking his music online in lieu of live gigs, but it hurts, he said. Heeter said for the last two weeks, every gig has canceled, including a St. Patrick's Day party in Chester, Illinois, and other celebrations closer to home...
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Virus, price war send local gas prices plummeting
(Business ~ 03/30/20)
While it is difficult to find toilet paper, hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, one commodity in great supply through this virus-paralyzed spring is gasoline. Not only is there a lot of it available, but it's getting cheaper and cheaper to buy nearly every day...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/30/20)
Today is Monday, March 30, the 90th day of 2020. There are 276 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer, Thomas Delahanty...
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New SEMO men's basketball coach has opportunity to build successful program
(Editorial ~ 03/30/20)
Southeast Missouri State University has a new basketball coach in Brad Korn. Korn, 38, is from Plano, Illinois and played and coached at Southern Illinois University. Along with a stint at Missouri State, Korn was part of the Kansas State basketball program for five seasons with four of those as an assistant coach and one year as director of operations...
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Prayer 3-30-20
(Prayer ~ 03/30/20)
O Lord Jesus, may we look for opportunities to tell others about your love. Amen.
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The cipher as presidential candidate
(Column ~ 03/30/20)
What William McKinley was to the front-porch campaign, Joe Biden is to the basement campaign. Sidelined and confined to his house by the dictates of coronavirus social distancing, the former vice president has been limited to intermittent appearances from a makeshift studio in his basement. They have been awkward and low-energy, but that doesn't really set them apart from most other Joe Biden appearances...
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Speak Out 3/30/20
(Speak Out ~ 03/30/20)
I cannot imagine the savaging Franklin D Roosevelt would have taken from today's liberal media for being optimistic in the face of such seemingly overwhelming odds when he made his famous statement, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself." I am certain today's liberal media would be loudly shouting in ad infinitum that he should be wheeling up and down the streets of Washington, D.C pulling his hair and shouting, "The sky is falling. The sky is falling. "...
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N.Y. shop sells 'hundreds' of doughnuts starring Dr. Fauci's face
(National News ~ 03/30/20)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — An upstate New York doughnut shop is featuring the likeness of the doctor leading the country’s battle with coronavirus on its sweet treats. Donuts Delite in Rochester began selling hundreds of doughnuts with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s face, surrounded by white frosting and topped off with patriotic sprinkles. ...
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Kristen Bell hosts Nick pandemic special for kids, families
(Community ~ 03/30/20)
LOS ANGELES -- Kristen Bell is hosting a Nickelodeon special with a "kid's-eye view" of the coronavirus pandemic to address youngsters' concerns and help families weather the crisis, the channel said Friday. Bell and her guests practiced social distancing, using video to connect for the hourlong program airing 6 p.m. ...
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Trump extends virus guidelines, braces U.S. for big death toll
(National News ~ 03/30/20)
WASHINGTON -- Bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, President Donald Trump on Sunday extended restrictive social distancing guidelines through April, bowing to public-health experts who presented him with even more dire projections for the expanding coronavirus pandemic...
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Brandon Rundles
(Obituary ~ 03/30/20)
METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Brandon Corey Rundles, 30, a resident of Metropolis and formerly of Ballard County, Kentucky, and Cairo, Illinois, died Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner, Louisiana. Born July 2, 1989, to Kenneth Joe Rundles and Lisa Marie Washam Rundles, who survive of Lovelaceville, Kentucky, he grew up in Cairo, where he was an active and longtime member of Mighty Rivers Regional Worship Center. ...
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Irene Phillips
(Obituary ~ 03/30/20)
Irene Lily Phillips, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 27, 2020, at Lutheran Home. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
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Charles Moore
(Obituary ~ 03/30/20)
Charles Lee Moore, 87, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, March 28, 2020, at his home. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Wilburn Dixon Sr.
(Obituary ~ 03/30/20)
GOLCONDA, Ill. -- Wilburn E. Dixon Sr., 98, a resident of rural Golconda, passed away at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Cindy and Randy Belford. Wilburn was born Feb. 28, 1922, in Johnson County, Illinois. He was the son of Willard G. and Nancy Catherine Adams Dixon. On Feb. 8, 1945, Wilburn was united in marriage to L. Louise Lievers in Carlinville, Illinois. She preceded him in death Feb. 6, 2000...
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Democratic leader dies as Missouri coronavirus cases top 900
(State News ~ 03/30/20)
CLINTON, Mo. -- A Democratic Party leader in western Missouri died Sunday after contracting COVID-19 as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the state exceeded 900 and the death toll reached 12. The death of William "Al" Grimes, the Henry County Democratic Party chairman, was announced in a tweet from state chairwoman Jean Peters Baker. It came after the Henry County Health Center in Clinton, about 60 miles southeast of Kansas City, announced that a man in his 70s had died...
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Out of the past: March 30
(Out of the Past ~ 03/30/20)
Dr. Christopher Jung of Cape Girardeau might soon have a new cross to bear: a large concrete cross off North Kingshighway; the Missouri Highways and Transportation Department, in an effort to quell objections by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is considering giving a 9-food-wide section of land and the Cape La Croix cross to the adjoining property owner, Jung; the historic marker is on state property...
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