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United Way raises $143,000 for local coronavirus relief
(Local News ~ 08/28/20)
United Way of Southeast Missouri (UWSEMO) has raised $143,000 to support families, senior citizens and individuals affected by the coronavirus in Cape Girardeau, northern Scott, Perry and Bollinger counties. “We are very excited and grateful for these funds,” executive director Elizabeth Shelton said in a news release...
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Nearly 90 new coronavirus cases reported in region
(Local News ~ 08/28/20)
Nearly 90 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the region Thursday. Cape Girardeau County had the most new cases, 23. Officials with the county’s Public Health Center reported the new total number of cases as 950, with 767 recoveries from the disease associated with coronavirus and eight deaths attributed to the virus. Of the new cases, 12 were in the City of Cape Girardeau, four were in Jackson and seven were elsewhere in the county...
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Cape School District using technology to maintain school safety, health
(Local News ~ 08/28/20)
Faced with the multi-faceted challenge of safely readmitting staff and students into classrooms this fall, the Cape Girardeau School District found many solutions through technology. Myriad COVID-related adjustments are active inside schools to help minimize risks such as large groups and communal transmission, but teachers face another risk outside of the building at the start and end of every day — student drop-offs and pick-ups...
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Jackson School District hires Emmendorfer as coronavirus coordinator
(Local News ~ 08/28/20)
Jackson School District has hired a COVID-19 coordinator — former assistant superintendent Beth Emmendorfer, who had retired earlier this year. Superintendent John Link said the move is intended to create a single point of contact between the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center and the district, and to help answer questions about possible exposures, quarantine, self-monitoring and contact tracing...
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Online tax records will speed license renewals
(Local News ~ 08/28/20)
The process to renew vehicle license plates in Cape Girardeau County is becoming easier now that the county’s personal property records can be accessed online through the Missouri Department of Revenue. “This has been a long time coming,” Cape Girardeau County Collector Barbara Gholson said Thursday as she reported the online records availability to county commissioners...
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SEMO's River Campus dean talks art in the time of coronavirus
(Local News ~ 08/28/20)
Southeast Missouri State University’s River Campus has had to drastically cut audience sizes and access points, but Rhonda Weller-Stilson, dean of the Earl and Margie Holland College of Arts and Media at Southeast Missouri State University, said everyone is working together and taking precautions...
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Group discusses 'Blue on Black Crime' during weekly panel on race issues
(Local News ~ 08/28/20)
In a topic change driven by Sunday’s shooting of an unarmed Black man by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Gateway Church pastor Ben Porter Jr. came up with a new subject at the last minute for his weekly panel discussion about race Thursday. In Gateway’s sanctuary in Cape Girardeau’s former Federal Building at 339 Broadway, Porter renamed the event as “Blue on Black Crime.”...
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Clerk bracing for record turnout, rents more space
(Local News ~ 08/28/20)
Cape Girardeau County election officials are bracing for a record voter turnout this fall — both absentee and in-person. With that in mind, the County Commission voted Thursday to rent space in Cape Girardeau’s Osage Centre to accommodate voter needs...
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2020 Difference Makers: Jess King
(B Magazine ~ 08/28/20)
"If you want to find community, you have to get involved," says Jess King. King, a web strategist at SoutheastHEALTH, may not originate from Southeast Missouri, but over the last 20 years she has poured her energy into Cape Girardeau and made it her home...
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Know an inspiring kid? Nominate them for The Next Project
(Editorial ~ 08/28/20)
It's not just adults in our communities doing impressive things. The kids are also pretty incredible. The Scout, a daily digital newsletter produced by rustmedia, recently launched The Next Project. The idea is to highlight younger folks from age 7 to 17 who are making a difference...
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Less government spending will boost economic growth
(Column ~ 08/28/20)
Intellectuals are supposed to speak truth to power. Unfortunately, some seem to be more interested in saying what everyone expects them to say, which only reinforces the status quo. Thankfully, a few scholars are resisting this trend, fighting for what is true rather than what is popular...
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Prayer 8-28-20
(Prayer ~ 08/28/20)
Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace. Amen.
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Buying masks, delivering food: Teens step up in pandemic
(National News ~ 08/28/20)
DALLAS -- In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, communities across the country have discovered a powerful resource that has stepped forward to make a difference: America's teenagers. They have delivered groceries to older adults, offered online tutoring, emailed sick children, helped feed the hungry. And then there are those like 15-year-old Valerie Xu, who raised money to buy masks to donate to a Dallas hospital and homeless shelter...
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S&P 500 ticks up as Reserve's 'era of easy money' looks set to last
(National News ~ 08/28/20)
NEW YORK -- The S&P 500 ticked further into record territory on Thursday after the Federal Reserve made a major overhaul to its strategy, one that could keep interest rates low for longer. The benchmark index rose 0.2%, to another all-time high, but it veered through a jumbled day of trading to get there. ...
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Somber protests in Kenosha after night of chaos, shootings
(National News ~ 08/28/20)
KENOSHA, Wis. -- Calm fell on Kenosha's streets on Thursday following a night of peaceful protests and no widespread unrest for the first time since the weekend police shooting of Jacob Blake. Marchers were solemn during Wednesday night's protests in the southeastern Wisconsin city between Milwaukee and Chicago following the chaos of the previous night, when two demonstrators were fatally shot and a third was wounded...
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DOJ seeks data on nursing home deaths in four states
(National News ~ 08/28/20)
NEW YORK -- The Justice Department on Wednesday sent letters to the governors of New York and three other Democratic-led states, seeking data on whether they violated federal law by ordering public nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients from hospitals -- actions that have been criticized for potentially fueling the spread of the virus...
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Neighbors with hoses target Calif. fires
(National News ~ 08/28/20)
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- With California firefighters strapped for resources, residents have organized to put out flames themselves in a large swath of land burning south of San Francisco, defending their homes despite orders to evacuate and pleas by officials to get out of danger...
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As virus rages, U.S. economy struggles to sustain a recovery
(National News ~ 08/28/20)
WASHINGTON -- Home sales are booming. Stocks are setting record highs. Industrial production is clambering out of the ditch it fell into early this year. And yet the U.S. economy is nowhere close to regaining the health it achieved, with low unemployment, free-spending consumers and booming travel, before the coronavirus paralyzed the country in March. ...
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Laura carves path through Louisiana
(National News ~ 08/28/20)
LAKE CHARLES, La. -- One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S. pounded the Gulf Coast on Thursday, shearing off roofs and killing a least four people, as Laura barreled across Louisiana and maintained ferocious strength while carving a destructive path hundreds of miles inland...
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Out of the past: Aug. 28
(Out of the Past ~ 08/28/20)
The first day of classes in Cape Girardeau's public schools is an abbreviated one, as temperatures in the area soar; at 11:15 a.m., the heat index in third-floor classrooms at L.J. Schultz School approaches 107 degrees; students and teachers wilt in the heat and humidity...
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Sidney Mayberry
(Obituary ~ 08/28/20)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Sidney Flora Mayberry of Advance passed away Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 24, 1934, in Blytheville, Arkansas, the daughter of Sidney Lichtig and Mora Jones Bidewell. She was married to the late Kenneth Dean Grindstaff, who passed away July 28, 1965. She later married Raymond Mayberry, also deceased...
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Police report 8/28/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/28/20)
Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Theft n Larceny was reported in the 2400 block of William Street. Miscellaneous n Drug violation was reported at Independence Street and North Mount Auburn Road. n Weapons law violation was reported in the 500 block of Asher Street...
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Births 8/28/20
(Births ~ 08/28/20)
Daughter to Robert "Bobby" and Alexis Davenport of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 11:09 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Name, Allison Rose. Weight, 8 pounds, 3 ounces. First child. Mrs. Davenport is the daughter of Harry and Candace Ralls of Cape Girardeau. She works in the fresh food department at Walmart. Davenport is the son of Robert Davenport of Carbondale, Illinois, and Beatrice Irene Davenport of Murphysboro, Illinois. He works in receiving at Walmart...
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Trump touts bright future for U.S. if he wins in November
(National News ~ 08/28/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans' safety as he accepted his party's renomination Thursday on the South Lawn of the White House. Trump defied his own administration's pandemic guidelines to speak for more than an hour to a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd...
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(Insiders Advice ~ 08/28/20)
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