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FBI seeks information about crimes perpetrated by deceased murderer
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking the public to forward information of any crimes possibly perpetrated by a deceased murderer. Richard William Davis — who used several aliases, including “Dick,” “Nash” and “William Davis” — died in 2012 at the age of 70. Authorities linked him to the 1974 homicide of a young girl in Missoula, Montana, and the 1973 attempted abduction of an 8-year-old girl in New York...
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Perryville woman dies in UTV crash
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
A 39-year-old Perryville, Missouri, woman died Friday night after the utility vehicle she was riding in overturned after its driver made a sharp turn, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report. Jacqueline Miller was pronounced dead at Perry County Memorial Hospital shortly after midnight Saturday morning. The crash happened at about 11 p.m...
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Interstate crash claims life of Perryville woman
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
A two-vehicle crash Sunday on Interstate 55 in Ste. Genevieve County claimed the life of an 81-year-old Perryville, Missouri, woman. At about 4:45 a.m. Sunday, a 1989 Chevrolet pickup was northbound on the interstate near the 157 mile marker. Lori Rollette, 57, of Perryville was driving the vehicle when it was struck from behind by a 2010 Ford Fusion, driven by an unknown person. The impact caused Rollette’s vehicle to travel off the right side of the highway and into a guardrail...
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Revivify fundraising results announced
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
Old Town Cape Inc. announced Tuesday that fundraising event Revivify exceeded the organization’s goal of $40,000, bringing in $42,300, and those funds will go toward Old Town Cape’s mission to revitalize downtown Cape Girardeau. This year’s fundraising event was held both in-person at Century Casino Cape Girardeau and online. ...
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Boy Scouts gear up for food drive
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
Scouting for Food, the Boy Scouts’ annual food drive, will be held in November as usual, the Greater St. Louis Area Council of Boy Scouts of America announced. Nov. 14, thousands of Scouts will deliver blue Scouting for Food bags throughout Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois...
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Central Academy's JAG program aimed at after-graduation success
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
The Cape Girardeau School District launched the JAG (Jobs for America’s Graduates) initiative this fall at Central Academy, the 145-student program for students struggling academically in grades five through 12 and who find themselves in need of more one-on-one attention from teachers...
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Amended mask order for Cape County remains in effect
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
The emergency face mask mandate in Cape Girardeau County will continue, but not without criteria for easing it. Members of the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to continue the countywide face mask order to help control the spread of COVID-19...
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Galloway, trailing in polls, says she can close gap
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
With less than a week before Election Day, and with polls showing her trailing by several percentage points, Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway believes she "has the momentum" in her campaign to unseat Gov. Mike Parson. "We are within the margin of error," she told a room full of supporters Tuesday night in Cape Girardeau during a final campaign swing through Southeast Missouri. "This is not over. We can close this gap, but we need to sprint to the finish line over the next several days."...
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SEMO educators address dealing with 'COVID fatigue'
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
The interim director of Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Behavioral Health and Accessibility doesn’t mince words when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic. “There’s no end in sight and we’re tired of it,” said Millicent Odhiambo. Much of the world went into novel coronavirus lockdown in greater or lesser degrees by mid-March...
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Architectural survey set for mid-November in Jackson
(Local News ~ 10/28/20)
Historic architecture in Jackson is about to get surveyed. Unlike traditional surveys, which measure property and locate property boundaries, this survey is a visual evaluation to determine the number of historically significant buildings and properties in the uptown area, according to a city news release...
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The rise in female entrepreneurs: Business lessons from 5 entrepreneurs [video included]
(B Magazine ~ 10/28/20)
More women are turning to entrepreneurship, according to a 2018 report that looked at the rise in female entrepreneurs. The "State of Women-Owned Businesses Report," commissioned by American Express, says between 1972 and 2018, women-owned businesses increased from 402,000 firms in 1972 to 12.3 million in 2018...
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Sponsored: Vein & Esthetic Centre's Purpose Makes Patients' Lives Better
(Health ~ 10/28/20)
Tonya Critchlow didn't wear shorts. She didn't wear dresses. She was embarrassed of her spider veins and didn't know if a doctor would be able to help her. "I just hadn't found treatment," she says. "I just thought they were atrocious, that there was no help for these spider veins on the back of my legs."...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/28/20)
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 28, the 302nd day of 2020. There are 64 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 28, 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba; in return, the U.S. secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey...
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Speak Out 10/28/20
(Speak Out ~ 10/28/20)
The public education system has many problems, even in Cape Girardeau. But with Covid-19, Central High school went to block scheduling this year. This allows students to focus on four or five classes a quarter. I have grandchildren that attend Central. ...
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Prayer 10/28/20
(Prayer ~ 10/28/20)
O Lord Jesus Christ, may we never put anything ahead of you. Amen.
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Joe Biden is targeting a great American industry
(Column ~ 10/28/20)
Joe Biden wants to take one of the great American success stories of the past several decades and drive it into the ground. He would turn his back on the stupendous wealth represented by proven reserves of oil and gas in this country. Rather than focusing on producing cheap, abundant energy -- a key ingredient to human progress through all of human history -- he'd embark on the fool's errand of trying to adjust the world's thermostat 80 years from now...
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Jackson resident takes on leadership role in conservation
(Editorial ~ 10/28/20)
A Jackson resident who worked in the Missouri Department of Conversation office in Cape Girardeau for 25 years recently started a new role in the state capital. Christopher Kennedy was named assistant to the director for inclusion and diversity for the Department of Conservation. It's a new position, one that will look at how the conservation department can better reach underserved communities...
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Many thorny global situations hinge on U.S. election outcome
(International News ~ 10/28/20)
LONDON -- Four years after Donald Trump's election reframed how many nations interacted with the United States, the way the world's foremost superpower moves forward after its presidential election stands to impact many geopolitical pressure points -- whether the victor turns out to be Trump or his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden...
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Barrett sworn in at court as issues important to Trump await
(National News ~ 10/28/20)
WASHINGTON -- Amy Coney Barrett was formally sworn in Tuesday as the Supreme Court's ninth justice, her oath administered in private by Chief Justice John Roberts. Her first votes on the court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her...
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One Good Thing: Wickedly creative pandemic trick-or-treating
(Community ~ 10/28/20)
CINCINNATI -- Dropping candy down a chute for little costumed Baby Sharks, Mulans and Black Panthers. Flinging full-size candy bars to them via mini-catapults, "Game of Thrones" style, or with decorated slingshots. Scattering candy at social distances across the front yard, placing it in Easter egg containers. A church near Cincinnati is offering to hand treats to drive-by families. And in San Francisco, a haunted house has become a haunted drive-through...
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Gulf Coast braces, again, for hurricane as Zeta takes aim
(National News ~ 10/28/20)
NEW ORLEANS -- Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves for yet another tropical weather strike Tuesday as Tropical Storm Zeta took aim at southeast Louisiana, fraying the nerves of evacuees from earlier storms and raising concerns in New Orleans about the low-lying city's antiquated drainage pump system...
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Virus pushes twin cities El Paso and Juarez to the brink
(National News ~ 10/28/20)
AUSTIN, Texas -- A record surge in coronavirus cases is pushing hospitals to the brink in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, confronting health officials in Texas and Mexico with twin disasters in the tightly knit metropolitan area of 3 million people...
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Biden vows his unity can 'save country'; Trump hits Midwest
(National News ~ 10/28/20)
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. -- Joe Biden traveled to the hot springs town where Franklin Delano Roosevelt coped with polio on Tuesday to declare the U.S. is not too politically diseased to overcome its health and economic crises, pledging to be the unifying force who can "restore our soul and save this country."...
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'Babish' expands as pandemic boosts YouTube cooking shows
(Community ~ 10/28/20)
NEW YORK -- Mac and cheese, 18th-century style. A seven-course meal using only ingredients from a convenience store. A meal that is literally on fire. Four episodes into her new YouTube show, "Stump Sohla," part of the expanding "Babish Culinary Universe" channel, Sohla El-Waylly has yet to be stumped by a food challenge...
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New protests loom as Europeans tire of virus restrictions
(International News ~ 10/28/20)
MILAN -- Protesters set trash bins afire and police responded with hydrant sprays in downtown Rome on Tuesday night, part of a day of public outpouring of anger against virus-fighting measures such as evening shutdowns for restaurants and bars and the closures of gyms and theaters -- a sign of growing discontent across Europe with renewed coronavirus restrictions...
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Melbert Philipps
(Obituary ~ 10/28/20)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Melbert Donald Philipps, 84, of Sikeston and formerly of Jackson passed away Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, at Hunter Acres Care Center in Sikeston. He was born Aug. 6, 1936, in Jackson, son of Allois G. and Lulah M. Petzoldt Philipps. Melbert was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. He graduated from Jackson High School in 1954. Melbert worked alongside his father on the family farm raising livestock and planting crops...
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Thelma Niehaus
(Obituary ~ 10/28/20)
Thelma A. Niehaus left this world to meet with her Lord and Savior Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau with her son and his wife by her side. Thelma was born to Elmer C. and Maudie Schrader Ludwig in Risco, Missouri, Feb. 1, 1940. She was one of 12 beautiful children...
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Kimberly Myers
(Obituary ~ 10/28/20)
Kimberly Jane "Kim" Myers, 60, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, at her home. She was born Oct. 28, 1959, in Kirkwood, Missouri, daughter of Ivan L. and Alice "Pete" Johnson Myers. Kim was a 1978 graduate of Meadow Heights High School in Patton, Missouri. She worked for Lee-Rowen in Jackson, prior to a 30-year career at Procter & Gamble in Cape Girardeau, retiring in January 2020...
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Sherri Mehner
(Obituary ~ 10/28/20)
Sherri Lynn Mehner, 66, of Cape Girardeau died at 8:47 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, at her home. The date of the celebration of life has been changed to 11 a.m. Nov. 7 at La Croix United Methodist Church. A private family graveside service will be held at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery with Pastor Ron Watts officiating...
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Out of the past: Oct. 28
(Out of the Past ~ 10/28/20)
A member of the Scott City Board of Education unexpectedly resigned from his position last month, saying, "I decided there weren't enough hours in the day"; the school board accepted Tom Anderson's resignation at last week's meeting. A train engineer was slightly injured and a load of soybeans destroyed yesterday after a truck owned by B&J Trucking was hit by a Burlington-Northern train; the train was traveling north about 9:15 a.m. ...
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Cape fire report 10/28/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/28/20)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Oct. 26 n Medical assists were made at 7:13 p.m. on South Benton Street; 8:29 p.m. on West Lorimier Place; 9:53 p.m. on Grandview Drive. n At 10:56 a.m., fire alarm on Airport Road and Rambler Drive...
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Birth 10/28/2020
(Births ~ 10/28/20)
Daughter to Austin and Laura Black of Butler, Missouri. Nevada Regional Medical Center, 8:50 pm, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Name, Reagan Jean. Weight, 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Black is the daughter of Zeno "Sam" and Jolene Felter of Benton, Missouri. She is a district operations specialist with Syngenta. Black is the son of Alan and Brenda Black of Deepwater, Missouri. He is the owner of Backroad Productions and Freedom Financial Coaching...
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Chip Geile
(Obituary ~ 10/28/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Chip Lucas Geile died Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. A private service for the family only will be held. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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