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Man injured in Saturday shooting
(Local News ~ 12/28/20)
A man was shot in Cape Girardeau on Saturday afternoon. Cape Girardeau police responded to the scene shortly after 3 p.m. at Walnut and Ranney streets where a 33-year-old man had been shot in the torso. He was transported to a local hospital, according to authorities...
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Cape County Courthouse to remain at Phase Zero
(Local News ~ 12/28/20)
All functions of Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court and the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson will remain at Phase Zero COVID-19 operations. The courthouse was scheduled to return to Phase One operations today, but a positive COVID test last week necessitated staying in Phase Zero, according to a statement released Saturday by Presiding Judge Ben Lewis...
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Business Notebook: Report details 2020 unemployment benefits in Missouri; SBDC offering programs on business funding
(Business ~ 12/28/20)
A report issued last week shows that through October, more than a half-million Missourians, or nearly 10% of the state's population, received close to $3.8 billion in unemployment benefits administered through the Missouri Department of Labor and provided by the federal government as part of its COVID-19 economic stimulus efforts...
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Cape PD names patrolman Tanner Hiett 2020 Employee of the Year
(Local News ~ 12/28/20)
Patrolman Tanner Hiett has been named the Cape Girardeau Police Department’s 2020 Employee of the Year. Hiett began working with department in 2016 in the patrol division. Since then, Hiett has added to his responsibilities by becoming a field training officer, joining the department’s special-response team and working as part of the crisis intervention team...
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Starting small can help reach New Year's resolutions, trainer, dietitian say
(Local News ~ 12/28/20)
Did you start 2020 with visions of traveling more, being healthier or spending more time with family? Or maybe you set a fitness goal for yourself. Regardless of how lofty the goals were at the start of the year, things probably did not go the way you’d planned because of COVID-19...
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Book Review: “The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities” by Patrick M. Lencioni.
(B Magazine ~ 12/28/20)
If you have not read books by Patrick Lencioni, do yourself a favor and go purchase a few today. Patrick Lencioni has written many books about team leadership, team development. He is arguable one of the foremost thinkers in the realm of maximizing the potential within people you lead. But if you read his materials through an introspective lens, you’ll learn how the greatest threat or ally to leadership is yourself.
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Party like it's 1999? Probably not this year
(Business ~ 12/28/20)
How will you spend New Year's Eve? A new survey released a few days ago has revealed more people than usual plan to stay home Thursday night and ring in the new year by watching television coverage of the ball drop in New York's Times Square. That's not surprising, as coronavirus continues to surge and as health and government officials urge people to stay home and avoid large social gatherings...
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Coronavirus causes Cape airport's drastic cut in state promotion funding
(Local News ~ 12/28/20)
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Cape Girardeau Regional Airport will receive less money from the state to promote help itself. The airport has been getting block grant money for promotional purposes for much of the past decade, according to airport manager Katrina Amos...
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Financial planning in the pandemic
(Business ~ 12/28/20)
Saving money for the future is atop many New Year's resolution lists, even above going to the gym, losing weight and getting healthier. A survey conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Affirm, found more than half of respondents are planning to budget better in 2021 and another 49% are hoping to pay down debt...
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Area housing market ranks among nation's healthiest
(Business ~ 12/28/20)
The Cape Girardeau area has one of the healthiest housing markets in the nation, according to a report released this month by Nationwide Mutual Insurance. The report, which examined stability of the U.S. housing industry, said the Cape Girardeau metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was ranked as the eighth most attractive housing market among 400 MSAs in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2020...
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Terry Rodgers
(Obituary ~ 12/28/20)
Terry E. Rodgers, 73, peacefully passed from his Whitewater home to his heavenly home Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020. He was born Dec. 6, 1947, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to Orville J. and Letis M. Morlan Rodgers. He and Linda Gilder were married Nov. 12, 1967...
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Norma Pulliam
(Obituary ~ 12/28/20)
Norma Jean Helen McBay Pulliam, 91, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, at Southeast Hospital. She was born Aug. 23, 1929, in Doniphan, Missouri, the daughter of Elton Lee and Alice Jewell Kelley McBay. She and Raymond C. Pulliam were married Dec. 13, 1947. He preceded her in death July 29, 2009...
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Nancy McNabb
(Obituary ~ 12/28/20)
Nancy Ann McNabb, 83, of Jackson died Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau She was born June 6, 1937, in Wapato, Washington, to Heber A. and Ina Ford Barringer. She and Robert McNabb were married June 7, 1952, in Wapato...
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Geraldine 'Geri' Leimbach
(Obituary ~ 12/28/20)
Geraldine Aline "Geri" Leimbach, 87, of Jackson passed away Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, at her home, surrounded by family. She was born Feb. 7, 1933, in New Wells, the daughter of Clarence H. and Gusta Pfeiffer Boren. She was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church in New Wells. She later moved to Pocahontas and married Eugene "Gene" Leimbach on July 6, 1952, at Zion Lutheran Church. Gene preceded her in death Oct. 21, 2005...
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Terry Hopkins
(Obituary ~ 12/28/20)
Terry Lane Hopkins, 80, of Burfordville passed away Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, at his home. He was born July 27, 1940, in Cape Girardeau to Noah Dillard and Sarah Beulah Dockins Hopkins. He attended Burfordville Grade School and Jackson High School. Terry served in the U.S. Army, with basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Fort Knox, Kentucky. He served in Korea on the DMZ, and was also stationed at Camp Roberts in California. He was honorably discharged Nov. 30, 1969...
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Elnora Elfrink
(Obituary ~ 12/28/20)
Elnora E. Elfrink, 90, of Jackson died Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are private at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Hattie Bonifield
(Obituary ~ 12/28/20)
Hattie M. Bonifield, formally of Oran, Missouri, daughter of the late Carlton "Carl" Hodges and Hattie Maude Miller Hodges, was born Aug. 8, 1933, in Scott County, Missouri, and departed this life Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee, Missouri, at the age of 87 years old...
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Gladys Aufdenberg
(Obituary ~ 12/28/20)
Gladys G. Aufdenberg, 93, of Burfordville passed away, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 9, 1927, in Gordonville to Alvin and Elda Bodenstein Fluegge. She was baptized and confirmed at Christ Lutheran Church in Gordonville. She and Marvin Aufdenberg were married Dec. 14, 1969. At that time, she adopted Marvin's three children. They had been married 48 years when Marvin passed away May 23, 2018...
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Our upside-down postelection world
(Column ~ 12/28/20)
After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones? Media cross-examination of the president is now an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone. Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a crook when you can focus on his favorite flavor of milkshake or compliment him on his socks?...
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Speak Out 12/28/20
(Speak Out ~ 12/28/20)
Merry Christmas and happy New Year! May 2021 bring you peace, joy and good health. God bless. All these Republicans refusing to call Joe Biden President-elect Biden reminds me of children not wanting to hear something by sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling "nah, nah, nah." It's not only disrespectful but downright infantile. C'mon, grow up, you're supposed to be adults!...
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High school bridge builders put designs to test in annual competition
(Editorial ~ 12/28/20)
As part of the Missouri Department of Transportation's 17th annual Bridge Building Competition, Southeast Missouri high school students were challenged to design and construct the most efficient model bridge using 30 pieces of balsa wood, thread and glue...
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Girl Scouts rebuke Boy Scouts in escalating recruitment war
(Community ~ 12/28/20)
NEW YORK -- The Girl Scouts are in a "highly damaging" recruitment war with the Boy Scouts after the latter opened its core services to girls, leading to marketplace confusion and some girls unwittingly joining the Boy Scouts, lawyers for the century-old Girl Scouts organization claim in court papers...
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Officials: Suspect in Nashville explosion died in blast
(National News ~ 12/28/20)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The man believed to be responsible for the Christmas Day bombing that tore through downtown Nashville blew himself up in the explosion, and appears to have acted alone, federal officials said Sunday. Investigators used DNA and other evidence to link the man, identified as Anthony Quinn Warner, to the mysterious explosion but said they have not determined a motive. ...
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Trump signs massive measure funding government, coronavirus relief
(National News ~ 12/28/20)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Sunday evening, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver cash to businesses and individuals and avert a federal government shutdown...
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Out of the past: Dec. 28
(Out of the Past ~ 12/28/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- And then there were three; after months of collecting 30 resumes and cover letters, the Perry County School District board has narrowed its search for a new superintendent to three candidates: Dan Roe of Pittsburg, Kansas, Rex Miller of Westphalia, Missouri, and Dan Tallent of Cape Girardeau; Tallent, who is principal at Cape Girardeau Central High School, announced his resignation last month...
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Prayer 12/28/20
(Prayer ~ 12/28/20)
Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Amen.
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