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Cape woman arrested for alleged DWI
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
A Cape Girardeau woman was arrested Thursday morning for alleged driving while intoxicated. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Sydney Casey, 20, was arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated and failure to drive on right half of roadway. She was taken to Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Office and released...
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Sidewalk improvements slated for U.S. 61 in Perry County
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
Northbound U.S. 61 in Perry County will be reduced to one lane from Highway 51 to Sutterer Place Road as contractor crews improve sidewalks in Perryville, a Missouri Department of Transportation news release says. ...
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Jackson Middle School to host mobile food bank Saturday
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
For families or individuals in need of food, Jackson School District will host a mobile food pantry Saturday at Jackson Middle School, 1651 W. Independence. Food will be offered free of cost from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Merideth Pobst, director of communications for the district, recommends those who plan to attend to arrive early as food goes early...
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Zion UMC current pastor is ordained while serving the church
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
The current pastor of Gordonville's 174 year-old Zion United Methodist Church, Scott Griffin, is part of the few in the church's history to be ordained while already serving as pastor in what the congregation believes is about 100 years. Griffin explained a former pastor who grew up in the church, served and eventually retired does not remember a pastor being ordained while serving in his lifetime and estimates it has been close to 100 years since there was one...
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Strike up the Band
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
French horn players in the Jackson Municipal Band perform Thursday at the Nick Leist Memorial Bandshell in Jackson City Park in Jackson. Whitewater Bluegrass Band joined the Jackson Municipal Band on Thursday as Southeast Missouri residents in lawn chairs and on blankets sat in the park enjoying the performance of upbeat tunes, consisting of a mix of old traditional and new music. More photos are in a gallery at www.semissourian.com.
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Cape County commissioners hold brief meeting, touch on topics from COVID-19 to ice cream
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
Cape Girardeau County commissioners dealt with topics ranging from COVID-19 to ice cream during their 10-minute public meeting Thursday morning. In comparison to a week ago, Presiding Commissioner Clint Tracy said the county recorded 36 more COVID-19 cases bringing the total case count since the pandemic began to 9,480. The number of active cases in the county has also increased from 22 to 38...
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Meet Scott Smith, Jackson School District's new superintendent
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
Scott Smith took the reins as superintendent of Jackson School District July 1. Smith said he couldn't be more excited about the new role. "Jackson has always been a district I've held in high regard," Smith said. "I feel like it has always had a reputation of community involvement and taking care of kids right."...
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COVID-19 cases in Mo. reach highest level since January
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- Missouri's health department on Thursday reported the highest daily count of new COVID-19 cases since the dead of winter, and the association representing the state's hospital is warning the health care system is potentially on the brink of a crisis...
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Tunes at Twilight fall series begins Aug. 6
(Local News ~ 07/16/21)
Don't act too quick and pack away your lawn chairs and picnic blankets at the end of summer. Old Town Cape's Tunes at Twilight series will return for its fall series Aug. 6. Since 2007, musicians have captivated Tunes at Twilight audiences with performances leading from evening till dusk. It's a free, entirely outdoor concert series open to all members of the public...
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Business Briefs: Cape County sales tax receipts up
(B Magazine ~ 07/16/21)
Cape Girardeau County’s sales tax receipts surpassed all previous months in June and topped $800,000 for only the third time ever as the county continues its strong recovery from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/16/21)
Today is Friday, July 16, the 197th day of 2021. There are 168 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 16, 1790, a site along the Potomac River was designated the permanent seat of the United States government; the area became Washington, D.C...
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Cape VA medical center set for Feb. 1 opening
(Editorial ~ 07/16/21)
Work continues on the Department of Veteran Affairs Cape Girardeau Health Care Center at 711 South Mount Auburn Road. Officials expect the 45,000-square-feet facility to be complete in early November, and the doors are set to open Feb. 1. The center will feature virtually the same primary and specialty care clinics as its parent, John J. ...
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Prayer 7/16/21
(Prayer ~ 07/16/21)
O Lord God, we praise you, for your righteousness reaches to the heavens. Amen.
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 7/16/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/16/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 14 n Medical assists were made at 11:42 a.m. on North Mount Auburn Road; 12:14 p.m. on South Lorimier Street; 4:06 p.m. at Rambler Drive and County Road 217. n At 6:33 a.m., lift assist on South Spring Avenue...
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Thomas Miller Jr.
(Obituary ~ 07/16/21)
Thomas Jefferson "T.J." Miller Jr., 98, formerly of Marble Hill, Missouri, passed away Tuesday, July 13, 2021, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. T.J. was born March 15, 1923, at Grassy Creek, Missouri, in western Bollinger County to Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" and Ruth Ellen Perkins Miller. As a child, he attended Burke School on Castor River, later graduating from Lutesville (Missouri) High School in 1942...
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Ruby Eichhorn
(Obituary ~ 07/16/21)
Ruby Mildred Eichhorn, daughter of the late Edmund and Emelia Myer Haertling, was born July 16, 1929, in Jackson and departed this life Monday, July 12, 2021, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 91 years. Ruby worked at Thorngate LTD in Chaffee, Missouri, for 39 years and retired in 1991. ...
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Reshma Saujani's book 'Pay Up' urges support for mothers
(Community ~ 07/16/21)
NEW YORK -- The founder of the non-profit organization Girls Who Code has a book coming out about helping women who raise children, with suggestions including government aid and a more compassionate workplace. Reshma Saujani's "Pay Up" will be published in March 2022 by One Signal Publisher/Atria Books...
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Chip and Joanna Gaines step up to help lead a new TV network
(Community ~ 07/16/21)
NEW YORK -- Chip and Joanna Gaines made a name for themselves thanks to their knack for renovating homes. Now they're ready to put their skills to work on building an entire TV network. The couple known for restoring old homes and buildings into styles varying from industrial to farmhouse are making the transition to TV executives with Thursday's launch of the first steps toward their Magnolia Network. It will feature dozens of hours of new unscripted content and archive shows...
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Haiti police reject reports implicating government in slaying of president
(International News ~ 07/16/21)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Authorities in Haiti on Thursday forcefully pushed back against reports current government officials were involved in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, calling them "a lie." Leon Charles, head of Haiti's National Police, denied a report from Caracol news, a Colombian-based private TV station, claiming interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph was the mastermind of the July 7 killing...
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Evacuations expand in Oregon as fire spreads erratically
(National News ~ 07/16/21)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- More people living along the eastern edge of an Oregon wildfire were told to evacuate late Thursday as the inferno began spreading rapidly and erratically in hot afternoon winds and threatened to merge with a nearby, smaller fire that had also exploded in size...
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Flash flooding sweeps Arizona; 1 rafter dead in Grand Canyon
(National News ~ 07/16/21)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- One person who went missing from a Colorado River rafting trip in the Grand Canyon during a flash flood was found dead Thursday in frigid water while a second person was found alive, a park spokeswoman said. The flood was part of monsoon storms inundating Arizona this week, including in Flagstaff where city streets were left a muddy mess as water mixed with logs and debris swept through. Cleanup was underway Thursday with the threat of more rain looming...
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Child tax credit starts hitting U.S. families' bank accounts
(National News ~ 07/16/21)
WASHINGTON -- The child tax credit had always been an empty gesture to millions of parents such as Tamika Daniel. That changed Thursday when the first payment of $1,000 hit Daniel's bank account -- and dollars started flowing to the pockets of more than 35 million families around the country. Daniel, a 35-year-old mother of four, didn't even know the tax credit existed until President Joe Biden expanded it for one year as part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that passed in March...
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Worries over racism, waterways inspire push to rename fish
(National News ~ 07/16/21)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the "Asian carp" label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, infesting numerous rivers and bearing down on the Great Lakes...
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Out of the past: July 16
(Out of the Past ~ 07/16/21)
Lee Roderick makes a habit of glancing across the grassy incline toward the drainage ditch at the end of East Main at Shawnee in Jackson; he often sees deer; but just before noon yesterday, he saw the top of a black Chevrolet Chevette; Donald Fillingham, 41, of Jackson had been pinned inside the car for more than six hours, his car mostly hidden from passing motorists by the grassy bank...
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