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Texas man arrested in Cape Co.
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
A Texas man was arrested Monday morning in Cape Girardeau County for alleged driving while intoxicated. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Reginald Robinson, 34, of Frisco, Texas, was arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated and folowing too close...
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Perryville woman arrested in Scott Co.
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
A Perryville, Missouri, woman was arrested early Sunday morning for alleged driving while intoxicated and failure to drive on the right side of the roadway. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Kailyn Fahnestock, 23, was arrested in Scott County. She was taken to Scott County Sheriff's Office and released...
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Jackson man arrested for alleged DWI
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
A Jackson man was cited for several traffic violations after his arrest Sunday morning. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Randall Dampier, 58, was arrested for alleged felony driving while intoxicated (habitual offender), driving while revoked and failure to drive on the right side of the roadway shortly after 9:30 a.m. Sunday...
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Cape County man cited for felony DWI
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
A Millersville man was arrested Friday and cited for felony driving while intoxicated. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Kevin Bartels, 61, was arrested Friday night in Cape Girardeau County for alleged felony driving while intoxicated (with personal injury) and careless and imprudent driving involving a crash...
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Cape woman cited for DWI
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
A Cape Girardeau woman was arrested Saturday in Cape Girardeau County for alleged driving while intoxicated. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Siyuan Zhang, 28, was cited for driving while intoxicated and driving without a license. She was taken to the county jail and released...
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Cape man arrested for alleged DWI
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said a Cape Girardeau man was arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated. Talor Jones Jr., 20, was arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated Friday morning in Cape Girardeau County. He was taken to the county jail and released...
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Five injured in Stoddard County crash
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
A one-vehicle crash Monday night in Stoddard County injured five people and resulted in several alleged violations against the vehicle's driver. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Dawson Duckworth, 19, of Dexter, Missouri, was northbound on County Road 249 near its intersection with Route PP when the 2018 GMC Sierra he was driving left the right side of the roadway, struck a tree and came to rest in the roadway...
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Railroad maintenance to close Nash Road in Cape County
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
Nash Road (Route AB) in Cape Girardeau County, between County Road 219 and County Road 218, will be closed as contractor crews perform railroad maintenance. According to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release, the work will begin at 7 a.m., Tuesday, and the road will re-open Sept. 8 at 5 p.m...
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Three assigned to Patrol Troop E
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
Capt. Philip E. Gregory, commanding officer of the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Troop E, headquartered in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, recently announced the assignment of three new troopers to the troop. The new troopers were members of the Patrol's 111th Recruit Class that graduated from the Patrol Academy on July 23...
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Diemer retiring as SFMC's chief medical officer
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
Dr. Thomas Diemer is retiring this week after serving six years as chief medical officer for Saint Francis Healthcare System. His retirement is effective today. Diemer, an internal medicine physician, practiced 17 years with Cape Physician Associates before accepting leadership roles at Saint Francis Medical Center...
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Cape Parks and Rec brings back September events
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
Summer is coming to a close as Labor Day and the first day of fall occur this month. Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation has announced its upcoming fall events to start off the new fall season. The annual Touch A Truck event is coming back to the Shawnee Park Center from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 25. The free, family-friendly event will feature trucks of different shapes and sizes to be explored, such as fire trucks, police vehicles, tractors and more...
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Where there's smoke, There's No Fire
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
Smoke discovered in an underground tunnel delayed the start of Tuesday afternoon classes in Carnahan Hall on the Cape Girardeau campus of Southeast Missouri State University. Students, faculty and staff were later given the all-clear to return to classrooms after a brief investigation by the Cape Girardeau Fire Department, SEMO's Department of Public Safety and Southeast's Facilities Management office.
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Cape Girardeau County's real estate tax on general revenue to drop for 2021
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
Using a calculation mandated by the Office of Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway, the 2021 property tax rate for Cape Girardeau County was set Monday by the Cape Girardeau County Commission at .0580 per $100 of assessed valuation -- a reduction from 2020's rate of .0750 cents...
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Vaccination providers can help replace lost cards
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
A person who received any COVID-19 inoculation was given a small white card listing the date, the dose and the vaccine manufacturer. Proof of completed vaccination status, or two COVID-19 vaccine doses, may be required in some settings and it will be needed if a fully-vaccinated person tries later to get a Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna booster shot -- effectively a third dose -- which the Biden administration said last week would be available beginning Sept. 20...
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Difference Makers: Russell Grammer charted a new path for education at Prodigy Leadership Academy
(B Magazine ~ 09/01/21)
Russell Grammer, co-founder and co-director of Prodigy Leadership Academy in Cape Girardeau County along with his wife, Amy, boils his philosophy down to three words, in no particular order: support, relationship, God.
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Jackson man completes 14-state hike along the Appalachian Trail
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
The Appalachian Trail, which spans 14 states, is known as an ultimate hiking experience. Many have tried to traverse its entirety -- a few have accomplished it. Twenty-three-year-old Caleb Bess of Jackson now joins those ranks. Bess can list all of the 14 states and said the full hike is no joke...
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Cape Girardeau School District reinstates COVID mask mandate
(Local News ~ 09/01/21)
Cape Girardeau School District schools began requiring masks today. The decision to change the district's mask requirement came during a specially called board meeting Tuesday night. School began Aug. 25, and already eight of the district's 10 schools average-daily attendance dipped at or below 90% by Tuesday, according to superintendent Neil Glass. Typical attendance during a normal year would be 93%...
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Cape Chamber, Magnet in the midst of leadership searches
(B Magazine ~ 09/01/21)
Finding new leadership for the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce and Cape Girardeau Magnet will be a challenge and an opportunity. That’s according to Aaron Panton, 2021 chairman of the chamber’s board of directors, and Robbie Guard, chairman of the Magnet board. Both men sat down with B Magazine recently to discuss the process of selecting new leaders for Magnet and the chamber...
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Cape County a bright spot in Census data
(Editorial ~ 09/01/21)
While much of rural Southeast Missouri lost population over the last 10 years, Cape Girardeau County grew by 8%. That's the general local takeaway from the 2020 Census data released recently. Propelling Cape County's growth was a 12% surge in Jackson. ...
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Sorry, this was not a success
(Column ~ 09/01/21)
Talk about a catastrophic success. The Biden administration wants credit for the Afghanistan evacuation as measured by the sheer number of people it flew out amid a security and humanitarian crisis of its own making. This is the arsonist bragging about how many fires he has put out...
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Prayer 9/1/21
(Prayer ~ 09/01/21)
O Lord Jesus, blessed Savior, may we always fix our eyes on you. Amen.
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 9/1/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/01/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Aug. 29 n Medical assists were made at 11:46 a.m. on North Middle Street; 3:25 p.m. on Whitener Street; 6:36 p.m. on South Lorimier Street; and 11:24 p.m. on North Fountain Street...
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Jackson Police report 9/1/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/01/21)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Assault n Assault was reported in the 900 block of Odus Drive. Arrests n Mackenzie Terry, 23, of Jackson was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant. n Nathaniel Hartis, 18, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana 10 grams or less and possession of drug paraphernalia...
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Amanda Glasscock
(Obituary ~ 09/01/21)
Amanda Jean "Jeannie" Walker Glasscock, 68, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Amanda was born Oct. 29, 1952, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, the daughter of Fred E. and E. Joyce Sollars Walker Sr. She was united in marriage to Harold L. Glasscock Sr. on Sept. 2, 1971, and he preceded her in death...
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Mike Richards is out as producer of 'Jeopardy!' and 'Wheel'
(Entertainment ~ 09/01/21)
LOS ANGELES — Mike Richards is out as executive producer of "Jeopardy!", days after he exited as the quiz show's newly appointed host because of past misogynistic and disparaging comments. Richards is also no longer executive producer of "Wheel of Fortune," according to a memo to staff confirmed by Sony Pictures Television, which produces both of the shows...
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COVID recession pushed Social Security insolvency up a year, no change to Medicare
(National News ~ 09/01/21)
WASHINGTON -- The sharp shock of the coronavirus recession pushed Social Security a year closer to insolvency but left Medicare's exhaustion date unchanged, the government reported Tuesday in a counterintuitive assessment deepening the uncertainty around the nation's bedrock retirement programs...
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Hospitals' oxygen supplies grow precarious amid COVID surge
(National News ~ 09/01/21)
MISSION, Kan. -- The COVID-19 surge is stretching oxygen supplies and sending hospitals scrambling for more ventilators, even as there are signs of hope the spread of the virus is slowing down in pockets of the U.S. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a hospital recently called 911 after coming within just a few hours of running out of oxygen because they needed an emergency transfer for a patient on high-flow oxygen. ...
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Biden defends departure from 'forever war,' praises airlift
(National News ~ 09/01/21)
WASHINGTON -- Addressing the nation, a defensive President Joe Biden on Tuesday called the U.S. airlift to extract more than 120,000 Afghans, Americans and other allies to end a 20-year war an "extraordinary success," though more than 100 Americans and thousands of Afghans remain behind...
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Ida's sweltering aftermath: No power, no water, no gas
(National News ~ 09/01/21)
NEW ORLEANS -- Hundreds of thousands of Louisianans sweltered in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on Tuesday with no electricity, no tap water, precious little gasoline and no clear idea of when things might improve. Long lines wrapping around the block formed at the few gas stations that had fuel and generator power to pump it. People cleared rotting food out of refrigerators. Neighbors shared generators and borrowed buckets of swimming pool water to bathe or to flush toilets...
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Missouri Supreme Court declines to halt execution
(State News ~ 09/01/21)
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to halt the October execution of a man convicted of a triple killing who claimed his intellectual disability made him ineligible for the death penalty. Ernest Lee Johnson, 61, is scheduled to die by injection Oct. 5 at the state prison in Bonne Terre. It would be the first execution in Missouri since convicted killer Walter Barton was put to death in May 2020...
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Mo. sends soldiers to help with La. hurricane recovery
(State News ~ 09/01/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri is sending about 300 National Guard soldiers to help Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida, Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday. Missouri soldiers are scheduled to provide humanitarian aid, equipment, debris removal and other general assistance for at least two weeks...
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Hospitalizations start to decline in some parts of Missouri
(State News ~ 09/01/21)
ST. LOUIS -- Missouri has been among the states hit early and hard by the delta variant of COVID-19, but there are some signs of improvement. The state's COVID-19 dashboard Tuesday showed 2,146 people hospitalized with the virus. That's still more than three times the number hospitalized at the start of June, but it's down from 2,463 hospitalizations Aug. 19...
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Judge refuses to reinstate federal jobless benefits in Missouri
(State News ~ 09/01/21)
A Missouri judge on Tuesday refused to reinstate federal unemployment benefits that were cut in June when Gov. Mike Parson pulled out of several programs, saying the court "would not substitute its judgment" for that of the governor. The ruling by Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem came a day after lawyers representing Missouri residents who lost the jobless benefits asked for reinstatement with back pay that, for some people, could have amounted to $1,500...
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Out of the past: Sept. 1
(Out of the Past ~ 09/01/21)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Lutheran Hour speaker Dr. Dale Meyer preaches at the outdoor mission festival of Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg at the fairgrounds; Pastor Willard Kassulke says the church has tried to get Meyer as speaker for five years and had to book him two years in advance...
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Vernon Werner
(Obituary ~ 09/01/21)
Vernon Louis Werner, 88, of Jackson died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, at his home. He was born Aug. 21, 1933, in Cape Girardeau to Paul and Clara Kester Werner. He and LaWanda Heise were married Sept. 14, 1952, at St. Paul Lutheran Church. He was confirmed into the Kingdom of God at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson, where he remained a member...
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