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Ex-U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by 'legitimate rape' remark, dies
(State News ~ 10/05/21)
Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women's bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of "legitimate rape" sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, has died. He was 74...
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Town hall scheduled to support Jackson use tax
(Local News ~ 10/05/21)
On Nov. 2, the City of Jackson is making a fourth attempt since 2014 to convince residents to pass an online sales levy — or use tax — and is inviting residents to a town hall meeting at the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce's new office at 1846 E. Jackson Blvd. at 6 p.m. Thursday to plead the municipality's case...
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Cape Girardeau County OKs tax abatement for planned new rice mill
(Local News ~ 10/05/21)
By a unanimous vote, the Cape Girardeau County Commission has given approval to a 50% tax abatement over the next decade for a planned rice processing plant on 12 acres along the north side of Nash Road to the Diversion Channel levee and east of the Rhodes Truck Stop...
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TTF6 appropriation would pave way for roadway improvements throughout city
(Local News ~ 10/05/21)
Cape Girardeau has come a long way since the first Transportation Trust Fund tax approved by voters in 1995 helped pave the last gravel streets in the city. More improvements will soon come Cape Girardeau's way. At Monday's City Council meeting, council members held their second and third readings on an ordinance to appropriate $1,800,000 to cover street repair and work designated within the sixth iteration of the Transportation Trust Fund, or TTF6...
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Developer proposes turning dilapidated midtown building into police substation
(Local News ~ 10/05/21)
Developer Scott Blank presented to the Cape Girardeau City Council on Monday his proposal to turn an endangered downtown building into a new police substation. Blank bought the property at 629 Good Hope St. to spur redevelopment in the area. Upon researching it, Blank learned of its interesting history...
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Sponsored: Common financial mistakes and how to avoid them
(Insiders Advice ~ 10/05/21)
It is normal for people to make mistakes. When creating a financial strategy, it is likely that something will go astray. We can all learn from other people’s mistakes or previous mistakes we’ve made ourselves. The No. 1 financial mistake would be living beyond your means. ...
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Prayer 10-5-21
(Prayer ~ 10/05/21)
O Heavenly Father, bless those who are struggling, that they may feel your presence. Amen.
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Response to vaccine protest
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/05/21)
On Monday morning, I left home and drove down Hwy 177 where I thought I'd encountered an antifa protest (though nothing was on fire and some of the trash got picked up). I recognized over half the protesters as the same who've been yelling at our county health board for the last year, contradicting health care professionals, and spreading disinformation...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 10/5/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/05/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Oct. 3 n Medical assist was made at 11:44 p.m. on William Street. n At 3:38 p.m., commercial fire on North Henderson Avenue.
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Marilyn Weisbrod
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Marilyn Ann Weisbrod, 88, of Perryville died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at her home. Visitation will be from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Apple Creek, Missouri, with the Rev. Patrick Christopher officiating. Burial will be at St. Michael Cemetery in Apple Creek...
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Scott Toll
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
Scott Carter Toll, 57, of Jackson passed away on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, surrounded by his loving family, at The Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau after a long courageous battle with cancer. He was born Jan. 4, 1964, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, son of Jack and Marilynne Anne Baker Toll. He and Lisa Stamp were married on Jan. 27, 1990...
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Betty Price
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
PLANO, Texas -- Betty June Price, 91, of Plano, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, at Texas Health Resources in Plano. Visitation will be noon to 1 p.m. Sunday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will follow at 1 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home with the Rev. Jennifer Long officiating. Entombment will be at Cape County Memorial Park Mausoleum in Cape Girardeau...
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Thomas Murrah
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
BENTON, Mo. -- Thomas Gerald Murrah of Benton, son to the late James and Evelyn Berry Murrah, was born Sept. 7, 1938, in Jackson, Mississippi, and departed this life Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, at his home at the age of 83 years. He married Judy Dennis on Feb. 20, 1971, and she survives of the home...
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Rev. Jeffrey Lloyd
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
BATES CITY, Mo. -- The Rev. Jeffrey Elwyn Lloyd, 76, of Bates City passed away Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. Jeff was born Jan. 16, 1945, in Milwaukee, son of Elwyn and Alice Becker Lloyd. He was a member of Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Oak Grove, Missouri. ...
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Donna Lashley
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
Donna Marie Cox Lashley, 72, of Jackson was born to the late Luther and Irene King Cox Dec. 7, 1948, in Ardeola, Missouri, and passed peacefully Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at her home. Donna attended and graduated school in Bell City, Missouri. She earned her secretarial certificate in St. Louis, where she met and married William Lashley and had three sons...
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Marilyn Kassel
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
ST. LOUIS -- Marilyn T. Kassel, 87, of St. Louis died Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis. Visitation will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, 9907 Sappinton Road in St. Louis, with the funeral service at 2 p.m. Burial service will follow at 4 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Perryville, Missouri, with the Rev. David Gruenwald officiating both...
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Margaret Hunt
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Margaret Jean Hunt, 90, of Perryville died Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday and from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Rosary will be recited at 8:30 a.m. Saturday...
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Clovis French
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Clovis M. French, 95, of Perryville died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at Independence Care Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Young Funeral Home, as well as from 8 to 9 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Whitewater Christian Church with Pastor Ray White officiating. Visitation will also be from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at the church. Burial will be at the church cemetery...
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Edith Adams
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
Edith Randol Adams, 100, of Jackson died Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, at The Villas of Jackson. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home with the Rev. Donny Ford officiating. Burial will be at Forest Hills Memorial Gardens in Morley, Missouri...
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Police say 18-year-old dies in St. Louis shooting
(State News ~ 10/05/21)
ST. LOUIS — Police are investigating after an 18-year-old man was fatally shot less than a mile from his home Saturday evening. Police said officers found Richard Walters on a porch in the 4440 block of Red Bud Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene...
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Police say 3 shot outside Kansas City bowling alley
(State News ~ 10/05/21)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three people have been injured in a late-night shooting at a Kansas City bowling alley, police said. Investigators said police were called to Ward Parkway Lanes around 11 p.m. Sunday for reports of a shooting. Arriving officers found two men with critical injuries and a woman with injuries not believed to be life-threatening in the bowling alley's parking lot...
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Officials: 2 killed in small plane crash in western Missouri
(State News ~ 10/05/21)
WARRENSBURG, Mo. — Two people have died in an ultralight plane crash in western Missouri's Johnson County, officials there said. The crash happened around 10 a.m. Sunday northwest of Warrensburg, Kansas City television station KCTV reported. County fire officials said the two people killed were the only ones aboard the ultralight aircraft. Officials have not released the victims' names. An investigation into the crash is being conducted...
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Missouri governor denies clemency to death row inmate
(State News ~ 10/05/21)
Gov. Mike Parson on Monday declined to grant clemency to death row inmate Ernest Johnson, despite requests for mercy from the pope, two federal lawmakers and thousands of petition signers. Johnson, 61, was convicted of killing three convenience store workers during a closing-time robbery in 1994. He is scheduled to die by injection at 6 p.m. today at the state prison in Bonne Terre, about 50 miles south of St. Louis...
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New rules on Missouri abortion clinics set to take effect next week
(State News ~ 10/05/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republican Gov. Mike Parson's administration has enacted more rules on Missouri abortion clinics. The new emergency regulations, which take effect Oct. 13, require abortion providers to cooperate with state health department investigators and ensure physicians perform pelvic exams 72 hours before abortions, if medically necessary...
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Out of the past: Oct. 5
(Out of the Past ~ 10/05/21)
Former Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell Jr. doesn't think of himself as a hero; he said it was teamwork by NASA employees on the ground that allowed him and two other astronauts to return home on their lunar-module-turned-lifeboat; Lovell, who lives near Austin, Texas, spoke to reporters and children at the Cape Girardeau Public Library Friday afternoon; that evening he spoke to about 500 people in Academic Auditorium at a fund-raiser for the Cape Girardeau Library Foundation...
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Robert Hagan Jr.
(Obituary ~ 10/05/21)
Robert Hagan Jr., 66, of Scott City died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, at the Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee, Missouri. He was born Feb. 13, 1955, in Cape Girardeau to Robert and Helen Crader Hagan Sr. Robert was a machine operator for Scott County, from which he retired. ...
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Ship's anchor among possible causes of California oil spill
(National News ~ 10/05/21)
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- Officials investigating one of California's largest oil spills are looking into whether a ship's anchor may have struck a pipeline on the ocean floor, causing a major leak of crude into coastal waters and fouling beaches, authorities said Monday...
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What's old is new again: Justices back at Supreme Court for new term
(National News ~ 10/05/21)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court returned to the courtroom Monday for the start of a momentous new term, after a nearly 19-month absence because of the coronavirus pandemic. Abortion, guns and religion all are on the agenda for a court with a rightward tilt, including three justices appointed by former President Donald Trump...
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UNICEF: Battered by pandemic, children need mental health help
(International News ~ 10/05/21)
PARIS -- Governments must pour more money and resources into preserving the mental well-being of children and adolescents, the U.N.'s child protection agency urged in a report Tuesday, sounding alarms about blows to mental health from the COVID-19 pandemic that hit poor and vulnerable children particularly hard...
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The zero cost canard
(Column ~ 10/05/21)
If Democrats get their reconciliation bill, it won't be because they convinced the American public its true cost is zero. As the political prospects of the bill have sagged, Democrats are trying to recalibrate by arguing a generational spending binge really won't cost anything at all...
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