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Sikeston woman injured in crash
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
A Sikeston, Missouri, woman suffered injuries in a one-vehicle crash Monday morning. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report states Chelsey Scheffer, 32, was eastbound on County Road 528 about 5 miles north of Miner when the 2021 Honda Accord she was driving left the roadway and struck a utility pole...
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Miner woman arrested for alleged weapon violation
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
A Miner, Missouri, woman was arrested Thursday for several alleged violations. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report states Amy Kestner, 46, was taken into custody in Scott County for alleged felony unlawful possession of a firearm and felony possession of a controlled substance. She was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance, no license plate lamp and failure to wear a seat belt...
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Pedestrian dies after being struck by car near Puxico
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
PUXICO, Mo. — A 33-year-old woman was killed Saturday night when she was struck by a car on Highway 51, one-quarter of a mile south of Puxico. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol, Joshua M. Swasho, 22, of Essex, Missouri, was operating a 2011 Chevrolet Malibu northbound at 9:15 p.m. Saturday when it struck Jessica L. Williams of Puxico in the roadway...
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Cape man arrested for alleged DWI
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
A Cape Girardeau man was taken into custody early Saturday morning for alleged driving while intoxicated. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report states Brady Coleman, 24, was arrested shortly before 2 a.m. in Cape Girardeau County. He was taken to the county jail and released...
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Cape man arrested for 2 alleged felonies
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
A Cape Girardeau man was taken into custody Saturday morning for two alleged felonies. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report states Anthony West, 36, was arrested for alleged felony tampering with a motor vehicle and alleged felony possession of a controlled substance. He was cited for operating a motor vehicle without a valid license and possession of a controlled substance...
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'Suspicious item' found at Winks in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Cape Girardeau police were investigating a suspicious item Monday morning at Winks in Cape Girardeau. A spokesman for the police department said the store, at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and Perryville Road, had been evacuated and the investigation was ongoing.
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Cape Rock Drive closed for pavement repairs
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Cape Rock Drive in Cape Girardeau will be closed as construction crews perform pavement repairs, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. The street will be closed from Marsha Kay Drive to Kingshighway beginning at 7:30 a.m. April 18 and ending at 5 p.m. April 22...
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Helping couples grow closer
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Chris and Lisa Vaught welcome couples to the second day of The Marriage Conference on Saturday at Connection Point Church in Cape Girardeau. The conference focused on helping couples grow closer.
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Earthquake expert weighs in on recent local earthquakes
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Small earthquakes, such as the two recorded near Lake Wappapello on Sunday, rarely cause damage. But Missouri was once, briefly, the earthquake capital of America. Back in 1811 and 1812, a region encompassing Missouri — called The New Madrid Seismic Zone — experienced around 2,000 of the highest-intensity earthquakes ever recorded in North American history...
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Southeast's Synergies Day features author, ex-Chick-fil-A executive
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Steve Robinson, former Chick-fil-A chief marketing officer, will keynote Thursday's SEMO Synergies Day in the University Center Ballroom on Southeast Missouri State University's Cape Girardeau campus. The event caps nearly a full week of related activities during SEMO Synergies Week...
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Sunny Hill owners announce retirement, closing of business
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Sunny Hill Gardens & Florist, a familiar site for decades at 206 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, has announced via social media its imminent closing. "It is with heavy hearts that we have to announce this will be our final season," read Sunny Hill's Facebook post Monday. "After 30 years, Paul and Marilyn Schnare are retiring and intend to close the business when inventory is depleted."...
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Jackson bridge replacement project advances
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Jackson's Board of Aldermen voted Monday to approve an $81,682 payment to Cochran Engineering of Farmington, Missouri, for "construction engineering and inspection services" for the upcoming West Mary Street Low Water Crossing Bridge and Sidewalk Project in the city's Ward 4...
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Suspect charged in aftermath of downtown Cape pursuit
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
An incident over the weekend has resulted in several charges against a suspect who ultimately crashed into a wall at a historic Cape Girardeau facility. A probable-cause statement indicated Tanarius Damun Twiggs, 43, was driving a Dodge Charger on Sprigg Street in downtown Cape Girardeau at about 3 p.m. ...
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Shipyard Music Festival dates announced
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Shipyard Music Festival will return Sept. 23 and 24 in Cape Girardeau. The music festival will again be held on the grounds of Century Casino Cape Girardeau. No acts have been announced, but Jeff Rawson of rustmedia, organizer of the festival, said the lineup will be announced soon. Last year's festival included 17 acts over two days...
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Obelisk will welcome downtown Cape visitors
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Visitors to downtown Cape Girardeau will be greeted with a new welcome sign planned by the Downtown Community Improvement District and Old Town Cape. At Monday night's meeting, the City Council discussed improvements to the downtown area, including changes to the construction of an obelisk in the parking lot located at Broadway and Main Street...
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Follow live election results
(Local News ~ 04/05/22)
Check {https://www.semissourian.com/election here} for live results from today's general election.
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Sponsored: Preparing for Taxes in Retirement
(Insiders Advice ~ 04/05/22)
I get a lot of questions about what tax rate people will be in when they retire. The answer depends on your total taxable income. For example, if you are married and your taxable income is $50,000 per year, your first $20,550 is taxed at 10%, and the remaining $29,450 is taxed at 12%. Remember, once you’re officially retired and begin taking withdrawals, you’ll need to pay taxes on any gains and your pre-tax or deductible contributions...
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Prayer 4-5-22
(Prayer ~ 04/05/22)
Lord Jesus, thank you for redemption, made possible by your blood shed on the cross. Amen.
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When to check out of the discourse
(Column ~ 04/05/22)
Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars -- you could live in a cave and still know about this, and be subject to the blizzard of opinions about it. This incident exposed the depths of my phone addiction as I clicked on link after link to articles that had just about zero impact on anyone's life. The media frenzy was a bit like a siren warning us all to step away from our screens...
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Clarence Thomas is better than his critics
(Column ~ 04/05/22)
Clarence Thomas is, by far, our most abused Supreme Court justice. His confirmation hearings in 1991 were, as he memorably put it, a high-tech lynching. Once on the Court, he was allegedly incapable of thinking for himself and was Antonin Scalia's "lawn jockey," as Emerge magazine shamefully put it. ...
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Births 4/5/22
(Births ~ 04/05/22)
Son to Andrew Forrest Roosevelt and Britney Michelle Brown of Morehouse, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 4:14 p.m. Friday, March 11, 2022. Name, Liam Oliver. Weight, 6 pounds, 3 ounces. First child. Mrs. Brown is the former Britney Hicks, daughter of Kathy Hicks of Morley, Missouri, and Chris Hicks, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. ...
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Area Police report 4/5/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/05/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported. n A warrant arrest was reported on Perryville Road. n A warrant arrest was reported. Assaults n Assault was reported on North Main Street...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 4/5/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/05/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. April 3 n Medical assists were made at 9:43 a.m. on Limbaugh Lane; 11:50 a.m. on Brenda Kay Court; 12:27 p.m. on Watkins Drive; 2:57 p.m. on Themis Street; 3:36 p.m. on Broadway; 10:38 p.m. on Jefferson Avenue...
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Sandra Williams
(Obituary ~ 04/05/22)
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Sandra Galemore Williams, 77, formerly of Charleston and Columbia, Missouri, died unexpectedly yet peacefully with her family by her side Sunday March 27, 2022, at the Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers. She was taken far too soon...
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Mike Whaley
(Obituary ~ 04/05/22)
Harold Michael "Mike" Whaley, 72, of Jackson passed away Friday, April 1, 2022, at his home in Jackson. He was born Feb. 19, 1950, in Bonne Terre, Missouri, son of Harold and Christine Raymo Whaley. He and Patricia Davis were married June 22, 2003. Mike was a graduate of North County High School in Desloge, Missouri. ...
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Anice McKissick
(Obituary ~ 04/05/22)
Anice McKissick, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, March 24, 2022, at her home. Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will follow at 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home with the Rev. Kenneth Strong officiating...
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Zerma Masters
(Obituary ~ 04/05/22)
Zerma Ann Masters, 94, of Gordonville passed away peacefully Friday, April 1, 2022, at the Chateau Girardeau Care Center in Cape Girardeau. Zerma was able to live in her home until just a week prior to her move to Chateau. On the day of her passing, she woke up feeling well and was able to enjoy her favorite meal of fried chicken and coconut cream pie. She was also looking forward to watching the St. Louis Cardinals game later that day...
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Penny Lynn
(Obituary ~ 04/05/22)
MURRAY, Ky. -- Penny Geniene Lynn, 54, of Murray passed away Saturday, April 2, 2022, at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, with her loved ones at her side as she entered her Heavenly home. Penny was born Sept. 1, 1967, in St. Charles, Missouri. She was a retired correctional officer and was of the Christian faith...
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Candida Faries
(Obituary ~ 04/05/22)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Candida Lea Faries of Poplar Bluff died Friday, April 1, 2022. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Oakdale Cemetery at Commerce, Missouri. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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Reba Enderle
(Obituary ~ 04/05/22)
Reba G. Enderle, 86, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, April 3, 2022, at Chateau Girardeau. She was born Jan. 18, 1936, in Gale, Illinois, to the late Roy and Ida Corzine Simmons. Reba worked as a licensed practical nurse at both Southeast Hospital and later at Saint Francis Medical Center, Chateau Health Center. She retired from the Missouri Veterans Home...
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Arrest made in connection with Sacramento mass shooting
(National News ~ 04/05/22)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento police arrested a man Monday connected to the shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others in the heart of California's capital as multiple shooters fired more than 100 rapid-fire rounds and people ran for their lives...
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Africa looks to renewables to curb warming, boost economies
(International News ~ 04/05/22)
MOMBASA, Kenya -- From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a new United Nations climate report on Monday brought the continent's vast clean energy potential into the spotlight. If realized, these renewable energy projects could blunt the harshest global warming effects, power the continent's projected economic development and lift millions out of poverty, the report said...
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Murkowski, Romney back Jackson, all but assure confirmation
(National News ~ 04/05/22)
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney announced Monday night they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic elevation to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden's nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all but assuring she'll become the first Black female justice...
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Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine's streets
(International News ~ 04/05/22)
BUCHA, Ukraine -- Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets, buildings and yards strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, many of them evidently killed at close range...
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Federal lawsuit seeks to block end to sweeping asylum limits
(National News ~ 04/05/22)
PHOENIX -- Conservative-led governments in Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri have sued President Joe Biden's administration to prevent federal officials from ending a public health rule allowing many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border...
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Out of the past: April 5
(Out of the Past ~ 04/05/22)
Paul Simon, a former U.S. senator who now directs the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, spoke last night before a group of about 100 people in Glenn Auditorium of Robert A. Dempsey Hall; the talk kicked off a week of activities leading to the inauguration of Dr. ...
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A Look Back
(04/05/22)
Rush H. Limbaugh Jr., a Cape Girardeau attorney and aviation enthusiast, smiled as he read a newspaper account in The Southeast Missourian of voter approval of a $115,000 airport bond on April 22, 1947. With the favorable vote, the city was able to move toward formal acquisition of Harris Field, the World War II training base. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...
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Column: A Kid’s Great Day (To The Max)
(04/05/22)
Nothing against my other six uncles, but Uncle Max was my favorite. He grew up in New York State, played Dixieland/jazz piano by ear, sang Sinatra — his wife Kitty’s favorite — and other styles. (If you want to hear how Max Jolls played piano, listen to Harry Connick, Jr.) He also was an engaging teller of jokes and stories. What further bespoke his cool was that he was a pilot for United Airlines. I thought it especially cool that he flew the Green Bay Packers of the 1960s and got to meet them...
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Column: April Fooling Around
(04/05/22)
April Fool’s Day, celebrated April 1 each year, has been observed for several centuries by several different countries and cultures, although its exact origins remain a mystery. On this day, you’re supposed to pull a prank, play a hoax or inflict a practical joke on someone. Then, you yell, “April Fool’s!” at the victim to signify you’re an idiot...
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No One Wanted to Hear It: Adventures in auditioning for a summer gig in summer of ‘68
(04/05/22)
In 1968, Malcolm Lee, Terry Burke and I got together for a weekend spring break session to record an audition tape for summer work as folk singers in some exotic locale that was not Sikeston, Mo. We represented the male contingent of The Travelers and had been together in one form or another since 1961. ...
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Senior Moments: A Little Failure
(04/05/22)
I’m now in my final quarter of my senior year. Everything is winding to a close, and if the first three quarters dragged their feet getting here, the fourth one is sprinting. The end of the third quarter snuck up on me. I blinked halfway through the school year, and now, I only have one report card left. We’re getting ready to start that final math chapter, that final composition paper...
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Age Spots: SALT to host annual event honoring fallen law enforcement
(04/05/22)
Recently, Joplin, Mo., lost two law enforcement officers in the line of duty. It is always hard to hear about our law enforcement officers being killed in the line of duty, especially so close; the community loses so much when we lose those who put themselves between danger and us...
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Letter People Week at Guardian Angel School
(Submitted Story ~ 04/05/22)
School is nearing the end, which means the Kindergarten class had a special week to celebrate the letter people whom they had been studying all year. Each student of the Kindergarten class of Guardian Angel School in Oran, Missouri had a letter person that they were suppose to dress as on Monday, March 28. We had some pretty creative students this year...
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