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Outer Road 55 in Scott County closed for pavement repairs
(Local News ~ 05/27/22)
Outer Road 55 -- Sandywood Lane -- in Scott County from Route H to the end of Sandywood Lane will be closed as Missouri Department of Transportation crews seal the roadway with a mixture of rock and oil. A MoDOT news release said the work will take place from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, from June 13 through 16...
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Schnucks' Folds of Honor campaign underway in advance of Memorial Day
(Local News ~ 05/27/22)
St. Louis-headquartered Schnuck Markets Inc. is telling customers at its 112 stores in four states, including 19 S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, its fifth annual Folds of Honor "round up at the register" campaign supporting veterans' families is up and running again in 2022...
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Monkeypox advisory issued by Cape Girardeau County
(Local News ~ 05/27/22)
Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center this week issued an informational statement about the monkeypox virus, so named because it was first identified in laboratory monkeys. "There are currently no cases in Cape Girardeau County or in the state of Missouri," said a Wednesday release, noting monkeypox is a rare disease discovered initially in 1958 in central and west Africa, resulting in fever, headache, backache, muscle aches, chills, swollen lymph nodes and exhaustion...
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Book a Room at new Casino digs
(Local News ~ 05/27/22)
Century Casino's leadership team members, left to right, Chris Roth, Michelle Sullivan, Lisa McMahan, David Lynn, Roger Eledge and general manager Lyle Randolph hold shovels of dirt while breaking ground for the new hotel in front of the Cape Girardeau casino entrance at Thursday's groundbreaking ceremony.
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Capaha Park construction projects are underway
(Local News ~ 05/27/22)
Construction continues at Cape Girardeau's Capaha Park as multiple projects are completed. Members of the City of Cape Girardeau's Parks and Recreation Department have completed the construction and renovation of the park's new permanent restroom and amphitheater or bandshell. Workers have moved their focus to constructing the shelter and playground area before working on replanting the Rose Garden in the park...
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Riverfront Fall Festival is planned for October in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 05/27/22)
Visit Cape's inaugural Riverfront Fall Festival will take place in October and feature local vendors, entertainment for all ages and storytelling by the Mississippi River. Alyssa Phares-Fee, senior director of sales and strategy for Visit Cape, came up with the idea of hosting a festival after realizing the city does not host an annual community event during the fall. A committee of community leaders are organizing the fall event...
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Sponsored: Dutch Enterprises and Luxury Bath continue to serve Southeast Missouri
(B Magazine ~ 05/27/22)
Luxury Bath of Southeast Missouri is the newest division of Dutch Enterprises. “Customers have been very happy with our new ‘Luxury Bath’ line of products. With Luxury Bath, we now have a complete line of wet area replacement,” said Dutch Enterprises director of sales Chris Janet. “We can complete most jobs in 2-3 days which is preferred over a more expensive full bathroom remodel that usually takes several weeks to complete.”...
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Speak Out 5-27-22
(Speak Out ~ 05/27/22)
The latest mass shootings has put the gun control activists front and center as they ignore the real reason for these evil acts. If we don't admit we have a mental health problem in this country, things will only get worse. The further away we get from a Christian nation these horrible events will continue to happen, and if we deny mental illness and the lack of God in people's lives are intertwined we will never find a solution. ...
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Why do Dems and GOP agree on Ukraine aid?
(Column ~ 05/27/22)
During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden was outspoken in his desire to "revive the spirit of bipartisanship in this country." On May 15, Politico reported that, at the urging of many advisers, Biden had mostly given up on working with the GOP, which he purportedly now "views as an existential threat to the nation's democracy."...
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Prayer 5-27-22
(Prayer ~ 05/27/22)
Lord Jesus, may we stand with courage, remembering the battle belongs to you. Amen.
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Take a moment this Memorial Day
(Editorial ~ 05/27/22)
Seldom have words better captured a sentiment than President Abraham Lincoln's to Mrs. Lydia Bixby of Massachusetts, who reportedly had lost five sons in the Civil War. n Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle...
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Native students exercise right to wear regalia at graduation
(Community ~ 05/27/22)
CEDAR CITY, Utah -- She walked up a red carpet and crossed a stage to accept her diploma wearing an eagle feather beaded onto her cap that her mother had gifted her. Amryn Tom graduated this week from southern Utah's Cedar City High School. Her family cheered...
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Sue Rodewald
(Obituary ~ 05/27/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Karen "Sue" Rodewald, 70, of Perryville died Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at her home. Graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Perryville. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Mike Begley
(Obituary ~ 05/27/22)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Mike Begley, 66, of Advance died Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Per his wishes, cremation rites will be accorded. No services will be held at this time. Arrangements have been entrusted to Crain Funeral Home...
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Cape Girardeau Police report 5/27/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/27/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Cordova Lane. n A warrant arrest was reported on Siemers Drive. n A warrant arrest was reported on Jefferson Avenue...
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Cape Girardau Fire report 5/27/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/27/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. May 25 n Medical assists were made at 10:10 a.m. on Beavercreek Drive; 11:16 a.m. on William Street; 3:02 p.m. on South Mount Auburn Road; n At 3:53 a.m., lift assist on Hackberry Street...
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Police: Texas gunman was inside the school for over an hour
(National News ~ 05/27/22)
UVALDE, Texas -- It was 11:28 a.m. when the Ford pickup slammed into a ditch behind behind the low-slung Texas school and the driver jumped out carrying an AR-15-style rifle. Twelve minutes after that, authorities say, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was in the hallways of Robb Elementary School. Soon he entered a fourth-grade classroom. And there, he killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in a still-unexplained spasm of violence...
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Ellen DeGeneres ends daytime show with plea for compassion
(Entertainment ~ 05/27/22)
LOS ANGELES -- Ellen DeGeneres brought her nearly two-decade daytime talk show to an end Thursday with a celebrity lovefest and a forceful assertion of her achievement as a gay woman daring to be herself. DeGeneres and guests Jennifer Aniston, Billie Eilish and Pink shared memories and affection as "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" concluded its Emmy-winning, 3,200-plus episode run that began in September 2003...
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Ray Liotta, 'Goodfellas' and 'Field of Dreams' star, dies
(Entertainment ~ 05/27/22)
Ray Liotta, the blue-eyed actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in "Goodfellas" and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Field of Dreams," has died. He was 67. Liotta's publicist, Jen Allen, said he was in the Dominican Republic shooting a new movie and didn't wake up Thursday morning. An official at the Dominican Republic's National Forensic Science Institute who was not authorized to speak to the media confirmed the death and said his body was taken to the Cristo Redentor morgue...
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329 years later, last Salem 'witch' who wasn't is pardoned
(National News ~ 05/27/22)
BOSTON -- It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem "witch" who wasn't has been officially pardoned. Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem Witch Trials...
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Davos ends with Germany pushing global work on climate, war
(International News ~ 05/27/22)
DAVOS, Switzerland -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed hopes Thursday for global cooperation on climate change, hunger and war, while dozens of climate activists demonstrated in the Swiss town of Davos as a meeting of global elites ended with many words but little concrete action to solve the world's most pressing crises...
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Census Bureau: Big city losses early in COVID pandemic
(National News ~ 05/27/22)
Ko Im always thought she would live in New York forever. She knew every corner of Manhattan and had worked hard to build a community of friends. Living in a small apartment, she found her attitude shifting early in the coronavirus pandemic. After her brother accepted a job in Seattle in the summer of 2020, she decided to move there, too...
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Trump loses appeal, must testify in New York civil probe
(National News ~ 05/27/22)
NEW YORK -- Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in the New York attorney general's civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, rejecting his argument he be excused from testifying because his answers could be used in a parallel criminal probe...
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Housekeepers struggle as US hotels ditch daily room cleaning
(National News ~ 05/27/22)
HONOLULU -- After guests checked out of a corner room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort on Waikiki beach, housekeeper Luz Espejo collected enough trash, some strewn under beds, to stuff seven large garbage bags. She stripped the linens from the beds, wiped built-up dust off furniture and scrubbed away layers of grime on the toilet and bathtub. She even got on her hands and knees to pick confetti from the carpet that a heavy-duty vacuum failed to swallow up...
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More Memorial Day travel expected, despite high gas prices
(National News ~ 05/27/22)
LOS ANGELES -- To drive, or not to drive? This Memorial Day weekend, with surging gas prices redefining pain at the pump, that is the question for many Americans as a new COVID-19 surge also spreads across the country. For Marvin Harper of Phoenix his family's weekend travel plans are a double punch to the wallet. ...
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Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past
(National News ~ 05/27/22)
The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists say it spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease. Why? Because it combines properties of both omicron and delta, the nation's dominant variant in the middle of last year...
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Texas shooter sent warning signs, messages, mostly too late
(National News ~ 05/27/22)
UVALDE, Texas -- Monday morning at Robb Elementary School, a line of graduating high school seniors in maroon caps and gowns paid a visit to the children to offer smiles, high fives and encouragement that one day, if they studied hard enough, they could graduate too...
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Russia slams sanctions, seeks to blame West for food crisis
(International News ~ 05/27/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to lift sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, seeking to shift the blame for a growing food crisis that has been worsened by Kyiv's inability to ship millions of tons of grain and other agricultural products while under attack...
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Out of the past: May 27
(Out of the Past ~ 05/27/22)
Sam Unnerstall was 10 years old when his father, Frank, moved the family drug store into new quarters at 630 Good Hope St.; he worked in the fountain and was in charge of comic books; commenting on Unnerstall's Drug Store closure Friday after 70 years in business on Good Hope, Unnerstall said, "It's going to be hard to walk off and leave all these people."...
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