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Sponsored: Cape Public Schools Foundation helps fund new programs
(B Magazine ~ 07/13/22)
Each year, the Cape Girardeau Public Schools Foundation funds student programs needed in the district. This year’s Penguin Party, the most visible fundraiser of the Foundation, surpassed its goal and will support AF-JROTC, college scholarships, the Gaming Club, Back-2-School supplies, the first Central Academy Yearbook and the Rising Educators Program...
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Book Review: ‘Great Teams’ offers fresh leadership insights
(B Magazine ~ 07/13/22)
New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger’s “Great Teams; 16 Things High-Performing Organizations Do Differently” is a case-study in organizational leadership in both the sports and corporate worlds. Written in 2016, the book uses examples of great teams throughout sports history to demonstrate how good teams become great; and how the same strategies have been applied by some of the most successful organizations in the corporate world...
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Navigating the night sky
(07/13/22)
The first time Edward “Bud” Fellows saw the flashing light, he “was no bigger than a jackrabbit.” He had come down from St. Louis to stay with family in the Lixville, Mo., area in Bollinger County for the summer, and he remembers seeing the light flashing in the windows at night...
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New trial ordered in Missouri peach farm suit
(Local News ~ 07/13/22)
A massive lawsuit originally tried in Cape Girardeau that awarded millions in compensatory damages to a Missouri peach farmer and ordered two companies to pay $60 million in punitive damages has been ordered a new trial. Bill and Denise Bader of Campbell, Missouri, filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Co. ...
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Old Town Cape partners with SendAFriend to celebrate young entrepreneurs
(Local News ~ 07/13/22)
Entrepreneurs, ages 14 to 18, have the chance to receive a $250 grant provided by SendAFriend and have their own vendor booth space at Cape Riverfront Market on Sept. 10. Old Town Cape and SendAFriend are partnering for the event to help three young entrepreneurs with business-related expenses on Youth Entrepreneurship Day. Selected applicants will also be promoted on Cape Riverfront Market social media...
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Jackson's Hubble Creek Bridge moving toward completion
(Local News ~ 07/13/22)
Jackson city engineer Anna Bergmark said Tuesday city officials have been assured the new Hubble Creek Bridge will be "substantially complete" on schedule by July 28, as originally agreed with Putz Construction of Millersville. The $550,000 project connects Parkview Street with Cascade Drive inside Jackson City Park...
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Cheney: Trump attempted to contact Jan. 6 hearing witness
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
WASHINGTON -- Abruptly raising the question of witness tampering, the Jan. 6 committee revealed Tuesday that Donald Trump had attempted to contact a person who was talking to the panel about its investigation of the former president and the 2021 attack on the Capitol...
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Nash Road to close for railroad maintenance
(Local News ~ 07/13/22)
Nash Road to close for railroad maintenance Route AB -- Nash Road -- in Cape Girardeau County will be closed as contractor crews perform railroad maintenance. According to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release, this section of road is between County Road 219 and County Road 218. The work will be done from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., July 25 through Aug. 8...
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Ukraine missionaries share experiences at Bollinger County church event
(Local News ~ 07/13/22)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Seats started filling up 30 minutes before Dan and Lori Upchurch were scheduled to speak Sunday evening at County Line Baptist Church near Marble Hill. The Bollinger County natives, who have spent years as missionaries in Ukraine, but now reside in Poland, because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are in the United States for two months this summer updating people and churches about the situation in Ukraine and their ministry to Ukrainians...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
Today is Wednesday, July 13, the 194th day of 2022. There are 171 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 13, 2013, a jury in Sanford, Florida, cleared neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman of all charges in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate over racial profiling, self-defense and equal justice...
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Prayer 7-13-22
(Prayer ~ 07/13/22)
O Lord Jesus, we find strength in you, our refuge. Amen.
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Speak Out 7-13-22
(Speak Out ~ 07/13/22)
To keep the homeless from creating a crime problem in Cape Girardeau, we need to outlaw camping in the Cape Girardeau city limits. In order to prevent the set up of homeless camps in Cape Girardeau. As Congress piles on gun legislation, mass murders will escalate. American citizens become an increasingly softer target. Criminals do not obey gun laws, plain and simple. The solution is strengthening anemic economic policies to busy idled hands. Congress is a long way from figuring that out...
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ShotSpotter is helping Cape PD with identifying shots fired incidents
(Editorial ~ 07/13/22)
The gunshot-locating system ShotSpotter has been in place in Cape Girardeau since May, and early feedback from law enforcement indicates the tool is helping police respond to the right location -- and faster -- following shots-fired alerts. It's also leading to more arrests...
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For the good of the country, Biden shouldn't run again
(Column ~ 07/13/22)
Perhaps the best decision Joe Biden could make as president is to stand down. It would be a welcome act of statesmanship and self-awareness if the 79-year-old president dropped the insistence that he's running for a second term, and instead announced sometime after the November midterms that he isn't running again...
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Johnny Thurman
(Obituary ~ 07/13/22)
The family of John "Johnny" Michael Thurman of Charleston, Missouri, and Cape Girardeau sadly announces his passing due to a tragic bike/car accident Friday, July 8, 2022. Johnny took his last breath at the age of 41, surrounded by loved ones at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was a beautiful person who spread joy and happiness wherever he went; he will be deeply missed by many...
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Gene Nation
(Obituary ~ 07/13/22)
Gene David Nation entered his heavenly home Saturday, July 9, 2022. He was 77 years old and was the youngest son of John Louis and Lily Florence Blankenship Nation of Illmo. He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters and four brothers. Gene became a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church in June 1966, and it was there he married Margaret Trost on Aug. 6, 1966. They were blessed with 55 years together...
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John Krifka
(Obituary ~ 07/13/22)
BELLA VISTA, Ark. -- John Bruce Krifka, 76, of Bella Vista died Thursday, July 7, 2022, at a skilled nursing facility. He was born June 7, 1946, in St. Louis, the son of Celestine and Frank Krifka. John was a member of Faith Lutheran Church in Bentonville, Arkansas. ...
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Area Police report 7/13/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/13/22)
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 Fitzgerald Drive. Assaults n Fourth-degree domestic assault was reported...
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White House urges caution on COVID variants, pushes boosters
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible variants are spreading rapidly across the country...
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Preventative fires credited with saving Yosemite sequoias
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- A famed grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park survived its first wildfire in more than a century, thanks to efforts to regularly burn the undergrowth beneath the towering trees, a forest ecologist who toured the site said Tuesday...
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Video shows police milling in hallway during Uvalde school massacre
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
AUSTIN, Texas -- Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with a AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed...
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Hunt on for gunman who killed 2 in wave of 7-Eleven holdups
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
LOS ANGELES -- After years of addiction, Matthew Hirsch was finally sober. He landed a stable job working overnight shifts at a 7-Eleven in Southern California, lived with his girlfriend in a nearby apartment and spoke to his father every day. But then, around 4:15 a.m. ...
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3 charged in scheme to sell stolen 'Hotel California' notes
(Entertainment ~ 07/13/22)
NEW YORK -- Three people were charged Tuesday in an alleged conspiracy involving the handwritten lyrics to the classic rock juggernaut "Hotel California" and other hits by the Eagles. Prosecutors said the defendants, despite knowing the material was stolen, lied to auction houses and buyers about the manuscripts' origins...
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In 'Ms. Marvel,' Muslim fans see a reflection of their lives
(Entertainment ~ 07/13/22)
LOS ANGELES -- Jumana Zakir knows who she is going to be for Halloween this year. Hint: Her new favorite superhero is a lot like her - female, teen, Muslim, American and "totally awesome." "Kamala Khan is me," said the exuberant 13-year-old from Anaheim, California. "She is just like me."...
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'These people must be saved': Ukrainians train in combat aid
(International News ~ 07/13/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ilona Khomenko was widowed nearly two months ago when her husband died in fighting in Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. Now, she's looking to make a difference on the battlefield. Khomenko, 29, is helping to train soldiers and civilians in combat first aid to help save lives as Russia's war in Ukraine is well into its fifth month...
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'Don't fall ill': Sri Lanka doctors warn of drug shortage
(International News ~ 07/13/22)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Don't fall ill or get into accidents: That's the advice doctors in Sri Lanka are giving patients as the country's economic crisis leaves its health care system short of drugs and other vital supplies. The South Asian island nation lacks the money to pay for basic imports like fuel and food, and medicine is also running out. Such troubles threaten to undo its huge gains in public health in recent decades...
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AP Exclusive: Venezuela jails 3 Americans amid US outreach
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
CLEVELAND -- Three Americans were quietly jailed in Venezuela earlier this year for allegedly trying to enter the country illegally and now face long prison sentences in the politically turbulent nation. Two of the men -- a lawyer from California and a computer programmer from Texas -- were arrested in late March, just days after President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government freed two other Americans...
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Baby stars, dancing galaxies: NASA shows new cosmic views
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
GREENBELT, Md. -- A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange view of a dying star. Five galaxies in a cosmic dance. The splendors of the universe glowed in a new batch of images released Tuesday from NASA's powerful new telescope. The unveiling from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope began Monday at the White House with a sneak peek of the first shot -- a jumble of distant galaxies that went deeper into the cosmos than humanity has ever seen...
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Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the dead
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs. The experiments announced Tuesday come after a historic but failed attempt earlier this year to use a pig's heart to save a dying Maryland man -- sort of a rehearsal before scientists try again in the living...
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Pentagon: US kills IS group leader in Syria in drone strike
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike. U.S. Central Command said in a news release that Maher al-Agal was killed Tuesday and an unidentified senior official in the Islamic State group was seriously injured. The Pentagon said there were no civilian casualties, though it wasn't possible to immediately confirm that information...
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Emmy nominations topped by 'Succession,' 'Squid Game' also scores
(Entertainment ~ 07/13/22)
LOS ANGELES -- "Succession" received a leading 25 Emmy nominations Tuesday, but the satirical drama about the rich and ruthless has a landmark rival in "Squid Game," the first non-English language series to vie for television's top honor. Netflix's "Squid Game," a South Korea-set drama in which the poor are fodder for brutal games, earned a best drama nomination and 13 other bids for September's Emmy Awards. ...
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Sri Lankan president flees the country amid economic crisis
(International News ~ 07/13/22)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The president of Sri Lanka fled the country early today, days after protesters stormed his home and office and the official residence of his prime minister amid a three-month economic crisis that triggered severe shortages of food and fuel...
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Twitter sues to force Musk to complete his $44B acquisition
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday to force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition of the social media company. Musk and Twitter have been bracing for a legal fight since the billionaire said Friday he was backing off of his April agreement to buy the company...
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Mexico agrees to invest $1.5B in 'smart' border tech
(National News ~ 07/13/22)
WASHINGTON -- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador agreed to spend $1.5 billion over the next two years to improve "smart" border technology, during meetings Tuesday with President Joe Biden -- a move the White House says shows neighborly cooperation succeeding where Trump administration vows to wall off the border and have Mexico pay for it could not...
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Ukraine reports striking Russian ammunition depot in south
(International News ~ 07/13/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian military on Tuesday reported destroying a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine, resulting in a massive explosion captured on social media, while rescuers said the death toll from a weekend Russian strike in the country's east grew to 45...
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Out of the past: July 13
(Out of the Past ~ 07/13/22)
The Awake and Quake Tour, featuring the Rev. Jerry Powell and Stan Sladig, begins a crusade in Cape Girardeau, which will run through Friday; the services are being held in a 500-seat tent at Grace United Methodist Church, Broadway and Caruthers Avenue, each evening...
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Marine Corps League Holds Food Drive for Safe House
(Submitted Story ~ 07/13/22)
The Cpl. Mason O. Yarborough Detachment Marine Corps League recently held a canned food drive for the Safe House of Southeast Missouri's food pantry. Items collected will assist the Safe House's non-residential clients who are survivors of domestic violence...
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