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Chaffee man faces assault, sex charges
(Local News ~ 02/27/23)
A Scott County man was arrested on domestic assault charges after an investigation by Scott City Police. At about 4:15 p.m. Feb. 20, officers with the Scott City Police Department arrested Brett Anthony Medley, 23, of Chaffee, Missouri, on charges of third-degree domestic assault, according to Scott City Police Capt. Chris Griggs. Medley was charged through the Scott County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, and a warrant was issued...
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ACLU, Missouri library groups sue over new school book law
(State News ~ 02/27/23)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and two state library associations are suing over a new state law banning sexually explicit material from schools, saying it violates the rights of librarians and students. The lawsuit filed Thursday contends the Republican-backed law, which took effect in August, has caused Missouri school districts to remove hundreds of books from their shelves...
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Campground at Wappapello Lake closed for $1.9 million upgrade
(Local News ~ 02/27/23)
A campground at Wappapello Lake will be closed through the 2023 recreation season for a major rehabilitation. Redman Creek East will get electric, water and sewer work, as well as new campsite pads and road work, operations manager Bart Dearborn said...
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Old Cape Girardeau City Hall for sale
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
City of Cape Girardeau put its former municipal office building at 401 Independence St. on the market Friday, Feb. 24, for $870,000. Jacob Fish of Edge Realty is listing agent for the 86-year old brick structure, which the city moved into in 1978 and used through 2021 before relocating to its new home at 44 N. Lorimier St., the former Common Pleas Courthouse...
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Meet state Treasurer Vivek Malek
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
Vivek Malek, attorney and a Master of Business Administration graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, became state treasurer in January after being appointed by Gov. Mike Parson. Malek, 45, fills the vacancy created when Scott Fitzpatrick was elected state auditor last fall...
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Extension of I-57 to impact national traffic, Poplar Bluff and Arkansas economies
(B Magazine ~ 02/27/23)
Bill Robison likes maps. He walks into the conference room carrying an easel in his right hand and several maps under his left arm. Robison, the Highway 67 Corporation chairman, makes his introduction, then unfolds the easel. As he shares the maps, he paints the background for a story about a highway...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
Today is Monday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2023. There are 307 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 27, 1922, the Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote...
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Prayer 2-27-23
(Prayer ~ 02/27/23)
O Lord Jesus, may we focus on what is right in your eyes. Amen.
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Biden's 'migrants first, Americans last' policy
(Column ~ 02/27/23)
President Joe Biden's "Put Americans Last" policy is on full display at the chemical spill disaster in Ohio. Fearing for their lives, local residents of the small town of East Palestine, Ohio, have been forced to evacuate their homes, their eyes burning, their skin mottled with rashes, their drinking water suspect yet the Federal Emergency Management Agency refused to help for two weeks. ...
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Checking boxes
(Column ~ 02/27/23)
Donald Trump and a lot of cameras flew into East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday. Yes, it was a typical Trump photo op. Yes, they were his MAGA people. The mostly white working-class town on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border has nearly 5,000 souls, and about 70% of them voted for him in 2020...
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An opportunity to encourage young, aspiring entrepreneurs
(Editorial ~ 02/27/23)
Ask a young person what he or she wants to be when they grow up and you'll get a wide range of answers: doctor, lawyer, professional athlete the latter which fades quickly for most of us. It is always nice to hear ambitious young people also add in another option to the mix: entrepreneur...
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Business quote
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
Im convinced about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from non-successful ones is pure perseverance. ...
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Cape Girardeau business licenses
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
City of Cape Girardeau's Community Development Department has received three applications for business licenses: n Willa M. Welter of Benton, Missouri, for Hanai, salon services and tanning business, 91 S. Plaza Way. n John Rivera of Jackson for iCook Hospitality, a full service restaurant in West Town Center at 3036 William St., associated with Pho 8 Vietnamese...
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Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Perryville chamber news
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
Cape Girardeau and Jackson chambers of commerce jointly are sponsoring Legislative Advocacy Day in Jefferson City on Wednesday, March 1. Carpooling begins at 6:15 a.m. from the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex, with return expected no later than 7:30 p.m. Sponsors are BOLD Marketing and Buzzi Unicem...
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Longtime financial adviser Melanie Gutwein retires
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
Melanie Gutwein will retire Wednesday, March 1, after nearly 30 years as a Jackson-based investment consultant. A native of Greencastle, Indiana, Gutwein previously worked in planned giving for Southeast Missouri State University. Gutwein has been affiliated with A.G. Edwards & Sons, Wachovia and, most recently, Wells Fargo Advisors...
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MRV Banks rated No. 1
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
MRV Banks with two branches in Cape Girardeau and one each in St. Genevieve, Festus and St. Charles, Missouri has earned a top fourth quarter 2022 ranking from Irvine, California-based CB Resource Risk Management and Planning. MRV is ranked No. 1 out of 544 CB Resource-assessed peer group institutions nationally, which have assets between $500 million and $1 billion...
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Gas price update
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
Lower oil prices are keeping the cost at the gas pump lower. AAA said Saturday the average U.S. price of a gallon of regular was at $3.37; in Missouri, the average was at $3.01, down 5 cents in the past week, down 15 cents in the last month and 26 cents cheaper than at the same time in 2022...
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More women in truck driving today
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
According to San Francisco-based job website www.zippia.com, women comprise 15.7% of the estimated 690,000 truck drivers in the U.S. -- and their numbers in the industry are growing. Female involvement in trucking is steadily increasing, says www.truckinfo.net, with the number of female drivers and truck technicians the latter of which help keep big rigs on the road -- doubling over the past two decades...
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Jackson city building permit report for 2022
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
Rising inflation is reported as the cause of a nearly 17% increase in construction value for the city of Jackson last year compared to 2021, according to municipal building and planning manager Larry Miller. Total construction value for 2022 was $28,567,359, compared to 2021's figure of $24,429,365...
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Pie Bird Cafe closes
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
Family-owned Pie Bird Cafe in Fruitland has closed, announced a Thursday, Feb. 23, post on the breakfast eatery's Facebook page. In business since 2005, the tiny restaurant was known for its breakfast selections available from 6 to 11 a.m. Mondays through Fridays, plus its various assortment of pies available whole or in slices...
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Area workforce aging faster
(Business ~ 02/27/23)
New data from the state Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development for 2022 show the workforce in the identified 13-county Southeast region including Cape Girardeau, Scott and Pemiscot counties is graying at a faster rate...
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Prosecutor to seek death penalty in killings of mother, son in Springfield
(State News ~ 02/27/23)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. A Missouri prosecutor plans to seek the death penalty against a man charged with fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 13-year-old son in a New Year's Eve 2020 attack that left two other children injured. Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson said in a legal filing that he intends to prove 31-year-old Brandon King killed to avoid arrest, that the crimes targeted potential witnesses and were particularly brutal. ...
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Child welfare agency to pay $1.8 million for overbilling
(State News ~ 02/27/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. An organization that provides services for troubled youth and foster children in Missouri has agreed to pay a $1.8 million fine and to implement several compliance measures after admitting it made false claims about the services it provided, federal and state officials said Friday...
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Bills would let transgender people seal name-change requests
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
SEATTLE -- You can change your name, but in many states you can't completely shed your old one -- something that's of particular concern to transgender people and that legislators in at least two states are trying to change. A bill in Washington would allow gender expression and identity as reasons to seal, or keep out of the public record, a future petition for a name change. ...
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In heart of Haiti's gang war, one hospital stands its ground
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- When machine gun fire erupts outside the barbed-wire fences surrounding Fontaine Hospital Center, the noise washes over a cafeteria full of tired, scrub-clad medical staff. And no one bats an eye. Gunfire is part of daily life here in Cite Soleil -- the most densely populated part of the Haitian capital and the heart of Port-au-Prince's gang wars...
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Leaders of House China panel denounce attack on Rep Judy Chu
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
WASHINGTON -- The leaders of a new House select committee on China defended Democratic Rep. Judy Chu on Sunday, saying it was abhorrent and unacceptable for a GOP lawmaker to question her loyalty to the United States based on her Chinese heritage. "One of my colleagues, unfortunately, attacked Judy Chu, the first Chinese American congresswoman in the United States Congress, saying that somehow she's not loyal to the United States. ...
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Russia, Iran sending top envoys to UN's human rights council
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
GENEVA -- U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will help kick off the latest and longest-ever session of the U.N.'s top human rights body on Monday, with Iran's foreign minister, a senior Russian envoy, and the top diplomats of France and Germany among scores of leaders set to take part...
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North Korea holds rare meeting on farming amid food shortage
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened a major political conference dedicated to agricultural improvement, state media reported Monday, amid outside assessments that the country's chronic food insecurity is getting worse. Recent unconfirmed reports have said an unknown number of North Koreans have died of hunger. ...
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CIA director: Putin too confident he can grind down Ukraine
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
Wilmington, Del. -- As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, CIA Director William Burns said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being "too confident" in his military's ability to grind Ukraine into submission. Burns, in a television interview, said the head of Russia's intelligence services had displayed in their November meeting "a sense of cockiness and hubris" that reflected Putin's own beliefs "that he can make time work for him, that he believes he can grind down the Ukrainians that he can wear down our European allies, that political fatigue will eventually set in.". ...
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Failing at polls, election deniers focus on state GOP posts
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
PARKER, Colo -- In a basement event space in the Denver suburb of Parker, Tina Peters surveyed a crowd of Colorado Republicans last week and made an unusual pitch for why she should become chair of their beleaguered party: "There's no way a jury of 12 people is going to put me in prison."...
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Casinos and consulting? Pandemic spurs tribes to diversify
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. -- When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut for three months in 2020, its owners, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, had to reckon with decades of relying heavily on gambling as the tribe's main source of revenue...
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Millions on Medicaid may be booted from program
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
WASHINGTON If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year. Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit...
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On Ukraine front, civilians cling on as troops repel Russia
(International News ~ 02/27/23)
VUHLEDAR, Ukraine -- The murky water oh so slowly trickles from the filthy drainpipe into her grimy container -- the ticking seconds ramping up the risk that Emilia Budskaya could lose life or limb to Russian artillery strikes torturing her front-line town in eastern Ukraine...
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Fed's rate hikes likely to cause a recession, research says
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
NEW YORK -- Can the Federal Reserve keep raising interest rates and defeat the nation's worst bout of inflation in 40 years without causing a recession? Not according to a new research paper that concludes such an "immaculate disinflation" has never happened before. The paper was produced by a group of leading economists, and three Fed officials addressed its conclusions in their own remarks Friday at a conference on monetary policy in New York...
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NerdWallet: Should unmarried couples have one account?
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
When a couple joins financial forces, it's typically so they can accomplish a joint savings goal or contribute to shared expenses, such as those that come from living together. This is a typical step for married couples, but more unmarried couples are taking the plunge to combine households: The number of unmarried partners living together nearly tripled between 1996 and 2017 from 6 million to 17 million, according to the most recent figures available from the U.S. ...
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'Powder keg' for 9/11: 1993 trade center bombing remembered
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
NEW YORK -- Lolita Jackson was at her 72nd-floor desk in the World Trade Center, feeling like she worked at the top of the world. Then came the boom, and smoke started curling in from an elevator shaft. Unsure what was happening, she joined thousands of other office workers on a harrowing trek down dark, smoky stairs, emerging onto the scene of a terror attack...
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Contaminated waste shipments from Ohio derailment to resume
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- Shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment earlier this month in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line will resume Monday to two approved sites in Ohio, according to federal environmental authorities...
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CIA chief: China has some doubt on ability to invade Taiwan
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence shows that China's President Xi Jinping has instructed his country's military to "be ready by 2027" to invade Taiwan though he may be currently harboring doubts about his ability to do so given Russia's experience in its war with Ukraine, CIA Director William Burns said...
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US Navy applies lessons from costly shipbuilding mistakes
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
BATH, Maine -- The U.S. Navy appears to have learned from its costly lessons after cramming too much new technology onto warships and speeding them into production as it embarks on building new destroyers, which are the backbone of the fleet. Military officials say they're slowing down the design and purchase of its next-generation destroyers to ensure new technology such as powerful lasers and hypersonic missiles are mature before pressing ahead on construction...
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Borsch without a 't': Kyiv chef uses food to reclaim culture
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Don't tell Ievgen Klopotenko that borsch is just food. For him, that bowl of beet-and-meat soup is the embodiment of everything Ukraine is fighting for. "Food is a powerful social instrument by which you can unite or divide a nation," said Klopotenko, Ukraine's most recognizable celebrity chef and the man who in the midst of a bloody war spearheaded what would become an unlikely cultural victory over Russia...
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Michigan power crews work, California recovers after storms
(National News ~ 02/27/23)
Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day without power Sunday as crews continued work to restore electricity more than 165,000 homes and businesses in the greater Detroit area following last week's ice storm. Leah Thomas, whose home north of Detroit lost power Wednesday night, was still waiting Sunday afternoon for the power to come back...
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Out of the past: Feb. 27
(Out of the Past ~ 02/27/23)
Firefighters from three Cape Girardeau fire stations responded yesterday morning to a report of smoke coming from a building at 709 Broadway; when they arrived, they found the building, which housed Local Area Web, an Internet provider, filled with smoke and a small fire in the back; firefighters were able to gain entry to the building and bring the fire under control in just a few minutes...
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Sponsored: SOTO Property Solutions makes investing easy with full-service property management
(B Magazine ~ 02/27/23)
SOTO Property SDavid Soto, president of SOTO Property Solutions and licensed real estate broker, says many people dont realize the work that goes into managing rental properties, including his younger self.olutions makes investing easy with full-service property management
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Applications close March 12 for most CFO scholarships
(Submitted Story ~ 02/27/23)
The deadline is approaching for students to apply for about $1.8 million in scholarships administered by the Community Foundation of the Ozarks. Applications will close for most CFO scholarships on Sunday, March 12. This year, the application window opened January 1, giving graduating seniors, current college students and students attending technical or graduate programs an additional month to apply compared to previous years...
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