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Organizations, individuals step forward to help those recovering from tornado
(Local News ~ 04/07/23)
In the aftermath of this week's deadly tornado in Bollinger County, Missouri, local businesses and residents of Bollinger County have stepped forward to help. United Way of Southeast Missouri (UWSEMO) has created a Bollinger County Recovery Fund in response to the devastating tornado that swept through the region early Wednesday morning, April 5...
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Cousin of late Emmett Till to speak at SEMO
(Local News ~ 04/07/23)
Wheeler Parker, author, activist and cousin of the late Emmett Till, will be on the Southeast Missouri State University campus in Cape Girardeau for two speaking events next week. Parker will discuss the events surrounding Till's death from his eyewitness account, his involvement in the development and passing of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act and his life's work toward multicultural democracy...
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'More than a pool': Jefferson Community Center is officially open
(Local News ~ 04/07/23)
Cape Girardeau City and Public Schools officials gathered Thursday, April 6, to celebrate the grand opening of the Jefferson Community Center in Cape Girardeau. The new aquatic facility, attached to Jefferson Elementary School, is the result of a yearslong partnership between the city and school district...
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Bollinger County tornado victims identified
(Local News ~ 04/07/23)
The Bollinger County (Missouri) Coroner’s Office released the names of the five people killed Wednesday, April 5, when a tornado ripped through rural towns in the area. The five — Glenn Burcks, 62; Susan Sullivan, 57; Jimmy Skaggs, 37; Michael McCoy, 18; and Destinee Koenig, 16 — were killed by the twister early Wednesday...
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Republican Ashcroft enters race for Missouri governor
(State News ~ 04/07/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's top election official Jay Ashcroft on Thursday announced he is running for governor as a Republican. The secretary of state is campaigning to replace GOP Gov. Mike Parson, who is prohibited by term limits from running again in 2024. He faces a primary election that will include Republican Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, who announced plans to run for the state's top executive office in 2021...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
Today is Friday, April 7, the 97th day of 2023. There are 268 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 7, 1984, the Census Bureau reported Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation's "second city" in terms of population. On this date:...
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Speak Out 4-7-23
(Speak Out ~ 04/07/23)
Gun laws Democrats say they want stricter gun laws however they refuse to prosecute those who commit gun crimes or those who illegally sell guns on the street. Hypocrisy Republicans either have no sense of hypocrisy or they simply don't care. Trump is demanding that they defund the FBI and the DOJ after they campaigned against the Democrats for wanting to defund police. But I guess it's OK if Boss Trump does it...
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Prayer 4-7-23
(Prayer ~ 04/07/23)
O Lord Jesus, may we follow your example and show Christ-like love to all. Amen.
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Refusal to be blunt on mental illness leading to chaos
(Column ~ 04/07/23)
When an entire kindergarten class was murdered by Adam Lanza two weeks before Christmas in 2012, I was paralyzed with grief. Usually, when tragedies occur to other people, I say a prayer and move on. But that all changed with Newtown. When I saw those sweet young faces, a class portrait of promise and then immense grief, it felt as if I had lost my own family...
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Susan Sullivan
(Obituary ~ 04/07/23)
GLEN ALLEN, Mo. -- Susan Marie Sullivan, 57, of Glen Allen passed away suddenly Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at her home in Glen Allen. She was born March 9, 1966, in Granite City, Illinois, to the late Charles and Roberta Cargill Kirkpatrick. Susan, granddaughter Destinee and nephew James Skaggs all passed away due to a devastating tornado...
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James Skaggs
(Obituary ~ 04/07/23)
GLEN ALLEN, Mo. -- James "Jimmy" Robert Skaggs, 37, of Glen Allen passed away suddenly Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at his home in Glen Allen. Jimmy was born May 17, 1985, in Cape Girardeau to the late Tilbert and Jeannie Kirkpatrick Skaggs. James, aunt Susan and cousin Destinee all passed away due to a devastating tornado...
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Kelly Meyer
(Obituary ~ 04/07/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Kelly Louise Meyer, 55, of Perryville died Thursday, April 6, 2023. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 11, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 11, at the church, with the Rev. Matthew Marks officiating. Burial will be at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Perryville...
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Destinee Koenig
(Obituary ~ 04/07/23)
GLEN ALLEN, Mo. -- Destinee Nicole Koenig, 16, of Sikeston, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, April 5, 2023, in Glen Allen. She was born Dec. 7, 2006, in Cape Girardeau to Tucker and Amanda Shipley Koenig. Destinee, grandmother Susan and cousin James all passed away suddenly due to a devastating tornado...
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Harold Harris
(Obituary ~ 04/07/23)
Harold Gene Harris, 78, of Jackson, formerly of Afton, Michigan, passed away Sunday, March 26, 2023, at his home. Harold was born Jan. 12, 1945, in Wolverine, Michigan, to Bruce and Katheryn Warren Harris. He and Sharon A. Sloat were married June 12, 1965, in Cheboygan, Michigan. They had been married 57 years when Sharon passed away June 20, 2022...
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Maxine Friedrich
(Obituary ~ 04/07/23)
Maxine E. Friedrich, 95, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, April 4, 2023, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 30, 1928, in Whitewater to Albert and Amanda Deneke Blumenberg. She and Charles E. "Earl" Friedrich were married June 3, 1956, at Zion United Methodist Church in Gordonville, also the church of her baptism, confirmation and lifelong membership. ...
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Connie Cassout
(Obituary ~ 04/07/23)
Connie Sue Cassout, 65, of Scott City died Thursday, April 6, 2023, at her home. She was born Aug. 30, 1957, in Chaffee, Missouri, to Truman Edward and Betty Jewell Angle Pulliam. She married Kenneth Ray Cassout on April 3, 1980. He preceded her in death Nov. 30, 2020...
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Protests again hit France, but striker numbers dwindle
(International News ~ 04/07/23)
PARIS -- Police fired clouds of tear gas against unruly protesters in Paris and other French cities Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people returned to streets across the country to vent anger against President Emmanuel Macron's contested pension reforms...
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Saudi, Iran restore ties, say they seek Mideast stability
(International News ~ 04/07/23)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Long-time Mideast rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia took another significant step toward reconciliation Thursday, formally restoring diplomatic ties after a seven-year rift, affirming the need for regional stability and agreeing to pursue economic cooperation...
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Israel stages rare strikes in Lebanon, also hits Gaza Strip
(International News ~ 04/07/23)
JERUSALEM -- Israel struck targets in southern Lebanon early Friday and resumed air strikes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said, marking a further escalation in the region following violence this week at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site...
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Buenos Aires airport turns into unofficial homeless shelter
(International News ~ 04/07/23)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- At the start of the long Easter weekend, the airport in Argentina's capital is eerily quiet before dawn, hours before it will fill with travelers. About 100 people who sleep inside the facility are getting ready to start their day...
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Grief wracks parents after Brazilian ax attack kills 4 kids
(International News ~ 04/07/23)
BLUMENAU, Brazil -- They sent their seven-year-old to day care Wednesday and plunged into the deepest nightmare of any parent's life. A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and burst into the Cantinho do Bom Pastor children's center in southern Brazil, killing Larissa Maia Toldo and three other children who were buried Thursday. Before her burial, Larissa's parents held hands over her white-draped coffin, decorated with a few bouquets...
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IRS pledges more audits of wealthy, better customer service
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
WASHINGTON -- The IRS released details Thursday on how it plans to use an infusion of $80 billion for improved operations, pledging to invest in new technology, hire more customer service representatives and expand its ability to audit high-wealth taxpayers...
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Oregon alters half-century-old land use law for chipmakers
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
SALEM, Ore. -- In an attempt to attract semiconductor companies to Oregon, the state Legislature authorized the governor on Thursday to expand urban growth boundaries to provide land for chipmakers to build factories. Lawmakers backing the bill, which also provides some $200 million in grants to chipmakers, said it's needed to make Oregon more competitive among other states in luring more of the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry to the state. ...
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Ex-head of Michigan marijuana board admits he took bribes
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead guilty to accepting $110,000 in bribes when he led the panel over a two-year period, authorities said Thursday. Rick Johnson acknowledged in a signed court filing that he acted "corruptly" when he accepted cash and other benefits to help businesses get licenses...
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Justice Thomas reportedly took undisclosed luxury trips
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports. In a lengthy story published Thursday the nonprofit investigative journalism organization catalogs various trips Thomas has taken aboard Crow's yacht and private jet as well as to Crow's private resort in the Adirondacks. ...
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Photos show how storms filled California reservoirs
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
FOLSOM, Calif. -- Water levels fell so low in key reservoirs during the depth of California's drought that boat docks sat on dry, cracked land and cars drove into the center of what should have been Folsom Lake. Those scenes are no more after a series of powerful storms dumped record amounts of rain and snow across California, replenishing reservoirs and bringing an end -- mostly -- to the state's three-year drought...
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Utah avalanche leads to shelter-in-place order at ski resort
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
SALT LAKE CITY -- After an hourslong search, a Utah ski resort confirmed that nobody was hurt or killed from an avalanche that gushed from the backcountry into its boundaries on Thursday. Snowbird, a mountain resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon southeast of Salt Lake City, said on Thursday afternoon that it had completed a search of a part of an area caught in the path of an avalanche that began on Mount Superior and crossed the highway onto a beginner run near the resort's base...
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Police: 4 dead in plane crash off Florida's Gulf Coast
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
VENICE, Fla. -- The bodies of two men and two women have been recovered following a small plane crash just off Florida's Gulf Coast, police said Thursday. The plane had just taken off from Venice Airport when it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico west of the city's fishing pier just after 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Venice police said in a news conference...
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Biden review of chaotic Afghan withdrawal blames Trump
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday laid the blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of Biden's presidency...
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Tribe, US officials reach deal to save Colorado River water
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
PHOENIX -- A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project. The $233 million pact with the Gila River Indian Community, announced in Phoenix, was hailed as an example of the kind of cooperation needed to rescue a river crucial to a massive agricultural industry and essential to more than 40 million people in seven Western U.S. ...
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Suspect shoots 2 hostages after wounding California officer
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
ROSEVILLE, Calif. -- A man fleeing police in Northern California took two hostages at a public park on Thursday, killing one of them and wounding a California Highway Patrol officer before surrendering, authorities said. The events played out in Roseville, a city of about 150,000 northeast of Sacramento, in the early afternoon as families played at nearby baseball fields and children attended camp...
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Idaho governor signs 'abortion trafficking' bill into law
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
BOISE, Idaho -- Legal limits on abortion-related travel are the focus of a new law and a new lawsuit in Idaho, with Gov. Brad Little signing a bill Wednesday that makes it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion without parental consent...
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Tennessee's House expels 2 of 3 Democrats over guns protest
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin...
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GOP's DeSantis visits Whitmer's Michigan, the 'anti-Florida'
(National News ~ 04/07/23)
LANSING, Mich. -- Ahead of a highly anticipated presidential announcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Michigan for his first appearance this year in the battleground state transformed by Democratic majorities under high-profile Gov. Gretchen Whitmer...
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Out of the past: April 7
(Out of the Past ~ 04/07/23)
Three-fourths of the money confiscated in one of Missouri's largest drug money seizures -- over $1 million in New Madrid County four years ago -- will be distributed to three law enforcement agencies tomorrow in Cape Girardeau; checks totaling $750,000 will be presented to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force and Mineral Area Drug Task Force for their efforts in seizing the money...
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Trees Planted at Osage Centre in Observance of Arbor Day
(Submitted Story ~ 04/07/23)
On April 7th, four trees were planted at the Osage Centre on behalf of the Cape Girardeau Tree Board and the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department in celebration of Arbor Day. This yearly Arbor Day observance is one of the four criteria needed in order for Cape Girardeau to be classified as a Tree City USA community, a nationally-recognized accolade held by over 3,500 communities in the nation and 105 in the state of Missouri. Cape Girardeau has been a Tree City for 24 years...
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