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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda for 4/13/23 meeting
(Local News ~ 04/13/23)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. Thursday, April 13, 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Approval of minutes of the Thursday, April 6, meeting n Approval of closed session minutes of Monday, March 27, and Thursday, April 6 Communications/reports -- other selected officials/department heads...
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New recipes for Spring
(Community ~ 04/13/23)
All new recipes for April and jumping right into spring is our main focus for today. As we begin a new season, I always start thinking about new recipes to try. Lately, I have found so many recipes that look interesting and sound delicious. Although some are somewhat familiar, there may be just a small variation or change that really alters the recipe taste...
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Marriott Fairfield Inn and TownePlace Suites breaks ground in Sikeston
(Local News ~ 04/13/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. — Representatives of W and B Hospitality broke ground Tuesday, April 11, on a new dual-brand hotel in Sikeston. Fairfield by Marriott and TownePlace Suites will be in Cotton Ridge Development and located at 1239 Commerce Drive. The hotel is set to open in the spring of 2024...
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City of Sikeston receives grant for veterans project
(Local News ~ 04/13/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. — The City of Sikeston was awarded a $10,000 grant from Missouri Humanities to conduct the Sikeston Honors Veterans Project in Veterans Park, site of the original Harvey Parks Air Base (Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, 1940-44). The city is sponsoring the program in partnership with Missouri Humanities and with support from Missouri Humanities Trust Fund...
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Charlie's Smokehouse: Much ado about barbecue
(Community ~ 04/13/23)
My goodness, have we been having some beautiful days. Spring flowers are blooming, grass is that lovely shade of eager green that heralds spring, and trees are just beginning to unfurl leaves to the sun. And the redbuds, my favorite, are on display, revealing pinks and magentas to whoever takes the time to look...
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Cape Girardeau Parks volunteer event set for April 22
(Local News ~ 04/13/23)
Scores of volunteers will work to plant flowers, clean up trash and beautify areas of Cape Girardeau on Saturday, April 22, as part of the Friends of the Parks Day & The Great Cape Clean Up. The three-hour event has been an annual tradition in Cape Girardeau for nearly four decades, parks division manager Brock Davis said. He said it allows residents to get directly involved in helping keep the community clean...
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Faces of Southeast Missouri: Cindy Gannon
(04/13/23)
In junior high, Cindy Gannon, who grew up in DeSoto, Mo., played volleyball and basketball for her school. In high school, she was recruited to play basketball at Mineral Area College, but switched to volleyball. After two years, she walked onto the volleyball team at Southeast Missouri State University. ...
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Charleston readies for Dogwood-Azalea Festival
(Local News ~ 04/13/23)
CHARLESTON, Mo. — The dogwoods and azaleas are blossoming in Charleston as people prepare for the 55th annual Dogwood-Azalea Festival. This year's theme for the festival, which kicks off Thursday, April 13, and ends Sunday, April 16, is "There's No Place Like Charleston"...
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Tornado sirens sparse in small, rural communities
(Local News ~ 04/13/23)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Erin Ward said KFVS12's meteorologists did a great job keeping people updated on the severe weather moving into Southeast Missouri. That is, until her power went out. It was then that Ward, and perhaps many of her neighbors, lost connection to dire information...
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Glen Allen tornado victims remembered by family
(Local News ~ 04/13/23)
GLEN ALLEN, Mo. — They may have had different names — Burcks, Sullivan, Skaggs, Koenig and McCoy — but they were one family that lived, loved and laughed together. While a tornado April 5 in Glen Allen may have stolen their lives and erased their home, the memories of these individuals are permanently imprinted on the hearts and minds of those who loved them...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
Today is Thursday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2023. There are 262 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)...
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Two dead after St. Louis-area shooting; son suspected
(State News ~ 04/13/23)
HAZELWOOD, Mo. -- A suburban St. Louis man was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder after his parents were found dead in the family's home, prosecutors said. Joseph H. Moore, 31, is accused of fatally shooting his father, James Moore, 63, and his mother, Norma Moore, 70, Tuesday night at their home in Hazelwood...
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Missouri man gets life in prison for killing 2 women, boy
(State News ~ 04/13/23)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- An eastern Missouri man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the stabbing deaths of two women and a 7-year-old boy nine years ago. Prosecutors in Warren County sought the death penalty for Shawn Kavanagh, 32, but Judge Rebeca Navarro-McKelvey on Tuesday sentenced him to four consecutive life terms. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the sentence prompted sobs in the courtroom that was filled with famiy and friends from both sides...
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Boy pleads guilty to fatal stabbing at Kansas City school
(State News ~ 04/13/23)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A 15-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing another student at a Kansas City middle school last year. The boy, whose name has not been released, pleaded guilty Monday in Family Court to voluntary manslaughter, according to a Jackson County Court spokeswoman...
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Your tax refund could be smaller than last year. Here's why
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
NEW YORK -- Expecting a tax refund? It could be smaller than last year. And with inflation still high, that money won't go as far as it did a year ago. The 90 million taxpayers who have filed as of March 31 got refunds that were an average of nearly 10% less than last year, in part due to pandemic relief programs expiring. The filing deadline for most taxpayers is Tuesday...
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NPR quits Elon Musk's Twitter over 'government-funded' label
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
National Public Radio is quitting Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped NPR's account with labels the news organization says are intended to undermine its credibility. Twitter labeled NPR's main account last week as "state-affiliated media, " a term also used to identify media outlets controlled or heavily influenced by authoritarian governments, such as Russia and China. ...
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Cheaper gas and food provide some relief from US inflation
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. consumer inflation eased in March, with less expensive gas and food providing some relief to households that have struggled under the weight of surging prices. Yet prices are still rising fast enough to keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates at least once more, beginning in May...
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Juul Labs agrees to pay $462 million settlement to 6 states
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
NEW YORK -- Electronic cigarette-maker Juul Labs Inc. will pay $462 million to six states and the District of Columbia, marking the largest settlement the company has reached so far for its role in the youth vaping surge, the attorneys general in several states announced Wednesday...
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New streaming app to 'Max' programming from HBO, Discovery
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled a streaming service Wednesday combining iconic HBO programming such as "The Sopranos" with a mix of unscripted TV series in a push to reap more subscribers from what so far has been a muddled media merger. The $16-per-month service, called Max, will be released May 23 in the U.S. ...
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White House wants rule to protect abortion patients' records
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Wednesday proposed a new federal rule to limit how law enforcement and state officials collect medical records if they investigate women who flee their home states to seek abortions elsewhere. The proposal, prompted by a string of blows to abortion across the country, comes as the White House is staring down a legal challenge to a commonly used abortion pill that could upend access to the care across the entire country by Friday...
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Stiff EPA emission limits to boost US electric vehicle sales
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is proposing stiff new automobile pollution limits that would require up to two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032, a nearly tenfold increase over current electric vehicle sales. The proposed regulation, announced Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency, would set tailpipe emissions limits for the 2027 through 2032 model years that are the strictest ever imposed -- and call for far more new EV sales than the auto industry agreed to less than two years ago.. ...
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Mexican migration chief to be charged in fire but keep job
(International News ~ 04/13/23)
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's immigration head will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in a detention center last month, but President Andres Manuel L--pez Obrador said Wednesday that he will not dismiss the official known for his hard line on northbound migration...
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Ukraine's outrage grows over video seeming to show beheading
(International News ~ 04/13/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine launched an investigation Wednesday into a gruesome video that purportedly shows the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier, in the latest accusation of atrocities said to have been committed by Russia since it invaded in February 2022...
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After calls to resign, Feinstein seeks Judiciary replacement
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
LOS ANGELES -- Recuperating U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California asked Wednesday to be temporarily replaced on the Judiciary Committee, shortly after two House Democrats called on her to resign after her extended absence from Washington. In a statement, the long-serving Democratic senator said her recovery from a case of shingles she disclosed in early March had been delayed because of complications. ...
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States confront medical debt that's bankrupting millions
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
DENVER -- Cindy Powers was driven into bankruptcy by 19 life-saving abdominal operations. Medical debt started stacking up for Lindsey Vance after she crashed her skateboard and had to get nine stitches in her chin. And for Misty Castaneda, open heart surgery for a disease she'd had since birth saddled her with $200,000 in bills...
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Big flames, raining embers in New Jersey Pine Barrens fire
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
MANCHESTER, N.J. -- The 200-foot wall of flames, the burning embers landing miles away and the carloads of evacuees fleeing to shelter at a high school -- it all took place in New Jersey but could happen in almost every part of the country this week due to dry conditions and strong winds that have raised the danger of forest fires...
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An emerging threat: Drug mix of xylazine, fentanyl
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
The U.S. has named a veterinary tranquilizer as an "emerging threat" when it's mixed with the powerful opioid fentanyl, clearing the way for more efforts to stop the spread of xylazine. The Office of National Drug Control Policy announced the designation Wednesday, the first time the office has used it since the category for fast-growing drug dangers was created in 2019...
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Florida executes 'ninja killer' for couple's 1989 death
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
STARKE, Fla. -- Florida executed a man known as the "ninja killer" on Wednesday for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey. Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection, the governor's office said. He was convicted of killing Robert Sturmfels, 56, and Georgette Sturmfels, 55, on Dec. 20, 1989, in their Flagler County winter home on Florida's northeastern coast...
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US, Ukraine say many war secrets safe from intel leaks
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- Ukraine's leaders say they don't see a major U.S. intelligence leak as gravely damaging future offensives. A key reason: They have long held back on sharing their most sensitive operational information, doubting Washington's ability to keep their secrets safe...
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Judge temporarily blocks clean water rule in 24 states
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A federal judge Wednesday temporarily blocked a federal rule in 24 states that is intended to protect thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways throughout the nation. U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland in Bismarck, North Dakota, halted the regulations from the U.S. ...
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Putin's sinister tradition of the Russian war machine
(Column ~ 04/13/23)
Vladimir Putin and his war machine get more respect than they deserve from the West. This may seem a bit counterintuitive. After all, just 9% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Russia and the International Criminal Court has recently issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes...
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Prayer 4-13-23
(Prayer ~ 04/13/23)
Lord Jesus, may your name be praised and all come to know your saving grace. Amen.
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911 calls show chaotic moments during Kentucky bank shooting
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Frantic calls from witnesses reporting a mass shooting at a Louisville bank were released Wednesday by police -- including from a woman who was on a virtual meeting and saw the shooter, as well as one from the man's mother, who told a 911 operator that her son "currently has a gun and is heading toward" the bank...
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Expelled Black lawmaker Pearson to return to Tennessee House
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday, nearly a week after his banishment for supporting gun control protesters propelled him into the national spotlight...
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Fire report 4-13-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/13/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. April 11 n Medical assists were made at 8:05 a.m. on William Street; 11:21 a.m. on William Street; 1:31 p.m. at South West End Boulevard and Walnut Street; 1:39 p.m. on William Street; 3:03 p.m. on North Kingshighway; 4:31 p.m. on South Park Drive; 4:52 p.m. on William Street; and 6:46 p.m. on Bloomfield Road....
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Police report 4-13-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/13/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Garnet Lane. n A warrant arrest was reported....
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Edna Robbins
(Obituary ~ 04/13/23)
GRASSY, Mo. — Edna Elaine Robbins, 79, of Grassy died Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at her home. She was born July 29, 1943, in Sidney, Nebraska, to Andrew and Mildred McIrvine Burnside. She and Bob Robbins were married Sept. 15, 1959, at Fairmont City, Illinois...
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Clara Moore
(Obituary ~ 04/13/23)
Clara Mae Moore, daughter of the late Phillip and Katie Felter Uhrhan, was born Feb. 22, 1935, in Scott City and departed her life Monday, April 10, 2023, at St. Clare Hospital in Fenton, Missouri, at the age of 88 years. She was the owner and operator of Economy IGA in Scott City for 25 years, a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Scott City and a lifelong resident of Scott City...
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Robert Ledure
(Obituary ~ 04/13/23)
KELSO, Mo. — Robert Theon "Bob" Ledure, 62, of Kelso died Tuesday, April 4, 2023, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 21, 1960, in Cape Girardeau to Elmer T. and Shirley E. Blattel Ledure. He was a supervisor at Spartech for 33 years, and was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso...
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Freeman Hudgins
(Obituary ~ 04/13/23)
Freeman D. Hudgins, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, April 8, 2023, at Southeast Hospital. He was born Nov. 21, 1938, in Harrisburg, Illinois, to Freeman J. and Evaline Carrier Hudgins. He and Betty were married April 25, 2003, at First United Methodist Church...
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Louis Crites
(Obituary ~ 04/13/23)
BONNE TERRE, Mo. — Graveside service for Louis Edward "Lou" Crites, 76, of Bonne Terre and formerly of Jackson will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 22, in Sedgewickville Lutheran Cemetery at Sedgewickville, Missouri. Pastor Jimmie Corbin will be officiating, and full military honors will be performed...
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Rozelle Cookson
(Obituary ~ 04/13/23)
Nelda "Rozelle" Cookson, 83 years, 9 months and 20 days, passed away Monday, April 10, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 21, 1939, in Lott, Texas, the daughter of Zellner "Plunk" Lee and Irene Mustian Daniel...
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Kenneth Bollinger
(Obituary ~ 04/13/23)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Kenneth "Ken" or "Kenny" Eugene Bollinger, 84, of Marble Hill went to be with the good Lord on Monday, April 10, 2023. Ken was born Aug. 23, 1938, in Mayfield, Missouri, to John H. and Gracie "Gertie" Bollinger, the youngest of six children...
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Edward Barker
(Obituary ~ 04/13/23)
Edward A. Barker, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Aug. 10, 1945, in Bloomfield, Missouri, to William Edward and Lillian May Rankin Barker. He and Dorothy Barker were married March 8, 1969, in Cape Girardeau...
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Births 4/13/23
(Births ~ 04/13/23)
Son to Martin Moore and Ashley Stratman of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 2:12 a.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Name, Ezarius Alexander. Weight, 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Third child, second son. Stratman is the daughter of Abby Jones of Cape Girardeau and Greg Stratman of Marble Hill, Missouri. She works at SoutheastHEALTH. Moore is the son of Sherri Moore and Doug Moore of Joliet, Illinois. He is self-employed...
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Torrential storms batter South Florida, close key airport
(National News ~ 04/13/23)
FORT LAUDERDALE -- Nearly a foot of rain fell in a matter of hours in Fort Lauderdale -- causing widespread flooding, the closure of the city's airport and the suspension of high-speed commuter rail service for the Broward County region. The city of Fort Lauderdale released a statement Wednesday evening urging residents and visitors to stay off the roads until the water has subsided...
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Out of the past: April 13
(Out of the Past ~ 04/13/23)
The Cape Girardeau Board of Education installs new members and approves a retirement incentive that is expected to save the school district an estimated $170,000 during the next school year; Dr. Ferrell Ervin and Mark Carver are sworn in as board members following the acceptance of results from the April 7 election; Ervin, who was elected to a second term, is also re-elected school board president; board members also approve offering teachers an incentive for accepting early retirement at the end of the school year.. ...
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Local Criminal Defense Investigator Receives National Award
(Submitted Story ~ 04/13/23)
In March of this year, our nation marked the 60th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), in which the Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires U.S. States to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own. ...
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