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An invitation from Southeast Missouri journalists: Help change our local world
(B Magazine ~ 07/12/23)
Ever wonder how newspapers in our region decide some of the big stories that they work on, which can drive a community’s attention? One way is that they hold listening sessions with community stakeholders to identify what’s important. In Southeast Missouri for the past five months, staff at the Southeast Missourian — and other Rust Communications newspapers in the region — have been asking a broad range of individuals (and some groups) formal questions about their towns and the region...
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Difference Maker: Lester Gillespie enaging a community to improve the Missouri Bootheel
(B Magazine ~ 07/12/23)
When Lester Gillespie has a “down day,” he thinks back to the three years he spent as a 4-H summer camp director at Lake Wappapello during college. He thinks about making those kids smile, about pushing those kids to pursue their passions. This experience was where Gillespie got his start in working with the public and serving underprivileged youth...
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Assault victim dies; charge against suspect upgraded to second-degree murder
(Local News ~ 07/12/23)
Charges in a Cape Girardeau assault case have been upgraded to second-degree murder following the death of the victim. Cape Girardeau Police Department announced new charges against Jacob Jungers on Tuesday, July 11. The name of the deceased victim has not been released...
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'Swifties' in Southeast Missouri dedicated to artist
(Local News ~ 07/12/23)
"Taylor Swift", "Fearless", "Speak Now", "Red", "1989", "Reputation", "Lover", "Folklore", "Evermore", "Midnights". Ten albums, with three (so far) having been re-recorded in 17 years, Taylor Swift is an icon and inspiration to many. Her concert tours are legendary, and she is now on the "Eras" tour, which will have 131 concerts across five continents. It began in March and will end August 2024...
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Holly Thompson Rehder announces bid for state lieutenant governor
(Local News ~ 07/12/23)
Republican Holly Thompson Rehder, a senator in the state's 27th district, which includes Cape Girardeau, announced a bid for lieutenant governor Tuesday, July 11. Before being elected to the state Senate in 2020, Thompson Rehder, 53, served in the Missouri House from 2013 through 2020. Thompson Rehder was also a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Missouri...
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Faces of Southeast Missouri: Trish Erzfeld
(07/12/23)
Trish Erzfeld has served as the Perry County Heritage Tourism director for the past seven years, when the City of Perryville and Perry County created a Tourism Division to promote the area. Planning the 2017 eclipse event for Perry County was one of her first projects in the role; for the event, she served on the St. Louis Eclipse Task Force and learned about the science behind eclipses, how to plan an event around an eclipse and how to serve the visitors who came to town...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/12/23)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2023. There are 172 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 12, 1909, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states. (It was declared ratified in February 1913.)...
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Prayer 7-12-23
(Prayer ~ 07/12/23)
Almighty God, we praise you for you are our Heavenly Father. Amen.
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10th annual Semoball Awards on deck for Friday night
(Editorial ~ 07/12/23)
The best of the best in Southeast Missouri high school sports will gather for one of the biggest nights of the year Friday night at the 10th annual Semoball Awards. For those not familiar with the event, the Semoball Awards is a first-class, red carpet affair where the top 200-plus athletes across 56 high schools in the region are recognized for their accomplishments on the field and court as well as in the classroom...
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The Bidens' existential threats to the American rule of law
(Column ~ 07/12/23)
President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI under its fourth consecutive weaponized director, are in danger of subverting the American system of law. They are in various ways undermining the tradition of self-reported income tax computation and voluntary compliance...
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Fire report 7-12-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/12/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 10 n Medical assists were made at 8:34 a.m. on South Plaza Way; 11:25 a.m. on Linden Street; 1:42 p.m. on North Kingshighway; and 4:30 p.m. at Independence Street and West Drive...
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Police report 7-12-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/12/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Theft n Theft was reported. Miscellaneous n Unlawful use of a weapon was reported on South Spring Avenue. n Leaving the scene of an accident was reported on South Mount Auburn Road...
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Jayson Warren
(Obituary ~ 07/12/23)
The following memorial tribute was written by Jayson's loving family: Jayson Michael Warren, 24, of Chaffee, Missouri, passed away Sunday, July 9, 2023, at 11:51 p.m. at his home, surrounded by members of his loving family. Jayson Michael Warren was born Jan. ...
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Darlene Tallman
(Obituary ~ 07/12/23)
BENTON, Mo. — Darlene Marie Tallman, daughter of the late William Robert Martin and Beulah Faye Held, was born Jan. 14, 1955, in South Haven, Michigan, and departed her life Saturday, July 8, 2023, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 68 years...
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Paul Gerlach
(Obituary ~ 07/12/23)
Paul Donald Gerlach, 92, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, July 11, 2023, at Lutheran Home. Paul was the son of Paul Samuel Gottlieb and Hattie Ida Maevers Gerlach and was born at home near Hobbs Chapel overlooking the Mississippi River. He was the loving husband of Mary J. Engram Gerlach. They met in high school and were married for 72 years...
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AP source: Nassar stabbed in prison cell, attack not seen by surveillance cameras
(National News ~ 07/12/23)
Investigators probing disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar's stabbing Sunday at a federal penitentiary in Florida are lacking a key piece of evidence: video of the assault. Nassar was attacked inside his cell, a blind spot for prison surveillance cameras that only record common areas and corridors, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. In federal prison parlance, because of the lack of video, it is known as an "unwitnessed event"...
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Vermont hit by more rain as muddy water reaches tops of parking meters
(National News ~ 07/12/23)
ANDOVER, Vt. -- A storm that dumped up to two months of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the Northeast brought more flooding Tuesday to communities that included the state capital, where officials said river levels at a dam just upstream appeared to be stable...
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Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison a half-century after grisly killings
(National News ~ 07/12/23)
LOS ANGELES -- Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, a former homecoming princess who at 19 helped carry out the shocking killings of a wealthy Los Angeles couple at the direction of the violent and manipulative cult leader, walked out of a California prison Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence...
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Ex-prisoner transporter sentenced for raping detainee
(State News ~ 07/12/23)
JOPLIN, Mo. -- A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a Washington detainee at a Missouri rest stop while transporting her to a Minnesota jail, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. The department said Rogeric Hankins, 37, transported inmates who were arrested on out-of-state warrants as part of his job as a private prisoner transporter at Inmate Services Corp...
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Israelis block highways in government protest
(International News ~ 07/12/23)
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets Tuesday, blocking major highways and thronging the country's main international airport, in countrywide demonstrations against the government's contentious plan to overhaul the country's judicial system....
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In Ukraine, civilians train in survival skills to cope with dangers from Russia's war
(International News ~ 07/12/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- In a cramped municipal building in a residential area of the Ukrainian capital, a group of people take turns training to shoot using a replica of a machine gun with the help of a weapons-training simulator relying on virtual reality...
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Bank of America hit with $250M in fines and refunds for 'double-dipping' fees and fake accounts
(National News ~ 07/12/23)
NEW YORK -- Bank of America will reimburse customers more than $100 million and pay $150 million in fines for "double-dipping" on overdraft fees, withholding reward bonuses on credit cards and opening accounts without customer consent. Combined, it is one of the highest financial penalties in years against Bank of America, which has largely spent the last 15 years trying to clean up its reputation and market itself to the public as a bank focused on financial health and not on overdraft fee income and financial trickery.. ...
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James Lewis, the suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed 7 in the Chicago area, has died
(National News ~ 07/12/23)
The suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area, triggered a nationwide panic, and led to an overhaul in the safety of over-the-counter medication packaging, has died, police said on Monday. Officers, firefighters and EMTs responding to a report of an unresponsive person at about 4 p.m. Sunday found James W. Lewis dead in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home, Cambridge Police Superintendent Frederick Cabral said in a statement. He was 76, police said...
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NATO chief: No timetable set for Ukraine's membership; Zelenskyy says that's 'absurd'
(International News ~ 07/12/23)
VILNIUS, Lithuania -- NATO leaders said Tuesday that they would allow Ukraine to join the alliance "when allies agree and conditions are met" -- a pronouncement that came just hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the organization's failure to set a timetable for his country as "absurd."...
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Out of the past: July 12
(Out of the Past ~ 07/12/23)
BENTON, Mo. — Sister Mary Clovis Seyer celebrates her 60th anniversary as a School Sister of Notre Dame at St. Denis Catholic Church; a dinner follows the 9:30 a.m. Mass; Seyer, who was born in Kelso, Missouri, entered the convent in 1933 and took her vows Aug. 18, 1938; she was a teacher in schools in Missouri and Illinois for 35 years...
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John Ruester
(Obituary ~ 07/12/23)
John Theodore Ruester, 87, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Jackson, went to his heavenly home Saturday, July 8, 2023. With his loving family by his side, he passed away at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born April 15, 1936, to Theodore and Edna Steinheimer Ruester in Marissa, Illinois...
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Kid's Krusade
(Submitted Story ~ 07/12/23)
This is an Exciting Church event, Kid's Style. With Children's Evangelist Nathanial Molter & the L.O.L. Kids Crew. Children of all ages will enjoy this event. It is tailored just for them. Worship-Praise-Music-Puppets-Skits-Tricks-The Word-Prayer Time! Lunch Served after! Hot Dogs w/fixings and an Ice Cream Social. Free to all who attend...
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