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Farm-to-table dinner event to be held at Baetje Farms
(Local News ~ 08/01/23)
Baetje Farms will be hosting a farm-to-table dinner event from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18. Baetje Famrs is located at 8932 Jackson School Road in Bloomsdale, Missouri. The dinner features ingredients from local farms and vendors, including Baetje Farms' award-winning goat cheeses...
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Governor rejects mercy plea from man set to be executed for killing 6-year-old girl
(State News ~ 08/01/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Parson said Monday the state will proceed with this week's planned execution of a man who abducted and killed a 6-year-old girl two decades ago, though the man's attorneys are still pressing claims he is mentally incompetent...
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North Kingshighway crash halts traffic
(Local News ~ 08/01/23)
A crash outside a vehicle dealership temporarily blocked traffic Monday, July 31, in Cape Girardeau. The crash occurred near the Ford Groves dealership in the 1500 block of North Kingshighway. Around 4:35 p.m., a black Ram 1500 and a white Honda CR-V collided, causing extensive damage to both vehicles. The Cape Girardeau Police Department and Cape Girardeau Fire Department were both at the scene. Both vehicles were towed away...
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Scott City couple charged with fentanyl trafficking
(Local News ~ 08/01/23)
A Scott City couple were arrested on drug trafficking charges Saturday, July 29, after an undercover operation. According to a Scott City Police Department Facebook post, Jose Alberto Cruz, 67, and Jo Anne Barajas, 47, were charged with trafficking drugs in the first degree, possession of a controlled substance and unlawful use of a weapon...
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Larry Westrich, Drury senior VP, remembered as devoted family man
(Local News ~ 08/01/23)
Larry Westrich, described as a devoted husband and father by his family and co-workers, died of a heart attack July 23. His family said he passed away during his daily bike ride, a passion he pursued, just as he lived, by the motto: "Dream as if you will live forever but live as if you will die tomorrow". He was 61 years old...
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Cape Girardeau County Transit leader Tom Mogelnicki to retire
(Local News ~ 08/01/23)
Tom Mogelnicki, who has led Cape Girardeau County Transit Authority (CGCTA) as executive director since April 1, 2007, will retire Saturday, Sept. 30, the County Commission announced at its regular meeting Monday, July 31. Mogelnicki, 76, took over the government job just seven years after CGCTA's founding...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2023. There are 152 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 1, 1936, the Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. On this date: In 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state...
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Prayer 8-1-23
(Prayer ~ 08/01/23)
O Lord Jesus, we worship you, our Prince of Peace and blessed Savior. Amen.
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Trump's lack of integrity
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/01/23)
I am 76 years old and writing this letter on July 25. Ever since the election of 1952, when I was 5 years old, I have had enough interest in the national elections to know who was running and some basic information about them. In all these years, I have never seen a candidate who had less personal worth and character than Donald Trump...
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The Florida slavery smear
(Column ~ 08/01/23)
There have been so many poisonous and stupid lies about Florida since 2020, it's almost hard to keep track, but the latest may be the most outrageous. As you might have heard thanks to the vice president of the United States, Florida allegedly wants to teach its students that slavery benefited slaves...
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The wild 2024 race
(Column ~ 08/01/23)
Current polls, pundits, and politicos insist that the 2024 race is a sure rematch between former President Donald Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden. It may well turn out that way. But in past election cycles, summer polls 15 months before the general election usually did not mean much...
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Out of the past: Aug. 1
(Out of the Past ~ 08/01/23)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the sale of Doctors Regional Medical Center to Tenet Health-care Corp., the owner of Lucy Lee Healthcare System; the injunction could be made permanent following administrative trials and appeals or if Tenet decides to drop the purchase...
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Fire report 8-1-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/01/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. July 30 n Medical assists were made at 11:11 a.m. on Leroy Drive; 2:51 p.m. on Linden Street; and 4:18 p.m. on William Street. n At 9:11 a.m., fire alarm on Princeton Drive...
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Police report 8-1-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/01/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on William Street. n A warrant arrest was reported. n A warrant arrest was reported on South Plaza Way...
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Tanya Wilson
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
Tanya Kay Wilson, 53, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, July 29, 2023, at her home. She was born Jan. 26, 1970, to Kirk McElrath and Kay Vester in Kirkwood, Missouri. Tanya is survived by her loving spouse, Danny Wilson; father, Kirk McElrath; mother, Kay (Gary) Vester; two stepsisters, Angella Zoellner and Amy (Tyke) Thomison; stepbrother, Robert (Gina) and their children, Braden and Rylee Vester; mother-in-law, Mildred Wilson; two aunts, Glenda Riggins and Beverly (Ben) and their children, Michael and Derek Roach. ...
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Edwin White Jr.
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
Edwin Dean White Jr., beloved father and grandfather, joined the Lord on Friday, July 28, 2023, at the age of 97. At the age of 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy to be of service during World War II. He then obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Missouri. ...
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Ruth Weinrich
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Ruth Ann Weinrich, 90, of Perryville passed away Sunday, July 30, 2023, at Independence Care Center. She was born Nov. 16, 1932, in Longtown, Missouri, to Frank and Hilda Hacker Brickhaus. Ruth and Herbert A. Weinrich were married June 7, 1953, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville. He preceded her in death March 27, 2018...
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Ralph Roth
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
Ralph Leon Roth, son of the late Ernest and Marie Walter Roth, was born Nov. 6, 1938, in Scott City and departed his life Sunday, July 30, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Scott City at the age of 84 years. Roth had served in the U.S. Army Reserve. He had worked at Florsheim Shoe Co. for more than 40 years. Later, he owned and operated Roth Hardware in Scott City for 15 years...
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Rev. John Rice Sr.
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
The Rev. John Andrew Rice Sr., 73, of Jackson died Sunday, July 30, 2023, at his home. He was born Dec. 30, 1949, in Sikeston, Missouri, to William David Rice Sr. and Loyetta Newman Rice. He and Patricia Sue Dudley Rice were married Oct. 3, 1970, in Sedgewickville, Missouri...
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Kenneth Lipps
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
Kenneth Herbert Lipps, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, July 29, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born July 16, 1940, in Cape Girardeau to Herbert and Marie Hargraves Lipps. He and Jennifer Ford Lipps were married June 16, 1991, in Cape Girardeau...
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Pauline Crader Irvine
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
Pauline D. Crader Irvine, 90, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, July 28, 2023, at Lutheran Home. She was born Feb. 19, 1933, in Whitewater to the late John and Fannie Slover Crader. Pauline worked at Saint Francis Medical Center for many years, and when she retired was in charge of SPD...
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Vera Hager
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
Vera D. Hager, 97, of Jackson passed away Sunday, July 30, 2023, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 30, 1926, in Cape Girardeau County to Reuel H. and Nora Dell Swan Morton. She and Kenneth D. Hager were married Aug. 1, 1947, in Jackson. They had been married 50 years when Kenneth passed away Dec. 15, 1997...
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Delores Cannon
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
Delores Louise Cannon, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, July 30, 2023, at Cape Town Arbors. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn funeral Home. Funeral will be 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 4, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Jerry Bailey officiating. Burial will be in Sargent's Chapel Cemetery in Sedgewickville, Missouri...
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Lula Boshell
(Obituary ~ 08/01/23)
ORAN, Mo. — Lula Mae Boshell, daughter of the late Melvin Cagle and Muriel Gay Woodson, was born April 1, 1952, in Dexter, Missouri, and departed her life Friday, July 28, 2023, at her home in Oran at the age of 71 years. She was former medical records director at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri, and Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Pee-wee Herman actor and creator Paul Reubens dies from cancer at 70
(Entertainment ~ 08/01/23)
LOS ANGELES -- Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose Pee-wee Herman character -- an overgrown child with a tight gray suit and an unforgettable laugh -- became a 1980s pop cultural phenomenon, has died at 70. Reubens, who's character delighted fans in the film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and on the TV series "Pee-wee's Playhouse," died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he kept private, his publicist said in a statement...
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Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Alabama
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama. The choice ended months of thorny deliberations, but an Alabama lawmaker vowed to fight on...
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Niger will face sanctions as democracy falls apart, adding to woes for more than 25 million people
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
NIAMEY, Niger -- Neighboring nations are levying economic sanctions over a coup last week that toppled one of the West's last democratic partners against West African extremists, and families in one of the world's poorest nations could pay the price...
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The FBI should face new limits on its use of US foreign spy data, a key intelligence board says
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
WASHINGTON -- The FBI should stop using a U.S. spy database of foreigners' emails and other communications for investigating crimes that aren't related to national security, a group of White House intelligence advisers recommended in a report released Monday...
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As the pope heads to Portugal, he's laying the groundwork for the church's future and his own legacy
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
VATICAN CITY -- When Pope Francis made the first foreign trip of his papacy, to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day in 2013, he urged young people to make a "mess" in their local churches, to shake things up even if it ruffled the feathers of their bishops...
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IS claims responsibility for the bombing that killed 54 at a pro-Taliban election rally in Pakistan
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
KHAR, Pakistan -- An Afghan branch of the Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed at least 54 people at a pro-Taliban party's election rally, in one of the region's worst attacks in recent years...
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Yellow is shutting down and headed for bankruptcy, the Teamsters Union says. Here's what to know
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
NEW YORK -- Trucking company Yellow Corp. has shut down operations and is headed for a bankruptcy filing, according to the Teamsters Union and multiple media reports. After years of financial struggles, reports of Yellow preparing for bankruptcy emerged last week -- as the Nashville, Tennessee-based trucker saw customers leave in large numbers. Yellow shut down operations on Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal, following the layoffs of hundreds of nonunion employees on Friday...
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Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is needed for medicine, but a declining bird relies on crabs to eat
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
PORTLAND, Maine -- The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized item for fishing bait and medical research. Its blue blood is harvested for medical researchers and used by drug and medical device makers to test for dangerous impurities in vaccines, prosthetics and intravenous drugs. ...
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Idaho mom Lori Vallow Daybell sentenced in deaths of 2 children and her romantic rival
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell has been sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the murders of her two youngest children and a woman she saw as a romantic rival in a case that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and that she was a goddess tasked with ushering in an apocalypse...
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Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms are the focus of new small treatment studies
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
WASHINGTON -- The National Institutes of Health is beginning a handful of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition that afflicts millions. Monday's announcement from the NIH's $1.15 billion RECOVER project comes amid frustration from patients who've struggled for months or even years with sometimes-disabling health problems -- with no proven treatments and only a smattering of rigorous studies to test potential ones.. ...
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Phoenix has ended 31-day streak of highs at or above 110 degrees as rains ease a Southwest heat wave
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
PHOENIX -- A record string of daily highs over 110 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix ended Monday as the dangerous heat wave that suffocated the Southwest throughout July receded slightly with cooling monsoon rains. The historic heat began blasting the region in June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California's desert. ...
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Princeton University student pleads guilty to joining mob's attack on Capitol
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
WASHINGTON -- A man who was a Princeton University student when the FBI arrested him on charges related to the U.S. Capitol riot pleaded guilty on Monday to joining a mob's attack on police officers during one of the most violent clashes on Jan. 6, 2021...
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Mar-a-Lago manager De Oliveira makes first court appearance in Trump's classified documents case
(National News ~ 08/01/23)
MIAMI -- The property manager of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate made his first court appearance Monday facing charges in the classified documents case against the former president, but he did not enter a plea because he has not found a Florida-based attorney to represent him...
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Russian missiles kill at least 6 in Zelenskyy's hometown in central Ukraine
(International News ~ 08/01/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian ballistic missiles slammed into an apartment complex and a university building in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown Monday, killing six people and wounding 75 others as the blasts trapped residents beneath rubble, Ukrainian officials said...
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