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Business Briefs
(B Magazine ~ 11/02/23)
SOUTHEASTHEALTH JOINS MERCY SoutheastHEALTH leaders announced on Aug. 1 an official partnership with St. Louis-based Mercy, affiliating Southeast with one of the nation’s largest health care systems. Mercy, an $8 billion organization, operates nearly 50 health care systems with 1,500 clinics and more than 40,000 employees across seven southern states...
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County commission agenda agenda for 11/2/23 meeting
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 1 Barton Square, Jackson Approval of minutes n Approval of minutes of the Monday, Oct. 30, meeting Communications/reports — other selected officials/department heads n Updates on new jail and 1908 courthouse project...
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It's time for soup, stew, chili and chowder
(Community ~ 11/02/23)
It is soup, stew, chili and chowder season and I'm ready to start making some to enjoy. Cool temperatures, shorter days and the beautiful colors of the trees has totally turned my thinking toward warm and savory recipes. Almost everyone has a favorite beef vegetable soup or potato soup, so I have put together a collection of recipes today that maybe you have not made before. ...
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Salute to veterans: Southeast Missourians noted in military history
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Throughout the nation's history, men and women from Southeast Missouri have answered calls to military service. Many have served without fanfare, but others have gained acclaim or found their way into news accounts of their service. Among those are two men with ties to one of the nation's deadliest peacetime naval accidents and a National Guard unit that at one time was the busiest honor guard (referred to at the time as a "firing squad" because of their rendering rifle volley salutes at funerals) in the country.. ...
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Salute to veterans: Troops' families are heroes for sacrifices, strength
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
I hated calling home from Iraq. As a gun truck driver in 1st Squadron, 151st Cavalry Regiment of the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, I was normally out on the road at night, local time. We would usually get to a fueling point about midnight and head out an hour or two later. We generally got where we were going — or at least somewhere we could hang our hat for a while — around sunrise...
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Salute to veterans: Former Marine joined to make a better world
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Stash Petton, chief deputy for Bollinger County Sheriff's Office, joined the U.S. Marine Corps when he turned 18 because he wanted to live in a better, safer world. Petton said he chose the Marines because of his dad. "I was at a very young age, and I knew it would be the Marine Corps because my dad was a Marine," Petton said. "He never pushed me into it or really even encouraged it, but he certainly didn't try to persuade me away from it either."...
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Salute to veterans: Fourth annual Spirit of Democracy Banquet and Silent Auction set for Saturday in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Officials with the Stars and Stripes Museum and Library, located in Bloomfield, Missouri, will be holding their fourth annual Spirit of Democracy Banquet and Silent Auction on Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. Doors will open at 5 p.m., with the program beginning at 6 p.m. ...
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Salute to veterans: Tales from the homefront: former Jackson resident remembers father, brother at war
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
When Beth Hall was 9 years old and living in Jackson, her brother, Pete Bertling, went off to war. "I don't really remember anybody saying too much about it," she said. "Everybody was all in the same boat, really. Everyone was waiting for someone." Bertling had volunteered for the U.S. ...
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Salute to veterans: Memories of war: WWII veteran shares combat stories
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Dean Campbell is 99 years old and sharp as a tack. He'll be the first to admit he can't see or hear as well as he used to, but his memory is infallible. "It's just luck," he said. "It just happened. Why, I don't know." The same could be said of his experience in World War II. Campbell, a Cape Girardeau resident, flew 35 combat missions over Germany in a B-24 "Liberator" bomber...
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Salute to veterans: Veterans Day events planned in region
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Several Veterans Day events have been scheduled around the area. Veterans Day is Saturday, Nov. 11, but holiday-related events span several days: n Scott City First Baptist Church Veterans Day Service of Remembrance — 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, Scott City First, 232 County Road 312, Scott City...
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City of Cape Girardeau to consider renaming portion of street after former SEMO athletes
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Cape Girardeau City Council members will consider renaming a street on the Southeast Missouri State University campus after two former Redhawks. The item will be the subject of a special council meeting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at City Hall, 44 N. Lorimier St...
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Mark your calendars for Menudo Day at Muy Bueno
(Community ~ 11/02/23)
Our lives are marked by days, weeks, months and years. Sometimes we look back to December and other times we wake up when September ends. There are days designated to observe or celebrate certain events, while others are reminders to spread "awareness" of things some are trying their hardest to forget...
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Salute to veterans: Wayne Wallingford, Seth McKee, Charles Weber make Missouri Vets HOF
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Three local men, including a current state official, were among seven people inducted Friday, Oct. 27, as the 2023 class of Missouri Veterans Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony was held in the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City...
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Lights are on, but nobody's home — Camping World building in Scott County remains empty a year after completion
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Scott County presiding Commissioner Danny Tetley says he has no information on why the Camping World location off Interstate 55 near Cape Girardeau Regional Airport hasn't opened. The 33,000-square-foot facility on a 12-acre parcel along Nash Road has been, by all appearances, completely finished for well over a year...
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SEMO mascots then and now
(Local News ~ 11/02/23)
Southeast Missouri State University has had several mascots in its 150 year history, from a Native American chief to one of SEMO's most recognizable faces, Rowdy the Redhawk. As SEMO's mascot, Rowdy runs, jumps and dances with the cheerleaders, struts along with the marching band and hypes up the crowd at university athletic events...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
Today is Thursday, Nov. 2, the 306th day of 2023. There are 59 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 2, 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford...
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Prayer 11-2-23
(Prayer ~ 11/02/23)
Lord Jesus, we lift up your name. You are deserving of all praise. Amen.
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Will the media get coverage of the crisis in Israel and Gaza right? It all depends on the editors
(Column ~ 11/02/23)
If you ask most people, including most journalists, what the job of the press is, they will reasonably respond with a number of high-minded cliches: "report the news," "hold the powerful accountable," "inform the public," etc. That's all well and good. ...
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The Left's tiki torch brigade
(Column ~ 11/02/23)
It's been a disquieting time for well-meaning liberals who have been suddenly confronted with the realization that their own side is rife with fanatics and haters. The explosion of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish feeling on campuses and the streets after Oct. 7 has shaken left-of-center people who didn't know, or want to know, who their allies were...
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Hearing to determine if Trump can be barred from offices reaches far back in history for answers
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
DENVER -- The effort to ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Constitution's "insurrection clause" turned to distant history on Wednesday, when a law professor testified about how the post-Civil War provision was indeed intended to apply to presidential candidates...
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Biden touts investment in rural areas in Minnesota, the home state of his primary challenger
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- President Joe Biden visited a family-run farm in Minnesota on Wednesday and held a fundraiser featuring many of the state's top Democrats, championing his administration's investments in rural America while flexing political muscle on the home turf of his new 2024 primary challenger, Rep. Dean Phillips...
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Rep. George Santos survives effort to expel him from the House. But he still faces an ethics report
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Santos easily survived a vote Wednesday to expel him from the House as most Republicans and 31 Democrats opted to withhold punishment while both his criminal trial and a House Ethics Committee investigation proceed. The effort to kick Santos out of the House was led by his fellow New York Republicans, who are anxious to distance themselves from a colleague infamous for fabricating his life story and accused of stealing from donors, lying to Congress and receiving unemployment benefits he did not deserve.. ...
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Israeli envoy to Russia says Tel Aviv passengers hid from weekend airport riot in terminal
(International News ~ 11/02/23)
TALLINN, Estonia -- Israel's ambassador to Moscow gave new details Wednesday of the weekend riot at an airport in southern Russia when a flight from Tel Aviv landed there, saying some of the passengers had to hide in the terminal before being flown by helicopter to safety...
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With flowers, altars and candles, Mexicans are honoring deceased relatives on the Day of the Dead
(International News ~ 11/02/23)
SANTA MARÍA ATZOMPA, México -- Martínez is eager to welcome her deceased loved ones back home. Martínez and others in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state wait with anticipation for Day of the Dead celebrations every Nov. 1, when families place homemade altars to honor their dearly departed and spend the night at the cemetery, lighting candles in the hope of illuminating their paths...
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Railroad automatic braking system needs improvement to prevent more derailments, safety board says
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
OMAHA, Neb. -- The automatic braking system railroads were required to install several years ago needs improvement to better prevent collisions, federal safety investigators said in a report Wednesday. The National Transportation Safety Board's report urged the Federal Railroad Administration and the industry to keep developing new technology that can be used to improve Positive Train Control systems. ...
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Trump Jr. testifies he never worked on key documents in his father's civil fraud trial
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
NEW YORK -- Donald Trump Jr. testified Wednesday that he never worked on his father's financial statements, the documents now at the heart of the civil fraud trial that threatens former President Donald Trump's real estate empire. The ex-president's eldest son is an executive vice president of the family's Trump Organization and has been a trustee of a trust set up to hold its assets when his father was in the White House...
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Senate Democrats work to circumvent Tuberville's blockade on military nominees as vacancies grow
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are trying a new workaround to confirm hundreds of military officers blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, 10 months after the Alabama Republican first said he would object to the nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy...
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Georgia says it will appeal a judge's redistricting decision but won't seek to pause ruling for now
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
ATLANTA -- Georgia says it will appeal a judge's order to redraw some congressional and state legislative districts, but that it won't fight in court to pause the order for now, meaning a special session later this month to draw new lines is likely to proceed...
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Real estate industry facing pushback to longstanding rules setting agent commissions on home sales
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
LOS ANGELES -- A series of court challenges seek to upend longstanding real estate industry practices that determine the commissions agents receive on the sale of a home -- and who foots the bill. A federal jury in one of those cases Tuesday ordered the National Association of Realtors along with some of the nation's biggest real estate brokerages to pay almost $1.8 billion in damages, after finding they artificially inflated commissions paid to real estate agents...
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New Missouri Supreme Court judge ensures female majority on bench
(State News ~ 11/02/23)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Monday appointed appeals court Judge Ginger Gooch to the state Supreme Court, preserving women's historic majority on the high court. Women first earned a majority on the Supreme Court after Parson in September appointed Judge Kelly Broniec...
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House rejects effort to censure Rashida Tlaib over the Palestinian-American's rhetoric about Israel
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
WASHINGTON -- The House late Wednesday rejected an effort to censure Democratic Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, scrapping a Republican attempt to condemn the only Palestinian-American in Congress over her recent rhetoric around the ongoing Israel-Hamas war...
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Federal Reserve leaves key rate unchanged but keeps open possibility of future hike
(National News ~ 11/02/23)
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve kept its key short-term interest rate unchanged Wednesday for a second consecutive time but left the door open to further rate hikes if inflation pressures should accelerate in the months ahead. The Fed said in a statement after its latest meeting that it would keep its benchmark rate at about 5.4%, its highest level in 22 years. ...
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Palestinians allowed to leave Gaza
(International News ~ 11/02/23)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli ground troops have advanced to "the gates of Gaza City" in heavy fighting with militants, the military said Wednesday, as hundreds of foreign nationals and dozens of seriously injured Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza after more than three weeks under siege...
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'A curse to be a parent in Gaza': More than 3,600 Palestinian children killed in just 3 weeks of war
(International News ~ 11/02/23)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- More than 3,600 Palestinian children were killed in the first 25 days of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry. They were hit by airstrikes, smashed by misfired rockets, burned by blasts and crushed by buildings, and among them were newborns and toddlers, avid readers, aspiring journalists and boys who thought they'd be safe in a church...
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Opposition mounts in Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel
(International News ~ 11/02/23)
RABAT, Morocco -- Arab nations where monarchies typically quash dissent and that have normalized or are considering improving relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Rabat and other Moroccan cities in support of the Palestinians. ...
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Rectangular pies inspire this weeknight salami-mozzarella pizza
(Community ~ 11/02/23)
Store-bought dough brings homemade pizza into the realm of easy weeknight cooking. To simplify prep even further, we took a cue from rectangular focaccia-like Sicilian pizza and Roman pizza al taglio. This recipe from our book "Tuesday Nights Mediterranean," which features weeknight-friendly meals from the region, is for a sheet-pan pizza that doesn't require dividing and shaping the dough and can be baked in a single batch without a pizza stone...
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Fire report 11-2-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/02/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Oct. 31 n Medical assists were made at 11:29 a.m. on Gerhardt Street; 12:11 p.m. on Hillcrest Drive; and 6:12 p.m. on Etherton Drive. ...
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Police report 11-2-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/02/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Third-degree domestic assault was reported on Montgomery Street...
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Kenny Stotler
(Obituary ~ 11/02/23)
Kenneth "Kenny" Stotler, 81, of Jackson died Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 30, 1942, to Cecil Clyde and Myrtle Parsons Stotler. He and Diana McDonnold Stotler were married April 12, 1963, in Vandalia, Missouri...
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Dorothy Shaffar
(Obituary ~ 11/02/23)
Dorothy Faye Shaffar, 97, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 11, 1926, in Blytheville, Arkansas, to Leslie and Nora Woodord Frazier. She and Laddie Heartwell Shaffar were married. He preceded her in 1967. She and Stanley "Pete" D. Shaffar were married June 30, 1973, in Sikeston, Missouri. He preceded her in death Aug. 14, 2012...
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Thomas Knaup
(Obituary ~ 11/02/23)
Thomas Bosco Knaup, 53, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, at Riverview At The Park in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. He was born Sept. 5, 1970, in Cape Girardeau to Richard Joseph and Carla Jo Whitehead Knaup. He went to St. Mary Grade School and Notre Dame High School. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in mass communication, where he was also a charter member of Sigma Nu...
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Jim Keller
(Obituary ~ 11/02/23)
Charles James "Jim" Keller, 71, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, at his home. He was born Feb. 23, 1952, in Cape Girardeau to Paul J. and Doris J. Ford Keller. He and Sandra Randol were married June 16, 1984, at Gordonville. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Keller of Cape Girardeau; two sons, Brian (Laura) Keller of Jackson and Travis (Keri) Keller of Old Appleton; in-laws, Kathy Keller of Cape Girardeau, Mike (Susan) Randol of Thebes, Illinois, and Lisa (Scott) Conrad of Cape Girardeau; two uncles, Elmer "Junior" (Sherry) Ford of Jackson and Richard (Jane) Randol of Canton, Georgia; three grandchildren, Kaitlyn (Brandon) Drum of Jackson, Jesse Keller of Jackson and Kyle (Casey) Keller of Old Appleton; two great-grandchildren, Kingston and Kinley Keller of Old Appleton; his first wife, Jan Crites Huber of Old Appleton; and several nieces and nephews.. ...
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Ella Gerecke
(Obituary ~ 11/02/23)
BAKERSFIELD, CA — Ella Marie Nitsch Gerecke was born in Cape Girardeau to Albert and Nola Nitsch on Aug. 10, 1923. Heaven gained a much loved centurion when Ella passed away Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, from an unexpected illness. Ella enlisted in the Navy in 1944 in order to serve her country during World War II. ...
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Out of the past: Nov. 2
(Out of the Past ~ 11/02/23)
About half of Missouri's 3.4 million registered voters won't bother to vote in tomorrow's general election, predicts Secretary of State Bekki Cook; she estimates that 1.7 million Missourians will go to the polls in this non-presidential election. The ribbon was cut over the weekend, opening the new Mr. K's Food Center, a family-owned supermarket, at 254 S. Silver Springs Road; at 60,000 square feet, the facility is the largest supermarket in Cape Girardeau...
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CFO names Winter Kinne as new President and CEO
(Submitted Story ~ 11/02/23)
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks Board of Directors has named Winter Kinne as the CFO’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Based in Springfield with offices in Cape Girardeau and West Plains, the CFO is the region’s largest public charitable foundation...
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