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US 61 in Sikeston reduced for light installation
(Local News ~ 11/10/23)
U.S. 61 -- East Malone Street -- in Sikeston, Missouri, will be reduced to one lane with a 16-foot width restriction as contractor crews install traffic lights at North Main and East Malone streets, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. The work will take place daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 23, through Friday, Dec. 1...
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Spaghetti Day 2023 A huge success
(Local News ~ 11/10/23)
Thousands enjoy Spaghetti Day on Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Arena Building in Cape Girardeau. The event raised money for the City of Cape Girardeau’s Park and Recreation Department’s facilities and programs...
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Veterans night coming to Rock 'N' Roll Drive-In
(Local News ~ 11/10/23)
The Rock 'N' Roll Drive-In in Chaffee, Missouri, will hold a veterans night Monday Nov. 13. This event is hosted by the Missouri Elks Lodge. The Drive-In will be showing the 2019 film "Oildale". This movie is about homeless veterans finding a family as they rent rooms from an 18-year-old girl struggling to support her 13-year-old brother, while discovering her voice in Americana music, according to the IMBD website...
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Zonta Club to honor Kathryn Swan
(Local News ~ 11/10/23)
Zonta Club of Cape Girardeau will honor Kathryn Swan with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, Nov 17, at its Women of Achievement Luncheon and Expo 2023. The luncheon and expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Drury Plaza Hotel Cape Girardeau Conference Center, 3351 Percy Drive in Cape Girardeau...
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Area woman charged with second-degree arson; being held on bond
(Local News ~ 11/10/23)
A Scott City woman was charged with second-degree arson Wednesday, Nov. 8, following allegations that she had made threats to burn down the house. Patricia Leigh Graf faces the charges after a witness said he saw her at the Lakeview Drive home while the house was on fire, according to a signed probable-cause affidavit filed by Scott County deputy Michael Valentine...
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Cape Girardeau County sales tax revenue stationary, use-tax revenue growing
(Local News ~ 11/10/23)
Cape Girardeau County Treasurer Roger Hudson informed the county commissioners Thursday, Nov. 9, about updated sales- and use-tax numbers. Sales tax numbers for the county stood at $718,897 for the month, a 0.39% decrease from November 2022. For the whole year, sales tax returns for the county stood at about $8.46 million, just a 1.09% jump from a year ago...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
Today is Friday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2023. There are 51 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 10, 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. On this date: In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa...
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Fire report 11-10-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/10/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Nov. 8 n Medical assists were made at 2:02 p.m. on William Street; 2:14 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; 5:25 p.m. on Copperfield Court; 6:16 p.m. on Broadway; 6:31 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; 10:57 p.m. on North Middle Street; and 11:51 p.m. on Copperfield Court...
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Police report 11-10-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/10/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Thefts n Theft from a vehicle was reported on Belleridge Pike. n Shoplifting was reported on South Sprigg Street. Miscellaneous n First-degree trespassing was reported on Broadway...
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John Keusenkothen
(Obituary ~ 11/10/23)
John Joseph Keusenkothen, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, at Chateau Girardeau. He was born Sept.1, 1931, in Cape Girardeau to John L. and Genevieve Marie Diebold Keusenkothen. He and Annabelle Alma Gilder were married Aug. 23, 1958, at St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Girardeau. She preceded him in death Oct. 1, 2013...
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Jerry Hinton
(Obituary ~ 11/10/23)
Gerald "Jerry" Dewey Hinton, 86, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, surrounded by his family. Jerry was born May 1, 1937, in Cape Girardeau to Dewey and Eileen Spain Hinton. He graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School in 1955. He played basketball and was a pitcher on the 1954 state championship baseball team. He also played baseball with the Cape Girardeau Capahas...
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Prayer 11-10-23
(Prayer ~ 11/10/23)
O Lord God, may we serve one another, showing your love to the world. Amen.
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Why the left hates Israel and America
(Column ~ 11/10/23)
This week, my organization, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, held an event in Michigan's 12th congressional district, the district of Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Forty Christian pastors — white, Black, Hispanic — attended to speak out in support of Israel...
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We're pulling for the Postal Service
(Editorial ~ 11/10/23)
The U.S. Postal Service in this region can't catch a break these days. Already hampered by employee shortages and the bureaucratic inertia that is all too often inherent in large governmental agencies, the Postal Service has been dealing with a small but dangerous mercury spill at one of its suburban St. ...
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Biden says workers need 'a fair shot' as he celebrates the labor deal
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
BELVIDERE, Ill. -- President Joe Biden put on a red United Auto Workers shirt Thursday as he celebrated a labor deal that will reopen the Stellantis plant in Belvidere, treating the factory's salvation as a vindication of his decision to stand with striking union members as they demanded higher wages...
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Election offices sent envelopes with fentanyl or other substances
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- Authorities were hunting Thursday for whoever sent suspicious letters -- including some containing fentanyl -- to elections offices in at least five states this week, delaying the counting of ballots in some local races in the latest instance of threats faced by election workers around the country...
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Spanish politician shot in broad daylight
(International News ~ 11/10/23)
MADRID -- Veteran Spanish right-wing politician Alejandro Vidal-Quadras was recovering in a hospital Thursday after being shot in the face in broad daylight on a central Madrid street. Police were ruling out no hypotheses, including a possible link to the former European lawmaker's ties with the Iranian opposition...
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US vaccination exemptions in children reach highest level ever
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
NEW YORK -- The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday. More parents are questioning routine childhood vaccinations they used to automatically accept, an effect of the political schism that emerged during the pandemic around COVID-19 vaccines, experts say...
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Nuclear project terminated in blow to Biden's clean-energy agenda
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant was terminated Wednesday, another blow to the Biden administration's clean-energy agenda following cancellations last week of two major offshore wind projects...
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Judge upholds approval of oil-drilling project
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
JUNEAU, Alaska -- A federal judge Thursday upheld the Biden administration's approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska's remote North Slope, a decision environmental groups swiftly vowed to fight. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason rejected requests by a grassroots Iñupiat group and environmentalists to vacate the project approval, and she dismissed their claims against Willow, which is in the federally designated National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. ...
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AP-NORC poll: Nearly half of Dems disapprove of Biden's response to Israel-Hamas war
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research -- showing a deep divide within his party over the war...
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Civilians flee north Gaza or shelter at hospital
(International News ~ 11/10/23)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Crowds of Palestinian families stretching as far as the eye could see walked out of Gaza City and surrounding areas toward the south Thursday to escape Israeli airstrikes and ground troops battling Hamas militants in dense urban neighborhoods. Others joined tens of thousands taking shelter at the city's biggest hospital, not far from the fighting...
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War threatens to unravel Gaza's close-knit society
(International News ~ 11/10/23)
JERUSALEM -- Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats. "My kids are crying because they are hungry and tired and can't use the bathroom," said Suzan Wahidi, an aid worker and mother of five at a U.N. ...
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West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin won't seek reelection
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Thursday that he won't seek reelection in 2024, giving Republicans a prime opportunity to pick up a seat in the heavily GOP state. Manchin, 76, said he made the decision "after months of deliberation and long conversations" with his family...
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White House: Israel agrees to 4-hour daily pauses in war
(National News ~ 11/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza, the White House said Thursday, as President Joe Biden pressed Israelis for a multiday stoppage in the fighting in a bid to negotiate the release of hostages held by the militant group...
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Out of the past: Nov. 10
(Out of the Past ~ 11/10/23)
JEFFERSON CITY -- A 15-year state highway plan, hailed in 1992 as Missouri's "economic development program of the decade", is formally dumped as officials call its funding flawed, its timetable unachievable and its sweeping promises impossible to keep; the action isn't a surprise; for four years state officials have warned the plan's math doesn't work, even as the Missouri Department of Transportation edged away from funding the promised projects...
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SRMO All District Junior High Band
(Submitted Story ~ 11/10/23)
The Southeast Missouri Music Educators Association recently held auditions for the SRMO All District Junior High Honor Band. Over 260 top Junior High Band Students from all over Southeast Missouri traveled to Jackson High School to compete in the audition. ...
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