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Sikeston cyclist dies in wreck in Miner
(Local News ~ 08/07/19)
MINER, Mo. — A Sikeston, Missouri, man who was riding his bicycle to work died after being struck by a vehicle early Monday in Miner. Miner police chief James Buckley said officers responded to the 2300 block of U.S. 62 shortly after 6:30 a.m. Monday in reference to a motor-vehicle accident involving a bicycle...
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Cape man faces molestation, rape charges
(Local News ~ 08/07/19)
A 48-year-old Cape Girardeau man has been arrested on charges of child molestation and statutory rape, police said in a new release Tuesday. Ted J. Skinner is accused of molesting and raping a 16-year-old girl. According to a probable-cause statement, the victim said Skinner molested her June 25 and raped her July 1. She told police the incidents occurred in Skinner’s vehicle in the parking lot of the Independence Street apartment complex where he lived...
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Fort D named to National Register of Historic Places
(Local News ~ 08/07/19)
Cape Girardeau’s Fort D, Missouri’s only surviving V-shaped, Civil War-era earthworks, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. Bill Eddleman, associate director of the Cape Girardeau Research Center of the State Historical Society of Missouri, said Tuesday the National Park Service placed Fort D on the national register last week. ...
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Hospital organization, church partner on homeless facility
(Local News ~ 08/07/19)
A two-story, four-bedroom frame house in the 800 block of Jefferson Street in Cape Girardeau will soon become permanent housing for several homeless men, thanks to a partnership between The People’s Shelter and Saint Francis Health System Foundation. The first residents of The Peaceful Place — Saint Francis House at 827 Jefferson St. will move in around Sept. 1, according to the Rev. Renita Green, pastor of St. James AME Church ...
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Voters approve Cape tax measure for city hall, airport, streets and water lines
(Local News ~ 08/07/19)
Cape Girardeau voters overwhelmingly agreed Tuesday to extend a quarter-cent capital improvements sales tax for another 15 years. Less than 7% of the city’s 23,460 registered voters cast ballots in the single-issue election. But the vast majority of those who did go to the polls voted for the tax measure, election returns show...
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Sears store to close in Cape, ending an era of retail
(Local News ~ 08/07/19)
The Sears Grand store in Cape Girardeau will close this fall, according to a statement posted Tuesday on the Sears Holdings website. The 150,000-square-foot store at 330 Siemers Drive is one of 26 “large format” Sears and Kmart outlets being closed by the financially-troubled retailer. According to the website, store liquidation sales in Cape Girardeau and the other stores will begin “around Aug. 15” and the stores will close by late October...
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Ban large capacity magazines, implement 'red flag' laws
(Column ~ 08/07/19)
It's good to be back in the United States, though I mourn along with the rest of the nation for those in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Too often our country is afflicted by mass shootings, with crazy people pulling triggers on powerful weapons against crowds of innocent people. It's easy to feel angry, helpless or numb as media analysis mixes with political grandstanding and the dead -- easily imagined as neighbors, friends and family -- are identified...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/07/19)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2019. There are 146 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 7, 1998, terrorist bombs at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people, including 12 Americans...
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Bolton warns foreigners violating Venezuela freeze
(International News ~ 08/07/19)
CARACAS, Venezuela -- U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton pressed his case Tuesday for sweeping action against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, warning foreign governments and companies they could face retaliation in the U.S. if they continue to do business with his socialist administration...
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Indian troops lock down Kashmir
(International News ~ 08/07/19)
NEW DELHI -- Indian lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday stripping the statehood from the Indian-administered portion of Muslim-majority Kashmir amid an indefinite security lockdown in the disputed Himalayan territory, actions neighboring Pakistan warned could lead to war...
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China vows to counter U.S. in Asia
(International News ~ 08/07/19)
BEIJING -- China said Tuesday it "will not stand idly by" and will take countermeasures if the U.S. deploys intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region, which Washington has said it plans to do within months. The statement from the director of the foreign ministry's Arms Control Department, Fu Cong, follows the U.S.'s withdrawal last week from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a move Fu said would have a "direct negative impact on the global strategic stability" as well as security in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.. ...
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Strzok sues FBI for firing him over Trump texts
(National News ~ 08/07/19)
WASHINGTON -- A veteran FBI agent who wrote derogatory text messages about Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging the bureau caved to "unrelenting pressure" from the president when it fired him. The suit from Peter Strzok also alleges he was unfairly punished for expressing his political opinions, and the Justice Department violated his privacy when it shared hundreds of his text messages with reporters...
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Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths
(National News ~ 08/07/19)
NEW YORK -- Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades. The number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed by U.S. retail pharmacies doubled from 2017 to last year, rising from 271,000 to 557,000, health officials reported Tuesday...
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Ohio gun reform urged as Texas Dems wave off Trump
(National News ~ 08/07/19)
DAYTON, Ohio -- Ohio's Republican governor bucked his party to call for expanded gun laws Tuesday, and some Democrats in Texas told President Donald Trump to stay away as both states reeled from a pair of shootings in which 31 people died. A racist screed remained the focus of police investigating the massacre at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, while the FBI opened an investigation into the mass shooting in Dayton, citing the gunman's interest in violent ideology...
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U.S.-China financial war imperils global economy
(National News ~ 08/07/19)
WASHINGTON -- Just what the fragile global economy didn't need: An unpredictable escalation in President Donald Trump's trade war with China, one spreading the conflict to currency markets, threatening to involve other countries and raising the risk of a global recession...
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Dorothy Tucker
(Obituary ~ 08/07/19)
Dorothy Berry Tucker, 97, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, at Southeast Hospital. She was born June 26, 1922, in Charleston, Arkansas, to William Henry and Minnie Opal Lawson Harris. She first married Thomas Jefferson Berry. He preceded her in death. She then married Robert Tucker. He also preceded her in death...
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Joan Phillips
(Obituary ~ 08/07/19)
Joan Darlene Phillips, 59, of Jackson passed away Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 4, 1960, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Charles and Onetta Bollinger Wipfler. She and Donald Phillips were united in marriage Dec. 8, 1980...
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Loustell Ludwig
(Obituary ~ 08/07/19)
Loustell Ludwig, 83, of Jackson died Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson and from 9 to 10 a.m Friday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Pocahontas...
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Prayer 8/7/19
(Prayer ~ 08/07/19)
O Lord, we seek your face and ask for your divine blessing on our lives. Amen.
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Area police reports 8/7/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/07/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Julie M. Aufdenberg, 38, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance. n Bryan D. McDowell, 38, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance...
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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dies at 88
(Entertainment ~ 08/07/19)
NEW YORK -- Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88...
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Catholic school parents weren't told of student's racist video, violent threats
(National News ~ 08/07/19)
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A Catholic school in South Carolina waited more than two weeks to tell parents a student was expelled and arrested after making racist videos and threatening to shoot black people. The videos of the white, 16-year-old male casually firing a gun and making racist comments revived painful memories of the fatal shooting of nine black worshippers in a Charleston church in 2015...
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4 believed dead in plane crash
(Community ~ 08/07/19)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Four people are believed to have been aboard a plane crashing in Alaska with no survivors. National Transportation Safety Board Alaska chief Clint Johnson said reports indicate four people were aboard the plane when Piper PA-22 crashed Sunday outside Girdwood. Johnson says NTSB investigators were heading to the crash site with Alaska State Troopers on Monday...
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Out of the past: Aug. 7
(Out of the Past ~ 08/07/19)
Sister M. Adelma Seyer celebrates 60 years as a school sister of Notre Dame at a morning Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral; officiants are her brothers, the Revs. James and Francis Seyer; Bishop John J. Leibrecht of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese is also present; a basket dinner follows at the parish center...
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Local Pop Artist Jimmy Gockel artwork to be featured at SwissArtExpo
(Submitted Story ~ 08/07/19)
Jimmy Gockel of Cape Girardeau announced today that the Artbox Jury has chosen his artwork Dali, as Semi-Finalist for the SwissArtExpo to be held in Zurich, Switzerland 15-19 August. As Semi-Finalist Jimmy's painting will receive a special presentation at the exhibition and he will further receive publication of his artworks through the Artbox Gallery catalogue...
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