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Sponsored: Arnold Insurance to provide ‘Gifts of Hope’ to those affected by COVID-19
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
Arnold Insurance Company is looking for stories of people who need financial assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a video shared on the company’s Facebook page, Arnold Insurance president and CEO Marc Harris outlined the campaign and why it’s important for the company to help those in need...
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Illinois State Police create new investigation zone in Southern Illinois
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
In an effort to increase its investigative presence, the Illinois State Police Division of Criminal Investigation is planning to add an investigative zone in Southern Illinois. Under the Division of Criminal Investigation's previous plan, most counties in Southern Illinois fell into the jurisdiction of either Zone 6 or Zone 7...
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Post-coronavirus: Businesses won't survive doing business-as-usual
(Column ~ 04/21/20)
I have thought and prayed quite a bit for businesses as the nation endures the effects of the coronavirus. Many have suffered great loss due to mandatory closures, and others have closed shop for good. In the blink of an eye, life has changed for business owners, who, like the rest of us, did not see this coming. ...
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Virus cases grow slightly in Cape and Scott counties
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
COVID-19 cases inched up in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties Monday. Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center reported 37 cases Monday, up from 35 on Sunday. The cases’ locations are: Jackson, 15; Cape Girardeau, 14; elsewhere in the county, eight. Of those 37 cases, 21 patients have recovered and one has died...
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Scott City Council approves liquor license, defers COVID hazard pay
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
The Scott City Council voted Monday to approve a liquor license for a business that shares a roofline with a church. By a vote of 5-1 with one abstention, the council approved the license for Front Porch Rental Hall, 1408 Main St. Next door is Father’s Arms Fellowship at 1400 Main St...
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Jackson Aldermen approve bond financing ordinance for Kcoe Isom office expansion
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
The Jackson Board of Aldermen approved the issuance of industrial revenue bonds Monday night, clearing the way for the expansion of an existing Jackson business and the expansion of that company’s payroll. The aldermen, meeting for the second time in a “virtual” format on Jackson’s YouTube channel due to the COVID-19 pandemic and restriction on gatherings of more than 10 people at any location, voted 7-0 with one abstention in favor of an ordinance to issue up to $3 million in taxable industrial revenue bonds to help finance a 10,000-square-foot expansion of the Kcoe Isom offices at 2681 E. Main St. ...
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Local experts say cleaner air is a pandemic byproduct
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
Gov. Mike Parson’s stay-at-home order means Earth Day gatherings for events such as a community tree planting will not happen Wednesday. Advocates of the celebration held April 22 each year find themselves housebound like everyone else. A silver lining in a worldwide pandemic may be difficult to find, but John Kraemer, director of the Environmental Sciences program at Southeast Missouri State University, says the atmosphere is benefiting from temporarily sidelined industries and empty streets...
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Jackson respiratory therapist shares about NYC COVID-19 journey
(Column ~ 04/21/20)
Amber Morgan is exhausted -- physically and mentally. The Jackson resident has been working in New York for the last two weeks as a respiratory therapist, providing life-saving treatment for COVID-19 patients in one of the country's biggest coronavirus hot spots...
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Saint Francis approved to use plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
Saint Francis Healthcare System has been approved to use plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients for treatment with currently hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Board approved such “convalescent” plasma use, according to a news release from Saint Francis...
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City council authorizes TIF Commission to consider project in downtown Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
A set of properties near the intersection of Broadway and North Middle Street are now being considered for a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) project in downtown Cape Girardeau. The properties under consideration are at 222, 230 and 260 N. Middle St. and 430 and 440 Broadway. According to the agenda report signed by deputy city manager Molly Mehner, the parcels have been vacant for some time...
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Dexter runner tries to find silver lining in Boston Marathon delay
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
Scott Kruse should have crossed the famed Boston Marathon finish line Monday. But like runners all over the world who had hoped to compete in the prominent race, Kruse instead finds himself staying home and training for a new race date of Sept. 14. Though he never would have wished for it, Kruse — principal of T.S. Hill Middle School in Dexter, Missouri — said the decision to postpone Monday’s race may have been a blessing in disguise...
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Former U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson faces coronavirus
(Column ~ 04/21/20)
For more than 17 years Jo Ann Emerson represented the 8th District of Missouri in the United States House of Representatives, one of the first Republican women elected to Congress in the state and a political force who regularly won re-election with more than 70% of the vote. ...
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Road work 4/21/20
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
The City of Cape Girardeau Water Department will close the 1800 block of Bloomfield Street, between Koch Avenue and Louis Street, for emergency repairs beginning at 10 a.m. today, according to a city news release...
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P&G donation to help sanitize hands throughout area
(Local News ~ 04/21/20)
Mike Driskill of Ameren Missouri unloads three 50-gallon barrels of hand sanitizer Monday at Cape Splash in Cape Girardeau. Procter & Gamble donated the three drums to the United Way of Southeast Missouri, which will, in turn, portion the liquid disinfectant and make it available to its 30 partner agencies. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/21/20)
Today is Tuesday, April 21, the 112th day of 2020. There are 254 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 21, 1976, clinical trials of the swine flu vaccine began in Washington, D.C. On this date: In 1509, England's King Henry VII died; he was succeeded by his 17-year-old son, Henry VIII...
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Harry and Meghan won't talk to tabloids
(Entertainment ~ 04/21/20)
LONDON -- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced they will no longer cooperate with several British tabloid newspapers because of what they call "distorted, false or invasive" stories. Meghan and Prince Harry have written to the editors of The Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror saying they won't "offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion." They say stories based on "salacious gossip" have upended the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike.. ...
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Evelyn Simpher
(Obituary ~ 04/21/20)
Evelyn Pauline Simpher, 97, of Jackson passed away peacefully Sunday, April 19, 2020, at Monticello House. She was born July 25, 1922, in Cape Girardeau to Emil and Hermenia Schwepker Simpher. She retired from Thorngate Ltd. in Chaffee, Missouri, after 35 years in order to selflessly care for her mother for 15 years. ...
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Virginia Schobey
(Obituary ~ 04/21/20)
Virginia Schobey, 88, passed away Saturday, April 18, 2020, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 3, 1932, in Cape Girardeau to Garner Reid and Virginia Yates Daugherty. She married Francis Schobey on Feb. 5, 1977. He passed away April 15, 1999. During their married life, they made and sold many wood crafts, traveling throughout the area to various craft venues...
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George Plant
(Obituary ~ 04/21/20)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- George Plant, 81, of Marble Hill passed away Saturday, April 18, 2020, at his home. He was born Jan. 1, 1939, in Chicago, the son of Thomas and Francis Marie Kuba Plant. He and Joanne were united in marriage July 6, 1963, and she passed away Aug. 19, 2006...
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Helen Cook
(Obituary ~ 04/21/20)
Helen B. Cook, 95, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, April 18, 2020, at her home. She was born May 28, 1924 in Patton, Missouri, to Pinkney and Rella Seabaugh Brotherton. She and John F. Cook were married Dec. 30, 1944, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death July 16, 1995...
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Prayer 4/21/20
(Prayer ~ 04/21/20)
Father God, we praise you, for you are our rock, fortress and deliverer. Amen.
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Out of the past: April 21
(Out of the Past ~ 04/21/20)
The pool of potential Cape Girardeau school board candidates, which reached 13 yesterday, is expected to grow even larger before today's 4:30 p.m. deadline; in addition to those already announced, Richard Rolfing, Ruth Ann Simon, Wilfred Hoeslscher, Bob Komorech, Dr. C. John Ritter and Steve Robertson have added their names to the list...
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Births 4/21/20
(Births ~ 04/21/20)
Son to Christopher and Kaylyn Bradshaw of Scott City, Southeast Hospital, 3:37 a.m. Monday, April 13, 2020. Name, Elliot David. Weight, 7 pounds, 14 ounces. First child. Mrs. Bradshaw is the daughter of Gary and Rogena Kinder of Dexter, Missouri. She is employed by Southeast Hospital. Bradshaw is the son of Diann and Pete Ulmer of Scott City and Joe and Cindy Bradshaw of Cape Girardeau. He works for the Scott City School District...
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While the economy goes bust, farm-to-table booms
(Column ~ 04/21/20)
MIDDLETOWN, Md. -- There is an argument to be made that the coronavirus pandemic could change the food supply chain for the long term. It may disrupt across the board our reliance on distant producers, processing plants and large chain grocery stores...
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