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Cape Girardeau school district to evaluate response, security after shooting during graduation (5/21/24)4By J.C. Reeves ~ Southeast MissourianCape Girardeau Public Schools officials are assessing the security and reviewing their response following a shooting at Cape Central High School’s graduation ceremony Sunday, May 19, that sent hundreds into a frenzy. A single gunshot echoed through...
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2 charged in connection to Cape Girardeau graduation shooting (5/21/24)7By Bob Miller ~ Southeast MissourianProsecutors charged Kris E. Owens, 20, of Cape Girardeau with first-degree felony assault, a Class A felony; armed criminal action; and unlawful use of a weapon stemming from a shooting that injured two and disrupted Cape Central High School...
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Cape Central High School graduation shooting timeline (5/21/24)1Southeast MissourianThe Southeast Missourian compiled a timeline of known events leading up to and following the gunshot at the Show Me Center that injured two victims during the Cape Central High School graduation ceremony Sunday, May 19. The timeline draws from...
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Cape City Council approves construction for bar screen on wastewater treatment plant (5/21/24)By Nathan Gladden ~ Southeast MissourianCape Girardeau City Council members approved the construction of an influent pump station mechanical bar screen for the Wastewater Treatment Plant on Monday, May 20. KCI Construction will be working on the project, and its bid for the work was...
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SEMO Board of Governors raises tuition, fees by 4.29% (5/21/24)By J.C. Reeves ~ Southeast MissourianSoutheast Missouri State University announced a 4.29% tuition and fee increase for the 2024-25 academic year in a news release distributed Friday afternoon, May 17. The university’s Board of Governors voted to increase tuition and fees for Missouri...
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Four people killed in house explosion in southwestern Missouri (5/21/24)GOODHOPE — Four people in rural Missouri died when an explosion that could be heard 10 miles away occurred at a house. The explosion happened Saturday night near the unincorporated town of Goodhope. Douglas County Sheriff Chris Degase said the home was undergoing renovations and a propane leak was found. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Missouri Fire Marshal’s Office and local officials continue investigating. ...
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Missouri senators, not taxpayers, will pay potential damages in Chiefs rally shooting case (5/21/24)COLUMBIA — Missouri lawmakers will have to pay out of their own pockets if they lose defamation cases filed against them for falsely accusing a Kansas man of being one of the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooters and an immigrant in the country illegally. ...
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For decades, states have taken foster children's federal benefits. That's starting to change (5/20/24)JEFFERSON CITY — By the time Jesse Fernandez turned 18, the federal government had paid out thousands of dollars in Social Security survivor's benefits because of the death of his mother. But Jesse's bank account was empty. The money had all been used by Missouri's foster care system or relatives responsible for his care...
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GOP fighting, 50-hour Democratic filibuster kill push to make amending Missouri Constitution harder (5/20/24)JEFFERSON CITY — GOP infighting and a record-breaking, 50-hour Democratic filibuster Friday killed a Republican push to make amending Missouri's constitution harder, an effort in part aimed at thwarting an upcoming ballot measure on abortion-rights...
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Missouri candidate with ties to the KKK can stay on the Republican ballot, judge rules (5/20/24)JEFFERSON CITY — A longshot Missouri gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the Republican ticket, a judge ruled Friday. Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker denied a request by the Missouri GOP to kick Darrell McClanahan out of the August Republican primary...
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Defense witness who angered judge in Trump's hush money trial will return to the stand (5/21/24)NEW YORK (AP) — A defense witness in Donald Trump's hush money case whom the judge threatened to remove from the trial over his behavior will return to the stand Tuesday as the trial nears its end. Trump's lawyers are hoping Robert Costello's testimony will help undermine the credibility of a key prosecution witness, Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen...
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WikiLeaks founder Assange wins right to appeal against an extradition order to the US (5/21/24)LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order to the United States on espionage charges, a London court ruled Monday — a decision likely to further drag out an already long legal saga. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson ruled for Assange after his lawyers argued that the U.S. government provided “blatantly inadequate” assurances that he would have the same free speech protections as an American citizen if extradited from Britain...
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Pentagon vows to keep weapons moving to Ukraine as Kyiv faces a renewed assault by Russia (5/21/24)WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin committed Monday to keeping U.S. weapons moving to Ukraine as Kyiv faces one of its toughest moments against a renewed assault by Russia. Austin and as many as 50 defense leaders from Europe and around the world met Monday to coordinate more military aid to Ukraine as it tries to hold off a Russian offensive in the northeast while launching its own massive assault on the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula...
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US says cyberattacks against water supplies are rising, and utilities need to do more to stop them (5/21/24)WASHINGTON (AP) — Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned Monday as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation's drinking water...
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Iran's president and foreign minister die in helicopter crash at moment of high tensions in Mideast (5/21/24)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister were found dead Monday hours after their helicopter crashed in fog, leaving the Islamic Republic without two key leaders as extraordinary tensions grip the wider Middle East...
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War crimes prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu (5/21/24)JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court sought arrest warrants Monday for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war. While Netanyahu and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, do not face imminent arrest, the announcement by the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor was a symbolic blow that deepened Israel’s isolation over the war in Gaza...
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Judge blocks Biden administration from enforcing new gun sales background check rule in Texas (5/21/24)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule in Texas that would require firearms dealers to run background checks on buyers at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores. The decision by U.S. ...
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Election deniers moving closer to GOP mainstream, report shows, as Trump allies fill Congress (5/21/24)WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hours after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Ohio’s then-Republican senator, Rob Portman, voted to accept President Joe Biden’s win over the defeated former president, Donald Trump, despite Trump’s false allegations that Biden only won because of fraud...
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Tuesday's primaries include presidential races and the prosecutor in Trump's Georgia election case (5/21/24)The presidential primaries that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have already clinched will move closer to their end Tuesday. Voters in two states, Kentucky and Oregon, will get their chance to weigh in, symbolic decisions that provide a few more delegates to the national conventions and a gut check on where the Democratic and Republican bases stand toward their standard-bearers...
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Today in History: May 21 (5/21/24)Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2024. There are 224 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 21, 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. On this date: In 1471, King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London at age 49...
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Two shot at Cape Central graduation ceremony; one suspect in custody (5/20/24)35One person was in custody after a shooting at Cape Central High School’s graduation ceremony left two people injured Sunday, May 19. According to Cape Girardeau Police Department, an altercation between two people during the event at the Show Me Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University led to one suspect firing one shot. Two people sustained non-life-threatening injuries. ...
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Mother’s Day stray dog attack in Scott County raises questions about local animal control (5/20/24)1On Mother’s Day morning, Sandy Ruff noticed a stray dog near her home. Believing it to have been abandoned in the area by its owner, Ruff took a photo of the dog and posted it to Facebook, looking for its owner or someone to take it in. According to Ruff, who lives outside of Benton near Thomas W. Kelly High School, the dog was a fully-grown female pitbull with "really bad" mange and appeared to have recently given birth to a litter of puppies. ...
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Biden tells Morehouse graduates scenes in Gaza from Israel-Hamas war break his heart, too (5/20/24)ATLANTA -- President Joe Biden on Sunday offered his most direct recognition of U.S. students' anguish over the Israel-Hamas war, telling graduates of historically Black Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza break his heart, too...
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Power restored to most affected by deadly Houston storm, with rest by Wednesday (5/20/24)HOUSTON -- Houston area residents affected by deadly storms last week received some good news as officials said power had been restored Sunday to a majority of the hundreds of thousands who had been left in the dark and without air conditioning amid hot and humid weather...
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Helicopter carrying Iran's hard-line president apparently crashes in foggy, mountainous region (5/20/24)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive rescue operation in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray...
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US national security adviser, Saudi Arabia's crown prince meet to discuss 'semi-final' security deal (5/20/24)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- President Joe Biden's national security adviser met early Sunday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss what the kingdom described as the "semi-final" version of a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries...
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Airstrike kills 27 in central Gaza, fighting rages as Israel's leaders increasingly divided (5/20/24)DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- An Israeli airstrike killed 27 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting with Hamas raged across the north on Sunday as Israel's leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war, now in its eighth month...
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Bike shops boomed early in pandemic. It’s been bumpy ride for most ever since (5/20/24)For the nation’s bicycle shops, the past few years have probably felt like the business version of the Tour de France, with numerous twists and turns testing their endurance. Early in the pandemic, a surge of interest in cycling pushed sales up 64% to $5.4 billion in 2020, according to the retail tracking service Circana. It wasn’t unheard of for some shops to sell 100 bikes or more in a couple of days. ...
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Former OpenAI leader says safety has ‘taken a backseat to shiny products’ at AI company (5/20/24)A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company last week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company. Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team alongside a company co-founder who also resigned last week, wrote in a series of posts on the social media platform X that he joined the San Francisco-based company because he thought it would be the best place to do AI research. ...
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NerdWallet: What to do about debt in retirement (5/20/24)A growing number of older adults are in debt in retirement, according to the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve. Among people ages 65 to 74, the share with debt rose to 65% in 2022, up from 50% in 1989 (the first time this question was asked). ...
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Today in History: May 20 (5/20/24)1Today is Monday, May 20, the 141st day of 2024. There are 225 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France...
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Cape Girardeau Public Schools issues statement following shooting at graduation ceremony (5/19/24)6Cape Girardeau Public Schools superintendent Howard Benyon issued a statement Sunday afternoon, May 19, following a shooting during the district's high school graduation that left at least one person injured. "During our graduation ceremony today at the Show Me Center, an altercation occurred forcing us to stop the ceremony and evacuate the building...
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Two shot at Cape Central graduation ceremony (5/19/24)4One person was shot at Cape Girardeau Central High School's graduation ceremony Sunday, May 19. A Black male was shot in the leg in the concession area on the second floor of the Show Me Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The victim was conscious and alert after the indent...
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Cape Central graduation postponed after shooting leaves one injured (5/19/24)1
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Police chief says two may have been injured at Cape Central graduation (5/19/24)Cape Girardeau police chief Wes Blair said two people may have been shot at Cape Girardeau Central High School's graduation ceremony Sunday, May 19, at the Show Me Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. Shortly after 4 p.m., Blair said his understanding was that two people had been shot...
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One shot at Cape Central graduation (5/19/24)One person was shot at Cape Girardeau Central High School's graduation ceremony. A Southeast Missourian reporter at the scene said one person had been shot in the leg. The incident occurred about 2:30 p.m. This breaking news will be updated as information becomes available...
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Today in History: May 19 (5/19/24)Today is Sunday, May 19, the 140th day of 2024. There are 226 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery. On this date:...
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Signs of summer (5/18/24)
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Seventh annual Dancing with Show Me Stars to feature new silent auction (5/18/24)The seventh annual Dancing with Show Me Stars will feature a silent auction for the first time in the event’s history. The “Heroes vs. Villains”-themed gala will start at 7 p.m. June 29 with doors opening at the Show Me Center at 6 p.m. The event is organized by the Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri (CPSEMO). Their fundraising goal for this year is $125,000.
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Today in History: May 18 (5/18/24)Today is Saturday, May 18, the 139th day of 2024. There are 227 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing. On this date: In 1652, Rhode Island became the first American colony to pass a law abolishing African slavery; however, the law was apparently never enforced...