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KRCU to bring Music on the River later this month
(Local News ~ 04/10/23)
KRCU, Southeast Missouri State University's radio station, will be holding its first Music on the River on Saturday, April 29, at River Campus Park, 518 S. Fountain St. in Cape Girardeau. The event will be from 6:30 to 10 p.m., with seating limited to those who buy tickets in advance. Tickets are $35 for an individual and $280 for a table of eight. Food and drinks will be included in the ticket prices...
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TikTok — SEMO Mass Media professor weighs in on controversial app
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
The popular social media app and video sharing service TikTok has been in the news frequently in the past month and continues to be a source of controversy. n March 23: TikTok CEO Shou Chew told a U.S. House panel TikTok is independent from China despite widespread concern from lawmakers that TikTok's data collection is being turned over to the Beijing government...
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EPA estimates more than 200,000 lead pipes remain in Missouri
(State News ~ 04/10/23)
More than 200,000 lead service pipes carry drinking water to Missouri families, according to a new estimate from the Environmental Protection Agency. New lead water pipes have been banned for more than 30 years. But the EPA estimates 9.2 million American households still get their water through aging lead pipes...
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Editorial: A community rallies after deadly tornado rips through Bollinger County
(Editorial ~ 04/10/23)
We're accustomed to severe weather in the Midwest. It's not uncommon for tornado watches and warnings to be issued. We get text alerts and push notifications on our phones. Watch weather reports on television and online. And head to the basement when necessary. If we're not careful, we can almost become numb to the process...
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Remembering the old Sinclair gas station in Chaffee
(Local News ~ 04/10/23)
CHAFFEE, Mo. — The old Sinclair gas station in Chaffee that had been abandoned and overgrown for years was burned down by the Chaffee volunteer firefighters April 2. More than 30 people watched as the town landmark was demolished and burned down. The station was known to many as the Bess Sinclair service station that was run from 1964 to 1994 by the late Dennis Bess; others knew it as AJs after it had been sold...
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Local United Way establishes tornado relief fund
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
United Way of Southeast Missouri has created a recovery fund in response to the Wednesday, April 5, tornado in Bollinger County, which claimed five lives. Approximately two dozen houses and mobile homes were in the destructive path of the EF2 twister, with more than 40 other residences sustaining major property damage...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
Today is Monday, April 10, the 100th day of 2023. There are 265 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 10, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage. On this date: In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated...
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Prayer 4-10-23
(Prayer ~ 04/10/23)
O Father God, we praise you, for you are the helper of the fatherless. Amen.
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America loses the Democrats' dirty game
(Column ~ 04/10/23)
Everyone knows the felony charges against Donald Trump for paying hush-money to a porn star are ridiculous. Everyone knows that charging Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records was just a slimy political stunt by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg...
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Trump's trial needs to be televised
(Column ~ 04/10/23)
On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg presented his bag-of-tricks indictment charging former President Donald Trump with 34 counts of false entries in business records. Bragg managed to slice and dice two payments to former hookers into what sounds like a big deal — 34 felonies. Don't be fooled. As former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, no fan of Trump, said of Bragg's case, it's "an abomination" held together "by chicken wire and paper clips and rubber bands."...
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Business quote
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
TikTok itself is not available in mainland China; we're headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we have 7,000 employees in the U.S. today. Still, we have heard important concerns about the potential for unwanted foreign access to U.S. data and potential manipulation of the TikTok U.S. ecosystem. Our approach has never been to dismiss or trivialize any of these concerns. We have addressed them with real action. ...
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Cape Girardeau business licenses
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
City of Cape Girardeau Community Relations Department has received three applications for business licenses: n Shamela Armour of Cape Girardeau for Newbridge Retirement Community, 1205 S. Mount Auburn Road, a senior assisted living community with a beauty salon, a pub and gift shop. Projected opening: Thursday, June 1...
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Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Perryville chamber news
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce is promoting two events this week: n 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 11 — Cape Girardeau Regional Airport groundbreaking, 860 Limbaugh Drive, for new terminal. n 3 p.m. Friday, April 14 — Old Town Cape dedication of new gateway marker at the corner of Broadway and Main Street downtown...
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Johnson & Johnson to settle cancer case
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday, April 4, it will pay $8.9 billion over the next quarter of a century to settle "all current and future" claims that alleged the company's baby powder and other cosmetic talc products caused cancer. "The company continues to believe that these claims are specious and lack scientific merit," said Erik Haas, a J&J vice president. ...
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Purple Heart signs for Jackson
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
City of Jackson will soon install Purple Heart signage at the six roadway entrances to the municipality. Jackson's Board of Aldermen voted earlier this year — as the cities of Cape Girardeau, Scott City and Chaffee did previously — to become a Purple Heart City, joining hundreds of other U.S. municipalities in officially recognizing those who died or were wounded during American military service...
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Indian fusion eatery opens in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
Ikhatta by A La Carte Catering, an Indian fusion eatery, has opened at 2502 Tanner Drive in Cape Girardeau. "We launched Feb. 3, and Ikhatta in the Hindi language means 'together,'" said Cody Kelley, a 2016 Cape Girardeau Central graduate, who went to culinary school for two years and was most recently a sous chef for Gabriel's Food & Wine in downtown Cape Girardeau...
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Gas prices up on OPEC 'surprise'
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
Auto club federation AAA said OPEC's "surprise" announcement recently of a coming 1 million barrel a day cut in oil production sent crude prices up — and consumers are feeling the pinch at the pump. The average U.S. price for a gallon of regular gas Saturday was $3.59, while in Missouri, it was $3.21 — up 8 cents in the Show Me State in the last seven days and up 18 cents in the past month...
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SEMO econ chief Yaskewich says job market 'cooling'
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
David Yaskewich, chairman of Southeast Missouri State University's Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, said Friday, April 7, he sees a silver lining in the U.S. Labor Department's March jobs report. "My takeaway from the report is it looks like the job market is still strong, although there are signs of some cooling in terms of the slower pace of job gains," Yaskewich said...
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Century Casino Inc. acquires new property
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
Century Casinos Inc., founded in 1992 and owner of properties in Cape Girardeau and Caruthersville, Missouri, announced Tuesday, April 4, an approximately $100 million acquisition of Nugget Casino in Sparks, Nevada. The casino site is 3 miles from Reno-Tahoe International Airport...
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Cape Girardeau casino hotel update
(Business ~ 04/10/23)
Century Casino Cape Girardeau anticipates its $26 million, six-story, 69-room downtown hotel will be finished sometime in the first half of 2024, according to an update from the casino's general manager, Lyle Randolph. "Stairwell and elevator core will be topping out soon (and) steel wall panels for the first level of rooms have been installed," said Randolph, who is also vice president of Century's operations, in a text message to the Southeast Missourian...
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78-year-old bank heist suspect: 'I didn't mean to scare you'
(State News ~ 04/10/23)
HARRISONVILLE, Mo. -- A 78-year-old woman with two past bank robbery convictions faces new charges after authorities allege she handed a teller a note that said "I didn't mean to scare you" during a recent Missouri heist. Bonnie Gooch is jailed on $25,000 bond after she was charged with one count of stealing or attempting to steal from a financial institution in the holdup Wednesday in Pleasant Hill, The Kansas City Star reported. No attorney is listed for her in online court records...
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Lila Welch
(Obituary ~ 04/10/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Lila Lee Welch, 68, of Perryville passed away Monday, April 3, 2023, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born July 17, 1954, to the late Virgil and Gloria Henson, and grew up in Bonne Terre, Missouri. Lila married Thomas M. Welch on May 4, 1996. He survives in Perryville...
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Doris Saupe
(Obituary ~ 04/10/23)
Doris Elizabeth Saupe, 75, of Shawneetown passed away Saturday, April 8, 2023, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 10, 1947, near Friedheim to Edgar and Lucille Kirn Wibbenmeyer. Doris was baptized and confirmed at St. Maurus Catholic Church in Biehle, Missouri. She was a graduate of Oak Ridge High School...
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Shirley Keen
(Obituary ~ 04/10/23)
BENTON, Mo. — Shirley Mae Parker Keen, 82, of Benton died Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Private services will be held under the direction of McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston, Missouri.
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Caitlin Burress
(Obituary ~ 04/10/23)
Caitlin Michelle Burress, 33, of Jackson passed away Saturday, April 8, 2023, at her home. She was born Aug. 17, 1989, in Paducah, Kentucky, the daughter of Terry and Crystal Adams Burress. She was a 2008 graduate of Jackson High School, and she attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau...
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8 people missing in fiery collapse of Marseille building
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
MARSEILLE, France -- Eight people remained missing after the building they lived in exploded and collapsed early Sunday near the port of Marseille, leaving mounds of burning debris hampering rescue operations, officials said. More than 100 firefighters worked against a ticking clock to extinguish flames deep within the rubble of the five-story building, but more than 17 hours later "the situation is not yet stabilized," Marseille Prosecutor Dominique Laurens said at an evening news conference...
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Cubans seek solutions and solace in Santer'a amid crises
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
HAVANA -- From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba's capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch as dozens of Cubans wearing white and African beads make offerings at a bright blue altar consuming half a room, asking for luck, protection and good health...
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As tiger count grows, India's Indigenous demand land rights
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
BENGALURU, India -- It was a celebratory atmosphere for officials gathered just hours away from several of India's major tiger reserves in the southern city of Mysuru, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Sunday to much applause that the country's tiger population has steadily grown to over 3,000 since its flagship conservation program began 50 years ago after concerns that numbers of the big cats were dwindling...
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Ukrainians celebrate Palm Sunday in church marred by dispute
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Willow branches in hand, Ukrainians marked Palm Sunday in the country's most revered Orthodox site that has been at the heart of a religious dispute playing out in parallel with Russia's war on Ukraine. Dozens of worshippers filled the grand Refectory Church of Anthony and Theodosius located inside the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastic complex. Many more waited outside in the sprawling courtyard and observed the service there...
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China health officials lash out at WHO, defend virus search
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
BEIJING -- Chinese health officials defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out Saturday at the World Health Organization after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic information earlier. The WHO comments were "offensive and disrespectful," said the director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shen Hongbing. He accused the WHO of "attempting to smear China" and said it should avoid helping others "politicize COVID-19."...
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Ukraine's coal miners dig deep to power a nation at war
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
DNIPROPETROVSK OBLAST, Ukraine -- Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting coal to power the country's war effort and to provide civilians with light and heat. Coal is central to meeting Ukraine's energy needs following the Russia's military's 6-month campaign to destroy power stations and other infrastructure, the chief engineer of a mining company in Dnipropetrovsk province said...
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Competing abortion pill rulings sow broad alarm, confusion
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
Emma Hernandez is defiant even if she fears what may come in the latest stage of the nation's fight over abortion: a widening prohibition to safe and legal ways to end unwanted pregnancies, including access to abortion pills. Competing rulings by two federal judges over the availability of the abortion drug mifepristone are sowing alarm and confusion for Hernandez and countless other Americans who insist that availability must be guaranteed. ...
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Once everywhere, Saddam's image scrubbed from Baghdad
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
BAGHDAD -- Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein in front of his salon in Baghdad's Firdos Square...
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Tensions build around Jerusalem shrine after Syria rockets
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
JERUSALEM -- Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals. Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the city's Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, for a mass priestly benediction prayer service for the Passover holiday. ...
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Biden sports plan angers transgender advocates, opponents
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
A Biden administration proposal to forbid outright bans on transgender athletes sparked outrage from conservative leaders while also angering trans rights activists who note schools could still prevent some athletes from participating on teams that align with their gender identity...
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Home-based workers became younger, more diverse in pandemic
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau. In many respects, the demographic makeup of people working from home from 2019 to 2021 became more like workers who were commuting, while the share of the U.S. ...
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Pope at Easter: Pray for Ukrainian, Russian people and refugees
(International News ~ 04/10/23)
VATICAN CITY -- In an Easter message highlighting hope, Pope Francis on Sunday invoked prayers for both the Ukrainian and Russian people, praised nations which welcome refugees and called on Israelis and Palestinians wracked by the latest surge in deadly violence to forge a "climate of trust."...
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Expelled Tenn. lawmakers both seeking seats again
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Two former Black Democratic lawmakers who were expelled by Republican colleagues in Tennessee say they want to be reappointed, then elected back to their seats, following their ouster for a protest on the House floor urging passage of gun-control measures in the wake of a deadly school shooting...
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Russian attacks on Ukraine continue amid pleas for peace on Easter
(International News ~ 04/10/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Weekend shelling by Russian forces killed at least seven civilians, Ukrainian officials reported Sunday as Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby used their traditional Easter messages to highlight the war in Ukraine and other conflicts around the world...
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AMA's first gay president set to take over at tumultuous time
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
CHICAGO -- The first openly gay person to lead the American Medical Association takes the reins at a fractious time for U.S. health care. Transgender patients and those seeking abortion care face restrictions in many places. The medical judgment of physicians is being overridden by state laws. Disinformation is rampant. And the nation isn't finished with COVID-19...
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Most oppose Social Security, Medicare cuts, poll finds
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a majority support raising taxes on the nation's highest earners to keep Medicare running as is. The new findings, revealed in a March poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, come as both safety net programs are poised to run out of enough cash to pay out full benefits within the next decade...
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US health secretary slams abortion pill ruling as 'not America'
(National News ~ 04/10/23)
WASHINGTON -- The nation's top health official said Sunday that a court ruling threatening the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion was "not America" and he did not rule out defying the judge's order if necessary. "We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision," Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden's health secretary, told CNN's "State of the Union". ...
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As streaming services cut costs, TV shows — and residuals — vanish
(Entertainment ~ 04/10/23)
Actor Diana-Maria Riva is all too familiar with one of her shows being canceled. For a performer, it's a painful, unfortunate part of show business. But this was different. In December, Riva was floored when she found out "Gordita Chronicles", her recently canceled family comedy, would be removed from HBO Max's vast streaming library -- one of dozens of shows HBO last year effectively wiped from existence for U.S. ...
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Out of the past: April 10
(Out of the Past ~ 04/10/23)
The Cape Girardeau County Commission yesterday decided to wait before granting any tax abatements for the old Saint Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau; commissioners said they would reconsider if and when the proposal becomes a viable project; Springfield, Missouri, developer Trent Condellone asked the commission to forgive back taxes and fines on the property; Condellone runs a newly formed Springfield corporation, 801 Good Hope Inc., which announced it has bought old Saint Francis Hospital...
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