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Human remains found in Bollinger County
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
Authorities found human remains in rural Bollinger County, Missouri, on Thursday, Oct. 12, during a search for a missing St. Louis woman. A social media post from Bollinger County Sheriff Casey Graham said authorities served a search warrant at a property covering 225 acres in relation to Leah Lamb, 42, who had been reported missing in late September. The post indicated Lamb had been living in Bollinger County...
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Woman shot during struggle in Scott City
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
A struggle between two people resulted in one of them being shot, according to Scott City police. A social media post said officers responded Sunday, Oct. 8, to a report of a female with a gunshot wound. Upon arriving at the scene, officers found a female with an apparent gunshot wound, the post said...
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Suspect taken into custody in connection with shooting
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
A Cape Girardeau man has been charged in connection with a Sept. 17 shooting. A release from Cape Girardeau Police Department said police, assisted by Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office personnel, arrested Kalum Campbell, 28, on Thursday, Oct. 12, at a residence in the 0-100 block of Rivercrest Drive in Cape Girardeau...
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Vehicles reported stolen from Cape Girardeau dealership
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
Seven vehicles were stolen from a Cape Girardeau auto dealership, according to police, but six of them were recovered within hours. Shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, police responded to the 300 block of Siemers Drive for an alleged burglary. A release from Cape Girardeau Police Department said officers found a damaged showroom window and a vehicle reported stolen from the St. Louis area. Seven vehicles had been taken from the dealership...
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Surviving a Heart Transplant: Jimmy Williams
(Community ~ 10/13/23)
If you passed Jimmy Williams on the street, you’d see a typical teenager doing teenager-y things. A freshman at Jackson High School, Jimmy loves music and Tennessee football, staying up late and hanging out with friends, eating Chick-fil-A and munching on barbecue Fritos. Talk with him a bit, and you’d find out he’s obsessed with golf and hopes to play D1 in college. He practices just about every day, and while he loves to compete, he really loves to win...
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Cape public library holding Native American story nights
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
Cape Girardeau Public Library will have two Native American storytelling nights this month, Wednesday, Oct. 18, and Monday, Oct. 23. Alli Boyer, the library's youth services coordinator, said the events are part of National Native American Heritage Month in November. Boyer said while this is a storytelling program usually open for younger children, those 18 and younger are welcome, as well as families with younger children...
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SEMO parade to result in restricted parking areas
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
Cape Girardeau police will restrict parking Saturday, Oct. 14, along the route of Southeast Missouri State University's homecoming parade. A social media post from Cape Girardeau Police Department said the restrictions will begin at 5 a.m. Saturday and will be both sides of Broadway from North West End Boulevard to Main Street; Main Street from Park Drive to William Street; North West End Boulevard from Broadway to Parkview Drive; the east side of Perry Avenue from Broadway to Parkview; Houck Place and Bellevue Street to North Pacific Street (in front of Houck Field); and the east side of Perry Avenue to Parkview.. ...
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'Perforation innovation': Cape plant produces new type of Charmin rolls
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
The Procter & Gamble plant in Cape Girardeau was at the forefront in manufacturing a new kind of toilet paper. "For the first time in over 100 years, we're redefining (toilet paper) as people know it," Gregg Weaver, a senior scientist at Procter & Gamble, told the Southeast Missourian...
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Firefighters association calls for public safety priority, more resources
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters Association has taken to Facebook to express its concerns about loss of employees and to request the city's support and attention. While commending city leaders for their efforts to enhance the community, the group emphasized the importance of prioritizing public safety...
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SEMO's Esports club offers many marketable skills beyond fun, games
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
Southeast Missouri State University's Esports club boasts over 500 members and is one of the largest student organizations on campus. The club's gaming room, the Arena, is located on the first floor of the Towers Complex residence hall and has over a dozen desktop computers set up for the optimum gaming experience, as well as walls of flat-screen TVs connected to a variety of consoles for playing the latest Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation games...
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Missouri cannabis sales closing in on $100 million monthly
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
Missouri's Marijuana Legalization Initiative made sales of adult-use marijuana legal early in 2023 and, since then, revenues for recreational marijuana have soared from $71.7 million in February to $97 million in August, the last month for which the state Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has made data available...
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SEMO announces 'Transforming Lives' capital campaign with goal of $60 million
(Local News ~ 10/13/23)
Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas announced the largest capital campaign in the university’s history at a Homecoming Block Party on Friday, Oct. 13. In front of Academic Hall, Vargas said the university’s “Transforming Lives” campaign aims to raise $60 million...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
Today is Friday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2023. There are 79 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 13, 2010, rescuers in Chile using a missile-like escape capsule pulled 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground...
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Prayer 10-13-23
(Prayer ~ 10/13/23)
O Father God, we seek wisdom from you and believe promises are true forevermore. Amen.
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Rent control is a disaster. Don't let it spread across the nation.
(Column ~ 10/13/23)
America's renters -- more than one-third of the nation's households -- are in for trouble. Left-wing politicians are demanding rent regulation from coast to coast. Wherever it is adopted, the result will be a disastrous reduction in the rental housing supply, leaving renters desperate for places to live...
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Fire report 10-13-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/13/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Oct. 11 n Medical assists were made at 9:51 a.m. on Randol Avenue; 5:36 p.m. on Beavercreek Drive; 5:40 p.m. on William Street; and 6:32 p.m. on North Kingshighway. n At 8:26 a.m., fire alarm on William Street...
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Police report 10-13-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/13/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Hickory Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on Hickory Street. n A warrant arrest was reported...
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George White
(Obituary ~ 10/13/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — George Dwight White, 70, of Perryville died Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at his home. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, at the funeral home, with Brother David Thompson officiating. Military Honors will be provided by the U.S. Air Force Honors Team...
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Gerald Triller
(Obituary ~ 10/13/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Gerald H. "Jerry" Triller, 88, of Perryville died Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, at his home. Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, and from 8 to 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Rosary will be prayed at 8:15 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14...
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Loretta Hyde
(Obituary ~ 10/13/23)
ST. MARY, Mo. — Loretta M. Hyde, 83, of St. Mary died Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Visitation will continue from 8 to 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 16, at Christ the Savior Catholic Church in Brewer, Missouri...
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John Arbuckle
(Obituary ~ 10/13/23)
ORAN, Mo. — John W. Arbuckle, son of the late Oval and Leva Strickland Arbuckle, was born Nov. 8, 1943, in Charter Oak, Missouri, and departed his life Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at his home in Oran at the age of 79. On July 28, 1963, he was united in marriage to Nadine Engram in Bell City, Missouri. She survives of the home in Oran...
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Approved multistate wind-power transmission line will increase energy capacity for Missouri
(State News ~ 10/13/23)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Regulators on Thursday gave the go-ahead for a multistate wind-energy power line to provide the equivalent of four nuclear power plants' worth of energy to Missouri consumers. At issue is the Grain Belt Express, a power line that will carry wind energy from Kansas across Missouri and Illinois before hooking into a power grid in Indiana that serves eastern states...
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Police: Upset father shoots youth football coach
(State News ~ 10/13/23)
ST. LOUIS -- A youth football coach in St. Louis has been hospitalized in critical but stable condition after being shot at practice, allegedly by a father who was upset about his son's playing time, authorities said. Shaquille Latimore, 30, was shot multiple times Tuesday evening at Sherman Park. Daryl Clemmons, 43, later turned himself in, police said. He was charged Wednesday with first-degree assault and armed criminal action...
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5 drug task force officers and a man have been hurt in a gunbattle at a home in rural Minnesota
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
FOLEY, Minn. -- Five drug task force officers and a 64-year-old man were injured in an exchange of gunfire Thursday as the officers served a search warrant at a property in rural Minnesota, authorities said. Benton County Sheriff Troy Heck said at a news conference the officers announced their arrival at a home in Glendorado Township around 7 a.m. and immediately came under fire. He said they returned fire and retreated. The officers' injuries were not life-threatening, Heck said...
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More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says
(International News ~ 10/13/23)
ISLAMABAD -- More than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children, U.N. officials reported Thursday. Taliban officials said Saturday's earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders across Herat province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where 1,294 people died, 1,688 were injured and every home was destroyed, according to U.N. figures...
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Rudolph Isley, founding member of Isley Brothers and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, dies at 84
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as "Shout" and "Twist and Shout" and the funky hits "That Lady" and "It's Your Thing", has died at age 84. "There are no words to express my feelings and the love I have for my brother. Our family will miss him. But I know he's in a better place," Ronald Isley said in a statement released Thursday by an Isley Brothers publicist. Further details were not immediately available...
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Sen. Bob Menendez accused of being an unregistered agent of Egypt's government
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
NEW YORK -- U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey was charged Thursday with conspiring for years to act as an agent of the Egyptian government while he held a powerful role in shaping U.S. foreign policy, putting the Democrat in deeper legal trouble as he continues to reject calls to resign...
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One officer convicted in death of McClain
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
BRIGHTON, Colo. -- Jurors convicted a Denver-area police officer Thursday and acquitted another of charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing. Aurora police officer Randy Roedema was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault. ...
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Auto workers escalate strike, walking out at Ford's largest factory and threatening Stellantis
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
DETROIT -- A top Ford executive says the company has reached the limit of how much money it will spend to get a contract agreement with the striking United Auto Workers union. Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, the company's internal combustion engine business, told reporters Thursday that Ford stretched to get to the offer it now has on the table...
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Hamas practiced in plain sight, posting video of mock attack weeks before border breach
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
Less than a month before Hamas fighters blew through Israel's high-tech "Iron Wall" and launched an attack that would leave more than 1,200 Israelis dead, they practiced in a very public dress rehearsal. A slickly produced two-minute propaganda video posted to social media by Hamas on Sept. ...
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All eyes are on Hezbollah as Israel battles Hamas
(International News ~ 10/13/23)
BEIRUT -- Will Lebanon's heavily armed Hezbollah militia join the Israel- Hamas war? The answer could well determine the direction of a battle that is bound to reshape the Middle East. Hezbollah, which like Hamas is supported by Iran, has so far been on the fence about joining the fighting between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Islamic militant rulers. ...
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Morgue at Gaza's biggest hospital overflowing as Israeli attacks intensify
(International News ~ 10/13/23)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The morgue at Gaza's biggest hospital overflowed Thursday as bodies came in faster than relatives could claim them on the sixth day of Israel's heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people. With scores of Palestinians killed each day in the Israeli onslaught after an unprecedented Hamas attack, medics in the besieged enclave said they have run out of places to put remains pulled from the latest strikes or recovered from the ruins of demolished buildings.. ...
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A 'Zionist in my heart': President Biden's devotion to Israel faces new test
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden had been to Dachau, the infamous concentration camp in Germany, several times before, but he sensed changes when he visited as vice president with a teenaged granddaughter. "It seemed as though things had been rearranged to make visitors less uncomfortable," he recalled in a memoir published two years after the 2015 visit. "They had softened the cruel edges over the years."...
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GOP's Scalise ends bid to become House speaker
(National News ~ 10/13/23)
WASHINGTON -- Republican Steve Scalise has ended his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel. Scalise told GOP colleagues at a closed-door meeting late Thursday of his decision. Next steps are uncertain as the House is essentially closed while Republicans try to elect a speaker after ousting Kevin McCarthy from the job...
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Israel pledges to block vital aid until Hamas releases hostages
(International News ~ 10/13/23)
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military pulverized the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, prepared for a possible ground invasion and said Thursday its complete siege of the territory -- which has left Palestinians desperate for food, fuel and medicine -- would remain in place until Hamas militants free some 150 hostages taken during a grisly weekend incursion...
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Out of the past: Oct. 13
(Out of the Past ~ 10/13/23)
Dr. C. John Ritter and his wife, Marcia Southard-Ritter, arrived in Liberia in July with plans to work as volunteers-in-mission at a rural hospital until the end of December; but a flare-up of the west African nation's continuing political unrest forced the Ritters to flee before the end of September; the Cape Girardeau couple left Liberia on Sept. ...
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Editorial: We stand with Israel
(Editorial ~ 10/13/23)
From the moment Hamas terrorists breached the Israeli border on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 7, it was apparent this attack was not an isolated, spur of the moment provocation. The obviously long-planned attack came on a holiday, when Israeli Defense Forces would be thin. ...
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Social Security tax cut and COLA announcement
(Submitted Story ~ 10/13/23)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Dan Domsic, ddomsic@aarp.org, 317-423-7109 October 13, 2023 Older Missourians see financial relief after cost-of-living adjustment increase, state Social Security tax cut JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri – Older Missourians who count on Social Security will see a healthier bottom line in 2024...
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