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Gunfire exchanged Monday morning at Cape gas station
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
About an hour after a homicide occurred in the 400 block of Sheridan Drive early Monday morning, police responded to a report of shots fired at a gas station in the 500 block of South Sprigg Street in Cape Girardeau. Police responded to the shots fired report at 1:51 a.m. and located witnesses at the scene who described the incident, Cape Girardeau police Sgt. Joey Hann stated via text message Tuesday...
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Drug trafficking charges filed against Cairo man possessing more than 400 grams of meth
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
A 23-year-old man is now in custody at the Cape Girardeau County Jail after being found in possession of a Glock 17 9mm firearm, a digital scale, nearly 40 grams of marijuana and more than 400 grams of methamphetamine. Demetrius L. McGee of Cairo, Illinois, is charged with one Class B felony count of second-degree trafficking, one Class D felony count of unlawful possession of a firearm and one Class E felony count of unlawful use of a weapon, according to an arrest warrant requested by Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Welker and issued Saturday. ...
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Mobile food pantries slated in area
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
Southeast Missouri Food Bank has scheduled upcoming mobile food pantries in response to COVID-19: n 6 p.m. July 30, Zalma General Baptist Church, 6369 Maple St., Zalma, Missouri n 10 a.m. July 31, Good Neighbor Pantry, 813 David Blvd., Sikeston, Missouri...
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Cape County exceeds 500 coronavirus cases, counties report increase in cases Tuesday
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
Cape Girardeau County reported 23 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, exceeding 500 cases in the county for a total of 515 positive cases. There are 275 recoveries and three deaths in the county. Fifteen of the new cases are reported in the City of Cape Girardeau, three are reported in Jackson and five elsewhere in the county...
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Anniversary nears of Truman's landmark military desegregation order
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
Perhaps forgotten in the annals of history is a bold move Missouri’s only Oval Office occupant made 72 years ago this Sunday to improve race relations. On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman ordered the desegregation of the U.S. military. “(The order) was a hallmark of using executive power to enhance civil rights,” said Steve Hoffman, a history professor at Southeast Missouri State University...
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Demolition begins inside old Cape police headquarters
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
Major renovations are underway at Cape Girardeau’s former police headquarters, which, by this time next year, will be the Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri’s new home. Sledgehammers began swinging earlier this month inside the two-story, 13,800-square-foot building, which housed the Cape Girardeau Police Department from 1976 until 2018, when the department moved into its current location adjacent to Arena Park...
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Police request public assistance identifying 3 suspects in Monday morning homicide
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
Police have released photos of three suspects in a homicide committed early Monday morning in the 400 block of Sheridan Drive in Cape Girardeau. The photos were captured by a surveillance system at the scene of the homicide, according to a news release issued Tuesday by the Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad, and police are requesting public assistance in identifying the suspects...
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Coronavirus ‘spikes’ requests for Cape County absentee ballots
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
A record number of Cape Girardeau County residents have asked for an absentee ballot for the Aug. 4 primary election. As of Tuesday afternoon, 1,463 requests to vote absentee have been received by the office of County Clerk Kara Clark Summers. The figure easily dwarfs the highest previous mark for requests, 818, received for the primary in August 2012 — an increase of nearly 79%...
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Jackson Municipal Band celebrates 100 years
(Local News ~ 07/22/20)
In 1920, Albert Roloff recruited a group of boys who would become Jackson’s municipal band, and now, 100 years later, the band is marking the occasion with a proclamation by Jackson Mayor Dwain Hahs at the regular Thursday night concert — and a declaration of Jackson Municipal Band Week, starting July 20...
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Renovations
(07/22/20)
To understand the age of a tree, you must cut into it and examine the rings representing years of growth. The Cape Girardeau Common Pleas Courthouse was built in 1854. Additions were made to the building in 1888. Years of renovations kept the building modern. The courthouse annex, originally the Carnegie Library, has a similar history beginning in 1921...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
Today is Wednesday, July 22, the 204th day of 2020. There are 162 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. On this date:...
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Speak Out 7-22-20
(Speak Out ~ 07/22/20)
The Jackson Board of Aldermen spent barely 20 minutes in their meeting tonight to spend nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money while authorizing fireworks in a residential neighborhood during the driest time of the year. Pardon me if I question your commitment to the citizenry...
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The disgrace of Portland
(Column ~ 07/22/20)
If only mobs were allowed to destroy federal property without consequence. Then, there wouldn't have to be any dispute over federal agents defending a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon; it could simply be overrun and burned to the ground with no unwelcome resistance...
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The way to prosperity has many paths
(Column ~ 07/22/20)
PROSPERITY, Pennsylvania How this little village earned its name is rooted in an old tale featuring a common last name, one-in-a-million odds and a likely exaggeration about how many settlers were attracted to the middle of the frontier. "It was founded in 1848 by a gentleman named Robert Wallace," explains Clay Kilgore, executive director of the Washington County Historical Society. ...
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Impact of Dexter businessman's generosity continues with Shriner's donation
(Editorial ~ 07/22/20)
Shriners Hospitals for Children-St. Louis recently received a generous donation from the estate of a prominent Dexter businessman who died in 2017. Norman Harty, former bank president and founder of N.B. Harty Contractors, donated more than $8.4 million to the children's hospital, according to a recent story in the Daily American Republic. The funds, according to officials, will help support orthopedic care...
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Prayer 7-22-20
(Prayer ~ 07/22/20)
O God, may we be tenderhearted, forgiving each other just as you have forgiven us. Amen.
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Private proms during pandemic: 'Footloose' or loose cannons?
(Community ~ 07/22/20)
CONCORD, N.H. -- Bedford High School canceled its senior prom, and a persistent pandemic means prospects for dances to be held this fall are slim to none. But nearly 100 recent grads got dressed up last weekend for a private prom, one of several held around the country just as the debate over safely reopening schools ramps up...
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Astronauts squeeze in last spacewalk before departure
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts squeezed in one last spacewalk Tuesday before turning their attention to the all-important end to SpaceX's first crew flight. NASA's Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy floated out of the International Space Station on their fourth and final spacewalk in under a month. Instead of swapping batteries, they had to route cables, hook up a tool storage chest and perform other maintenance...
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Ohio House speaker, four others arrested in $60M bribery case
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The powerful Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four associates were arrested Tuesday in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio's two nuclear power plants. Hours after FBI agents raided Speaker Larry Householder's farm, U.S. Attorney David DeVillers described the ploy as "likely the largest bribery scheme ever perpetrated against the state of Ohio."...
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Fear of China driving Hong Kong extradition concerns
(International News ~ 07/22/20)
HONG KONG -- A year ago, an extradition bill in Hong Kong that could have sent criminal suspects to face trial in mainland China sparked the semi-autonomous territory's largest protests and its biggest political crisis since its return to China in 1997...
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U.K. officials 'avoided' looking into Russian meddling
(International News ~ 07/22/20)
LONDON -- A long-awaited report on Russian meddling in British politics criticized the U.K. government for failing to investigate whether Moscow interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum, with the document's authors describing the lack of curiosity about this threat to democracy as a major failure at the heart of power...
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EU clinches $2.1T budget, virus aid deal after 4 days
(International News ~ 07/22/20)
BRUSSELS -- Weary but relieved, European Union leaders finally clinched a deal on an unprecedented 1.8 trillion-euro ($2.1 trillion) budget and coronavirus recovery fund early Tuesday, somehow finding unity after four days and nights of fighting and wrangling over money and power in one of their longest summits ever...
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Feds probe men's rights lawyer in 2nd killing
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators are examining whether a suspect in the ambush shooting of a federal judge's family in New Jersey also killed a fellow men's rights lawyer in California, a law enforcement official said. The federal agents are trying to determine whether Roy Den Hollander, who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the day after an attack that killed the judge's son and wounded her husband, had any role in the killing earlier this month of Marc Angelucci...
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Trump excluding those in U.S. illegally from reapportionment
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that seeks to bar people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in congressional reapportionment, a move that drew immediate criticism and promises of court challenges. Trump said that "respect for the law and protection of the integrity of the democratic process warrant the exclusion of illegal aliens from the apportionment base, to the extent feasible and to the maximum extent of the President's discretion under the law."...
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Fed presence in Portland gives protests momentum
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Mardy Widman has watched protests against racial injustice unfold in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, for more than seven weeks but stayed away because, at age 79, she feared contracting the coronavirus. But that calculus changed for Widman when President Donald Trump sent federal law enforcement agents to the liberal city to quell violent demonstrations that he said were fueled by "anarchists and agitators." On Monday, a masked Widman was in the street with more than 1,000 other Portlanders facing down the agents -- a far larger crowd than the city had seen in recent days, as it entered its eighth week of nightly protests.. ...
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U.S. accuses Chinese hackers in targeting of COVID-19 research
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
WASHINGTON -- Hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from companies across the world, the Justice Department said Tuesday as it announced criminal charges...
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31 states now on NY, CT, NJ quarantine list as COVID spikes
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Residents from 31 states must now quarantine for 14 days when arriving in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, as dozens of states experience rising positive COVID-19 rates. Gov. Andrew Cuomo acknowledged Tuesday that the quarantine is "imperfect," but said the quarantine could help protect the states against the risk of increased spread. ...
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Trump says virus in U.S. will get worse before it gets better
(National News ~ 07/22/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday the "nasty horrible"' coronavirus will get worse in the U.S. before it gets better, but he also tried to paint a rosy picture of efforts with governors to conquer the disease that has claimed more than 140,000 American lives in just five months...
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Out of the past: July 22
(Out of the Past ~ 07/22/20)
The five finalists for Cape Girardeau city manager have been named: Jeffrey J. Broughton, 41, city manager of Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Lawrence J. Stevens, 42, city manager of Pittsburg, Kansas; T. Michael McDowell, 43, city administrator of Creve Coeur, Missouri; Michael G. Miller, 58, a management consultant living in Ferguson, Missouri; and Jim A. Allan, 50, city manager of North Bend, Oregon...
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Elsie Beaudean
(Obituary ~ 07/22/20)
Elsie M. Beaudean, 102, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, July 19, 2020, at Lutheran Home. She was born June 22, 1918 in Millersville, to Jesse Larkin and Florence Davis Wilkinson. She and John Beaudean were married June 15, 1940. He preceded her in death Oct. 5, 1987...
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Birth 7/22/20
(Births ~ 07/22/20)
Daughter to Michael and Megan LaBruyere of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 3:36 a.m. Monday, May 18, 2020. Name, Madelynn Rayne. Weight, 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. LaBruyere is the former Megan Kelley, daughter of Russell Kelley and Patricia Bindrim. She is a stay-at-home mom. LaBruyere is the son of Annette and Kevin Reynolds. He works at Saint Francis Medical Center...
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Missouri reports record-breaking 1,138 new coronavirus cases
(State News ~ 07/22/20)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri on Tuesday reported more than 1,100 new coronavirus cases, once again breaking its own record for the largest single-day increase in cases. Data from the state health department show 34,762 people have tested positive for COVID-19 since the virus first struck Missouri, a 1,138 increase in reported cases compared to Monday...
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Police report 7/22/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/22/20)
Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 500 block of South Sprigg Street. n Assault was reported in he 800 block of William Street. n Assault was reported in the 3400 block of William Street...
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