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Sponsored: Montgomery Bank provides innovative banking technologies but with personal, trustworthy service
(B Magazine ~ 06/29/22)
Today, there’s almost no need to actually walk into a bank. Not when it’s so easy to pay bills, deposit checks, transfer funds, or even send money to friends and family by the touch of a smartphone. However, sometimes it’s important to be able to talk about money face to face with a real live person...
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An Afternoon at the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail: Following the trail to a perfect day
(Community ~ 06/29/22)
Three friends walk into a winery: a chef, a wine and spirits sales consultant, and an English professor. They order flights of everything on the menu and spend the afternoon comparing tasting notes as they explore the flavors of the region, telling tales, laughing and enjoying the beautiful spring weather. They visit two more wineries and repeat...
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City job fair shows fruits of use tax
(Local News ~ 06/29/22)
The City of Cape Girardeau's job fair last week could soon result in numerous filled positions at the municipal level. "We're very hopeful to start making offers soon," Gina Snyder, the city's human resources director, said. The June 22 fair was attended by 84 people and resulted in 69 applications on the day. The city had an additional 138 applications for its 40 or so open positions, in the past week. Snyder credited the use tax benefits for the boost in interest...
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Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center to hold workshop on making it green clean
(Local News ~ 06/29/22)
Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center, 2289 County Park Drive, will host a workshop to familiarize Southeast Missourians with the cleansing power of the region's native plants. The event, titled "Make It Green Clean," will occur from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday...
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ShotSpotter helps Cape police determine firework or gunshot
(Local News ~ 06/29/22)
Cape Girardeau Police Department's gunshot detection system went live last month and is able to determine the difference between gunshots, fireworks or vehicles backfiring. The high number of sensors throughout the city record sounds from a specific area and determine the source of a noise. ...
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Aide testifies Trump dismissed Jan. 6 threats, wanted to join crowd
(National News ~ 06/29/22)
WASHINGTON -- Former President Donald Trump fought security officials for control of the presidential SUV as he struggled to get to the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, a key former White House aide told House investigators Tuesday, even after he had been told some of his supporters were armed...
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Cape Girardeau, Jackson, others prepare for Fourth of July events
(Local News ~ 06/29/22)
Area municipalities and organizations are set to host a series of events over the Independence Day weekend complete with fireworks displays and patriotic programs. Cape Girardeau's Great American Fourth of July event will celebrate the nation's birthday at Arena Park...
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Vargas receives 3-year contract extension from SEMO Board of Governors
(Local News ~ 06/29/22)
Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas's contract has been extended by the Board of Governors for another three years. Vargas's salary increase, according to the university, is equivalent to what the board approved for all Southeast employees and his contract extension is effective July 1 to June 30, 2025. ...
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Sponsored: Meet the Experts: Style at Any Age
(06/29/22)
We’ve all heard the phrase “age is just a number,” right? Well, when it comes to fashion, we believe that phrase fits; as long as you are comfortable and confident in what you are wearing, the outfit fits well and is appropriate for the occasion, there are no hard and fast fashion rules about what age group can wear a certain style or fashion. Let’s be honest — so many old fashion rules are no longer accurate. For example, want to wear white after Labor Day? Fine...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/29/22)
Today is Wednesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2022. There are 185 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 29, 1613, London's original Globe Theatre, where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed, was destroyed by a fire sparked by a cannon shot during a performance of "Henry VIII."...
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Prayer 6-29-22
(Prayer ~ 06/29/22)
O Lord Jesus, we praise you, for you are the Alpha and the Omega. Amen.
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Cape Girardeau Police report 6/29/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/29/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported. n A Scott County warrant arrest was reported on Independence Street. Thefts n Theft was reported on Independence Street...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 6/29/22
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/29/22)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. June 27 n Medical assists were made at 5:40 a.m. on Village Drive; 9:26 p.m. on William Street. n At 12:05 p.m., lift assist on Jefferson Avenue. n At 1:33 p.m., lift assist on Vista Lane...
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State urged safety upgrades for site of fatal Amtrak wreck
(State News ~ 06/29/22)
MENDON, Mo. -- A Missouri Department of Transportation plan released this year cited a need to improve safety at the rail crossing where an Amtrak train and a dump truck collided, resulting in the deaths of two passengers and the truck driver. The crossing in a rural area near Mendon in western Missouri, about 84 miles northeast of Kansas City, has no lights or other signals to warn of an approaching train...
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New this week: 'Only Murders in the Building,' 'More Power'
(Entertainment ~ 06/29/22)
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press's entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. n The biggest new movie streaming this week is "The Princess," coming to Hulu on Friday, starring Joey King as a royal who refuses to marry her intended (with good reason, as he's a sociopath). ...
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G-7 leaders united behind Ukraine, aim at Kremlin oil money
(International News ~ 06/29/22)
ELMAU, Germany -- Leaders of the world's biggest developed economies said Tuesday they would explore far-reaching steps to cap Russia's income from oil sales that are financing its invasion of Ukraine and struck a united stance to support Kyiv for "as long as it takes" as the war grinds on...
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Turkey lifts its objections to Sweden, Finland joining NATO
(International News ~ 06/29/22)
MADRID -- Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, ending an impasse that had clouded a leaders' summit opening in Madrid amid Europe's worst security crisis in decades, triggered by the war in Ukraine. After urgent top-level talks with leaders of the three countries, alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said "we now have an agreement that paves the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO." He called it "a historic decision."...
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FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots
(National News ~ 06/29/22)
At least some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday it's time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration wrestled with how to modify doses now when there's no way to know how the rapidly mutating virus will evolve by fall -- especially since people who get today's recommended boosters remain strongly protected against COVID-19's worst outcomes...
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US officials announce more steps against monkeypox outbreak
(National News ~ 06/29/22)
NEW YORK -- Reacting to a surprising and growing monkeypox outbreak, U.S. health officials on Tuesday expanded the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus. They also said they are providing more monkeypox vaccine, working to expand testing, and taking other steps to try to get ahead of the outbreak...
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Macron says Russia can't win in Ukraine after strike on mall
(International News ~ 06/29/22)
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine -- France's president denounced Russia's fiery airstrike on a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine as a "new war crime" Tuesday and vowed the West's support for Kyiv would not waver, saying Moscow "cannot and should not win" the war...
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In flurry of court activity, rulings on abortion bans mixed
(National News ~ 06/29/22)
A federal court Tuesday allowed Tennessee to ban abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, while in Texas -- which is already enforcing a similar ban based on an embryo's cardiac activity -- a judge temporarily blocked an even stricter decades-old law from taking effect...
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51 migrants die after trailer abandoned in San Antonio heat
(National News ~ 06/29/22)
SAN ANTONIO -- Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones as authorities began the grim task Tuesday of identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the sweltering Texas heat...
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Court restores culture of life
(Column ~ 06/29/22)
The cries from the left predicting the end of the world in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is a familiar sound. We heard the same after the historic reform in welfare in 1996 when Aid to Families With Dependent Children, which effectively subsidized low-income women to have children out of marriage, was replaced with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- which introduced the idea of workfare...
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No, the conservative justices didn't lie
(Column ~ 06/29/22)
The left simply lost the intellectual and political fight over the direction of the Supreme Court but can't bear to it admit it. Progressives tell themselves instead that they've been undone by a series of dirty deeds, including the alleged deceit of conservative justices who lied to the U.S. Senate about their commitment to preserving Roe v. Wade...
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Redhawks hammer thrower takes home championship
(Editorial ~ 06/29/22)
Congratulations are in order to Southeast Missouri State University hammer thrower Logan Blomquist. The senior recently won his event in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, throwing a personal best 73.37 meters. But his path to a championship didn't come easy. Blomquist's first three throws were less impressive -- 70.54 meters, scratch and 70.51 meters. But as the old saying goes: "It doesn't matter where you start but how you finish that matters!"...
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Out of the past: June 29
(Out of the Past ~ 06/29/22)
Michael Holland is the new campus ministries coordinator at Lutheran Chapel of Hope at Southeast Missouri State University; Holland, past president of Trinity Lutheran Church and currently chairman of the church's board of elders, assumed his new duties June 1...
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Martin Reiss Jr.
(Obituary ~ 06/29/22)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Martin C. Reiss Jr., 89, of Perryville died Monday, June 27, 2022, at Independence Care Center in Perryville. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, with a rosary at 8:30 a.m., at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville...
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Carol Mouser
(Obituary ~ 06/29/22)
Carol Lee Mouser, 73, of Jackson died Sunday, June 26, 2022, at her home. She was born June 14, 1949, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to Arley and Opal Pugh Myers. Survivors include two sons, Timothy (Melody) Mouser and Jeremy (Lori) Mouser; two brothers, Harold (Brenda) Myers and Junior (Sharon) Myers; sister, Marilyn Braswell; four grandchildren, Drake Mouser, Kaden Mouser, Allyson Mouser and Grant Mouser; brother-in-law, Ronald Gipson; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Myers and Barbara Myers; and numerous nieces and nephews.. ...
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Delores Eifert
(Obituary ~ 06/29/22)
SCOTT CITY -- Delores S. Eifert, 84, daughter of the late Clyde Keesee and Essie Mullinax Keesee was born on June 6, 1938, in Fornfelt, Missouri, and departed her life on Sunday, June 26, 2022, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. On Dec. 21, 1958, she was united in marriage to Charles Leon Eifert in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death on Oct. 24, 2001...
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Paula Chapman
(Obituary ~ 06/29/22)
SCOTT CITY -- Paula Marie Chapman, 74, died Sunday, June 26, 2022, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. There will be a memorial service at 11 a.m. July 5 at Bethel Assembly of God Church in Cape Girardeau with the Rev. Phillip Roop officiating. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements...
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Scout Troop 11 return from international travel
(Submitted Story ~ 06/29/22)
Scouts from Troop 11 in Jackson, MO have returned from their trip to the Kandersteg International Scout Centre located in Kandersteg, Switzerland. The trip was also attended by Scout leaders Jon F, Lavonna B, Neal M, and their families. While in Switzerland the scouts hiked through the Swiss Alps exploring local lakes, waterfalls, and the Swiss countryside. ...
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