On the trail of the white deer
Posted Monday, October 6, 2008 @ 11:15 am

A lot of people have apparently been seeing a white deer around the Hopper Road area of Cape Girardeau lately.
We've had a few photos submitted to seMissourian.com with images of this deer, running with a pack of your typical, brown colored white-tail deer we see all of the time in Southeast Missouri. Some think the odd deer is an albino, some think it's a white deer.
After doing a little research, I believe we have a white deer on our hands, not an albino. I Googled "white deer" and found several images of the creatures, as well as some interesting stories, like this one from CBS News done in 2006 about the white deer at the Seneca Army Depot in New York. The story says these are regular deer, not albino, that are white because of a recessive gene.
Apparently they're fairly rare, so this Cape Girardeau find is quite remarkable.
Their rareness also made white deer sacred to some Native American tribes, according to this legend.
The white deer has captivated our attention so much that we're on the lookout for it. The Southeast Missourian would like nothing more than to capture some nice images of this creature. So if you've seen the white deer, please let us know the area you saw it in (as specific as possible). Just leave your comments here.

The news is everywhere today — a product of Southeast Missouri has won a big national competition show. I speak of none other than the now-famous Neal E. Boyd and his "America's Got Talent" win Wednesday night.

It's late, and I'm tired. Neal E. Boyd probably is, too.

It's always strange to see someone you've met or talked to on national television -- not because being on national television is necessarily a great accomplishment (such as when people appear on "Cops"), but because those images on that electronic screen seem so detached from reality. No, they ARE detached from reality.
Neal E.

Early Saturday morning, as I stood on the sidewalk outside Broussard's following a gig, I knew something big was going down. I counted six Cape Girardeau police cars, a highway patrol car, a Scott City police car and an ambulance speeding away down North Main Street. My friends and I knew someone had been shot.

I can still remember being a fledgling reporter at the Southeast Missourian, and my first real taste of Scott County small town political drama. Of course, at the center of the play was a police chief.
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We just received a news release from the City of Sikeston, saying the city council has declared October "Neal E. Boyd month," literally hours before the tenor and Sikeston native takes the stage for his "America's Got Talent" finals performance. Boyd went to school in Sikeston and his mother still lives there.

Over the weekend something very terrible happened to a great Cape Girardeau facility when the Capaha Park baseball field was vandalized. This isn't just a damaged trash can or some tagging, this is all-out nasty.

Attention political junkies!
Clips from our extensive interviews with Democrat Jay Nixon and Republican Kenny Hulshof are on our site now.
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I know many of you don't read seMissourian.com over the weekend.
However, we have a special feature coming up Sunday that you might want to check out.
The Southeast Missourian is lucky enough to have a great political reporter with a long history of covering Missouri politics on staff — Rudi Keller.

Greetings. A few days have passed since I blogged, so sorry about that.
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