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News

• Ameren warns of utility scam (Updated 9:23 am)
• Postal Service deadline for action by Congress passes (Updated 9:42 am)

  By Melissa Miller ~ Southeast Missourian

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• Dam repairs at Trail of Tears' Lake Boutin to be finished by July (Updated 6:38 am)

  By Scott Moyers ~ Southeast Missourian

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• Annual Scott City yard sale to be earlier this year (Updated 6:37 am)

  By Melissa Miller ~ Southeast Missourian

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• SEMO District Fair announces 2012 event schedule (Updated 11:53 pm)

  By James Samons ~ Southeast Missourian

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• Area legislators largely support Limbaugh selection for Hall of Famous Missourians (Updated 11:53 pm)

  By Scott Moyers ~ Southeast Missourian

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• Prosecutors seek murder charge against man involved in fatal crash near Advance (Updated 11:48 pm)

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• Cape County Commission candidates to take part in Thursday forum (Updated 12:05 am)

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• First preliminary hearing in 1999 Qulin, Mo., murder case put on hold (Updated 11:50 pm)

  By Michelle Friedrich ~ Daily American Republic

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• Grass fire burns power pole in Cape Girardeau (Updated 11:36 pm)

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• Route Z closed today for pipe replacement (Updated 11:21 pm)

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• Route F in Cape County to close for drainage work (Updated 11:21 pm)

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• I-55 in Scott County reduced for pavement repairs (Updated 11:20 pm)

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• Route F in Cape County reduced for drainage repairs (Updated 11:19 pm)

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• Drainage repairs reduce Route A in Cape County (Updated 11:18 pm)

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• Missouri Senate votes to add cellphones to state's no-call list
• Town honors Mark Twain Home dedication anniversary
• Hollywood actors to perform at Joplin tornado benefit
• Missouri lawmakers vote to allow more digital billboards
• Two file suit over deadly St. Louis tent collapse
• Missouri lawmakers approve expanding charter schools

• Ads highlight cozy relationship between campaign, super PACs
• Cheaper gas not enough to boost summer driving
• U.S. helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south
• Greece to head to polls again after talks collapse
• Lightning hits new French president's plane; none hurt
• Army opens combat unit jobs to women
• George W. Bush offers tepid endorsement of Mitt Romney
• April 2012 heats up as 5th warmest month globally
• Boehner: Spending cuts must exceed debt limit increase
• Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears
• Lack of trust in Facebook may hold back ad sales
• Deputies say Florida mom killed 4 kids, then herself
• Defense mum on whether John Edwards will testify
• Romney pins debt on Obama
• Man freed on bond must write book reports
• Iraq War veteran uses rap to treat post-traumatic stress
• Today in History

Sports

• Cape Central baseball team completes upset run, wins district title (Updated 12:41 am)

  By Rachel Crader ~ Semoball.com

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• Notre Dame soccer team waltzes past Sikeston into final (Updated 12:49 am)

  By MARTY MISHOW ~ Southeast Missourian

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• Perryville soccer team's season ends with 3-1 loss to Farmington in district semifinals (Updated 12:45 am)

  By MARTY MISHOW ~ Southeast Missourian

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• St. Vincent's soccer season ends with 2-0 loss to St. Pius (Updated 12:38 am)

  By Kevin Winters Morriss ~ Southeast Missourian

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• High school roundup: Oran will play Bernie for district championship (Updated 12:36 am)

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• Central's Connell finishes sixth in Class 4 golf tournament (Updated 12:33 am)

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• Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team signs Central Florida transfer Martin (Updated 12:49 am)

  By MARTY MISHOW ~ Southeast Missourian Southeast Missouri State men's basketball coach Dickey Nutt has been impressed by Wayne Martin Jr. ever since he attended junior high school in Jonesboro, Ark. "We watched him grow up in Jonesboro,&#

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• Cardinals place Jay on DL with shoulder injury (Updated 6:47 am)

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• Cardinals break losing streak with walk-off single

Features

• Judge: Gary Coleman and ex-wife didn't have common-law marriage

Opinion

• Leadership Cape (Updated 11:37 pm)

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• A distraction from the major issues at stake (Updated 11:37 pm)

  Mike Jensen

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• More bread and circuses (Updated 11:37 pm)

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• A plutocracy government (Updated 11:37 pm)

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• Speak Out 5/16/12 (Updated 11:37 pm)

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Records

• Florence Bauer (Updated 11:32 pm)

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• Gene Heise (Updated 11:32 pm)

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• Ronnie Joyce (Updated 11:32 pm)

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• Jackson police report 5/16/12 (Updated 11:36 pm)

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• Cape Girardeau fire report 5/16/12 (Updated 11:34 pm)

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• Out of the past 5/16/12 (Updated 11:32 pm)

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