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Solid growth report brightens outlook for economy in 2014
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
WASHINGTON -- Consumers will spend more. Government will cut less. Businesses will invest more. More companies will hire. Add it up, and you can see why expectations are rising that 2014 will be the best year for the U.S. economy since the recession ended 41/2 years ago. That's why the Federal Reserve is pressing ahead with a plan to scale back its economic stimulus...
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Former railroad worker awarded $12.5 million verdict
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
HILLSBORO, Mo. -- A Jackson man was awarded a $12.5 million judgment earlier this week by a 12-member jury in a lawsuit filed against his former railroad company, BNSF. Michael Bolen, 51, was involved in a mishap that cost him his right leg below the knee...
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State Senate endorses bill to curb governor's power
(State News ~ 01/31/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican state senators took steps Thursday to try to curb the governor's power to fill vacancies in state agencies and force him to call special elections for empty seats the Legislature, in what was the Missouri Senate's first action of the year...
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Southeast Missouri State senior Mack gets one last try to make OVC basketball tournament
(College Sports ~ 01/31/14)
Patricia Mack, a senior forward on the Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team, is counting down the games until the start of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. "Today she came in and is like, 'Nine games left until Nashville,'" Southeast coach Ty Margenthaler said. "As a senior it hits you, and I think it's starting to hit her now."...
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Anna, Ill., prepares for third annual Civil War Weekend
(Entertainment ~ 01/31/14)
Anna, Ill. -- Even 150 years after the War between the States, events such as the Civil War Weekend in Anna find new ways to examine one of the most turbulent times in the nation's history. The three-day event, Feb. 7 through 9, gives local history enthusiasts an opportunity to enjoy exhibits, tours and speeches that describe the effect of the war on Southern Illinois and Southeast Missouri...
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Three candidates face off for Ward 2 primary
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
Three candidates in Cape Girardeau's Ward 2 want to make it to April's city council election, but only two will. A primary runoff will be held in the ward Tuesday that will send the top two vote-getters to the April 8 municipal ballot. Voters will decide between Craig David, Rocky Everett and Shelly Moore, all of whom gathered the 50 required certifiable signatures from Ward 2 voters that were needed to become candidates. Ward 2 includes most of downtown and southern parts of the city...
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Cape Central's Ethan Groshong signs letter of intent with Missouri Baptist Unive
(Submitted Story ~ 01/31/14)
Ethan Groshong's soccer skills will pay off next year when he enrolls for classes at Missouri Baptist University on a soccer scholarship! During his time at Cape Central High School, he started all 4 years. Additional honors include: All-District Honors, All-Conference Honors, and All-Region Honorable Mention...
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Cape Central Junior High Cheerleaders End a Terrific Season
(Submitted Story ~ 01/31/14)
Cape Central Junior High School (CJHS) Cheerleaders competed at Jamfest National Cheerleading Competition in Nashville, TN on Saturday, January 25th. CJHS cheerleaders had a very successful season as they finished second to the grand champions of the entire Jamfest session they were competing in. ...
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Weather service debunks rumors of giant snowstorm
(State News ~ 01/31/14)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Meteorologists in the Midwest took to social media on Friday to quell rumors that a winter storm expected to move into the region next week could dump up to 30 inches of snow in some areas. The National Weather Service's Indianapolis bureau said in Facebook and Twitter messages that predictions that 20 to 30 inches of snow could fall on Indiana and other Midwestern states next Tuesday and Wednesday "are EXTREMELY premature & improbable."...
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Mo. union hires former GOP speaker as lobbyist
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- One of Missouri's largest labor organizations has hired a former Republican House Speaker as a lobbyist. The Missouri AFL-CIO hired Steve Tilley this week as the labor organization prepares to combat "right to work" measures this year. The legislation would prohibit labor contracts from requiring that all employees pay union fees...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
Today is Friday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2014. There are 334 days left in the year. This is the Chinese New Year of the Horse. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 31, 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces began a successful invasion of Kwajalein Atoll and other parts of the Japanese-held Marshall Islands...
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Some thoughts on being a very cold human being
(Column ~ 01/31/14)
There isn't a whole lot I can say about cold weather that you don't already know. But I keep looking for the positive side of our frigid torment. I have to be honest: It's not easy. Each winter my wife says she hopes we get enough cold weather to kill some of the "bugs" that cause various ailments and make us miserable. I have to say I think she got her wish this year. And we don't seem to have so many allergies. Let's count this as a plus for freezing temperatures...
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Rock musician to speak at LaCroix Church
(Editorial ~ 01/31/14)
You might recognize the name Brian "Head" Welch. He played guitar for the rock band Korn and quickly attained worldly fame. But there was something missing. Welch's life was filled with drugs, sex and hard living. A single father, he left the band in 2005 and became a born-again Christian...
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First round of Joplin schools now open
(State News ~ 01/31/14)
JOPLIN, Mo. -- A ribbon-cutting ceremony at a Joplin elementary school completed the first round of openings of schools built since a tornado hit the city in May 2011. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was on hand Wednesday to help officially open Soaring Heights Elementary School. The school district had similar ceremonies recently at the new Irving Elementary School and East Middle School...
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Mo. woman asks judge to undo her plea in child slaying
(State News ~ 01/31/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri woman who as a teenager wrote that killing a young neighbor was an "ahmazing" thrill asked a judge Thursday to overturn her guilty plea, saying she made it under the threat of a lifetime in prison. Alyssa Bustamante testified in court she wouldn't have pleaded guilty to the 2009 slaying of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten if she had known about a pending U.S. Supreme Court case involving juvenile murder defendants...
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Nine killed in Kentucky house fire
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
GREENVILLE, Ky. -- Eight children and their mother were killed in an early morning house fire in western Kentucky on Thursday, with only the injured father and an 11-year-old girl escaping, Kentucky State Police said. Trooper Stu Recke said eight of the people were found in a master bedroom and the ninth person was found between 10 and 15 feet away. Recke said the fire started accidentally with combustible material against an electric heater in a bedroom...
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Prosecutors seek execution of marathon suspect
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
BOSTON -- Federal prosecutors Thursday announced they will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing, accusing him of betraying his adopted country by carrying out a terrorist attack calculated to cause maximum carnage...
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‘House of horrors' loaded with live, dead pythons
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The smell wafting from the house was bad, to put it mildly. It was the result of more than 200 dead pythons, 200 still-living snakes, and a rodent infestation. It was bad enough to send veteran investigators gasping for air. Bad enough to make normally poised TV reporters hold their noses. Bad enough to make much of a neighborhood gag...
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Justin Bieber charged with assault in Canada
(International News ~ 01/31/14)
TORONTO -- Justin Bieber was charged with assault for allegedly hitting a Toronto limousine driver several times in the back of the head last month. The news broke just after the Canadian pop star's attorney entered a separate not guilty plea in Florida to drunken-driving and other charges...
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Knox's murder conviction upheld
(International News ~ 01/31/14)
FLORENCE, Italy -- An appeals court in Florence on Thursday upheld the guilty verdict against U.S. student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of her British roommate. Knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison, raising the specter of a long legal battle over her extradition if the conviction is confirmed...
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Lawyers: Mo. moving too quickly on executions
(State News ~ 01/31/14)
ST. LOUIS -- By the time the U.S. Supreme Court refused a last-minute request to stay the execution of Herbert Smulls, the Missouri inmate was already dead. His attorneys said Thursday that it was the third straight case in which Missouri has moved ahead with an execution while the case was still in court...
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K.C. mulls closing detention center
(State News ~ 01/31/14)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City officials are considering closing a dilapidated detention center that has not seen many improvements since it was built in 1939. The center houses old metal bunks, steel toilets between those bunks and grimy concrete floors. It houses people arrested on a city ordinance violation or warrant, or those arrested on a 24-hour state hold for more serious crimes, The Kansas City Star reported...
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Korn guitarist to tell story of recovery
(Entertainment ~ 01/31/14)
Brian "Head" Welch isn't a typical rock star. In 2005, he was battling alcoholism and drug addiction, was a single father and walked away from the popular Grammy-winning nu-rock band Korn, which he co-founded more than 20 years ago. But what made guitarist Welch stand out in the rock 'n' roll world was becoming a born-again Christian later that year. ...
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Jazz festival will draw 500 students, experts
(Entertainment ~ 01/31/14)
More than 500 area high school and junior high students in 25 jazz ensembles will perform at the 16th annual Clark Terry/Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Festival on Feb. 7 and 8 at the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus. The students will perform for three experts in the field of jazz. ...
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‘Man of La Mancha' returns to stage of River Campus
(Entertainment ~ 01/31/14)
"Man of La Mancha" will be featured as part of the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus Touring Series at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bedell Performance Hall. "Man of La Mancha" returns to the stage in this new production, complete with the Tony Award-winning score and book that has inspired theatergoers since the first note of "The Impossible Dream" was heard on opening night...
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Out of the past 1/31/14
(Out of the Past ~ 01/31/14)
James Erlacker, a certified public accountant with Kerber, Eck and Braeckel, says the Cape Girardeau municipal government is "in pretty decent financial shape"; he reported the findings of a recent audit to the city council last night. Jackson School District voters will decide April 4 whether to enact a 78-cent tax levy increase for construction of a new elementary building and gymnasium and renovation of the existing elementary school for use by the high school...
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Guest column: Missouri should keep term limits for lawmakers
(Column ~ 01/31/14)
2011 polls show Missourians support term limits for state legislators When Gov. Jay Nixon called for "sweeping ethics reform" last month in Kansas City, he gave term limits supporters in Missouri a reason to worry. So-called ethics bills have become a popular tool conniving legislators can use to undermine voter-passed term limits...
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Cape Girardeau police report 1/31/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/31/14)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests...
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Martha Wilhelm
(Obituary ~ 01/31/14)
Martha Irene Wilhelm, 80, of Jackson died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, at Heartland Care Rehab Center in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until service time Saturday at the chapel of McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Rodney Pensel officiating. Burial will be in St. John's United Church of Christ Cemetery in Fruitland...
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Dorothy Teegarden
(Obituary ~ 01/31/14)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Dorothy Sue Dockery Teegarden, 85, of Chaffee passed away Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 21, 1928, in Hayti, Mo., to Cress and Clois Billideau Dockery. She and Hershel C. Teegarden were married Oct. 23, 1951. He preceded her in death May 15, 1972...
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Lois Newman
(Obituary ~ 01/31/14)
Lois William Newman, 90, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Nov. 4, 1923, in Lilbourn, Mo., to Mode and Mary Landers Newman, and grew up in the Canalou, Mo., area. In the early 1950s, he moved to Oran, Mo., to farm and later to Sikeston where he had farming interests, a vocation he enjoyed more than 50 years. ...
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Joan Illers
(Obituary ~ 01/31/14)
Joan Hale Illers, 83, of Jackson died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 9, 1930, in Millersville, to Maple Snider and Gladys Sedare Hale Miller. She and Donald Illers were married June 5, 1949. He died Oct. 15, 2013...
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Glowdena Finnigan
(Obituary ~ 01/31/14)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Glowdena "Billie" Finnigan, 87, of Portland passed away Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, in Gresham, Ore. She was born Nov. 14, 1926, in Mesler, Mo., to Archie and Nona Baker. She met and married William Coyle Finnigan in Oakland, Calif., during World War II...
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Vatican bank admits widows were victims of crackdown
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
VATICAN CITY -- Dozens and perhaps hundreds of widows and Vatican pensioners recently came in for a rude surprise: The Vatican bank told them they had to close their accounts or risk losing access to their money -- all in the name of Pope Francis' reform efforts, The Associated Press has learned...
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Ukraine leader's sick leave prompts guessing game
(International News ~ 01/31/14)
KIEV, Ukraine -- Amid the deepest turmoil since the Orange Revolution, President Viktor Yanukovych's announcement Thursday that he was taking indefinite sick leave prompted a guessing game among Ukrainians about what was happening to their country...
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Air Force: 92 implicated in nuke cheating scandal
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
WASHINGTON -- Top Air Force officials described a persistent culture of "undue stress and fear" that led 92 out of 550 members of the military's nuclear missile corps to be involved in cheating on a monthly proficiency test on which they felt pressured to get perfect scores to get promoted...
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Family fight: GOP debates next move on immigration
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
CAMBRIDGE, Md. -- House Republicans wrestled inconclusively with the outlines of immigration legislation Thursday night, sharply divided over the contentious issue itself and the political wisdom of acting on it in an election year. At a three-day retreat on the frozen banks of the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore, GOP leaders circulated an outline that would guide the drafting of any House Republican legislation on the subject -- a document that Speaker John Boehner told the rank and file was as far as the party was willing to go.. ...
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After snow, mayor, gov. play delicate blame game
(National News ~ 01/31/14)
When the snow started falling Tuesday and cars lined up on the highways, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed were at an awards luncheon, smiling and backslapping each other as the Republican governor introduced the Democratic mayor, who was named a local magazine's "Georgian of the Year."...
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Cape Girardeau schools to participate in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read-a-Thon
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
A chance to connect with the community and be around children are just some of the reasons 12 Southeast Missouri State University students turned out Wednesday for an information session on volunteering for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read-a-Thon...
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Forecasters say it's too soon to predict next week's precipitation
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
A winter weather event is expected to move through the area early next week, but forecasters Thursday said it's still too early to make any solid predictions about accumulation amounts for snow and ice. The National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky., did however say in its hazardous weather statement issued Thursday morning which covers the next several days that the storm "will have the potential for significant impact on the region."...
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Construction continues on Jackson school
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
LAURA SIMON ~ lsimon@semissourian.com Adam Mays, with Grover Mays & Sons Construction, welds decking on Jackson R-II School District's new elementary school building, Thursday, Jan. ...
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Workers move pipes into place for Broadway Stormwater Relief Sewer project
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com Jim Yokley with R.L. Persons Construction Co. of Poplar Bluff, Mo. ...
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Gusty winds, dusty skies
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com A motorist driving into Illinois on Thursday from the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge might have wondered whether farmers were burning their fields. ...
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Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team visits one of OVC's best in EKU
(College Sports ~ 01/31/14)
The Colonels sit in second place in the East Division
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Judge to address conceal and carry issues
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
Cape County Republican Women's Club will host Gary Kamp, associate circuit judge and president of Cape Friends of the NRA, at noon Feb. 7 at Dexter Bar-B-Que, 236 Broadview St. in Cape Girardeau. Kamp will speak about the concealed weapons law, which became effective in 2004 and set up training requirements and background checks for applicants as well as issuing processes for sheriffs. The program was scheduled in December but was postponed because of inclement weather...
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No injuries in Cape apartment fire
(Local News ~ 01/31/14)
A fire caused by cooking damaged a Cape Girardeau apartment late Wednesday afternoon, but all were able to make it out of the building safely. Firefighters responded to a call of a fire at 121 East Rodney Drive around 5:23 p.m. Wednesday and upon arrival saw smoke coming from the second floor of an apartment building and flames in one apartment's second floor window, according to a news release from the Cape Girardeau Fire Department...
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High school roundup: Woodland boys upset Advance in semis of Stoddard County Conference Tournament
(High School Sports ~ 01/31/14)
All the local high school events reported Thursday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Southeast Missouri State's Black is named to freshman All-American football team
(College Sports ~ 01/31/14)
Southeast Missouri State defensive tackle Austin Black was named to the first team Phil Steele FCS Freshman All-American Team on Thursday. He was one of five Ohio Valley Conference players named and was joined on the first team by Eastern Illinois offensive lineman Jimmy Lowery...
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BEST BET: Faculty, students in percussion recital
(Entertainment ~ 01/31/14)
A percussion recital will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Shuck Music Recital Hall. Shane Mizicko, associate professor of music at Southeast Missouri State University, will perform several solo works and be joined by Ashley Lacy and Shelby Ratliff on a trio for two marimbas and vibraphone based on J.S. ...
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Artifacts 1/31/14
(Entertainment ~ 01/31/14)
Singing auditions for the ninth annual Telethon Idol will be Feb. 22 in the J.C. Penney Co. wing of West Park Mall. Auditions will begin at noon, with registration at 11 a.m. There is a $10 registration fee. All ages are welcome to audition, including past winners. ...
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Prayer 1/31/14
(Prayer ~ 01/31/14)
O Heavenly Father, thank you that we have hope through your son Jesus. Amen.
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Mizzou's Green-Beckham at scene of marijuana bust
(Professional Sports ~ 01/31/14)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Two men arrested along with Missouri wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham have told police the estimated one pound of marijuana found in their car did not belong to the star football player. The case remains under investigation, and criminal charges have not been filed after the Springfield native and two friends were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of felony drug distribution. ...
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