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Hundreds turn out for Salvation Army dinner
(Local News ~ 11/28/14)
Martin and Clemencia Rodriguez of Cape Girardeau laughed as 2-year-old Sara Rodriguez stretched to reach a cup of cranberry sauce, a determined look on her face. She wasn't tall enough to reach it, so she set down the other three cups she was holding and climbed onto a chair to get to the cup near the center of the table...
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Small merchants offering a 'more civilized way' to Christmas shop
(Local News ~ 11/28/14)
Claire Bruce said she hopes holiday shoppers will take advantage of what she calls "a more civilized way" to buy gifts this season. The owner of Sloan + Themis, 31 N. Main St., is one of 32 downtown Cape Girardeau business owners participating in Old Town Cape's Small Business Saturday promotion...
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Shoppers line up for Thanksgiving bargains
(Local News ~ 11/28/14)
The temperature was below freezing Thursday evening as Tim and Marya Flynn stood outside Best Buy, waiting their turn to go bargain-hunting. The 30-degree weather didn't bother the Flynns, who live in Mankato, Minnesota, and were in town visiting relatives for Thanksgiving...
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Fourth-year coach Nathan Norman has Central football team on the rise
(High School Sports ~ 11/28/14)
A lifetime of football started at Jackson and made stops at Arkansas and Ole Miss before Norman was hired to coach at Central.
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Evangelicals with gay children challenging church
(National News ~ 11/28/14)
Rob and Linda Robertson did what they believed was expected of them as good Christians. When their 12-year-old son Ryan said he was gay, they told him they loved him, but he had to change. He entered "reparative therapy," met regularly with his pastor and immersed himself in Bible study and his church youth group. After six years, nothing changed. A despondent Ryan cut off from his parents and his faith, started taking drugs and in 2009, died of an overdose...
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getting deals on black friday!
(Submitted Photo ~ 11/28/14)
Everyone else was getting great deals, so she decided she would too!
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Santa after shopping!
(Submitted Photo ~ 11/28/14)
She wanted to (or maybe not..) take a break from shopping and meet santa
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/28/14)
Today is Friday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2014. There are 33 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 28, 1964, the United States launched the space probe Mariner 4 on a course toward Mars, which it flew past in July 1965, sending back pictures of the red planet...
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Celebrating high school sports championships
(Editorial ~ 11/28/14)
We celebrate all of our local sports teams and applaud them for their efforts. But when a team goes all the way and wins a championship, it's a special thing. Recently the Perryville boys soccer team won the Class 2 state championship. Perryville (29-1) had a strong second half in the championship contest that included six goals. They won over Soldan International Studies by a score of 7-0...
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Speak Out 11/28/14
(Speak Out ~ 11/28/14)
** Gas price; ** County road; ** Frustrated by mail; ** Speak Out book; Benghazi report; AG block; Abortion, marriage
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O say can you sing 'O Canada!'
(Column ~ 11/28/14)
Let's be clear: I can be a pretty emotional guy at times. Whenever I see a bride going down the aisle at her wedding, I get teary-eyed. When I hear an infant cry, I get bothered -- in my book, holding a crying baby is why God gave us two arms instead of four ears. ...
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Southeast Missourian Athlete of the Week: Cape Central's Braion Owens
(High School Sports ~ 11/28/14)
Braion Owens, the star running back for the Central football team who also starts as a linebacker on defense, saved one of his best performances of the year for the Tigers' Class 4 state semifinal victory over St. Charles West.
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Giving Tuesday touted as opportunity to give, not get
(Local News ~ 11/28/14)
Finding the best deals on gifts from major retailers today, shopping local Saturday and saving online Monday are now well-established national trends during the week surrounding Thanksgiving, but another day is becoming more common for charitable gifts...
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Pre-Meal exercise
(Local News ~ 11/28/14)
Zach Young takes his dog, Bella, for a walk along Water Street in downtown Cape Girardeau on Thursday before heading to Thanksgiving Day lunch.
- A holiday tradition (Local News ~ 11/28/14)
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For some, location of Brown's hands irrelevant
(National News ~ 11/28/14)
FERGUSON, Mo. -- The word spread within minutes of Michael Brown's death -- a young black man with his hands raised in surrender had been shot by a white cop. Soon, "Hands Up. Don't Shoot!" became a rallying cry for protesters in the streets of this St. Louis suburb and a symbol nationwide of racial inequality for those who believe minorities are too often the targets of overzealous police...
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Ferguson gives thanks after a quiet night
(National News ~ 11/28/14)
FERGUSON, Mo. -- Protesters in Ferguson pressed pause Thursday as the city welcomed Thanksgiving, decorating boarded-up storefronts with Dr. Seuss inspiration and gathering for church services -- a contrast to previous days of outrage over the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case...
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Americans mark Thanksgiving with parades, turkey
(National News ~ 11/28/14)
NEW YORK -- Turkey, stuffing and a helium-filled Thomas the Tank Engine are on the menu as friends and families gather across the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving. Here's a look at how Americans are celebrating: Oohing and ahhing spectators of all ages lined the route of the nationally televised Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which counted Thomas the Tank Engine, Paddington bear and the Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger among its six new giant balloons...
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Mubarak verdict due Saturday
(International News ~ 11/28/14)
CAIRO -- Amal Shaker's 25-year-old son Ahmed was fatally shot in the back on the "Friday of Rage," one of the bloodiest days of Egypt's 2011 uprising against longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Nearly four years later, she is waiting for justice. "We want blood for blood," she said...
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Passengers in Russia give airliner a push
(International News ~ 11/28/14)
MOSCOW -- In other countries, you may be asked to give a push to a car stuck in the mud. In Russia, passengers in the Arctic came out of an airliner into bitter cold to help it move to the runway. A Russian-made jet with 74 oil workers aboard was due to fly when the plane couldn't move onto the runway because of ice. It was minus-61 degrees outside. Several dozen men were seen in an amateur video pushing the plane by leaning on both wings...
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Taliban attack rocks upscale Kabul district
(International News ~ 11/28/14)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters staged an attack Thursday evening in an upscale district in the Afghan capital. Witnesses described explosions and bursts of gunfire in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, which contains foreign embassies and compounds housing international agencies and companies, as well as the homes of some senior Afghan government officials...
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OPEC keeps oil output on hold
(International News ~ 11/28/14)
VIENNA -- Reflecting its dwindling oil clout, OPEC decided Thursday to keep its output target on hold and sit out falling crude prices that will likely spiral even lower as a result. Oil prices fell on the news. Even though the decision was largely expected, it showed the once-powerful cartel is losing the power to push up markets to its advantage...
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Cosby testimony describes accuser's spiked story
(Entertainment ~ 11/28/14)
PHILADELPHIA -- Bill Cosby testified under oath in 2005 he gave the National Enquirer an exclusive interview about sexual-assault accusations by a Canadian woman against him in exchange for the tabloid spiking a second accuser's story. Excerpts released Wednesday of Cosby's deposition from a civil lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand quote Cosby as saying he feared the public would believe her sexual-assault accusations if the Enquirer published similar claims by Beth Ferrier. ...
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Cleveland boy's family says fatal shooting avoidable
(National News ~ 11/28/14)
CLEVELAND -- The family of a 12-year-old boy fatally wounded by a Cleveland police officer said surveillance video of the shooting shows that if the officer had not acted so quickly, the boy would still be alive. The video made public Wednesday shows Tamir Rice being shot within 1 1/2 to 2 seconds of a patrol car stopping near him at a park in Cleveland on Saturday. ...
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Families asked to host visitors for pope's U.S. trip
(National News ~ 11/28/14)
PHILADELPHIA -- Residents of the Philadelphia area are being asked to show some brotherly love to those traveling to the city to see Pope Francis next year. With hotel rooms filling up fast for the Roman Catholic-sponsored World Meeting of Families, organizers hope to find more than 10,000 households willing to host guests in their spare bedrooms for a modest fee. It will be the first pontifical trip to the U.S. since 2008...
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Arthur Perry Foulks
(Obituary ~ 11/28/14)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Arthur Perry Foulks, 56, of Carbondale, formerly of Pulaski, Illinois, died Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, at 12:07 a.m. at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. Visitation will be from 5 to 6 p.m. Saturday at Massie Funeral Home in Mounds, Illinois...
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Opal Liles
(Obituary ~ 11/28/14)
ORAN, MO. -- Opal Liles, 97, of Oran passed away Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee, Missouri. She was born March 30, 1917, in London, Arkansas, to Lonnie and Izada Waldo Anthony. She and Charlie Liles were married Jan. 6, 1936, in Eufaula, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death Oct. 16, 1994...
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Dorothy Voges
(Obituary ~ 11/28/14)
Dorothy Voges, 88, of Jackson died Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, at Jackson Manor. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Laura Winkler
(Obituary ~ 11/28/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Laura V. Winkler, 92, of Perryville passed away Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, at Independence Care Center in Perryville. She was born Dec. 3, 1921, at Oak Ridge, to Ferd and Anna Barks Ruessler. She and Bernard Winkler were married April 19, 1947, at Perryville. He preceded her in death Dec. 17, 1997...
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Jim Ritter
(Obituary ~ 11/28/14)
Jim A. Ritter, 70, of Scott City died Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Friday, Sept. 8, 1944, in St. Louis. He is survived by a sister, Charlotte (Michael) Donovan; a niece, Deanna (Johnnie) Teal; and a nephew, Jason Donovan, all of Scott City...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 11/28/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/28/14)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Wednesday: n At 9:10 a.m., a medical assist on Mill Street. n At 11:07 a.m., emergency medical service on Clark Avenue. n At 12:47 p.m., emergency medical service on Grandview Lane...
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Cape Girardeau police report 11/28/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/28/14)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Summonses n Caleb D. Sullivan, 22, of Cape Girardeau was issued a summons for failure to drive with headlights on at Bloomfield Road and Kingshighway. n Timothy O. Lorenz, no age given, of Cape Girardeau was issued a summons for failure to yield at Benton and Independence streets...
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Lynn Barks
(Obituary ~ 11/28/14)
GRASSY, Mo. -- Lynn David Barks, 61, of Grassy died Wednesday, November 26, 2014, in an automobile accident. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill, Missouri. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home...
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University to present Schubert Mass in G major
(Entertainment ~ 11/28/14)
The Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra, Southeast Missouri State University Choir and Choir Union will present Austrian composer Franz Schubert's Mass in G major at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Bedell Performance Hall on the River Campus. The program also will include two pieces by English composers: Ralph Vaughan Williams' "A London Symphony" and "Blest Pair of Sirens" by Sir Hubert Parry...
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Queen of crime writing P.D. James dies at age 94
(Entertainment ~ 11/28/14)
LONDON -- P.D. James took the classic British detective story into tough modern terrain, complete with troubled relationships and brutal violence, and never accepted that crime writing was second-class literature. James, who has died at 94, is best known as the creator of sensitive Scotland Yard sleuth Adam Dalgliesh. ...
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On the 'Wild' side
(Entertainment ~ 11/28/14)
NEW YORK -- Once she'd decided to take on her gritty new role in "Wild," there were a few things Reese Witherspoon knew she didn't want to hear from movie studio executives: "We want her to be more likable." "We don't want her to use drugs." "We don't want her to be profane."...
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Jackson police report 11/28/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/28/14)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Property damage n Property damage was reported in the 900 block of Aspen Drive. Miscellaneous n Assistance was requested in the area of West Main Street and Court Street...
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Bernard Schaper
(Obituary ~ 11/28/14)
Bernard Julius Schaper, 98, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Temple, Texas, after a brief illness. Mr. Schaper was born May 5, 1916, in Jackson, the son of Julius and Frieda Kipping Schaper. He attended public schools in Cape Girardeau and graduated from Jackson High School. He was also a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University and played trumpet in the marching band...
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Best Bet 11/28/14: Parade of Lights
(Entertainment ~ 11/28/14)
The Parade of Lights steps off at dusk Sunday, traveling east on Broadway from Capaha Park and going south on Main Street to end in front of Hutson's Fine Furniture. This year's theme is Christmas Carols and Candy Canes. Spectators are encouraged to bring their own seating. More information is available at oldtowncape.org/events.aspx or by calling 334-8085...
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