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Nailing down a feeling: The mood of David Nail's music has changed since his first albums
(Entertainment ~ 01/23/15)
KENNETT, Mo. -- The year 2014 was a busy, good one for Kennett native and country music star David Nail. His third album, "I'm a Fire" released in March on the MCA Nashville label. Before that release, the first single, "Whatever She's Got," hit No. 1 on the Billboard Country chart and was certified platinum. The follow-up single, "Kiss You Tonight," is still on the charts. A third single will likely release next month...
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Jackson girls basketball team shakes Notre Dame late
(High School Sports ~ 01/23/15)
After missing five games with a concussion she sustained in a car accident two weeks ago, Jackson's Cassidi Tomsu was excited to play in her first game back against Notre Dame on Thursday night. Tomsu quickly found out that missing nearly a week of practices left her out of breathe and out of basketball shape throughout the Indians' 54-40 road victory...
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Deaths by suicide appear to be increasing across Missouri
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
More deaths are attributed to suicide in Missouri than homicides and DWI-related accidents combined. And the numbers are climbing. Yet mental health professionals say stigmas associated with mental illness and depression remain obstacles for people who struggle to find solutions they need...
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Bell convicted of murder, armed criminal action in 2013 shootings
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
Jury convicts him of first-degree murder, armed criminal action in 2013 shootings After nearly three hours of deliberation, a Cape Girardeau County jury on Thursday convicted Kenneth Bell of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action for the Feb. 7, 2013, shooting deaths of Misty Cole and Shannon James in their apartment at 401 S. Pacific St...
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Oran boys basketball team upends No. 2 seed Scott City in conference tourney
(High School Sports ~ 01/23/15)
ORAN, Mo. -- For Hunter Schlosser and his senior teammates, it was the last chance to make amends against a Scott City team that had already beaten them twice this season.
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Money questions pepper meeting about county facility proposals
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
Cape Girardeau County officials hosted their second public meeting to discuss and answer questions -- many of them about money -- on the future of county facilities Thursday night in Jackson. People filled a small room in the back of the Riverside Regional Library and posed questions that primarily focused on budgets and funding...
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Battle of the Bulge
(Submitted Photo ~ 01/23/15)
Bastogne War Museum Memorial, Belgium.
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Locals provide fond memories of longtime Benton mayor
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
It's a raw time for friends and family of Joe Stuckey, who served as mayor of Benton, Missouri, since 1991. Stuckey, 68, died suddenly Wednesday while at a local Subway restaurant. The cause of his death was not available Thursday. Some who knew and loved him, such as City Clerk Connie Barnett, declined to say much amid their grief. But others, such as longtime political colleague and Scott County Presiding Commissioner Jamie Burger, waxed eloquent on the subject of their just-departed friend...
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St. Mary LOTSA Cash Raffle continues
(Submitted Story ~ 01/23/15)
The St. Mary Cathedral School Home and School Association is continuing its annual Lotsa Cash raffle! Pictured is $500 cash winner Mr. Chris Gullette, the most recent lucky and happy winner. Lotsa Cash is a progressive raffle, so his ticket and the tickets of each and every winner to date remain active through each drawing and throughout the entire raffle, all the way up to the big drawing held at the St. ...
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Second person sought in St. Louis hotel murder case
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Local authorities are asking the public for help in their search for a Poplar Bluff man wanted for questioning in connection with the recent killing of a St. Louis Drury Inn manager. Quinton J. Williams, 30, whose last known address was in the 1000 block of Franklin Street, has been identified as a person of interest in the death of Scott Knopfel, said Poplar Bluff Deputy Chief Jeff Rolland...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/23/15)
Today is Friday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2015. There are 342 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 23, 1968, North Korea seized the Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew was released 11 months later.)...
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Opera comes to Cape Girardeau's River Campus
(Editorial ~ 01/23/15)
This weekend, opera comes to Cape Girardeau at the River Campus. The opera is two one-act shows from Gian Carlo Menotti. "Amahl and the Night Visitors" is a take on the three wise men's journey to Bethlehem. "Amelia Goes to the Ball" is about an Italian woman who wants to go to an evening ball. It's an Italian script, but for those interested in a translation, one will be provided...
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Paycheck bill is not helpful
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/23/15)
After reading State Rep Holly Rehder's latest comments in the paper, I am disappointed. I shouldn't be. I should know by now how she is willing to overlook the interests of SEMO voters when it comes to labor issues. Rehder is misleading readers when she says, "Labor reform is still on the top of my list," and says she is "for employees' freedom." What she's really doing is pushing laws that would make us less free but reward the CEOs who demand tax breaks while shipping jobs out of Missouri...
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The ecstasy of a new computer, the agony of passwords
(Column ~ 01/23/15)
Let's just say the past couple of days have been interesting. That's because younger son has been home. One reason for his visit was to help his computer-limited parents through the installation of a new desktop computer. This was made necessary because the existing computer, like its users, was showing its age in more ways than one. It was often so unreliable that we had to call customer service, only to be sent, of course, to another company providing another computer service...
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Speak Out 1/23/15
(Speak Out ~ 01/23/15)
** Dog park; ** Emergency vehicles; ** Thank you; ** Driving Broadway; ** GED test; ** Economy issue; ** Mayor story; ** Bulletin board; ** Where is it made?
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Cape Girardeau fire report 1/23/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/23/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Wednesday: n At 1:18 a.m., a false alarm/call on Lexington Avenue. n At 8:22 a.m., an alarm system sounding on Saint Francis Drive. n At 9:37 a.m., a medical assist on Clark Avenue...
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Cape Girardeau police report 1/23/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/23/15)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Justin L. Roberts, 28, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Stoddard County warrant for failure to appear. n Christopher C. Wampler, 37, of Arnold, Missouri, was arrested on Cape Girardeau warrants for failure to appear and traffic violations...
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Timothy Conrad
(Obituary ~ 01/23/15)
Timothy Roland Conrad, 23, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, at Southeast Hospital. He was born June 18, 1991, in Cape Girardeau, to Scott and Lisa Randol Conrad. Timothy graduated from Central High School. He loved the outdoors, loved to hunt and fish, but he especially loved frog gigging...
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Randy Fish
(Obituary ~ 01/23/15)
Randy L. Fish, 56, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, at Southeast Hospital. He was born Jan. 30, 1958, in Rockford, Illinois, to William L. "Bill" and Marjorie Hale Fish. He and Jackie L. Martin were married Aug. 1, 1987, in Cape Girardeau...
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Shane Andersen
(Obituary ~ 01/23/15)
Shane Robert-Thomas Andersen, 22, of Cape Girardeau passed away Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 6, 1992, in Columbia, Missouri, to Robert Steven and Dolores Ann Heisserer Andersen. Shane was a 2006 graduate of Guardian Angel Elementary School and a 2010 graduate of Oran High School where he was a Boys State delegate his junior year and went to state in discus and shot put. ...
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Joe Stuckey
(Obituary ~ 01/23/15)
BENTON, Mo. -- Joe Stuckey, 68, of Benton died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, in Benton. He was born April 26, 1946, in Cape Girardeau to Clarence Stewart and Viola Riggs Stuckey. He married Ann Elizabeth Scherer on May 29, 1971. Joe was an agent for Shelter Insurance. He was active in Benton city government 36 years, serving the last 24 years as mayor. He was a member of Benton Chamber of Commerce...
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Terry Gowin
(Obituary ~ 01/23/15)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Terry Gowin, 83, of Olive Branch died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, at his home. He was born July 4, 1931, in Oblong, Illinois, son of Kenneth and Pauline Alexander Gowin. He married Gladys Simpkins on Oct. 4, 1950. She preceded him in death March 23, 1999...
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Walter Pierce
(Obituary ~ 01/23/15)
Walter M. "Walt" Pierce, 74, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 8, 1940, in Natoma, Kansas, son of Orvel and Glenna Stokes Pierce. He and Sally Galbraith were married June 7, 1974...
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Missouri car dealers sue state over Tesla's direct sales
(National News ~ 01/23/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Automobile Dealers Association is suing the state revenue department for allowing electric car maker Tesla Motors to sell directly to consumers rather than using a dealership as a middleman. The car dealers, including Reuther Ford Inc. and Osage Industries Inc., filed a lawsuit Thursday in Cole County Circuit Court claiming the department violated state law by licensing the California-based manufacturer as a franchise...
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NTSB: Planes should have technology so they can be found
(National News ~ 01/23/15)
WASHINGTON -- Responding to recent incidents in which airliners vanished, U.S. accident investigators recommended Thursday that all passenger planes making long flights over water carry improved technology that will allow them to be found more readily in the event of a crash...
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Saudi Arabia nearing generational shift in throne, succession change
(International News ~ 01/23/15)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- With the death of King Abdullah, the throne of Saudi Arabia passed to another son of the country's founder as it has relatively smoothly for the past six decades. But it brings the oil-rich kingdom one step closer to a question that will test the unity of its royal family: Who in the next generation will reign?...
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Out of the past: Jan. 23
(Out of the Past ~ 01/23/15)
For the fourth consecutive year, Cape Girardeau experienced no deaths from fires last year; there was a total of 976 reports of fire made to the Cape Girardeau Fire Department during 1989, down from 985 in 1988. Agriculture and education are the primary topics discussed as a five-man Soviet Union delegation starts a farm-oriented tour of Missouri...
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Randy Fish
(Obituary ~ 01/23/15)
Randy L. Fish, 56, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, at Southeast Hospital. He was born Jan. 30, 1958, in Rockford, Illinois, to William L. "Bill" and Marjorie Hale Fish. He and Jackie L. Martin were married Aug. 1, 1987, in Cape Girardeau...
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Yemen president quits; country could split
(International News ~ 01/23/15)
SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's U.S.-backed president quit Thursday under pressure from rebels holding him captive in his home, complicating American efforts to combat al-Qaida's powerful local franchise and raising fears the Arab world's poorest country will fracture into mini-states...
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St. Louis officers fatally shoot man armed with gun
(State News ~ 01/23/15)
ST. LOUIS -- Two St. Louis police officers shot and killed a 19-year-old man who emerged from a stolen car holding a submachine gun capable of shooting nearly three dozen rounds of ammunition, the city's police chief said Thursday. The shooting occurred in a crime-ridden area of north St. Louis. Police on identified the suspect as Isaac Holmes of St. Louis...
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Senate confirms Missouri public safety director appointment
(State News ~ 01/23/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A former St. Louis police chief earned Senate confirmation Thursday to become Missouri's new public safety director, making him one of state's highest-ranking black public officials despite concerns about a racial discrimination lawsuit against him...
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Prosecutors: Ex-CIA man had motive to leak classified info
(State News ~ 01/23/15)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A disgruntled ex-CIA officer was the only person with the knowledge, motive and opportunity to leak details of a classified operation against Iran to a New York Times reporter, prosecutors said Thursday. A federal jury heard closing arguments in the leak trial of the former CIA man, Jeffrey Sterling, 47, of O'Fallon, Missouri, who grew up in Cape Girardeau...
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Masters of tango dancing to perform at Southeast
(Entertainment ~ 01/23/15)
The Southeast Missouri State University River Campus welcomes one of Argentina's great cultural exports, Tango Buenos Aires, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3 in the Bedell Performance Hall at Southeast's River Campus. Tango Buenos Aires has become one of Argentina's cultural exports, known throughout the Americas, Europe and the Far East as the most authentic representative of the tango...
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Powerful New York politician charged with bribery
(National News ~ 01/23/15)
NEW YORK -- Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who bent state government to his will for more than 20 years as one of New York's most powerful and canny politicians, was arrested Thursday on charges of taking nearly $4 million in payoffs and kickbacks...
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GOP pushes abortion bill through House
(National News ~ 01/23/15)
WASHINGTON -- With thousands of abortion protesters swarming the city in their annual March for Life, Republicans muscled broadened abortion restrictions through the House on Thursday after a GOP rebellion forced leaders into a retreat on an earlier version...
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Officer who carried dying girl comforts grieving father
(National News ~ 01/23/15)
EVERGREEN, Colo. -- Every year on his daughter's birthday, Ian Sullivan visits the grave of the child he lost when a gunman slipped into a Colorado movie theater and fatally shot the 6-year-old as she sat with mother in the fourth row. And every year, he finds a birthday card on the headstone from the man who was with Veronica when Sullivan couldn't be: the police officer who carried the dying girl out of the theater in his arms...
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Stoddard County to proceed with $2.5M in capital projects
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- The Stoddard County Commission will embark on $2.5 million in capital improvements, including the phase one addition to the Stoddard County Jail and repairs and renovations to the Justice Center. Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis said Tuesday the commission has been setting aside funds for capital improvements for several years. ...
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T-rex time
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
Crew members of Jurassic Quest show move a model of a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur into place Thursday at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. More than 50 life-size dinosaurs will be on display there from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday...
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River walk extension work
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
Kenny Kluesner, right, and Dwayne Kluesner, driving, of Nip Kelley Equipment Co. lay rebar to build a curb wall Thursday along the river walk in Cape Girardeau. The city is extending the river walk along Riverfront Park by 1,300 feet. Part of the river walk from the Themis Street flood gate south will be closed to pedestrian traffic as work continues. The project is expected to take about four months to finish...
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Births 1/23/15
(Births ~ 01/23/15)
Son to Eric Gilbert and Ruth Anne Backfisch of Scott City, Southeast Hospital, 1:41 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. Name, Andrew Joseph. Weight, 5 pounds, 13 ounces. Fourth child, second son. Mrs. Backfisch is the former Ruth Ponder, daughter of Terry Ponder of Sikeston, Missouri. She is a pharmacy tech at Southeast. Backfisch is the son of Gilbert Backfisch of Sikeston. He is a welder with Don King Equipment...
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Damaged rest area will be converted to truck parking
(Local News ~ 01/23/15)
The northbound Fruitland rest area that was damaged in a fire about Thanksgiving will be converted to truck parking, the Missouri Department of Transportation announced Thursday morning. But it still will offer restroom services to Interstate 55 travelers...
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Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team seeks first three-game win streak
(College Sports ~ 01/23/15)
The chance for its first three-game winning streak of the season and to go above .500 in the Ohio Valley Conference is within reach for the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team.
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Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team to visit OVC power UT-Martin
(College Sports ~ 01/23/15)
If anyone expected the four-time defending Ohio Valley Conference tournament champion University of Tennessee-Martin women's basketball team to swoon following the departure of the conference's all-time leading scorers, Heather Butler and Jasmine Newsome, they were mistaken...
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Scott County Central boys basketball team reaches conference tournament final
(High School Sports ~ 01/23/15)
ORAN, Mo -- Dalton Huffman's layup under the basket gave the fifth-seeded Kelly Hawks an 8-6 lead over the top-seeded Scott County Central Braves almost three minutes in the first quarter of Tuesday's Scott-Mississippi Conference Tournament game, but the lead was short-lived.
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National briefs
(National News ~ 01/23/15)
CINCINNATI -- An Ohio man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of plotting to kill officials and workers at the U.S. Capitol. Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, entered the pleas Thursday during a brief arraignment in federal court. He will continue to be held without bond. Cornell was indicted Wednesday on charges that carry possible sentences of up to 20 years each. They allege attempted murder of U.S. officials and employees and solicitation to commit a crime of violence...
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Man who bought lottery tickets to break bill wins $10 million
(National News ~ 01/23/15)
BOSTON -- A man who bought two lottery tickets at a grocery to break a $100 bill for lunch has won $10 million. Lottery officials announced Richard Noll and his wife claimed the prize this week. Noll said he needed to break a $100 bill to get lunch at a sandwich shop, so he bought two $20 "Platinum Millions" instant tickets at Lanzilli Groceria in East Boston. Noll said he wants to buy a house, make investments and take his granddaughter to Walt Disney World...
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High school roundup: Jackson boys handle Rebels with ease
(High School Sports ~ 01/23/15)
All the local high school events reported Thursday to the Southeast Missourian.
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King Abdullah dead at age 90
(International News ~ 01/23/15)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the powerful U.S. ally who joined Washington's fight against al-Qaida and sought to modernize the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom with incremental but significant reforms, including nudging open greater opportunities for women, has died, according to Saudi state TV. He was 90...
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Prayer 1/23/15
(Prayer ~ 01/23/15)
O Lord Jesus, may those in distress feel an extra measure of your peace. Amen.
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Artifacts 1/23/15
(Entertainment ~ 01/23/15)
The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, 32 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau, has issued a call for artists from across the United States to participate in a juried art exhibition, "Wild Things." The artwork must depict a member of the animal kingdom, real or imagined. ...
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Death and destruction
(Column ~ 01/23/15)
Yemen first came to the attention of most in the American public when the USS Cole was attacked in the port of Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000, killing 17 sailors and injuring another 39. A small boat packed with 400 to 700 pounds of explosives had come alongside the Cole and those aboard detonated the charge blowing a 40-by-60-foot hole in the side of the Cole. It was later determined that the attack was conducted by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)...
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