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Missouri group to examine human trafficking policies
(State News ~ 05/29/15)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Legislature approved a measure to create a task force on human trafficking this session but failed to send the governor a measure aimed at cracking down on advertising sex with trafficking victims. The task force will be a path to coordinate disparate resources and provide more comprehensive, trauma-informed services to victims, Deborah Hume said Thursday. Hume is a founding member of the Central Missouri Stop Human Trafficking Coalition...
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Lawsuit: St. Louis suburb's courts violate rights of poor
(State News ~ 05/29/15)
ST. LOUIS -- A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses a St. Louis suburb of often violating the rights of the poor by jailing them because they can't pay small amounts of bond money. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in St. Louis against 13,000-resident St. Ann alleges people unable to come up with bail amounts ranging from $150 to $350 frequently have to spend at least three days and sometimes a week in jail, constituting a "post-arrest, money-based detention scheme."...
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Parma murder suspect could face death penalty
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Deion Martin will know in just a few weeks whether he will face the death penalty. Martin, 21, who is charged in the shooting death of Brenda Smith on May 15, made his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon in Division II of New Madrid County Circuit Court...
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St. Louis man guilty in bank robberies
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
A St. Louis man has been found guilty in two area bank robberies. After a one-day jury trial, Tyrice G. Royston, 36, was found guilty in federal court Wednesday of one count of bank robbery by force of violence in the March 2014 robbery of the First Commercial Bank in Essex, Missouri, according to a news release from the federal prosecutor's office in Cape Girardeau...
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Information withheld on troubled Poplar Bluff development agreement
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Questions surrounding Poplar Bluff's agreement with Eight Points developers may have been answered Wednesday during a special city council meeting, but that information is not being shared with the public. A presentation was held behind locked doors for members of the city council, the city's finance committee and the recently created industrial development corporation...
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Sikeston police investigate shooting
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Officers from the Sikeston Department of Public Safety are investigating a shooting that took place Wednesday night. According to reports, a person was shot in the leg about 9:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Cole Street. The victim was taken to Missouri Delta Medical Center...
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City2City run set for Sunday morning
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Those driving between Cape Girardeau and Jackson on Sunday will want to be on the lookout for runners. The Cape Road Runners are sponsoring the City2City Run and Relay starting about 7:30 a.m. Sunday. The run, which covers 9.2 miles, will start at HealthPoint Fitness in Jackson and end at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. The route will be from HealthPoint Fitness in Jackson, turn onto Veterans Parkway off LaSalle Avenue, then down County Road 620 to Route W and Walden Park...
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Local home invasion suspect arrested in Viburnum
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
A third man sought in last week's home-invasion robbery in Jackson has been arrested. Evan Tillman, 23, of Jackson was arrested Thursday in Viburnum, Missouri, said Capt. Rodney Barnes of the Jackson Police Department. Tillman is charged with three counts of first-degree robbery, one count of first-degree burglary and one count of armed criminal action. ...
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Pepsi to break ground on Cape facility
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Pepsi MidAmerica will host a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for its new Cape Girardeau facility. The facility, called Pepsi Depot, is being constructed on an 18-acre site at the Greater Cape Girardeau Business Park near Interstate 55. It is expected to open in the late fall or winter this year and will create 74 new jobs, according to the company...
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Carry a torch
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Members of the Cape Girardeau Police Department limber up Thursday morning before heading north on Kingshighway during a 5-kilometer leg of the Region 9 Special Olympics Torch Run. The run covers more than 950 miles and ends at the site of the State Summer Games...
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Annual United Way luncheon celebrates compassion, action
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
More than 100 supporters gathered for the United Way of Southeast Missouri's annual luncheon Thursday afternoon at Isle Casino Cape Girardeau. This year's theme was "Turning Compassion Into Action." Capt. Ronnie Amick of the Salvation Army spoke to the crowd about how to find and make the most of opportunities to turn compassion into action. Many people may have an interest in volunteering to improve their community and their neighborhoods but may not know where to begin, he said...
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Special prosecutor asks Rushin be removed from office over nepotism
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A special prosecutor has asked Poplar Bluff City Council member Jack Rushin be removed from office because of misconduct, according to documents filed Wednesday in Butler County Circuit Court. Rushin forfeited his seat by voting to appoint his first cousin to a city committee, violating nepotism laws, Kacey Proctor, Ripley County assistant prosecuting attorney, said in the documents...
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Charges dropped against former Safe Harbor director
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Misdemeanor charges of animal abuse were dropped Thursday against Alice Wybert, the former president of Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary, a no-kill shelter near Jackson. Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Chris Limbaugh dismissed the charges, according to a news release from his office, because of a consent judgment agreement recently reached between Wybert and the Missouri attorney general's office...
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Copeland to leave Cape school district for job at Southeast
(Local News ~ 05/29/15)
Sherry Copeland announced this week she will retire June 30 as assistant superintendent of academic services at the Cape Girardeau School District and become an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership and Counseling Department at Southeast Missouri State University...
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Jackson, Cape municipal bands offer music for variety of tastes at summer concerts
(Entertainment ~ 05/29/15)
Summer in Jackson and Cape Girardeau means music in the park. Community members bring their lawn chairs and enjoy free concerts by the Jackson and Cape Girardeau municipal bands, as well as musical guests. The Jackson band will perform Thursday evenings at Jackson City Park, and guests will perform four Friday night concerts in June, each starting at 7:30 p.m. The Cape Girardeau band will perform at 7 p.m. Friday nights at Capaha Park...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/29/15)
Today is Friday, May 29, the 149th day of 2015. There are 216 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 29, 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses. On this date: In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution...
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The history of mobile telephones, all in one drawer
(Column ~ 05/29/15)
In anticipation of moving out of our home and into a different house, my wife and I have been going through a lot of stuff, deciding what to discard and what to keep. It is exhausting work, as those of you who have been through this process already know...
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Ex-U.S. House speaker charged in relation to payments of hush money
(National News ~ 05/29/15)
CHICAGO -- Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million in hush money to keep an unidentified person silent about "prior misconduct" by the Illinois Republican who was once third in line to the U.S. presidency, according to a federal grand jury indictment handed down on Thursday in Chicago...
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U.S. to 'fine tune' Iraq strategy in light of Ramadi debacle
(National News ~ 05/29/15)
WASHINGTON -- Pentagon leaders are trying to "fine tune" U.S. strategy for ousting the Islamic State group from Iraq, focusing on faster and better training and arming of Sunni tribes whose combat role is central to reversing the extremists' advances, senior U.S. officials said Thursday...
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Psychiatrist: Colorado shooter 'knew what he was doing'
(National News ~ 05/29/15)
CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- A state-appointed psychiatrist who examined James Holmes two years after his attack on a Colorado movie theater said Thursday whatever he suffered from that night, he knew what he was doing. Dr. William Reid told jurors he believes Holmes knew the consequences when he opened fire at a midnight Batman movie premiere, killing 12 people, wounding 58 and injuring 12 others in the ensuing chaos...
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Storms ease in Texas, but runoff could mean more flooding
(National News ~ 05/29/15)
HOUSTON -- Although the deadly thunderstorms that lashed much of Texas have tapered off, many cities still were in danger of flooding Thursday as heavy rain from earlier in the week poured downstream, swelling rivers. The Houston area got a respite from the rain a day earlier, but runoff from earlier in the week lifted the San Jacinto River above flood stage, and it kept climbing. Nearby residents watched the high water with alarm...
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National Spelling Bee ends in tie for 2nd year in a row
(National News ~ 05/29/15)
OXON HILL, Md. -- They couldn't be rattled. They couldn't be denied. Gokul Venkatachalam and Vanya Shivashankar had worked too hard and come close too many times not to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. So they shared the title on Thursday, making history in two different ways...
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Former NY GOP governor Pataki in the race for president
(National News ~ 05/29/15)
EXETER, N.H. -- George Pataki, the 9/11-era New York governor who achieved electoral success as a Republican in a heavily Democratic state, announced his candidacy for the presidential nomination Thursday, offering himself as a unifying figure in a divided nation...
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Out of the past: May 29
(Out of the Past ~ 05/29/15)
Cape Girardeau police must direct long lines of traffic through the congested William Street and South Kingshighway intersection for about an hour in the morning after a momentary power surge blows out a fuse in the temporary traffic signal box at the intersection; the power surge is caused when a crane working on a construction project at the site touches an overhead power line...
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Births 5/29/15
(Births ~ 05/29/15)
Son to Timothy Lukus Mize and Samantha Jean Bass of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 3:02 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Name, Isaiah James. Weight, 7 pounds, 11 ounces. Ms. Bass is the daughter of the late Spencer Bass and Dorothy Bass. She is employed in housekeeping at Fountainbleau Lodge. Mize is the son of Kevin Mize and Carol Mize of Cape Girardeau. He is a steward at Isle Casino Cape Girardeau...
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Speak Out 5/29/15
(Speak Out ~ 05/29/15)
I don't know who thinks that if you're making $250,000 a year you're rich. Try $300,000 or more, in my opinion. Our family has made $250,000. It doesn't take into account you might have handicapped children, or children still at home, adult children. ...
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Jay will return to a crowded situation in Cards' outfield
(Professional Sports ~ 05/29/15)
ST. LOUIS -- Jon Jay was the St. Louis Cardinals center fielder and primary leadoff man when he went on the 15-day disabled list with a wrist injury. When he returns, likely today, it might be more of a job share due to the emergence of Randal Grichuk...
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The last Jews in Berlin
(Column ~ 05/29/15)
"The Last Jews In Berlin" by Leonard Gross and published by Open Road Media is another e-book I purchased from Amazon.com. This nonfiction work follows the lives and the families of a small and diverse group of Jews who managed to escape the Gestapo and Nazi SS during the 1930s through 1945 and the Nazi surrender. ...
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Jackson fire report 5/29/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/29/15)
JACKSON The Jackson Fire Department responded to the following calls Thursday: * Emergency medical service calls were made to: South Bellevue Street, South Shawnee Boulevard, South Hope Street and West Jackson Boulevard.
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Jackson police report 5/29/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/29/15)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. n Katelyn M. Bolen, 24, of Jackson was issued a summons for operating a motor vehicle while operator's license suspended. n Assault was reported in the 100 block of South Bellevue Street. n Assists were requested in the area of the city park and in the 2300 block of West Jackson Boulevard...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 5/29/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/29/15)
* Medical assist calls were made to: Sheridan Drive at 12:44 a.m.; Themis Street at 8:19 a.m.; North Spanish Street at 8:22 a.m.; South Kingshighway at 12:28 p.m.; Washington Avenue at 12:43 p.m.; North Mount Auburn Road at 2:55 p.m.; South Broadview Street at 3:01 p.m.; Garnet Lane at 4:20 p.m.; Linden Street at 6:52 p.m.; and Whitener Street at 9:06 p.m...
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Cape Girardeau police report 5/29/15
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/29/15)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. n Johnie P. Harrell, 61, 442 S. Spring Ave., was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant. n Trent P. Tanchek, 36, of Benton, Missouri, was arrested on a probation and parole warrant for parole violation and burglary...
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Larry Williams
(Obituary ~ 05/29/15)
Larry G. Williams, 71, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 10, 1943, at Whitewater, son of Weldon and Dorothy Barks Williams. Larry was a 1961 graduate of Jackson High School. He was a retired house painter and a member of First Baptist Church in Jackson...
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Janet Schaefer
(Obituary ~ 05/29/15)
Janet L. Schaefer, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at her home. She was born Dec. 24, 1941, in Patton, Missouri, to Walter K. and Jettie P. Seabaugh Mungle. She and William "Bill" Schaefer were married Nov. 7, 1970, at Patton. Janet has been retired 12 years after having worked in hospitals and factories. She was a volunteer at Cape Senior Center. She was also a big St. Louis Cardinals fan...
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Patsy Kimbrel
(Obituary ~ 05/29/15)
Patsy J. Kimbrel, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at her home. She was born Feb. 14, 1933, in Cape Girardeau to Ted and Blanche Cargle Ravenstein. She and Earl Kimbrel were married Dec. 15, 1951, in Cape Girardeau. Patsy was an active member of Grace United Methodist Church, was involved in mission work in the Appalachian Mountains and was famous for her home-cooked meals. Patsy also was active with the American Legion Auxiliary...
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Wallace Kiefer
(Obituary ~ 05/29/15)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Wallace F. Kiefer, 87, of Perryville died Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 26, 1928, in Perry County, Missouri, son of William E. and Anna Jannin Kiefer. He and Mary Lou Prost were married Oct. 23, 1954. She preceded him in death March 14, 2007...
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Mary Farrar
(Obituary ~ 05/29/15)
HIGDEN, Ark. -- Mary Jo Eftink Farrar, 82, of Higden died Tuesday, May 26, 2015, following a brief illness. She was born and raised in the charming Dutch-Catholic hamlet of Portageville in Southeast Missouri. She was born hearing, but in the winter of her first-grade year at school, she contracted spinal meningitis, which left her deaf. Afterward, she attended St. Joseph Institute, a Catholic deaf school in St. Louis, where she completed high school...
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Deborah Thomure Davis
(Obituary ~ 05/29/15)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Deborah Ann Thomure Davis, 53, of Sikeston died Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at her home. She was born May 12, 1962, in Cape Girardeau to Jerry Dale and Alice Fay Clark Thomure. She married Jimmy Howell in 1982. Deborah was a CNA many years...
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Ivan Bragg
(Obituary ~ 05/29/15)
Ivan D. Bragg, 50, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at Life Care Center. There is no public service. Burial will take place at a later date. Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.
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Boston's snow piles filled with trash
(National News ~ 05/29/15)
BOSTON -- Snow piles from the record-setting New England winter are lingering in the Boston area, even as the weather turns summer-like. A 75-foot-high snow mound in Boston's Seaport District has been reduced to a three-story pile of dirt and trash -- including bicycles, traffic cones and even half a $5 bill -- that remains encrusted in solid ice...
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Lawyer: Tracy Morgan happy Wal-Mart crash lawsuit behind him
(Entertainment ~ 05/29/15)
TRENTON, N.J. -- Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan was emotional after settling his lawsuit against Wal-Mart over a highway crash that killed one man and left Morgan and two friends seriously injured. Appearing on NBC's "Today" show Thursday, Morgan's lawyer, Benedict Morelli, said Morgan is happy to put the litigation behind him and have closure...
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Hulu pulls '19 Kids' after allegations against Josh Duggar
(Entertainment ~ 05/29/15)
NEW YORK -- Hulu has pulled the reality series "19 Kids and Counting" from its lineup, following reports of sexual misconduct allegations against one of the stars, Josh Duggar, stemming from when he was a juvenile. Although the streaming-video service didn't confirm removal of the TLC series, episodes weren't found Thursday on the Hulu site, where they had been available as recently as Wednesday...
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Debut of 'Daily Show With Trevor Noah' set for Sept. 28
(Entertainment ~ 05/29/15)
NEW YORK Comedy Central says Sept. 28 will be opening night for Trevor Noah as the new host of "The Daily Show." The 31-year-old South African comedian will be stepping into the job held by Jon Stewart since 1999. The previously announced departure date for Stewart is Aug. 6. The parody newscast then will go on hiatus until the arrival of Noah, whose selection to take over was announced by the network in March...
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Ink Blotter 5/29/15
(Entertainment ~ 05/29/15)
To submit a tattoo, visit semissourian.com/forms/tattoo. (Photo submitted by Mark Ponder)
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Southeast Missouri State's Smith qualifies for NCAA track & field championships
(College Sports ~ 05/29/15)
Southeast track & field Jackson native and Southeast Missouri State senior track and field athlete Blake Smith received quite the gift for his birthday on Thursday while competing at the NCAA West Region prelims in Austin, Texas. Smith's jump of 25 feet, 7 inches in the long jump was good for eighth place and a spot in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which will be held June 10 to 13 in Eugene, Oregon...
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Books put spotlight on mules importance in Missouri history
(Entertainment ~ 05/29/15)
The saying "stubborn as a mule," is not all that accurate, according to Poplar Bluff, Missouri, resident Lonny Thiele, who has written not one but two books about mules. "Mules need a little time to figure things out," Thiele said. The mule is the state animal of Missouri, and Thiele's books demonstrate the important role of these animals in Missouri history...
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Scott City sees dual benefits of shelter
(Editorial ~ 05/29/15)
It might have taken five years and $2.1 million to complete, but, by all accounts, Scott City's new storm shelter was worth the wait. The almost 9,000-square-foot Federal Emergency Management Agency shelter for the Scott City School District, which doubles as a visual and performing arts center, is built to withstand winds of up to 250 mph and can host up to 1,275 area residents in the event of a tornado...
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Prayer 5/29/15
(Prayer ~ 05/29/15)
Lord Jesus, may we stand with courage, remembering the battle belongs to you. Amen.
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Best Bet: Stoogefest 7
(Entertainment ~ 05/29/15)
Stoogefest returns -- for its seventh year -- at noon Saturday at Stooges Restaurant in Jackson. Performers include The Stooge Band, Tailgate Country, Those Darned Argyle Socks, Casey Benefield and Abbie Fieser, Doug E. Rees and Mark Rees and Scott Holt. Also, songwriters who have been working on songs at Stooges at the songwriters' challenge will perform. More information is available at stoogesrestaurant.com or by calling 204-7187...
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