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PCMS students studying Iditarod race
(Submitted Story ~ 03/09/16)
Perry County Middle Schoolers are spending some time in Alaska this month — virtually, that is. Fifth graders in the classes of Mrs. Amanda Huber, Mrs. Mary Catherine Fetterhoff and Mrs. Michael-Ann Buchheit are following the 2016 Iditarod with live streams this month...
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$8,650 to be Invested in Community through GRACES
(Submitted Story ~ 03/09/16)
The Women’s Leadership Council of United Way of Southeast Missouri, called GRACES, recently awarded a total of $8,650 through GRACES Grants to regional organizations. GRACES, which is an acronym for Giving Responsibly, Advocating for the Community, Excelling in Service, is one of more than 150 Women’s Leadership Councils in the United Way global network. ...
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New Salem United Methodist Women
(Submitted Story ~ 03/09/16)
Joyce Brewer called the March 7 meeting to order by 12 members repeating the UMW purpose. We had 10 sick/shut-in calls for the month of February. Easter Sunrise Service will be March 27 at 6 a.m. with an Easter egg hunt and breakfast following the service...
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First Friday Art in Cape Girardeau at the Arts Council
(Submitted Story ~ 03/09/16)
Our Grandson, Logan, attended First Friday with us and he decided to take a selfie with Grandma and Grandpa Bill and Mary Kiefer, and Artist Barbi Myers. We are standing in front of her paintings at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri.
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Arts Council of Southeast Mo - First Friday with the Artists
(Submitted Story ~ 03/09/16)
Logan Holley enjoyed First Friday at the Southeast Arts Council and made friends with artists Linda Buis and Christy Crites.
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Man shot, killed in Poplar Bluff Wal-Mart parking lot
(Local News ~ 03/09/16)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Authorities are investigating a Tuesday morning shooting at the Poplar Bluff Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot that left a Doniphan, Missouri, man dead inside a car and another in custody...
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Ryan’s restaurant in Cape Girardeau closes; parent company files for bankruptcy
(Local News ~ 03/09/16)
The Cape Girardeau Ryan’s restaurant has closed. A sign on the door indicated a halt in service began Sunday, and requested employees to return Tuesday afternoon “for further instruction.”
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Former director of organization for sexual violence victims accused of stealing $34K
(Local News ~ 03/09/16)
The former executive director of an organization that helps victims of sexual violence is accused of stealing more than $34,000 from the institution over two years. Former Beacon Health Center executive director Kimberly Dawn Williams, 49, of Cape Girardeau is accused of a Class B felony. The minimum sentence for such a crime is five years in prison with a maximum sentence of 15. Williams was issued a criminal summons on Monday to appear in court at 1 p.m. April 4...
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Science fair draws more than 400 projects
(Local News ~ 03/09/16)
Students from 41 schools lined up in rows Tuesday at the Show Me Center to defend their projects during the 60th Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair. Pamela Mills, a geoscience instructor at Southeast Missouri State University and veteran grade-school teacher who helps organize the event, said 88 more students participated this time than last year...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
Today is Wednesday, March 9, the 69th day of 2016. There are 297 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On March 9, 1916, more than 400 Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico, killing 18 Americans. During the First World War, Germany declared war on Portugal...
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TEDx continues focus on race, diversity issues
(Editorial ~ 03/09/16)
One of the biggest topics at Southeast Missouri State University -- and in the nation -- recently has been the issue of race and diversity. As part of Southeast's continuing efforts to bring the discussion to the forefront, the university held a TEDx last week with the theme "Diverse Passions" to discuss race and culture in society and media...
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Trump can ease minds by naming cabinet choices
(Column ~ 03/09/16)
Like millions of other Americans, I remain less than enthralled over the prospect of Donald Trump being the GOP standard-bearer come November. Despite this reluctance and concern, I find no way to even consider a vote for more years of the Obama approach as promised by both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders...
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Out of the past: March 9
(Out of the Past ~ 03/09/16)
Three area educators will be honored for meritorious service during the 115th annual Southeast Missouri District Teachers Association meeting to be held March 15: William C. Hoover of Southeast Missouri State University, Barbara Jean Klein of the Perryville School District and Virginia Eloise Marsh of the Sikeston School district...
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Lisa Thomas
(Obituary ~ 03/09/16)
Lisa Carol Thomas, 54, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, March 7, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. March 19 at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. March 19 at the church. Burial will be at Fairmount Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Raymond Seyer
(Obituary ~ 03/09/16)
Raymond C. Seyer, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, March 7, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Jan. 13, 1922, in Advance, Missouri, to Philip Jacob and Alvina Christina Dohogne Seyer. He and Rose Mary Hoffman were married Feb. 26, 1946, at St. Mary's Church in Cape Girardeau. She preceded him in death Oct. 31, 2015...
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Deanie Ross
(Obituary ~ 03/09/16)
Lucy Geraldine "Deanie" Ross, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born Jan. 17, 1930, in Zalma, Missouri, to Charles Elmer and Lucy Anne Rowe Eaker. She and Paul R. Ross were married Oct. 15, 1948, at Cape Girardeau. He died Feb. 22, 1995...
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Wanda McGuire
(Obituary ~ 03/09/16)
Wanda Lee McGuire, 77, of Jackson passed away Monday, March 7, 2016, at the Monticello House in Jackson, She was born Sept. 16, 1938, in Glennallen, Missouri, the daughter of Fonnie and Margaret Charles Cobb. She and Cecil McGuire were married Dec. 22, 1956. He passed away Feb. 8, 2010...
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Lisa Dalton
(Obituary ~ 03/09/16)
Mona "Lisa" Dalton, 51, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 17, 1964, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Otis W. and Edna Smith Seabaugh. Lisa was a 1981 graduate of Jackson High School. She worked many years as a secretary for the Cape Girardeau Fire Department...
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Rose Cory
(Obituary ~ 03/09/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Rose Mary Cory, 81, of Perryville died Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at her home. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville. Miller Family Funeral Home of Perryville is in charge of arrangements...
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Jackson police report 3/9/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/09/16)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n Crystal I. Medling, 31, 8718 Dorothy Drive, was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant. Summonses n Geoffrey E. Shinn, 39, of Jackson was issued a summons for a stop-sign violation...
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Cape Girardeau police report 3/9/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/09/16)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Candace B. Plaermo, 33, 611 S. West End Blvd., was arrested at South Kingshighway and William Street on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for probation violation...
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9 hurt as train derails, car plunges into California creek
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
SUNOL, Calif. -- A commuter train struck a tree and derailed in storm-soaked Northern California, plunging its lead car into a rain-swollen creek and sending passengers scrambling in the dark to get out of the partially submerged car. Nine people were injured, four seriously, the Alameda County Fire Department said...
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Three decades later, a mixed legacy for 'Just Say No'
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
SEATTLE -- For a generation of Americans, first lady Nancy Reagan was most closely associated with a single phrase: "Just Say No." Three decades after the anti-drug campaign's heyday, its legacy is mixed. Experts say the slogan brought new attention to drug abuse and helped focus research on how to prevent it. But the motto also was part of a larger escalation of the drug war that relied on fear-based rhetoric, public moralizing and skyrocketing incarceration rates...
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Health-law fines double for many uninsured at tax time
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
WASHINGTON -- Many people who went without health insurance last year now are seeing fines more than double under President Barack Obama's health-care law, tax preparation company H&R Block said Tuesday. Among its customers who owe a penalty for the 2015 tax year, the average fine is $383, compared with $172 for 2014, the company said...
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Man dies after falling into burning leaves in St. Louis area
(State News ~ 03/09/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Police said an 89-year-old man died after falling into a pile of burning leaves in the St. Louis area. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Albert Grewe was in his back yard when he fell Monday morning. St. Louis County Police said they believe Grewe's death in the Mehlville area was an accident. It was not clear what caused the man's fall...
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Ferguson takes step to resolve lawsuit with DOJ
(State News ~ 03/09/16)
FERGUSON, Mo. -- One year after the U.S. Department of Justice issued a report highly critical of police and court practices in Ferguson, the city where the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown led to unrest and helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement may be nearing an agreement to end a lawsuit filed by the federal agency...
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Missouri Democrats filibuster religious objections measure
(State News ~ 03/09/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A filibuster by Democrats in the Missouri Senate pushed past the 24-hour mark Tuesday as they tried to block a Republican proposal to add greater religious protections to the Missouri Constitution for some business owners and individuals opposed to gay marriage...
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Authorities searching for man suspected in 5 fatal shootings
(State News ~ 03/09/16)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Dozens of officers searched farmland in central Missouri on Tuesday for a man suspected of killing a man at a nearby house just hours after fatally shooting four people at his neighbor's home about 170 miles away in Kansas. Two helicopters, police dogs and at least one SWAT team were helping look for Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino near New Florence, said Capt. ...
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Missouri House limits funding for MU, Planned Parenthood
(State News ~ 03/09/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri House is sticking with a plan to cut about $7.6 million from the University of Missouri system budget, and Tuesday lawmakers voted to cut an additional $1 million from the Columbia campus. Lawmakers also amended the $27.3 billion state budget proposal to prevent state money from going to Planned Parenthood for services such as vaccinations and medical examinations. Missouri already prohibits state money from funding abortions...
- Flag raised at Common Pleas Courthouse (Local News ~ 03/09/16)
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WHO: Sexual transmission of Zika more common than thought
(International News ~ 03/09/16)
GENEVA -- Sexual transmission of the Zika virus is more common than previously thought, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, citing reports from several countries. After a meeting of its emergency committee on Tuesday, the U.N. health agency also said there is increasing evidence a spike in disturbing birth defects and neurological problems are caused by Zika, which is spread mostly by mosquito bites. ...
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New Freddie Gray trial set, fellow officer must testify
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
BALTIMORE -- The second trial for a police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray is set for next month -- a year after the black man's neck was broken in a police van -- and one of the officer's colleagues will be forced to testify. The latest reshuffling of trial dates happened Tuesday when Maryland's highest court ruled officer William Porter must testify against his fellow officers while he awaits retrial. ...
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Palestinian attacks kill American student
(International News ~ 03/09/16)
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian attackers unleashed a series of shooting and stabbing assaults on Israelis on Tuesday, including a stabbing spree in the ancient Mediterranean port city of Jaffa that killed an American student near where Vice President Joe Biden was meeting with Israel's former president, police said...
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U.S. drone attack kills 150 militants in Somalia
(International News ~ 03/09/16)
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- By U.S. accounts, it was a devastating air strike against Islamic militants in Somalia, with more than 150 killed in a training camp, but it likely won't diminish al-Shabab's ability to continue a wave of attacks. African Union ground forces succeeded in ousting al-Shabab fighters from Somalia's capital in 2011 and protecting the weak government. ...
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FBI agents investigated over shots fired during standoff
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- FBI agents involved in the traffic stop that led to the killing of one of the armed occupiers of a national wildlife refuge are under investigation for not disclosing they fired shots that missed rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, an Oregon sheriff said Tuesday...
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Trump continues dominance in primaries; Clinton, Sanders split states
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
LANSING, Mich. -- Republican Donald Trump swept to victory Tuesday in Michigan and Mississippi, overcoming fierce efforts to blunt his momentum. Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his long-shot White House bid with a crucial win in Michigan's primary, chipping away at Hillary Clinton's dominance in the Democratic presidential race...
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Water-main break prompts boil order for parts of Cape
(Local News ~ 03/09/16)
More than 300 properties in Cape Girardeau are under a precautionary boil order for drinking water because of a water-main break Tuesday afternoon. According to the city’s website, some properties in the Cape Hills, Cape Village and Tanglewood areas will be under a boil order until 4 p.m. Thursday...
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GOP attorney general candidate calls for end to 'culture of corruption'
(Local News ~ 03/09/16)
Missouri Republican attorney general candidate Joshua Hawley wants to restrict or ban state lawmakers from accepting gifts from lobbyists and put an end to what he calls “the revolving door” that allows legislators to immediately become lobbyists. “The combination is just toxic,” he said during a campaign stop in Cape Girardeau on Tuesday. “I am for a very restrictive or outright ban on gifts.”...
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Nation briefs 3/9/16
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
JACKSON, Miss. -- A South Carolina lawmaker is joining other black leaders in calling for Mississippi to change the last state flag that includes the Confederate battle emblem. Democratic Rep. Justin Bamberg spoke Tuesday to more than 200 people for a change-the-flag rally outside the Mississippi Capitol. ...
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Ragtime pianist's historic home to open for tours
(Entertainment ~ 03/09/16)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The historic, Victorian house of ragtime pianist J.W "Blind" Boone is set to open this summer after 16 years of renovations. The J.W. "Blind" Boone Heritage Foundation will host a public celebration this summer before the home opens permanently for tours, receptions and other activities...
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Route A in Perry County reduced for pipe replacement
(Local News ~ 03/09/16)
Route A in Perry County will be reduced to one lane from U.S. 61 to the end of state maintenance, as Missouri Department of Transportation crews replace a pipe under the roadway. Work will take place from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily today through March 31...
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Bag with $15K in cash found in road
(National News ~ 03/09/16)
UPPER DARBY, Pa. -- A transit worker found a bag loaded with over $15,000 in the middle of a road and turned it in to police. Bob Tracey, 61, was driving home from work Monday night when he spotted the black bag. Tracey said he thought it was a purse. But when he opened it, he saw dozens of crisp $100 and $20 bills. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority worker immediately called police. It's unclear who lost the money...
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Prayer 3/9/16
(Prayer ~ 03/09/16)
O Lord Jesus, may we stand firm in the face of adversity for what is right. Amen.
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