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Will Ferrell turns in pitching gem, sends Notre Dame baseball past Cape Central
(High School Sports ~ 04/06/16)
Sophomore Will Ferrell possesses the kind of size that's made for the basketball court, but baseball's just more of his thing. The 6-foot-8 Ferrell made a decision to spend the winter season away from the court and instead focus on becoming a more viable pitching option for the Notre Dame baseball team...
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Delta High School canned food drive
(Submitted Story ~ 04/06/16)
The Delta High School Student Council hosted its annual canned food drive the week of March 21-25. This year Delta students from seventh through 12th grade brought in more than 1,800 cans, or an average of more than 15 cans per student. The cans were divided up this year, with half going to the food pantry in the Delta Baptist Church and half going to the Amen Center in Delta...
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Bald Eagle
(Submitted Story ~ 04/06/16)
This is a male and female bald eagle.
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Jackson girls soccer pins back Perryville for a 4-0 victory
(High School Sports ~ 04/06/16)
Health is often something teams can't control. Nearly everyone plays short-handed at some point in the season, and whoever handles it best stays afloat. On Wednesday there were absences in the lineup for both the Jackson and Perryville girls soccer teams. The Indians best managed that obstacle, and it showed on the scoreboard...
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Voters approve vehicle tax, deny use tax in Cape, Jackson
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
Cape Girardeau and Jackson voters rendered a split decision on two tax issues on Tuesday's ballot, approving an existing tax and rejecting a new use tax. Voters in both towns agreed to retain existing sales taxes on purchase of out-of-state vehicles. But they rejected enacting a use tax in each city on other out-of-state purchases...
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Voters in Perry County extend tax to fund infrastructure
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
Perry County voters approved the extension of a tax to fund infrastructure repairs by a nearly 60 percent margin Tuesday. The question was whether to extend the existing three-eighths-cent sales tax, which was set to expire March 3, 2017, 20 years after it passed originally. It will now remain in effect for the next 20 years...
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Arrest made in last week's shooting death in Cape
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
The Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad announced the arrest of Tavious L. Tipler, 19, of Cape Girardeau on suspicion of murder in Thursday's fatal shooting of Airious Darling, 28, of Cape Girardeau. Tipler is charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. Tipler's bond was set at $500,000 cash only...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
Today is Wednesday, April 6, the 97th day of 2016. There are 269 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece. On this date: In 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York...
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President refuses to face problems
(Column ~ 04/06/16)
Like it or not, Western civilization and culture are at war with ISIS. At this point, it's an undeclared war and a highly nontraditional war. But it's a war nonetheless. Unfortunately, President Obama is clearly not at war with ISIS. It has been abundantly clear from the very beginning of his first term that our president has a somewhat different world view of America's role...
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A collaborative teaching effort in Jackson
(Editorial ~ 04/06/16)
Teachers at Jackson's new East Elementary School are collaborating to bring lessons to students. Through a concept called Encore, teachers of music, art, library, physical education and counseling for kindergarten through fifth grade identify common topics across their lesson plans, then identify how to show students how that topic applies in various disciplines...
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Musical about Lady Liberty finds new home on 42nd Street
(Entertainment ~ 04/06/16)
NEW YORK -- A story about how the Statue of Liberty ended up raising her torch in New York Harbor is the subject of a musical that will open off-Broadway this summer at an appropriate date -- July 4. Producer Theresa Wozunk said the 80-minute "Liberty: A Monumental New Musical" starring 15-year-old Abigail Shapiro will play the 42West theater beginning June 6 and open on Independence Day...
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Critics aside, Perry reaches new heights with OWN, more hits
(Entertainment ~ 04/06/16)
NEW YORK -- When Tyler Perry began creating shows for the then-struggling OWN Network four years ago, he'd send scripts he'd written to Oprah Winfrey for approval -- and she'd wince. "I would say, 'I think that's too much! It's over the top! Oh my God, I can't believe this is happening!'" Winfrey recounts about Perry's first OWN show, "The Haves and Have Nots," a prime-time drama fueled by connivers, sex and blackmail, now in its fourth season...
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California woman gives up home to care for thousands of cats
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
PARLIER, Calif. -- It started with a few kittens. Nearly a quarter century later, a California woman has transformed her 4,000-square-foot home into what's believed to be the largest no-cage cat sanctuary and adoption center in the U.S. An estimated 24,000 cats have been saved by the sanctuary, which houses up to 1,000 felines at any given time. Lynea Lattanzio set up Cat House on the Kings after finding out many nearby shelters euthanize cats who aren't adopted...
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PayPal cancels N. Carolina expansion over discrimination law
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- PayPal said Tuesday it was scrapping a $3.6 million, 400-job expansion in North Carolina, the biggest tangible economic backlash so far to a new state law that restricts protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people...
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9-year-old reporter defends homicide coverage after backlash
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
A 9-year-old reporter who wrote about a suspected murder in her small Pennsylvania town is defending herself after some locals lashed out about a young girl covering violent crimes. Hilde Kate Lysiak got a tip Saturday afternoon about something untoward happening on Ninth street in Selinsgrove, about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia...
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Trump proposes funding wall by cutting off remittances
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump would try to force Mexico to pay for a border wall by targeting billions of dollars in remittances sent by immigrants living in the U.S., according to a memo released by his campaign Tuesday. The memo outlines in new detail how Trump would try to compel Mexico to pay for the 1,000-mile wall he's promised to build along the Southern border if he becomes president...
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Exit poll: Wisconsin voters excited, scared about Trump
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin GOP primary voters said a potential Donald Trump presidency inspires more excitement -- and more fear -- than his Republican rivals. That's according to early results of exit polls conducted Tuesday for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research...
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GOP senator meets Garland, says hearings should be held
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- A Republican senator said Tuesday she is "more convinced than ever" there should be hearings on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee after meeting with Judge Merrick Garland. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made clear he is not budging, saying, "I think it's safe to say there will not be hearings or votes."...
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Mississippi governor signs law allowing service denial to gays
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's governor signed a law Tuesday that allows religious groups and some private businesses to refuse service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people based on religious beliefs. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill without ceremony hours after it cleared its final legislative obstacle Monday and before opponents could try to talk him out of it...
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Cruz, Sanders emerge victorious in Wisconsin primaries
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
MILWAUKEE -- Republican Ted Cruz stormed to a commanding victory Tuesday in Wisconsin, denting front-runner Donald Trump's chances of capturing the GOP nomination before the party's convention. Bernie Sanders carried the Democratic race over Hillary Clinton, a win that still leaves him with a mathematically difficult path to the White House...
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HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Kelly baseball team edges St. Vincent
(High School Sports ~ 04/06/16)
All scores were reported to the Southeast Missourian on Tuesday.
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Pope may visit Greek island to highlight refugees' plight
(International News ~ 04/06/16)
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, will visit the Greek island of Lesbos next week to highlight the plight of refugees, the Greek government said. Refugees and other migrants are being deported back to Turkey under the European Union's controversial program to ease Europe's migrant problem...
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China restricts trade with North Korea over nuclear tests
(International News ~ 04/06/16)
BEIJING -- China on Tuesday banned most imports of North Korean coal and iron ore, the country's main exports, in a significant increase in pressure on the North under U.N. sanctions against its nuclear and missile tests. China buys an estimated two-thirds of impoverished North Korea's exports, making Beijing's cooperation essential for trade penalties approved by the U.N. Security Council last month to succeed...
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Iraqi forces face heavy resistance in IS-held town
(International News ~ 04/06/16)
HIT, Iraq -- Heavy resistance slowed Iraqi forces Tuesday as they pushed toward the center of a town held by Islamic State militants in western Anbar province, commanders at the scene said. Hundreds of roadside bombs, car bombs and heavy mortar fire slowed advancing Iraqi troops to a near-halt Tuesday after entering the small town of Hit the previous day...
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Iceland's leader is first victim of offshore holdings leak
(International News ~ 04/06/16)
LONDON -- The leak of millions of records on offshore accounts claimed its first high-profile victim Tuesday, as Iceland's prime minister resigned amid outrage over revelations he had used such a shell company to shelter large sums while Iceland's economy was in crisis...
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Disability lawyer Eric Conn arrested on federal charges
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Eric C. Conn, the flamboyant Kentucky lawyer who billed himself as "Mr. Social Security," has been indicted on allegations he made millions by paying a doctor and a judge to rubber-stamp false disability claims using phony medical evidence...
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Investigators study helicopter crash debris in Tennessee
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. -- Investigators on Tuesday examined the wreckage of a sightseeing helicopter that crashed and burned near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee but said it was too early to tell what caused it to go down. Luke Schiada, a senior investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, said there was evidence the Bell 206 helicopter made contact with the top of a ridge on the side of a mountain when it crashed Monday afternoon, killing four passengers and the pilot.. ...
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Top-ranked Bell City baseball team encounters 8-0 loss to unbeaten Bernie
(High School Sports ~ 04/06/16)
BERNIE, Mo. -- Senior Trey Kirkpatrick drove in a team-high four RBIs on a pair of extra-base hits, and junior Alex Guzman struck out 11 batters in a complete-game performance to propel Bernie to an 8-0 victory against Bell City in a battle of state-ranked baseball teams Tuesday...
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Pirates keep Cardinals winless with 6-5 victory in 11 innings
(Professional Sports ~ 04/06/16)
PITTSBURGH -- Jordy Mercer arrived at spring training without having to look over his shoulder or worry about his spot in the lineup for the first time in his career. That freedom allowed the shortstop to fine-tune his approach in search of a better start than the miserable April he endured in 2015...
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Stoddard County voters OK 911 sales tax
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
Stoddard County voters approved a 911 sales tax with 75 percent of the vote Tuesday — 3,270 “yes” votes to 1,044 “no” votes. The initiative creates a 3/16th-cent tax increase that goes to fund Stoddard County’s 911 communication services, the equivalent of 19 cents on a $100 purchase. ...
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Glenn, Toole retain Cape school board seats; Thompson, Stover win in Jackson
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
Cape Girardeau School Board incumbent Jeff Glenn garnered the most votes in Tuesday’s election, and said he’s looking forward to rolling up his sleeves and diving right back into the fray. One of the biggest projects on his horizon is revisiting the district’s strategic plan and making any necessary changes...
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Cape County neighbors at odds again; woman fears for her family's safety
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
Five days after he was released by a judge on his own recognizance, Larry Gene Hottel, 44, was arrested on suspicion of similar circumstances to an incident that had him in Cape Girardeau County Jail since Thanksgiving. And his neighbor said she fears he is intent on harming her or her family...
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Ron Cummins unseats incumbent Scott City Mayor Tim Porch
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
After 16 years, Scott City has a new mayor: Ron Cummins. The race was close, with Cummins receiving 54.41 percent of the vote. Incumbent Mayor Tim Porch received 45.59 percent of the vote, with 100 percent of the precincts reporting. Turnout for the election was considerably low. Out of 23,224 registered voters, only 14.49 percent of them turned out at the polls...
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Southeast student charged in Carbondale shooting turns himself in
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
Travis T. Tyler, 21, of Hazelwood, Missouri, turned himself in to the Jackson County, Illinois, Sheriff’s Department on Monday, according to police in Carbondale, Illinois. Tyler, a Southeast Missouri State University student, is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated discharge of a firearm after a shooting March 27 in Carbondale...
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Bollinger County road tax fails, Leopold approves fire district
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. — The proposed half-cent sales tax to fund Bollinger County road work went down to defeat Tuesday with 794 people voting against it and 575 voting in favor. “I’m disappointed but not surprised with all the false information about where the money was going to go,” commented Presiding Commissioner Travis Elfrink...
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Turnout low in Tuesday's election
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
Most area voters didn’t cast ballots in Tuesday’s election. Less than 13 percent of Cape Girardeau County’s registered voters went to the polls despite two tax issues on the ballot in the cities of Cape Girardeau and Jackson, contested school board races and a Cape Girardeau City Council race...
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Out of the past: April 6
(Out of the Past ~ 04/06/16)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A $617 million space observatory aboard the space shuttle Atlantis passes an exhaustive 1,074-step checkout, setting the stage for tomorrow's launch to probe the nuclear fires of the most violent bodies in the cosmos; among crew members will be Linda Godwin, a native of the Cape Girardeau area, who will be operating Atlantis's fragile robot arm to release the satellite into space...
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Guard defeats Koetting in Cape's Ward 4 council race
(Local News ~ 04/06/16)
Cape Girardeau banker Robbie Guard won the Ward 4 Cape Girardeau City Council seat Tuesday, winning nearly 63 percent of the vote. Guard defeated Patrick Koetting by a vote of 585 to 336 in the city’s only contested council race. “I was pleasantly surprised,” Guard said after winning his first campaign for public office. “I owe a lot to Cape Girardeau. I am so thankful that Ward 4 voted me in.”...
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Ralph Woodrow Proctor
(Obituary ~ 04/06/16)
Ralph Woodrow "Woody" Proctor, 98, passed away Monday, April 4, 2016, at Assisted Living West at the Lutheran Home. He was born Feb. 11, 1918, at Chaffee, Missouri, to Joseph D. and Georgia Redfearn Proctor. Woody graduated from Chaffee High School in 1936. He and Kathryn "Katy" Revelle were married June 7, 1941, at Oran, Missouri. They were married almost 74 years when she passed away Feb. 24, 2015...
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Carole Limbach
(Obituary ~ 04/06/16)
Carole Ann Limbach, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, April 4, 2016, at her home. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be at St. Mary Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Nadine Horton
(Obituary ~ 04/06/16)
Nadine Caroline Collins Horton, 55, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, April 3, 2016, at her home with her family, after a very short but difficult struggle with leukemia. She was born July 27, 1960, in Downey, California, the daughter of Walter E. and Virginia "Ruth" Stoecker Carrow. She married C.W. Horton on Feb. 4, 2016, in Hawaii...
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Judy Austin
(Obituary ~ 04/06/16)
Judy D. Schaper Austin, 72, of Eureka, Missouri, died on Sunday, April 3, 2016. Loving wife of James Austin Sr.; beloved daughter of the late Carl Sr. and Bernice Schaper; devoted mother of James Austin Jr. and Julie Todd; cherished grandmother of Ethan Austin; and dear sister of Loretta Peterson, Carl (Shirley) Schaper, Tom (Shirley) Schaper and Jeff (Sherry) Schaper...
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Jerime Atchley
(Obituary ~ 04/06/16)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Our handsome loving dad, son and brother, Jerime Alan Atchley, 37, passed away Saturday, April 2, 2016, with his family surrounding him at St. Thomas Hospital West in Nashville. Jerime was born July 16, 1978, in Huntsville, Alabama, to Freda and Al Atchley...
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Susan Andrews
(Obituary ~ 04/06/16)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Susan L. Andrews, 60, of Chaffee died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. A celebration of her life will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.
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Birth 4/5/16
(Births ~ 04/06/16)
Daughter to Donald Richard and Heather Lynn Jones Jr. of Dexter, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 8:48 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Name, Journey Rae Lynn. Weight, 8 pounds, 13 ounces. First child. Mrs. Jones is the former Heather Green, daughter of Chanse and Debbie Wright of Puxico, Missouri, and Mike and Christie McFarlin of Zalma, Missouri. Jones is the son of Don and Sheila Jones of Dexter. He is employed by Central Pallets of Missouri...
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Jackson police report 4/6/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/06/16)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Raynisha L. Jones, 22, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Jackson warrant for failure to appear on a show-cause order. n Carrie L. Bell, 30, 3201 Old Cape Road, was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while operator's license revoked, possession of methamphetamine and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 4/6/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/06/16)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Monday: n Medical assists were made at 9:57 a.m. on Franks Lane; 10:35 a.m. on William Street; 12:39 p.m. on William Street; 1:57 p.m. on Brenda Kay Court; 2:42 p.m. on Good Hope Street; 4:49 p.m. on Montgomery Street; 5:33 p.m. on North Frederick Street; and 7:41 p.m. on North Sprigg Street...
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Cape Girardeau police report 4/6/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/06/16)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of forgery, possession of a controlled substance and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia...
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Joplin residents to honor of boy killed in tornado
(State News ~ 04/06/16)
JOPLIN, Mo. -- A Joplin resident is organizing an effort to honor a boy who died in a 2011 tornado that killed more than 160 people. The Kansas City Star reported Joplin High School denied Tammy Niederhelman's request to hold an empty seat for her son, Zachary Williams, at graduation. Williams was in seventh grade when the tornado hit Joplin. He would've graduated with the class of 2016...
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Planned Parenthood attorney disputes Senate subpoena's scope
(State News ~ 04/06/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- An attorney for Planned Parenthood told lawmakers Tuesday the Missouri Senate has demanded a broad array of documents without giving the group a way to negotiate a more narrow agreement. Planned Parenthood's attorney Chuck Hatfield said the organization is open to releasing some of the records lawmakers subpoenaed in November. ...
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Hackers broke into hospitals despite software flaw warnings
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
WASHINGTON -- The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings in 2007 and in 2010 it needed to be fixed with a simple update, The Associated Press has learned...
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Ford to build small-car factory in Mexico, adding 2,800 jobs
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. plans to build a new $1.6 billion auto assembly plant in Mexico, creating about 2,800 jobs and shifting small-car production from the U.S. at a time when moving jobs south of the border has become a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign...
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San Francisco approves fully paid leave for new parents
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco became the first place in the country Tuesday to require businesses to provide fully-paid leave for new parents in what was hailed as the latest move to address income inequality in the nation. The measure approved unanimously by the board of supervisors will give new mothers and fathers six weeks of fully paid time off, a rarity now offered to some government-sector workers and some private employees, particularly those who work in the tech industry...
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Convicted killer OK'd for pot license
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
SEATTLE -- A convicted murderer being granted a license to open a marijuana shop has prompted a double-take by state officials. The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board selected Green Grotto LLC to open a marijuana store in Issaquah, Washington. The company is run by George Garrett, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing his wife and dumping her body in Hood Canal in 1993. The felony did not disqualify him automatically because it was more than 10 years old...
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Nation briefs 4/6/16
(National News ~ 04/06/16)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A Republican Alabama lawmaker said Tuesday he is filing an impeachment resolution against GOP Gov. Robert Bentley in the wake of a scandal involving one of the governor's top aides, who has resigned. The resolution by Rep. Ed Henry of Hartselle likely will be sent to the House Rules Committee for consideration, and it's not clear whether it has enough support to move forward. ...
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Prayer 4/6/16
(Prayer ~ 04/06/16)
O Lord Jesus, today we remember the way of the cross and your sacrifice for us. Amen.
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