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1st Class Travel Celebrates 20 years
(Submitted Story ~ 10/25/16)
The Adventure Continues! 20 years - WOW! 1st Class Travel, formerly First Discount Travel (back in 1996) , celebrated 20 years in business with a week-long celebration. The week of October 17th was a busy one for the team of ladies. Monday started off strong with an Alaska Evening with Collette Vacations - they had a great turn out - Alaska is a definite "bucket-list" trip for many. ...
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Florida Sunset on the Gulf
(Submitted Story ~ 10/25/16)
This sunset was captured off a deck in St. Joe Beach overlooking the Gulf.
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Morning run
(Submitted Story ~ 10/25/16)
As the sun came up in the foot hills of the Smokey Mountains in Eastern Tennessee, the morning mist refused to release it's hold on the still cold ground.
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One victim IDs his attacker in shooting that killed woman
(Local News ~ 10/25/16)
Gunshot victim Robert Edwards, 54, talked to emergency medical technicians and investigators early Saturday before he was airlifted to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He identified Joseph James Rutledge, 42, of St. Mary, Missouri, as the man who shot him twice and killed a woman with a 20-guage shotgun just after midnight Saturday, according to a probable-cause statement from Perry County sheriff's deputy Jason Kelley...
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Working on the Mississippi River
(Local News ~ 10/25/16)
The motor vessel Blake Denton of Marquette Transportation pushes a tow Monday down the Mississippi River across from Trail of Tears State Park in Jackson. Behind it is a river-training structure, or rock dike, being constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Rock dikes use the river's energy to move sand out of the channel, reducing the need for dredging...
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EPA probes alleged illegal herbicide use in area
(Local News ~ 10/25/16)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has executed federal search warrants at several locations in Southeast Missouri, including Cape Girardeau County, as part of an investigation into alleged misuse of herbicides containing dicamba, according to a news release...
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R.P. Lumber chain buys Southeast Missouri Builders Supply in Cape
(Local News ~ 10/25/16)
Home center and building materials supplier R.P. Lumber continues to extend its reach into Southeast Missouri, this time through the purchase of Southeast Missouri Builders Supply in Cape Girardeau. For 30 years, Mark Beaudean, John L. Essner and Tom Spitzmiller owned and operated the local building-supply store on Jefferson Avenue...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
Today in History Today is Tuesday, Oct. 25, the 299th day of 2016. There are 67 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 25, 1962, during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II demanded that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba, saying he was prepared to wait "until hell freezes over" for an answer; Stevenson then presented photographic evidence of the bases to the Council...
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One issue reveals Clinton's character
(Column ~ 10/25/16)
Life has taught me that people are often not the monsters we make them out to be. Yes, THOSE people -- that cousin with whom you argue at every family reunion, that co-worker who gets under your skin in the staff break room, that pundit who supports positions you despise. ...
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Army colonel to lecture on Sergeant Alvin York
(Editorial ~ 10/25/16)
Everyone loves a great American story, and Southeast Missouri State University's annual Crader Lecture in the Humanities has one for us. The inspiring story of Sergeant Alvin York, a World War I battlefield hero, will be shared with the public at Southeast tonight at 7:30 p.m. ...
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President Obama and federal debt
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/25/16)
In his Oct. 16, 2016, op-ed column Gary Rust indicated that the Obama economic policies have failed, leaving the United States with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 1.2 percent and a rapidly expanding Federal debt. I have three problems with Mr. Rust's observations...
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Grateful Missourian reader
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/25/16)
How I appreciate the refreshing and positive articles you print, such as the column "Three weeks and then what?", Oct. 18, by Adrienne Ross, who regularly provides uplifting insight! Add to that the Kathryn Lopez columns of the same date. Plus the front page article, Oct. 19, regarding Prof. C. P. Gause and his promotion of lessons to educate our youth regarding The Holocaust and genocide...
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Maudie Hart
(Obituary ~ 10/25/16)
ANNA, Ill. -- Mrs. Maudie Lou Hart, 86, of Anna passed away at 3:43 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Illinois. Heaven gained another precious soul as her family said "a hard goodbye ... the heart's tribute to the privilege of Love." -- Beth Moore...
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Verneda Jordan
(Obituary ~ 10/25/16)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Verneda Lorene Jordan, 92, of Marble Hill passed away Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 27, 1924, in Zalma, Missouri, daughter of William Enos and Mammie Brown Crites. She and the Rev. Paul Milford Jordan were united in marriage Sept. 19, 1946, and he passed away Oct. 9, 2001...
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Angelia Cook
(Obituary ~ 10/25/16)
Angelia Dawn Cook, 56, of Scott City died Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, at her home. She was born Sept. 3, 1960, in Jackson, Mississippi, to Jesse Eugene and Elizabeth Harbour Slawson Strickland. She married Vyron Garnett Cook on Dec. 4, 2010. Dawn worked at Blair Industries, Thorngate and Saint Francis Medical Center. She was a member of Cape First in Cape Girardeau...
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Georgia Laxton
(Obituary ~ 10/25/16)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Georgia Lee Laxton, 77, of Marble Hill passed away Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at her residence. She was born Jan. 21, 1939, in Desha, Arkansas, daughter of Thomas Dexter and Scynthia Moore Head. She and Jackie Ray Laxton were united in marriage April 2, 1955, and he passed away March 21, 1993...
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Out of the past: Oct. 25
(Out of the Past ~ 10/25/16)
A Southeast Missourian survey shows local support for Proposition B has edged up during the past two weeks. A poll of 123 people who said they were registered voters showed of those with a definite opinion on Prop B, a statewide tax-and-reform package for education, 65 percent supported the measure...
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Mark Umfleet
(Obituary ~ 10/25/16)
Mark Stephen Umfleet, 57, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Nov. 4, 1958, in Cape Girardeau to Edward and Bonnie Jean Barks Umfleet. He was a graduate of Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia, Missouri. He served in the National Guard...
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1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73
(Entertainment ~ 10/25/16)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, has died. He was 73...
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Robert Penrod
(Obituary ~ 10/25/16)
Robert Lee Penrod, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 12, 1932, in Cape Girardeau County to Manning Lee and Wanda Young Penrod. He served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War...
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Tom Hayden, activist known for Vietnam protests, dies at 76
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Tom Hayden, a '60s anti-war activist whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife Jane Fonda, has died. He was 76. He died Sunday after a long illness, said his wife, Barbara Williams, noting he suffered a stroke in 2015...
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Iraqis push toward Mosul
(International News ~ 10/25/16)
BARTELLA, Iraq -- Iraqi forces fought their way into two villages near Mosul on Monday as the offensive to retake the extremist-held city entered its second week and a rights group urged a probe into a suspected airstrike that hit a mosque, killing over a dozen civilians...
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Syrian troops capture high ground in Aleppo
(International News ~ 10/25/16)
BEIRUT -- Syrian government forces and their allies Monday captured strategic high ground in embattled Aleppo as Russia -- a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad -- said it was not planning more "humanitarian pauses" in the fighting in the city's eastern, rebel-held districts...
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France begin moving 6,000 migrants from makeshift camp
(International News ~ 10/25/16)
CALAIS, France -- France began the mass evacuation Monday of the makeshift migrant camp known as "the jungle," a mammoth project to erase the humanitarian blight on its northern border, where thousands fleeing war or poverty have lived in squalor, most hoping to sneak into Britain...
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Iraqis on edge of Mosul face a deadly dilemma: Stay or flee
(International News ~ 10/25/16)
QAYARA, Iraq -- Bayda Muhammad Khalaf followed the government's advice to stay in her home with her husband and seven children as Iraqi troops advanced near their remote village outside militant-held Mosul. But after the Islamic State fighters fled and Iraqi troops didn't appear, their supply of food ran out, and the family had to flee to search for territory firmly under government control...
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Authorities: Bus driver didn't brake before hitting big rig
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Ana Car didn't remember the sudden impact -- only that she woke up among dead and injured passengers in a dark tour bus filled with screams. The retired factory worker had spent an evening gambling at a desert casino and was asleep when the bus heading to Los Angeles smashed into the rear of a slow-moving tractor-trailer...
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TD Ameritrade to buy Scottrade in $4B cash-and-stock deal
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
OMAHA, Neb. -- Online brokerage TD Ameritrade is buying Scottrade in a $4 billion cash-and-stock deal that would significantly expand its branch network at a time when many financial firms are expanding automated adviser programs. In the two-stage deal announced Monday, TD Bank Group will buy Scottrade Bank first from Scottrade Financial Services Inc. for $1.3 billion in cash, and Scottrade Bank will be folded into TD Bank...
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A teen faces life beyond bullet
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
CHICAGO -- He suddenly felt as if a hot wire had torn through his chest. It hurt to breathe. Jonathan Annicks, 18, wasn't sure he'd been shot. It was after midnight when he'd dashed outside his family's house to retrieve a phone charger from the car. Now, slumped over in anguish, he punched his brother's number into his phone...
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Man pleads guilty to trying to help friend join IS
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A Virginia taxi driver pleaded guilty Monday to charges he tried to help a friend join the Islamic State group. Mahmoud A.M. Elhassan of Woodbridge was arrested in January, as was his friend, Joseph Farrokh, after a government sting. The two had been in regular contact with a government informant who they believed could help them travel to Syria to join the Islamic State, prosecutor Dennis Fitzpatrick said...
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Authorities investigating Berkeley vote-fraud allegations
(State News ~ 10/25/16)
BERKELEY, Mo. -- The FBI and St. Louis County prosecutors are investigating allegations of absentee-ballot voter fraud involving the mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley, a newspaper reported Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported it obtained emails and other documents revealing details of the investigation into Mayor Theodore Hoskins involving the April mayoral race...
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For some low-income workers, retirement is only a dream
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
CHICAGO -- It was a striking image. A photo of an 89-year-old man hunched over, struggling to push his cart with frozen treats. Fidencio Sanchez works long hours every day selling the treats because he couldn't afford to retire. The photo and his story went viral, and thousands of people donated more than $384,000 for his retirement...
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Missouri says reporter doesn't have right to see executions
(State News ~ 10/25/16)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A reporter suing over Missouri's refusal to allow him to witness an execution isn't constitutionally guaranteed a right to see someone put to death, the state argued in asking a federal judge to throw out the case. The state, in a court filing last week, also said it has legal immunity from lawsuits such as Buzzfeed News reporter Christopher McDaniel's case filed in August against George Lombardi, overseer of Missouri's prison system...
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Trump rejects 'phony' polls, insists 'we are winning'
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A defiant Donald Trump blamed his campaign struggles on "phony polls" from the "disgusting" media Monday, fighting to energize his most loyal supporters as his path to the presidency shrinks. With 14 days until the election, the Republican nominee campaigned in battleground Florida as his team conceded publicly and privately Pennsylvania may be slipping away to Democrat Hillary Clinton...
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Georgia mobile home fire caused by wood stove kills 6
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
TRION, Ga. -- A mobile-home fire in Georgia started by an improperly installed wood stove killed six people, including four children, authorities said Monday. The blaze happened about 10:30 p.m. Sunday in Trion, said Glenn Allen, a spokesman for the state fire marshal's office...
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Double-digit hikes for health premiums confirmed
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
WASHINGTON -- Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama's health-care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That's sure to stoke another "Obamacare" controversy days before a presidential election...
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Lexus, Toyota, Buick top new auto reliability survey
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
DETROIT -- Lexus, Toyota and Buick are the most reliable brands in Consumer Reports' latest survey, a reward for their conservative approach to new technology. It's the fourth straight year Lexus came in first and Toyota came in second. Two of their hybrids -- the Toyota Prius and the Lexus CT 200H -- were named the most reliable vehicles...
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Trump took $17M in insurance for damage few remember
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Donald Trump said he received a $17 million insurance payment in 2005 for hurricane damage to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, but The Associated Press found little evidence of such large-scale damage. Two years after a series of storms, the real-estate tycoon said he didn't know how much had been spent on repairs but acknowledged he pocketed some of the money...
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Looking out for No. 2: Dogs sniff out fecal pollution
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
FAIR HAVEN, N.J. -- Some specially trained dogs are helping humans curb themselves. A company that has trained dogs to recognize the smell of human fecal bacteria has been sniffing out sources of water pollution nationwide, discovering broken sewer pipes, leaking septic tanks and illegal sewage discharges, to the delight of environmental groups and government agencies...
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Hooch, an abused French mastiff, is Hero Dog of the Year
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
NEW YORK -- The human nearly lost his life to drug and alcohol addiction. The dog, well, he nearly lost his life to humans. A French mastiff named Hooch, rescued by Zach Skow in Tehachapi, California, is the 2016 American Humane organization's Hero Dog of the Year, bestowed in a Beverly Hills ceremony taped in September for broadcast at 7 p.m. Friday on the Hallmark Channel...
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Final stop of craft that flew to Capitol is garbage heap
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
WASHINGTON -- Officials plan to destroy a helicopter-like aircraft that made headlines when its owner flew it on to the lawn of the U.S. Capitol in 2015 as a political protest. A U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman said the craft's destruction likely will occur within weeks...
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State Rep. Kathy Swan, challenger Greg Tlapek differ widely on issues
(Local News ~ 10/25/16)
Republican state Rep. Kathy Swan and Libertarian Party challenger Greg Tlapek differ widely on everything from illegal drugs to the election process itself. The two Cape Girardeau candidates for the 147th House district disagree on Missouri constitutional Amendment 2 on the November ballot that would limit campaign contributions. Both oppose Amendment 3 on the ballot which would raise tobacco taxes to fund early-childhood education, although for different reasons...
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Cape schools begin next step of drafting strategic plan
(Local News ~ 10/25/16)
The next leg of the Cape Girardeau School District's strategic-planning process is underway. Superintendent Jim Welker told the school board during its meeting Monday night a community-wide survey has concluded, and responses are being tabulated by Hendrickson Business Advisors, the firm hired by the district to help guide the process...
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Marijuana candy truck catches fire
(National News ~ 10/25/16)
PENNSVILLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A pot-advocacy company's RV carrying marijuana-laced candy burst into flames on a bridge that connects New Jersey and Delaware, causing lane closures and tying up traffic for hours. Weed World Candies said more than $50,000 in merchandise was destroyed Sunday when one of its vehicles heading to Philadelphia caught fire on the Delaware Memorial Bridge. No injuries were reported. Authorities said a mechanical problem likely caused the fire...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 10/25/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/25/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Saturday n At 4:30 a.m., a call was dislaptched and canceled en route to Interstate 55. n At 5:01 a.m., a citizen assist on South West End Boulevard. n At 8:13 a.m., a medical assist on Kenwood Drive...
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Jackson police report 10/25/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/25/16)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Summonses n Carissa M. Frazier, 18, of Jackson was issued summonses for failure to register a motor vehicle and displaying the plates of another. n Dustin L. Cook, 34, of Jackson was issued summonses for failure to register a motor vehicle and displaying the plates of another...
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Cape Girardeau police report 10/25/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/25/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Jennifer I. Chipps, 34, 20 N. Sprigg St., was arrested at South West End Boulevard and Bloomfield Street on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia...
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Teresa Grass
(Obituary ~ 10/25/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Teresa Genevieve Grass, 80, of Perryville died Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, at Independence Care Center of Perry County in Perryville. Visitation will be held at Young and Sons Funeral Home from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, with a Catholic wake at 6 p.m. Visitation will continue from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, with a rosary at 8:30 a.m...
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Shelby Sims
(Obituary ~ 10/25/16)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Shelby Sims, 78, of Tamms died Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at her home. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery...
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