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Dancers perform with the Moscow Ballet
(Submitted Story ~ 12/12/16)
On Thursday, Dec. 8, dancers from around the area had the opportunity to perform alongside professional dancers from the Moscow Ballet in the Great Russian Nutcracker. In April the Dance Center was contacted by the Moscow Ballet to partner with them, and become the host studio in their Dance With Us program. ...
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Academy Sports +Outdoors donates bikes
(Submitted Story ~ 12/12/16)
Academy Sports + Outdoors donated bikes and helmets to 50 deserving students from North Elementary for the holidays. The surprise event happened on Friday, Dec. 9, at North Elementary in Jackson. In all, Academy’s holiday bike donation program will benefit more than 4,000 boys and girls across the country...
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Business notebook: Codefi's look blossoms in new Marquette Tower site
(Business ~ 12/12/16)
The fifth and sixth floors of the Marquette Tower teemed with guests Tuesday night, many of whom were seeing the new Codefi offices for the first time. In April, it was announced the old Marquette Tower would be transformed into the Marquette Tech District, a high-tech hub for downtown Cape Girardeau...
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Jackson, county may consider merging dispatch centers
(Local News ~ 12/12/16)
Officials from Cape Girardeau County and Jackson soon will begin exploring the possibility of consolidating their respective emergency-response dispatch centers into one. Both the county commission and the Jackson Board of Aldermen passed motions last week approving an intergovernmental cooperation agreement so talks can begin...
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Urban planner: Tiny-homes park, learning barge, sculptures could revitalize Red Star area
(Local News ~ 12/12/16)
Cape Girardeau's Red Star neighborhood could benefit from a tiny-homes park as well as trails, a learning barge and riverfront or in-river sculptures, an urban planner has suggested. Other suggestions include a demonstration rice field, remediation of Sloan Creek to a "more natural environment," shoreline recreation fields and a "maker faire" that could celebrate the manufacturing history of the neighborhood...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
Today in History Today is Monday, Dec. 12, the 347th day of 2016. There are 19 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 12, 1946, a United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to be the site of the U.N.'s headquarters...
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Holiday donation deadlines drawing near
(Editorial ~ 12/12/16)
The deadlines to make donations for Toybox and Christmas for the Elderly are fast approaching. The final day to donate for this year's Toybox, which collects toys and delivers them to area children, is Dec. 22. Monetary donations, as well as grocery, clothing and pharmaceutical items, will go to elderly who are in financial need through the Christmas for the Elderly program. The deadline for this year is Dec. 16...
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Prayer 12/12/16
(Prayer ~ 12/12/16)
O Lord Jesus, may we seek to do your will, for you are God. Amen.
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Authentic Voices working to better south Cape
(Editorial ~ 12/12/16)
Good parents want the best for their children, and that includes having a safe, fun place to play. While we often hear stories of families dreaming of the day they can move from where they live to a better place, some parents in South Cape are not dreaming of a time or place way off in the distance. They have a vision for a park in their own neighborhood...
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Distrust of politicians
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/12/16)
If the recent presidential election as well as the public spectacle of president-elect Donald Trump’s search for candidates for his cabinet has taught us anything, it is that we must never trust a word politicians utter in public. Before the election, Donald Trump and his Republican rivals attacked each other with words that should blush any decent human being. ...
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Militants retake ancient city of Palmyra from Syrian forces
(International News ~ 12/12/16)
BEIRUT -- Islamic State militants recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Syrian troops Sunday, according to both sides in the battle, scoring a major advance after a year of setbacks in Syria and Iraq. In winning back Palmyra, the extremist group appeared to be taking advantage of the Syrian and Russian preoccupation with Aleppo, timing its attack to coincide with a government offensive to capture the last remaining opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city...
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Nigerian church collapse kills at least 160
(International News ~ 12/12/16)
WARRI, Nigeria -- Mortuaries overflowed with bodies Sunday from a church collapse in southern Nigeria that killed at least 160 people. Worshipers said construction of the building had been rushed. Hundreds were inside Reigners Bible Church International in Uyo, Nigeria, on Saturday for the consecration of founder Akan Weeks as its bishop when the metal girders fell and the corrugated iron roof caved in...
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Bombing at Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral kills 25
(International News ~ 12/12/16)
CAIRO -- A bombing at a chapel adjacent to Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral killed 25 people and wounded another 49 during Sunday Mass in one of the deadliest attacks carried out against the religious minority in recent memory. The attack came two days after another bomb in Cairo killed six police officers, an assault claimed by a shadowy group authorities said is linked to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood...
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Don't bet big on health law changes when mulling coverage
(Business ~ 12/12/16)
Why worry about buying health insurance when President-elect Donald Trump plans to dump the requirement that most Americans get coverage? For the same reason you always should worry about health insurance: Little health problems easily can turn into big bills without it...
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Family, friends celebrate Kirk Douglas' 100th birthday
(Entertainment ~ 12/12/16)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Kirk Douglas knows how to make an entrance. With boxing gloves in every centerpiece and the theme from "Rocky" blaring over the speakers, Douglas, one of the golden age of Hollywood's last living legends, walked confidently into the Sunset Room at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Friday to celebrate his 100th birthday at a gathering of friends and family...
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Non-OPEC oil producers to cut output 558,000 barrels a day
(Business ~ 12/12/16)
VIENNA -- OPEC has persuaded 11 non-members to cut oil production, a move aimed at draining a worldwide oil glut and boosting low prices that have squeezed government finances in Russia and Saudi Arabia. Officials said Saturday non-members agreed to cut 558,000 barrels per day for six months beginning Jan. 1, and the deal was renewable for another six months after that...
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Coca-Cola names Quincey as next CEO; Kent stays as chairman
(Business ~ 12/12/16)
NEW YORK -- Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent will step down from that role next year and be succeeded by the company's No. 2 executive, at a time when people are drinking less sugary soda, including its flagship Coke drink. Chief operating officer James Quincey, long expected to become the next CEO, will take over leadership of the world's largest beverage maker May 1, the company said Friday...
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Sue Platt
(Obituary ~ 12/12/16)
PINEVILLE, La. -- Sue Platt, 85, of Pineville, formerly of Granbury, Texas, and Jackson, passed away Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in Louisiana. Sue was born Sept. 25, 1931, in Inchon, Korea, the sixth of seven children, to Sin Ko Choi and Soon Eh Kang. Sue was a graduate of Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea. She and Larry Platt were married Nov. 25, 1955, in Seoul, Korea...
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Roger Scott
(Obituary ~ 12/12/16)
Roger Duncan Scott, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, at his home. He was born Dec. 10, 1929, in LaGrange, Illinois, to Wilfred A. and Henrietta G. (Cheney) Scott. On Feb. 19, 1955, he married Eunice M. Heinrich. After high-school graduation, he began working for the family business, LaGrange Floral Shop. He also served in the Army National Guard. In 1954, he started with Standard Oil in Chicago and was transferred to Cape Girardeau in 1975...
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Bill Clinton, Lynch lead memorial for ex-AG Janet Reno
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
MIAMI -- Former attorney general Janet Reno, the first woman to hold the top Justice Department job who died last month, never took the easy way out when making the tougher decision was the right thing to do, ex-president Bill Clinton said at a memorial service Sunday...
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Out of the past: Dec. 12
(Out of the Past ~ 12/12/16)
Ever since Cape Girardeau County enacted a half-cent sales tax for general revenue in March 1980, receipts have increased consistently every year, but in 1991, that growth ended. Records show receipts are flat, with just a .28 percent increase over 1990 receipts...
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Spread by trade and climate, bugs butcher America's forests
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
PETERSHAM, Mass. -- In a towering forest of centuries-old eastern hemlocks, it's easy to miss one of the tree's nemeses. No larger than a speck of pepper, the Hemlock woolly adelgid spends its life on the underside of needles sucking sap, eventually killing the tree...
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Democrat to try solving Chicago gun violence with sentencing
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The refrain is heard almost as often as the fatal gunshots: The way to reduce Chicago's gun violence is tougher prison sentences for repeat gun offenders, keeping them off the streets and decreasing the city's mounting death toll...
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Trump rejects intel; lawmakers vow probe of Russia hacking
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump on Sunday called a recent CIA assessment of Russian hacking "ridiculous" and said he's not interested in getting daily intelligence briefings -- an unprecedented public dismissal by a president-elect of the nation's massive and sophisticated intelligence apparatus...
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Fearing crackdown from Trump, immigrants advised to not travel abroad
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
NEW YORK -- Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children but were protected from deportation by President Barack Obama are being warned by some advocates to ensure they are not traveling abroad when Donald Trump is sworn in as president Jan. 20...
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Man convicted of shooting 2 officers during Ferguson protest
(State News ~ 12/12/16)
ST. LOUIS -- A jury convicted a man of shooting two police officers during a 2015 protest in Ferguson amid fallout over the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown months earlier. The officers were shot in March 2015 during one of protests that followed Brown's August 2014 death. Both officers survived, but one left the department because of his injury, according to Webster Groves Lt. Andy Miller...
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State to pay $2M to settle discrimination suit
(State News ~ 12/12/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The former director of Missouri's unemployment-benefits agency agreed to a $2 million settlement in exchange for dropping a discrimination lawsuit against Gov. Jay Nixon's administration, according to documents released Friday...
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Missouri sheriff trying to identify child's remains
(State News ~ 12/12/16)
DIXON, Mo. -- A south-central Missouri sheriff is hoping new information could help identify the remains of a child found in a rural area three years ago. Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long told The Waynesville Daily Guide he wants to try one last time before closing the case of the remains of the child found near Dixon in the fall of 2013...
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1 hurt in accidental shooting at a Home Depot
(State News ~ 12/12/16)
SUNSET HILLS, Mo. -- Police say a gun accidentally discharged in a Home Depot restroom, injuring an employee. The weapon discharged Sunday in a restroom at a Home Depot in Sunset Hills. Police said the employee was taken to a hospital with an injury that was not life-threatening...
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Patrons use dough to back pizza place targeted by fake news
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
WASHINGTON -- There's at least a slice of good news for a pizzeria in the nation's capital caught up in fake news stories about a child sex-trafficking ring run by prominent Democrats. In the days since a conspiracy theorist showed up and fired an assault weapon inside Comet Ping Pong, supporters of the restaurant have turned out in droves to buy pizzas and leave homemade signs and flowers...
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Chapel of Love lost to wildfires in Smokies
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- The wildfires that killed 14 people and tore through Gatlinburg also stole an iconic venue from this city at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains whose nickname is "the wedding capital of the South." All that remains of Cupid's Chapel of Love is a heart-shaped pink sign with its name spelled out in Barbie-doll-style cursive lettering...
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Cape Girardeau Jaycees seek donations for Toybox, Christmas for the Elderly
(Local News ~ 12/12/16)
Cape Girardeau Jaycees still are seeking donations for Toybox and Christmas for the Elderly. Donations of new and unwrapped toys will be accepted until Dec. 21 at about 20 locations around town, including the Southeast Missourian. Jaycee Santas will deliver the toys Dec. 22...
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Oldest known seabird is expecting
(National News ~ 12/12/16)
HONOLULU -- The world's oldest known seabird is expecting -- again. Biologists spotted the Laysan albatross called Wisdom at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month after she returned to the island to nest. She was incubating an egg at the same nest she uses each year with her mate. She's believed to be 66 years old. She is the world's oldest known breeding bird in the wild. An ornithologist first put an identification band on her in 1956. She's had a few dozen chicks...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 12/12/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/12/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls Saturday. n Medical assists were made at 12:15 p.m. on Lakeshore Drive; 5:05 p.m. on Oak Hills Drive; 5:11 p.m. on Shawnee Parkway; 6:22 p.m. on North Fountain Street; and 7:29 p.m. on Whitener Street...
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Jackson police report 12/12/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/12/16)
JACKSON The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Theft n Theft was reported in the 1100 block of Shady Lane. Miscellaneous n Keep the peace was requested in the 100 block of Court Street. n An assist was requested in the 500 block of Broadridge Drive...
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Cape Girardeau police report 12/12/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/12/16)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Charles Schott, no age given, of St. Louis was arrested at Forrest Street and Broadway on suspicion of being a minor in possession of intoxicants...
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John Huckabee
(Obituary ~ 12/12/16)
John Charles Huckabee, 61, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. The funeral service will be announced at a later date. McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson is in charge of arrangements...
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Cletus Menz
(Obituary ~ 12/12/16)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Cletus P. Menz, 84, died at his family home in Chaffee. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Chaffee.
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