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4-H club wins gift card
(Submitted Story ~ 12/22/16)
The Progressive 4-H club in Cape Girardeau County won $100 gift card from Tractor Supply Company. They were in the Cape Girardeau store during the fall 2016 Paper Clover Campaign which qualified them to be entered into a nationwide drawing. Seventy-five 4-H clubs from across the country were randomly selected to receive the $100 gift card. ...
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4-Her's plant a Liberty Tree
(Submitted Story ~ 12/22/16)
The Missouri 4-H Foundation, in partnership with Crader Distributing and local STIHL dealers, launched a service-learning initiative that enabled 4-H clubs to play an active role in preserving American history by planting Liberty Trees in communities throughout Missouri...
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Aufdenberg Attends National 4-H Congress
(Submitted Story ~ 12/22/16)
Nathan Aufdenberg of Cape Girardeau, Mo., was among the nearly 900 youth delegates from 43 states and Puerto Rico attending the 2016 National 4-H Congress, November 25-29 in Atlanta, Georgia. The National 4-H Congress experience allows 4-H members from the across the country to learn new skills through workshops, hear from nationally recognized speakers and experience Southern culture...
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S.C. Boys Basketball Spreads Holiday Cheer to Veterans
(Submitted Story ~ 12/22/16)
The boy’s basketball team at Scott City High School helped spread some holiday cheer by presenting local veterans with Christmas gifts. This is the season for giving and the boys wanted to do something special for those that have served our country. The S.C. basketball team would like to wish everyone a happy holiday and say thank you to all of our local heroes...
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Obama trims Cape man's sentence by three years; Twiggs one of 152 given clemency
(Local News ~ 12/22/16)
Vincent Lee Twiggs, 35, of Cape Girardeau was serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison in Memphis, Tennessee, because of his prior convictions. President Barack Obama granted Twiggs clemency Monday, along with 152 other federal inmates, lowering Twiggs’ sentence from 15 years and 8 months to 12 years and 7 months — provided Twiggs enrolls in a residential drug-treatment program...
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Smith: Congress will replace ACA; roundtable discussion focuses on high cost of health care
(Local News ~ 12/22/16)
The Affordable Care Act will be “gutted” and replaced with piecemeal legislation, U.S. Rep. Jason Smith predicted Wednesday. “I don’t think you will see one huge bill,” he said. Smith voiced his comments at a meeting in Cape Girardeau with about 30 business leaders, local lawmakers, hospital administrators, doctors, pharmacists and other health-care providers...
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Salvation Army behind on red-kettle campaign goal
(Local News ~ 12/22/16)
The Salvation Army bell ringers are a hallmark of the holiday season. With bells in hand, volunteers and employees of the Salvation Army stand at 17 posts throughout Cape Girardeau County, collecting donations that ultimately will fund the myriad programs the organization offers...
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16-year-old certified as adult, charged with murder
(Local News ~ 12/22/16)
The 16-year-old suspected of shooting Willie Brown Jr. on Sept. 7 has been certified as an adult and charged with murder. The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Mortez Zanell Cleaves of Cape Girardeau with second-degree murder and armed criminal action Wednesday...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/22/16)
Today in History Today is Thursday, Dec. 22, the 357th day of 2016. There are nine days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 22, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington for a wartime conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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Prayer 12/22/16
(Prayer ~ 12/22/16)
We sing praise to you, O Lord Jesus, the everlasting God, Prince of Peace. Amen.
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Operation Linebacker II
(Column ~ 12/22/16)
In 1972 the U.S. and North Vietnam were conducting talks in Paris to end the Vietnam War. The talks broke down and the North Vietnamese walked out of the negotiations. President Nixon issued an ultimatum to the North Vietnamese that if they did not return to negotiations the U.S. would resume heavy bombing of North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese ignored the ultimatum and did not return...
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Cape Central senior posts top marks
(Editorial ~ 12/22/16)
As she gets ready to embark on her final semester of high school next month, one of the few things that Amy Dai doesn't know is where she's headed to school. Fortunately because of her grades and unprecedentedly high test scores, Dai has plenty of options available to her...
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Utah man donates money to cover lunches
(Community ~ 12/22/16)
LAYTON, Utah -- A Utah man who grew up eating free- and reduced-price lunches at school has donated enough money to pay for more than 5,000 meals for children with outstanding lunch balances due at schools in the district where he received his education...
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Jackson teen completes ballet training at School of Nashville Ballet
(Community ~ 12/22/16)
Margaret Todd of Jackson recently was chosen to participate in the Summer Intensive Program at the School of Nashville Ballet in Tennessee. The program helps young dancers develop their ballet technique and performance skills, according to a news release. Todd, who is 14, attended the program from July 11 to July 15...
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The Giving Tree: Cape Girardeau Central High students, administrator team up to combat cyberbullying with kindness
(Community ~ 12/22/16)
In an age of man-made social media that includes Twitter and Instagram, a symbol of the age-old struggles of youth sits outside the main office at Cape Girardeau Central High School. It's the Giving Tree. Fittingly, it's an artificial Christmas tree rooted in reality...
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Out of the past: Dec. 22
(Out of the Past ~ 12/22/16)
Hundreds of shoppers flock to Cape Girardeau retail stores, aware that the time to shop for last-minute Christmas gifts soon will run out; long check-out lines and packed parking lots make some weekend shoppers even more frantic than usual. Staff Sgt. ...
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William 'Bill' Wade
(Obituary ~ 12/22/16)
William J. “Bill” Wade, 94, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Tamms, Illinois, and Gardena, California, died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at Life Care Center. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Interment will be in St. John’s Cemetery, with military honors by area veterans.
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Joyce Moore
(Obituary ~ 12/22/16)
Melva "Joyce" Moore, 79, of Delta passed away Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 28, 1937, in Cape Girardeau to the late Melvin and Juanita Pennigton Slinkard. She married Garnett "Butch" Moore on Oct. 5, 1957, and he preceded her in death Jan. 17, 2001...
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Vera Moll
(Obituary ~ 12/22/16)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Vera Eileen Marie Moll, 93, of Perryville died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. She was born Feb. 14, 1923, in Hilderbrand, Missouri, the daughter of Charles Alexander and Theresa Kathryn Hilderbrand Barks. She married Adrian William Moll on Nov. 27, 1943, in Biehle, Missouri...
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Golda Johnson
(Obituary ~ 12/22/16)
COMMERCE, Mo. -- Golda Johnson, 90, of Commerce died Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton, Missouri.
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Jackson fire report 12/22/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/22/16)
The Jackson Fire Department responded to the following calls: Tuesday n Emergency medical service on Rosebud Street. n A citizens assist on Ridge Road. n A citizens assist on Old Cape Road. Wednesday n A fire alarm sounding on Old Orchard Road...
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Cape Girardeau police report 12/22/16
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/22/16)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Justin W. Coleman, 27, 43 S. Lorimier St., No. 1, was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for drugs. n Montrail F. Murray, 22, 341 Country Club Drive, was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for property damage...
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Births 12/22/16
(Births ~ 12/22/16)
Daughter to Corey Wayne Calhoun and Sarah Elizabeth Vogel of Jackson, Southeast Hospital, 10:20 a.m. Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Name, Kinsley Rose. Weight, 5 pounds, 2 ounces. Third child, first daughter. Vogel is the former Sarah Byington, daughter of Karen Hobbs of Jackson and Mark and Lou Ann Byington of Bonne Terre, Missouri. ...
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Germany had monitored Berlin truck attack suspect for months
(International News ~ 12/22/16)
BERLIN -- German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin -- and even kept him under covert surveillance for six months this year before halting the operation...
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Aleppo evacuations in heavy snow end brutal war chapter
(International News ~ 12/22/16)
BEIRUT -- Hundreds of rebel fighters and civilians, including small children swaddled in thick blankets, were bused out of war-ravaged Aleppo in heavy snow Wednesday as the evacuation of former rebel strongholds entered its final phase. Scenes of buses slowly driving out of Aleppo in a shroud of white offered an evocative finale to what has been one of the most brutal chapters in Syria's civil war...
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Mexicans seek loved ones, answers in deadly fireworks blast
(International News ~ 12/22/16)
TULTEPEC, Mexico -- Relatives of workers at a fireworks market flattened by a deadly chain-reaction explosion searched hospitals for loved ones Wednesday as attention focused on apparent lax security that allowed vendors to display their dangerous wares in the passageways between stalls...
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Researchers: Police effort helped nearly 400 addicts
(National News ~ 12/22/16)
BOSTON -- A novel drug-addiction program developed in a small Massachusetts fishing town and since replicated in dozens of cities nationwide was able to place almost 400 addicts into treatment nearly each time they sought it during the first year of operation, researchers say in a report being published today in the New England Journal of Medicine...
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'Obamacare' holding its own: 6.4M signed up so far
(National News ~ 12/22/16)
WASHINGTON -- "Obamacare" seems to be holding its own. The administration said Wednesday that 6.4 million people have enrolled for subsidized private coverage through HealthCare.gov, ahead of last year's pace. Despite rising premiums, dwindling insurers and the Republican vow to repeal President Barack Obama's health-care law, about 400,000 more people signed up through Monday than for a comparable period in 2015, the Health and Human Services Department said...
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DEA chemists race to ID synthetic opioids
(National News ~ 12/22/16)
WASHINGTON -- Emily Dye walked down the echoing white hallway and into a dim room known as "the vault." The evidence was wrapped in plastic. She checked it out and placed it into a steel lockbox. New drugs were appearing every other week in the Drug Enforcement Administration's Special Testing and Research Laboratory, an unmarked gray building in northern Virginia. Dye, a 27-year-old DEA chemist, knew her sample could be one of them...
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Accidental shootings spike over holidays
(National News ~ 12/22/16)
The happiest of seasons is also among the deadliest: Unintentional shootings spike in the U.S. during the holidays and are more likely to occur at that time than any other time of the year, according to an analysis by The Associated Press and the USA TODAY Network...
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North Carolina Republicans stumbling over repeal of LGBT law
(National News ~ 12/22/16)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- After hours of delay Wednesday, wavering Republican legislators stumbled with pushing through the repeal of a North Carolina law dictating which bathrooms transgender people must use in government buildings and schools. The addition of a six-month moratorium on North Carolina cities passing nondiscrimination ordinances for LGBT people -- such as the one in Charlotte that led to House Bill 2 -- caused Democrats to back away from the bill, calling it only a partial repeal. ...
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U.S. election voted top news story of 2016
(National News ~ 12/22/16)
NEW YORK -- The turbulent U.S. election, featuring Donald Trump's unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, was the overwhelming pick for the top news story of 2016, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors...
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Prosecutors seek to seize properties involved in kidnapping
(State News ~ 12/22/16)
ST. LOUIS -- Prosecutors are trying to seize two properties where a man said he was held during a kidnapping involving a St. Louis-area executive. Prosecutors said the victim was abducted Nov. 21 and taken to a home where he was beaten, assaulted and attacked with a stun gun, then transported in a shipping container to another home...
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Lawmaker says he won't revive religious-objections bill
(State News ~ 12/22/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri lawmaker behind a failed attempt to protect some businesses opposed to same-sex marriage doesn't plan to try again next year, he said Wednesday. The proposed constitutional amendment by Republican Sen. Bob Onder of Lake St. ...
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McCaskill urges action to block drastic drug-price hikes
(State News ~ 12/22/16)
WASHINGTON -- Angered by skyrocketing drug prices, a pair of senators on Wednesday urged Congress to block companies from cornering the market on old, off-patent drugs. Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, released findings from a yearlong investigation into companies such as Turing Pharmaceuticals, which generated national outrage last year after hiking the price of a life-saving anti-infection drug by more than 5,000 percent...
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Greitens chooses new director for Department of Corrections
(State News ~ 12/22/16)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican Gov.-elect Eric Greitens made his first Cabinet appointment Wednesday, choosing a North Carolina corrections official to lead Missouri's highly scrutinized Department of Corrections. If confirmed by the state Senate, North Carolina community-supervision director Anne Precythe will inherit an agency Greitens described in a statement as "broken."...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 12/22/16
(Local News ~ 12/22/16)
Approval of minutes n Minutes of the Dec. 19 meeting Communications/reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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Road work 12/22/16
(Local News ~ 12/22/16)
Southbound Interstate 55 in Scott County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform repairs to the Interstate 57 overpass bridge at exit 66. The work will take place from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, according to a MoDOT news release...
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Cop helps speeding student with necktie
(National News ~ 12/22/16)
MENOMONIE, Wis. -- A Wisconsin police officer who stopped a speeding college student who was late for a presentation ended up tying his necktie for him. Dashcam video shows officer Martin Folczyk pull up behind the student in a parking lot. The student explained he was speeding because he was late to give a presentation and was trying to find a friend who could tie his necktie. Folczyk asked for the tie, made a knot for the student and sent him on his way with a warning...
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Local students earn scholarships
(Community ~ 12/22/16)
Several local students were awarded scholarships to attend Southeast Missouri State University: Anna Estes of Jackson was awarded the Regents' Scholarship. Estes, the daughter of Darren and Gail Estes of Jackson, will be a 2017 graduate of Jackson High School...
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Hooked on Science: Santa in a jar
(Community ~ 12/22/16)
n Hardboiled egg n Glass jar (make sure the mouth of the glass jar is slightly smaller than the egg) n Matches n STEP 1: Have an adult ignite five matches and immediately place the matches into the glass jar or chimney. n STEP 2: Quickly place the egg, or Santa, on the opening of the glass jar and observe. Describe the egg by its observable properties. Explain how the air inside the glass bottle can be used as a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen...
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