- Walmart Neighborhood Market donates to Shop with a Hero (Submitted Story ~ 01/05/17)
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Repairs at Capaha Park lagoon
(Local News ~ 01/05/17)
Shawn Spies, right, and Brandon Davis of the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department pilot a boat to an island Wednesday on the lagoon at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau. They worked to fix an aerator that had stopped when a retaining rope came loose and entangled it...
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Area lawmakers differ on whether to ban lobbyist gifts
(Local News ~ 01/05/17)
Area Republican lawmakers differ over whether to ban lobbyist gifts even as Governor-elect Eric Greitens has called for such action. State Reps. Kathy Swan, Holly Rehder and Rick Francis voiced support for banning lobbyist gifts. Rep. Donna Lichtenegger questioned the need to ban all lobbyist gifts, particularly meals for lawmakers...
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Inoperable Jeep: Cape attorney petitions Mo. Supreme Court over city nuisance summons
(Local News ~ 01/05/17)
Lawyer Richard Kuntze has been fighting Cape Girardeau city hall in court for nearly three years after he was charged with creating a public nuisance for keeping an inoperable jeep with expired vehicle registration on his property. Now, he is taking his case to the Missouri Supreme Court after losing in circuit court and in the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District...
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Crime data show decreases in city, county in 2016
(Local News ~ 01/05/17)
Cape Girardeau crime decreased in nearly every statistical category from 2015 to 2016, according to Missouri uniform crime reports. "The decrease in UCR crime data is a testament to the results that can occur when police and community partner together to make our neighborhoods safer," police chief Wes Blair wrote...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
Today in History Today is Thursday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2017. There are 360 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 5, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine...
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Prayer 1/5/17
(Prayer ~ 01/05/17)
O Father God, may we act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with you. Amen.
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Mother, kids reunited in time for Christmas
(Editorial ~ 01/05/17)
What does a mother tell her young children when she's being deployed in January and won't return until sometime in December? Well, for Savanna Irizarry, her message to her 4-year-old twins Maverick and Michelle and their younger sister Myla, it was that they'd only have to wait for Santa Claus to come back to see her again...
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Gathering and using intelligence
(Column ~ 01/05/17)
Our past history affects how we view current events, and it helps to recognize that we may not be truly objective. Such is the case with my own reaction to news stories about Russia. Russia, the lead country of the USSR (Soviet Union) and the Warsaw Pact, invaded Hungary and fought Hungarians who were resisting Russian control of their country. ...
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Tiger Brew
(Community ~ 01/05/17)
Just before first-hour class, Tevontay Hulbert, a student at Cape Girardeau Central High School, smiled as Stacy Klusmeier helped him with his apron and name tag, while another student, Cori Brennecke, stirred Splenda and cream into an iced coffee before they delivered a cart of beverages for the student-led business Tiger Brew...
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Missouri GOP starts legislative session with new ally
(State News ~ 01/05/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri lawmakers on Wednesday opened their first session in history with Republican control of the governor's office and supermajorities in both chambers, and House Speaker Todd Richardson said his party plans to make the most of it...
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Tillerson leaving Exxon with $180 million retirement package
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
NEW YORK -- Rex Tillerson will get a $180 million retirement package from Exxon Mobil Corp. if he is confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state. Tillerson will give up more than 2 million Exxon shares he would have received over the next 10 years...
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Roof to jurors: 'Nothing wrong with me psychologically'
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof spoke to the jury for the first time at his death-penalty trial Wednesday, telling them there's nothing wrong with him psychologically, and he is not trying to keep any secrets from them...
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NC governor pledges to expand Medicaid, despite state law
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Setting up more conflict with the Republican-led legislature, new North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday announced plans to expand Medicaid through the federal health-care overhaul, though a state law specially prevents such unilateral action...
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Trump challenges intel agencies he'll oversee about hacking
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday escalated his blunt public challenge to the U.S. intelligence agencies he soon will oversee, appearing to embrace WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's contention Russia did not provide his group with the hacked Democratic emails that roiled the 2016 election...
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Istanbul on alert as manhunt reaches fourth day
(International News ~ 01/05/17)
ISTANBUL -- Police increased security around Istanbul on Wednesday and detained about 20 people with suspected links to the deadly New Year's Eve nightclub attack as the hunt for the gunman stretched into a fourth day. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the gunman -- who killed 39 people during New Year's celebrations at the Reina club before reportedly escaping in a taxi -- had been identified but did not name him...
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'Moonlight,' 'La La Land,' 'Deadpool' land WGA Award nods
(Entertainment ~ 01/05/17)
NEW YORK -- Oscar favorites "Moonlight," "La La Land" and "Manchester by the Sea" have landed Writers Guild Award nominations, but so did the R-rated "X-Men" spinoff "Deadpool." The Writers Guild of America announced its nominees for the best screenplays of the year Wednesday. Joining "Manchester," "Moonlight" and "La La Land" for best original screenplay were "Hell or High Water" and "Loving."...
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People survived Turkish nightclub massacre by hiding, faking death
(International News ~ 01/05/17)
ISTANBUL -- Survivors huddled atop a giant industrial freezer in terrified silence as the Islamic State gunman entered the nightclub kitchen. Wiping his Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, he didn't see them as he changed clothes and put on a Santa hat...
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Israeli soldier's manslaughter conviction divides country
(International News ~ 01/05/17)
TEL AVIV, Israel -- The rare manslaughter conviction Wednesday of an Israeli soldier who fatally shot a badly wounded Palestinian attacker exposed a rift between proponents of the rule of law and a nationalist movement. The military court verdict against Sgt. ...
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Obama, Pence harden 'Obamacare' battle lines
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
WASHINGTON -- Hardening battle lines for the brawl to come, President Barack Obama urged congressional Democrats to "look out for the American people" in defending his legacy health-care overhaul, while Vice President-elect Mike Pence stood firm Wednesday in telling Republicans dismantling "Obamacare" is No. 1 on Donald Trump's list...
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Volunteers get bit to test new strategy for malaria vaccine
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
WASHINGTON -- Researchers infected lab mosquitoes with genetically weakened malaria parasites and recruited volunteers willing to be bitten -- a lot -- to test a possible new strategy for a vaccine. The idea: Vaccinate using living malaria parasites too weak to make people sick. It's a challenge, and while Wednesday's study is a small step, it illustrates the quest for a powerful malaria vaccine...
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Feds investigate NYC rail crash; 100 suffer minor injuries
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
NEW YORK -- A packed Long Island Rail Road rush-hour train crashed at the end of a platform as it pulled into a major Brooklyn transportation hub on Wednesday, hurling passengers onto the floor and slamming them into each other. The front of the slow-moving train hit a bumping block as it pulled into Atlantic Terminal, left the tracks and smashed into a small structure, apparently a work area; a rail pierced the floor of a train car, authorities said...
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Official says Charles Manson alive; reports say hospitalized
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Mass murderer Charles Manson was taken from his California prison cell to a hospital, according to several news reports. A prison official would only confirm the 82-year-old Manson was alive Wednesday and gave no other information...
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Out of the past: Jan. 5
(Out of the Past ~ 01/05/17)
Luther Hahs speaks during Sunday school in the sanctuary at Centenary United Methodist Church; he tells about his partial recovery from a stroke. John E. Fidler, the new president of Saint Francis Medical Center, is proposing a joint planning committee between the hospital and its cross-town counterpart, Southeast Missouri Hospital; Fidler said the committee is needed to create a more collaborative partnership between the hospitals and to avoid duplication of services...
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Rocky Oliphant
(Obituary ~ 01/05/17)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Rocky Gene Oliphant passed away Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016, at his home in Altenburg at the age of 61 years. He was born June 30, 1955, in Wyatt, Missouri, to the late Winford and Jeanette Johnson Oliphant. No services are scheduled at this time...
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Avery Hurt
(Obituary ~ 01/05/17)
Avery Delane Hurt, 65, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, at Southeast Hospital. He was born Oct. 20, 1951, in Cape Girardeau to James and Opal Griffith Hurt. He married Judith Ann Farrow in 1986. She survives. Avery was a veteran of the U.S. Army...
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Sharon Fulcher
(Obituary ~ 01/05/17)
VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Sharon Kessler Fulcher, 80, of Villa Ridge died at 1:50 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, at Anna Nursing and Rehabilitation. She was born Sept. 26, 1936, in Cairo, Illinois, the daughter of Arthur John and Mena Harriet Deimund Kessler...
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George Callis
(Obituary ~ 01/05/17)
George Donald Callis, 76, of Jackson died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston, Missouri. Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery in Thebes, Illinois...
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Bobby Brandon
(Obituary ~ 01/05/17)
Bobby D. Brandon, 76, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, at his home. He was born July 4, 1940, in Bragg City, Missouri, to Bob and Katherine Tate Brandon. He and Allie Rebecca "Becky" Friedrich were married April 15, 1992, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas...
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Alma Abernathy
(Obituary ~ 01/05/17)
Alma Mae Abernathy, 81, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, at her home. She was born Sept. 17, 1935, in Oriole to Robert E. and Lela A. Singleton Abernathy. Alma was a dedicated and active member of Iona Baptist Church. She served as Sunday-school secretary for more than 60 years. She enjoyed gardening and cooking...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 1/5/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/05/17)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Monday n Medical assists were made at 2:18 a.m. on Delwin Street; 5:22 a.m. on Clark Avenue; 7:44 a.m. on Boutin Street; 2:04 p.m. at Doctors' Park; 2:07 p.m. on Perryville Road; 2:17 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; and 9:24 p.m. on South Ellis Street...
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Cape Girardeau police report 1/5/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/05/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Leo T. Steinbrenner, 33, of Whitewater was arrested at 1900 N. Kingshighway, Lot C24, on a Scott County warrant for probation violation for assault...
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Births 1/5/17
(Births ~ 01/05/17)
Daughter to Josh Allen and Amanda Marie Waters of Parma, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, 3:38 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. Name, Jada Cherish Noel. Weight, 7 pounds, 11 ounces. Fourth child, second daughter. Mrs. Waters is the former Amanda Carter, daughter of Lorie Carter of Cape Girardeau and Stevie Busby of Wickliffe, Kentucky. Waters is the son of Shirley Harris of Parma and John Waters of Miner, Missouri. He is employed by USF Holland...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 1/5/17
(Local News ~ 01/05/17)
Cape Girardeau County Commission 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Approval of minutes n Minutes of the Dec. 29 meeting Communications/ reports -- other elected officials n None at this time Public comments n Items listed on agenda Routine business...
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U.S. auto sales hit a record 17.55M in 2016, led by SUVs
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
DETROIT -- U.S. consumers bought a record number of new cars and trucks in 2016. A repeat performance in 2017 could be a tall order. Low gas prices, rising employment and low interest rates kept buyers coming to car dealerships last year. There was also the lure of new technology -- such as backup cameras, automatic emergency braking and Apple CarPlay -- and new vehicles such as the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, the Honda Civic and the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt...
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Explosion in Grandview rocks nearby neighborhood, businesses
(State News ~ 01/05/17)
GRANDVIEW, Mo. — Investigators have found evidence fireworks were being manufactured at a business that exploded and burned in suburban Kansas City. The explosion a JW Lawn Service in Grandview on Tuesday broke windows and caused damage to at least nine houses and 19 nearby apartments and nearly 50 people were evacuated from nearby apartments. ...
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188 homicides in St. Louis in 2016, same as the year before
(State News ~ 01/05/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Unofficial numbers are in, and 2016 was just as deadly as 2015 in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported 188 homicide cases were reported in the city last year, the exact same as 2015. The 2015 total was 18 percent higher than the 159 killings in 2014...
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Springfield chief: Man fired gun before officers shot him
(State News ~ 01/05/17)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Police chief Paul Williams said a man who was fatally shot by Springfield officers fired his gun before being shot. Williams said James Lewis did not fire at officers early Sunday during a confrontation at Silver Springs Park. The Springfield News Leader reported officers first tried stopping Lewis with a Taser and beanbags. ...
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One suspect in botched robberies testifies it was accomplice's idea
(Local News ~ 01/05/17)
One of five people involved with two botched robberies that led to gunshot wounds said it was the idea of her accomplice to rob a Cape Girardeau drug dealer at gunpoint in two instances Nov. 13 during a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Jackson. Judge Gary Kamp found there was probable cause to continue the case against Christopher D. Hawkins, 19, of Cape Girardeau, who was charged with conspiracy to commit a robbery, two counts of armed criminal action and attempted robbery...
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Fire damages Cape convenience store
(Local News ~ 01/05/17)
Cape Girardeau firefighters extinguished a fire at 6 a.m. Wednesday at a Quick N Save convenience store on Themis Street. Firefighters encountered black smoke when they entered the building, but they contained the fire to a cooler and put it out with a pressurized water can, according to a report from Cape Girardeau Fire Capt. Shawn Morris. Firefighters also shut down power to the building and cleared the smoke, Morris wrote...
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Jackson seeks to keep momentum after improvements in 2016
(Local News ~ 01/05/17)
The city of Jackson saw a number of major improvements come to fruition in 2016, and the aim of Jackson Mayor Dwain Hahs and city administrator Jim Roach is to keep that momentum going into 2017 and beyond. Their shared vision is of collaboration between the city government, its residents and surrounding government entities they hope will create efficiencies and benefits. The city’s near-term goals include addressing traffic, economic, public safety and public-works initiatives...
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Woman gives birth during oil change
(National News ~ 01/05/17)
DORMONT, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania woman gave birth while the oil in her husband's pickup was being changed at an auto dealership. Amanda Sherman, 24, gave birth to a daughter when she went to the restroom Monday at #1 Cochran Nissan of South Hills in suburban Pittsburgh. "I went to pee and then -- I don't know -- I was all of the sudden holding her," Sherman said, adding she felt little pain or contractions...
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Hooked on Science: Baffling bananas
(Community ~ 01/05/17)
n 2 bananas n STEP 1: Make sure the bananas are exactly the same size. Hold one of the bananas above the other, lining up the two left ends, and observe. n STEP 2: Switch the bananas and observe. Is one longer than the other? Construct an argument on how your eyes, an external structure, work with your brain, an internal structure, to support survival, growth, behavior and reproduction...
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Local students earn scholarships
(Community ~ 01/05/17)
Several local students recently were awarded scholarships to assist with the cost of attending college. Five students received scholarships to attend Three Rivers College: Kristina Goolsby, Rebecca Heuring and Gracci Ward of Advance, Missouri, were awarded scholarships from the Stoddard County Development Foundation...
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Gregory Kent Knutson
(Obituary ~ 01/05/17)
DEXTER, Mo. — Gregory Kent Knutson, son of the late Leo Knutson and Geraldine Flannary Whitler, was born Oct. 19, 1950, in Evansville, Indiana, and departed this life Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at the emergency room at Southeast Health in Dexter at the age of 66...
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