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Missing mother and child found
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
A 23-year-old mother and her 4-year-old son have been found safe after having been reported missing Monday, police said. Kelli D. Burnell and her son Presley Thomas left for a doctor’s appointment in Cape Girardeau on Monday but did not arrive for the appointment, according to a news release from Cpl. Rick Whitaker of the Jackson Police Department. Both were found Tuesday in St. Louis, according to a later news release. “We realize that when we request the public’s assistance via our social media sites, our community is right there to help us with post, shares, comments, messages, and phone calls,” Whitaker said in the statement. “We cannot thank you enough for your support!”
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Cape man faces felony charge of assaulting girlfriend
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
A Cape Girardeau man has been charged with second-degree, felony domestic assault after allegedly hitting his live-in girlfriend over cellphone messages. Judge Gary Kamp issued an arrest warrant Monday for Justin R. Tope, 32. In a probable-cause statement filed in circuit court, Cape Girardeau County sheriff's deputy J. Wiseman wrote he responded to a report of domestic abuse Sunday at a Cape Girardeau-area apartment where Tope resided with his girlfriend and her two children, ages 10 and 6...
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Cape man charged with multiple counts of statutory rape, sodomy
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
A 27-year-old Cape Girardeau man faces eight felony charges after having sex with a minor on several occasions, police said. The Cape Girardeau Prosecuting Attorney's Office on Friday charged Phillip P. Keller with four counts of statutory rape and four counts of statutory sodomy...
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Kent Library to hold free preservation workshop
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
A free preservation workshop will be offered Thursday at Southeast Missouri State University. "What's in Your Attic? Decoding the Past through Cultural Artifacts" will be held at 7 p.m. at Sadie's Place in Kent Library. No registration is required for the workshop, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, according to a university news release...
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Voter turnout low in Tuesday's election
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
Most registered voters didn't vote Tuesday. Less than 13 percent of Cape Girardeau County's approximately 50,000 registered voters cast ballots, according to election returns. "It's right about what I thought," Cape Girardeau County Clerk Kara Clark Summers said...
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Area schools all pass bond issues; Cape school board member unseated
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
Voters turned out across the board for schools Tuesday, passing ballot issues in Chaffee, Scott Central Perry County and Oran school districts. One incumbent on the Cape Girardeau School Board was unseated. Tracy Curtis was the top vote-getter in the race to fill three spots on the board, taking roughly 22 percent of the vote...
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Missouri Supreme Court rules Mississippi County circuit court 'exceeded its authority'
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the Mississippi County circuit court “abused its discretion and exceeded its authority” in a probation-revocation case. In a decision written by Judge George Draper III, the state’s high court ordered Circuit Judge David Dolan to discharge Charles Zimmerman from probation...
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Jackson lighting, water-system projects awarded to Nip Kelley
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
Two uptown Jackson projects awarded to Nip Kelley Equipment Co. are a continuation of work already started. The Uptown Jackson Historic Lighting and Event Power Project, which Nip Kelley bid at $245,346.45, will continue the theme of historic lighting already in place thanks to a Missouri Department of Transportation grant a few years ago, said Don Schuette, director of electric utilities for Jackson...
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Fruitland passes tax for full-time firefighters
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
Voters in the Fruitland Area Fire Protection District narrowly approved a tax increase Tuesday that fire officials said will allow for full-time staffing at the main station. Fire chief Rob Francis said the outcome will allow firefighters to respond faster to fires and medical calls...
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Voters pass Jackson school bond issue
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
Jackson High School is getting a new building. With 21 of 21 precincts reporting, Proposition J passed with 3,210 votes of 4,426 total in Tuesday's municipal election. Proposition J, a $22 million bond issue, allows the school district to maintain a $0.3708 debt-service levy on personal property taxes rather than raise taxes directly. ...
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Former Perryville principal charged with not reporting alleged rape; still on paid leave
(Local News ~ 04/05/17)
While serving as Perryville High School principal, Richard Thomas neglected to report student rape allegations last year, police said. Thomas, 37, of Perryville faces one count of failure to report abuse, neglect or death of a child younger than 18, a class A misdemeanor...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/05/17)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 5, the 95th day of 2017. There are 270 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 5, 1792, President George Washington cast his first veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states...
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Local pianists share their gift of music
(Editorial ~ 04/05/17)
Recently two local piano recitals were held in Cape Girardeau and Jackson to celebrate years of music education by local teachers. About 250 people attended a Jackson recital on Sunday held at St. Paul Lutheran Church. The event honored piano teachers Julia PaPierre and Susan Venable...
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Dem leader verbal assault on voters
(Column ~ 04/05/17)
Newly-elected Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez went on a profanity-filled rant this weekend claiming -- among other things -- that "Donald Trump did not win the election and Republicans don't give a s**t about people." Keep in mind, this is no obscure city councilman from Davenport. This is the chief spokesman for today's Democratic Party. And as such, the Democrats own him...
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Judge rejects Roman Polanski's bid to end sex abuse case
(Entertainment ~ 04/05/17)
LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles judge rejected Roman Polanski's bid to end his long-running underage sex-abuse case without the fugitive director appearing in court or being sentenced to more prison time. Superior Court Judge Scott M. Gordon refused to address how Polanski would be sentenced if he returned to the U.S. after 40 years abroad. He noted other courts, including a California appellate court, have ruled the Oscar winner is a fugitive and must return to Los Angeles for sentencing...
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Urban myth proves true: Grammar vigilante is fixing UK signs
(International News ~ 04/05/17)
LONDON — It’s an urban myth come true — the presence of a man dedicated to ridding the English city of Bristol of grammatical errors in its shop signs. He goes out at night with a self-styled device used to cover up misplaced apostrophes from street signs in the city 120 miles west of London. He uses stickers, not paint. The man has not been identified but he told the BBC in a report broadcast Monday he doesn’t consider his alterations of the signs and store fronts to be a crime. He said the real crime is putting apostrophes in the wrong places to begin with. It’s not a new obsession — he’s been at it for 13 years.
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First Brexit: Study shows Britain's original split from Europe
(International News ~ 04/05/17)
BERLIN -- It was a literal Brexit -- Britain's geographical separation from mainland Europe -- which newly published research reveals to have been caused by a period of slow erosion, then a cataclysmic split. Using unprecedented undersea measurements, scientists have reconstructed the geological process that carved the strait separating Britain from the European mainland, now known as the English Channel. ...
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Nigeria must negotiate release of 195 Chibok girls, group says
(International News ~ 04/05/17)
JOHANNESBURG -- Nigeria's government and military are not doing enough to ensure the release of 195 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls held by Boko Haram Islamic extremists for nearly three years, the Bring Back Our Girls group said Tuesday. It called for speedy negotiations to bring them home before next week's third anniversary of the mass abduction that outraged the world...
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N. Korea responds to exercise with missile
(International News ~ 04/05/17)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the waters off its east coast today, South Korean officials said, in a continuation of its weapons launches made as the country is angrily reacting to annual military drills between U.S. and South Korean troops...
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Death toll increases to 14 in Russia subway attack
(International News ~ 04/05/17)
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips Tuesday with the first major terrorist attack in Russia's second-largest city since the Soviet collapse...
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Chemical attack kills dozens in Syria
(International News ~ 04/05/17)
BEIRUT -- A chemical weapons attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria killed dozens of people Tuesday, leaving residents gasping for breath and convulsing in the streets and overcrowded hospitals. The Trump administration blamed the Syrian government for the attack, one of the deadliest in years, and said Syria's patrons, Russia and Iran, bore "great moral responsibility" for the deaths...
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Obama aide denies spying on Trump
(National News ~ 04/05/17)
WASHINGTON -- Susan Rice, Barack Obama's national security adviser and the latest target for Donald Trump's embattled defenders, firmly denied Tuesday she or other Obama officials used secret intelligence reports to spy on Trump associates for political purposes...
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Inventor of World Wide Web wins computing's 'Nobel Prize'
(National News ~ 04/05/17)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Most people who search on Google, share on Facebook and shop on Amazon have never heard of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. But they might not be doing any of those things had he not invented the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee, 61, is this year's recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, computing's version of the Nobel Prize...
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VA says it's fixing veteran suicide hotline
(National News ~ 04/05/17)
WASHINGTON -- Grilled by lawmakers, the Department of Veterans Affairs insisted Tuesday it was well on its way to fixing problems with its suicide hotline and largely brushed aside the worst criticisms in an internal watchdog report released two weeks ago...
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Poll: Most young people say gov't should pay for health care
(National News ~ 04/05/17)
WASHINGTON -- Most young Americans want any health-care overhaul under President Donald Trump to look a lot like the Affordable Care Act signed into law by his predecessor, President Barack Obama. But there's one big exception: A majority of young Americans dislike "Obamacare's" requirement all Americans buy insurance or pay a fine...
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Border-wall bidders voice security concerns
(National News ~ 04/05/17)
SAN DIEGO -- One potential bidder on President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under "hostile attack." Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun-control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force...
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Civil-rights groups upset over retreat on police reforms
(National News ~ 04/05/17)
Civil-rights groups reacted with alarm Tuesday, while law-enforcement organizations expressed relief, after the Trump administration signaled it may back out of federal agreements that compel several police departments around the U.S. to curb racial bias and excessive force...
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Out of the past: April 5
(Out of the Past ~ 04/05/17)
As part of the 35th anniversary celebration of St. Andrew Lutheran Church, a special reunion was held yesterday of everyone who has been confirmed at St. Andrew. The celebration continues at the morning worship services, with the Rev. Francis Roschke, first pastor of St. Andrew, as guest speaker. Charter members of the church are honored...
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Ruth Townsend
(Obituary ~ 04/05/17)
DEXTER, Mo. -- Ruth Townsend, daughter of the late Clyde Burke and Bertha Triplett Burke, was born Feb. 1, 1931, in Dexter and departed this life Sunday, April 2, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 86. Ruth had worked at the Brown Shoe Co. ...
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Edward Schafer
(Obituary ~ 04/05/17)
Edward Louis Schafer, 71, of Scott City died Sunday, April 2, 2017, at his home. He was born Feb 12, 1946, at the old Saint Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau. His parents were George Nicholas Schafer and Clara Maria Miller Schafer. Ed was baptized at St. Mary's Cathedral...
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Henry Patterson
(Obituary ~ 04/05/17)
BELL CITY, Mo. -- Henry Franklin Patterson, son of the late Cecil Ray Patterson and Novella Gilliland Patterson, was born Feb. 9, 1941, in Blodgett, Missouri, and departed this life Saturday, April 1, 2017, at the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at the age of 76...
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Joe Lusk
(Obituary ~ 04/05/17)
Joe Michael Lusk, 56, of Scott City died Monday, April 3, 2017, at his home. A memorial service will be at a later date. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City is in charge of arrangements.
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Raymond Katt
(Obituary ~ 04/05/17)
RACINE, Wis. -- Raymond Lee Katt, 84, of Racine died Monday, April 3, 2017. He was a celebrated family man, businessman and friend. Ray was born March 16, 1933, in Menfro, Missouri. He and his wife, Louise, married Sept. 18, 1954, in Shawneetown, Missouri. They raised their family in Belleville, Illinois, until moving to Racine in 1982...
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Carol Bruhl
(Obituary ~ 04/05/17)
Carol Bruhl, 82, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at Jackson Manner. She was born Dec. 31, 1934, in Chicago, daughter of Edward Charles and Louise Katherine Dockter Schaefer. She and Robert Bruhl were married July 20, 1957, in Park Ridge, Illinois...
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Jackson police report 4/5/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/05/17)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Robert Alvarado, 23, of Jackson was arrested on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while driver's license revoked. n Katie Ing, 26, of Jackson was arrested on a St. Louis County warrant for failure to appear...
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Cape Girardeau police report 4/5/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/05/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Caleb J. Yount, 27, 220 N. Henderson Ave., was arrested at 3463 Armstrong Drive. n Robriquez L. Jones, 23, 2832 Oakshire Circle was arrested on suspicion of stealing a cellphone...
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Births 4/5/17
(Births ~ 04/05/17)
Son to Isaac D'Arvon Mahoney and Kyrah Alexann Stanley of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 11:08 a.m. Monday, March 27, 2017. Name, Isaac D'Arvon. Weight, 5 pounds. First child. Stanley is the daughter of Danielle Stanley and Quadron Stanley of St. Louis. Mahoney is the son of D'Artagnan Mahoney and Shavone Mahoney of Cape Girardeau. He is employed by Taco Bell...
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St. Louis elects first-ever female mayor
(State News ~ 04/05/17)
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis' newly elected mayor is promising to help the city reduce the sort of violent crime that devastated her own family two decades ago. Democrat Lyda Krewson easily won over Republican Andrew Jones and four other candidates in the general election Tuesday. Her narrow victory over city Treasurer Tishaura Jones in the March primary made her the odds-on favorite to win the race in the heavily Democratic city...
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Ferguson mayor who handled Brown shooting fallout re-elected
(State News ~ 04/05/17)
FERGUSON, Mo. -- Ferguson, Missouri's top elected official in the tumultuous 32 months since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown won another three-year term Tuesday. James Knowles III, the mayor who was the public face of Ferguson after Brown's death in August 2014, held off a challenge from city Councilwoman Ella Jones, who was seeking to become the St. ...
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Investigation into fatal boiler explosion in St. Louis could take months
(State News ~ 04/05/17)
ST. LOUIS -- A federal investigation into a St. Louis boiler explosion that killed three people and injured four others, two of them critically, could take months to complete, a spokesman for the investigative agency said Tuesday. Scott Allen with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration called circumstances involving Monday's blast "complicated," adding that by law OSHA has six months to complete an investigation...
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Galloway: Missouri struggles to handle federal money
(State News ~ 04/05/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- An audit released Tuesday by Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway found that several Missouri agencies handling federal money have repeatedly neglected to distribute the funds appropriately. Galloway's audit of $8.4 billion of federal money, mainly covering Medicaid and child-care expenses, found that five of the six programs with problems distributing money had been identified in previous audits...
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Missouri House budget funds schools, blocks checkpoints
(State News ~ 04/05/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- No toll roads. No drunken driving checkpoints. No in-state tuition rates for students living illegally in the country since childhood. Those are just a few of the things to which Missouri House members said "no" Tuesday as they gave initial approval to a proposed $27.8 billion operating budget for the next fiscal year that contains numerous restrictions and requirements on how that money can be spent...
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Anniversary of MLK asssination marked around the country
(National News ~ 04/05/17)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Activists claiming an imbalance in economic and social equality rallied at a Memphis church Tuesday, the 49th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. More than 200 people gathered at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church to hear guest speakers talk about the legacy of King, who was shot down by a sniper's bullet at a Memphis hotel April 4, 1968. ...
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Prayer 4/5/17
(Prayer ~ 04/05/17)
Lord Jesus, thank you for redemption, made possible by your blood shed on the cross. Amen.
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Rhodes Convenience Stores Partners with the U.S. Army PaYS Program
(Submitted Story ~ 04/05/17)
Rhodes became a proud partner of the U.S. Army's Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) program during a formal signing ceremony on March 22 held on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. Rhodes is now one of only twelve Missouri-based companies in the program. Through the partnership, Rhodes guarantees honorably discharged Soldiers and Army Reservists a job interview and possible employment after their service in the Army...
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Jackson FBLA Excels at State Leadership Conference
(Submitted Story ~ 04/05/17)
The Jackson FBLA delegation of 35 students and three advisers attended the Missouri Future Business Leaders of America State Leadership Conference April 2 through 4 in Springfield, Missouri. This year saw the largest FBLA State Leadership Conference in the history of the organization as FBLA celebrated the 75th anniversary...
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