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Senate opens 'Obamacare' debate; outcome in doubt
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
WASHINGTON -- Prodded by President Donald Trump, a divided Senate voted Tuesday to move forward with the Republicans' long-promised legislation to repeal and replace "Obamacare." There was high drama as Sen. John McCain returned to the Capitol for the first time after being diagnosed with brain cancer to cast a decisive "yes" vote. The final tally was 51-50, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie after two Republicans joined all 48 Democrats in voting "no."...
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Dashcam video of Lowe's truck crash going viral
(Local News ~ 07/26/17)
A dashcam video of a Cape Girardeau wreck involving a Lowe's truck is going viral, and a Cape Girardeau man has been approached by three firms hoping to help him negotiate the rights to the video. Cape Girardeau resident Robert Orr was stopped in the left-turn lane of Highway 74 at Kingshighway on his way to pick up an insurance card, and later to look for fossils, when the wreck unfolded before him...
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City building code calls for sprinkler system in KFVS building
(Local News ~ 07/26/17)
A Cape Girardeau television station would have to install a costly sprinkler system in its 13-story structure within the next 10 years to meet the city's building code, fire chief Rick Ennis said Tuesday. Ennis said the code is warranted because sprinklers save lives and limit fire and smoke damage to buildings...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, July 26, the 207th day of 2017. There are 158 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 26, 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia...
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Dems' 'better deal' can't hide the facts of party
(Column ~ 07/26/17)
After some intense soul-searching, the Democrat Party has arrived at the solution to their recent and ongoing election losses. The party of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer has decided their problem boils down to a slogan that will change both their image and their election losses...
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Ron Nall celebrates 25 years as muny band director
(Editorial ~ 07/26/17)
There's nothing quite like the sounds of summer: Crickets, frogs, birds, locusts and the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band. As July reaches its twilight days, it presents a final chance to take in the local music as Ron Nall leads the band tonight at Capaha Park...
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Taraji P. Henson to host Black Girls Rock honoring Issa Rae
(Entertainment ~ 07/26/17)
NEW YORK -- Taraji P. Henson will host BET's 2017 Black Girls Rock Awards honoring "Insecure" creator and star Issa Rae and others. BET said the Oscar nominee and "Empire" actress will host the Aug. 5 event at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey...
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Fire, evacuation at Miami Beach hotel that hosted Beatles
(Entertainment ~ 07/26/17)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- An electrical fire at a Miami Beach hotel that hosted the Beatles in 1964 sent guests scrambling to find another place to stay. Police and fire crews responded to the oceanfront Deauville Beach Resort early Tuesday. News outlets report malfunctioning wiring in a temporary unit being used to supplement the building's air conditioner caught fire...
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Cyber staff: Wisconsin company offers to microchip employees
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
A Wisconsin company is offering to microchip its employees, enabling them to open doors, log onto their computers and purchase break room snacks with a simple swipe of the hand. Three Square Market, also known as 32M, said more than 50 employees are voluntarily getting implants Aug. ...
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Black seniors test reminiscing to guard against Alzheimer's
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
Sharon Steen dons her tennis shoes and, with two fellow seniors, walks streets that in her youth were a vibrant center of Portland, Oregon's African-American community. Wasn't this the corner where an NAACP march began in 1963? Look, the record store now is a fancy high-rise...
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Out of the past: July 26
(Out of the Past ~ 07/26/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Mark A. Hotop has opened Andrew's Flower Garden in Perryville. Hotop, originally from Cape Girardeau, has eight years' experience working with flowers. Allan Brownfield, author, journalist and political analyst from Washington, D.C., kicks off the Missouri Freedom Forum at the Show Me Center with a discussion of "America's Heritage of Freedom." Nearly 120 high-school students from around the state are attending the forum...
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Jackson police report 7/26/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/26/17)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Thefts n Theft was reported in the 300 block of East Lane. n Theft was reported in the 900 block of East Adams Street. n Theft was reported in the 2900 block of Old Orchard Road. Miscellaneous...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 7/26/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/26/17)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Monday n Medical assists were made at 3:29 p.m. on North Fountain Street; 3:33 p.m. on South Hanover Street; 7:14 p.m. on Themis Street; and 11:55 p.m. on Johnson Street...
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Cape Girardeau police report 7/26/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/26/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n William R. DeBose, 30, 1527 Hill St., was arrested at 1527 Hill St. on two Cape Girardeau County warrants. n Shaleia K. Payne, 32, 1400 S. West End Blvd., was arrested at 500 S. Pacific St. on two Cape Girardeau warrants for failure to appear for no operator's license and improper lane usage...
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Troy Young
(Obituary ~ 07/26/17)
Melvin Troy "Tye-Dye Guy" Young -- Troy, as he was known by family -- was born Jan. 11, 1966, to Melvin C. and Mary Ann Poorman Young. From that day until his death Sunday, July 9, 2017, Troy never met a stranger twice. Once he met you, he would never pass you by without taking the time to share a smile and let you know you were his friend...
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David Popp
(Obituary ~ 07/26/17)
O'FALLON, Ill. -- David W. Popp, 56, of O'Fallon passed away Sunday, July 23, 2017, in Shiloh, Illinois. He was born April 1, 1961, in Cape Girardeau. David enlisted in the Air Force in July 1979 as an aerospace ground equipment mechanic. His assignments included command chief, Headquarters Air Combat Command and Headquarters Pacific Air Forces. David was a lifetime member of the Air Force Sergeants Association...
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Darrell Pinkerton
(Obituary ~ 07/26/17)
Darrell "Pup" Pinkerton, 55, died Monday, July 24, 2017, at the home of his parents in Pocahontas. Arrangements are pending at Alternative Funeral and Cremation Services.
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C. Marlena Pind
(Obituary ~ 07/26/17)
C. Marlena Pind, 73, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, July 22, 2017, at Southeast Hospital, with family by her side. She was born Jan. 23, 1944, in Sulphur Springs, Texas, to Roger and Nadine Schwab Brooks. She and Jerry Pind were married July 6, 1974, in Cape Girardeau...
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Vernon Lichtenegger
(Obituary ~ 07/26/17)
Vernon A. Lichtenegger, 74, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at his home. He was born Aug. 10, 1942, in Cape Girardeau to Arthur T. and Marie L. Koeberl Lichtenegger. A lifelong member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Pocahontas, Vernon was baptized Aug. 23, 1942, and confirmed May 20, 1956, at the church. He attended school in Pocahontas...
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Gregory House
(Obituary ~ 07/26/17)
Gregory Neal House, 54, of Jackson died Monday, July 24, 2017, at his home. He was born June 27, 1963, in Union City, Tennessee, to Kenneth House and Mary Ann Cowsert Bowling. He and Deborah Louise Wall were married April 2, 2011, at Cape County Park...
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Frank Croxton Jr.
(Obituary ~ 07/26/17)
KELSO, Mo. -- Frank Croxton Jr., 84, of Kelso died Monday, July 24, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 17, 1933, in Huntsville, Illinois, to Frank Ernest and Minnie Grace Hawkins Croxton Sr. He married Geraldine Ann McKee on Oct. 27, 1951, in Quincy, Illinois. She preceded him in death Jan. 28, 2017...
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Carl Bounds
(Obituary ~ 07/26/17)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Carl Lee Bounds, 69, of Chaffee passed away Saturday, July 15, 2017, at his family home. He was born Oct. 18, 1947, in Garden City, Kansas, to the late Claude and Flora Mae Berry Bounds. He married Jean Brown on Aug. 19, 1982, and she survives of the home...
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Births 7/26/17
(Births ~ 07/26/17)
Son to Justin Lee and Whitney Nichole Holmes of Chaffee, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, 11:14 p.m. Thursday, July 6, 2017. Name, Chase Maverick. Weight, 6 pounds, 9 ounces. First child. Mrs. Holmes is the former Whitney Schlosser, daughter of Debbie Smith and Steve Smith of Chaffee and Danny Schlosser and Yolanda Schlosser of Oran, Missouri. ...
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Springfield approves prescription-drug monitoring program
(State News ~ 07/26/17)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Springfield has joined a prescription-drug monitoring program that is being pieced together across the state to fight opioid addiction. The Springfield News- Leader reported the city took the action Monday, even after Gov. Eric Greitens created a statewide program last week through an executive order. Missouri had been the only state without a monitoring program...
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Family: Man in Missouri interstate shootout 'tortured soul'
(State News ~ 07/26/17)
ST. LOUIS -- A man who died after a police shootout along a Missouri interstate this week was a "tortured soul" who finally cracked, relatives said. Jerrod Kershaw, 31, died Monday after exchanging gunfire with police on Interstate 55 in Jefferson County, about 35 miles south of St. Louis...
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Key ACA insurer urges gov't to keep customer subsidies
(State News ~ 07/26/17)
One of the biggest insurers in the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces is warning the federal government it must preserve cost-sharing payments for low-income customers to avoid hurting millions of people. Centene Corp. said Tuesday a better-than-expected performance in those individual insurance markets prompted it to beat Wall Street expectations in the second quarter and raise its forecast for 2017...
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Missouri sends governor law tightening abortion regulations
(State News ~ 07/26/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday delivered Republican Gov. Eric Greitens a political win by sending him a wide-ranging bill tightening abortion regulations that would give the attorney general power to prosecute violations. The measure prompted critics to warn the changes could limit access to abortion in a state that already has tough restrictions...
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Justice Dept. rules intensify crackdown on sanctuary cities
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department escalated its promised crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities Tuesday, saying it no longer will award coveted grant money to cities unless they give federal immigration authorities access to jails and provide advance notice when someone in the country illegally is about to be released...
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Senate cheers McCain's return; he blasts 'bombastic loudmouths'
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
WASHINGTON -- The maverick stood with his party Tuesday, casting a crucial vote in the Republican drive to repeal "Obamacare." But then, like an angry prophet, Sen. John McCain condemned tribal politics besetting the nation. Confronting aggressive brain cancer, the 80-year-old Arizonan served notice he would not vote for the GOP legislation as it stands. McCain's impassioned speech held the attention of his colleagues in the Senate chamber...
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10 caskets, photos of a family lost: Flood victims mourned
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- To the strains of "Ave Maria," more than 1,000 people said goodbye Tuesday to 10 members of an extended family who lost their lives in a flash flood while celebrating a birthday in Arizona. The 10 white caskets belonging to three generations of a Mexican immigrant family were arranged in two rows facing the altar at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Scottsdale, each one bearing a metal crucifix inside its satin-lined lid...
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Former Trump campaign chair meets with Senate panel
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman met with Senate investigators Tuesday, providing his recollection of a Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer and agreeing to turn over contemporaneous notes of the gathering last year, according to people familiar with the closed-door interview...
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Trump shows the Boy Scouts how to start a political fire
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- No knot-tying demonstrations. No wood-carving advice. President Donald Trump went straight to starting a fire in a speech at a national Boy Scout gathering. Parents, former Scouts and others were furious after Trump railed against his enemies, promoted his political agenda and underlined his insistence on loyalty before an audience of tens of thousands of school-age Scouts on Monday night in West Virginia...
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Robots, race cars and weather: Girl Scouts offer new badges
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
NEW YORK -- Girl Scouts from tiny Daisies to teen Ambassadors may earn 23 new badges focused on science, technology, engineering and math. It's the largest addition of new badges in a decade for Girl Scouts of the USA. The effort takes a progressive approach to STEM and also nudges girls to become citizen scientists using the great outdoors as their laboratory...
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U.S. Navy fires warning shots near Iran ship in Persian Gulf
(International News ~ 07/26/17)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A U.S. Navy patrol boat fired warning shots Tuesday near an Iranian vessel American sailors said came dangerously close to them during a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf. It was the first such incident to happen under President Donald Trump. Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guard later blamed the American ship for provoking the situation...
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Charlie Gard's parents ask court to let him die at home
(International News ~ 07/26/17)
LONDON -- Charlie Gard's parents know their treasured son is about to die. They have one final wish -- to take him home, put him to bed and kiss him goodbye. The mother of the critically ill baby at the center of an international medical and legal battle returned to London's High Court on Tuesday, asking a judge to let the family take Charlie home for "a few days of tranquility" before his ventilator is disconnected and he is allowed to "slip away."...
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Trump: 'Time will tell' on fate of Sessions
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump cranked up the heat Tuesday on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, scorning him as "very weak" and refusing to say whether he'll fire the nation's top law-enforcement officer and his onetime political ally. It was an extraordinary public rebuke, and even fellow Republicans pushed back forcefully...
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Major Case Squad seeks woman in connection with homicide investigation
(Local News ~ 07/26/17)
The Cape Girardeau/Bollinger Major Case Squad wants to talk to a woman in connection with a homicide investigation into the death of Lavell Durden Jr., 49, of Cape Girardeau. The woman’s photo was posted Tuesday on the Cape Girardeau Police Department’s Facebook page and on its Twitter account...
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National briefs 7/26/17
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
A long-haul truck driver arrested for driving a tractor-trailer so hot and so crammed with immigrants that 10 people died had his license to drive commercial trucks rescinded three months earlier. Florida disqualified James Matthew Bradley Jr.'s commercial-driving privileges April 12 after he failed to provide the state with a current medical card, which federal law requires commercial drivers to submit to show they are fit for the road. ...
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Butter sculpture features athletes, milk bottle
(National News ~ 07/26/17)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A butter sculpture at the Ohio State Fair includes the traditional cow and calf along with four student-athletes and a 6-foot-tall bottle colored to look like chocolate milk. The American Dairy Association Mideast said the sculpture unveiled Tuesday salutes chocolate milk as the official drink of the Ohio High School Athletic Association. It's the first time the butter sculpture has included color. Cocoa was added for the bottle...
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Road work 7/26/17
(Local News ~ 07/26/17)
Route A in Scott County between County Road 236 and U.S. 61 will be closed as contractor crews replace a bridge. The work will start at 6 a.m. Aug. 8 and should conclude Oct. 17, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release...
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Prayer 7/26/17
(Prayer ~ 07/26/17)
Lord Jesus, thank you for grace that we can have eternal life through you. Amen.
- Editorial cartoons 7-26-17 (Editorial Cartoon ~ 07/26/17)
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Parker accepts position with PlayStation
(Submitted Story ~ 07/26/17)
Derek Parker has accepted as position as a User Experience Designer with PlayStation (Sony Interactive Entertainment) in San Francisco CA beginning August 14, 2017. Derek is a 2010 graduate of Cape Central High School, a 2014 graduade of Missouri State University, and a 2016 graduate of Indiana University. He is currently employed as a UX Designer at Northrop Grumman in Colorado Springs CO...
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