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Southeast Missourian wins big in annual awards contest
(Business ~ 10/09/17)
The Southeast Missourian took more than 40 awards in the Missouri Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest, including first place in the General Excellence category for class-2 dailies. The newspaper's local coverage and photography garnered special praise. In selecting a first-place-winning photo by former photo editor Laura Simon, one judge wrote, "It is so good, it should be sold as art."...
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Sikeston native goes from giving up music to a spot on NBC's 'The Voice'
(Local News ~ 10/09/17)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- There came a point that Anna Catherine DeHart wanted to give up music. "I graduated from college and I hit a point in my life like any other 22-year-old at the time, not really knowing what I wanted to do," DeHart said. "I got a job -- a 'big-girl job,' as they say -- and kind of got on that path. I just thought I was done with music. I love it, but it just wasn't working out."...
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Lazy Sunday at Lazy L
(Local News ~ 10/09/17)
Stephanie Willis and her son Hunter, 8-months, play with a baby pygmy goat Sunday at Lazy L Safari Park in Cape Girardeau. Willis said they have an 8-month old dairy goat at their home in Metropolis, Illinois.
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Aspiring filmmakers begin productions for Fault Line Film Festival
(Local News ~ 10/09/17)
Student-organized film productions have begun springing up around Cape Girardeau as aspiring actors and directors prepare their short films for the eighth annual Fault Line Film Festival at Southeast Missouri State University. Some past festival winners have taken a more light-hearted approach to their productions, such as Madison Friend's zombie romantic comedy, "Jack and Alice," which won best of festival in 2015; others channel a more emotional aesthetic, such as last year's best-of-festival winner, "Myles," directed by Kevin Brooks.. ...
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Puerto Rico native works to raise awareness after hurricane destruction
(Local News ~ 10/09/17)
The devastation in Puerto Rico is nothing short of catastrophic, according to one Southeast Missouri State University student from the city of Dorado, and she’s doing what she can to help. A bake sale at the Arts Council in Cape Girardeau during First Friday was one effort. Funds will go directly to organizations on the ground in Puerto Rico...
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Business Notebook: Select Physical Therapy uses new technology to assess weaknesses in athletes' bodies
(Business ~ 10/09/17)
For Jacob Pattengill, center manager at Select Physical Therapy in Cape Girardeau, the capabilities of the new technology were at once exciting and humbling. "The truth kind of slapped me in the face," he said. Using traditional evaluative methods, he said, he and his colleagues were good at spotting physiological vulnerabilities. The dorsaVi and ViPerform Athletic Movement Index were something else, he said. A paradigm shift...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
Today in History Today is Monday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2017. There are 83 days left in the year. This is Columbus Day in the United States, as well as Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 9, 1967, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was summarily executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture...
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Bustling weekend did not happen by accident
(Editorial ~ 10/09/17)
Some weekends are better than others. Cape Girardeau merchants will attest to that claim when the perfect storm materialized over two sunny days on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. It was a festive weekend in town with the Nina and Pinta replicas docked on the riverfront and myriad activities going on, including Southeast Missouri State University’s Parents’ Weekend. The local businesses were among those to enjoy the bounty...
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U.S. automakers post first monthly sales gain of year in September
(Business ~ 10/09/17)
DETROIT -- The auto industry posted its first monthly sales gain of the year in September, led by strong truck and SUV sales and the replacement of cars destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. U.S. sales rose 6.1 percent to just more than 1.5 million vehicles, according to Autodata Corp., as Toyota, Honda, Ford, General Motors, Nissan and Volkswagen all posted strong numbers. Of major automakers, only Fiat Chrysler and Hyundai reported sales declines...
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Hurricanes cause rare monthly U.S. job loss but rebound likely
(Business ~ 10/09/17)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. shed 33,000 jobs in September because of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which closed thousands of businesses in Texas and Florida and forced widespread evacuations. It marked the first monthly hiring drop in nearly seven years. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, the lowest level since 2001 and a sign the job market remains fundamentally solid. ...
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Plus-size for men: Sites offer trendy looks for bigger guys
(Business ~ 10/09/17)
NEW YORK -- Chris Cyr doesn't like much about the big and tall clothes he finds in stores: They're "not very adventurous," he said, and the fit can be too baggy. And then there's the array of odd prints: "A lot of Hawaiian shirts with sailboats and golf balls tend to pop in."...
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Film producer Harvey Weinstein ousted from Weinstein Co.
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
NEW YORK -- Film producer Harvey Weinstein has been fired from The Weinstein Co., effective immediately, following new information revealed regarding his conduct, the company's board of directors announced Sunday. Weinstein had previously voluntarily taken a leave of absence after decades of sexual-harassment allegations were detailed Thursday in a New York Times expose. The board on Friday endorsed that decision. But it went further Sunday, removing Weinstein from the company he co-founded...
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Pumpkin spice air freshener prompts evacuation of Baltimore school
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
BALTIMORE — An unusual smell prompted an evacuation and a hazardous-materials response at a Baltimore high school. But after five people were taken to a hospital complaining of upset stomachs, fire officials discovered the source of the smell: a pumpkin spice air freshener...
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Established Wyoming GOP senator may have insurgent challenger
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
WASHINGTON -- Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince is considering a Republican primary challenge to Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, a senior member of the Senate GOP leadership team, in a race that could pit the party's establishment against insurgents fueled by allies of President Donald Trump...
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Istanbul prosecutors charge amnesty group with aiding terrorists
(International News ~ 10/09/17)
ISTANBUL -- The Istanbul prosecutor's office is charging Amnesty International's Turkey chief and 10 others for allegedly belonging to and aiding terror groups with the completion of an indictment Sunday, according to the country's official news agency...
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Syrian Kurds find reasons for optimism
(International News ~ 10/09/17)
BEIRUT -- Adnan Hassan, a Syrian Kurd, finally has hope for himself and his people. Two years ago, Islamic State militants nearly wiped out his hometown, Kobani, along Syria's border with Turkey and killed 10 members of his family. Now with the militants driven out and going down in defeat, a new university is opening in the town, and Hassan will be its professor for Kurdish language and literature. ...
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Massive rally held against Catalonia secession
(International News ~ 10/09/17)
BARCELONA, Spain -- Hundreds of thousands of people rallied Sunday in downtown Barcelona to protest against the plans of Catalonia's regional government to secede from the rest of Spain. The march was the largest pro-union showing since the rise of separatist sentiment in the prosperous northeastern region that has pushed Spain to the brink of a national crisis...
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Despite high hopes, hot weather dulls fall foliage season
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Tour buses continue to pack into a maple-sugar farm on the outskirts of Vermont's capital during the first week of October, the peak of foliage season for travelers looking for the brilliant red and yellow mountainsides that define the season...
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Bystander rape-intervention programs on rise
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Training programs around the country are trying to teach bystanders to stop sexual assault, and now is when they have to be especially alert. Campus sexual-assault reports are so common at the beginning of the fall semester, college administrators call this time of year the "red zone."...
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Harvey continues to punish Texas coast with tourism drop
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
PORT ARANSAS, Texas -- Born and raised in this Texas Gulf Coast beach town, James Wheeler Jr. finds himself sawing plywood and hanging sheet rock at a time when he normally would be leading deep-sea fishing excursions, trying to hook tuna or Spanish mackerel by the cooler-full...
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Sentiment growing for doing away with Columbus Day
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
NEW YORK -- Is it time to say arrivederci to Christopher Columbus? A movement to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day has gained momentum in some parts of the U.S., with Los Angeles in August becoming the biggest city yet to decide to stop honoring the Italian explorer and instead recognize victims of colonialism...
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Trump, Corker uncork a heated exchange
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
WASHINGTON -- An enraged President Donald Trump and a prominent Republican senator who fears the country could be edging toward "chaos" engaged in an intense and vitriolic back-and-forth bashing on social media Sunday, a remarkable airing of their party's profound rifts...
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Living in a world where mass murders persist
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
We live in an age of mass murders. Sometimes we can explain the carnage -- the bloody outcome of a grievance, the casualties of terrorism -- and sometimes we cannot. But always, we are stricken. Even if we do not know the victims. Even if we are thousands of miles away from the gunfire...
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Items being returned week after Las Vegas shooting tragedy
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
LAS VEGAS -- The abandoned baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses strewn for days across the huge crime scene of the Las Vegas massacre were slowly being returned to their owners Sunday to become sad souvenirs of a horrific night. One week earlier, the same scene was home to a happy day of country music for 22,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival. ...
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A weakened Hurricane Nate brings flooding, power outages to Gulf Coast
(National News ~ 10/09/17)
BILOXI, Miss. -- Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast before weakening rapidly Sunday, sparing the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by a series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks...
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Rapper Nelly arrested on rape accusation
(Entertainment ~ 10/09/17)
SEATTLE -- Police arrested rapper Nelly early Saturday after a woman said he raped her in a town outside Seattle, an accusation the Grammy winner's attorney staunchly denied. Auburn police spokesman commander Steve Stocker said Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., was in jail Saturday after being arrested in his tour bus at a Walmart. ...
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MoDOT digital message boards taking funnier approach
(State News ~ 10/09/17)
ST. LOUIS -- Public-service announcements on those electronic message boards along Missouri's interstate highways are getting cheekier as time goes by. The signs mostly are used to alert drivers to road closures, work zones and accidents, but since 2009, the Missouri Department of Transportation also has used them for reminders about safe driving...
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Task force considers changing prisons, environmental boards
(State News ~ 10/09/17)
ST. LOUIS -- A task force created this year to reduce the number of boards and commissions that oversee various state programs is considering eliminating a citizens' panel that reviews complaints from prison inmates and a second plan to combine boards that oversee the state's pollution rules...
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Out of the past: Oct. 9
(Out of the Past ~ 10/09/17)
The first major section of Lexington Avenue -- from Kingshighway to Perryville Road -- opens in the afternoon; with completion of the arterial route to Perryville Road, the city is poised to bid the next segment, which will extend east to connect with existing Lexington Avenue, on to Melody Lane...
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Anna Weschke
(Obituary ~ 10/09/17)
Anna Pauline Weschke, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Oct. 6, 2017, at The Lutheran Home. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Shepherd Hills Cemetery in Barnhart, Missouri. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Brandon Unterreiner
(Obituary ~ 10/09/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Brandon J. Unterreiner, 47, of Perryville died Friday, Oct. 6, 2017, in Bollinger County, Missouri. A celebration of life will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville...
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Gertrude Leible
(Obituary ~ 10/09/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Gertrude A. "Gert" Leible, 94, of Perryville died Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. Visitation will be from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville Funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church, with Monsignor Jerome Buchheit officiating. Burial will be in St. Boniface Cemetery in Perryville...
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Mary Inez Knott
(Obituary ~ 10/09/17)
Mary Inez Knott, 86, of Jackson died Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson. Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with Father John Harth officiating. Burial will be at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Jackson fire report 10/9/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/09/17)
The Jackson Fire Department responded to the following calls: Friday n Emergency medical service on Main Street. Saturday n Fire alarm on K Land Drive. n Dumpster fire on Lee Avenue. n Emergency medical service on Hannah Street. n Emergency medical service on Main Street...
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Prayer 10/9/17
(Prayer ~ 10/09/17)
Lord Jesus, may our focus be on things with eternal value, building your kingdom. Amen.
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13th annual BIA Award ceremony
(Submitted Story ~ 10/09/17)
The 13th annual BIA Survivor and Family Seminar and Award Ceremony was held October 7, 2017 at the Maryville Marriott Hotel and Convention Center. There survivors and family members were invited to participate in several seminars throughout the day. The day started out with a welcome from David Dyck, DO, President, Board of Directors then proceeded with Carter "Cardinal Cowboy" Rethwisch, motivational speaker and survivor of Brain Injury and coma...
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1st Class Travel to Host week of Travel Shows
(Submitted Story ~ 10/09/17)
1st Class Travel, of Cape Girardeau, is excited to announce that the week of October 17th will be a fun-filled week of Travel Shows including Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Italy and Ireland. Door prizes & Giveaways! Please RSVP to join us at (573) 651-0088...
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Jackson Octoberfest 2017
(Submitted Story ~ 10/09/17)
Saturday was a beautiful day for a small town get together. It brought so many people together for a smile filled day. I love capturing real life smiles and laughter and the October fest was nothing but.
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Jackson Octoberfest 2017
(Submitted Story ~ 10/09/17)
Saturday was a beautiful day for a small town get together. It brought so many people together for a smile filled day. I love capturing real life smiles and laughter and the October fest was nothing but.
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Imo's Pizza Raises $337 for St. Vincent School of Cape Girardeau
(Submitted Story ~ 10/09/17)
Imo’s Pizza in Cape Girardeau presented $337.27 to St. Vincent School of Cape Girardeau. The money was generated during a day-long fundraiser held Tuesday, September 19. Ryan Austin and Jordan Prince of Imo’s Pizza presented the donation to Jamie Shaffar of St. Vincent School...
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FIELDS OF WHITE GOLD- COTTON
(Submitted Story ~ 10/09/17)
I took this picture of one of the cotton fields between Sikeston and Dexter on Saturday, October 7, 2017. I have a special place in my heart for cotton fields as my grandparents were cotton farmers.
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Chaffee Class of '57
(Submitted Photo ~ 10/09/17)
Title THE CLASS OF '57 HAD IT'S DREAM! Chaffee's graduating class of 1957 was honored at the Alumni on September 30. In attendance were: back row: Tom Gibbons,Charles Pruitt, Betty Cline Montgomery, Mark Hopkins, Bill Hawkins. Front row: Betty Seyer Glastetter, Sue Gremar Ivy, Marie Butler Brantley, Mary Ann Duncan Kagle & Mary Lou Hess Landewee...
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