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Fire displaces 20 veterans at Wappapello-area center
(Local News ~ 12/21/17)
WAPPAPELLO, Mo. — Nearly 20 area veterans were evacuated Sunday night during a structure fire at the Southeast Missouri (SEMO) Christian Restoration Center in Wappapello. The fire resulted in a total loss of the facility, operated by Ron Webb Ministries. The veterans lost nearly all of their belongings...
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Jackson to hire first stormwater consultant
(Local News ~ 12/21/17)
The city of Jackson will hire its first-ever stormwater consulting firm, said city engineer Clint Brown. Nine companies originally applied for the position in September, Brown said, and one company, HR Green of Chesterfield, Missouri, was chosen by the selection committee...
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State software glitches affecting revenue distribution to cities, counties
(Local News ~ 12/21/17)
Cape Girardeau city and county governments and the city of Jackson experienced a shortfall in sales-tax revenue in recent months officials blame on Missouri Department of Revenue software issues. But city and county officials said they recently received supplemental payments from the state that appear designed to address the issue and provide added tax dollars owed to the local governments...
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Rep. Swan introduces bill to control tax credits; seeks to reinstate film tax credit
(Local News ~ 12/21/17)
State Rep. Kathy Swan wants lawmakers to take budgetary control of all state tax credits. At the same time, she wants to reinstate a tax credit to encourage film producers to shoot movies in Missouri. For the fourth year in a row, the Cape Girardeau Republican has introduced a bill that specifies all new and existing tax credits must be approved first by lawmakers as part of the annual budget process before they can be issued by state agencies...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
Today is Thursday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2017. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives at 11:28 a.m. Eastern time. Today's Highlights in History: On Dec. 21, 1937, Walt Disney's first animated feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," had its world premiere at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. The first Dr. Seuss book, "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," was published by Vanguard Press...
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Jackson chamber leadership program adds productive development education
(Editorial ~ 12/21/17)
The Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce is changing course with its leadership program, according to a recent report by Marybeth Niederkorn. Director Brian Gerau announced the name of the program is changing to Jackson Leadership and Development, and the program now will include more of a focus on developing businesses internally. Gerau said this was a result of feedback from Leadership Jackson graduates of past years...
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The death of justice
(Column ~ 12/21/17)
I have been reading “An Honorable Defeat: A History Of German Resistance To Hitler 1933-1945” by Anton Gill, published in 2014 by Endeavour Press LTD. One question raised when studying the phenomenon of the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s and the horrors that followed is why did the German people allow this to happen to their country? The simple explanation is the Nazis were a reaction to the treaty ending World War I. ...
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Unlike others at Fox, Cavuto uninterested in Trump interview
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
NEW YORK — Fox News is President Donald Trump’s favorite venue for interviews. But one of its most prominent anchors, Neil Cavuto, says to count him out as a presidential interrogator. He doesn’t think it’s worth the time. “We’re always going to report on the president,” said Cavuto, Fox’s senior vice president and managing editor of business news. “You can’t NOT report on the president. But my goal is not to curry favor so I can get an interview with the president.”...
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All 1,694 residents of U.S. town becoming Scottish landowners
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
SCOTLAND, Conn. — Residents of the rural town of Scotland, Connecticut, are becoming lords and ladies in the United Kingdom country of the same name. The Scottish land-preservation company Highland Titles said Tuesday it’s gifting all 1,694 residents 1 square foot of land on its nature reserve in Glencoe Wood, Scotland. The residents will get courtesy titles of Lord or Lady of Glencoe and instructions on how to visit their plots
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Ex-Michigan trooper charged with murder in boy's death
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
DETROIT -- A former Michigan State Police trooper was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the death of a Detroit teenager who crashed an all-terrain vehicle after being shot with a stun gun. Mark Bessner had no "legal justification" to fire his Taser from a moving patrol car while trying to stop Damon Grimes from driving an ATV on a city street, said Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy...
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Fla. state senator resigns in wake of sexual allegations
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A powerful Florida state senator and Republican candidate for governor resigned Wednesday, the day after an investigation found credible evidence of sexual misconduct. Republican Sen. Jack Latvala continued to deny any wrongdoing as he announced he's stepping down Jan. 5, and took parting shots at Republican leaders who he said called for his resignation before he could defend himself...
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Japan aiding illegal ivory trade through lax control, report finds
(International News ~ 12/21/17)
TOKYO -- Japan's lax controls over its domestic stock of ivory are encouraging illegal exports to other countries and undermining efforts to end trafficking in elephant tusks, a report said Wednesday. The report, compiled with support by the World Wildlife Fund, said researchers found antique dealers are buying a large number of elephant tusks in Japan not registered as required by law...
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Israel, U.S. lobbying countries for support to oppose U.N. resolution
(International News ~ 12/21/17)
JERUSALEM -- Israel is intensively lobbying countries around the world to oppose a U.N. resolution criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Israeli officials said Wednesday. Today's vote in the U.N. General Assembly will indicate whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has succeeded in his efforts to drum up new pockets of support in the developing world, as well as the extent to which Israel and the U.S. ...
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Report: U.S., allies not owning civilian deaths in Mosul
(International News ~ 12/21/17)
MOSUL, Iraq -- The price Mosul's residents paid in blood to see their city freed was 9,000 to 11,000 dead, a civilian casualty rate nearly 10 times higher than what has been previously reported. The number killed in the nine-month battle to liberate the city from the Islamic State group marauders has not been acknowledged by the U.S.-led coalition, the Iraqi government or the self-styled caliphate...
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Report: Inadequate warning by park officials in Smoky fire
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Insufficient warning by Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials contributed to dramatically less time to evacuate people during a Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people in November 2016, according to a report released this week...
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EPA: Superfund Task Force has little paper trail
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the nation's most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations. EPA administrator Scott Pruitt in May announced the creation of a Superfund Task Force he said would reprioritize and streamline procedures for remediating more than 1,300 sites. ...
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Cardinal Law, disgraced figure in church scandal, dead at 86
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died Wednesday in Rome at age 86. Law, who spent the final years of his career leading an important basilica in Rome and continued to wield considerable influence inside the Vatican, had been sick and recently was hospitalized...
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Investigators seek answers amid derailment cleanup
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
DUPONT, Wash. -- Federal investigators in the deadly Amtrak wreck want to know whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in his cab as his train hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit. Three people were killed Monday when the train barreled into a 30 mph zone at 80 mph and plunged off an overpass, sending rail cars plummeting onto a busy interstate highway south of Seattle...
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Safer cities have deadly downside
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
INDIANAPOLIS -- When she started an urban farm in one of Indianapolis' roughest neighborhoods, retired chemist Aster Bekele wanted to teach at-risk children how to garden, and maybe sneak in a little science. Then the city's homicide rate started soaring, with most of the killings happening around the community center where Bekele and the teens tended their vegetables, chickens and compost piles. ...
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Federal shutdown looms over spending deal
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
WASHINGTON -- With a shutdown clock ticking toward a midnight Friday deadline, House Republican leaders struggled Wednesday to unite the GOP rank and file behind a must-pass spending bill. Although a major obstacle evaporated after key GOP senators dropped a demand to add health-insurance subsidies for the poor, a number of defense hawks offered resistance to a plan by GOP leaders to punt a guns-versus-butter battle with Democrats into the new year...
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Triumphant Trump celebrates tax win — but some fear backlash
(National News ~ 12/21/17)
WASHINGTON -- A triumphant President Donald Trump and jubilant fellow Republicans celebrated the passage of their $1.5 trillion tax overhaul Wednesday as a "historic victory for the American people." The American people, however, will need some convincing...
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Out of the past: Dec. 21
(Out of the Past ~ 12/21/17)
Computer-controlled railroad grade-crossing safety equipment will be installed at several busy railroad crossings in Southeast Missouri in the next two to four years; three of the crossings to be upgraded by September are in and near Randles in southwest Cape Girardeau County, where a Cape Girardeau man was killed three years ago at one of the crossings...
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Aaron Tarrants
(Obituary ~ 12/21/17)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Aaron Scott Tarrants, 43, of Sikeston died Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, at his home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Matthews City Cemetery in Matthews, Missouri...
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Arpha Slinkard
(Obituary ~ 12/21/17)
Arpha Slinkard was born Aug. 10, 1933, to Charley Edward and Lillian Rhodes Sitzes at Bessville, Missouri, and passed away Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, at her home in Fredericktown, Missouri. Arpha was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Charley Sitzes; brother-in-law, Delmer Hanners; and honorary granddaughter Fallon Foss...
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Jeannie Skaggs
(Obituary ~ 12/21/17)
GLENALLEN, Mo. -- Jeannie Kay Skaggs, 53, of Glenallen died Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, at the Woodland Hills in Marble Hill, Missouri. Liley Funeral Homes in Marble Hill is in charge of arrangements.
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Judith Sinn
(Obituary ~ 12/21/17)
Judith Ann Sinn, 76, of Scott City, formerly of Buford, Georgia, passed away peacefully Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in her home, surrounded by love ones. She was born May 26, 1941, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of John T. "Bingo" Morris and Nadine B. Summerlin Giles. She is the former wife of James "Jim" Sinn of Egypt Mills...
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Ira Dykes
(Obituary ~ 12/21/17)
Ira B. Dykes, 97, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, where he resided the past five years. He was born Aug. 25, 1920, in Oklahoma. He and Ruby Eskew were married Nov. 14, 1942. They had been married 64 years when Ruby passed away Feb. 3, 2007...
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Henry Davis
(Obituary ~ 12/21/17)
Henry M. Davis, 77, of Jackson died Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson.
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Robert Abernathy
(Obituary ~ 12/21/17)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Robert "Bob" D. Abernathy, 81, of Marble Hill died Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Services will be private. Liley Funeral Homes in Marble Hill is in charge of arrangements...
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Jackson police report 12/21/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/21/17)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n Bonnie Woods, 38, of Sturdivant, Missouri, was arrested on a Stoddard County warrant for fourth-degree assault and was issued a citation for speeding...
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Cape Girardeau police report 12/21/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/21/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following information. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of child abuse in the 800 block of William Street. n Daniel Gerard Ruggeri, 49, of Delta was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant for improper registration and suspended license...
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Ex-journalist gets 5 years in prison in Jewish threats case
(State News ~ 12/21/17)
NEW YORK -- A former journalist from St. Louis who terrorized his ex-girlfriend and then made bomb threats in her name to Jewish groups was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison after the ex-girlfriend told the court the case shows "domestic terrorism is rooted in violence against women."...
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Gov. Greitens commutes life sentence in 1981 crime
(State News ~ 12/21/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A 68-year-old Missouri woman who was sentenced to life in prison in 1982 for her role in a robbery that resulted in a man's slaying was freed from prison Wednesday after Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens commuted her sentence to time served...
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Sedalia tries for world's largest Christmas stocking record
(State News ~ 12/21/17)
SEDALIA, Mo. -- Sedalia has unveiled a Christmas stocking it hopes will make the cut for the world's largest. The red-and-white stocking officially was measured Tuesday as 177 feet tall for entry to Guinness World Records, the Sedalia Democrat reported. The city is trying to beat a record set by the Italian city of Carrara in 2011...
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Gov. Greitens backs workers' compensation boost for firefighters
(State News ~ 12/21/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri lawmakers should make it easier for firefighters to get workers' compensation, Gov. Eric Greitens said Wednesday during a visit to the St. Louis Fire Academy. The bill by Republican Rep. Nick Schroer would make firefighters and other first responders eligible for workers' compensation for illnesses ranging from cancer to high-blood pressure, and it would be up to employers to prove the issue was not caused by work...
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Missouri governor under review over secretive messaging app
(State News ~ 12/21/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's attorney general on Wednesday said he'll review fellow Republican Gov. Eric Greitens and some of his staff's use of a secretive app that deletes messages after they're read. The Kansas City Star previously reported Greitens and some of his staff have Confide accounts connected to their personal cellphones. The app deletes messages and prevents recipients from saving, forwarding, printing or taking screenshots of messages...
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Prayer 12/21/17
(Prayer ~ 12/21/17)
O Father God, may all experience your love and peace this Christmas and always. Amen.
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Birth 12/21/17
(Births ~ 12/21/17)
Son to Tory Dixon and Brandi Kendra Meyr of Jackson, Southeast Hospital, 4:48 a.m. Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Name, Crosby Dixon. Weight, 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Meyr is the former Brandi Lobb, daughter of Sheri Lobb of Cameron Park, California. She is a senior client manager at Purchase Clinic. Meyr is the son of Judith and Larry Meyr of Chaffee, Missouri. He is employed by Meyr Farms LLC...
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Not forgotten
(Submitted Story ~ 12/21/17)
My mom was killed in October of 1987 and her case is still not solved. Will someone please bring this up and or put the wors out somehow, someway? Here is her information Sandra Kirby Thomas (18) at the time. 12/11/1968-10/26/1987. She was killed in her home. (From what I am told) and my baby sister at the time was there. "Unharmed"...
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First Midwest Bank Raises $2,400 for United Way
(Submitted Story ~ 12/21/17)
Employees at First Midwest Bank presented United Way of Southeast Missouri with a check earlier this month for the annual campaign efforts. Funds were raised through payroll deduction, t-shirt sales, a dessert auction, and other special events. United Way fights for the health, education and financial stability of everyone across a four-county region in Southeast Missouri. ...
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