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WWE Live SummerSlam Heatwave tour to stop in Cape
(Local News ~ 04/24/19)
WWE superstars Roman Reigns, Kofi Kingston, Finn Balor and Randy Orton will take command of the ring as part of the WWE Live SummerSlam Heatwave Tour at 7 p.m. July 28 at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. Kevin Owens, Smackdown Tag Team Champions The Hardy Boyz, Charlotte Flair and Elias also will be making appearances, according to the Show Me Center on Tuesday...
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T-ball for two at Capaha Park
(Local News ~ 04/24/19)
Abbie Cook, 4, of Cape Girardeau heads to first while her grandmother, Easy Stilson of Cape Girardeau, handles the ball as they work on T-ball skills with Abbie's twin, Allie, in background on Tuesday at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Cape golf range business adds tech to tee boxes
(Local News ~ 04/24/19)
The TeeHouse Complex in Cape Girardeau, formerly Arena Golf, has added new, state-of-the-art technology designed to enhance the driving-range experience for golfers of all skills levels. The facility’s new Toptracer Range system, installed earlier this month, incorporates the same technology used on many televised golf tournaments to track a golf ball’s trajectory, from the tee to green and into the cup. ...
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Shakespeare's 'Othello' opens Wednesday at SE River Campus
(Local News ~ 04/24/19)
Southeast Missouri State University theater students are set to deliver Shakespeare’s “Othello” — the classic 1599 chronicle of love, entitlement and murder — from the streets of Venice to Cape Girardeau as the conservatory of theatre and dance series finale...
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New committee to dive into costs for aquatic center
(Local News ~ 04/24/19)
An ad hoc committee will be tasked with ironing out details for a new aquatic center in Cape Girardeau whose final price tag has not been determined. Former Cape Girardeau mayors Jay Knudtson and Harry Rediger are leading the planning effort seeking to dive into project costs, it was announced Tuesday in a news release...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/24/19)
Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2019. There are 251 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 24, 1980, the United States launched an unsuccessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen...
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Uncharted waters for national media
(Column ~ 04/24/19)
I can only imagine how future historians will treat this time in American history. The truth is we are in uncharted waters. Comparisons to Watergate fall far short of reality. We have entered the Twilight Zone of governance and for that, there will be a price to pay...
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Letter carriers to help with meeting food needs for poor
(Column ~ 04/24/19)
Saturday, May 11 marks the 27th anniversary of one of America's great days of giving -- the National Association of Letter Carriers Stamps out Hunger Food drive. Letter carriers walk through the community every day, often coming face to face with a sad reality for too many -- hunger...
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Farmers markets set up shop in Cape, Jackson
(Editorial ~ 04/24/19)
As the weather warms, fresh produce gets tastier and farmers markets set up shop. Our area has a handful of markets where you can buy fresh food, and other types of tasty treats. One of the markets, the one at West Park Mall, has already set up shop on Thursdays...
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Americans getting more inactive; computers at fault
(National News ~ 04/24/19)
Americans are becoming increasingly sedentary, spending almost a third of their waking hours sitting down, and computer use is partly to blame, a new study found. Over almost a decade, average daily sitting time increased by roughly an hour, to about eight hours for U.S. teens and almost 6 1/2 hours for adults, according to the researchers. That includes school and work hours, but leisure-time computer use among all ages increased, too...
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Justices seem ready to OK asking citizenship on census
(National News ~ 04/24/19)
WASHINGTON -- Despite evidence millions of Hispanics and immigrants could go uncounted, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to uphold the Trump administration's plan to inquire about U.S. citizenship on the 2020 census in a case potentially affecting American elections for the next decade...
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Coming to store shelves: Cameras to target ads
(National News ~ 04/24/19)
NEW YORK -- Eyeing that can of soda in the supermarket cooler? Or maybe you're craving a pint of ice cream? A camera could be watching you. But it's not there to see whether you're stealing. These cameras want to get to know you and what you're buying...
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As Sri Lanka mourns dead, IS claims Easter bombings
(International News ~ 04/24/19)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- As the death toll from the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka rose to 321 on Tuesday, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility and released images purporting to show the attackers, while the country's prime minister warned several suspects armed with explosives are still at large...
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Migrants fearful after hundreds arrested in Mexico raid
(International News ~ 04/24/19)
TONALA, Mexico -- Central American migrants traveling through southern Mexico toward the U.S. on Tuesday fearfully recalled their frantic escape from police the previous day, scuttling under barbed wire fences into pastures and then spending the night in the woods after hundreds were detained in a raid...
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Putin, Kim to meet in Russia's Far East for Thursday summit
(International News ~ 04/24/19)
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a much-anticipated summit Thursday, the Kremlin said, ending weeks of speculation about the meeting's timing and venue. Preparations for the meeting in Vladivostok, a Russia city on the Pacific, were held in secrecy because of North Korean security concerns, Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov said Tuesday...
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Women regret seeking IS 'caliphate'
(International News ~ 04/24/19)
AL-HOL CAMP, Syria -- The women say it was misguided religious faith, naivete, a search for something to believe in or youthful rebellion. Whatever it was, it led them to travel across the world to join the Islamic State group. Now after the fall of the last stronghold of the group's "caliphate," they say they regret it and want to come home...
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Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes
(International News ~ 04/24/19)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly pinned the executed body and severed head of a convicted Sunni extremist to a pole as a warning to others...
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John Daniels Jr.
(Obituary ~ 04/24/19)
ORAN, Mo. -- John Thomas Gray Eagle Daniels Jr., 76, of Oran passed away Monday, April 22, 2019, at his family home. He was born July 19, 1942, in Messler, Missouri, to the late John and Birtha Miller Daniels. John was retired from the social studies computer department with Ste. Genevieve (Missouri) School District. He was also a retired administrator with the Department of Corrections...
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The Comey firing sequence, as retold by the Mueller report
(National News ~ 04/24/19)
(Editor's note: First in a series of stories focusing on events detailed in the report of special counsel Robert Mueller, drawing from the document's trove.) WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump was seething. The FBI director, James Comey, had privately reassured him he was not personally under investigation. But on May 3, 2017, when Comey was summoned to Capitol Hill to explain his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, he denied the president the public vindication he'd sought...
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S&P 500, Nasdaq close at record highs as earnings roll in
(National News ~ 04/24/19)
The S&P 500 hit an all-time high Tuesday, marking the stock market's complete recovery from a nosedive at the end of last year. The benchmark index's previous record was set last September, shortly before the market sank in the fourth quarter amid fears of a recession, an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, and concern the Federal Reserve was moving too aggressively to raise interest rates...
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Democrats clash over impeachment
(National News ~ 04/24/19)
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- California Sen. Kamala Harris joined the call for President Donald Trump's impeachment as five leading Democratic presidential contenders clashed in a series of prime-time town hall meetings exposing deep divisions in a party desperate to end the Trump presidency...
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Feds: Ex-CEO is first drug exec indicted in opioid crisis
(State News ~ 04/24/19)
NEW YORK -- The former head of a drug distributor has been indicted on what federal prosecutors say are the first criminal charges against a drug company executive to stem from the opioid crisis. The indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges former Rochester Drug Co-Operative CEO Laurence Doud III ordered subordinates to ignore red flags about certain pharmacy customers to maximize company revenue and his own pay, which more than doubled between 2012 and 2016 as the company's sales of drugs such as oxycodone and fentanyl skyrocketed.. ...
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Out of the past: April 24
(Out of the Past ~ 04/24/19)
Southeast Missouri State University sophomore Stephen S. Owen leads the morning worship services at Grace United Methodist Church; the title of his sermon is "Love -- God's Eternal Life Preserver"; a political science and criminal justice major at Southeast, Owen is the son of Ray and Sally Owen of Cape Girardeau...
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Some black lawmakers concerned about Clean Missouri
(State News ~ 04/24/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republicans pushing to repeal a constitutional amendment that revamped Missouri's redistricting process are finding unusual allies in some black Democrats in the Legislature, who are concerned the new districts might disenfranchise black voters...
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Speak Out 4/24/19
(Speak Out ~ 04/24/19)
Congress has the power to declare war. With that being said, I feel like they have the right to see the Mueller report completely. Not just what the A.G. wants them to see. This is one of the biggest cover-ups ever of the Trump Administration and Republican Legislators. Puts Nixon's impeachment nothing to what they are doing today...
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Prayer 4/24/19
(Prayer ~ 04/24/19)
We praise you, O Lord Jesus Christ, for you are our deliverance. Amen.
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Area police report 4/24/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/24/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Seth N. Harper, 19, of Chaffee, Missouri, was arrested on a warrant. n Joseph J. Jackson Jr., 54, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a warrant...
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Cape fire report 4/24/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/24/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Monday n Medical assists were made at 1:42 a.m. on Recardo Drive, 8:26 a.m. on South Ellis Street, 10:12 a.m. on Megan Drive, 10:21 a.m. on Thilenius Street, 1:15 p.m. on William Street, 4:32 p.m. on South Benton Street, 4:51 p.m. on Valley View Lane, 5:20 p.m. on Themis Street, 11:17 p.m. on William Street and 11:36 p.m. on North Henderson Avenue...
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Road work 4/24/19
(Local News ~ 04/24/19)
I-55 in Cape County reduced for bridge work North- and southbound Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau County will be reduced to one lane with a 16-foot width restriction as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform repairs to the Diversion Channel bridge between Route AB and Highway 74. The work will take place from 6:30 a.m. to noon Sunday, according to a MoDOT news release...
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Births 4/24/19
(Births ~ 04/24/19)
Daughter to Brian Pender and Erin Morrison of Scott City, Southeast Hospital, 11:47 a.m. Thursday, April 18, 2019. Name, Sophia Leslie. Weight, 8 pounds, 13 ounces. First child. Morrison is the daughter of Jean and Arlen Graham of Sedgewickville, Missouri. Pender is the son of Jim and Rhonda Pender of Benton, Missouri. Pender and Morrison work at the Lutheran Home...
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Albert Cearlock
(Obituary ~ 04/24/19)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Albert Anthony Cearlock, 93, of Perryville died Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at Independence Care Center. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m., with an American Legion wake at 6 p.m., Friday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. Visitation will continue from 6:30 a.m. ...
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SOCIAL SECURITY COLUMN: SPRUCE UP YOUR FINANCIAL PLAN WITH SOCIAL SECURITY
(Submitted Story ~ 04/24/19)
Now that tax season is over, it’s probably a good time to evaluate some financial “best practices” for the rest of the year. A good spring-cleaning can clear out the clutter to let you see a clear path for your future. Social Security is always here to help. Even if you just started working, now is the time to start preparing for retirement. Achieving the dream of a secure, comfortable retirement is much easier with a strong financial plan...
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