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Scott County circuit clerk resigns, accepts position with federal courts
(Local News ~ 07/20/19)
BENTON, Mo. — Scott County’s circuit clerk resigned Thursday to accept a job with the federal courts. Christy M. Hency confirmed Aug. 2 will be her last day as the Scott County circuit clerk. Hency said she has accepted a position with the Federal Judiciary...
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Advisory to shorten Cape Riverfront Market
(Local News ~ 07/20/19)
The Cape Riverfront Market is adjusting its hours Saturday because of anticipated high temperatures and a heat advisory issued for the area. The Saturday morning market, sponsored by Old Town Cape at 35 S. Spanish St., will open at 7:45 a.m. today and close at 11 a.m. The market’s regular hours, 8 a.m. until noon, will resume July 27...
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City denies liquor license at business due to nearby shootings; owner says he's being 'scapegoated'
(Local News ~ 07/20/19)
A Cape Girardeau banquet hall has been denied a city liquor license after police cited several incidents of violence in the vicinity of the south-side business and said the hall should be held to a different standard than bars and other establishments...
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50 years later: Locals recall historic moon landing
(Local News ~ 07/20/19)
Fifty years ago this weekend, humankind first walked on the moon. An estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong descended onto the lunar surface July 20, 1969. People from the area shared their memories of watching the Apollo 11 mission with the Southeast Missourian...
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East Cape gets some relief; 146 open to local traffic
(Local News ~ 07/20/19)
Traveling is a little easier for flood-weary residents of East Cape Girardeau, Illinois, now that a section of Route 146 has reopened. Joe Aden, mayor of the village, said the Illinois Department of Transportation reopened “just one lane” of the route from East Cape Girardeau to the Mississippi River bridge Friday afternoon...
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'Love the work': 60 years of ministry
(Community ~ 07/20/19)
With his father a pastor before him, David Dissen always wanted to study ministry. The Rev. Dissen eventually got his wish and can now boast 60 years since his ordination. Life and his job have taken him across the United States and, for a time, outside of them...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
Today is Saturday, July 20, the 201st day of 2019. There are 164 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after reaching the surface in their Apollo 11 lunar module...
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Co-op Cut Rate Drug Store
(Column ~ 07/20/19)
Elaine "Tommie" Davis opened the Co-op Cut Rate Drug Store, at 40 N. Main St., in Cape Girardeau on Oct. 18, 1933. An article ran in a 1941 issue of "Drug Topics" stating that Davis's store was one of the first to operate a Women's Department in a drug store. ...
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Thank you
(Column ~ 07/20/19)
One of my favorite novels is "Life of Pi." It's the story of a teenage boy, Pi, who finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with a wild tiger named Richard Parker. The book recounts how the boy and the tiger begin to form a bond with one another, and they come to rely on each other for survival. ...
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The gift of rest
(Column ~ 07/20/19)
Summer is the season of vacations and downtime. A season to breathe a little deeper, sleep a little later, and linger a bit longer with those you love. Unfortunately, for many of us, those "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" look no different than the bleak and blah days of winter. ...
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Trooper honored by state DPS for lifesaving help
(Community ~ 07/20/19)
A local Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper recently was honored by the Department of Public Safety for his earlier efforts on the scene of a deadly shooting. Cpl. John West was presented with the Department of Public Safety's Employee of the Month Award for June by patrol Col. Eric Olson and DPS Director Sandy Karsten during a recent ceremony at Troop E Headquarters...
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Be 'bear aware' as populations increase, cross human paths
(Community ~ 07/20/19)
Missouri Department of Conservation estimated the state had 300 to 350 bears in 2012, but new research shows the population has grown to between 540 and 800 black bears. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Dana Gray of rural Rogersville remembers spotting something big and brown earlier this month during a walk on her 10-acre property...
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Dining al fresco
(Community ~ 07/20/19)
Since the basic backyard barbecue began evolving into the outdoor kitchen, the trend has only grown. Some of today's outdoor cooking areas can seem almost like full kitchens, with more appliances and food prep space. Even walls, ceilings and TVs. "It's not just where you prepare the food. It's where people gather," says HGTV's Vern Yip. "Just as the kitchens inside of our homes are kind of the center of energy at a party or gathering, the outdoor kitchen really has become that as well."...
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Loving thy neighbors
(Column ~ 07/20/19)
Back several years I offered to help readers of my article to grow some Stupice tomatoes, and I told them that most of them would be picking their first tomatoes by the end of May. Some would question this but you can if you will put forth the effort. ...
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Adopt Sasar 7-21-19
(Community ~ 07/20/19)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary This cute little guy is Sasar. He is a five-year-old Chihuahua and is in need of a loving, forever home! He is available for adoption at Safe Harbor; call (573) 243-9823.
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Meadow katydid on a flower
(Column ~ 07/20/19)
The flower you see here is native to North America and can be found in every state of the continental United States. It is a member of the sunflower family. This is the bloom of a black-eyed Susan. I found this wildflower growing on the bank of a small pond with very clear, dark water. Woods surrounded the pond on three sides. Bright sunshine allowed me to set my camera to a very fast shutter speed. I was able to capture this image with a clean black background in this way...
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FYI 7-21-19
(Community ~ 07/20/19)
Sedgewickville United Methodist Church will hold its annual kettle beef/chicken and dumpkling dinner from 3 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 3. The all-you-can-eat meal also includes mashed potatoes, green beans, slaw, tomatoes, fruit salad, cake and drink, The church is located on Route K off Highway 72...
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Senior Center Menus for July 22-26
(Community ~ 07/20/19)
Monday: Cheeseburger or smothered bratwurst, seasoned tater tots, steam zucchini, whole-grain bun and cinnamon applesauce or lemonade cake. Tuesday: BBQ pork chop or chopped steak with bacon and onion gravy, baked potato, Brussels sprouts, whole-grain hot roll and sugar-free peach crisp or blonde brownie...
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Club news 7-21-19
(Community News ~ 07/20/19)
The Town and Country FCE Club met on July 11 for the club's family picnic with family members as guests. Karen Murphy, Brenda Pender and Lois Seabaugh were in charge of arrangements. The club furnished fried chicken and members brought side dishes. After enjoying the picnic dinner members played bingo with the prizes furnished by the committee...
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Speak Out 7-21-19
(Speak Out ~ 07/20/19)
Disagreeing with you doesn't make me a racist. It could simply be that you're wrong, uninformed, ignorant, or maybe you're just a knucklehead. The Cape swimming pool advisory committee's recommendations included everything other than a unicorn wading pool and rainbow-making machine. ...
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Prayer 7-21-19
(Prayer ~ 07/20/19)
Thank you for you goodness and unfailing love, O Lord Jesus. Amen.
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Police report 7-21-19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/20/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Christopher Adams, 32, of Sikeston, Missouri, was arrested on a Scott County warrant. n Shannon Carnell, 42, of Cape Girardeau was arrested on a Cape Girardeau warrant...
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Births 7/19/19
(Births ~ 07/20/19)
Son to Benjamin Matthew Hale and Zoe Marie Handley of Cape Girardeau, Saint Francis Medical Center, 6:09 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Name, Thomas Monroe. Weight, 8 pounds, 5 ounces. First child. Hale is the son of Thomas Hale of Thebes, Illinois, and Julie Schaedler of Pottsboro, Texas...
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Sylvan Lappe
(Obituary ~ 07/20/19)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Sylvan V. Lappe, 95, of Perryville, formerly of St. Louis, died Thursday, July 18, 2019, at Independence Care Center of Perry County in Perryville. Services will be held at a later date. Ford and Young Funeral Home of Perryville is in charge of arrangements...
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Billy and Dorothy Jones
(Obituary ~ 07/20/19)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Billy Gene and Dorothy Jean Fowler Jones of Scottsdale, formerly of the Advance, Missouri, area, passed away in Arizona on Wednesday, July 3, 2019, and Monday, April 9, 2018, respectively. Billy was born March 21, 1931, to Bill and Ruth Hitt Jones, and Dorothy was born Jan. 27, 1934, to George and Bertie Pohlman Fowler. Their 67-year marriage was filled with travel and fun adventures...
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Tunnie Hitchcock
(Obituary ~ 07/20/19)
Tunnie L. Hitchcock, 89, of Jackson died Tuesday, July 16, 2019, at his home. A private graveside service was held Friday, officiated by the Rev. Jacob Colwell. Interment was at New Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery near Pocahontas. Arrangements were by McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson...
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Sandy Eastman
(Obituary ~ 07/20/19)
"Love people... Cook them tasty food," is probably the best way to sum up the life of the late Sandra Jean Liley Eastman. Born Aug, 1, 1963, to Lyndall and Daphine Liley, she was raised as a true-blue Jacksonian. After nearly a two-year battle with colorectal cancer, Sandy went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, June 16, 2019...
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Why no hush-money charges against Trump? Feds are silent
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
NEW YORK -- When special counsel Robert Mueller closed the books on the Russia investigation, he produced a report of more than 400 pages, and Attorney General William Barr held a news conference outlining the reasons the Justice Department didn't charge President Donald Trump...
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UK: two vessels have been seized by Iran
(International News ~ 07/20/19)
LONDON -- Britain's foreign secretary said Iranian authorities seized two vessels Friday in the Strait of Hormuz, actions signaling intensifying tensions in the strategic waterway becoming a flashpoint between Tehran and the West. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said one of the seized ships was British-flagged and the other sailed under Liberia's flag. Iran's semi-official Fars news agency tweeted shortly after Hunt's statement the second tanker had left Iran's territorial waters...
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S. Korean kills self near Japan's embassy
(International News ~ 07/20/19)
SEOUL, South Korea -- A 78-year-old South Korean man died hours after setting himself ablaze near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Friday, police said, at a time of worsening tensions between Seoul and Tokyo. The man, surnamed Kim, ignited a fire inside a car parked in front of the building where the Embassy is located. The man died later Friday while being treated at a Seoul hospital, police said...
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'Remain in Mexico' expands to dangerous part of border
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
HOUSTON -- The U.S. government on Friday expanded its policy requiring asylum seekers to wait outside the country to one of Mexico's most dangerous cities, where thousands of people are already camped, some for several months. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it would implement its Migrant Protection Protocols in Brownsville, Texas, across the border from Matamoros, Mexico. DHS says it anticipated the first asylum seekers being sent back to Mexico on Friday...
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In reversal, Trump disavows criticism of chanting crowd
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on a Somali-born congresswoman Friday while reversing his previous criticisms of a North Carolina crowd who chanted "send her back," defending them as "patriots" while again questioning the loyalty of four Democratic lawmakers of color...
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'Dumbfakes' may become pervasive
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
Sophisticated phony videos called deepfakes have attracted plenty of attention as a possible threat to election integrity. But a bigger problem for the 2020 U.S. presidential contest may be "dumbfakes" -- simpler and more easily unmasked bogus videos easy and often cheap to produce...
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Trump officials weigh delay of abortion curbs
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has told federally funded family planning clinics it is considering a delay in enforcing a controversial rule barring them from referring women for abortions. That comes after clinics had vowed defiance. Two people attending meetings this week between the Department of Health and Human Services and clinic representatives told The Associated Press officials said the clinics should be given more time to comply with the rule's new requirements...
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Trump officials weigh delay of abortion curbs
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has told federally funded family planning clinics it is considering a delay in enforcing a controversial rule barring them from referring women for abortions. That comes after clinics had vowed defiance. Two people attending meetings this week between the Department of Health and Human Services and clinic representatives told The Associated Press officials said the clinics should be given more time to comply with the rule's new requirements...
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Scalia tapped as next labor secretary
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has selected lawyer Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be his new labor secretary. Trump tweeted news of the planned nomination a week after his previous secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned amid renewed criticism of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. The financier was indicted this month on charges of sexually abusing underage girls and pleaded not guilty...
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Democrats to focus on obstruction with Mueller
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who will question former special counsel Robert Mueller next week plan to focus on a narrow set of episodes laid out in his report, an effort to direct Americans' attention to what they see as the most egregious examples of President Donald Trump's conduct...
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In reversal, Trump disavows criticism of chanting crowd
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on a Somali-born congresswoman Friday while reversing his previous criticisms of a North Carolina crowd who chanted "send her back," defending them as "patriots" while again questioning the loyalty of four Democratic lawmakers of color...
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In reversal, Trump disavows criticism of chanting crowd
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on a Somali-born congresswoman Friday while reversing his previous criticisms of a North Carolina crowd who chanted "send her back," defending them as "patriots" while again questioning the loyalty of four Democratic lawmakers of color...
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Democrats to focus on obstruction with Mueller
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who will question former special counsel Robert Mueller next week plan to focus on a narrow set of episodes laid out in his report, an effort to direct Americans' attention to what they see as the most egregious examples of President Donald Trump's conduct...
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The $75K church outreach you might not know about
(Column ~ 07/20/19)
This area is blessed with many churches and faith-based ministries. They do important work feeding the hungry (with both food and the Gospel), providing clothes, shelter and other needed items and services. They stand in the gap, showing God's love...
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Maria Kolusch
(Obituary ~ 07/20/19)
Maria E. Kolusch, 87, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, July 8, 2019, in the home of her daughter in Overland Park, Kansas. She was at peace and surrounded by her loving family. She was born July 16, 1931, in Badbergen, Germany, and lived in Cape Girardeau for almost 60 years. Her biggest passion was her seven grandchildren. Maria loved cooking, crocheting and spending time with her friends of St. Mark's Chapter 167, Order of the Eastern Star...
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Out of the past: July 20
(Out of the Past ~ 07/20/19)
Rendrag Corp. was granted approval by the Cape Girardeau City Council Monday night to pull the plug on its own housing development project after it withdrew its rezoning request; the development would have included 134 units, 38 that would be single-family dwellings valued at $100,000 to $150,000; another 20 units were to be four-plex condominiums, and 44 were to be townhouses; the remaining 32 units were to be built into eight-unit apartment buildings...
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Out of the past: July 21
(Out of the Past ~ 07/20/19)
The Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteer program added 19 new volunteers to its ranks this week; Circuit Judge William L. Syler on Tuesday swore in the volunteers, who will assist court-appointed attorneys representing children victims of abuse or neglect...
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Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another world
(National News ~ 07/20/19)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, uniting people around the globe in a way not seen before or since...
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