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Let the games begin: Southeast, SIU fans tailgate at season opener
(Local News ~ 08/30/19)
Thursday afternoon, the Southeast Missouri State University marching band paraded a sea of focused Redhawks football players past multiple red and white tents of energetic students and alumni at Houck Stadium. It was almost time for the season opener against regional rival Southern Illinois University (SIU), which also brought fans to the event...
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Blunt urges trade, hopes for China deal
(Local News ~ 08/30/19)
Missouri's senior U.S. senator wants the United States to have more trade agreements with other countries amid the escalating trade war between China and the Trump administration. On a visit Thursday to Southeast Missouri State University, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt said the United States needs to look for more opportunities to sell products abroad...
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Your guide to #Fawkesfest19: 55-band festival to rock downtown Cape for charity
(Entertainment ~ 08/30/19)
How often does a multi-location, 55-band festival happen in downtown Cape Girardeau? So far, once a year — it's called Fawkesfest. And 50% of the profits will benefit Safe House for Women and Honorable Young Men Club. Rock band The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is set to co-headline with country-punk rock five-member Lucero, and you've got the inside scoop...
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Let's dance: Music of all sorts, carnival rides (and beer) for you this weekend
(Entertainment ~ 08/30/19)
All I can think about is how awesome it will be to see 55 bands in downtown Cape Girardeau this weekend for charity-driven Fawkesfest19. No matter the music genre you prefer, you'll find a great assortment of local bands that'll live up to the hype (and maybe you'll discover some new ones, too)...
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Tillman arrested following wrong-way driving incident
(Local News ~ 08/30/19)
Myron Lee Tillman, 41, of Lilbourn, Missouri was arrested early Friday morning after involving police in a 20-mile chase Thursday afternoon in his underwear, traveling north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 55, according to a release from the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/30/19)
Today is Friday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2019. There are 123 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. On this date:...
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2019 Newsmakers: Ethan Welker
(B Magazine ~ 08/30/19)
Music is what emotions sound like. It's this artistic value of music that Ethan Welker, creator of a youth orchestra program in Perryville, Missouri, loves about music. Welker says he also enjoys the intellectual value of music: "Some things work because of rules that we just agree on."...
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2019 Newsmakers: Denise Lincoln
(B Magazine ~ 08/30/19)
To understand why Denise Lincoln is a Newsmaker, you have to know the twists and turns that led her to where she is today. From 13-week stints in cities across the U.S. for her husband Doug's job as an ultrasound technician to what she thought was a mistake the day she opened the wrong microfilm drawer at the National Archives while doing research on her family's history, it almost seems as though the universe put the African American story of Southeast Missouri into her hands to help tell...
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Outside the office: Victor Brownlees, finance director for the City of Cape Girardeau
(B Magazine ~ 08/30/19)
I have been drumming since about the same time I started to walk. Music is a long tradition in my family, and I am a fifth generation traditional Ulster Scots (Scotch Irish) drummer, playing a large, heavy drum called a Lambeg. I played also in several marching flute bands growing up and at school played in the orchestra, concert band and jazz band. ...
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P&G, now 50 years in Cape County, plays important role in economy
(Editorial ~ 08/30/19)
Proctor & Gamble's Cape Girardeau County plant turned 50 in August. In late August of 1969, the first Pampers disposable diapers rolled off the production line. As stated in a recent article by business editor Jay Wolz, the plant produces and ships several billion dollars worth of diapers, paper towels and toilet paper throughout North America. Some diaper products have a worldwide distribution...
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Morality from the past
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/30/19)
In the 1919 "Out of the Past" sections of the Saturday/Sunday and Monday Southeast Missourian are two entries of some interest. The first entry describes a "fist fight" that took place in the office of a local Justice of the Peace. The entry ends with this sentence: "The mix-up came in a trial in which two persons are charged with operating immoral houses [Prostitution] in the city." The second entry is a "call" for "all former white soldiers, sailors, Marines" and all other branches of "Uncle Sam's forces in the late war" to meet for the purpose of organizing "a local camp of the American Legion.". ...
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Immigrants and their employers
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/30/19)
Earlier this year on Aug. 7, about 600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided six chicken processing plants and arrested 680 individuals. Not charged were their employers. For example poultry companies such as Koch Foods actively recruit undocumented immigrants. Then they take advantage of them by paying low wages to cut, debone and package chicken under miserable and sometimes dangerous conditions...
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Johnson hawks West shapewear line
(Community ~ 08/30/19)
NEW YORK -- Alice Marie Johnson, who Kim Kardashian West helped get out of prison, has popped up on Instagram hawking the reality TV star's new shapewear line. Johnson looks into the camera wearing a black sculpting bodysuit from SKIMS and says the shapewear makes her feel "free." She calls Kardashian West her "war angel" who did not let anything stand between her and Johnson's freedom...
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Movie Preview: With fingers crossed, Hollywood goes all-in on big-bet original films
(Entertainment ~ 08/30/19)
NEW YORK -- When 20th Century Fox greenlit James Mangold's "Ford v. Ferrari" -- an original movie with a nearly $100 million budget -- the director's agent had some advice. "Enjoy this," Mangold recalled him saying. "This will be the last one of these you ever make."...
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EPA moves to revoke Obama-era regulations on oil industry methane leaks
(National News ~ 08/30/19)
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration moved Thursday to revoke regulations on methane leaks from oil facilities, a proposal environmental advocates said would renounce key federal authority to regulate the climate-damaging gas. The proposed rule follows President Donald Trump's directions to remove "unnecessary and duplicative regulatory burdens from the oil and gas industry," Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement...
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Trump declares new Space Command key to American defense
(National News ~ 08/30/19)
WASHINGTON -- Declaring space crucial to the nation's defense, President Donald Trump said Thursday the Pentagon has established U.S. Space Command as part of a broader effort to preserve U.S. dominance in orbit. "This is a landmark day," Trump said in a Rose Garden ceremony, "one that recognizes the centrality of space to America's national security and defense."...
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Backlash grows to Johnson's suspension of UK Parliament
(International News ~ 08/30/19)
LONDON -- Opposition to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's move to suspend Parliament intensified Thursday, with the head of the Labour Party vowing "to politically stop him" from pushing through a chaotic no-deal Brexit. Johnson's tactic gave lawmakers little time to prevent Britain from crashing out of the European Union without an agreement on Oct. 31...
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Watchdog: Comey violated FBI policies with memos
(National News ~ 08/30/19)
WASHINGTON -- Former FBI director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump, the Justice Department's inspector general said Thursday. The watchdog office said Comey broke bureau rules by giving one memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the contents with a reporter. ...
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Opioid settlement would use a formula to split the money
(National News ~ 08/30/19)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The multibillion-dollar settlement the maker of OxyContin is negotiating to settle a crush of lawsuits over the nation's opioid crisis contains formulas for dividing up the money among state and local governments across the country, The Associated Press has learned...
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UMKC settles lawsuits with professor who alleged retaliation
(State News ~ 08/30/19)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A University of Missouri-Kansas City associate professor whose complaints led to the eventual ouster of a top pharmacy professor has agreed to a $360,000 settlement of two lawsuits he filed alleging university officials retaliated against him because of his allegations...
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Trump: Taliban deal close; U.S. troops to drop to 8,600
(National News ~ 08/30/19)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. plans to withdraw more than 5,000 American troops from Afghanistan and then will determine further drawdowns in the longest war in American history. Trump's comment comes as a U.S. envoy is in his ninth round of talks with the Taliban to find a resolution to the nearly 18-year-old war. The president said the U.S. was "getting close" to making a deal, but the outcome is uncertain...
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Terry Webb
(Obituary ~ 08/30/19)
Terry Webb, 59, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 14, 1960, in Cape Girardeau, son of the late Kenneth Webb and Carolyn Sue Smith Webb Jones. Terry attended Joy Church in Jackson and was a member of First Freewill Baptist Church in Farmington, Missouri...
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Robert Kintner
(Obituary ~ 08/30/19)
HALLSVILLE, Mo. -- Robert "Bob" Alan Kintner, 74, of Hallsville died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, at University Hospital and Clinics in Columbia, Missouri. Bob was born Oct. 31, 1944, in Topeka, Kansas, the son of Melvin Albert and Maxine Isabell Campbell Kintner. On May 4, 1968, in Girard, Kansas, he married Wilma Joan Peak, and she survives. They raised their family in Jackson, and for the last 21 years they lived in Hallsville...
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Oliver Fortner
(Obituary ~ 08/30/19)
Oliver August Fortner was born July 8, 2019, in St. Louis, to James and Crystal Whitt Fortner. He was seven weeks old when he passed away Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, due to Mosaic Trisomy 13, a rare genetic disorder. Although he was hospitalized for most of his brief life, he was able to live his final few days at home, surrounded by the love of his entire family...
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Prayer 8/30/19
(Prayer ~ 08/30/19)
O Lord, thank you for your guiding hand of protection and grace. Amen.
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Police report 8/30/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/30/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Miscellaneous n Property damage was repored in the 400 block of Bellevue Street. Subject is in custody. n Property damage was reported at 2530 Maria Louise Lane. JACKSON...
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Out of the past: Aug. 30
(Out of the Past ~ 08/30/19)
The state's Certificate of Need staff recommends Saint Francis Medical Center replace its cardiac catherization lab rather than add a second lab; the lab is on the agenda for a Sept. 14 meeting of the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee, and that committee will make a final decision on whether the medical center will install a second lab at a cost of $1.76 million...
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Beer can enthusiasts head to New Mexico for 'CANvention'
(National News ~ 08/30/19)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Hundreds of beer can collectors are heading to New Mexico for a "CANvention." The Brewery Collectibles Club of America started celebrating different types of beer cans Thursday at its three-day national gathering at the Albuquerque Convention Center. ...
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Found dog
(Submitted Story ~ 08/30/19)
Found this dog at our house, if it belongs to you please call 573-275-4five five seven
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