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Man arrested after allegedly pointing gun at passing car in Perry County
(Local News ~ 11/22/19)
A St. Louis man was arrested Wednesday and charged with unlawful use of a weapon in connection with an alleged road rage incident in the northbound lanes of Interstate 55 in Perry County south of Perryville, Missouri. Nathaniel Roberson, 20, was taken into custody and was being held at the Perry County Jail as of Thursday morning on the weapons charge and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia...
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Gordonville Road in Cape to close for utility work
(Local News ~ 11/22/19)
A section of Gordonville Road in Cape Girardeau will be closed for two to three hours at midday Tuesday, weather permitting, for utility work, according to the city’s development services office. The street closure will allow crews to deliver a new water booster pump station to a nearby water tank, city staff said in a news release...
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SEMO Arts group drums up stress relief
(Entertainment ~ 11/22/19)
Stress is an integral part of college life, especially around this time in the semester. Stress can motivate, distract from or even paralyze a student's progress. When does typical college stress become something more, and what can be done about it?...
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Bridging the gap
(Local News ~ 11/22/19)
Missouri Department of Transportation transportation project designer Neal Taegtmeyer of Sikeston, Missouri, tests a bridge during MoDOT's 16th annual Bridge Building Competition on Thursday in the auditorium of Southeast Missouri State University's Academic Hall in Cape Girardeau. ...
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TGIF: Other events 11/22/19
(Entertainment ~ 11/22/19)
WHERE Cape Bible Chapel, 2911 Kage Road, Cape Girardeau WHEN 2 to 5 p.m. today and Saturday MORE INFO samaritanspurse.org Grab a shoebox and fill with small toys, hygiene items and school supplies. These boxes are collected and send to children around the world to reach out to them with the good news of Jesus Christ...
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TGIF: Homemade for the holidays: Craft fairs in Cape this weekend
(Entertainment ~ 11/22/19)
Ah, the craft fairs. Every year, for decades now, craft and gift vendors and hopeful shoppers alike descend on Cape Girardeau for a few days in late November. They're after the same thing: a taste of holiday magic, to enjoy for themselves or to wrap up for a loved one...
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Voters voting on 'I Voted' stickers
(Local News ~ 11/22/19)
The Cape Girardeau County Clerk’s office is asking the public to help select the design for the county’s new “I Voted” stickers. Online voting is underway through a link on the clerk’s website through which voters are being asked to choose from among four designs submitted earlier this fall by Michael Gentry of Cape Girardeau and Brian Hahs, Ryan Hicks and Lindsey Limbaugh, all of Jackson...
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Southeast's Baptist Student Center celebrates 80 years with banquet
(Local News ~ 11/22/19)
For 80 years, the Baptist Student Center on Southeast Missouri State University’s campus in Cape Girardeau has aimed to reach out to the community through education and fellowship. Tonight, it will celebrate that legacy with an event at The Courtyard by Mariott. The Rev. Bruce Gentry said he’s only the fourth director in the center’s 80-year history...
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Norman, Rust among others honored by Cape Chamber
(Local News ~ 11/22/19)
Cape Girardeau businessmen Earl Norman and Gary Rust were among the honorees at the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Annual Dinner on Thursday night. A capacity crowd of 850 chamber members and guests attended the event at the Drury Plaza Conference Center during which Norman received the chamber’s Rush H. Limbaugh Award and Rust was presented with the inaugural Drury Family Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award...
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SEMO's Kent Library receives upgrades to internet connectivity
(Local News ~ 11/22/19)
A network rewiring project to improve internet connectivity at Southeast Missouri State University’s Kent Library began in November and will cost about $3.5 million, according to Floyd Davenport, assistant vice president of information technology. The network wiring most likely hasn’t been updated since the late 1990s...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 11/22/19)
Today is Friday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2019. There are 39 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same car as Kennedy, was seriously wounded; a suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president...
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EDITORIAL: Southeast football plays for conference title Saturday
(Editorial ~ 11/22/19)
Southeast Missouri State University's football team is one win away from securing at least a share of the Ohio Valley Conference championship title and the Redhawks second consecutive appearance in the Football Championship Series playoffs. The No. 13-ranked Redhawks play conference rival Murray State on Saturday at Houck Stadium. ...
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Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges
(International News ~ 11/22/19)
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted Thursday in a series of corruption cases, throwing Israel's paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatening his 10-year grip on power. He rejected calls to resign, angrily accusing prosecutors of staging "an attempted coup."...
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EPA prosecutions approach quarter-century lows
(National News ~ 11/22/19)
WASHINGTON -- Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics...
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Former security official undercuts Trump impeachment defense
(National News ~ 11/22/19)
WASHINGTON -- In riveting testimony, a former national security official declared Thursday a U.S. ambassador carried out a controversial "domestic political errand" for Donald Trump on Ukraine, an allegation undercutting a main line of the president's defense in the impeachment inquiry...
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Wooden toys can make great gifts
(Entertainment ~ 11/22/19)
NEW YORK -- Why buy wooden toys for children? Chances are good you know at least one parent who sings their praises for durability, sustainability or magical powers to boost creativity. If you don't, know that such toys can make great gifts. Some ideas:...
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Mary Russell
(Obituary ~ 11/22/19)
Mary M. Russell, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, at Fountainbleau Lodge. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Monday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, with Pastor Delbert Mueller officiating...
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Bertha Paul
(Obituary ~ 11/22/19)
Bertha Pauline Paul, 93, of Cape Girardeau passed away Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, at Life Care Center. She was born Dec. 4, 1925, in Caruth, Missouri, to the late James Arthur and Nora Alice Gromer Miller. Pauline was a line worker for Florsheim Shoe factory for six years and a cook on a riverboat for 12 years. She was of the Pentecostal faith...
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Jan Luckey
(Obituary ~ 11/22/19)
FROHNA, Mo. -- Jan L. Luckey, 57, of Frohna passed away Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, at St. Clair Hospital in Fenton, Missouri. She was born April 24, 1962, in Perryville, Missouri, daughter of Arnold and Georgia Berkbiggler Robinson. She and Kirk Luckey were united in marriage Oct. 4, 2015...
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Ernest Glastetter
(Obituary ~ 11/22/19)
ORAN, Mo. -- Ernest Glastetter, son of the late Frank and Clara Amhrein Glastetter, was born Jan. 30, 1933, in Oran and departed this life Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, at Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 86. Ernest worked at Sport Specialist Shoe Co. ...
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4 deputies sickened, Missouri courthouse evacuated
(State News ~ 11/22/19)
OZARK, Mo. -- A southwest Missouri sheriff's office is investigating after four deputies were sickened by a suspicious substance at a courthouse. Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole said a deputy fainted after searching the purse of a woman going through courthouse security Thursday. Three other deputies became ill a short time later...
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Man admits attempted arson at Planned Parenthood clinic
(State News ~ 11/22/19)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Federal prosecutors say a man has admitted he tried to burn down a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia because it provides reproductive services. Forty-two-year-old Wesley Brian Kaster of Columbia pleaded guilty Thursday to maliciously using explosive materials to damage a building owned by an organization that receives federal financial assistance and to violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act...
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Hunter kills rare albino deer in eastern Missouri
(State News ~ 11/22/19)
HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. -- Missouri Department of Conservation officers are investigating after a rare albino deer was shot and killed by a hunter in eastern Missouri. KMOV-TV reported the deer was killed Tuesday near a subdivision and a school in the Jefferson County town of House Springs, south of St. Louis...
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Mayor of St. Louis suburb charged in election fraud case
(State News ~ 11/22/19)
ST. LOUIS -- The 81-year-old mayor of a St. Louis suburb was charged Thursday with submitting fraudulent absentee voter applications in what prosecutors say was an effort to illegally influence the city's municipal elections. Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins is charged with four counts of committing an election offense and one forgery count. ...
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Missouri, voting rights groups settle address-change lawsuit
(State News ~ 11/22/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri residents could soon find it easier to update their addresses for voter registration under a settlement voter advocates reached Thursday with the state's revenue department. The League of Women Voters of Missouri and the Kansas City-area chapter of the A. ...
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Prayer 11/22/19
(Prayer ~ 11/22/19)
Thank you, O Heavenly Father, for family and friends and their blessing on our lives. Amen.
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Speak Out 11/22/19
(Speak Out ~ 11/22/19)
Bad news for Democrats as NBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and Monmouth all show Trump's approval rating at 45%. The impeachment hoax is failing. It is going to be an uphill battle for President Trump to get reelected because he has stood up to countries that have been running over us for years with unfair tariffs, so they are against him and will do all in their power to see him not reelected. ...
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Out of the past: Nov. 22
(Out of the Past ~ 11/22/19)
A Cape Girardeau County sheriff's deputy escaped serious injury yesterday when a tree limb fell on his police cruiser as he drove in the 900 block of Broadway; deputy Mike Englemann suffered face and hand lacerations after the limb broke from a tree near First Baptist Church; the limb shattered the windshield and driver's side window and dented the hood, roof and back of the car...
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Area police reports 11/22/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/22/19)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Domestic assault was reported in the 400 block of Bellevue Street. n Domestic assault and endangering the welfare of a child were reported in the 800 block of North Sprigg Street. A suspect was taken into custody...
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Illinois officer fined $350 for illegally parking patrol car
(National News ~ 11/22/19)
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. — A northern Illinois police officer has been ticketed for parking his patrol car in a handicapped-accessible parking space. Lakemoor police chief David Godlewski said Tuesday the officer was issued a $350 fine Sunday for parking illegally at Lakemoor Crossings Shopping Center. ...
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Holiday Community Open House Features Over 500 Unique Nativity Displays
(Submitted Story ~ 11/22/19)
The seventh annual “Nativities Around the World” event is scheduled for December 6th – December 8th at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Cape Girardeau. This free community event is the only one of its kind in the area and a great way to kick off the Christmas season. It has become a seasonal tradition for many families...
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Wendel named Sr. Gents King
(Submitted Story ~ 11/22/19)
Ken Wendel of Jackson was named the Midwest Butterfly Dreams 2019 Senior Gents King at the Midwest Butterfly Dreams Pageant at Concordia Lutheran Church in Kirkwood, Missouri on Nov. 16. The mission of the Butterfly Dreams, Inc., is to provide opportunities for individuals with significant intellectual and/or developmental disabilities to learn life skills and build pride in a nurturing environment...
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