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Photographer shares perspective on “slices of life”
(Local News ~ 03/28/20)
One of the great joys of being a photographer is capturing a random, yet beautiful, moment of everyday life. These are moments often overlooked or regarded as trivial when observed from the outskirts. They aren't the big news events of the day or from long-term stories. The right moment strikes a chord and allows us to briefly share in the subject's feelings at the time of the photograph...
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COVID-19 Briefly — Schools, food distribution, church update
(Local News ~ 03/28/20)
Cape Girardeau health care officials reported no new COVID-19 cases Friday. Six Cape Girardeau County cases have been confirmed. Saint Francis Medical Center reported 4 positive tests, 44 negative tests and a total of 182 tests performed. Southeast Hospital reported one positive test, 25 negative tests and a total of 58 tests performed. Other Cape Girardeau County providers reported a total of three positive cases...
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Virus angst results in plenty of room at Cape Girardeau hotels
(Local News ~ 03/28/20)
If you need a hotel room in Cape Girardeau -- or anywhere else in the nation -- you should have no problem getting a reservation. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, business and leisure travelers alike are canceling hotel reservations, leaving the majority of rooms unsold night after night...
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Cape County declares public health emergency
(Local News ~ 03/28/20)
Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center, Cape Girardeau County Commission and mayors of Cape Girardeau and Jackson declared a public health emergency Friday because of the coronavirus. They urged residents to: n Limit public exposure; you can go to work, you can conduct essential business, but otherwise stay home...
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First responders, public health and safety professionals to receive expedited Covid-19 testing
(Local News ~ 03/28/20)
Some of Missouri’s first responders, public health and safety professionals who meet certain criteria will receive expedited COVID-19 tests and results, according to a news release Saturday from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services...
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SATURDAY REPORT: Slight uptick in local positive Covid-19 cases
(Local News ~ 03/28/20)
Positive Covid-19 cases are up to 10 locally, according to a report Saturday from the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center. Saint Francis reported six total cases, up two since Friday. Two are from Cape Girardeau County with one from Bollinger County, one from Scott County and two from Stoddard County. A total of 234 tests have been submitted with 87 negative and 141 that have yet to come back.
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Coronavirus claims 10th Missouri victim as cases increase
(State News ~ 03/28/20)
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The death of a person in St. Charles County from the coronavirus is the 10th in Missouri, and as the number of confirmed cases escalates, some of the state's biggest hospitals are being forced to “examine what all our options are” to maintain enough protective equipment...
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Write a Novel in a Month
(03/28/20)
For some people, the arrival of spring means it’s time to work in the garden, air up the bicycle tires or clean the grill. For me, the first day of spring means it’s time to buy a stack of index cards, several ink pens and a variety pack of highlighters. Because along with biking and walking and watching Cardinals baseball, spring is when I begin preparing for National Novel Writing Month, or, as it’s more commonly called, NaNoWriMo...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/28/20)
Today in History Today is Saturday, March 28, the 88th day of 2020. There are 278 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 28, 2003, American-led forces in Iraq dropped thousand-pound bombs on Republican Guard units guarding the gates to Baghdad and battled for control of the strategic city of Nasiriyah (nah-sih-REE'-uh). President George W. Bush warned of "further sacrifice" ahead in the face of unexpectedly fierce fighting...
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Out of the past: March 28
(Out of the Past ~ 03/28/20)
A monument commemorating three priests who floated down the Mississippi River and landed at Cape Girardeau in 1699 is being targeted by a Wisconsin-based group which says the concrete cross violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of separation of church and state; because the Cape La Croix Cross off North Kingshighway stands on public property, the group is demanding it be removed from the state right of way...
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For such a time as this
(Column ~ 03/28/20)
I doubt anyone reading this column could have imagined the rapid impac the coronavirus has made upon our lives. In less than a week's time schools have been canceled, churches learned to use streaming video, and a major city in Missouri of all places has issued a mandatory "stay-at-home" order. These are strange times...
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In the early Twentieth Century, Hattie N. Jones, news reporter, covered Cape Girardeau for St. Louis paper
(Column ~ 03/28/20)
Browsing the 1920 Federal Census for the city of Cape Girardeau, my attention caught on this detail: Hattie N. Jones, female, black, 28, single, newspaper reporter. The local Daily Republican newspaper of the era employed no women reporters -- black or white. Lingering curiosity and extensive research revealed Jones was Cape Girardeau's reporter for the St. Louis Argus...
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Little things -- thankful
(Column ~ 03/28/20)
I was listening to the news the other morning and about all that was on was about the virus out of China. It was talking about the age groups facing the virus that will probably have the most trouble. It was my age group. Bummer. It was talking about where the virus is or where those who have tested positive are located. ...
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Lueder-Bock
(Engagement ~ 03/28/20)
Rick and Barbara Lueder of Egypt Mills announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Michelle Lueder, to Eric Paul Bock, both of Fruitland. He is the son of Gary and Donna Bock of Jackson. Emily is a 2011 graduate of Jackson High School. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with a minor in health care administration from Southeast Missouri State University. She is an account executive for VanLeuven Communications...
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Goodin-65 years
(Anniversary ~ 03/28/20)
Mr. and Mrs. James Goodin of Cape Girardeau celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary Feb. 25, 2020. On Feb. 25, 1955, Carolyn Joyce Abernathy and James Oliver Goodin were married at Grace United Methodist Church. The Rev. George Heslar performed the ceremony...
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GT - Adopt Winston
(Community ~ 03/28/20)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary This sweet guy is Winston. He is an 8-year-old bird dog mix and needs his forever home! If you are ready for a rewarding experience, come see us at Safe Harbor. Call (573) 243-9823.
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Getting airborne
(Column ~ 03/28/20)
This little bird is called a titmouse. It is native to the eastern third of the United States. I photographed this one March 18 as it jumped from a small outer limb of a non-native ornamental Japanese quince bush. The titmouse was once called titmose, but many years ago everyday folks changed the last syllable in the word to mouse. Presumably, the word titmouse is easier to remember than the word titmose...
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Senior Center Menus for March 30 through April 3
(Community ~ 03/28/20)
Monday: Beef vegetable soup with half cheese sandwich or chicken potpie, seasoned spinach, fried okra, whole-grain crackers and blushing pears or cook's choice dessert. Tuesday: Ham and beans or ranch chicken, cooked cabbage, tomato salad, cornbread, crackers or roll and mixed fruit dessert or cherry cheesecake...
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4-H Southeast Regional Energizer -- our health to better living
(Community ~ 03/28/20)
Armed with a bright yellow sign Sharpie with the number 86,400 in bold numbers, Richard Rickman, the opening speaker for the 2020 Southeast Regional Energizer held at Advance Elementary School in Advance, Missouri, on Feb. 22, asked the crowd of 4-H youth, "Imagine there is a bank that credits your account every single day with $86,400. ...
- GT - Generous Optimist (Community ~ 03/28/20)
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Don't believe hysteria in response to Perry County order
(Column ~ 03/28/20)
The Perry County Sheriff's Office has received numerous calls concerning local announcements about the coronavirus and what local government leaders are calling for. Specifically, people are concerned that they are going to be arrested or written a ticket for going to work, going to doctor's office or the grocery store or just stopping to get gas. Rumors and hysteria, folks. Rumors and hysteria...
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Support those of all ages
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/28/20)
During World War II, our parents and grandparents vanquished a horrific regime that placed no value on human life. A regime that exterminated the "defective", slaughtered millions they considered inferior racially, and wantonly murdered civilians, especially the elderly who got in the way of their ambitions. ...
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Prayer 3-29-20
(Prayer ~ 03/28/20)
O Heavenly Father, may we meditate on your Word, seeking your will for our lives. Amen.
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Are gun shops 'essential' businesses during a pandemic?
(National News ~ 03/28/20)
In some parts of the U.S., authorities say gun shops aren't essential businesses and should close during stay-at-home orders meant to slow the coronavirus. In other places, officials are stopping background checks for concealed carry permits. Elsewhere, city leaders have invoked emergency powers allowing bans on gun sales...
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Trump seeks to force General Motors to produce ventilators
(National News ~ 03/28/20)
DETROIT -- President Donald Trump issued an order Friday that seeks to force General Motors to produce ventilators for coronavirus patients under the Defense Production Act. Trump said negotiations with General Motors had been productive, "but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course."...
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Coronavirus deals one-two punch to state budgets
(State News ~ 03/28/20)
The coronavirus is pounding state governments with a financial one-two punch, costing them many millions to try to contain the disease just as businesses are shutting down and tax revenue is collapsing. The sharp drop in revenue could jeopardize some states' ability to provide basic services...
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Trump accuses GM of overpromising on breathing machines
(National News ~ 03/28/20)
DETROIT -- President Donald Trump attacked General Motors Friday, alleging the company promised to build thousands more breathing machines than it can deliver for coronavirus patients and that it wants too much money for them. "As usual with 'this' General Motors, things just never seem to work out," Trump wrote on Twitter, adding the company promised 40,000 ventilators quickly but now says it will build only 6,000 in late April. Trump also tweeted that Ford should start making ventilators fast...
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Missouri governor mobilizes National Guard for virus fight
(National News ~ 03/28/20)
ST. LOUIS -- Missouri braced for a surge of coronavirus patients as the number of deaths grew to nine, with the governor mobilizing the state's National Guard and a top St. Louis County official urging recently retired health care workers to return to work...
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Afghanistan political turmoil dogs negotiations with Taliban
(International News ~ 03/28/20)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- After months of deliberation, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday announced his 21-member team to negotiate peace with the Taliban, only to have his political opponent reject it as not inclusive enough. Afghanistan's political turmoil has impeded each tentative step toward negotiations with the Taliban -- negotiations that are supposed to come next under a peace deal that Washington signed with the insurgents last month...
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U.S. infections grow in hotspots
(National News ~ 03/28/20)
NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans rushed to build a makeshift hospital in its convention center Friday as troubling new outbreaks bubbled in the United States, deaths surged in Italy and Spain and the world warily trudged through the pandemic that has sickened more than a half-million people...
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Italy is 2nd country to pass Chinese virus case total
(International News ~ 03/28/20)
LONDON -- Deaths surged in Italy and Spain on Friday, troubling new outbreak sites bubbled in the United States, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major country to test positive for the coronavirus that has sickened more than a half-million people worldwide...
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Trump signs $2.2T virus rescue package
(National News ~ 03/28/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump signed an unprecedented $2.2 trillion economic rescue package into law Friday, after swift and near-unanimous action by Congress to support businesses, rush resources to overburdened health care providers and help struggling families during the deepening coronavirus epidemic...
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Area police report March 27
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/28/20)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. DWI n Driving under the influence was reported at mile marker 93 on Interstate 55. Assault n Assault was reported in the 1400 block of Luce Street. Thefts n Shoplifting was reported on South Kingshighway...
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Out of the past: March 29
(Out of the Past ~ 03/28/20)
Three hundred thirteen junior and senior high school students from Southeast Missouri are showing off their prowess with protractors, polygons, PCs, plastics and plants at the annual Regional Science Fair at the Cape Girardeau Holiday Inn Convention Center...
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Births 3/28/20
(Births ~ 03/28/20)
Son to Brandon Lee and Briana Maxine Blaney of Tamms, Illinois, Saint Francis Medical Center, 1:17 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Name, Rhys Archer. Weight, 8 pounds, 14 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Blaney is the former Briana Bennett, daughter of Warren and Carla Bennett of Mound City, Illinois. Blaney is the son of Donnie and Sherri Blaney of Tamms. He works for the Union Pacific Railroad...
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Twyla Seib
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
Twyla Joy Seib, 76, passed away peacefully in her sleep Friday, March 13, 2020, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau, where she was a long-term resident battling multiple sclerosis. She is survived by her brothers, Rodger and Don Meinz. Twyla grew up with her brothers in Cape Girardeau and attended Cape Girardeau Central High School before she went to live with her beloved grandmother, Bobby, in Oklahoma. ...
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Ella Shrum
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Ella B. Shrum, 98, of Perryville died Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. Private visitation will at be Friday at Ford and Young Chapel in Perryville, with the Rev. Kevin Barron officiating. Burial will be at Crossroads Methodist Cemetery in Bollinger County...
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Brandon Rundles
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Brandon C. Rundles, 30, of Ballard County, Kentucky, died Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner, Louisiana. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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Robin Ross
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
SAN DIEGO -- Robin Louise Ross, 49, formerly of Benton, Missouri, passed away peacefully Friday, March 20, 2020, in her home in San Diego, after battling cancer. She was born Nov. 9, 1970, in Cape Girardeau to Tom and Virginia Ross of Benton. She was the youngest of seven and grew up in New Hamburg/Benton, Missouri. ...
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David Richardet
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- David Lauren Richardet, 69, of Perryville died Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at his home. A private memorial service will be held at a later date. Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Rev. Thomas Morris
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
The Rev. Thomas J. Morris, son of Albert Morris and stepson of Evaline Morris and the late Juavata Jorone Eaker Morris was born June 30, 1949, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life March 25, 2020, at the Mizell Memorial Hospital in Opp, Alabama, at the age of 70 years...
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Robert Hines
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
HILLSBORO, Mo. -- Robert G. Hines, 84 of Hillsboro died Monday, March 23, 2020. He was born May 17, 1935, in Lilbourn, Missouri, to Robert C. and Verda Smith Hines. He and Carol Ann Baumgartner were married in 1961 at Red Bud, Illinois. Robert was a graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School...
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Elvira Engert
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
Elvira Engert, 93, of Oak Ridge passed away Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 2, 1927, in Tilsit, Missouri, daughter of Otto F. and Wilhemina Baer Werner. She and Edward E. "Cut" Engert were married Sept. 24, 1950, in Frohna, Missouri. He passed away April 14, 2006...
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Rodger Downing
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
Rodger Downing, 56, died Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran, Missouri. Graveside service will follow immediately at New Morley (Missouri) Cemetery...
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Jerry Burroughs
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
FROHNA, MO. -- Jerry P. "Abby" Burroughs, 76, of Frohna died Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Private service will be held for family only Ford and Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Florida trip canceled, but there's hope beyond baseball
(Column ~ 03/28/20)
Since January, I planned a trip with a friend to Jupiter, Florida, for St. Louis Cardinals spring training. We mapped out the weekend to see the Redbirds play the Astros, Red Sox and Marlins at Roger Dean Stadium. Covid-19 had other plans. The day of my scheduled flight to Palm Beach International, Major League Baseball suspended its season. My first Cardinals spring training will have to wait...
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Jackson street to close for repair work
(Local News ~ 03/28/20)
East Park Street in Jackson is closed to through traffic between North Hope Street and North High Street. Local traffic only. An apparent sink hole, about 3 feet deep, opened in the asphalt pavement overnight Thursday into Friday...
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Reflections on beauty
(Column ~ 03/28/20)
"Beauty will save the world." Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote those words in his 19th-Century novel "The Idiot," and Pope John Paul II referenced them in his 1999 "Letter to Artists." It's an idea that has rung in my head as especially true throughout these past few weeks as our society and world face the fear, chaos and self-preservation we have let ourselves fall into because of this pandemic...
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Seven suggestions to stay positive
(Column ~ 03/28/20)
Just a few weeks ago, we were celebrating a vibrant economy. We were feeling pretty good about our retirement accounts, and many small businesses were expanding. Unemployment rates were at a record low. Then, suddenly, everything was jarred into reverse. Now the future is uncertain. Many of us are spending more time than ever in our homes, some without an income. How should we handle these circumstances?
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Dennis Agee
(Obituary ~ 03/28/20)
Dennis Agee, son of the late Ellis Agee and Kirby and Charlene Holt, was born June 2, 1953, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life Thursday, March 26, 2020, with family, at the age of 66 years. Mr. Agee retired as a floor technician at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He loved playing his guitar and building gadgets in his wood shop for his grandchildren. He was affiliated with Perkins Baptist Church...
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West Lane Teachers Car Parade
(Submitted Story ~ 03/28/20)
About 20 plus West Lane Teachers are getting together Sunday March 29 around 12:30 to drive thru several designated subdivisions to waves to their students and have their students wave to them. Samantha Trankler the principal has driven and mapped out the route for the cars to travel...
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