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Multiple-vehicle crash snarls traffic at William, Kingshighway
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
A five-vehicle collision at the intersection of William Street and South Kingshighway occurred Thursday morning in Cape Girardeau. The collision occurred at about 10:30 a.m. and multiple lanes of traffic were blocked to divert daytime traffic away from the location ...
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Possible coronavirus exposure reported at Perry County restaurant
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
Officials in Perry County, Missouri, have alerted area residents to possible COVID-19 exposure at a restaurant. The county’s health department posted the alert Thursday, noting anyone who had been at Mary Jane Burgers and Brew from 6 to 7 p.m. Aug. 5 may have been exposed to coronavirus and should monitor for symptoms for 14 days. The alert did not say whether the possible exposure involved a staff member or patron...
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Saxony plans to use 'Stoplight' coronavirus-alert system
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
Saxony Lutheran High School is using the familiar sight of signalized traffic intersections in its coronavirus-driven back-to-school plan this fall. The private school affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod will use the colors green, yellow and red as an alert system for teachers, staff and families about the spread of COVID-19...
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Local company helps Stuff the Bus campaign; Jackson cuts back school-supply list
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
As another school year dawns, COVID-19 is sinking its viral tentacles into seemingly every aspect of life — including the need for notebooks, pens, erasers and other items as students return to classes this month. The United Way of Southeast Missouri promoted a virtual Stuff the Bus school supplies campaign to coincide with the state’s Aug. 7 to 9 tax-free weekend...
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Cape Central staff, teachers prepare for online learning
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
In March, when Cape Girardeau’s public schools closed due to the COVID-19 threat, all instruction went from in-person to online in a matter of days. Now, there’s a solid plan in place. James Russell, technology instruction specialist, and Tina Schuessler, assistive and instructional technology coach, have worked this summer to build that plan, and work with teachers to familiarize them with online learning tools...
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Reparations, systematic oppression discussed during Gateway Church town hall
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
Prospective presidential candidates and the Black Lives Matter movement were just two of the topics raised Thursday night during a panel focusing on "the matters of black life" and institutional structures of economic, educational and political oppression...
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Contact-tracing class offers practical know-how
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
A new course offered by Southeast Missouri State University’s Continuing Education aims to give practical experience and instruction to potential contact tracers to aid in the fight against COVID-19’s spread. John Kraemer, professor in Southeast’s biology department and director of the Center for Environmental Analysis, said the course expands on training modules available online for free from institutions such as Johns Hopkins University...
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Cape County moves closer to 911 texting capability
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
Cape Girardeau County has taken another step toward adding texting capability to its 911 emergency system. The County Commission on Thursday approved a resolution to accept a $9,140 grant from the Missouri 911 Service Board. That money will be added to $13,710 already awarded to the county as part of a $22,850 60/40 Next Generation (NG) 911 matching grant from the Missouri Department of Public Safety and administered through the Department of Homeland Security...
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Ragsdale resigns; Jokerst named interim head principal at Jefferson Elementary
(Local News ~ 08/14/20)
As all local public schools make adjustments for the Aug. 24 reopening of classrooms, the faculty and staff at Jefferson Elementary will be grappling with one extra change in the upcoming school year — the absence of now-former principal Leigh Ragsdale...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 08/14/20)
Today is Friday, Aug. 14, the 227th day of 2020. There are 139 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 14, 1997, an unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing. (McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.)...
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Now read this: "In Five Years," by Rebecca Serle
(08/14/20)
Dannie Kohan knows what she wants out of life, and she is well on the way to getting it. She just interviewed for a position at Wachtell, a prestigious law firm she has dreamed about joining since her childhood. Her long-term boyfriend David proposed to her only a few hours ago, and as she sits sleepily on the couch, she is sure her life is right on schedule...
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Prayer 8/14/20
(Prayer ~ 08/14/20)
Thank you, O God, for being our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Amen.
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Speak Out 8/14/20
(Speak Out ~ 08/14/20)
I support freedom of speech and protest. However, I'm more likely to listen to your words and message if I'm not distracted by multi-colors in your hair, clothes that don't fit, and your attempts to shock with your appearance. Serious people with a serious message don't water down their message with silliness...
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August McFry
(Obituary ~ 08/14/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- August Leroy McFry, 76, of Perryville died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral services were private. Ford and Young Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
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Pam Chandler
(Obituary ~ 08/14/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Pam Kay Chandler, 66, of Saint Clair, Missouri, formerly of Perryville, died Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, at Mercy Hospital in Washington, Missouri. A memorial Mass will be scheduled at a later date. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville...
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Cape police report 8/14/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/14/20)
Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assault n Assault was reported in the 300 block of South Kingshighway. Thefts n Burglary was reported in the 600 block of Commercial Street. n Shoplifting was reported in the 2000 block of Independence Street...
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In 'Boys State,' American politics in a teenage microcosm
(Community ~ 08/14/20)
NEW YORK -- Even mock elections require wall-to-wall coverage, so when Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set out to document Texas' Boys State, the weeklong summer camp of civics simulation run by the American Legion since 1935, they hired seven cinematographers to stay close to a handful of the 1,100 participants -- all 17- and 18-year-old boys, some with very real political ambition...
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Neighborhood children surprise police officer with ice pop on hot summer day
(National News ~ 08/14/20)
It was a cool moment on a hot July day. Six-year-old Amiyah Dantzler-Clay and her 5-year-old brother Jayden saw a police officer parked in front of their Baltimore home and figured he could use a treat. So they took him an ice pop. Police Maj. Richard Gibson was in the Woodbourne-McCabe neighborhood that day scouting for ways to help improve the area for residents, two days after a homicide outside a vacant house...
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Appeals court: Male-only draft is constitutional
(National News ~ 08/14/20)
NEW ORLEANS -- A federal appeals court in New Orleans upheld the constitutionality of the all-male military draft system Thursday, citing a 1981 U.S. Supreme Court decision. In a decision that overturned a 2019 ruling by a Texas-based federal judge, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said "only the Supreme Court may revise its precedent."...
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Trump opposes postal money that would help vote-by-mail
(National News ~ 08/14/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump declared Thursday that he opposes additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service, acknowledging that his position would starve the agency of money Democrats say it needs to process an anticipated surge in mail-in ballots during the coronavirus pandemic...
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U.S. seizes digital currency accounts used by militant groups
(National News ~ 08/14/20)
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department said Thursday it has seized millions of dollars from cryptocurrency accounts that militant organization abroad, including al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, relied on to raise money for violent operations. The Trump administration said the groups used the accounts to solicit donations for their causes, including through a bogus scam that officials say purported to sell protective gear for the coronavirus pandemic...
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'Impossible': School boards are at heart of reopening debate
(National News ~ 08/14/20)
ROCK HILL, S.C. -- Helena Miller listened to teachers, terrified to reenter classrooms, and parents, exhausted from trying to make virtual learning work at home. She heard from school officials who spent hundreds of hours on thousands of details -- buses, classrooms, football, arts, special education. She spent countless nights, eyes wide open, her mind wrestling over the safety and education of the 17,000 children she swore to protect...
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Both sides play the blame game as virus relief talks stall
(National News ~ 08/14/20)
WASHINGTON -- With talks on emergency coronavirus aid having stalled out, both sides played the blame game Thursday rather than make any serious moves to try to break their stalemate. Official Washington is emptying, national politics is consuming the airwaves and the chasm between the warring sides appears too great for now...
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Federal judge rules against insurers in coronavirus lawsuit
(State News ~ 08/14/20)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Four Missouri companies may proceed with a lawsuit seeking redress after their insurance company rejected their claims for coronavirus-related losses, a federal judge has ruled, in a decision that could have ramifications for hundreds of companies nationwide...
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Missouri prosecutors oppose expanding attorney general power
(State News ~ 08/14/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri prosecutors on Wednesday came out against Republican Gov. Mike Parson's proposal to give the state attorney general the power to prosecute St. Louis homicides. Leaders of the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys in a statement wrote prosecutors "stand united against any proposal to vest any new original or concurrent jurisdiction with the Attorney General."...
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Editorial: A baseball team's win and look ahead to fall sports
(Editorial ~ 08/14/20)
The Charleston Fighting Squirrels capped off another successful season, winning the Southern Invitational Series, in Mobile, Alabama, earlier this month. Led by longtime coach Michael Minner, the Squirrels defeated Mid County, Texas by a score of 5-4 with former Sikeston High School player Payton Howard getting the hit to score the go-ahead run...
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When puff the magic multiplier goes poof
(Column ~ 08/14/20)
When revenue shrinks by 1% of GDP and spending increases by 51% over 10 months, you get a $2.8 trillion deficit. That figure, according to the Congressional Budget Office, is significantly larger than the deficit Uncle Sam accumulated over the first 10 months of 2019. Yet, many in Congress demand that even more spending be enacted in the name of stimulating the economy...
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Out of the past: Aug. 14
(Out of the Past ~ 08/14/20)
Perry Travel Center and Destinations Unlimited merge their operations at 866 N. Kingshighway, the Destinations Unlimited office; Judy Bullock, who purchased Perry Travel in 1988, says she and Destinations owner Mark Hill have discussed the merger for some time; a new name for the combined agency hasn't been decided...
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