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Caruthersville man sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison for meth possession
(Local News ~ 08/26/20)
Willie B. Hollywood, 42, of Caruthersville, Missouri, has been sentenced to 262 months in federal prison on one count of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri...
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Southeast offers mask exemptions; requires medical documentation
(Local News ~ 08/26/20)
The Classroom Safety subcommittee of Southeast Missouri State University has created a process for individuals who may be physically or medically incapable of wearing a mask for extended periods of time to apply for an exemption from classroom protocols...
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Radio silence as Cape police, fire operate on new digital-trunking system
(Local News ~ 08/26/20)
For 48 hours, conventional police and fire scanners will be unable to hear radio traffic in Cape Girardeau. The silence started at 8 a.m. Tuesday and comes as the result of a temporary transition to the city’s new Motorola, digital-trunking radio system, according to a news release from the Cape Girardeau Police Department...
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Saint Francis, UnitedHealthcare reach agreement
(Local News ~ 08/26/20)
Saint Francis Healthcare System and UnitedHealthcare have reportedly reached an agreement to bring Saint Francis back into the United network of provider facilities. Saint Francis Medical Center and its affiliated facilities have been “out-of-network” since March 5 when the previous agreement between Saint Francis and United expired and the two parties could not agree on a continuance while negotiations took place...
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Cape-area postal workers lobby public support
(Local News ~ 08/26/20)
The union representing postal clerks, mail sorters and maintenance staff staged an informational picket Tuesday at the post office at 320 Frederick St. in Cape Girardeau. About a dozen members of the American Postal Workers Union passed out flyers and talked with customers asking them to contact 8th District U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Salem, Mo.) and demand he support $25 billion in emergency funding for the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service...
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Cape County health board maintains mask mandate
(Local News ~ 08/26/20)
Cape Girardeau County’s face-mask mandate will remain in place, at least for now. Members of the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to maintain the mandate until its next meeting, scheduled for Sept. 22. However, the mask order could be reconsidered before then, depending on COVID-19 case trends in the coming weeks...
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Missouri House passes bills on crime, giving guns to kids
(State News ~ 08/26/20)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Missouri state House on Tuesday passed legislation to end the misdemeanor crime of giving guns to children without their parents' permission, along with several other bills aimed at addressing violent crime. Republican Gov. Mike Parson had asked lawmakers to do the opposite -- increase penalties for giving guns to minors -- when he called them back to the Capitol for a special summer session on crime. ...
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EDITORIAL: Principal Leigh Ragsdale made a difference at Jefferson
(Editorial ~ 08/26/20)
As area teachers and students returned to classrooms this week, one local educator will soon be leaving town after making a big difference at Jefferson Elementary -- or JE, as she affectionately calls it. Leigh Ragsdale, the high energy and always positive principal at Jefferson Elementary, submitted her resignation to the Cape Girardeau School Board earlier this month. ...
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Cape County records eighth coronavirus fatality
(Local News ~ 08/26/20)
Cape Girardeau County officials reported the county’s eighth COVID-19 death Tuesday. The death comes a day after the county’s seventh death related to the disease associated with coronavirus. Monday’s death involved a 77-year-old man. Tuesday’s reported death involved a person in the 80-89 age bracket...
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Time for grief and honesty
(Column ~ 08/26/20)
The Democratic convention this year, odd Hollywood production that it was in these virtual times, was a bit of an exercise in denial. There were the feel-good segments about Joe Biden and his life in public office and his painful personal tragedy. There were shrill attacks on President Donald Trump, probably the easiest thing in the world to do...
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Prayer 8/26/20
(Prayer ~ 08/26/20)
O Lord, protect our friends facing stormy weather and seeking shelter. Amen.
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Speak Out 8/26/20
(Speak Out ~ 08/26/20)
Joe Biden's theme song WAP by Cardi B tells me all I need to know about him. The song is pure trash! I wish Missouri had all mail voting. By the way, only registered voters receive ballots. Sometimes that is not made clear. A few weeks ago we were down to between one and five more virus cases. Now we are having 20 on average every day. Surely the rodeo wouldn't have anything to do with that since several never wore masks or were doing social distancing...
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The crisis that Democrats dare not mention
(Column ~ 08/26/20)
The Democratic National Convention portrayed an America suffering from every possible sort of malady -- except urban unrest. Is the country going through a terrible pandemic? Yes. A punishing recession? Absolutely. Is our democratic system itself under threat? Of course. Is the planet about to be destroyed by inaction on climate change? Check. Are systemic racism, income inequality and corporate greed blighting our national life? Most definitely...
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Virtual learning sites help parents continue to work
(National News ~ 08/26/20)
MISSION, Kan. -- A dance studio in Florida. A martial arts center in Missouri. Libraries in San Francisco. These and other places are taking on a somewhat unlikely new role this fall -- welcoming children for supervised distance learning while their parents go to work...
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Towering redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
(National News ~ 08/26/20)
BOULDER CREEK, Calif. -- When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed...
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Falwell says he's resigned from Liberty University
(National News ~ 08/26/20)
RICHMOND, Va. -- Jerry Falwell Jr. said Tuesday that he has resigned as head of evangelical Liberty University because of ongoing controversies about his wife's sexual involvement with a younger business partner and in the wake of a social media photo that caused an uproar...
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Hundreds of thousands ordered to flee coast ahead of Laura
(National News ~ 08/26/20)
NEW ORLEANS -- More than half a million people were ordered to evacuate the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam into Texas and Louisiana with ferocious winds, heavy flooding and the power to push seawater miles inland...
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New virus cases decline in the U.S.; experts credit mask wearing
(National News ~ 08/26/20)
NEW YORK -- The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling -- a development experts credit at least partly to increased wearing of masks -- even as the outbreak continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day. About 43,000 new cases are being reported daily across the country, down 21% from early August, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. ...
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Ruby Wilson
(Obituary ~ 08/26/20)
Ruby Howard Wilson, affectionately known as "Ruben," 94, a resident of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, at the home of his great-niece in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 6, 1926, in Dutchtown to the late Charles Green and Mary Jane Holmes Wilson...
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John Nation
(Obituary ~ 08/26/20)
John Junior Nation, 86, of Scott City died Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, at Hunter Acres Care Center in Sikeston, Missouri. He was born to John and Florence Blankenship Nation on May 24, 1934, in Illmo. John worked for Cotton Belt Railroad in maintenance. He is survived by a stepson, Phil Radica of Scott City; grandchildren, Jarred and Nicholas Nation; brothers, Richard Nation and Gene (Margaret) Nation of Chaffee, Missouri, and Paul Nation of Scott City; and sister, Judy Enderle of Rockview, Missouri...
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Gary Metje
(Obituary ~ 08/26/20)
Gary Wayne Metje, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, at Southeast Hospital. Private service and entombment were held at Cape County Memorial Park Mausoleum with Pastor Debra Tracy officiating. Public visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, with a celebration of life memorial service following at 3 p.m., at Evangelical United Church of Christ at 33 S. Ellis St. in Cape Girardeau...
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Mary Coleson
(Obituary ~ 08/26/20)
Mary Coleson, 81, of Olive Branch, Illinois, died at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, at Integrity Health Care in Anna, Illinois. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, Illinois. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Aaron Boyd officiating. Interment will follow at Olive Branch Cemetery...
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Cape police report 8/26/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/26/20)
Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported in the 1700 block of Lacey Street. n Assault was reported in the 2800 block of Whitener Street. Thefts n Larceny was reported in the 500 block of North Kingshighway...
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Births 8/26/20
(Births ~ 08/26/20)
Twin daughters to Lee and Patricia Hodges of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, Monday, July 6, 2020. Ava Theresa was born at 4:32 p.m. and weighed 4 pounds, 14 ounces. Isla Dianne was born at 4:48 p.m. and weighed 3 pounds, 14 ounces. First children. ...
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Kanye West falls short in bid to be on Missouri's ballot
(State News ~ 08/26/20)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Rapper and music producer Kanye West did not gather enough valid signatures to be on Missouri's election ballot in November, election officials said Tuesday. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft notified West his office had verified 6,557 valid signatures in support of West's bid to be listed as an independent candidate for president. Missouri law requires at least 10,000 valid signatures to be placed on the ballot...
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Missouri's biggest campuses report several coronavirus cases
(State News ~ 08/26/20)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- Missouri's biggest university campuses are both reporting large numbers of students with confirmed cases of the coronavirus as in-person classes resume for the fall semester. The University of Missouri-Columbia's COVID-19 online dashboard on Tuesday cited 159 known active cases of the virus, and 168 total positive tests since the university began receiving data from Boone County on Wednesday. ...
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Day 2 at GOP convention: a first lady, a pardon, Pompeo
(National News ~ 08/26/20)
WASHINGTON -- First lady Melania Trump portrayed her husband as an authentic, uncompromising leader in a Rose Garden address Tuesday night as President Donald Trump turned to family, farmers and the trappings of the presidency to boost his reelection chances on the second night of the scaled-down Republican National Convention...
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Out of the past: Aug. 26
(Out of the Past ~ 08/26/20)
The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents voted to hire consultant Allan Ostar of Academic Search Consultation Service of Washington to aid its search for a new university president; board president Donald Harrison is the only regent who was on the board when the university went through a lengthy search to hire Dr. Kala Stroup five years ago...
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Richard Harrington
(Obituary ~ 08/26/20)
It is with great sadness that the family of Richard Harrington of Cape Girardeau announces his passing Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, at his home, after a long illness at the age of 80 years. Rick was born Dec. 13, 1939, in St. Louis to Margaret Fitzgerald...
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