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Crisp Museum's annual Escape the Museum event meets murder mystery
(Local News ~ 11/09/20)
Crisp Museum will host the second annual Escape the Museum event Saturday and Sunday and Nov. 21 and 22 with a heart-stopping twist. Gary Tyler, outreach specialist for the museum at Southeast Missouri State University’s River Campus, said “this year’s challenge will be to solve a Hollywood-style murder mystery.”...
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New Cape airport terminal to have a nursing moms' room
(Local News ~ 11/09/20)
A new federal law, quietly passed late last month in Washington and signed by President Donald Trump, will require small airports in the U.S. — including Cape Girardeau’s — to have lactation rooms for nursing moms by no later than fiscal year 2023...
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Data collection company Upswot aims to help financial institutions
(Business ~ 11/09/20)
After a journey that began in Eastern Europe, stopped in San Francisco and set up shop in North Carolina, Upswot has settled down in Cape Girardeau. Upswot, named after the acronym "SWOT" — a methodology that analyzes a company's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats — has been in business 22 months as a financial technology startup that provides a platform to help banks and other financial institutions increase sales and marketing insights for business banking customers through data collection. ...
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2 die of coronavirus in Cape County
(Local News ~ 11/09/20)
Cape Girardeau County health officials reported two COVID-19-related deaths Sunday. The deaths were the county’s 55th and 56th attributed to the disease associated with coronavirus. The county’s Public Health Center reported 83 new cases of the virus Saturday and 47 new cases Sunday, pushing the county’s total number of cases to 3,646. As of Sunday, 2,955 county residents have recovered from the virus...
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Local politicians react to presidential election results
(Local News ~ 11/09/20)
Former Vice President Joe Biden, 77, of Delaware was projected to be the United States’ new president-elect Saturday. Biden’s victory came after four days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in votes that delayed the processing of some ballots following Tuesday’s general election, as reported by numerous national media outlets including Fox News, The New York Times and the Associated Press...
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Kuntze 'arranging' her retirement
(Business ~ 11/09/20)
Joyce Kuntze thought she would spend her career as a teacher, but life had other plans for her. Next month, she plans to retire after spending most of her life in the floral industry, including almost 41 years as owner of Arrangements by Joyce. No doubt she has long forgotten how many anniversary and birthday arrangements she's prepared over the years, not to mention bridal bouquets, prom corsages and boutonnières, floral centerpieces, funeral sprays, alter arrangements and all sorts of other floral designs for every occasion.. ...
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Business Notebook: Businesses opening, expanding in Jackson; Three Rivers opens registration for winter, spring
(Business ~ 11/09/20)
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and major highway construction on the east side of town, the business climate in Jackson has been thriving in 2020, according to a report presented last week to the Jackson Board of Aldermen. Jen Berti, vice president of the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce, updated the board on the status of more than a dozen businesses that have either established or expanded in Jackson so far this year...
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Prayer 11-9-20
(Prayer ~ 11/09/20)
O Lord Jesus, may we not be anxious about anything but trust in you always. Amen.
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Election 2020 exposes culture war
(Column ~ 11/09/20)
Submitting my weekly column on the morning of the 2020 presidential election was surreal. But not as surreal as walking to work through an apocalyptic cityscape of boarded-up buildings. No, this isn’t communist Cuba; this is Washington, D.C., the supposed center of the free world...
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Trump's staying power
(Column ~ 11/09/20)
Pending the outcome in a few key states, Donald Trump may be leaving the White House, but he’s not exiting the room. The fiercest Never Trump critics hoped for — and wishfully predicted — a cleansing landslide that would wipe out every trace of Trump and his enablers from the GOP...
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Southeast honors alumni, faculty at Copper Dome event
(Editorial ~ 11/09/20)
Four Southeast Missouri State University alumni and a faculty member received Merit Awards presented by the Southeast Alumni Association on Oct. 29 at the virtual Copper Dome Celebration event...
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Trump mulls how to keep up fight
(National News ~ 11/09/20)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don't -- and get evicted anyway. After nearly four days of counting yielded a victory for Biden, Trump was still insisting the race was not over. He threw out allegations the election wasn't fair and "illegal" votes were counted, promised a flurry of legal action and fired off all-caps tweets insisting he'd "WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT."...
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Biden seeks to move quickly and build out his administration
(National News ~ 11/09/20)
WILMINGTON, Del. -- President-elect Joe Biden signaled Sunday he plans to move quickly to build out his government, focusing first on the raging coronavirus pandemic that will likely dominate the early days of his administration. Biden named a former surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, David Kessler, as co-chairmen of a coronavirus working group set to get started, with other members expected to be announced today...
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John Wichern
(Obituary ~ 11/09/20)
John Walter Wichern, 82, of Jackson passed away Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 21, 1938, in Altenburg, Missouri, son of Oscar and Meta Lichtenegger Wichern. He and Jeanette Davis were married Sept. 25, 1958. She passed away Aug. 24, 2018...
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Helen Wallhausen
(Obituary ~ 11/09/20)
Helen Anne Wallhausen, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, at Saint Francis Medical Center after a brief illness. Helen was born July 31, 1937, in New York City, daughter of Edward A. and Helen Irene McVey Kerrins. The Kerrins family returned to their former state of Rhode Island when Helen was 3, and she lived there until her 1962 marriage to Arthur L. Wallhausen Jr. at St. Michael's Church in Georgiaville, Rhode Island...
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Alex Trebek, long-running 'Jeopardy!' host, dies at 80
(Entertainment ~ 11/09/20)
LOS ANGELES -- Alex Trebek, who presided over the beloved quiz show "Jeopardy!" for more than 30 years with dapper charm and a touch of schoolmaster strictness, died Sunday. He was 80. Trebek, who announced in 2019 he had advanced pancreatic cancer, died at his Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, "Jeopardy!" studio Sony said...
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Out of the past: Nov. 9
(Out of the Past ~ 11/09/20)
Either of two blocks on the north side of Broadway would be acceptable for a new federal courthouse, says a government official involved in the site selection; the two sites are the 400 block of Broadway, which includes the Himmelberger-Harrison Building, and the 300 block of Broadway, which includes the vacant Marquette Hotel; both blocks are just north of the Federal Building, which would continue to house government offices after a courthouse is built...
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Josephine Coppaway
(Obituary ~ 11/09/20)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Josephine "Jody" Coppaway, 89, of Perryville died Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are pending at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville.
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