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Sen. Josh Hawley has new publisher for 'Big Tech' book
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Josh Hawley has found a new publisher after his book was dropped by Simon & Schuster in the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. The conversative publisher Regnery announced Monday that Hawley's "The Tyranny of Big Tech" will come out this spring...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda 1/19/21
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
Cape Girardeau City Council 5 p.m. today City Hall 401 Independence St. Study session n No action will be taken during the study session Presentations Communications/reports n City Council staff Items for discussion n Planning and Zoning Commission report...
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Cape County inmate found dead
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
On Jan. 16, a 60-year-old male was found to be deceased in his cell at the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office Justice Center. A news release from the Sheriff’s Department, said authorities believe his passing was from natural causes due to complications related to preexisting health issues...
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Business Notebook: SBA forgives PPP loans; Jiffy Lube returns to Cape
(Business ~ 01/19/21)
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) reports it has forgiven more than 1.1 million Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans designed to help businesses and their employees deal with the economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. As of early last week, SBA had received 1,346,125 applications to forgive approximately $170.5 billion worth of PPP loans. ...
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Texas pilot-training company firming up plans to come to Cape
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
Denton, Texas-based U.S. Aviation Group (USAG) plans to move into 1,400-square-feet of rented office space at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport around April 1, according to airport manager Katrina Amos, as the company prepares to start a degree program at Southeast Missouri State University to educate and train aviation pilots...
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On the Business Beat: Tempting the taste buds
(Business ~ 01/19/21)
Caution — the first few paragraphs of my column this week could trigger hunger pangs and tempt your taste buds. Several eateries and food-related businesses are opening (or are about to open) in Cape Girardeau either this week or in the near future...
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Local dietitian pens second cookbook
(Business ~ 01/19/21)
Ellen Gipson is juggling a lot these days as a toddler’s mom, wife, registered dietitian, fitness instructor, pediatric nutrition expert, baby-led weaning educator, author and soon-to-be mom of two. “There are a lot of things that happened this year that we were not planning on — writing a cookbook, we moved, we’re having a baby. So it was a bit of busy year,” Gipson said...
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Pair honored at 31st annual MLK Community Service
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
Two Cape Girardeau Central Junior High School employees were honored Sunday night at the 31st Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Citywide Celebration Committee named Central Junior High social worker Carolyn Thomas and nurse Dana Deisher as the 2021 recipients of the Dr. C. John Ritter Humanitarian Service Award...
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Social media personality to raise funds for Humane Society
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
A social media personality known for his support for animal shelters and pet adoption will be in Cape Girardeau on Tuesday to take part in a Facebook Live program on behalf of the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri. Kris Rotonda of Clearwater, Florida, is described on his Facebook profile as an entrepreneur and “owner of three crazy dogs” and has been known to sleep in animal shelters to raise awareness of homeless and unwanted pets...
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Cape Girardeau native Brock Murphy reflects on White House tenure
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
On Thursday, Brock Murphy sat on a balcony of the White House 30 minutes before he started his last shift as a confidential sssistant at the Office of Management and Budget. He said as he was sitting there, he felt appreciation for how far he had come...
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MLK Citywide Celebration events come to a close
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Citywide Celebration came to a close Monday in Cape Girardeau with the 36th annual Memorial Breakfast and the 20th annual Humanitarian Benefit. The final two events for this year’s Citywide Celebration featured keynote speeches from pastor George Smith from True Faith Missionary Ministries in Cape Girardeau and the Rev. Dr. Spencer Lamar Booker. ...
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COVID-19 vaccine clinics begin in region; doses offered to emergency service providers, those at high-risk
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
Area health care organizations are continuing to ramp up their COVID-19 vaccination programs, with the first vaccine clinics opening this week. The various vaccine opportunities are focused on Phase 1B, tiers 1 and 2 in the state's vaccine plan. Phase 1A focused on health care workers. Phase 1B expands eligility to emergency service providers (Tier 1), high-risk individuals (Tier 2) and those working in critical infrastructure fields (Tier 3)...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda 1/20/21
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
City of Jackson mayor and Board of Aldermen Regular meeting 6 p.m. Wednesday Public hearings n Hearing to consider the abandonment of a portion of an access and parking easement in Skinny's Subdivision, as requested by CZL Investments, LLC. Approval of minutes...
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Missouri bicentennial: Historian Nickell looks at Missouri Compromise
(Local News ~ 01/19/21)
Frank Nickell said it is difficult to overestimate the importance of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, the agreement by the U.S. Congress to admit Missouri to the union as a slave state while at the same time admitting Maine as a free state. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/19/21)
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2021. There are 346 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 19, 1981, the United States and Iran signed an accord paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months...
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Lillie Davie
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
Lillie Ethel Proffer Davie, 99, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, at her daughter's home in Barnhart, Missouri. She was born Nov. 28, 1921, at the family home three and a half miles south of Burfordville to Otis D. and Mary Manees Fowler Proffer...
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Sponsored: Checking your pet’s teeth could put an end to silent pain
(Insiders Advice ~ 01/19/21)
Just like people, pets need to be checked yearly for dental issues. Often, dental exams identify the root of underlying problems and might end your pet’s silent pain. It is convenient for our clients to schedule their pet’s dental exam during the same time they make yearly checkups. However, your pet’s teeth should be checked sooner if you notice any of the following:...
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Assault on the Capitol has let loose the electronic octopus
(Column ~ 01/19/21)
Two days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Earlier last year, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted out a call to his followers to destroy Israel. Both tweets passed the censorship rules of Twitter's 20-something judges in San Francisco...
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P&G made a difference during the pandemic
(Editorial ~ 01/19/21)
As the third-largest employer in the area, and the manufacturer of some of the most essential goods, Procter & Gamble (P&G) hustled to develop protocols to keep employees safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring production could carry on. With toilet paper and paper towels flying off store shelves, manufacturing workers were adjusting to different work schedules, daily temperature checks and short-handed departments at times, due to workers in quarantine, while steadily meeting the demand for the supplies our communities and nation depended on.. ...
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The toll of violence
(Column ~ 01/19/21)
In preparation for Election Day, Manhattan businesses boarded up in case violence erupted if Donald Trump won reelection. They had seen or already experienced destruction during the summer, when George Floyd's and other Black people's death at the hands -- or knees -- of police officers set off both legitimate protests and outright violent riots and looting. ...
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Biden, Harris take break from inaugural prep to mark MLK day
(National News ~ 01/19/21)
PHILADELPHIA -- Two days from the inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris pitched in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day service projects as a militarized and jittery Washington prepared for a swearing-in that will play out under extraordinary security...
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Thomas Wiginton Jr.
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Thomas E. Wiginton Jr., 85, died Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, at his son's home in Marble Hill. He was born Dec. 3, 1935, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to Thomas E. and Ethel Darline Hart Wiginton. He married his wife, Mary Margaret, on May 22, 1983, in Pine Bluff. She preceded him in death on May 21, 2019...
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Elvera Weber
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Elvera E. Weber, 97, of Altenburg passed away Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 20, 1923, in Cape Girardeau to Edwin and Emma Grebing Mueller. She and Ernst W. Weber were married on Nov. 22, 1944, at Baltimore, Maryland. He preceded her in death Oct. 28, 1997...
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Martha Roesch
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Martha Lea Fulbright Roesch, daughter of Dock and Mary McLane Fulbright and a 1941 graduate of Oak Ridge High School, died of COVID-19 Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. She was preceded in death by her husband, Larry Roesch (2003), and her son, Gregory Roesch (2020)...
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Milford Rhodes
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
GLEN ALLEN, Mo. -- Milford Edgar Rhodes, age 73, of Glen Allen passed away Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 3, 1947, in Glen Allen, son of Glenn and Clara Elizabeth Rhodes Rhodes. He and Brenda Keith were united in marriage on June 25, 1966...
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Nita Quick
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
Nita Dean Quick, 82 of Jackson passed away at 4:21 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, at her home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Cape Girardeau.
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Adolphus Jordan
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
Adolphus Jordan, age 77, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, at his home. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral service will be at noon Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Joseph G. Cotton Jr., officiating. Burial will be in a Cape Girardeau cemetery...
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Judith Gegg
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Judith Gegg, age 78, of Perryville died Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at her residence. Visitation will be from 4to 8 p.m. Wednesday and 6:30 to 11:20 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral Mass will be at noon Thursday at Christ the Savior Catholic Church in Brewer, Missouri, with the Rev. Rich Wehrmeyer, C.M., officiating. Burial will be at the church cemetery...
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Edward Farrow
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
Edward Ray Farrow, 78, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Sept. 11, 1942, in Cape Girardeau to the late Omar and Maxine Littleton Farrow. He and Linda Ramsey were married Nov. 7, 1970. Edward proudly served in the U.S. ...
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Gloria Denton
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
THEBES, Ill. -- Gloria Deane Denton, 88, of Thebes died Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021 at Metropolis Nursing and Rehab Center in Metropolis, Illinois. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home with the Rev. Raymond McAfee officiating. Burial will be at Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Joe Cole
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
Joe H. Cole, 74, of Cape Girardeau passed away at 2:42 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born June 2, 1946, in Cape Girardeau. He was adopted as an infant by his grandparents, James Samuel and Margaret Ellen Cole...
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Madison Bowman
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
Madison Brooke Bowman, 18, of Cape Girardeau passed away Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. She was born June 29, 2002, in Cape Girardeau to Michael and Sarah Freeland Bowman. She is survived by her parents, Michael and Sarah Bowman of Cape Girardeau; brother, Hayden Bowman; paternal grandparents, Alice and Harold Bowman; aunts, Carole Hoots, Evelyn Freeland (Jimmy Jones), Emily Freeland and Eva (Bobby) Wilkinson; uncles, Scott Freeland, Brad Bowman and Don Bowman; cousins, Carly and Devin Hoots, Austin and Alicia Wilkinson, Brooke, Bethany and Travis Bowman.. ...
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Darlene Bonney
(Obituary ~ 01/19/21)
Darlene Bonney, 82, died Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at the Lutheran Home. She was formerly of Jackson. Darlene was born Feb. 20, 1938, in New Wells to Leo and Bertha Fiedler. She married Donald L. Bonney on June 8, 1958. He lovingly cared for her until his death March 27, 2009...
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Self reflection: Does tolerating Facebook make me a hypocrite?
(Column ~ 01/19/21)
Hypocrisy is not a characteristic I would ever want to apply to myself. But then came Facebook. And as I take personal inventory, I have to be honest and ask myself if I am, in fact, a hypocrite. Anyone paying attention already knows that Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook crew have for years been censoring voices that don't fit their political agenda. ...
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Prayer 1/19/21
(Prayer ~ 01/19/21)
O Lord Jesus, thank you for your abundant grace and mercy. Amen.
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Out of the past: Jan. 19
(Out of the Past ~ 01/19/21)
A tornado that damaged businesses and homes in East Prairie, Missouri, yesterday morning was part of a winter storm that delivered high winds and torrential rain across Southeast Missouri; the storm caused scattered power outages in the region and sent temperatures plummeting; the tornado touched down about 9:07 a.m. on the east side of East Prairie without warning...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 1/19/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/19/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Jan. 17 n Medical assists were made at 12:08 p.m. on Brenda Kay Court; 5:19 p.m. on North Farrar Drive; 8:43 p.m. on Columbine Lane. n At 11:24 a.m., smoke investigation on North Frederick Street...
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Cape Girardeaupolice report 1/19/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/19/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported. n Assault was reported in the 400 block of South Benton Street. DWI n Driving under the influence was reported in the 1400 block of Giboney Avenue...
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Births 1/19/21
(Births ~ 01/19/21)
Daughter to Hope Green and Joshua Huffman of Greenville, Missouri, Southeast Hospital, 11:34 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. Name, Rhettley Ann. Weight, 7 pounds, 1 ounce. First child. Ms. Green is the daughter of Dennis and Jeanna Green of Greenville. Huffman is the son of Josh Huffman of Marble Hill, Missouri and Julie Anderson of Glen Allen, Missouri. He is in the United States Marine Corps...
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Age Spots: Medicare News for the New Year
(01/19/21)
As always, there are some changes for Medicare for the new year. With the overall costs of medical care rising, Medicare costs are also increasing. The standard Medicare Part B premium is increasing $3.90 to $148.50. This amount is held out of your monthly Social Security check or paid to Social Security if you do not draw a Social Security check. The premium is what you pay to have Medicare coverage...
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Senior Moments: Preparation and Paperwork
(01/19/21)
For many, January is a month of preparation. We’re preparing for the year ahead and preparing our resolutions. High school students — seniors in particular — are preparing for college. We’re truly in the homestretch now, with less than eight months before most of us move out and begin our independent lives. ...
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Taking the Leap: Getting to know SEMO Skydiving co-owner Don Dorris
(01/19/21)
Over the span of 85 years, Don Dorris has made more than 4,000 skydiving jumps. He made his first jump back in 1955. “I remember stepping out that door,” says Dorris, who is originally from East Prairie, Mo., and now resides in Cape Girardeau. “I was so scared. Damn. I remember rolling along the airplane outside, and I seen rivets go by my eye, and I thought, ‘What am I doing?’ I didn’t jump; I just fell out.”...
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Successful Management
(Submitted Story ~ 01/19/21)
Saxony Lutheran FFA member and chapter Vice President Cory Word was a 2020 top four finalist in the Environmental Science and Natural Resources Management Placement Proficiency Award area. Cory works with his grandfather at Hellwege Farms. He works to maintain and improve land quality for the row crop, hay, and beef cattle operation...
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A Cross Phenomenon
(Submitted Story ~ 01/19/21)
Jeanine and Harold Hager spotted this event from their breakfast table the morning of January 18th.
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