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Bridge work reduces Highway 51 overpass in Perry County
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
The Highway 51 overpass over Interstate 55 in Perry County will be reduced to one lane with a 10-foot width restriction as contractor crews complete bridge repairs, a Missouri Department of Transportation news release says. ...
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National Day of Prayer event set
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
La Croix Church in Cape Girardeau will host this year's local National Day of Prayer service. The event will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The annual community prayer event rotates among its sponsoring organizations -- La Croix, Cape First, Lighthouse United and Lynwood Baptist Church...
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Three people receive reward payments from FBI for helping identify arsonist
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
Three individuals who helped identify a man accused of setting fire to the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center have received award payments from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to a news release from the St. Louis Division of the FBI, the division offered a reward of up to $5,000 on April 24, 2020, for information leading to the arrest of a man seen in surveillance video footage setting fire to the Islamic center. ...
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Cape County commissioners approve courtroom monitors
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
Cape Girardeau County commissioners approved a request from the information technology department Thursday to purchase new video monitors for the courthouse. The new 22-inch, full HD monitors will replace the current 19-and-a-half inch monitors in all five courtrooms...
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Farr joins other religious leaders to oppose new Missouri gun bill
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
Missouri Area United Methodist Bishop Robert Farr has joined St. Louis Roman Catholic Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski and other faith leaders to express opposition to Missouri House Bill 944. The legislation, among other provisions, would permit the concealed carry of firearms in churches and other places of worship in the Show Me State, so long as the owner has a valid concealed-carry permit...
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Smith blasts 'unnecessary' Biden spending
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
Southeast Missouri's congressman said President Joe Biden's spending proposals are wasteful and tilted toward his political supporters. Eighth District Rep. Jason Smith contended Biden has a "spending problem." "In his first 100 days, he has proposed or enacted $7.5 trillion" in spending, Smith said in a telephone interview. "This massive flood of spending is going into what is an already-improving economy. He's basically doing it just to enact his socialist policies."...
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Fighting the Good Fight of Faith: Ghenadie Bitco talks taekwondo and God at Lynwood Baptist Church youth night
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
Lynwood Baptist Church youth in Cape Girardeau experienced far from an ordinary youth night Wednesday. World-renowned taekwondo fighter Ghenadie Bitco gave the church's youth a demonstration on taekwondo, and talked about how he came to the sport. For Bitco, snapping six wooden planks in half with his bare right foot is no problem. The sport means much more to him than throwing punches and earning medals, however...
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Cape Central personalizes 'High School Musical'
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
Cape Girardeau Central High School is putting a few twists on its upcoming production of "High School Musical," which premieres tonight and runs until Saturday. The musical is set at East High, home of the Wildcats, not too different from Central's Tigers. According to drama instructor and theater director Bella Delacruz, the Tiger is a type of wildcat, so she didn't see why they couldn't use their own school's colors, sports uniforms and mascot in the production...
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Sponsored: Cape church continues to grow through serving others, developing new ministries
(B Magazine ~ 04/30/21)
As the Apostolic Promise (TAP) Church in Cape Girardeau expands, so do its community outreach programs. TAP Church is one of the area’s leading not-for-profit program facilitators, serving more than 800 people in Southeast Missouri each week by providing assistance to those dealing with addiction, hunger and homelessness, among other challenges...
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City of Cape looking for lifeguards, swim instructors
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
Another sign the COVID-19 scourge is lifting is lifeguard certification classes are being held at Central Municipal Pool by the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department. The next three-day course with 28 hours of total instruction begins today with one more slated May 14 to 16...
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Southeast Missourian's Long wins religion writing award
(Local News ~ 04/30/21)
Southeast Missourian reporter and columnist Jeff Long recently won a writing contest sponsored by a national religion writers group. Long earned the accolade in the 2021 DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Award contest sponsored by Religion Communicators Council, which highlights works in religious communications and public relations. ...
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The FDA's slippery slope toward mandating raw broccoli for breakfast
(Column ~ 04/30/21)
If it doesn't look like avocado toast, you can't have it. That's the message I get loud and clear from Uncle Sam when I read story after story about the Food and Drug Administration's latest foray into stopping ordinary Americans from doing what ordinary Americans like to do...
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Permanent daylight saving time makes sense
(Editorial ~ 04/30/21)
If you're not a fan of switching clocks twice a year, you may appreciate legislation moving through the Missouri General Assembly that would make daylight saving time (DST) permanent in the Show Me State. If fully agreed to and signed by the governor, this would clear the way for Missouri to make DST permanent if the majority of its eight border states do the same...
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Prayer 4/30/21
(Prayer ~ 04/30/21)
O Heavenly Father, may the joy of the Lord Jesus fill our hearts. Amen.
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Speak Out 4/30/21
(Speak Out ~ 04/30/21)
The Medicaid Expansion bill, which Missouri voters passed by 53.25% to 46.75%, is just the latest in a series of votes that the state legislators have decided to overturn. For example, they managed to continue their power by calling for a new revised vote which overturned the people's decision to have a demographer scientifically redraw district lines and do away with gerrymandering. ...
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Girl Scout cookies take flight in Virginia drone deliveries
(Community ~ 04/30/21)
Missing out on Thin Mints in the pandemic? A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people's doorsteps in a Virginia community. The town of Christiansburg has been a testing ground for commercial delivery drones operated by Wing, a subsidiary of Google's corporate parent Alphabet...
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Unusual coalition as Supreme Court rules for immigrant
(National News ~ 04/30/21)
WASHINGTON -- An unusual coalition of Supreme Court justices joined Thursday to rule in favor of an immigrant fighting deportation in a case the court said turned on the meaning of the shortest word, "a." By a 6-3 vote, the court sided with Agusto Niz-Chavez, a Guatemalan immigrant who has been in the United States since 2005. ...
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U.S. officials vow again to ban menthol flavor in cigarettes, cigars
(National News ~ 04/30/21)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. health regulators pledged again Thursday to try to ban menthol cigarettes, this time under pressure from African American groups to remove the mint flavor popular among Black smokers. The Food and Drug Administration has attempted several times to get rid of menthol but faced pushback from tobacco companies, members of Congress and competing political interests in both the Obama and Trump administrations. ...
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China launches main part of its 1st permanent space station
(International News ~ 04/30/21)
BEIJING -- China on Thursday launched the main module of its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long term, the latest success for a program that has realized several of its growing ambitions in recent years. The Tianhe, or "Heavenly Harmony," module blasted into space atop a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan, marking another major advance for the country's space exploration...
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Free rides and beer: Incentives are added to vaccine drive
(National News ~ 04/30/21)
Free beer, pot and doughnuts. Savings bonds. A chance to win an all-terrain vehicle. Places around the U.S. are offering incentives to try to energize the nation's slowing vaccination drive and get Americans to roll up their sleeves. These relatively small, mostly corporate, promotion efforts have been accompanied by more serious and far-reaching attempts by officials in cities such as Chicago, which is sending specially equipped buses into neighborhoods to deliver vaccines doses. ...
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U.S. recovery from pandemic recession is showing momentum
(National News ~ 04/30/21)
WASHINGTON -- Powered by consumers and fueled by government aid, the U.S. economy is achieving a remarkably fast recovery from the recession that ripped through the nation last year on the heels of the coronavirus and cost tens of millions of Americans their jobs and businesses...
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St. Joseph man allegedly left peanuts for man with allergy
(State News ~ 04/30/21)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- A St. Joseph man reportedly used peanuts to try and hurt his mother's boyfriend, who has a severe peanut allergy, prosecutors said. Jacob Andes, 27, was charged Wednesday with assault, the Camden County prosecuting attorney said in a news release...
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Missouri House backs bill limiting COVID-19 lawsuits
(State News ~ 04/30/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House on Thursday advanced a bill to limit pandemic-related lawsuits, a top priority for Republican Gov. Mike Parson. The GOP-led House gave the proposal initial approval in a voice vote. It's unclear whether the bill will make it to the governor's desk by lawmakers' mid-May deadline to pass bills. The measure still needs another vote of approval in the House before it can move to the Senate for consideration...
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Family of Black man who died in Charleston jail offered $2.5M
(State News ~ 04/30/21)
CHARLESTON, Mo. — Relatives of a Black man from Tennessee who died in a Mississippi County Jail in 2017 have been asked to accept $2.5 million to settle a lawsuit, court filings show, but the family's attorney says no settlement is pending. The City of Charleston agreed earlier this month to pay $500,000 to the family of Tony Sanders, of Nashville, who died in the Mississippi County Jail after a white sheriff pinned his neck to the ground with his knee for several minutes...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 4/30/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/30/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. April 28 n Medical assists were made at 1:03 a.m. on North Main Street; 4:41 p.m. on Broadway; 6:37 p.m. on Bloomfield Road; 10:34 p.m. on South Benton Street. n At 8:17 a.m., lift assist on Louis Street...
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Births 4/30/21
(Births ~ 04/30/21)
Twins to Zachary Dewayne Humphrey and Tabitha Jean Ruesler of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, Friday, March 5, 2021. Daughter, Collyns Jean, was born at 3:50 p.m. and weighed 2 pounds, 13 ounces. Son, Nixon Dewayne, was born at 3:50 p.m. and weighed 4 pounds, 3 ounces. ...
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June Hunt
(Obituary ~ 04/30/21)
Juvita June Hunt, 87, formerly of Scott City, died Saturday, April 17, 2021, at the home of her daughter in Tallahassee, Florida. She was born June 1, 1933, in Cape Girardeau to Charley and Elizabeth Schuette Davie. She and Herschel Lee Hunt were married Dec. 27, 1952, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death Sept. 10, 2020...
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Larry Hamilton
(Obituary ~ 04/30/21)
Larry Ray Hamilton, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Allen Boren
(Obituary ~ 04/30/21)
Allen H. Boren, 84, of Jackson died Thursday, April 29, 2021, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson and from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson...
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Missouri struggles to track virus cases among the vaccinated
(State News ~ 04/30/21)
ST. LOUIS — Missouri has reported just 14 breakthrough COVID-19 cases among people who are fully vaccinated to federal health officials, even though 96 such cases have been detected in just the state's largest county. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked states at the start of this month to instruct local health departments and health systems to collect real-time information on "breakthrough infections."...
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Missouri Senate votes down funding for Medicaid expansion
(State News ~ 04/30/21)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Missouri Senate on Wednesday voted against paying to expand Medicaid as called for by voters last year. The late-night Senate vote locked in the House's decision to refuse funding for the program, likely setting up a court battle with supporters of greater access to health care...
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Out of the past: April 30
(Out of the Past ~ 04/30/21)
In his 37 years of gauging river stages, Andy Juden hasn't seen the Mississippi River rise as quickly as it will this week; forecasters warned yesterday the river will rise at least 12 feet in the next 72 hours; much like the sudden rains on Sunday caused widespread flash flooding, the Mississippi is expected to flood areas in Southeast Missouri just as quickly, and with little warning...
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Expanding the Supreme Court is a bad road to go down
(Column ~ 04/30/21)
In 1937, after a series of rulings undercutting his New Deal legislation, President Franklin Roosevelt proposed expanding the Supreme Court to as many as 15 justices. His attempt to use brute political force to seize control of the Supreme Court was – and still is – widely criticized. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself said, “I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court.” She added: “Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a long time.”...
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Wayne Whistler
(Obituary ~ 04/30/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Wayne "Butch" J. Whistler, 71, of Perryville died Thursday, April 29, 2021, at Cotton Point Nursing Facilities in Matthews, Missouri. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday and from 6:30 to 9:15 a.m. Monday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville...
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