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Industrial construction firm leases near Cape Airport
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
St. Louis-based Acme Contractors is now leasing a 6,376-square-foot building at 2380 E. Outer Road across from Cape Girardeau Regional Airport in northern Scott County. A spokesperson for Acme, a 100% employee-owned and managed specialty construction company founded in 1947, told the Southeast Missourian the new local office has three salaried office employees and resources 30 trade workers in the field in what Acme called a "growing customer base in Southeast Missouri."...
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The 'gig' is up Are gig workers the future of work in the US?
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
The so-called "gig workforce" is a growing employment sector in the U.S. Gig workers are also referred to as on-demand workers, subcontractors and freelancers. More than 57 million Americans do "gig' work about 35% of the total workforce. TechTarget suggests the technology of the digital age allows for the mobility of workers, allowing work to be done from a variety of venues rather than from a employer-designated bricks-and-mortar location. ...
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Stabbing reported Thursday in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 11/28/22)
Cape Girardeau police responded to Saint Francis Medical Center shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday in response to an alleged stabbing. Cpl. Ryan Droege of Cape Girardeau Police Department said officers contacted Juan Carlos Garcia, 31, who was treated at the hospital for a knife-inflicted injury...
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St. Augustine seventh grader organizes craft fair for students
(Local News ~ 11/28/22)
Sometimes, if you can't find what you want, you have to make it yourself. That's just what Zahara Ressell, a seventh grader at St. Augustine Catholic School in Kelso, Missouri, decided to do She wanted a craft fair where students could sell their handmade soaps, bracelets and dog treats to each other...
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Aesthetics considered for a third Jackson roundabout
(Local News ~ 11/28/22)
The physical appearance of the newest roundabout planned for the city of Jackson to be constructed at the intersection of North High Street (U.S. 61) and East Deerwood Drive near the Civic Center consumed a portion of the Monday, Nov. 21, Board of Aldermen study session...
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Sponsored: Shop local this holiday season at Corys Ace Hardware
(Shop Local ~ 11/28/22)
Kickstart your holiday shopping at Corys Ace Hardware your locally-owned hardware store in Cape Girardeau. We strive to provide the best service and have knowledgeable staff on hand to help answer any of your questions. We carry the best brands around including Stihl, DeWalt, Craftsman, Milwaukee, Ego, Yeti, Weber, Brumate, Big Green Egg, Traeger and Blackstone and are just around the block with tons of gifts in stock for everyone on your list!...
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Chaffee, Oak Ridge students take home top honors at bridge competition
(Editorial ~ 11/28/22)
Several students from Chaffee and Oak Ridge high schools recently took home top honors in the Missouri Department of Transportation's bridge-building competition. Students from 25 high schools across Missouri participated in the 19th annual event, which handed out awards based on aesthetic design, strength of build compared to weight of the bridge, and school with best overall performance. ...
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Prayer 11-28-22
(Prayer ~ 11/28/22)
O Lord God, thank you for eternal salvation through your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Giving thanks for low-skilled workers
(Column ~ 11/28/22)
On Thanksgiving we rightly give thanks. And let's be clear that, amid all the turmoil that consumes daily headlines, we Americans do indeed have a lot to be thankful for. We are still relatively free. We are also incredibly prosperous a prosperity that would be impossible without uniquely talented and driven entrepreneurs and the courageous investors who back them. But this year I want to give special thanks to those workers we call "low-skilled."...
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Cape Girardeau, Perryville chamber news
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will hold First Friday Coffee at 7:40 a.m. Friday, Dec. 2, at Century Casino Cape Girardeau Event Center, 777 Main St. Chamber president and CEO Rob Gilligan will present on the organization's strategic plan and 2023 overview...
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Cape Girardeau Toastmasters honored
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
High Noon Toastmasters of Cape Girardeau has been recognized as a President's Distinguished Club for 2021-2022 by Toastmasters International. The award is reported as the highest honor given to Toastmasters chapters based on several criteria, including achieving membership and educational goals...
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MoDOT Southeast region information
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Mark Croarkin, Southeast District Engineer for Missouri Department of Transportation, told a Nov. 2 state Highways and Transportation Commission meeting in Cape Girardeau that his 25-county district is the biggest MoDOT region in Missouri with a geographic region larger in area than nine U.S. states...
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Popularity of US roundabouts
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Roundabouts are being constructed at a rapid pace in the United States, with at least 400 being built almost every year from 2005 through 2021. A total of 8,800 U.S. roundabouts or traffic circles have been counted by Oregon-based Kittelson & Associates, which maintains a roundabout database, accessible at www.roundabouts.kittelson.com/Home/Reports...
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Carla Crump promoted by hospital system
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Carla Crump, RN, BSN, has been promoted to director of emergency and trauma services by Saint Francis Healthcare System. Crump has served in the hospital's emergency services department since March 1996, and most recently worked as manager of Saint Francis's Emergency Services...
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Saint Francis administrator Lori Sturgill feted
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Lori Sturgill, MOL, chief information officer for Saint Francis Healthcare System, has been recognized with the nonprofit/public sector St. Louis CIO of the Year ORBIE Award. Sturgill joined Saint Francis in September 2018.
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Amber Gramlisch joins women's practice
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Amber Gramlisch, APRN, FNP-BC, has joined Cape Care for Women as a family nurse practitioner. Gramlisch earned a Master of Science in Nursing at Southeast Missouri State University and began her career at Saint Francis in 2016 as a registered nurse in the progressive care unit, and transitioned to Family BirthPlace in 2017...
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Saint Francis welcomes Jessica Riley
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Jessica Riley, MSN, RN, APRN, AGACNP-BC, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Southeast Missouri State University, has joined Saint Francis Healthcare System. Riley, who most recently worked for St. Louis's Barnes-Jewish Hospital, will serve as a nurse practitioner and congestive heart failure coordinator for Cape Cardiology Group, a Saint Francis Medical Partner...
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Janell Martin joins hospital team
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Janell Martin, MSN, RN-CRNA, has joined Saint Francis Healthcare System as a certified registered nurse anesthetist. Martin, who has 30 years of anesthesia experience, comes to Cape Girardeau from Hannibal Regional Hospital.
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Southeast Hospital again wins safety award
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades are out for Fall 2022 and Southeast Hospital has received an "A" mark for the sixth consecutive time -- making note of the Cape Girardeau hospital's efforts to "protect patients from preventable harm and error."...
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Missouri 'unhealthy' at the holidays
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Missouri is ranked near the bottom of states for holiday health, according to www.lifeextension.com/wellness. Using eight metrics, Life Extension rated all 50 states in terms of the health of their citizens heading into the Christmas holiday season, and Missouri ranked No. 41...
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Gas prices continue falling
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
AAA reported Saturday, Nov. 26, the nationwide average for a gallon of regular gas was $3.56 as pump prices continued to plummet over the Thanksgiving holiday. Missouri's average was recorded at $3.13, down 14 cents in a week's time and down 25 cents over the last 30 days...
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Freeze extended on student loans
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
President Joe Biden, whose plan for far-reaching student loan forgiveness is tied up in the courts, is extending the pause on repayments from Dec. 31, 2022, to as late as June 30, 2023, in a video message posted on Twitter on Tuesday, Nov. 22...
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Camping World in Scott County update
(Business ~ 11/28/22)
Camping World has built a 33,000-square-foot facility on a 12-acre parcel off Nash Road near Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. According to the company's website, the local store a supplier of recreational vehicle parts and supplies was to have opened in July, but a spot check last week showed interior work is still being done on the building...
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Out of the past: Nov. 28
(Out of the Past ~ 11/28/22)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Former Missouri governor Warren E. Hearnes spent Thanksgiving Day recuperating in a private hospital room after undergoing open-heart surgery a day earlier; Hearnes, 73, a Charleston native, was admitted to Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau on Monday after complaining of chest pains; he underwent multiple-bypass surgery on Wednesday and was moved from the intensive care unit to a private room Thursday morning...
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Paul Quade
(Obituary ~ 11/28/22)
Paul L. Quade, 96, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, at his home. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Dec. 2, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at noon Friday, Dec. 2, at the funeral home, with Minister Douglas Collison officiating. Burial will be at Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Erma Oberlin
(Obituary ~ 11/28/22)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. Erma D. Oberlin, 86, passed away Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022, at StoneBridge of Marble Hill. Born and raised in Missouri, Erma was the daughter of Webster D. Rhodes and Ina Louise Cook Rhodes. Taught how to read music and sing by their father, Erma and her four sisters enjoyed singing as the gospel group The Rhodes Sisters for many years...
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Jalon Lies
(Obituary ~ 11/28/22)
Jalon Eileen Lies, 60, of Jackson died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 23, 1962, in Waterloo, Iowa, to Alma and Orlan Sauke. She and Daniel Lies were married Aug. 9, 1986, in Waterloo. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Northern Iowa and her master's degree from California Baptist University...
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New this week: 'Riches', Robert Downey Sr., BTS's RM
(Entertainment ~ 11/28/22)
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press's entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. n Robert Downey Jr. affectionately pays tribute to this late father, Robert Downey Sr. ...
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'Fame' and 'Flashdance' singer-actor Irene Cara dies at 63
(Entertainment ~ 11/28/22)
NEW YORK -- Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie "Fame" and then belted out the era-defining hit "Flashdance ... What a Feeling" from 1983's "Flashdance," has died. She was 63...
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Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes
(Community ~ 11/28/22)
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Netflix's trailblazing DVD-by-mail rental service has been relegated as a relic in the age of video streaming, but there is still a steady -- albeit shrinking -- audience of diehards such as Amanda Konkle who are happily paying to receive those discs in the iconic red-and-white envelopes...
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Judge denies 19-year-old's ask to attend father's execution
(State News ~ 11/28/22)
ST. LOUIS A federal judge has denied a request from a 19-year-old woman to allow her to watch her father's death by injection, upholding a Missouri law barring anyone younger than 21 from witnessing an execution. Kevin Johnson is set to be executed Tuesday, Nov. 29, for killing Kirkwood, Missouri, police officer William McEntee in 2005. Johnson's lawyers have appeals pending that seek to spare his life...
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Sober or bright? Europe faces holidays during energy crunch
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
VERONA, Italy -- Early season merrymakers sipping mulled wine and shopping for holiday decorations packed the Verona Christmas market for its inaugural weekend. But beyond the wooden market stalls, the Italian city still has not decked out its granite-clad pedestrian streets with twinkling holiday lights as officials debate how bright to make the season during an energy crisis...
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New state voter fraud units finding few cases from midterms
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
WASHINGTON -- State-level law enforcement units created after the 2020 presidential election to investigate voter fraud are looking into scattered complaints more than two weeks after the midterms but have provided no indication of systemic problems...
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Kidnappings, looting cited in Ethiopia's Tigray after truce
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda -- Allies of Ethiopia's federal military are looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray, according to eyewitnesses and aid workers. The accounts raise fresh concern about alleged atrocities more than three weeks after the warring parties signed a truce that diplomats and others hoped would bring an end to suffering in the embattled region that's home to more than 5 million people...
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Cuba's informal market finds new space on growing internet
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
HAVANA -- In the Telegram group chat, the messages roll in like waves. "I need liquid ibuprofen and acetaminophen, please," wrote one user. "It's urgent, it's for my 10-month-old baby." Others offer medicine brought from outside of Cuba, adding, "Write to me in a direct message." Emoji-speckled lists offer antibiotics, pregnancy tests, vitamins, rash creams and more...
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Judge to decide on Florida face-biter insanity plea
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A former college student who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim's face finally goes on trial Monday, with a judge deciding whether he goes to prison for life or to a mental hospital...
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Trump faulted for dinner with white nationalist, rapper Ye
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
NEW YORK -- Former President Donald Trump is renewing attention to his long history of turning a blind eye to bigotry after dining with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West just days into his third campaign for the White House...
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Kim's daughter appears again, heating up succession debate
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter made a public appearance again, this time with missile scientists and more honorific titles as her father's "most beloved" or "precious" child. She's only about 10, but her new, bold photos are deepening the debate over whether she's being primed as a successor...
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Walmart shooting claims teen, young woman, father, mother
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- A 16-year-old helping his family. A custodian and father of two. A mother with wedding plans. A happy-go-lucky guy. A longtime employee. That's how friends and family described some of the six people killed at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, when a manager opened fire with a handgun before an employee meeting Tuesday night...
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Mexican asylum seekers set their sights north -- on Canada
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
MONTREAL -- Pedro Meraz says living in Colima, Mexico, was like living in a war zone, with shootings, burning cars and dismembered bodies being left outside of schools. When his wife Rocio Gonzalez, a 28-year-old lawyer who worked with abused women, began receiving death threats from a cartel and the local authorities ignored her pleas for assistance, they knew they had to leave...
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US nuclear waste repository begins filling new disposal area
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Workers at the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository have started using a newly mined disposal area at the underground facility in southern New Mexico. Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant made the announcement this week, saying the first containers of waste to be entombed in the new area came from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee -- one of the many labs and government sites across the country that package up waste and ship it to WIPP...
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Hardship and hope: Winter, missile storms show Kyiv's mettle
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- The play finishes. The actors take their bows. Then they let loose with wartime patriotic zeal. "Glory to Ukraine!" they shout. "Glory to the heroes!" the audience yells back, leaping to its feet. The actors aren't done. More yells follow, X-rated ones, cursing all things Russian and vowing that Ukraine will survive. More cheers, more applause...
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Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by Hitler
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building's co-op board calling her Diwali decoration "offensive" and demanding she take it down. "My decoration said 'Happy Diwali' and had a swastika on it," said Deo, a physician, who was celebrating the Hindu festival of lights...
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Elon Musk plans to relaunch Twitter premium service, again
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
LONDON -- Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter plans to relaunch its premium service that will offer different colored check marks to accounts this week, in a fresh move to revamp the service after a previous attempt backfired. It's the latest change to the social media platform the billionaire Tesla CEO bought last month for $44 billion, coming a day after Musk said he would grant "amnesty" for suspended accounts and causing yet more uncertainty for users...
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Bird flu prompts slaughter of 1.8M chickens in Nebraska
(National News ~ 11/28/22)
OMAHA, Neb. -- Nebraska agriculture officials say another 1.8 million chickens must be killed after bird flu was found on a farm in the latest sign the outbreak that has already prompted the slaughter of more than 50 million birds nationwide continues to spread...
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Pockets of shelling across Ukraine as wintry warfare looms
(International News ~ 11/28/22)
KHERSON, Ukraine -- Russian forces struck eastern and southern Ukraine early Sunday as utility crews scrambled to restore power, water and heating with the onset of snow and frigid temperatures, while civilians continued to leave the southern city of Kherson because of the devastation wreaked by recent attacks and their fears of more ahead...
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Crowd angered by lockdowns calls for China's Xi to step down
(International News ~ 11/28/22)
SHANGHAI -- Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China's powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party...
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Mexico's Lopez Obrador leads massive pro-government march
(International News ~ 11/28/22)
MEXICO CITY -- Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Mexico's capital Sunday in a show of support for President Manuel Lopez Obrador, who before assuming the presidency had led some of the country's biggest protests. The "people's march" marked four years in office for the leftist leader and was a response to a large opposition march two weeks ago to protest Lopez Obrador's proposal to reform the country's electoral authority...
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Newborn among 7 dead in landslide on Italy's Ischia island
(International News ~ 11/28/22)
MILAN -- Search teams have recovered seven dead, including a 3-week-old infant and a pair of young siblings, buried in mud and debris that hurtled down a mountainside and through a densely populated port city on the resort island of Ischia, officials said Sunday...
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Community Cookbook: Pancit bihon by Maria Wade from Zamboanga City, Philippines
(11/28/22)
Recipes tell the stories of communities and the people who shape them. Each recipe is more than a list of ingredients and steps; it is a written legacy of the individual who created the dish, their family and history. This monthly series highlights one of these legacies and gives readers the chance to create the recipe themselves...
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