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Highway 177 in Cape County closed for railroad maintenance
(Local News ~ 06/15/23)
Highway 177 in Cape Girardeau County will be closed from Route J to County Road 610 as railroad crews perform maintenance. According to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release, the work will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, June 19...
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Summer-time cookie recipes to try
(Community ~ 06/15/23)
Cookies, cookies and more cookies! Cookies during the summer months can look a little different from those served during the winter months. Summertime cookies can include all kinds of berries; citrus fruits such as orange, lemon or lime; or even bananas, to mention just a few. But any cookie column would not be complete without a couple of chocolate options mixed in...
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Father's Day weekend events at Beggs Family Farm
(Local News ~ 06/15/23)
Beggs Family Farm will be allowing any father free entry Saturday, June 17, and Sunday, June 18, in celebration of Father's Day. Beggs Family Farm is holding its Spring into Summer Festival on the next two weekends — this Saturday and Sunday, and Saturday, June 24, and Sunday, June 25. The farm will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays during this time...
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Saint Francis Foundation program provides free books to young patients
(Local News ~ 06/15/23)
Saint Francis Foundation is seeking partners for its Reach Out and Read program. The program gives pediatric patients books to read at periodic well-child checks. According to a news release, "pediatric patients in Cape and Jackson will receive an age-appropriate book at each well-child check from 6 months to 5 years of age, providing a total of nine free books to a child before Kindergarten."...
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Cape school district, Parks and Rec say intramural sports a success
(Local News ~ 06/15/23)
Representatives of Cape Girardeau Public Schools and Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department called their partnership in intramural sports a success. During the 2022-23 school year, the district formed teams of third through sixth grade students to compete in sports, such as basketball, soccer and baseball, through the Parks and Rec intramural system...
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Scott City gets new state grant for drainage improvements
(Local News ~ 06/15/23)
Scott City has been awarded a $639,250 community development block grant from the state Department of Economic Development for continued drainage improvements, according to Dustin Whitworth, city administrator. "The city has been working tirelessly repairing and correcting drainage and flooding issues. ...
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West Park Mall owners tout plan for property redevelopment
(Local News ~ 06/15/23)
In advance of a public hearing, potential recommendation from Cape Girardeau's Tax Increment Financing Commission and an up-or-down vote at the City Council, those involved with a proposed redevelopment of West Park Mall have released additional details about the project...
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The Balance of Beginning: Trying paddleboard yoga for the first time
(Health ~ 06/15/23)
“It’s not a big deal if you fall in.” It’s one of the first things stand up paddleboard (SUP) yoga instructor Missy Nieveen Phegley tells me when I arrive for her class one summer evening. While we talk, myself and a group of six women walk toward Trail of Tears State Park’s Lake Boutin with large, yellow paddleboards tucked under our arms...
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Try a Fatty Patty with your daddy
(Community ~ 06/15/23)
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Cody Snider, manager and co-owner of the new Fatty Patty Burger Barn restaurant, located in the old Zaxby's building in Cape Girardeau (407 Cape West Crossings). Talk about perfect timing. With Father's Day just around the corner, Fatty Patty's is serving up exactly what any burger-loving dad wants: burgers. ...
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Today In History
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
Today is Thursday, June 15, the 166th day of 2023. There are 199 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 15, 1775, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army. On this date:...
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A lifeline for rural America
(Column ~ 06/15/23)
Decades ago, a bright 16-year old from Cape Girardeau began working at a local AM radio station, unaware that this job would change his life -- and American politics -- in the years to come. That young man was southeast Missouri's own Rush Limbaugh -- the most influential talk radio host in American history. While he's no longer with us in the flesh, his legacy and fight to give Americans an alternative to the liberal media is alive and well today...
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Railroads are safe, but Congress wants more
(Column ~ 06/15/23)
After many years of working in the policy world, I have concluded that politics is at most 10% about making the world better and safer. The rest is at least 45% theater and 45% catering to special interest groups. Further evidence for my assessment comes from the recent grandstanding in the U.S. Senate on rail safety...
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Our illegal migrant crisis
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/15/23)
You could see this coming from a million miles away. New York City, a sanctuary city, is out of funds. Hard to believe? We knew that the federal government would help fund them. They knew from the beginning they were going to help fund this city; they did not want the American people to know. ...
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Speak up about city priorities
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/15/23)
Do we expect our mayor and city council members to represent the citizens' voices in the community? Do we expect our elected officials to be more transparent about significant issues and investments before acting on them? Do we expect the mayor and city council members to make street repairs and replacement a top funding priority in every annual operating budget until the roads are in acceptable condition?...
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Prayer 6-15-23
(Prayer ~ 06/15/23)
Father God, we praise you, for you are the giver of all good gifts. Amen.
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Fire report 6-15-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/15/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. June 13 n Medical assists were made at 3:50 a.m. on Broadway; 7:57 a.m. on Briarwood Drive; 8:46 a.m. on South Minnesota Avenue; 9:35 a.m. on South Mount Auburn Road; 2:10 p.m. on North Kingshighway; 2:48 p.m. on South Mount Auburn Road; 7:15 p.m. on South Benton Street; 9:13 p.m. on North Park Avenue; and 9:48 p.m. on South Kingshighway. ...
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Police report 6-15-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/15/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on North Water Street. ...
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James Turnbough
(Obituary ~ 06/15/23)
James "Jim" Albert Turnbough, 68, of Jackson died Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at his home. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, June 19, at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson, with the Rev. Jim Matthews officiating. McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson is in charge of arrangements...
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Bill Tinsley
(Obituary ~ 06/15/23)
Charles W. "Bill" Tinsley, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, June 11, 2023, at Lutheran Home. He was born Jan. 9, 1935, in Cape Girardeau to William J. and Lorna Luella Rauh Tinsley. He and Brigitta Heinecke were married Nov. 23, 1974, in Cape Girardeau...
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Betty Huber
(Obituary ~ 06/15/23)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Betty Ann Huber, 88, of Perryville died Monday, June 12, 2023, at Independence Care Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, June 18, and will continue from 8 to 9:30 a.m., with a rosary at 8:30 a.m., Monday, June 19, at Ford and Young Funeral Home...
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Steven Holbrook
(Obituary ~ 06/15/23)
LOS ANGELES — Steven Lance Holbrook, formerly of Scott City, died Saturday, April 8, 2023, at Windsor Gardens Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles. He was born March 27, 1959, in St. Louis, the son of Lawrence C. Holbrook and Sandra L. Whitmore. He attended Scott City High School and served in the U.S. Marine Corps. After leaving the Marine Corps, he was a disabled veteran and lived in California, Nevada and Missouri...
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Rudy Cobb
(Obituary ~ 06/15/23)
Germond "Rudy" Cobb, 40, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri. He was born July 28, 1982, in Hayti, Missouri, to Don Cobb and Deborah Larry. He and Amanda Unsbee Cobb met in 2003 and began their life together. They started their family and were married July 20, 2011, at First General Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau...
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Births 6/15/23
(Births ~ 06/15/23)
Daughter to Alex and Megan Ressel of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 1:47 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Name, Emma Kate. Weight, 7 pounds, 13 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Ressel is the daughter of Karen and Chris Rosenquist of Cape Girardeau. Ressel is the son of Jane and Mark Ressel of Kelso, Missouri...
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Turkish 'pizzas' are a family-friendly dinner to satisfy Dad
(Community ~ 06/15/23)
In Turkey, Armenia and the Levant, a meat-topped flatbread known as lahmajoun comes topped with spiced ground lamb, tomatoes and bell pepper. With the dough stretched paper-thin, diners typically drizzle the popular dish with lemon juice and roll it up to eat...
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Ex-Starbucks manager awarded $25.6 million in suit over firing after 2018 arrests of 2 Black men
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
CAMDEN, N.J. -- Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018...
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Experts question prosecutors' strategy against weapons expert in Alec Baldwin case
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- More than a year and a half after Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer while rehearsing a scene on set in New Mexico, prosecutors have yet to solve the biggest mystery in the tragic case: How did live rounds get on the set?...
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Pope expected to be released soon from hospital after abdominal surgery: Vatican
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
ROME -- Pope Francis is expected to be released from the hospital "in the coming days," as he recovers well and without complications from abdominal surgery last week, the Vatican said Wednesday. In his daily medical update, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Francis again rested well overnight, was at work during the day and had received the Eucharist during a moment of prayer in the chapel of his hospital suite...
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Australia seeking to stop Russia from building new embassy near Parliament for security reasons
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday to prevent Russia from building a new embassy near Parliament House on security grounds as tensions grow between Moscow and a major supporter of the Ukraine war effort...
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Captured Ukrainian soldiers face trial in Russia
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
MOSCOW -- More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers who were taken prisoner during fighting in Ukraine went on trial in southern Russia on Wednesday. The captured soldiers were members of the Azov battalion, an elite Ukrainian armed forces unit that fought Russian troops in the Sea of Azov port of Mariupol. Russia captured Mariupol last year after a three-month battle that reduced most of the city to smoldering ruins...
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Poll: Democrats, Republicans share core values but still distrust each other
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
WASHINGTON -- Americans on the right and the left have a lot more in common than they might think -- including their strong distrust of each other. A survey published on Wednesday finds that when asked about core values including fairness, compassion and personal responsibility, about nine in 10 Democrats and Republicans agreed they were very or extremely important. Yet only about a third of either group said they believed the same was true for the opposing party...
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To fight berry-busting fruit flies, researchers focus on sterilizing the bugs
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
Paul Nelson is used to doing battle with an invasive fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila, a pest that one year ruined more than half the berries on the Minnesota farm he and his team run. In recent years, they've cut their losses closer to 5%, but it's been labor-intensive and expensive...
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Roger Payne, who found out that whales could sing, dies at 88
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
Roger Payne, the scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing, has died. He was 88. Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip to Bermuda in which a Navy engineer provided him with a recording of curious underwater sounds documented while listening for Russian submarines. Payne identified the haunting tones as songs whales sing to one another...
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Pennsylvania using tons of recycled glass nuggets to rebuild collapsed Interstate 95
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
Pennsylvania will truck in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets to help quickly rebuild a collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia and crews will work 24 hours a day until they can reopen the critical commercial artery, officials said Wednesday...
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Dozens dead after migrant vessel sinks off Greece
(International News ~ 06/15/23)
KALAMATA, Greece -- A fishing boat crammed to the gunwales with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized and sank Wednesday off the coast of Greece, authorities said, leaving at least 79 dead and many more missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind this year...
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Russia steps up aerial strikes on Ukraine, killing at least 6 amid Kyiv counteroffensive
(International News ~ 06/15/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces fired cruise missiles at the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa and shelled the eastern Donetsk region early Wednesday, killing at least six people and damaging dozens of homes, regional Ukrainian officials said. Russian forces have recently stepped up aerial strikes in their nearly 16-month war, a Ukrainian military spokesman said. ...
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Southern Baptists refuse to take back megachurch because of women pastors
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
NEW ORLEANS -- The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California megachurch over its February ouster for having women pastors. Southern Baptist church representatives at their annual meeting here also rejected a similar appeal by a smaller church, Fern Creek Baptist of Louisville, Kentucky, which is led by a woman pastor...
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Grand jury indicts man in chokehold death of New York City subway rider
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
NEW YORK -- A man charged with manslaughter for putting an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold has been indicted by a grand jury, an expected procedural step that will allow the criminal case to continue. Daniel Penny was charged by Manhattan prosecutors last month in the May 1 death of Jordan Neely, a former Michael Jackson impersonator who struggled in recent years with homelessness and mental illness...
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House approves bills to protect gas stoves
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
WASHINGTON -- Venturing back into the nation's culture wars, the Republican-controlled House has approved legislation that GOP lawmakers say would protect gas stoves from overzealous government regulators. A bill passed Tuesday would prohibit use of federal money to regulate gas stoves as a hazardous product, while a separate measure endorsed Wednesday would block an Energy Department rule setting stricter energy efficiency standards for stovetops and ovens...
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Fed Chair Powell sees progress on inflation, though not quickly enough
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
WASHINGTON -- Inflation may be cooling -- just not fast enough for the Federal Reserve. Chair Jerome Powell offered a nuanced view Wednesday of how the Fed intends to address its core challenge at a time when inflation is both way below its peak but still well above the central bank's 2% target: give it more time, and maybe some help from additional interest rate hikes...
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Punishing winds, possible tornadoes inflict damage as storms cross US South
(National News ~ 06/15/23)
ALBANY, Ga. -- Damaging winds and possible tornadoes toppled trees, damaged buildings and blew cars off a highway Wednesday as powerful storms crossed the South from Texas to Georgia. The National Weather Service issued numerous tornado warnings, mainly in southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia, and cautioned that gusts of hurricane-force winds exceeding 90 mph were possible in parts of northeast Louisiana and central Mississippi. Some areas also were pelted with large hail...
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Out of the past: June 15
(Out of the Past ~ 06/15/23)
Although the clouds loomed low and dark, there were no confirmed tornadoes in Southeast Missouri or Southern Illinois yesterday afternoon; a possible tornado was reported around 4 p.m. west of Cape Girardeau in Bollinger County, which prompted the National Weather Service to issue several tornado warnings; however, a spokesman at the Bollinger County Sheriff's Office says the department was unable to confirm any actual sightings of a tornado touching down; a funnel cloud was spotted east of Alexander County, Illinois, but it never touched down.. ...
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