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New development planned in Sikeston
(Local News ~ 07/03/23)
SIKESTON, Mo. — Plans are underway for a new development consisting of 18 homes in the north end of Sikeston. Sikeston developer Robin Chambers acquired 5.5 acres on Baker Lane in the north end of the city, one block from North Kingshighway and just down the street from the newly constructed Lee Hunter Elementary School...
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Two juveniles arrested in fatal shooting on Saturday in Poplar Bluff
(Local News ~ 07/03/23)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — A Poplar Bluff man is dead after a shooting Saturday, July 1. According to a news release from the Poplar Bluff Police Department, officers were informed at 12:51 p.m. of a vehicle en route to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, which was reportedly transporting a person who had been shot. While responding, officers located the vehicle near the intersection of Westwood and Kanell boulevards...
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Third person charged in BoCo shooting
(Local News ~ 07/03/23)
A third person has been arrested in relation to a June 5 shooting in Bollinger County, Missouri. According to a social media post from Sheriff Casey Graham, officers arrested Peyton Hahs, 18, of Jackson on Friday, June 30. She has been charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault and armed criminal action...
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Rep. Jason Smith weighs in on Hunter Biden investigation
(Local News ~ 07/03/23)
Political fireworks are being seen between lawyers for President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and certain Republican congressmen, notably Southeast Missouri U.S. Rep. Jason Smith. Smith has added his voice to those of the GOP chairmen of two other U.S. House committees in asking for more than a dozen transcribed interviews in the high profile federal investigation of the younger Biden...
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SEMO's David Yaskewich on SCOTUS denial of student debt cancellation
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
David Yaskewich economist and chairman of Southeast Missouri State University's Accounting, Economics and Finance Department, has commented on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Friday, June 30, to strike down President Joe Biden's student-loan cancellation plan...
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Former Cape Girardeau junior high staff reunite
(Local News ~ 07/03/23)
A reunion of retired Cape Girardeau Public Schools teachers and staff members took place Wednesday, June 28 at, Terry W. Kitchen Central Junior High school. Those gathered all worked together at the former junior high school building, which today is home to Central Middle School. Many of the former co-workers used the word "family" to describe how close they had all become and still remain. Some said they hadn't seen each other for many years, others stayed in contact over the years...
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MoDOT schedules two summertime public meetings
(Local News ~ 07/03/23)
Additional information has been added to this article. The Missouri Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, July 13, to discuss plans to replace two bridges in Cape Girardeau County located on Route Z over Hubble Creek and Hubble Creek Overflow near Gordonville...
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The Kohlfeld legacy: Family looks back at more that half-century of business
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
One customer at a time. That's the way Leo Kohlfeld built the foundation for a family-owned company that has grown to be one of the largest and most successful beverage distributorships in the Midwest. Kohlfeld died in 2010, but March 31 of this year, he was posthumously recognized with the Drury Family Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award at the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce's annual banquet in recognition of the entrepreneurial success achieved by the company he founded...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
Today is Monday, July 3, the 184th day of 2023. There are 181 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 3, 1976, Israel launched its daring mission to rescue 106 passengers and Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers; the commandos succeeded in rescuing all but four of the hostages...
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Prayer 7-3-23
(Prayer ~ 07/03/23)
Father God, thank you for our freedoms, including the freedom to worship you. Amen.
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Wanted: President who will address spending challenge
(Column ~ 07/03/23)
Election season is getting into gear, and that means politicians of all stripes making promises about what they'll do for the American people if elected or reelected. I'd like to hear promises to get government out of the way and allow entrepreneurship and market competition to spur genuine and sustainable economic growth, including in the energy and housing sectors...
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Volunteers step up to clean the old bridge overlook
(Editorial ~ 07/03/23)
Disheartening. Frustrating. Anger. Those are just a few of the words that come to mind when you see folks vandalize private or public property. Whether it's gang related, kids being foolish or something else, it's simply wrong. That was the case recently when the Old Mississippi River Bridge Scenic Overlook at the east end of Morgan Oak Street in Cape Girardeau was vandalized. ...
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Notable quote
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Being friendly in business is necessary but friendships in business aren't. We can have a valuable business relationship without friendship. Unfortunately, many mistakenly believe the first step to building a business relationship is friendship. ...
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Cape Girardeau chamber news
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will hold First Friday Coffee on July 7 at Century Casino Cape Girardeau Event Center, 777 N. Main St. Program will begin at 7:45 a.m. and feature a presentation by Jeff Glenn of Cape Girardeau's GlennView Strategies...
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Ford and Sons adds staff
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Mark Dunaway has been named manager of the North Mount Auburn Road location of Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Dunaway, a 2004 Cape Girardeau Central High School graduate, previously worked for more than a decade in the insurance industry...
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New leadership at Tailor Institute
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Angie Graviett has been named executive director of Cape Girardeau's Tailor Institute, succeeding Carrie Tracy, who led the autism program for those aged 16 and older for more than nine years. Tailor Institute was founded by the late orthodontist David Crowe in 2003...
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Deadline extended for Bollinger County tornado grants
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Missouri REALTORS announced Wednesday, June 28, that a new deadline of Monday, July 31, has been set for Bollinger County tornado victims to apply for grant money up to $1,000, according to Terry Baker, association executive for Cape Girardeau-based Southeast Missouri REALTORS...
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Missouri gas tax increases over weekend
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
State gas taxes rose by another 2.5 cents Saturday, July 1, as the latest increase in Missouri's motor fuels levy took effect. Graduated hikes were OK'd by the state legislature beginning in 2021 as Missouri incrementally moves on an annual basis toward topping out the increases at 29.5 cents by 2025...
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Gift of lower holiday gas prices
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Auto club federation AAA reported the nation's average price for regular gas Saturday, July 1, fell slightly to $3.53. In Missouri, Saturday's average dropped to $3.26, down 2 cents from a week ago but up 6 cents from a month ago. In the tri-county area, petrol continues to be below the statewide figure...
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Gov. Parson cuts loan for Southeast Missouri smelter
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Gov. Mike Parson has vetoed a $8.5 million set-aside for a no-interest loan for pollution controls at Magnitude 7 Metals, an aluminum smelter plant in Marston, Missouri, in New Madrid County. Parson, in a statement, said the loan violated a Missouri Constitution provision dating from the Civil War prohibiting "lending of public credit to any private person, association or corporation except under special circumstances that don't exist here."...
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Foodtown closing in Olive Branch
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Foodtown, a grocery store at 26650 State Highway 3 in Olive Branch, Illinois, in Alexander County, across Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau, is closing. The shutdown was announced on Facebook. "We are sad to announce we are closing the store. ...
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Perryville girl opens candy store
(Business ~ 07/03/23)
Hadley's Candy Shoppe, 115 N. Jackson St., just off the square in Perryville, Missouri, opened for business June 14, and its namesake is a 12-year-old girl. Hadley Warren, a rising seventh grader in the Perryville public schools, has opened the 700-square-foot confectionery outlet under the auspices of her parents, Morgan and Mike Warren...
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Thousands of hotel workers in Southern California are on strike, demanding better pay and benefits
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of hotel workers in Southern California walked off the job on Sunday, demanding higher pay and better benefits in what the union is calling the largest strike in its history. Cooks, room attendants, dishwashers, servers, bellmen and front desk agents at hotels were picketing outside major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties just as the summer tourist is ramping up...
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Drug cartel violence flares in western Mexico after vigilante leader's killing
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
APATZINGAN, Mexico -- The drug cartel violence that citizen self-defense leader Hipolito Mora gave his life fighting flared anew on Sunday, just one day after he was buried, as shootings and road blockades hit the city of Apatzingan, a regional hub in Mexico's hot lands...
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The Biden administration guaranteed attorney access for all migrant screenings. Most don't have it
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
SAN DIEGO -- As the Biden administration prepared to launch speedy asylum screenings at Border Patrol holding facilities this spring , authorities pledged a key difference from a Trump-era version of the policy: Migrants would be guaranteed access to legal counsel...
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Israel's air force attacks Syria and Syrian air defense missile explodes over northern Israel
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
BEIRUT -- Israel carried out airstrikes on areas near the central Syrian city of Homs early Sunday causing material damage but no casualties, the Syrian military said in a statement. A Syrian anti-aircraft missile exploded over Israeli territory, the Israeli military said, prompting another round of strikes...
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Bishop named to Vatican office handling sex abuse complaints discounted some victims, US group says
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
ROME -- A U.S.-based group that tracks how the Catholic hierarchy deals with allegations of sexual abuse by clergy says Pope Francis made a "troubling" choice in appointing an Argentine prelate to a powerful Vatican office that handles such cases. On Saturday, the Vatican announced the pontiff had picked Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernández, archbishop of La Plata, Argentina, to head the Holy See's watchdog office for doctrinal orthodoxy. ...
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Tenants say a 3-year ban on evictions kept them housed. Landlords say they're drowning in debt
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Retiree Pamela Haile has paid property taxes, insurance and other bills on a house she lets out in Oakland, California, but for more than three years her tenants have paid no rent thanks to one of the longest-lasting eviction bans in the country...
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DeSantis proposes Disney trial schedule that puts start date in 2025, after elections
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis have asked that a trial involving Disney be postponed until the middle of 2025, well after the GOP presidential nomination race wraps up and voters have picked a winner in the November 2024 general election...
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Morning-after pill vending machines gain popularity on college campuses post-Roe
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
SEATTLE -- Need Plan B? Tap your credit card and enter B6. Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine, one that's become more popular on campuses around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion last year. It's stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill...
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Hungry ticks can use this static trick to land on you and your pets
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
NEW YORK -- Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows. Humans and animals naturally pick up static charges as they go about their days. And those charges are enough to give ticks a boost to their next blood meal, according to a study published Friday in the journal Current Biology...
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Satellite photos, reports suggest Belarus is building an army camp for Wagner fighters
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
Satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday showed what appeared to be a newly built military-style camp in Belarus, with statements from a Belarusian guerrilla group and officials suggesting it may be used to house fighters from the Wagner mercenary group...
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Cleanup begins after asphalt binder spill into Montana's Yellowstone River after train derailment
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
HELENA, Mont. -- Globs of asphalt binder that spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River during a bridge collapse and train derailment could be seen on islands and riverbanks downstream from Yellowstone National Park a week after the spill occurred, witnesses report...
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Grandmother of French teen shot dead by police officer pleads with rioters to stop the violence
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
PARIS -- The grandmother of the French teenager shot dead by police during a traffic stop pleaded Sunday for rioters to stop after five nights of unrest, while authorities expressed outrage at an attack on a mayor's home that was hit by a burning car that injured family members...
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US forest managers urge revelers to swap fireworks for Silly String, but some say not so fast
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Smokey Bear said it best: "Only you can prevent wildfires." Following in the footsteps of their famous mascot, U.S. Forest Service managers in the drought-stricken Southwest are urging people to swap their fireworks this Fourth of July for glow sticks, noisemakers and cans of red, white and blue Silly String...
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Police: Baltimore shooting victims include more than a dozen minors
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
BALTIMORE -- Gunfire erupted at a block party in Baltimore on Sunday -- killing two people, wounding 28 and leaving an extensive crime scene that marred the U.S. holiday weekend, police said. Three of the wounded were in critical condition and more than a dozen were under 18...
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Russia launches the first drone strike on Kyiv in 12 days, all are shot down
(International News ~ 07/03/23)
KYIV, Ukraine -- After a relative lull, Russia launched a drone attack early Sunday on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, officials said. It was the first such attack of the war in 12 days. All of the Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones were detected and shot down, according to Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv city administration. ...
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10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
JUNEAU, Alaska -- Attorneys general from 10 states plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying its failure to review and ensure emissions standards for residential wood-burning stoves has allowed the continued sale of appliances that could worsen pollution...
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Confronting a big medical bill? Attack it with a plan -- and these tips
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
An enormous medical bill can trigger a wave of panic, but try to resist. That startling invoice that arrived in the mail may not be what patients wind up paying. Errors or slow insurance payments may have inflated the total. Even if it's accurate, financial aid or other assistance might help pare it...
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Trump's South Carolina rally attracted a massive crowd in heavily Republican area
(National News ~ 07/03/23)
PICKENS, S.C. -- Former President Donald Trump marked a return to the large-scale rallies of his previous presidential campaigns, speaking to a massive crowd gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city on a blazing summer weekend. "There's nowhere else I'd rather be to kick off the Fourth of July weekend than right here on Main Street, with thousands of hardworking South Carolina patriots who believe in God, family and country," Trump said Saturday to a roaring crowd in downtown Pickens as temperatures climbed into the 90s.. ...
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Indiana Jones' box office destiny? A lukewarm $60 million debut in North America
(Entertainment ~ 07/03/23)
Indiana Jones, and executives at the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm, made a somewhat dispiriting discovery this weekend. Moviegoers didn't rush to the theater in significant numbers to see " Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" and say goodbye to Harrison Ford as the iconic archaeologist...
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What to stream this week: Taylor Swift, a new animated 'Superman,' 'Biosphere' and 'Wham!'
(Entertainment ~ 07/03/23)
Taylor Swift's rerecording of her "Speak Now" and survivalist Bear Grylls taking Bradley Cooper and Rita Ora into the wild are among the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists are the sci-fi comedy "Biosphere" starring Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass, and a new spin-off series starring Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan from "The Real Housewives of New York City."...
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Out of the past: July 3
(Out of the Past ~ 07/03/23)
Voters could be asked in November to approve a tax to help fund development of Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus; Board of Regents president Don Dickerson of Cape Girardeau says he hopes a funding plan can be drawn up by the end of August; any local tax measure must be submitted to the Cape Girardeau County Clerk's Office by Aug. 25 for it to be placed on the November ballot...
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Sara Turner
(Obituary ~ 07/03/23)
Sara Rose Turner, 90, of Jackson passed away Friday, June 30, 2023, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. She was born Sept. 26, 1932, in Cape Girardeau to Stephen and Maim Howard Propst. She was a graduate of Jackson High School. Sara and James Turner were married March 5, 1955, in Jackson. Their union was blessed with three children: Donna, and twins, James and Jane...
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Storms knock out power for Cape customers
(Local News ~ 07/03/23)
Several pockets of power outages affected several hundred Cape Girardeau residents Sunday, July 2, after a thunderstorm passed through the area in the afternoon. According to Ameren Missouri, outages spread from the southwest portion of the city northeasterly, reaching Highway 177 and affecting about 300 customers...
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Edward Spalding
(Obituary ~ 07/03/23)
Edward "Trey" Spalding, 36, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, June 29, 2023. He was born March 9, 1987, in Cape Girardeau to Edward Spalding Jr. and Sandra Kay Deevers. He was baptized in 2021 at the Cuba Christian Church in Cuba, Missouri. Survivors include his father, Edward (Kathy) Spalding Jr.; two daughters, Mila and Kira Spalding; sister, Kaitlyn Cormier; and niece, Khloe Cormier...
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C.L. Richmond
(Obituary ~ 07/03/23)
C.L. "Babe" Richmond, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, June 30, 2023, at Capetown Assisted Living. He was born Sept. 8, 1928, in Cape Girardeau to Elijah and Hester Holcomb Richmond. C.L. and Beverly June Lett were married March 23, 1958, in Hernando, Mississippi. She preceded him in death March 7, 2014...
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Dale Graham
(Obituary ~ 07/03/23)
MINER, Mo. -- George Dale Graham, 75, passed away Friday, June 30, 2023, at his home in Miner. He was born Sept. 17, 1947, in Wardell, Missouri, son of the late Clarence Ellis and Virginia Wilson Graham. Dale was a 1966 graduate of Gideon (Missouri) High School. He coached basketball many years at Tanner Street Church of God. He loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren, and he enjoyed volunteering at the Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo...
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Donna Farmer
(Obituary ~ 07/03/23)
Donna Mae Farmer, 90, passed away Friday, June 30, 2023, in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 20, 1932, in West Plains, Missouri, to the late Elvis Lynn and Dorothy Proffer and grew up in Fredericktown, Missouri. Donna was a beloved wife to Alvin James Farmer Jr. for more than 66 years...
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Mary Brown
(Obituary ~ 07/03/23)
Mary Ellen Brown, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, July 3, 2023, at her home. She was born Feb. 10, 1939, in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Edmond and Martine Howard Ballard. She and William "Tony" A. Brown were married July 16, 1965, at Owensboro. Mary was of the Catholic faith. She was a member of River City Workers of the Blind...
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