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SB US 61 in Cape reduced for turn lane, island construction
(Local News ~ 10/12/23)
Southbound U.S. 61 — South Kingshighway — will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews construct a right turn lane and island near the U.S. 61/North Cape Rock intersection in Cape Girardeau, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation new release. The affected section of highway is from East Rodney Drive to Broadway. The work will take place nightly from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. from Friday, Oct. 16, through Saturday, Oct. 21...
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Jumping on the pumpkin bandwagon
(Community ~ 10/12/23)
It seems like everywhere I look there is a presence of pumpkin items. The ice cream shops have pumpkin frozen treats available, and the grocery store is full of pumpkin items that include about everything you can imagine. I must jump on board the pumpkin theme as I really enjoy pumpkin recipes for a few weeks in the fall. I've included recipe for sweets and savory dishes so there may be a recipe here for everyone. Enjoy!...
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Malden man dies in two-vehicle crash near Morehouse
(Local News ~ 10/12/23)
A Malden, Missouri, man died in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday, Oct. 11. According to a report from the state Highway Patrol, the incident occurred around 6:30 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. 60 and Route E, south of Morehouse, Missouri. Steven Childers, 23, was driving a 2012 Nissan Altima eastbound on U.S. 60 when Gabriel Massey, 19, of Sikeston, Missouri, driving a 2006 Ford F150 southbound, failed to yield the right of way and collided with Childers' vehicle...
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Curriculum, program evaluations presented to Jackson school board
(Local News ~ 10/12/23)
The Jackson School District Board of Education members accepted an evaluation on the district's Parents As Teachers program during their regular meeting Tuesday, Oct. 10. The Parents As Teachers (PAT) program was described in the meeting's agenda as a home-school-community partnership that supports and promotes the parent as a child's first teacher. The description stated parents and their children can participate in the program from prenatal to kindergarten entry...
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More than $31,000 raised with Color Dash for cancer screenings
(Local News ~ 10/12/23)
More than $31,000 raised by Saint Francis Foundation's fifth annual Color Dash 5K and Fun Walk on Saturday, Oct. 7, at Arena Park in Cape Girardeau will be used to provide free cancer screenings to individuals in need throughout the community. The turnout for the 5K and 1-mile fun walk included more than 200 participants and volunteers...
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Cooking the books
(Community ~ 10/12/23)
"The Internet really ought to have killed cookbooks," Helen Rosner, the award-winning food columnist of the New Yorker observes. But instead, cookbooks are selling better than ever. Rosner says this is because they have become more than merely collections of recipes...
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Green's Garden: Let that delicious food speak
(Community ~ 10/12/23)
Sitting on the corner at 2 Main St. in Cape Girardeau is a special place, Green's Garden. Green's Garden is a family-owned and -operated business, and let me tell you, you can see the care put into every corner of the building. It feels very much like old-world street vendor carts, with shining bright vegetables displayed beautifully and stacked perfectly. ...
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New Centenary Methodist pastor to hold homecoming service Sunday
(Local News ~ 10/12/23)
Centenary Methodist Church's newly appointed pastor, Carl Palmer, is set to lead a homecoming service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 15. This service, a celebration of homecoming during Southeast Missouri State University's homecoming weekend, will be followed by displays sharing the church's history and showcasing various small groups. The event will conclude with a complimentary dinner at the church, 300 N. Ellis St...
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Cape Girardeau County may have another record-breaking revenue year
(Local News ~ 10/12/23)
October's general tax revenue figures are in from the state Department of Revenue, and Cape Girardeau County seems poised for another potentially record-shattering annum. In 2022, the county's general revenue surpassed $9 million for the first time as $9,198,739.12 flowed into county coffers, an 8.62% increase from 2021...
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Rain, rain stay away! SEMO officials keep close eye on homecoming weather forecast
(Local News ~ 10/12/23)
Southeast Missouri State University's homecoming parade is an annual must-see event for many in, around and beyond Cape Girardeau. And this year's parade will be bigger than ever as it is part of the university's sesquicentennial celebration. However, the parade's planners and participants are keeping a close eye on the weather forecast for this weekend...
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Overcoming Breast Cancer to Start a Bakery: Jodi Hollandsworth
(Community ~ 10/12/23)
During the spring of the year she was 32 years old, Jodi Hollandsworth began feeling a sensation in her left breast. Always very “in tune” with her body, she says she knew something was wrong. “I remember telling my husband, ‘I don't know what’s going on,’” Hollandsworth says. “The best way I can describe it to anybody was like somebody was flicking a lighter in there. It would be like a little zap, burn.”...
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Surviving Colon Cancer to Help Children: Donna Bullard
(Community ~ 10/12/23)
On Jan. 9, 2019, Donna Bullard went in for a routine colonoscopy. Before she was completely out of anesthesia, the doctor told her husband they needed to see someone right away. Two days later, she received a call stating she had aggressive stage four cancer; it had already grown outside Bullard’s colon and pushed into her reproductive organs and abdominal wall...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
Today is Thursday, Oct. 12, the 285th day of 2023. There are 80 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 12, 1976, it was announced in China that Hua Guofeng had been named to succeed the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party, and that Mao's widow and three others, known as the "Gang of Four," had been arrested...
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Prayer 10-12-23
(Prayer ~ 10/12/23)
O Holy God, we praise you for the gift of salvation, our joy forevermore. Amen.
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Israel is not a colonial state
(Column ~ 10/12/23)
It doesn't take long to read or listen to anti-Israel advocacy before the word "colonial" or "colonialism" is hurled at the Jewish state. After the spasm of Hamas murder, rape and kidnapping over the weekend, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network exclaimed, "Our people are waging an anti-colonial, anti-occupation, and anti-Zionist liberation struggle!"...
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Enemy of Palestinians Is Hamas, not Israel
(Column ~ 10/12/23)
The last time I wrote about Gaza and Hamas was 13 years ago, in 2010. The point of the column was the striking contrast between how Israelis deal with life's challenges and how Hamas leads its Palestinian constituents in Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and turned it over to the Palestinian Authority. Within two years, with local elections, Hamas was in charge...
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Internal conflicts and power struggles have become hallmarks of the modern GOP
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- After Ohio Republicans bolstered their statehouse majority last year due to their dominating showing in the midterm elections, they split into rival camps over who should lead the lower chamber. The division between younger, more impatient conservatives and more traditional ones was only settled when Democrats crossed party lines to end a standoff over who would become speaker of the Ohio House...
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Social media is awash in misinformation about Israel-Gaza war, but Musk's X is the most egregious
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
While Twitter has always struggled with combating misinformation about major news events, it was still the go-to place to find out what's happening in the world. But the Israel-Hamas war has underscored how the platform now transformed into X has become not only unreliable but is actively promoting falsehoods...
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Detroit automakers and union leaders spar over 4,800 layoffs at non-striking factories
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
DETROIT -- Detroit's three automakers have laid off roughly 4,800 workers at factories that are not among the plants that have been hit by the United Auto Workers strikes, which have lasted for nearly four weeks. The companies say the strikes have nevertheless forced them to impose those layoffs. ...
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An Oklahoma judge could be removed from office for sending more than 500 texts during a murder trial
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A new Oklahoma judge could lose her job for sending more than 500 texts to her bailiff during a murder trial, including messages mocking the prosecutor, praising the defense attorney and calling a key witness a liar. The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court recommended the removal of Lincoln County District Judge Traci Soderstrom in a court filing Tuesday following an investigation by the state's Council on Judicial Complaints...
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Shadowy snitch takes starring role in bribery trial of veteran DEA agents
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
NEW YORK -- In his two decades as a professional drug snitch, Jorge Hernández was a master of the double cross. He lied to his handlers, threatened to unmask fellow informants and even admitted killing three people during his days as a cocaine runner. But time and again, he leveraged his extensive contacts in the narcotrafficking underworld to stay alive, avoid the inside of a jail cell and keep making money...
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Voting begins in Ohio in the only election this fall to decide abortion rights
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In-person voting for a November ballot measure over abortion rights began Wednesday in Ohio, the latest state where voters will decide the issue after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a nationwide right to the procedure last year...
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy joins a meeting of global defense leaders to make a direct plea for military aid
(International News ~ 10/12/23)
BRUSSELS -- For the first time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined a meeting of more than 50 defense leaders from around the world, making a personal pitch Wednesday for military aid in the face of lagging political support in the United States and new pressure on allies to send weapons to bolster Israel's war with Hamas...
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6.3 magnitude earthquake shakes part of western Afghanistan where an earlier quake killed over 2,000
(International News ~ 10/12/23)
CHAHAK, Afghanistan -- Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history...
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GOP nominates Scalise to be House speaker but struggles to unite quickly and elect him
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
WASHINGTON -- Republicans nominated Rep. Steve Scalise on Wednesday to be the next House speaker but struggled to quickly unite their deeply divided majority and elect the conservative in a public floor vote after the historic ousting of Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the job...
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Lidia dissipates after killing 1 person, injuring 2 near Mexico's Puerto Vallarta resort
(International News ~ 10/12/23)
MEXICO CITY -- Lidia dissipated Wednesday after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerta Vallarta, where one person was killed by a falling tree and two others injured The hurricane knocked over trees and blew roofs off houses with winds as high as 140 mph before moving inland...
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Biden calls Hamas attacks the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust as US death toll ticks up
(National News ~ 10/12/23)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned the weekend attack by Hamas militants on Israel as the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust as the number of U.S. citizens killed in the fighting ticked up to at least 22. "This attack was a campaign of pure cruelty -- not just hate, but pure cruelty -- against the Jewish people," Biden told Jewish leaders gathered at the White House...
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Gaza is tiny and watched closely by Israel. But rescuing hostages there would be a daunting task
(International News ~ 10/12/23)
JERUSALEM -- The Hamas-run Gaza Strip is a tiny enclave, measuring 25 miles long and no more than 7 miles wide, surveilled continually by Israel, surrounded by its guns. But rescuing -- or even locating -- more than 150 hostages hustled there by Palestinian militants who overran Israel's southern border on Saturday will be a daunting task...
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State of Israel forms unity government to oversee war
(International News ~ 10/12/23)
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined with a top political rival Wednesday to create a wartime Cabinet to oversee the fight to avenge the gruesome weekend attack by Hamas militants. In the sealed-off Gaza Strip ruled by Hamas, Palestinian suffering mounted as Israeli bombardment demolished neighborhoods and the only power plant ran out of fuel...
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Fire report 10-12-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/12/23)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Oct. 10 n Medical assists were made at 11:22 a.m. on Thilenius Street; 12:27 p.m. on Clark Avenue; and 1:39 p.m. on Grant Street. ...
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Police report 10-12-23
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/12/23)
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 Kingshighway. n A warrant arrest was reported on North Kingshighway. n A warrant arrest was reported on Lexington Avenue. ...
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Wilburn Sparks
(Obituary ~ 10/12/23)
Wilburn F. Sparks, 86, of Jackson passed away peacefully Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau with family by his side. He was born April 4, 1937, in Tallapoosa, Missouri, to Jessie Joe and Effie Vinson Sparks. He and the love of his life, Brenda C. ...
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Brannon Roberts
(Obituary ~ 10/12/23)
ORANGE, Texas — Brannon Alyn Roberts, 41, of Orange died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, at his home. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. Memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at the funeral home...
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Robert Pikey
(Obituary ~ 10/12/23)
Robert "Bob" George Pikey, 83, a loving husband, father and friend, died Monday, Sept. 4, 2023, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 20, 1940, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Richard and Vivian Boone Pikey. Robert attended Notre Dame High School, where he played varsity basketball and graduated in 1958. He then received a Bachelor of Arts from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, graduating in 1962...
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Barbara Oberbeck
(Obituary ~ 10/12/23)
Barbara Ann Oberbeck, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, at Heartland Care and Rehab Center. She was born Jan. 15, 1947, in Cape Girardeau to Clarence A. and Cora Best Oberbeck. Barbara was a graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School...
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Liza Duckworth
(Obituary ~ 10/12/23)
Liza Blair Duckworth was born sleeping at 3:03 in the morning Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. She was the treasured daughter of Madeline Ringer and Dawson Duckworth. Liza had weight in this world: 4 pounds, 13.2 ounces, to be exact. She brought immense joy to all those who loved her. Liza's family will forever cherish her memory as the brief gift it was...
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Frank Burns
(Obituary ~ 10/12/23)
Frank Robert Burns, 88, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 7, 1934, in Glen Allen, Missouri, to C.E. and Rose Klein Burns. He and Joan Nussbaum were married April 10, 1954, at Christ Lutheran Church in Gordonville...
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Missouri teacher who performed on website known for explicit content has resigned, official says
(State News ~ 10/12/23)
ST. CLAIR, Mo. -- A Missouri high school teacher who was suspended after officials discovered she had performed on a subscription-based website known for sexually explicit content has resigned, a school district official said. St. Clair High School English teacher Brianna Coppage was placed on leave last month after school officials discovered her page on the OnlyFans website, which she said she joined to supplement her teaching salary. ...
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Out of the past: Oct. 12
(Out of the Past ~ 10/12/23)
The Cape Girardeau area, one of the largest population and economic centers between St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee, has a solid industrial base but doesn't quite qualify as a metropolitan area; although the area has more than 150 manufacturing facilities that employ more than 8,000 people, it is still too small to be metropolitan and too big to be rural, says John Mehner, president of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce...
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Robbie Robinson
(Obituary ~ 10/12/23)
Kenneth E. "Robbie" Robinson, 91, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 18, 1932, in Cape Girardeau to Earl and Della Bryant Robinson. He and Glena June Waldo were married June 17, 1961, in Vanduser, Missouri...
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Voices for Children/CASA Annual Red Shoe Dinner of Hope
(Submitted Story ~ 10/12/23)
Voices for Children/CASA of Southeast Missouri has hosted annual events in Cape Girardeau for the past 32 years, but none like the recent Red Shoe Dinner of Hope event that was held at the Top of the Marq on September 28, 2023. This was an exclusive event where the guests enjoyed a fine dinner prepared by Chef Matt. ...
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