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Missouri abortion-rights campaign backs proposal to enshrine access but allow late-term restrictions
(State News ~ 01/19/24)
JEFFERSON CITY — A Missouri abortion-rights campaign announced Thursday that it's throwing support behind an amendment to the state constitution that would enshrine access to the procedure while allowing restrictions in later stages of pregnancy...
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Jackson man faces incest, statutory rape charges
(Local News ~ 01/19/24)
Devon James Campbell of Jackson faces three charges of statutory rape and one charge of incest, stemming from an investigation by Jackson Police Department. A victim in the case told the investigating officer, whose name was redacted, that the suspect made sexual contact with his hand and other body parts. The victim circled and labeled body parts involved in the acts, according to a heavily redacted probable-cause statement...
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Cape Girardeau County commissioners approve appointments, receive report
(Local News ~ 01/19/24)
Cape Girardeau County Presiding Commissioner Clint Tracy and local attorney Jason Crowell were appointed to the SE MO REDI board of advisers during the Cape Girardeau County Commission's meeting Thursday, Jan. 18. The economic development organization now known as SE MO REDI had previously been known as Cape Girardeau Area Magnet until 2022...
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Oak Ridge man charged after high-speed pursuit, alleged theft of a truck
(Local News ~ 01/19/24)
An Oak Ridge man is facing several charges from multiple jurisdictions after he allegedly fled police in two incidents on the same night, one of which officers say involved a stolen truck that he later set on fire. Days later, he was tracked down by the U.S. Marshal's Service and Cape Girardeau County deputies. He was taken into custody Wednesday, Jan. 17. The pursuits occurred Saturday, Jan. 13...
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24th annual Clark Terry Jazz Festival to be held next month
(Local News ~ 01/19/24)
The 24th annual Clark Terry/Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Festival will return Friday, Feb. 2, and Saturday, Feb. 3, to Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. Felipe Brito, director of Jazz Studies at the university, said this year's festival will feature a record number of schools and ensembles participating. They will have 18 middle and high school jazz bands and 25 ensembles resulting in almost 400 students from around the state performing...
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SEMO Martin Luther King Jr. dinner celebrates building ‘CommUNITY’
(Local News ~ 01/19/24)
Southeast Missouri State University's Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Dinner hosted state Sen. Brian Williams as keynote speaker Wednesday, Jan. 17, at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. Williams is a senator in the 14th District in St. Louis County and also is a SEMO alumnus...
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Prosecutor: No imminent charges in alleged animal abuse case
(Local News ~ 01/19/24)
No one has been charged with crimes related to deceased and distressed dogs found in and around a Cape Girardeau residence earlier this week. According to Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Welker, he has referred the matter back to Cape Girardeau Police Department...
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Cape City Council to consider design, bidding for reconstruction of Regional Airport D, E, F taxiways
(Local News ~ 01/19/24)
At their meeting Monday, Jan. 22, Cape Girardeau City Council members will discuss an agreement for the design and bidding phase to reconstruct Taxiways D, E and F at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. The motion will be to execute an agreement with Crawford, Murphy and Tilly, Inc. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
Today is Friday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2024. There are 347 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: In 1953, CBS-TV aired the widely watched episode of "I Love Lucy" in which Lucy Ricardo, played by Lucille Ball, gave birth to Little Ricky. (By coincidence, Ball gave birth the same day to her son, Desi Arnaz Jr.)...
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Prayer 1-19-24
(Prayer ~ 01/19/24)
O Lord Jesus, we worship you our Glorious Savior and King of kings. Amen.
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Homeless people do not have a 'right' to camp in squalor and invade our neighborhoods
(Column ~ 01/19/24)
Tired of stepping over needles and human waste, and navigating around half-conscious addicts and homeless encampments? You're not alone. Most decent, hardworking people want clean sidewalks for getting to work and walking their kids to school. But cities are legally barred from cleaning up homeless encampments. Advocates went to court and won rulings, guaranteeing homeless people almost unfettered freedom to set up tents and live in the rough, your health and safety be damned...
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Speak Out 1-19-24
(Speak Out ~ 01/19/24)
What's the deal with the Chief's game being on Peacock??! I tried to find it on Roku and found out I had to pay extra to watch it. That's not right, we should be able to get it with our regular subscription! Loose bolts on Boeing aircraft are bad, but something worse is the nut we have running loose in the White House!...
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Cold weather presents special dangers
(Editorial ~ 01/19/24)
"Nanook of the North" was a 1922 silent docudrama, the first of its kind, that followed the difficult life of an Inuk man and his family in the frosty Canadian Arctic. We've felt a certain kinship with Nanook in recent days. Good grief, it's been cold!...
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Fire report 1-19-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/19/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Jan. 17 n Medical assists were made at 7:08 a.m. on Hemlock Court; 7:54 a.m. on Sheridan Drive; 3:42 p.m. on Hemlock Court; 4:35 p.m. on Themis Street; and 9:03 p.m. on Engram Street...
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Police report 1-19-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/19/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrests do not imply guilt. Assaults n Assault was reported on South Silver Springs Road. n Assault was reported on South Silver Springs Road. Theft n Stealing motor parts and accessories was reported on Rusmar Street...
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Richard Leland Nelson
(Obituary ~ 01/19/24)
Richard Leland Nelson, 82, of Jackson died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau. A memorial visitation will be from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Kevin Propst and the Revs. Troy Richards and Randy Riley will conduct a life celebration ceremony at 3 p.m., followed by military honors...
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Monica Lewis
(Obituary ~ 01/19/24)
Monica Elizabeth Lewis, 91, passed away Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at Chateau Girardeau Gardens in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 20, 1932, in Laflin to Henry Leo and Cornelia VanDoren Steinnerd. She married Joe Champ Lewis on Nov. 4, 1978, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson. He preceded her in death Aug. 7, 2005...
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Shirley Fadler
(Obituary ~ 01/19/24)
Shirley Ann Fadler, 88, of St. Peters passed away Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, at Barathaven Alzheimer's Special Care in Dardenne Prairie. Visitation will be from 8 to 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville, with the Rev. Ben Melaku officiating. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville...
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Timothy Birkman
(Obituary ~ 01/19/24)
Timothy Wade Birkman, son of the late William and Margaret Kinder Birkman Jr., was born Sept. 8, 1966, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, at his home in Delta at the age of 57. He was a 1984 graduate of Delta High School and a 1987 graduate of Three Rivers Community College. Tim was the parts manager for 23 years at Baker Implement Co. in Cape Girardeau. He was a lifelong member of the Church of God of Prophecy in Delta...
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Virginia Bellamy
(Obituary ~ 01/19/24)
MORRIS, Ill. — Virginia Lee "Ginny" Bellamy, 81, of Morris passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family, Saturday morning, Jan. 13, 2024. She was born Aug. 27, 1942, in Norwalk, Ohio, to Harve Freeman and Frances Margaret Sandford Champion. Ginny attended grade school in Hammond, Indiana, and as a sophomore in high school, moved with her family to Cape Girardeau, where she met her future husband, Tom Bellamy...
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A county official vetoes a stadium tax for an April ballot, affecting Kansas City Chiefs and Royals
(State News ~ 01/19/24)
KANSAS CITY -- Jackson County Executive Frank White vetoed an ordinance Thursday that would have put a 3/8th-cent sales tax renewal on the April ballot to fund sports stadiums for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals. "This proposed sales tax would generate over $2 billion from our residents, yet there is no clear understanding or assurance regarding the teams' commitments and contributions to the county," White said in a news release, the Kansas City Star reported. ...
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Pakistani retaliatory strikes in Iran kill at least 9, raising tensions along border
(International News ~ 01/19/24)
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan launched airstrikes against alleged militant hideouts inside Iran on Thursday, killing at least nine people as it retaliated for a similar attack days earlier by Iran and raising tensions with its neighbor as conflict across the region escalates...
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Netanyahu says he has told US he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario
(International News ~ 01/19/24)
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House...
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US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn't yet stopped ship attacks
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces on Thursday conducted a fifth strike against Iranian-backed Houthi rebel military sites in Yemen as President Joe Biden acknowledged that the American and British bombardment had yet to stop the militants' attacks on vessels in the Red Sea that have disrupted global shipping...
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Biden visits North Carolina, a state he hopes to win in November, to promote internet access
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled $82 million for North Carolina to help connect 16,000 new households and businesses to high-speed internet, delivering an election-year pitch about policies he says are "just getting started" at improving the United States...
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Fani Willis accuses estranged wife of special prosecutor of 'interfering' with Trump election case
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
ATLANTA -- Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is accusing the estranged wife of a special prosecutor she hired of trying to obstruct her criminal election-interference case against former President Donald Trump and others by seeking to question her in the couple's divorce proceedings...
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Columnist accusing Trump of sex assault faces cross-examination in a New York courtroom
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
NEW YORK -- With former President Donald Trump no longer in the courtroom Thursday, a columnist who accused him of sexually attacking her concluded her testimony with an emphatic denial that she had benefited from the publicity that followed the allegations...
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Icy blast gripping US blamed for deaths in Tennessee, as Oregon braces for another round of cold
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A new layer of ice formed over parts of Tennessee on Thursday after a deadly storm blanketed the state in snow and sent temperatures plummeting earlier this week -- part of a broader bout of bitter cold sweeping the country from Oregon to the Northeast...
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The police response to the Uvalde shooting was riddled with failures, a new DOJ report says
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
UVALDE, Texas -- Police officials who responded to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting waited far too long to confront the gunman, acted with "no urgency" in establishing a command post and communicated inaccurate information to grieving families, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies "cascading failures" in law enforcement's handling of the massacre...
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Wastewater tests can find mpox, study finds. Expect more bugs to be tracked that way
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
NEW YORK -- Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections, U.S. health officials said in a report Thursday that bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found that over the course of a week, there was a 32% likelihood the tests would detect the presence of at least one person infected with mpox in a population ranging from thousands to millions...
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An Oregon teen saw 3 people die after they slid on ice into a power line. Then she went to help
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it and a couple who had been putting their baby in the car...
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Hunter Biden agrees to private deposition with Republicans after months of defiance
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
WASHINGTON -- Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next month, ending months of defiance from the president's son, who had insisted on testifying publicly. The House Oversight Committee announced Thursday that the two parties have agreed for Hunter Biden to sit for a deposition on Feb. 28...
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Congress votes to avert a shutdown and keep the government funded into early March
(National News ~ 01/19/24)
WASHINGTON -- Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March. The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative members of the Republican conference. Shortly before the vote, the House Freedom Caucus announced it "strongly opposes" the measure because it would facilitate more spending than they support...
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Out of the past: Jan. 19
(Out of the Past ~ 01/19/24)
Americans must be "a chip off the old dream" of racial equality advocated by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., if they want to keep alive his vision, Cincinnati lawyer Leslie Isaiah Gaines said yesterday; Gaines, a former judge, spoke to some 500 people at the 14th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast at the Show Me Center...
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