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Poplar Bluff man sentenced on drug, firearm charges
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
A Poplar Bluff man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on drug-trafficking and firearm-related charges. A release from Sayler Fleming, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, says Samuel Moore, 27, was sentenced in federal court in Cape Girardeau on Thursday, Feb. 29...
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Suspect held for alleged robbery
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
A suspect is in the Cape Girardeau County jail relating to first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and stealing that are alleged to have happened more than a year ago...
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Camp STAT registration opening Monday
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
Saint Francis Healthcare System will be hosting its Camp STAT once again this summer. Camp STAT, is a weeklong opportunity offering high school students a “behind the scenes” look into health care and hands-on learning experiences...
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Ted Ivie running for Cape Girardeau County Coroner
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
Paramedic Ted Ivie has filed to run for Cape Girardeau County Coroner. Ivie, a Republican, is the assistant director of New Madrid County Ambulance District and has been a Cape Girardeau County resident for almost 20 years...
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Mark Seesing to run for Cape Girardeau County Coroner
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
Funeral professional Mark Seesing has announced his candidacy to become Cape Girardeau County’s next coroner. He is running as a Republican...
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CTC to host Mock Interview Week
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
From Monday, March 4, through Friday, March 8, Cape Girardeau Career and Technical Center will host its annual Mock Interview Week where students have the opportunity to sit down for a practice interview with professionals in their prospective career field...
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Cape Girardeau veteran was among first in Japan after atomic bombings
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
Junior King left his home in Ardeola, southwest of Bell City, to join the U.S. Navy in November 1944. After training in Florida and Virginia, he set sail for Pearl Harbor. From there, he was sent to the Marshall Islands aboard the USS Florence Nightingale...
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Sting operation prompts high-speed chase; police arrest man believed to have scammed elderly woman
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
Cape Girardeau police officers conducted a sting operation that led to the arrest of a man alleged to have taken part in a $45,000 theft from an elderly woman...
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CIP lines up potential plans for Cape Girardeau Regional Airport
(Local News ~ 03/01/24)
The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport looks ahead to 2029 and beyond in the city's 2024-29 Capital Improvements Program (CIP) plan with projects including the ongoing construction of the airport's T-hangars, the reconstruction of the D, E, F taxiways and a potential Air Traffic Control Tower replacement...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/01/24)
Today is Friday, March 1, the 61st day of 2024. There are 305 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 1, 1974, seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in. ...
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Presidential nominee voting cranking up in Missouri
(Editorial ~ 03/01/24)
Missouri voters will get a chance to help nominate Democratic and Republican presidential candidates this month. Those wishing to caucus with Republicans will gather Saturday, March 2, while Democrats will hold a primary Saturday, March 23. The Republican caucuses are not new to the state. Including this year, Republicans have voted for presidential nominees in half of the last eight cycles by caucus...
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Nikki Haley keeps losing -- and revealing something important about Trump and Republicans
(Column ~ 03/01/24)
Celebrating his victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday, Donald Trump declared, "I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now." It was an indisputable victory for Trump, particularly given that it was in the home state of his last remaining rival for the nomination, Nikki Haley, a twice-elected, popular former South Carolina governor. ...
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Prayer 3-1-24
(Prayer ~ 03/01/24)
O Father God, we give you all glory and praise forevermore. Amen.
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Fire report 3-1-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/01/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Feb. 28 n Medical assists were made at 722 a.m. on Engram Street; 11:07 a.m. on South Silver Springs Road; 11:33 a.m. on South Pacific Street; 12:40 p.m. on Siemers Drive; 1:59 p.m. on Evondale Drive; 2:49 p.m. at North Pindwood Lane and Whitener Street; and 5:55 p.m. on Whitener Street...
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Police report 3-1-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/01/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Assault n Second-degree domestic assault was reported. Thefts n Theft of a firearm/explosive weapon/ammonium nitrate was reported on North Spring Avenue...
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Imogene Seabaugh
(Obituary ~ 03/01/24)
Imogene Seabaugh, 95, of Jackson died Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, at The Arbors at Capetown in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Jimmie Corbin officiating. Burial will follow in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson. ...
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Delores Oster
(Obituary ~ 03/01/24)
PERRYVILLE — Delores Helen Oster, 86, of Perryville died Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at her home. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 3, and from 8 to 10 a.m. Monday, March 4, at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday, March 4, at the funeral home, with Brother Don Estes officiating. Burial will be at Whitewater Christian Cemetery in Perry County. ...
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Marilyn Dohogne
(Obituary ~ 03/01/24)
Marilyn Dohogne, daughter of the late Wilson Davis and Mary Grantham Davis, was born Dec. 16, 1931, in Cape Girardeau and departed this life Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at the age of 92. In 1950, she married John Dohogne Jr., and they made their home on a farm in Randles. ...
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Missouri Republicans try to remove man with ties to KKK from party ballot
(State News ~ 03/01/24)
JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri Republican Party on Thursday denounced a GOP candidate for governor with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, saying party officials will go to court if necessary to remove him from the ticket. Southwestern Missouri man Darrell Leon McClanahan, who has described himself as "pro-white," was among nearly 280 Republican candidates who on Tuesday officially filed to run for office...
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Missouri suing Planned Parenthood based on conservative group's sting video
(State News ~ 03/01/24)
ST. LOUIS -- Missouri's attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing Planned Parenthood of illegally taking minors into Kansas to obtain abortions without parental consent, basing the allegation on a video from a conservative group that has promoted false claims on other issues...
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Court worker serving eviction notice, officer fatally shot in Independence, police say
(State News ~ 03/01/24)
INDEPENDENCE -- A court employee and a police officer were fatally shot Thursday after the court process server tried to serve an eviction notice at a home in Missouri, authorities said. A second officer was critically injured, but is expected to survive, police said...
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Missouri lawmakers try again to block Medicaid money from going to Planned Parenthood
(State News ~ 03/01/24)
JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri's Republican lawmakers are once again trying to block federal health care dollars from going to the state's Planned Parenthood clinics, this time weeks after the Missouri Supreme Court thwarted a previous attempt to end that funding...
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Missouri House passes property tax cut aimed at offsetting surge in vehicle values
(State News ~ 03/01/24)
JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri residents could see a roughly $138 million tax break under legislation passed Thursday by the House in an attempt to offset a recent surge in local tax collections caused by higher vehicle values. The legislation changing the way Missouri's personal property tax collections are calculated comes as lawmakers in numerous states this year are considering ways to reduce property taxes charged on homes, real estate and other property...
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Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI, gets backing from Jeff Bezos, tech giants
(National News ~ 03/01/24)
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the startup-funding divisions of Intel and OpenAI...
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Congress approves short-term extension to avoid shutdown, buy more time for final spending agreement
(National News ~ 03/01/24)
WASHINGTON -- Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law...
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Russian onslaught targets more Ukrainian towns, villages as Ukraine says it shot down 3 warplanes
(National News ~ 03/01/24)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces are pushing hard against more Ukrainian towns and villages in eastern and southeastern Ukraine as Moscow tries to press its current advantage in weapons and troops, Kyiv officials said Thursday. Despite Russia's apparent offensive momentum on the ground, Ukraine said it has shot down 13 Russian warplanes this month, including three on Thursday, as the Kremlin's forces pushed forward...
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Texas Sen. Cornyn announces run for GOP leader as scramble to succeed McConnell begins in Senate
(National News ~ 03/01/24)
WASHINGTON -- Texas Sen. John Cornyn has informed his colleagues that he intends to run for Senate Republican leader, becoming the first senator to announce a campaign after Sen. Mitch McConnell said he will step down from the post in November. Cornyn, who served as McConnell's No. ...
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On Rio Grande, 300 miles apart, Biden, Trump try to use immigration to election advantage
(National News ~ 03/01/24)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- On the banks of the same Rio Grande but 300 miles apart, President Joe Biden and GOP challenger Donald Trump on Thursday surveyed the U.S.-Mexico border and tussled from a distance over who is to blame for the nation's broken immigration system and how to fix it...
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Palestinians say Israeli troops fired at people seeking food. Israel says scene was deadly stampede
(National News ~ 03/01/24)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed in the chaos, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials...
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US adults fracture along party lines in support for Ukraine military funding, AP-NORC poll finds
(National News ~ 03/01/24)
WASHINGTON -- As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for sending military aid to Kyiv, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research...
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Out of the past: March 1
(Out of the Past ~ 03/01/24)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Southeast Missouri State University’s bid for its first-ever NCAA Division I basketball tournament berth was thwarted yesterday by Murray State in a 62-61 loss in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship game; for the second time this season, Murray State’s Aubrey Reese hit a game-winning shot at the buzzer to beat the Indians; and also for the second time this year, Reese’s shot negated the heroics of Southeast’s Kahn Cotton, who swished a 27-foot 3-pointer with 5 seconds left that gave Southeast a temporary 61-60 lead. ...
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QUALLS FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MONTH
(Submitted Story ~ 03/01/24)
For release immediately, with photo March 1, 2024 QUALLS FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MONTH Bruce Qualls of Jackson, a financial representative with Modern Woodmen of America, was financial representative of the month in the Missouri East Region for the month of February...
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