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Sponsored: New Ranken facility creates opportunities for Perryville workforce
(B Magazine ~ 03/08/24)
As the foremost technical college in the Midwest, Ranken Technical College has a long history of equipping students across Missouri to take on industry-critical jobs in the trades. In response to the urgent need for a more skilled workforce in Southeast Missouri, Ranken expanded their presence in Perryville in June 2023 through a new facility poised to fill employment gaps in the trades throughout this region...
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Granting Grace to host fundraiser at Grace United Methodist Church
(Local News ~ 03/08/24)
Granting Grace Outreach will host an art auction fundraiser from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at Grace United Methodist Church, 521 Caruthers Ave., in Cape Girardeau. Granting Grace is a not-for-profit organization started by Grant Skelton when he was 8 years old, and proceeds from the fundraiser will go to assisting people in the Cape Girardeau community with housing. ...
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Cape Girardeau, other regional cities break weather records for high temp prevalence
(Local News ~ 03/08/24)
Cape Girardeau and several other locations in the greater tri-state region have set records in recent days with high temperatures. The National Weather Service office in Paducah, Kentucky, said Cape Girardeau has observed three days with high temperatures of 75 degrees through March 5, a record number of such days. The previous record of two days was set in 1976...
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Petition to lift state abortion ban reaches Southeast Missouri
(Local News ~ 03/08/24)
A petition aiming to lift the state's abortion ban, circulated by a group known as Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, has made its way to Southeast Missouri. The ballot initiative would revise Article I of the Missouri Constitution by adopting a new section, known as the "Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative", which would restrict the state government from denying or infringing upon "a person's right to reproductive freedom, which is the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care." This section would also forbid punishment of a woman who has a miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion, as well as for someone who helps another person receive reproductive care with their consent.. ...
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Jackson School District proposes tax levy increase for teachers and staff
(Local News ~ 03/08/24)
Jackson School District officials invited the public for a "Coffee and Conversations" with superintendent Scott Smith on Thursday, March 7. The topic of this meeting was to give educational information on Proposition T, the district's latest property tax proposal...
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Cape man charged with sex crimes
(Local News ~ 03/08/24)
A Cape Girardeau man has been charged in Scott City with fourth-degree child molestation and possession of child pornography. Joseph Ray Hogeland, 21, told Scott City police that he had been seeing “his girlfriend” for about a month, according to a probable cause statement signed by a police officer. Police had obtained Facebook Messenger communications, the document showed. Hogeland told police he touched the girl inappropriately in the backseat of a vehicle...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
Today is Friday, March 8, the 68th day of 2024. There are 298 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 8, 1971, in the first of three fights between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Frazier defeated Ali by decision in what was billed as "The Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in New York...
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Prayer 3-8-24
(Prayer ~ 03/08/24)
O Father God, may your Holy Spirit guide us in all things. Amen.
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Clarence Thomas, liberal racism and the ongoing denigration of Black conservatives
(Column ~ 03/08/24)
President Joe Biden stirred up controversy during the last presidential campaign, when, in an interview with a Black radio host, he said, "If you have a problem figuring out if you're for me or Trump, you ain't Black." Biden got pushback on this, but he captured a pretty common view among liberals...
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Speak out 3-8-24
(Speak Out ~ 03/08/24)
Trump is delusional enough to think that because he's the Republican front-runner the general election will be a breeze. He doesn't realize that he's lost 40% of the GOP votes already because many of Nikki Haley's supporters won't vote for Trump and many of those said they'd vote for Biden before they vote for Trump...
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Now is the time to address youth suicide
(Editorial ~ 03/08/24)
One each week. One crisis per week involving a student in Cape Girardeau public and private schools that led to an official Community Counseling Center assessment from July to January. These aren't situations in which someone didn't get the right invite to prom or that teacher is unfair or somebody said something about somebody else...
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Police 3-8-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/08/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrest n Warrant arrest was reported. Assaults n Assault was reported on Bellevue Street. n Domestic assault was reported on East Rodney Drive...
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Louis Birkman
(Obituary ~ 03/08/24)
Louis "J.R." Birkman, 95, of Cape Girardeau, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of Thursday, March 7, 2024, at Fountainbleau Lodge. Louis was born June 15, 1928, in Laflin to Louis F. and Lillian G. Huffman Birkman. He married Thelma Helton in December 1949. He later married Lillian Hill, and they enjoyed more than 25 years together until her passing in 2016. From his first union, he was blessed with a daughter, who he raised as a single dad with help from his mother...
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Hong Kong's new national security bill includes stiff penalties and more power to suppress dissent
(International News ~ 03/08/24)
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong unveiled a new national security bill Friday that proposes up to life imprisonment for offenses like treason and insurrection, a move deepening worries over further erosion of the city's freedoms after Beijing imposed a similar law four years ago that all but wiped out dissent...
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Gunmen abduct 287 students in the latest school attack in Nigeria's northwest, headteacher says
(International News ~ 03/08/24)
ABUJA, Nigeria -- Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria's northwest region Thursday and abducted at least 287 students, the headteacher told authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week. Abductions of students from schools in northern Nigeria are common and have become a source of concern since 2014 when Islamic extremists kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls in Borno state's Chibok village. ...
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Haiti extends a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and repel widespread gang attacks
(International News ~ 03/08/24)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti's government said Thursday that it was extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and curb violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the capital of Port-au-Prince in a fierce battle for political power. An initial three-day curfew was announced over the weekend, but gangs have continued to attack police stations and other state institutions at night as Haiti's National Police struggles to contain the violence with limited staff and resources...
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Trump is ordered to pay legal fees after failed lawsuit over the Steele dossier
(International News ~ 03/08/24)
LONDON -- Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay a six-figure legal bill to a company founded by a former British spy that he unsuccessfully sued for making what his lawyer called "shocking and scandalous" false claims that harmed his reputation...
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6 dead after mass stabbing at Ottawa home, student who lived with family arrested
(International News ~ 03/08/24)
TORONTO -- A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka is accused of stabbing and killing six people he lived with, including a 2 1/2-month-old baby girl and three other kids from a Sri Lankan family, Ottawa police said Thursday. Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs said an "edged weapon" or "knife-like object" was used by the suspect, who was identified as Febrio De-Zoysa. He has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Mass killings are rare in Canada...
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West Virginia could become the 12th state to ban smoking in cars with kids present
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia, which has the highest rate of adult cigarette use in the nation, could become the 12th state to ban smoking in vehicles with children present under a bill that won final legislative passage Thursday. The Republican-dominated House of Delegates passed the bill on a 66-33 vote without debate. It now goes to Republican Gov. Jim Justice, who has not indicated whether he would sign the bill. The GOP-supermajority Senate approved the bill last month...
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Transit crime is back as a top concern in some US cities, and political leaders have taken notice
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
NEW YORK -- Fear of crime on subways and buses is back as a top concern in some U.S. cities, and so are efforts to persuade public officials to take the issue seriously. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday she would task 750 members of the National Guard with helping patrol the nation's busiest subway system, saying she felt New York City police need reinforcements after a shooting on a train platform and a conductor getting slashed in the neck...
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Power lines ignited the largest wildfire in Texas history and one nearby, officials say
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
Power lines ignited massive wildfires across the Texas Panhandle that killed at least two people, destroyed homes and livestock, and left a charred landscape, officials said Thursday, including the largest blaze in state history. The Texas A&M Forest Service said its investigators concluded that power lines ignited both the historic Smokehouse Creek fire, which has burned nearly 1,700 square miles and spilled into neighboring Oklahoma, and the nearby Windy Deuce fire, which has burned about 225 square miles. ...
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Jury hears 911 call from school shooter's dad
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
PONTIAC, Mich. -- Prosecutors on Thursday played a recording of a desperate 911 call by the father of a Michigan school shooter as they tried to show jurors how he quickly determined that the teen might be the killer. "I have a missing gun at my house. ... I raced home just to like find out, and I think my son took the gun," James Crumbley said frantically, soon after a fruitless search of the house for the gun and ammunition...
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Evidence of traumatic brain injury in shooter who killed 18 in Maine
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
AUGUSTA, Maine -- An Army reservist responsible for the worst gun massacre in Maine's history had evidence of traumatic brain injuries before he shot and killed 18 people last year, according to a brain tissue analysis that was requested by the state's chief medical examiner...
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Steve Lawrence, singer, entertainer and half of popular stage duo Steve & Eydie, dies at 88
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
NEW YORK -- Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Thursday. He was 88. Lawrence, whose hits included "Go Away Little Girl," died from complications due to Alzheimer's disease, said Susan DuBow, a spokesperson for the family...
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Senate passes bill to compensate Americans exposed to radiation by the government
(State News ~ 03/08/24)
WASHINGTON -- The Senate passed legislation Thursday that would compensate Americans exposed to radiation by the government by renewing a law initially passed more than three decades ago. The bill by Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., would expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include more people who believe their illnesses were caused by that exposure. ...
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Judge denies Trump relief from $83.3 million defamation judgment
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
NEW YORK -- The federal judge who oversaw a New York defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s refused Thursday to relieve the ex-president from the verdict's financial pinch...
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Biden orders US military to set up temporary aid port for Gaza as famine threatens
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military Thursday to set up a temporary port off the coast of Gaza, joining international partners in trying to carve out a sea route to deliver food and other aid to desperate Palestinian civilians cut off by the Hamas-Israel war and by Israeli restrictions on humanitarian access by land...
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House Republicans push bill to detain migrants accused of theft after Georgia student killed
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of theft, as Republicans seized on the recent death of a nursing student in Georgia to rebuke President Joe Biden's border policies just hours ahead of his State of the Union address...
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Uvalde parents angered by new report that clears city police of missteps during Texas school attack
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
UVALDE, Texas -- An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers defended the actions of local police in a report released Thursday, prompting shouts of "cowards" during a City Council meeting and causing several family members of the victims to angrily walk out...
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Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump, sell voters on a second term
(National News ~ 03/08/24)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing "resentment, revenge and retribution" and for jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad...
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Out of the past: March 8
(Out of the Past ~ 03/08/24)
Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday, the Good Hope Neighborhood Police Station is open for business at 629 Good Hope St.; Cape Girardeau police are hoping the opening of the substation in the Haarig area will take a bigger bite out of neighborhood crime; the newly-remodeled facility is in Dr. George Ringland's former office...
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