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Two in custody after Sikeston shooting
(Local News ~ 10/24/22)
SIKESTON, Mo. — Two are in custody after an individual was shot in the face late Thursday night. At approximately 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, officers with Sikeston Department of Public Safety received a call of an individual who was shot in the face on the 900 block of Montgomery Street...
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Charleston man found shot, dead
(Local News ~ 10/24/22)
A Charleston, Missouri, man was found dead early Sunday morning, Oct. 23, and authorities said he had been shot. A release from Robert Hearnes, director of Charleston Department of Public Safety, says Rodney Johnson, 50, was found at 724 Warren St. No suspects were in custody...
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Small central Missouri town 'devastated' by destructive wildfire
(State News ~ 10/24/22)
WOOLDRIDGE, Mo. — Roughly half of a small Missouri town burned Saturday, Oct. 22, after a wildfire spread quickly from a farm field and destroyed or heavily damaged 23 buildings, officials said. No one died and only one person was taken to a hospital for an injury that was not life-threatening, but the entire town of Wooldridge had to be evacuated Saturday because of the fire. ...
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Sikeston Chamber honors individuals, organizations for work in area
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
SIKESTON, Mo. — Leaders of Sikeston were honored Thursday night, Oct. 20, at the Sikeston Regional Chamber's annual awards banquet. Held once again at the Sikeston Municipal Airport, the event drew a large crowd as emerging leaders to those honored for a lifetime of work were recognized...
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Major remodeling underway for Cape Girardeau eatery
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Culver’s, a restaurant in operation at 295 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau since 2008, is undergoing a substantial remodel, and the eatery is closed until Friday, Oct. 28, according to co-owner Rick Geis. "The interior and exterior will be completely remade, and (the contractor) will work 24 hours a day to get it done, and they actually welcome the public to come watch them work. ...
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From gorgeous to gore — The business and art of Halloween makeup
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
As the calendar's spookiest day rapidly approaches, it should be noted getting dressed up to go trick-or-treating for Halloween and attend holiday-related parties is a long-cherished tradition. This writer recalls his late mother dressing him up while a small child during the Space Race era of the 1960s — complete with a homemade outfit Mom fashioned out of corrugated cardboard she spray painted silver. ...
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Missouri Court of Appeals gives Notre Dame students chance to observe case
(Local News ~ 10/24/22)
The state's Eastern District Court of Appeals was in session Friday, Oct. 21, at Notre Dame Regional High School in Cape Girardeau. This was an opportunity for the school's students to see live court proceedings in action, and the attorneys and judges made what could have been a tedious matter, into an educational and at times entertaining experience...
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Rishi Sunak to become Britain's next prime minister
(International News ~ 10/24/22)
LONDON (AP) -- Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain's next prime minister after winning the Conservative leadership race Monday -- and now faces the huge task of stabilizing the party and country at a time of economic and political turbulence...
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Prayer 10-24-22
(Prayer ~ 10/24/22)
O Lord Jesus, we lift our eyes to you, our Deliverer and Savior. Amen.
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Responding to the superbug crisis
(Column ~ 10/24/22)
Hospital rooms, operating rooms and medical equipment are so inadequately cleaned that any patient going into a hospital is at risk of getting a deadly superbug. That's true even if you're going for the happiest reason of all: to give birth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest data shows alarming increases in the most dangerous superbugs: Acinetobacter up 78%, Candida auris up 60% and notorious MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) up 13% year over year...
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Speak Out 10-24-22
(Speak Out ~ 10/24/22)
Why are license plates not required on all these side by side UTVs in the State of Missouri? Just this past Sunday a group of 77 UTVs came by my home. The state is losing a tremendous amount of revenue by not requiring them to be licensed. Some of these things are as large as a pickup truck and will run pretty fast. They should be treated the same as any other type of non-farm implement, license required...
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Cape River Heritage Museum has new exhibits on display
(Editorial ~ 10/24/22)
If you've never been to Cape River Heritage Museum, there's another reason to add it to your list of places to visit. The newly named Haertling Room, named for Larry Haertling, includes a 1914 Model T Runabout, which is on loan from Bob Neff, and a 1928 Model A Roadster on loan from Haertling. The Southeast Missourian's Danny Walter recently reported the room in the museum also includes several other exhibits that were in the museum's storage...
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Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Perryville chamber news
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce has two events this week: n Century Casino's 10th anniversary will be marked with a ribbon-cutting at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 777 N. Main St. n State House District 147 Candidate Forum will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, at Chamber's board room at 220 N. Fountain St...
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Streaming service best deal
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Apple TV+ remains the least expensive major streaming service, among advertising-free plans, at $4.99 per month, according to Insider online magazine. Netflix's standard plan has the highest monthly charge of all streamers at $15.49. California-based Netflix, founded in 1997, recently raised prices, as did Disney+...
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Real estate sales dropoff in Cape Girardeau County
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Home sales in Cape Girardeau County are off 18.9% year-to-year through Friday, Sept. 30. From January through September of this year, 865 homes were sold in Cape Girardeau County. For the same nine months of 2021, 1,067 were sold. Perry County saw a 7% decline compared to a year ago, with 120 home sales compared to 129 in the same period in 2021...
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Gas price update
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Gas prices continue to drop, albeit marginally,because of what AAA calls low gas demand across America. The national per-gallon average Saturday, Oct. 22, was $3.80, down 9 cents from Saturday, Oct. 15. During the same period, the statewide gas average fell to $3.41, a drop of 6 cents in a week's time...
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Cape Girardeau County jobless rate unchanged
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Unemployment held steady in Cape Girardeau County at 2.7% in August, according to the latest data made available from the Missouri Department of Labor & Industry. July's rate was the same and represents the highest jobless figure in the county since 3% unemployment was recorded in March...
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Missouri one of six states seeking to block Biden student loan forgiveness
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
A St. Louis-based federal appeals court has issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking implementation of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel billions in student loan debt. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stay Friday, Oct. 21, while it considers a motion from Missouri and five other Republican-led states to block the loan cancellation program, meaning the Biden administration cannot implement the plan while the court deliberates a decision...
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Barge traffic hurt by low water levels on Mississippi River
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Southbound barge tonnages have been reduced on the Mississippi River by more than 20%, according to the most recent weekly transportation report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the situation could cost agriculture shippers billions...
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Former food pantry site razed in Cape Girardeau
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Catholic Social Ministries Food Pantry in Cape Girardeau tore down its former building at 134 S. Sprigg St. late last week and is now utilizing a nearby facility at 141 S. Frederick St. The old structure, which St. Mary's Cathedral Parish and Old St. Vincent's Chapel of Ease began using in 2010, was no longer large enough to accommodate the ministry...
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Donald Koehler
(Obituary ~ 10/24/22)
Donald Richard Koehler, 84, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. He was born Nov. 7, 1937, in Jackson to Paul J. and Catherine Horrell Koehler. Donald retired as a lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army after 40 plus years of dedicated service, having served in the engineers branch...
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Cade Beck
(Obituary ~ 10/24/22)
Cade Isaiah Beck, 24, of Jackson died Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, at Ford & Young Funeral Home in Perryville, Missouri. The funeral will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the funeral home...
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Sister of slain reality star asks: 'How can you sleep?'
(State News ~ 10/24/22)
ST. LOUIS -- Relatives confronted the man who fatally shot a former star of the St. Louis-based reality TV show "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" when he was sentenced to 32 years in prison. "How can you sleep?" Kalyn Griggs asked Travell Anthony Hill as the 31-year-old was sentenced Thursday on two murder-for-hire charges in the the March 2016 death of Griggs' brother, Andre Montgomery. "Was the $5,000 worth it?"...
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Chess star Hans Niemann sues over cheating allegations
(State News ~ 10/24/22)
A 19-year-old chess grandmaster is seeking $100 million in a federal lawsuit alleging a rival chess player and others destroyed his career with false accusations of cheating, elevating a controversy that has roiled the chess world since September. Hans Niemann filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis against chess world champion Magnus Carlsen, who has suggested Niemann cheated during his upset win over Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup tournament in St. Louis...
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Alaska asylum seekers are Indigenous Siberians from Russia
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two Russian Indigenous Siberians were so scared of having to fight the war in Ukraine, they chanced everything to take a small boat across the treacherous Bering Sea to reach American soil, Alaska's senior U.S. senator said after talking with the two...
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Jan. 6 trial highlights missed warnings before Capitol siege
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
WASHINGTON -- In a telephone call days after the 2020 election, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes urged followers to go to Washington and fight to keep President Donald Trump in office. A concerned member of the extremist group began recording because, as he would later tell jurors in the current seditious conspiracy trial of Rhodes and four associates, it sounded as if they were "going to war against the United States government."...
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Parade suspect's court antics won't help appeal, experts say
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
MADISON, Wis. -- He stripped his shirt off in court. He complains that the prosecutors are "slick." He won't let the judge get a word in. He won't even answer to his own name. The Wisconsin man accused of killing six people by driving his SUV through a Christmas parade has worked to disrupt his trial since he decided to represent himself, dragging out a painful proceeding that appears destined to end with his conviction...
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Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico, avoids resorts
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
MEXICO CITY -- Hurricane Roslyn slammed into a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's Pacific coast between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan Sunday morning, then declined to tropical storm force and quickly moved inland. By Sunday evening, Roslyn had winds of 35 mph, down from its peak of 130 mph. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn was about 60 miles east-southeast of the northern city of Torreon...
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Report: Salman Rushdie lives, but loses use of eye and hand
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
NEW YORK -- Salman Rushdie's agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack from a man who rushed the stage at an August literary event in western New York, according to a published report. Literary agent Andrew Wylie told the Spanish language newspaper El Pais in an article published Saturday that Rushdie suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 more wounds to his chest and torso in the attack that took away sight in an eye and left a hand incapacitated.. ...
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China's Xi expands powers, promotes allies
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
BEIJING -- President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader in decades, increased his dominance Sunday when he was named to another term as head of the ruling Communist Party in a break with tradition and promoted allies who support his vision of tighter control over society and the struggling economy...
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Hackers breach Iran's atomic energy agency, protests persist
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran's atomic energy agency alleged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of an unidentified foreign country broke into a subsidiary's network and had free access to its email system. An anonymous hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack on Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, demanding Tehran release political prisoners arrested in the recent nationwide protests. ...
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Fears over Russian threat to Norway's energy infrastructure
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
STAVANGER, Norway -- Norwegian oil and gas workers normally don't see anything more threatening than North Sea waves crashing against the steel legs of their offshore platforms. But lately they have noticed a more troubling sight: unidentified drones buzzing in the skies overhead...
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GOP campaigns against the IRS, vowing to slash its funding
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
WASHINGTON -- IRS pleas for more funding from Congress -- made over the years by one leader after another -- finally paid off this summer when Democrats tucked an $80 billion boost for the agency into their flagship climate and health care law. Fortified with a new funding stream, the IRS is making plans to clear a massive backlog of unprocessed tax returns, upgrade technology that is decades out of date and, yes, hire more auditors...
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New this week: Scary movies, 'Call of Duty'
(Entertainment ~ 10/24/22)
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press's entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. ...
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'Black Adam,' with Dwayne Johnson, debuts with $67M
(Entertainment ~ 10/24/22)
NEW YORK -- Warner Bros.' "Black Adam" opened with an estimated $67 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, handing Dwayne Johnson his biggest box-office weekend as a leading man and launching the D.C. Comics character he spent a decade to bring to the big screen...
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Koreas exchange warning shots along sea border amid tensions
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
SEOUL, South Korea -- The rival Koreas exchanged warning shots along their disputed western sea boundary on Monday, their militaries said, amid heightened animosities over North Korea's recent barrage of weapons tests. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that its navy broadcast warnings and fired warning shots to repel a North Korean merchant ship that it says violated the sea boundary early Monday...
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Companies lure hourly workers with college tuition perks
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
NEW YORK -- When Daniella Malave started working for Chipotle at 17, the main benefit she was seeking was free food. As it turned out, she also got a free college education. While working full time for the chain, Malave completed two years of community college with annual stipends of $5,250 from Chipotle. After that, she enrolled in the company's free online college program, through which she earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Wilmington University in 2020...
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False election claims overwhelm local efforts to push back
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
ESTANCIA, N.M. -- Republican county commissioners in this swath of ranching country in New Mexico's high desert have tried everything they can think of to persuade voters their elections are secure. They approved hand-counting of ballots from the primary election in their rural county, encouraged the public to observe security testing of ballot machines and tasked their county manager with overseeing those efforts to make sure they ran smoothly. None of that seems enough...
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GOP voters told to hold onto mail ballots until Election Day
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
ATLANTA -- Republican activists who believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump have crafted a plan that, in their telling, will thwart cheating in this year's midterm elections. The strategy: Vote in person on Election Day or -- for voters who receive a mailed ballot -- hold onto it and hand it in at a polling place or election office on Nov. 8...
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Macron: Ukraine to decide time, terms of peace with Russia
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
Rome -- French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday it's up to Ukraine to decide the time and terms of peace with Russia, and he cautioned that the end of war "can't be the consecration of the law of the strongest." Speaking at the opening of a three-day peace conference in Rome, Macron said the international community will be there when the Ukrainian government chooses that time...
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Boris Johnson drops out of race to be next UK prime minister
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
LONDON -- Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Sunday he will not run to lead the Conservative Party, ending a short-lived, high-profile attempt to return to the prime minister's job he was ousted from little more than three months ago...
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Russia's defense chief warns of 'dirty bomb' provocation
(International News ~ 10/24/22)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia's defense chief alleged Sunday that Ukraine was preparing a "provocation" involving a radioactive device, a stark claim that was strongly rejected by U.S., British and Ukrainian officials amid soaring tensions as Moscow struggles to stem Ukrainian advances in the south...
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1/6 panel won't let Trump turn testimony into circus, Cheney says
(National News ~ 10/24/22)
WASHINGTON -- The House committee investigating the Capitol riot won't give Donald Trump the chance to turn a possible live TV appearance of his subpoenaed testimony into a "circus" and "food fight" as lawmakers try to ensure he complies with their demands, the panel's vice chairwoman said Sunday, Oct. 23...
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Out of the past: Oct. 24
(Out of the Past ~ 10/24/22)
The script of "The X-Files" feature film was so closely guarded that the actors were given numbered scripts printed on red paper so they couldn't be photocopied, the series' chief villain said last night; William B. Davis, who plays Cancer Man -- or the Cigarette-Smoking Man -- shared his philosophy on the Fox Network's hit with fans at Southeast Missouri State University's University Center; Davis joked with fans about the contrast between his character, a sinister and secretive government agent, and Agent Fox Mulder, the hero desperately in search of the truth -- whatever that might be.. ...
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Cape Girardeau business licenses
(Business ~ 10/24/22)
Two business license applications have been received by the Community Development Department of the City of Cape Girardeau. n Joyce Elaine Robinson of Cape Girardeau for Robinson Transport, locating its offices, garage and parking to 1834 Rust Ave. from 4178 Route K. Robinson is bus contractor for Cape Girardeau School District...
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