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Cape Girardeau County Treasurer not seeking reelection
(Local News ~ 03/22/24)
Roger Hudson, the Cape Girardeau County Treasurer, announced Thursday he would not seek a sixth term in that office. He was first elected as treasurer in 2004. "It's time to hang it up, 20 years is enough," he said in a news release. "Now it's time for family, friends, and farm! Thank you Cape County Citizens for the job. I've enjoyed serving you."...
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Meeting set to discuss Bollinger County tornado recovery
(Local News ~ 03/22/24)
The East Missouri Action Agency has scheduled a meeting for Bollinger County tornado victims to answer questions about the USDA Watershed Protection Program and inform them about progress, resources and to "demonstrate good stewardship of funds", according to a news release...
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Missouri's State Emergency Management Agency holds Earthquake Summit
(Local News ~ 03/22/24)
Missouri's State Emergency Management Agency brought experts from across the state and beyond Thursday, March 21, to the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau to give presentations about what government agencies are doing to prepare in case of a major earthquake...
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SEMO names interim finance leader to replace Sheriff
(Local News ~ 03/22/24)
Southeast Missouri State University has named Ronald Dorn as the interim vice president for Finance and Administration, replacing Dr. Brad Sheriff who will step down from the position Sunday, March 31...
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Police find Missouri student Riley Strain's body in Tennessee river; no foul play suspected
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Riley Strain, a University of Missouri student who went missing in Tennessee's capital for nearly two weeks, has been found dead in a river, police announced Friday. No foul play is suspected, investigators said. Metro Nashville police officials confirmed that Strain's body had been recovered from the Cumberland River approximately 8 miles (12.8 kilometers) west of downtown at around 7:30 a.m...
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Food truck operator, former restaurant owner faces federal drug, weapons charges
(Local News ~ 03/22/24)
A Cape Girardeau food truck operator and former downtown restaurant owner has been indicted by a federal grand jury on drug distribution and weapons accusations. The indictment claims the federal government could seize 215 weapons if it obtains a conviction in the weapons case...
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SE MO REDI narrows search for CEO
(Local News ~ 03/22/24)
Local economic organization SE MO REDI is getting ready to hire a full-time leader. The organization, which non-abbreviated name is Southeast Missouri Regional Economic Development Inc., is engaged in the process of appointing a chief executive officer to oversee its operations...
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'Alice in Wonderland' coming to River Campus
(Local News ~ 03/22/24)
Cape Specialty Entertainment will be putting on an aerial/circus/musical theater version of "Alice in Wonderland". There will be three performances, one at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 22, and the others at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23. The performances will be held at the Southeast Missouri River Campus...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
Today in History Today is Friday, March 22, the 82nd day of 2024. There are 284 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 22, 2019, former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush...
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We wish you a meaningful Palm Sunday
(Editorial ~ 03/22/24)
Sunday, March 24, is Palm Sunday. The observance commemorates Jesus arriving in Jerusalem, days before he would be crucified. The large crowd greeted him, waving palm branches. From the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 21, verses 1 through 11:
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Trump didn't threaten a 'bloodbath'
(Column ~ 03/22/24)
At a rally in Ohio on Saturday, Donald Trump said that if he is not elected in November, there will be a "bloodbath." That he said that much is true. Having actually read the text of his remarks, however, I do not believe he was threatening: Elect me president or the streets will run red with blood...
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Prayer 3-22-24
(Prayer ~ 03/22/24)
O Lord Jesus, we humbly ask that you give us wisdom in all decisions. Amen.
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A third man is now charged with murder in the Kansas City Super Bowl rally shooting
(State News ~ 03/22/24)
A third man was charged with second-degree murder Thursday in connection with the shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl rally that killed a woman and injured nearly two dozen others. Terry Young, 20, of Kansas City, Missouri, was also charged with unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action. He is jailed on $1 million bond and doesn't yet have an attorney. Phone messages left for his family weren't immediately returned...
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A kayaker drowned on a Missouri lake, and two others are missing
(State News ~ 03/22/24)
STOCKTON -- A kayaker from Michigan died and two other people are missing after an outing on a Missouri lake. The Missouri Highway Patrol on Thursday identified the victim as 18-year-old Melodie Roberts of South Lyon, Michigan. Authorities have not released the names or other information about the two kayakers who are missing, but said their kayaks were found...
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Investigation finds no bullying before suicide of top historically Black Missouri college leader
(State News ~ 03/22/24)
COLUMBIA -- The president of a historically Black Missouri university has been reinstated after an independent investigation cleared him of claims that he bullied another top administrator before she killed herself this year, university leaders announced Thursday...
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Russia fires 31 missiles at Kyiv in the first attack in weeks as people scramble for cover in subway
(International News ~ 03/22/24)
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia fired more than two dozen missiles at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, attacking the Ukrainian capital for the first time in six weeks and sending panicked residents flooding into the relative safety of the subway system in a scene reminiscent of the first weeks of the war...
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US Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas says Texas immigration law is unconstitutional
(International News ~ 03/22/24)
GUATEMALA CITY -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that a Texas law giving state authorities the power to arrest and deport migrants who have entered the country illegally is unconstitutional. "It is our strongly held view as a matter of law that SB4 (the Texas law) ... ...
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EU leaders mull ways to get more arms to outgunned Ukraine amid a new sense of urgency
(International News ~ 03/22/24)
BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders on Thursday debated fresh ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine amid a new sense of urgency about the future of the war-torn country. Ukraine's munition stocks are desperately low, while Russia has more and better-armed troops. There is also a growing awareness that the EU must provide for its own security, with election campaigning in the U.S. raising questions about Washington's commitment to its allies...
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Blinken says Israeli assault on Gaza's Rafah would be a 'mistake' and isn't needed to defeat Hamas
(International News ~ 03/22/24)
CAIRO -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday a major Israeli ground assault on the southern Gaza town of Rafah would be "a mistake" and "unnecessary" to defeating Hamas, underscoring the further souring of relations between the United States and Israel...
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US calls for vote Friday on UN resolution declaring that immediate Gaza cease-fire is 'imperative'
(International News ~ 03/22/24)
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States called for a vote Friday on a newly revised and tougher U.N. resolution declaring that "an immediate and sustained cease-fire" in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is "imperative" to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians...
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Trump's lawyers keep fighting $454M fraud appeal bond requirement
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
NEW YORK -- Former President Donald Trump's lawyers kept pressing an appellate court Thursday to excuse him from covering a $454 million fraud lawsuit judgment for now, saying he'd suffer "irreparable harm" before his appeal is decided. The financial requirement is "patently unjust, unreasonable and unconstitutional," one of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's lawyers, Clifford Robert, wrote in a letter to a New York appeals court...
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The UN adopts a resolution backing efforts to ensure artificial intelligence is safe
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
UNITED NATIONS -- The General Assembly approved the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence Thursday, giving global support to an international effort to ensure the powerful new technology benefits all nations, respects human rights and is "safe, secure and trustworthy."...
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White former officers get sentences of 10 to 40 years in torture of 2 Black men in Mississippi
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
JACKSON, Miss. -- A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men in an hourslong attack that included beatings, repeated uses of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth...
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Prosecutors say Donald Trump's hush money trial should start April 15 without further delay
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
NEW YORK -- New York prosecutors on Thursday urged a judge to start Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial on April 15, saying the defense's calls for further delays or dismissal of the former president's case because of a last-minute evidence dump were a "red herring."...
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US Jews upset with Trump's latest rhetoric say he doesn't get to tell them how to be Jewish
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
Since the start of his political career, Donald Trump has played on stereotypes about Jews and politics. He told the Republican Jewish Coalition in 2015 that "you want to control your politicians" and suggested the audience used money to exert control. In the White House, he said Jews who vote for Democrats are "very disloyal to Israel."...
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Biden and Trump ask voters if they're 'better off' than they were 4 years ago. It's complicated
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
HOUSTON -- "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Rarely have voters' answers to that question been so complicated. Former President Donald Trump asked the time-tested question of his supporters in all-caps Monday on his Truth Social platform. President Joe Biden did the same three times over this week during a trio of Texas fundraisers as he closed out a swing through the southwest...
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US surgeons transplant a gene-edited pig kidney into a patient for the first time
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
NEW YORK -- Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday that it's the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. Previously, pig kidneys have been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead donors. Also, two men received heart transplants from pigs, although both died within months...
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Appeals court orders judge to probe claims of juror bias in Boston Marathon bomber's case
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
BOSTON -- A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the judge who oversaw Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial to investigate the defense's claims of juror bias and determine whether his death sentence should stand. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. ...
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No charges to be filed in fight involving Oklahoma nonbinary teen Nex Benedict, prosecutor says
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- No criminal charges will be filed against the Oklahoma teens involved in a high school bathroom fight with Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old whose death following the altercation was ruled a suicide, the county district attorney said Thursday...
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Justice Department sues Apple, alleging it illegally monopolized the smartphone market
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high...
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New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez says he won't run in Democratic primary
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
TRENTON, N.J. -- U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said Thursday he won't run in the Democratic primary as he faces federal corruption charges, but he left open the possibility that he would reenter the race as an independent later this year if he is exonerated at a trial...
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Police track down escaped Idaho prison gang member and accomplice, say pair may have killed 2 on run
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members -- an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape -- following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run...
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Law enforcement officials in Texas wonder how they will enforce migrant arrest law
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
SANDERSON, Texas -- During the nine hours that Texas was allowed to arrest and deport people who illegally enter the U.S., Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland never changed his tactics with migrants in his remote border county. Not because he opposes the idea. There's just no practical way to do it, said the sheriff of Terrell County, where last year an average of about 10 people each day were caught crossing the border from Mexico...
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Congress unveils $1.2 trillion plan to avert federal shutdown and bring budget fight to a close
(National News ~ 03/22/24)
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers introduced a $1.2 trillion spending package Thursday that sets the stage for avoiding a partial government shutdown for several key federal agencies this weekend and allows Congress, nearly six months into the budget year, to complete its work funding the government through September...
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Fire report 3-22-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/22/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. March 20 n Medical assists were made at 3:59 a.m. on Bellevue Street; 9:45 a.m. on North Main Street; and 3:01 p.m. on Boxwood Drive. n Hazardous condition calls were made at 7:27 a.m. on Interstate 55 and 10:58 a.m. on Bellevue Street...
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Police report 3-22-24
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/22/24)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department responded to the following calls. Arrest does not imply guilt. Arrests n A warrant arrest was reported on Themis Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on South Hanover Street. n A warrant arrest was reported on Independence Street...
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Peggy Moreno
(Obituary ~ 03/22/24)
Peggy Lee Webster Moreno passed away peacefully Sunday, March 10, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 72. She was born April 10, 1951, in Alexander County, Illinois, to Charles David and Barbara Thompson Webster. She graduated from Egyptian Senior High School in 1969 in Tamms, Illinois. She attended Shawnee Community College’s nursing program and became a certified nurse assistant and later graduated to become a licensed practical nurse. ...
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Robert Miller
(Obituary ~ 03/22/24)
Robert Lee Miller, 81, of St. Peters, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, March 18, 2024, at NHC Healthcare in Maryland Heights. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Bertha Lloyd
(Obituary ~ 03/22/24)
ST. CHARLES — Bertha Lee Dannenmueller Lloyd, 95, went to her heavenly home Saturday, March 16, 2024, at NHC Healthcare in St. Charles. Born Feb. 26, 1929, Bertha was the seventh of nine children of Albert and Rose Welter Dannenmueller of Oran. On June 24, 1978, she married John W. Lloyd at St. David’s Catholic Church in Arnold. He preceded her in death Nov. 9, 2004. ...
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Penny King
(Obituary ~ 03/22/24)
Penny Gail King, 60, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in the Intensive Care Unit of S.S.M. St. Clare in Fenton. She had been transferred from Cape Girardeau to Fenton after suffering a stroke at home Monday evening. A memorial visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, March 28, at Lighthouse United Church at 710 Southern Expressway in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Out of the past: March 22
(Out of the Past ~ 03/22/24)
A Mississippi timber hauler escapes injuries after the cab of his truck becomes impaled by logs on Jackson Boulevard in Jackson; the driver of the truck, David Mooneyham of Randolph, Mississippi, is following another loaded timber truck when a vehicle pulls into the path of the lead truck; as the lead truck comes to a sudden stop, Mooneyham can’t avoid striking it and the timber it’s carrying; the driver ducks just in time to avoid being struck by logs coming through his windshield. ...
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