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Hundreds rescued after Korean ferry sinks
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
SEOUL, South Korea -- Dozens of rescue boats and helicopters are scrambling to save more than 470 people, including many high school students, caught on a ferry sinking off South Korea's southern coast, officials said. There are no immediate reports of casualities...
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Anniversary of Boston Marathon bombing observed
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
BOSTON -- Survivors, first responders and relatives of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the anniversary Tuesday with tributes that combined sorrow over the loss of innocent victims with pride over the city's resilience in the face of a terror attack...
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Doctor shuns health-care insurance
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
Dr. Mike Wulfers spoke at the regular meeting of the Cape County Tea Party on Tuesday night to talk about a unique method of health care -- the concierge doctor. Wulfers said he's part of a "growing movement" in the country that strives to provide more personalized primary care. ...
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Woodland baseball rides ace past Leopold
(High School Sports ~ 04/16/14)
LEOPOLD -- Lack of offense and a shaky defense are outright enemies to a pitcher. Thankfully, for Woodland pitcher Ben McCormick, he's had a lot of friends lately. McCormick pitched a five-hitter, and the Cardinals jumped to an early lead on the host Wildcats and cruised to a 5-2 baseball victory Tuesday afternoon...
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College students get lesson in texting while driving
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
With the help of two simulators, Southeast Missouri State University students put their texting-and-driving prowess to the test Tuesday as part of AT&T's anti-texting "It Can Wait" campaign. The simulators, which resembled video driving games with large computer monitors, were set up in the lobbies of the University Center and Towers dorms and managed by representatives from AT&T and the Sigma Chi fraternity. ...
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$55 million wastewater facility expected to open in fall
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
It's difficult to imagine the site of Cape Girardeau's new wastewater treatment facility was no more than a grassy field just a few years ago. Five new structures, each housing a different step in the treatment process, are spread across the area, sprinkled with construction equipment as crews work to complete the largest capital improvement project in the city's history...
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Kelso man charged with rape, molestation
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
A Kelso man was in jail Tuesday on charges he raped a 6-year-old girl, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter reported. Justin A. Williams, 22, was charged with statutory rape and child molestation Tuesday in Scott County Circuit Court, online court records show...
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Flower
(Submitted Photo ~ 04/16/14)
I took this from a tree in my yard.
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2014 Public Health Fair
(Submitted Story ~ 04/16/14)
The Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center celebrated National Public Health Week by hosting a Public Health Fair on April 15 & 16, 2014. The Health Fair provided the community with an opportunity to learn more about the services that are offered by the Health Center by viewing displays from the WICC Clinic, Environmental Department, Rural Health Clinic, Communicable Disease Clinic, Immunization Clinic, Daycare Consultants, and other Health Center services. ...
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American Cancer Society To Paint The Town Purple
(Submitted Story ~ 04/16/14)
Cape Girardeau, MO -The American Cancer Society and SoutheastHEALTH are partnering to "Paint the Town Purple" in celebration of those affected by cancer. Cape County volunteer area groups, churches, and businesses have been working hard in the community fundraising to assist in providing patients programs and services in the county as well as supporting national research. ...
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Charter's digital conversion goes 'as anticipated'
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
As of Tuesday, Charter Communications officially switched its customers from analog to all-digital service via a set-top box that is required for customers to continue receiving the cable operator's services. Those who did not upgrade to the box by Tuesday turned on their TVs to a black screen that morning. The line of Charter customers needing assistance Monday crept out the door of the Cape Girardeau location off Silver Springs Road...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
Today is Wednesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2014. There are 259 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 16, 1964, The Rolling Stones' first album, eponymously titled "The Rolling Stones," was released in the United Kingdom by Decca Records (a slightly different version debuted in the United States a month and a-half later)...
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Speak Out 4/16/14
(Speak Out ~ 04/16/14)
This is the most corrupt administration the United States has ever had. We better get out and vote this November and get some people in there who care about the Constitution and care about the future of the American people, because this administration is ruining our country...
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E-cigarettes are tobacco products
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/16/14)
Tobacco companies are selling E-cigarette LTEs, which resemble cigarettes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority to regulate them as tobacco products. However, the tobacco industry is going to great lengths to ensure that e-cigarettes are called anything but tobacco products. Because doing so exempts these unregulated products from current tobacco control laws...
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Employment for individuals with autism
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/16/14)
April is Autism Awareness month. Last month we lost Dr. David Crowe who was instrumental in bringing autism awareness to our community. One of Dr. Crowe's aims was to find meaningful employment for those with high-functioning autism through The Tailor Institute. ...
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Teen Challenge continues to help men overcome life of drugs
(Editorial ~ 04/16/14)
Drugs will rob a person of anything important in life. Family. Friends. Work. The list goes on. There is hope, however. On Saturday Teen Challenge International of Mid America, a faith-based organization, held its annual banquet in Cape Girardeau. The night included singing and testimonies. New this year, each man in the program sat at the table with supporters...
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U.S. stock market rebounds late in a choppy Tuesday
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
A stock market swoon turned into a comeback Tuesday. Stocks managed a late-afternoon rebound for the second time in two days as investors seemed to brush off a report of lower confidence among homebuilders and simmering tensions in the Ukraine. The late rally even gave a lift to tech stocks like Google and Intel, which had weighed on the market much of the day...
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GM sales eyed for effect of recall
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
DETROIT -- As General Motors executives show off their newest cars and trucks in New York this week, analysts are watching for signs that consumers are shying away from the ones sitting on dealer lots. Many expect GM sales to take a hit from a mishandled recall of small cars, though it's unclear when and how severe. Any decline would hurt the automaker's market share and potentially its credit rating. Concerned investors have sent GM stock to a 10-month low...
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Corn Belt farmers off to slow start planting crop
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
ST. LOUIS -- Most years about this time, northern Illinois farmer Monty Whipple, like so many Midwest growers, would be riding high in his monstrous planter, kicking up dust while sowing corn in hundreds of acres. But this spring has kept him sidelined, and he's anything but alone...
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Cape police report, 4/16/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/16/14)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Arrests Summonses Thefts Assault Miscellaneous...
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Births 4/16/14
(Births ~ 04/16/14)
Son to Ryan Christopher and Theresa Rochelle LeGrand of Scott City, Saint Francis Medical Center, 3:44 a.m. Thursday, March 27, 2014. Name, Isaac Christopher. Weight, 7 pounds, 2 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. LeGrand is the former Theresa Diebold, daughter of Calvin and Evelyn Diebold of Scott City. ...
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Congress giving states the transportation blues
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
DAYTON, Ohio -- On the road in a tour bus this week, the U.S. transportation secretary is spreading bad news: the government's Highway Trust Fund is nearly broke. If allowed to run dry, that could set back or shut down projects across the country, force layoffs of construction workers and delay needed repairs and improvements...
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Texas candidate faces death-penalty choice
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
AUSTIN, Texas -- The death penalty is like gun rights in Texas politics: Candidates don't dare get in the way of either. But Republican Greg Abbott, the favorite to succeed Gov. Rick Perry, must soon make a decision as attorney general that could disrupt the nation's busiest death chamber...
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Medical pot vote may help Florida Democrats
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
MIAMI -- Tied to an unpopular president and his signature health-care law, Democrats in the nation's largest swing state see medical marijuana as a potential antidote to political malaise in this year's midterm elections. Party operatives are pushing a constitutional amendment that would make Florida the first state in the South to legalize some pot use. ...
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Suspected killers wore GPS devices
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Two convicted sex offenders dutifully checked in with police every month and wore their GPS trackers around the clock -- the rules of parole designed to tip off California authorities if a freed felon backslides. Yet since last fall, authorities claim, Franc Cano and Steven Dean Gordon have raped and killed at least four women -- and probably a fifth -- in the prostitution hangouts of Orange County...
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Strahan's ‘GMA' side job confirmed with his visit
(Entertainment ~ 04/16/14)
NEW YORK -- Michael Strahan has made good on reports he's joining "Good Morning America" by paying a visit to the ABC breakfast show Tuesday. The former football star and current co-host with Kelly Ripa of "Live with Kelly and Michael" got a red-carpet welcome from the "GMA" team...
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MSNBC's host injured in taxi crash
(Entertainment ~ 04/16/14)
NEW YORK -- MSNBC says its host Lawrence O'Donnell was injured with his brother Michael in a taxi accident Saturday while vacationing out of the country. The network didn't specify where the accident occurred. The two were transported back to the United States -- Lawrence to New York and Michael to Boston. They are both under the care of doctors and are expected to make a full recovery, the network said...
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Security Council sees images of Syrian dead
(International News ~ 04/16/14)
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council fell silent Tuesday after ambassadors viewed a series of photographs of dead Syrian civil war victims, France's ambassador said. The pictures showed people who were emaciated, with their bones protruding, and some bearing the marks of strangulation and repeated beatings, and eyes having been gouged out...
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Report: Iran reduced its nuclear weapons ability
(International News ~ 04/16/14)
VIENNA -- The United Nations will release a report this week certifying that Iran's ability to make a nuclear bomb has been greatly reduced because it has diluted half of its material that can be turned quickly into weapons-grade uranium, diplomats said Tuesday...
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Violence by Islamists surges in Nigeria
(International News ~ 04/16/14)
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Suspected Muslim extremists kidnapped about 100 girls Tuesday from a school in northeastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital -- a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ability to contain an Islamic uprising...
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Robot sub returns to water for jet search
(International News ~ 04/16/14)
PERTH, Australia -- A robotic submarine looking for the lost Malaysian jet began its second mission Tuesday after cutting short its first because the ocean waters where it was sent were too deep, officials said. Monday's planned 16-hour search lasted just six and none of the data collected by the U.S. Navy's Bluefin 21 submarine offered clues to the whereabouts of the plane...
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Supremacist faces murder charges
(State News ~ 04/16/14)
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Kansas prosecutors filed state-level murder charges Tuesday against the white supremacist accused in shootings that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City. Frazier Glenn Cross faces one count of capital murder for the deaths of 14-year-old boy and his grandfather and one count of first-degree premeditated murder for the death of a woman, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said at a news conference...
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St. Louis police taking new approach to ‘johns'
(State News ~ 04/16/14)
ST. LOUIS -- Men who prowl the streets of St. Louis for prostitutes can expect a brightly colored postcard in the mail -- from police. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that in an effort to curb prostitution, police are targeting, and perhaps humiliating, the "johns" who use the services. The postcards mailed to the homes of those charged with trying to pick up prostitutes will offer a reminder about spreading sexually transmitted diseases, along with listing the court date...
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St. Louis-area man accused of sexual torture
(State News ~ 04/16/14)
ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis County man sexually tortured five women in his apartment at separate times over a period of several years, using threats and psychological control to keep them from leaving or going to police, the county prosecutor said Tuesday...
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Russia is testing Obama's ability to stop its advances
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
WASHINGTON -- With the White House asserting that Russia is stoking instability in eastern Ukraine, President Barack Obama is again faced with the complications of following through on his tough warnings against overseas provocations. Obama has vowed repeatedly to enact biting sanctions against Russia's vital economic sectors if the Kremlin tries to replicate its actions in Crimea, the peninsula it annexed from Ukraine, elsewhere in the former Soviet republic. ...
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Activists urge Obama to cut deportations
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
WASHINGTON -- Latinos and immigration activists are warning of political peril for President Barack Obama and Democrats in the fall election unless the president acts boldly and soon to curb deportations and allow more immigrants to remain legally in the U.S...
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New mayor for Perryville takes oath of office
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- A new administration began Tuesday night as new Mayor Ken Baer took his oath of office during the Perryville Board of Aldermen's first regular meeting since the April 8 election. "My guiding principle ... is to always do what is best for the city of Perryville," Baer told the standing-room-only crowd assembled at City Hall. "I'm an optimist, and I think positive. Good things happen when you do that."...
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Pachyderm Club to host Congressman Smith
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
The Southeast Missouri Pachyderm Club will host U.S. Rep. Jason Smith at 7 p.m. Thursday at Dexter Bar-B-Que, 236 S. Broadview St. in Cape Girardeau. Smith, a Republican, represents the 8th Congressional District of Missouri, which includes Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff and Rolla...
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Suspects in Anna murder appear in court
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Two men appeared in court Tuesday on charges they beat an Anna, Ill., man to death. Jessie Bell, 34, of Anna and Travis D. Turner, 25, of Dongola, Ill., heard the charges against them Tuesday in Union County, Ill., Circuit Court...
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Cape man arrested in Carbondale shooting
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- A Cape Girardeau man was among those arrested in connection with a shooting early Friday morning in Carbondale. Darrion D. Jake, 26, is in jail in Murphysboro, Ill., on charges of aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and mob action, the Carbondale Police Department reported Monday...
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Blues, Blackhawks on mend for first-round series
(Professional Sports ~ 04/16/14)
St. Louis' Oshie and Morrow participated in an optional skate Tuesday, while Chicago welcomed back two stars
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Cards start losing streak for previously hot Brewers
(Professional Sports ~ 04/16/14)
St. Louis again used strong pitching to defeat Milwaukee 6-1
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Southeast Missouri State baseball team finally finds a way past Billikens
(College Sports ~ 04/16/14)
Southeast struck for four runs in the eighth inning for a 6-2 win over SLU
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Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team hopes to sign interior players
(College Sports ~ 04/16/14)
Nutt hopes to meet the team's need for size during the signing period that begins today
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I-55 in Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties reduced for pavement repairs
(Local News ~ 04/16/14)
North- and southbound Interstate 55 in Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties will be reduced to one lane with a 12-foot width restriction as contractor crews perform pavement repairs and undersealing. This section of the highway is from Highway 51 to Route J/N at Ozora, Mo., according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. The work will take place from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily April 28 through Nov. 14...
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Anti-Semitic attacks down before shooting
(State News ~ 04/16/14)
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- A group monitoring anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S. cautiously noted a sharp decline in such incidents less than two weeks before the fatal shootings over the weekend outside two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City. The contrast between the Anti-Defamation League's 2013 audit and the Sunday attack that killed three people highlights what hate-group trackers say is a broader trend: more overall tolerance disrupted by periodic bursts of violence from a disenfranchised fringe.. ...
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New Los Angeles newspaper embraces print in digital world
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
LOS ANGELES -- Aaron Kushner believes he can launch and grow a print newspaper in a world gone digital. The former greeting card executive is trying to turn the Orange County Register into a media giant in southern California, largely driven by paper and ink. The unconventional effort gets a jolt today when Freedom Communications Inc., the company Kushner bought with other investors two years ago, launches the Los Angeles Register...
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New York police disband unit that spied on Muslims
(National News ~ 04/16/14)
NEW YORK -- A special New York Police Department unit that sparked controversy by tracking the daily lives of Muslims in an effort to detect terror threats has been disbanded, police officials said Tuesday. NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis confirmed detectives assigned to the unit had been transferred to other duties within the department's Intelligence Division...
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Ukraine troops repel attack at airport
(International News ~ 04/16/14)
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine -- In the first Ukrainian military action against a pro-Russian uprising in the east, government forces said they repelled an attack Tuesday by about 30 gunmen at a small airport. The clash came hours after Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, had announced an "anti-terrorist operation" against the armed, pro-Russian insurgents who had seized control of numerous buildings in at least nine cities in Ukraine's restive east...
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High school roundup: Greenville deals Chaffee baseball first loss of season
(High School Sports ~ 04/16/14)
All the local high school events reported Tuesday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Out of the past 4/16/14
(Out of the Past ~ 04/16/14)
Centenary United Methodist Church hosts a "Witness With a Vision" celebration in the afternoon; the event is sponsored by Cape Girardeau-Farmington District of the United Methodist Church; the event includes a Hands on Mission period, with talks and displays on mission projects, and a worship service...
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Prayer 4/16/14
(Prayer ~ 04/16/14)
Lord Jesus, we lift up your name and praise you for your love never fails. Amen,
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T. rex gets new home in Smithsonian dinosaur hall
(Community ~ 04/16/14)
WASHINGTON -- More than 100 years after dinosaurs were first displayed on the National Mall, T. rex -- the king -- is joining the Smithsonian collection after a 2,000-mile journey from Montana. Paleontologists and curators unveiled parts of a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton Tuesday, including its jaw with teeth as big as bananas, at the National Museum of Natural History. ...
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