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Risco woman arrested in Stoddard County
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
A 28-year-old Risco, Missouri, woman was arrested Monday night in Stoddard County for several alleged drug violations. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Janay Thacker was taken into custody for alleged felony possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and failure to wear a seat belt...
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Man arrested for alleged drug violations
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
A New Madrid, Missouri, man was taken into custody in Stoddard County, Missouri, Monday night for several alleged offenses. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Danny Sweatt, 48, was arrested for alleged felony possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, speeding, driving with no insurance and failure to wear a seat belt...
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Sikeston man arrested for alleged DWI
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
A Sikeston, Missouri, man was taken into custody Monday night for alleged driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest and failure to drive on the right half of the roadway. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Devon Johnson, 29, was arrested in Scott County. He was also arrested on a misdemeanor Scott County warrant for domestic assault...
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East Prairie woman hurt in Monday wreck
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
An East Prairie, Missouri, woman was hurt in a one-vehicle crash Monday in Scott County. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, the crash occurred on County Road 517, north of Sikeston, Missouri, at about 9:45 a.m. Monday. A 2019 Ford Ecosport Titanium driven by Derenda Russell, 47, ran off the roadway and struck a ditch. Russell, who was wearing a safety device, sustained serious injuries...
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Jackson man injured in motorcycle crash
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
A Jackson man sustained serious injuries in a motorcycle crash Monday. A Missouri State Highway Patrol report said Anton Kotar, 59, was riding a 1999 Harley-Davidson westbound on Route FF west of Fruitland at about 4:30 p.m. when the motorcycle ran off the right side of the roadway and overturned, ejecting Kotar...
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Self-inflicted gun shot wound leaves one dead
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
Cape Girardeau emergency personnel responded to Shawnee Park Sports Complex shortly after noon Tuesday in response to a shooting. They found one person dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Cape Girardeau police Sgt. Joey Hann. Hann said there was no ongoing threat at the scene. "All evidence overwhelming indicated that it was a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound. Detectives are still investigating the matter," he said The Southeast Missourian does not routinely report on suicides, except those occurring in public.
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Church's LIFT response team helps recover from natural disasters with practicality, compassion
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
LIFT is a disaster response team affiliated with Crossroads Church in Jackson, and a number of its volunteers recently traveled to the Bootheel to assist in storm recovery efforts. LIFT has 34 designated volunteers including three leaders -- Chad Craft, Scott Henderson and Matt Schamburg. The team provides relief for victims of disasters including debris clearance, mobile food and water delivery and what they call "compassion teams."...
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Cape County health board's COVID-19 recommendations questioned again
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
The stated agenda for Tuesday's meeting of the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center (CGCPHC) Board of Trusteees did not call for public comment, but just as the session was called to order, resident Mike Woelk read a prepared statement critical of the board...
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'Santa' delivers Toybox gifts to nearly 500 kids in Cape
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
Seven-year-old Travis Graham greets Santa Claus at his home and squeals for gifts. Graham was one of 489 children within the city limits of Cape Girardeau to receive presents Tuesday night through Cape Jaycees annual Toybox event.
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Boil-water order issued
(Local News ~ 12/22/21)
The Cape Girardeau County Public Water Supply District No. 2 in Millersville has issued a boil-water advisory for its customers until further notice. For more information call (573) 243-1156.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/22/21)
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 22, the 356th day of 2021. There are nine days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law allowing gays for the first time in history to serve openly in America's military, repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy...
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Blanchard Elementary gets high marks
(Editorial ~ 12/22/21)
Education can be a silver bullet, lifting people out of poverty and improving their quality of life. Leaders at Blanchard Elementary School in Cape Girardeau have taken aim at one particular aspect of educating young people, and the results show their efforts are hitting their target...
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Speak Out 12-22-21
(Speak Out ~ 12/22/21)
Republicans don't want Biden's Build Back Better bill because it will add billions to the national debt, but the CBO has said that Trump's 2017 tax cuts have already added $2 trillion to the deficit. Does the word "hypocrisy" come to mind? Sen. Joe Manchin has done a great service for our country by standing up for fiscal sanity. He would be a better president than the current "Joe."...
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Prayer 12-22-21
(Prayer ~ 12/22/21)
O Father God, may all experience your love and peace this Christmas and always. Amen.
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 12/22/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/22/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Dec. 20 n Medical assists were made at 7:12 a.m. on North Water Street; 8:18 a.m. on Copper Drive; 1:04 p.m. on Linden Street; 2:14 p.m. at Doctors Park; 3:04 p.m. on Copper Drive; 6:20 p.m. on South Ellis Street; 9:45 p.m. on Pioneer Drive...
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Area Police Report 12/22/21
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/22/21)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n An arrest warrant was made. n An arrest warrant was made. n An arrest warrant was made on Independence Street. n An arrest warrant was made on South Sprigg Street...
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Doris Swindell
(Obituary ~ 12/22/21)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Doris Jeanette Powers Swindell, 89, passed from this life Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in Kansas City. She was born June 26, 1932, in Parma, Missouri, to Wilma and True Powers. Doris married James "Shorty" Swindell in 1950, the year after graduating high school. They lived in Bloomfield, Missouri, until 1967, when they moved to Salem, Missouri...
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David Smith Jr.
(Obituary ~ 12/22/21)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- David Kingsbury "Skip" Smith Jr., 75, of Middlebury died peacefully at his home Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, after a long illness bravely borne. Skip was born June 23, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Middlebury. He attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, returning to Vermont during the summers to do odd jobs, including a beloved post with the Middlebury Bread Loaf Campus grounds crew...
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Wanda Rhymer
(Obituary ~ 12/22/21)
Wanda Lou Rhymer, 89, daughter of the late Lester Lowell Russom and Lola Mae Simmons, was born Jan. 29, 1932, in Steele, Missouri, and departed this life Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was united in marriage to William Rollie Rhymer. He preceded her in death...
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Melodie Robins
(Obituary ~ 12/22/21)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Melodie Jean Robins, 67, of Marble Hill died Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time Thursday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill. Funeral service will begin at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Kevin Kinnard officiating. Burial will be in Morgan Memorial Park Cemetery in Advance, Missouri, at a later date...
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Jerry Gott Sr.
(Obituary ~ 12/22/21)
Jerry Wayne Gott Sr., 77, son of Lois Scialaba of Scott City and the late Robert Gott, was born March 7, 1944, in Corning, Arkansas, and departed this life Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021, at his home in Scott City. On Aug. 23, 1967, he was united in marriage to Margaret Alice Finley in Charleston, South Carolina. She survives of the home in Scott City...
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Biden pivots to home tests to confront omicron surge
(National News ~ 12/22/21)
WASHINGTON -- Fighting the omicron variant surging through the country, President Joe Biden announced the government will provide 500 million free rapid home-testing kits, increase support for hospitals under strain and redouble vaccination and boosting efforts...
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Nitehawk Cinema puts its film-themed menus into cookbook
(Community ~ 12/22/21)
NEW YORK -- More than a decade ago, Matthew Viragh was a Texan with a dream. He wanted to serve moviegoers booze and prepared food as they sat in their seats. In Brooklyn. But he had a state Prohibition-era liquor ban to contend with first. Viragh, who left advertising for the theater business, hired an Albany lobbyist. ...
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Putin blames West for tensions, demands security guarantees
(International News ~ 12/22/21)
MOSCOW -- The Russian president on Tuesday reiterated his demand for guarantees from the U.S. and its allies NATO will not expand eastward, blaming the West for "tensions that are building up in Europe." Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech at a meeting with Russia's top military brass came just days after Moscow submitted draft security documents demanding NATO deny membership to Ukraine and other former Soviet countries and roll back the alliance's military deployments in Central and Eastern Europe.. ...
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Hubble telescope's bigger, more powerful successor to soar
(National News ~ 12/22/21)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Hubble Space Telescope's successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair's breadth of the dawn of the universe. And it's finally on the brink of flight. It will be the biggest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever to leave the planet, elaborate in its design and ambitious in its scope. At a budget-busting $10 billion, it is the most expensive and also the trickiest, by far, to pull off...
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Reforms target U.S. military's missing weapons problem
(National News ~ 12/22/21)
The Department of Defense is overhauling how it keeps track of its guns and explosives, and Congress is requiring more accountability from the Pentagon -- responses to an Associated Press investigation showing lost or stolen military weapons were reaching America's streets...
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Secret Service says nearly $100 billion stolen in pandemic relief funds
(National News ~ 12/22/21)
Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs because of the pandemic, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday. The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration, said Roy Dotson, the agency's national pandemic fraud recovery coordinator, in an interview. ...
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Biden vows he, Manchin will 'get something done' on $2T bill
(National News ~ 12/22/21)
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden appeared determined Tuesday to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin, the holdout Democrat who effectively tanked the party's signature $2 trillion domestic policy initiative with his own year-end announcement...
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Hunters in Missouri take five elk in second season
(State News ~ 12/22/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Hunters in Missouri killed five elk in the second year of hunting of the animal -- three with firearms and two during the archery portion of the hunting season. The Missouri Department of Conservation said Monday the total matched the five elk taken in 2020. This year, the firearms elk hunting period was Dec. 11 to 19, and the archery portion ran Oct. 16 to 24...
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Medical marijuana sales in state top $200 million
(State News ~ 12/22/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Medical marijuana sales in Missouri have reached a milestone, now topping the $200 million mark. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Monday that 14 months after sales began, 158,169 patients are active in the state's medical marijuana program, along with 3,283 caregivers...
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Missouri lawmaker's anti-abortion bill mirrors new Texas law
(State News ~ 12/22/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Republican state representative has introduced legislation banning nearly all abortions in Missouri, mirroring a new Texas law. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the bill introduced Thursday by state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman of Arnold would prohibit the termination of a pregnancy once cardiac activity is detected in an embryo, usually around six weeks and before some women are aware they are pregnant...
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Missouri redistricting panels pushing up against deadline
(State News ~ 12/22/21)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The commissions in charge of redrawing Missouri's state House and Senate districts based on new census data are pushing up against a constitutional deadline to agree on tentative maps for next year's elections. The separate commissions, each consisting of 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans, both met Monday without voting on proposed districts. ...
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Person fatally shot by deputy in Butler County
(State News ~ 12/22/21)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A person is dead after being shot by a deputy sheriff in Butler County. KFVS12 reported the shooting happened Sunday afternoon. Sheriff Mark Dobbs said authorities were called to a report of a sexual assault. Dobbs said one deputy and four emergency services workers were inside the home when someone began firing a handgun...
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Out of the past: Dec. 22
(Out of the Past ~ 12/22/21)
Bishop John J. Leibrecht of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese ordained Deacon Randy Tochtrop to the priesthood Nov. 29 at St. Mary's Cathedral; among those attending the Mass were his parents, Walter and Margaret Tochtrop; a sister, Rhonda, and more than 50 priests; Tochtrop is a native of Wentzville, Missouri; his first assignment will be as associate pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral, effective Dec. 30...
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Sharon Winchester
(Obituary ~ 12/22/21)
Sharon L. Winchester was welcomed into Heaven's gates Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. She was a well-loved sister, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was always up for an adventure and cared about others' needs before her own. A St. Louisan at heart, she loved all things related to the city. ...
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