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Owners of Christian boarding school in Missouri jailed, charged with kidnapping crimes
(State News ~ 03/05/24)
The husband and wife owners of a Missouri boarding school for boys have been jailed and charged with felony crimes after a lengthy investigation by a county sheriff. Wayne County Sheriff Dean Finch said in a news release that Larry Musgraves Jr., 57, was arrested Friday evening on the ABM Ministries campus in Piedmont, about 76 miles west of Cape Girardeau. ...
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K-9 helps detain man who led police on chase going wrong way on Kingshighway
(Local News ~ 03/05/24)
A Chaffee man is in custody facing a $25,300 bond for his alleged involvement in fleeing police and traveling the wrong way on Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. Ralph W. Baker is facing a charge of stealing, operating a vehicle on a highway without a valid license and resisting arrest by fleeing, creating a substantial risk of serious injury and death.
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Two-day street closure on 800 block of Broadway starts Thursday
(Local News ~ 03/05/24)
Depending on the weather, the 800 block of Broadway in Cape Girardeau will be closed for two days starting Thursday, March 7. According to the City of Cape Girardeau, water department crews will work on water service to the former Esquire Theater building on the north side of the street.
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Cape Girardeau County commissioners approve software service contract
(Local News ~ 03/05/24)
Cape Girardeau County commissioners agreed to approve a maintenance contract purchase order during their regular meeting Monday, March 4. The $176,205.11 contract renews services with the Lake Mary, Florida-based CentralSquare Technologies software company. ...
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Cape Girardeau girl wins title of Miss Missouri Universal Mini
(Local News ~ 03/05/24)
Just one year into participating in pageants, Cape Girardeau local Emmi Jungers has won the title of Miss Missouri Universal Mini, during the Univeral Miss competion Feb. 17 and 18 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Emmi is 6 years old and has only competed in a handful of pageants, her mother, Karley Jungers, said. ...
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Cape Girardeau City Council holds public hearing for CIP draft
(Local News ~ 03/05/24)
The Cape Girardeau City Council held the first public hearing for the 2024-2029 Capital Improvements Program (CIP) plan Monday, March 4. CIP, still in its draft phase, is used as a planning tool for the city to see what projects departments may want to accomplish and what funding might look like for those projects. The plan shows potential projects planned throughout the individual fiscal years for 2024 to 2029 and projections for 2029 to 2034.
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Scott City PD searching for woman accused of sexual abuse
(Local News ~ 03/05/24)
Scott City Police Department officers are looking for a woman charged with sexually abusing a child. Taylor Mansker has been charged with statutory sodomy or attempted statutory sodomy/deviate sexual intercourse with a person younger than 12 years old. A no-bond warrant was issued. ...
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Chad Armstrong joins Cape Girardeau County coroner race
(Local News ~ 03/05/24)
Chad Armstrong, an emergency medical physician from Jackson, has entered the race for the Cape Girardeau County coroner position as a Republican. “Dealing with the emergency medical aspect as well as the first responders, it felt like there definitely needed to be a change,” Armstrong said. “Looking into the qualifications that are needed, or the lack thereof, I felt like it was something that I could bring a positive impact to the county.” ...
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Did you know? 10 things about Ivers Square Civil War statue, fountain
(Local News ~ 03/05/24)
Workers on Monday, March 4, disassembled the Civil War fountain in Ivers Square in downtown Cape Girardeau near City Hall, as preparations were made to refurbish the monument. The statue atop the pedestal dates to 2003, but the monument itself was erected in 1911 and honors the war dead from the Civil War. ...
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Meet the Reptiles: Reeves Reptile Rescue educates about their cold-blooded friends
(03/05/24)
Dru Reeves says it all started when his daughter Makenzie wanted a chameleon for her 14th birthday. He says like most kids, she lost interest in the pet after the first month, but Dru and his wife Tara did not; they were completely fascinated by the creature...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
Today is Tuesday, March 5, the 65th day of 2024. There are 301 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On March 5, 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power. On this date: In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people...
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First over-the-counter birth control pill in US begins shipping to stores
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
WASHINGTON -- The first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in U.S. stores later this month, allowing American women and teens to purchase contraceptive medication as easily as they buy aspirin. Manufacturer Perrigo said Monday it has begun shipping the medication, Opill, to major retailers and pharmacies. A one-month supply will cost about $20 and a three-month supply will cost around $50, according to the company's suggested retail price. It will also be sold online...
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Apple gets fined nearly $2 billion by the EU for hindering music streaming competition
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
LONDON -- The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps...
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JetBlue and Spirit are ending their $3.8 billion merger plan after a federal judge blocked the deal
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion merger weeks after a federal judge blocked the deal, saying it would hurt consumers who depend on Spirit's lower fares. JetBlue said Monday that even though both companies still believe in the deal, they were unlikely to meet the closing conditions required in the agreement before a July 24 deadline...
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China sets an economic growth target of 5% and pledges help for consumers and property developers
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
BEIJING -- China's official growth target for this year is around 5%, Premier Li Qiang said Tuesday in an annual report on the government's plans and performance that prioritized both security and the economy. Li said the government would continue with a "pro-active fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy," suggesting no major change in the leadership's approach to pursuing what it calls "high quality" development...
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Israel escalates its criticism of a UN agency in Gaza. It says 450 of its workers are militants
(International News ~ 03/05/24)
JERUSALEM -- Israel ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees Monday, saying 450 of its employees were members of militant groups in the Gaza Strip, though it provided no evidence to back up its accusation. Major international funders have withheld hundreds of millions of dollars from the agency, known as UNRWA, since Israel accused 12 of its employees of participating in the Oct. ...
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UN envoy says 'reasonable grounds' to believe Hamas committed sexual violence Oct. 7
(International News ~ 03/05/24)
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict said in a new report Monday that there are "reasonable grounds" to believe Hamas committed rape, "sexualized torture," and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7...
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Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport in newest attack on key government sites
(International News ~ 03/05/24)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti's main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country's two biggest prisons...
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3 Red Sea data cables cut as Houthis launch more attacks in the vital waterway
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Three cables under the Red Sea that provide global internet and telecommunications have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials said Monday. Meanwhile, a Houthi missile attack set a ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden, but caused no injuries...
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France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right
(International News ~ 03/05/24)
PARIS -- French lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France's constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman's right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy The historic move was proposed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to prevent the kind of rollback of abortion rights seen in the United States in recent years, and the vote during a special joint session of France's parliament drew a long standing ovation among lawmakers...
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Single-engine plane crashes along Tennessee highway, killing those aboard and closing lanes
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Police in Nashville say that multiple people have died after a small plane crashed Monday night near an interstate highway, shutting down multiple lanes. The single-engine plane crashed in a grassy median just off Interstate 40 near a Costco store in the western part of the city, the Metro Nashville Police Department said. Upon impact, the plane burst into flames...
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Influx of firefighters, cooler weather in Texas Panhandle helps keep wildfires in check
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
McALLEN, Texas -- An influx of hundreds of firefighters and more favorable weather conditions on Monday helped authorities in the Texas Panhandle keep the largest wildfire in state history from threatening more homes and communities, fire officials said...
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Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury in deal that doesn't require cooperation
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
NEW YORK -- Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of Donald Trump's company, pleaded guilty Monday to lying under oath during his testimony in the ex-president's New York civil fraud case. His plea deal will send him back to jail but does not require that he testify at Trump's hush-money criminal trial...
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California ski resort workers tunnel their way into the office after getting 10 feet of snow
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
RENO, Nevada -- Going to the office has been no small feat for Jon Slaughter's marketing team at Sugar Bowl, requiring the employees to dig down several feet and then tunnel through to the front door after a powerful blizzard dumped more than 10 feet (3 meters) of snow on the Northern California ski resort...
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Donald Trump wins North Dakota Republican caucuses, adding to victories going into Super Tuesday
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
BISMARCK, N.D. -- Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican presidential caucuses on Monday, adding to his string of victories heading into Super Tuesday. The former president finished first in voting conducted at 12 caucus sites, ahead of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The result puts Trump back on the winning track, which was briefly interrupted on Sunday when Haley notched her first victory of the campaign in the District of Columbia's primary...
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Vice President Harris hosts Israeli war Cabinet member as the US pushes to get more aid into Gaza
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Kamala Harris met on Monday with a member of Israel's wartime Cabinet who came to Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the Biden administration intensifies its efforts to push more humanitarian aid into war-battered Gaza...
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Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants
(National News ~ 03/05/24)
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas' plans to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally and order them to leave the country is headed to the Supreme Court in a legal showdown over the federal government's authority over immigration. An order issued Monday by Justice Samuel Alito puts the new Texas law on hold for at least next week while the high court considers what opponents have called the most dramatic attempt by a state to police immigration since an Arizona law more than a decade ago...
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Prayer 3-5-24
(Prayer ~ 03/05/24)
O Lord Jesus, in all things may we glorify you, our precious Savior. Amen.
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American paralysis and decline
(Column ~ 03/05/24)
"We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies." So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless...
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Martyrdom and suicide are not the same
(Column ~ 03/05/24)
God rest the soul of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old in the Air Force who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. "Free Palestine," he declared as he was dying. While he meant his death as a political protest, it was suicide. And it should not be celebrated...
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Cape's leaf pickup
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/05/24)
Once again I've piled onto a tarp the curbside leaves (now wet and soggy) that the city never picked up, and I've lugged them (three trips) to the hollow at the back of my lot and dumped them there. Not an easy task for an 85-year-old. You'd think the city would do a better job of collecting leaves, sweeping the streets, and picking up litter just a block from the new City Hall; but it doesn't, so we homeowners have to do it. It's been that way since I moved here in 2003...
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Jerry Thiele
(Obituary ~ 03/05/24)
Jerry Wayne Thiele, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 1, 2024, at his home. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will follow at 1 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial, with full military honors, will follow at Fairmount Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...
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Imogene Seabaugh
(Obituary ~ 03/05/24)
Imogene Seabaugh, 95, of Jackson passed away Wednesday Feb. 28, 2024, at The Arbors at Capetown in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 1, 1929, in Winfield, daughter of John Virgil and Grace Mary Crites Gallup. She and Joseph Seabaugh were married Aug. 12, 1957, in St. Albans, New York. He passed away Dec. 6, 2010...
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Laura Reimann
(Obituary ~ 03/05/24)
THEBES, Ill. — Laura Virginia Reimann, 79, of Thebes died Sunday, March 3, 2024, at her home. She was born Oct. 23, 1944, in St. Louis to Allen and Ella Summann Kern. She and Gary Wayne Reimann were married June 18, 1967, at Grace Lutheran Church in Pagedale. They were married for 47 years...
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Melba Moore
(Obituary ~ 03/05/24)
Melba Moore, 88, of Sedgewickville passed away Saturday, March 2, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center, surrounded by her loving family. She was born March 16, 1935, in Rector, Arkansas, daughter of Wayne and Mary Treva Parrish Patterson. She and Kelly Paul Jones were married Dec. 24, 1953. He preceded her in death April 9, 1978...
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Don Michelsen
(Obituary ~ 03/05/24)
Charley "Don" Michelsen of Oran, son of Charley E. and Faye Bacchus Michelsen, was born July 9, 1948, in St. Louis and departed his life Friday, March 1, 2024, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 75 years. Don was a member of Laborers Local No. 282 in Cape Girardeau. He then worked as a car salesman in the Cape Girardeau and Sikeston areas before opening Michelsen Motors in Cape Girardeau in 1997. He retired in 2009. Don enjoyed spending time with his family...
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Barbara McIntyre
(Obituary ~ 03/05/24)
Barbara Sue McIntyre, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, March 4, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 4, 1948, in Sikeston to Dorman and Georgia Smith Buck. She married Gary McIntyre 50 years ago Feb. 2, 1974, in Illmo...
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Victoria Buchheit
(Obituary ~ 03/05/24)
Victoria "Vickie" Anne Buchheit, 73, of Perryville died Friday, March 1, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Perry. Visitation will be from 8 to 9:45 a.m. Saturday, March 9, at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Sereno. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 9, at the church, with the Rev. Joe Geders, C.M., officiating. Burial will be at St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery in Perryville...
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Rose Mary Asher
(Obituary ~ 03/05/24)
Rose Mary Asher, 90, of Jackson died Sunday March 3, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, at the funeral home, with the Rev. Joshua Schmidt officiating. Interment will follow at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson...
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Births 3/5/24
(Births ~ 03/05/24)
Son to Corey James and Haley Rae Gettings of Jackson, Saint Francis Medical Center, 8:11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Name, Weston James. Weight, 6 pounds, 15 ounces. Third child, second son. Gettings is the former Haley Dabbs, daughter of David Dabbs and Tammy Dabbs of Jackson. She works for Marner Finance. Gettings is the son of Terry Gettings of Scott City and Rhonda Kester of Chaffee. He is employed by Scheeter Automotive and Diesel...
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Out of the past: March 5
(Out of the Past ~ 03/05/24)
Missouri Secretary of State Bekki Cook won’t seek re-election or run for any other public office next year; the 48-year-old Democrat from Cape Girardeau says she will leave public office when her term ends in January 2001; however, she also indicates she won’t rule out running for governor some day; less than an hour after Cook made here announcement yesterday, House Speaker Steve Gaw said he would run for the office Cook is vacating. ...
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Specialty grant program now open
(Submitted Story ~ 03/05/24)
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks is accepting applications for several specialty grants, including one open to nonprofits in southeast Missouri. The Lennie Cloud Fund for the Hearing Impaired Grant Program has $500 available to a nonprofit within the CFO’s service area to assist individuals with impaired hearing through equipment, programming or training...
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