High school roundup: Central boys basketball team unloads big quarter on Seckman
All the local high school events reported Tuesday to the Southeast Missourian.
View ArticleSoutheast Missourian athlete of the week: Notre Dame's Trever Foltz
Notre Dame junior Trever Foltz added another honor to his impressive wrestling season. The 182-pounder won the title at the SEMO Conference meet when he pinned Farmington's Daktoa Kee in 5 minutes, 8...
View ArticleWorkers to pump oil from grounded cruise Saturday
GIGLIO, Italy -- A barge carrying a crane and other equipment hitched itself to the toppled Costa Concordia on Tuesday, signaling the start of preliminary operations to remove a half-million gallons...
View ArticleWar of words over Greek debt heats up
ZURICH -- The war of words between Europe and private investors heated up Tuesday as talks to reduce Greece's massive debt burden hit an impasse. While the finance ministers of the countries that use...
View ArticleGadhafi loyalists seize Libyan city
BENGHAZI, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi loyalists seized control of a Libyan mountain city in the most serious challenge to the central government since the strongman's fall, underlining the increasing...
View ArticleWhy voters should support annexation issue
This letter is to correct much misinformation that was published in a guest column in the Southeast Missourian on Friday, Jan. 20, signed by Ken and Ginny Leimbach, with the headline, "Ten reasons to...
View ArticleMo. farmers eligible for new fed loan guarantees
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - More loans may be available to first-time farmers in Missouri, under a new agreement between the state treasurer's office and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Treasurer...
View ArticleScott Meyer: Staff made 'considerable effort' to educate about Broadway project
Cape Girardeau officials mailed 167 letters, hosted four open houses, distributed news releases to various media outlets and had 100 fliers hand-delivered to businesses along the length of a suddenly...
View ArticleLocal Big Brothers Big Sisters program gets national recognition
Big Brothers Big Sisters will take nationwide a partnership model created in Cape Girardeau. The ABC Education Initiative partnership began locally in 2006 with students in the Cape Girardeau School...
View ArticleScott City Middle School
Scott City Middle School High Honor Roll 5TH grade: Chloe Clayton, Samuel Jordan 6th grade: Makayla Job 7th grade: Tori Buckner, Braden Cox, Jamie Glastetter, Alexis Jenkins, Jacquelyn Roth, Jacob...
View ArticleJackson High School
Jackson Senior High School First Semester Scholastic Honor Roll 11th grade: Melinna Craft, Danielle Daume, Lauren Johnson, Paxton Lemmons, Cheyenne Lingle, Andrew Overmann, Shea Scholl, Sara...
View ArticleCape Central Junior High School
Cape Central Junior High School 1st semester A Honor Roll 7th grade: Sarah Barker, Isaac Buck, Katherine Carns, Jordan Collins, Tessah Conatser, Victoria Crisman, Natalie Davis, Skylar Deimund,...
View ArticlePresident Obama: Shrink gap between rich, poor
WASHINGTON -- Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama delivered a populist challenge Tuesday night to shrink the gap between rich and poor, promising to tax the wealthy more...
View ArticleJFK library releases last of his secret tapes
BOSTON (AP) -- Final recordings President John F. Kennedy secretly made in the Oval Office include an eerie conversation about what would become the day of his funeral. In talking to staffers while...
View ArticleSenate committee approves Meyer nomination to SEMO regents
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Tom Meyer was approved today as a member of the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents by the Senate Gubernatorial Appointments Committee on Wednesday. The...
View ArticleMo. senator wants texting ban as secondary offense
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A proposed compromise to expand Missouri's texting-while-driving law appears to have fallen flat in a Senate committee. The Senate Transportation Committee heard testimony...
View ArticleHumane Society in Cape Girardeau broken into overnight
Someone apparently broke into the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri overnight and stole a donation jar, according to a post on the group's Facebook page. "Whoever robbed the humane society last...
View ArticleReport: Missouri leads nation in black homicide rate
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Missouri has the nation's highest black homicide rate for the second straight year, according to newly-released data. The Washington-based Violence Policy Center on Wednesday...
View ArticleKen Medema
Those who have taken piano lessons likely remember their first session. First learning the notes on the staff, then playing the right-hand melody, and eventually playing with both hands together. Now...
View ArticleSpeak Out 1/26/12
I'D like to thank the person or people who found my cellphone at the Jaycee Golf Course a couple of weeks ago and turned it in at the Elks. It just says that there are people who are honest and good....
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