Romney narrowly takes Maine
Mitt Romney narrowly won Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign with a much-needed boost after three straight losses last week. But the former...
View ArticleRio calm in second day of police strike
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Few police officers have adhered to a strike just days before this city's world-famous Carnival kicks off, official said Saturday. Col. Robson Rodrigues da Silva, the administrative...
View ArticleOil spill fouls river in eastern Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Crude oil that spilled from a ruptured pipeline has blackened a river in eastern Venezuela, and the state oil company said workers are containing the spill. Workers have removed...
View ArticleSyrian general assassinated by gunmen in Damascus
BEIRUT -- Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus on Saturday in the first killing of a high-ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's...
View ArticleConservatives shrug at Obama birth control coverage rewrite
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face...
View ArticleObama budget focuses on new spending, recycled tax ideas
WASHINGTON -- The White House is focusing on re-election themes such as jobs and public works projects in President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint while relying on familiar but never enacted tax...
View ArticleU.S. faces tough fight in cash smuggling crackdown
WASHINGTON -- Jeanette Barraza-Galindo conspicuously left her bags of teddy bears and throw pillows on a bus during an inspection at the Texas-Mexico border -- and professed ignorance about the...
View ArticleHenry Pekarek
Henry J. "Hank" Pekarek Jr., 82, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 21, 1929, at Cleveland, to Eleanor Bull and Henry...
View ArticleEvelyn Wille
Evelyn Rose Wille, 91, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Jackson, died Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 12, 1920, in St. Louis, to John M. and Bertha...
View ArticleTony Nanney
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Tony Lee Nanney, 63, of Marble Hill passed away Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at his residence. He was born Jan. 17, 1949, at Cape Girardeau, son of John Chester and Iris Geraldine...
View ArticleRuth Francis
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Ruth Robins Francis, 92, of Advance, was born Aug. 9, 1919, at Millersville, the daughter of Charlie and Cora Turner Robins, and passed away Feb. 10, 2012, at Fresenius Medical Center...
View ArticleLeona Ellis
SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. -- Leona Ellis, 72, of Sedgewickville passed away Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at her residence. She was born April 21, 1939, at Millersville, daughter of Tony Otto and Alma Lou...
View ArticleSchool menus Feb. 13 to 17
Cape Girardeau Elementary MONDAY--Chicken nuggets or turkey & cheese on bun, chicken & herb rice, peaches. TUESDAY--Crispito with nacho cheese sauce or ham & cheese on bun, corn-on-cob,...
View ArticleJudith Wiseman
DEXTER, Mo. -- Judith Ann Wiseman, 72, of Dexter, was born Nov. 1, 1939, in Ancell, the daughter of Paul R. and Helen Blattel Kiehne. She departed earthly life Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at Landmark...
View ArticleMarjorie Ryan
ULLIN, Ill. -- Marjorie Grace Kerley Ryan, 82 years of age, a resident of Ullin, passed away at 12:10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, at her residence, Southgate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in...
View ArticleJudith Hafele
Judith Ann Hafele, 62, of Jackson died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at her home. She was born April 4, 1949, at Cape Girardeau, to Melvin and Evelyn Morton Masterson. She and Collin Hafele were married...
View ArticleCharles Parnell
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Charles L. Parnell, 78, of Perryville died Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was born July 6, 1933, in Steele, Mo., son of Claude C. and...
View ArticleHarold Burlison
PERKINS, Mo. -- Harold "Hoover" Burlison, 82, of Perkins was born March 14, 1929, at Swinton, Mo., the son of Arthur and Bertha Lee Burlison, and passed away Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at Advance Nursing...
View ArticleDenny Ourth
Herbert "Denny" Ourth, 66, of Jackson died Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at his home. He was born Sept. 20, 1945, in Cape Girardeau, to Leo Lawrence and Helen Louise Diebold Ourth. Herbert attended Notre...
View ArticleOut of the past 2/12/12
A committee studying a recreational lake in Cape Girardeau County continues to conduct its work at a fast pace; yesterday it identified three new possible lake locations in the county that will be...
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