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Dirt scraper from Dexter goes to Antarctica
(Editorial ~ 10/08/02)
When Dennis Brown of Dexter, Mo., was inventing a piece of equipment a few years ago to level ground that has been excavated, he most likely wasn't giving any thought to the needs for leveling ice in Antarctica. But one of Brown's machines, adapted for use on ice and in temperatures of 60 degrees below zero, is on its way to the bottom of the Southern Hemisphere...
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Atlantis blasts off, ends NASA's four-month launch hiatus
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Atlantis blasted off on the first shuttle flight in four months Monday, with a side-mounted video camera showing the coastline and the brilliant blue ocean receding fast in the distance as the spaceship climbed toward orbit. The shuttle rose from its seaside pad under tight post-Sept. 11 security, carrying six astronauts and a 14-ton girder that will be installed on the international space station later this week...
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People talk 10/08/02
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
Chan wants more drama in his life HONG KONG -- At 48, Jackie Chan is getting sick of performing stunts, and wants to play more dramatic roles. "I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life," Chan said Monday at a news conference promoting the local premiere of "The Tuxedo," which opened last week in the United States. "I want to be a real actor."...
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Controversial sculpture set to go atop Capitol dome
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- For decades, the only thing crowning the Kansas Capitol dome was a 750-watt light bulb. Now, after years of delays and budget wrangling, the tower atop the Statehouse dome is set to hold a 3-ton, 20-foot bronze statue titled "Ad Astra" -- a piece depicting a Kansa Indian hunter shooting an arrow at the stars...
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Hearing on 1998 copyright law could mean problems for Disney
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
Mickey Mouse's days at Disney could be numbered and paying royalties for warbling George Gershwin tunes could become a thing of the past if the U.S. Supreme Court sides with an Internet publisher in a landmark copyright case this week. The high court will hear the case Wednesday that could plunge the earliest images of Disney's mascot and other closely held creative property into the public domain as early as next year...
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New frontier in random drug testing - checking for tobacco
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. -- Breath mints won't cut it anymore for students who have been smoking in the bathroom -- some schools around the country are administering urine tests to teenagers to find out whether they have been using tobacco. Opponents say such testing violates students' rights and can keep them out of the extracurricular activities they need to stay on track. But some advocates say smoking in the boys' room is a ticket to more serious drug use...
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California family finds unusual farming niche
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
VISALIA, Calif. -- As Jon Bassett sticks his hand in a 2-foot-by-4-foot bin filled with 100,000 chirping brown and white crickets, dozens bounce off his arm, elbow and hand. He grabs one without flinching. "As a child, I didn't have a choice -- before school I had to feed and water the crickets. If we didn't do this, we couldn't eat," he said. "It's like the same thing growing up on a dairy farm -- you get up and help with the farm."...
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Knowledge gap on mercury in fish is hurting some
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
and Martha Mendoza ~ The Associated Press Mercury is poison. And yet it is on dinner plates everywhere -- in sea bass served in fancy restaurants, in tuna casserole ladled out at home. Most of the time, there is so little, it goes unnoticed. But that doesn't mean the mercury in swordfish or shark, trout or snapper is harmless. Eat enough -- or eat enough fish from especially polluted waters -- and it can make you sick...
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District considers tying MAP scores, principals' salaries
(State News ~ 10/08/02)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- The Independence School District is considering a proposal to tie student performance on state tests to salaries paid to its principals and central office administrators. The plan to incorporate students' scores on the Missouri Assessment Program tests into administrators' evaluations would tell school officials that it was important to be instructional leaders, said Independence Superintendent Jim Hinson...
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Green, orange, purple flames likely a meteor
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
SALT LAKE CITY -- Residents in Utah, Colorado and southern Wyoming saw a fireball, which some said had a long tail of green, orange and purple flames that raced across the night sky. "People said it had a 500-foot tail and it was huge, like a meteor, and green and orange," La Plata County, Colo., sheriff's dispatcher Kristy Lee said...
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Frozen world past Pluto is largest find in 72 years
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
LOS ANGELES -- A billion miles beyond Pluto, astronomers have discovered a frozen celestial body 800 miles across -- the biggest find in our solar system since the ninth planet was first spied in 1930. Astronomers do not consider the newfound object a planet. Instead, it is believed to be icy debris left over from the formation of the solar system 5 billion years ago...
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World briefs 10/08/02
(International News ~ 10/08/02)
Illegal immigrant smuggling ring busted TORONTO -- A joint Canadian-U.S. police operation arrested 15 people for smuggling illegal immigrants from south Asia through Canada to the United States, police said Monday. The "large-scale" smuggling schemes involved people with forged passports and posing as large tour groups who entered Canada in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, British Columbia, then made their way into the United States, officials said...
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U.S. Navy, French officials to investigate tanker fire
(International News ~ 10/08/02)
AL MUKALLA, Yemen -- U.S. Navy officers and French agents were being sent here to investigate whether a terrorist attack caused the explosion and fire that raged for hours aboard a French oil tanker, officials said Monday. Officials had suggested that a small boat laden with explosives may have struck the tanker and caused the blast in an attack similar to that on the USS Cole two years ago in the Yemeni port of Aden. ...
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Gunfire shakes Ivory Coast as government launches attack
(International News ~ 10/08/02)
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- Heavy explosions and the crackle of machine guns terrified residents of Ivory Coast's second-largest city Monday as government forces smashed through rebel lines in a long-promised offensive against insurgents who have seized half the country...
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Iran will not allow U.S. to use its airspace to attack Iraq
(International News ~ 10/08/02)
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran will not allow the United States to use its airspace to attack Iraq, and its armed forces will defend the country's territory, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. "We hope such an error will not be committed by anybody," ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. "It's clear our armed forces are prepared to defend the country's territorial integrity and its airspace and land. The Islamic Republic will not accept such acts in any way."...
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Islamic group vows revenge after deadly Israeli raid
(International News ~ 10/08/02)
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip -- The Islamic militant group Hamas threatened new attacks Monday after Israel fired a missile into a crowded Gaza street and killed 11 Palestinians. The United States said it was "deeply troubled" by the raid in which three other Palestinians died and 110 were wounded...
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Nation digest 10/08/02
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
Nursing home charged in deaths averts trial XENIA, Ohio -- A nursing home operator agreed Monday to pay a $60,000 fine and quit as manager of an Ohio home, averting a manslaughter trial in the case of four residents who died after a nitrogen tank was mistakenly hooked up to the oxygen system...
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West Coast port talks break off
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
Hours after talks broke down between West Coast port workers and shipping lines, President Bush took a first step toward ordering longshoremen back onto the job Monday. Bush formed a board of inquiry to determine the impact of a dispute draining up to $2 billion a day from the U.S. economy...
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Bush - Hussein is building nukes
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
CINCINNATI -- President Bush, seeking support for war against Iraq, called Saddam Hussein a "murderous tyrant" Monday night and said he may be plotting to attack the United States with biological and chemical weapons. Saddam and his "nuclear holy warriors" are also building a nuclear weapons program and could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year, Bush said in a prime-time address...
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American, two Britons win Nobel Prize for gene work
(International News ~ 10/08/02)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- An American and two Britons won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how genes regulate organ growth and a process of programmed cell suicide. Their findings shed light on the development of many illnesses, including AIDS and strokes...
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Shooting victim had Bollinger County roots
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- James Martin, the first of six people killed in the Maryland shooting spree last week, had his roots in Bollinger County. Martin, 55, of Silver Spring, Md., graduated from Woodland High School in 1965 and had worked at the Wallis Store and Lutes and Hartle Hardware Store in Lutesville, Mo., while in high school, said longtime friend Tom Ossig of Marble Hill, who said Martin was "like a foster brother to me."...
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Louisville has Tigers on menu but still savors win over FSU
(College Sports ~ 10/08/02)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The coaches had departed the Louisville locker room, leaving quarterback Dave Ragone and the 25 players on his offense alone with their thoughts. It was halftime of last Thursday's game with No. 4 Florida State, and the Cardinals trailed 13-6...
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Liberal professors promote tolerance
(Column ~ 10/08/02)
By John C. Bierk After referring to "feminism," "affirmative action," "multiculturalism" and "gender politics" as if these were dirty words ("The absent professors, Oct. 2), John Leo then alleges that liberal college professors not only force these concepts upon unsuspecting students, but also punish all those who dissent from the "liberal" view...
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Cards appear Rolen-less
(Professional Sports ~ 10/08/02)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals are preparing for the NL championship series without Scott Rolen, although they hesitated to make an official decision Monday. "He's got a sprain in several places and it's very painful," manager Tony La Russa said before the team worked out. "It's a lot to expect that it's not going to be a couple of weeks before he gets ready, and it's a lot to expect a club to play with four bench guys in a National League-type game...
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Rams need historical run to reach playoffs
(Professional Sports ~ 10/08/02)
ST. LOUIS -- When you're 0-5 after most expected a Super Bowl run, off to the worst start in club history in nearly four decades and days from hosting the undefeated, high-scoring Oakland Raiders, all that's left for the St. Louis Rams is to get upset...
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Giants eliminate Braves, will face Cards in NLCS
(Professional Sports ~ 10/08/02)
ATLANTA -- The long wait is over. Barry Bonds is finally a postseason winner. One of the greatest players in baseball history seized the playoff stage Monday night, homering and scoring the first two San Francisco runs as the Giants held off the Atlanta Braves 3-1 in the decisive Game 5 of the NL division series...
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Tips for building a better study group
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
The Dallas Morning News Study groups are as varied as learning styles, said Dr. Erika Shearin Karres, assistant professor of education at the University of North Carolina. Student-driven sessions usually are made up of peers who share work ethics. Sometimes parents and teachers arrange for students to study together...
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Churches revive traditional hymns
(State News ~ 10/08/02)
By Eric Gorski ~ The Gazette COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Other than the occasional "Amazing Grace," the hymn is dead at many Protestant churches these days. As church music evolved to fit the times, the hymn book has been tucked away in favor of pop-influenced praise songs whose lyrics are projected on big screens...
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Team approach to schoolwork can help students succeed
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
On a quiet September afternoon at the Hockaday School in Dallas, Gillian Barjon beckoned her two study partners and they searched for the biggest shade spot on the campus lawn. Once they settled on the benches under the large ginkgo tree, they began...
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Jackson firms get reprieve from MoDOT
(State News ~ 10/08/02)
Some of Jackson's largest businesses are reachable only from Lee Avenue. Long concerned about proposed Highway 34/72 improvements that would restrict access to the street to right-hand turns, the companies received a reprieve Monday. The Missouri Department of Transportation announced it will shorten a median that would have run west from the intersection of Highway 34/72 and U.S. ...
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Expecting complaints about parking
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
Southeast Missouri State University will build more parking spaces on campus even if it means disrupting existing parking and tearing down houses to do it. The university is moving ahead with plans to build two parking structures, revamp the Towers residence hall complex parking lot on Sprigg Street and tear down three houses on the west side of campus to provide more parking on the car-crowded campus...
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Local resident pleads guilty to firearms charge
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
A Cape Girardeau man, previously convicted of felonies, pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition in federal court. Michael J. Farrow, 43, appeared Monday before U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel. Cape Girardeau police responded to his home on Jan. 27, where his wife, Ann S. Farrow, told them her husband kept a shotgun in the home and had cleaned it several times...
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Sister, brother killed in auto accident
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Two teen siblings were killed Monday afternoon in a one-car accident on Route E, about six miles south of Doniphan. Sixteen-year-old Danialle Tillman of Doniphan lost control of her 1994 Nissan as it came over the crest of a hill, left the roadway and struck a tree, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...
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Search warrant results in arrest for drug trafficking
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
Cape Girardeau police executed a search warrant at a residence on Sunday and turned up approximately 104 grams of cocaine and $21,350 in cash. Brian L. Cayce, 35, was arrested at his home at 1919 Old Sprigg Road and was later charged on Monday with second degree drug trafficking and possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute. Circuit Judge William Syler set Cayce's bond at $75,000, and the suspect remains in custody...
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Meth-fighting efforts boosted thanks to federal funds
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
More than $2 million in federal funds is headed to Cape Girardeau County to help fight the Missouri's war on meth. The U.S. Department of Justice recently approved $2,069,412 be sent to Sheriff John Jordan to administer for the Missouri Sheriffs Methamphetamine Relief Team, a coalition of Missouri sheriffs organized U.S. Sen. Kit Bond and Jordan...
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Jerry Falwell to return to Cape for another crusade
(State News ~ 10/08/02)
Six months since its last crusade, the Horizon Foundation is again bringing some top-name evangelists to Cape Girardeau for a six-night revival Oct. 20 through 25 at the Show Me Center. The Rev. Jerry Falwell is coming back to Cape Girardeau to open the event...
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Man receives sentence in child endangerment case
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
A Jackson father was sentenced Monday to probation and 30 days in county jail for leaving his 3-year-old daughter alone in an apartment with his wife's corpse and a kitchen littered with anti-psychotic pills. James E. Bratina, 30, found his dead wife face down on a baby mattress on the floor next to their bed on Jan. 15, 2001. Instead of immediately seeking help, he left his daughter and went to work, returning nearly four hours later to call 911...
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Council reviews plan of River Campus museum
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
Though the location has not been pinned down, the River Campus Board of Managers, with the help of several consultants, has etched out a basic floor plan of a proposed River Campus museum. Dr. Stanley Grand, Southeast Missouri State University's art museum director who is spearheading the planning for the museum, updated the Cape Girardeau City Council Monday night on the project...
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Holden to probe rise in rates for malpractice insurance
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
Gov. Bob Holden told a group of area doctors Monday he is upset that Missouri physicians are seeing malpractice insurance rates skyrocket while claims and payouts continue to drop. "I am looking for an explanation for these rate increases, and I will get to the bottom of it," Holden said during remarks made Monday night at a meeting of the Cape Girardeau County Area Medical Society. "In the end, patients pay for these costs, and the quality of health care in our state suffers."...
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If U.S. attacks, Saddam could try to initiate urban warfare
(International News ~ 10/08/02)
CAIRO, Egypt -- If a U.S. attack against Iraq sparks popular revolts, elite troops would likely join, and the cornered Saddam Hussein would try to draw American troops into urban fighting with his loyalists, exiled commanders who once fought under him say...
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Girl power brings on new kinds of pressures
(Community ~ 10/08/02)
NEW YORK -- Thirteen-year-old Emma Karasz says she's already received enough beauty advice to last a lifetime. And between CosmoGIRL!, YM and Seventeen, Karasz has had her fill of fashion spreads and inspiring real-life stories aimed at girls her age. "Maybe it's just a phase, there are people that care about those sorts of magazines, but I'm not one of them," she says...
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Pearl Tadlock
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Pearl Hazel Jeffries Tadlock, 95, of Sikeston died Monday, Oct. 7, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Feb. 17, 1907, at Blodgett, Mo., daughter of James William and Martha Ann Hodges Burns. She first married Leonard W. Jeffries April 4, 1926, at Benton, Mo. He died July 11, 1968. She and Arthur Tadlock were married Sept. 2, 1978, at Sikeston. He died May 22, 1987...
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Audrey Flood
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
Audrey Flood, 74, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 7, 2002, at her home. She was born Jan. 17, 1928, in Evanston, Ill., daughter of Frank and Lois Whyte Dodd. Flood moved to Cape Girardeau five years ago from Chicago. She was a licensed practical nurse, and member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...
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Roy Goddard
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Roy Goddard, 86, of Anna died Monday, Oct. 7, 2002, at Skaggs Community Health Center in Branson, Mo. Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Helen Welker
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
ARBOR, Mo. -- The funeral for Helen M. Welker of Fenton, Mo., will be held at 1 p.m. today at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Arnold, Mo. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens at Cedar Hill, Mo. Chapel Hill Mortuary at Cedar Hill is in charge of arrangements...
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Edna Goodman
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
BENTON, Mo. -- The funeral for Edna "Ruth" Goodman of Lordsburg, N.M., will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Assembly of God Church in Lordsburg. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 9 a.m. to service time. Baca's Funeral Chapel in Deming, N.M., is in charge of arrangements...
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Juanita Holz
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- The funeral for Juanita Helen Holz of Kansas City, Mo., will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie, Mo. Fred Girdwood will officiate. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from noon to service time...
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Speak Out A 10/08/02
(Speak Out ~ 10/08/02)
Junior high is slighted I WOULD like to say how much I appreciated and appreciate the efforts of the Central Middle School's new librarian. She's doing a great job fixing up the library for kids that's very different. She also put together a spectacular fun program for all the families. ...
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Smokers paid $341 million to state in 2001
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/08/02)
To the editor: I am writing to comment on the recent letter to the editor headlined "If some smokers quit, tax revenues still would be big." Missouri's smokers are already carrying more than a reasonable share of the tax burden. In 2001, Missouri's smokers paid more than $341 million to the state in cigarette-related revenue alone. ...
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Rev. E.L. Eudy
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- The funeral for the Rev. E.L. "Lee" Eudy of Camp Verde, Ariz., will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Anna, Ill. The Revs. C.O. Belcher and A.W. Landis will officiate. Burial will be in Jonesboro Cemetery. Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home in Anna from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday...
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Donald Nickless
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
Donald H. Nickless, 77, of Boonville, Ind., died Sunday, Oct. 6, 2002, at his home. He was born Aug. 25, 1925, at Bernie, Mo., son of Adam and Nellie McMillion Nickless. He married the former Mary Estes of Cape Girardeau. Nickless attended schools in Cape Girardeau County. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...
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Hurricanes' Dorsey blows away Heisman competitors
(Sports Column ~ 10/08/02)
MIAMI -- Don't mean to be arrogant, but if you're thinking anybody but Miami's Ken Dorsey for the Heisman Trophy, you're wrong. Or maybe I should put it more diplomatically -- if you're thinking Dorsey for the Heisman, you're right. In one sense, Dorsey's real Heisman run starts Saturday at noon in the Orange Bowl against Florida State when he shoots for a 32-1 career record...
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Baseball's title not for sale this year
(Sports Column ~ 10/08/02)
Everybody can find something to like in this baseball postseason. For the first time since the 1995 strike, baseball's version of the Final Four won't include any team that started the season among the top five in payroll. And depending on the winner of the Atlanta-San Francisco series, it's possible the league championship series will play out without even one team that finished the season with a top-10 payroll...
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Sniper strikes again; boy critically wounded
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
BOWIE, Md. -- The Washington-area sniper struck again Monday, shooting and critically wounding a 13-year-old boy as his aunt dropped him off at school, authorities said. The shooting of the gunman's youngest victim yet heightened fear across the densely populated neighborhoods surrounding the nation's capital. Schools kept youngsters indoors at recess and lunchtime, and parents raced to pick up their children early under the watchful eyes of police...
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Central netters defeat Sikeston in final tune up for districts
(High School Sports ~ 10/08/02)
Central's girls' tennis team finished up an impressive regular season and tuned up for today's district tournament by beating visiting Sikeston 8-1 Monday. The Tigers wound up with a 10-2 record in dual matches. "I'm really pleased with the season," Central coach Bud Craven said. "I thought we'd have a winning record, but I didn't expect this. And we've only got two seniors on the varsity, so we'll have some good girls coming back."...
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Alive and swinging - Accident nearly took life of tennis player
(High School Sports ~ 10/08/02)
Jackson senior Kim Anderson can somehow smile, with a full set of teeth, when she recounts the road leading to today's district tournament at Forest Park in St. Louis. Anderson and her partner Kelly Mitchell are the top seeds in Class 2, District 1 doubles play. Today could be Anderson's last high school match, but don't count on it...
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Out of the past 10/8/02
(Out of the Past ~ 10/08/02)
10 years ago: Oct. 8, 1992 New westward expansion of city and continued development in north Cape Girardeau has prompted review of city's long-range master streets plan; Planning and Zoning Commission next week will conduct special study session to review plan -- composed of major street projects for next 20 years -- and possibly recommend changes...
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Births 10/8/02
(Births ~ 10/08/02)
Henderson Son to Rodney T. and Stacey M. Henderson of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002. Name, Rodney Drake. Weight, 7 pounds 10 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Henderson is the former Stacey Propst, daughter of Bill and Lorrie Propst of McClure, Ill. She is employed at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri. Henderson is the son of Ted Henderson of Olive Branch, Ill., and Audrey Stroud of Wickliffe, Ky. He is employed by Baugher Construction...
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Vicky P. Skaggs
(Obituary ~ 10/08/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Vicky P. Skaggs, 39, of Marble Hill died Sunday, Oct. 6, 2002, at Three Rivers Healthcare Center North Campus at Poplar Bluff, Mo. She was born Oct. 13, 1962, at Advance, Mo., daughter of Clarence and Bessie Glover Wilfong. She and Doug Skaggs were married May 3, 1997...
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Fanfare 10/8
(Other Sports ~ 10/08/02)
Baseball Chicago Cubs general manager Jim Hendry quietly took the next step in his managerial search Sunday by meeting with Buck Showalter in St. Louis, according to major-league sources. It was Hendry's first interview in a managerial search that might not last as long as previously anticipated...
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Former Indian Anderson stampedes to CFL mark
(College Sports ~ 10/08/02)
Chalk up another professional football milestone for former Southeast Missouri State University star Kelvin "Earthquake" Anderson. Anderson, who plays for the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders, has surpassed the 1,000-yard mark in rushing for the seventh straight season to set a CFL record. Anderson had been tied with George Reed, who put together six consecutive 1,000-yard seasons for Saskatchewan from 1964-1969...
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High court opens session, turns away hundreds of appeals
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
WASHINGTON -- On the first day of the Supreme Court's new term, justices turned down appeal after appeal, disappointing more than a thousand people, including Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and exonerated Olympic Park bombing suspect Richard Jewell...
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Knicks fine Sprewell $250,000
(Professional Sports ~ 10/08/02)
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Latrell Sprewell was fined $250,000 Monday by the New York Knicks, who also told him to stay away from the team until he can make "a positive contribution." Sprewell was punished for failing to tell the team that he broke a bone in his shooting hand two weeks before training camp started. He had surgery last week and is out at least six weeks...
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Augusta member says he'll help push for female member
(Professional Sports ~ 10/08/02)
The push for female members at Augusta National Golf Club got its biggest boost yet Monday when the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee said he will work aggressively with other club members to admit women. Lloyd Ward, one of a handful of black members at Augusta National, said he was "committed to breaking down barriers which exclude women from membership at Augusta in the weeks and months ahead."...
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Radio station fires DJ for Kile prank
(Professional Sports ~ 10/08/02)
The disc jockey who made an on-air prank call to the widow of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile was fired, the radio station announced Monday. KUPD-FM morning radio personality Beau Duran called Flynn Kile at her hotel and asked if she had a date to last Thursday's playoff game...
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Sooners-Longhorns showdown will take top billing Saturday
(Professional Sports ~ 10/08/02)
After nearly stumbling the week before the big game, either second-ranked Oklahoma or No. 3 Texas is about to pull ahead in the race for the Big 12 South title. Let the hype officially begin. "Oklahoma's a great team. It's a super week for both states," Texas coach Mack Brown said...
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Woman is accused in death of husband
(State News ~ 10/08/02)
When Larry Holman was found slumped dead in his car two years ago on a roadside in wooded Jefferson County near St. Louis, investigators initially thought the lethal gunshot wound to his head was from a hunting accident. Prosecutors say they're prepared to show that's how Holman's wife planned it...
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Keep focus on Iraq's lies about bioweapons
(Editorial ~ 10/08/02)
One of the reasons the Bush administration has targeted Iraq in the war on terrorism is the fact that Saddam Hussein's regime has actively sought to create weapons of bioterrorism that could be unleashed on U.S. targets or anywhere else in the world...
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Drug companies settle diluted drugs lawsuits
(State News ~ 10/08/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Eli Lilly & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb on Monday settled more than 300 lawsuits accusing them of failing to stop a pharmacist accused of watering down cancer drugs. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The two companies announced the settlement during jury selection in the first of the cases to go to trial. The trial will continue against pharmacist Robert R. Courtney, with opening arguments planned for today...
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Court won't review case of man banned from having more children
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal from a man under court order to stop fathering children. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case of David Oakley, who has fathered nine children out of wedlock. Oakley, who faces eight years in jail if he impregnates another woman, argued that it is unconstitutional for the government to limit his right to have children...
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Sailors used government credit to pay for gambling, prostitutes
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
WASHINGTON -- Navy personnel used government credit cards to hire prostitutes at brothels, buy jewelry, gamble and attend New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers games in fraudulent purchases exceeding $200,000, congressional investigators have found...
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Indians confront an entirely new test -- winning
(College Sports ~ 10/08/02)
After years of futility, Southeast Missouri State University football coach Tim Billings hopes the Indians have finally learned how to win. But even if they have, he knows there is still an important step left in order to truly turn the program around -- they have to learn how to handle winning...
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Otahkians suffers 2-1 setback to Memphis
(College Sports ~ 10/08/02)
Coming off a huge win Friday night against Ohio Valley Conference women's soccer favorite Eastern Illinois, Southeast Missouri State University dominated nearly every facet of its game against Memphis at Houck Stadium Monday night. Except the score, that is...
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Mixed messages continue on breast cancer
(Community ~ 10/08/02)
WASHINGTON -- Call it the year of mixed messages: First came debate about mammography's value, then the news that long-term use of the hormones estrogen and progestin raise the risk of breast cancer and heart attacks after all. Now more headlines, declaring that checking breasts for cancerous lumps once a month doesn't do much good, have some cancer patients and health care providers irate -- and telling women to ignore the news and keep on checking...
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People & Things 10/8/02
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
Wilkinson awarded two scholarships COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Jennifer Wilkinson of Jackson recently received the Mary Ann Baugher O'Brien Special Education Scholarship Fund award and the General Federation of Women's Club Scholarship to the University of Missouri-Columbia's College of Education...
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Cape fire report 10/8/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/08/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, Oct. 8 Firefighters responded Sunday to the following items: At 4:49 p.m., emergency medical service at 25 S. Sprigg. At 7:16 p.m., clean up fluids at motor vehicle accident at William and Ellis. At 9:42 p.m., alarm at 325 N. Sprigg...
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Jackson School Board agenda
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
JACKSON BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING 7 p.m. today Board Office, 614 East Adams Informational Items Review of professional development Assistant Superintendent-Personnel and Instruction Report Assistant Superintendent for Finance Report...
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Cape police report 10/8/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/08/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, Oct. 8 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests An 18-year-old male was placed in protective custody Sunday. Erica Hempstead, 20, of 918 College, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of prohibited acts, noise violation, resisting arrest and walking in the street when a sidewalk was available...
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Date movie not about humans
(National News ~ 10/08/02)
INDIO, Calif. -- It may be the perfect date movie. Each day, in a small movie theater here, curious patrons watch a short flick called "The Romance and Sex Life of the Date." Don't get any funny ideas: It's about dates, as in the sweet fruit. The Coachella Valley date harvest is in full swing and production is expected to hit 30 million pounds, said John Beck of the California Date Commission...
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Non-stop action, teeny plot
(Local News ~ 10/08/02)
There are subtle, tasteful, educational videogames to make you and yours better people. Then there's "Gungrave." "Gungrave," from Red Entertainment and Sega for the PlayStation 2, is a nonstop, unrelenting gun-fest. Our hero, known as Grave to his friends, packs twin pistols he lovingly calls Cerberos and a coffin which he uses to beat enemies or blow them to pieces with rockets stored inside...
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