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Area escapes damage from weekend storm as tornadoes touch down
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
Despite high winds and hail predicted, Scott and Cape Girardeau counties missed major damage in a series of storms Saturday evening, while tornadoes touched down in Carter and Wayne counties. A reported tornado touched down about 5:20 p.m. on the western outskirts of Ellsinore, largely downing electrical lines and trees, Carter County sheriff's dispatcher Gary Sullivan said. A handful of people were reported injured, most taking themselves to hospitals for treatment, Sullivan said...
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Amano tabbed by Tennessee in final round
(College Sports ~ 04/26/04)
Eugene Amano will indeed receive an opportunity to play in the National Football League. That became official Sunday afternoon when Southeast Missouri State University's All-American center was picked by the Tennessee Titans in the seventh and final round of the NFL draft, the 239th selection among 255 players taken...
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Tillman's death shines light on sacrifices made by all soldiers
(Sports Column ~ 04/26/04)
I received my birthday present in the mail last week, two weeks late, from the tiny country of Qatar. For those of you who aren't geography majors, Qatar is positioned on the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and it's where my sister, who serves in the Air Force, is stationed...
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Sandfort, Winkler take titles
(Community Sports ~ 04/26/04)
Sunday was a good day for a run ... and a bike ride ... and a swim. Doug Gannon, coordinating the Steamboat Classic triathlon for the final time, may have put in a special call to arrange Sunday's weather. "Someone got in touch with God and got us a nice window of beautiful weather," said Tim Sandfort, who took advantage of the conditions to win the race. "This was fantastic."...
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Suppan comes up with much-needed outing
(Professional Sports ~ 04/26/04)
MILWAUKEE -- Jeff Suppan gave the St. Louis Cardinals the big outing they needed. Suppan took a shutout into the eighth inning, and Albert Pujols and Jim Edmonds hit consecutive home runs to help St. Louis avoid a three-game sweep with a 5-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday...
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Preservative remains in three vaccines
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
Thimerosal is no longer an ingredient in routinely administered infant immunizations in the United States, but the preservative is still present in a few vaccines. At the Cape Girardeau County Health Department, three vaccine inserts (the information sheets that explain the contents of the vaccines) list thimerosal as an ingredient, although in two of those thimerosal is almost nonexistent, and the amount falls well below the limit established by the Environmental Protection Agency. ...
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Kasten's legacy
(Column ~ 04/26/04)
By Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. Cape Girardeau recently lost one of her finest citizens, Dr. Melvin C. Kasten. Dr. Kasten was unwavering in his devotion to his family, his church, his profession and his community, all of which were the direct beneficiaries of his many talents and his exemplary character. ...
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Jackson waterslide to make way for shopping area
(Column ~ 04/26/04)
For the first summer in 25 years, the Lickity Split Waterslide in Jackson will not be reopening. Owner Gene Rhodes, who helped build the waterslide, said it and the adjacent barn will be taken down to make way for a strip shopping area along East Jackson Boulevard...
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Quotes in the news 04/26/04
(Column ~ 04/26/04)
"I hope, but I'm not sure, that the fact that the United Nations is involved in forming this government gives this government a little bit more credibility. But I think if we manage to identify a large number of people who are qualified, who are honest, who enjoy the respect of their communities, I think this is what will make this government acceptable for the people of Iraq." -- U.N. undersecretary-general Lakhdar Brahimi....
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Maupin helps Indians avoid weekend sweep
(College Sports ~ 04/26/04)
CHARLESTON, Ill. -- Southeast Missouri State, after losing a second straight one-run decision to host Eastern Illinois, finally reversed that trend Sunday to salvage a win in the three-game series. The squads split an Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader with EIU rallying for a 6-5 victory in the opener before Southeast held on for a 4-3 triumph in the finale. In Saturday's series opener, the Panthers prevailed 6-5...
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Jefferson College plans to play McCauley on perimeter
(High School Sports ~ 04/26/04)
Sommer McCauley earned many accolades in high school girls basketball by being a force inside. She was a part of four straight district championships and three final four appearances for Notre Dame Regional High School. She was a first-team all-state selection this winter and was the Southeast Missourian's player of the year...
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Caterpillar dealer expanding Cape Girardeau site
(Business ~ 04/26/04)
After 63 years of operation at 912 Main St., the Sikeston branch of Fabick CAT will close its doors and move its operations to a newly expanded facility in Cape Girardeau. In February, officials at Fabick's corporate office in Fenton, Mo., announced that the Sikeston operation would consolidate with its neighbor to the north to provide easier access to the Southern Illinois market. ...
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Tort reform has doctors, lawyers on opposite sides
(State News ~ 04/26/04)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- If Gov. Bob Holden follows through on his promise to veto legislation that would make it more difficult for people to sue and collect large damage awards in personal injury and other civil cases, Dr. Scot Pringle, a Cape Girardeau obstetrician, has a suggestion...
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Silent for years, now 10-year-old Ben Rushin can't stop talking
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
Editor's note: In Day 1 of the series, Ben stopped talking and began showing unusual behavior. Finally, after Ben didn't respond when firecrackers popped at his feet, Debby Rushin convinced her family she wasn't exaggerating Ben's problems. ...
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The vaccine preservative contains mercury
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
During the 1990s, autism silently exploded across the United States, affecting up to 15 times as many children as it did in the prior decade. A small but growing segment of the medical and scientific communities believes an additive included in mandated childhood vaccines is the agent that fueled the eruption...
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Woman plans walk to help children placed in custody of abusers
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
An advocate for abused children is organizing a 40-day walk across the Trail of Tears to draw attention to the plight of families where children have been placed into the custody of their abusers. Wendy Titelman of New Orleans is looking for volunteers who want to help with the 518-mile walk that will begin June 20 in Cape Girardeau and end July 20 in Atlanta...
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University art students teach multicultural techniques
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
From Japanese wind socks to African face masks and American Indian totem poles to Australian instruments, Scott City youths have been learning two things at once -- art and the world's cultures. Seven 9- to 12-year-olds eagerly worked Sunday afternoon on painted paper-bag totem poles and papier mache pinatas, their latest projects in a six-week art class for children at the Schock Community Art Center in Scott City...
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Noranda says law offers no guarantees again rising power costs
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- In February 2003, the Noranda aluminum smelting plant in New Madrid, Mo., came to the Missouri Senate for help. Suffering from rising power costs, the company and the jobs of over 1,100 workers were facing extinction in one of the poorest regions of the state. In response, the government passed legislation which Noranda officials say has given them a chance to survive. But one year later, the overall effects of the measure are still in question...
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Doppler radar to be used for detecting terror attacks
(Business ~ 04/26/04)
LEXINGTON, Mass. -- For the U.S. Army, Doppler radar isn't just about more precise weather mapping and detecting wind shear. It also holds promise as an early warning system for airborne biological and chemical attacks. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are working with the Army to develop a detection system that would involve modifying federal radar stations in nearly three dozen cities...
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Clean capital
(Business ~ 04/26/04)
The Associated Press PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Martin Roscheisen, CEO of Nanosolar Inc., held up a plastic vial filled with dark, purple liquid -- the secret ingredient behind a new kind of technology startup that's turning heads in Silicon Valley...
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Rural school districts turn charter to save themselves
(National News ~ 04/26/04)
PAISLEY, Ore. -- Just about all 80 students in this speck of a town gathered to cheer their superintendent as he headed to the state capital to try to save their school from extinction after $286,000 in budget cuts. Mark Jeffery went to Salem that day looking for a last-ditch miracle -- and now, two years later, with his school richer by $350,000 in federal funding, he believes he's found one...
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Cosmetics queen Estee Lauder dies at age 97
(National News ~ 04/26/04)
NEW YORK -- Estee Lauder, who started a kitchen business blending face creams and built it into a multimillion-dollar international cosmetics empire, has died. She was 97. Lauder died of cardiopulmonary arrest late Saturday at her home in Manhattan, said Sally Susman, a company spokeswoman...
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Actress walks from 'Sesame Street' into mobster's bed
(Entertainment ~ 04/26/04)
NEW YORK -- After filming an intimate scene with his girlfriend in "The Sopranos," Steve Buscemi's good-natured angst over actress Alison Bartlett's other job on "Sesame Street" was laid bare. "Everybody's going to hate me!" Buscemi moaned. "I'm bedding down Gina!"...
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Studies of autism and mercury
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
Hundreds of studies have been done in the past 70 years as physicians, researchers, government agencies, parents and vaccine manufacturers attempt to prove or disprove the theory that autism is linked to vaccines with the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal. Here's a look at some of the most recognized recent studies done on the issue:...
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Mercury poisoning and autism
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
A 2000 study by Sallie Bernard of Safe Minds, a nonprofit autism awareness organization, hypothesized that autism is nothing more than a unique form of mercury poisoning. In the study, Bernard and her colleagues highlighted nearly 100 similarities between mercury poisoning and autism. Some researchers say symptoms for each are so broad that the study is not valid. The following is a list of some of the similarities Bernard presented:...
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Home-cooked meal to support troops a hit
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
A recent committee meeting followed by a dinner sparked Operation Troop Support's successful fund-raiser. Committee member Dorothy Points made her famous chicken and dumplings for the group, and they decided many people in the community would pay to eat such a good meal. Strong family ties with the military helped influence Points to volunteer and get busy making dumplings...
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Community digest 4/26/04
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
Remembrance Wall featured at mall A Remembrance Wall has been established at Westfield Shoppingtown West Park, just outside of J.C. Penney by the DDS Relay for Life team. Stars and moons from the American Cancer Society will be posted on the wall until June 5, when the Relay for Life event at Cape County Park North takes place. ...
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Police report 04/26/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/26/04)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Teresa M. McCarary, 47, was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear for nonpayment of a fine and costs. James E. Curry of 1005 Good Hope, Cape Girardeau, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of assault...
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Fire report 04/26/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/26/04)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following calls Saturday: At 9:06 p.m., an emergency medical service at 318 S. Spanish. At 10:12 p.m., an emergency medical service at 2910 Beaver Creek. Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday:...
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Vivian Schneider
(Obituary ~ 04/26/04)
Vivian Delores Schneider, 68, of Jackson died Sunday, April 25, 2004, at her home. She was born April 24, 1936, in Advance, Mo., daughter of Charley and Agnes Barker Friedrich. She and Eugene Schneider were married July 3, 1964. Schneider worked in the fitting room at International Shoe in Cape Girardeau, then cleaned houses for several families in Jackson. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson...
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Wallace Weinkein
(Obituary ~ 04/26/04)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Wallace I. Weinkein, 90, of Perry County died Saturday, April 24, 2004, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 6, 1914, in Perry County, son of Isadore and Mary Klemp Weinkein. He and Anna Kiefer were married Sept. 27, 1947, in Highland, Mo. She died in 1983...
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Increase in immunization schedule
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
During the 1990s, the U.S. government greatly expanded its infant immunization schedule, which simultaneously increased the amount of mercury being injected into children with each new vaccination. Here's a look at the vaccines that were added between 1990 and 2000 and how much thimerosal each contained. YEAR VACCINE THIMEROSAL CONTENT...
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Other autism theories
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
While the belief that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is responsible for the rise in autism over the past decade is gaining popularity, there are other theories about the increase. Some people think the increase is due to more awareness among doctors, who are consequently diagnosing the disorder more frequently now...
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World briefs 4/26/04
(National News ~ 04/26/04)
Social Democrat wins Austrian presidential race VIENNA, Austria -- A senior parliamentary official on Sunday defeated a rival backed by right-wing populist Joerg Haider in a presidential election that also indicated voter dissatisfaction with the country's government. With half of the ballots counted, Heinz Fischer, the candidate of the opposition Social Democrats, had close to 52 percent. Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the conservative endorsed by Haider, had just over 48 percent...
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Josh Malina has been clever add to 'West Wing' ensemble
(Entertainment ~ 04/26/04)
BURBANK, Calif. -- The vice president's top aide, Will Bailey, is explaining the "talking points on the VP's energy speech" to White House press secretary C.J. Cregg so she can help him "control the media." Their exchange is typical of the complex and often cynical pingpong of information that bounces about the fictional halls of power on NBC's "The West Wing."...
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China reports four new suspected SARS cases
(International News ~ 04/26/04)
BEIJING -- Evoking bad memories of last year's outbreak, China announced Sunday it was investigating four fresh suspected SARS cases in its capital and ordered an affected southern province to gird for a coming holiday when millions of Chinese will be traveling...
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Shortages possible after N. Korea blast
(International News ~ 04/26/04)
DANDONG, China -- Injured children lay on file cabinets as an overcrowded North Korean hospital struggled to cope without enough beds or medicine for hundreds of victims from last week's train explosion, an aid worker who visited the facility said Sunday...
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Vienna man saw Kosovo police job as 'challenge'
(State News ~ 04/26/04)
VIENNA, Ill. -- A Vienna man who died from wounds sustained in Kosovo was remembered as a man who enjoyed his job with the United Nations' international police force. Gary Weston, 52, died Saturday at St. Louis University Medical Center, two days after he was returned to the United States in critical condition. He suffered two gunshot wounds to the head earlier this month when the convoy he was riding in came under attack in Kosovo...
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Polish parish votes to protect itself in standoff with bishop
(State News ~ 04/26/04)
ST. LOUIS -- An independent Polish parish at odds with St. Louis' archbishop over its control has protectively agreed Sunday to release its assets to a Roman Catholic charitable group -- not the archdiocese -- if the parish or its corporation ever dissolves...
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Gordon grabs victory in controversial finish
(Professional Sports ~ 04/26/04)
TALLADEGA, Ala. -- This time, the decision went Jeff Gordon's way. After a NASCAR ruling went against him a week earlier in Martinsville, Va., costing Gordon a shot at victory, the sanctioning organization handed the four-time Nextel Cup champion a controversial win Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway...
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Rams beef up defense on second day of draft
(Professional Sports ~ 04/26/04)
The Associated Press ST. LOUIS -- For a guy who loves offense, St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz keeps proving he's willing to replenish talent on the other side of the ball. After making running back Steven Jackson their first offensive first-round pick since 2000, the Rams chose three straight defensive players in the NFL draft. ...
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State governments join debate over mercury in vaccines
(Local News ~ 04/26/04)
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a large section of the nation's medical field denies that mercury-containing vaccines have contributed to the national autism explosion, politicians are beginning to show an interest in enacting new restrictions...
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Out of the past 4/26/04
(Out of the Past ~ 04/26/04)
10 years ago: April 26, 1994 Twelve Japanese nurses are visiting St. Francis Medical Center this week to learn about American nursing practices; in Japan, nurses work under specific directions from physicians and do many of tasks technicians complete in United States...
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