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Red Cross claims U.S. warned about prisoner abuse last year
(International News ~ 05/08/04)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The Red Cross said Friday that it had been warning of prisoner abuse in Iraq since shortly after the U.S.-led invasion. U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer said he first became aware of the allegations in January. Also, a senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, said the damage to Iraqi-American ties caused by the scandal "is not irreparable," but he admitted that improving relations with Iraqis is "going to take some effort on behalf of the Americans."...
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Lillie Hale
(Obituary ~ 05/08/04)
PATTON, Mo. -- Lillie Rosetta Hale, 90, of Patton died Friday, May 7, 2004, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. She was born Aug. 15, 1913, at Patton, daughter of Henry John and Pernecia Jane Statler Bahnerd. She and Chandes Hale were married March 27, 1943. He died Nov. 19, 1972...
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Out of the past 5/8/04
(Out of the Past ~ 05/08/04)
10 years ago: May 8, 1994 Mother's Day is celebrated at several Cape Girardeau churches; at Lighthouse Bible Baptist Church, moms receive 11-by-14-inch color scripture art suitable for framing; at First Baptist Church, Preschool Weekend is planned, with special parent/ child dedication service during morning worship...
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Busch Series races into St. Louis area
(Community Sports ~ 05/08/04)
The list of winners on the NASCAR Busch Series this season looks an awful lot like a list of the top Nextel Cup drivers: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Kevin Harvick. Greg Biffle. Matt Kenseth. Michael Waltrip. The trend may continue this evening in the Charter 250 at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Ill., just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. The eighth annual NASCAR stop in the St. Louis area comes on a weekend when the Nextel Cup Series is off for Mother's Day...
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Births 5/8/04
(Births ~ 05/08/04)
Buerck Daughter to Christopher Michael and Elizabeth Ann Buerck of Cape Girardeau, St. Francis Medical Center, 8:57 a.m. Friday, April 23, 2004. Name, Anna Marie. Weight, 8 pounds 6 ounces. Fourth child, third daughter. Mrs. Buerck is the former Elizabeth Lohmann, daughter of Walter and Maxine Lohmann of Perryville, Mo. Buerck is the son of Melvin and Sharon Buerck of Perryville. He is a civil engineer...
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Speak Out 05/08/04
(Speak Out ~ 05/08/04)
West End speeding SOMEONE COMMENTED in Speak Out about the speeders on Sprigg Street. Try living on North West End Boulevard just south of Bertling. Motorists drive so fast here I am afraid to walk across the street to my mailbox. If the city wants to make some fast money, it should have a policeman with radar stationed here...
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Religion briefs 5/8/04
(Community News ~ 05/08/04)
Fruitland church adds DivorceCare ministry Fruitland Community Church is adding a new class for people who are recently divorced or separated. The DivorceCare class will meet at 6:30 p.m each Wednesday, beginning this week, at Grace Cafe in Cape Girardeau. The sessions will be lead by Del McKinney. There is a fee for a workbook...
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Religion calendar 5/8/04
(Community News ~ 05/08/04)
TodayBishop John J. Leibrecht of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Roman Catholic Diocese will celebrate Mass at 5 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Cape Girardeau. Candidates for confirmation will be presented. SundayBishop John J. Leibrecht of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Roman Catholic Diocesewill celebrate Mass at 7:30, 9 and 10:30 a.m. at St. Vincent de Paul church...
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Sports briefs 5/8/04
(Other Sports ~ 05/08/04)
Hockey An American Hockey League player was suspended Friday through the end of next season for a two-handed, stick-swinging attack on an opponent. Hamilton Bulldogs forward Alexander Perezhogin, whose NHL rights belong to the Montreal Canadiens, received the longest suspension on record in AHL history. ...
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Bush indicates support for Cuban regime change
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
WASHINGTON -- Cuban President Fidel Castro usually offers an inviting target during U.S. presidential election campaigns. President Bush, accused by some in his party of not doing enough to confront Castro, offered them on Thursday what amounts to a policy of regime change in Cuba. ...
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Judge denies tobacco industry bid to halt lawsuit
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has denied the tobacco industry's bid to toss out the Justice Department's $280 billion lawsuit against the nation's top cigarette makers. The tobacco industry argued in a motion that the case should not be brought to trial this fall, because the Justice Department has so far failed to show that the companies were likely to commit fraud in the future. ...
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Suspected suicide bomb leaves 14 dead in mosque
(International News ~ 05/08/04)
KARACHI, Pakistan -- A suspected suicide bomb shattered Friday prayers at a crowded mosque, killing at least 14 people and wounding over 200 -- the second deadly attack on minority Shiite Muslims in Pakistan in two months. Hundreds of Shiite youths began burning cars, gas pumps and a government office after the explosion, which left walls scarred by shrapnel and carpets soaked in blood. ...
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Nigerian Muslims flee town ravaged by militants
(International News ~ 05/08/04)
YELWA, Nigeria -- Injured, hungry and grieving Muslims abandoned their central Nigerian town Friday amid stalled efforts to mediate a conflict that has left an estimated 500 dead in attacks by fighters of a predominantly Christian tribe. "They came from God, they go back to God," 49-year-old Jumai Isa said of her husband and five children, shot and hacked to death by men wearing charcoal body paint and bandanas. ...
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Putin starts second term vowing to help poor
(International News ~ 05/08/04)
MOSCOW -- With a 30-gun salute echoing through the Grand Kremlin Palace, President Vladimir Putin began his second term Friday by vowing to help Russia's many poor and protect its "legitimate interests in the rapidly changing world." Putin directed most of his brief inaugural speech to his countrymen -- saying his top priority would be improving their living standards -- but he also touched on Russia's changing international role during a speech to the audience of 1,700 invited guests in the gilded Andreyevsky Hall. ...
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Lois Keaster
(Obituary ~ 05/08/04)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Mary Lois Keaster, 66, of Sikeston died Friday, May 7, 2004, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Aug. 24, 1937, in Tennessee, daughter of David Arthur and Helen Baxter Middleton. She married Bill Keaster, who died June 22, 1989...
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Louis Bauer
(Obituary ~ 05/08/04)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Louis Wayne Bauer, 60, of Jonesboro died Thursday, May 6, 2004, at his home. He was born Feb. 27, 1944, in Anna, Ill., son of Fred and Louise Ellis Bauer. He and Carole Russell were married Nov. 7, 1964, in Ware, Ill. Bauer was a boilermaker, retiring from Chicago Bridge and Iron. He then worked part time for Union County Highway Department and served on the board of the A-J Water Commission...
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U.S. troops, Shiite fighters clash; cleric rails against report
(International News ~ 05/08/04)
KUFA, Iraq -- A defiant Muqtada al-Sadr delivered Friday prayers at a Kufa mosque, denouncing U.S. abuse of Iraqi prisoners, while the radical Shiite cleric's militiamen battled American troops in two cities. At least 23 Iraqis died, including six members of one family...
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State digest 05/08/04
(State News ~ 05/08/04)
Senate sends property tax bill to governor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Senate gave final approval Friday to a bill that allows counties to opt out of new property tax rollbacks. The bill is a follow-up to 2002 legislation enacted two years ago that has caused concerns among some local officials. ...
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Illinois officials round up illegal snails
(State News ~ 05/08/04)
OAK LAWN, Ill. -- On the list of requests made of students, this may be one of the most unusual: Please bring your snails back to school. It happened in Ridgeland School District 122 in Oak Lawn after administrators realized that caring for giant African snails at home was more than a way for 28 fourth-graders to learn about science, it was also illegal...
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Eastern Conference completes its purge
(Professional Sports ~ 05/08/04)
The dean of Eastern Conference coaches, Terry Stotts, was fired Friday after 1 1/2 seasons with the Atlanta Hawks. That must seem like an eternity to Tim Floyd, who was dismissed by the New Orleans Hornets after just one season. In the rapid-fire, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately profession of NBA coaching, both got more time to prove themselves than John Carroll, Randy Ayers and Chris Ford -- each let go after less than a year on the job...
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Police report 05/08/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/08/04)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Adam Jay Rose, 23, 5025 Cote Brilliante, St. Louis, was arrested Thursday on a city warrant for contempt of court. Brooke A. Blattner, 24, 878 County Road 335, Jackson, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of false declaration and stealing from Famous Barr...
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Fire report 05/08/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/08/04)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following item on Wednesday: At 11:25 p.m., fire alarm at 3049 William. Firefighters responded to the following items on Thursday: At 4:39 a.m., emergency medical service at 9 N. Fountain...
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The scourge of meth
(Editorial ~ 05/08/04)
Law enforcement in Missouri is waging a high-profile war on methamphetamine that makes headlines every time a meth lab is busted. But meth is a scourge that cannot be countered with arrests and prison sentences alone. Educating people about the poisonous toll taken by methamphetamine is critical to getting use and manufacture of the drug under control. And it may be impossible to start the education too soon...
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Making broken things new again
(Community News ~ 05/08/04)
"You ought to see my apartment. It's gorgeous. I want you to see all the old broken things I've repaired and made into beautiful objects. They were busted and nobody else wanted them. Now they're usable again -- just like new." I listened to a friend, James, as he related his story to me. And as he talked I pondered the possibilities and value of broken things being made into something new...
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Central girls swim to Show Me Conference title
(High School Sports ~ 05/08/04)
Central won the Show Me Conference swimming title Friday for the second straight year, and the Tigers 200-meter free relay team made the state cut time for the 200 free relay. Cassie Kipper and Hannah Kinder were chosen as the co-MVPs of the meet. Each won two individual events and were members of the state-qualifying relay team...
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Hope for transfer of our blessings
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/08/04)
To the editor: In his recent letter, Alan Journet suggested it was the patriotic duty of Americans to oppose the war in Iraq. The definition of "patriot" in my dictionary is "one who loves his country and zealously supports its authority and interests."...
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Giving thanks for U.S. freedom
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/08/04)
To the editor: Many thanks for announcing my speech at Hanover Lutheran Church on April 25. As an editor and as a Christian minister, I have passed very serious situations. Now I am having complete freedom to write and minister. The current and the previous regimes of Ethiopia have been harassing, torturing and imprisoning me because of my activities among students when I was at school and because of my reports, which were not favored by the anti-democratic regimes...
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John Wilson Sr.
(Obituary ~ 05/08/04)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- John Lewis Wilson Sr., 86, of Sikeston died Friday, May 7, 2004, at his home. He was born Sept. 15, 1917, in Sikeston, son of Randol and Kathryn Tanner Wilson. He and Hazelle Young were married Jan. 30, 1938, in Sikeston. Wilson attended the University of Missouri. He was a farm manager, farmer and land broker, managing the Tanner Farms more than 70 years...
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The Rev. Johnnie Gibson
(Obituary ~ 05/08/04)
ANNA, Ill. -- The Rev. Johnnie Beauford Gibson, 86, of Anna died Thursday, May 6, 2004, at City Care Center. He was born July 25, 1917, at Bloomfield, Mo., son of John William and Ida Margaret Henson Gibson. He and Reva Lucille Sides were married May 5, 1937, in Alto Pass, Ill...
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Former governor admits relationship with girl, 14
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Just days before a weekly paper was going to break the story, former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt admitting having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl in the 1970s, when he was mayor of Portland. Goldschmidt, 63, stepped down from two major jobs Thursday and issued a public apology. ...
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Clemency recommended for death row inmate
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
McALESTER, Okla. -- Under pressure from the world court, an Oklahoma board Friday recommended the governor spare the life of a death row inmate from Mexico who claimed he was denied his right to contact his consulate after his arrest. Osbaldo Torres, 29, is slated to be put to death by injection May 18 for the slaying of an Oklahoma City couple during a burglary in 1993. ...
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Developers revise their plans for luxury townhouse project
(Local News ~ 05/08/04)
Developers of a project to build luxury townhouses on now vacant ground north of Broadway in downtown Cape Girardeau have revised building plans and met with neighbors in an effort to gain city approval. The Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing Wednesday on the request of developers Jim and Michaele Riley and Jerri and John Wyman for a special-use permit needed to proceed with the project. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at city hall...
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Chamber coffee features health, taxes and Elvis
(Local News ~ 05/08/04)
Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce members who made it out to the Show Me Center for First Friday Coffee got to talk health and taxes and dance with the help of a dead music legend. The event kicked off with representatives from the sponsoring Southeast Missouri Hospital talking about the chamber's third annual Shape Up Cape program. The four-month contest pits teams from participating chamber businesses in a friendly competition to see who can score the most points for exercising...
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Female soldier becomes seventh MP charged with abuse
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Army Pfc. Lynndie England, shown in photographs smiling and pointing at naked Iraqi prisoners, was charged Friday by the military with assaulting the detainees and conspiring to mistreat them. England is the seventh soldier from an Army Reserve military police unit to be charged in a scandal that has drawn outrage around the world and damaged the reputation of the United States as it tries to stabilize Iraq...
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Convicted child molester posed as drug runner in jail
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Not even murderers and rapists can stand child molesters. Behind bars, they are the marked men, constantly living in fear. Found guilty of child molestation, John Stoll knew he would never survive with that stigma. So he lied, posing as a drug runner for 20 long years, and managed to avoid attack until his conviction was overturned last week...
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Rumsfeld- 'my deepest apology'
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld offered "my deepest apology" Friday to Iraqi prisoners abused by sadistic military personnel and warned that videos and photos yet to come could further inflame worldwide outrage. "It's going to get a good deal more terrible, I'm afraid," he said in congressional testimony televised throughout the Arab world as well as in the United States...
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On Missouri's A-list
(Local News ~ 05/08/04)
There's a future pediatrician and a rock 'n' roll playing mathematician. There's an aerospace engineer hopeful and an international diplomat in the making. Their aspirations are as different as their backgrounds and interests, but Ashley Bartels, David Kiblinger, Sonia Tikoo and Bonan Wang do have something in common: Their academic accomplishments place them among the top 100 seniors in Missouri this year...
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Hiring surges for second month as unemployment rate falls
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
WASHINGTON -- A springtime surge in hiring rumbled into a second month as employers added nearly 300,000 new jobs in April, lowering the unemployment rate to 5.6 percent. The timing couldn't have been better for President Bush, who has been dealing with international fallout from the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers. The economy, which had been assumed would be a major drag on Bush's re-election bid, now may prove otherwise...
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Prosecutors give details of murder-for-hire plot
(Professional Sports ~ 05/08/04)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- St. Louis Blues player Mike Danton plotted to kill his agent for at least six months and tried at least three times to hire a hit man, federal prosecutors said Friday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Massey outlined new details of the government's case against Danton during a detention hearing before federal Magistrate Clifford Proud, and confirmed for the first time that agent David Frost was Danton's intended victim...
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Cardinals fall flat in 4-2 loss to Expos
(Professional Sports ~ 05/08/04)
MONTREAL -- The Montreal Expos made a rare early lead stand up. Brad Wilkerson and Terrmel Sledge hit two-run homers in the first inning to Friday night in a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Sun-woo Kim (2-0) allowed one run and seven hits over six innings in his second start since joining the rotation. His 5-4 win at Los Angeles on Sunday was his first since Sept. 28, 2002...
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Hogan nears win No. 300 at Southeast
(College Sports ~ 05/08/04)
As the season heads into its home stretch, Southeast Missouri State University's baseball Indians are not enjoying their typical success under coach Mark Hogan. But, entering this weekend's three-game series at Morehead State, Hogan is still closing in on a career milestone at Southeast as the 10th-year coach is just three wins away from 300 with the Indians...
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$372 million university bond plan appears to run out of time
(State News ~ 05/08/04)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Struggling under its own inflated size and opposed by pro-life activists, a plan to issue $372 million in bonds for university construction projects appears to have run out of time in the legislature. The bill received initial Senate approval in late April, but senators have yet to vote on sending it to the House. The legislative session ends in one week, May 14...
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Lawmakers approve ban on cross burning
(State News ~ 05/08/04)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Cross burning with the intent to intimidate would be a specific crime under legislation that cleared the Missouri Legislature on Friday. The Senate sent the bill to Gov. Bob Holden on a 34-0 vote. The House of Representatives had previously approved the measure 160-1...
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New state budget $1 billion larger but still balanced
(State News ~ 05/08/04)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican lawmakers reveled Friday in the passage of a state budget that, after several austere years, boosts spending for seemingly everything and yet likely remains balanced. The nearly $18.9 billion operating budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 is more than $1 billion larger than the current budget...
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Herbig's persistence pays off
(College Sports ~ 05/08/04)
How much does Derek Herbig love baseball? While a teenager in rural Kansas, he drove about 60 miles each way to practice -- all because his high school didn't field a team. "My dad was the superintendent at my high school, and I think he helped get a cooperative agreement started with the school I played for," said Herbig, a native of Caldwell, Kan., who played high school baseball at Dexter, Kan. "I mean, it was a dream to play baseball, and my dad really helped me out with that dream."...
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Jenkins sets conference record; Otahkians in front at OVC meet
(College Sports ~ 05/08/04)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Led by a record-setting performance from Heather Jenkins, the Southeast Missouri State women got off to a solid start as the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships began on the campus of Samford University. Jenkins, a junior from Central High School, set an OVC outdoor record in the shot put with a throw of 51 feet. ...
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Four students wounded in shooting at high school
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
RANDALLSTOWN, Md. -- Four students were wounded Friday in a drive-by shooting at a high school outside Baltimore, authorities said. The victims were students who stayed after school to attend a charity basketball game. Three of them suffered non-life-threatening injuries, while the fourth was in surgery, Baltimore County police chief Terrence B. Sheridan said...
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Help wanted to carry a tune by the river
(Local News ~ 05/08/04)
Anybody who has harbored a fantasy of singing for a recording that will go out on national airwaves now has a chance, at least for one evening. Members of the public can sing backup on a song by musician Kevin Danzig that is being recorded at 7 p.m. Monday at IBS Studios in Cape Girardeau...
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Communion crisis-Catholic bishops get confrontational about abo
(Community News ~ 05/08/04)
From John Kerry to the governors of Indiana and New Jersey, Roman Catholic politicians are being challenged by bishops in a new and tougher way this election season over their stance on abortion. Some bishops have taken the radical step of declaring that officials who are pro-choice shouldn't receive Holy Communion, and one has even said he'd personally refuse Kerry at the altar...
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Congressional analyst lowers deficit forecast
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Budget Office says it believes its March projection for a federal deficit of $477 billion this year was too high, though the red ink still seems all but certain to set a new record. The budget office, Congress' nonpartisan fiscal analyst, provided no new figure and won't formally update its estimate until summer. ...
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Polio survivors could be affected by disease decades later
(State News ~ 05/08/04)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sharon McKinney was only 6 years old when she began complaining about a fever and a headache. The diagnosis was polio. After spending several months in a hospital in 1948, she emerged without the use of her right leg below the knee. But by the time she was 11, she had retired her leg brace and went on to become a physical therapist, get married, have three children and study to become a doctor when she was in her late 30s...
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Two charged in cannon prank
(State News ~ 05/08/04)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Two members of the Kappa Alpha fraternity have been charged in an April cannon explosion that blew out the window of a second-story apartment and sent a piece of the cannon through its roof. Seth R. Fagan, the president of the chapter's fraternity, and Daniel B. Dunn, both 21 and students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, were charged on Monday with reckless exploding and third-degree assault, both misdemeanors...
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Spain- U.S. lawyer's fingerprints found on bag
(International News ~ 05/08/04)
MADRID, Spain -- The fingerprints of an American lawyer arrested in the Madrid terror bombing probe were found on a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the train attacks, the Spanish government said Friday. The bag was found inside a stolen white van left near a train station that three of the four bombed trains departed from, an Interior Ministry official said...
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The week ahead on television
(Entertainment ~ 05/08/04)
Most Manhattanites slog through traffic as if they were blindfolded. But Gerry McCambridge really is. Blindfolded. Putt-putting through Times Square on a gas-powered scooter. Although he has a minor mishap, McCambridge emerges from this stunt in one piece, which means he is able to star in "The Mentalist," a varied display of his skill tapping into other peoples' minds...
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More than 50 million viewers tune in for final 'Friends'
(Entertainment ~ 05/08/04)
NEW YORK -- In the end, Rachel, Ross, Joey, Phoebe, Monica and Chandler had a lot of friends. An estimated 51.1 million people tuned in for the final "Friends" on NBC Thursday night, watching the crowd-pleasing story line of Ross and Rachel declaring their undying love for each other...
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Krispy Kreme blames low-carb craze for slump
(National News ~ 05/08/04)
The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The low-carb diet craze is taking a bite out of Krispy Kreme. The doughnut company's shares tumbled 23 percent Friday in early trading after it lowered its earnings forecast by 10 percent for the year, in part because of increasing consumer interest in the popular weight-loss approach. Shares closed at $22.51, down $9.29...
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Jackson girls win SEMO meet
(High School Sports ~ 05/08/04)
Jackson held off Central in three of four relays and held off the Tigers for the girls championship at the SEMO Conference meet Friday at Poplar Bluff. Jackson won the 1,600-, 800- and 400-meter relay events, each time finishing just ahead of Central...
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Racers, start your ... rolling
(Community Sports ~ 05/08/04)
Hannah Seesing hopes the third time is ... well, at least as much fun as the first two times. Seesing, 11, will be competing in the Cape Girardeau Rotary Club's Soap Box Derby for the third straight year today. "The first year I was in the middle of the pack," said the Central Middle School sixth-grade student. "Last year, not so well."...
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Woods rides putter into lead
(Professional Sports ~ 05/08/04)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Tiger Woods says his game is starting to come around, and not many doubted him Friday in the Wachovia Championship. Woods made every putt inside 20 feet and one from nearly 50 feet. It led to his best round since February, a 6-under 66 at sun-baked Quail Hollow that gave him a two-shot lead going into the weekend...
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State revenue again up for month, year
(State News ~ 05/08/04)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State revenue rose again in April, and net revenue for the fiscal year is up 4.8 percent, the state Department of Revenue said Friday. Net general revenue for April rose 2.8 percent, to $836 million, compared to April 2003. For the first 10 months of the fiscal year, which began July 1, net general revenue has increased 4.8 percent compared to the same period in 2003, the Revenue Department said. ...
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