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Cape school board looks at better worker benefits
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
The Cape Girardeau school board has yet to approve the 2006-2007 budget for the district, but already it's studying the possibility of using some of a projected surplus to provide better employee benefits. During a budget discussion at a special meeting Wednesday night, board member Tom Reinagel suggested the school system look at spending some of the estimated $13.6 million surplus to boost benefits...
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School district moves ahead with planned construction
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
Construction of a new maintenance/warehouse facility for the Jackson School District will get underway soon, marking the first phase of improvements that will be funded with money from a $19.8 million bond issue approved by voters last August. The school board has awarded a $373,000 contract to the low bidder, Penzel Construction Co. of Jackson...
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Pick-up sticks in St. Louis
(Column ~ 07/27/06)
July 27, 2006 Dear Pat, Two days after a fierce storm lit into St. Louis, we were supposed to go there with members of DC's family to see a musical at the Muny. We'd heard and read about the destruction the storm caused and the half million people without power in sweltering heat. Our hotel was still in operation, though, so we set off for St. Louis, a city half a million people wished they could temporarily leave...
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Sikeston stepmother charged with murder
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
Police say Ashley Clark swung her 1-year-old stepdaughter into a door and threw her several feet. SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston woman was charged Wednesday in the death of her stepdaughter, accused of throwing her into a chair and swinging her into a door...
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Fire destroys Jackson business
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
A fire destroyed a section of a 23-year-old family-owned business in Jackson early Thursday morning. The shop at the rear of Busey Truck Equipment Company, Inc., 1840 S. Farmington Road, went up in flames at approximately 7:30 a.m. According to Jackson firefighter Steve Baugh, the fire was unintentional and started while an employee was welding a piece of machinery...
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Analyst: Tax promise is binding
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
As Cape Girardeau County commissioners visit town meetings and service clubs promoting Proposition 1, they have run into some residents expressing a lack of trust in their promises. One promise they have made -- that if Proposition 1 passes the county road and bridge property tax would disappear and could not return without a vote -- is backed up by state law, the chief property tax analyst in the state auditor's office said Wednesday...
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Jackson wants to tie Old Orchard Road plan to interchange
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
The city of Jackson hopes to secure Missouri Department of Transportation funds to improve and extend an outer road along Interstate 55. Old Orchard Road will stretch along the west side of I-55 from the future East Main Street interchange to Center Junction...
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Ethanol plant planned for port
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
Construction could begin as soon as next month on a third ethanol plant planned for Southeast Missouri, though some are adopting a wait-and-see approach on whether this project moves any faster than the other two. SEMO Milling on Wednesday announced plans to build a 100-million-gallon-per-year ethanol plant next to the corn mill it is building on 30 acres at the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority in Scott City...
- Candidate criticizes how the state auditor's office operated in recent years (Local News ~ 07/27/06)
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Talent show full of veteran performers
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
None of them was over the age of 20. Really, none of them was even old enough to be seniors in high school. But for most of them the Jackson Homecomers talent show Wednesday night wasn't their first night on the contest stage. In a time when "American Idol" rules the TV, the talent show's 13-to-21 age division is packed with veterans who are barely old enough to drive...
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Redbirds continue to feed on NL West, topple Rockies 6-1
(Professional Sports ~ 07/27/06)
DENVER -- Aaron Miles tried to downplay his first home run of the season. But when it came against a team that took his job away last season and then dealt him in the offseason, Miles couldn't help but feel some satisfaction. Miles' two-run homer in the eighth inning helped the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday...
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Bonds' trainer prepared for more jail time
(Professional Sports ~ 07/27/06)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Lawyers for Barry Bonds' personal trainer say he'd rather go back to prison for a third time than take part in the grand jury investigation of his childhood friend for tax evasion and perjury. Fresh off a 15-day jail term for refusing to cooperate in an earlier phase of the probe, Greg Anderson is expected to be called today before a new grand jury investigating the San Francisco Giants slugger. But the trainer is expected to renew his vow of silence...
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Community cuisine 7/27/06
(Community News ~ 07/27/06)
Leopold picnic set for this weekend...
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Jackson crowns new Miss Homecomers
(Community News ~ 07/27/06)
Five young women competed for the title of Miss Homecomers Tuesday at the Jackson Homecomers celebration. They were Mary Bauer, Suzanne E. Burke and Julie Mothershead, all of Cape Girardeau, and Kacey Shultz and Alexis C. Bogenpohl of Jackson. Mary Bauer, a 15-year-old Notre Dame Regional High School student, was crowned 2006 Miss Homecomers. ...
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Pacelli steps down as coach for family reasons
(College Sports ~ 07/27/06)
Jay Pacelli regrets that he won't have the opportunity to lead the Southeast Missouri State women's tennis program to the top of the Ohio Valley Conference. But Pacelli said family takes precedence, which is why he has resigned following three seasons as the Redhawks' coach. Next week will be his last on the job...
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Missourian Jr. wins first place for content
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
The Southeast Missourian's publication for children won first place from the Newspaper Association of America Foundation for general excellence in youth content for the second consecutive year. The Southeast Missourian Jr. competed against newspapers with circulation up to 60,000...
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Banking dynamics
(Editorial ~ 07/27/06)
U.S. banking has presented an interesting dynamic in recent years. For a while it appeared as if most banks were being swallowed up by a handful of national banking giants competing for deposits, controlling major credit cards, making most consumer and housing loans, providing venture capital and bankrolling businesses...
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Attempted robbery foiled by scream
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
An attempted robbery was reported early Wednesday morning outside a Cape Girardeau restaurant. Police responded to Brenda's Place, 602 Morgan Oak St., at 4:13 a.m., according to police spokesman Jason Selzer. The owner of the restaurant was entering the side door when a man came up behind her and demanded money. The man had a small pocketknife and repeated his demand three times before the woman screamed for help, prompting the man to flee, Selzer said. No one arrests had been made...
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Parsons begins battle with lung cancer
(Professional Sports ~ 07/27/06)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Benny Parsons has beaten the odds before, rising up from the foothills of North Carolina to a job driving taxis and then all the way to the top of NASCAR. Now he'll try to win an even bigger battle -- this time with cancer. Parsons, the 1973 champion and current NASCAR commentator on NBC and TNT, was diagnosed with cancer in his left lung and began treatment Wednesday...
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Speak Out 7/27/06
(Speak Out ~ 07/27/06)
And achievement too; Matter of opinion; County roads; Roaming dog
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Kenneth Vangilder
(Obituary ~ 07/27/06)
Kenneth E. Vangilder, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, July 25, 2006, at his home. He was born June 22, 1923, in St. Louis, son of Elam Russell and Helen Masterson Vangilder. He and Betty Jane VanGilder were married Dec. 1, 1950, in Piggott, Ark...
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Sports briefs 7/27/06
(Other Sports ~ 07/27/06)
Football; Soccer
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Mary Hamlin
(Obituary ~ 07/27/06)
STURDIVANT, Mo. -- Mary E. Hamlin, 92, of Troy, Mo., formerly of Sturdivant, died Tuesday, July 25, 2006, at Troy Manor in Troy. She was born Dec. 19, 1913, in Bollinger County, Mo., daughter of George and Elmine Welker Moore. She and Paul M. Hamlin were married Nov. 1, 1933, at Kennett, Mo. He died Aug. 18, 1996...
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David Ervin
(Obituary ~ 07/27/06)
BENTON, Mo. -- David Ray Ervin, 41, of Benton died Tuesday, July 25, 2006, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 18, 1965, at Lilbourn, Mo., son of Ronald Dewayne and Doris Ann Hopper Ervin. He and Teresa Carol Freeman were married Oct. 2, 1982, in Sikeston, Mo...
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Elizabeth Wheaton
(Obituary ~ 07/27/06)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Elizabeth Wheaton, 55, of Jonesboro died Tuesday, July 25, 2006, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 1, 1951, in Dearborn, Mich., daughter of Richard Larson and Dorothy Eileen O'Brien Seward. She and Larry Wheaton were married Nov. 24, 1980, at Wolf Lake, Ill. He died March 13, 2004...
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Out of the past 7/27/06
(Out of the Past ~ 07/27/06)
25 years ago: July 27, 1981 Lightning is being blamed for a fire at the Charles Kamp home in Jackson yesterday, which caused considerable damage; a neighbor reported the house fire at 312 Cathy Drive at 3:10 p.m.; it apparently started when lightning struck the flue, catching the roof on fire; the Kamp family was out of town at the time of the incident...
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Kids in streets are safety concern
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/27/06)
To the editor: I have recently noticed younger children in the streets of south Cape Girardeau. I have also failed to notice street signs that read "Caution: Children at play." I also fail to notice policing in this area. I am a cautious driver. However, not everyone is a cautious driver. These children are unsupervised. Some are supervised by siblings not much older than they are...
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Vesta Kerr
(Obituary ~ 07/27/06)
ANNA, Ill. -- Vesta Kerr, 84, of Anna died Wednesday, July 26, 2006, at Union County Nursing Home in Anna. Friends may call from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Crain Funeral Home in Anna. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Joe Hankla officiating. Burial will be in Anna Cemetery...
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Bob Ransom
(Obituary ~ 07/27/06)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Bob Ransom, 79, of Tamms, formerly of St. Louis, died Tuesday, July 25, 2006, at his home. He was born Oct. 18, 1926, in Somerville, Tenn., son of Leon and Willie May Cleaves Ransom. He and Anne Miller were married Dec. 29, 1962. She preceded him in death Feb. 21, 1995...
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Dealing with cognitive decline
(Column ~ 07/27/06)
A friend of mine recently announced that he had figured out what the problem was with our aging memories. "Our minds are like a hard drive with only so much space. My trouble is that my hard drive is filled up with the lyrics of every song from the '60s."...
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Health briefs/calendar 7/27/06
(Community ~ 07/27/06)
Briefly The "Defiant Child" program scheduled for July 27 at Southeast Hospital has been canceled. The Scott County Health Department will offer community outreach clinics Wednesday at the Oran Jaycee Building; Aug. 9 at the First Assembly of God church in Scott City; Aug. 16 at the Elks Lodge in Chaffee, and Aug. 23 at the Riverside Regional Library in Benton. Clinic hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call (800) 471-4044...
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Booting muscular dystrophy: Local firefighters begin annual campaign
(Community ~ 07/27/06)
For Dean Lynn, the tradition of collecting money in rubber boots is personal. Lynn, a Cape Girardeau firefighter and local union president, has lost two family members to Lou Gehrigs' disease. Each year, he helps coordinate a local "Fill the boot" campaign to raise money for the local Muscular Dystrophy Association chapter...
- State DNR seeks public input on state park (Local News ~ 07/27/06)
- Man won't be deported over marijuana charge (State News ~ 07/27/06)
- Community college bans smoking (State News ~ 07/27/06)
- Woman who got cell phone stuck in throat testifies at trial (State News ~ 07/27/06)
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Business briefs 7/27/06
(National News ~ 07/27/06)
GM scores profit after charges factored out DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. lost $3.2 billion in the second quarter because of heavy charges for layoffs and early retirements -- part of its massive restructuring program. But, without those charges, the world's largest automaker scored a profit that blew Wall Street away and bolstered management's claim that the turnaround is working. ...
- Too much noise can be dangerous (Letter to the Editor ~ 07/27/06)
- Doubling track is best solution (Letter to the Editor ~ 07/27/06)
- Execution looms for inmate killer (National News ~ 07/27/06)
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Cape/Jackson police reports 7/27/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/27/06)
Cape Girardeau...
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Cape fire reports 7/27/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/27/06)
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Community briefs 7/27/06
(Local News ~ 07/27/06)
Perryville's Heritage Days begin Friday evening Perryville's Heritage Days will be ushered in beginning at 5 p.m. Friday with cocktails and a 6 p.m. meal at Seminary Picnic Grounds on Route T. Max Armstrong will be the keynote speaker. An auction will benefit Perryville High School's FFA. Beginning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, the River Hills Antique Tractor Club will hold a 41-mile adventure beginning and ending at Seminary Picnic Grounds. For more information, call Jerry Davis at (573) 547-4556...
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Cape Girardeau native installed as commander of Newport Chemical Depot
(Community News ~ 07/27/06)
Lt. Col. Brian M. Lynch, a Cape Girardeau native, was recently installed as the commander of the Newport Chemical Depot facility south of Newport, Ind. Prior to the change of command he was chief of the Chemical Surety Division at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command in Fort Monroe, Va...
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Andrea Yates innocent by reason of insanity in children's drownings
(National News ~ 07/27/06)
HOUSTON -- In a dramatic turnaround from her first murder trial, Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday in the drowning of her children in the bathtub. The 42-year-old woman will be committed to a state mental hospital and held until she is no longer deemed a threat. If she had been convicted of murder, she would have been sentenced to life in prison...
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Court claim: 104-year-old philanthropist lives in squalor
(National News ~ 07/27/06)
NEW YORK -- She wears torn nightgowns and sleeps on a couch that smells of urine. Her bland diet includes pureed peas and oatmeal. Her dogs, once a source of comfort, are kept locked in a pantry. A court filing alleges that this is the life of 104-year-old Brooke Astor, the multimillionaire Manhattan socialite who dedicated much of her vast fortune to promoting culture and alleviating human misery...
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Senate bill would open millions of acres in Gulf of Mexico to drilling
(National News ~ 07/27/06)
WASHINGTON -- The Senate began work Wednesday on an election-year bill that would open a large area of the central Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, but would fall far short of a broader offshore energy development measure already approved by the House...
- Nation briefs 7/27/06 (National News ~ 07/27/06)
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Scott County Legion opens zone tournament against defending state champs
(Community Sports ~ 07/27/06)
Scott County's American Legion team will be marching into familiar territory when the Zone 4 tournament begins today in Ellisville, Mo. Only two years ago, more than half of the current Scott County squad was competing in the American Legion junior zone tournament and nearly made its way to the state tournament, dropping the championship game 1-0...
- Peterson dreams of monster season (Professional Sports ~ 07/27/06)
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Area sports digest 7/27/06
(Community Sports ~ 07/27/06)
Angle wins A flight at Chip A Ways event Lil Angle won A flight at the Chip A Ways' weekly event at Cape Jaycee Municipal Golf Course. Polly Bess and Dottie Gill tied for first in B flight, while Bonnie Miller was first in C fight. Evelyn Riley won play of the day -- longest putt on No. 16...
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Castro touts achievements on Cuban Revolution Day
(International News ~ 07/27/06)
BAYAMO, Cuba -- Fidel Castro led tens of thousands of Communist Party faithful Wednesday in a celebration of the nearly suicidal barracks assault that launched the Cuban Revolution 53 years ago. Returning to his roots in eastern Cuba, Castro told a large Revolution Day crowd in this provincial capital that his government's social achievements exceed anything a U.S.-backed replacement could accomplish...
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Germany, U.S., Israel and others agree to open Nazi archives
(International News ~ 07/27/06)
BERLIN -- Millions of Nazi files detailing the suffering and deaths of inmates at labor and concentration camps during the Holocaust will be opened to researchers under an agreement signed Wednesday by Germany and seven other countries. Historians campaigned for years to overcome privacy concerns that restricted access to the more than 30 million documents in the vast, war-era archive to Holocaust victims and their relatives...
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Nine Israeli soldiers killed in heavy fighting
(International News ~ 07/27/06)
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Hezbollah dealt Israel its heaviest losses in the Lebanon campaign Wednesday, killing nine soldiers in fierce firefights. With key Mideast players failing to agree on a formula for a cease-fire, an Israeli general said the operation could last weeks...
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U.N. observers asked Israel to stop bombing 10 times before post was hit
(International News ~ 07/27/06)
JERUSALEM -- U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Israel, U.N. officials said Wednesday...
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U.S. Government considers eliminating penny
(Community ~ 07/27/06)
Are you a penny saver? One of those people who can't resist picking pennies up off the ground, or who has a large jar of them sitting around the house?
- Houston, Philadelphia eliminated from 2016 picture (Professional Sports ~ 07/27/06)
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Rams players expect physical training camp under Linehan
(Professional Sports ~ 07/27/06)
ST. LOUIS -- New St. Louis Rams coach Scott Linehan has promised a physical training camp, and that seems to be just fine with players who checked into the team hotel and had their first team meeting Wednesday. The first practice is today and players know it probably won't be long before they're in full pads...
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Redhawks sports will hit St. Louis airwaves
(College Sports ~ 07/27/06)
For the first time ever, Southeast Missouri State football and men's basketball games will be broadcast live in St. Louis. Southeast president Dr. Ken Dobbins made the announcement during a Wednesday luncheon at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis...
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Tigers tap rival for coach
(High School Sports ~ 07/27/06)
Central High School lost its volleyball coach to Jackson during the summer, and on Wednesday the Tigers returned the favor by snatching Indians assistant basketball coach Drew Church for their head coaching vacancy. Church, who fills the vacancy created when Derek McCord resigned a little more than two weeks ago, was chosen from a field of about 10 official applicants....
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Washington state's highest court upholds gay marriage ban
(National News ~ 07/27/06)
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The Washington Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gay marriage Wednesday, dealing the gay rights movement its second major defeat in less than a month in a liberal-leaning state that was regarded as an especially promising battleground...
- St. Louis-area attractions return to normalcy following storms (State News ~ 07/27/06)
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Republicans file ethics complaint against McCaskill
(National News ~ 07/27/06)
WASHINGTON -- The Missouri Republican Party filed an ethics complaint Wednesday against Democrat Claire McCaskill, claiming the U.S. Senate candidate has not shared enough information about her husband's finances. In its complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee, the party charged that McCaskill has not fully complied with federal ethics laws for reporting her family's assets, income and liabilities...
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