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Cape Girardeau police chief named to state commission
(Local News ~ 07/14/07)
Cape Girardeau police chief Carl A. Kinnison was named by Gov. Matt Blunt to serve on the state Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission. The commission sets the standards, regulations and curriculum for law enforcement across the state. Kinnison's responsibilities will include assisting the nine-member board in establishing the training regimen for law enforcement personnel, formulating definitions, rules and regulations for the administration, and advising the director concerning duties as outlined by state laws, said Brian Jamison, deputy director for the Missouri Department of Public Safety.. ...
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Specialty shuttle opens next month
(Local News ~ 07/14/07)
Cape Girardeau is about to get a boutique shuttle service. On Monday, the city council unanimously approved a license for Brad Isaac of Cape Girardeau to operate a limo bus. Isaac, 34, applied to the city in June for a license to open Superior Shuttle. He'll use a 14-passenger vehicle to take groups to sporting events in St. Louis, winery tours, and birthday and dinner parties. He said he got the idea for the home-based business after attending a bachelor party in Kansas City last year...
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Cape preschool enrollment starts
(Local News ~ 07/14/07)
The Cape Girardeau School District has begun the process of enrolling children in its new preschool program. School officials said Friday that parents must fill out an application form and the children must be screened to determine if they lag behind in such things as motor and language skills...
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Area digest
(Community Sports ~ 07/14/07)
Plaza Tire reachesdistrict title game The Plaza Tire Cape Girardeau American Legion junior baseball team forced a championship showdown with Dunklin County in the District 14 tournament in Jackson with a pair of dramatic victories. After rallying for a 10-9 victory in an elimination game against Scott County, Plaza Tire scored a seventh-inning run for a 2-1 win over Dunklin County, -- previously unbeaten in the tournament...
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Riverdogs open with outburst
(Community Sports ~ 07/14/07)
The Charleston Riverdogs had their hitting shoes on Friday -- in a big way. As a result, they'll play at 4 p.m. today in the winner's bracket final of the National Baseball Congress Mid-South Regional. Charleston pounded out 22 hits -- including six doubles and a home run -- as they pulled away from the Pine Bluff (Ark.) Braves 16-6 in the opening game of the four-team event...
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Police report 7/14/07
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/14/07)
Arrests
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Fire report 7/14/07
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/14/07)
n At 5:24 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1500 block of Water Street. n At 6:01 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1400 block of Kingshighway. n At 7:38 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1400 block of North Henderson Avenue. n At 9:28 p.m., emergency medical service in the 900 block of Hackberry Street...
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Births 7/14/07
(Births ~ 07/14/07)
Sokolowski; Campbell; Hicks; Coomer; Posey
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Fire report 7/14/07
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/14/07)
n At 4:38 p.m., emergency medical service in the 300 block of Mill Street. n At 5:45 p.m., an alarm sounding at 1000 Towers Circle. n At 8:21 p.m., emergency medical service in the 2400 block of Veterans Memorial Drive. n At 9:20 p.m., emergency medical service in the 600 block of Terry Lane...
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Bobby Wilson
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Bobby J. Wilson, 68, of Cairo died Friday, July 13, 2007, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 20, 1938, son of Opal and Edna Brown Wilson. He and Sue Lipe were married May 27, 1961. She died Jan. 22, 1998...
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Virginia Lenand
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Virginia Lenand, 85, of Portageville died Tuesday, July 10, 2007, at Portageville Nursing Center. She was born Nov. 9, 1921, at Caney, Mo., daughter of Martin and Lena Halter Menz. She and Glenn Lenand were married April 19, 1947, at Chaffee, Mo...
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Sylvia Joyner
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Sylvia L. Joyner, 63, of Mounds died Thursday, July 12, 2007, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 19, 1944, in Bardwell, Ky., daughter of Burnie E. and Callie P. Hollis Edging. She married Charles "Spike" Joyner...
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Elizabeth Staszak
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
Elizabeth A. Staszak, 75, of Buckner, Ill., died Thursday, July 12, 2007, at her home. She was born May 2, 1932, in Chicago, daughter of Louis and Karuline Tylka Kiebles. She married Edward Staszak. Staszak had worked at Freeman Coal Co. Survivors include seven children, Edward and Cassilda Staszak of Herrin, Ill., Kenneth Staszak of Buckner, Donna Jackson of Sesser, Ill., Julie Martin of Christopher, Ill., Daniel Staszak of Johnston City, Ill., Felicia Dick of Mulkeytown, Ill., Carrie Staszak of Cape Girardeau; 12 grandchildren, Jayson Martin, Leon Walker, Melanie Jackson Carnahan, Jammie Martin, Kevin Jackson, Matthew Staszak, Keith Staszak, Derick Staszak, Jesse Martin, Kelcey Dick, John Martin, Zachary Staszak; and 14 great-grandchildren.. ...
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Hundreds of video games set for debut on display at expo
(Entertainment ~ 07/14/07)
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- The focus of this year's E3 Media and Business Summit was the hundreds of video games that will be debuting in the coming months and years. It was a decidedly different theme than last year's event, when questions about the still-unreleased PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii were all anyone could talk about...
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Carlos Jordan
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Carlos Dean Jordan, 69, of Tamms died Thursday, July 12, 2007, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 17, 1938, in Elco, Ill., son of Oris Lee and Noma Helen Jordan. He married Josephine Hirtz. Jordan was a former railroad employee, and retired from Township Highway Department. He was a member of First Baptist Church. He was formerly of Granite City, Ill...
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Gladys Bollinger
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
Gladys Bollinger, 90, of Jackson died Friday, July 13, 2007, at Monticello House, where she had lived the past two years. She was born July 9, 1917, in Bollinger County, Mo., daughter of the late Henry and Sarah Hahs Barks. She attended the former Clippard and Fulbright Elementary Schools in Oak Ridge. She and Floyd T. Bollinger were married May 20, 1939. He passed away September 10, 1988...
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Lucille Conrad
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Lucille Conrad, 97, of Marble Hill died Thursday, July 12, 2007, at El Nathan Home in Marble Hill. She was born June 15, 1910, near Bernie, Mo., daughter of Edward and Louise Moore Beckman. She and Plutarch P. Conrad were married in Flint, Mich. He died Nov. 17, 1981...
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Myra McElmurry
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Myra May McElmurry, 96, of Advance died Friday, July 13, 2007, at Advance Nursing Center. She was born Feb. 15, 1911, at Morley, Mo., daughter of Earley and Lollie May Bynum. She and Harry Ray McElmurry were married Sept. 27, 1937. He died Aug. 16, 1981...
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Martha Wiley
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
Martha Ann Wiley, 75, of Jackson died Friday, July 13, 2007, at Monticello House. Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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John Cassel
(Obituary ~ 07/14/07)
ANNA, Ill. -- John C. "Pa" Cassel, 95, of Anna died Thursday, July 12, 2007, at Union County Hospital. He was born June 6, 1912, in Anna, son of Alonzo and Hulda Dillow Cassel. He and Anna E. Headrick were married Oct. 10, 1940, in Cape Girardeau...
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Mural for Dalhousie Golf Club nearly complete
(Local News ~ 07/14/07)
Cape Girardeau artist Craig Thomas has been painting a mural in his downtown Cape Girardeau studio for months, and now it is nearly ready to be installed at the Dalhousie Golf Club. Interior designer Sarah Pfanstiel and DesignScapes, a St. Louis company headed by Al Phillips, is handling the Dalhousie redesign. Pfanstiel said the mural will display the club's history...
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GOP senators demand new Iraq strategy
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
WASHINGTON -- Two top Republicans cast aside President Bush's pleas for patience on Iraq Friday and proposed legislation demanding a new strategy by mid-October to restrict the mission of U.S. troops. The proposal, by veteran GOP Sens. John Warner of Virginia and Richard Lugar of Indiana, came as the Pentagon conceded a decreasing number of Iraqi battalions are able to operate on their own...
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Al-Qaida recordings reveal a leadership still in control
(International News ~ 07/14/07)
When Islamic radicals killed 52 people in London two years ago, it took nearly a month for Osama bin Laden's top deputy to blame Britain itself for the carnage. But this week, when the No. 2 man in al-Qaida decided to weigh in on Pakistan's bloody crackdown on a radical mosque, he was able to get his violent message onto hard-line Islamic Web sites in a matter of days...
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Iraqi New York Times journalist killed in Baghdad
(International News ~ 07/14/07)
BAGHDAD -- Gunmen killed an Iraqi journalist from The New York Times as he drove to work Friday, the third staffer of a Western news organization to be killed in the past two days. In his last moments, Khalid W. Hassan called his mother on his cell phone and told her he had been shot...
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Britain takes surveillance to new level with cameras strapped to police helmets
(International News ~ 07/14/07)
LONDON -- Britain is taking its surveillance to a new level, strapping video cameras to the helmets of its famed bobbies -- a move the government says will cut down on paperwork and help prosecute criminals. By providing footage of victims, suspects and witnesses, judges and jurors will be able to "see and hear the incident through the eyes and ears of the officer at the scene," Minister of State for Security Tony McNulty said...
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N. Korea set to scale back nuclear arms program for first time in nearly 5 years
(International News ~ 07/14/07)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea seemed ready Friday to take a first step toward scaling back its nuclear weapons program, perhaps this weekend, as U.N. inspectors prepared to monitor the shutdown of its sole operating atomic reactor. The team from the International Atomic Energy Agency stopped in Beijing en route to the North, with its Saturday arrival in Pyongyang scheduled just hours after a South Korean oil shipment was to enter a North Korean port -- a promised reward for the reactor shutdown pledge.. ...
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Energizer to expand portfolio with $1.16 billion Playtex deal
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
ST. LOUIS -- The Energizer Bunny is taking on skin care products, wet wipes and sippy cups. Energizer Holdings Inc., known for its infinitely running bunny, will buy Playtex Products Inc. for $1.16 billion as the company expands its portfolio of personal care products...
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Grant lets Alzheimer's research continue
(State News ~ 07/14/07)
A research team led by University of Missouri biochemistry professors Grace Sun and Gary Weisman and University of Minnesota pharmacology professor W. Gibson Wood received a $6 million grant recently to continue researching different ways to prevent and cure Alzheimer's...
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Photo project reveals streets of St. Louis
(State News ~ 07/14/07)
St. LOUIS -- The photographs are of old homes, children playing in snow and adults gabbing at an outdoor reunion. The setting is Lewis Place, a private street with a big place in the story of fair housing for black St. Louisans. The photos are the result of a neighborhood-study project at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, which gave Lewis Place residents still cameras and told them to chronicle their lives...
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Man accused of killing six ran for mayor in Illinois hometown
(State News ~ 07/14/07)
ALBION, Ill. -- A truck driver who police say has confessed to killing six people once ran for mayor of this Southern Illinois town where he lives and had a family. Bruce Mendenhall, 56, was charged with criminal homicide in Nashville, Tenn., after police arrested him at the same truck stop along Interstate 24 where a 25-year-old woman was found fatally shot two weeks ago...
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Microfilm collection to draw Vatican scholars
(State News ~ 07/14/07)
ST. LOUIS -- The Vatican library in Rome closes today for three years of renovation, a move that's expected to bring scholars interested in the collections to, of all places, St. Louis. Thanks to a project that began in the 1950s, Saint Louis University, a Jesuit school, has microfilm copies of nearly half of the Vatican library's medieval and Renaissance manuscripts...
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Observer: Evidence against Padilla in terror support trial is 'thin'
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
MIAMI -- For a star defendant whose name is known around the world, Jose Padilla has become almost a bit player in his terrorism support trial -- and some observers say the federal government may not have proved its case against him. Prosecutors rested their case Friday after nine weeks, 22 witnesses and dozens of FBI wiretap intercepts played at trial, most of them in Arabic with written translations for jurors. ...
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Two New York teens arrested for alleged plot against Long Island school
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
NEW YORK -- Two teenagers were charged with conspiring to attack a Long Island high school on the anniversary of the Columbine attacks after a chilling journal and videotape surfaced in which one teen identifies several potential victims by name, authorities said Friday...
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La. first to outlaw late-term abortion procedure since federal ban upheld
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed legislation Friday that penalizes doctors who perform a late-term abortion procedure, making Louisiana the first to outlaw the surgery since a similar federal ban was upheld this year. The new law allows the procedure only when the mother's life would be endangered without it. It would be a crime in all other cases, including when the pregnancy is expected to cause health problems for the mother...
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Would-be robber demands cash, stays for wine and hugs
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
WASHINGTON -- Police on Capitol Hill are baffled by an attempted robbery that began with a handgun put to the head of a 14-year-old girl and ended in a group hug. It started around midnight June 16 when a group of friends was finishing dinner on the patio of a District of Columbia home, authorities and witnesses said. That's when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at the girl's head...
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Speak Out 7/14/07
(Speak Out ~ 07/14/07)
Relationship with dad; Binding elements; What a plan; Draft solution; What a punchline; Keep them laughing; Need parking solution; Hillary is electable; Education costs; Wrong incentive; They did it too; Trading favors; Ethanol politics; Winners and losers
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Showing up speaks volumes
(Column ~ 07/14/07)
Will Bud Selig show up? This question has sports TV and radio talking heads spinning. Barry Bonds is poised to break the career home run record in major league baseball soon. The current record is held by Hank Aaron, who last hit a roundtripper in 1974. ...
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Tweaking DWI law
(Editorial ~ 07/14/07)
A new law is designed to close a loophole that enabled people arrested for driving while intoxicated to challenge the blood test. The previous law adopted in 1982 required the use of alcohol-free antiseptic to cleanse the skin before the blood is drawn. Drunken-driving charges could be dismissed if the testing guidelines were not followed...
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Out of the past 7/14/07
(Out of the Past ~ 07/14/07)
One hundred and nine Southeast Missouri State University students will receive degrees Friday at summer commencement; Dr. Arthur Mallory, commission of education in the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, will be the keynote speaker...
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Love God, work hard, rest well
(Community ~ 07/14/07)
There are two four-letter words in our vocabulary that can either become dominating or lead to destruction. These two words surround all that we do and have been created for. These two controversial words are "work" and "rest." Humanity was created for work. ...
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Briefly
(Community ~ 07/14/07)
Quartet in concert at East Cape Baptist The East Cape Baptist Church will present the Cross4Crowns Quartet from Nashville, Tenn., at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. For more information, call (618) 776-5993. Cape Bible Chapel holds Vacation Bible school Cape Bible Chapel invites all children ages 4 to 12 to "Avalanche Ranch" vacation Bible school from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Monday through Friday at Cape Bible Chapel, 2911 Kage Road, Cape Girardeau. For more information, call Jeremy at 334-5948...
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Mission memories
(Community ~ 07/14/07)
We left St. Louis at 8 a.m. Monday, April 9, and arrived at Montego Bay at 3:20 that afternoon. It took until after 5:30 to get all 41 people and our 90-plus pieces of luggage through customs and immigration. We were met at the airport by the Rev. Davis, the minister of the church at Carron Hall, Herman Grant, an elder of the church and our right-hand man in Jamaica, and several other men from the church. ...
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NOAA predicts active hurricane season, no summer La Nina
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
MIAMI -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted that La Nina -- a cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that generally brings a more active Atlantic hurricane season -- will be absent for the next two months. But don't get rid of those disaster kits just yet...
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Matt Blunt clears his desk as he wraps up bill signings
(State News ~ 07/14/07)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Matt Blunt signed into law new crimes, consumer protections and health-care provisions as he cleared his desk Friday of the remaining bills passed during this year's legislative session. Blunt highlighted measures expanding state aid for children with metabolic disorders, creating incentives for certain veterinarian and nursing students and imposing greater state oversight of the title insurance industry that serves home buyers...
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Ford & Sons wins district game in split with Dunklin County
(Community Sports ~ 07/14/07)
SENATH, Mo. -- For the first three innings of Friday's American Legion District 14 contest between Dunklin County and Cape Girardeau, Ford & Sons pitcher Brad LaBruyere was not his usual dominant self. He didn't have to be with Blake Slattery in the lineup...
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Capahas survive regional opener in 10 innings
(Community Sports ~ 07/14/07)
For most of Friday night's game, it looked like the Plaza Tire Capahas would fall into the loser's bracket of the National Baseball Congress Mid-South Regional. But a late comeback allowed the host Capahas to escape with a thrilling 6-5, 10-inning victory over the Springfield (Mo.) Generals...
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Dow passes 13,900; gains 295.57 on week
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
NEW YORK -- Wall Street ended an extraordinary and record-setting week Friday by surging higher again, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 index past a trading high set in March 2000 and thrusting the Dow Jones industrial past 13,900 for the first time...
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Robot makes rounds when doctor can't get to bedside
(National News ~ 07/14/07)
BALTIMORE -- Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside? Not exactly, but some doctors have found a way to use a videoconferencing robot to check on patients while they're miles from the hospital. One is at Baltimore's Sinai Hospital. Outfitted with cameras, a screen and microphone, the joystick-controlled robot is guided into the rooms of Dr. Alex Gandsas' patients where he speaks to them as if he were right there...
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