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Missouri inmate pleads guilty to threatening Kansas City Wal-Mart
(Business ~ 06/26/08)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri inmate has pleaded guilty to making threats to lace food products with cyanide at a Kansas City Wal-Mart. Hugh L. Riley Jr., an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center, pleaded guilty in a federal court on Wednesday to mailing a threatening communication...
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Teen Challenge celebrating 50th in NYC
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Teen Challenge, the ministry that helps people fight drug addiction, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in New York City this week. Jack Smart, executive director of Teen Challenge International of Mid-America in Cape Girardeau, is attending the event, which ends Saturday, with his wife and three staff members. The Cape Girardeau center opened in 1970; Smart has been its director since 1990...
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Oran, Scott City reel
in all-state honors
(High School Sports ~ 06/26/08)
Five members of the Oran baseball team, which finished third in Class 1, were selected to the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters' Class 1 all-state teams. Senior Steven Dooley was chosen as a first-team pitcher. Dooley posted a 5-0 record with a 1.79 earned run average in 47 innings on the mound...
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Christian gets the call
(Community Sports ~ 06/26/08)
As far as Southeast Missouri State baseball coach Mark Hogan is concerned, nobody deserves to be a major leaguer more than Justin Christian. Christian, a former Southeast player, made his major league debut Tuesday night as the New York Yankees' starting left fielder during a game at Pittsburgh...
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Slaten claims Gateway junior event
(Community Sports ~ 06/26/08)
Brett Slaten shot a 4-under-par 78 on Wednesday to win the boys 16 to 19 18-holes Tour division of the PGA Gateway Junior Series at Bent Creek. Slaten finished three shots ahead of Alex Reid. Emily Matthews placed first in the girls 16 to 19 18-holes division with an 88...
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Area digest 6/26/08
(Community Sports ~ 06/26/08)
Brey records hole in one John Brey used an 8-iron to record a hole in one on hole No. 11 at Cape Girardeau Country Club. The hole was playing 155 yards. Jerry Brey, Al Spradling and Bert Spradling witnessed the shot. Loucks scores hole in one George Loucks recorded a hole in one on hole No. 6 at Cape Girardeau Country Club...
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ARTifacts 6/26/08
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
Tickets on sale for August bluegrass concert at River Campus @SL_body_copy_ragged:The Gibson Brothers will perform Aug. 3 at the River Campus. Their latest album, "Iron & Diamonds," debuted at No. 5 on Billboard's Bluegrass chart in the album's first week of release in April. ...
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No. 3 seed Djokovic upset at Wimbledon
(High School Sports ~ 06/26/08)
WIMBLEDON, England -- Novak Djokovic was upset in straight sets by Marat Safin in the second round Wednesday, ending the Serb's chances of testing his theory about Roger Federer's vulnerability at Wimbledon. The 75th-ranked Safin won 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-2 on Centre Court. ...
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Open house for Obama's local office; Carnahan endorses Allen; bottling plant to lay off about 80
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Carnahan endorses Allen for 8th District Eighth Congressional District challenger Joe Allen received a boost for his campaign this week when he announced that former U.S. senator Jean Carnahan has endorsed his election. Allen, a Democrat, is seeking the U.S. ...
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Review: 'Get Smart' adaptation actually works
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
Adaptations stink, generally. I loathed the "Dukes of Hazzard," hated the new "Knight Rider" and am not looking forward to the new A-team film that John "Boyz N The Hood" Singleton is gearing up for next summer. Each of these shows was a beloved staple of my childhood television watching, and I think that it's impossible for a film based on a cherished TV series to live up to the expectations of the general movie-going audience. ...
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White suspension bridge is newest Jerusalem landmark
(International News ~ 06/26/08)
JERUSALEM -- A ship's sail, a crooked nail or a giant headache -- the people of Jerusalem can't agree about how best to describe the newest landmark their ancient city inaugurated Wednesday. The $73 million bridge designed by the Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava has suddenly become the most dominant shape on the city skyline. ...
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Astros suspend pitcher Shawn Chacon indefinitely
(High School Sports ~ 06/26/08)
HOUSTON (AP) — Astros pitcher Shawn Chacon was suspended indefinitely by the team Wednesday for insubordination after reportedly grabbing general manager Ed Wade by the neck and throwing him to the ground. Chacon, upset after getting demoted to the bullpen over the weekend, told the Houston Chronicle this problem began when Wade saw him in the dining room before the game against Texas. Wade wanted to meet with Chacon in manager Cecil Cooper's office, the pitcher said...
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Lillian Wolfenkoehler
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
Lillian Elizabeth Wolfenkoehler, 94, of Jackson died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at her home. She was born Dec. 3, 1913, at Neelys Landing, daughter of Robert Theodore and Jessie Maude McLard Yancey. She and Dewey L. Wolfenkoehler were married Dec. 5, 1943, in Seattle...
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New on DVD 6/26/08
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
"10,000 BC" The good old days are back, when men were really hairy and saber-toothed tigers ate them. The latest action spectacle from director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow") leaps backward from his usual sci-fi mold to prehistoric days, following the adventures of a young tribesman who fights off human enemies and rampaging beasts such as woolly mammoths while trying to retrieve his woman from warlords who have abducted her...
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Grammy Award winner to headline Campbell fair
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
CAMPBELL, Mo. -- Grammy Award-winning country music artist Bryan White will bring his six No. 1 hits to the stage on Aug. 9, as the final event of the annual Missouri Peach Fair in Campbell. The show will be held at the Campbell Community Building with the opening act, Justin Heskett, taking the stage at 7:30 p.m. White will begin his show, featuring his from his platinum-selling albums, at 8 p.m...
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Jimmie Anschultz
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Jimmie G. Anschultz, 76, of Advance died Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 11, 1931, in Tuckerman, Ark., son of Bill and Virginia Alexander Anschultz. He married Dorothy Anschultz...
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Rains in north will push river up 2 feet
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
The National Weather Service predicted Wednesday the highest river crest of the year would reach the city July 2. Just hours later, Cape Girardeau County was declared a disaster area for the third time in 2008. The latest rise in river levels was attributed to strong storms that Tuesday and Wednesday dumped as much as 8 inches of rain in a short period over northern Missouri. ...
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June Walters
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- June Lansing Walters, 84, of Sikeston died Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. James T. Hall in Cape Girardeau, surrounded by members of her family. She was born Nov. 23, 1923, in Collinsville, Ill., daughter of Raymond and Bessie Ogle Lansing. She and Horace Walters were married Nov. 12, 1944, in Advance, Mo...
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Queen Elizabeth confers knighthood on Salman Rushdie
(International News ~ 06/26/08)
LONDON -- Author Salman Rushdie slipped into Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to receive a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II that had angered many parts of the Muslim world when the honor was announced last year. In a break with normal procedure, the palace did not announce ahead of time that Rushdie would be honored Wednesday...
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Court slashes damage award in Exxon oil spill
(National News ~ 06/26/08)
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday the Supreme Court slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damage award in the Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million, a decision that could have broader implications for limiting how much courts can order businesses to pay. The decision was hailed by the business community and decried by environmentalists and Alaskans...
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Marble Hill man charged with child molestation
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Marble Hill police arrested Wayne A. Martin Sr., 30, of Marble Hill on Monday on charges of child molestation. Officers from both the Marble Hill Police Department and Missouri State Highway Patrol interviewed Martin earlier that evening after receiving information that he had sexually abused a child younger than 12, according to a probable-cause statement by Sgt. Scott Shaffer...
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Rose, Beasley top deep freshman crop in NBA draft
(High School Sports ~ 06/26/08)
NEW YORK -- Michael Beasley strolled into a hotel ballroom Wednesday, spotted the swarm of cameras surrounding his table, and jokingly asked Brandon Rush if he wanted to switch spots. The guy Beasley really may want to swap with is Derrick Rose. Rose is Beasley's competition for the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, and the winner will be announced tonight when NBA commissioner David Stern announces the selection shortly after 6 p.m...
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Bringing down the house: Cape's house bands have got the blues and the crowds don't mind at all
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
House bands help boost the local music scene by guaranteeing live music for people to enjoy on a regular basis. The gig can be hard to maintain — to break the monotony of playing in the same town, same venue and same night each week. But for 20 years, Bruce Zimmerman and the Water Street Band drew a packed crowd to Port Cape at least once a week. When they reduced performances to the first Sunday of every month, blues fanatics feared they had fewer places to go...
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Sylvia Reinagel
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
Sylvia Marie Reinagel was delivered into the hands of her heavenly family Wednesday, June 25, 2008. She was born July 30, 1930, to Nicholas and Coena Welter Essner at New Hamburg, Mo. At the tender age of 3 she lost her loving mother to complications suffered during a pregnancy. It is told that her beautiful long hair had to be cut short so her dad could brush it easier. Her older sister Patsy took her under her wing and cared dearly for her...
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Courtney Brewer
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Courtney Darryl Brewer, 67, of Perryville died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born March 22, 1941, in Perry County, son of Courtney Elvis and Mary Theresa Wood Brewer. Brewer was a truck driver and a member of Heartland Baptist Church...
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Tour de Corn cycles through Southeast Missouri
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. — Mount up for the seventh annual Tour de Corn Bicycle Ride this Saturday in East Prairie. Hundreds of cyclists gear up and head out for 15-, 30- or 60-mile rides. For the supercyclist, a roughly 100-mile course is also mapped out...
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InBev stands by $46B offer for Anheuser-Busch
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Brewer InBev SA on Wednesday pressed Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. for an answer on its $46 billion takeover offer, saying it had already secured financing for the deal. The Belgium-based maker of Stella Artois said it wrote to Anheuser again Wednesday to assure the company's board that it has struck deals with a group of banks and has already paid commitment fees to finance the takeover offer...
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Venue smenue, Libertyfest will be fun despite new location
(Column ~ 06/26/08)
The Cape Libertyfest and Regional Air Festival has gotten some flak lately. It seems like no matter what they do people get mad. The poor kids can't win for losing. They joined forces and announced the move to Cape Girardeau to incorporate downtown and to save money. People complained about parking and the smaller number of traditional air show attractions. And how are you going to have an air show without an airport?...
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N. Korea's nuclear accounting won't include its weapons
(International News ~ 06/26/08)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea is expected this week to turn over its long-delayed accounting of its nuclear weapons activities, part of a chain of events leading to a unique photo opportunity: the destruction of the cooling tower at Pyongyang's main reactor...
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Group gets record deal nearly 20 years after it broke up
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
For most local bands, getting signed by a record company is a dream. For Glastetter, it was almost a joke. The band has been inactive for nearly 20 years. Formed in 1986, Glastetter was originally based out of Portageville, Mo. A diverse band that featured original and cover songs by popular rock, metal and "hair metal" bands of the time, (some of their favorites included AC/DC, Aerosmith and Guns 'n Roses) in 1987 they recorded and produced their first demo at the now famed Easley-McCain recording studio in Memphis, Tenn.. ...
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Music Review: Judas Priest's scores with 'Nostradamus'
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
@SL_body_copy_ragged:I had a premonition Judas Priest would make an album like this. But not even the 16th-century seer credited by some with predicting events centuries later could have known it would be this good. The two-CD set marks the British metal quintet's first concept album, a fascinating telling of the life and times of Nostradamus, the self-proclaimed prophet, his predictions and turbulent life...
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Fed holds rates steady for now
(National News ~ 06/26/08)
WASHINGTON -- With inflation moving higher on its worry list, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday, ending nearly a year of cuts to bolster the economy, and hinted that the next direction for rates could be up. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and all but one of his central bank colleagues agreed the best course was to leave a key rate alone at 2 percent, as the country slogs through the crosscurrents of plodding economic growth and zooming energy and food prices that threaten to spread inflation.. ...
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Speak Out 6/26/08
(Speak Out ~ 06/26/08)
Need new faces THIS IS a voting year. Let's get some new faces in our government. These inexperienced people will be welcome. The old legislators and ideas are not working, except for themselves. Come on, people, let's get out and vote. What happened to a government for the people and by the people?...
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Scott County moves forward with repairs from flooding
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
BENTON, Mo. -- Scott County is moving forward with repairs to buildings, roads and other structures that were damaged as a result of flooding due to heavy rains this spring. During Tuesday's regular commission meeting, Joel Evans, county developer and emergency management director, shared preliminary plans and estimates for repairing some county roads and bridges. That information will also be used in a formal request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
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Police report 6/26/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/26/08)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Tony L. Thompson, 41, 501 S. Middle St., was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault. n Braxton K. Block, 20, 45 S. West End Blvd., Apt. 204, was arrested on suspicion of assault...
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Kid Rock jokingly urges fans to 'steal everything'
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
DETROIT -- Kid Rock wants fans to know it's OK to illegally download his music. And while they're at it, they should steal cars, designer clothes and iPods, too. Well, maybe not. The 37-year-old Detroit musician posted a "special announcement" on YouTube last week urging fans to "steal everything."...
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Kentucky gunman argued with boss over phone, goggles
(National News ~ 06/26/08)
HENDERSON, Ky. -- A 25-year-old press operator shot and killed five co-workers and himself at a plastics plant in rural western Kentucky just hours after arguing with his supervisor about not wearing safety goggles and using his cell phone while on the assembly line, police said Wednesday...
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Life different for documentary unit in 'reality' world
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
NEW YORK -- In filming a sequel to a 2000 series about Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, ABC News producers found that reality television had changed how they could present reality on television. The network's six-part series following the lives of doctors and patients, "Hopkins," premieres at 9 p.m. today, the first of a handful of summer series from ABC News. This one traces steps first taken on "Hopkins 24/7" eight years ago...
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Grand jury begins its investigation of Texas sect
(National News ~ 06/26/08)
ELDORADO, Texas -- Women and girls in prairie dresses entered a courthouse surrounded by dozens of law enforcement officers in this tiny ranching hamlet Wednesday as a grand jury opened its investigation into a polygamist sect accused of forcing underage girls into marriage and motherhood...
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Parents Without Partners calendar
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
n From 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30, Parents Without Partners will attend line dance lessons at Eagles Aerie 3775, 321 N. Spring St., Cape Girardeau. Beginner lessons are at 6 p.m. Open to the public. n At 3:30 p.m. July 4, the group will meet at the Cape Girardeau Airport front gates to attend Libertyfest and the air show...
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Best-sellers 6/26/08
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
1. "Sail" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan 2. "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris 3. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow 4. "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer 5. "New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer...
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South Korea lifts ban on American beef imports
(International News ~ 06/26/08)
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea lifted an import ban on American beef today, officials said, hoping to move on from a crisis that battered the pro-U.S. government with protests over mad cow disease concerns. South Korea and the United States agreed last week to restrict U.S. beef exports to younger cattle, modifying an earlier deal that placed few restrictions on meat shipments and sparked widespread outrage against the government...
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Red House calendar
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Group tours of the Red House Interpretive Center in Cape Girardeau can be made by contacting the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau at 335-1631. Admission is discounted for students. The house's July schedule: n The Red House will be open for tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 1 to 5, July 15 to 19, July 22 to 26 and July 29 to 31...
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Byron Sides
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
Byron Lee Sides, 17, of White, Ga., died Monday, June 23, 2008, while swimming in Lake Allatoona near Cartersville, Ga. He was born Feb. 13, 1991, in Cartersville, son of Terry and Deborah Sides. Sides was employed by Johnny's Pizza and Subs in Cartersville. He participated in Boy Scouts and youth activities at his church...
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Fire report 6/26/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/26/08)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following calls Tuesday: n At 4:34 p.m., emergency medical service at Interstate 55 and Kingshighway. n At 5:33, an alarm in the 300 block of Mount Auburn Road. n At 5:03 p.m., emergency medical service in the 200 block of North Kingshighway...
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Take a seat: El Acapulco customers can sit inside or outside and still be pleased
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
For dinner on the porch of a Mexican hacienda, head to El Acapulco in Cape Girardeau. The restaurant invites customers into it's bright space through arched doorways and Spanish architecture. Nick and Brianna Maldonado bought the restaurant in 2001. El Acapulco is part of a family-owned chain that also has locations in Poplar Bluff and Memphis, Tenn. Since the Maldonados took over, they added a veranda and new windows...
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Observations from Nashville, Tenn.
(Column ~ 06/26/08)
June 26, 2008 Dear Leslie, The Bluebird Cafe is a cramped room in a Nashville, Tenn., strip mall where most everybody who has become somebody in country music played early in their career. The list is a who's who of Nashville saints, including Garth Brooks, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith and on and on. It's also oddball enough that one night disco queen Donna Summer sang "She Works Hard for the Chili."...
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Community briefs 6/26/08
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Buehrle family holding reunion this weekend The descendants of Bob and Bernice Buehrle will gather in Cape Girardeau from Friday to Sunday. The family will hold a picnic Saturday at Capaha Park shelter No. 2. Friends of the family are welcome to visit after 2 p.m...
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Out of the past 6/26/08
(Out of the Past ~ 06/26/08)
25 years ago: June 26, 1983 Cape Girardeau Police Det. Sgt. Stephen C. Strong graduated Friday from the FBI's National Academy at Quantico, Va. Mrs. James Kinder and Mrs. Lyle Davis have been named co-chairwomen of the 1983 Heritage Ball to be held Nov. 12; the ball is held annually to support the work of the Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau...
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Katelyn Childers
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Katelyn Mae Childers, 27 days, of Chaffee died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at her home. She was born May 29, 2008, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Rickey M. and Rebekah Jo Basham Childers II. Survivors include her parents of Chaffee; a brother, Zachary Childers of Chaffee; maternal grandparents, Steve and Deborah Basham of Marble Hill, Mo.; paternal grandparents, Rickey and Laura Childers Sr. ...
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Jackson schools avoid budget cuts
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Jackson parents will have to fork over more money for school lunches next year, but they won't see the financial constraints apparent elsewhere. School districts nationally have had to slash budgets, lay off teachers or cancel programming as utility, fuel and food prices rise. The Jackson School District weathered the increases without forced cuts...
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Court rules death penalty too severe a punishment for raping children
(National News ~ 06/26/08)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for raping children, despite the "years of long anguish" for victims, in a ruling that restricts the death penalty to murder and crimes against the state...
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New 'slides' and sandboils confounding flood fighters
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
WINFIELD, Mo. -- Flood fighters tackled new slides and sandboils in a fragile earthen levee along the swollen Mississippi River on Wednesday, as forecasters said an overnight deluge of rain could cause a second round of big crests north of here. As much as 8 inches of rain fell in parts of northern Missouri Tuesday and Wednesday, adding water to about four rivers there feeding into the Mississippi, the National Weather Service said...
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China reopens Tibet to tourists ahead of games
(International News ~ 06/26/08)
BEIJING -- Tibet reopened to foreign tourists Wednesday, three months after the Chinese government banned such visits in the wake of violent anti-government riots and protests that tainted the image of the country ahead of the Olympics. The first foreign tourists, a retired Swedish couple, arrived at the airport near the capital, Lhasa, on Wednesday, said Tibetan Tourism Bureau spokesman Liao Lisheng...
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St. Louis mosquitoes test positive for West Nile virus
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
ST. LOUIS -- Health officials announced Wednesday they have discovered mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus throughout St. Louis County, the first such discovery in Missouri this year. "They're really all over," said Joan Bradford, supervisor of vector control for the St. Louis County Department of Health. The discovery was not unexpected, she said, because West Nile virus was known to be in the area...
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Bernadine Harris-Smith
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
In memory of Bernadine "Bunny" Harris-Smith, a memorial Mass and bereavement lunch will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, 1912 Ritter Drive, Cape Girardeau. Harris-Smith, 87, of Sarasota, Fla., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, Dec. 3, 2007, in Sarasota...
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Thomas Lett Jr.
(Obituary ~ 06/26/08)
Thomas H. Lett Jr., 84, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at the Lutheran Home. He was born April 12, 1924, in St. Louis, son of Thomas H. and Evelyn Miller Lett. He and Mary Lou Caldwell were married Dec. 14, 1952, in Piggott, Ark. Tom enlisted in the U.S. ...
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Worth the drive 6/26/08
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
Less than 2 hours away Lake Wappapello Outdoor Theatre, Wappapello, Mo. Lake Wappapello State Park hosts camping and concerts all summer long. This weekend, escape city life and camp out under the stars. For entertainment Friday, The Fat Boys will be onstage. ...
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Dutchtown floods
(Editorial ~ 06/26/08)
If ever a town was between a rock and a hard place, it would be Dutchtown. The Cape Girardeau County community at the crossroads of highways 25 and 74 has experienced more floods than residents there like to recall. Under consideration for several years has been the construction of a levee that would protect the highways and the town. ...
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Paralyzed mother gives Thames perspective
(High School Sports ~ 06/26/08)
DETROIT -- Anytime Marcus Thames starts to get cranky about being a part-time player, he simply thinks about his mom. Thames was 5 when his mother, Veterine Thames, was in a car accident that left her paralyzed. For 26 years, that's left the Detroit Tigers outfielder with an even-keeled perspective about his place in the game...
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Get Smart car star in Cape Girardeau
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
The newest Hollywood revival -- "Get Smart" -- recently hit area theaters, but Maxwell Smart's famous car has been in Cape Girardeau all along. John and Vivian Selby of Cape Girardeau aren't car aficionados, but the red 1966 Sunbeam Tiger they own would be considered a prize by any collector. John and Vivian say the car has more sentimental value to them than anything...
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Town deals with high number of tumors
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
CAMERON, Mo. -- When Jim Frasher went to the doctor in January, he wanted to know why he was so sick, confused and agitated. He was stunned by the answer: a benign tumor about the size of a golf ball on his brain stem. Frasher and his wife, Catherine, soon found out that he was one of several people in Cameron who had been diagnosed with tumors in the last six years...
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Air ambulance service leaves Cape airport for Farmington
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
The loss of Cape Girardeau's only locally based air ambulance service won't have a major effect on patient care, spokespeople for the city's two major hospitals said. Arch Air Medical Service, a St. Louis-based company, last week moved its helicopter and crew stationed at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport to Farmington, Mo. ...
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Good bets 6/26/08
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
LIVE MUSIC Doug Rees Stooges regular is joined by special guests Jim Patton and Sherry Brokus. Where: Stooges, Jackson When: 7 to 11 p.m. today Ivas John Band House band plays the blues...
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Acclaimed violinist performs at River Campus
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
David Kim, acclaimed violinist and a native of Carbondale, Ill., returned to the area Wednesday night to perform a solo with the Southern Illinois Music Festival Orchestra and get in touch with his roots. The concert at the River Campus began at 7:30 p.m. ...
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Fresno State wins national title
(College Sports ~ 06/26/08)
OMAHA, Neb. -- Fresno State went from underdogs to "wonderdogs" on its way to a most unlikely national championship. With Steve Detwiler providing all the offense Justin Wilson needed, the Bulldogs captured their first national championship in a men's sport with a 6-1 victory over Georgia in the decisive Game 3 of the College World Series finals...
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Neighbors and nature: New Cape Girardeau housing development will focus on community and the outdoors
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Gerry Jones hopes to bring Mayberry to Cape Girardeau with a subdivision under construction off Route W. Jones remembers a time in America when neighbors would sit on their front porches and call people by their first names as they passed by, like on "The Andy Griffith Show."...
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Attorney calls county response to lawsuit 'scandalous,' 'impertinent'
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
"Scandalous." "Impertinent." "Insufficient." Those are three reasons cited in a legal brief asking a judge to remove some language used in the Cape Girardeau County commissioners' response to a Sunshine Law suit. The 14-page motion-to-strike brief filed June 18 by attorney J.P. ...
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Auditions scheduled for River City Players
(Submitted Story ~ 06/26/08)
Auditions dates for the play "When the Reaper Calls" will take place on July 13 from 2:00 to 4:00 and July 14 from 6:00 t0 8:00. They will take place in The Captains' Quarters at Port Cape Girardeau. If you are interested in participating in community theatre now is the time. ...
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Alice Cooper live in Cape 1987
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/26/08)
Another photo from the Alice Cooper concert at the Cape Girardeau Show-Me-Center in 1987. (Guns N Roses opened.) Alice was on "Raise Your Fist and Yell Tour". It was a sold out show and one of two dates Guns N Roses did in Cape.
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Ground broken on LaSalle Avenue construction
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Susan Stroder has for the last year been riding out on East Main Street in Jackson to exit 102 along Interstate 55 with her son Alex and has watched as, in her opinion, "history was in the making." This thought echoes the message that Cape Girardeau Mayor Jay Knudtson gave at a groundbreaking ceremony for construction of LaSalle Avenue, which will connect Route W in northern Cape Girardeau to East Main Street in Jackson. ...
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Online Pet of the Week
(Submitted Photo ~ 06/26/08)
Oscar is a one-year-old male Basset Hound. He is already neutered. Oscar is very playful! He is available for adoption at The Humane Society of SEMO, 573-334-5837. See more pets available at www.semopets.org
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Flood water creeps over Highway 177, but doesn't close road
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Water covered but did not close Highway 177 at the northern city limits of Cape Girardeau today, the first of a possibly increasing number of problems the Mississippi River could create as it rises toward its highest crest of the year. The prediction for a crest of 43 feet on Wednesday remained unchanged even as additional rains fell in Iowa and northern Missouri. If the predicted crest is reached, it would be the highest river level since 2002...
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Lightning strike leads to flood in downtown Cape
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Part of downtown Cape Girardeau along Water and Main streets was flooded when a lightning strike apparently knocked out two fuses at the Main Street Levee District pumping station at the foot of Meriwether Street. The lightning hit just after 7:30 p.m...
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Anheuser-Busch rejects InBev bid, calls it too low
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Anheuser-Busch's board is unanimously rejecting a Belgian-Brazilian brewer's takeover bid, saying the $46 billion offer undervalues the Budweiser maker. The St. Louis brewer calls InBev's $65-a-share price "financially inadequate" and not in the best interests of its shareholders...
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St. Louis schools facing cuts for 2008-09 year
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The leader of a special board supervising St. Louis schools says the district faces a "horrendous financial challenge." Rick Sullivan told state education officials Thursday that the St. Louis school district faces a $30 million gap between its projected expenditures and its $320 million in projected revenues next school year...
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Mo. hatchery sends 10,000 replacement trout to Iowa
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri hatchery is donating 10,000 rainbow trout to help replace fish lost from Iowa hatcheries hit by flooding. Neosho National Fish Hatchery Manager David Hendrix said Wednesday that each fish will be up to 4 inches long and about 4 months old. The donated trout constitute the Neosho hatchery's surplus of that size rainbow trout for this year...
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Judge OKs Christian group to hand out fliers at St. Louis PrideFest
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A federal judge says a Christian ministry has the right to distribute literature and discuss its religious viewpoint at the annual gay pride event known as Pride Festival this weekend in St. Louis. U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey's order was issued Tuesday but announced Thursday. It came after a religious group called Apple of His Eye Inc. sought to stop the city of St. Louis from enforcing a policy it used in 2006 to ban the same group from expressing its views...
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Man charged with stealing boat in Mo. flood zone
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- A man is accused of stealing a boat from a St. Charles County marina and taking a joyride in floodwaters, with his young son along for the ride. Lake Center Marina employee Paul Grubbs tells KSDK-TV that when he and co-workers noticed that the boat was gone Wednesday, they began searching the floodwaters. Soon they spotted the boat, but Grubbs said the man grabbed his son, jumped into the water and swam into a flooded woods...
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Rain threatens fragile Mississippi River towns
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
WINFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Severe thunderstorms rattled northern Missouri early Thursday, threatening to add even more rain to the swollen Mississippi River and complicate efforts to keep the river from engulfing this community. Even before the latest storms, crews had long labored to strengthen the earthen levee at Winfield from dirt slides and spots where water soaks up through the sandy soil...
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Federal court rejects Mo. Democrat's ballot appeal
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A federal appeals court rejects attempts by a St. Louis Democrat to get on the ballot for a state Senate seat. House member Juanita Head Walton planned to run against fellow Democrat Sen. Tim Green for his Senate seat. But she was removed from the ballot after Green filed a complaint stating Walton had been a corporate officer in a driver's license fee office that owes the state $40,000 in taxes and fees...
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Mo. mom charged with endangerment in toddler death
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The mother of a 2-year-old boy found dead in Columbia now faces child endangerment charges. Twenty-six-year-old Keyonda Lumpkins is charged with endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree. She was in the Boone County Jail on Thursday morning...
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Mo. approved for alternative schools scoring
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- More Missouri schools could appear to be doing better under federal standards because of a change in the way the state judges its performance goals. At issue is the percentage of schools considered to be making adequate yearly progress toward student achievement goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act...
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Kansas City ethanol company shutting down
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Alternative Energy Sources Inc. is closing its doors after being unable to raise enough money for a proposed ethanol plant in Iowa and failing to expand its ethanol management consulting business. In a securities filing Wednesday, the Kansas City-based company said its remaining employees would be furloughed next Tuesday and that it expected to take a $3.1 million charge for shuttering the business...
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Anheuser-Busch to quit selling alcoholic energy drinks
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. will quit selling caffeinated alcoholic drinks as part of a legal settlement with several state attorneys general, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. Anheuser-Busch was marketing its caffeinated drinks to minors and misrepresenting the drinks' health benefits, Cuomo said. He was among 11 attorneys general who reached a settlement with the nation's largest brewer...
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Floods will cause ripple across US economy
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Floodwaters receding into the Mississippi River and its tributaries will suck billions of dollars out of the Midwest's economy, though probably not as much as the 1993 flooding that devastated the region. The impact on U.S. economic growth is expected to be small, but it is difficult to make accurate estimates because water still stands over farm fields, roads and in many homes. Forecasts call for more rain across the region through at least Saturday...
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InBev begins hostile takeover of Anheuser-Busch
(State News ~ 06/26/08)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Belgian Brewer InBev is taking what could be the first steps toward a hostile takeover of Anheuser-Busch Cos. InBev announced Thursday it has filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court, where Anheuser-Busch is officially chartered as a corporation...
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'Dark Knight' credits pay tribute to Ledger
(Entertainment ~ 06/26/08)
LOS ANGELES -- Heath Ledger is getting a fond tribute from his collaborators on "The Dark Knight." The end credits of the "Batman Begins" sequel include a farewell note to Ledger, who died in January from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs; and to special-effects technician Conway Wickliffe, who was killed last September in a stunt-car accident...
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Thomas' bases-loaded walk in 10th lifts Tigers
(High School Sports ~ 06/26/08)
DETROIT (AP) -- Clete Thomas drew a bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning to give the Detroit Tigers a 3-2 win Thursday over St. Louis, spoiling Albert Pujols' return for the Cardinals. St. Louis reliever Mike Parisi (0-4) gave up a leadoff single to Curtis Granderson and intentionally walked Carlos Guillen and Miguel Cabrera before Thomas drew his second run-scoring walk of the day...
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Buckled pavement closes Silver Springs Road near William Street
(Local News ~ 06/26/08)
Silver Springs Road north of its intersection with William Street will be closed until Friday. Geoff Dial, special projects coordinator for the City of Cape Girardeau Public Works Department, said that section of the road has been closed since Tuesday afternoon, when the pavement buckled. A crew will begin working on the project Friday morning...
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