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Bollinger County joins in search for local man
(Local News ~ 07/03/09)
DEXTER, Mo. -- A command center has been established in Bollinger County in a continuing effort to locate a missing Dexter man, 43-year-old Robert Peters.
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Organizers want big turnout for July 4 event at Arena Park
(Local News ~ 07/03/09)
The future of the Joint Veterans Council's Independence Day celebration will be decided by the people of Cape Girardeau, organizer Rodger Brown said as he surveyed sparsely filled Arena Park grandstands prior Friday evening's truck and tractor pull event...
- Nixon vetoes easing of motorcycle helmet law, citing safety (Local News ~ 07/03/09)
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Nixon revisits bond proposal to fund university projects
(Local News ~ 07/03/09)
Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon said higher education is not a limiting factor for the statewide bond initiative he has revisited in recent weeks. "We certainly shouldn't limit something of this type, that would need to go in front of voters," Nixon said Thursday in Cape Girardeau...
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July 4 Tea Party to be held at Arena Building
(Local News ~ 07/03/09)
Southeast Missourian Conservatives hoping to build on the strength of the April 15 tax protest will hold a July 4 Tea Party from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday on the steps of the Arena Building in Arena Park in Cape Girardeau. The event, announced on the social networking site Facebook, will again be an event aimed at protesting high government spending and what the organizers view as unconstitutional actions to prop up private businesses...
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Nixon signs bills to help veterans
(Local News ~ 07/03/09)
Missouri's war dead will be honored with highway markers and have their unclaimed cremated remains taken into the care of veterans groups under two new laws signed Thursday by Gov. Jay Nixon. And living career military retirees will begin getting a tax break next year that will, within a few years, make their pensions exempt from state income tax...
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Cowboy Church flies flags for July 4
(Local News ~ 07/03/09)
Every morning this week, just after sunrise, volunteers have put up 300 U.S. flags around the Cape County Cowboy Church in Oak Ridge. The church is flying the flags at its location off Interstate 55 in honor of the Fourth of July. They were first displayed Saturday evening. Since then volunteers have gone to the church to put up the flags at 6 a.m. each morning, and others have gone to take them down at 7:30 p.m. each evening. The flags will be on display until Sunday afternoon...
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Cape Girardeau, Jackson Independence Day events
(Local News ~ 07/03/09)
Saturday is Independence Day, and celebrations are scheduled in Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Below is a list of community celebrations. For more area Independence Day events go to http://semoevents.com. July 4th celebration The Jackson celebration includes a car show from 9 a.m. ...
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Harry Rediger wins Southeast Missourian's Spirit of America Award
(Local News ~ 07/03/09)
When Harry Rediger was a boy growing up in a small Nebraska town, he spent a lot of time in his father's hardware shop. There's no doubt he learned all about tools and how to build things. When Rediger became a young man, he decided against going into the hardware business. ...
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Brian Goodman dunking for pickles
(Submitted Photo ~ 07/03/09)
The Church of Jesus Christ 721 County Road 316 Jackson,Mo Held Youth Camp June 17-19. There was lots of activites such as dunking for pickles.
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Zhang trims Tanco's lead
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
Nicole Zhang, a 17-year-old from Calgary, Alberta, is taking a new approach to golf. She's decided to take some time to look around and see the faces, smell the flowers and have fun. And she's not complaining about the scenery after two rounds of the AJGA's Rolex Tournament of Champions at Dalhousie Golf Club...
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Vogel snags lead with hot start
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
T.J. Vogel charged into the lead with reckless abandon during a sizzling front nine Friday. Vogel played the first nine holes at Dalhousie Golf Club in 5-under par to grab the lead at the AJGA's Rolex Tournament of Champions. He said everything was going right early in his round...
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Let's celebrate
(Editorial ~ 07/03/09)
As we begin a long weekend of celebration marking the 233rd anniversary of our nation's bold declaration of independence from the tyranny of a far-off government, there are many reasons to acknowledge the providence of more than two centuries of hard-won democracy...
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Speak Out 7/3/09
(Speak Out ~ 07/03/09)
Trying to succeed; Too much government; Computer fix
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Prayer 7/3/09
(Prayer ~ 07/03/09)
For a free nation and all of its blessings, we give thanks to you, O God. Amen.
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Here's an update on work accomplished for autism services
(Column ~ 07/03/09)
Recently, the Southeast Missourian ran an article highlighting the services that will be available through the Southeast Missouri State University Autism Center for Diagnosis and Treatment, which is expected to open at the end of this year. ...
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An American question on the Fourth of July
(Column ~ 07/03/09)
One of the most famous and compelling Fourth of July speeches in American history was no flag-waving paean to the glories of Old Glory -- it was instead a searing judgment on the nation's failure to fulfill the promise of liberty and equality proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence...
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neXt up 7/3/09
(Community ~ 07/03/09)
Friday "Bruno" Rated R, 83 mins @ Town Plaza Cine @graphic_body_bullet:n First Friday receptions @various locations and times Saturday Sunday Next Week "ARMA II" PC "Memento Mori" PC "Extreme Rules," NR "Unborn," PG-13 Soundtrack, "Hannah Montana 3"...
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Safe summer driving tips for teens
(Community ~ 07/03/09)
Receiving a driver's license is one of the most exciting rites of passage in a teen's life. With no school to take up the days, summer is the best time to practice. But the 100 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day are also the busiest times on Missouri roads, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation, and the Independence Day weekend is the peak of summertime travel...
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Bush to visit small Okla. town for Fourth of July
(National News ~ 07/03/09)
WOODWARD, Okla. -- When the town of Woodward invited George W. Bush to its Fourth of July celebration, no one really expected the former president to accept. But he did. Now this community of 12,000 is scurrying to get ready for what some locals are calling the biggest thing ever to happen to Woodward, a place where cattle outnumber people...
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NASA astronaut to tweet from space in Spanish on first flight
(National News ~ 07/03/09)
WASHINGTON -- NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English. Astronaut Jose Hernandez grew up in a migrant farming family and didn't learn English until he was 12. He is scheduled to fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery in August and tweet bilingually from orbit. It will be his first flight...
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North Korea fires barrage of missiles
(International News ~ 07/03/09)
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast Thursday, a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the Fourth of July holiday. Firing a ballistic missile on Independence Day would be a challenge to Washington, which has been rallying international support for enforcement of U.N. ...
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Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people
(National News ~ 07/03/09)
WASHINGTON -- With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is -- so far -- more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is inefficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in today's edition of the journal Science...
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Scientists: Climate change shrinking sheep
(National News ~ 07/03/09)
WASHINGTON -- Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep. On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London...
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Police say Connecticut teens mishear sex screams, beat man
(National News ~ 07/03/09)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A 16-year-old girl thought she heard her mother being assaulted by her boyfriend and rounded up some friends who beat him up, only to learn later that the couple actually were having sex, the woman and police said. The girl misinterpreted the woman's amorous screams, and she and four other teens went to the woman's bedroom in the Torrington, Conn., home June 6, police Lt. ...
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Jobless rate at 9.5 percent in June
(National News ~ 07/03/09)
WASHINGTON -- Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Workers also saw weekly wages fall, suggesting Americans will have little appetite to spend and the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy...
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Senate bill would fine those refusing health coverage
(National News ~ 07/03/09)
WASHINGTON -- Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health-care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Obama's top domestic priority...
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Avery Dellinger
(Obituary ~ 07/03/09)
Avery W. "Dub" Dellinger, 79, of Jackson died Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 24,1930, in Cape Girardeau, son of Avery W. and Ariminta Proctor Dellinger. He and Betty Davie were married Feb. 7, 1957, and were married 52 years...
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JoAnn Mayo
(Obituary ~ 07/03/09)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- JoAnn Tweedy Mayo, 69, of Advance passed away Thursday, July 2, 2009, at her home. She was born Feb. 21, 1940, at Acorn Ridge, Mo., daughter of Elbert and Mildred Harty Tweedy. JoAnn had been a secretary for Southeast Coop and H&R Block. She was a member of Advance United Methodist Church. She was a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University...
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Frances Curtner
(Obituary ~ 07/03/09)
Frances Jane "Frankie" Curtner of Stanton, Calif., passed away Sunday, June 28, 2009, at West Anaheim Medical Center, following abdominal surgery. She was the loving mother of Cape Girardeau resident Judith Farris. She is also survived by seven other children, 16 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, all of whom reside in California...
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Clara Graviett
(Obituary ~ 07/03/09)
ORAN, Mo. -- Clara Eudora Graviett, 91, of Oran died Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at Chateau Gardens Health Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 16, 1918, in Oran, daughter of John Parks and Lela Rowena Scott McCarty. She and Clarence Thomas Graviett were married Dec. ...
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JoAnn Reiminger
(Obituary ~ 07/03/09)
JoAnn Reiminger, 79, of Jackson died Thursday, July 2, 2009, at Monticello House. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements.
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Births 7/3/09
(Births ~ 07/03/09)
Vance; Brotherton; Ponder; Abbas; Kiplinger; Stout; Heern; Morgan; Posey; Dennis; Stephens; Jones
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Tournament help
(Column ~ 07/03/09)
The volunteers who pitch in every year to make the Louis J. Lorimier Memorial World-Famous Downtown Golf Tournament and All-You-Can-Eat Catfish Buffet a success can always be counted on to make everything go just the way it should. This year, who knew the Great Weathermaker himself would join the team?...
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Out of the past 7/3/09
(Out of the Past ~ 07/03/09)
25 years ago: July 3, 1984 A special meeting of the Cape Girardeau City Council, called to discuss what has become a controversial issue of where to build the $13 million multipurpose building, is adjourned without voting on an advisory committee's recommendation that the structure be built on the university campus...
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Judge tentatively acquits Missouri woman in MySpace hoax
(National News ~ 07/03/09)
LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge on Thursday tentatively threw out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. U.S. District Judge George Wu said he was acquitting Lori Drew of misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization but stressed the ruling was tentative until he issues it in writing. He noted the case of a judge who changed his mind after ruling...
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Backyard Science: Firework science
(Community ~ 07/03/09)
It's that time of the year when the children are out having fun in the sun. While they're outside, encourage them to explore one of the best science classrooms -- their own backyard. Here's an experiment perfect for the Fourth of July. You can learn all about the science behind the vivid colors fireworks create by using a few items from around the house...
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'Public Enemies': Gangster caught between love, money
(Community ~ 07/03/09)
"Public Enemies," which seemed like a hard-core gangster movie, turned out to be a sensational love story. Bank robber John Dillinger is portrayed as a relentless man by Johnny Depp. The movie takes a turn toward romance when he engages in a love affair with a coat clerk named Billie Frechette, played by Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard...
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Who's next
(Community ~ 07/03/09)
Scholarships The following students received scholarships to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 2009-2010 school year: Honors, Achievements n Elizabeth Caldwell of Cape Girardeau was named to the spring semester dean's list at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind...
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AJGA third-round tee times
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
From tee No. 1 7 a.m. -- Anton Arboleda, La Canada, Calif.; Robert Register, Burlington, N.C. 7:09 a.m. -- Justin Thomas, Goshen, Ky.; Jim Liu, Smithtown, N.Y. 7:18 a.m. -- Zhong Yang Fu, Bradenton, Fla.; Kyle Kmiecik, Avon, Ohio; Patrick Rodgers, Avon, Ind...
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Digital scoreboards keep fans abreast of action around Dalhousie
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
A couple of new additions made their way onto the course at Dalhousie Golf Club. Two electronic scoreboards have been placed on hole Nos. 8 and 18 to help keep fans abreast of the action. The scoreboards were brought in by the AJGA for this week's Rolex Tournament of Champions...
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Gooch emerges as second day leader
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
Talor Gooch battled up the leaderboard to take the lead in the AJGA's Rolex Tournament of Champions at Dalhousie Golf Club. Gooch entered Thursday's second round one stroke behind leader Michael Weaver, but quickly made up the difference. After starting the round on No. 10, he birdied holes Nos. 12, 15 and 16 to move to 7-under 33 through his first nine holes...
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Expansive green makes No. 18 versatile
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
There aren't many greens that the average golfer couldn't hit a full sand wedge over. Dalhousie Golf Club boasts one of them. Welcome to No. 18's green, a 100-yard monster that can turn a great round into a horrific nightmare. "You don't get exposed to a green that sloped ever," said Kevin Gillick, a competitor at this week's AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions. "It's definitely different."...
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Golf academies require major commitments from everyone
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
How serious are some people about their golf swing? Some practice in the bathroom mirror, putt at the office or buy all the latest gadgets. Others may spend five years of their youth away from their parents at a golf academy at a cost of $60,000 a year...
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AJGA Round 2: Hole of the day - No. 7
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
It ranks as the second-easiest hole on the course for the boys through two rounds, but the par-5 No. 7 turned into an adventure for boys leader Talor Gooch. He was forced to take an unplayable lie off the tee and settled for a double bogey. "I hacked my way around the entire hole," he said...
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Chung mounts serious challenge, cuts Tanco's lead to one
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/09)
Victoria Tanco vs. Karen Chung for all the marbles. That's the way it's shaping up for the final round of the AJGA's Rolex Tournament of Champions at Dalhousie Golf Course. Tanco relied on her consistency to hold onto her lead, but Karen Chung mounted a charge with a sizzling start to her round...
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