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Missouri man trapped when storm topples tree on home
(State News ~ 06/05/14)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A central Missouri man says rescuers were shocked that he survived being pinned to his bed by a tree and a power pole that fell onto his home during a powerful storm. Cheston Fox told KOMU-TV he was trapped from the waist down but remained conscious after the pole and the tree crashed into his mobile home around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday...
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Nixon makes appointment to Conservation Commission
(State News ~ 06/05/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon has named the former head of a not-for-profit conservation group to the Missouri Conservation Commission. Nixon announced the appointment of Dave Murphy on Wednesday. Murphy, a Democrat, retired last year as executive director of the Conservation Federation of Missouri. He owns a 376-acre farm in northeast Missouri's Clark County...
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Missouri inmate challenges death penalty drug secrecy
(State News ~ 06/05/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The next Missouri death row inmate scheduled to die by injection wants a judge to halt his June 18 execution over concerns that the state's refusal to disclose its drug supplier violates a law protecting the public's right to know...
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GOP convention site selection committee visits Kansas City
(State News ~ 06/05/14)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City is trying to put its best foot forward Wednesday and today as officials try to persuade a Republican committee that the city should host the GOP's presidential nominating committee in 2016. The Republican party site selection committee was scheduled to get a tour of the city to judge its ability to host the convention, which would attract an estimated 45,000 people and thousands of media...
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Poplar Bluff library to repay city almost $500K
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- The Poplar Bluff Municipal Library District has agreed to repay the city $489,833.98. "The library agrees to pay back monies provided by the city that supplemented library operations for the tax years 2008-2012," library director Sue Crites Szostak said during a city council meeting earlier this week...
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Sex offender arrested, accused of touching teen girl
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
For the second time in less than a year, a registered sex offender is in custody, accused of inappropriate behavior involving a child. John D. Hooker, 59, is being held on $2,500 cash only bond on a charge of third-degree assault in connection with a situation involving a group of teenage girls at the Jackson City Park, police reported...
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Professionals share success stories with teens at conference
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
Coming of age in the late 1960s and early '70s in Detroit, Morris Jenkins, now dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Southeast Missouri State University, saw a lot of social upheaval with the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X...
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Missouri will audit Walgreens stores for three years
(State News ~ 06/05/14)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An independent auditor will act as a "baby sitter," performing random price checks at Walgreen Co. stores around Missouri for the next three years under an agreement the company reached with the state, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said Wednesday...
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Mo. housing market cranks up during warm weather
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
Warmer weather means more people are buying and selling houses, and March, April and May proved to be busy months in the housing market. The number of homes sold in Missouri increased nearly 14 percent from March to April, according to data from the Missouri Realtors Association. The average selling price also increased from March to April, climbing more than 4 percent from $149,149 to $155,465...
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Man arrested, charged in connection with Olive Street shooting
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
The man believed responsible for an early morning Olive Street shooting in Cape Girardeau was taken into custody in Illinois on Wednesday afternoon, police reported. Tommy Joe Davis III, 29, of Cape Girardeau has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action for the shooting. Judge William Syler set the cash-only bond at $250,000...
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McCaskill, Blunt urge accountability for VA hospitals
(State News ~ 06/05/14)
ST. LOUIS -- Veterans Affairs leaders need to be held accountable after reports that VA health care centers in four Midwestern states maintained secret, unauthorized waiting lists of veterans, some of whom waited for care for more than 90 days, Missouri's U.S. senators said Wednesday...
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New Rose Display Garden unveiled at Capaha Park
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
As the aroma of rose petals hung in the thick summer air, dozens of local aficionados gathered in the northwest corner of Capaha Park on Wednesday evening for the updated Rose Display Garden's ribbon-cutting ceremony. Cape Girardeau Mayor Harry Rediger was on hand to christen the garden and praised all who helped make it possible...
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$ecurity solutions: Recent robberies prompt changes at banks
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
After three robberies in less than eight months -- two at the same location -- First Commercial Bank executives had seen enough. In the wake of the May 20 robbery at the bank's Morley, Missouri, location, bank executives reassessed the company's security equipment and procedures, "reviewing and reviewing and reviewing and noting areas that we could tighten down on," said Mary Lawrence, the bank's chief operating officer...
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Downtown CID board meets, selects officers
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
The board of directors of the proposed Downtown Cape Girardeau Community Improvement District gathered for its first meeting tonight to discuss appointment of officers, adoption of bylaws and calling the elections for the property and sales tax that would be imposed within the district's boundaries...
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Cape Senior Legion routes Jackson Senior Babe Ruth in home opener
(Community Sports ~ 06/05/14)
Cape Ford and Sons Post 63 defeated Jackson 12-4 in a rain-shortened game at Capaha Field on Wednesday.
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/05/14)
Today is Thursday, June 5, the 156th day of 2014. There are 209 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 5, 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease...
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Conserve utilities to save money
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/05/14)
Editor's note: The following letter to the editor was submitted in response to the letter "Utility rates are unreasonable" in the May 19 edition. I'm not sure what Mr. Smith of Cape Girardeau is referring to as HIGH Ameren Missouri electric rates. ...
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Speak Out 6/5/14
(Speak Out ~ 06/05/14)
I was wondering if the city of Cape had any kind of regulations on burning, what can be burned, and was it OK to burn stuff unattended that creates big clouds of black smoke. Just wondering if there were any regulations as to what a person can do to remedy that situation...
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The ill effects of burning land
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/05/14)
People with asthma, emphysema, COPD and other breathing problems often suffer when the farmers burn the fields, and the smoke from past fires has blocked visibility and caused traffic accidents, some involving injuries and death. Tens of thousands of acres are burned each year: mainly the wheat fields in the spring and corn and rice fields in the fall. The fall burning can be especially bothersome because the air is often stagnant and the smoke accumulates near the ground...
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City of Cape taking strategic look at park renovations
(Editorial ~ 06/05/14)
This area is blessed with many top-notch outdoor facilities. There are opportunities for bike rides, running and walking, fishing, Frisbee golf, baseball and many other attractions. During the warm weather months these are the places many enjoy. A story in the May 23 edition of the Southeast Missourian highlighted several ongoing efforts to help renovate parks and outdoor facilities...
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Kansas man sentenced for defrauding Missouri fund
(State News ~ 06/05/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for a $1.3 million fraud involving a Missouri fund for cleaning up leaking petroleum tanks. Robert Fine II was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty last November to one count each of mail fraud and money laundering for bills submitted to the Missouri Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund...
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Von Price
(Obituary ~ 06/05/14)
Utah Von Price, 91, of Cape Girardeau and former longtime resident of Gosnell, Arkansas, passed from this life Tuesday, June 3, 2014, at the Lutheran Home. He was born in Mountain View, Arkansas, to James W. and Leo Jenkins Price. Von was a retired technical sergeant with the United States Marine Corps and Marine recruiter in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Ercle Kinder
(Obituary ~ 06/05/14)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Ercle Kinder, 89, of Marble Hill went to be with his heavenly Father on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. He was born Sept. 25, 1924, in Marble Hill, to John William and Mae Filer Kinder. He and Margie Hawn were married June 27, 1948, at the home of John Long in Patton, Missouri...
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Scott Barnes
(Obituary ~ 06/05/14)
MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Walter Scott Barnes, 41, of Mound City died Tuesday, June 3, 2014, at his home. Friends may call from 9 a.m. until service time today at Jones Funeral Home in Villa Ridge, Illinois. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at the funeral home, with the Rev. Bobby White officiating. Burial will be in Green Lawn Memorial Gardens at Villa Ridge...
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Ronald Williams
(Obituary ~ 06/05/14)
McCLURE, Ill. — Ronald D. Williams, 75, of McClure died Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Vernetta Chappell
(Obituary ~ 06/05/14)
Vernetta Lois Chappell, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at Ratliff Care Center. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at noon Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield...
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Barbara Head
(Obituary ~ 06/05/14)
PAINTON, Mo. -- Barbara Head, 73, of Painton passed away Saturday, May 31, 2014, at Woodland Hills in Marble Hill, Missouri. She was born June 22, 1940, daughter of Luther Cox and Irene King. She and Denver Head were married Sept. 11, 1958, in Advance, Missouri. He preceded her in death in November 2004...
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Roswitha Storm
(Obituary ~ 06/05/14)
THEBES, Ill. — Roswitha Storm, 82, of Thebes died Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Jones Funeral Home in Tamms, Illinois.
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Brandy Ratcliff
(Obituary ~ 06/05/14)
PATTON, Mo. -- Brandy Hays Ratcliff, 27, of Patton died Tuesday, June 3, 2014, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Hutchings Funeral Home in Marble Hill, Missouri. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday the funeral home, with interment in Patton Cemetery...
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Southeast Missouri State players feeling hopeful as MLB draft begins
(College Sports ~ 06/05/14)
OVC Player of the Year Matt Tellor has the best chance to be taken by a team.
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Heat, Spurs start up again after thrilling 2013 finish
(Professional Sports ~ 06/05/14)
SAN ANTONIO -- LeBron James and Dwyane Wade can point to statistics showing just how close the 2013 NBA Finals were. Tim Duncan doesn't need them. He can't forget the way his San Antonio Spurs lost, especially since every replay brings another painful reminder. The Spurs were on the verge of celebrating a fifth title in Game 6, and just two nights later were congratulating the Miami Heat on their second straight crown...
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Cards bounce back, beat Royals in 11 innings
(Professional Sports ~ 06/05/14)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Matt Carpenter had a career-high five hits, including the go-ahead double in the 11th inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 on Wednesday night to snap a three-game losing streak. After the Royals rallied with two runs in the ninth, Peter Bourjos worked a one-out walk off Royals reliever Kelvin Herrera (1-2) in the 11th. Carpenter rapped his double to center field, drawing a roar from a crowd comprised mostly of Cardinals fans...
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Josh Trank will direct stand-alone ‘Star Wars' film
(Entertainment ~ 06/05/14)
NEW YOR -- Josh Trank will direct one of the stand-alone "Star Wars" films. Lucasfilm announced Wednesday the 30-year-old filmmaker will helm one of the two announced "Star Wars" spinoffs being made outside of the third trilogy. An earlier announced spinoff will be led by "Godzilla" director Gareth Edwards...
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Cape Girardeau police report 6/5/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/05/14)
*** CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following item. Assault * Assault and unlawful use of a weapon were reported.
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John Green talks Hollywood, teen whispering
(Community ~ 06/05/14)
NEW YORK -- When "The Fault in Our Stars" landed on bookshelves more than two years ago, John Green's enthusiasm was nonexistent for a screen version of his story featuring teens with cancer. "I had had some Hollywood experiences before that weren't great and I felt like Hollywood would struggle to make a movie where the female romantic lead has nasal cannula tubes in her nose for the entire movie," he said...
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Now application 'inconsistencies' vex health law
(National News ~ 06/05/14)
WASHINGTON -- A huge new paperwork headache for the government could also be jeopardizing coverage for some of the millions of people who just got health insurance under President Barack Obama's law. A government document provided to The Associated Press indicates at least 2 million people enrolled for taxpayer-subsidized private health insurance have data discrepancies in their applications that, if unresolved, could affect what they pay for coverage, or even their legal right to benefits...
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Contractor linked to bridge closure feels bad
(National News ~ 06/05/14)
DOVER, Del. -- A contractor dumped a mountain of dirt about two stories high and 100 yards long next to an interstate bridge over several years, so much that it may have moved the ground and caused the bridge to tilt, state officials said Wednesday...
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Putin on agenda at G-7 meeting
(International News ~ 06/05/14)
BRUSSELS -- He's been disinvited and the meeting location abruptly switched out of his country. But Russian President Vladimir Putin will be the topic of conversation anyway when President Barack Obama and the rest of the G-7 leaders get together over dinner here Wednesday...
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Carson City leads nation in warming trend
(National News ~ 06/05/14)
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Don Quilici has snookered a few Carson City newcomers with bets that it would snow the week of his birthday in early May. Unsuspecting gamblers often don't know that a sliver of the western Nevada city's boundaries extend to Lake Tahoe and encompass Snow Valley Peak at a towering 9,214 feet...
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Wisconsin stabbing highlights crime laws for juveniles
(National News ~ 06/05/14)
MILWAUKEE -- When two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls were charged this week with stabbing a friend nearly to death, authorities had no choice but to send them to adult court. In more than half of the nation, children as young as 10 are often charged as adults automatically using laws intended to crack down on gangs and guns. But the practice has been widely questioned by juvenile-crime experts, who say that research shows many young offenders pose no long-term threats to society...
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Western couple held in Afghanistan
(National News ~ 06/05/14)
WASHINGTON -- The family of a pregnant American woman who went missing in Afghanistan in late 2012 with her Canadian husband received two videos last year in which the couple asked the U.S. government to help free them and their child from Taliban captors, The Associated Press has learned...
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Bergdahl's hometown cancels celebration
(National News ~ 06/05/14)
HAILEY, Idaho -- Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's hometown abruptly canceled plans Wednesday for a welcome-home celebration, citing security concerns over the prospect of big crowds -- both for and against the soldier. The town of 8,000 has been swamped with hate mail and angry calls over Bergdahl, whose release after five years of Taliban captivity in Afghanistan has touched off a debate over whether the 28-year-old should be given a hero's welcome or punished as a deserter...
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Road work 6/5/14
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
U.S. 60 in Stoddard County reduced for bridge repairs Missouri Department of Transportation crews are doing routine bridge maintenance in Stoddard County that affects traffic on U.S. 60. Eastbound U.S. 60, between Highway 114 and U.S. 61, will been reduced to one lane from 7:30 a.m. ...
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Timeline: Area bank robberies during the past 10 years
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
Jan. 12, 2004 -- Three men wearing ski masks and brandishing handguns escaped with $10,300 in a morning robbery of the Bank of America branch at 800 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. FBI and police later identified four suspects in the heist: Toria Wyneikia Lawrence of Cape Girardeau, Dareme Prince "Sammy" Tipler and Corey Demond "Blue" or "Komo" Lyons, both of Charleston, Missouri, and Derek Eugene "Rio" Riggs of Bloomington, Illinois. All four pleaded guilty in federal court...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 6/5/14
(Local News ~ 06/05/14)
Administrative Office Building 1 Barton Square, Jackson 9 a.m. today Open session Approval of minutes of June 2 meeting Communications/reports, other elected officials Public comments Items listed on the agenda Routine business Payroll change forms...
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Hooked on Science: Microwave light bulb
(Community ~ 06/05/14)
Light up a bulb without plugging it in. Incandescent light bulb Microwave Water Microwave-safe container CAUTION. THIS EXPERIMENT SHOULD ONLY BE PERFORMED BY AN ADULT. STEP 1: Fill the microwave-safe container one-fourth of the way with water...
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Last of original group of Navajo Code Talkers dies
(National News ~ 06/05/14)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The language he once was punished for speaking in school became Chester Nez's primary weapon in World War II. Before hundreds of men from the Navajo Nation became Code Talkers, Nez and 28 others were recruited to develop a code based on the then-unwritten Navajo language. Locked in a room for 13 weeks, they came up with an initial glossary of more than 200 terms using Navajo words for red soil, war chief, braided hair and hummingbird, for example, and an alphabet...
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Security tight on Tiananmen Square anniversary
(International News ~ 06/05/14)
BEIJING -- Yin Min held the ashes of her son and wept, she said, as she marked 25 years since he was killed in the crackdown by Chinese tanks and troops on protests at Tiananmen Square. Outside, guards kept a close eye on her home while police blanketed central Beijing to block any public commemoration of one of the darkest chapters in recent Chinese history...
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Southeast Missourian Athlete of the Week: Jackson's Sierra Maddox
(High School Sports ~ 06/05/14)
Maddox closed out a perfect senior season by successfully defending her pole vault title at the Missouri Class 4 track and field championships in Jefferson City.
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Valedictorian: Danielle Childers, 18
(Community ~ 06/05/14)
Birthday: Dec. 11, 1995 Birthplace: Columbia, Missouri Future plans: I plan to attend SEMO where I will major in biomedical sciences. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, I will then attend medical school where I will study to become a dermatologist...
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Valedictorian: Sam Lowes, 18
(Community ~ 06/05/14)
Jackson High School Birthday: Dec. 10, 1995 Birthplace: Cape Girardeau Parents: David and Susan Lowes Future plans: To attend Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, to major in medicine. He hopes to go into medicine, but is not sure which area yet...
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Who's neXt 6/5/14
(Community ~ 06/05/14)
Cape Girardeau Jaclyn L. Bisgard Aldredge, Samantha D. Alexander, Deborah L. Allen, Marie K. Ansberry, Daniel S. Atwood, Taylor C. Babich, Rachel E. Bagot, Kaemen A. Bailey, Robert R. ...
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Out of the past 6/5/14
(Out of the Past ~ 06/05/14)
Pollack Hide & Fur Co. and Pollack Steel Supply Inc. have become Sides Steel Supply and Metal Recycling; Sydney Pollack has sold the businesses to William J. Sides, who has been associated with the operation since 1976. The planned sale of Lenco Inc. of Jackson to Todt Industries of Cape Girardeau has fallen through...
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Prayer 5/5/14
(Prayer ~ 06/05/14)
O Father God, blessed be your name, the name above all names. Amen.
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State court considers restoring New York City's big-soda ban
(Community ~ 06/05/14)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York City officials urged the state's top court on Wednesday to reinstate the city's ban on big sodas, arguing that the local Board of Health has authority to restrict products that make people obese and contribute to disease...
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