Spanish authorities say major attack stopped
(05/16/02)
MADRID, Spain -- Spanish authorities seized an arsenal of weapons and explosives and thwarted a major terrorist attack the Basque separatist group ETA planned to launch against an upcoming summit of Latin American and European leaders, officials said Wednesday...
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Stories from Thursday, May 16, 2002
Central's Brookins teacher of year
(05/16/02)
Central Junior High School art teacher and Central High School varsity football and track coach Lawrence Brookins was named Cape Girardeau Wal-Mart teacher of the year Wednesday. Brookins has been in Cape Girardeau schools for six years. Prior to that time he spent 19 years teaching and coaching in Columbia, Mo., Kirksville, Mo., and Moberly, Mo...
Flood health tips
(05/16/02)
All water possibly contaminated by flooding must be disinfected. Drinking water may be treated by: Boiling water for 3 minutes in a clear container. The flat taste can be eliminated by shaking the water in a bottle or by pouring it from one container to another...
Fire leaves six seeking new home
(05/16/02)
A midmorning fire that was likely started by a kitchen appliance that was left on has left six residents at the Oxford House group home on Broadway unhurt but looking for a place to stay. Resident Charles Hunter said he was asleep in his bed after working a double shift at Thorngate when the fire alarm went off. He ran downstairs, noticed smoke and then went back upstairs for his shirt, shoes and money...
Sheriff hands out awards to officers
(05/16/02)
Cape Girardeau County Sheriff John Jordan presented four officers with awards for excellence in performance Wednesday. Sgt. Sharon Jones was given the Timothy J. Ruopp Award, and Eric Friedrich, Suzanne Fluegge and Judy Odom were given Copeland Excellence Awards...
Granddad recalls Soap Box Derby when he raced
(05/16/02)
Bryce March no longer has the $1 pocket watch he won more than six decades ago in the Soap Box Derby race at Jackson. "I wish I did," said March, who received the watch for having the "best brakes" on his racer. Actually, March's brakes resulted in his losing a heat during the 1940 race, held at Mill Hill, a section of Main Street west of the Cake Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson...
Community digest 5/16/02
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Marine Corps League meeting set tonight A Marine Corps League meeting will be held at 7 p.m. today at the VFW Hall in Cape Girardeau. Active, reserve and former Marines are invited to attend. Benefit dance Friday for ill Jackson boy A benefit dance will be held for Anthony Scholl from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday at the Jaycee Hall off Highway 72 near Jackson...
Giant of a man's visits to Cape remembered
(05/16/02)
P More than 100 callers identified the photo of the giant, Robert Pershing Wadlow. The first time Robert Pershing Wadlow came to Cape Girardeau, he was 15 years old -- "a mere boy of 7 feet 3 inches," according to newspaper accounts. That was in 1932...
Massive traffic congestion forces MoDOT to close I-55 ramps
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Ex-Cape resident's CIA suit story topic gains attention
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Former Cape Girardeau resident Jeffrey Sterling has garnered national publicity for filing a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency for which he once worked as a spy. People magazine featured Sterling's case in this week's edition in a story headlined "Out in the Cold."...
Support for early ballot on sales tax not strong
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Levee work continues as water rises
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By Mark Bliss ~ Southeast Missourian DUTCHTOWN, Mo. -- The flood war continued on two fronts in Dutchtown on Wednesday as the Army Corps of Engineers, county highway department workers and volunteers continued building levees to hold back water from the Diversion Channel and Hubble Creek...
In a TIF?
(05/16/02)
Cape considers the possibilities of Tax Increment Financing. By Scott Moyers ~ Southeast Missourian The road to Cape Girardeau's first Tax Increment Financing project looks to be complex and anything but certain as city leaders determine whether a 600-acre subdivision of homes, condominiums and cottages fits the bill...
Holden, Hanaway get their competing messages out
(05/16/02)
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. -- It's called damage control, and it's not just something done by a Missouri community after severe flooding. It's also done by public officials after moments of controversy. Last Friday brought the crest of a budget clash between Democratic Gov. Bob Holden and House Republicans. The House GOP blocked Holden's plan to tap the so-called Rainy Day Fund to cover growing budget shortfalls, and Holden responded with deeper cuts in funding for state services through June 30...
Parents urge Holden veto on school standards bill
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Parents of special-needs students are urging Gov. Bob Holden to veto a bill changing the accommodation standards for public schools, saying their children's education could be shortchanged. State education officials say the changes are necessary to spare schools from high costs and allow them to follow lower federal standards, which many school districts have already been using for decades...
Ballpark bill hits snag in state House
(05/16/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Like baseball fans suffering through a tedious rain delay, lawmakers and lobbyists were eagerly waiting for play to resume Wednesday night as time grew shorter for passage of a $644 million stadium funding package. The bill, which includes state subsidies to build a new St. Louis Cardinals ballpark, has already cleared the Senate and one House committee. However, when the measure will be debated on the House floor remained the No. 1 question in the Capitol...
House backs term limit change
(05/16/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Ten years after Missouri voters enacted term limits for the General Assembly, they will be asked to slightly alter the restriction. The House voted 97-51 on Wednesday to let voters decide if some partial legislative terms should be exempted from counting toward the service cap...
Region briefs 5/16
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City of Miner owes large sum of money to feds MINER, Mo. -- As if falling tax revenues aren't putting enough strain on the city of Miner budget, now city officials have received word from the Justice Department that the city owes $51,247.19. "We need to figure out how we're going to pay them," said Mayor Frank Tatum during this week's meeting of the board of aldermen...
Teachers' strike may cost Cairo $460,000
(05/16/02)
CAIRO, Ill. -- A teachers' strike entering its fourth week could cost the cash-strapped school district as much as $460,000 and cause the cancellation of summer school, if the days lost aren't soon made up, district officials said Wednesday. With no new talks scheduled by midweek, the prospect of an end to the walkout anytime soon seemed dim, driving parents like Clarence Dossie to disgust...
Senate rejects bill to expand state's horse racing
(05/16/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Legislation intended to expand the horse racing industry in Missouri failed by a nose in the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate voted 17-16 against the bill, which had originally addressed background checks for people working in the gambling industry. The horse racing language was attached during negotiations with the House, which passed a separate bill on the topic earlier in the session...
Seats scarce for Ashcroft's MU address
(05/16/02)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Seats are scarce for Attorney General John Ashcroft's commencement speech Saturday to law graduates of the University of Missouri-Columbia. That's because the law school plans to have the Jesse Hall auditorium's roughly 1,500 seats filled with the 150 lawyers-to-be, their families and friends...
Anti-terrorism bill loses price-gouging penalty provisions
(05/16/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Ignoring the wishes of Gov. Bob Holden, legislators have dropped proposed penalties for businesses that engage in price gouging. House and Senate members negotiating a massive anti-terrorism bill removed the price-gouging provision on an 8-1 vote Wednesday...
Stadium funding bill runs into trouble
(05/16/02)
Associated Press WriterJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A bill providing state money to stadiums in St. Louis and Kansas City ran into big trouble Thursday when a lone lawmaker used her authority to try to block the bill. The stadium legislation, which already has passed the Senate, received a hearing before the House Fiscal Review Committee, which must clear all bills with a cost...
Joliet bishop accused of mishandling abuse cases
(05/16/02)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- The Catholic bishop who runs the Joliet Diocese has transferred at least four priests accused of sexually abusing children without warning their new parishes and quietly accepted into the diocese a priest convicted of child molesting who had been prescribed a drug to curb his sex drive, the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday...
House Republicans tout welfare success
(05/16/02)
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans pressed for legislation Wednesday that would push more welfare mothers into jobs, working more hours than ever before, as floor debate began over changes to the landmark welfare overhaul. With the welfare rolls more than cut in half, Republicans said the 1996 law was a sparkling success and that tougher work rules would move even more families off assistance...
Manual could help schools prevent violent threats
(05/16/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Secret Service is telling school safety officials they've got to be more attentive, listen to kids and watch out for warning signs to curb school violence. To many who work in the schools, that's what they've been doing for years...
House panel approves anti-terror package
(05/16/02)
WASHINGTON -- A House committee reversed itself Wednesday and voted to give President Bush broad discretion to withhold money that Congress approved last fall for international family planning programs. The Republican-dominated House Appropriations Committee handed the White House the victory as it approved a $29.4 billion package of military and anti-terrorism spending. ...
Bush warned before Sept. 11 of possible hijacking plot
(05/16/02)
WASHINGTON -- In the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush was told by U.S. intelligence that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack American airplanes, prompting the administration to issue a private warning to law-enforcement agencies, the White House acknowledged Wednesday night...
Bush holds firm to embargo, readies tougher Cuban policy
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WASHINGTON -- The White House rejected pleas by former President Carter and farm-state lawmakers to lift the trade embargo against Fidel Castro's Cuba on Wednesday, pledging an even tougher U.S. policy to undermine "one of the last great tyrants left on earth."...
People talk 5/16
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Rosie jokes about life with Katie Couric NEW YORK -- Ozzy Osbourne already has three kids of his own, but Rosie O'Donnell joked on Wednesday that the heavy metal singer also impregnated her girlfriend. When Katie Couric asked on the "Today" show whether the father was singer David Crosby -- the sperm provider for Melissa Etheridge's two children with ex-girlfriend Julie Cypher -- O'Donnell quipped, "It's Ozzy Osbourne, actually."...
Reparations spark debate among activists
(05/16/02)
Joe Hicks says he -- and millions of people like him -- are the reason reparations for descendants of African slaves are a bad idea. A black professional and family man, Hicks works in a Los Angeles high-rise, owns a home and has two daughters. He says reparations would be "an insult to hardworking blacks ... to insist they need some kind of government aid because of something that happened over a century ago."...
Beloved priest worked to combine African and Catholic rituals
(05/16/02)
BALTIMORE -- The Rev. Maurice Blackwell was beloved by many of Baltimore's black Catholics for infusing the religion with African-American rituals, such as hanging kente cloths and having couples celebrate their weddings by jumping over broomsticks...
Fugitive financier pleads guilty in bilking case
(05/16/02)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Martin Frankel, the financier accused of looting insurance companies of more than $200 million and using it to live like an outlaw Hugh Hefner, pleaded guilty Wednesday to pulling off one of the most brazen swindles Wall Street has ever seen...
Nation digest 5/16/02
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Iceberg as large as Chesapeake Bay breaks WASHINGTON -- A new iceberg nearly as large as Chesapeake Bay has broken away from Antarctica. The National Ice Center reported Wednesday that the berg, named C-19, had split off and was afloat next to Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf...
Work at ground zero could end soon
(05/16/02)
NEW YORK -- Rescue workers and city officials calculate the last load of World Trade Center debris will be hauled out in early to mid-June, and a ceremony is being planned to mark the completion of the work. Less than 90,000 tons of debris remains at the bottom of the giant crater in lower Manhattan after nearly nine months of round-the-clock toil since Sept. 11, when the twin towers were reduced to 1.7 million tons of burning rubble 10 stories high...
Stocks higher, though investors cautious
(05/16/02)
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- Investors shopped selectively on Wall Street Thursday, mildly encouraged by news that IBM intends to cut costs but still wary about bidding stocks higher following a big rally earlier in the week. The major indexes closed modestly higher...
Search, cleanup at trade center will end with May 30 ceremony
(05/16/02)
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- The long cleanup and search for remains at the World Trade Center site will end with a ceremony on May 30 as the last heap of Sept. 11 debris is hauled away, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday. The job will have been completed three months faster than city officials had predicted -- in part because of the extraordinarily mild winter -- and will have cost about $750 million, or about one-tenth the initial estimate of $7 billion...
Pearl slaying trial continues, with FBI agents to take stand
(05/16/02)
Associated Press WriterKARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Three men who were arrested Thursday in the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl have directed police to where they say his body is located, a senior police official said. The police were en route to Orangi, on the western edge of Karachi, where they were told they would find Pearl's body, the official said on condition of anonymity...
Music piracy in Russia gets targeted
(05/16/02)
MOSCOW -- Russia has become one of the biggest centers of pirated compact discs, prompting Russian and international music industry leaders to join forces to fight the cheap knockoffs. "The piracy situation here is both frightening and daunting," John Kennedy, president of Universal Music International, said Wednesday. Slack enforcement of copyright laws, he said, "has made Russia today one of the biggest pirate centers in the world."...
Powell welcomes promises from Arafat, says U.S. will help
(05/16/02)
GANDER, Newfoundland -- Secretary of State Colin Powell welcomed a promise by Yasser Arafat to reform the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday and said the United States was ready to help. Powell said he was encouraged that Arafat, in outlining reform plans in a speech to the Palestinian parliament, used the same terms the Bush administration has been using to push for restructuring...
U.S. general praises help from Pakistan with fugitives
(05/16/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The head of U.S. operations in Afghanistan praised the Pakistani president for his cooperation in the hunt for al-Qaida fugitives, but said Wednesday the work of the ever-changing mission is not nearing an end. "Is it about over? I wouldn't think so," Gen. Tommy Franks said during a daylong visit to Afghanistan, where he met American troops and helped the first crop of Afghan army recruits launch their training...
Mystery fever hits 18 British troops
(05/16/02)
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Eighteen British soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been struck by a contagious but unidentified fever, and 350 people have been quarantined to prevent it spreading, the top British commander in the coalition said Wednesday...
As pope turns 82, sex abuse scandals' backlash weighs heavy
(05/16/02)
VATICAN CITY -- Aides wheel him around on a chariot-like cart during ceremonies at the Vatican. They attach a ledger to the arms of his chair to hold the papers of his speeches. They hold him tightly fearing a fall. Pope John Paul II turns 82 on Saturday, a stooped figure burdened by several health problems and the backlash from the sex abuse scandal rocking his church in the 24th year of his papacy, the longest pontificate since the 1800s...
Arafat promises of reforms provoke skepticism
(05/16/02)
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat responded Wednesday to mounting dissatisfaction of his rule in a rambling speech that included rare self-criticism and a pledge of new elections and government reform. But his address was short on specifics, and critics said similar promises in the past evaporated without action...
First lady pledges funding for Buddhas
(05/16/02)
PARIS -- First lady Laura Bush said Wednesday she would hit up wealthy friends in Texas for money to help restore Afghanistan's two towering Buddhas blasted to rubble by the Taliban last year. On a tour of an Afghan exhibit at the Musee Guimet, she also called on her husband's administration to help salvage Afghanistan's art...
Exit polls show big victories for Dutch opposition parties
(05/16/02)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Dutch opposition parties were the big winners in Wednesday's elections, exit polls showed, including the Christian Democrats and the movement of a slain populist candidate. The Christian Democrats, who were in every Dutch government after World War II until they lost power in 1994, took 40 of the 150 seats in parliament, the initial polls showed. In a bigger upset, Pim Fortuyn's List took 26 seats...
Enemies of Liberian leader unite to get Taylor out of power
(05/16/02)
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Charles Taylor helped pile up a lot of bodies -- a quarter-million, by rough count -- and racked up a lot of enemies over a decade-plus of fueling conflicts at home in Liberia and among its neighbors. The dead are buried, but the enemies have united, and now they have one common goal: Getting rid of Taylor...
ND routs Woodland from the start 16-2
(05/16/02)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- In semifinal action of the Class 2A, District 1 tournament at Harmon Field Wednesday, Notre Dame pounded Woodland 16-2 in five innings and Kelly slipped past Grandview 4-3 with a run in its final at bat. Top-seeded Notre Dame (15-5) jumped on Woodland starter Luke Johnson for 10 first-inning runs to reach today's 4 p.m. championship game against the third-seeded Hawks...
Indians close in on title
(05/16/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Thanks to a 16-hit barrage and the steady pitching of Austin McDowell, Jackson is just one victory away from its first district baseball championship in 10 years. The top-seeded, host Indians (13-6) pounded fifth-seeded Poplar Bluff (8-17) 12-2 in Wednesday's first semifinal of the Class 4A, District 1 Tournament at Legion Field...
Perryville girls' soccer falls in district semis
(05/16/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Perryville High School's sensational girls' soccer season ended Wednesday as the top-seeded Pirates lost 1-0 to fifth-seeded Notre Dame of St. Louis in the semifinals of the Class 1A-3A, District 1 Tournament. Notre Dame, the district host, scored the only goal with about 13 minutes left in the first half. ...
Graviett lifts Oran into district final
(05/16/02)
ORAN, Mo. -- Oran took the easy path while Bell City had a much more difficult time, but those top seeds both posted semifinal victories Wednesday in the Class 1A, District 2 baseball tournament. No. 1 Oran rolled past No. 4 Valle 15-4 and No. 2 Bell City nipped No. 3 St. Vincent, the defending 1A state runner-up, 1-0. Oran and Bell City will square off at 4:30 p.m. today for the championship...
Indians complete sweep of Arkansas
(05/16/02)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Forgive the Arkansas Razorbacks if they don't want to see Southeast Missouri State University's baseball team for a while. The Indians completed a series sweep of the Razorbacks with a 5-4 victory Wednesday. Southeast improved its record to 30-16 as the Indians posted their third consecutive season of 30 or more wins. Arkansas of the high-profile Southeastern Conference fell to 28-23...
Cards lower broom on Cubs
(05/16/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Woody Williams emerged after nearly six weeks on the disabled list and allowed an unearned run in six innings as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 for a three-game sweep Wednesday night. Pinch-hitter Miguel Cairo's RBI triple off right fielder Sammy Sosa's glove drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh. The Cubs lost their seventh in a row...
Players' union begins talking of possible strike in August
(05/16/02)
NEW YORK -- With no labor agreement in sight, some baseball players think it is inevitable that the union will set a strike date for August. "That's really the only thing we can do," pitcher Mike Stanton, the New York Yankees player representative, said Wednesday. "It's not a situation where we have a lot of options."...
Maddux shuts down Giants
(05/16/02)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Greg Maddux pitched shutout ball into the ninth inning, and Vinny Castilla homered and drove in three runs as the Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants 6-1 Wednesday to end a three-game losing streak. Diamondbacks 6, Pirates 2...
Derby win fails to make War Emblem favorite
(05/16/02)
BALTIMORE -- Don't get him wrong, D. Wayne Lukas was impressed with War Emblem's victory in the Kentucky Derby. But darn, rival trainer Bob Baffert is one fortunate fellow. "He's extremely lucky, period," Lukas said Wednesday after arriving at Pimlico. "Not only this year, but all the time. He seems like he's always landing on his feet. He's been on scholarship his whole life."...
Nets reach Eastern finals, oust Hornets
(05/16/02)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Just like the team they defeated, the New Jersey Nets are headed to new territory -- their first Eastern Conference finals appearance in 26 NBA seasons. Jason Kidd scored 23 points and made several plays in the fourth quarter that swung the momentum New Jersey's way as the Nets defeated the Hornets 103-95 Wednesday night, ending the Hornets' 14-year existence in Charlotte...
Sports digest 5/16/02
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Health briefs 5/16
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VNA hospice volunteers finish training sessions The Visiting Nurse Association Hospice of Southeast Missouri has finished two days of training for people interested in becoming hospice volunteers. The training is to introduce people to hospice and explain its services. VNA Hospice provides services in a 15-county area...
Reducing the risk - Running cuts chances of stroke
(05/16/02)
Associated Press/Y-Me, Todd Rosenberg Miss America 2002 Katie Harman of Oregon, honorary chair of the Y-ME Race Against Breast Cancer got things started Sunday at Grant Park in Chicago, as she led the National Breast Cancer Organization's 11th annual race. A new health study shows that running three times a week can significantly reduce the risk of stroke...
Health calendar 5/16
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Today Woman to Woman luncheon and program at noon in conference rooms A and B at St. Francis Education Center. Carbohydrate counting class from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Diabetes Center at St. Francis Medical Center. Diabetes Support Group meets from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in conference room A at St. Francis Education Center...
Farming for fun, donkeys
(05/16/02)
May 16, 2002 Dear Pat, One of DC's favorite photographs is a snapshot of her beloved grandfather in his garden. It's one of the reasons she has always wanted to live on a farm. This summer, ready or not, her dream will come true when we take care of a friend's farm outside town while he spends a few months in the West...
'Beauty and the Beast' show overflows with talent, charm
(05/16/02)
Next year, seventh- and eighth-grade public school students in Cape Girardeau will be together in the same building for the first time since 1965. This week, more than 160 seventh- and eighth-graders have been getting a jump on cooperating with another class in a production of the musical "Beauty and the Beast."...
William Beasley
(05/16/02)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- William H. "Bill" Beasley, 55, of Olive Branch died Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at his home. He was born Dec. 28, 1946, in Cape Girardeau, son of Robert and Eunice Moore Beasley. Beasley was an electrician. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War...
Susan Friend
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SIKESTON, Mo. -- Susan Gayle Friend, 52, of Sikeston died Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Feb. 16, 1950, at Sikeston, daughter of Leroy and Patricia Glass Parmenter. She and David G. Friend were married May 11, 1979, at Sikeston...
Coena Uhrhan
(05/16/02)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Coena Uhrhan, 80, of Chaffee died Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at Chaffee Nursing Center. She was born Sept. 15, 1921, at Oran, Mo., daughter of Edward and Nora Dannenmueller Eichhorn. She and Paul A. Uhrhan were married May 30, 1944. He died Sept. 29, 1995...
Jerome Blechle
(05/16/02)
Jerome August Blechle, 73, of Lakewood, Colo., died Tuesday, May 14, 2002, in Wheat Ridge, Colo. He was born June 5, 1928, in Cape Girardeau. He married Carmen Schlue on Oct. 1, 1964, in Cape Girardeau. She preceded him in death. He was a pharmaceutical salesman...
Ruby Beattie
(05/16/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Ruby Elaine Beattie, 81, of Jackson died Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 30, 1920, in Jackson, daughter of Wiley W. and Jeanette Caroline Davis Webb. She and Albert LeRoy Beattie were married Aug. 11, 1938. He died May 26, 1993...
Ruth Russell
(05/16/02)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Ruth Ann Ashby Russell, 79, of Columbia, Mo., formerly of Charleston, died at 7 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2002, in Pleasant Hill, Mo. She was born Sept. 28, 1922, in Charleston, daughter of Frank Kelly and Effie Mai Anderson Ashby. A 1944 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau (known then as Cape State), she spent 14 years as a naval wife...
Edwin Ragland
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Judge Edwin F. Ragland, known as Ed, died Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at the Lutheran Home. He was born May 29, 1920, in Higginsville, Mo., eldest son of Bernard Edwin and Estella Louise Finley Ragland. In the fall of 1938 Ed entered William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo., where he was a member of the debate team which participated in many national debate tourneys. ...
Beatrice Welker
(05/16/02)
SCOPUS, Mo. -- Beatrice N. Welker, 74, of East Alton, Ill., died Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at Rosewood Care Center in Edwardsville, Ill. She was born Oct. 20, 1927, at Scopus, daughter of Dillon and Nellie Conder Brown. She and Leslie L. Welker were married March 15, 1946, in Cape Girardeau...
Births 5/16/02
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Bathe Son to Daniel Carl and Shonda Gene Bathe of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:06 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2002. Name, Daniel William Alexander. Weight, 8 pounds 15 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Bathe is the former Shonda Wengler, daughter of Bob and Betty Wengler of Fredericktown, Mo. She is a sonographer at Southeast Hospital. Bathe is the son of Don and Gerre Bathe of Farmington, Mo. He is a custom picture framer at Native Woods Gallery...
Cape police report 5/17
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Cape Girardeau Thursday, May 16 ArrestsDax Justin May, 20, of 1400 S. West End Blvd. was arrested Tuesday for burglary, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, assault on a law enforcement officer and property damage. Darren Martin Casimere, 22, of St. Louis was arrested Wednesday on a St. Louis warrant for tampering...
Cape fire report 5/16
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Cape Girardeau Thursday, May 16 Firefighters responded to the following calls Tuesday:At 7:11 p.m., a box alarm at 35 S. Kingshighway. At 7:44 p.m. a medical assist at 646 Terry Lane. At 9:11 p.m., an alarm sounding at the Scully Building, 1115 Woodland Drive...
Brothers held on drug charges
(05/16/02)
BENTON, Mo. -- Two Sikeston-area brothers have been arrested for attempting to manufacture a controlled substance. George K. Rutledge, 36, and Charles F. Rutledge, 30, both of Sikeston, also have been charged with possession of chemicals and possession of ephedrine...
Out of the past 5/16/02
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10 years ago: May 16, 1992 Citizens committee looking at facility needs for Cape Girardeau Public Schools says district needs to build new elementary school and new middle school; report also suggests Cape Girardeau should close Washington and May Greene schools, revamp L.J. Schultz School as new board office, and look at future property investments...
Jackson battle isn't over
(05/16/02)
By Joe Bob Baker JACKSON, Mo. -- On May 3, the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission in Jefferson City, Mo., voted to give the people of Jackson a four-lane limited-access Highway 34-72. Scott Meyer, district engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation, spoke for both sides of this issue. We appreciate Meyer's speaking for the opposition, but we were very disappointed that we were not informed or invited to this meeting...
Guardians still raising funds for time of need
(05/16/02)
When two Cape Girardeau police officers were seriously injured in a drug raid last year, the community responded with prayers, acts of kindness and donations to the officers' families. But the injuries also sent a signal to a group of concerned individuals who saw the need for an ongoing support system that would be there to help out in the event of the deaths of any police officers or firefighters in Cape Girardeau County...
Religion has important role in America
(05/16/02)
America has always considered itself a religious nation, one whose foundation was laid in large part by immigrants seeking religious refuge and freedom to worship as they please. While the nation has historically had Judeo-Christian roots, it has -- by virtue of the First Amendment -- both tolerated and encouraged many other religious groups which have prospered in the land of the free...
Prom photos on Web site thrill parents
(05/16/02)
To the editor: My daughter, Mandy Phelps, is a junior at Jackson High School. She was pictured in the May 5 edition of the Missourian for the Jackson prom. She was also on the Web site you ran for 2002 prom, both of which thrilled her and her parents...
Relay for Life appreciates community help
(05/16/02)
To the editor: The American Cancer Society hosted Cape Girardeau's sixth annual Relay for Life with 20 teams and over 400 participants who spent the evening at Capaha Park celebrating the lives of cancer survivors and remembering those who lost the battle to cancer...
Send letters, show support for Marquette
(05/16/02)
To the editor: This is a request for help. I am asking Cape Girardeau residents to mail a letter of support for the Marquette Hotel to Linward Appling, Director of Facilities Management, and Carl Greeson, Assistant Director, P.O. Box 809, Jefferson City, Mo. 65102...
Speak out 5/10
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I WAS reading where some teachers are complaining about their pay. If they think they are underpaid, look what we are paying our soldiers who are defending our country. Government health plan A CALLER criticized the Canadian health plan by saying hospitals there are going broke. ... |
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