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Former ImClone chief invokes Fifth Amendment at hearing
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
WASHINGTON -- The former chief of embattled ImClone Systems refused to testify before Congress on Thursday about an experimental drug -- once touted as miraculous -- that cost investors millions, raised charges of insider trading and left cancer victims in limbo. But his brother said, "We let patients down."...
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Husband charged in wife's death
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
ELDON, Mo. -- An Eldon man was charged Thursday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of his wife. Royal Gregory, 37, was jailed in Miller County after he walked into the sheriff's office and confessed to the crime about 2 a.m. Thursday...
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Holden - Lack of notice about meeting unfortunate
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Bob Holden says it's "unfortunate" that state officials failed to properly notify the public about a meeting relating to bond sales against the state's tobacco settlement revenue. At the meeting Tuesday, the Tobacco Settlement Financing Authority agreed to open applications for a financial adviser, but the media were not notified of the meeting until the results were announced. Holden, a member of the authority, was in Canada when the meeting occurred...
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Bill signed creating specialty plates
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri is adding to the 120 specialty license plates already available to state drivers. Gov. Bob Holden signed into law Thursday a bill authorizing the creation of 28 new specialty license plates, though the measure contains provisions designed to limit the issuance of the plates by the Missouri Department of Revenue...
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Living up to the legacy
(Community ~ 06/14/02)
Son of murdered father learns about faith and forgiveness INDIANAPOLIS His father taught him simple things, like the joy of slipping into the kitchen to make waffles at dawn while the rest of the house was still sleeping, or the thrill of cutting school to head to the speedway or catch a baseball game -- just the two of them...
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Today's stay-at-home dads aren't 'Mr. Moms'
(Community ~ 06/14/02)
NEW YORK "Mr. Mom" didn't know how to wash clothes or make grilled cheese sandwiches, let alone keep the kids in line; Daddy can do all of the above and more. The only similarity between today's stay-at-home dads and Michael Keaton's character in the famous 1983 film is that they're the ones who mind the children while their wives are at work...
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Ex-spy master ordered to trial
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
LIMA, Peru -- A Peruvian judge has ordered ex-spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos and 18 military officers to stand trial for allegedly executing three leftist rebels who had surrendered during a dramatic 1997 hostage rescue, judicial sources said Thursday...
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Milosevic planned killings, says general
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Slobodan Milosevic battled in court Thursday with NATO's former military commander, a four-star general who accused him of planning to wipe out ethnic Albanians in Kosovo months before Serb forces began their bloody crackdown...
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Lax security, loose borders let terrorists move freely
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
ADAMOV REFUGEE CAMP, Slovakia -- Authorities who raided this weedy jumble of refugee dormitories are haunted by what they didn't find: 30 shadowy men they fear may have been terrorists posing as asylum seekers. The suspects vanished among the cornfields and oak forests that stretch to the Austrian border a few miles away. Now officials are trying to determine if terrorists are masquerading as refugees...
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Abbey prepares to bury two monks slain in shooting
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
CONCEPTION, Mo. -- Printing presses churned out memorial programs and chairs were placed inside the basilica as a northwest Missouri abbey prepared Thursday for the throng of mourners expected to bid farewell to two slain monks. Investigators continued their probe of gunman Lloyd Jeffress' background with hopes of determining what fueled Monday's attack at the Roman Catholic abbey...
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Power goes out at amusement park
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Worlds of Fun amusement park was without power for 1 1/2 hours Thursday, leaving people stranded in rides. Rick Rau, vice president of marketing for the park said the theme park "lost feed" from Kansas City Power and Light Thursday afternoon...
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Red Wings coach retires with another Stanley Cup
(Professional Sports ~ 06/14/02)
DETROIT -- On the night he won his ninth -- and final -- Stanley Cup, a retirement-bound Scotty Bowman upstaged his Detroit Red Wings stars who finally got their first. Dominik Hasek finally won the Cup he has chased throughout a Hall of Fame career -- and 600-goal scorer Luc Robitaille did, too -- as the Red Wings beat Carolina 3-1 Thursday night to win their third Stanley Cup in six seasons...
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Bush affirms commitment to Palestinian statehood
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush reaffirmed his commitment to "the evolution of a Palestinian state" on Thursday, and Secretary of State Colin Powell said Bush was considering interim statehood. "It is an idea that has always been out there. ... The president has it under consideration," Powell said after a foreign ministers meeting in Whistler, British Columbia...
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CART leader da Matta's team is 'coming together' this season
(Professional Sports ~ 06/14/02)
PORTLAND, Ore. Cristiano da Matta is only 5-foot-3 and 130 pounds, yet he has risen above his CART rivals this season. The 28-year-old Brazilian driver has won two of the four races on the this season. He dominated last week's Monterey Grand Prix to take over the points lead, and he's hoping to extend it Sunday in the G.I. Joe's 200 at Portland International Raceway...
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Gutierrez injured in Indians' winning run
(Professional Sports ~ 06/14/02)
CLEVELAND -- Ricky Gutierrez strained his left groin while scoring on rookie Chris Magruder's triple in the 10th inning, giving the Indians a 2-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles in Thursday's only scheduled major league game. Gutierrez drew a one-out walk in the 10th off Willis Roberts (3-2). Magruder followed with a liner toward the right-field corner that bounced off the rubberized warning track...
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Area fishing conditions
(Professional Sports ~ 06/14/02)
Lakes Clearwater Lake: 73 degrees, high, murky; channel catfish & largemouth bass fair on worms; all other species slow. Council Bluff: 68 degrees, normal, clear; largemouth bass fair on medium to small minnows & soft plastics; all other species slow...
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Look who's back in front - Tiger leads U.S. Open
(Professional Sports ~ 06/14/02)
Associated Press/Charles Krupa While much of the field encountered trouble, Tiger Woods avoided it and led by a stroke after Thursday's round of the U.S. Open at the Black Course of Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y. By Doug Ferguson ~ The Associated Press...
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End sought for tattered flags on display since Sept. 11
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
CHICAGO -- Sandwiched between two more popular national holidays, Flag Day does not get nearly the same fanfare of barbecues, beer and a day off, as Memorial Day and Independence Day. But the surge in patriotism after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 prompted millions to display flags, many of which have reached the tattered end of their life expectancies, and this Flag Day many of those flags will be burned in solemn ceremonies across the country...
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Nursing homes sue governor
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A group of nursing homes has filed a lawsuit challenging Gov. Bob Holden's decision to cut about $20.7 million in nursing home grants to help balance the state's budget. The lawsuit asks a Cole County circuit judge to issue an injunction against the budget cut before the June 30 end of the fiscal year and order that the money be released to nursing homes...
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Chinese police drag asylum-seeker away from Korean visa office
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
BEIJING -- Chinese guards dragged a North Korean asylum-seeker away from a South Korean visa office Thursday after punching and kicking diplomats who tried to stop them -- prompting a strong protest from the South Korean government. The incident, barely a month after Beijing settled a similar row with Japan, comes amid tougher measures by China to stem a wave of North Korean asylum-seekers entering foreign missions in China...
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Afghanistan council chooses Karzai to continue leadership
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Backed by the United States, Hamid Karzai overwhelmingly won 18 more months as leader of Afghanistan's fledgling government Thursday, swept into the presidency by an extraordinary grand council of 1,650 Afghans taking tentative steps toward a fragile democracy...
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Arafat convenes new Cabinet; Israel ends siege of complex
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat convened his new, streamlined Cabinet at his West Bank headquarters Thursday, four days after Israeli tanks blockaded the complex and caused a delay. Israel ended the blockade in Ramallah on Wednesday, and on Thursday five new ministers put their hands on a Quran and swore allegiance to the Palestinian Authority. ...
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Defense tries to change image of American-born Taliban
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- From the Taliban soldier with unkempt hair to the courtroom defendant with a neat haircut and black-framed glasses, John Walker Lindh has physically transformed into the image his lawyers want a jury to see. Since Lindh's return to the United States in January, a defense team of former prosecutors has tried to counter the government's portrait of a terrorist who hated America with that of a more sympathetic but misguided young man...
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Moussaoui denies involvement in attacks
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged as a Sept. 11 conspirator, denied in court Thursday that he had been in contact with the hijackers and said he had secret information that would set him free. Moussaoui, who on Thursday won the right to represent himself at trial, kept inching his way to a dramatic conclusion of the hearing by repeatedly pleading for "ten minutes, five minutes, two minutes" to explain why "the government will be compelled to withdraw the case today.". ...
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People talk 6/14/02
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
Fossett postpones ballooning attempt NORTHAM, Australia -- Blustery conditions in Australia and storms brewing over South America on Thursday forced American adventurer Steve Fossett to postpone his latest bid to become the first person to fly solo around the world in a balloon...
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Flag Day more meaningful after Sept. 11
(Local News ~ 06/14/02)
Americans will pay tribute to Old Glory today, flying their flags high in honor of Flag Day. Some believe today's observation will be more meaningful than in the past due to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the fact the nation is at war. "The way things are now after September 11, everyone respects the flag," said Herbert Nance of Cape Girardeau, a veteran who sells flags...
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FEMA gives guidelines to cities on funding
(Local News ~ 06/14/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- During the recent bout of flooding, Cape Girardeau suffered almost $200,000 in damage to its storm water and sewer systems as water cracked open sewer mains, left waterlines exposed from erosion and forced the city to pay its workers overtime to tackle emergency repairs...
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Nation to celebrate Flag Day
(Local News ~ 06/14/02)
On Friday throughout the country, Americans will pay tribute to Old Glory, flying it high in honor of Flag Day."The way things are now after September 11, everyone respects the flag," said Herb Nance of Cape Girardeau. For more about events and local plans for the holiday, read Friday's Southeast Missourian...
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Man retells planning for paying off the Mississippi bridge
(Local News ~ 06/14/02)
Handing over the final toll on the cost of the Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau in 1957 didn't happen by accident. Jerry Burchyett, then a pie salesman from McClure, Ill., said he planned it. "I paid off the bridge," recalled Burchyett, now a resident of St. Louis. For more on Burchyett's history-making moment, read Friday's Southeast Missourian...
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39-year-old pedestrian killed by truck on Interstate 55
(Local News ~ 06/14/02)
Cape Girardeau police are investigating the death of a pedestrian on Interstate 55, trying to determine how James H. Webb ended up in the path of a oncoming truck. The Charleston, Mo., man was struck by a northbound Federal Express box truck underneath the Route K overpass on Thursday. Paramedics began CPR on Webb, 39, but he was pronounced dead at St. Francis Medical Center, said Cape Girardeau County Coroner Mike Hurst...
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Virginia House Speaker Wilkins resigns in wake of sex scandal
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
RICHMOND, Va. -- S. Vance Wilkins Jr. resigned as speaker of the Virginia House on Thursday after admitting he paid at least $100,000 in hush money to a woman who accused him of sexually harassing her. The resignation came after a drumbeat of demands from top party officeholders over the past few days...
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Woman accused of cutting off man's buttocks
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A woman enraged at her boyfriend attacked him with a utility knife and cut off nearly all of his buttocks, leaving him near death on a dark, rural road, a prosecutor said Thursday. The man has not fully described what happened to police, but they said they believe his girlfriend acted alone...
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Landslide victory for main opposition party in South Korea
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's main opposition party won a landslide victory in mayoral and gubernatorial elections that were widely seen as a barometer for presidential voting in December, final results showed Friday. Election officials said that Grand National Party candidates won 11 of the 16 mayoral and gubernatorial posts at stake in Thursday's vote, including Seoul, the capital, and Busan, the nation's second largest city...
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Three killed, seven survive crash of military plane
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- A U.S. military plane carrying special forces troops crashed and caught fire after taking off from an airstrip in Afghanistan, killing three Americans. Seven others escaped with minor injuries. The crash on Wednesday -- the deadliest in the Afghan campaign since seven Marines were killed in January -- did not appear to have been caused by hostile fire, U.S. spokesman Roger King said at Bagram air base on Thursday...
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Euro may challenge dollar, economists say
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The euro, second fiddle to the dollar since its birth in 1999, may finally be ready to take off, making Italian leather and Parisian cafe cremes more expensive for American tourists but offering relief to U.S. exporters. Some economists even predict the euro will climb back to parity by the end of the year; a euro was worth 94 U.S. cents Thursday, up from 87 cents in early April...
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Bishops get tough on one-time abusers
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
DALLAS -- Trying to ease the clerical sex abuse crisis pounding the church, America's Roman Catholic bishops decided Thursday in a closed-door meeting to toughen their stance on one-time molesters. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago emerged from discussions with fellow church leaders saying the idea of allowing priests who abused one child in the past to remain in parish work was off the table...
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Elderly suspect charged in shooting death of lawyer
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
BEAUMONT, Texas -- An elderly man apparently angered by a law firm's refusal to represent him in an asbestos case opened fire at the firm Thursday, killing a veteran attorney, police said. Another lawyer at Reaud Morgan & Quinn Inc., subdued the 79-year-old gunman, Police Chief Tom Scofield said...
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Investigation of family 'common procedure'
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
SALT LAKE CITY -- Police acknowledged Thursday that they were looking at the extended family of the teen girl apparently kidnapped at gunpoint from her home, but they said it was not the main avenue of the investigation. "I would say it is one of many theories," said Salt Lake Police capt. Scott Atkinson. On the ninth day of the search for 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, police also are looking at the neighborhood and everyone who knows the teen...
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Scientists hope to reunite orphaned orca with its family
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
OFF VASHON ISLAND, Wash. -- Divers captured a 1,200-pound orphaned orca in Puget Sound on Thursday, beginning a weeklong effort to reunite the young whale with her family. The lost killer whale, originally from a pod in Canada, has been alone since January off the north end of this island, southwest of Seattle. Her eagerness for company had convinced scientists that she could not safely remain in Puget Sound, where she could be injured by a propeller or inadvertently damage a small boat...
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Memphis police arrest suspect, seek another in shooting
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Police charged a man Thursday with first-degree murder in the death of a 3-year-old girl who was among nine people shot after an argument over drugs. George Willie Franklin, 24, turned himself into authorities Thursday, police spokeswoman LaTanya Able said. A warrant was issued for his cousin, Leslie Franklin, 22...
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Taking cancer fight to Capitol
(Local News ~ 06/14/02)
The American Cancer Society Celebration Bus made a stop in Cape Girardeau Thursday as part of a seven-month American Cancer Society tour through 40 states to raise awareness about cancer and promote the Relay for Life Celebration on the Hill event on Sept. 19, in Washington, D.C...
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Last to pay way across bridge tells toll tale
(Local News ~ 06/14/02)
erry H. Burchyett is part of the lore of the Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau. He planned it that way. But he didn't plan to be remembered as the last person to pay a toll to cross the bridge, which is the way history has it. He wanted to be the first to cross the bridge into Missouri without paying the toll...
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For guitarist Bruze Zimmerman, thrill has never gone away
(Entertainment ~ 06/14/02)
The thrill Bruce Zimmerman gets with a guitar in his hands has not changed since he began playing one 42 years ago. "It's probably more intense because it has become so natural," he says. "It's almost like an out-of-body experience." This usually occurs when he's playing with other musicians. Zimmerman has never been out of a band since he was a 9-year-old in Bernie, Mo., playing with his brother and two cousins in a group called The Four Z's...
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Keeping an eye on 'The Watchers'
(Entertainment ~ 06/14/02)
DAWSON, Yukon Territory From the cliffs of Newfoundland, from the stern of a coast guard cutter or from the back of a rickety pickup, "The Watchers" looked ever upward, provoking questions about what they see. And, as he traveled through Canada with his offbeat artistic project, Peter von Tiesenhausen, who carved the five oversized human figures out of native spruce, was often asked: What does it mean?...
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Everybody's a critic - 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood'
(Entertainment ~ 06/14/02)
HHH 1/2 stars "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is about the relationship between a mother (Ellen Burstyn) and her daughter (Sandra Bullock), who find out that both of their pasts have made them into what they are today. Sandra Bullock and Ellen Burstyn are excellent in this movie. The movie is hilarious at times and then very moving at others. The story keeps you going from beginning to end...
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Everybody's a critic - 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood'
(Entertainment ~ 06/14/02)
3 stars "Divine Secrets" is an unapologetic "chick flick" from start to finish. It follows the relationships of not only four lifelong friends, but also the relationships between one of these "ya-ya's" and her daughter and husband. The story is told through a flashback/flash-forward style that is somewhat difficult to follow at times, but is still a very colorful way to allow the audience to get the true flavor of the personalities of the cast...
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Everybody's a critic - 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood'
(Entertainment ~ 06/14/02)
HHH 1/2 The "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood" is about life, love, family, lifelong friendship and a dark secret. I was a little confused in the beginning and felt as if I needed a play book to keep the characters straight but that feeling didn't last. The "Ya Ya Sisterhood" was a club started by four young girlfriends. The club and the friendships withstood the test of time. One of those friends had a well-kept secret. This Southern comedy drama held its secret to the very end...
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Poplar Bluff Relay for Life scheduled July 26-27
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- More than 500 people are expected to participate in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life planned Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27, at the Black River Coliseum in Poplar Bluff. "We now have 36 teams registered," said Wilma Parks, chairwoman of the relay. "We're looking for new teams every day."...
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Downpour floods south Bluff area
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
Daily American Republic POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- An early morning downpour Thursday left water along the streets and in people's yards in the southern part of Poplar Bluff. Street department superintendent Gene Brannum said it rained 2.5 inches. "We had a lot of surface water on the south end, not too much on the north end," he said...
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Out of the past 6/14/02
(Out of the Past ~ 06/14/02)
10 years ago: June 14, 1992 Riverfest '92 offered mix of music and fun for crowds Friday and Saturday at Cape Girardeau's 14th annual downtown celebration; although attendance started out slow Friday and early Saturday, crowds really poured into downtown late Saturday; organizers blamed slow start on rumors of Ku Klux Klan rally that might occur Saturday; it didn't materialize...
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Over my dead body 6/14
(Entertainment ~ 06/14/02)
These are the 10 songs George Dordoni of Cape Girardeau wouldn't want to live without: 1. "No Woman No Cry" -- Bob Marley and the Wailers I love the soothing message, the reminiscences that remind me of home, and that the song is easy to play and sing...
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These Lakers aren't a dynasty ... not yet, anyway
(Sports Column ~ 06/14/02)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- As much as I like these Lakers -- Shaq, Kobe, Phil and the cast -- they have some more work to do before we can put them in the same category as Michael's Bulls, Russell's Celtics or Magic's Lakers. It's going to take a four-peat before I grant the current Lakers dynasty status...
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Connection of cables marks progress on Emerson bridge
(Local News ~ 06/14/02)
The workers laboring at the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge aren't just construction workers, engineers and inspectors. They're cable guys, too. A construction checkpoint was reached Monday when the bridge's first strands were pulled on Pier 2, the tallest pier near the Missouri banks of the Mississippi River...
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TIF - Here's how it works
(Column ~ 06/14/02)
All I know about TIF is what I read in the newspaper. Based on what little I know, I'm pretty sure I ought to look into a TIF for my current big project: the World Famous Downtown Golf Course, Floodwall Condos and All-Weather Hockey Barn. The fact that I don't know much of anything about TIF doesn't mean I can't explain it all to you in a simple, easy-to-understand way. Everyone else is taking a crack at it. I might as well join the pack...
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I-66 study, town notes, death tax
(Column ~ 06/14/02)
The CAPE CHAMBER'S Transportation Committee has recommended that the city council donate $8,000 for the hiring of a consultant to do the analysis to support the continuation of a Cape route for the TRANSAMERICA CORRIDOR to come through Cape via the BILL EMERSON MEMORIAL BRIDGE. (This is currently in federal government language in the transportation bill up for review.)...
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Bishops offer sex abuse plan that falls short of zero tolerance
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
AP Religion WriterDALLAS (AP) -- America's Roman Catholic bishops offered a sex abuse policy Friday that falls just short of zero tolerance for molesting priests. The plan would bar abusers from parish work. Under the plan, priests who molested children in the past or commit even a single act of abuse in the future would be ousted from the priesthood. Some abusers could voluntarily withdraw from active ministry and work in a monastery or some other restricted setting...
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Winona Ryder pleads innocent to theft, drug charges
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Winona Ryder pleaded innocent Friday to shoplifting and drug charges. The actress, who co-stars in the upcoming Adam Sandler comedy "Mr. Deeds," was arraigned in Beverly Hills Superior Court. She's charged with second-degree burglary, grand theft, vandalism and possession of a controlled substance...
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Abbey mourns slain monks
(State News ~ 06/14/02)
Associated Press WriterCONCEPTION, Mo. (AP) -- More than 1,000 mourners packed the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception for Friday's funeral Mass for two monks slain in a rampage by a gunman who later took his own life. The Rev. Philip Schuster and Brother Damian Larson were to be buried in plain pine caskets, side-by-side in St. Columba Cemetery across from Conception Abbey...
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U.S. requests expulsion of Iraqi diplomat for spying
(National News ~ 06/14/02)
Associated Press WriterUNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United States on Friday asked Iraq to removed one of its U.N. diplomats for "activities incompatible with his diplomatic status," a U.S. official said. Such language is diplomatic code for espionage...
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Six dead as fighting flares in Kashmir
(International News ~ 06/14/02)
Associated Press WriterNEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Shelling on both sides of the Kashmir frontier Friday killed six people despite a plea by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for India and Pakistan to hold their fire. As he left for Washington on Thursday after two days of talks in New Delhi and Islamabad, Rumsfeld said a cease-fire would "begin a process of easing some of the lingering hostilities" between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
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Linda Bryant
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
Linda M. Bryant, 52, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, June 13, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lutz & Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna, Ill.
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Archie Williams
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral for Archie Williams, 99, of Cairo will be held at noon Saturday at Klondike Holy Trinity Church of Deliverance. Burial will be in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds, Ill. Friends may call after 10 a.m. at the church. Heavenly Gates Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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Everett Randall
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Everett E. Randall, 91, of Cobden died Thursday, June 13, 2002, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Ill. He was born July 22, 1910, in Ware, Ill., son of Lawrence M. and Myrtle Slaughter Randall. He and Constance Burgeois were married Sept. 13, 1932, in Elmhurst, Ill...
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Nellie Passley
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Nellie Rose Passley, 81, of Charleston died Thursday, June 13, 2002, at her home. She was born Dec. 14, 1920, in Anna, Ill., daughter of Dave and Mary Speck Murr. She and Sam "Dago" Passley were married Sept. 4, 1936. He died March 14, 1968...
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Ruby Adams
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Funeral for Ruby M. Adams of East Prairie will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home. Gaylon Butler will officiate. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery. Adams, 86, died Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at East Prairie Nursing Center...
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Speak Out A 06/14/02
(Speak Out ~ 06/14/02)
Win-win suggestion HOW ABOUT some common sense. If the university and the city really do have a budget crunch, then we can kill two birds with one stone. The university should sell some of its property and buildings in the city. These properties would be bought by the private sector, which would start paying city taxes on them. The university would shrink in size a little during these hard times and have more liquid assets such as cash. And the city's tax base would grow some...
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Group is looking for new leaders for Day of Prayer
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/14/02)
To the editor: One of the many things that makes me proud to live and serve in Cape Girardeau is the annual National Day of Prayer. Jack and Sherri Mehner have made a difference to enhance our quality of community life because of their leadership. They have made a difference to me...
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State program is a boost to streams across Missouri
(Outdoors ~ 06/14/02)
A popular program intended to keep soil in place while improving water quality continues to enjoy great success across the state. The Conservation Reserve Program has been around for more than 10 years and has helped improve the state's forest, fish, and wildlife resources while keeping soil in place and out of our streams. ...
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Public-access TV grows in Cape Girardeau
(Editorial ~ 06/14/02)
Public-access television has been around almost as long as cable-TV companies have been offering their services. Thanks to FCC requirements and franchise agreements, most cable companies set aside at least one channel designated for public access. In Cape Girardeau County, Charter Communications Inc. now provides two channels, one for city government and public-access programming and another for school programming...
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UMC president paints a grim possibility
(Editorial ~ 06/14/02)
When the University of Missouri's president, Manuel Pacheco, said budget cuts for Missouri's public colleges and universities were so deep that one of the university's four campuses -- Columbia, St. Louis, Kansas City and Rolla -- might have to close, it sent a chill across the state...
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Cape police report 6/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/14/02)
Cape Girardeau Friday, June 14 Arrests Teresa Michelle Wright, 43, 801 Good Hope, Apt. 39, was arrested Wednesday for failure to drive on the right half of the road and possession of drug paraphernalia. Tyronica Evett Curry, 32, 2407 Albert Rasche, was arrested Wednesday for public consumption of alcohol...
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Bill Colbert
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- William Russell "Bill" Colbert, 82, of Sikeston died Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at his home. He was born Oct. 11, 1919, in Kirkwood, Mo., son of Raymond Clarence and Lelia Williams Colbert. He and Edna Caul were married Oct. 28, 1961...
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George Alsup
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- George Ray Alsup, 59, of Sikeston died Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Sept. 16, 1942, in Sikeston, son of George C. and Annie Johnson Alsup. He and Eleanor Allen were married Jan. 14, 1965, in Sikeston...
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Charles Willis
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Funeral for Charles E. Willis, 56, of Mounds will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. John Missionary Baptist Church. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens at Villa Ridge, Ill. Friends may call at the church from 11 a.m. until time of service...
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Helen Verble
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Helen Verble, 85, of Anna died Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at City Care Center. She was born Sept. 3, 1916, in Cobden, Ill., daughter of T. Bernie and Nina C. Hodge Messamore. She and Arthur R. Verble were married May 22, 1934, in Jonesboro, Ill. He died Feb. 27, 1981...
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Monzella Kneezle
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
BENTON, Mo. -- Monzella Kneezle, 73, of Westminster, Calif., died Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at Howard County Hospital in Columbia, Md. She was born Nov. 10, 1928, in Cape Girardeau. She married Leslie Kneezle, who preceded her in death. She lived in Benton 28 years, and lived in Rockford, Ill., from 1956 until moving to California in 1979...
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Shara McLard
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
Shara Jo McLard of Raymondville, Mo., died Monday, May 27, 2002. She was born Jan. 10, 1961, at Buffalo, Mo., daughter of Kenneth Ray and Helen L. Ward. She and Thomas Howard McLard were married March 20, 1982. McLard attended Southeast Missouri State University and Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Mo. She worked nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City...
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John Hawthorn
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- John M. Hawthorn, 66, of Perryville died Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at Perry County Nursing Home. He was born Dec. 31, 1935, in Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., son of Charles Henry and Margrete Boyd Hawthorn. He and Norma Harris were married Sept. 7, 1962, in Perryville...
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Kathreen Grove
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
Kathreen E. Grove, 99, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, June 13, 2002, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Nov. 23, 1902, in Cedar Vale, Kan., daughter of Frank and Sarah Shrader Howard. She and William Grove were married July 24, 1924, in Dexter, Kan. He died Oct. 26, 1987...
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Harry Streiler
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Harry J. Streiler, 75, of Perryville died Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 8, 1927, in Perry County, Mo., son of Charles A. and Zita Pannier Streiler. He and Ollie M. Wood were married May 3, 1947, in Perryville...
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Marsha Carlisle
(Obituary ~ 06/14/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Marsha Ann Carlisle, 58, of Sikeston died Thursday, June 13, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Feb. 28, 1944, in Cairo, Ill., daughter of Marshall Dean and Mary Ethel Johnson Butler. She and James Edward "Jim" Carlisle were married Feb. 8, 1964...
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Cape fire report 6/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/14/02)
Cape Girardeau Friday, June 14 Firefighters responded to the following calls Wednesday: At 4:54 p.m., an emergency medical service at 3303 Campster Drive. At 5:06 p.m., an emergency medical service at 210 S. Sprigg St. At 5:22 p.m., an emergency medical service at 89 S. Plaza Way...
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