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Sides may be ready to declare cease-fire in trade conflict
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WASHINGTON -- To its own surprise, the Bush administration brought the world this year to the brink of a trade war with this lineup: America versus everyone else. Caught in the cross fire of a bitter fight over steel imports were producers of Florida citrus, Washington state apples and a range of other products...
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'A dream' - U.S. defeats Mexico in World Cup play
(Professional Sports ~ 06/18/02)
JEONJU, South Korea -- The players in red, white and blue ran around the field in disbelief, celebrating a stunning World Cup victory that helped bury a brutal past. They realized a new world order had emerged at this year's tournament, one where U.S. soccer is a force, not a farce...
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Sports people 6/18/02
(Professional Sports ~ 06/18/02)
NASCAR goes for a pop stop with Spears movie If you thought Tom Cruise and NASCAR made for an unlikely team, now here comes popster Britney Spears The racing league and Spears' production company laid out plans Monday for a NASCAR-themed movie in which Spears will star. ...
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Ann Bishop to finish her junior year in New Zealand school
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
Editor's note: Three area students will be leaving Southeast Missouri to study abroad and learn about other cultures. The students -- Rebecca Knight and Anna Bishop, both of Jackson, Mo., and Dane Lincoln of Cape Girardeau, are participating in an exchange program directed by Rotary International. ...
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Bird blamed for distress calls in St. Louis' Forest Park
(State News ~ 06/18/02)
ST. LOUIS -- It happens every now and then in Forest Park -- police get calls from people who swear they heard a woman scream in terror. Those who hear the shriek fear the worst. Invariably, police search the area; usually they find nobody. But veteran officers patrolling the park think they have a prime suspect for the screams: a peacock...
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Man's family wants action after fight with bounty hunters
(State News ~ 06/18/02)
The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City leaders and clergy joined the family of a man who died after an altercation with bounty hunters in asking for sweeping changes in the laws that govern the bondsmen. Ta'Mar J. Grant, 23, died late Thursday after he began arguing with the bounty hunters who came to his home to arrest his brother...
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Bishops will be held accountable for actions
(State News ~ 06/18/02)
ST. LOUIS -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he believes a new church policy adequately holds bishops accountable for sexually abusive clergy members. Some critics have said the policy does not go far enough to make sure bishops are held responsible if they fail to enforce the policy. But Bishop Wilton Gregory of Belleville, Ill., said Monday the accountability bishops have to each other and the public will be enough...
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Artists flourish on road from Hannibal to Clarksville
(State News ~ 06/18/02)
HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Nevermind manufacturing plants, retailing megacenters, ag producers. Three northeast Missouri towns are taking an artistic approach to economic development. Literally. Through an effort known as the Provenance Project, a 50-mile corridor of arts has been created from Hannibal to Louisiana to Clarksville -- a corridor along a gorgeous stretch of Missouri Route 79 along the Mississippi River...
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Impostor cops plea to gun charge
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
OWEN SOUND, Ontario -- An American fugitive wanted for allegedly posing as a rescue officer after the Oklahoma bridge collapse pleaded guilty to a weapons charge Monday and was turned over to Canadian immigration authorities. William Clark, 29, of Tallapoosa, Mo., pleaded guilty to one count of careless storage of a firearm and was sentenced to time served since his June 9 arrest while waiting to board a ferry in Tobermory, Ontario, on Lake Huron...
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'50 heroes saw another U.S. World Cup upset
(Professional Sports ~ 06/18/02)
For old teammates Frank Borghi, Harry Keough and Walter Bahr, America's stunning advance to the quarterfinals of the World Cup brought back memories of another great U.S. soccer victory 52 years ago. Borghi was the goalie and Keough and Bahr were backs on the U.S. team that stunned England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup tournament. Each of them watched early Monday morning as another U.S. team scored another upset, defeating Mexico 2-0...
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Cardinals' rookie pitcher is carving up opposition hitters
(Professional Sports ~ 06/18/02)
A month ago, Jason Simontacchi was a no-name emergency fill-in pitcher with a vagabond resume who got a shot with the St. Louis Cardinals only because most of the rotation was on the disabled list. After only seven major league starts, the 28-year-old rookie has become indispensable. ...
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U.S. facing influx of counterfeit medicine
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WASHINGTON -- Once a problem mainly in developing countries, counterfeit medicine is increasingly turning up in the United States, prompting federal health officials to hunt new ways to keep the nation's drugs secure. Since March, the Food and Drug Administration has begun investigating six counterfeit drug cases -- from a psychiatric pill replaced with aspirin to anemia injections that delivered doses 20 times lower than patients were supposed to get...
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Court affirms power to catch tip cheating
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court gave the Internal Revenue Service its blessing Monday to aggressively audit restaurants to catch underreported tips. Justices said Congress, not the court, was the appropriate venue for a challenge to IRS auditing techniques...
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Police get leeway in search of bus and train passengers
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WASHINGTON -- In a decision that could aid the government's anti-terrorism efforts, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can question passengers on buses and trains and search for evidence without informing them that they can refuse. Officers routinely check buses and trains for drug couriers. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, they also have focused efforts on possible terrorists who could be using public transportation...
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Court throws out law banning door-to-door solicitation
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Constitution guarantees religious groups, politicians, Girl Scouts and others the right to knock on their neighbors' doors without stopping at town hall for permission, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a broad endorsement of free speech rights...
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Ideas being floated for currency makeover
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WASHINGTON -- When you look at your greenbacks in the future, you might see red. Or blue, or any number of colors as the nation's money makers mull another makeover to thwart high-tech counterfeiters. Perhaps a spot on the paper bills might even look 3-D...
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Foreign competition pushes Americans out of the NBA draft
(Professional Sports ~ 06/18/02)
NEW YORK -- The NBA job market for American college stars is tight and getting tighter. It's tougher than high tech. English majors will have better luck finding work this summer than most of the big men on campuses who flew so high during March Madness...
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Beckham admirers follow England to quarterfinals
(Professional Sports ~ 06/18/02)
TSUNA, Japan From Saitama to Sapporo, Osaka to Niigata, they are everywhere. Now there will be hundreds more in Shizuoka. Red or white England shirts worn by Japanese soccer fans with the No. 7 on the back and the name "Beckham" is the apparel of choice...
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On same course as Jack, Tiger searches for a different outcome
(Professional Sports ~ 06/18/02)
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Tiger Woods might want to think about bringing his own pillow to Muirfield for the British Open. Muirfield is the next destination on Woods' improbable journey toward an indisputable Grand Slam, just as it was for Jack Nicklaus in 1972. Nicklaus won the Masters and the U.S. Open, and had high hopes of winning all four majors in one year...
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Karachi consulate to reopen; police question religious student
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Police expanded their inquiry Monday into last week's deadly car bombing outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, questioning a man already in custody who has provided investigators with information about a militant group trained in explosives...
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Australians say they have successfully 'teleported' data
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australian scientists said Monday they had successfully "teleported" a laser beam encoded with data, breaking it up and reconstructing an exact replica a yard away. Their work replicates an experiment at the California Institute of Technology in 1998, but the Australian team believes their technique is more reliable and consistent...
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German construction workers launch first strike in 50 years
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
BERLIN -- German construction workers launched their first major strike Monday in more than 50 years, following members of the country's main manufacturing union in walking out earlier this year to back up demands for higher wages. The IG BAU union said at least 8,000 workers stayed off the job at 400 sites in the capital, Berlin, as well as the northern city of Hamburg and the industrial Ruhr Valley area in the west in strikes that some fear could hurt an already sagging German economy...
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Federal judge refuses to dismiss Lindh indictment
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A federal judge refused on Monday to dismiss John Walker Lindh's indictment, rejecting defense arguments that the American had a constitutional right to associate with the Taliban and could not get a fair trial. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III's decision clears the way for the government to proceed with prosecuting the U.S.-born Taliban soldier on charges he conspired to murder Americans...
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Weather delays landing of shuttle
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Thunderstorms forced NASA to postpone Monday's homecoming for the three men who are returning to Earth after a record-setting stay of more than six months aboard the international space station. More rain was expected for today's landing attempt by space shuttle Endeavour, and gusty wind was forecast at the backup site in California's Mojave Desert...
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Nagging has become the norm for many American youth
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
Alex Negelein admits that when there's something he really, really wants, he's willing to ask his dad for it "150 times." The 9-year-old's pestering may be on the extreme side, but he's hardly alone. A new survey has found that, even when their parents say "no," nearly six of 10 young people keep nagging -- an average of nine times...
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Two Jackson High School graduates split $25,000 from lottery
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- You're 18 years old and getting ready for college. You win more than $12,000. What do you do with the money? Two Jackson High School graduates found themselves in just that situation. Nathan Brown and Pete Ressler claimed $25,003 Monday after a Lucky 7 bingo lottery ticket they purchased at Wink's Bait and Tackle Saturday afternoon proved to be a winner...
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Dutchtown man, 91, dead after accident
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
On Monday morning, Walter Ostendorf was driving from Cape Girardeau, where he had bought groceries, to his Dutchtown home. Ostendorf, 91, played cards every Tuesday night with several of his grown children, and it was his turn to cook. It was while he was driving on Bloomfield Road just south of the city limits that authorities say he lost control of the white 1984 Dodge Prospector, swerved into the wrong lane and collided with an oncoming car...
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Golf, sewer fees to increase
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
Those who frequent Cape Girardeau's Jaycee Municipal Golf Course will find the fees 5 percent over par soon. And every resident inside Cape Girardeau will also notice a slightly higher sewer bill in the not-so-distant future. Those add up to a $37,300 solution to what could be a $246,000 problem if sales tax revenue doesn't pick up...
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Two area projects make state road list
(State News ~ 06/18/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Only two Southeast Missouri projects appear on the tentative list of 48 road and bridge projects state transportation officials say would be undertaken in the next decade if voters approve a $483 million tax increase. The Missouri State Highways and Transportation Commission on Friday was presented with three options for spending the additional money and will pick one at its June 25 meeting. ...
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Muny Band to go 'pop'
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
The Cape Girardeau Municipal Band's Wednesday concert will have a "pop" flavor with selections from "My Fair Lady" and tunes by Leroy Anderson, Alfred Reed, Percy Grainger and George Gershwin. The concert begins at 8 p.m. at the Capaha Park Band Shell...
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Bush promotes goal of helping minorities to buy homes
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
ATLANTA -- In the red dirt of a new housing development, President Bush fidgeted at the controls of a concrete mixer Monday and promoted a goal of helping 5.5 million black and Hispanic families buy homes before the end of the decade. "There is a homeownership gap in America. The difference between Anglo-American and African-American and Hispanic homeownership is too big," Bush said...
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New trial ordered over dog mauling
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge threw out a second-degree murder conviction Monday against Marjorie Knoller in the 2001 dog mauling that killed a neighbor, but let stand involuntary manslaughter convictions against Knoller and her husband, Robert Noel. Though Superior Court Judge James Warren said Knoller and Noel are "the most despised couple in this city," he said the evidence did not support a murder conviction because Knoller had no way of knowing her dogs would kill someone when she left her apartment that day.. ...
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Milosevic sick; trial postponed
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Hearings in Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial have been postponed at least until Wednesday because the former president is ill, the U.N. tribunal said Monday. A court official said Milosevic had a slight fever. It was the second delay due to illness since the start of his trial on Feb. 12...
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U.N. says more than million refugees return to Afghanistan
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
GENEVA -- More than a million refugees have returned to Afghanistan, and the number is still rising, but international donations continue to lag behind urgent needs, the U.N. refugee agency said Monday. "We've surpassed the 1 million mark, and now expect that up to 2 million Afghans could return home this year," said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers. "Fresh contributions of funds and food aid are urgently needed."...
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Two Americans stopped at border
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Two young men carrying U.S. passports were among several people detained after trying to enter this country from Afghanistan, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said Monday. "Some people have been detained by our agencies when they were trying to cross over from Afghanistan into our tribal areas. I was told two of them were American passport holders," Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan said...
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Arafat blasts U.S. security adviser
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
JERUSALEM -- Yasser Arafat rebuked U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Monday for saying his Palestinian Authority is corrupt and "cavorts with terror," but the Palestinians also were trying to muster U.S. goodwill with a proposed outline for a state living in peace with Israel...
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With time running out, Karzai says he will select Cabinet
(International News ~ 06/18/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, facing a grand council that made little progress in choosing the country's government, said Monday he will select his own Cabinet and that time had run out for delegates to choose a new parliament...
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Aquila plans to reduce wholesale energy work
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Energy company Aquila Inc. will reduce its trading activity in the unregulated wholesale market, cut more jobs and take other steps aimed at strengthening its creditworthiness. The measures announced Monday had been foreshadowed last week when Robert Green, president and chief executive officer, said the annual dividend might have to be sacrificed to retain earnings...
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Farmland Industries cuts 103 manager jobs
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Farmland Industries, Inc. announced Monday that it had cut 103 administrative and management jobs to reduce costs in its court-supervised reorganization. Farmland -- North America's largest farmer-owned cooperative -- filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection May 31. Weak fertilizer sales led to a cash shortage at the Kansas City-based company, triggering payment pressures from its lenders...
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Air tanker fighting wildfire crashes
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WALKER, Calif. -- An air tanker fighting a blaze near Yosemite National Park caught fire Monday and crashed in this Northern California resort town, killing all three crew members and just missing a mechanic's shop, authorities and witnesses said. A Reno, Nev., television station captured the scene on videotape as the wings broke off the C-130 transport plane. The fiery fuselage then rolled left and spiraled nose first into the ground and exploded in a ball of flame...
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A week of forensic work led to arrest of forestry employee
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
DENVER -- Just last week, veteran U.S. Forest Service worker Terry Barton was explaining how she stumbled upon what would become the largest wildfire in Colorado history. "I tried to throw dirt on it, but the winds were going crazy and it was just too late," she told The Gazette of Colorado Springs. "I think I know in my heart that there was nothing I could do."...
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World Cup excitement in your Xbox
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
"Goooaaaaallllllll!" Yes, that beloved cry is ringing across Korea and Japan this month as World Cup soccer grips the hearts and minds of the entire world -- except the U.S. of A. Soccer has never been regarded highly domestically. If most Americans are going to blow a few hours on a sporting event, they like to see a little scoring. Since an average soccer game seems often to end in a scoreless tie, you can see why soccer is not our favorite form of competition...
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State briefs 6/18
(State News ~ 06/18/02)
Cape man guilty of false imprisonment A Cape Girardeau man who held his family at gunpoint and threatened to kill himself and others when police arrived has been found guilty of two counts of false imprisonment. Cleties Allen Ford, 40, was found guilty by Circuit Judge John W. Grimm after a bench trial...
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Former Butler County official dies in crash
(State News ~ 06/18/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Thomas J. Cox, 72, a prominent accountant and former longtime public administrator of Butler County, died Sunday in Reynolds County from a single-vehicle accident. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported Cox dead at the scene on Highway 21 four miles south of Ellington...
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Students tackle real home work
(State News ~ 06/18/02)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- It was a job the students learned from the ground up, literally. Now their work goes on the auction block. But before it does, you can bet the 18 members of the Building Trades Class at the New Madrid County Technical Skills Center will take one last look at their year's work during an open house set for 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday for the home they built at 961 St. Francis in the St. Rose Subdivision...
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Out of the past 6/18/02
(Out of the Past ~ 06/18/02)
10 years ago: June 18, 1992 Wild horses will continue to roam free, at least for now, along Current and Jacks Fork rivers in Shannon County, thanks to federal judge's ruling; U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh issued ruling Wednesday; it puts halt to National Park Service's plan to round up and remove horses from wilderness area of Ozark National Scenic Riverways; ruling may be appealed...
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Carl Landis
(Obituary ~ 06/18/02)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- Carl Landis, 84, of Olmsted died Monday, June 17, 2002, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. Arrangements are incomplete at the Wilson Funeral Home in Karnak, Ill.
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Carl Snider
(Obituary ~ 06/18/02)
FARMINGTON, Mo. -- Carl Oscar Snider, 66, of Farmington died Sunday, June 16, 2002, at his home. He was born Dec. 30, 1935, in Cape Girardeau, son of Ossie and Clarence Snider. Snider was retired from the U.S. Coast Guard. He was a member of Doe Run Church of God, and board member of Wolf Creek Fire Protection Association...
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Dallzey Dillman
(Obituary ~ 06/18/02)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Dallzey Dillman, 88, of Olive Branch died Sunday, June 16, 2002, at Union County Hospital in Anna, Ill. She was born Oct. 21, 1913, in Alexander County, Ill., daughter of Eli and Mary Lee Phyler Dunn. She and Jonah Maze were married in 1931. He died in 1934. She and Roy Dillman were married Feb. 17, 1936. He died Aug. 4, 1985...
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Imogene Hanna
(Obituary ~ 06/18/02)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Imogene L. Hanna, 84, of Chaffee died Sunday, June 16, 2002, at her home. She was born May 21, 1918, at Rockview, Mo., daughter of William P. and Mamie Stuckey Miles. She and Claude Hanna were married Feb. 12, 1938. He died June 9, 1980...
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Fans saw a darker side of golf
(Sports Column ~ 06/18/02)
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Certain sports events have a real posterity, leaving echoes that last long after the final run, point, goal or putt. The 2002 U.S. Open is likely to be one of them, and not because it resulted in major championship No. 8 for 26-year-old Tiger Woods...
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Darth Vader and visits to the dentist
(Column ~ 06/18/02)
hkronmueller As someone with an obsession for sugar and sweets and a fear of needles and other sharp, pointy objects, a dental appointment sounds about as appealing to me as a vacation in Afghanistan. It never fails. I get in the big reclining chair and a Darth Vader-looking creature with big, plastic goggles and a mask that covers his nose and mouth starts prodding at my gums with a curvy metal stick...
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School vows to find way to hold MAP tests
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
The Cape Girardeau School District Board of Education vowed Monday night to find a way to fund the science and social studies portions of the Missouri Assessment Program test that will no longer be financed by the state. Superintendent Mark Bowles said that starting in the 2002-03 school year the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will only provide partial funding for the math and reading portions of the test because of budget constraints...
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Jackson Chamber of Commerce gives top honor
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
LABEL: Fulenwider award By Sam Blackwell ~ Southeast Missourian JACKSON, Mo. -- Carl Talley, who began his career with the city of Jackson as an employee in the street department and went on to serve as city administrator for 22 years, is the 2002 recipient of the R.A. Fulenwider Meritorious Community Service Award...
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Ventura announces he won't seek second term
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
Associated Press WriterST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Gov. Jesse Ventura announced Tuesday he will not seek a second term, saying his heart is no longer in the job. Ventura, the former professional wrestler who upset the political establishment with his victory in 1998, also said he was tired of attacks on his family. His announcement came amid reports that his 22-year-old son, Tyrel, used the official governor's residence for weekend parties throughout his term...
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Two rockets fired toward the center of the Afghan capital
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Two rockets were fired late Tuesday into the center of Kabul, exploding about one block from the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy compound, Afghan soldiers said. There was no report of casualties but one house was slightly damaged when a rocket hit the garage door. The house is usually occupied by Japanese Embassy officials but they had gone to the southern city of Kandahar the day before and the dwelling was empty...
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AMA votes to promote research into payment for organ donation
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
AP Medical WriterCHICAGO (AP) -- The American Medical Association called for research Tuesday into whether financial payments would boost the nation's critical shortage of transplant organs. The AMA's policymaking House of Delegates voted at its annual meeting to adopt the measure against the recommendation of a committee, which heard from doctors Sunday who said that such payments would be unethical and that even studying them would cheapen the value of organ donation...
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Stocks mixed following IBM downgrade, some profit taking
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street waffled Tuesday as a revenue downgrade for IBM reminded the market that the economic recovery isn't assured yet. Stocks closed narrowly mixed, having fluctuated throughout the session as investors cashed in some profits from Monday's big rally...
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Moderate earthquake hits parts of Midwest, South
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- An earthquake rattled portions of the Midwest and South on Tuesday, but authorities had no immediate reports of damage. The quake, which struck at 12:37 p.m. CDT, registered a magnitude of 5.0, said John Bellini with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., which tracks earthquakes...
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Head of Arts Commission dead at 67
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- J. Carter Brown, who for three decades nurtured and protected the monuments and architecture of the nation's capital as chairman of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, has died at age 67. Brown, who succumbed to a cancer of the blood, died Monday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston after six weeks of intensive care for pulmonary failure, his family said in a statement...
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Walter Ostendorf
(Obituary ~ 06/18/02)
DUTCHTOWN, Mo. -- Walter F. Ostendorf, 91, of Dutchtown died Monday, June 17, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center, from injuries received in an automobile accident in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Gene Bull
(Obituary ~ 06/18/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Eugene C. "Gene" Bull, 49, of Sikeston died Sunday, June 16, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Oct. 21, 1952, in Erie, Pa., son of Wilfred E. and Elizabeth Jane Black Bull Sr. He and Mary Jones Brewer were married May 15, 2000, at Benton, Mo...
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Marietta Davie
(Obituary ~ 06/18/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Marietta L. Davie, 86, of Groton, N.Y., formerly of Union County, died Sunday, June 16, 2002, at Cortland Care Center in Cortland, N.Y. She was born Aug. 6, 1915, in Waterman, Ill., daughter of Theodore and Dorothy Goss Logeland. She and Samuel A. Davie were married Feb. 20, 1937, in Jonesboro, Ill. He died Nov. 4, 1984...
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City Beat - Silt on the hills makes for good farming
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
It happened a long time ago, and because of it, the land in this region is fertile. "During the Ice Age, when the glaciers stopped just north of where Anna, Ill., is located today, winds blew fine, fertile silt, called loess, on the hills. That is why the hills are useful for farming today," said Dr. Mike Roark, professor of geography at Southeast Missouri State University. He is an expert on the geography of Cape Girardeau, having taught the subject for 23 years...
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Cape fire report 6/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/18/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, June 18 Firefighters responded to these calls Sunday:At 7:02 p.m., a medical assist at 525 S. Ellis. At 7:04 p.m., a false alarm for a car fire at Nash Road and Interstate 55. At 7:55 p.m., a citizen assist at 611 S. West End Blvd...
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Cape police report 6/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/18/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, June 18 ArrestsDavid Scott Jenkins, 26, of 921 N. Middle St. was arrested Saturday for resisting arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawful use of a weapon, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, no proof of insurance, stop sign violations, failure to yield right of way, failure to use turn signal and no seat belt...
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Jackson fire report 6/18
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/18/02)
Jackson Tuesday, June 18, Firefighters responded to the following call Sunday: An emergency medical service on Donna Lynn Drive. Firefighters responded to the following calls Monday: A telephone pole fire on Matthew Street. A car fire on East Jackson Boulevard...
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Third of county phone users on No Call list
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
More than 72,000 companies have paid more than $580,000 to learn that Missouri means business when it warns against telemarketing calls to people who have indicated they don't want the calls. "We do mean business," said Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon, who was in Cape Girardeau Monday to discuss the state's No Call list, which protects more than 980,000 residential phone lines...
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Charges dropped in girl's death
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
Prosecutors have dismissed careless driving charges against a Cape Girardeau woman in an accident that killed an 8-year-old girl because they now think the Ford Escort the woman was driving may have been faulty. Meanwhile, the family of Kaelyn McGill is considering a civil lawsuit against the Ford Motor Co., saying it wants whoever is responsible for its loved one's death to claim responsibility...
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Last witness testifies for prosecution in Pearl trial
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
HYDERABAD, Pakistan -- The prosecution's final witness was cross-examined Monday in the trial of four men accused of kidnapping and murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Police officer Hamid Ullah Memon recorded the initial criminal complaint by Pearl's wife after he disappeared from the port city of Karachi Jan. 23...
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Pace of Sept. 11 inquiry at issue
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WASHINGTON -- Some lawmakers investigating intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks say their investigation is going too slowly -- or plans for a new Homeland Security Department may be advancing too rapidly. The joint House-Senate inquiry is looking into law-enforcement and intelligence problems that preceded the attacks and making recommendations to fix them...
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New Zealand facts
(Local News ~ 06/18/02)
Some basic facts about New Zealand, courtesy of the World Almanac, 2002 edition: Name: New Zealand Flag: Red, white and blue. It features the British Union Flag and the constellation Southern Cross. Currency: New Zealand dollar...
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City - Push to finish streets for new schools
(Editorial ~ 06/18/02)
Officials of the Cape Girardeau School District are being far too kind about the recent announcement that street construction at the new Central High School and the Career and Technology Center (total investment: more than $31 million) may not be completed when school opens in August...
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Jerry Vann
(Obituary ~ 06/18/02)
CAIRO, Ill. -- A memorial service for Jerry Jerome Vann of Cairo will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Massie Funeral Home. The Rev. Ronnie Mack will officiate. Vann, 50, died Friday, June 14, 2002, at his home.
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Speak out 6/14
(Speak Out ~ 06/18/02)
No-tolerance policy WHAT HYPOCRITES. Bishops should be protecting the innocent instead of placing these pedophiles before their victims. It's a disgrace sending these abusers to other dioceses to resume their filthy activities. It is a crime, especially in a church. ...
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Need guarantee for how money for roads is used
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/18/02)
To the editor: Thursday's editorial about the Missouri Department of Transportation and what it did or didn't do with the 1992 6-cent fuel tax is misleading. According to your previous news stories, not all the revenue from the 6 cents went to MoDOT. It appears that the elected representatives in Jefferson City never intended the money to go only to transportation needs. I do not recall the percentage that went to other agencies' coffers, but it would be good if you reminded us...
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Speak Out A 06/19/02
(Speak Out ~ 06/18/02)
CITY GOVERNMENT budget hearings are boring. Get off our case for not coming to them. We follow the subject in Southeast Missourian editorials and Speak Out comments and agree with you that we shouldn't start spending extra money we have saved up until there's an economic upturn. At the same time, we realize that when there is an economic upturn you will editorialize that there's no need to spend money we've saved because there is sufficient revenue...
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Sports digest 6/18/02
(Other Sports ~ 06/18/02)
AREA CAPAHAS POUND OUT 16-0 WIN IN ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS -- The Craftsman Union Capahas led just 1-0 after four innings but wound up routing the St. Louis Golden Spikes 16-0 in a contest stopped after seven innings by the 10-run rule...
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First season has been a hit, junior tour organizer says
(Other Sports ~ 06/18/02)
The future of golf visited the area Monday when the first-year Tri-State Junior Golf Tour made one of its 10 stops at Cape Girardeau Country Club. Forty-eight boys and girls turned out for the event, the final of three stops in Missouri. The Tour visited the Bootheel Golf Club and Sikeston Country Club on successive days last week and now swings into Illinois for its final three events. ...
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Cape keeps it close through seven, but tumbles in nine
(Other Sports ~ 06/18/02)
For seven innings Monday night, Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons American Legion baseball team played well. But to have a chance against powerhouse Dunklin County, they needed two more solid innings. Cape learned that the hard way when Dunklin County took advantage of two errors in the final two innings to score 10 unearned runs, breaking open a tight contest and winning 14-3 at Capaha Field...
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Con man has skills that all of us can envy
(Editorial ~ 06/18/02)
Everyone knows at least one con man. Maybe it's a relative who wants you to invest in a sure-fire business proposition. Maybe it's a smooth-talking salesperson. Or maybe it's someone who, for reasons that aren't immediately clear, just likes to bamboozle the rest of us...
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Summer code yellow for travelers
(National News ~ 06/18/02)
WASHINGTON -- It could be a jittery summer for anyone who takes every single terrorist warning to heart. The beach beckons but there's always the slender chance of a malevolent scuba diver bobbing in the surf, a shark without fins. Theme parks rock. But terrorists have thought about making trouble there, at least if they have nothing better to do. An al-Qaida manual found abroad urges "blasting and destroying the places of amusement, immorality, and sin," but adds, "Not a vital target."...
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