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Samurai sequel is epic game
(Community ~ 10/01/02)
Like moviemakers, videogame producers know a good thing when they see it. That's why there are so many movie -- and videogame -- sequels. Some are good, some are awful (see "Revenge of the Nerds 2".) Occasionally, they're fabulous. Add to the latter list Capcom's fantastic "Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny."...
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Proposed term limits change sparks little debate
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Imposing term limits on members of the General Assembly was a hot-button election issue a decade ago. This year a proposal to slightly loosen the restriction is causing little controversy. Amendment 3, which appears on the Nov. 5 ballot, would provide a limited exemption to the state's constitutional cap of eight years of service per legislative chamber...
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Proposition A would improve children's health
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/01/02)
To the editor: I was extremely disappointed to read your editorial regarding Proposition A. As president of the Missouri Chapter of the American Pediatrics and as a practicing pediatrician for more than 34 years, I have a completely different perspective. ...
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If some smokers quit, tax revenue still would be big
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/01/02)
To the editor: In answer to Thomas Aldredge of Oak Ridge concerning the question of taxing alcohol instead of tobacco products: Obviously, more taxes on both is a very good idea. Perhaps those interested in increasing taxes on alcohol can put that on next year's ballot. But this year the subject is tobacco...
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Hurricane Lili forces 100,000 to evacuate in Cayman Islands
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- Hurricane Lili ripped roofs from apartment buildings in the Cayman Islands on Monday and forced 100,000 people to flee their homes as it threatened Cuba. The storm had killed eight people so far. Lili's eye tore across Cayman Brac, punishing the easternmost of the Cayman Islands with torrential rain and violent winds. It grew from a tropical storm Monday as its winds topped 74 mph...
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ND softball nips Kelly in nine-inning duel
(High School Sports ~ 10/01/02)
In one of the most thrilling area softball matchups of the year, Notre Dame outlasted visiting Kelly 2-1 in nine innings in a classic pitcher's duel Monday. The Bulldogs improved to 15-5 while the Hawks fell to 12-4. Alana Weissmueller of Notre Dame broke up Dana Essner's perfect game in the bottom of the seventh inning with an infield single and reached second on a throwing error. Weissmueller then scored on a game-tying single by Whitney Ostendorf...
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Out of the past 10/1/02
(Out of the Past ~ 10/01/02)
10 years ago: Oct. 1, 1992 Boy Scouts are teaming up with Area Wide United Way for annual Scouting for Food Drive, scheduled Oct. 31 and Nov. 7; Scouting for Food is national project of Boy Scouts to collect canned food items which are then distributed to local charities; United Way will help Scouts with drive, and some of food will be distributed to United Way agencies...
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Births 10/1/02
(Births ~ 10/01/02)
Moore Son to James Edward Moore and Sarah Yvonne Morie of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:42 a.m. Monday, Sept. 23, 2002. Name, Zachary Nicholas. Weight, 7 pounds 13 ounces. Second child, first son. Ms. Morie is the daughter of Dale and Brenda Morie of Jackson. Moore is the son of Ed and Cherie Moore of Jackson. He is a nurse aide at Monticello House...
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Allen Schwartz
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- Allen Schwartz, 88, of Olmsted died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 12, 1913, near Grand Chain, Ill., the son of William and Angelia Reifner Schwartz. He married Jewell Peterson, who survives...
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Kathryn Hett
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
Kathryn L. Hett, 81, of Mesa, Ariz., died Friday, Sept. 27, 2002, in Gilbert, Ariz. She was born in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Frank and Yvetta Hunt Reed. She married William F. Hett. Survivors include her husband; a son, Kenneth Hett of Jackson; a daughter, Linda Chackerian of Mesa; four sisters, Dixie Dunning of Festus, Mo., Norma Keller of Scott City, Betty Chapman and Frankie Clippard of Cape Girardeau; two brothers, Allen Reed of St. ...
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Sarah Prendergast
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Sarah Elizabeth Prendergast, 16, of Anna died Sunday, Sept. 29, 2002, on arrival at Union County Hospital. She was born Dec. 22, 1985, in Carbondale, Ill., daughter of Paul G. and Catherine A. Schulien Prendergast. Prendergast was a junior at Anna-Jonesboro High School, and a member of the honors program...
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Dallas Probst
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
The funeral for Dallas Probst of Fort Worth, Texas, was held Sept. 21 at Greenwood Funeral Home in Fort Worth. Burial was in Greenwood Memorial Park. Probst, 75, died Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002, in Fort Worth. He was born July 13, 1927, in Cape Girardeau, son of Fred and Blanche Probst...
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Willie Fletcher
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
BERTRAND, Mo. -- Willie Fletcher, 87, of Bertrand died Monday, Sept. 30, 2002, at Bertrand Retirement Facility. She was born April 24, 1915, in Red Bay, Ala., daughter of Robert and Sarah Belle George Morrow. She and Armer Fletcher were married June 19, 1961. He died Feb. 2, 1983...
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Jerry Arnold
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Jerry Arnold, 53, of Advance died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2002, at his home, following an extended illness. He was born March 27, 1949, in St. Louis, son of William and Naomi Gibson Arnold. Arnold was a custodian at Bank of Advance more than 20 years. He was a member of Christian Fellowship Church...
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Pearl Michaud
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Pearl A. Michaud, 97, of Perryville died Sunday, Sept. 29, 2002, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Jan. 7, 1905, at Yount, Mo., daughter of William John and Serelda Crites Fadler. She and Peter Vallie Michaud were married March 19, 1932. He died Jan. 9, 1991...
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Marjorie Haman
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
Marjorie R. Haman, 74, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Sept. 30, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Nov. 21, 1927, in Kansas City, Mo., daughter of James and Ruth Grissom Harris. She and Morris A. Haman were married March 20, 1948, in Cape Girardeau...
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Kerri Parks
(Obituary ~ 10/01/02)
Kerri Dawn Stovall Parks, 42, of Huntsville, Texas, died Sunday, Sept. 29, 2002, at St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City, Mo. She was born Oct. 7, 1959, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Earl W. and LaFern Morton Stovall. She and Dr. Christopher Parks of Huntsville were married Aug. 29, 1998...
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Speak out 9/27
(Speak Out ~ 10/01/02)
Different perspective I AM wondering if the person who said in Speak Out that we should turn the other cheek when dealing with terrorists would feel the same way had it been her loved one who, in the only way to escape the flames in the World Trade Center, jumped to the pavement...
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Costs put SEMO closer to being unaffordable
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/01/02)
To the editor: I'm a third-year student at Southeast Missouri State University, and things haven't been bad. I blow off all the joking I get from all of my friends who went to St. Louis University, Mizzou and especially Southwest Missouri State University about how much there is to do in St. Louis, Columbia and Springfield, because I've enjoyed the atmosphere that Cape Girardeau and our campus has had to offer...
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Misinformation used to obtain support for war
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/01/02)
To the editor: The Sept. 29 editorial in the Southeast Missourian was surely written by a neo-conservative tumblebug. It was an editorial filled with half-truths and even some downright lies, similar to what I would expect from former President Clinton...
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Disease concerns Missouri officials
(Outdoors ~ 10/01/02)
Chronic wasting disease among deer hasn't yet become a threat to Missouri, but the Missouri Department of Conservation says it is concerned about the spread of the disease that already has been reported in neighboring states. A.J. Hendershott of the MDC said Monday that hunters should watch for deer with symptoms of the disease when the archery season begins today in Missouri. ...
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Fanfare 10/1
(Other Sports ~ 10/01/02)
Baseball An employee of the Florida Marlins was allegedly asked to place a padlocked bag containing a pound of marijuana aboard the team's charter flight from Montreal, club officials said. Carlos Luis Perez, a former bullpen catcher for the Marlins who now has a similar job with the Montreal Expos, asked Florida video coordinator Cullen McRae before last Thursday's game in Montreal to bring the bag back to Pro Player Stadium...
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Area sports digest 10/1/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/01/02)
Otahkian softball team honored for high GPA Southeast Missouri State University's softball team has been honored for having the second-best team grade-point-average in the country, according to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. The Otahkians compiled a GPA of 3.468 for the 2001-2002 school year. They finished second to Detroit Mercy, which had a 3.539 GPA...
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Testing marks first step toward sterilizing blood
(Community ~ 10/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- Several hundred transfusion recipients around the country -- adults undergoing heart surgery and children with certain inherited anemias -- are being enrolled in a bold experiment: They'll receive donated blood that has essentially been sterilized...
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Sister Mary Ann leaves a wonderful legacy
(Editorial ~ 10/01/02)
For 11 years, Sister Mary Ann Fischer provided leadership and vision for Notre Dame Regional High School in Cape Girardeau, a school whose students come from all over Southeast Missouri and parts of other states as well. During her tenure here, she was a professional educator who left several legacies, including the new high school campus on Route K and her strong religious values as a role model...
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University finds more efficiencies, economies
(Editorial ~ 10/01/02)
Ever since the Missouri Legislature began looking at budget forecasts last January, it has been apparent that many expensive programs started during a decade of runaway state spending were in trouble. State revenue expectations were considerably below current spending levels, and those estimates continued to drop as the legislative session continued...
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People & Things 10/1/02
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
Glueck gets recognition award at Murray State Travis Glueck, a 2002 graduate of Kelly High School in Benton, Mo., recently received a recognition award at Murray State University. Glueck is the son of Vincent and Cindy Glueck of Benton. The recognition award is for out-of-state students and is based on academic performance, leadership and service...
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Slow acquaintance with French culture
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
TRIAUCOURT EN SEIUL D'ARGONNE, FRANCE -- I've been in France for a month now, but it seems like so much longer than that. The school days don't go by as slow as they did three weeks ago, as my brain is slowly coming to terms with the fact that I must adapt the way I hear spoken communication or pass away like the setting sun...
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Cape fire report 10/1/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/01/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, Oct. 1 Firefighters responded Sunday to the following item: At 8:14 p.m., emergency medical service at 1232 S. Pacific. Firefighters responded Monday to the following items: At 1:36 a.m., emergency medical service at 3842 Stonebridge...
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Cape police report 10/1/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/01/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, Oct. 1The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests A 39-year-old male was placed in protective custody Monday. Kevin R. Bruster, 37, of 225 N. Frederick, was arrested Monday on suspicion of abuse of a child...
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Bootheel man's invention headed to Antarctica
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
DEXTER, Mo. -- It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. In the case of Dennis Brown of Dexter, he invented a machine out of frustration, and apparently because of a frustration shared by some scientists in Antarctica, his invention may end up bringing him worldwide acclaim...
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Fall Festival, Art Run scheduled for Saturday
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- The ninth annual Fall Festival and Art on the Run will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum. This year's festival will include all-day music and a variety of entertainment. More than 15 artists will be showing their work and demonstrating how the work is done. To help keep the children entertained, there will be a children's activity booth...
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Driver dies after truck collides with train
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
MORLEY, Mo. -- A Sikeston man sustained fatal injuries as the result of failing to yield at a railroad crossing Sunday. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the incident took place at 2:38 p.m., on Route Z at Burlington Northern Railroad Crossing, three miles south of Morley...
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Report - Department should focus on enforcing child labor laws
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Labor Department should improve enforcement of child labor laws in jobs such as construction and manufacturing where injury rates are high, a congressional audit says. While the agency spends much of its time overseeing grocery stores and retailers to ensure that working teenagers and children are safe, it doesn't pay enough attention to children working the higher-risk jobs, the General Accounting Office, auditing agency of Congress, said in a report Monday...
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Antarctic ozone hole has split in two and shrunk
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- The ozone hole over Antarctica is markedly smaller this year than in the last few years and has split in two, government scientists reported Monday. The so-called "hole," actually an area of thinner than normal ozone, was measured at 6 million square miles in September. ...
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U.S. supplied kinds of germs Iraq used for weapons
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- Iraq's bioweapons program that President Bush wants to eradicate got its start with help from Uncle Sam two decades ago, according to government records getting new scrutiny in light of the discussion of war against Iraq. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent samples directly to several Iraqi sites that U.N. ...
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New Jersey senator drops re-election bid
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
TRENTON, N.J. -- Dogged by questions about his ethics and falling in the polls, Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli abruptly dropped his bid for a second term Monday, throwing a twist into the battle for the Senate just five weeks before Election Day...
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Incumbents across U.S. shouldering blamed for economy
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
It's still the economy. Governors seeking re-election this fall are facing increasingly tough challenges from opponents who blame them for the economic woes battering states from California to Connecticut. Even in races for open seats, those with ties to the outgoing administration are suffering as worries about budget gaps, tax increases and service cuts top the list of campaign issues. U.S. policy toward Iraq may be important in congressional races, but it doesn't figure in here...
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Strafford divided by mayor's legal problems
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
STRAFFORD, Mo. -- Residents of this town east of Springfield are split on whether their mayor should resign after being accused of defrauding people in an investment scheme. Alan Baker pleaded innocent last week to a seven-count indictment charging him with transmitting various letters, contracts and other communications used to execute the scheme. ...
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Cement firm's tax cut chops into schools' budget
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
CLARKSVILLE, Mo. -- Pike County's biggest taxpayer has won a 78-percent tax cut for its cement plant, raising concerns about the potential fallout on schools, a hospital and other agencies that rely on the revenue. Holcim Inc.'s lowered tax bill, which goes from more than $900,000 to about $200,000 for its 35-year-old cement plant and quarry near here, is being appealed by Pike County...
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Mother of kidnapped infant pleased with 12-year sentence
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
CHICAGO -- A woman who admitted kidnapping a 16-month-old girl from a Chicago bus station on Christmas Eve and whisking her off to West Virginia was sentenced Monday to more than 12 years in prison. Sheila Matthews, 33, who pleaded guilty to kidnapping Jasmine Anderson of Milwaukee by offering to watch her while her mother bought bus tickets sobbed as U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly imposed the sentence...
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Judge denies restraining order in Medicaid suit
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A judge Monday denied an advocacy group's request for a temporary restraining order that would have kept changes to Missouri's Medicaid program from taking effect. The order had been sought by Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services, which is suing the state Department of Social Services and the state Division of Medical Services over the changes...
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Youths charged with murder
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
DU QUOIN, Ill. -- A 16-year-old was charged Monday as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of Du Quoin cabdriver James Adcock. Carl Furrel of Du Quoin faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of armed robbery. Bond was set at $1 million...
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Police arrest Carbondale man in fatal shooting
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Police have arrested a Carbondale man in the weekend fatal shooting of Rodney Jones, 24, of Chicago. After his arrest Saturday, Mark S. Crymes, 23, was charged with murder, armed violence, aggravated discharge of a firearm and trespass. He is being held in the Jackson County Jail on a $750,000 bail...
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Sprint wants to put antenna inside cross of Illinois church
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- The cross, long a symbol of Christianity, may offer a more worldly service as a prop for a cellular telephone antenna that would serve customers of Sprint PCS. Sprint has offered to pay Our Redeemer's Methodist Church to encase a cellular antenna inside the church cross towering atop the house of worship in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg...
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Federal officials confirm Patton is under investigation
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Kentucky's two U.S. attorneys and the FBI Monday confirmed a federal investigation into whether Gov. Paul Patton abused his power in the course of an affair with the owner of a state-regulated nursing home. Patton, while admitting the affair, again denied doing anything illegal. "The issue is: Have I abused my position? I am confident of the outcome of that," Patton told reporters during a brief, ceremonial appearance in the Capitol...
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Labor Party backs Blair on Iraq
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
BLACKPOOL, England -- Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party gave him a hard-fought vote of support Monday, passing a resolution supporting the use of force against Saddam Hussein if all else fails and the United Nations supports it. The party has been roiled for months by disagreement over Blair's tough stance on Iraq, with many dissenters expressing deep misgivings about the possibility of war...
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Remains of lost U.S. fliers headed back to America
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
BEIJING -- Lost to their country and their families, they lay on a lonely Himalayan mountainside for six decades -- enough time for their war to end and others to begin, for children to grow and have their own children, for the enemy they were fighting to become a friend again...
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Overcrowding contributed to African ferry disaster
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
DAKAR, Senegal -- With the presumed death toll from a ferry sinking nearing 1,000, Senegal's president has conceded that overcrowding helped cause of one of Africa's deadliest ferry disasters and a German newspaper reported the vessel held twice as many people as it was designed for...
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World briefs 10/01/02
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
Saudi officials: Explosion wasn't act of terrorism RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A car explosion that killed a German man in Riyadh over the weekend was not a terrorist act, but the result of gang rivalries, the kingdom's intelligence chief said Monday...
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Sharon faces criticism for assault on Arafat
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who ordered Israeli tanks to roll into Ramallah and lay siege to the compound of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, now finds himself under a kind of siege from Israeli opinion-makers second-guessing the 10-day operation and its chastened end...
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Swedish hijacking suspect released
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- A man arrested with a gun in his luggage as he boarded a plane Aug. 29 was released from custody on Monday, and prosecutors admitted they so far did not have evidence that he intended to hijack the flight. Kerim Chatty, 29, had been held four weeks on suspicion of planning a hijacking and illegal possession of a weapon while chief prosecutor Thomas Haeggstroem prepared charges...
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Conventional U.S. forces search for al-Qaida, Taliban
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
MASI KALAY, Afghanistan -- Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne are combing the rugged mountains that border Pakistan in a new U.S. military strategy emphasizing conventional forces rather than elite troops in the search for al-Qaida and Taliban fighters. In a strong show of force, more than 200 soldiers swept into a number of villages in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday and uncovered a giant cache of weapons: hundreds of rocket-propelled grenades, thousands of rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition and dozens of mortar rounds.. ...
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U.N. inspection talks may test Saddam's cooperation pledge
(International News ~ 10/01/02)
VIENNA, Austria -- U.N. weapons inspectors demanded the right to roam freely around Saddam Hussein's palaces and other suspect sites when they opened talks with the Iraqis Monday on the logistics of a possible return to Baghdad. Chief inspector Hans Blix, leading the closed-door meetings with an Iraqi delegation, said the inspectors were operating under the assumption they would be able to go anywhere, anytime if they return to Iraq for a fresh assessment of the country's nuclear, biological and chemical programs.. ...
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Nation digest 10/01/02
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
NASA's countdown clocks ticking again CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's countdown clocks began ticking for the first time in four months as the space agency readied shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Wednesday on a mission to add another girder to the international space station...
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Feds funding home for retired research chimps
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
SHREVEPORT, La. -- The federal government has agreed to pay $8 million to help build a rest home in Louisiana for aging chimpanzees once used for scientific and medical research. The facility, to be built in the Eddie D. Jones Nature Park, is expected to be complete by 2004. Besides former research animals, the haven will be for chimps no longer used as pets or in the entertainment business...
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Students play the market with colleges' money
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
DAYTON, Ohio -- Rick Davis has more than a grade riding on his performance in an investment class at the University of Dayton: He could lose millions of dollars -- money that isn't his. At the university's Center for Portfolio Management, 15 undergraduate students have been entrusted with $2 million from the school's endowment to invest. So far, they've outperformed the average investor...
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Judge delays Moussaoui trial until June
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- For the second time, a judge postponed the trial of terrorist suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, agreeing with prosecutors and the accused that the alleged Sept. 11 accomplice needs more time to prepare for a case that could cost him his life...
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Port dispute could cost U.S. economy $1 billion a day
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Cargo ships lay at anchor offshore, waiting to be unloaded, and trucks with fresh produce lined up outside West Coast ports Monday after dockworkers were locked out in a dispute that could cost the U.S. economy $1 billion a day. West Coast shipping lines said they will keep the ports closed until the longshoremen agree to extend their expired contract. But the 10,500-member union said it will not budge until the lockout is ended...
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Judge rules rehab center does not have to cooperate with police
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A judge ruled Monday that staff members at the drug rehab center where Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter is receiving treatment do not have to answer police questions about a piece of crack allegedly found in her shoe. In a case closely watched by drug counselors around the country, Circuit Judge Belvin Perry ruled that the federal law protecting patients' privacy outweighs the interest of police in pursuing a criminal investigation of 25-year-old Noelle Bush...
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People talk 10/01/02
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
Gere, Hawn join in scientific discussions DHARMSALA, India -- Richard Gere and Goldie Hawn joined Buddhist philosophers and Nobel laureates in northern India Monday at the exile headquarters of the Dalai Lama for a meeting of minds on science and modern ethics...
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Perryville man in custody on multiple burglary charges
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
A Perry County man was charged Friday for allegedly burglarizing his employer's home, said investigators. Donald M. Ferguson, 24, of Perryville, was arrested inside the home by deputy Blane Kohm, immediately after Ferguson allegedly pocketed $50 and was about to leave...
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Misprinted ballot switches party affiliations
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Some absentee voters in rural northwest Missouri are choosing between Republican Jean Carnahan and Democrat Jim Talent in a U.S. Senate race. Oops! Make that DEMOCRAT Jean Carnahan and REPUBLICAN Jim Talent. The party affiliation of the two Senate candidates was reversed on thousands of ballots printed for Holt County, officials confirmed Monday...
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Warner will miss 8 to 10 weeks
(Professional Sports ~ 10/01/02)
WARNER WILL MISS 8 TO 10 WEEKS ST. LOUIS -- It'll be December before the St. Louis Rams, hurting with an 0-4 start, get their MVP quarterback back. Kurt Warner will be sidelined 8-to-10 weeks with the pinkie on his throwing hand broken in two places, and will have surgery this morning...
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Economists say recovery will be slow with few new jobs
(Business ~ 10/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy appears headed for at least six more months of slow growth, offering little hope for those who are out of work. A survey released Monday found that forecasters expect the economy to grow at a 3 percent annual rate through next March, below the 3.5 percent to 4 percent level needed to create enough new jobs to reduce unemployment...
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Authorities investigate area man's scam claim
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
The newspaper ad for a Florida-based loan company promised a helping hand, but Kenny Pohlman says the company instead helped itself to $950 from his wallet. It turns out the company -- First Choice Credit Service of Stuart, Fla. -- may be bogus and Pohlman, who lives in Jackson, fears he'll never see the money that he paid as "insurance" on a high-risk loan he was applying for to buy a new car...
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Indians open OVC on heels of big victory
(College Sports ~ 10/01/02)
Coming back down to earth will be Southeast Missouri State University's big challenge in practice this week as the Indians prepare for the start of Ohio Valley Conference play. Southeast coach Tim Billings knows his team is still riding high after Saturday's stunning 24-14 win at Middle Tennessee State, which marked the program's first victory over a Division I-A opponent...
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McDonald's, Frito-Lay switch fats for fries, chips
(National News ~ 10/01/02)
DALLAS -- Dr. Sarah Blumenschein sees a pattern in the overweight children who come to her clinic: They snack more often and they eat out more often -- especially at fast-food restaurants. "The kids don't realize the high calorie and fat levels in fast food," said Blumenschein, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. "The marketing of fast food has been very clever."...
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Asbestos coming out of Marquette Hotel
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
The old, vacant Marquette Hotel will be filled with mists of chemically treated water as men in protective suits remove asbestos insulation around pipes later this year. The asbestos removal, which also includes a small amount of asbestos-containing ceiling and floor tiles, will mark the start of a Jefferson City, Mo., developer's $6 million project to turn the 74-year-old, tan brick building at Broadway and Fountain in Cape Girardeau into state offices and retail and commercial space...
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EKU's Kidd says his 39th season will be his final
(College Sports ~ 10/01/02)
RICHMOND, Ky. -- After nearly four decades prowling the sidelines and 310 victories, Eastern Kentucky coach Roy Kidd still is determined not to bask in the glow of his accomplishments. Kidd, the third winningest active coach in NCAA football, said Monday that he will retire at the end of the season after 39 years at the school...
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Winless, battered Rams face a monumental task
(Professional Sports ~ 10/01/02)
ST. LOUIS -- It's a long way up for the St. Louis Rams. As one player termed it, they've dug a hole and are hoping it's not a grave. The defending NFC champions are 0-4, doubling their loss total from last year, after Sunday's 13-10 upset loss to the Cowboys. It's the worst start for the franchise since the 1963 team started 0-5 en route to a 5-9 finish...
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Singing at SEMO District Fair brings record deal
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
This week, the 20-year-old former cocktail waitress who emerged victorious over 10,000 others in the "American Idol" TV show saw her single, "A Moment Like This," jump from its debut at No. 52 on the Billboard chart to No. 1, the biggest leapfrog in Billboard history...
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Foundation to help Jackson schools
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
The establishment of a new school foundation in the Jackson School District has opened the door to tax-free donations and future improvements within the district. Foundation board vice-president Dale Rauh said the foundation will work to raise awareness of school needs and use donations to promote education in Jackson schools...
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Nowhere to skate
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
Skateboarders in Cape Girardeau have few options when it comes to their sport. Most businesses don't want them riding on their property and the police typically run them off sidewalks. Unlike baseball players or soccer players, skateboarders don't have a park or place to call their own in Southeast Missouri...
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Locomotive pulls last excursion ride
(State News ~ 10/01/02)
KIRKWOOD, Mo. -- It's been a good ride, but the steam locomotive, Frisco No. 1522, pulled its last excursion over the weekend, a victim of high maintenance and insurance costs. The St. Louis Steam Train Association, which restored the former museum piece 15 years ago, has decided to get out of railroading...
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Cards aim to dethrone champs
(Professional Sports ~ 10/01/02)
PHOENIX -- The Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series last year by beating the New York Yankees, the nation's sentimental favorite. In the NL divisional series that begins tonight, Arizona will face a St. Louis Cardinals team that overcame the deaths of pitcher Darryl Kile and revered broadcaster Jack Buck to win the Central Division...
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Skateboarding soars - Phenomenon reaches peak across America
(Local News ~ 10/01/02)
cene: A crowded skate park in Overland Park, Kan. Dozens of kids on skateboards swoosh down, over and around curved concrete blocks like so many human Hot Wheels. A basketball court not 100 feet away stands deserted. Scene: a new skate park in Lenexa, Kan. Countless more skateboarders ride up, jump down and whip through a series of ramps, rails and half pipes...
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Steak, veggie soup doesn't have to have a lot of fat
(Community ~ 10/02/02)
When the air takes on a bit of a chill, a hearty soup makes a welcome main course. But it doesn't have to be fat-loaded -- a serving of this steak and vegetable soup has only about 9 grams of fat. It can be made in short order, too, if you have no time to simmer a lengthy stew. This version takes about 30 minutes. Use a tender cut of beef like top sirloin steak, cut into pieces and quickly cooked in a nonstick skillet. Broth, vegetables and herbs simmer separately...
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Autumn recipe ideas for chicken
(Community ~ 10/02/02)
When autumn comes around so do apples in a variety of colors, textures and sweetness. Adding them to a main course can give an entree a zing of flavor. Chicken Sautéed with Apples 4 boneless, skinless chicken-breast halves 1 tablespoon olive oil...
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Birds of a feather - Martz, Strange just blew it
(Sports Column ~ 10/02/02)
America's Team grabs a big win in St. Louis. America's Golf Team takes a big one smack on the chin in England. This is no knock on Greg Ellis, Quincy Carter, Billy Cundiff and the boys. This is no slight on Paul McGinley, Colin Montgomerie and Co...
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Carnahan message is flawed
(Column ~ 10/02/02)
By Jerry Heaster KANSAS CITY -- If Jean Carnahan retains her Senate seat in November's election, her victory will come despite her opposition to Social Security privatization, not because of it. During a recent visit to Kansas City, Carnahan reiterated the tired old canard equating privatization to gambling America's retirement security on a "risky" stock market. Most thinking Americans should be able to see through such childish deceit...
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Tobacco companies form group opposing proposed tax increase
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Several tobacco companies have joined to fight a proposed tax increase on their products that will appear on Missouri's Nov. 5 ballot. The coalition said Tuesday that it had formed a campaign committee called "Missourians Against Unfair Taxes" to oppose Proposition A...
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Out of the past 10/2/02
(Out of the Past ~ 10/02/02)
10 years ago: Oct. 2, 1992 Vice president Dan Quayle leaves his mark on Cape Girardeau area, in series of stops where he spends as much time shaking hands and greeting people as he does speaking about political race he and George Bush are in; Air Force II touches down at airport at 1:35 p.m. before crowd of several hundred that includes many school children...
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Births 10/2/02
(Births ~ 10/02/02)
Woods Daughter to Lisa Marie Woods of Scott City, St. Francis Medical Center, 3:59 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002. Name, Alexis Denea. Weight, 7 pounds 1 ounce. Ms. Woods is the former Lisa Tallman, daughter of Darlene Tallman and Gary Tallman of Cape Girardeau...
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Bruce Binnie
(Obituary ~ 10/02/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Bruce Edward Binnie of Marble Hill died Monday, Sept. 30, 2002, from injuries received in a farm accident near Glen Allen, Mo. Hutchings Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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Bessie Sneed
(Obituary ~ 10/02/02)
Bessie Sneed, 89, of Maryland Heights, Mo., formerly of Chaffee, Mo., and Scott City, died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, at Broadview Nursing Home in Maryland Heights. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City is in charge of arrangements.
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Theon Grojean
(Obituary ~ 10/02/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Theon Francis Grojean, 78, of Sikeston died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, at his home. He was born March 27, 1924, at New Hamburg, Mo., son of Theon Charles and Ida Menz Grojean. He and Wilma Catherine LeGrand were married Jan. 20, 1945, in Houston, Texas...
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Jesse Whittley Jr.
(Obituary ~ 10/02/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Jesse Whittley Jr., 52, of Sikeston died Monday, Sept. 30, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 7, 1950, in Sikeston, son of Jesse and Glenda Kirby Whittley Sr. He and Sharon Griffin were married Aug. 10, 1973, at Benton, Mo...
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Speak Out A 10/02/02
(Speak Out ~ 10/02/02)
Clean uniforms AS A proud band mom, let me see if I can explain this. The football team played in the rain at the last home game. If they had not played, they could not win. The marching band also plays in all kinds of weather at their competitions. ...
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Marble Hill museum becomes a reality
(Editorial ~ 10/02/02)
Big things can -- and do -- come from small places. One good example is the new Bollinger County Museum of Natural History in Marble Hill, Mo. This new museum was dedicated last week and will be open on weekends and by appointment. The core of the museum is formed by dinosaur fossils discovered at the Chronister Dinosaur Site in nearby Glenallen, Mo. ...
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Drifting down the river -- because it's there
(Editorial ~ 10/02/02)
As far as anyone can tell, the two drifters -- literally -- who stopped briefly in Cape Girardeau last week had no agenda. Since mid-July, John Holden and Jack Mahaffy have been floating down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft that's kept afloat by 11 barrels (they lost a barrel near St. Louis). When they reach New Orleans, they plan to catch a bus home...
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Jackson fire report 10/2/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/02/02)
Jackson Wednesday, Oct. 2 Firefighters responded to the following calls Monday: An emergency medical service on Broadridge. A mutual aid on Meyer Meadows. Firefighters responded to the following calls Tuesday: An emergency medical service on Cathy Drive...
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Cape police report 10/2/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/02/02)
Cape Girardeau Wednesday, Oct. 2The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Charles E. Little, 39, of P.O. Box 172, Diana, W.Va., was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated...
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Flu shot season has arrived
(Local News ~ 10/02/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- In recent years, obtaining shipments of the influenza vaccination was as much of a headache as the illness itself, but things are looking up for the 2002-2003 vaccination season. Manufacturers report vaccine production is proceeding satisfactorily and area health departments are ready to help residents arm themselves against the flu...
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Cape fire report 10-2-02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/02/02)
Cape Girardeau Wednesday, Oct. 2 Firefighters responded Monday to the following items: At 4:38 p.m., emergency medical service at Cape La Croix and Lynnwood. At 6:22 p.m., auto electrical problem at 607 Maple. At 7 p.m., emergency medical service at 1080 S. Silver Springs...
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Area resident sentenced to 25 years for murder
(Local News ~ 10/02/02)
FARMINGTON, Mo. -- Quiet sobs filled the St. Francois County courtroom as a judge sentenced a Jackson woman to 25 years in prison for planning the murder of her boyfriend, Rocky Gene Ice. This came after Connie Noreen Pair, aka Connie Jones, 46, pleaded guilty in July to an amended Class A felony of second-degree murder. That charge carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years and up to 30 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections...
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AOL to begin transmitting abducted-children alerts
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- The nation's largest Internet service, America Online, will begin transmitting Amber Alerts about abducted children onto the screens of computers, pagers and cell phones of more than 26 million subscribers in dozens of states and cities...
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Asian al-Qaida affiliate played role in anniversary bomb plot
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. counterterrorism officials believe the operations chief of an al-Qaida affiliate in southeast Asia played a key role in a failed plot to bomb at least one American embassy in the region to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks...
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Powell - Search for weapons in Iraq should be postponed
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, clashing with the chief U.N. weapons inspector, said Tuesday the search for hidden arsenals in Iraq should be held up until the Security Council adopts tough new rules. Powell, at a hastily arranged news conference, said sending inspectors back to Iraq now after a lapse of nearly four years would risk more deception by Saddam Hussein...
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Bush doesn't want resolution to 'tie his hands'
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush criticized a proposed Senate compromise on his Iraq war resolution Tuesday, saying it would tie his hands. Congressional leaders intensified efforts to find common ground ahead of a potentially divisive Senate debate but said differences remained...
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Study finds breast self-exams don't reduce death rates
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- A major effort to teach self-examination so women could detect early, small lumps of a developing breast cancer did not the reduce the rate of breast cancer deaths, suggesting the technique is a waste of time for doctors and patients, according to a study of more than 260,000 women in China...
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Senate still at impasse over homeland security bill
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- Legislation creating a Homeland Security Department to meet terrorist threats was on "life support" Tuesday after the Senate again failed to break an impasse over labor rights affecting thousands of workers who would be transferred. The legislation was once considered a sure bet to sail through Congress...
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House hopes to ease rapid spread of West Nile
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- Hoping to ease the spread of West Nile virus across the country, the House passed a bill Tuesday that would authorize $100 million in grants for communities to develop mosquito-control programs. The measure, which passed by a voice vote, would target areas with high rates of mosquito-borne diseases. The money could be used to purchase equipment and update laboratories...
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Turner confident Illini can climb out of the Big Ten basement
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- It took Ron Turner five years to get the Illini to the top of the Big Ten. It's taken them five games to drop back to the bottom. Illinois (1-4, 0-1 Big Ten) has the worst record in the conference after a 45-28 loss to Michigan on Saturday. The Illini, who returned 14 starters, weren't expected to repeat as Big Ten champions, but they weren't supposed to fall this far either...
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N.J. high court will decide if Democrats can replace candidate
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
TRENTON, N.J. -- The state Supreme Court decided Tuesday to hear arguments over whether Democrats can replace Sen. Robert Torricelli on the November ballot, a day after the senator abruptly dropped out of the race. The court issued an order saying it would hear the case directly instead of waiting for a lower court to act. The high court hearing is scheduled for Wednesday morning...
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The week ahead in golf 10/02/02
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
AREA EVENTS Southeast Booster Club Tournament, Friday, Bent Creek Golf Club. Two-person men's scramble, Saturday and Sunday, Whispering Hills Country Club, Poplar Bluff.PGA TOUR Michelob Championship at Kingsmill Site: Williamsburg, Va...
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Southern Illinois woman added to West Nile virus casualty list
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A Jackson County woman has died from the West Nile virus, bringing the state's death toll from the mosquito-borne illness to 33, the Illinois Public Health Department said Tuesday. The 70-year-old woman died Saturday. She became ill Aug. 31...
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Minority kids' injuries draw more attention as possible abuse
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
CHICAGO -- Black and Hispanic children hospitalized with broken bones suffered in accidents are far more likely than white youngsters to be checked for child abuse, a study found. The findings suggest that some doctors may be unfairly suspicious of minorities and are overlooking actual abuse among whites, the researchers said...
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Woman dead since early last year left in house under tarp
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
LEXINGTON, Mo. -- After the decomposed body of a woman who apparently died early last year was found in her home, her son was charged Monday with receiving stolen property and 16 counts of forgery. The charges, as well as one of abandoning a corpse, were filed against Max Weller, 46, of Lexington...
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Deliberation begins in trial of Missouri teen
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- The jury began deliberations after two hours of closing arguments Tuesday in the trial of a teenager accused of killing a high school classmate. Zacheriah Tripp, 16, is charged with kidnapping, forcible rape and murder in the death of Sarah McCoy...
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Father shoots himself in head demonstrating gun safety
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
IMPERIAL, Mo. -- A man teaching his son about gun safety accidentally shot himself in the head, police said. Randal Lewis, 40, of Imperial, died Sunday evening, four hours after he shot himself. Police said Lewis was showing his 12-year-old son how to safely handle guns and knives...
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State receives money for terrorism preparedness
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The federal government has awarded Missouri more than $6 million to help regions of the state better prepare for terrorist acts, Gov. Bob Holden said Tuesday. The State Emergency Management Agency is to work with 21 Missouri communities receiving the grants to purchase equipment to improve responses to terrorist incidents. The equipment must relate to such areas as personal protection, technical rescue, communications, physical security and detection and decontamination...
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Sharpening your lawn-care technique
(Community ~ 10/02/02)
Every neighborhood has one. That one standout home with a beautiful carpet of rolling green lawn that draws oohs and ahhs from passers-by. Envious? Here are a few things you can do to put your turf back on track. A beautiful lawn doesn't just happen...
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Iraq clears way for U.N. inspections
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
From wire reports Iraq agreed Tuesday to a plan for the return of U.N. weapons inspectors for the first time in nearly four years, but the deal ignores U.S. demands for access to Saddam Hussein's palaces and other contested sites. Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix said an advance team of inspectors could be in Iraq in two weeks if it gets the go-ahead from the U.N. Security Council...
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Fifteen killed in militant attacks on Kashmir elections
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
SRINAGAR, India -- Militants struck polling stations, set off explosions and fired on security forces in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people in the third and most violent round of balloting for the state legislature. More than 135 political activists, candidates, soldiers and civilians have died since the elections were announced in August. ...
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France sends more troops to embattled Ivory Coast
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- France deployed scores more soldiers to Ivory Coast on Tuesday, bolstering a Western military machine of U.S. special forces, the Foreign Legion and others ahead of threatened full-scale war between loyalist and rebel forces...
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New Japanese bank reform czar attacks bad loans
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
TOKYO -- Less than a day into his new job as Japan's chief financial regulator, Heizo Takenaka got down to a major cleanup job -- trying to eliminate $352 billion in bad loans held by Japan's commercial banks. Given the full support of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who sacked his predecessor on Monday for being too timid, Takenaka vowed to devise a comprehensive plan by the end of the month to get the bad loans held by Japanese banks under control by March 2005...
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Spain joins Miss World pageant boycott
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
MADRID, Spain -- Spain has joined an international boycott of the Miss World pageant to show solidarity with a Nigerian woman sentenced to death for adultery. The Miss Espana competition issued a statement Tuesday saying it was heeding an appeal by the Spanish Parliament...
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Blair calls for ultimatum against Saddam Hussein
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
BLACKPOOL, England -- The world must send Saddam Hussein an ultimatum about weapons of mass destruction and be ready to back up tough talk with force, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday. Bolstered by a vote of support from his war-wary Labor Party, Blair delivered an impassioned, hour-long speech that left him sweating from exertion, saying Britain must be ready to face the danger Iraq poses...
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U.S. declares hurricane watch after Lili batters western Cuba
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
HAVANA -- Hurricane Lili strengthened as it roared across western Cuba and into the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, forcing thousands from their homes on the island before taking aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast. Residents in South Louisiana faced their second evacuation in a week as Lili steadily gained strength and speed as it headed their way. Residents will probably evacuate this morning, said Ray Santiny, city councilman from the barrier island of Grand Isle, south of New Orleans...
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Banking heir found dead four days after kidnapping
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- Police found the body of an 11-year-old heir to a Frankfurt family banking fortune bundled under a lakeside dock Tuesday, days after the boy was kidnapped and a nearly million-dollar ransom was paid. The body discovered at a small lake nearly 40 miles northeast of Frankfurt was identified as that of Jakob von Metzler, the son of Friedrich and Silvia von Metzler, prosecutor Rainer Schilling said...
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Russian, Israeli leaders seek answer to Mideast conflict
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
MOSCOW -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov focused on ways Tuesday to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Neither Sharon nor Ivanov spoke with reporters before or after their talks. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two had discussed security issues and methods of ending a two-year upsurge in violence...
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Palestinians denounce U.S. bill to recognize Jerusalem
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- On Tuesday, ministers and other Palestinians fumed at the new U.S. legislation that encouraged recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, warning that it would complicate peace efforts and could cost lives. Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said President Bush's signing of the bill Monday "undermines all efforts being exerted to revive the peace process and put it back on track." He called it "a flagrant violation" of agreements signed by the United States and Israel to negotiate Jerusalem's permanent status.. ...
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Senegal president pledges prosecution in ferry disaster
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
DAKAR, Senegal -- Senegal abandoned the recovery of victims from the MS Joola Tuesday, with only 80 of at least 970 identified -- saying its next step might be to sink the doomed ferry together with its dead to the Atlantic Ocean floor. Senegal's government suffered its first backlash Tuesday for Africa's deadliest ferry disaster ever, with Cabinet ministers for the armed forces and transport resigning...
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U.S. airport check of deputy leader upsets Malaysian PM
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The Malaysian prime minister said Tuesday that new procedures being used to screen some foreign passengers at U.S. airports were "anti-Muslim hysteria." Also Tuesday, the opposition Democratic Action Party said the United States should apologize to Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Badawi, who was searched at Los Angeles International Airport and asked to remove his belt and shoes, before being allowed to continue on to New York...
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Dow surges more than 340 points Tuesday due to bargain hunting
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
NEW YORK -- The stock market turned the calendar from its darkest quarter in 15 years and lurched higher Tuesday, lifting the Dow Jones industrials by more than 340 points as bargain hunters at least temporarily set aside concerns about the economy...
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Increasingly, students are opting out of classroom dissections
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
Increasing numbers of students are asking to opt out of the science-class ritual of dissecting frogs or fetal pigs, branding the practice cruel and insisting they can learn as much from computer simulations. A 16-year-old honor student in Baltimore was removed from her anatomy class last week after refusing to dissect a cat, then allowed back in -- with the option of computer alternatives -- after protesters picketed the high school...
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Ineffective information sharing may have contributed to attacks
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- Aviation and immigration officials did not receive crucial intelligence information about terrorist threats and that failure "may have facilitated" the attacks of Sept. 11, congressional investigators concluded in a report released Tuesday...
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U. of Mississippi commemorates 40th anniversary of integration
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
OXFORD, Miss. -- Former U.S. Marshal Al Butler returned Tuesday to the University of Mississippi and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the other graying lawmen who 40 years ago battled a mob trying to keep a black man from enrolling. Butler and the others presented Ole Miss with a sketch, titled "On The Threshold Of A Dream," on the steps of the Lyceum Building, which still bears the scars of the rioting that left two dead and more than 200 injured...
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Spokesman suggests assassination of Hussein would be welcome
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- White House spokesman Ari Fleischer suggested Tuesday that the Bush administration would welcome an assassination of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by Iraqi citizens, an unusually blunt comment from an official at the White House podium...
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Nation briefs 10/02/02
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
Texas man executed for rape, slaying of girl HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- An inmate was executed Tuesday for raping and strangling a 10-year-old girl he abducted in 1990 from a flea market where he and the girl's parents were vendors. Before the lethal injection, James R. Powell, 56, smiled and nodded to friends and relatives who watched through a window a few feet away. He did not acknowledge his victim's father or stepmother...
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Hurricane Lili delays NASA shuttle's launch
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's first shuttle launch in four months was postponed Tuesday because of Hurricane Lili. The space agency did not want to take a chance of launching Atlantis Wednesday, only to have the hurricane bear down on Houston, home to Mission Control. So NASA halted the countdown and aimed for liftoff no earlier than Thursday...
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Attack on Greyhound bus causes fatal crash
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
FRESNO, Calif. -- A transient was booked on suspicion of murder Tuesday for allegedly slashing the throat of a Greyhound bus driver with a pair of scissors, causing a crash that killed two passengers. The bus, heading from Los Angeles to San Francisco, flipped on its side Monday evening and slid into a field off Interstate 5 near Fresno. It was carrying 50 passengers...
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Church panel recommends tough stance against sexual abuse
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) panel investigating molestation claims against a missionary said Tuesday that church law should be changed so clergy and lay leaders are required to report child sex abuse claims to civil authorities...
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Merrill Lynch assistant will testify against Martha Stewart
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
NEW YORK -- An assistant to Martha Stewart's stockbroker has decided to plead guilty and testify against the home decorating maven and others in the ImClone Systems scandal, The Associated Press learned Tuesday. Douglas Faneuil, 26, is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor -- making a false statement to investigators -- as part of the deal, said a source familiar with the plea negotiations. ...
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Ryder Cup provided winners, losers, draws
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
SUTTON COLDFIELD, England -- The first shot struck in the Ryder Cup was Paul Azinger's drive into the right rough. The final stroke was a putt by Tiger Woods that turned away from the hole. The intensity never let up over three days. The surprising stars: Philip Price, who dealt the United States a blow by toppling Phil Mickelson; and Paul McGinley, whose 8-foot par putt clinched the Ryder Cup for Europe...
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Surgery completed on Warner's broken finger
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Rams quarterback Kurt Warner successfully underwent surgery Tuesday to stabilize the broken pinkie on the two-time MVP's throwing hand and will be sidelined at least two months. "He'll be gradually introduced to football-related activities," said Dr. Matthew Matava, the Rams' team physician who assisted in the surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. "When we say eight to 10 weeks, we're speaking about him being back to playing competitively."...
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Walk-on provides boost in kicking game
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- After a rough start that brought back memories of Missouri's infamous past on special teams, the Tigers' kicking game has gotten a boost from walk-on Mike Matheny. An unexpected replacement for Brad Hammerich, who was a Lou Groza Award semifinalist in 2001, Matheny -- a Columbia native -- kicked three field goals in Missouri's 44-7 win over Troy State last weekend...
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Vikings' Moss faces charge of marijuana possession
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Vikings star receiver Randy Moss was charged Tuesday with possession of a small amount of marijuana, adding to charges last week that he pushed a traffic officer with his car. The new petty misdemeanor count carries a fine of up to $200, but it could also lead to a suspension or fine from the NFL...
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Twins overcome jitters and Athletics in series opener
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Minnesota Twins shook off a serious case of the playoff jitters in plenty of time. A.J. Pierzynski had four hits, and Corey Koskie homered and drove in three runs as the Twins overcame an early deficit and fielding blunders to beat the Oakland Athletics 7-5 Tuesday in the first game of the AL division series...
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Valentine, Narron fired after rocky finishes
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
NEW YORK -- For Bobby Valentine and Jerry Narron, last place meant no more last chances. Two more managers paid the price Tuesday for disappointing seasons as the New York Mets and Texas Rangers decided to change dugout direction. That brought to five the number of managers dismissed since Sunday, the last day of the season. The Chicago Cubs fired Bruce Kimm that day while Detroit let go Luis Pujols and Tampa Bay dropped Hal McRae on Monday...
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NFL's cellar team making its annual run for the bottom
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
CINCINNATI -- Pete Rose will talk nonstop about anything except his hometown football team. That topic leaves him as flabbergasted as everyone else. "What's wrong with the Bengals?" Rose said, before a celebrity softball game last week. "They're like the Cubs -- they just don't get any better. It's unbelievable."...
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Old friends Bonds, Sheffield face off in playoff opener
(Professional Sports ~ 10/02/02)
ATLANTA -- Barry Bonds cradled the 3-week-old child in his arms, joking that he'd teach him the right way to play the game. Listen to me, he said, not your old man. "He wouldn't even let me hold my own kid," Gary Sheffield said, grinning. Bonds and Sheffield are old friends who will be on opposite sides when the San Francisco Giants meet the Atlanta Braves in the opening round of the NL playoffs. Game 1 in the best-of-5 series is today at Turner Field...
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Disorder costs a wardrobe
(Column ~ 10/02/02)
I have an eating disorder: I'm unable to successfully transport food from my plate to my mouth. Obviously, I'm not entirely unsuccessful, or I'd be much thinner. It's just that at least one bite per meal ends up on my blouse. My entire wardrobe is covered with remembrances of meals gone by. Ketchup. Mustard. Hamburger drippings...
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Odd behavior could be sign of epilepsy
(Column ~ 10/02/02)
By Dr. John Koch Question: Every once in a while my dog gets a distant wild-eyed look and starts snapping at thin air. He does not act mean or as though he might try to bite anyone. These episodes only last a few seconds. Frankly, I am not that worried, but my wife is. Do you have any idea what is causing this and if any treatment might be appropriate?...
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Enjoy a slice of vinegar pie and buttermilk pie
(Column ~ 10/02/02)
It always amazes me after school starts how quickly items are added to our family calendar. I turned the calendar to October and the month was already full, and we're just getting started. School activities, church and the children's activities seem to pile onto the calendar so easily. ...
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FanFare 10/2/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/02/02)
Baseball Baseball players and owners signed off on their new labor contract Tuesday, approving a memorandum that outlines the agreement that avoided a strike. Union head Donald Fehr and Rob Manfred, the owners' top labor lawyer, signed the "memorandum of understanding" separately at their offices. Just before the start of the playoffs, they sent the signed copies to each other by messenger...
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Southeast win was a boost for the OVC, coaches agree
(College Sports ~ 10/02/02)
Southeast Missouri State University's stunning victory over Division I-A Middle Tennessee State on Saturday sent plenty of shock waves throughout the Ohio Valley Conference, which begins its league schedule this weekend. OVC coaches said the Indians' 24-14 triumph is good for the entire conference...
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Area sports digest 10/2/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/02/02)
Camden takes top prize at Sikeston Drag Strip SIKESTON, Mo. -- Jack Camden Jr. of Murphysboro, Ill., won with a 6.02-second time (111 mph) in the super pro class Saturday at Sikeston Drag Strip. Second was Linden Hills of Fremont with a 131-mph time of 5.23 seconds...
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New cards spotlight area athletes
(High School Sports ~ 10/02/02)
They don't come with a stick of gum, but makers of a new line of high school football trading cards expect their new cards to sell well just the same. More than 500 players from 10 Southeast Missouri high schools are featured in new cards that went on sale last week at schools in the area. ...
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Central volleyball team picks up its first victory
(High School Sports ~ 10/02/02)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Central (1-13-2) gained its first win of the season, 15-4, 6-15, 15-8 over Chaffee (3-9) Tuesday. Ashton Lee had five aces and Mallory Kiefer added nine points for Chaffee. Natalie Townson contributed 13 digs and Jenifer Vandeven had nine kills in a losing effort for Chaffee...
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ND rallies to hold off Advance in 3 sets
(High School Sports ~ 10/02/02)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Notre Dame, the No.1-ranked team in the SEMO Top 10 volleyball poll, had to rally to avoid being knocked off by an upset-minded Advance squad Tuesday night. In a three-set matchup, the Bulldogs (23-4-1) edged the Hornets, 10-15, 15-13, 15-13. Advance (14-5-1) battled from behind several times to barely fall short...
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The absent professors
(Column ~ 10/02/02)
By John Leo It's not news that college professors are lopsidedly drawn from the political left. But American Enterprise magazine offers some numbers on how heavy the tilt has become. In eight academic departments surveyed at Cornell University, 166 professors were registered in the Democratic Party or another party of the left, with just six registered with Republicans or another party of the right. ...
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Striking up the bands at annual festival
(Local News ~ 10/02/02)
When the Scott City High School band marched down South High Street in Jackson Tuesday afternoon playing the "Mickey Mouse Club" theme, Mary and Wilferd Glasser sat on a bench in the hot sun waiting. They didn't drive from Kelso, Mo., to hear the band salute the mouse. Their granddaughter, Maria Lett, plays French horn in the band...
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Businesses happy with widening of drainage ditch
(Local News ~ 10/02/02)
Construction has begun on a stormwater improvement project along South Kingshighway that will help some businesses keep dry during heavy rains. The city of Cape Girardeau has contracted Nip Kelley Construction to widen a drainage ditch in the area of Kingshighway and Commercial Street. Instead of just one box culvert, the project will have two side by side...
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State - Put tags in center of license plates
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
The state on Tuesday began urging Missouri vehicle owners to begin placing their registration stickers in the middle of their license plates, looking to stymie thieves who have cut off the lower right corners of plates to steal the tags. By handing out fliers recommending the new placement, the state Department of Revenue hopes to prevent thefts that reportedly affected 35,000 Missourians from mid-2001 through May of this year...
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River at lowest level since January
(Local News ~ 10/02/02)
The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau stands at its lowest level in nine months, making navigation harder for boats used in construction of the new Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge. "The water gets too shallow in spots," said Larry Owens, project manager for Traylor Brothers Inc., which is building the bridge. The work includes construction of a pier in the middle of the Mississippi River...
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Change of venue request granted in murder trial
(Local News ~ 10/02/02)
A Cape Girardeau man charged last month with the shooting death of 31-year-old Billy Jones had his case approved for a change of venue to Butler County. Jibril Walton, 25, is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Aug. 18 shooting death of Jones, 31, of Cape Girardeau...
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Holden names Dobbins to Delta Regional Authority position
(Local News ~ 10/02/02)
Dr. Ken Dobbins, Southeast Missouri State University president, has been appointed to the Missouri Commission on the Delta Regional Authority. Gov. Bob Holden appointed Dobbins and seven others to the commission which will work with the federal Delta Regional Authority...
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Bombers could use island for stopover in Iraq attack
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
KNOB NOSTER, Mo. -- The commander of the nation's B-2 stealth bombers said Tuesday he expects to again use a British island in the Indian Ocean as a base for the radar-evading planes if the United States attacks Iraq. The island, Diego Garcia, was a stopover point for B-2s returning from last fall's initial wave of bombing in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 terror attacks...
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Nation's college report cards reflect increasing costs
(National News ~ 10/02/02)
A report card grading each state on its support for higher education found that colleges have become less affordable in most places compared with two years ago, the last time the report was issued. The nonprofit National Center for Public Policy and Education, based in San Jose, Calif., dropped the national affordability grade from a C- to a D. Faced with declining revenues because of the troubled economy, many public and private colleges have raised tuition...
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Two companies, principles behind 'Miss Cleo' indicted
(State News ~ 10/02/02)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- Two Florida men and a pair of companies behind the hot lines for television psychic "Miss Cleo" have been indicted on fraud-related charges. St. Charles County grand jurors returned the criminal indictments Sept. 13 against Steven L. Feder, 52, and Peter Stolz, 54, both of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in a copyright story Tuesday...
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First Missouri State Bank makes plans for Jackson branch
(Local News ~ 10/02/02)
If a bank is to adequately serve Cape Girardeau County, it's not enough to just have a branch in Cape Girardeau. It needs a strong presence in Jackson, too. That's what local First Missouri State Bank executives are saying as they announce that the bank, which hasn't even launched its Cape Girardeau office yet, already has plans for a Jackson branch...
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Mother Teresa closer to sainthood
(International News ~ 10/02/02)
VATICAN CITY -- Mother Teresa moved a step closer to beatification Tuesday, when a Vatican committee approved a reported miracle attributed to the late Roman Catholic nun, church officials said. The Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints committee that handles the process leading to sainthood approved reports that an Indian woman in her 30s was cured of a stomach tumor due to the intercession of Mother Teresa, officials said...
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Building up blooms
(Community ~ 10/02/02)
We live in a world of instant gratification. If you want something for lunch, you don't cook, you run by McDonalds. If you want a soda, you don't go to the refrigerator and open up a 2-liter bottle, you run by a convenience store. If you're at home and you want dinner, you don't prepare a salad, bake a potato and grill a steak, you find something to microwave...
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State revenue falling below budget, past year
(State News ~ 10/03/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Revenue for the first quarter of Missouri's fiscal year fell 2.7 percent from last year, raising concerns among state budget officials. The decline reported Wednesday by the state Department of Revenue becomes more pronounced when compared to the 3.1 percent growth that had been anticipated in Missouri's fiscal 2003 budget...
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Indians' goal - keep the bar raised
(Sports Column ~ 10/03/02)
Contender or pretender? After a very exciting road victory over Division I-A Middle Tennessee State, we face a very talented Tennessee State team in our Ohio Valley Conference opener at Houck Stadium at 6 p.m. Saturday. In the win over MTSU, we played well on both sides of the ball for four quarters. It's the first time that has happened since I came here three years ago. Now we have to see if we can continue to play at that level and become a contender, not just a pretender...
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Jackson American Legion holds inaugural barbecue cook-off
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
They're just a bunch of backyard barbecuers, but everybody eats what they cook, so the newly formed Nordenia Grillfest Team figures they must not be doing too bad. "Whether we win or not, we don't go home with any leftovers," said team member Ron Medlin...
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Convention would give hot debates to Missouri
(State News ~ 10/03/02)
"We, the people of Missouri, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness, do establish this Constitution for the better government of the state." -- Preamble of the Missouri Constitution...
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Out of the past 10/3/02
(Out of the Past ~ 10/03/02)
10 years ago: Oct. 3, 1992 Most immediate impact of $1.2 million Economic Development Administration grant announced yesterday for Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority at Scott City is that construction can begin right away on final phase of railroad spur...
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Jessie Michael
(Obituary ~ 10/03/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Jessie Michael, 88, of Kirkwood, Mo., died Monday, Sept. 30, 2002, at St. Joseph Hospital in Kirkwood. She was born July 8, 1914, at Marble Hill, daughter of Jessie W. and Dorothy McCullough. Michael was a first-grade teacher at Midland School in St. Louis from 1937 to 1942. She was a supervisor of billing with AT&T 28 years in San Francisco, Calif...
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Ferry Hartline
(Obituary ~ 10/03/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Ferry H. Hartline, 84, of Anna died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 28, 1918, in Dongola, Ill., daughter of Everett Ferry and Lois Karraker Hinkle. She and J. Bon Hartline were married Aug. 30, 1941, in Anna...
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Bill Howard
(Obituary ~ 10/03/02)
Bill Howard, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Funeral Home.
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Jesse Saunders Sr.
(Obituary ~ 10/03/02)
SANDUSKY, Ill. -- Jesse Saunders Sr., 95, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., formerly of Sandusky, died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2002. Massie Funeral Home in Cairo, Ill., is in charge of arrangements.
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Bessie Sneed
(Obituary ~ 10/03/02)
Bessie Genevieve Sneed, 89, formerly of Chaffee, Mo., and Scott City, died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, at Broadview Nursing Home in Maryland Heights, Mo. She was born Jan. 27, 1913, in Charleston, Mo., daughter of Samuel Benjamin and Mary Magdalene Brown Thompson. She and William Robert "Bob" Sneed were married May 22, 1936, in Scott City. He died Oct. 27, 1980...
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Thomas Hanney III
(Obituary ~ 10/03/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Thomas M. Hanney III, 38, of Anna died suddenly Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, at Southside Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa. Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna is in charge of arrangements.
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Bruce Binnie
(Obituary ~ 10/03/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Bruce Edward Binnie, 58, of Marble Hill died Monday, Sept. 30, 2002, the result of a farming accident near Glenallen, Mo. He was born Oct. 1, 1943, in Buffalo, N.Y., son of Harold E. and Doris W. Younglove Binnie. He and Susan Marie Last were married Aug. 28, 1964, in Scottsdale, Ariz...
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Charles Fluegge Sr.
(Obituary ~ 10/03/02)
Charles Robert Fluegge Sr., 75, of Gordonville died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 25, 1927, at Tilsit, son of Robert L. and Martina Peetz Fluegge. He and Betty Reisenbichler were married June 27, 1952, in Cape Girardeau...
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Speak Out A 10/03/02
(Speak Out ~ 10/03/02)
Can you imagine? IF JOHN Kennedy had had the same guts his brother, Ted Kennedy, has shown and backed down in the Cuban missile crisis, we would have been under the gun today. Can you imagine our country in the hands of Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle and Al Gore? God help us. Even former President Clinton, who had character flaws, was more intelligent than all three of these put together...
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FanFare 10/3/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/03/02)
Baseball Jerry Royster knew he was out as manager of the Brewers after last week's front office shakeup. The official firing came Wednesday and made Royster the sixth major league manager to lose his job in the last four days...
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People - The short end of the stick -- and the chains
(Other Sports ~ 10/03/02)
For the past three years, high school football players who played at Vigilante Stadium in Helena, Mont., had a tougher challenge than they realized: The first-down chains that are supposed to measure 10 yards actually are 10 yards, 6 inches. "It's just one of those things that you take for granted that it's accurate," said school activities director Jim Opitz...
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Health calendar 10/3/02
(Community ~ 10/03/02)
Today Sibling class from 6 to 8:30 p.m. for children ages 4 to 10. The class meets at the Generations Resource Center at Southeast Missouri Hospital. To register, call 651-5833. Breast cancer support group meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the lobby of the Regional Cancer Center at Southeast Missouri Hospital. To register, call the Generations Center at 651-5825...
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Some screenings may be on the way out
(Editorial ~ 10/03/02)
Random security screening of people boarding planes could be phased out next year as Transportation Security Administration chief James Loy tries to make air travel less burdensome. Each passenger will still have to go through security checkpoints, but the additional random checks are about to end...
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Videotapes aid prosecution of child abuse
(Editorial ~ 10/03/02)
Few issues that government must confront are more troublesome or involve more of a tangle of emotional charge and countercharge than the issue of child abuse. Child abuse is a horrible reality, one that reveals the dark side of human nature. Efforts to eradicate it are among the most important business of the day...
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Cape fire report 10/3/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/03/02)
Cape Girardeau Thursday, Oct. 3 Firefighters responded Tuesday to the following items: At 1204 p.m., emergency medical service at 39 S. Sprigg. At 3:53 p.m., emergency medical service at 929 Normal. At 6:49 p.m., emergency medical service at 323 S. Hanover...
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Cape police report 10/3/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/03/02)
Cape Girardeau Thursday, Oct. 3 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Billie J. Ivy, 44, of 105 S. Spanish, Apt. 5, was arrested Tuesday on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for failure to appear...
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Region briefs 10/03/02
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
Dobbins to speak at First Friday Coffee Southeast Missouri State University president Dr. Ken Dobbins will be the featured speaker at First Friday Coffee. Dobbins will discuss university finances and their impact on the economy. The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce sponsors First Friday Coffee, which is held at 7:30 a.m. Friday at the Show Me Center...
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Former UCLA basketball coach gives motivational talk
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
The "Pyramid of Success" is not merely the basis for John Wooden's basketball triumphs -- it's also the way he has tried to live his life. It's a message with themes like hard work, loyalty, poise and confidence that Wooden -- considered the most successful college coach of all time -- shared with a group of Cape Girardeau businesspeople Wednesday...
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Three Rivers college pioneer dies
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
Daily American Republic POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Marianna Wolpers left legacies all around her -- mostly through Three Rivers Community College, which she worked to help establish in 1966. But after decades of caring for her family and working to improve her community, her duties ended about 8 a.m. Monday, when she died at 84...
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Community cuisine 10/3/02
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
Millersville church holding fall supper MILLERSVILLE, Mo. -- Millersville United Methodist Church will hold its fall supper at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. The family-style meal will feature chicken dumplings, ham and sweet potatoes. Dessert and additional side dishes will also be included. Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children...
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Five historic Cape Girardeau homes selected for recognition
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
The Cape Girardeau Historic Preservation Commission recently selected five local homes to be recognized in the second round of its newly implemented "One of Cape's Original Treasures" program. Earlier this year, the commission decided to recognize property owners who have expended resources to restore or maintain historic properties in a manner that enhances the overall historic integrity of the property, neighborhood and community...
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East Perry Community Fair Horse Show results
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
Jeff Heuer of Cape Girardeau won the High Point Gaited Trophy at the 2002 East Perry Community Fair Horse Show, held Sept. 21, riding Outback Sunrise. Becky Maintz of Oak Ridge, Mo., won the High Point Western Trophy riding FF Hobby Can't Miss. There were 209 total entries in the show...
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Community digest 10/3/02
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
Cape Central class of '93 to hold planning meeting The Cape Central High School class of 1993 will be holding an organizational meeting at 1 p.m. Sunday at Capaha Park, Shelter No. 2. Meeting participants will plan the class' 10-year reunion for next summer...
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Dobbins to speak at First Friday
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
Southeast Missouri State University president Dr. Ken Dobbins will be the featured speaker at First Friday Coffee. Dobbins will discuss university finances and their impact on the economy. The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce sponsors First Friday Coffee, which is held at 7:30 a.m. Friday at the Show Me Center...
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War resolution gains momentum in House, Senate
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- Democrats and Republicans in Congress began closing ranks Wednesday behind a resolution giving President Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq. Bush hailed the development and suggested war with Baghdad could become "unavoidable" if Saddam Hussein does not disarm...
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Government clears United, US Airway partnership
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- The government on Wednesday approved a proposal by United Airlines and US Airways to sell seats on each other's flights, coordinate schedules and offer reciprocal perks such as frequent flier miles, effective immediately. In its decision, the Transportation Department said it gave the go-ahead to the two struggling airlines because the partnership would increase competition and benefit travelers...
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Zoo mourns loss of white tiger
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- The National Zoo's only white tiger was euthanized Wednesday. Zoo officials said 18-year-old Taj had been treated for osteoarthritis for several years and recently was having trouble walking. He was in such pain this week it was decided to euthanize him...
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FDA renews sprout warning
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials renewed warnings Wednesday that raw or even lightly cooked sprouts can cause serious food poisoning. The Food and Drug Administration for years has warned Americans not to eat raw alfalfa, clover and other sprouts after hundreds of reports of salmonella and E. coli infections. The FDA reissued its warning because of a late-summer E. coli outbreak in California caused by alfalfa sprouts...
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New Afghan operation could involve up to 2,000 U.S. troops
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- In the largest ground operation in Afghanistan in six months, up to 2,000 U.S. Army troops are searching the mountains of southeastern Afghanistan for Taliban and al-Qaida holdouts. The troops from the 82nd Airborne are part of a new strategy that puts more regular soldiers into the hunt for enemy fighters while lessening the strain on special forces units that could be needed for a war in Iraq...
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Senate struggles
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- Senate moderates tried in vain Wednesday to resolve the labor rights dispute that has stalled legislation creating a Homeland Security Department. As a result, the largely partisan Senate logjam continues after almost five weeks. A spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., repeated his pledge that the Senate would keep trying for a deal...
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Senate pays tribute to retiring Jesse Helms
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Senate paid tribute Wednesday to retiring Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, an icon of conservatism and uncompromising foe of communism who, colleagues said, abided by a southern courtliness of a bygone era. Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the 84-year-old Senate president pro tempore, called the 80-year-old Helms "a true gentleman of the Old South" who stuck to his beliefs and demonstrated the power a single senator can wield...
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Amish baby study could help prevent some brain defects
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- Scientists are hopeful that the discovery of a fatal gene mutation, now found only in Amish newborns, could be a major step toward preventing brain defects in babies worldwide. The genetic disorder, known as Amish microcephaly, is specific to the Old Order Amish community in Lancaster County, Pa. It amounts to a breakdown in DNA creation that causes abnormally small heads and brains in fetuses and, eventually, death...
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Giants batter Braves, win NL division series opener
(Professional Sports ~ 10/03/02)
ATLANTA -- Barry Bonds didn't have to come up big for the San Francisco Giants to get a jump on the Atlanta Braves. The rest of the San Francisco lineup knocked around Atlanta's heralded pitching staff while Russ Ortiz threw seven strong innings, carrying the Giants to an 8-5 victory in Game 1 of the NL division playoffs...
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The week ahead in motorsports 10/3/02
(Professional Sports ~ 10/03/02)
AREA EVENTS Sprint, late model, modified, hobby, pure stock and cruiser divisions at Malden (Mo.) Speedway, 7 p.m. Friday. Sprint, modified, street stock and cruiser divisions at Auto Tire and Parts Racepark, 7 p.m. Saturday.WINSTON CUP EA Sports 500...
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Jury selection to begin in drug dilution lawsuit
(State News ~ 10/03/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Court officials said Wednesday that they have issued about 600 summonses to potential jurors in a cancer patient's lawsuit against two pharmaceutical companies and a former pharmacist who has admitted diluting chemotherapy drugs for profit...
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West Nile claims two more in Illinois
(State News ~ 10/03/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Two 87-year-old women have died from the West Nile virus, bringing the state's death toll to 35, health officials said Wednesday. The latest victims of West Nile encephalitis are an 87-year-old woman from Chicago who was hospitalized and died Tuesday, and an 87-year-old woman from Fulton County who was hospitalized Sept. 19 and died Sept. 27...
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Accounting scandals haven't derailed students' career plans
(State News ~ 10/03/02)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Students studying accounting at the University of Illinois and other Illinois colleges say recent scandals in the field haven't altered their career plans. In fact, enrollment has increased in general accounting classes at some schools this fall, while others saw new courses such as accounting fraud-detection fill up faster than anticipated...
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Newspaper reports St. Louis absentee ballots not ready
(State News ~ 10/03/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Still smarting from chaos at local polls during the November 2000 general election, the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners faces more criticism over word its absentee ballots aren't ready, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Wednesday...
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Two owners sentenced in 'Miss Cleo' case
(State News ~ 10/03/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Two Florida cousins and their companies behind the hot lines for television psychic "Miss Cleo" were sentenced Wednesday to probation and fines, resolving illegal-merchandising felonies in Missouri over the supposed clairvoyant. Steven L. ...
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Grandson of maverick Israeli critic to assist Palestinians
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
JERUSALEM -- Shamai Leibowitz is taking up where his grandfather, a maverick Jewish scholar, left off -- joining the defense team of a Palestinian leader charged with directing terror attacks against Israelis, as a way of protesting Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
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Pro-government crowds take to streets of threatened city
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Tens of thousands of angry government loyalists raced down the skyscraper-lined highways of Abidjan on Wednesday, waving sticks and shouting their rage at rebels advancing steadily south toward Ivory Coast's commercial capital...
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Iraq - British report full of 'lies'
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq says war and U.N. inspections have ensured it is no longer capable of producing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, and Baghdad released a detailed report Wednesday rebutting a British dossier on its arms programs. Washington says toppling Saddam Hussein may be the only way to ensure Iraq is not rearming. ...
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Clinton urges giving weapons inspectors a chance
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
BLACKPOOL, England -- Former President Clinton urged America and Britain on Wednesday to give U.N. weapons inspections a chance to work in Iraq, saying they should be backed by a tough new resolution from the U.N. Security Council. He said weapons inspectors had made real progress in uncovering Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in the 1990s. The Bush administration says inspections have not worked in the past...
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Denmark joins international boycott of Miss World pageant
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Miss Denmark on Wednesday joined a boycott of the Miss World pageant to protest a sentence of death by stoning imposed on a Nigerian Muslim woman accused of having sex outside marriage. The pageant has come under international pressure over the case of 31-year-old Amina Lawal, who was sentenced by a Shariah judge to be stoned to death while buried up to her neck in sand in 2004, after her baby born out of wedlock is weaned. ...
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Former U.S. soldier reported to be husband of kidnapping victim
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
TOKYO -- An American serviceman who defected to North Korea later married a Japanese woman who had been abducted by North Korean agents, and both are now living in the North's capital, Pyongyang, a senior Japanese official said Wednesday. The serviceman, Charles Robert Jenkins of North Carolina, was one of four Americans who deserted their Army posts in South Korea in the 1960s...
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Latest rebel raid highlights Russian military's shortcomings
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
NAZRAN, Russia -- The recent foray by some 200 Chechen rebels into neighboring territory, sparking one of the largest battles ever in the three-year Chechen war, has highlighted the Russian military's weak hold on the restive region. The fighting erupted last Thursday when federal troops spotted a rebel contingent near the village of Galashki in Russia's republic of Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya's west. ...
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Families of abduction victims refuse to believe accounts
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
TOKYO -- One married an American defector and is still living. But North Korea says eight other Japanese kidnapped by communist spies died -- one committed suicide in a mental hospital, two died in car crashes, two more of gas poisoning, two others of illness and one drowned...
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Overloading doomed ferry, investigators say
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
DAKAR, Senegal -- Backing earlier reports, military investigators identified overloading Wednesday as the key cause of Africa's deadliest-ever ferry disaster -- describing how the ship tumbled over when passengers rushed to one side to take cover from a storm...
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France lifts British beef ban
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
PARIS -- France lifted its six-year-old ban on British beef imports Wednesday, ending a bitter dispute that has strained relations with London. The government's decision, which came three years after a similar European Union move, followed the recommendation of the French food safety standards agency the meat was free of mad cow disease and no longer posed a health threat...
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Landmark re-emerges after two years under wraps
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
BERLIN -- The Brandenburg Gate, Germany's most famous landmark, has been stripped of decades of grime in an extensive renovation that has shrouded it from view for two years as the capital's new government quarter took shape around it. To mark the 12th anniversary of German reunification, dignitaries will undo a giant zipper today in the wrapping to reveal its gleaming sandstone...
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Suspect in fatal kidnap plot once led church youth group
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- The man charged with the kidnap-murder of a German banker's son led a church youth group and headed a fan club of Frankfurt's soccer team that the 11-year-old victim passionately supported, investigators said Wednesday. Jakob von Metzler was found slain Tuesday, despite his family's payment of nearly $1 million in ransom. Prosecutors said severe bruises on the boy's throat indicate he was likely strangled...
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Strike causes chaos for commuters
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
LONDON -- Hundreds of thousands of Londoners struggled to get to work Wednesday as a strike by subway workers produced commuter chaos in the British capital for the second time in a week. Normally quiet pre-dawn streets, were clogged with people who left home early to walk to the city center. Businessmen jogged in suits, backpacks strapped over their shoulders. Others wobbled along on bicycles. Thames River bridges were jammed with foot traffic...
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Arafat calls on Bush to block attempts to move U.S. Embassy
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat appealed Wednesday to one of his toughest critics -- President Bush -- to block a U.S. law that calls for moving the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to disputed Jerusalem. "It is a catastrophe. We can't stay silent," Arafat said of the measure passed by the U.S. Congress...
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Tokyo hunkers down as powerful typhoon sideswipes city
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
TOKYO -- One of the strongest typhoons to threaten Tokyo in decades sideswiped Japan's capital late Tuesday after demolishing houses and trees, shattering windows and killing a security guard at a construction site. Typhoon Higos dumped heavy rains on small islands and cities in and around the capital throughout the day, flooding hundreds of homes and forcing nearly 1,000 residents to be evacuated...
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U.S. soldier among three killed in blast near army base
(International News ~ 10/03/02)
MANILA, Philippines -- A nail-packed bomb killed an American Green Beret and two Filipinos on Wednesday outside a restaurant near a base in the troubled southern Philippines, where the U.S. military helped in the fight against al-Qaida-linked rebels this year...
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Women who lost foster child charged
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
MIAMI -- Two women who took care of Rilya Wilson, the little girl whose disappearance exposed disarray in Florida's child welfare agency, were charged Wednesday with stealing $14,000 in public assistance, in part by accepting payments for Rilya after she had vanished...
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Two San Diego homeless men sue video makers
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
SAN DIEGO -- Two homeless men who say they were paid to hurt themselves and beat each other for a video sold on the Internet filed suit Wednesday against the filmmakers, who also face criminal charges. Donald Brennan and Rufus Hannah say the makers of "Bumfights: A Cause for Concern" took advantage of their alcoholism to persuade them to ram their heads into steel doors and signs and get "Bumfights" tattoos in bold letters across their hands and foreheads...
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Port lockout taking toll on thousands of idled truckers
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
LOS ANGELES -- Unable to move any cargo for days, thousands of independent truckers are waiting around at transfer stations and hoping their money lasts longer than the shutdown at the nation's West Coast ports. "I'm going to have to start figuring out ways to make some money soon," said Jorge Ramirez, 41, a short-haul trucker with a wife and four young children. "It's better to be your own boss, but right now there is no dinero. My wife is worried, I'm worried."...
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Ex-policeman fires shots at playground in NYC
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
NEW YORK -- A former police officer shooting from his apartment window wounded a preschool teacher taking children to a playground during a three-hour spree in a sprawling housing complex. Brian Berrigan, 33, was found sitting at a table inside his fourth-floor apartment at Stuyvesant Town, police commissioner Ray Kelly said...
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People talk 10/03/02
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
Adam Ant suffers mental-illness episode LONDON -- A judge said '80s pop idol Adam Ant suffered a "temporary episode" of mental illness when he threatened pub customers with a fake pistol, and sentenced him Wednesday to a year's community service and rehabilitation treatment...
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Americans ponder possible war
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
The young soldiers at upstate New York's Fort Drum are ready to fight in Iraq. A preacher near their base prays those orders won't come. Out in Ohio, a man who flew 35 combat missions against Nazi Germany ponders the prospect of a new war and says, "I'd go a little bit slow."...
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Prosecutors strike deal for testimony against Stewart
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
NEW YORK -- Prosecutors turned up the heat on Martha Stewart as a stockbroker's assistant pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking a payoff to keep quiet about an alleged insider stock trade by the queen of home entertaining. Douglas Faneuil, 27, struck a deal to testify against Stewart and others who might be charged in connection with the sale of ImClone Systems stock just before its price plunged last year...
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Shoe bomb suspect to plead guilty
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
BOSTON -- Richard Reid, the man accused of trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes, plans to plead guilty to attempted murder and all other charges against him, his attorney said Wednesday. Attorney Owen Walker said Reid wanted to avoid the publicity of a trial and the negative impact it would have on his family...
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Florida inmate volunteers to die
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
STARKE, Fla. -- A man who killed an 11-year-old girl and two fellow death row inmates was executed by lethal injection Wednesday after dropping his appeals and volunteering to die. Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco, 43, who came to Miami from Cuba in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, had confessed to the girl's murder but then denied it in a statement he wrote out and gave to a priest the night before his execution...
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Prep football poll
(High School Sports ~ 10/03/02)
Weekly top 10 poll determined by members of the SEMO Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, with teams, first-place votes, record, total votes and last week's ranking. 1. North County (13) 4-0 209 2 2. Cape Girardeau Central 3-1 192 1 3. Hayti (1) 3-0 172 3...
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Prep volleyball poll
(High School Sports ~ 10/03/02)
Weekly top 10 poll determined by members of the SEMO Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, with teams, first-place votes, record, total votes and last week's ranking. 1. Notre Dame (15) 17-2-1 150 1 2. Jackson 16-2-2 118 2 tie. Leopold 18-2-1 118 4...
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PB track won't be ready to go racing until spring
(Community Sports ~ 10/03/02)
Don't expect to hear engines come to life this season at the new Poplar Bluff (Mo.) Speedway. Co-owner Jennifer Adamson said Wednesday that work still needs to be finished on the track before it's ready to open, and those final additions won't be made in time to host events this season...
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Central shines against Jackson, wins league
(High School Sports ~ 10/03/02)
All was right in the world of the Tigers. For the first time in Central High School history, the girls' softball team is the SEMO Conference champion. Its 9-0 win Wednesday came on senior night against the Tigers' biggest rival, Jackson (7-17), and wrapped up the league title...
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Graves Co. date not just another (Thurs)day for Tigers
(High School Sports ~ 10/03/02)
The Central Tigers arrive at the mid-point of their regular season tonight. At 3-1, Central finds Graves County (Ky.) wedged between a pair of emotional games -- last week's double-overtime loss to North County and next week's Cape Girardeau County rivalry game with Jackson...
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Balance puts Scott City on track for 15th win
(High School Sports ~ 10/03/02)
Scott City's volleyball team used a balanced attack to ease past Woodland 15-5, 15-3 on Wednesday night. "We got a very balanced attack," Scott City coach Laura Ort said. Scott City, No. 8 in the SEMO Top 10 released today, improved to 15-4-2. Amanda O'Brien served the first 11 points for the Rams before Woodland finally forced a side out. ...
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Baseball at Woodland a new fall fixture
(High School Sports ~ 10/03/02)
There's not much more exciting than Cardinals baseball in the fall. That's been known for years around St. Louis and it appears that knowledge has filtered south to Marble Hill, Mo. In a season when most high schools are playing football and soccer, the Woodland Cardinals have been on the baseball diamond...
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Schilling's goal - Knot series with Cardinals
(Professional Sports ~ 10/03/02)
PHOENIX -- Curt Schilling covets his reputation as a big-game pitcher, and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in dire need of a big game. The powerhouse bats of the Cardinals took care of Randy Johnson with stunning ease in a 12-2 rout of the World Series champions in Game 1 of NL division series. If they can beat Schilling in Game 2 today, the Cardinals will go home up 2-0 in the best-of-5 series...
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A perfect world after all
(Column ~ 10/03/02)
Oct. 3, 2002 Dear David, Thousands of people are screaming in the dark as the starstruck, teenage writer follows the rock 'n' roll band backstage for the first time in the movie "Almost Famous." When the drummer leads the band into the first song you can almost taste the adrenaline...
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Martin prepares for rare career start at QB
(Professional Sports ~ 10/03/02)
The Associated Press ST. LOUIS -- Jamie Martin goes from getting none of the repetitions to getting almost all of them this week, now that he's the Rams' starting quarterback. He'll try to follow in the footsteps of Kurt Warner, who rose to stardom after Trent Green had a season-ending knee injury in the 1999 preseason, and try to help rescue the Rams' lost season. The winless Rams (0-4) play Sunday at San Francisco...
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Amendment 4 for affordable energy
(Column ~ 10/03/02)
and Margaret B. Kelly COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri families need affordable, reliable energy for our homes and places of work. The ability to generate adequate electricity within Missouri has become crucial to assuring that it remains affordable and reliable. Congested power lines, price spikes and shortages have become familiar stories in states where demand outpaces power supply...
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Hundreds of thousands told to flee as hurricane comes
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
NEW IBERIA, La. -- Nearly a half-million people in Louisiana and Texas were urged to clear out on Wednesday -- some of them for the second time in a week -- as a fearsome Hurricane Lili barreled toward the Gulf Coast with 140 mph winds. "We have a real disaster in the making," said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "This is going to be the worst hurricane to hit the Louisiana coast since reconnaissance data has been available."...
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Fall is prime time for car stereo theft, police say
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
After spending thousands of dollars assembling a powerful car stereo system, 17-year-old Dustin Tatum of Cape Girardeau now drives around tuneless after a thief smashed in his driver's side window and stole his CD player, CDs, subwoofer and speakers...
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Education center in Kennett plans for additions
(State News ~ 10/03/02)
Dunklin Daily Democrat KENNETT, Mo. -- The Kennett Area Higher Education Center is accomplishing its mission, say school administrators, but they want money to do more. At a meeting of the Kennett City Council on Tuesday, Marsha Blanchard, the center's director, and Larry Swindle, resource committee co-chair, detailed what the center has done while asking for help to raise money for new construction...
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Shape Up Cape exercise program gets city moving
(Community ~ 10/03/02)
Even though the program has ended, plenty of participants in Shape Up Cape vowed to continue their exercise routines despite not earning any points for their efforts. "I was exercising anyway, but it caused me to do more," said Gail Conrad, team captain for the city of Cape Girardeau's team. "Now when I get out of bed, I'm not thinking about points."...
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Making Old Town New
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
Revitalizing a downtown district takes more than enthusiasm. Just ask Dr. Tom Lawson, Poplar Bluff's city administrator. In Poplar Bluff, downtown merchants were enthused to be part of Missouri's Main Street program in 1990, but the business owners didn't buy into the big picture and now downtown shopping is almost non-existent...
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Former exec at Enron gets charged with conspiracy
(National News ~ 10/03/02)
HOUSTON -- Andrew Fastow, the Enron executive who masterminded the financial schemes that brought down the company, was charged Wednesday with inflating the energy giant's profits and siphoning off millions for himself, his family and friends. The former chief financial officer is the biggest Enron figure targeted by the Justice Department so far. ...
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The way it used to be - The Bryan Laundries Inc.
(Local News ~ 10/03/02)
Frances Furhmann of Cape Girardeau was inspired to send in this photo when she saw The Bryan Laundries mentioned in the Southeast Missourian's "Out of the Past" column published on Aug. 20. The photo was taken when Fuhrmann, center, was about 5 years old, which would have been around 1928. ...
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Ready or not, Augusta needs to let go of its sexist policy
(Sports Column ~ 10/04/02)
swilstein In the small, cluttered office of Martha Burk, the woman who set teeth gnashing at the home of the Masters, the most urgent issue of the day is not whether Augusta National Golf Club will allow female members. That will happen sooner or later, whether it comes this month from the pressure she's putting on members who are CEOs of major corporations, or after the Masters next spring when women's groups will probably set up picket lines if the club doesn't change its policy...
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Families of Japanese abductees slam planned N. Korea talks
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
TOKYO -- The families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago denounced on Thursday their government's desire to establish diplomatic ties with the communist nation, saying it can't be trusted. Pyongyang's admission last month to Japan's long-held claim that it had kidnapped Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s was a condition Tokyo had set for resuming normalization talks for the first time in two years...
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Five killed by 'skilled shooter' in Washington, D.C., suburbs
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Five people were gunned down one by one in the Washington suburbs in less than 16 hours, and authorities said Thursday they were looking for a "skilled shooter" suspected of felling each victim with a single bullet. While cautioning that the slayings had not definitely been linked, police said it was a strong possibility...
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Lili loses strength but is bringing rain to Missouri
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
Hurricane Lili gave Louisiana's coast a 100 mph battering Thursday that swamped streets, knocked out power and snapped trees. But Lili dwindled to tropical storm strength as it moved inland, leaving residents thankful it was not the monster they were expecting...
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NYC artist spent years painting her studio view of Union Square
(Entertainment ~ 10/04/02)
For 18 years, Violet Baxter painted the world defined by the windows of her studio overlooking Manhattan's Union Square. In oil and pastels and watercolors she captured the hurly-burly of the square's days and nights, its celebrations and market days. A spark seems to leap from the canvas in some of the nighttime pastels. The watercolor "Coming and Going," in which people seem to disappear into a mist, shimmers...
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Artifacts
(Entertainment ~ 10/04/02)
Art by Southeast student on display at Anna ANNA, Ill. -- Art by Leah Ulrich will be on display through October at the Shawnee Community College Anna Center. Ulrich, a Cape Girardeau native who graduated from Jackson High School, is working toward a bachelor of fine arts degree with an emphasis in painting at Southeast Missouri State University. Several of her paintings have been exhibited in juried shows at the University Museum...
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Earle - No apologies for 'John Walker's Blues'
(Entertainment ~ 10/04/02)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville singer-songwriter Steve Earle hasn't ever been one to avoid controversy. In contrast to patriotism-boosting songs by country artists such as Toby Keith, Earle seeks to understand the enemy on "John Walker's Blues," one of the tunes on his new politically themed album, "Jerusalem," released last week...
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Everybody's a critic - 'Possession'
(Entertainment ~ 10/04/02)
Three stars Imagine trying to change history. That is what Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) try to do in the film "Possession." As Roland is conducting research within the London library, he comes across handwritten notes from Ash (a famous poet played by Jeremy Northam) to an assummed mistress. ...
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Arts council shows feature florals, Midwestern art
(Entertainment ~ 10/04/02)
"An Inauguration," an exhibit of floral landscape paintings by Charleston, Mo., artist Glenda Manche, will be on display at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri beginning today and continue through Oct. 25. A retired Postal Service employee, Manche is a member of the Bootheel Regional Art Guild and has studied with Oran, Mo., painter Cleda Curtis. In 1979, she designed the 75th anniversary plate for the National Association of Postmasters National Convention...
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Out of the past 10/4/02
(Out of the Past ~ 10/04/02)
10 years ago: Oct. 4, 1992 Congregation of Trinity Lutheran Church at Egypt Mills celebrates 125th anniversary of church; the Rev. Donald D. Loesch of Immanuel Lutheran Church at Perryville speaks at morning service, and professor Milton H. Riemer of Concordia Lutheran College in Austin, Texas, speaks in afternoon...
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Births 10/4/02
(Births ~ 10/04/02)
Patrick Son to Timothy Arlon and Robyn Lee Patrick of Sikeston, Mo., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:27 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002. Name, Jonah Samuel. Weight, 7 pounds 1/2 ounce. Second child, first son. Mrs. Patrick is the former Robyn Denzien, daughter of Scott and Terri Denzien of Temple, Texas. Patrick is the son of Jimmy and Patty Patrick of East Prairie, Mo. He is employed at Wal-Mart...
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M.R. Pittman
(Obituary ~ 10/04/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- M.R. "Joker" Pittman, 89, of Poplar Bluff died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, at Three Rivers Healthcare-North Campus. He was born March 30, 1913, in Whitewater. He married Dorothy Allene Bond in Charleston, Mo., on Oct. 16, 1938. She preceded him in death on March 18, 1946. He married Geraldine M. Harris in Piggott, Ark., on May 11, 1947. She preceded him in death on June 1, 1993...
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Mattie Oakes
(Obituary ~ 10/04/02)
PERKS, Ill. -- Mattie Kindle Oakes, 76, of Perks died Saturday, Sept. 28, 2002, at Magnolia Manor Nursing Home in Metropolis, Ill. She was born Sept. 26, 1926, in Ullin, Ill., the daughter of Johnny and Henrietta Shiver Kindle. She was a member of Cypress Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Perks. She had been employed as a dietary worker in a nursing home...
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Norman Hoffman
(Obituary ~ 10/04/02)
Norman C. "Bud" Hoffman, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 7, 1933, in Perry County, Mo., son of Marcellus and Regina Renner Hoffman. Hoffman served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955...
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Nelda Hanks
(Obituary ~ 10/04/02)
ORAN, Mo. -- Nelda Hanks, 74, of Oran died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran.
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Mary Scheeter
(Obituary ~ 10/04/02)
Mary E. Scheeter, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at the Lutheran Home. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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Shirley Favier
(Obituary ~ 10/04/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Shirley A. Favier, 67, of Perryville died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, at her home. She was born Nov. 13, 1934, in Perryville, daughter of Albert R. and Frances E. Schmidt Baylard. She and Thomas "Blackie" Favier were married Sept. 11, 1954. He died July 10, 1986...
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Bill Howard
(Obituary ~ 10/04/02)
Bill Howard, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, at the Lutheran Home. He was born March 11, 1929, in Marion, Ill., son of Charles Oscar and Jessie Falsom Odum Howard. He and Mary Lou Howard were married Oct. 7, 1967, in St. Charles, Mo...
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Speak Out A 10/04/02
(Speak Out ~ 10/04/02)
Show off the students LOTS OF time the teachers spend their money on decorations for bulletin boards. There are big bulletin boards in each room to display the students' work, not commercial decorations bought from the store. I cringe when I see a decorated bulletin board that the teacher has decorated on her own. I wish the teachers would let the students display their work...
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The good and bad of fertilizing trees
(Outdoors ~ 10/04/02)
In the not-too-distant past, the "chicken soup" theory of tree fertilization prevailed. It was viewed as a surefire treatment for every tree problem. Even if it didn't work, it couldn't hurt, right? This notion has gradually given way to more contemporary ideas that reflect a better knowledge of tree growth and health...
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Would-be robbers display evil at its worst
(Editorial ~ 10/04/02)
There are so many senseless acts of violence in our world today that most incidents don't even get much notice unless the death toll is too high to ignore. The attempted bank robbery last week in Norfolk, Neb., was one such assault on innocent lives and on our sense of personal security...
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Some borrowers hit by sluggish economy
(Editorial ~ 10/04/02)
The same U.S. economy that has produced the lowest mortgage interest rates in 40 years also has produced the highest rate of foreclosures and loan delinquencies in the 30 years such records have been kept by the Mortgage Bankers Association of America...
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Cape police report 10/4/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/04/02)
Cape Girardeau Friday, Oct. 4 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Donna A. Welsh, 41, of 1927 N. Kingshighway, Lot 58, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated...
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Jackson fire report 10/4/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/04/02)
Jackson Saturday, Oct. 4 Firefighters responded to the following calls Wednesday: A motor vehicle accident on West Jackson Boulevard. An emergency medical service on East Jackson Boulevard. Anhydrous ammonia leak on East Washington. An emergency medical service on Rolling Fields...
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Jackson police report 10/4/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/04/02)
Jackson Friday, Oct. 4 DWIs Loretta S. Davault, 27, of 1325 Brandom, Apt. 5, was arrested Saturday for driving while intoxicated, failure to keep right and possession of drug paraphernalia. Billy J. Thorne, 25, of 211 A St., Cape Girardeau was issued a summons Sunday for driving while intoxicated...
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Fee for Sikeston landlords set to begin
(Local News ~ 10/04/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Effective Dec. 1, the application for tenancy that must be submitted by landlords will require a $15 fee. As it was waived for its first two years, many landlords may need to be reminded that the $15 fee was actually established with the city's latest rental housing ordinance in November 2000, according to Tom Bridger, public works director...
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Shot fired near officers answering domestic call
(Local News ~ 10/04/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Poplar Bluff man faces a weapons charge after he allegedly fired a shot through a window of his residence as a police officer stood at his front door Wednesday afternoon. Poplar Bluff patrolmen David Sutton and Mike McCane were dispatched to Shawn Patrick Burkett's residence in the 1100 block of North 10th Street at about 4 p.m. Wednesday in reference to a domestic disturbance...
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Church announces plans for catfish supper
(Local News ~ 10/04/02)
The Sedgewickville United Methodist Church will hold a catfish supper today with serving beginning at 3 p.m. The meal includes catfish, slaw, baked beans, potato salad, cakes, pie and a drink. It is served buffet style. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3.50 for children...
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Everybody's a critic - 'Possession'
(Local News ~ 10/04/02)
HH 1/2 I thought that the movie "Possession" itself was all right. The way that they went about it was interesting. Going back and forth from present to past made it keep your attention, but that was the only thing. It was a very slow-going movie...
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Two suspects arrested in connection with burglary
(Local News ~ 10/04/02)
Sheriff's deputies arrested two suspects early Thursday morning in connection with a residential burglary in Cape Girardeau County. No charges have been filed against the suspects and no further information about them was released. The Cape Girardeau County sheriff's department is still investigating the incident, said Lt. David James...
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Al-Qaida prisoners make claim hijackings first of three attacks
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- John Walker Lindh and other al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners told U.S. interrogators the Sept. 11 hijackings were supposed to be the first of three increasingly severe attacks against Americans. Their claims have not been corroborated, government officials said...
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Lawmakers threaten action against Saudis
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- Angry House members warned Thursday of possible punitive action against Saudi Arabia unless the kingdom takes steps to resolve the cases of American children kidnapped to that country in parental disputes over custody. '"We're going to beat the hell out of them until they promise to bring the kids back," said Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee. "The drumbeat is going to get louder and louder and louder."...
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New Jersey ballot issue goes to high court
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- Republicans went to the Supreme Court on Thursday to try to stop New Jersey Democrats from replacing Sen. Robert Torricelli on the Nov. 5 ballot for a re-election race he seemed likely to lose. Control of the Senate could hang on the court's reply...
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Rushdie talks of his time spent in hiding
(State News ~ 10/04/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Salman Rushdie says his trips through airport security lines are slow again. At first, the British author said he took the attention personally, remembering his years of hiding after his book "Satanic Verses" generated death threats from the Muslim world who found the book insulting to Islam...
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Missouri man found guilty in former son-in-law's death
(State News ~ 10/04/02)
PLATTE CITY, Mo. -- A Platte County jury on Thursday deliberated less than three hours before convicting a man of shooting his former son-in-law to death. Jimmy Williams, 47, of Liberty, was convicted of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Thadd Mize, 28, last Dec. 12...
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Jury selection begins in suit of pharmacist, drug makers
(State News ~ 10/04/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Cancer patients -- some of them potentially giving videotaped testimony from their death bed -- can testify in the lawsuit against pharmacist Robert Courtney and two drug companies, a Jackson County judge ruled Thursday. Ovarian cancer patient Georgia Hayes is suing Courtney and drug makers Eli Lilly & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Courtney has admitted watering down cancer drugs for profit; Hayes claims the drug companies should have done more to stop him...
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Joplin offers amnesty in hopes of clearing warrants
(State News ~ 10/04/02)
JOPLIN, Mo. -- In an effort to clear nearly 5,000 outstanding warrants, one southwest Missouri city is granting amnesty to offenders who voluntarily settle cases. It is part of an effort by Joplin to collect more than $900,000 in fines and get rid of the cases, said Lawrence Myers, administrator for Joplin Municipal Court...
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Judge convicts man of shooting at officer
(State News ~ 10/04/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A man was found guilty Thursday of first-degree assault for shooting at a Springfield police officer. Tony Mann, 34, of Springfield, also was convicted of armed criminal action in the incident last October that led to a probe of police...
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Two men convicted in separate child abuse cases
(State News ~ 10/04/02)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- Two St. Charles County men, accused in separate cases of sexual abuse involving their own children, have appeared before a judge, with one pleading guilty and the second being found guilty. The identities of the men have been withheld to protect the identity of the children...
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Conservation department not managing money wisely, auditor says
(State News ~ 10/04/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The state Department of Conservation may have spent millions of dollars unnecessarily and has failed to properly monitor how its grants are used, according to an audit released Thursday. The report by State Auditor Claire McCaskill said that while Missouri spends more money per capita on conservation efforts than its eight neighboring states, the Conservation Department has few controls over how the money is spent...
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Ivory Coast rebels agree to cease-fire after talks
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
OUAKE, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast rebels agreed to a cease-fire Thursday in a steamroller offensive that has taken half the country in just over two weeks, West African mediators announced -- saying the way was now clear for peace talks. "They have agreed to a cease-fire," negotiator Mohamed Ibn Chambas told journalists after foreign ministers of five West African nations flew into the heart of rebel-held territory to press for the cease-fire...
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Nobel committee seeks worthy peace representative
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
OSLO, Norway -- The Nobel Peace Prize committee chose its next award winner Thursday, a selection aimed at sending hope to a world still reeling from last year's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The choice -- drawn from a widespread field that includes the Salvation Army, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and the U.S. Peace Corps -- will be revealed on Oct. 11. As usual, the panel offered no hint of the winner...
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Authorities - Terror group behind deadly bombing
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines -- Philippine authorities vowed Thursday to "cut off the hand" of the Abu Sayyaf, blaming the terror group for a bombing attack that killed three people -- including an American Green Beret -- and injured 25 others. The explosion Wednesday evening shattered an open-air market in Zamboanga. ...
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Nigeria postpones Miss World pageant after Muslim protests
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria on Thursday postponed the Miss World pageant until after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, bowing to Muslim objections and threats to disrupt the contest. Nigeria's first lady, Stella Obasanjo, said Thursday that the pageant will take place Dec. 7 in the capital Abuja, a day after the Muslim fasting month ends, out of "genuine consideration."...
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U.N. inspectors reluctant to enter Iraq without new resolution
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
UNITEDNATIONS -- U.N. inspectors indicated Thursday they will not resume their search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction until the Security Council decides whether to adopt a resolution that could give them broad powers. Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said he hoped council members would make up their minds quickly. If the rules changed while he was in Iraq, he said, "it would be awkward."...
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World briefs 10/04/02
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
TV journalists freed after six days in captivity MANILA, Philippines -- Two Philippine television journalists who disappeared while covering a hostage-taking were freed Thursday after six days in captivity on a southern island known as home to Muslim rebels and bandit groups...
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'World's funniest joke' announced
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
LONDON -- Drum roll, please -- an online search for the world's funniest joke has produced a winner. In a yearlong experiment called LaughLab, a British psychology professor asked thousands of people around the world to rate the humor value of a list of jokes; they could also add their own favorites...
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Test-tube baby helps save brother's life
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
JERUSALEM -- Moments after the Israeli test-tube baby was born, she saved her brother's life. The test-tube baby was genetically selected as an embryo from several produced by her parents -- to make sure her bone marrow matched that of her 4-year-old brother and would help him recover from a serious genetic blood disorder, doctors said Thursday...
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Afghan authorities, U.N., try to mediate end to fighting
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Authorities were trying to mediate an end Thursday to the latest outbreak of violence in Afghanistan's troubled north, where rival factions have battled for several days, a U.N. spokesman said. At least five people were injured this week in the northern town of Piruz Nakshir in clashes between forces loyal to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum and those of his rival Atta Mohammed, U.N. spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva said...
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Sharon unwavering in his determination to oust Arafat
(International News ~ 10/04/02)
JERUSALEM -- Ariel Sharon's troops are practicing bundling Yasser Arafat into a helicopter and whisking him into exile, a drill that underscores the Israeli leader's determination to get rid of his longtime nemesis. Thus far, Sharon has been restrained by opposition from his own security advisers and political pressure from the United States. Still, Sharon's systematic campaign to sideline the Palestinian leader is unlikely to abate even though such moves boost Arafat's popularity...
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People talk 10/04/02
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
McCartney, Starr will head Harrison tribute LONDON -- Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will headline a tribute concert in memory of their late colleague, George Harrison, officials announced Thursday. The show at London's Royal Albert Hall is set for Nov. 29, the first anniversary of his death, and will feature Tom Petty, British pianist Jools Holland, and Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who greatly influenced Harrison...
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Former county official admits to taking bribes
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
NEWARK, N.J. -- A former county executive admitted Thursday that he took more than $100,000 in bribes while in office and agreed to keep cooperating with a federal corruption probe. Democrat Robert C. Janiszewski, who resigned as Hudson County's top elected official a year ago, pleaded guilty to extorting money as an official and evading taxes on the bribes...
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Talks begin with mediator in port lockout
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
SAN FRANCISCO -- With imports blocked and industries feeling the pinch, dockworkers and shipping officials began talks with a federal mediator Thursday to try to resolve a five-day-old West Coast port shutdown. The stalemate has stopped all commercial shipping at 29 ports in California, Oregon and Washington...
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Bush presses Congress to agree on terror insurance
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
Senators accuse CIA of withholding facts on Iraq WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday the CIA has not provided information sought by the panel on Iraq, impeding Congress' ability to consider the need for military action...
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Busboy steals identities of wealthy
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
NEW YORK -- A restaurant busboy pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing the identities of more than 200 wealthy American celebrities and executives in a bid to loot their bank accounts. But he told the court he acted out of a sick compulsion, not greed. ...
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3-year-old dies inside hot car
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
ATLANTA -- Police have charged a mother with murder after she left her 3-year-old daughter with Down syndrome strapped in a sweltering car on the first day of her new job. Ashante Burgess died Wednesday shortly after arriving at a hospital, where doctors said her temperature was 108 degrees...
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Falwell says Islam's prophet a 'terrorist'
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
NEW YORK -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell says "I think Muhammad was a terrorist" in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on the CBS program "60 Minutes." The conservative Baptist minister tells correspondent Bob Simon he has concluded from reading Muslim and non-Muslim writers that Islam's prophet "was a -- a violent man, a man of war."...
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Martha Stewart resigns from stock exchange board
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
NEW YORK -- Martha Stewart, under federal investigation on suspicion of insider trading, resigned Thursday from the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange. "I did not want the media attention currently surrounding me to distract from the important work of the NYSE and thus felt it was appropriate to resign," Stewart said in a statement Thursday. Earlier in the day, she sent a letter of resignation to NYSE chairman and chief executive Dick Grasso before the exchange's board meeting...
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EIU is 'unfinished business' in Otahkians' OVC opener
(College Sports ~ 10/04/02)
Revenge will be on Southeast Missouri State University's mind today when the Otahkians host Eastern Illinois in their Ohio Valley Conference soccer opener. The Panthers (4-5-1) ended the Otahkians' magical season last year, upsetting OVC regular-season champion Southeast 1-0 in the championship game of the conference tournament in Cape Girardeau...
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Warner hopes to return in five weeks despite doctors' estimate
(Professional Sports ~ 10/04/02)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The doctors say Kurt Warner won't be back under center for the Rams for about two months, but the two-time MVP isn't paying any attention to their prognosis. Warner figures it'll take just five weeks for the broken little finger on his throwing hand to heal...
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Cardinals take 2-0 series lead against Diamondbacks
(Professional Sports ~ 10/04/02)
PHOENIX -- They battered Randy Johnson and eased past Curt Schilling. The Cardinals headed home needing one victory to finish off the World Series champions Arizona Diamondbacks. But an injury to Scott Rolen dampened the Cardinals' 2-1 triumph over the Diamondbacks on Thursday...
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Computer wins every time
(Column ~ 10/04/02)
If you read this, you'll soon figure out that I did battle with my computer most of Wednesday and all of Thursday morning. I did not win. If I were a terrorist -- and, Mr. Ashcroft, I am not! -- I wouldn't be hiding my nukes in orphanages to keep U.N. inspectors at bay. I wouldn't be thinking up ways to spray anthrax and smallpox all over my mortal enemy...
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Students here invest in stocks
(Column ~ 10/04/02)
By Gerald S. McDougall The Oct. 1 Southeast Missourian contained a very interesting article ("Students play the market with colleges' money) that highlighted a student-managed investment portfolio at the University of Dayton. Such real-life learning activities are not limited to students enrolled on large university campuses or to programs located in urban areas. ...
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Keep politicians out of MU
(Column ~ 10/04/02)
By Fred Parry COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Board of Curators for the University of Missouri is in hot pursuit of a new president to replace Manuel Pacheco, who will vacate his post at the end of this academic year. While this esteemed position has always been reserved for those with lofty academic accomplishments, the university's financial woes in recent years have left many calling for the hiring of a president with highly regarded political or business credentials...
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'Wildest' rodeo still has family as top goal
(Community Sports ~ 10/04/02)
Ask those closest to Cape's Wildest Rodeo and the same word keeps popping up. "Lots of families," Jason Stroup said. "It's a family thing," Jason's wife, Carrie, said. And from coordinator Greg Sparkman: "It's very family oriented." Cape's Family Rodeo?...
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FanFare 10/4/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/04/02)
Baseball * The Cardinals might have lost third baseman Scott Rolen for the remainder of the playoffs with an injured left shoulder. Rolen injured his left shoulder when he was clipped by pinch-runner Alex Cintron in the seventh inning of Thursday's 2-1 victory over the Diamondbacks. The initial diagnosis was a sprained shoulder, but further tests were planned in St. Louis today...
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Area digest 10/4/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/04/02)
Southeast hosts fall softball event for charity Southeast will host all of the NCAA Division I schools in Missouri for the Missouri Classic Charity Softball Tournament Saturday and Sunday. All funds raised during the annual fall tournament will go to St. Francis Medical Center...
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Jackson becomes the chaser against Zumwalt
(High School Sports ~ 10/04/02)
Last year Jackson had opponents chasing the top running back recruit in the state in speedy Mario Whitney. Tonight the Indians get their turn at tracking down the top rushing recruit in Missouri when they visit Fort Zumwalt West and its star running back, Anton Campbell...
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Oct. 4 prep football games at a glance
(High School Sports ~ 10/04/02)
Jackson (1-3) at Fort Zumwalt West (2-2) Last week: Jackson 34, Graves Co. 12; Fort Zumwalt West 21, Troy Buchanan 18 Last year: Did not play Notes: Jaguars' two losses have been by seven points combined -- a 13-12 loss to Hazelwood East and 6-0 loss to Francis Howell. ...
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Increased tax revenue from tobacco geared to fund new programs
(State News ~ 10/04/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- If voters endorse a $342 million boost in state excise taxes on tobacco products, lawmakers won't be able to count on that money to bail Missouri out of its budget problems, according to the state budget director. However, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee said at least some of the new revenue could be used for budget relief...
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Staying in school
(Local News ~ 10/04/02)
Some colleges are pushing students to graduate in four years rather than hang around for five or six, offering tuition deals and more academic counseling to speed up the process. The University of Georgia at Athens -- where students already graduate in 4.3 years on average -- has gone another route, punishing students who don't graduate in four years. Under a new policy, they'll be moved to the back of the line for football tickets and prime parking spaces...
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Bush's Iraq policy makes headway with U.S. Congress
(National News ~ 10/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush's request for authority to use U.S. force against Iraq advanced in Congress on Thursday, with a House committee voting its approval and Senate leaders predicting wide margins of bipartisan support. "It's up to us today to send a message to the world," said Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss. He predicted Congress would give Bush the authority he wants by next week and "set in motion the beginning of the end of Saddam Hussein."...
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Ex-TV star touts pro-life stance for Vitae Society
(Local News ~ 10/04/02)
For nine years, she was America's favorite television snob. Now she's a pastor's wife and a home-school mom touring the country to benefit a pro-life, Christian organization. Lisa Whelchel, forever known to millions as Blair Warner of the hit 1980s sitcom "The Facts of Life," visited Cape Girardeau Thursday at a benefit dinner for the Vitae Society. ...
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Graves Co. bears brunt of Tigers' first loss
(High School Sports ~ 10/04/02)
It was apparent Central's Tigers were on a mission Thursday night. The true mission was a bit of a mystery. Was it to prove they could shut down an opponent without leading tackler Jeremiah Dukes? To prove they could win without yardage leader Monroe Hicks playing a lead role on offense?...
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Feds- Smallpox vaccine should be rolled out slowly
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
WASHINGTON -- Top federal health officials said Friday they favor offering the smallpox vaccine in stages: first to all who work in hospital emergency rooms, then to about 10 million health care and emergency workers, and eventually to the general public...
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Small towns are counting on levee plan
(Column ~ 10/05/02)
By Joe Sorrells EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- I laughed at first and then became a little angry after reading the guest column, "Stop politics, support real solutions," by Judith Cureton in the Sept. 25 Southeast Missourian. I am one of those residents of East Prairie. ...
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Police link D.C. death to Maryland sniper slayings, seek two su
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Police linked a sixth death to the sniper killings of five Maryland residents and said Friday the same high-powered rifle was used to kill at least four of the victims. Police were searching for two men -- a shooter and a driver -- in the slayings and investigating whether a seventh shooting outside a Virginia store was part of the same terrifying crime spree...
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Sheriff's report 10/05/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/05/02)
Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department Saturday, Oct. 5The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Thomas W. Wilcox, 31, of Cape Girardeau was arrested Sept. 28 on suspicion of driving while intoxicated...
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Oct. 4 high school football scores
(High School Sports ~ 10/05/02)
Friday's Games Fort Zumwalt West 33, Jackson 7 Sikeston 14, Farmington 7 Malden 28, Charleston 27 New Madrid Co. Central 41, Caruthersville 10 Dexter 47, East Prairie 0 Portageville 27, Kennett 17 Scott City 14, Chaffee 6 Hayti 49, Brentwood 0...
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Thomas Hanney III
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- The funeral for Thomas M. Hanney III of Anna will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. The Rev. Scott Harner will officiate. Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery at Dongola, Ill. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday...
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Nelda Hanks
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
ORAN, Mo. -- Nelda Maxine Hanks, 74, of Oran died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 26, 1928, at Gideon, Mo., daughter of James Harrison and Hattie Irene Ray Shaffer. Hanks was a nurse, having worked at Chaffee General Hospital and retiring from the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was a member of Morley Baptist Church at Morley, Mo...
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Roma Cato
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Roma Lee Cato, 79, of Advance died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 23, 1923, at Swinton, Mo., daughter of Presley and Anna Warren Delay. She and Truman Cato were married March 1, 1946, in Cape Girardeau...
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Bill Asbridge
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
Bill F. Asbridge, 77, of Scott City died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 3, 1925, in Dyersburg, Tenn., son of William and Beatrice Blackwell Asbridge. He and Pauline G. Miller were married Feb. 11, 1982, in Collins-ville, Ill...
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Vernita Bles
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
KELSO, Mo. -- Vernita Marie Bles, 81, of Kelso died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 20, 1921, at Kelso, daughter of John William and Clara Mary Seyer Compass. She and George Sylvester Bles were married April 30, 1946, at Kelso...
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Dolphie Fisher Jr.
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Funeral for Dolphie L. "Lee" Fisher Jr. of Foley, Mo., was held Sept. 27, 2002, at Fairmount General Baptist Church in St. Peters, Mo. The Revs. Johnny Gipson and Roy Stanfill officiated. Burial was in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery...
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Wallace Howard
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
CROWDER, Mo. -- Wallace Reed Howard, 81, of Crowder died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, at Bertrand Nursing Facility at Bertrand, Mo. He was born Sept. 19, 1921, at Crowder, son of John Thomas and Mollie May Howard. He and Margie Wigington were married May 15, 1959, at Vanduser, Mo...
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Cora Musgrave
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
Cora Lee Musgrave, 93, died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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The Rev. Fletcher Hill
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
MCCLURE, Ill. -- The Rev. Fletcher V. Hill, 85, of Rockford, Ill., died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, in Rockford. He was born May 29, 1917, in McClure, son of John and Allie Chapman Hill. He and Anna Teich were married Aug. 21, 1941, in Chicago. Survivors include a son; three daughters; a brother, Miles Hill of McClure; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren...
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Billie Burch
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Billie M. "Nana" Burch, 88 of Sikeston died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, at her home. She was born Oct. 8, 1913, in Lanty, Ark., daughter of William and Lillie Etta Hall Montgomery. She and Ardie Morgan Burch were married Dec. 8, 1934, and he died April 8, 1968...
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William Elliott
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- William Joe Elliott, 63, of Poplar Bluff died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at his home. He had been in declining heath for several years. He was born Jan. 19, 1939, in Delta, Mo. He was retired from the U.S. Navy. Survivors include a son, Michael K. Elliott of DeQuincy, La.; two brothers, Jack Weissinger of Benton, Mo., and Jerry Young of St. Ann, Mo.; two sisters, Verna Hanna of Cape Girardeau and Barbara Jean King of Alvord, Texas...
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William Levan
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- William P. "Bill" Levan, 81, of Wolf Lake went to be with the Lord Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Ill. He was born June 26, 1921, in Jackson County, Ill., son of Peter M. and Emma Crisler Levan. He and Lillian Dietz were married Jan. 11, 1941, in Cape Girardeau...
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Bill Howard
(Obituary ~ 10/05/02)
Bill Howard, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, at the Lutheran Home. He was born March 11, 1929, in Marion, Ill., son of Charles Oscar and Jessie Falsom Odum Howard. He and Mary Lou Howard were married Oct. 7, 1967, in St. Charles, Mo...
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Fire report 10/05/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/05/02)
Cape Girardeau Saturday, Oct. 5 Firefighters responded Thursday to the following calls: At 7:13 p.m., alarm at 2825 Bloomfield. At 7:43 p.m., extrication at County Road 441. At 7:57 p.m., emergency medical service at William and Sprigg...
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Police report 10/05/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/05/02)
Cape Girardeau Saturday, Oct. 5The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests A 15-year-old male was cited to juvenile court Thursday for resisting arrest...
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The search for snowflakes
(Local News ~ 10/05/02)
Little girls stared at the numbers stuck to their leotards as dance teacher Jackie Robertson announced who will be snowflakes or angels or mice or butterflies in the upcoming production of "The Great Russian Nutcracker" at the Show Me Center. Small squeals and gasps escaped as their numbers were called...
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Cape police, firefighters get industry of the year award
(Local News ~ 10/05/02)
In a post-Sept. 11 appreciation for police and firefighters, the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce has awarded its Commitment to Excellence Award to the city's police and fire departments, making it the first time that the accolade has been bestowed on groups that aren't involved in manufacturing...
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ND softball team wins big at Park Hills Central
(High School Sports ~ 10/05/02)
Notre Dame unleashed three home runs among its 20 hits as it routed Park Hills Central 26-1 on the road. Notre Dame (17-6) took a 2-0 lead into the third inning but saw Stacy Schwartz and Laura Weissmueller belt back-to-back home runs in a six-run outburst. The Bulldogs added six more runs in the fourth and 12 in the fifth...
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Old bridge holds up well to heavy traffic
(Editorial ~ 10/05/02)
Tales of rust chunks falling on bridge workers' heads and the sight of a bridge beam held up with a chain -- even though that beam isn't load-bearing -- certainly didn't increase motorists' confidence in the Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau...
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Storm leaves Louisiana in muck, misery
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
POINTE AUX CHENES, La. -- Tropical Storm Lili spun out of Louisiana early Friday, leaving behind a trail of muck and misery as residents contended with widespread wind and flood damage and the prospect of days without power. Lili lost strength Thursday after coming ashore at Marsh Island as a Category 2 hurricane packing 100 mph winds. Officials breathed a collective sigh of relief that there were only a handful of injuries and no reported storm-related deaths along the Gulf Coast...
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Anti-abortion group plans to oppose ballot measure
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- An anti-abortion group is opposing a ballot measure to increase tobacco taxes because of concerns that some of the money could be used for abortion services. Missouri Right To Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group, said Friday the ballot measure does not contain legal protections to prevent the money from being used for such things as abortion counseling or referrals...
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St. Louis leaders press area's case for road money
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
CLAYTON, Mo. -- The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission postponed a discussion of a new way to allocate highway money as St. Louis leaders objected Friday to any formula that would reduce funding for their region. "If they want the support of the St. Louis region for future efforts, they can't continuously slap us in the face," said St. Louis County Executive Buzz Westfall. "We're not asking for a larger slice of the pie. We're asking that our slice remain the same."...
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St. Louis interests blast split in road funding
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
CLAYTON, Mo. -- It's back to the drawing board on a new policy for distributing state transportation funds after St. Louis-area interests on Friday blasted proposals they said would unfairly strip the region of revenue for the benefit of rural Missouri...
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Bush to give nationally televised speech on Iraq
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
BOSTON -- In the run-up to key congressional votes, President Bush will argue his case against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in a rare evening speech Monday. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the speech, in Cincinnati, Ohio, will be newsworthy, but he stopped short of calling it a major address and did not promise any new policy or evidence about Saddam's wrongdoings...
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Southeast listed as 'hidden treasure'
(Local News ~ 10/05/02)
Southeast Missouri State University was recently named one of the nation's 30 "hidden treasures" in education, according to university president Dr. Ken Dobbins. Speaking at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee, Dobbins said Southeast was listed in the 2003 edition of Kaplan Inc.'s "The Unofficial, Unbiased Insider's Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges." He said the book, published this summer, is one of two commonly used by guidance counselors to help students select a post-secondary institution.. ...
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Out of the past 10/5/02
(Out of the Past ~ 10/05/02)
10 years ago: Oct. 5, 1992 At least 75 percent of property owners at Twin Lakes subdivision, west of Cape Girardeau, are asking city to annex 155-acre tract; Ray Miller, president of Twin Lake Homeowners Association, says residents of subdivision are requesting annexation to assure adequate water and sewer service and police and fire protection...
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Speak Out A 10/05/02
(Speak Out ~ 10/05/02)
Stop partisan politics THIS IS a time we should all pull together. After Sept. 11, 2001, we were all on the same side. Now they're using politics to divide us. We want a country united. We don't want to be divided. Stop playing partisan politics. I'm sick of it...
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New procedures aim at domestic violence
(Editorial ~ 10/05/02)
Because families and society can't deal with this problem, law enforcement must. That's where Cape Girardeau County's prosecuting attorney, Morley Swingle, comes in. Those who read this newspaper or have met Swingle in person know that he's not satisfied with handling only the expected parts of his job. He's an accomplished writer of legislation, law journal articles and now a historical fiction novel...
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Driver hurt in wreck near Scott City
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/05/02)
A Portageville, Mo., woman sustained moderate injuries Friday in an accident near Scott City on Interstate 55. Cherish Simmons, 27, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center after the 5:25 p.m. accident. It occurred 4 miles south of Scott City. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Simmons' southbound vehicle ran off the road and overturned...
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Man leads deputies to capture burglars after chase
(Local News ~ 10/05/02)
A rural Cape Girardeau County man didn't like it when two burglars tried to run him over in front of his home Thursday afternoon, so he and his father-in-law got in his truck and drove after them. "With them robbing my house, I just felt violated," said Charles Gass, who lives near Pocahontas. "But the main thing that got me mad was they tried to run me over in my front yard."...
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Hearing waived in embezzling case
(Local News ~ 10/05/02)
A former employee of the Cape Girardeau County Juvenile Office charged with embezzling more than $97,000 from local schools waived her right to a preliminary hearing Friday morning in associate circuit court. Robin Whitson, 38, of Cape Girardeau was charged Sept. 11 with depositing 10 checks meant for the Cape Girardeau and Jackson public schools into her own account at the Cape Regional Credit Union...
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Unemployment falls unexpectedly as jobs still lost
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
WASHINGTON -- The nation's unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 5.6 percent in September, even as the economy lost jobs for the first time in five months, highlighting the difficulties some workers and businesses are confronting given the uneven economic recovery...
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Church wins settlement in arson suit
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
STEELVILLE, Mo. -- An insurance company sued after it refused to pay a claim for a church destroyed by arson has settled the case. The fire on Jan. 17 last year destroyed the Rivers of Life Fellowship Church on the outskirts of Steelville, about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis. Damage was estimated at $800,000, and investigators said the fire was set with flammable liquid...
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Potential jurors had some brushes with pharmacist
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Some people who had a close brush with Robert Courtney's scheme to dilute cancer drugs were at his civil trial on Friday -- in the jury pool. As attorneys sifted potential jurors to hear the lawsuit brought by a cancer patient against Courtney and two drug companies, juror No. 37 piped up, saying he got chemotherapy from Courtney's pharmacy about two years ago, though his doctor told him it was different than the medication Courtney was accused of diluting...
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Washington University receives collection of famed filmmaker
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
ST. LOUIS -- The late documentary filmmaker Henry Hampton spent a lifetime compiling the history of America's epic times -- the civil rights movement, the Great Depression, the life of Malcolm X, among others -- for delivery to television viewers. Now Hampton's prodigious body of work, consisting of tens of thousands of films, audio tapes and musical recordings, manuscripts and photographs, is in the custody and care of his alma mater, Washington University, the institution that propelled a moody young man depressed by polio onto a path of eternal curiosity.. ...
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Judge OKs $47 million settlement in class-action discrimination
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- After a nationwide rent-to-own company changed hands in 1998, female employees were demoted, fired, made to work in high-crime inner-city store locations, and subjected to "intrusive tests" about sex, religion and personal bathroom habits...
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Negotiators reach deal on legislation to overhaul voting
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Sen. Kit Bond insists he loves dogs. And respects the dearly departed. But not so much they should be registered to vote. "Protecting the integrity of the ballot box is important to all Americans, but especially to Missouri because of my state's sad history of widespread vote fraud," the Republican said Friday as he celebrated a deal reached by House and Senate negotiators on legislation aimed at improving elections...
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SIU faculty calls for federal mediator in pay dispute
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Students, parents and fans attending this weekend's homecoming events at Southern Illinois University may notice professors distributing leaflets suggesting the school is funding a "bloated administration" over education. Members of the school's faculty union will distribute the orange flyers today during the homecoming parade and home football game, professor Morteza Daneshdoost, president of the group, said Friday...
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Part of Lambert Airport evacuated Friday
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Security officials evacuated the East Terminal and D concourse at Lambert Airport on Friday after a screener identified a small knife in a piece of luggage but was unable to stop the passenger before the person had left the screening area...
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Region/state digest 10/05/02
(State News ~ 10/05/02)
Regulators, Laclede reach agreement on upping rate ST. LOUIS -- Customers of Laclede Gas Co. will see their average monthly bills increase by $1.80 after the utility reached a settlement with the Missouri Public Service Commission. The rate increase that takes effect Nov. 1 should total $14 million, but the company said it wouldn't seek another rate increase for 16 months...
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Deals with farmers produce little change in coca production
(International News ~ 10/05/02)
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A U.S.-funded aid program under which farmers were to have destroyed their own cocaine-producing crops has fallen fall short of its goals, U.S. officials said. The bleak assessment of the results of the initiative to provide coca farmers with an alternative to growing drug crops comes as the United States and the Colombian government embark on an all-out blitz to eradicate coca crops in the southern region...
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Envoys work to close cease-fire in Ivory Coast
(International News ~ 10/05/02)
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- West African peacemakers struggled to hold together a cease-fire deal Friday in divided Ivory Coast -- while rebels accused loyalists of readying their long-threatened counterattack under cover of truce talks. One of the top mediators said the agreement would be signed Saturday in the town of Tiebissou, 20 miles north of the capital Yamoussoukro. There was no immediate comment from the government...
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Troops blow up cache of bombs buried in riverbed
(International News ~ 10/05/02)
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- U.S. troops have destroyed the largest cache of explosives yet found in Afghanistan -- hundreds of 500-pound bombs buried in a dry riverbed near Kandahar, the military said Friday. The cache of 420 air-to-ground bombs was found in the Dori River channel last month, but it took munitions experts weeks to examine the explosives and decide how to deal with them, Air Force Maj. Steve Clutter said...
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A year later, battle-weary Afghans seeking end to war on terror
(International News ~ 10/05/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Akhter Mohammed slipped his holstered pistol on his shoulder and recalled a brutal battle against the Taliban, fighting side by side with U.S. Special Forces. They were brave, heroic, he said. But now he wants America to leave the battlefield behind and begin rebuilding his homeland...
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Sinn Fein raided to find secret British documents
(International News ~ 10/05/02)
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Police searching for stolen British documents raided Sinn Fein properties and arrested four people Friday, fueling demands for the Irish Republican Army-linked party to be expelled from Northern Ireland's administration...
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Pakistan, India conduct tit-for-tat missile tests
(International News ~ 10/05/02)
NEW DELHI, India -- Pakistan and India, nuclear-armed rivals who came to the brink of war only four months ago, staged tit-for-tat missile tests Friday, increasing tensions and raising fears of a renewed arms race. India's government called Pakistan's test a publicity stunt ahead of next week's general elections, the first since a 1999 military coup...
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Two years after Milosevic, many Serbs disenchanted as election
(International News ~ 10/05/02)
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Toppling Slobodan Milosevic was easy, or so it seems now to Dusan Antonic, who took part in the revolt against the former president two years ago Friday. But now Antonic and many other disenchanted Serbs face the difficult decision of who to vote for among those who would be Milosevic's successors in the coming Serbian presidential elections...
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World digest 10/05/02
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
Prosecutors: Terrorists planned to blow up jet PARIS -- French prosecutors believe terrorists wanted to blow up a Moroccan passenger jet last week, judicial officials said Friday. Anti-terrorism prosecutors opened a criminal investigation Friday following the discovery of explosives on a Royal Air Maroc airplane after it landed in eastern France on Sept. 25...
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Feds close defect investigation into Crown Victoria police veh
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
The Associated Pres WASHINGTON -- A 10-month federal investigation ended Thursday without finding a defect in the Ford Crown Victoria police cars linked to the fiery deaths of a dozen officers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the car exceeds federal standards for fuel system safety and the rate of fires was not much greater than with Chevrolet Caprice police cars...
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Skull, bones determined to be from 9-year-old girl
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
WENTWORTH, N.C. -- Bone fragments and a skull found on a rural property are the remains of a 9-year-old girl who vanished after her parents were fatally shot in their home seven weeks ago, authorities said Friday. Investigators said they have not made any arrests but would like to talk with a man now in Canadian custody whose rented house and mobile home in Rockingham County were recently searched...
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Man pleads guilty to taking shoe bomb onboard airplane
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
BOSTON -- Richard Reid pleaded guilty with a laugh Friday to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes, and he declared his hatred for America and his loyalty to Osama bin Laden. "Basically I got on the plane with a bomb," Reid said, alternately defiant and flippant. "Basically I tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage the plane."...
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Lindh sentenced to 20 years after tearful plea to forgive
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- John Walker Lindh, whose discovery as a U.S.-born Taliban fighter startled the nation, received a 20-year sentence Friday after condemning Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network during a sobbing, halting plea for forgiveness. U.S. ...
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Pennsylvania commission hears testimony about mine safety
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- A commission formed after the mining disaster that left nine men stranded underground for three days heard testimony that better maps could help prevent future accidents. The Quecreek Mine accident in July was blamed on an outdated map that led miners to breach a water-filled abandoned mine they thought was 300 feet away...
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FBI- Accused gunman scouted U.N.
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
NEW YORK -- An Illinois postal worker accused of shooting a pistol outside the United Nations while denouncing "the plight of the North Korean people" had scouted the area on a previous trip, court documents revealed Friday. Steve Kim, 57, a naturalized citizen from Des Plaines, Ill., also had eaten little for two days before the shooting incident because he felt it would improve his survival prospects if he was shot and needed surgery, according to the documents...
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Steel cross draws supporters at Ground Zero
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
NEW YORK -- Jane Pollicino stood Friday beneath the cross-shaped steel beam at Ground Zero, her late husband's name on a bracelet around her wrist. "This is clearly a message from God, that he was always there for us," she said, looking up at the cross that improbably survived the Sept. 11 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. "A message to keep having faith."...
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Ex-smoker awarded $28 billion by jury in punitive damages
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
LOS ANGELES -- A jury awarded a record-shattering $28 billion in punitive damages Friday to a 64-year-old former smoker who sued Philip Morris Inc. for fraud and negligence. Analysts said the verdict will almost certainly be reduced on appeal. But the jaw-dropping amount suggested growing hostility toward the tobacco industry...
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'Defining day' heralded against terrorism
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Hailing a "defining day" in the fight against terrorism, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the arrests of four people in Oregon and Michigan on Friday on charges of conspiring to wage war on the United States and support al-Qaida. Two other suspects were being sought overseas...
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Abuse charges shadow career of comedian
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. -- Paula Poundstone says she can't hide from her arrest last year on child abuse charges as she tries to resume her standup comedy career. "I am not a victim," Poundstone told Newsday before an appearance Friday night at a small club on Long Island, part of a three-day swing through the Northeast this weekend. "I am absolutely responsible for what has happened in my life, and it is safe to say there has been some unfairness."...
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Man at sea two months found by Coast Guard
(National News ~ 10/05/02)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A Florida man who says he was lost at sea for more than two months was rescued 40 miles off the coast. The Coast Guard reached Terry Watson, 43, on Thursday. Emaciated and weak, Watson was suffering from dehydration, delusion and shock, officials said...
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Angels take 2-1 series lead over Yankees
(Professional Sports ~ 10/05/02)
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The New York Yankees just can't put away these Anaheim Angels. Now, it's the four-time defending AL champions who are one loss from going home in early October. Darin Erstad hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning and Tim Salmon followed with a two-run homer as the Angels again rallied, overcoming a five-run deficit to beat the Yankees 9-6 on Friday night...
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FanFare 10/5/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/05/02)
Briefly Basketball 76ers guard Allen Iverson hurt his finger during practice and was taken to the hospital for tests to determine the severity of the injury. Coach Larry Brown said Iverson jammed the middle finger on his right hand...
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World champions try to avoid first-round sweep
(Professional Sports ~ 10/05/02)
ST. LOUIS -- On top of the baseball world a year ago, the situation has become dire for the Arizona Diamondbacks. The defending World Champions face elimination in their first-round playoff series against the Cardinals, and with no Randy Johnson or Curt Schilling to bail them out in Game 3 tonight. Miguel Batista will get the call when Arizona tries to avoid a three-game sweep...
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Sooners face first true road test at MU
(Professional Sports ~ 10/05/02)
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Missouri Tigers are off to a good start, led by a talented young quarterback and a defense that leads the Big 12 in turnover margin. Now comes a real test -- a visit tonight by No. 3 Oklahoma in the Big 12 opener for both teams...
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Southeast starts new season with big weekend
(College Sports ~ 10/05/02)
Southeast Missouri State University roller hockey club team will begin its fourth year of Great Plains Roller Hockey today against the University of Missouri-St. Louis at 1 p.m. at the All American Sports Complex in St. Louis. The league runs through Nov. 16, with each team playing 2-3 games a weekend. After the Nov. 16 weekend the league takes a break until Feb. 1, when it comes back for two more weeks...
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Seniors begin championship chase today
(Community Sports ~ 10/05/02)
As many as 300 bowlers from across Missouri are expected today for the start of the Missouri Seniors Doubles and Singles Tournament at West Park Lanes in Cape Girardeau. The event, hosted by the Cape Girardeau Women's Bowling Association for the first time in several years, will be held over three weekends. Events begin at 10 a.m. today and Sunday and again Oct. 12 and 13. The final round will be Oct. 19...
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Southeast follows breakthrough win with test by TSU
(College Sports ~ 10/05/02)
Tennessee State comes to Cape Girardeau as one of the Ohio Valley Conference's most disappointing teams so far this season. But don't let the Tigers' 1-4 record fool you. Tennessee State, according to Southeast Missouri State University coach Tim Billings, could be one of the most talented squads the Indians will face all year...
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Otahkians open OVC schedule with shutout
(College Sports ~ 10/05/02)
Southeast Missouri State University and Eastern Illinois are regarded as the Ohio Valley Conference's top two women's soccer teams -- and they did nothing to dispel that Friday night. The squads slugged it out on virtually even terms for nearly 90 minutes, but a late Southeast goal lifted the Otahkians to a 1-0 victory...
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Linemen Cowell, Knoth quietly keep teams' offenses moving
(College Sports ~ 10/05/02)
Life in the trenches can be a thankless job. They protect the quarterback and open holes for the running back, but they often go unnoticed. In fact, an offensive lineman might be doing his best job when his number isn't called. So for local linemen playing in college -- like Perryville's Nick Cowell and Central's Craig Knoth -- the fact that no few know them outside of they're teammates means they are doing their jobs...
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Campbell's TDs send Jackson to fourth defeat
(High School Sports ~ 10/05/02)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- Michigan-bound Anton Campbell scored four touchdowns to lead host Fort Zumwalt West to a 33-7 victory over Jackson on Friday night. The Jaguars improved to 3-2 while Jackson fell to 1-4. Campbell introduced himself early, scoring on a 59-yard run on Zumwalt's first possession of the game. The extra point failed and the Jaguars led 6-0...
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Rams' big pass plays beat rival Red Devils
(High School Sports ~ 10/05/02)
Scott City beat Chaffee at their own game Friday night. The passing game, that is. On the strength of two big passing plays -- a 50-yard strike and a 20-yard touchdown pass, both to 6-foot-6 senior Chad Weatherspoon -- host Scott City squeaked out a 14-6 win over its Scott County rival...
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Supreme Court begins new term Monday
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
WASHINGTON -- The freedom to burn a cross, the post-prison privacy rights of sex predators and copyright protection for lingerie will occupy the Supreme Court as the justices step from behind red velvet drapes and into their courtroom next week. The term's biggest news, however, may come from cases still making their way to the high court...
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It's up to council to decide Cape's needs
(Editorial ~ 10/06/02)
In a year when tax increases of almost any stripe have faced overwhelming voter opposition, the most recent proposals for tax increases to meet the needs of Cape Girardeau's city government have been met with total silence. More than a week has passed since the Citizens Finance Task Force issued its recommendations. ...
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Latest win monumental in its own way
(Sports Column ~ 10/06/02)
Just one week after arguably the program's biggest win ever, Southeast Missouri State University's football Indians proved they weren't just one-hit wonders. While Saturday's victory over visiting Tennessee State to begin Ohio Valley Conference play doesn't rank with the previous week's stunning upset at Division I-A Middle Tennessee, the triumph was significant nonetheless...
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Police link bullet in Virginia to sniper spree
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
SIX VICTIMS By David Dishneau ~ The Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The bullet used to shoot a Virginia woman matches ammunition used to kill at least four of six victims of a sniper spree in Washington, D.C., and suburban Maryland, investigators said Saturday...
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Police examine car in seventh shooting
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Authorities on Saturday investigated a Virginia shooting for links to a sniper spree that left six dead in Maryland and Washington, D.C., but they said they may never be able to confirm that all the slayings were connected. No arrests had been made in the scattered shootings that began Wednesday and apparently targeted people at random. Authorities were talking to one man late Saturday afternoon, but they stressed that he was not a suspect and no weapons were found with him...
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Make A Difference Day gives opportunity to volunteer
(Local News ~ 10/06/02)
Helping the needy, providing a boost to the military and putting a priority on good family values ... it all sounds like a cheesy, lip-service political campaign platform. But real people from three Cape Girardeau organizations are putting those ideals into action this month as they plan to participate in Make A Difference Day on Saturday, Oct. 26...
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Tour de Cape becoming more popular
(Local News ~ 10/06/02)
These five bicyclists on Highway 74 were among the 250 people who rode in the Tour de Cape Saturday.By Bob Miller ~ Southeast Missourian The numbers say the Tour de Cape bicycle tour has seen its attendance increase 2 1/2 times in three years...
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Health care a major theme in Carnahan-Talent race
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
WASHINGTON -- About half a million Missourians have no health insurance, and new estimates show the number is growing. Debate over how to make insurance affordable has persisted during the U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri. So has disagreement over how the government should pay for older people's prescription drugs, making health care a major theme of the race between Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan and Republican challenger Jim Talent...
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Bush urges Americans to build support for Iraq war
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
President Bush warned on Saturday that Saddam Hussein could strike without notice and inflict "massive and sudden horror" on America, offering a new rationale for pre-emptive military action against Iraq. In the run-up to key congressional votes on war-making authority, Bush promised in the clearest terms yet to rebuild Iraq after a war. He also said the Iraqi president has a "horrible history" of attacking his enemies first...
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Israelis prepare for Iraq war
(International News ~ 10/06/02)
KFAR SAVA, Israel -- As Americans ponder the consequences of a U.S. attack on Iraq, people in this hamlet northeast of Tel Aviv seem quite certain where Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will strike back. At Israel. Many have begun preparing for war, restocking their bomb shelters and getting new gas masks from the government...
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Missouri fear factor
(Local News ~ 10/06/02)
EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- As part of her 17-year job as office manager at Karpet Korner, Mary Martin drives across the Mississippi River bridge six or seven times a day running errands. It's not the high point of her day. If the traffic's not backed up, causing her to wait as much as half an hour sometimes, there's the not-so-fleeting thought in the back of her mind that the 74-year-old bridge may not be in the best of shape...
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4 Haitians dead in Lili's wake
(International News ~ 10/06/02)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The death toll from Hurricane Lili grew to 12 after Haitian authorities reported that four people were killed when the storm hit the island more than a week ago. Two people died in mudslides and the other two drowned when Lili's outer rainbands dumped torrential rain on Haiti's south coast on Sept. 27, the National Civil Defense Bureau reported. At the time, Lili was a tropical storm...
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Worker says he was fired for e-mail questioning ex-CEO
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The e-mail from Aquila Inc. chief Richard Green encouraged employees to share their "thoughts and concerns" about the company. Employee Stephen Millan shared a concern -- and lost his job. Millan sent a note critical of the $7.6 million severance package given to former chief executive officer Robert Green, who last week turned the CEO post over to his brother, Richard...
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Brawls at gas station attract mob of nearly 100
(Local News ~ 10/06/02)
Chaos broke out early Saturday morning at a Cape Girardeau gas station with multiple fistfights in a parking lot crowded with perhaps more than 100 people. To further complicate the situation, a police officer responding to the brawls struck a 21-year-old woman when she pulled out in front of him. She was recovering at Southeast Missouri Hospital Saturday night...
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Relics from the past
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
BRAGGADOCIO, Mo. -- The town name begs the question: Are folks from Braggadocio braggarts? "Naw, we're pretty humble down in these parts, and I know because I've lived here all my life," says farmer Caleb Davis, 59, of Braggadocio, an unincorporated community deep in Southeast Missouri's Bootheel. "It IS a memorable name for a town, though."...
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Finding Phoenix
(Community ~ 10/06/02)
PHOENIX -- Not long ago a friend of mine was eagerly packing for a trip Phoenix. I asked him, "What's the attraction of a city that brings to mind stately cactus, canyons and desert critters?" "Great golf," he said. There is a lot of golf in Phoenix. Of the more than 200 courses in Arizona, more than 120 of them are in the Phoenix area, and with about 300 days of sunshine each year, there are plenty of chances to play...
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Work to start on new hot air balloon museum in Albuquerque
(Community ~ 10/06/02)
ALBUQUERQUE -- A groundbreaking ceremony for a museum dedicated to the history and high points of ballooning will coincide with this year's Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The Maxie Anderson Foundation plans to break ground for the new museum on Friday...
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Comfortable and cozy Jackson house offers practical design
(Community ~ 10/06/02)
The house at 3558 Dana in Jackson is more than just a pretty face. Its innovative and practical design prove that it has brains as well as beauty. This house has four bedrooms and three baths, making it a very practical home for a growing family. Yet it also has a number of features that give it unexpected touches of luxury...
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Good health more costly in long run
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/06/02)
To the editor: Missourians were promised that the revenue from riverboat gambling would be used for education. We were promised that the temporary 6-cent gas tax, now permanent, would be used to build new highways. We were promised when Missouri joined the national tobacco lawsuit that any proceeds would be used for health care and tobacco-avoidance programs aimed at our young...
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Births 10/6/02
(Births ~ 10/06/02)
Lanigan Son to Michael Timothy and Melissa Sue Lanigan of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, 2002. Name, Colin Bradley. Weight, 7 pounds 1 ounce. Fourth son. Mrs. Lanigan is the former Melissa Hennecke, daughter of Betty Hennecke of Whitewater, and the late Robert Hennecke. She is an assistant manager at McDonald's in Jackson. Lanigan is the son of James Lanigan and Louella Lanigan of Marble Hill, Mo. He is a carpenter with Behlman Builders...
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Correction
(Correction ~ 10/06/02)
In a story that ran in the Oct. 1 edition of the Southeast Missourian, Linda Rederrer was incorrectly identified. She is a staff writer for the Daiily American Republic in Poplar Bluff. The Southeast Missourian regrets the error.
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Johnstons mark 25 years
(Anniversary ~ 10/06/02)
Phil and Paula Johnston of Jackson celebrated their 25th anniversary Sept. 21, 2002, at a surprise event at New McKendree United Methodist Church fellowship hall. Hosts were Dana Johnston and Edith Prater. More than 100 guests attended the event. Johnston and Paula Prater were married Oct. 1, 1977, at New McKendree Church...
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Gohns celebrate 50 years
(Anniversary ~ 10/06/02)
Mr. and Mrs. David Gohn of Jackson celebrated their 50th anniversary Aug. 3, 2002, with family and friends at the Sportsman's Lodge at Kentucky Lake. A dinner party was also held Aug. 11 at the home of Jack and Shirley Cracraft in Cape Girardeau. Gohn and Glenda Propst were married Aug. 3, 1952, at Centenary United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau...
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Smith-Davis
(Engagement ~ 10/06/02)
MCCLURE, Ill. -- Kevin and Debra Smith of Campbell Hill, Ill., announce the engagement of their daughter, Christine Sue Smith, to Matthew Steven Davis. He is the son of Tom and Martha Davis of McClure. Smith is a 1994 graduate of Trico High School in Campbell Hill. She received an associate of science degree in chemistry from John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill., and a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She is an accountant at SIU...
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Maynard-Tucker
(Engagement ~ 10/06/02)
Mike and Kathy Maynard of Gordonville announce the engagement of their daughter, Monica Leann Maynard, to Benjamin Vincent Tucker. He is the son of Mike and Donna Tucker of St. Louis. Maynard is a 1995 graduate of Jackson High School, and received a degree in marketing from Southeast Missouri State University. She is an assistant manager at Walgreen Drug Store in St. Louis...
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Sanders-Sanford
(Engagement ~ 10/06/02)
Donald R. Sanders and Deborah F. Cox of Scott City announce the engagement of their daughter, Lisa Rae Sanders, to Shawn Steven Sanford. He is the son of Steven A. Sanford and Brenda K. Sanford of Scott City. Sanders is a graduate of Scott City High School, and is a junior at Southeast Missouri State University. She is a server at Red Lobster...
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Aden-Moser
(Engagement ~ 10/06/02)
Kerry and Sherry Aden of Cape Girardeau announce the engagement of their daughter, Kerrigan Renee Aden, to Christopher Joseph Moser. He is the son of Duaine and Judith Moser of Grassy, Mo. Aden is a 1994 graduate of Central High School. She is a cardiovascular assistant in the Cardiac Cath Lab at Southeast Missouri Hospital...
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Birk-Holdman
(Engagement ~ 10/06/02)
Heather D. Birk and Brian E. Holdman of Cape Girardeau announce their engagement. She is the daughter of Roy and Nancy Birk of Ann Arbor, Mich. Holdman is the son of Ruth Holdman of Cape Girardeau, and the late Larry Holdman. Birk received a bachelor of science degree in marketing management from Southeast Missouri State University in 2002. She is a manufacturing supervisor at Magna-Tel Inc...
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Koeberl-Freeman
(Engagement ~ 10/06/02)
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Koeberl of Jackson announce the engagement of their daughter, Kara Denise Koeberl, to Travis Jeremy Freeman. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Freeman of Cape Girardeau. Koeberl is a 2001 graduate of Jackson High School. She is majoring in agri-business with animal science option at Southeast Missouri State University. She is employed at the university...
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Turner-Klaus
(Engagement ~ 10/06/02)
Dennis and Patty Turner of Cape Girardeau announce the engagement of their daughter, Amy Denise Turner, to Brian Eli Klaus. He is the son of Theresa Weaver and James Klaus of DeSoto, Mo. Turner attended Southeast Missouri State University. She is a software systems trainer for the United States Federal Courts...
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Schoen-Vail
(Wedding ~ 10/06/02)
Audrey Lorainne Schoen and Chadwell Brandon Vail were married May 23, 2002, at the St. Louis Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Jack Kramer of Cape Girardeau performed the ceremony. Parents of the couple are Bruce and Brenda Schoen of Jackson, and Clifford and Anita Vail of Belgrade, Mo...
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Casteel-Harper
(Wedding ~ 10/06/02)
First Baptist Church in Jackson was the setting June 22, 2002, for the wedding of Lynn Elaine Casteel and Ryan Paul Harper. The Rev. Patrick Tankersley performed the ceremony. Scripture reader was Angela Ernst, cousin of the bride. Pianist was Matt Yount of Marble Hill, Mo.; guitarist was Bryan Davidson, drummer was Brian Brinker, bassist was Sam Godwin, and soloist was Beth Poole, all of Cape Girardeau...
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Swift-Hammock
(Wedding ~ 10/06/02)
Sara Kay Swift and Chet Allen Hammock were married July 29, 2002, at St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. Dwight W. Ervin performed the ceremony. Dennis and Kay Swift of Columbia, Ill., are parents of the bride. The groom is the son of Jane Hammock of Matthews, Mo., and the late Donald Hammock Jr...
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Smithey-Coomer
(Wedding ~ 10/06/02)
Tera D. Smithey and Brandon Coomer were married Aug. 23, 2002, at First General Baptist Church in Jackson. The Rev. Luther Rhodes performed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Paul and Lorie Smithey of Wynona, Okla., and Kim Smithey of Jackson. Rick and Carol Coomer of Shawneetown are parents of the groom...
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Ireland-Featherston
(Wedding ~ 10/06/02)
First Baptist Church in Jackson was the setting for the wedding of Cathy Jean Ireland and Joshua Scott Featherston Aug. 3, 2002. The Rev. Brian Anderson performed the ceremony. Organist was Laura Robinson, and vocalists were Michelle Hicks of Campbell, Mo., and Reba James of Memphis, Tenn...
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Slinkard-Cruz
(Wedding ~ 10/06/02)
Elizabeth M. Slinkard and Matt J. Cruz were married Aug. 24, 2002, at Cape County Park in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Ronnie Brown performed the ceremony. Parents of the couple are Roger and Pauline Slinkard and Duane and Sherry Cruz, all of Oak Ridge...
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80-year-old keeps jogging
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
Associated Press/L.G. Patterson Walter Schroeder, a retired University of Missouri geography professor, showed off a old map of Missouri in the geography library on the Columbia, Mo., campus. Schroeder is the chairman of a state commission that is responsible for approving new place names for the sake of consistency.Daily American Republic...
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Out of the past 10/6/02
(Out of the Past ~ 10/06/02)
10 years ago: Oct. 6, 1992 Students, parents and staff at Notre Dame High School broke all records during last week's fund drive, raising $28,000; last year's Activity Week generated $22,000, which was also record-breaking total; money raised has already been budgeted for school year...
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Franklin Schmidt
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Franklin P. "Dutch" Schmidt, 75, of Perryville died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, at the Perry County Nursing Home. He was born May 15, 1927, in Granite City, Ill., son of Martin and Marie Brown Schmidt. He and Zita Schrenk were married Sept. 5, 1949, in Perryville...
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Mary Scheeter
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
Mary Emeline Scheeter, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at the Lutheran Nursing Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 4, 1911 at Wolf Lake, Ill., daughter of John A. and Etta M. House Stone. She and Charles L. Scheeter were married April 21, 1935 at Illmo, Mo. He died Sept. 4, 1995...
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Caleb Brown
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
McCLURE, Ill. -- Caleb W. Brown, infant son of Rodney and Casey Dalton Brown, of McClure died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Aug. 8, 2002, in Cape Girardeau. He was a member of Hanover Lutheran Church. Survivors include his parents; one sister, Callie Brown of McClure; maternal grandparents, Phyllis and Robert York of Cape Girardeau and William Dalton of Gordonville, Mo.; paternal grandparents, Virginia and Jerry Munson of Metamora, Ill., and Morlow and Linda Brown of McClure; maternal great-grandparents, Imogene and Loyd Bollinger of Cape Girardeau; and paternal great-grandparent, Alice Harris of Cape Girardeau.. ...
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Katelynne Brewer
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Katelynne M. Brewer of Perryville was born and died on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was the daughter of Donald and Koren Hogard Brewer. Survivors include her parents; one brother, Alec J. Brewer; two sisters, Courtney R. ...
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P.J. Schlosser
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- P.J. Schlosser, 87, of Sikeston died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. He was born Sept. 27, 1915, at Kelso, Mo., son of John and Mary Burger Schlosser. He and Geraldine Brewer were married March 10, 1936, at Murphysboro, Ill...
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Marguerite Thurman
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
Marguerite Barnhill Thurman, 93, of Anniston, Mo., died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002 at the Jackson Manor Nursing Center. She was born Aug. 9, 1909 at Kewanee, Mo., daughter of Luke Winslow and Wilma Leonore Adkins Barnhill. She and Leonard "Peck" Therman were married Aug. 25, 1929, at Charleston, Mo. He died May 24, 1999...
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Al Lafleur
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
Alfred "Al" D. Lafleur, age 86, of Cape Girardeau passed away Saturday, Oct. 5, 2002, at his home. He was born June 8, 1916, in Cicero, Ill., the son of the late Otto and Ruth Kennedy Lafleur. He married Ruth Chilcutt Sept. 4, 1971, and she survives...
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The Rev. Fletcher Hill
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
MCCLURE, Ill. -- The Rev. Fletcher V. Hill, 85, of Rockford, Ill., died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, in Rockford. He was born May 29, 1917, in McClure, son of John and Allie Chapman Hill. He and Anna Teich were married Aug. 21, 1941, in Chicago. Survivors include a son; three daughters; a brother, Miles Hill of McClure; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews...
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Cora Musgrave
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
Cora "Cody" N. Musgrave, 93, of Jackson died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girar-deau. She was born Nov. 29, 1908, in Bokerton, Mo., daughter of J.W. and Mary "Molly" Herase Nicholas. She and Daniel Musgrave were married June 17, 1954, in Cape Girardeau. He died April 3, 1993...
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Helen Haag
(Obituary ~ 10/06/02)
Helen B. Haag, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2002, at the Chateau Girardeau Health Center. She was born April 23, 1909, at Rochester, N.Y., daughter of George and Mary Edna Carter Budd. She and Herman M. Haag were married July 8, 1933, at St. Louis. He preceded her in death June 7, 1970...
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Speak Out A 10/06/02
(Speak Out ~ 10/06/02)
Turn the other cheek WHAT HAPPENED to Christian values in this country? We were founded on Christian principles, weren't we? All this talk of war sure sounds like the devil's work to me. I'm pretty sure Christ said to turn the other cheek. If someone smacked Jesus in the face, would he punch them back?...
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Personal impact of bank robbery connects us all
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/06/02)
To the editor: For people who have never been to northeast Nebraska, who have not lived away from towns the size of Cape Girardeau (my hometown), the 90 miles between Norfolk, Neb., and my present home in Niobrara, Neb., is a shopping commute. The murderous bank robbery affected us personally. One victim's mother lives here among the approximately 400 people of the village. Another friend's brother was one of the policemen who arrested the suspects 50 miles from here. We are all connected...
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Flaws attributed to Bush apply more to Clinton
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/06/02)
To the editor: I feel it necessary to respond to Paul Zmolek's cynical rant regarding President Bush's motivation for pushing military action against Iraq. President Bush's dealings Harken Oil were fully investigated 10 years ago, and there was no evidence of any illegal dealings. ...
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FanFare 10/6/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/06/02)
Briefly Basketball A man arrested for identity theft had a bank account number for Michael Jordan and was looking for someone to pose as Jordan or his wife, police said. Ishman Walker was arrested last month, before he was able to find an accomplice who resembled Michael or Juanita Jordan, said Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for Cook County Sheriff Michael Sheahan.. ...
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FanSpeak 10/6/02
(Other Sports ~ 10/06/02)
Coach showed class PEOPLE IN the community need to know what kind of a class act we have as our head football coach at Central. Last weekend, our team traveled to North County to play a 7:30 p.m. game. While the team was getting ready, we discovered that North County moved the starting time to 7 without notifying anybody. ...
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Churches continue to be healthy, vibrant
(Editorial ~ 10/06/02)
The U.S. economy has been sour for more than a year, and the effects have been felt in almost every financial area. But in Southeast Missouri, churches continue to buck the current financial trends. Churches are growing, and the expansion of religious facilities that began in earnest several years ago shows no signs of abating...
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Fire report 10/06/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/06/02)
Cape Girardeau Sunday, Oct. 6 Firefighters responded to the following calls Friday: At 3 p.m., a motor vehicle accident and emergency medical assistance at Broadway and North Frederick. At 4:44 p.m., smoke in building at North Henderson and Normal. At 6:06 p.m., a motor vehicle accident and emergency medical service at Route K and Interstate 55...
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Jackson Business Showcase draws about 100 people
(Local News ~ 10/06/02)
Jackson Chamber of Commerce's Business Showcase drew about 100 people Saturday, which was up quite a bit from last year, according to chamber executive director Ken Parrett. "I think the location and day of the week made a difference," Parrett said. Last year, the first year for the showcase, the event was held on a Friday...
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Police report 10/06/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/06/02)
Cape Girardeau Sunday, Oct. 6 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Gilbert Clements, 38, of 622 S. Park was arrested Saturday for driving while intoxicated. Joseph Stoneham, 21, of Dallas, Texas, was arrested Saturday for driving while intoxicated...
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United Way topic of radio show today
(Local News ~ 10/06/02)
Nancy Jernigan, executive director of the Area Wide United Way, will be the guest on KRCU's "Going Public" radio show today. Jernigan will discuss charitable giving and the ways that United Way provides aid to the community. The show will air at 3 p.m. on 90.9 FM, the region's Public Radio affiliate station...
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'Witness' of Virginia killings targeted in probe
(Local News ~ 10/06/02)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Canadian authorities said Saturday they have begun seeking out acquaintances of a man described as a "witness" in the disappearance of a 9-year-old Virginia girl and the deaths of her parents. Garrison Storm Bowman, who owned a trailer in North Carolina near where the girl's remains were found Sept. 25, was being held in Canada on grounds he illegally entered the country about a month ago...
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Maddux sends Braves to 2-1 series advantage
(Professional Sports ~ 10/06/02)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Greg Maddux looked like a fine postseason pitcher this time around -- doing more than enough to get Atlanta closer to another NL championship series. Maddux shook his past playoff blunders, winning his first postseason game in three years, as the Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants 10-2 Saturday to take a 2-1 lead in their NL division series...
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League pins higher safety hopes on its new nets
(Professional Sports ~ 10/06/02)
When the six-ounce frozen rubber puck leaves Al MacInnis's stick, it often travels faster than a Randy Johnson fastball. When he really cranks one up, it's known as hockey's "radio shot" -- you can hear it, but you can't see it. More times than the St. Louis Blues defenseman can count, his faster-than-fast slap shot has deflected off a player, the goal post or a stick and slammed into the unprotected crowd, destination unknown. Sometimes, the result is frightening...
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Guerin's OT goal lifts Stars past Blues
(Professional Sports ~ 10/06/02)
DALLAS -- Bill Guerin scored 24 seconds into overtime to give the Dallas Stars a 2-1 victory over the Blues on Saturday night in an exhibition game. Guerin skated to the net and backhanded Sergei Zubov's lead pass by Fred Brathwaite to give the Stars the victory. Guerin's penalty late in the third period set up the Blues' tying goal...
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N.J. Republican proposes debates
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. -- Even as Republicans contested Frank N. Lautenberg's effort to get his name on the ballot in a bid for the Senate, the GOP candidate challenged the Democrat Saturday to a series of debates. Approaching Lautenberg at a street fair, Douglas Forrester borrowed a page from the former senator's first campaign in 1978 in challenging him to 21 debates -- one for each county. "Are you willing?" he asked...
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Ruptured hose in chlorine leak did not meet standard
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Federal investigators said a substandard hose is partly to blame for a chlorine leak in August that injured 63 people. U.S. Chemical Safety Board Spokesman John Bresland said Friday that the ruptured hose contained a metal weave not normally used in chlorine transfer hoses. ...
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Sex offenders ask federal judge to bar release of lists
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A federal judge has been asked to bar the state and its 114 counties from releasing their lists of convicted sexual offenders. U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey already has granted an injunction barring the release of the names of three Kansas City-area plaintiffs. On Thursday, she granted class-action status to six other men challenging the law, meaning those six now potentially represent more than 17,000 Missouri residents required to register...
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Two sentenced in bribery case
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
ST. LOUIS -- An acquaintance of a former St. Louis Housing Authority worker has been sentenced to a year and eight months in federal prison in a bribery scheme involving waiting lists for subsidized housing. The former worker was ordered to spend three years on probation...
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Authorities say woman lived with corpse for weeks
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
JASPER, Mo. -- A southwest Missouri woman apparently lived with her husband's corpse for more than six weeks before relatives discovered him, authorities said. Jasper County Coroner Ron Mosbaugh said Kenneth Weber, 58, apparently died in August while sitting on the couch in his living room. Meanwhile, his wife, Linda Weber, lived with and cleaned up around the corpse...
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Scuba diving opens up new world for divers in Midwest
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Ernie Miller says scuba diving is like going to the opera. "If you like it at first, you'll learn to love it with a passion. If you can tolerate it, you might just learn to like it," says the Professional Association of Diving Instructors course director...
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Man unlocks story of WWII radar school
(State News ~ 10/06/02)
NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- During Boy Scout outings in the 1960s at McDowell Grove Forest Preserve in Naperville, Tom Atkinson used to play on concrete ruins in the heart of the woods. As a youngster, it was just something fun to do. Years later as an adult, finding out what buildings once existed on that site became a mission for Atkinson...
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Accessories add punch to any outfit this fall Once again, this
(Community ~ 10/06/02)
The perfect accessory adds the proper punctuation to an outfit. If you're looking for an exclamation point this fall, try an oversized bag, a touch of the Wild West or an exotic animal print. The staple of the season, however, is again the boot. "Boots -- and by extension, booties -- are the perfect accessory," says footwear designer Stuart Weitzman. They work for a variety of outfits and personal styles, he explains...
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Think pink to raise breast-cancer awareness
(Community ~ 10/06/02)
Breast cancer affects the lives of so many women, either because they've been diagnosed with the disease, recently been tested for it or know someone who has it, which means the disease affects the lives of many shoppers. The fashion and beauty industries are giving all these shoppers a chance to do something to fight breast cancer...
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Ivy League schools covered in Virginia Creeper, not ivy
(Community ~ 10/06/02)
If truth be known, the hallowed walls of Ivy League colleges are not covered with ivy; they're covered with Virginia creeper. Still, the name "Creeper League" colleges wouldn't conjure up visions of institutions for higher learning. This is not to disparage the plant itself, now coming into its full glory, visually igniting walls and trees. ...
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New imaging software enhances pictures
(Community ~ 10/06/02)
As an avid digital-image maker, I try to keep up to speed on the latest digital imaging programs. That's not easy to do. Seems like a new, or updated, version of an existing imaging program is introduced every month. What's more, I try to become familiar with as many programs as possible so I can share their benefits with readers of this column...
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Finding treasures at fall flea market sales
(Community ~ 10/06/02)
Flea market browsing is a nice way to spend an autumn day. Shoppers never quite know what they'll find at garage sales, tag sales and estate auctions. But they're sure to find some treasures that nudge their memories. If you're a browser, no doubt you'll see old objects that can be used in new ways. If you're on a mission to add to a particular collection, such as World War II-era linens or McCoy pottery, you know how to scope out the scene in a hurry...
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Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli army fire
(International News ~ 10/06/02)
NABLUS, West Bank -- Israeli troops Saturday killed a Palestinian youth during clashes in the West Bank's most populous city, the fifth such death in two weeks. In Washington, a Bush administration official said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will meet with President Bush on Oct. 16. Israeli news media said the talks would deal with the Israel-Palestinian conflict and possible U.S. action in Iraq...
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Bosnians choose between unity and ethnic division
(International News ~ 10/06/02)
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- For the first time since the war, Bosnia conducted elections without international supervision Saturday -- a test of whether the ethnically divided nation can run its own affairs. The poll also is crucial to the country's future: Diplomats have warned that if Bosnians choose hard-line nationalists as their leaders, the country could lose the Western cooperation and foreign aid it depends on...
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Russia, Cuba, South Africa abandon racism conference
(International News ~ 10/06/02)
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- A handful of countries -- including Russia, Cuba, South Africa and France's overseas territories -- withdrew their delegates from an anti-racism conference to protest its decision to exclude whites. Most of the 250 delegates at the African and African Descendants Conference Against Racism whistled and cheered Friday when chairwoman Jewel Crawford of the United States defended the conference's decision...
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Brazil presidential polls indicate former union boss with runaw
(International News ~ 10/06/02)
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Unemployed construction worker Antonio da Silva has not made up his mind how to vote in Sunday's presidential election, but he does know what he expects from Brazil's next leader. As he scanned help-wanted ads on a wall in Sao Paulo, he talked of the need to create jobs and make fewer promises...
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Ivory Coast on edge as peace agreement delayed
(International News ~ 10/06/02)
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- The signing of a cease-fire to stop Ivory Coast's deadliest uprising was delayed Saturday, forcing an uneasy wait for an end to fighting that has split this once-stable nation in two. High-ranking mediators, who flew to the capital of Yamoussoukro for the signing, blamed Ivory Coast's government for the delay...
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Sinn Fein pickets police stations over raids, arrests
(International News ~ 10/06/02)
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Sinn Fein activists protested outside police stations across Northern Ireland on Saturday after officers raided offices of the Irish Republican Army-linked party in search of stolen British documents. Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord suffered strain on another front as police said gunmen from two rival Protestant gangs, the Ulster Defense Association and Loyalist Volunteer Force, resumed a monthlong feud over the profits from drugs trafficking...
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World briefs 100602
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
U.S. soldier wounded when helicopter shot BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Shots were fired at a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan, wounding a crewman in the foot, the military said Saturday. The helicopter returned fire, killing one enemy fighter and wounding another...
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Spurned Fox News takes after Paula Zahn
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/02)
NEW YORK -- Shortly before CNN unveiled the new studio it had built in Manhattan for Paula Zahn's "American Morning" last month, a telephone rang at the desk of a reporter. A publicist for Fox News Channel was calling. For anyone writing about Zahn's show, she wanted to point out how much better Fox's morning show, "Fox & Friends," was doing in the ratings...
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Filmmakers draw on Soviet navy historian's expertise
(Entertainment ~ 10/06/02)
HIRAM, Maine -- Peter Huchthausen had planned to write a comprehensive history of the Soviet navy during the Cold War, but Hollywood kept interrupting with requests to tap his wealth of knowledge about Soviet submarines. The retired Navy captain and former U.S. naval attache in Moscow has no complaints...
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Texas company launches rocket to open new spaceport
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
FORT STOCKTON, Texas -- A company successfully launched a 14-foot rocket Saturday night on arid Texas ranchland that organizers hope will become a commercial spaceport. The 50 or so people cheered when the slim white rocket blasted off, then roared again when it came down five minutes later with a parachute...
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America- Just say neigh
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The last roundup for tens of thousands of American stallions and mares ends not far from Fort Worth's historic Stockyards. Their destination, Beltex Corp.'s peeling walled compound on North Grove Street, is becoming the focus of a growing campaign to end equine slaughter...
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Bureau of Prisons will decide where Lindh resides
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
Knight Ridder Newspapers WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- The sentence says 20 years in federal prison. But just where John Walker Lindh will serve his time -- under what skies and at what security level -- remains for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to decide...
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Farm products languish on docks
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
A weeklong shutdown of the West Coast's major ports has left stacks of market-bound farm produce to rot on the docks and in the holds of ships that can't reach shore. As contract talks continued between the dockworkers union and shipping lines Saturday, about 1.3 billion apples were awaiting shipment to Asia, nearly 8,000 tons of frozen meat from Australia sat in untouched shipping containers, and hundreds of tons of other fruit and food products remained far from intended markets...
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Latest terror suspects pulled from quiet, professional lives
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- One terrorism suspect worked for two Portland mayors. Two others were nursing assistants at a retirement home. But suspicious behavior -- alarming messages to co-workers, a child's pro-terrorism remarks -- emerged from their quiet lives months before they were arrested Friday on charges of conspiring to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks...
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People talk 12B
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
Letterman makes offer to Indianapolis mayor INDIANAPOLIS -- David Letterman has an offer: He'll pay for new road signs if Mayor Bart Peterson renames the highway that circles Indianapolis the "Dave Letterman Expressway." On the "Late Show" that aired on CBS Thursday night, the talk-show host extended the offer after joking for weeks about renaming Interstate 465...
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Giuliani archives still kept from public by NYC mayor
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
NEW YORK -- Shortly after Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in January, he pledged to make accessible thousands of pages of historically important documents that were removed from City Hall by the Giuliani administration. But the Bloomberg administration has released little in response to a months-long effort by The Associated Press to gain access to the Giuliani archives, raising questions about whether the records are truly available to the public...
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Firefighters rally for pay increase
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
New York Daily News NEW YORK -- More than 50,000 firefighters from around the world are expected to cram Times Square next week to rally for higher pay for their New York brethren, the New York Daily News has learned. The Uniformed Firefighters Association is organizing the demonstration for Friday -- the day before a massive memorial service for the 343 FDNY members lost on Sept. 11, 2001, is held at Madison Square Garden...
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Divers discovering new world in waters, caves of Lake Erie
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
KELLEYS ISLAND, Ohio -- Bright streaks of light cut through Lake Erie's shallow waters and illuminate a hulking skeleton. Divers float past the green moss and zebra mussel shells that cover the anchor lift and wooden hull of the F.H. Prince, a propeller-driven steamer that caught fire in 1911 just off the coast of Kelleys Island...
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Paper towel company seeking helpfulness over muscles
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
ATLANTA -- He's still tough and sexy, but the new Brawny man doesn't mind helping with the housework. The paper towel maker was expected to announce five finalists for its new product model Saturday, and the nominations make the traditional mustachioed lumberjack look like a throwback...
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Sept. 11 photo becomes symbol of America's response to tragedy
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Newspaper photographer Thomas E. Franklin still shoots the same small-town subjects he has for years. But these days his schedule also is crowded with events like his appearance at the White House -- at President Bush's invitation -- and the unveiling of a postage stamp adapted from his photo of three dusty firefighters hoisting a tattered flag amid the rubble of the World Trade Center...
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Hearing loss starting to plague baby boomers
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
In the ad, two laughing couples, perhaps in their late 40s -- their teeth flashing, skin tanned -- crowd together on a sofa, sharing a conversation and maybe a joke or two, and clearly relishing each other's company. "For every need and lifestyle," says a headline over the photo, the subject of which is not at all evident. What product is being pitched here as a key to living life to its fullest?...
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War survivor finds brother 60 years later
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
PHILADELPHIA -- On July 23, 1942, Nazis forced 24-year-old Maria Maksymiuk Harkuscha from her home in a small Ukrainian village, sending her on a trek through labor and refugee camps before her escape to America a decade later. Separated from her parents and three siblings, who were put on different trains, Harkuscha knew little of their whereabouts...
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Unlikely astronaut Man goes from motorcycle bum to space shutt
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
By Marcia Dunn ~ The Associated Press SPACE CENTER, Houston-- As soon as Duane Carey sat down for his interview, the astronaut-selection committee popped the question: What have you done since high school? It was a simple query meant to relax astronaut wannabes, but one that Carey fretted over for days...
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odds and ends 2
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
Man who ran from police to run in benefit race for them ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A man who pleaded guilty to trying to flee police said he would run as part of his punishment. In a plea bargain, Chad M. Eschbach, 21, agreed to run in a 5-kilometer race that will benefit the Schuylkill-Carbon Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police...
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Magic class teaches tricks, philosophy
(National News ~ 10/06/02)
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- As a dozen students waited for philosophy professor Lawrence Hass to start class, some did card tricks, shuffling and rearranging decks, fanning them out into circles, reclosing them with one hand. The class at tiny Muhlenberg College was Theory and Art of Magic, and Hass started by chatting about tricks and giving some students books and videos on ones they might perform in a show. Yes, they would be graded...
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