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FanFare 1/25/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball Pete Rose is in tax trouble again, and baseball's security department is investigating the career hits leader as he negotiates a possible end to his lifetime ban. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig's position on the talks -- and Rose's eligibility for the Hall of Fame -- could be affected by the tax revelations, a high-ranking baseball official said Friday on condition of anonymity. ...
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fanfare 1/24
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball Right-hander James Baldwin agreed Thursday to a minor league contract with the Royals and was invited to spring training as a non-roster player. Colleges Running back Ibrahim Halsey, whose debut at Illinois was delayed while he fought statutory rape and related charges, is finally on the University of Illinois campus. ...
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FanFare 1/22/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball The committee on the future of the Montreal Expos will start meeting with interested community groups next week. The community groups were told to bring up to six people to the meetings, which will be get-acquainted sessions rather than formal presentations. The sessions will take place Tuesday or Wednesday, with the exact dates and times to be set later this week...
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fanfare 1/21
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball Tom Gordon agreed Monday to a $1.4 million, one-year contract with the White Sox following a 2002 season that was cut short by a muscle tear in his right shoulder. Basketball John Lucas couldn't make winners out of the Cavaliers, so Keith Smart is getting a shot. ...
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FanFare 1/19/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball Atlanta Braves pitcher Greg Maddux, a four-time Cy Young Award winner, asked for $16 million in arbitration, while the Braves countered with an offer of $13.5 million. The cost-cutting Braves want to keep Maddux's salary in line with the $13.1 million he made last season. The $2.5 million gap is the largest between any team and player...
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FanFare 1/18/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball Rocco Graziosa, who punched New York Yankees pitcher David Wells during a fight in a Manhattan diner, was granted $10,000 bail Friday while his lawyer appeals his misdemeanor assault conviction...
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FanFare 1/17/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball Right-hander Brett Tomko avoided arbitration and agreed to a one-year, $3.3 million contract on Thursday with the Cardinals. Tomko, 29, was acquired in a December trade with the Padres for reliever Luther Hackman. ...
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FanFare 1/15/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig's plan to have the All-Star game winner get home-field advantage in the World Series is the top item on the agenda for the meeting of baseball owners that starts today in Scottsdale, Ariz. ...
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FanFare 1/14/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Boxing Boxer Johnny Tapia was sent home from the hospital Monday, two days after collapsing at home with what had been described as a head injury. Tapia, 35, had been had been admitted to University Medical Center in critical condition early Saturday and spent the weekend on life support. Dr. Joaquim Tavares said that tests found no damage to Tapia's brain or heart...
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FanFare 1/13/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Right-hander Paul Wilson agreed to a $4 million, two-year contract with Cincinnati on Sunday, a move that general manager Jim Bowden said will give the Reds a proven fourth starter. Wilson, 29, who was not offered a contract by Tampa Bay by the Dec.20 deadline, was 6-12 with a 4.83 ERA last season for the Devil Rays. He pitched a career-high 193 2/3 innings, including at least six innings in 23 of his 30 starts...
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FanFare 1/12/03
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Left-hander Mark Redman joined the Florida Marlins from the Detroit Tigers in a five-player trade Saturday. The Marlins sent right-hander Gary Knotts and minor league left-handers Nate Robertson and Rob Henkel to the Tigers for Redman and minor league right-hander Jason Fuell...
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FanFare 1/3/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball The Chicago Cubs on Thursday agreed to a deal with free agent utility infielder Ramon Martinez and came to terms on a minor-league contract with former reliever Rod Beck. Beck, who saved 51 games for the Cubs in 1998, their last playoff appearance, will be invited to spring training as a non-roster player. ...
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FanFare 12/31/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Roger Clemens wants to say goodbye to baseball with the Yankees. The six-time Cy Young Award winner agreed Monday to a $10.1 million, one-year contract and probably will retire after next season, his 20th in the major leagues...
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FanFare 12/29/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball The New York Mets found their temporary replacement for shortstop Rey Ordonez, agreeing to the structure of a one-year deal with free agent Rey Sanchez. Sanchez's deal will be finalized after he passes a physical Monday. He will serve as a caretaker at shortstop until top prospect Jose Reyes is ready to take over the job at some point next season...
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FanFare 12/28/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball The Phoenix Suns placed forward Alton Ford on the injured list Friday and filled his roster spot by activating guard Randy Brown. Brown averaged 1.3 points, 1.0 rebounds and 7.0 minutes in three games before developing tendinitis in his left knee. He went on the injured list Nov. 22...
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Briefly 12/27/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Basketball Coach Lon Kruger was fired by the slumping Hawks on Thursday. Kruger said he knew he might be fired because of the Hawks' 11-16 record so far this season. Colleges Moving quickly to reward its championship coach, Georgia gave Mark Richt a new $1.5 million-a-year contract that will keep him with the Bulldogs through at least 2010. ...
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FanFare 12/24/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Former Gold Glove infielder Neifi Perez is guaranteed $4.25 million under his two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants. The Giants claimed Perez off waivers from the Kansas City Royals last month and agreed to the contract Sunday. Perez gets $1.5 million next year and $2.75 million in 2004, and can earn $500,000 a year in performance bonuses...
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Area digest 12/24/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Saxony Lutheran JV defeats Notre Dame Tim Lorenz and Loren Lueders each scored 13 points for Saxony Lutheran in a 49-45 win over the Notre Dame freshman team. Trey Maevers added 10 points for Saxony (6-3). Steven Eftink had 16 points and Frankie Ellis 10 for Notre Dame...
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FanFare 12/22/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball The Diamondbacks reached agreement Saturday on a one-year deal with first baseman Mark Grace. Terms of the contract, which includes a club option for the 2004 season, were not announced, but Grace was believed to have taken a pay cut from the $3 million he earned last season...
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FanFare Saturday 12/21/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Two of the Cardinals' minor-league affiliates have switched cities for next season, the team said Friday. The Class AA team, formerly based in New Haven, Conn., now will play in Kodak, Tenn., as the Tennessee Smokies of the Southern League. ...
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FanFare 12/20/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Greg Maddux accepted the Atlanta Braves' offer of salary arbitration, the equivalent of signing a one-year deal for the 2003 season. The four-time Cy Young Award winner had been a free agent. Tom Glavine already left the Braves, agreeing to a three-year contract with the New York Mets. ...
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FanFare 12/19/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball The two fans who claimed ownership of Barry Bonds' record 73rd home run ball were ordered by a judge Wednesday to sell the ball and split the money, worth perhaps more than $1 million. Bonds' homer came on the last day of the regular season in October 2001, setting off a long court battle. ...
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fanfare 12/18
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Paul Byrd, who managed to win 17 games for a Kansas City Royals team that lost 100 in 2002, is latest good player to escape Kauffman Stadium. Byrd signed a two-year, $10 million deal with Atlanta on Tuesday, a move that's certain to further demoralize long-suffering Royals fans. Byrd was 17-11 last season with a 3.90 ERA for Kansas City...
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Some question need for child studies on risky smallpox vaccine
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- Researchers want to begin the first studies of the effects of a risky smallpox vaccine on toddlers and preschoolers -- a proposal that is raising thorny questions about safety and ethics. The vaccine is made of a live virus called vaccinia that can cause its own infections until the injection site scabs over, so researchers plan to keep inoculated children out of day care or school for a month. ...
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FanFare 12/14/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Major league general managers probably will make a recommendation of a minimum age for bat boys when they meet Monday on the final day of the winter meetings. Ken Griffey Jr. telephoned his general manager Saturday and made it clear he didn't want Cincinnati to trade him. ...
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fanfare 12/14/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Basketball Hedo Turkoglu was activated from the Kings' injured list on Friday, and Scot Pollard was placed on the list. Jazz center Jarron Collins will miss the rest of the season after tearing ligaments in his right knee...
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FanFare 12/13/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Todd Walker became Boston's regular second baseman Thursday when he was obtained from the Cincinnati Reds in Theo Epstein's first trade as the general manager of the Red Sox. Walker, only seven months older than the 28-year-old Epstein, replaces Rey Sanchez, who became a free agent after not being offered arbitration. ...
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fanfare 12/12/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Jeff Kent is interested in returning to the Giants, and general manager Brian Sabean said there's a 50-50 chance of it happening. Sabean spoke Tuesday with the star second baseman, who has been offered arbitration by the club. Kent is discussing a long-term deal with the Giants and several other teams, his agent, Jeff Klein, said Wednesday night...
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FanFare 12/11/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Jaret Wright will try to resurrect his career in San Diego after agreeing to a $725,000, one-year contract with the Padres on Tuesday. San Diego also agreed to a $1.3 million, two-year contract with free-agent infielder Dave Hansen. ...
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McCoy holiday concert draws 1,570
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
Country music performer Neal McCoy returned to Cape Girardeau with his larger-than-life stage presence for a Christmas show Sunday night. Applause, whistles and cheers from the crowd of about 1,570 people drowned out all other noise as McCoy took the Show Me Center stage...
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FINDING THE MISSING Most people who disappear are found quickly
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
When adults go missing, most of the time they are found quickly. In rare cases, they go missing for months or years. Last year, approximately 70 adults were reported missing in Cape Girardeau County, according to Jackson and Cape Girardeau police and the sheriff's department. That number is consistent with the totals for the last several years, officers say...
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United expected to file for bankruptcy
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
CHICAGO -- United Airlines, unable to stanch more than two years of swelling losses and spurned in a plea for federal assistance, will file Monday for federal bankruptcy court protection, a source close to the company said Sunday. The Chapter 11 filing -- five days after a federal panel declined to help the world's No. 2 carrier cover its mounting debt -- would be the largest airline bankruptcy in U.S. history, and one of the nation's top 10 bankruptcies ever...
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FanFare 12/8/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Pitcher Frank Castillo and the Boston Red Sox agreed Saturday to an $800,000, one-year contract. The Red Sox faced a midnight deadline for eight other of their former players who became free agents. If those players didn't sign or get offered arbitration, they would be unable to re-sign until May 1...
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FanFare 12/7/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Briefly Baseball Right-hander Jimmy Haynes, who rebounded from a losing season with Milwaukee to go 15-10 for Cincinnati this year, agreed Friday to a $5 million, two-year contract the Reds. The pitcher will get $2.5 million in each of the next two years and has the right to void the contract after next season...
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FanFare 12/6/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Robin Ventura took a $3.25 million pay cut to stay with the Yankees after passing a physical and finalizing a $5 million, one-year contract. The Reds and Padres agreed to trade Ken Griffey Jr. for Phil Nevin last weekend, but the deal died when Nevin wouldn't waive his no-trade clause. ...
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FanFare 12/5/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Rather than put just one person in charge, Baltimore hired Jim Beattie and Mike Flanagan to turn around a franchise mired in a record run of five consecutive losing seasons. ...
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fanfare 12/3/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Baseball Jim Thome, the most coveted hitter in the free-agent market, agreed Monday to a six-year contract with the Phillies, two baseball officials said. He accepted a deal worth about $87.5 million, one of the officials said on the condition of anonymity. For the deal to become final, the 32-year-old first baseman must pass a physical...
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Missouri's fortunes not likely to change after Gephardt
(State News ~ 11/01/02)
ST. LOUIS -- What happens to Missouri's interests when Dick Gephardt, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, steps down from his leadership post? Probably not much, his colleagues and observers said. After a dozen years in Democratic House leadership, Gephardt said Thursday he would leave the job of minority leader, a spot he won after the party lost the majority in 1994. His party is reeling from Election Day losses...
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Carving a niche Seminar in Jackson shows hobbyists how to shap
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
They bring pouncing panthers, campfire cowboys and cypress knee Santas to life, and all they started with was an interest, a class and a few basic tools. They are wood carvers. "The thing about carving is you can carve whatever strikes your fancy, there are so many different styles of carving," said Dave Ledure of Jackson. "And you can get started for under 30 bucks. Just buy a good knife and a couple basic tools until you know what you want to do."...
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stratton tingle letter
(State News ~ 11/01/02)
Dear Southeast Missouri, Greetings from Zambia! I've been here for nearly two months now as a student missionary and am loving every day of it. I am on a huge farm that employs 350 people, 100 of whom reside on the farm. There is a Bible school here for children and older students enroll in evangelistic training, lifestyle and tailoring classes. We have over 50,000 banana plants, along with tons of fruit trees and other gardens....
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Artifacts 11/1/02
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/02)
Swingle to sign book 'Gold of Cape Girardeau' Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle will sign copies of his first novel, "The Gold of Cape Girardeau," at events today and Saturday. The book, an historical novel, has just been published by the Southeast Missouri State University Press. It begins with a contemporary court case in Cape Girardeau and delves into the region's steamboat and Civil War history...
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A night at the galleries
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/02)
In cities with thriving art colonies, the monthly or sometimes weekly gallery walk to opening receptions is a tradition. Art lovers go from one gallery to the next sampling the creativity, wine and hors d'oeuvres. That opportunity presents itself tonight in Cape Girardeau with exhibitions opening in three different locations...
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Grafton's new mystery delves into a real crime
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/02)
NEW YORK -- Sue Grafton needed a fresh plot for the 17th mystery in her alphabet series. So she turned to a real murder. "'Q' Is for Quarry," set in 1987, features Grafton's famous private eye, Kinsey Millhone. It involves a murder that took place in the summer of 1969. The body of a young, white woman was found with multiple stab wounds and a slit throat in a quarry outside Lompoc, Calif., about an hour north of Santa Barbara. The woman was never identified, the murderer never found...
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Everybody's a critic - 'Moonlight Mile'
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/02)
Three stars Named for the Rolling Stones song that plays through the film, "Moonlight Mile" is about loving and losing love. Down the road the characters realize that they never lost that love at all but had grown from it and that love would be what they needed to love again...
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Births 11/1/02
(Births ~ 11/01/02)
Beasley Son to James David and Morgan Lee Beasley of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:50 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, 2002. Name, Brendan James. Weight, 7 pounds. Second child, first son. Mrs. Beasley is the former Morgan Marino, daughter of Frank and Bonnye Marino of Festus, Mo. She is a social worker at the Lutheran Home. Beasley is the son of Dave and Carolyn Beasley of Jackson. He is employed at the Cape Girardeau County Juvenile Office...
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Out of the past 11/1/02
(Out of the Past ~ 11/01/02)
10 years ago: Nov. 1, 1992 Brad Grupe of Smithton and Sheila Higgs of Malden were named Man and Woman of the Year yesterday at half-time of Southeast Missouri State University's homecoming game; on gridiron Kelvin Anderson and his teammates found way to snip six-game losing streak...
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Bernice Pawlisch
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Bernice Pawlisch, 79, of Villa Ridge died Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 26, 1922, in Arkansas, the daughter of Earl H. and Myrtle Elizabeth Cullen Johnson. She married Edward Pawlisch. He preceded her in death on Nov. 5, 1993...
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Bill Mannon
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- William Alford "Bill" Mannon, 51, of Fisk, Mo., died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, at Three Rivers Healthcare North Campus in Poplar Bluff, Mo. He was born April 13, 1951, in East Prairie, son of William A. "Pete" and Ina L. Baty Mannon. He married Cheryl Bowers, who died Dec. 26, 2001...
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John Cook
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- John Henry Cook, 72, of Marble Hill died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 7, 1930, at Bessville, Mo., son of the Rev. John Elza and Hattie Adaline Cook. Cook worked at Barker Furniture Store several years. He was a member of Hurricane Fork General Baptist Church...
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Jerry Obermiller
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
The funeral for Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Jerry Lee Obermiller of Jefferson City, Mo., was held Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church in Jefferson City. The Rev. Rudolph W. Beard officiated. Entombment was in Riverview Cemetery Mausoleum, with full military honors...
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Calvin Dillman
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
ULLIN, Ill. -- Calvin Dillman, 75, of Ullin died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, at his home. He was born Aug. 1, 1927, in Olive Branch, Ill., son of William Roy and Mayme Douglas Dillman. He and Edith Mae Trexler were married Sept. 2, 1950. Dillman worked in construction as an operating engineer, and had been a member of Engineers Local 318 in Marion, Ill...
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Gustavia Cavitt
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Gustavia Cavitt, 61, of Cairo died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, at her home. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Massie Funeral Home. The Rev. J.L. Posey will officiate.
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Della Brown
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Della Brown, 104, of Jonesboro died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, at Select Specialty Hospital in St. Louis. Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home in Anna, Ill., from 4 to 8 p.m. today. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Meisenheimer Cemetery...
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Charity Ward
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
HAYWOOD CITY, Mo. -- Charity M. Ward, 82, of Haywood City died Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002, at the home of a son in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 2, 1920, in Pickens, Miss., daughter of the Rev. Milton and Elizabeth Young Chappell. She and Robert Ward were married Dec. 6, 1941...
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Helen Morgan
(Obituary ~ 11/01/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Helen H. Morgan, 94, of Perryville died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born May 17, 1908, in Perry County, Mo., daughter of Henry F. and Helena C. Schott Weiss. She and George N. Morgan were married July 23, 1931. He died Feb. 25, 1995...
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Speak Out A 11/01/02
(Speak Out ~ 11/01/02)
Beginning to question ALL THOSE protesters over the weekend got me to thinking about President Bush's war. I know we need oil, but is it really worth all that it's going to cost? I guess, I'm just beginning to question this whole thing. Unreported epidemic...
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Amendment 2 opposition brings union response
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/01/02)
To the editor: I am a captain with the Cape Girardeau Fire Department and president of Cape Girardeau Firefighters Association Local 1084. I would like to respond to opposition regarding Amendment 2 on Tuesday's ballot. We are seeking a constitutional amendment because it is the only road open to us. ...
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No guarantees on revenue use in Proposition A
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/01/02)
To the editor: Personally, I do not care whether or not Proposition A passes. I quit tobacco years ago. What concerns me is the track records of past revenue-enhancement proposals. I recall a governor saying in TV ads that income from lottery and gambling boats would help schools. I also recall the citizens' outrage when it was learned that almost all of the revenue was going into the general fund...
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Proposition A doesn't attack real problems
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/01/02)
To the editor: Though I do not smoke, I have found good reason to vote no on Proposition A. I see discrimination in it, and here's how. What is the legal age to buy alcohol? 21. What is the legal age to buy tobacco? 18. What is the legal age to buy condoms?...
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Ag students at Jackson need space too
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/01/02)
To the editor: Jackson High School does have many space issues. As a former student I understand what areas are cramped the most. One of the worst space problems that was overlooked in the Oct. 28 article is the ag department. The FFA is one of the largest organizations in the school, but it has the same building and shop that my father used as a student back in 1960s. They must not forget about the ag kids...
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Tanning your own hide isn't so hard
(Outdoors ~ 11/01/02)
Archery deer season is open and firearms deer season is not far away. It is an annual rite of passage in which thousands of successful deer hunters enjoy the "fruits" of their hunt by cooking tasty venison delights. Some hunters even keep a memento of that hunt by saving antlers or getting a taxidermy mount. ...
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Hundreds find ways to make a difference
(Editorial ~ 11/01/02)
Hundreds of individuals around Southeast Missouri took part in Make a Difference Day last Saturday. The event, which was created by USA Weekend magazine a dozen years ago, encourages both individuals and organizations to undertake community-based projects that address local problems...
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Russian incident shows scope of terrorism
(Editorial ~ 11/01/02)
The refrain is being repeated around the world. In Bali, the killing of more than 200 young people -- mainly Australian tourists -- at a disco has been called the "Indonesian 9-11." Now tragedy has struck Russia, where more than 110 men, women and children attending a popular Western-style musical were killed during a terrorist hostage-taking last week...
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Cape fire report 11/1/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/01/02)
Cape Girardeau Friday, Nov. 1 Firefighters responded to the following calls Thursday: At 7:29 a.m., an emergency medical service at 510 N. Fountain. At 8:41 a.m., an emergency medical service at 2746 Gordonville Rd. At 1:17 p.m., an emergency medical service at 511 Themis Apt. 2...
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Cape police report 11/1/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/01/02)
Cape Girardeau Friday, Nov. 1 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Michael Eugene Young, 40, of 5384 County Road 525, Jackson, was arrested Wednesday on a Cape Girardeau warrant for failure to appear...
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Region briefs 11/01/02
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
Bowles will be guest speaker at First Friday School superintendent Mark Bowles will be the guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee. The event will be held at 7:30 a.m. at the Show Me Center. Chamber president and CEO John Mehner said that Bowles will be discussing issues pertaining to the Cape Girardeau school district...
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FDA approves nicotine lozenge for smokers
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- Smokers trying to quit will soon be able to try a nicotine-containing lozenge to help reduce their cigarette cravings. The Food and Drug Administration approved GlaxoSmithKline's Commit lozenge for over-the-counter sales Thursday. It marks the first nicotine-containing lozenge to win the agency's approval...
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Army chief - U.S. troops are ready for urban warfare
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- Better weapons and training will help Americans if they are drawn into an urban war against Saddam Hussein, but averting civilian casualties among Iraqis will be hard, Army Secretary Thomas E. White said Thursday. "You can look back through history to see that civilian casualties are very difficult to avoid, just because of the proximity of the combat activity to where people are living in these urban areas," he said...
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Lieberman gives support to Carnahan
(State News ~ 11/01/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan campaigned among senior citizens in Kansas City and Columbia, Mo., Thursday alongside colleague Joseph Lieberman, her party's unsuccessful vice presidential nominee. Lieberman and Vice President Dick Cheney, who spoke in Cape Girardeau Thursday on behalf of Republican U.S. ...
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New Israeli defense minister expected to lead hard line
(International News ~ 11/01/02)
JERUSALEM -- As Israel's army chief, Shaul Mofaz sent troops to reoccupy West Bank towns, hunt down militants and besiege Yasser Arafat's headquarters -- seemingly always a step ahead of Israel's politicians with ever-harsher measures against the Palestinians...
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Provisional ballots may take weeks to count
(State News ~ 11/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- It could take days or weeks to declare a winner in the U.S. Senate race in Missouri, which could leave control of the Senate in question for the rest of 2002. Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan and Republican challenger Jim Talent are running in a close race at the top of the state's ticket. ...
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Danes are facing criticism in arrest of Chechen rebel
(International News ~ 11/01/02)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Russia sought the extradition Thursday of a Chechen rebel envoy accused of planning last week's deadly hostage crisis, as the Danish government faced criticism for bowing to diplomatic pressure. Akhmed Zakayev, a top aide of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, was arrested Wednesday in Copenhagen and jailed until Nov. 12 pending an investigation...
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Chechens in Moscow complain of extra police visits, harassment
(International News ~ 11/01/02)
MOSCOW -- The day after terrorists seized a Moscow theater, taking hundreds of people hostage, police armed with automatic rifles came to Elita Usmanova's apartment and took away her two teenage sons for questioning. Chechens in Moscow say they've been subjected to unannounced police visits, document checks and harassment since last week's hostage drama, which ended Saturday when Russian troops stormed the theater. ...
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French Catholic Church aims protests at Halloween
(International News ~ 11/01/02)
PARIS -- Halloween in France took a new twist Thursday, with the Catholic Church sending protesters into Paris and launching a campaign with rock music to refocus attention on All Saints' Day -- a religious holiday a day after Halloween. Television talk shows turned their attention to the subject. Bakeries passed out fliers about the holiday's patron saints, and a small group of protesters gathered outside Planet Hollywood on the Champs-Elysees to denounce the Halloween-mania...
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World briefs 11/01/02
(International News ~ 11/01/02)
Anti-war protesters march against U.S. in Athens ATHENS, Greece -- Thousands of protesters opposing a possible U.S. attack on Iraq marched to the U.S. Embassy on Thursday, chanting anti-American slogans and burning flags. Police used tear gas to disperse a small group of stone-throwing demonstrators among the more than 8,000 marchers. The youths later set fire to a parked car and damaged three other vehicles, police said...
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Islamists, secularists split in Bahrain
(International News ~ 11/01/02)
MANAMA, Bahrain -- Secular candidates won a slight majority over Islamists in voting for 21 seats in Bahrain's parliament, while two women who hoped to make history by getting elected both lost, according to preliminary results announced Thursday. Preliminary results showed that 12 secularists and nine Islamic candidates won seats, making the 40-seat legislature representative of the tiny kingdom's political spectrum...
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Summer's economic growth not buoyed by fall spending
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
WASHINGTON -- Every time the U.S. economy seems to be picking up, it loses momentum. It grew at a respectable 3.1 percent annual rate this summer, the federal government reported Thursday, but other indicators say the recovery is petering out again this fall...
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Stock market mixed, but claims first monthly gains since spring
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
NEW YORK -- Wall Street closed out its first winning month since spring, a feat that vastly overshadowed a lackluster session. Stocks ended Thursday's session mixed, but the Dow Jones industrials had their second-best October on record. Stocks struggled Thursday after the latest batch of discouraging economic data. But analysts said investors are still feeling upbeat after the market's three-week rally on better-than-expected earnings news and have growing hopes the bear market was over...
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Police, rap world diverge on possible killing motive
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
NEW YORK -- While police investigated whether a feud led to the fatal shooting of hip-hop pioneer Jam Master Jay, friends and family mourned him Thursday and puzzled over the slaying. The 37-year-old rap star, whose real name was Jason Mizell, was shot once in the head at close range with a .40-caliber semiautomatic in the Wednesday night attack on the second floor of his recording studio, police said...
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State hopes buggy drivers heed new safety manual
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
PHILADELPHIA -- State officials are creating a new safety manual for horse-drawn buggy drivers, hoping it helps them avoid crashes with fast-moving cars and trucks on winding Amish country roads. Seven members of an Amish family, including five children from ages 3 to 11, remained hospitalized Wednesday after the latest such accident...
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Minnesota court says new Senate ballots must be sent
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In a partial victory for the Democrats, Minnesota's Supreme Court ordered local election officials Thursday to send out new absentee ballots to people who ask to change their Senate vote in the wake of Sen. Paul Wellstone's death...
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Stewart's company sees 42 percent drop in profits
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
NEW YORK -- Martha Stewart's multimedia empire reported a sharp drop in quarterly earnings Thursday and its namesake chief executive acknowledged her legal woes are affecting the company. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., which produces magazines, TV shows, and merchandise under Stewart's name, also warned Thursday that fourth-quarter profits will fall well short of Wall Street earnings expectations...
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R.J. Reynolds accused of smuggling cigarettes
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
NEW YORK -- Tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds smuggled cigarettes into Iraq in a scheme that violated U.S. sanctions and enriched both Saddam Hussein's regime and a Kurdish separatist group accused of terrorism, the European Union alleges in a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in New York, accuses the tobacco company of working with organized crime and terror organizations and laundering the profits through New York banks. ...
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Man attacks ex-wife's parents with hatchet
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. -- A man who posted bail, then broke into his ex-wife's home and attacked her and her family with a hatchet was shot to death early Thursday by her boyfriend, authorities said. Eric Kiefer, 35, had been in custody for violating a restraining order by breaking into the home Sunday and assaulting the woman and their 10-year-old daughter, Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said...
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USS Constellation crew prepares for departure to Persian Gulf
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
ABOARD THE USS CONSTELLATION -- As he prepared again for a voyage that would put his aircraft unit within striking distance of Iraq, Capt. Mark Fox wrote a letter to the wife of a shipmate from the Gulf War. On the first night of Desert Storm nearly 12 years ago, Fox's friend and fellow Navy pilot, Michael Scott Speicher, became the first American lost in the war...
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Former Enron executive indicted on 78 counts
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
HOUSTON -- Former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was indicted Thursday on 78 federal fraud, money laundering and other charges, making him the highest-ranking company official charged in the probe. The indictment, returned by a grand jury in Houston, alleges that Fastow masterminded schemes to artificially inflate the energy company's profits. If convicted, he faces hundreds of years in jail and millions of dollars in fines...
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D.C. sniper suspects linked to slayings in Louisiana, Alabama
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Authorities charged the two sniper suspects with murder Thursday in a Louisiana attack that came just two days after a similar slaying in Alabama. John Lee Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, are now charged with a month-long series of killings stretching from the Gulf Coast to the suburbs around the nation's capital. Police nationwide are said to be looking for links to the two men, assisted by federal authorities...
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People talk 11/1/02
(National News ~ 11/01/02)
Musician takes firm to court for back pay NEW YORK -- Rocker Joan Jett has filed a lawsuit against GMR Productions, claiming she didn't receive payment for her work on the movie "Prey for Rock & Roll." According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Jett was to receive $100,000 for a cameo appearance in the film as well as proceeds from the sale of the soundtrack...
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Rapper Eminem silences opponents
(Entertainment ~ 11/01/02)
NEW YORK -- Until recently, it seemed only kids -- and music critics -- could love Eminem. Politicians condemned his obscenity-laced and violent lyrics. Gay and women's groups blasted him as a homophobe and misogynist. The Grammy-winning Detroit rapper had millions in album sales, but little love from mainstream America...
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Now it's time to look for saints
(Column ~ 11/01/02)
I can honestly say I never celebrated All Saints Day when I was growing up. Like most youngsters, I liked Halloween, the evening before All Saints Day, not just for the candy "treats," but because of the "tricks" you were entitled to perform if you didn't get any "treats."...
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Theme funerals new way to head for the hereafter
(State News ~ 11/01/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Equally gifted with a spatula and game of spades, Vallonia Smith wasn't dealt out of a fitting send-off cooked up after the homemaker died of heart disease at 59. In a Wade Funeral Home room dubbed Big Mama's Kitchen, loved ones played cards barely an arm's length from Smith's body in an open casket. The name of the game: celebrating without necessarily sobbing for someone headed for the hereafter...
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Democratic campaign consultant blasts Talent
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
A Democratic Party leader lashed out at U.S. Senate candidate Jim Talent on Thursday, accusing the Republican of trying to privatize Social Security and calling such plans "scary" for elderly Missourians. Democratic campaign consultant Roy Temple criticized Talent and Vice President Dick Cheney while stumping for U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan in Cape Girardeau...
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Abduction throws ex-soldier, wife into diplomatic fray
(International News ~ 11/01/02)
TOKYO -- Former U.S. soldier Charles Jenkins and his Japanese wife, Hitomi Soga, were brought together decades ago in North Korea by a strange Cold War twist. He was an accused U.S. Army deserter, she was kidnapped from Japan by communist spies. Now, the couple could be torn apart by an equally unlikely turn of events -- an emerging tug-of-war over their fate between North Korea, Japan and its top ally, the United States...
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Highway board approves new five-year plan
(State News ~ 11/01/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The State Highways and Transportation Commission on Thursday decided to approve the latest version of its five-year road construction plan without specifying projects for the fifth year. Since dropping its ambitious 15-year plan in 1998, the Department of Transportation has operated on rolling five-year plans. ...
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Nation in 'unusual' economic times, bank officials say
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
Cape Girardeau area businessmen and women received a glimpse of the country's economic future through the eyes of Commerce Bank officials during a luncheon meeting Thursday at Drury Lodge. The meeting was hosted by David Kemper, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Commerce Bancshares Inc., and Roger Tolliver of Jackson, president of Commerce Community Bank...
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Bowles will be guest speaker at First Friday
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
School superintendent Mark Bowles will be the guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee. The event will be held at 7:30 a.m. at the Show Me Center. Chamber president and CEO John Mehner said that Bowles will be discussing issues pertaining the Cape Girardeau school district...
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Young crowd widens knowledge, enthusiasm toward politics
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
When 8-year-old Andriel Young of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was asked why she came to Jim Talent's campaign rally, she said it was to see the president. Well, close enough. The presence of the nation's vice president, Dick Cheney, drew the younger crowd to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Thursday. The hangar was filled with an estimated 2,000 people, hundreds of them not old enough to vote...
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Black carries hefty warchest into closing days of campaign
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- If money makes a difference in the closing days of an election campaign, Republican state Rep. Lanie Black had a six-fold advantage over Democrat Wayne Petitt in the 161st District House race as of last week. According to the final campaign finance disclosure reports to be filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission before the Tuesday's election, Black, of Charleston, had $27,751 in campaign cash on hand at the close of the last reporting period, which covered Oct. ...
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Vice president visits Cape to boost Talent campaign
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
Boosting the economy, fighting terrorism and speeding up judicial confirmations are why Missourians should elect Republican Jim Talent to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 5, said Vice President Dick Cheney to more than 2,000 people gathered at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport on Thursday...
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New recreational trail dedicated in Jackson
(Local News ~ 11/01/02)
Sixty-three trees were planted in Jackson's Litz Park two years ago through a Branch Out Missouri grant. Now a new recreational trail circles the lake in the park with more than half the cost paid by a state wildlife conservation grant. It's all part of a master plan to develop the 35 acres as a spot where visitors can stop and smell the wildflowers...
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Area digest 11/1/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/01/02)
St. Vincent falls to Valle in district semifinals IRONTON, Mo. -- St. Vincent pushed top-seeded Valle to the limit Thursday in a three-game district semifinal loss at Arcadia Valley High School. Valle won 15-9, 12-15, 15-9 in the Class 2, District 3 semifinal to end St. Vincent's season at 11-18-2...
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Missouri makes early edge last against Otahkians
(College Sports ~ 11/01/02)
The University of Missouri volleyball team opened its trick-or-treat bags at the steps of the Show Me Center Thursday night. Southeast Missouri State University could only let the Tigers choose what would satisfy them. The 21st-ranked Tigers picked away at the Otahkians and slammed the door in a sweep, 30-18, 30-19, 30-16...
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Nov. 1 high school football games
(High School Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Class 1, District 1 Chaffee (1-7, 0-1) at St. Vincent (5-3, 0-1) Other district game: Valle (5-3, 1-0) at Hayti (6-1, 1-0) Last week: Valle 42, Chaffee 15; Hayti 7, St. Vincent 6 Last year: St. Vincent 28, Chaffee 0 Notes: St. Vincent has won last eight against Chaffee. Red Devils last win was 27-22 in 1993. Indians have won last two meetings by shutout and won last three years by a combined 104-7. CLASS 2, DISTRICT 2...
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Central heads into district game missing key starters
(High School Sports ~ 11/01/02)
Central, ranked ninth in Class 4 and No. 2 in Southeast Missouri, will shoot for its eighth straight district victory tonight when it hosts struggling Perryville at Houck Stadium. The Tigers enter at 7-1, their best start in 15 years, but will miss three starters due to disciplinary action. The Tigers will play without their leading tackler in middle linebacker Jeremiah Dukes, sacks leader and defensive end Adrian Wren and offensive tackle Ricky Williams...
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Jackson back eager to continue late charge
(High School Sports ~ 11/01/02)
When Jackson running back Stuart McIntosh discusses the last two games, his words sound much like you would expect from any Indian in the locker room. "I didn't know I had that in me," McIntosh tells of a sudden life found by himself and the Indians...
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Cardinals decline option on Benes
(Professional Sports ~ 11/01/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Andy Benes was mulling the next stage of his career Thursday after the Cardinals declined a $6 million option on his contract. The team wants to sign Benes, 35, but at a lower salary. The right-hander, who lives in St. Louis County, filed for free agency to keep his options open...
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New attitude has Blues hot at the start
(Professional Sports ~ 11/01/02)
ST. LOUIS -- The Blues' scintillating start is more about attitude adjustment than personnel changes. So far, they're proving the front office's decision to stand pat after a disappointing end to last season was a good one. The Blues are 6-1-1, the second-best start in franchise history, and can match the all-time best of 7-1-1 set in 1997-98 with a victory at the New York Islanders on Saturday night. They've won six in a row, twice scoring seven goals in that span...
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Fanfare 11/02/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/02/02)
Baseball Mets owner Fred Wilpon set a clear message to Mo Vaughn: Lose weight or else. The Mets owner threatened to terminate the first baseman's remaining two-year, $32 million contract if Vaughn does not drop pounds before spring training...
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Scientists' blasts test New Madrid Fault
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Seismic tests conducted this week along the New Madrid Fault zone gave scientists a better idea of how loose soil in the area would affect damage during a major earthquake, researchers said. The earth moved and geysers of water shot hundreds of feet in the air Monday and Tuesday as scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information conducted underground blasts near Marked Tree, Ark., and Mooring, Tenn...
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Aftershocks shake village as last bodies are removed
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
SAN GIULIANO DI PUGLIA, Italy -- Wails of grief gave way to howls of panic Friday when aftershocks jolted this village as it recovered the last of 26 children -- including all the first-graders except one -- killed when an earthquake destroyed their school...
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Carnahan, Talent hustle to rallies as election nears
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Jim Talent and Sen. Jean Carnahan hustled Friday to energize their core constituencies and lure crucial undecided voters, as a new poll showed Talent with an apparent lead. The Democrat Carnahan spoke to about 200 gatherers who greeted her during a St. Louis union hall rally with a standing ovation...
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Pullout of plant sends bad signal for development
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/02/02)
To the editor: In response to the article "Kinder Morgan kills power plant project": This is the kind of thing that hurts economic development for Cape Girardeau County and its neighbors. This will probably send a signal to other companies as what to expect when trying to build industry in this area -- or the state, for that matter...
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U.S. still shipping oil to N. Korea despite its nuclear program
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- Despite tough rhetoric, the Bush administration has yet to suspend free shipments of oil to North Korea that were provided for under a 1994 agreement. Officials are concerned that an abrupt cancellation could prompt Pyongyang to renege on other aspects of the agreement, possibly triggering a full blown crisis on the Korean Peninsula...
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Two die in wrong-way crash near Kansas City
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. -- Two people died Friday in a collision involving a vehicle traveling against traffic on Interstate 70, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. The crash killed 21-year-olds Justin W. Dyer of Oak Grove, Mo., and Amy A. Bibley of Kansas City, Mo. Both were passengers in a vehicle that was headed east on I-70 and was struck by a vehicle that was westbound in their lane, according to the patrol...
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Special Olympics to hold 2003 games in Columbia
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Special Olympics organizers like Columbia so much, they're coming back next year. A meningitis outbreak at the games' longtime home at Fort Leonard Wood forced last year's games to move to Columbia. Special Olympics Missouri president Mark Musso said the University of Missouri at Columbia and the community responded so well, that the games will return to Columbia for 2003. About 2,500 athletes and families are expected to attend...
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Suspect is shot when deputy's gun discharges
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
WEST PLAINS, Mo. -- A suspect was shot in the face when he knocked a Howell County sheriff's deputy off balance while allegedly attempting to flee, discharging the deputy's service gun, authorities said. The male suspect, who was not immediately identified, was undergoing surgery Friday, Sheriff Bill Shephard said...
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Wreck kills two Ohio teens; child left injured
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Driver fatigue was suspected in a truck crash that killed two Ohio teenagers and critically injured a girl on Interstate 44. Ivan Mikhalyuk, 17, was driving west early Friday when the truck swerved off the road and slammed into a bridge abutment in north Springfield...
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Bush's political address revs up GOP audiences -again and again
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush never seems to tire of the line in his speech. It always brings a hush at his boisterous political rallies -- and then a burst of laughter. "See, I don't know what got in the enemy's mind. They must have thought our national religion was materialism -- that we were so selfish, so self-absorbed, so interested only in ourselves, that after 9/11/2001, oh, we might have filed a lawsuit or two."...
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Neelyville man injured in logging accident
(Local News ~ 11/02/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A Neelyville, Mo., man was in critical condition at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau Thursday morning, after he was hit by a tree Wednesday when he and his son were logging near Qulin, Mo. Donald W. Miller, whose age was not available, was conscious but bleeding from the ears, nose and mouth when deputies arrived at the scene along Highway HH near Qulin, according to Butler County Sheriff's Department reports...
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Out of the past 11/2/02
(Out of the Past ~ 11/02/02)
10 years ago: Nov. 2, 1992 Nineteen-year-old man and two 13-year-old boys were arrested Sunday in bizarre vandalism incident at Old Lorimier Cemetery; black spray paint was used to design cross and pentagram on grave marker located in eastern section of 184-year-old cemetery; in addition, small pumpkin was placed atop marker with snake inside, and pumpkin was burned...
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Louise Cole
(Obituary ~ 11/02/02)
Louise M. Cole, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Nov. 1, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.
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Mike Miller
(Obituary ~ 11/02/02)
Mike B. Miller, 54, of Scott City died Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002, at his home. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Della Brown
(Obituary ~ 11/02/02)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- The funeral for Della Brown of Jonesboro will be held at 11 a.m. today at Crain Funeral Home in Anna, Ill. The Rev. Mark Kirk will officiate. Burial will be in Meisenheimer Cemetery at Dongola, Ill. Brown, 104, died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, at Select Specialty Hospital in St. Louis...
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Mary Kline
(Obituary ~ 11/02/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Mary L. Kline, 94, died Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born March 8, 1908, in Perry County, daughter of Joe and Susan Layton Mattingly. She married Henry J. Kline. He died Dec. 13, 1958. Kline had worked in the laundry at St. Mary's Seminary. She was a member of Christ the Savior Catholic Church at Brewer, Mo., and the Blessed Sacrament Sodality...
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Shirley Boswell
(Obituary ~ 11/02/02)
Shirley E. Boswell, 61, passed away Friday, Oct. 25, 2002, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, Calif., after a long illness. She and H. Wayne Boswell, formerly of Cape Girardeau and Phoenix, Ariz., were married Sept. 17, 1979. Shirley was born in Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 16, 1941, daughter of Jean and Hazel Carter...
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Speak Out A 11/02/02
(Speak Out ~ 11/02/02)
Not a utopia yet EVERY DAY in Speak Out people promote their religion or their church. I find it ironic that Cape Girardeau seems to be so religious. If Cape Girardeau were truly as religious as it appears, it would be a utopia. And while there are places in the world worse than Cape Girardeau, it is nowhere near a utopia. The sad thing is it could be. Practice what you preach, Cape...
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Church has long history of work to spread Gospel
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/02/02)
To the editor: I attended Lynwood Baptist Church from the early 1960s, when it was known as the Third Baptist Church with barely 50 or 60 members, until I moved to St. Louis in 1982. Cape Girardeau is a fast-growing city. If that guy wants to build a bar, he should build it somewhere else. Do not tell me that is the only parcel of land available...
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Kullberg's piece is refreshing opposite view
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/02/02)
To the editor: May I offer my congratulations and thanks for your printing of Russ Kullberg's guest column, "Liberals, conservatives revisited." I have been a resident of the area and a subscriber to your paper for nearly three years. I was beginning to believe that your editorial staff could not even spell "liberal" except in a pejorative manner. What a refreshing change...
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Recent story on estate plans was intriguing
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/02/02)
To the editor: I enjoyed reading the article on estate planning and the death-tax laws at a recently held seminar. I couldn't help wondering what politician came up with the brilliant idea to tax death. I wonder what his estate was worth at the time of his death and if he had the proper estate planning to avoid this tax or at least minimize it...
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Author seeks unity of three faiths with common ancestor
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
Fear filled Bruce Feiler as he walked into Hebron, epicenter of Muslim-Jewish warfare and the site of the tomb of Abraham, father of Judaism, Islam and Christianity. "I wanted to see if in the bloodiest part of the conflict, people could agree on anything," says the bestselling author of "Walking the Bible" and other books...
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Faith television
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
OK, so anybody who has seen HBO's hit series "The Sopranos" knows that mob boss Tony Soprano has what you could call a bad temper. You might even call him a lying, cheating, gutter-mouthed killer who would gun down his best friend in cold blood. But we've all got our flaws, right? And God still loves us...
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Jackson center gets hefty funding boost
(Editorial ~ 11/02/02)
For many of Jackson's senior citizens, a good part of life revolves around the senior center. Their friends are there. Activities are scheduled. Most importantly, there's nutritious, delicious food -- and lots of it. Check out the mouthwatering menu sometime...
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Tough times call for innovative options
(Editorial ~ 11/02/02)
With two years of a sluggish economy and the nation at war, there probably isn't a city in the United States whose leaders could stand up and give a completely positive assessment of community progress. But leaders in Cape Girardeau came darn close...
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POLICE - CAPE SATURDAY, NOV. 2
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/02/02)
Cape Girardeau Saturday, Nov. 2 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Jeffrey M. Dye, 32, of 2547 State Highway FF, Jackson, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated...
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Jackson fire 11/2
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/02/02)
Jackson Saturday, Nov. 2 Firefighters responded Thursday to the following items: A motor vehicle accident on East Jackson Boulevard. An emergency medical service on Clark Street. A controlled fire on Ridge Road. An illegal burn on Ridge Road.
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FIRE - CAPE SATURDAY, NOV. 2
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/02/02)
Cape Girardeau Saturday, Nov. 2 Firefighters responded Thursday to the following item: At 6:40 p.m., emergency medical service at 291 S. Sprigg. Firefighters responded Friday to the following items: At 5:39 a.m., truck fire at 1934 Delwin. At 7:57 a.m., truck fire at 1610 N. Kingshighway...
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religion calendar
(Local News ~ 11/02/02)
Today St. Ann's Sodality Craft Fair, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Immaculate Conception Parish Center, Jackson. Sunday Dr. Walter Schroeder will speak during worship at 10:45 a.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church on the topic "The Search For Pure Truth." Schroeder is an otolaryngologist in Cape Girardeau and an elder at the church. The public is invited to attend...
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religion briefs
(Local News ~ 11/02/02)
Opera singer scheduled to perform at church LEBANON, Ill. -- Christine Brewer will present a recital at 3 p.m. Nov. 10 at the First United Methodist Church in Lebanon. She grew up in Grand Tower, Ill., and attended Shawnee High School. Her father, Donald Burchyett, still lives in Grand Tower, and her mother, the late Deloris Burchyett, was a member of the Shawnee Trio...
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fund raiser wish list 11-2
(Local News ~ 11/02/02)
1. File cabinets 2. Portable stage 3. Wrestling mats (floor) 4. Sound system equipment, dance 5. Sound system equipment, wrestling 6. Music storage cabinets 7. Sound system equipment, music rooms 8. Main concession stand foundation and utilities (track and soccer)...
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Treasury Department examines alterations for simpler tax code
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department is studying ways to revamp the tax system, perhaps by taxing spending instead of earnings. Republicans say the exercise is aimed at enhancing fairness and simplicity; Democrats say it's driven largely by politics...
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Florida the only state prepared to handle bioterrorism
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- The federal government has truckloads of medicine and vaccines ready to deploy should bioterrorism strike, but only one state is fully prepared to receive and distribute those treatments. Federal officials say that while states have made considerable progress in preparing for bioterrorism, much work remains...
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Candidates finding creative ways to keep donors giving
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- From a Rolling Stones concert to a Spike Lee movie screening and personal calls from former President Clinton, campaigns are pulling out the stops to keep donors giving in the final days before the election. But whatever creative techniques candidates try to solicit checks at the end of this two-year fund-raising season, they seldom matter more than who's doing the asking, said Robert Farmer, a veteran Democrat working with Sen. John Kerry's campaign...
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Jury in Robinson case ends day without reaching verdict
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
OLATHE, Kan. -- Jurors considering a punishment for John E. Robinson Sr., who faces the death penalty for murdering two women and prison for the slaying of a third whose body was never found, finished their first day of deliberations late Friday without reaching a verdict...
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Bank manager sentenced
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Liberty, Mo., woman was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for bank fraud, authorities said Friday. Barbara Frazier, 38, also was ordered to pay about $117,000 in restitution to Bank of America, U.S. Attorney Todd Graves said...
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Accidental discharge of gun leaves three officers with minor in
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
WICHITA, Kan. -- Three warrant officers suffered minor injuries Friday when a handgun discharged as one of the officers returned the firearm to his holster, authorities said. The gun went off around 2:30 p.m. Friday as the Wichita warrant officer prepared to leave the Sedgwick County Adult Detention Center after booking a prisoner, said deputy chief Robert Lee...
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Shania Twain returns to national stage with CMA Awards performa
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- After a two-year hiatus, rock-country diva Shania Twain returns to the national stage Wednesday when she opens the Country Music Association Awards live on CBS from the Grand Ole Opry House. But it's Alan Jackson who may steal the show. Jackson is up for a record 10 awards, including the top honor of best entertainer. Last year, he stopped the show with the performance of his Sept. 11-themed hit "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)."...
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State lawmaker resigns, accepts agency position
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Democratic state Rep. O.L. Shelton of St. Louis has resigned from the legislature to take a job at the Missouri Department of Economic Development. Shelton, who lost in the August primary for a state Senate seat, will work in the department's Division of Workplace Development in St. Louis...
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Gov. Ryan wants to meet with families of murder victims
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
CHICAGO -- Gov. George Ryan plans to meet with at least some families of murder victims regarding clemency requests for 142 death row inmates, the governor said Friday. He said he has not decided how the meetings would be held, when they would be held or which families he would meet...
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Court upholds limits on campaign contributions
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Following the lead of a federal appeals court, the Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a law limiting political party contributions to candidates. The unanimous decision late Friday came after the Missouri Libertarian Party challenged the limits, claiming they violate the state constitution's free speech provisions...
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Missouri ready to share $160 million settlement over life insur
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
ST. LOUIS -- More than 55,000 Missourians who were charged extra for life insurance because they were minorities could receive $4.8 million as part of a national settlement with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Gov. Bob Holden said Friday. The settlement, which received preliminary approval from the U.S. ...
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Russia refuses to give visas to foreign religious workers
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
MOSCOW -- Every three months, the Rev. Emile Dumas goes through the same, unsettling routine -- applying to the Russian government for an extension of his entry visa. It's by no means a formality for Dumas, an American priest who leads a small Roman Catholic parish on Russia's Far Eastern Sakhalin Island...
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Illness keeps Milosevic from trial
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The challenge of defending himself against scores of war crimes charges took its toll on Slobodan Milosevic, who was too exhausted to appear in court Friday. The former Yugoslav president, who is 61, required medical attention at the U.N. detention center outside The Hague, and his trial was adjourned until Monday...
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World briefs 11/02/02
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
Sharon, Netanyahu talk about possible alliance JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met Friday with former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, a sometimes ally and sometimes rival, and offered him the job of foreign minister in the fragile minority government...
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Japan may alter its no-war policy
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
TOKYO -- Japanese lawmakers received a parliamentary report Friday that raised the traditionally taboo issue of scrapping a clause in the constitution that renounces war. The supreme law, written by U.S. occupation forces after World War II, is a cornerstone of Japanese democracy and has not been amended since its 1947 adoption...
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Kuwait closes territory while U.S. forces train
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
MUTLA, Kuwait -- Kuwait's government is sealing off nearly a quarter of the country -- including the area near the Iraqi border -- to the public as U.S. and Kuwaiti soldiers train ahead of a possible showdown with President Saddam Hussein. Kuwaiti authorities say the move, which takes effect today, is intended to safeguard the public during ongoing military exercises in the country's northwestern desert...
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Morocco prison fire kills at least 49
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
RABAT, Morocco -- A fire erupted early Friday at an overcrowded prison, killing at least 49 inmates and injuring dozens of other people, authorities said. The fire started about 1:30 a.m. at the Sidi Moussa jail in coastal El Jadida, about 110 miles south of the capital city Rabat, the official MAP news agency said...
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Electronic voting made easy in Brazil
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- If Tuesday's U.S. elections are again mired in technical mishaps, officials may want to draw some lessons from Brazil, where 90 million citizens recently voted with ease in the world's largest electronic election. Since 1996, Latin America's largest and most populous democracy has gradually moved toward electronic voting. ...
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U.S.- Gulf War resolutions authorize action against Iraq
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
UNITED NATIONS -- The latest U.S. quest for Security Council action on Iraq is based on previous Gulf War resolutions that it believes still authorize attacks on Baghdad. The references to the two older resolutions continue to hold back support from allies fearful of triggering another war...
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Nation digest 11/02/02
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
Soldier missing from base in Cuba declared dead LOGAN, Ohio -- A soldier missing from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba was declared dead, but his family still hopes to find him alive, his mother said Friday. "We just don't feel that the Army is looking hard enough. ... As far as we're concerned, he's been taken by somebody," said Ann Foraker, mother of Staff Sgt. Ryan Foraker...
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Winona Ryder defense calls disgruntled ex-Saks worker
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- A disgruntled former employee of Saks Fifth Avenue testified Friday in Winona Ryder's defense, accusing the security chief of Saks' Beverly Hills store of saying he would invent evidence to prove the actress shoplifted. Michael Shoar was one of four witnesses called by attorney Mark Geragos, who indicated Ryder was unlikely to testify before the defense rests on Monday...
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Detroit-area priest pleads no contest in sex abuse case
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
DETROIT -- A Roman Catholic priest who admitted molesting at least a dozen boys going as far back as the 1940s pleaded no contest Friday to sexual conduct with a 13-year-old boy. Robert Burkholder, 83, who lives in Leeward Oahu, Hawaii, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years probation. He also must register as a sex offender...
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Sept. 14 shooting linked to sniper suspects
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Authorities linked yet another shooting to the sniper suspects Friday, the wounding of a Maryland store clerk more than two weeks before the string of Washington-area snipings began terrorizing the region. The number of shootings linked to the suspects now stands at 16, including 12 killed and five wounded in the Washington area, Alabama and Louisiana...
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Tentative tech deal reached in West Coast port labor talks
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
SAN FRANCISCO -- West Coast longshoremen and shipping companies reached a tentative agreement Friday on computer technology that would make hundreds of union jobs obsolete, the major sticking point in their bitter contract talks. Both sides hailed the deal to track waterfront cargo more efficiently as the first tangible progress since a 10-day lockout of dockworkers last month shut down 29 major Pacific ports...
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WTC death toll drops by two
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
NEW YORK -- The World Trade Center death toll has dropped by two to 2,795 after a New York City woman and a Florida man who had been reported missing were found alive, city officials said Friday. Police located Tina Spicer of Manhattan and Peter Montoulieu of Miami more than a year after they were listed as terrorism victims, and seven weeks after their names were read during the anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center site...
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Glitch drops decimal from hotel bills
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
Thousands of guests at Holiday Inns and their sister hotels were billed amounts that even room service, pay-per-view movies and a few stolen towels couldn't explain: $6,500 to $21,000 per night. A credit processing error dropped the decimal point in bills for about 26,000 people staying at Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Crowne Plaza hotels last week. The guests were charged 100 times what they owed...
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American Muslims facing donation dilemma
(State News ~ 11/02/02)
Omer bin Abdullah won't be leaving a paper trail this year when he makes his traditional donation to the poor during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He will fulfill his religious duty by handing cash directly to a needy family, as will many other American Muslims at a time when federal investigators are targeting U.S.-based Islamic charities in the hunt for terrorists...
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Social Security stalwarts
(Column ~ 11/02/02)
From The Wall Street Journal We keep reading that all across America this election year Republicans are running away from Social Security reform like scalded dogs. Well, politicians lacking courage isn't news. The bigger story is that some candidates are tackling the issue head on, rebutting the usual demagoguery and so far surviving to tell about it...
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Telephone Trophy adds incentive for Iowa State, MU
(Professional Sports ~ 11/02/02)
AMES, Iowa -- Dan McCarney has a telephone that doesn't ring. He can't call anyone on it; no one can call him. Yet the Iowa State football coach is doing everything he can this week to keep it. It's the Telephone Trophy, which goes to the winner of the Iowa State-Missouri game each year. Missouri plays at No. 22 Iowa State today and McCarney has displayed the trophy at every team gathering...
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Jordan's leap- from washed up to ageless wonder
(Professional Sports ~ 11/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- He drove around defenders with ease and did a little high-step when he made his jump shots. He scored a point for every minute he played. Michael Jordan may be 39, but who could tell on this night? His game had all the compelling elements of years past -- flow, rhythm, aggression, confidence...
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Hodgins to make first start Sunday
(Professional Sports ~ 11/02/02)
The Hammer is back in the Rams' attack. Fullback James Hodgins on Friday passed his final test -- a full work load to test the broken foot that sidelined him since the preseason -- and coach Mike Martz named the man with the imposing nickname the starter for Sunday's game at Arizona...
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With safety aside, Archuleta likes familiarity of newest role
(Professional Sports ~ 11/02/02)
ST. LOUIS -- The closer to the action, the better for Adam Archuleta. The Rams' safety, an outside linebacker in college, has thrived since essentially moving into that spot in the team's stingy new 4-1-6 defense. Already the team's leading tackler, two weeks ago he had a quarterback pressure and a fumble recovery in a 37-20 victory over the Seahawks...
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Southeast men, women push for league titles
(College Sports ~ 11/02/02)
Southeast Missouri State University's cross country teams seem to be peaking at the right time, which could mean good things at today's Ohio Valley Conference Championships in Morehead, Ky. "We've been running well lately," Southeast distance coach Tammy Wenkel said. "Hopefully we'll have a good meet."...
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First hall of fame class set to be inducted in ceremony today
(College Sports ~ 11/02/02)
Fourteen former athletes and coaches and three national championship teams will be honored today as the first class of inductees for Southeast Missouri State University's new Athletic Hall of Fame. There will be a private induction ceremony at the Show Me Center in the afternoon and the inductees also will be honored at halftime of tonight's Southeast vs. Tennessee Tech football game at Houck Stadium...
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Southeast turns away Tenn. State for OVC win
(College Sports ~ 11/02/02)
The Southeast Missouri State University volleyball team bounced back after its loss to the nationally ranked Missouri Tigers on Thursday night, beating Tennessee State 30-19, 30-27, 30-25 on Friday. After opening the match with a convincing first set victory 30-19, the second and third sets were a bit different. Southeast held Tennessee State off in the second set, winning 30-27. The Otahkians kept the momentum into the third set, again barely squezzing by 30-25...
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Tech could dim Indians' hope for winning record
(College Sports ~ 11/02/02)
This year at least, Tennessee Tech and Southeast Missouri State University are football teams heading in opposite directions. After floundering for much of the 1990s, coach Mike Hennigan led a Tech resurgence and directed the Golden Eagles to winning records the past two seasons when they went a combined 15-6. But the Eagles have taken a step backward this year with a 2-6 overall record and an 0-3 Ohio Valley Conference mark...
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District champs face off today for shot at state semifinals
(High School Sports ~ 11/02/02)
District champions will converge today when the Missouri volleyball state playoffs open with sectional and quarterfinal rounds in all four classes. In Class 4, Jackson will (24-9-2) square off against Nerinx Hall (29-4-1) at 3 p.m. at Lindbergh High School in St. Louis. The winner will face Rosati-Kain (19-12-2) or Cor Jesu (24-10-1) in the quarterfinals at 6...
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Central closes in on its 3rd straight district title
(High School Sports ~ 11/02/02)
When you have as much talent as the Central Tigers, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle. Central senior receiver Chris Daniel, who came into Friday's game with just eight catches this season, used that to his advantage against the Perryville Pirates...
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Rams rally, stay alive in Class 2, District 2 chase
(High School Sports ~ 11/02/02)
After eight games and 28 minutes of offensive futility that saw the Scott City Rams average only eight points per game, the second half and overtime of Friday's game at Scott City seemed like an offensive renaissance when the Rams scored four touchdowns in rout to a 29-22 win...
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Microsoft gets victory as judge OKs settlement
(National News ~ 11/02/02)
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Friday accepted nearly all the provisions of an antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department, but warned top company executives that she will hold them individually responsible for complying with her instructions...
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Defending against public perception
(Local News ~ 11/02/02)
For thousands of people charged with crimes in Southeast Missouri, getting the assistance of a free defense lawyer to represent them in court is priceless. But they might not realize it until after a case is done. Whereas prosecuting attorneys are often ennobled, glamorized and even depicted as sexy by movies and television, public defenders are painted as uncaring, disheveled and far from attractive...
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Halloween's ghouls blend in with Mexico's Day of the Dead ritua
(International News ~ 11/02/02)
MEXICO CITY -- Maria Ajas normally would be kneeling at the graves of her relatives, lighting candles and laying out their favorite food. Instead, she watched her 6-year-old daughter bob between cars, begging drivers at a stoplight to toss a few coins into a plastic pumpkin...
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Fund raiser to complete school 'wish list'
(Local News ~ 11/02/02)
It may not be Christmas yet, but the Cape Girardeau Public School Foundation figures it's never too early to turn in a wish list. "This fund raiser is primarily to raise funds to help complete a wish list for the new Cape senior high school," said D.D. Buerkle, chairperson of a foundation fund raiser to be held at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Cape Girardeau Country Club...
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School administrators deliver report at First Friday coffee
(Local News ~ 11/02/02)
Students have occupied the new high school. Local ACT scores are higher than state and national averages. Thirteen percent of students go directly into the local workforce, providing skilled labor for employers. Public school students are being prepared for the real world in top-rate facilities -- that was the message administrators shared with area business leaders at the monthly First Friday Coffee meeting at the Show Me Center...
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Float a canoe and a feline too
(Local News ~ 11/02/02)
She was an environmental policy analyst, closing in on a master's degree and navigating Washington's turbulent political waters. But two years ago, Carly Reiter walked away to become a part-time canoe saleswoman and world traveler. And these days her immediate concern is the turbulent Mississippi River waters and not sinking her canoe in them...
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Officials study public syndromes to detect bioterrorism attacks
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
NEW YORK -- Public health officials have developed an odd interest lately in the mundane and arcane. Epidemiologists are tracking orange juice sales at the local Safeway and poring over school attendance data. They're mapping every case of the sniffles they can find and watching surveillance videos to count how many times people sneeze...
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Earthquake kills children at nursery school in Italy
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
SAN GIULIANO DI PUGLIA, Italy -- An earthquake jolted south-central Italy on Thursday, sending a nursery school roof crashing down on a class of preschoolers during a lunchtime Halloween party. At least 13 children in the school and two women in nearby homes were killed...
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FanFare 11/3/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/03/02)
Baseball The Mariners interviewed Yankees third base coach Willie Randolph and Baltimore bench coach Sam Perlozzo, and general manager Pat Gillick said two more names have been added to the list of possible replacements for Lou Piniella. Gillick refused to identify the latest possibilities...
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Scientists to study third way of conserving Confederate sub
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Scientists studying both traditional electrolysis and cutting-edge cold plasma technology also will investigate a third way to preserve the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship. During the next year, scientists will experiment to see if supercritical fluids may prove the best choice for conserving the sub that sank with its crew of eight in February 1864, after sinking the Union blockade ship Housatonic...
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Selling well Hallmark markets Veterans Day cards for first time
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Getting Hallmark Cards Inc. to sell Veterans Day cards became a personal crusade for Keri Olson after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Olson, who has worked for Hallmark for the past two years and whose father received a Purple Heart for combat wounds in the Vietnam War, managed to convince the Kansas City-based company that making the cards was a good idea, even though Hallmark had considered it at least twice before but decided consumers weren't interested...
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Prosecutors arrive to begin probe of school collapse
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
SAN GIULIANO DI PUGLIA, Italy -- Aftershocks continued to rattle this abandoned village Saturday as prosecutors probed whether poor construction was to blame for the deaths of 26 children buried when an earthquake flattened their school while adjacent buildings remained standing...
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Candidate Q&A - Congress; Gene Curtis
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
1. What steps do you propose to spur the national economy and create jobs in Missouri? I will propose to the Congress that any income from a financial transaction that involves a tax-free exchange will be changed to allow the parties involved to have one year after the close of the transaction to execute the tax-free exchange. This proposal will include any property that is subject to the capital gains tax, and it will be retroactive for five years, including the property of deceased people...
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Candidate Q&A - Congress; Eric Van Oostrom
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
1. What steps do you propose to spur the national economy and create jobs in Missouri? Currently the United States tax rates are entirely too high and tax credits are given to corporations and individuals that do not stimulate the economy or too many imprecise and unenforceable laws for those that cheat the tax system are not enforced. ...
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Candidate Q&A - Congress; Jo Ann Emerson
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
1. What steps do you propose to spur the national economy and create jobs in Missouri? Our economy in Missouri is very diverse. Our congressional district, which is the most rural in the state, faces challenges different from those in the metropolitan areas. ...
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Candidate Q&A - U.S. Senate
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
Jim Talent1. What steps do you propose to spur the national economy and create jobs in Missouri? Missouri lost 55,000 jobs last year -- the most in the country. I've traveled to Missouri's 114 counties and everywhere I go plants are closing and people are laid off or they're afraid of losing work. ...
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Candidate Q&A - U.S. Senate; Jean Carnahan
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
1. What steps do you propose to spur the national economy and create jobs in Missouri? As a member of the Senate Small Business Committee, I will continue to work to create a positive environment for business and job growth. We must ensure that our citizens obtain the education and job training necessary to compete in the global economy and find high-paying jobs...
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Candidate Q&A - U.S. Senate; Jim Talent
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
1. What steps do you propose to spur the national economy and create jobs in Missouri? Missouri lost 55,000 jobs last year -- the most in the country. I've traveled to Missouri's 114 counties and everywhere I go plants are closing and people are laid off or they're afraid of losing work. ...
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Candidate Q&A - U.S. Senate; Daniel Romano
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
1. What steps do you propose to spur the national economy and create jobs in Missouri? Federal money should be shifted from the military economy, which has only a short-term reach, to community-based public works and public service jobs programs. We could expand Missouri's agricultural economy: Worldwide demand for organic foods is increasing exponentially while worldwide demand for genetically modified foods is shrinking. ...
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Candidate Q & A - U.S. Senate; Tamara Millay
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
1. What steps do you propose to spur the national economy and create jobs in Missouri? I propose immediate, deep cuts in taxes and spending, beginning with the repeal of the federal income tax and an end to all federal spending that cannot be justified under the powers delegated to the federal government in the Constitution.2. What measures would you endorse to avoid future corporate scandals?...
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Senate election- What's at stake?
(Editorial ~ 11/03/02)
The U.S. Senate, sometimes called the world's most deliberative body, is a powerful institution. Its 100 members hold sway over federal legislation and policy, as well s the appointment of judges and the oversight of government. Because of the Senate's enormous clout, electing senators is a serious matter...
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Congress likely to remain divided following elections
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- A nervous nation goes to the polls Tuesday to select a new Congress, and voters are as likely to elect a divided government in this era of anxiety as they did two years ago in a time of peace and prosperity. The House of Representatives appears likely to remain narrowly in Republican control. ...
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Ballot issues listed for vote on Tuesday
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
Measures appearing on Tuesday's statewide ballot would change the costs of cigarettes and call for a state constitutional convention, among other choices. Following are all the issues up for vote in Missouri, with explanations about what the measures intend to do and how opponents and proponents view them:...
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County clerk- Punch-cards gone in 6 years
(Local News ~ 11/03/02)
Cape Girardeau County's punch-card voting system will be scrapped even though it works well, the county's chief elections official says. That's because a new federal law will eliminate punch-card voting nationwide in response to the voting problems in Florida in the 2000 presidential election. It will force counties to use voting systems such as those involving touch-screen machines or ones that use optical scanners to count paper ballots, said Cape Girardeau County Clerk Rodney Miller...
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Missouri electorate takes stock of politics, candidates
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
ALONG U.S. 50, Mo. -- Retired minister Fred Ackman has "had enough of the Bushes." But gun and bait shop owner Jim Sloan supports the president "150 percent." Anne Parker is a city alderwoman herself but is weary of negative campaigns by all parties: "The slicker they are, the more slippery they are."...
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Why attack us? Iraqis puzzle over Washington's focus
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Faced with U.S. threats of war, people on the drab streets of Baghdad speak of dying for Saddam Hussein -- but as a remote possibility and without much anger or emotion. They seem more concerned about why Washington is so focused on Iraq and not on Iran or North Korea, other countries President Bush has labeled part of the "axis of evil."...
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Revised U.S. text expected next week
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
By Edith M. Lederer ~ The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS -- President Bush on Saturday called Saddam Hussein a "dangerous man" with links to terrorist networks, as Security Council members awaited a revised U.S. resolution to disarm Iraq...
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Farm family says Kinder Morgan owes them help
(Local News ~ 11/03/02)
When Colorado-based Kinder Morgan Power Co. announced last week that it is abandoning a plan to build a $300 million plant near Crump, at least one Cape Girardeau County family was left wondering what kind of damage the company might be leaving behind...
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Garage sale adds 'moonlight' session
(Local News ~ 11/03/02)
They still have to put people on a waiting list, but with a "moonlight" session at the November community garage sale the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department doesn't have to turn quite so many away. "The reason we have two sessions at this sale is because there were still so many people waiting in line to register when we got done," said Amy Roth, recreation coordinator for the city's parks and recreation department. ...
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Torbets married 60 years
(Anniversary ~ 11/03/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Kenneth and Mary Torbet of Marble Hill celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Oct. 13, 2002, at Reflections Fine Dining in Jackson. Hosts were their children and grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Torbet were married Oct. 13, 1942, at Grant City, Mo. Their attendants were Don and Gladys Torbet, brother and sister-in-law of the groom...
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Bles- Shelly
(Engagement ~ 11/03/02)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Robyn Bles and Josh Shelly announce their engagement. She is the daughter of Rick and Patty Tanksley of Chaffee, and Lee McDaniel of Caruthersville, Mo. Shelly is the son of Dewayne and Kim Shelly of Hayti, Mo. Bles is a student at Dyersburg State Community College in Dyersburg, Tenn...
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Kreitler-Wright
(Engagement ~ 11/03/02)
Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Kreitler of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., announce the engagement of their daughter, Rebeka Jane Kreitler, to Andrew Charles Wright. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Wright of Overland, Mo. Kreitler is a 1995 graduate of Ste. Genevieve High School, and a 1999 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. She expects to receive a master's degree in May 2003. She is a guidance counselor with Cape Girardeau Public Schools...
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Wiedefeld-Bomar
(Engagement ~ 11/03/02)
John and Phyllis Wiedefeld of Cape Girardeau announce the engagement of their daughter, Allison Renae Wiedefeld, to Anthony Scott Bomar. He is the son of Gary and Jeanine Bomar of Jackson. Wiedefeld is a graduate of Notre Dame High School. She is teller supervisor at Union Planters Bank...
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Thompson-Tritto
(Engagement ~ 11/03/02)
Joseph "Bud" and Sharon Thompson of Cape Girardeau announce the engagement of their daughter, April Thompson, to Christopher Tritto. He is the son of Stephen and Peggy Tritto of San Jose, Calif. Thompson received a bachelor of science degree in biology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She expects to receive a medical degree from the university, and to begin an obstetrics and gynecology residency in July 2003...
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Mittrucker-Klipfel
(Engagement ~ 11/03/02)
James and Linda Mittrucker of Cape Girardeau announce the engagement of their daughter, Laura Michelle Mittrucker, to Travis Joseph Klipfel. He is the son of Herman and Priscilla Klipfel of Cape Girardeau. Mittrucker is a 2001 graduate of Notre Dame High School, and attends Southeast Missouri State University. She is employed by Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department...
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Kirk-Davis
(Engagement ~ 11/03/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Billy and Lois Kirk of Sikeston announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Suzanne Kirk, to Billy Arnold Davis Jr. He is the son of Billy and Lois Davis of Benton, Mo. Kirk is a registered nurse at Stoddard County Public Health Center in Bloomfield, Mo...
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Holloway-Riley
(Engagement ~ 11/03/02)
Jason Holloway of Jackson announces the engagement of his mother, Sherry Kay Holloway, to Alan Dean Riley. She is the daughter of the late Glenn and Dorothy Langston, and Connie Langston of Jackson. Riley is the son of Juanita Walker of Advance, Mo., and the late Melvin Riley...
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Burger- Morgan
(Engagement ~ 11/03/02)
BENTON, Mo. -- Jamie and Sherry Burger of Benton announce the engagement of their daughter, Vanessa Marie Burger, to Gregory Heath Morgan. He is the son of Debbie Nelson of Hayti, Mo., and Richard and Beverly Morgan of Risco, Mo. Burger is a 1997 graduate of Kelly High School. She is employed at Schlumberger Data Services...
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Dees-Walker
(Wedding ~ 11/03/02)
Jessica Ann Dees and Jeffrey Scott Walker were married June 29, 2002, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso, Mo. The Rev. Oliver Clavin performed the ceremony. Lectors were Amanda Broshuis of Jackson, and Becky Langston of Blue Springs, Mo., cousin of the groom. Organist was Diann Bradshaw of Scott City. Flutist and vocalist was Amy Turnbull of Denton, Texas...
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Davis-Erzfeld
(Wedding ~ 11/03/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Shannon Marie Davis and Damian Christopher Erzfeld were married July 27, 2002, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville, Mo. The Rev. Kevin Fausz performed the ceremony. Reader was Linda Job of Paducah, Ky., aunt of the bride. Giftbearers were Allen and Marilyn Schott of Jackson, uncle and aunt of the bride, and Kathy McCune of Perryville, aunt of the groom. Organist was Ann Brewster and soloist was Andrea Chambers, cousin of the groom, both of Jackson...
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Wessel-Nix
(Wedding ~ 11/03/02)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- First Baptist Church in Chaffee was the setting July 6, 2002, for the wedding of Jamie Lyn Wessel and Shawn Dale Nix. The Rev. Wayne Dismuke of Dexter, Mo., performed the ceremony. Pianist was Rebecca Hanlon of Chaffee. Soloists were Toni Clark of Mountain Grove, Mo., and Doug Driesel of Houston, Mo...
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Stroder-Brown
(Wedding ~ 11/03/02)
Samantha Renee Stroder and Travis Lane Brown exchanged vows May 18, 2002, at First Baptist Church in Millersville. The Revs. Daniel Hale and Ronnie Brown performed the ceremony. Pianist was Arika Lucy of Jackson. Soloists were Rebecca Johnson and Courtney Crowden, cousin of the bride, both of Jackson...
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Sides-Smith
(Wedding ~ 11/03/02)
DeAnna Marie Sides and Gregory Windsor Smith exchanged vows June 29, 2002, at Old McKendree Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Ron Watts of Cape Girardeau performed the ceremony. Billy Keys of Cape Girardeau played keyboards and trumpet, Monte Wilson of Lexington, Ky., played acoustic guitar, and vocalist was Sherry Eakers of Cape Girardeau, aunt of the bride...
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Lowes-Schemel
(Wedding ~ 11/03/02)
Joni Patrice Lowes and Greg Matthew Schemel were married June 29, 2002, at First Baptist Church in Jackson. The Rev. Raymond Epps performed the ceremony. Organist was Geri Beussink and vocalist was Beth Roethemeyer, both of Jackson. James and Kathy Lowes of Jackson are parents of the bride. The groom is the son of Randy and Vonda Schemel of Houston, Texas, and Mark and Mary Hails of Evansville, Ind...
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Out of the past 11/3/02
(Out of the Past ~ 11/03/02)
10 years ago: Nov. 3, 1992 Jackson - County Clerk Rodney Miller is anticipating record number of voters could go to polls today in Cape Girardeau County; but because this will be one of longest ballots ever, Miller is urging voters to come to polls prepared, to avoid long lines; biggest turnout ever in county was in 1984, when 25,302 people cast votes...
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Helen Shores
(Obituary ~ 11/03/02)
Helen May Shores, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Esther Doering
(Obituary ~ 11/03/02)
WITTENBERG, Mo. -- Esther J. Doering, 103, of Wittenberg died Friday, Nov. 1, 2002, at her home. She was born Feb. 5, 1899, at Old Appleton, daughter of Gottfried and Ida Landgraff Mueller. She and Ernst George Doering were married Feb. 27, 1927. He died Nov. 1, 1986...
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Lola Waters
(Obituary ~ 11/03/02)
DEXTER, Mo. -- Lola Slaughter Waters, 91, of Dexter died Friday, Nov. 1, 2002, at the Beverly Health and Rehab Center in Dexter. She was born April 6, 1911, at Zalma, Mo., daughter of Leo and Phebe Sherrills Davis. She and Melvin Slaughter were married in 1929. He died June 17, 1986. She and Ben Waters were married April 14, 1988. He also preceded her in death...
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Louise Cole
(Obituary ~ 11/03/02)
Louise M. Cole, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Nov. 1, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Aug. 18, 1919, at Cape Gir-ardeau, daughter of John C. and Laura Cole. She had worked at the former Cole-Webb Grocery Store in the Red Star District of Cape Girardeau and later worked as the credit manager at Montgomery Ward in Cape Girardeau for 15 years. ...
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Thelma James
(Obituary ~ 11/03/02)
Thelma Louise James, 92, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Puxico, Mo., died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 12, 1910, at Zalma, Mo., daughter of Bernie and Lillie Hindman Shell. She and Arthur James were married Nov. 20, 1933, at Jonesboro, Ill...
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Hester Tucker
(Obituary ~ 11/03/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Hester A. Tucker, 90, of Perryville died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 17, 1912, at Brewer, Mo., daughter of Hazzard and Hattie Powers Morgan. She and Elbert J. Tucker were married Dec. 29, 1944, at Perryville. He died June 18, 1968...
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Billy Morphis
(Obituary ~ 11/03/02)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Billy R. Morphis Jr., 32, of Paducah, Ky., died Friday, Nov. 1, 2002, at the Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. He was born May 3, 1970, at Covington, Tenn., son of Billy R. and Mary Clapp Morphis. He and Charlotte L. Pearson were married Sept. 23, 2000, at Cobden...
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Delbert Parr
(Obituary ~ 11/03/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Delbert Parr, 79, of Anna died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 26, 1923, at Cypress, Ill., son of Lionel and Mary Turner Parr. He and Doris Page were married Oct. 31, 1945, in Arkansas...
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Speak Out A 11/03/02
(Speak Out ~ 11/03/02)
Get some backbone SYNDICATED COLUMNIST Kathleen Parker is quite correct in stating that it takes courage to bear witness and make a public stand. That is why I urge area citizens to get some backbone and speak up in Speak Out. Cause for amazement I AGREE with your editorial assertion that Missourians are watching with amazement as the Missouri Supreme Court considers a case concerning collective-bargaining rights for public employees. ...
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From every angle Design elements make country estate stand apar
(Community ~ 11/03/02)
Home-buying -- like geometry -- is a matter of studying angles. There are many things to consider: location, price, design and a number of other factors that can't even be defined. The home at 264 County Road 522 near Pocahontas is one of those rare homes that looks good from any angle. It's located on over 60 rolling hills, and a lake on the property offers a private stock of bass, crappie and bluegill. A smaller pond seen from the northwest side of the house offers a peaceful view...
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Police report 11/03/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/03/02)
Cape Girardeau Sunday, Nov. 3 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Ramiro Rios III, 30, 520 S. Sprigg, Apt. 1, was arrested Friday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Stephanie D. Windisch, 36, 520 S. Sprigg, Apt. 1, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated...
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Fire report 11/03/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/03/02)
Cape Girardeau Sunday, Nov. 3 Firefighters responded Friday to the following calls: At 4:30 p.m., emergency medical service at at 331 S. Lorimier. At 9:41 p.m., emergency medical service at 517 Middle. Firefighters reponded Saturday to the following calls:...
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Swingle to speak on KRCU today
(Local News ~ 11/03/02)
Morley Swingle, Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney and author, will be the featured guest on KRCU's "Going Public" radio show on Sunday. Swingle will discuss his recently published novel, "The Gold of Cape Girardeau." The show, hosted by Tom Harte and Chris Schnell, will air at 3 p.m. on 90.9 FM, the region's Public Radio affiliate station...
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Couples juggle schedules to raise kids without day care
(Local News ~ 11/03/02)
Kristin and Ron Thompson feel like they are single parents although they are happily married and live in the same Huntington Beach, Calif., house. That's because when Ron's working as a firefighter on 24-hour shifts, Kristin stays home watching their two school-age sons...
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Ex-policeman charged with child abuse
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
ST. LOUIS -- A former St. Louis police sergeant who had received several department honors is accused of pointing a pistol at his 10- and 14-year-old daughters, authorities say. John McKenzie has been charged with child abuse. Last year, he was fired from the police force for shoplifting...
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Louise Cole
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
ST. LOUIS -- A U.N. official urged the United States to ratify a treaty protecting the rights of children, an act he said would inspire the world "to go the extra step" for its youngest citizens. Jacob Doek, chairman of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, called on the United States to join with 191 countries that have already signed the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child because "it would really help the world," he said Friday during a speech in St. Louis...
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Man arrested for storing infectious medical waste
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
COLUMBIA -- Authorities are investigating a man who was arrested after 137 containers of infectious medical waste were found inside an empty home in Columbia. The 36-year-old man was arrested Tuesday and released Thursday on $500 bond. Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Crane said he planned to file three misdemeanor charges against the man...
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Wildlife officials confirm first case of chronic wasting disea
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
ROSCOE, Ill. -- State wildlife officials have confirmed the first known case in Illinois of chronic wasting disease in a deer. The fatal brain condition was discovered in a sick deer shot Oct. 23 on private land just east of Roscoe near the Wisconsin border. The disease has infected deer and elk from Colorado to Wisconsin...
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Jury urges execution in case of bodies found in barrels
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
OLATHE, Kan. -- John E. Robinson Sr. should be put to death for killing two women and stuffing their bodies into barrels on his rural property, a jury recommended Saturday. The decision makes Robinson the fifth man to receive a death sentence recommendation from a Kansas jury since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1994...
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Two killed in head-on crash
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
FAIR GROVE, Mo. -- Two people were killed in a head-on collision in southwest Missouri early Saturday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victims as Michael Sherman, 21, and Ronald Akins, 64, both of Buffalo, Mo. One car crossed the centerline on U.S. 65 south of Fair Grove about 4 a.m. and struck the other one head-on, the patrol said...
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Princess Di's legacy haunts royal family once again
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
LONDON -- The legacy of Princess Diana -- dead five years now -- haunts the beleaguered British royals yet again, as a fierce debate rages about the motives of Queen Elizabeth II, whose belated revelations cleared Diana's former butler on charges he stole from the House of Windsor...
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Americans evacuated from Central African Republic
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
BANGUI, Central African Republic -- Americans were evacuated today with coup forces reportedly in control of roads out of the Central African Republic capital. Fears of new fighting ran high in the tense city. A U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane carried out more than two dozen people -- U.S. Embassy workers, other Americans, and other foreign nationals, Lt. Col. Pat Barnes said at U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany...
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Islamic-oriented party is election front-runner in secular Turk
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
ANKARA, Turkey -- Showered with carnations and chants of "We love you" at campaign rallies, Turkey's most popular politician, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, led his front-running party into elections today expected to radically remake parliament. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party has its roots in Islamic-oriented political movements, but he and other leaders contend they have changed and are not promoting a religious agenda. ...
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Report- Iran detained one of bin Laden's sons
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
LONDON -- Iranian security forces have detained one of Osama bin Laden's sons among several hundred people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network, the Financial Times reported on its Web site Saturday. Citing an unidentified Iranian official, the newspaper said Iran had handed bin Laden's son over to authorities in either Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. The paper, which does not appear on Sundays, planned to publish the story in its Monday edition, said spokesman Gregory Roth...
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'60 Minutes' reports South Africa's germ warfare program connec
(International News ~ 11/03/02)
The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A California doctor who committed suicide after being accused in a murder plot gave deadly germs to apartheid South Africa's secret chemical and biological weapons program, CBS' "60 Minutes" reported Sunday...
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World briefs 12A
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
Protesters demand extradition of rebel envoy MOSCOW -- Russian lawmakers turned up the pressure on Denmark on Saturday, demonstrating outside the country's embassy to warn the small Scandinavian nation Moscow will not drop its demand for the extradition of a detained Chechen rebel envoy...
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NBC's 'West Wing' is still a show to be reckoned with
(Entertainment ~ 11/03/02)
LOS ANGELES -- Three consecutive best-drama Emmys. A Peabody Award. One of TV's most affluent audiences. All that, and "The West Wing" still must account for losing viewers to "The Bachelor." In the bottom-line world of television, series that deliver a young crowd are the fondest desire of advertisers and networks -- and ABC's dating game is among the new competitors sapping youthful strength from "The West Wing" on NBC...
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Comic Tim Allen returns as top toyman
(Entertainment ~ 11/03/02)
LOS ANGELES -- Tools and toys. Tim Allen can't escape the trappings of his best-known roles. Formerly Tim "The Toolman" Taylor on "Home Improvement" and the voice of plaything Buzz Lightyear in the "Toy Story" movies, Allen returns as Big Cheese of the North Pole toy industry in "The Santa Clause 2," the sequel to his 1994 hit. The movie opened Friday...
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Pharmaceutical firms to make generic Prilosec
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
NEW YORK -- Three generic drug companies have joined forces to launch a generic version of the blockbuster ulcer medication Prilosec by the end of the year. The new version eventually could save consumers and businesses billions of dollars. Andrx Corp. ...
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Air board backs away from vote to ban chemical in dry cleaning
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
DIAMOND BAR, Calif.-- Southern California's air-quality regulators on Friday backed away from a proposed ban, driven by health concerns, on the most commonly used dry-cleaning solvent. If adopted by the board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the plan would have made the greater Los Angeles region the first jurisdiction in the nation to ban perchloroethylene, or perc ...
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Six arrested for dogfights in Pennsylvania
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
McKEESPORT, Pa. -- The bouts, police say, were staged in basements and warehouses. There were trainers, promoters, fight magazines and $50,000 bets. Fighters were pumped up with steroids, and electrocuted when injured badly. State investigators made six arrests in what they call their biggest investigation of a dogfighting ring -- a racket that has allegedly sent pit bulls to their deaths in a high-stakes blood sport for the past five years...
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Pilots union OKs cuts to aid United
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
CHICAGO -- Leaders of the pilots union at United Airlines endorsed a $2.2 billion reduction in labor costs over 5 1/2 years, including substantial pay cuts, to help the financially strapped carrier. The airline is seeking $5.8 billion in labor savings from all its unions in order to get a $1.8 billion government-guaranteed loan to stave off bankruptcy...
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U.S. aid worker murdered in Jordan remembered
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Laurence M. Foley, the U.S. aid worker killed in a possible terrorist attack in Jordan, was remembered Saturday as a big, boisterous man whose humor and mischievous charm won him and his country countless friends. About 250 people attended a memorial service at a Unitarian Universalist church outside Washington that was marked by more laughter than tears and more talk of his zest for life than his violent death...
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Astronomers find planet in two-star system
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
DALLAS -- University of Texas astronomers have confirmed that a planet orbits one of a pair of stars 45 light-years (260 trillion miles) away. It is the first discovery of a planet in a binary star system where the two stars orbit each other closely...
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People talk 10B
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
Julia Roberts goes to Yale to shoot movie NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The stately halls of Yale University got a shot of Hollywood glamour this weekend with Julia Roberts in town to shoot scenes for her new movie, "Mona Lisa Smile." Yale stands in for the Massachusetts campus of Wellesley College in 1953 for the movie about an art history professor, played by Roberts, who helps young female students find themselves...
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New Mexico scientists find microbes helped carve caves
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns, a room that could fill more than six football fields and reach the height of a 30-story building, inspires awe among visitors, but it's a nagging puzzle for geologists. For decades visitors were told the cave, with its gypsum formations, was formed by the relentless drip-drip-drip of carbonic acid eating away at the limestone in a rare process that creates only 5 percent of the world's caves...
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Scholars object to text on Washington's slave quarters
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
PHILADELPHIA -- Scholars are objecting to a National Park Service text that does not mention that the house in Philadelphia used by President George Washington had a slaves' quarters attached to it. Instead, the Independence National Historical Park's Web site refers to a "large servants' hall" that Washington had attached to the back of the house...
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Company sues over 'CSI'
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
The Associated Press DENVER -- Real estate company Re/Max International has sued CBS, alleging an episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" portrayed a shady real estate agent who used a for-sale sign that looked like a Re/Max sign. The suit, filed Thursday in U.S. ...
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Research aims to standardize beer
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
MINNEAPOLIS -- Scientists hope a new study will help develop a way for brewers to manufacture a beer that tastes as good in the dead of winter as it does on a hot summer day. The study will investigate how growing conditions and locations can affect hops, barley and other ingredients and change the flavor and aroma of a brand of beer from batch to batch...
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Son says father forced him to sell drugs
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
PHILADELPHIA -- A man was held for trial after his 11-year-old son testified that his father had forced him to sell drugs and carry a gun. "I was sick and tired of being used and I wanted to tell somebody," said the boy, who walked into a police station Sept. 24 and gave his account to police...
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Former pro football player home with new heart
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Doug "Mackey" Goodwin says there were "a lot of miracles at work" the day he got his new heart. The 60-year-old former player for the NFL's Buffalo Bills received a transplant at New York Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 11, 2001, the day terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center...
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Dentist buys candy
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- A dentist is offering trick or treaters $1 a pound for their sweets to make a point about dental hygeine. Dr. Stephen Berger has offered to buy children's Halloween candy since 1984. He said he averages about 1,500 pounds of treats a year, and that he has the candy carted off to the dump...
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24 California towns ponder life as Got Milk?
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
BIGGS, Calif. -- In a nation where Minute Maid spends $100 million to name a Houston ballpark, NASCAR hosts a Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400 and people seeking $1 million willingly expose their inner flaws on TV's "Survivor," what's so wrong about becoming Got Milk? Calif.?...
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Author signs 300 copies of novel
(Local News ~ 11/03/02)
Morley Swingle has authored thousands of legal documents in the 16 years he's been Cape Girardeau County's prosecuting attorney. But on Saturday afternoon, he signed his name inside the cover of a story he spent nearly two decades drafting. Swingle signed more than 300 copies of his first novel, "The Gold of Cape Girardeau," at Barnes & Noble on Saturday afternoon. He signed about 200 books Friday night at Southeast Missouri University's museum...
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Blunt- Provisional voting could delay outcomes
(Local News ~ 11/03/02)
Missouri's new system of provisional ballots -- which goes into effect for the first time in Tuesday's general election -- could delay the outcome in the U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Jean Carnahan and Republican challenger Jim Talent...
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Securities chief troubles White House
(National News ~ 11/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush and top aides are losing patience with Harvey Pitt but have not decided whether to seek his ouster as Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, a senior White House official said Saturday. Support for Pitt among Republicans, who had been steadfastly backing him amid Democrats' calls for his resignation, eroded as Sen. ...
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Attorney general- Ozarks college must return cash
(State News ~ 11/03/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Attorney General Jay Nixon said the Ozarks Technical Community College should not question whether it needs to return a $180,000 state appropriation. "I saw the headline in your paper," Nixon told The Springfield News-Leader Friday. "'OTC board to ask Nixon: Must cash go back?' The answer is yes."...
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Letter to the editor
(Other Sports ~ 11/03/02)
To the editor: I'd like to comment on the behavior of the broadcasters of the Southeast Missouri State University football team. As I was driving through the area Saturday, I heard a commentator make a reference toward the opponent's coach, who was of Italian background. This individual stated after the opponent's head coach questioned a call by the official, "He's telling him (the official) about the 'guys' he has on his staff."...
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FanSpeak 11/3/02
(Other Sports ~ 11/03/02)
Iknew it, I knew it I JUST knew Notre Dame would receive a first-place vote or two in the Top 10 volleyball poll even after being crushed by Leopold in both sets last week. I'd love to see the logic behind the journalist who still maintains Notre Dame is the best team in Southeast Missouri. ...
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Wallace focused only on winning
(Professional Sports ~ 11/03/02)
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. -- Rusty Wallace is on edge. All his energy is channeled into just one thing: winning a race. Wallace goes into today's Pop Secret 400 on a 59-race winless streak. With just three events remaining this season, he's in serious jeopardy of not winning for the first time in 17 years...
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Questions abound with start of Southeast basketball
(Sports Column ~ 11/03/02)
Although the games won't count on their records, Southeast Missouri State University's 2002-03 basketball teams will test themselves against outside competition -- as well as show themselves to the public -- for the first time this week. Southeast hoop fans are probably curious to take a look at both squads in those home exhibition games that have the women playing St. Louis Goldstar Friday night and the men facing Missouri-Rolla Saturday night...
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Southeast hall of fame inductees
(College Sports ~ 11/03/02)
Laura ByrneByrne, a track and cross country athlete from 1986-1989, won four Division II individual titles during the 1988-89 school year when she won the cross country national championship, the indoor 1,500 and 3,000-meters and the outdoor 5,000-meters...
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First Southeast Athletic Hall of Fame induction class features
(College Sports ~ 11/03/02)
A who's who of standout Southeast Missouri State University athletes and coaches were on display at the Show Me Center Saturday afternoon when the school honored the first class of inductees for its new Athletic Hall of Fame. Fourteen former athletes and coaches and three national championship teams make up the inaugural class that also was honored during halftime of Saturday night's football game against Tennessee Tech at Houck Stadium...
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Ponder puts Indians over the top in 36-30 win
(College Sports ~ 11/03/02)
That Southeast Missouri State University's Willie Ponder would score the game-winning touchdown Saturday night isn't surprising. After all, he is a Division I-AA All-American wide receiver who already had racked up 11 touchdowns this season. But the way Ponder reached the end zone in the final seconds against Tennessee Tech was unconventional to say the least...
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Leopold cruises into state finals
(High School Sports ~ 11/03/02)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- For more than two months teams across Southeast Missouri have tried to figure out how to stop Leopold senior hitter Holly Jansen. If Saturday's Class 1 sectional in Advance is any indication, that problem remains unsolved. In a dominating performance, Jansen banged out 23 kills and the Leopold Wildcats (32-2-1) rolled to a 15-7, 15-3 win over Bismarck in the sectional championship...
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Runnerup Pancoast leads Central girls team into Class 4 state m
(High School Sports ~ 11/03/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Jennifer Pancoast again led the way for the Central girls cross country team, this time leading the Tigers to the Class 4 state meet. Pancoast placed second in the sectional field on the 3.1-mile layout at Jefferson Barracks Park Saturday as Central claimed the fourth and final state spot in the eight-team field...
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Borgia gives ND a bitter welcome to Class 3 playoffs
(High School Sports ~ 11/03/02)
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- The Notre Dame Bulldogs were unable to conquer perennial volleyball power St. Francis Borgia in the Class 3 sectional Saturday at Ste. Genevieve High School. But on a war-front within, Notre Dame (31-6-1) ultimately won a battle of nerves before its season closed...
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Nov. 2 college football scores
(Professional Sports ~ 11/03/02)
EAST Albany, N.Y. 32, Robert Morris 7 American International 34, Pace 7 Bates 48, Bowdoin 28 Bentley 37, Assumption 6 Bloomsburg 23, West Chester 10 Brockport 17, Thiel 0 Bryant 9, Stonehill 8 C.W. Post 34, S. Connecticut 8 Carnegie-Mellon 27, Chicago 10...
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Wallace leads late TD drive to top Missouri
(Professional Sports ~ 11/03/02)
AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State has learned that with Seneca Wallace running things, anything is possible. Wallace certainly made things happen Saturday, setting a school record with 493 total yards and directing a 93-yard touchdown drive with time running out that gave No. 22 Iowa State a 42-35 victory over Missouri...
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Rams aim for third victory after 0-5 start
(Professional Sports ~ 11/03/02)
TEMPE, Ariz. -- No one expected the Rams to be looking up at the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC West standings seven games into the season. Yet after an 0-5 start, the Rams (2-5) are two games in back of the Cardinals (4-3) heading into today's game at Sun Devil Stadium. A victory over Arizona is the next essential step in St. Louis' uphill climb...
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6-year-old looks for record
(Column ~ 11/03/02)
Even after Halloween's sugar high, Bailey still talks about breaking a world's record. Our 6-year-old proudly informed us last weekend that she planned to stay in her monkey pajamas because she was working on a world's record. I'm not sure she even knows what a world's record is, but she certainly likes the sound of it...
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About the size of it
(Community ~ 11/03/02)
Women still searching for numbers that match the fit By Eils Lotozo * Knight Ridder Newspapers A strange thing happened to me at the Target store in Cherry Hill, N.J., a couple of weeks ago: I tried on a skirt in a size small, and it fit. Small is not how many people would describe my healthy 5-foot-6, 147-pound figure. Heck, the last time I was anything resembling small was in high school -- during the Nixon administration...
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Ink spill makes for new wrinkle
(Column ~ 11/03/02)
Editor's note: This column originally was published Nov. 5, 2000. The ink was cleanly processed. The writing table was cleared. A few of my proposed notes were written. Then, from some unusual jar of something, over went the opened bottle of ink. Maybe a door was slammed. ...
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Gary Rust honored with Inland Press Association award
(Business ~ 11/04/02)
Citing strong contributions to journalism, public service and leadership, longtime Cape Girardeau newspaperman Gary W. Rust has been awarded the Ralph D. Casey Award by the Inland Press Association, one of the country's top newspaper trade associations...
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Supreme Court will examine California's 'three-strikes' law
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- Gary Ewing was slapped with 25 years-to-life for sneaking out of a shop with three golf clubs stuffed down his pants leg. Shoplifting "Free Willy 2" and eight other videotapes earned Leandro Andrade 50 years behind bars. Both men are repeat offenders sentenced under California's tough "three-strikes" law, which mandates long prison terms for those convicted of at least two prior felonies...
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Haysbert dignifies action again on '24'
(Entertainment ~ 11/04/02)
LOS ANGELES -- Commanding yet guarded, President David Palmer addresses the press corps, assuring them that although the situation is grave, everything is under control. It's a scene from an upcoming hour of Fox's real-time action series "24" (8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12), being shot at a suburban community college that is doubling for a presidential retreat-turned-crisis bunker...
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Community scrapbook - Businessman William H. Vedder
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
William H. Vedder was well-known in the business community of Cape Girardeau for many years, according to his great-niece Jane Bodine of Cape and his obituary that ran in the Southeast Missourian on Dec. 1, 1956. Born Jan. 30, 1869, in Osnabrueck,Germany, Vedder came to America in 1881 and settled in St. ...
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Precedent challenged in collective bargaining case
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- When the Missouri Supreme Court first tackled the issue of whether government employees have a constitutional right to collectively bargain with management, it issued an unequivocal opinion that such rights didn't extend to public sector workers. While the result was straightforward and has since guided state policy for 55 years, the court will revisit the case in a hearing on Wednesday...
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Candidate Q&A - State House; Lannie Black III
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 161 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? There are no simple solutions available. I believe there is some waste in the administration and spending involved with many programs, but I believe if we eliminate 100 percent of the "waste" (which realistically is not possible) that current revenue will be insufficient to maintain all programs and spending at present levels. ...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Jason Crowell
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 158 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? I don't agree with the question. The only way the state will climb out of the current fiscal situation we find ourselves in is for the legislature to do all it can to make Missouri once again attractive to businesses. ...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; C. Darby Ulery
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 158 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? In response to the options to either raise taxes or eliminate more programs in order to help the state out of its continuing budget problems, I propose we eliminate more programs and privatize many government programs. The government continuously manages money poorly; private citizens are better at this...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Wayne Petitt
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 161 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? People are taxed enough. I believe that a lot of waste could be cut out of the state's budget. Times are tough and state departments are going to have to be more careful with the money they have...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Peter Myers
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 160 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? I don't believe that we should or will be able to raise taxes. ...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Donnie Kiefer
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 160 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? These are options to help the state with its budget problems. ...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Dennis Smith
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 106 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? I would prefer a serious review of state agencies above middle management to find ways to work more efficiently, saving money. Agencies are struggling to provide services at the consumer level, where they are seriously needed...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Kevin Engler
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 106 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? Raising taxes is not an option. I support zero-based budgeting with an evaluation of programs and getting input from department employers, as well as end users...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Elbert Bohnert
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 106 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? Accountability -- it seems that is all we hear lately. Folks need to know where their tax dollars are being spent. ...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Chuck Miller
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 157 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? I am not in favor of any kind of tax increase. I think our first priority should be to reduce spending and that may mean eliminating programs. At a time when families are experiencing belt tightening, it is time for the state also to tighten its belt, not create more taxes for working men and women...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Scott Lipke
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
District 157 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? In my mind, there are more choices. In fact, it is that way of thinking that in part has put us in our current budget crisis. ...
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Out of the past 11/4/02
(Out of the Past ~ 11/04/02)
10 years ago: Nov. 4, 1992 In night when Democrats were winning from White House to state house, U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson celebrated Republican victory Tuesday, handily winning re-election to seventh term; Cape Girardeau Republican won in all 26 counties in 8th District, defeating Democratic challenger Thad Bullock of Cape Girardeau and write-in candidate Harold Reed of Glen Allen...
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Latecomer to race outspending opponents
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Just one month after he launched his campaign for 106th District state representative, Republican Kevin Engler had spent close to double the amount spent by Democrat Dennis W. Smith, who has been running for the seat since March...
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Kathy Thiele
(Obituary ~ 11/04/02)
Kathy Ann Thiele, 65, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 19, 1937, in Effingham, Ill., daughter of Edward and Nora Vaultonburg. She worked as a registered nurse at Effingham Hospital for 22 years and at the former Shuffett Nursing Home in Sikeston for 10 years...
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Vera Huff
(Obituary ~ 11/04/02)
Vera Jean Huff, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Jan. 21, 1927, in Flat River, Mo., daughter of the late Edward J. and Roma E. Dalton Bradley. She and Carter Lynn Huff were married in New York. He preceded her in death in December 1989...
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Russel Boothe
(Obituary ~ 11/04/02)
PATTON, Mo. -- Russel Dean Boothe, 26, of Patton died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at Glenallen, Mo. He was born Aug. 3, 1976, in Chaffee, Mo., son of Joseph and Dottie Kirkpatrick Boothe. He was an operator for Gilster-Mary Lee Company in Perryville, Mo., and had taken welding classes at the Perry County Vo-Tech School...
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Helen Shores
(Obituary ~ 11/04/02)
Helen May Shores, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. She was born Dec. 22, 1913, in Carter County, Mo., daughter of the late William Joseph and Virginia Ann Felker Snider. On Sept. 7, 1940, and Andrew Keith Shores Jr. were married in St. Louis. He preceded her in death Dec. 11, 2000...
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Speak Out A 11/04/02
(Speak Out ~ 11/04/02)
Remembering values I'M A senior citizen. I'm a little senile, and maybe I'm not with the times. But does anybody remember when no one would ever consider an abortion? People really believed in God. You could walk in any part of our city without fear. ...
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Mary Burns
(Obituary ~ 11/04/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Mary Margaret Burns, 69, of Sikeston died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at her daughter's residence in Rogersville, Mo. She was born June 24, 1933, in Sikeston, daughter of the late James Clifford and Edna Landers Counsil. She married James L. Burns Sr. April 6, 1949, in Sikeston. He preceded her in death Oct. 11, 1999...
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Indians expected tough test
(College Sports ~ 11/04/02)
Southeast Missouri State University football coach Tim Billings knew better than to look at Tennessee Tech's dismal record and think the Indians would have an easy time with the Golden Eagles Saturday night. "Tech is a good football team that had played just about everybody close, but they'd lost some really tough games," Billings said. "I thought it would be a really tough game."...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
7:30 p.m. Monday City Hall Action Items Power and Light Committee Consider motion to reappoint Mayor Paul Sander to serve as Jackson's representative on the Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association Board of Directors for a one-year term beginning Jan. 1...
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Energetic Zeiler brings OVC gold back to Cape
(College Sports ~ 11/04/02)
Once Lindsay Zeiler got her energy level back up, she again began to run like she knew she was capable of all along. And that culminated in Southeast Missouri State University's freshman distance ace winning Saturday's Ohio Valley Conference cross country meet in Morehead, Ky...
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Jackson city-school cooperation works well
(Editorial ~ 11/04/02)
Anybody familiar with growth in the Jackson School District knows that a high school campus that worked just fine for decades simply won't work well when the enrollment is 1,100 students in grades 10 through 12 and there are many more large classes to come...
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Sisters make good on pledge to graduate
(Editorial ~ 11/04/02)
For every child living in a two-parent home with all his needs taken care of, there is at least one other child struggling to make his way in a society that can seem unfair. The second scenario is the case for most teenagers being educated at the Alternative Education Center in Cape Girardeau. It offers a last chance for students in danger of dropping out and losing their opportunity to have fulfilling careers and successful families of their own...
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Business memo 11/04/02
(Business ~ 11/04/02)
Business counseling sessions available The Small Business Development Center of Southeast Missouri State University will be conducting counseling sessions for area small business people planning business ventures. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, 1267 N. Mount Auburn Road. Call 335-3312 for an appointment. The counseling sessions are about an hour and are free of charge...
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People on the move 11/04/02
(Business ~ 11/04/02)
Biggerstaff named advocate of the year William Biggerstaff, superintendent of Woodland School District, is scheduled to be awarded the Missouri School Counselor Association Advocate of the Year today at the association's annual banquet...
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Manufacturing shrinks for second straight month
(Business ~ 11/04/02)
NEW YORK -- U.S. manufacturing activity contracted in October for the second straight month, an industry group reported Friday, the latest indication the economic rebound is running into difficulty. The Tempe, Ariz.-based Institute for Supply Management said its index of business activity declined to 48.5 in October compared with 49.5 in September. Analysts had been expecting a reading of 48.9...
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Cape fire report 11/4/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/04/02)
Cape Girardeau Monday, Nov. 4 Firefighters responded Saturday to the following calls: At 6 p.m., a medical assist at 1471 Kingshighway. At 7 p.m., a medical assist at the intersection of Kingshighway and Cape Rock. At 7:38 p.m., a medical assist at 3020 Boutin Drive...
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Cape police report 11/4/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/04/02)
Cape Girardeau Monday, Nov. 4 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI James Deberry, 41, of 903 S. Pacific was issued a summons Sunday at 232 Broadway for driving while intoxicated, no proof of insurance and driving while revoked...
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Patton man dies in accident
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/04/02)
GLENALLEN, Mo. -- A Patton, Mo., man was killed in a one-vehicle accident Saturday evening in Bollinger County. Russel Boothe, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred on Route Z, three miles north of Glenallen. Boothe was a passenger in a 1994 Ford truck driven by Daniel Cureton, 24, of Marble Hill, Mo...
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Candidate Q&A - State house; Timothy Doubledee
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
157th District 1. Options to help the state out of its continuing budget problems include raising taxes, eliminating more programs or a combination of the two. Which would you prefer and why? I would prefer eliminating programs. Productive citizens are already taxed too much for the poor results we see in return. ...
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Community briefs 11/04/02
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
Altenburg Homemakers sponsoring home tour ALTENBURG, Mo. -- The Altenburg Homemakers are sponsoring a Home Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in Altenburg. Five homes with Christmas and fall decor will be open to the public. Also open will be the first Lutheran College of the Missouri Synod, the Tower Rock Winery and a craft show...
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Area Agency on Aging will celebrate caregivers' month
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
The Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging will celebrate one of its newest programs, the Family Care Giver Support Program, in November as part of National Family Caregivers Month. "Our organization is pleased to have this opportunity to formally recognize and celebrate the valuable role they play," said Kathy Bullis, family care giver program coordinator...
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Fed expected to cut rates for first time in 11 months
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is likely to move four-decades-low interest rates even lower this week in the face of rising worry that the struggling economy is headed for rougher times. A series of recent economic reports has offered indications that the country's sputtering recovery is once again threatening to stall, and that leads many private economists to predict a rate cut when Fed policy-makers meet Wednesday...
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Military news 11/4/02
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
Sievers graduates from U.S. Army rigger course Army Pvt. James J. Sievers has graduated from a parachute rigger course at the 262nd Quartermaster Battalion, Fort Lee, Petersburg, Va. Sievers was trained to inspect, pack, rig, recover, store and maintain airdrop equipment. Airdrop equipment includes troop and cargo parachutes, platforms, cushioning materials, and extraction and release systems...
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Army considers outsourcing 214,000 jobs to private sector
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Army is considering contracting out nearly 214,000 military and civilian support jobs to the private sector in an ambitious plan to free money to fight terrorism and comply with President Bush's desire to trim the federal government through outsourcing...
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Singh wins season finale
(Professional Sports ~ 11/04/02)
ATLANTA -- Vijay Singh pulled away from the field with three straight birdies and closing with a 3-under 67 Sunday to win the season-ending Tour Championship. Singh finished at 12-under 268 for a two-stroke victory over Charles Howell III, who closed with a 66. Singh earned $900,000...
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Briefly 11/4/02
(Professional Sports ~ 11/04/02)
Colleges Baylor football coach Kevin Steele was fired Sunday but agreed to finish out the season with the Bears. Steele, in his fourth season at Baylor, is 9-33 and his teams have won just one Big 12 conference game during his tenure. The Bears are 3-6 this season, including 1-4 in the Big 12...
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Benson's drought over
(Professional Sports ~ 11/04/02)
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. -- Johnny Benson ended one of the longest winless streaks in NASCAR on Sunday, holding off Mark Martin to win the Pop Secret 400 for his first victory in 226 starts. Benson, known as the best driver to never win a Winston Cup race, led the final 28 laps but had to battle Martin over the final dozen laps at North Carolina Speedway...
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Bengals rout Texans for their first victory
(Professional Sports ~ 11/04/02)
HOUSTON -- Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Johnson had "guaranteed" a victory for Sunday, but his proclamation didn't exactly rival Joe Namath for boldness. After all, the Bengals were playing the expansion Houston Texans. Still, Cincinnati got to shed the label as the league's most laughable team for at least one week, as Jon Kitna threw four touchdown passes to lead the Bengals past the Texans 38-3 Sunday...
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Blues post eighth consecutive win
(Professional Sports ~ 11/04/02)
NEW YORK -- While the St. Louis Blues keep finding ways to win, the New York Rangers are letting games slip away night after night. Scott Mellanby scored a goal and added an assist, and Doug Weight had two assists Sunday to lead the Blues to a 3-2 victory over the Rangers...
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Faulk leaves Cardinals feeling sick
(Professional Sports ~ 11/04/02)
TEMPE, Ariz. -- The formula for the St. Louis Rams' resurgence couldn't be simpler. Get the ball to Marshall Faulk and win. Even when he's feeling rotten. Faulk, his legs cramping because of a bout with the flu, rushed for 178 yards in 27 carries Sunday, including the clinching 13-yard touchdown with 1:53 to play, as the defending NFC champions won their third straight after an 0-5 start, 27-14 over the Arizona Cardinals...
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Talent urges rural voters to offset city 'machines'
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
ROLLA, Mo. -- Republican Jim Talent urged his rural backers on Sunday to get their country neighbors to the polls so that Tuesday's U.S. Senate election isn't "stolen from us in St. Louis." "The folks on the other side are working their machines to turn out the vote," Talent, grounded by poor flying weather, said in a speech by telephone to about 200 volunteers in Rolla, hometown of Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan...
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Sen. Carnahan urges parishioners to vote
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan campaigned from the pulpit on Sunday, telling black congregations in St. Louis they can make the difference in her close race against Republican Jim Talent. Carnahan urged parishioners of three churches to go to the polls on Election Day...
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State law guards workers' right to vote
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
ST. LOUIS -- A state law that guarantees workers time off to vote -- if they give at least a day's notice -- gives Missouri one of the strongest laws in the nation protecting workers' voting rights. Employees are guaranteed up to three hours off to head to the polls. Employers who refuse to comply can be fined $2,500 and face a year in jail...
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Branson theater to air family-oriented show
(State News ~ 11/04/02)
BRANSON, Mo. -- Television watchers across the country are about to get a taste of a Branson theater's family-oriented brand of entertainment. Performances of The Saturday Night Jubilee will be taped before live audiences and distributed through syndication beginning the end of this month. Several cable networks will air the show on Saturday nights...
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Parents of earthquake victims make pleas for safer schools
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
SAN GIULIANO DI PUGLIA, Italy -- By the end of the mass funeral Sunday, Cire Riggio could control his rage no longer. "I'd really like to know who built that school, I'd like to know the architect who designed it," Riggio shouted after the service for 26 children, including his twin boys, third-graders Gianmaria and Luca...
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Kuwait shuts down Al-Jazeera TV network
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait shut down the Al-Jazeera television bureau here Sunday, charging that the Arab world's most popular satellite TV network was "not objective." "The government informed me that the bureau is closed because Al-Jazeera channel is not objective," Saad al-Enezi, the station's bureau chief, told The Associated Press. He said he was not given any detailed information about the decision...
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'A lot at stake' in U.N. debate
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
However the words read or the bombs fall in the end, the Security Council's long, painful haggling over Iraq will help shape the United Nations of the future, just as decisions a decade ago, under another President Bush, transformed the world body...
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UK 'Harry Potter' fans turn out for second movie's premier
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
LONDON -- Dressed in wizards' hats and witches' robes, hundreds of screaming fans greeted the stars of the new Harry Potter movie at its glitzy world premiere Sunday in London. "Daniel, Daniel, Daniel," chanted a crowd of teenage girls, as Daniel Radcliffe, the young actor who plays the boy wizard, arrived for the screening of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."...
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Russian defense minister suspends troop reduction in Chechnya
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Chechen rebels shot down a Russian military helicopter Sunday, killing nine soldiers, shortly after the defense minister announced he was suspending plans to cut back Moscow's force in the troubled province. In the second such attack in less than a week, the Mi-8 helicopter, carrying three military crew and six troops, was hit as it lifted off from Russia's military headquarters in the southern republic. ...
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World briefs 11/04/02
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
Volcano eruption forces closure of Ecuador airport QUITO, Ecuador -- A volcano outside Ecuador's capital spewed a cloud of hot ash Sunday, forcing the closure of its airport and a nearby highway near, and showering Quito in white ash. No injuries were reported from the eruption of Reventador -- an 11,775-foot volcano located 59 miles northeast of Quito on the eastern slope of the Andes...
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Earthquake shakes villages in Pakistan, kills at least 10
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A moderate earthquake jolted northern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 48, many of them critically, officials said. The magnitude-4.5 quake hit near Gilgit, about 125 miles north of Islamabad, said Chaudhry Mehmood Arif, an official in the Seismic Center in the northwestern city of Peshawar...
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Afghan president fires top provincial officials
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has fired between 15 and 20 top civil and military chiefs across the country, accusing them of corruption and abuse of power, officials said Sunday. The move came after an emergency Cabinet meeting late Saturday, presidential spokesman Sayed Fazel Akbar told reporters in the capital, Kabul...
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Party with Islamic roots holds early lead in Turkish elections
(International News ~ 11/04/02)
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish voters, angry over the country's slide into its worst economic crisis in decades, gave an early lead to a party with Islamic roots in Sunday's elections that were expected to completely reshape parliament in this key U.S. ally...
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For music vets, TV shows the place to sell new songs
(Entertainment ~ 11/04/02)
NEW YORK -- For one week this summer, Bruce Springsteen was the biggest star on television. There he was in Asbury Park, N.J., where the "Today" show transplanted itself for a day to watch him perform. Ted Koppel interviewed him on "Nightline." Two nights in a row, Springsteen and his E Street Band were featured on David Letterman's "Late Show."...
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Political ads may reach billion-dollar mark
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
DELAND, Fla. -- Jim Lawlor can't remember ever seeing so many political advertisements on television. And he's been around longer than TV itself. "I think they're going at it hot and heavy. I just don't like to see all that," said the 81-year-old man, who was finishing a workout at an Orange City YMCA, where treadmill users burn calories while watching a bank of ceiling-mounted TVs...
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Mild quake centered in Nebraska felt in three states
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
O'NEILL, Neb. -- A mild earthquake centered near the Nebraska-South Dakota state line was felt in parts of three states Sunday. No major damage was reported, but callers reported that pictures were knocked off walls in O'Neill and some other towns in the region...
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Police in sniper case to investigate Sept. 5 shooting
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
BALTIMORE -- Investigators are looking into whether a Sept. 5 shooting in Clinton is related to the Washington-area sniper, a police spokesman said Sunday. A man was shot six times at close range around 10:30 p.m. after closing his restaurant, which is near the home of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad's ex-wife, Mildred...
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About 1 in 4 Florida students have given up vouchers
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
MIAMI -- More than one in four students who took a voucher to attend private school in Florida this semester have transferred back to public education, a newspaper reported. This summer, 607 students requested taxpayer-funded vouchers to leave public schools that received failing grades. As of last week, 170 had returned to public schools, The Miami Herald reported Sunday...
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Cardinal Law acknowledges 'terrible evil' of abuse
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
BOSTON -- Cardinal Bernard Law acknowledged Sunday that some of his decisions regarding priests were wrong, and said he has a "far deeper awareness of this terrible evil" of clergy sexual abuse than he did ten months ago, when the scandal first broke...
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Earthquake measuring 7.9 rocks interior of Alaska
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A major earthquake rocked a sparsely populated area of interior Alaska Sunday afternoon, cracking highways and roads, knocking over fuel tanks and shaking rural homes. The magnitude 7.9 quake, centered 90 miles south of Fairbanks, was strongly felt in Anchorage about 270 miles to the south. It hit at 1:13 p.m. Alaska Standard Time, said Bruce Turner of Alaska and Tsunami Warning Center...
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Nation briefs 11/04/02
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
Sharpton calls for release of Haitian migrants MIAMI -- The Rev. Al Sharpton called the treatment of more than 200 Haitian migrants detained in South Florida a "moral outrage" Saturday, and pledged to organize rallies and marches to demand their release...
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Control of Congress still a tossup as elections remain close
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- Less than 48 hours before Americans vote in midterm elections, late surveys dashed Democratic hopes for a last-minute surge. The country remained evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, at least seven Senate races remained too close to call, and the House of Representatives remained likely to stay Republican...
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Painful presence - Some spouses cause mates' pain
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Every married person who thinks their spouse is a pain in the caboose, listen up. New research suggests they're actually a pain in the back. Some spouses could cause their mate's chronic back pain to flare up by merely being in the same room, according to a study presented Sunday in Orlando, Fla...
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People talk 11/4
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
Chicago man wins bid on plate used by Monroe SPARKS, Nev. -- A silver oyster plate used by Marilyn Monroe during filming of "The Misfits" sold at auction for $1,000. Robert W. Otto, president and CEO of a Chicago human resources consulting company, made the highest bid for the plate from the former Mapes Hotel in Reno, where Monroe stayed in 1960 during shooting...
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Pension funds may dip into profits
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
NEW YORK -- Even if the economy manages to bounce back, don't expect corporate profits to soar. Not if underfunded pensions keep crimping the bottom line. When Wall Street was going up and up, companies shifted more of their pension funds into stocks and watched their assets grow...
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Dozens injured in California freeway pileup
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Nearly 200 cars and big-rig trucks collided on the fogbound Long Beach Freeway early Sunday, injuring dozens of people, nine critically, and closing the highway for hours. "The fog was thick and all you saw on the horizon was the cars piled up in both directions," driver Rob Zeigler told KABC-TV. "... You could feel your car moving, knowing that other cars are still hitting you."...
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U.S. says N. Korea must scrap nuclear weapons program
(National News ~ 11/04/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Bush administration showed little interest Sunday in renewing official dialogue with North Korea unless the communist government first scraps its nuclear weapons program. A senior North Korean diplomat was quoted as saying his country was willing to negotiate with the Bush administration over the newly disclosed weapons program, which violates a 1994 accord with the United States...
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Odds stacked in favor of IHOP coming here
(Column ~ 11/04/02)
The International House of Pancakes -- IHOP for the ADHD crowd -- has shown a strong interest in opening a restaurant in Cape Girardeau, and a spot they're seriously looking at is the Drury property just west of Ruby Tuesday. "We've been investigating the area," said Patrick Lenow, a corporate spokesman for the California-based restaurant known for its pancakes. ...
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College hoops is wonderful time of year
(Sports Column ~ 11/04/02)
dwilson It's the most wonderful time of the year. We're only 18 days away and counting from the tip-off of the college basketball season. Here goes nothing. There is no doubt the Indians are frustrated with last season and they are eager to step onto the hardwood and erase any doubt about this season. There is also little doubt that the Indians' don't have an abundance of talent this year either...
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Welcome to the Welfare State
(Column ~ 11/04/02)
KENNETT, Mo. -- It's difficult not using the seemingly outmoded "Show-Me State" slogan for Missouri at the time a newer, more relevant one seems more appropriate. As a matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet that thousands, give or take a few, would begin marching on Jefferson City to protest use of the more accurate one: "The Welfare State."...
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Oak Ridge dedicates new middle school
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
The recent construction of a $1.9 million middle school and multipurpose activity center has given people in the Oak Ridge School District a new reason to point to their school with pride. "For a school our size, our facilities and technology are second to none now," said Mike Qualls, an English teacher at the new middle school...
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Turning over old leaves
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
There are two theories to raking leaves. There's the keep-the-lawn-green approach, where homeowners rake their yards several times during the leaf-falling period in October and November. Then there's the do-it-all-at-once method, which requires harder labor and results in mammoth leaf piles...
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Downtown Cape microbrewery to open by Christmas
(Business ~ 11/04/02)
Mark Sprigg talks about microbrew as if he's talking about fine wine. "It can be subtle," he said. "It has extra body. Different flavors go with different meals. It's certainly not meant to be chugged." It's just the sort of attitude one would want in a man who has been making his own beer since 1979 and is about to become the co-owner -- and head brewmaster -- of Cape Girardeau's first microbrewery since before World War II...
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McDonald's super-size strategy falters
(Business ~ 11/04/02)
CHICAGO -- Golden arches have been proliferating around the globe ever since a traveling salesman named Ray Kroc had a vision about the limitless potential of fast food nearly a half-century ago. Taking over the revolutionary Speedee Service System from brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald, Kroc built a burger-and-fries empire on the premise that there can never be too many McDonald's...
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Latest downtown Cape Christmas ornament is available
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
Cape Girardeau's downtown ornaments are upon us, and this year's featured site is the old Lorimier School, now City Hall. "I think it is a great tribute to one of our great historic structures in Old Town Cape," said Catherine Dunlap, executive director of the Old Town Cape organization. "It was wonderful that the city of Cape Girardeau could reuse the old school building as a home for city operations."...
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Arts council gives new award
(Local News ~ 11/04/02)
Receiving an award is one thing. Having an award invented for you is another. The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri bestowed its first Friends of the Arts Award to Sam Blackwell, arts and leisure editor of the Southeast Missourian newspaper. The award was given during the council's First Friday Opening Reception Friday evening...
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SIU files unfair-labor complaint against faculty
(State News ~ 11/05/02)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Southern Illinois University officials filed a complaint against the university's faculty Monday with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, the latest punch in a bitter fight over a new contract. SIU officials say the faculty's 688-member union is not bargaining in good faith, is bringing up old and settled issues and is threatening to strike over issues not on the bargaining table, SIU lawyer Mark Brittingham said Monday...
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Galileo spacecraft to fly past moon of Jupiter
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
LOS ANGELES -- NASA's Galileo spacecraft was set to make its last flyby of one of Jupiter's moons early today, marking the likely end of the science-gathering part of its 13-year mission. Galileo was on course to fly within 99 miles of Amalthea, a brilliant red, egg-shaped moon, at 12:19 a.m. Engineers estimated Galileo would streak past 168-mile-wide Amalthea at 41,160 mph...
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Illinois Dems sense best chance in decades to gain control
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
Associated Press WriterCHICAGO (AP) -- Democrats sensed their best chance in decades to gain control of state government heading into Election Day, while Republicans fought to shake off the effects of a scandal-plagued GOP administration. Rod Blagojevich, the Democratic candidate for governor, tried to convince voters that Republicans' quarter-century lock on the governor's mansion had led to a budget crisis and corruption in state government...
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Election problems disrupt voting in central Missouri
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
Associated Press WriterJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Residents donated their flashlights and county officials gathered scented candles Tuesday after a power outage left voters in the dark in the central Missouri town of Vienna. "We scrambled to find flashlights and candles and that's how we voted," said Maries County Clerk Rhonda Brewer. "We weren't very prepared for that but we will be in the future."...
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Few problems reported in states with high-tech voting systems
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- Few problems emerged in early voting Tuesday with touchscreen and other high-tech voting machines that made their full-scale debut in more than 200 counties nationwide. Anxious to avoid the kind of snags that created Florida's primary mess in September, election officials had spent countless hours training poll workers and educating voters on how the new digital tallying machines work...
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Voters turning out for election to settle control of Congress
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- Halfway through a presidential term buffeted by terrorism and divided control of Congress, Americans voted Tuesday in elections that offered both parties tantalizing possibilities for the balance of power but no sure bets...
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Out of the past 11/5/02
(Out of the Past ~ 11/05/02)
10 years ago: Nov. 5, 1992 Acting on tip, Cape Girardeau Police Department yesterday arrested three men suspected in drug-related killings of Sherry Scheper and her sons, Curtis Scheper and Randy Scheper, on Aug. 9; arrested were: John G. Browne Jr., 21, Gary Lee Roll, 40, and David W. Rhodes, 18...
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Births 11/5/02
(Births ~ 11/05/02)
Burger Son to Bryan M. and Janice E. Burger of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:47 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, 2002. Name, Caleb Michael. Weight, 5 pounds 9 ounces. First child. Mrs. Burger is the former Janice Keeling, daughter of Howard and Twila Keeling of Clever, Mo. Burger is the son of Mike and Judy Burger of Scott City. He is employed by B&L Construction...
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Velma Rainey
(Obituary ~ 11/05/02)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Velma Irene Rainey, 81, of Chaffee died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002, at Chaffee Nursing Center. She was born July 24, 1921, in Haleyville, Ala., daughter of William and Alice Elizabeth Flanagan Head. She and Walter Rainey were married March 19, 1941, in Corinth, Miss. He died Feb. 22, 1987...
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Arnold Schaefer
(Obituary ~ 11/05/02)
Arnold J. Schaefer, 83, died Monday, Nov. 4, 2002, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. He was born Feb. 20, 1919, at Oran, Mo., son of Lawrence and Mathilda Bullinger Schaefer. He and Christine Weissmueller were married May 30, 1941. Schaefer was a truck driver many years with Potashnick Construction, retiring in 1984. He was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Altenthal-Joerns American Legion Post 158 in Jackson, and VFW Post 3838 in Cape Girardeau...
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Ernest Parker
(Obituary ~ 11/05/02)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- The funeral for Ernest Paul "Toot" Parker of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. David Dowdy will officiate. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery. Parker, 81, died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002, at East Prairie Nursing Center...
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Gary Walker
(Obituary ~ 11/05/02)
THEBES, Ill. -- Gary L. Walker, 59, of St. Louis died Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at St. Mary's Medical Center in St. Louis. He was born Feb. 28, 1943, in Gary, Ind., son of Garold W. and Edna B. Walker. Walker was reared in Thebes and was a 1961 graduate of Thebes High School. He received a bachelor of science degree in education from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1966, and a master of science degree in education in 1974...
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Howard Edging
(Obituary ~ 11/05/02)
MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Howard Lenvell Edging, 64, of Mound City died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002, at his home. He was born Nov. 27, 1937, in Cairo, Ill., son of Other W. and Velma Clark Edging. He first married Juanita Buckles, who died May 16, 1999. He later married Rebecca Hightower...
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Frances Hahs
(Obituary ~ 11/05/02)
Frances K. Hahs, 82, passed away at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 4, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Feb. 17, 1920, near Old Appleton, Mo., daughter of George and Sophia Schlueter Kasten. She married Truman P. Hahs of Sedgewickville, Mo., Oct. 5, 1941. He preceded her in death Jan. 11, 1959...
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Mike Miller
(Obituary ~ 11/05/02)
Mike Bruce Miller, 54, of Scott City died Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002, at his home. He was born Nov. 8, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, son of Lowery B. and Flora Pensel Miller. Miller attended Trinity Lutheran School, Central High School, and Southeast Missouri State University...
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Speak Out A 11/05/02
(Speak Out ~ 11/05/02)
Contest advantage EVEN THOUGH you may be signed up on the Missouri Do Not Call List, when you enter a contest or sweepstakes, the company sponsoring the contest can call you, even though you're on the list. Companies don't have contests just to give away a prize. ...
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Recipe for mojos brings back flood of good memories
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/05/02)
To the editor: In response to the article "Recipe swap -- Variations for new tastes in lasagna": How are things in Cape Girardeau today? I grew up in Cape Girardeau and enjoyed mojos at Shakey's and Dino's. I've been living in Texas for 20 years. ...
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Let's not rush into deadly war with the Iraqis
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/05/02)
To the editor: Our government is asking us to support a possible pre-emptive strike against Iraq. We should have some tough questions asked and answered before we send our sons, daughters, husbands and wives to die in a far-off place. There is no doubt that some will die, because war is a nasty business...
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Indians prep for exhibition opener
(College Sports ~ 11/05/02)
A little more than three weeks into practice, Southeast Missouri State University men's basketball coach Gary Garner likes the way his team is progressing -- and he looks forward to seeing the Indians play against outside competition for the first time...
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Tigers pound Knights; Jackson eliminated
(High School Sports ~ 11/05/02)
Cape Girardeau Central's top-seeded boys' soccer team moved into the championship game of the Class 3, District 1 Tournament with a 10-0 win over fourth-seeded Farmington Monday in Poplar Bluff. Monday's other game saw second-seeded Poplar Bluff upend third-seeded Jackson in a penalty-kick shootout after the squads ended regulation tied 2-2...
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American Muslims seek to enter mainstream
(State News ~ 11/05/02)
A new moon will usher in Ramadan this week, the holiest time of the year for the world's 1.2 billion Muslims. Many of the nation's approximately 7 million Muslims will use the month of fasting and spiritual renewal -- which begins today or Wednesday, depending on the sighting of a crescent moon -- to continue their quest to make inroads into the mainstream, from helping the homeless to working with Christians and Jews to promote peace. ...
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Doctors test drugs to halt mental decline after bypass surgery
(Community ~ 11/05/02)
WASHINGTON -- Call it brain fog, that loss of memory and thinking ability that strikes tens of thousands of patients after open-heart surgery, and sometimes other big operations, every year. Now doctors are studying if giving patients certain drugs just before a heart bypass could prevent this mental decline by essentially protecting the patients' brain cells from the rigors of surgery...
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State budget forecast - Even less next year
(Editorial ~ 11/05/02)
"With receipts down and demand for further growth in the budget, we are in trouble." These were stark words coming from Senate Appropriations chairman John Russell of Lebanon, Mo. Russell was describing the bleak reality facing lawmakers and budget planners in the executive branch as they begin work on the fiscal year 2004 state budget...
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Amber Alert promises to be useful tool
(Editorial ~ 11/05/02)
In 1996, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was kidnapped and murdered in Arlington, Texas. In response, residents in the Dallas area contacted radio stations and asked them to broadcast special alerts if similar abductions occurred in the future. As a result, the broadcasters worked with local law-enforcement agencies and developed an innovative early-warning system called Amber (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert. ...
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City of Cape Girardeau permit status report for October
(Business ~ 11/05/02)
Following is the September permit status of new buildings, expansions and remodeling projects and the status of those projects in Cape Girardeau:New buildings O'Charley's Restaurant; needs address; applied 10-15-02. Americare Properties, Inc.; new residential care facility; 2857 Cape La Croix Road; applied 10-4-02; site plan reviewed and approved on 10-10-02; complete plans submitted 10-24-02...
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Learning briefs 11/5
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
Who's Who to include Jackson High student Heather Tuschhoff, daughter of Tim and Bev Tuschhoff of Jackson, has been accepted into Who's Who Among American High School Students, 2001-2002. She is currently a senior at Jackson High School and is a three-year letter winner for the lady Indians softball team, secretary for FBLA and vice president of National Honor Society...
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Expert educates girls to rise above bullies
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. -- "Skinny. Hot boyfriend. Nice clothes. Long hair." As audience members yelled out the characteristics they think best describe a "high-social-status girl," Rosalind Wiseman wrote the words inside a box she drew on the board. Outside the box, in red, she wrote several terms that these high-social-status girls use to describe those not included in their inner circle. These included "fat, wannabe, easy, loser" and other, less-appropriate words...
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Fast cat in a cramped Xbox world
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
My first reaction to "Blinx: The Time Sweeper," an ambitious action game exclusive to the Xbox, is that it feels almost claustrophobic. I can't give you a full review yet. "Blinx" has the hallmarks of quality, including a sensible, generally intuitive beginning that will pique your interest. But I haven't had a chance to play deeper and evaluate the more complex challenges...
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Crayon concertos - Drawings based on classical music
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
Southeast Missourian While walking the halls of Franklin Elementary School, the unmistakable sounds tell the story of education. Children's voices spill into the hallway as they read simple words in unison. A teacher patiently raises her voice as she tries to get her students to stay in a single-file line while other teachers instruct their pupils inside classrooms...
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Cape police report 11/5/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/05/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, Nov. 5 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Wilbur Dale Durden, 41, of Portageville Village, Apt. 35, Portageville, Mo., was issued a summons Sunday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, no proof of insurance and striking a legally stopped vehicle...
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Cape fire report 11/5/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/05/02)
Can't make out apt. letter/number on third item...jp Cape Girardeau Tuesday, Nov. 5 Firefighters responded ???? to the following item: 12:12 p.m., emergency medical services, 209 Barberry 12:20 p.m., emergency medical services, 1210 S. Benton...
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Cape Girardeau City Council action 11/5/02
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
Consent Ordinances (second and third readings) Approved an ordinance accepting a general warranty deed from DSW Development Corporation for the extension of Independence Street between Mt. Auburn Road and Farrar Drive. Second and Third Readings...
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Carnahan, Talent woo undecided voters in campaign's final hours
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Reaching out to undecided voters, Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan and Republican challenger Jim Talent said it's not about who wins their close race for U.S. Senate, but about vulnerable Missourians who need a voice in government...
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Historic ranch auctioned for just over $2 million
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- In a rollicking, foot-stomping tent revival of an auction Saturday, Oregon County's Pigman Ranch fetched more than $2 million. "We don't really know what we're going to do with it. We buy and sell land. We didn't have a purpose other than that," said Bernie Lowery, who, with his business partner Ethel Rabel, bought the lion's share of the ranch for $1,763,125...
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Court to debate telemarketer liability for misrepresentation
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is taking on the subject of pesky phone solicitors in a case that could give states more ammunition to go after people who raise money over the phone in the name of charity but pocket much of the cash. Justices said Monday that they will decide next year whether Illinois can sue a company that kept 85 percent of the money it raised for Vietnam veterans...
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Report urges Navy and Marines to develop nonlethal weapons
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
WASHINGTON -- Development of nonlethal weapons such as bad smelling chemicals to control crowds or psychological methods to calm them, energy beams to stop vehicles and underwater barrier systems should be given a high priority by the Navy and Marine Corps, the National Research Council recommended Monday...
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U.S. kills senior al-Qaida operative with missile strike
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces killed a top associate of Osama bin Laden in Yemen in a missile strike, expanding the war on terror with America's first overt attack on suspected al-Qaida operatives outside of Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Monday. Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi was one of several al-Qaida members traveling by car in northwest Yemen when a Hellfire missile struck it Sunday, killing him and five others. ...
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More than fate of candidates at stake in election
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
WASHINGTON -- More than the fate of candidates is at stake Tuesday. In determining which party controls the House and Senate, voters are shaping the coming battles over taxes, Social Security, jobs, drugs and -- well into the future -- the makeup of courts that could rule on a long list of issues from abortion to welfare...
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On last day, politicians make final dash to sew up support
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
President Bush barnstormed through four battleground states on Monday in a final appeal for Republicans in Congress who will vote to make tax cuts permanent and confirm conservative judges. Democrats worked for a strong voter turnout to tilt key races their way...
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Utility offers voluntary retirement package to some workers
(State News ~ 11/05/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Ameren Corp., the parent company of Missouri's largest electric utility, said Monday it will offer voluntary retirement packages to about 1,000 of its 7,400 employees, or roughly 14 percent of its work force. The St. Louis-based company also said it would modify certain retiree medical benefit plans, resulting in caps on costs to the company and increased retiree co-payments, and freeze wage increases beginning next year for all Ameren management workers...
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Swazi mom's suit to save daughter from king prompts 'crisis'
(International News ~ 11/05/02)
MBABANE, Swaziland -- A mother's lawsuit to prevent King Mswati III from marrying her daughter has infuriated the royal family and put it on a collision course with the judiciar of this nation in southern Africa. "This is a national crisis," said Jan Sithole, secretary-general of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions...
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Asian leaders pledge stronger efforts against terrorism
(International News ~ 11/05/02)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Southeast Asian leaders agreed Monday to jointly fight terrorism after deadly bombings in Indonesia and the Philippines, but complained that travel warnings issued by many nations were scaring away tourists and hurting their economies...
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Agencies preparing to help Iraqis who may flee if war starts
(International News ~ 11/05/02)
AMMAN, Jordan -- Fearing a repeat of the refugee crisis sparked by the Gulf War and its aftermath, aid agencies and governments are quietly drawing up plans and stockpiling supplies to help Iraqis who may flee their country if new fighting breaks out...
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World briefs 11/05/02
(International News ~ 11/05/02)
Three killed in shootout at Congo president's palace KINSHASA, Congo -- A man in military uniform opened fire in the palace of President Joseph Kabila on Monday, and two presidential guards and the gunman were killed in the ensuing gunfight, Kabila's spokesman said...
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Saddam - Iraq will consider new U.N. resolution
(International News ~ 11/05/02)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- President Saddam Hussein indicated Monday he would not reject outright a new U.N. resolution on weapons inspections, saying Iraq would examine the conditions it imposes before deciding on compliance, Iraqi TV reported. Saddam's remarks appeared to mark a shift by the Iraqi leader, who had maintained he would only accept weapons inspectors on terms laid down in previous resolutions...
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Palestinian bomber strikes Israeli mall
(International News ~ 11/05/02)
JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian suicide attacker blew himself up Monday while grappling with an Israeli security guard at a shopping mall in a Tel Aviv suburb, killing the guard and another civilian and wounding 12 other people, including two infants. The bombing -- the 81st by Palestinian militants in two years -- marked a first test for Israel's new defense minister, Shaul Mofaz, who was sworn in Monday. ...
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Nation digest 11/05/02
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
Factory orders drop 2.3 percent in September WASHINGTON -- The nation's wobbly manufacturing sector saw orders to factories drop by 2.3 percent in September, the second straight monthly decline. The industry, hardest hit by last year's recession, has been recently struggling to keep its balance. Manufacturing has been the weakest link for the sputtering national economic recovery, which many analysts say is losing momentum in the current October-December quarter...
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HBO tells bars, restaurants to quit showing 'The Sopranos'
(Entertainment ~ 11/05/02)
NEW YORK -- Bars and restaurants that try to entice customers by showing Paulie Walnuts, Ralphie Cifaretto and the rest of "The Sopranos" gang on Sunday nights are hearing from another type of enforcer. HBO lawyers are sending out letters telling them to turn the sets off, since it's illegal to show the network's signal in public places...
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Engineers check Alaska pipeline for damage after earthquake
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Engineers inspected the Alaska pipeline to determine the extent of the damage Monday after one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the United States knocked out some of its supports and forced a shutdown in the flow of oil...
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Tennessee voters to decide whether to legalize lottery
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It's a moral issue. It's not a moral issue. That's the mixed message from Tennessee lottery opponents fighting to keep the Bible Belt state from joining 47 other states with some form of legalized gambling. While their hopes of defeating Tuesday's referendum depend heavily on a grass-roots Christian army, opposition leaders purposely avoid casting the vote as a sin issue, instead treating it as a policy and economic matter...
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Join the club - Connecticut teens form group for power naps
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
GREENWICH, Conn. -- Three boys are sprawled out on the classroom floor, their heads resting on their backpacks. Nap time in kindergarten? No, a meeting of the Power Nap Club at Greenwich High School in this wealthy community of high achievers. The club was started by a teacher who figured that with all the pressure to succeed, some teenagers could use a little you-time...
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17-year-old sniper suspect appears in court
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
GREENBELT, Md. -- The 17-year-old sniper suspect appeared before a federal judge for a closed juvenile hearing Monday as investigators looked into whether two more shootings are linked to a spree that left 10 dead. Police around the country have been reviewing unsolved shootings to see if they are connected to John Muhammad, 41, and John Malvo, 17, who were arrested Oct. 24 in Maryland...
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People talk 11/05/02
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
Osbournes will host American Music Awards LOS ANGELES -- The censors may have to stay on their toes when Ozzy Osbourne and his family host the 30th annual American Music Awards. The three-hour special is scheduled to air live on ABC, starting at 8 p.m. EST Jan. 13...
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Independent fills Senate seat
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A steaming-mad Gov. Jesse Ventura appointed a fellow independent to temporarily fill Sen. Paul Wellstone's seat Monday, while Walter Mondale went on the offensive against Republican Norm Coleman in the only debate of their compressed Senate campaign...
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Five people arrested over alleged Posh Spice kidnap plot
(International News ~ 11/05/02)
LONDON -- Five men arrested on suspicion of plotting to kidnap Spice Girl Victoria Beckham were charged Monday with theft and conspiracy to rob Sotheby's auction house, police said. Scotland Yard said inquiries were continuing into the alleged plan to kidnap Victoria Beckham, known in the band as Posh Spice and the wife of England soccer captain David Beckham. They reportedly planned to seek a ransom of about $7.7 million...
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Crowds greet Dalai Lama on first visit to Mongolia in years
(International News ~ 11/05/02)
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Greeted by adoring throngs and serenaded by cymbals and horns, the Dalai Lama met with monks at Mongolia's largest Buddhist monastery Tuesday, kicking off his first visit to the northeast Asian nation in seven years. Temperatures dropped to 5 degrees below zero as the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, wearing his traditional robe with one arm bare to the chill wind, made his way through Gandantegchillen Monastery in the Mongolian capital...
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SEMO task - Handling EKU's final home salute to its Colonel
(College Sports ~ 11/05/02)
If Southeast Missouri State University's football team is going to clinch its first winning season since 1994 this week, the Indians will have to beat a team they have never defeated before -- and do it in an extremely emotional setting. Southeast (6-4 overall, 3-2 Ohio Valley Conference) travels to Richmond, Ky., for a 5 p.m. Saturday game with 17th-ranked Eastern Kentucky (7-3, 3-1) and coaching legend Roy Kidd...
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Blue Jays' Hinske, Rockies' Jennings land rookie awards
(Professional Sports ~ 11/05/02)
NEW YORK -- Toronto third baseman Eric Hinske won the AL Rookie of the Year award Monday, and Colorado pitcher Jason Jennings was voted the NL's top rookie. Hinske got 19 of 28 first-place votes and nine seconds to finish with 122 points in voting by a panel of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. He hit .279 with 24 homers and 84 RBIs...
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Tiger is once again PGA Tour's man of green
(Professional Sports ~ 11/05/02)
ATLANTA -- A record 18 first-time winners this season showed why the PGA Tour is deeper than ever. Another remarkable year by Tiger Woods showed how far everyone has to go to catch him. "He continues to astound," PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said...
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A Kurt response
(Professional Sports ~ 11/05/02)
ST. LOUIS -- When Kurt Warner is ready to play again, and he could return to the lineup as soon as Nov. 18, the St. Louis Rams will not have a quarterback controversy. Coach Mike Martz threw cold water on any Warner vs. Marc Bulger talk on Monday, a day after Bulger ran his career record to 3-0 in a 27-14 victory over the Arizona Cardinals -- and the day pins were removed from Warner's broken right pinky...
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Educators' groups weigh in on collective bargaining case
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Education groups on both sides of the philosophical divide over public-sector collective bargaining have offered advice to the Missouri Supreme Court on a case that could lead to full bargaining rights for teachers and other government employees...
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Security workers on duty at airport
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
Security agents with the Transportation Security Administration began working at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Monday. The TSA screeners currently manning the airport are temporary, airport manager Bruce Loy said. There will eventually be six permanent part-time TSA agents at the Cape Girardeau airport, Loy said...
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Cape council grants liquor license for bar near church
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
Tony Scruggs got his conditional liquor license request approved Monday night. He also got in a few parting shots. Scruggs, the owner of the future Big's Sports Bar and Lounge, voiced his displeasure with the Cape Girardeau City Council and gave a rebuttal to Lynwood Baptist Church's point of view that was voiced by its pastor at Tuesday night's public hearing...
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Tax bills to be mailed soon
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
The cost of government this year shouldn't be the shocker it was a year ago, when reassessment and increases in school levies dramatically boosted property taxes. Cape Girardeau County Collector Diane Diebold and her staff are preparing to send out about 35,000 tax bills, with the first batch expected to be mailed this Friday and the rest by early next week. All taxpayers should have their tax bills by Nov. 18, if not sooner, she said...
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Couple escapes injury in blast
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
Vernon and Cindy Ainsworth are lucky to be alive, said Whitewater Fire Protection District chief Garry Moore. The Whitewater couple survived a propane gas blast inside their home on Poplar Street that lifted the home off its foundation and left the inside looking as though a tornado blew through it...
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One in murder-for-hire case out on bond; intended victim angry
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
Learning Monday that one of the two women charged with conspiring to kill him was released Friday from Cape Girardeau County Jail has Michael Ravallette steaming mad. Ravallette and his wife, Ashley, of Weir, Ill., are angry at law enforcement officials for not informing them of the release of Helen A. Severs, 65, of Ullin, Ill...
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Jackson to examine retirement benefits for employees
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
The Jackson Board of Aldermen took a step Monday night that could lead to an increase in the retirement benefits of city employees. The perfunctory acceptance of a report from the Missouri Local Government Employees Retirement System clears the way for the city to change its benefit system if it decides to do so by the end of the calendar year. City administrator Jim Roach said employees asked the city to consider the change...
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Board members discuss MAP test scores
(Local News ~ 11/05/02)
Disparities in Missouri Assessment Program test scores among Cape Girardeau schools have led individual schools to develop a plan of action based on their annual performances. Cape Girardeau School Board members held a roundtable discussion with administrators and teachers from each school Monday night to discuss disaggregated results from the 2002 MAP tests...
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Missouri voters can shape federal, state legislatures
(National News ~ 11/05/02)
Associated Press WriterJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri voters had a chance Tuesday to influence the political control of both the federal and state legislatures while also deciding on the state's second proposed tax increase in the past three months...
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Come out of political closet
(Column ~ 11/06/02)
It's Tuesday, a couple hours before the polls close. For newsrooms, it's the calm before the storm, just a little bit before rational people who normally behave in a professional manner begin yelling bizarre things like, "Dammit! Who's got the totals for Brown Owl? Does this count the absentees?"...
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Jim Talent defeats Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan
(State News ~ 11/06/02)
Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Republican challenger Jim Talent eked out a narrow victory Tuesday over Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan, the widow who took her late husband's place in the U.S. Senate after his surprising election win two years ago...
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Listing of uncontested races in the region
(State News ~ 11/06/02)
The vast majority of races in four Southeast Missouri counties were decided in the primary or even before, as several candidates ran unopposed. A reminder of who was elected: Cape Girardeau County All but Ludwig are incumbents. Robert Mayer, state rep. 159th District, Republican...
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Out of the past 11/6/02
(Out of the Past ~ 11/06/02)
10 years ago: Nov. 6, 1992 City of Cape Girardeau this week welcomed four new police officers on staff, but officials say it will be at least next year before city confronts shortage in detectives on force; replacing four policemen who have resigned in past six months are Brian W. Ritter, Kelly B. Kenser, Arthur L. Hammonds and Eddie Webb Jr...
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Phillip Corzine
(Obituary ~ 11/06/02)
KARNAK, Ill. -- Phillip Austin Corzine, 19, of Karnak died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002, at the Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. Arrangements are incomplete at the Wilson Funeral Home in Karnak.
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Linus Dannenmueller
(Obituary ~ 11/06/02)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Linus Otto Dannenmueller, 81, of Chaffee died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 14, 1921, at Oran, Mo., son of Zeno Nicholas and Dena Katherine Schlitt Dannenmueller. He and Mary Dean Amos were married Dec. 29, 1948...
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Billie Waldron
(Obituary ~ 11/06/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- The funeral for Billie Jean Waldron of Hardin, Ky., will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston. The Revs. Brett Miles and Mitchell Jackson will officiate. Burial will be in Sikeston Garden of Memories Cemetery...
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Robert Roy
(Obituary ~ 11/06/02)
PATTON, Mo. -- Robert Lee Roy, 48, of Patton died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002, at his home. Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.
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Carl Orr
(Obituary ~ 11/06/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Carl C. Orr, 87, of Anna died Monday, Nov. 4, 2002, at Parkway Manor in Marion, Ill. He was born April 1, 1915, in Reynoldsville, Ill., son of John and Jesse Marie McCloud Orr. He and Elizabeth M. Graham were married in 1936. She died in 1986. He and Mary Evelyn Hill were married in 1988. She died in 2000...
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Alma Geringer
(Obituary ~ 11/06/02)
Alma B. Geringer, 78, of Biehle, Mo., died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002, at her residence. She was born Dec. 13, 1923, in Perry County, Mo., to Frank and Bertha Schott Wingerter. She was married to Nelbert H. Geringer on May 17, 1945. He survives of the home...
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Karen Turner
(Obituary ~ 11/06/02)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Karen Sue Turner, 53, of Sikeston died Monday, Nov. 4, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born April 14, 1948, in Sikeston, daughter of Roy and Jewell E. Ramsey Price. Turner had been a waitress at Gaslight Square Restaurant...
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Bernice Keen
(Obituary ~ 11/06/02)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Bernice Mary Keen, 72, of Charleston died Sunday, Nov. 3, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo. She was born March 26, 1930, in the Texas Bend community, daughter of Bernard Joseph and Louise Renaud Bruenderman. She and Charles Curtis Keen were married April 10, 1951. He died Nov. 29, 1994...
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Speak Out A 11/06/02
(Speak Out ~ 11/06/02)
Lack of health care I CAN'T believe what they have done to the MC+ program in Missouri. My family with five children has to make an income of $1,450 or below in order to be considered in poverty and for my wife to receive Medicaid so she can stay well to take care of our kids. ...
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Quality of life is a choice we all must make
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/06/02)
To the editor: We all have choices. Some of us choose to climb the ladder of life fast, then slip and fall. Others choose a slower but steady climb. Some get up so high and stop. Some reach out to try to catch the ones who are falling. But sometimes they don't choose to latch on or continue to add burdens so others continue to fall. Still others stop, stay and don't want any more help up...
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Try these sweet potato casseroles at holiday meals
(Column ~ 11/06/02)
Outdoor cookouts with falling leaves make for a wonderful family outing. My sister, Pat, has a large in-ground pit cooking set-up, and each fall we enjoy going to her home for outdoor cooking. We get fresh kielbasa, bratwurst and homemade hot dogs from Esicar's and cook it all down with quite a large pile of sliced onions. ...
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Firing of UTM coach surprises his colleagues
(College Sports ~ 11/06/02)
Ohio Valley Conference football coaches spent much of their weekly teleconference Monday praising Sam McCorkle and wondering why the Tennessee-Martin coach was fired last Thursday. McCorkle, who by all accounts had done an admirable job in trying to breathe life into the Skyhawks' struggling program, was let go for what athletic director Phil Dane termed "philosophical differences" between McCorkle and the school's administration. ...
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Area sports digest 11/6
(High School Sports ~ 11/06/02)
Area Digest New Salem rolls to pair of wins New Salem Baptist opened its basketball season on the road at Cornerstone Christian School and came away with a clean sweep. New Salem's girls cruised 62-37, while the boys routed Cornerstone 91-32. For the New Salem girls, Sarah Green posted a career high of 27 points to lead the way. Laura Poole added 14...
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Bunny farm keeps workers hopping
(Local News ~ 11/06/02)
ADEL, Ga. -- Carroll Bullard, a south Georgia peanut and cotton farmer, hopped into bunny farming two years ago after seeing a rabbit scamper from a corn field. With no established markets, Bullard soon began having doubts about his impulsive venture. He released his rabbits from their cages, but by then they had become homesteaders...
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Enrollment for food stamps up by 2 million since 2000
(Local News ~ 11/06/02)
WASHINGTON -- More people are signing up for food stamps -- a sure indication of tough times but also a dose of medicine for helping revive the economy. Enrollment has increased over the past two years from nearly 17 million in 2000 to 19 million in 2002, reversing a trend that began in 1994, according to the latest Agriculture Department figures...
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U.S. shrimpers looking for other work
(Local News ~ 11/06/02)
DULAC, La. -- A weather-beaten, sea-gnarled Clarence "Weasel" Fitch -- shrimper by trade -- pops quarters into a video poker machine in Wayne's Cafe to get through a good working day. Right now, poker is less risky than shrimping, he says. "I wish I had won some money right there," Fitch said with a smirk at the machine...
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PBS looking for pledge-drive alternatives
(Editorial ~ 11/06/02)
Public radio and television stations are known for two things: high-quality programming and pledge drives. One provides listening and viewing options to commercial networks and a maze of cable channels. The other makes many listeners and viewers turn off their radios or TV sets...
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The need for coordinated investigations
(Editorial ~ 11/06/02)
A good deal of soul searching has taken place in the months following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in an attempt to find out how much various government agencies knew and why that information wasn't used to possibly thwart the madmen's plans. With the recent arrest of two men accused of sniper killings in the Washington, D.C., area, the same questions are being asked: What did authorities know in the weeks and months prior to the shootings? How was that information processed? And could some of the information have been used to prevent the killings?. ...
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Cape fire report 11/6/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/06/02)
Cape Girardeau Wednesday, Nov. 6 Firefighters responded Monday to the following item: At 12:15 p.m., emergency medical service at 1802 Ricardo. Firefighters responded Tuesday to the following items: At 7:03 a.m., emergency medical service at 611 S. West End Blvd...
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Cape police report 11/6/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/06/02)
Cape Girardeau Wednesday, Nov. 6 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Aaron L. Wiggins, 20, of 513 S. Middle, was arrested Monday on suspicion of operating a motor vehicle without a valid license...
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Jackson fire report 11/5
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/06/02)
Wednesday, Nov. 6 Firefighters responded Saturday to the following item: An emergency medical service on South High Street. Firefighters responded Sunday to the following item: Woodland Drive canceled enroute.
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Constitutional convention fails, three proposed amendments pass
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
Associated Press Writer JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri voters weren't prepared to authorize a complete overhaul of the Missouri Constitution but were willing to make three changes to the state's current document. A proposal to authorize a constitutional convention failed by a nearly 2-to-1 margin -- 66 percent to 34 percent -- in Tuesday's election, with 99 percent of precincts reporting on all constitutional issues...
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GOP replacement wins legislative race in Farmington
(Local News ~ 11/06/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- While most political campaigns are marathons, Republican Kevin Engler's run for 106th District state representative was a sprint. Despite launching his candidacy less than seven weeks ago, Engler, the mayor of Farmington, defeated Democrat Dennis W. Smith, a Farmington city councilman, and independent Elbert Bohnert of Perryville to keep the seat in Republican hands on Tuesday...
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Postal rate likely to stay same for at least four years
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
WASHINGTON -- Pen pals, rejoice! Postal rates are likely to remain the same for another four years, thanks to money freed up from a retirement fund that the Postal Service had been overpaying. Rates for postage last went up in June, and postal officials said they didn't expect another increase until 2004. But they stretched their estimate Tuesday after announcing details from a new financial review...
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WorldCom charges expand
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
WASHINGTON -- The government on Tuesday expanded its civil fraud charges against WorldCom and the company raised its estimate of inflated earnings to more than $9 billion in one of the most stunning accounting scandals of the year. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had broadened the scope of its civil fraud charges, originally filed against the telecom company in June, to include an additional charge and to allege that WorldCom misled investors starting at least as early as 1999 through the first quarter of this year.. ...
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Fanfare 11/6
(Professional Sports ~ 11/06/02)
Briefly Baseball A court hearing over whether Ted Williams' daughter can challenge her half brother's desire to have the Hall of Famer's body cryogenically preserved was postponed for a second time Tuesday. The hearing had been scheduled for Wednesday in Citrus County Circuit Court. No new date had been set...
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Lakers score lowest total since move to L.A.
(Professional Sports ~ 11/06/02)
CLEVELAND -- Darius Miles couldn't help himself. Caught up in the euphoria of a home-opening win over the Lakers, one of the newest Cavaliers spoke his mind. "We're going to put on a show every night," Miles told the Gund Arena crowd. "We're going to surprise the world."...
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No. 1 Sooners draw on winning memories
(Professional Sports ~ 11/06/02)
NORMAN, Okla. -- Top-ranked Oklahoma goes to Texas A&M this week, one of the toughest venues in college football and a place that generates only fond memories for the Sooners. In their last visit two years ago, the top-ranked and unbeaten Sooners overcame a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to win 35-31, silencing a record crowd and propelling Oklahoma to the national title...
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Cougars claw way into title picture
(Professional Sports ~ 11/06/02)
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Washington State is pointing fingers this week -- and not at each other. Despite losing two defensive starters because of a fight, the Cougars have climbed to their highest ranking ever at No. 5 and the fifth spot in the Bowl Championship Series standings...
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With 71 percent of votes in, Talent has growing lead
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
Republican Jim Talent widened his lead late Tuesday night over Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan, but the key to their election was in St. Louis and Kansas City, where most of the results had not yet come in. With 70 percent of precincts reporting, Talent led Mrs. Carnahan 52 percent to 46 percent in a race that will help decide control of the U.S. Senate...
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Effort to hike tobacco taxes failing in late totals
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
Voters were closely divided on whether Missouri's tobacco taxes should be raised to boost spending on health care programs, according to Tuesday's incomplete election returns. With nearly two-thirds of precincts reporting statewide, Proposition A was failing by 52 percent of the vote...
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GOP nears House win; Democrats fight for U.S. Senate
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
Republicans marched toward continued control of the House on Tuesday, while Democrats struggled to defend their endangered Senate majority in midterm elections. Republicans seized a Democratic Senate seat in Georgia as Rep. Saxby Chambliss defeated Sen. Max Cleland. And the GOP prevailed in a pair of high-profile races for open seats, Elizabeth Dole winning in North Carolina and John Sununu in New Hampshire...
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Voters around state weigh local issues
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
Voters in Oak Grove on Tuesday defeated a proposal that would have made the Kansas City area town the only municipality in Missouri with its own tax on gasoline. A penny-per-gallon sales tax proposal lost by nearly a 2-1 margin. City officials said the proposal would have cost the average resident only about $15 a year while raising about $1 million annually, largely from truckers and other Interstate 70 travelers who stop to refuel at one of the three large service stations in the town of 5,500.. ...
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High-tech voting systems win poll praise
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
Although some devices crashed or need to be reprogrammed, touchscreen and other high-tech voting machines experienced few problems Tuesday as they made their full-scale debut in more than 200 counties nationwide. Anxious to avoid the kind of snags that created Florida's primary mess and lesser troubles in Maryland in September, election officials had spent countless hours training poll workers and educating voters on how the new digital tallying machines work...
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McCaskill beats GOP's Hanson
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Democratic State Auditor Claire McCaskill won re-election Tuesday over several challengers in an unusual campaign that featured little fund-raising and no widespread advertising. McCaskill credited her victory to an aggressive approach in her first four years in office, pledging a new round of audits in the weeks and months to come...
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Missourians vote on ballot issues, retention of state judges
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri voters didn't appear ready to authorize the first constitutional convention in nearly 60 years but were leaning toward supporting three of four proposed changes to the current state constitution, according to early returns from Tuesday's elections...
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VNS abandons national exit poll operation
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
NEW YORK -- Voter News Service abandoned its state and national exit poll plans for Election Night, saying it could not guarantee the accuracy of the analysis which media organizations use to help explain why people voted as they did. VNS also had problems Tuesday night with a separate operation for counting the actual vote. CBS and NBC complained the votes were coming in slowly and they were relying on a backup operation provided by The Associated Press...
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Missouri's U.S. House members favored
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt was re-elected Tuesday night to the seat he has held for 26 years, leaving him poised for promotion to speaker should Democrats take control of the House of Representatives. With about one-quarter of precincts reporting, Gephardt was declared the winner over Republican Catherine Enz. Most of the uncounted votes were in heavily Democratic areas of the district...
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Blagojevich elected Illinois governor
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
CHICAGO -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Rod Blagojevich ended Republicans' quarter-century hold on the Illinois governor's mansion Tuesday, beating an opponent who spent the campaign in the shadow of the scandal-ridden GOP incumbent. Blagojevich, a 45-year-old three-term congressman, easily defeated Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan as voters handed Democrats control of nearly all of state government...
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Voters pick governors in 36 states
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
Democrats were headed toward regaining a majority of governors' offices Tuesday as they broke a 25-year Republican hold on Illinois and took back Pennsylvania. The GOP, however, won the night's two marquee races. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush turned back a massive Democratic effort to unseat him, and Republicans ended Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's bid for Maryland governor...
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Nevada turns down ballot measure legalizing marijuana
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
In twin setbacks for the drug-reform movement, Nevada voters refused Tuesday to make their state the first to legalize possession of marijuana, and voters in Ohio rejected a treatment-instead-of-jail proposal. In Florida, voters approved a sweeping ban on smoking in restaurants and virtually all other workplaces. "It's going to save lives," said Martin Larsen, chairman of the Smoke-Free for Health campaign...
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Senate control leans toward GOP in state elections
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
GENERAL ASSEMBLY By Paul Sloca ~ The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican Rep. Charlie Shields won a state Senate seat previously held by Democrats as Republicans hoped to keep their majority in the chamber in Tuesday's elections...
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Republicans claim complete victory in state Legislature
(National News ~ 11/06/02)
Associated Press Writer JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri voters have handed Republicans complete control of the state Legislature for the first time since 1948. Republicans extended their Senate majority to 20-14 in Tuesday's election while taking a convincing 90-73 majority in the House...
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Utility problem disrupts some state voting
(State News ~ 11/06/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Residents donated their flashlights and county officials gathered scented candles Tuesday after a power outage left voters in the dark in the central Missouri town of Vienna. "We scrambled to find flashlights and candles and that's how we voted," said Maries County Clerk Rhonda Brewer...
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Toddler's father sentenced to life for his murder
(State News ~ 11/06/02)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- A northwest Missouri man was sentenced to life in prison for beating and kicking his 2-year-old son to death last year. Isaiah Washington Sr. 19, was sentenced Monday in Buchanan County Circuit Court, where he was convicted in September of second-degree murder...
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FBI investigates e-mail threat to Illinois pilots
(State News ~ 11/06/02)
CHICAGO -- The FBI and Canadian authorities are investigating an e-mail threat from Canada against two Illinois pilots involved in a mistaken bombing that killed four Canadian soldiers. Charles W. Gittins, the attorney for one of the pilots, confirmed the FBI investigation on Tuesday, as did the office of Illinois Gov. George Ryan...
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Appellate court rules Chicago can file suit against gunmakers
(State News ~ 11/06/02)
CHICAGO -- The city of Chicago has won a major appellate court victory that allows it to move forward with its landmark $433 million lawsuit against the gun industry. Mayor Richard M. Daley filed the lawsuit in 1998, accusing gunmakers and dealers of creating a public nuisance with their products. The Illinois appellate ruling on Monday comes more than two years after a lower court dismissed the lawsuit...
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Remains found along creek
(State News ~ 11/06/02)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A woman walking her dog found human remains near a creek, and searchers later found the almost complete skeleton of an unidentified man, authorities said Tuesday. Columbia police Sgt. Steve Monticelli said a woman was walking along the Hinkson Creek Trail on Monday and came upon what appeared to be the remains of a human leg and hand...
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Top choice for MU head runs college elsewhere
(State News ~ 11/06/02)
ST. LOUIS -- The committee seeking a new leader for the University of Missouri has identified its top choice -- and it's apparently not Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon or former Gov. Roger Wilson. John Mathes, president of the four-campus system's Board of Curators, said Monday the committee's preferred candidate is already a university president somewhere else...
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Both sides agree to form coalition government in Pakistan
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Hard-line Islamic parties and a pro-democracy block in Pakistan agreed to join forces Tuesday, giving them the parliamentary majority needed to form a coalition government and possibly choose a pro-Taliban cleric as prime minister...
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Pakistan's first prisoner released from Guantanamo returns home
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
PATTAN, Pakistan -- Wrapped in a deep purple shawl, 9-year-old Salehla at first tried to hide, but then spoke shyly of hearing her mother cry for her father, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This week, 51-year-old Mohammed Sanghir returned home -- the first Pakistani released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo...
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Thousands greet Dalai Lama at monastery in Mongolia
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- The Dalai Lama gave a lesson to thousands of followers in Mongolia's largest Buddhist monastery Tuesday, where he was welcomed by overjoyed monks during a trip to the north Asian country that has raised Chinese protests. "If you do good for others, goodness will return to you," he said before the crowd from a massive stage in front of the main temples of the Gandantegchillen Monastery...
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Calm returns to Caracas after riots -- for now
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's government weighed a petition Tuesday for a nonbinding referendum on Hugo Chavez's presidency as opponents charged he had lost control of his government after a day of street riots. "Is there a government in Venezuela? ... Who has the authority in Venezuela?" opposition lawmaker Gerardo Blyde asked during a congressional debate on Monday's violence...
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Indonesian authorities detain two suspects in Bali bombings
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesian authorities detained two possible suspects in the Bali bombings that killed nearly 200 people last month, the national police chief said Tuesday. One man was detained Tuesday in the capital, Jakarta, Gen. Da'i Bachtiar told Indonesia's parliament. Another was taken into custody Monday in the city of Medan on Sumatra island...
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Marriage lawsuit against Swaziland's king is postponed
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
MBABANE, Swaziland -- A woman who sued Swaziland's monarchy to prevent the king from marrying her daughter postponed her lawsuit indefinitely Tuesday, saying she doubted she had any chance of winning. Lindiwe Dlamini had asked the court to force the royal family to release her 18-year-old daughter, Zena Zoraya Mahlangu, from a royal guest house. Mahlangu and two other women were picked by King Mswati III's aides in September after the king decided they would be his 10th, 11th and 12th wives...
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N. Korea threatens to resume missile tests
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
TOKYO -- North Korea threatened Tuesday to resume missile test-launches unless Tokyo stops making the North's nuclear weapons program and the fate of five Japanese abductees central to normalizing relations. Quoting a Foreign Ministry official, the North's official Korea Central News Agency said Japan's stance on the abductees and its demands that the North stop developing nuclear weapons "is now creating very serious issues as it is illogical."...
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Israel calls elections for Jan. 28
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
JERUSALEM -- A reluctant Ariel Sharon on Tuesday called early elections for Jan. 28 after the breakup of his fractious coalition, sending Israel into a tempestuous campaign that threatens to freeze U.S.-led Mideast peace efforts at a time of a possible confrontation with Iraq...
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World briefs 11/06/02
(International News ~ 11/06/02)
Four Palestinians plead guilty in bombing attacks JERUSALEM -- Four Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem pleaded guilty Tuesday to direct involvement in four bombings that killed 35 people, including five Americans at Hebrew University, court officials said...
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