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Nation briefs 3/10/03 (03/10/03)
Astronauts may have tried to override autopilot HOUSTON -- An attempt may have been made to override Columbia's autopilot in the final few seconds of its doomed flight, according to information received Sunday by the space shuttle's accident investigation board...
Community Q&A 03/10/03 (03/10/03)
  • Name: Gayle Lynn (Rellergert) Conrad Lives in: Jackson Family: Husband, Rob; children, Hallie, age 9, Morgan, age 7, Rachel, age 3. Parents: Ed and Marilyn Rellergert. Parents-in-law: Don and Marilyn Conrad...
    • Community briefs 03/10/03 (03/10/03)
    Quarter horse group recruiting members There will be a special meeting of the SEMO Foundation Quarter Horse Registry at 5 p.m. March 29 at the Masonic Lodge in Greenville, Mo. The purpose of the meeting is to recruit new members and provide prospective members with information about its purpose. Regular meetings are held the third Friday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Family Clinic in Greenville. E-mail m_carroll@usa.com or call (573) 756-7815 or (573) 495-2020 for more information...
    Renovation reveals house's past (03/10/03)
    A name in a schoolbook sparked a search for a home's history. "It's more than just a home, it's a place where people lived, loved and laughed," said Shelly Goss, who has worked at restoring a historic home at 326 N. Middle St. in Cape Girardeau for the past 18 months. She has also been researching the home's past...
    Community cuisine 03/10/03 (03/10/03)
    Fried chicken, chicken and dumplings dinner A fried chicken and chicken and dumplings dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Ambrose Parish Center in Chaffee, Mo. Lutheran church to hold sausage dinner St. Paul Lutheran Church, 223 W. Adams, Jackson, will hold a pork sausage dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday...
    Holden's tax ideas make no headway in capital (03/10/03)
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- While Republican leaders are considering closing some loopholes in the state tax code, legislation to raise taxes is languishing in the Missouri Legislature. Democratic Gov. Bob Holden called for a three-pronged approach to addressing an estimated $1 billion shortfall when he unveiled his proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year in January...
    Area professionals forecast sunnier economic skies (03/10/03)
    It's the war, stupid. That's the most ominous specter that's looming over the nation's economy -- like a money-hungry jaguar ready to pounce -- as the country stands on the brink of an attack against Iraq. And it's begun already. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped below 7,600 last week, closing at a five-month low as investors continued to react to negative economic news and uncertainty about war...
    Japanese children acting as ambassadors at Cape preschool (03/10/03)
    Although Mika Takano and Yasuaki Orita probably don't know it, they are acting as cultural ambassadors. Since enrolling in a Cape Girardeau preschool program, the Japanese children have taught their American classmates about their country and language...
    Addition, other work on Jackson junior high dedicated (03/10/03)
    Gone are the days of overcrowded hallways, classes meeting in closets and traveling teachers at R.O. Hawkins Junior High School in Jackson. More than 100 people gathered Sunday afternoon for a dedication ceremony honoring the recent completion of a new gymnasium, a 22-classroom addition and extensive remodeling...
    Youngest Blunt makes mark as Capitol lobbyist (03/10/03)
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Among the hordes of lobbyists that have descended upon the state Capitol this legislative session is one relatively new face with a prominent political pedigree. Andy Blunt, son of U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt and brother of Missouri Secretary of State Matt Blunt, has been trolling the Capitol halls as an advocate for some of the nation's most influential corporate interests...
    Gephardt to use public financing in presidential nomination bid (03/10/03)
    HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Democrat Dick Gephardt said Saturday night he will accept public financing, and its limits, for his presidential campaign. Gephardt's decision means six of the nine candidates for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination have decided to take public money, which is financed by taxpayers through a $3 checkoff on their tax returns...
    State keeps 70 people locked up after sentences complete (03/10/03)
    FARMINGTON, Mo. -- The Sexual Offender Treatment Center houses serial rapists and child molesters who completed their prison sentences, but remain locked up because the state sees them as safety risks. The 70 offenders held in Missouri are in a secured facility next to the Farmington Correctional Center, a prison about 70 miles south of St. Louis. They are confined after a jury or judge decided they have a mental abnormality that makes them more likely to commit another sexually violent offense...
    Beavers won't take a break from building (03/10/03)
    ST. LOUIS -- Some sharp-toothed beavers in St. Louis County could teach a thing or two about the work ethic. So far, the critters with a big overbite are winning a struggle with a suburban developer. The beavers have built a dam in a west St. Louis County creek across from a suburban business district. It's created a logjam that has backed up water 30 inches deep in some spots...
    America is putting measures in place for attack on Iraq (03/10/03)
    WASHINGTON -- The pace is relentless now, on every front. America is marching through what amounts to a final checklist enabling it to strike at will once a decision to attack Iraq is made. Altogether, the items checked off and still outstanding point to an assault that could start as soon as a week, now that the United States and Britain have come up with an ultimatum for Iraq to comply with weapons inspections by March 17 or face war...
    Sharp jump forecast in drug-resistant strep germs (03/10/03)
    WASHINGTON -- Drug-resistant germs are on the rise in the United States and experts predict a sharp jump in the strains of a dangerous form of strep that can overcome two common antibiotics. By the summer of 2004, as many as 40 percent of the strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae could be resistant to both penicillin and erythromycin, researchers warn. That form of strep causes thousands of cases of meningitis, sinusitis, ear infections and pneumonia every year...
    Powell, Rice reject direct talks with North Korea (03/10/03)
    WASHINGTON -- Top Bush administration officials said Sunday the time still isn't ripe for one-on-one talks with North Korea, despite concerns that North Korea is moving rapidly to develop new nuclear weapons. Any lasting solution to the North Korean problem will need the support of Russia, China and other nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, said in separate television interviews. North Korea opposes multilateral talks...
    Foreign-born population at record high (03/10/03)
    WASHINGTON -- The U.S. foreign-born population has reached a record high, though the rate at which people came to America has slowed considerably, the government reports. Experts suggest that downward trend may be due partly to the faltering economy and fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
    Powell still remains hopeful of gaining U.N. support on Iraq (03/10/03)
    WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin Powell held out hope Sunday that the U.N. Security Council, allies across the globe and the American public would come to support an American-led war with Iraq, as the United States pressed for an ultimatum giving Saddam Hussein until March 17 to prove he has disarmed...
    Study - Children's viewing of violence linked to aggression (03/10/03)
    Both boys and girls who watch a lot of violence on television have a heightened risk of aggressive adult behavior including spouse abuse and criminal offenses, no matter how they act in childhood, a new study says. While the results may not be surprising, experts say the study is important because it included hundreds of participants and showed the effect in females as well as males...
    Two Civil War museums at war over head of Gen. Meade's horse (03/10/03)
    PHILADELPHIA -- In his years as the trusted war horse of Gen. George Meade, Old Baldy fought for the Union in bloody battles from Antietam to Gettysburg. Well over a century later, he's in the middle of a court battle waged by a pair of small Philadelphia-based Civil War museums, both of which claim that the head of the hero horse is theirs...
    Clinton on '60 Minutes' - Wartime tax cut is bad economics (03/10/03)
    NEW YORK -- Former President Clinton, in his first televised mini-debate with Republican Bob Dole on Sunday, said that a tax cut at a time that war is looming in Iraq is "bad economics." Dole, Clinton's opponent in the 1996 presidential election, said the Bush administration has launched a global war to protect the American way of life, "which means, among other things, the freedom to save or invest our own money."...
    People talk 3/10/03 (03/10/03)
    Pop singer's video wardrobe is elementary WILKESBORO, N.C. -- An elementary school is cashing in on a wardrobe decision by pop singer Avril Lavigne. She wears a Wilkesboro Elementary School T-shirt in the video for her song "Sk8er Boi." The green-and-gold T-shirts hadn't been sold for at least four years, but with the Canadian singer giving them new currency, the school's Parent Teacher Organization ordered 500...
    Eight people shot, two stabbed during melee inside nightclub (03/10/03)
    NEW YORK -- Eight people were shot and two were stabbed early Sunday when a brawl erupted inside a nightclub above a Times Square arcade, police said. Two others were trampled as people rushed to get out. A man shot in the chest and a woman shot in the stomach were both in critical condition Sunday, said police Sgt. Dennis Ferber...
    Shuttle astronauts may have tried to override autopilot (03/10/03)
    HOUSTON -- An attempt may have been made to override Columbia's autopilot in the final few seconds of its doomed flight, according to information received Sunday by the space shuttle's accident investigation board. But, as an official close to the investigation stressed: "The data are really suspect. They can't ensure the integrity of any of the data."...
    Western gas prices drive average to near-record level (03/10/03)
    CAMARILLO, Calif. -- Gasoline supply problems in California contributed to a 5-cent-per-gallon increase in the national average over the past two weeks, an industry analyst said. The average weighted price for gas, including all grades and taxes, was about $1.75 per gallon Friday, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 stations nationwide. That is within 2 cents of $1.77, the all-time high recorded by the survey on May 18, 2001...
    'Chicago,' 'Sopranos' claim top honors at SAG awards (03/10/03)
    LOS ANGELES -- Crime paid at the Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday, as supporting actor honors went to Catherine Zeta-Jones for playing a jazz-singing murderess in "Chicago" and Christopher Walken won for playing the father of a con artist in "Catch Me If You Can." James Gandolfini and Edie Falco of the HBO mob drama "The Sopranos" also took home awards...
    World briefs 3/10/03 (03/10/03)
    China's legislature approves Cabinet reform BEIJING -- China's legislature on Monday approved a sweeping restructuring of the country's Cabinet, a move designed to help the government grapple with the enormous economic and social changes unleashed by two decades of reform...
    More than half of violent crimes in 2000 unreported (03/10/03)
    WASHINGTON -- More than half of all violent crimes committed in the United States in 2000 were never reported to police, often because the victim felt it was a private matter or the injuries were not significant, government figures released Sunday show...
    North Korea test-fires missile, Japanese official says (03/10/03)
    TOKYO -- North Korea test-fired an anti-ship cruise missile into the Sea of Japan on today, the second in less than a month, Japan's Defense Agency chief said. Shigeru Ishiba said the missile didn't appear to target Japan or any other country in particular...
    Developments in the Iraq crisis on Sunday (03/10/03)
  • Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States was close to securing the necessary nine votes on the U.N. Security Council to pass a proposed March 17 deadline for Iraq to disarm. But he acknowledged France might veto the measure. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin headed Sunday to the capitals of the three African members of the Security Council -- Angola, Cameroon and Guinea -- hoping to win their support against the U.S.-backed deadline...
    • Europe and U.S. face growing split far beyond Iraq (03/10/03)
    LONDON -- Despite efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to limit the damage, the bitter dispute over Iraq has split Europe between countries that support America and those who see it as a global menace. The division shows Europe's inability to create a united, credible voice in world affairs and threatens the unity of the West and decades of close trans-Atlantic relations, politicians and experts say...
    American, Spanish human shields prepared to enter Iraq (03/10/03)
    AMMAN, Jordan -- Anti-war activists were waiting Sunday for visas to enter Iraq, where they say they want to be "human shields" against a possible U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein. Some 10 members of the Chicago-based peace activist group Voices in the Wilderness, along with six Spaniards, were in the Jordanian capital Amman preparing to drive across the border into Iraq...
    Injuries mar SE road trip (03/10/03)
    HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Southeast Missouri State University's baseball team suffered a 14-2 loss to Southern Mississippi Sunday afternoon -- but that result was overshadowed greatly by one accident away from the diamond and another on it. Saturday night, following the second of three weekend games with the Eagles, Southeast pitcher Adam Sherry was struck by a car while crossing the street in front of the team hotel...
    Otahkians lose to SMS, rip Lipscomb (03/10/03)
    Southeast Missouri State University's Otahkians split two games Sunday as the Southeast Softball Classic came to a close. The Otahkians went 2-3 in the six-team, three-day event. They are now 3-6 on the season. Sunday, Southeast lost to Southwest Missouri State 8-1 and routed Lipscomb 17-8...
    Area product helps propel Governors (03/10/03)
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Like everybody else associated with Austin Peay's men's basketball team, Corey Gipson was intent on seeing the Governors prove all the so-called experts wrong. The Govs did just that -- with a major assist from former local star Gipson...
    Tubby finally hears the cheers from fickle fans (03/10/03)
    LEXINGTON, Ky. -- In the final minutes of a rout in the home finale, Kentucky's fans launched into what suddenly has become a familiar refrain at Rupp Arena: "TUB-BEE! TUB-BEE! TUB-BEE!" Wildcats coach Tubby Smith tried hard to conceal a wry smile during that 62-point victory over Vanderbilt last week, but he couldn't -- not when the crowd finally was chanting his name in adulation. The oft-embattled coach had won 'em over...
    Improbable late shots lift Jayhawks (03/10/03)
    COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Kansas needed two improbable long shots to wrap up its second straight Big 12 championship. Aaron Miles and Kirk Hinrich both barely beat the shot clock with 3-pointers from well beyond the line in the final 1:20, the deciding plays in the sixth-ranked Jayhawks' 79-74 victory over Missouri on Sunday...
    Unfinished business at Doral (03/10/03)
    MIAMI -- Scott Hoch didn't want to let a chance to win disappear in the dark, so he decided to stop playing Sunday night during his playoff with Jim Furyk in the Ford Championship at Doral. They will return at 8 a.m. Monday morning to finish, a decision that left fans booing and chanting when Hoch marked his 9-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole...
    Sheffield, Braves roll to 6-1 win (03/10/03)
    JUPITER, Fla. -- Gary Sheffield hit two home runs to lead the Atlanta Braves over the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 Sunday. Darren Bragg, who played for the Cardinals in 1999, doubled home two runs in the Braves' three-run sixth. Third baseman Mike Hessman hit a solo homer for Atlanta's final run in the ninth...
    Syracuse's Carmelo Anthony ponders future (03/10/03)
    SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Everything seems so easy for Carmelo Anthony -- the drives to the basket, the no-look passes, the alley-oop dunks, the fadeaway 3-pointers, the smile. There is one thing, though, that's troubling him as his freshman year at Syracuse draws to a close. And it won't go away...
    Labonte wins again in Atlanta (03/10/03)
    HAMPTON, Ga. -- Bobby Labonte once again mastered Atlanta Motor Speedway, fighting off a late challenge from Jeff Gordon to win Sunday's Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500. Labonte dominated at times during the 325-lap event and appeared to have things totally under control after passing Gordon for the lead with 44 laps left...
    No Bonnies fire this season? It's their own fault (03/10/03)
    dwilson Lately, I've been on a tear about coaches and their decisions. I'm sure my few faithful readers (my immediate family) are ready for another subject to rant on. But why stop now? Last week the St. Bonaventure men's basketball team forfeited six Atlantic 10 Conference games and decided to forgo the final two games of the season...
    Hyundai, Saturn dealers race into town (03/10/03)
    You know Jerry Wieser, but you probably don't know Jim Butler. Wieser is a home-grown fella and Butler is a man from the Big City Up North, and both are in the car business. They also are the two men who are separately bringing Hyundai and Saturn dealerships to Siemers Drive in Cape Girardeau this fall...
    Costs and tempers rise; negotiations hit standstill in walkout (03/10/03)
    NEW YORK -- Tempers were rising and so were the costs, but negotiations were at a standstill Sunday in the effort to end a walkout that shut down 18 of the 19 musicals on Broadway. Everyone was looking toward today, and the hope that talks would resume between the League of American Theatres and Producers and Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. By Sunday afternoon, after two dark nights at the theaters, neither side had made the first move...
    Qualcomm roaring through nationwide telecom slump (03/10/03)
    SAN DIEGO -- Eight years ago, when Qualcomm Inc. introduced its signature technology for cell phones, few outsiders believed it would go anywhere. Today, Qualcomm's technology fuels 13 percent of the world's wireless subscribers, and the company is feverishly working to expand into new markets including India and China...
    Destination unknown - Travel industry braces for war impact (03/10/03)
    MIAMI The prospect of a U.S. war with Iraq has the nation's already troubled tourism industry bracing for even harder times. Walt Disney World has stopped hiring and cut some workers' hours. Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise line, is lowering prices in hopes of luring more passengers. And airlines might have to cut their schedules. All cite concerns over the possible impact of war on their business...
    Data mining software digs up Internet buzzwords (03/10/03)
    BERKELEY, Calif. -- Computer scientist Jon Kleinberg is taking a virtual stroll down the information superhighway, surfing cyberspace for verbal megatrends. Did you wince? Those hopelessly passe terms were passably hip just a few years back. Then, due to overuse or a feckless public, they fell out of fashion. (Linguists suspect Al Gore of wearing out the superhighway quip.)...
    People on the move 03/10/03 (03/10/03)
    Area woman visits with Labor Department chief Local small-business leader and NFIB member Kathy Swan, co-owner of JCS Tel-Link in Cape Girardeau, recently met with U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao in St. Charles, Mo., to discuss how President Bush's tax-relief plan will affect Missouri's Main Street businesses...
    Business memo 03/10/03 (03/10/03)
    Wieser Honda wins company award for '02 Wieser Honda has earned the Honda President's Award for outstanding performance in 2002. This award is given only to dealerships that demonstrate excellence throughout all areas of their operations, including customer satisfaction, service and sales...
    Hugh Miller (03/10/03)
    Hugh "Sonny" Miller, 72, formerly of Bethalto, Ill., died Sunday, March 9, 2003, in Jackson. Arrangements are pending with Ford & Sons Funeral Home.
    Rhonda Brandon (03/10/03)
    Rhonda Brandon, 40, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, March 9, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are pending with Ford & Sons Funeral Home.
    Robert Fausz (03/10/03)
    PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Robert D. "Bob" Fausz, 70, of Perryville died Saturday, March 8, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Nov. 24, 1932, in Prairie du Rocher, Ill., son of George N. and Imelda Bievenue Fausz Jr. He and Angela Henneman were married July 28, 1951, in Perryville...
    Mary Long (03/10/03)
    ADVANCE, Mo. -- Mary Woodfin Long, 77, of Advance died Sunday, March 9, 2003, at Advance Nursing Center. She was born Aug. 29, 1925, in Gibbs, Tenn., daughter of Harold and Mary Shupe Duncan. She and Kenneth Long were married March 17, 1951, in Piggott, Ark...
    Ruth Ann Johnson (03/10/03)
    Ruth Ann Johnson, 65, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, March 8, 2003, at Chateau Girardeau. She was born June 24, 1937, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Horace and Grace Wise Clark. On Oct. 24, 1958, she married Thomas C. Johnson in Cape Girardeau. He died Dec. 14, 2002...
    Peggy Kirk (03/10/03)
    ADVANCE, Mo. -- Peggy McGee Kirk died Sunday, March 9, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are pending with Morgan Funeral Home in Advance.
    Cape police report 3/10 (03/10/03)
    Cape Girardeau Monday, March 10 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Jaqueline Camp of 132 S. Louisiana, Cape Girardeau, received a summons Sunday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated...
    Scott City woman injured in accident (03/10/03)
    A Scott City woman was injured in a one-vehicle accident Saturday in Scott County. Alfredia M. Hitt, 86, was northbound in a 1986 Chevrolet on Roth Drive in Scott County, one mile south of Scott City, when she traveled off the left side of the road and ran into a ditch...
    Cape fire report 3/10 (03/10/03)
    Cape Girardeau Monday, March 10 Firefighters responded to the following call Saturday: At 7:04 p.m., an emergency medical service at 230 E. Cape Rock. Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday: At 5:30 a.m., an emergency medical service at 419 S. Missouri...
    Out of the past 3/10/03 (03/10/03)
    10 years ago: March 10, 1993 Rapid expansion of federal law enforcement and judiciary facilities in Cape Girardeau will continue with imminent appointment of full-time U.S. assistant public defender; David Freeman, federal public defender for Eastern District of Missouri and Southern-Central District in Illinois, says government is interviewing candidates for the position...
    Missouri approaching Ground Zero (03/10/03)
    KENNETT, Mo. -- One of Missouri's foremost state-budget analysts is Jim Moody, who served as former governor John Ashcroft's fiscal director and lived through a trauma not unlike that now being experienced in the administration of incumbent Bob Holden...
    Juvenile center issue at a stalemate (03/10/03)
    The ongoing issue of the 32nd Judicial Circuit's juvenile detention center in Cape Girardeau and its questionable suitability for youths in trouble with the law came to a dramatic head last week. A Southeast Missourian reporter came across a letter from Cape Girardeau County Commissioner Joe Gambill to the consultant the commission had hired to sort out the matter. Gambill asked her to discuss any findings by letter so as to avoid media spotlight...
    WTC rebuilding plan adds to healing process (03/10/03)
    For well over a year, New York has debated what to do with the cavernous hole left by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. That should come to an end with a plan that has the potential to make all of America proud. Architect Daniel Libeskind, an immigrant now living abroad, has designed a beautiful, functional tribute that incorporates elements for business, tourism and reflection...
    WTC attack small compared to what we're about to do (03/10/03)
    To the editor: Before the first Gulf War, Iraq had some of the best levels of health care, infant mortality and education in the Middle East. (This was when we were supporting Saddam Hussein and providing him with chemical and biological agents.) Saddam was and is a ruthless tyrant, but he did take care of his people in some ways. ...
    Speak Out 03/10/03 (03/10/03)
    Expensive study JOE GAMBILL spends $60,000 for a study and then doesn't want to hear the results because he was proven wrong. I guess because a juvenile center will provide services for the poorer people in the community, he isn't for it. Targeted support...
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