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Fed expected to leave rates unchanged
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
WASHINGTON -- A key short-term interest rate is at a 45-year low, and Federal Reserve policy-makers are expected to keep it there when they meet Tuesday. Fed officials, however, will certainly spend time discussing what, if anything, they can do to stop long-term rates from rising and derailing the economy...
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Justice loses another top official
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
WASHINGTON -- Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson is stepping down in a few weeks, the latest in a string of senior Justice Department officials involved in the grueling war against terror to leave the agency. Thompson, 58, is expected to take a position at the Brookings Institution think tank after he leaves the department at the end of the month, a senior Justice Department official said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity...
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Once-stranded pilot whales get second chance at freedom
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
OFF THE FLORIDA KEYS -- Five pilot whales, nursed to health by human rescuers, were released Sunday into the Atlantic Ocean nearly four months after they stranded themselves in shallow water off the Florida Keys. It is extremely rare for rehabilitated whales to be released into the ocean, and Sunday was the first time that five whales stranded at once have been released simultaneously in the United States, experts said...
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Candidate Schwarzenegger discloses details of business empire
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES -- Some three decades back, young Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bodybuilder friend, Franco Columbu, came up with a get-rich-quick scheme. Tipped by an acquaintance that a planned new international airport and freeways were about to trigger a land rush in California's Antelope Valley, the two scraped together cash from their joint bricklaying business and bought parcels in the desert...
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Pilot held after allted shoe-bomb comment in airport
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
NEW YORK -- An Air France pilot was arraigned on felony charges Sunday after allegedly telling a security screener he had a bomb in his shoe. No explosives were found on the pilot or the plane, but the New York-to-Paris flight he was scheduled for as a co-pilot was cancelled...
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Caviar importer gambling on home-grown sturgeon
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
PIERSON, Fla. -- Mark Zaslavsky reached into the large water tank and grabbed the gray, torpedo-shaped fish as it rose to the surface. The fish, a 4-foot beluga sturgeon, flailed in Zaslavsky's arms, turning his effort to show off his vision into a soggy, man-vs.-fish wrestling match...
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Mel Gibson screens crucifixion film for friendly eyes only
(Entertainment ~ 08/11/03)
NEW YORK -- Those who have seen Mel Gibson's film about the final hours of Jesus Christ have called it beautiful, magical, a great and important work. Those who fear "The Passion" could fuel anti-Semitism, however, until now hadn't been allowed to see the film. Seven months before its release, this extraordinary vanity project is stirring passions over Gibson's exclusionary screenings and the potential for a negative depiction of Jews...
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KC bakery facing new challenges in snack competition
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- More than 70 years after Chicago-area bakery manager Jimmy Dewar made culinary history by creating the first Hostess Twinkie, the current maker of the famous tasty treat is struggling as competitors such as Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. gobble up the snack cake industry's profits...
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Iran's interior minister takes on hard-liners ahead of vote
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's reformist interior minister ordered the closure of offices set up by hard-liners to screen candidates for next year's legislative elections. Members of the hard-line Guardian Council have vowed to reject reformist candidates who seek major changes, and having the offices would allow the council to learn the views of would-be candidates...
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From the Alps to arid southern forests, Europe bakes
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
LONDON -- Britain sweltered through its hottest day on record Sunday and Alpine glaciers melted as the heat wave that has baked much of Europe for days sizzled relentlessly on. The heat and drought-driven fires across the continent prompted Pope John Paul II to urge people to pray for rain...
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Jittery U.S. soldiers kill six Iraqis trying to drive home
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The night air hung like a hot wet blanket over the north Baghdad suburb of Slaykh. At 9 p.m., an electrical transformer blew up, plunging the neighborhood into darkness. American soldiers, apparently fearing a bomb attack, went on alert. Within 45 minutes, six Iraqis trying to get home before the 11 p.m. curfew were shot and killed by U.S. forces...
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Afghanistan urges NATO to expand takeover of peacekeeping
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan welcomed the impending NATO takeover of the 5,000-strong multinational peacekeeping force Sunday and urged that it be expanded beyond Kabul. NATO is taking over command of the International Security Assistance Force in large part to end the arduous task of searching for a new "lead nation" every six months to run it. Germany and the Netherlands have jointly led the force for the last six months...
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Residents of Basra protest power, fuel shortages
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
BASRA, Iraq -- Basra residents overwhelmed by the heat and angry about fuel shortages and electricity cuts bombarded British soldiers with rocks in a second day of protests Sunday. A demonstrator and a security guard were killed. Elsewhere, four U.S. soldiers and a journalist were wounded in guerrilla attacks, and the U.S. military said a 3rd Corps Support Command soldier died of heat stroke while traveling in a convoy near the southern city of Diwaniyah on Saturday...
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Tory leader calls for Blair apology
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair should apologize for a government spokesman's implication that a dead weapons expert at the center of a heated political dispute had overblown notions of his own importance, an opposition leader said Sunday. Government weapons expert David Kelly, the suspected source of a British Broadcasting Corp. ...
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South African parish marks openly gay priest's birthday
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- As his congregation sang "Happy Birthday," the Very Rev. Rowan Smith marked another year Sunday as the openly gay leader of one of South Africa's oldest Anglican parishes. The event would be unremarkable except that Anglicans are embroiled in an international uproar over the confirmation last week of the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the faith...
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Hezbollah shelling kills Israeli boy
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
SHLOMI, Israel -- Israeli warplanes attacked suspected Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon on Sunday, hours after the group shelled northern Israel, killing a 16-year-old and wounding five others, including an infant. The boy was the first civilian killed in an attack by the guerrilla group in the area since Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon in May 2000, officials said...
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Tropical storm Etau leaves eight dead, 12 missing in Japan
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
TOKYO -- Three bodies were found overnight after a tropical storm hit Japan over the weekend, leaving at least eight people dead and a dozen missing, officials said today. Etau -- rated a typhoon until it was downgraded Friday to a tropical storm -- hit Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido early Sunday. It weakened further and was classified as a "tropical depression" as it moved off into the Pacific Ocean, according to the Meteorological Agency...
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Bombs explode in Istanbul before wedding of PM's son
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- A bomb exploded outside the office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political party Sunday, just hours before his son was to be married. No injuries or damage were reported at the Justice and Development Party's office in Istanbul, and the Turkish news agency Anatolia reported it was meant to make noise rather than cause harm. Earlier, police found and safely detonated two more bombs in a bustling commercial neighborhood, Besiktas...
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Bush promotes forest thinning in fire-ravaged mountain town
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush surveys a fire-ravaged community in Arizona on Monday as part of a push to get the Senate to approve steps aimed at preventing catastrophic wildfires. Bush's helicopter-and-hiking tour of the devastation left behind by the June 2002 fire in mountainous Summerhaven, Ariz., near Tucson, is also meant to illustrate what he says his proposals can help save...
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Fish die from bourbon poured into creek after warehouse fire
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
WEST POINT, Ky. -- Nearly all of the fish in a creek near a whiskey warehouse have died since fire destroyed the building and spilled its contents last week, and state officials have cited owner Jim Beam. Lightning set the warehouse on fire on Aug. 4, and more than 800,000 gallons of burning bourbon flowed into a retaining pond and then into the creek...
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Nation briefs 8/11/03
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
Cosmonaut weds earthbound bride HOUSTON -- The bride blew the groom a kiss. He blew one back -- from about 240 miles above terra firma. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko didn't let the fact that he's living aboard the international space station stop him from marrying his earthbound bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev, in the first wedding ever conducted from space...
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Liberian leader delivers farewell speech
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
MONROVIA, Liberia -- President Charles Taylor delivered a farewell address Sunday to a nation bloodied by 14 years of war, declaring himself "the sacrificial lamb" to end what he said was a U.S.-backed rebel war against his besieged regime. Taylor, sitting solemnly with folded hands, recorded the address in front of a Liberian flag at his home, for broadcast on the evening before he was to hand power to Vice President Moses Blah at one minute before noon (6:59 a.m. CDT) today...
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Immaculate Conception plan awaits Jackson OK
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
The folks at the Immaculate Conception Catholic School are finding out the hard way about the frustrations of beauracracy. Under normal circumstances, it wouldn't be such a big deal that their building project would be delayed a couple of weeks. But these aren't normal circumstances...
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Oran student tries for Miss Teen USA title
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
Oran, Mo.'s Amber Marie Seyer and the other 50 contestants in the Miss Teen USA contest completed their preliminary competitions in bathing suits and evening gowns Friday. They will find out who the 15 semifinalists are when a national TV audience does Tuesday night...
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More tech workers training selves out of work
(Business ~ 08/11/03)
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Scott Kirwin clung to his job at a large investment bank through several rounds of layoffs last year. Friends marveled at the computer programmer's ability to dodge pink slips during the worst technology downturn in a decade. But it was tough for Kirwin, 36, to relish his final assignment: training a group of programmers from India who would replace him within a year...
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Building optimism
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
Want to make a downtown business owner smile? Mention that the last piece of the new Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge is being put in place on Tuesday. Want to make the smile wider? Remind him that the other downtown projects are progressing nicely: The new federal courthouse, the Fountain Street corridor, the Marquette Hotel and the River Campus...
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Parents open their wallets wide for back-to-school supplies
(Business ~ 08/11/03)
Ten-year-old Aaron Soto recites his mom's edict on buying school supplies as only a boy who has heard it a thousand times can: "If it's cheap, we can get it." When he says this, it makes his mother, Soona Sota of Cape Girardeau, laugh out loud. "See," she said. "He knows."...
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When in doubt, save the children
(Column ~ 08/11/03)
KENNETT, MO. -- Those Missourians involved in child welfare cases, for the most part, make a real effort to avoid disastrous mistakes that can often lead to the deaths of their charges. And so do their counterparts in other states, including New York, Tennessee and Florida, where the recent effects of misjudgments have produced funerals for young children who died after they were left in or returned to a dangerous home...
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So far, Kobe is still the peoples' choice
(Sports Column ~ 08/11/03)
Last week Kobe Bryant once again stood before thousands and proclaimed his innocence through cheers from his fans. His fans showed their support with signs and shouts of "We love you." Millions, like the fans at the 2003 Teen Choice awards show, have taken Bryant's side without hearing any of the evidence against him...
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Dalhousie Golf Club to open dining downtown
(Column ~ 08/11/03)
For the owners of Dalhousie Golf Club, the decision to open a private dining facility in downtown Cape Girardeau was as easy as choosing between a nine iron or a putter standing four inches from the hole. "It really made sense," said Chris Heath, Dalhousie's operations manager. "We believe this will fulfill the need for the social aspect of the club."...
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Linux sued over intellectual property
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- It's touted as the high-tech world's best hope against Microsoft Corp. domination. Built largely by volunteer programmers worldwide, the Linux operating system is cheap, reliable and doesn't pad Bill Gates' wallet. But just as Linux is catching on with business and governments, a small Utah company is claiming that some of its intellectual property has been copied into Linux without permission...
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Bush attorney likens Calif. pot laws to civil right standoffs
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
SAN FRANCISCO -- California and other states that want to make marijuana available to sick or dying patients are flouting federal drug laws in much the same way that Southern states defied national civil rights laws, a senior Bush administration lawyer said...
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New Hampshire parish welcomes gay bishop
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
CONCORD, N.H. -- The Rev. Gene Robinson returned to his home church Sunday to the hugs and handshakes of hundreds of parishioners and led the blessing there for the first time since becoming the first openly gay Episcopalian confirmed as a bishop. Dressed in street clothes, he sat in a pew in the middle of the congregation for the morning service at St. Paul's Church. He led the final blessing and afterward drank coffee and talked with parishioners in the church basement...
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People talk 8/11/03
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
Lighting crash cancels Timberlake concert ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- A sold-out concert by Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake was canceled after sound and lighting equipment fell while being raised to the ceiling. About 30 people managed to get out of the way as a large steel rigging structure used to raise the gear buckled and collapsed Saturday, authorities and members of the stage crew said...
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'S.W.A.T.' takes custody of weekend box office
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
LOS ANGELES -- Calling in the SWAT team proved good business for Hollywood. Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell's "S.W.A.T.," adapted from the 1970s TV cop show, slapped the cuffs on enough movie-goers to debut as the weekend's top movie with $37 million, according to studio estimates Sunday...
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Victim's group seeks improvements to church settlement
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
BOSTON -- Alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse challenged the Archdiocese of Boston to improve the $55 million offer it extended to 542 abuse victims last week, calling it inadequate in helping to mend shattered lives. At a Sunday press conference outside the archdiocese's chancery grounds, members of several victims' groups said the settlement must not fall short because it will be a model for other large-scale abuse cases around the nation...
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Demonstrators at nuclear plants remember Hiroshima bomb drop
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- About 300 protesters marched on the Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant Sunday, waving banners and carrying ashes to symbolize the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. "It is fire and damnation. You are protecting a death camp," protester Erik Johnson shouted at two dozen security guards watching from the other side of a barricade at the entrance to the Y-12 facility...
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Some call for preschool nuclear evacuation plans
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- If an accident or terrorist attack at a nuclear power plant required an evacuation, plans already exist to get school children and nursing home residents out of harm's way. But preschools and day care centers around nuclear plants aren't required to have evacuation plans, and child-care officials say many don't...
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Children with cancer get time away from disease at camp
(State News ~ 08/11/03)
RACINE, Mo. -- Jessica Ressel doesn't normally like to go swimming with other kids. Multiple chemotherapy and radiation treatments have left the 18-year-old cancer survivor scarred. If given the choice, she said, she would prefer that no one inspect those old battle wounds...
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Army Corps' new plan doesn't alter Missouri River flow
(State News ~ 08/11/03)
ST. LOUIS -- Under court order to lower Missouri River water levels this summer for endangered species, the Army Corps of Engineers proposes a new river-management plan it says will protect wildlife without altering the Missouri's flow. The long-term plan drafted by the corps relies on restoring wildlife habitat by means other than dramatic fluctuations in the river's depth, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sunday...
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Some KC residents upset with pace of tornado cleanup
(State News ~ 08/11/03)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- More than three months after tornadoes slashed through the Kansas City metro area, some residents and cities are still waiting for help from insurance companies or the federal government. So far, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid almost $1 million to individuals in Wyandotte, Clay and Platte counties for housing assistance, personal property and transportation needs. County and city governments have requested more than $12 million in assistance...
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Business memo 08/11/03
(Business ~ 08/11/03)
Celebrations honored with wine award Celebrations Restaurant and Bar in Cape Girardeau has been honored with the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2003. There are only 3,360 restaurants in the world, representing more than 40 countries, to be honored with this award...
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Cape/Jackson fire reports 8/11/03
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/11/03)
Cape Girardeau Monday, Aug. 11 Firefighters responded Saturday to the following items: At 7:08 p.m., a medical assist at 1503 Briarcliff. At 9:22 p.m., a medical assist at 19 S. Kingshighway. Firefighters responded Sunday to the following items: At 12:01 a.m., a medical assist at 1114 Jefferson...
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People on the move 08/11/03
(Business ~ 08/11/03)
Two join Alliance Bank in Cape Girardeau Alliance Bank of Cape Girardeau has announced the hiring of J. Michael Pobst and Kimberly Hackworth to the Alliance Bank staff. Pobst has become the community president over the Sikeston facility while Hackworth will serve as the bank's administrative assistant...
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Cracking down on infotech spies
(Editorial ~ 08/11/03)
The spy game isn't what it used to be. Forget the James Bond scenario of some horrible villain or foreign government trying to get information on a doomsday weapon to hold the Earth hostage. That's so Cold War. Today's espionage is all about foreign governments that want the technology American companies developed. Yes, some of it is defense-related, but a lot isn't. Spies are targeting corporations, research centers and universities...
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Jackson works to get PD and FD back home
(Editorial ~ 08/11/03)
It took a lot more than clicking their heels three times, but Jackson's police and firefighters are home in their headquarters complex that a May 6 tornado ripped apart. These valiant men and women deserve congratulations. They managed to run their departments without shutting down for even an hour. ...
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Indians like first week of practice
(College Sports ~ 08/11/03)
Southeast Missouri State University's football team wrapped up its first week of practice Sunday with a lengthy intrasquad scrimmage that had coach Tim Billings encouraged but also realizing there is still plenty of work to be done. The Indians ran off well over 100 plays in a Houck Stadium scrimmage with officials that lasted a little more than two hours. It was Southeast's first true scrimmage of the preseason...
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FanFare 8/11/03
(Other Sports ~ 08/11/03)
Briefly Baseball Rafael Palmeiro has decided to stay with the Texas Rangers and not accept a possible trade to the Chicago Cubs. Palmeiro turned down a deal to Chicago before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. The 38-year-old first baseman cleared waivers Tuesday and the Rangers approached him again about the deal...
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Speak Out A 08/09/03
(Speak Out ~ 08/11/03)
Give parents a choice TO THE Speak Out caller who warns Republicans to watch out for the new tide of Democrats: I am not the least bit scared. Democrats and their party have a lot to worry about within their own ranks. They need to quit spreading lies and gossip and come up with their own people-oriented agenda instead of the same old rhetoric about raising taxes for education. I say it is time we bring in vouchers and give all parents everywhere the choice to choose...
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Actor, dancer Gregory Hines, 57, dies of cancer
(Obituary ~ 08/11/03)
LOS ANGELES -- Gregory Hines, the greatest tap dancer of his generation who transcended the stage with a successful screen career that included starring roles in "White Nights" and "The Cotton Club," has died at 57. Hines died of cancer Saturday in Los Angeles, publicist Allen Eichhorn said Sunday...
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Donald McClearn
(Obituary ~ 08/11/03)
Donald McClearn, 70, of Jackson died Saturday, Aug. 9, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 19, 1932, in St. Louis, Mo., son of the late Herbert and Luda Hicklin McClearn. He married Emma Lou Paul Oct. 27, 1956. She died Aug. 15, 2001...
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Richard Sandvos
(Obituary ~ 08/11/03)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Richard Lee "Dick" Sandvos, 64, of Sikeston died Friday, Aug. 8, 2003, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. He was born May 16, 1939, son of the late Hugo E. and Alma Anna Mirgaux Sandvos. On June 10, 1961, he married Mary Lou Layton. He was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. He was a retired tool crib supervisor with Caterpillar in Peoria, Ill...
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Dora Neeley
(Obituary ~ 08/11/03)
KARNAK, Ill. -- Dora Elfrank Neeley, 82, of Vienna, Ill., died Friday, Aug. 8, 2003, at Southgate Health Care Center in Metropolis, Ill. She was born Nov. 24, 1920, Ben and Lotta St. Cin Elfrank in Perkins, Ill. She attended the Luthers Chapel United Methodist Church in Cypress, Ill., and was retired from the Goodluck Glove Co., in Metropolis...
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Mary Bailey
(Obituary ~ 08/11/03)
Mary Irene Bailey, 84, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Aug. 9, 2003, at Regent Care Center in San Antonio, Texas. Arrangements are pending with Ford & Sons Funeral Home.
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Mildred Brown
(Obituary ~ 08/11/03)
Mildren Bollinger Brown, 92, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 10, 2003, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. Arrangements are pending with McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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Out of the past 8/11/03
(Out of the Past ~ 08/11/03)
10 years ago: Aug. 11, 1993 Federal Emergency Management Agency will allow local governments to include volunteer labor and equipment as part of their share of flood-relief costs; FEMA officials yesterday briefed city and county officials from Cape Girardeau and Perry counties on public assistance program that will provide federal money for emergency work and repair or replacement of public facilities demaged by flood...
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Open field in recall may prove difficult for voters
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's gubernatorial recall election is becoming the year's ultimate political reality show, with Democratic Gov. Gray Davis fighting for his job, at least 150 potential replacement candidates angling for attention and party leaders searching for strategies...
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Foreign pundits aim opinions at California politics
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
PARIS -- You could almost hear the chortling and the hands rubbing together in the newsrooms of Paris, London, Mexico City and other capitals when the story broke: The Terminator, to paraphrase several foreign wits, had become the Running Man. Roused from the vacation sloth and no-news languor of August, political writers, pundits and other opinionated sharpshooters opened fire on Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's zany recall election and, let's face it, America. ...
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Cape police report 8/11/03
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/11/03)
Cape Girardeau Monday, Aug. 11 The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWIsn Jeffery L. Delossantos of Bloomfield, Texas, was issued a summons Sunday for driving while intoxicated and protective custody...
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Arab opposition groups gather steam
(International News ~ 08/11/03)
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Riad Turk knows something about freedom. The grandfather of this country's opposition, Turk spent more than two decades as a political prisoner, most of it in solitary confinement. He was tortured and beaten repeatedly, once slipping into a coma that lasted 25 days...
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Jackson band wraps up summer season on Thursday
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
The Jackson Municipal Band will perform its final weekly concert of the season at 8 p.m. Thursday at the gazebo on the courthouse lawn. This performance is given in remembrance of the past band and community members who have contributed to the city of Jackson. The honking of car horns is appreciated and acceptable, a tradition of uptown concerts...
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Miss Missouri getting word out about rape prevention
(State News ~ 08/11/03)
ST. LOUIS -- In the two months since being crowned Miss Missouri, Amber Etheridge figures she's already logged more than 8,000 miles and finds "it's not all glitz and glamour; it's a lot of driving." Some of it has been attending traditional fare of pageant winners: parades, local pageants and public appearances. ...
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Castroneves captures Indy 250, ends drought
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
MADISON, Ill. -- Hello Castroneves did it the old-fashioned way. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner had no in-car electronics Sunday, forcing him to change gears by feel and guess on fuel mileage and pit-lane speed as he won the Emerson Indy 250 and ended a 20-race winless streak...
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Robby Gordon wins at Watkins Glen
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. -- Robby Gordon was doing everything he could to preserve fuel, and his timing was perfect because those in pursuit of him were in the same predicament. "I backed up 20 car-lengths for each corner," Gordon said after stretching his fuel over the final 39 laps to complete a sweep of this year's NASCAR road-course races with a victory Sunday at Watkins Glen International...
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Love rolls to International win
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. -- Davis Love III took all of the suspense out of The International on Sunday, birdieing three of the first four holes and cruising to his fourth victory of the season. Love led wire-to-wire for his 18th career title. He also vaulted from fourth to first on the PGA Tour's money list with $5.1 million heading into next week's PGA Championship...
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Tracy prevails for the first time at Mid-Ohio course
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
LEXINGTON, Ohio -- Paul Tracy decisively ended his frustration at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Tracy dominated Sunday's Champ Car Grand Prix, losing the lead only on pit stops in winning his career-best sixth race of the year and first at Mid-Ohio, where he had finished second four times in 10 previous CART appearances...
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First failed doping test surfaces
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Surinam's only Pan American Games medalist, 800-meter champion Letitia Vriesde, was stripped of her gold Sunday after testing positive for excessive caffeine. Vriesde, 38, the defending champion who also ran at the 2000 Olympics, was her country's first Pan Ams champion when she won at Winnipeg. She's also won silver and bronze medals at the world championships...
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The Lakers' troubled legacy
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
Kobe Bryant's legal problems represent just the latest trouble for the Los Angeles Lakers, one of the NBA's most successful teams and, at the same time, one of its most star-crossed. The Lakers' resume is full of enormous achievement -- 14 championships, the NBA's best all-time regular season and playoff won-loss record and the most playoff series won by any team...
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Triple play doesn't faze Cardinals
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
ST. LOUIS -- Atlanta shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history, but the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Braves 3-2 Sunday night when Albert Pujols hit a tiebreaking homer off John Smoltz in the eighth inning...
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Rookie Farmer moves to No. 3 quarterback
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
MACOMB, Ill. -- Kirk Farmer's 8-of-13 passing for 130 yards in St. Louis' 7-6 preseason-opening loss has landed the rookie the Rams' No. 3 quarterback slot for now, coach Mike Martz said. Farmer accounted for the Rams' only touchdown in the Friday night loss at Oakland and finished with a passer rating of 120.7. He nearly rallied St. Louis to victory after entering the game early in the fourth quarter...
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Flawed Iverson ready for action
(Professional Sports ~ 08/11/03)
NEW YORK -- Allen Iverson plopped himself down, covered his cornrows with a red, white and blue doo rag and pronounced himself proud to be representing all Americans -- especially the troubled ones with whom he has something in common. "In a lot of people's eyes, I'm not supposed to be here. Talent-wise, people look at it as though I'm supposed to be here, but personality-wise and who I am, people don't think so," Iverson said...
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Some organ donors find downsides to charitable giving
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
WASHINGTON -- The transplant was drawing near, and Kimberly Tracy knew she might die. She sat down to write her 2-year-old nephew a letter. "I'm writing this letter to you now in case I can't tell you later," Tracy typed on her computer as she prepared to give him one of her kidneys. "Maybe something went wrong during the transplant or I became ill afterwards. ... All I know is that I wanted to tell you how much I love you."...
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Community Q&A 08/11/03
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
Name: Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs Lives in: Jackson Family: My family includes my husband, Bob Clubbs, and my 14-month-old daughter, Eva Rell. The rest of my immediate family is "up north" in Kankakee, Ill...
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Cape Girardeau School Board agenda
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
6 p.m. today 301 N. Clark Ave. On the agenda: Discussion of public meeting protocol Discussion of financial report
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Military digest 08/11/03
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
Navy recruit graduates submarine course Navy Seaman Recruit Joshua B. Cain, son of Barbara and Randy Cain of Tamms, Ill., recently graduated from the Basic Enlisted Submarine Course at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, Conn. During the six-week course, Cain learned the theory, construction, and operation of nuclear-powered submarines. Cain also learned organization, damage control, submarine safety and escape procedures...
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Cape man receives state MDA award
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
Don R. Diamond of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Jackson, has been named recipient of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's 2003 Personal Achievement Award for Missouri. Diamond, 35, was selected because of his dedication to the community and the fight against neuromuscular diseases...
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Missouri forester gets national award
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
Michael P. Anderson of Perryville, Mo. was recognized by the Missouri Society of American Foresters with its Presidential Forester Award. Anderson is a forestry district supervisor with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), an agency for which he has worked for the past 26 years.Southeast Missourian...
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Community briefs 08/11/03
(Local News ~ 08/11/03)
Mental illness group offers support meetings The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, in collaboration with the Community Counseling Center, offers a family support group every fourth Tuesday of the month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The next meeting is Aug. 26 at the Community Counseling Center...
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Many anti-Davis voters unsure who should replace him
(National News ~ 08/11/03)
SAN DIEGO -- Nancy Peterson glanced through the Sunday newspaper, straining to find someone amid the eclectic field of more than 150 recall candidates who could do a better job than the widely despised Gov. Gray Davis. "These people here, I mean, how much do they know?" asked Peterson, 61, a hospital worker from La Mesa...
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