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State hopes to fix workers' comp costs
(State News ~ 01/17/05)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Kathy Cowan-Smith has spent the past decade watching her company's workers' compensation premiums devour more and more of her company's budget. As human resources director for Columbia auto-parts manufacturer Octscon Inc., she has helped launched safety programs for workers and seen the number of injured employees drop substantially. ...
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World briefs 1/17/05
(National News ~ 01/17/05)
Marine who killed police officer was gang member; Incumbent easily wins second term in Croatia; Sprinklers helped fuel fire at magnesium plant; U.S. military releases 81 prisoners in Afghanistan; Man finds nail in skull six days after accident
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'Aviator,' 'Sideways' get Oscar boost with Golden Globe wins
(Entertainment ~ 01/17/05)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The Howard Hughes epic "The Aviator" and the road-trip romp "Sideways" earned best-picture Golden Globes on Sunday, boosting their status as front-runners for the upcoming Academy Awards. "The Aviator" won for best dramatic film, giving it an edge at the Oscars, which favor heavyweight drama. "Sideways" won for comedy film...
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62nd annual Golden Globe Awards
(Entertainment ~ 01/17/05)
Motion Pictures ** Picture, drama: "The Aviator." Actor, drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Aviator." Actress, drama: Hilary Swank, "Million Dollar Baby." Picture, musical or comedy: "Sideways." Actor, musical or comedy: Jamie Foxx, "Ray." Actress, musical or comedy: Annette Bening, "Being Julia."...
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Sharon OKs crackdown on Palestinian militants
(International News ~ 01/17/05)
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the army to do whatever was needed to end Palestinian rocket, mortar and bomb attacks, and the government dismissed a call Sunday by the PLO leadership for a halt to militant violence. "Despite the change in the Palestinian leadership, we note that those at the top have not begun any action whatsoever to halt the terrorism," Sharon told the Cabinet at its weekly meeting. "The situation cannot continue."...
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U.S. launches raids to curb violence before vote
(International News ~ 01/17/05)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops staged a series of raids in Mosul and other areas of northern and central Iraq on Sunday, arresting dozens, even as a top American official conceded U.S. and Iraqi forces cannot stop "extraordinary" intimidation by insurgents before this month's crucial national election...
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Ousted Chinese leader dies at 85
(International News ~ 01/17/05)
BEIJING -- Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese Communist Party leader who helped pioneer reforms that launched China's economic boom but was ousted after the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, died Monday at a Beijing hospital. He was 85. The cause of death wasn't immediately announced, but the official announcement of Zhao's passing said he suffered from multiple ailments of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. ...
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Former McDonald's CEO dies
(State News ~ 01/17/05)
SYDNEY, Australia -- Charlie Bell, who began his McDonald's Corp. career as a part-time worker in a suburban Sydney restaurant and later became chief executive of the fast-food icon, died of colon cancer in his native Australia. He was 44. Bell was diagnosed with cancer last May, only a month after ascending to the top job. He left the fast food-giant in November, after several rounds of treatment. McDonald's announced his death Sunday evening in the United States...
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Ex-Raider critically wounded at burglary
(Professional Sports ~ 01/17/05)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Former Oakland Raiders center Barret Robbins was shot and critically wounded during a struggle with a police officer investigating a burglary at a South Beach office building. Robbins, a former All-Pro known best for going AWOL during the 2003 Super Bowl and other erratic behavior, was hospitalized in critical condition...
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New tape shows Kennedy's struggle with civil rights
(National News ~ 01/17/05)
BOSTON -- On the afternoon of May 4, 1963, President Kennedy wasn't in a mood to mince words. As he met in the White House with members of a liberal political group, he fumed when one of them mentioned the photo splashed above the fold of that day's New York Times. The now-iconic photograph showed a police dog attacking a black teenager in Birmingham, Ala...
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Players share optimism for 2005
(Community Sports ~ 01/17/05)
A season that ended four wins short of the Cardinals' first world championship in 22 years has left the team and its fans hungry to take that next step in 2005. During the Cardinal Caravan stop at the Osage Community Centre in Cape Girardeau on Sunday, current Cardinals players Carmen Cali, Bo Hart and Mike Lincoln and former St. Louis third baseman Ken Reitz looked to pushing forward from last season's World Series loss to the Boston Red Sox...
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Six games already set for next year's Heartland Hoopfest
(High School Sports ~ 01/17/05)
After a successful first run, the planning already has begun for next season's Heartland Hoopfest at the Perry Park Center in Perryville. The recent event included seven high school boys basketball games, including a feature contest between nationally ranked Vashon and perennial Southeast Missouri power Charleston...
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Old Appleton still seeks to replace lost bridge
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
Recent history has not been kind to Old Appleton. For 103 years, an iron truss bridge stretched over Apple Creek in the heart of this town, half of which lies in Cape Girardeau County and the other in Perry. Then, in 1982, the quiet swimming and fishing hole raged in a flash. The surging swell twisted the red bridge off its base and carried it downstream...
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DWI offenders get lesson in family pain
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
None of them thought they would ever have to buy a casket for their children. On the second Thursday of the month, four parents sit at a table in a room at the Cape Girardeau Public Library and talk to a group of people about the last time they saw their children, the last thing their children said to them, the last thing they did for their children, now dead, killed by drunken drivers...
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Ex-Black Panther to speak at Southeast
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
Of the many social protest organizations that sprung up in 1960s America, one of the most notorious was the Black Panther Party. At the head of the Panthers was co-founder Bobby Seale, a former engineering student and social worker in Oakland, Calif...
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Survey sheds light on area wages, benefits
(Business ~ 01/17/05)
The average number of paid holidays manufacturing employees get each year is 8 1/2, about 13 percent of manufacturing companies are unionized and team leader wages start at about $11.69 an hour. The new 2005 Southeast Missouri Wage and Benefit Survey -- prepared by Workforce Employment Solutions -- offers local business leaders insight into how manufacturing and service companies stack up in terms of benefits and wages, providing information that they can use when making company evaluations...
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Buzzwords generate more tech confusion than buzz
(Business ~ 01/17/05)
SEATTLE -- High-tech companies don't release products anymore, they provide solutions. And those solutions don't simply run a program or play a song. Instead, they enable experiences, optimize agility or make people's passions come alive. Say what?...
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Falcons put Rams' many shortcomings on display
(Professional Sports ~ 01/17/05)
ST. LOUIS -- In the end, the St. Louis Rams looked more like a .500 team than a dangerous playoff spoiler. The across-the-board spanking they absorbed in Saturday's 47-17 playoff loss to the Falcons exposed so many problems that coach Mike Martz might not know where to start. It's unfamiliar territory for a franchise accustomed to being near the top but one that endured a most dysfunctional season...
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Patriots' 'D' corrals Colts
(Professional Sports ~ 01/17/05)
FOXBORO, Mass. -- The New England Patriots kept the ball away from Peyton Manning most of the game and shut him down when he had it. The Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 20-3 on Sunday behind Corey Dillon's 144 yards rushing in his playoff debut and a dominant defense that was missing three key players but not many tackles...
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Eagles reach NFC title game
(Professional Sports ~ 01/17/05)
PHILADELPHIA -- Freddie Mitchell showed 'em why he's called "Hollywood." In the Eagles' first meaningful game in nearly a month, the back-ups played like regulars and the supporting cast picked up the slack. Philadelphia wasn't rusty at all in making its fourth straight NFC championship game with a 27-14 romp Sunday over the self-destructing Minnesota Vikings...
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Singh stays on roll, wins at Sony Open
(Professional Sports ~ 01/17/05)
HONOLULU -- Vijay Singh heard a massive roar coming from the 18th hole, and a glance at the leaderboard confirmed what he already suspected -- Ernie Els had made an eagle to tie for the lead in the Sony Open. Singh had six holes left to make no mistakes and one birdie...
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Agassi, Federer, Williams debut with wins
(Professional Sports ~ 01/17/05)
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Andre Agassi shrugged off a hip injury that nearly kept him out of the Australian Open, beating German qualifier Dieter Kindlmann 6-4, 6-3, 6-0 in a first-round match Monday. The four-time champion has lost just one once in his last four trips to Melbourne Park -- a semifinal setback last year to Marat Safin...
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Poll- Americans hopeful about Bush's second term
(National News ~ 01/17/05)
WASHINGTON -- A majority of Americans say they feel hopeful about President Bush's second term, but those hopes are clouded by doubts about when the bloodshed in Iraq will end. People say Iraq should be the president's highest priority, according to an Associated Press poll that found that those surveyed are not optimistic a stable government will take hold there...
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Academic problems could sideline Texas' top scorer, rebounder
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A key player could be missing when No. 10 Texas plays No. 6 Oklahoma State tonight in a marquee Big 12 game. Forward P.J. Tucker, Texas' leading scorer and rebounder, indicated he could be facing academic issues that might affect his eligibility...
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Sports briefs 1/17/05
(Other Sports ~ 01/17/05)
Basketball...
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Abstinence-only policy won't work
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/17/05)
To the editor: Though ideology does not prevent pregnancy, several of our state legislators think it does. The most widely debunked campaign claiming to prevent teenage pregnancy is that which tells students that abstinence is the only option. Because it conforms to their ideology, some politicians -- from President Bush down the Republican line -- have decided to ignore the wealth of research demonstrating that this policy is a total failure. ...
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Speak Out 1/17/05
(Speak Out ~ 01/17/05)
Faith is what counts; Delivering the mail; Great extravaganza; Lights are helpful; Angel in disguise; School chauffeur; Grain trucks should stop; Diversity on board; Backed-up traffic; Alienating believers; Check it out; Require landscaping; American medicine; Civilized arguing; It's an oxymoron; One way north
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Alice Eby
(Obituary ~ 01/17/05)
NAPLES, Fla. -- Alice Marie Bird Eby, 90, passed away Friday, Jan. 14, 2005, in Naples. Prior to moving to Naples in 1999, she was a resident of Matthews, Mo. She was born Sept. 19, 1914, in Springfield, Ark., the daughter of the late Ernest Thomas and Myra Miller Bird...
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Reb. Robert Schumacher
(Obituary ~ 01/17/05)
The Rev. Robert "Father Bob" Schumacher, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005, at the Lutheran Home. Arrangements are incomplete at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel in Cape Girardeau.
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Sopha Shafer
(Obituary ~ 01/17/05)
Sopha A. Shafer, 82, of Jackson died Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005, at her home. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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Dana Schaechterle
(Obituary ~ 01/17/05)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Dana C. Schaechterle, 35, of Perryville died Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005, at the Perry Oaks Manor in Perryville. She was born Sept. 2, 1969, in Perryville, daughter of Sylvester and Betty Baer Hahn. She and Daniel Schaechterle were married Oct. 23, 1995, in Perryville...
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Betty Witt
(Obituary ~ 01/17/05)
Betty LaVerne Witt, 80, of Scott City died Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 25, 1924, daughter of Chester and Anna "Lorene" Hickman Short. She and Delmar Witt were married June 25, 1946, in St. Louis, Mo...
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A man, a dream
(Editorial ~ 01/17/05)
Today the nation honors a civil rights leader best known for his dream of a brighter tomorrow for his fellow African Americans. But Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned much more for this country than what we remember from his "I Have a Dream" speech...
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Out of the past 1/17/05
(Out of the Past ~ 01/17/05)
25 years ago: Jan. 17, 1980 Three daily nonstop flights from Cape Girardeau to St. Louis, Mo., will be added as of Feb. 1 by Air Illinois; the new schedule will give Cape Girardeau the only nonstop service to and from St. Louis. A group headed by Vernon H. Landgraf and Dr. Milton S. Shoss of Cape Girardeau, Stan Musial, former St. Louis Cardinal baseball star, and others has applied for a state charter to establish a new bank here; it would be called the Bank of Cape Girardeau...
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Morning-after pill gets second look
(National News ~ 01/17/05)
WASHINGTON -- The government is considering whether to make morning-after birth control available without a prescription, and like most issues that involve sex and pregnancy, it has generated heated debate. Fierce arguments have gone on inside and outside the Food and Drug Administration, which may decide as soon as this week whether drugstores can sell the emergency contraception known as Plan B without a prescription to women age 16 and older...
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Community Q&A 1/17/05
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
* Name: Floyd H. Lockhart III...
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Community digest 1/17/05
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
Town and Country FCE Club helps community; Scott County Genealogy Society to meet Tuesday; Future development meeting at Bollinger Mill; FCE plans St. Louis trip to see 'Mamma Mia'; Jackson band appreciated by American Legion; Get their motors running: Super Kids Race Day set; More Cape public library events for February; University's radio station plans Valentine dance
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Girl Scouts kick off cookie sales with party
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
More than 300 girls enjoyed a party Thursday at the Cape Girardeau Elks Lodge to kick off Friday's start of Girl Scout cookie sales. The Scouts tested the cookies, played games, cheered to promote spirit and made scrapbook pages to celebrate this year's theme, "Make Forever Memories."...
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Police reports 1/17/05
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/17/05)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWIs * Graham Kent Andrews, 25, of 1136 Sandstone St., A208, Vail, Colo., was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, speeding and not wearing a seat belt...
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Fire report 01/17/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/17/05)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following calls Saturday: * At 6:30 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1600 block of Bessie Street. * At 9:39 p.m., emergency medical service in the unit block of River City Crest Drive. Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday:...
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People on the move 01/17/05
(Business ~ 01/17/05)
Recent graduate joins Chiropractic Associates...
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Business memo 01/17/05
(Business ~ 01/17/05)
Westfield Group donates $1 million to Asia relief; Search begins for state's outstanding older worker; Local firm receives J.D. Power award
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Busy semester
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
Students at Southeast Missouri State University survived a cold move-in day Sunday. And as they settled into unpacking, cleaning and socializing, their thoughts quickly switched to surviving the spring semester, during which university officials will focus on long-awaited changes...
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Discovering new treasures
(Local News ~ 01/17/05)
Every three months, the Cape Girardeau Historic Preservation Commission selects buildings that embody important elements of the city's culture and history whose property owners have improved or maintained the structure in a manner that enhances or protects their architectural integrity. The commission's selections are distinguished by yard signs identifying the properties as "One of Cape's Original Treasures." Signs remain in the yard for three to four months...
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Baby 81: Nine mothers are claiming one baby
(International News ~ 01/17/05)
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka -- Jenita Jeyarajah believes Baby 81 is her son, the 3-month-old infant ripped from her arms by the tsunami. So do eight other mothers. "As days and weeks pass by, the trauma of not finding their children will drive many such parents to the extreme like the one we are seeing in Kalmunai," said Maleec Calyanaratne, spokeswoman for Save the Children in Sri Lanka. "But every effort should be made to ensure that the baby goes to the rightful mother."...
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Dads meet docs
(National News ~ 01/17/05)
CHICAGO -- Picture a parent anxiously checking a sick child's thermometer or hauling the children to the doctor's office and the image that usually comes to mind is of mom. But with rising numbers of stay-at-home dads, father-only households, shared-custody arrangements and other cultural changes, men are increasingly getting involved in their children's health care...
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With a billionaire's brush
(Business ~ 01/17/05)
SEATTLE Most children discard dreams of becoming an astronaut as fast as they abandon childhood toys. But when the child is Paul Allen, and he grows from geek with smudged eyeglasses to one of the richest men in the world, dreams can become reality...
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