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Corwin passes DeSmet to Missouri Class 6 title
(Professional Sports ~ 11/26/05)
ST. LOUIS -- Tommy Corwin threw for 482 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a touchdown to lead DeSmet to a 48-31 win over Hazelwood Central in the Missouri Class 6 state championship on Friday. The championship is the first in school history for DeSmet (11-2), which had 635 total yards...
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Blues' problems continue in 5-3 loss to Wild
(Professional Sports ~ 11/26/05)
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild have been working in practice on completing the two-line passes that NHL rules now allow. On Friday, it paid off. The Wild scored a pair of goals via long lead passes that split the St. Louis Blues defense, as Minnesota rallied with three third-periods goals to win 5-3...
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Pace misses second consecutive practice
(Professional Sports ~ 11/26/05)
ST. LOUIS -- Orlando Pace missed practice for the second straight day Friday with a hamstring injury, but the six-time Pro Bowl player was optimistic that he wouldn't miss any playing time. "I feel good," Pace said. "We'll see what happens. Once the soreness goes down, hopefully I'll be ready to go."...
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Cyber Monday
(Local News ~ 11/26/05)
The biggest holiday shopping weekend started Friday with "Black Friday," but doesn't end until "Cyber Monday," a day when 43 percent of online retailers plan to offer special promotions and discounts, according to a recent Shop.org survey conducted by BIGresearch...
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Safer fund raising
(Editorial ~ 11/26/05)
In Jackson, a familiar sight for motorists is smiling adults -- or sometimes children -- coming up to vehicles at busy intersections asking for donations for a fund-raiser. These activities have been successful enough that more and more organizations have chosen to take to the streets to raise money for good causes...
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Salvation Army talks about the mission
(Community News ~ 11/26/05)
'Tis the season for Salvation Army bells, which means that Maj. George Hood's telephone has started ringing. People want to know how many dollars are coming in and where they are going and why. Hood is the man with the numbers, since he is the Salvation Army's community-relations officer. In the past year, about 3.5 million Army volunteers and about 70,000 employees have helped more than 34 million needy people...
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Religion briefs 11/26/05
(Community News ~ 11/26/05)
Tuesday; Wednesday
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Giving thanks is good medicine
(Column ~ 11/26/05)
In October 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated their first harvest with feasting, games and prayer. The celebration served to boost the morale of the 50 remaining colonists and to impress their allies. Although the event of 1621 is known today as the first Thanksgiving, that harvest feast had many secular elements and would not have been considered a religious day of thanksgiving by the Pilgrims. ...
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Sports briefs 11/26/05
(Other Sports ~ 11/26/05)
Football; Horse racing
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Out of the past 11/26/05
(Out of the Past ~ 11/26/05)
25 years ago: Nov. 26, 1980 MOUNDS, Ill. -- The Meridian Unit 101 School District plans to begin moving its elementary school operation into its new elementary complex during the Christmas holiday break; the new grade school facilities are on a 40-acre site adjacent to the present high school...
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Bush administration on the offensive
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/26/05)
To the editor; The Bush administration, in response to the president's plummeting approval rating, has gone on the offensive. Administration officials have lashed out at critics in a vain attempt to justify the war in Iraq and restore the president's credibility. ...
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Bridge money still going to Alaska
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/26/05)
To the editor: Your news article stated that Congress removed two Alaska bridge projects worth $452.5 million from its spending bill. Actually, Congress removed the earmarked designations. The money is still going to Alaska. Here in Ketchikan, the politicians are still pushing to have a useless bridge, one that the majority of us do not favor, built...
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Fire destroys home near Cape late Friday
(Local News ~ 11/26/05)
A house near Cape Girardeau was destroyed by fire late Friday night. Firefighters responded to the home of Larraine and Brad Brown at 209 Hilldale Drive at about 9:30 p.m., shortly after Larraine Brown returned home and found smoke billowing from the roof of her single-story home...
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Illinois squeaks past Wichita State
(Professional Sports ~ 11/26/05)
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -- Warren Carter's layup as time expired gave No. 15 Illinois a 55-54 win over Wichita State on Friday in the semifinals of the South Padre Island Invitational. Carter, who was open near the basket, scored the last of his eight points after receiving an inbounds pass from Rich McBride with 2 seconds remaining. It was Illinois' second lead of the second half, after James Augustine's jumper with 4:41 left briefly put Illinois ahead 51-50...
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Busch auction brings in more than expected
(Professional Sports ~ 11/26/05)
ST. LOUIS -- From Albert Pujols' locker to a players' urinal, Cardinals fans spent nearly $1 million to purchase memorabilia from Busch Stadium through an online auction. The auction conducted through Lelands.com and Major League Baseball Advanced Media closed Wednesday. Lelands spokesman Doug Drotman said Friday that more than 380 items of Cardinals and Busch memorabilia generated $889,000, well above the $500,000 to $600,000 the auction house estimated. An estimated 6,000 bids were received...
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Speak Out 11/26/05
(Speak Out ~ 11/26/05)
Exploited issue; Both are patriots; Important holidays; Polling numbers; It's not the same; In their shoes
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Helen Davis
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
Helen E. Davis, 95, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 22, 1910, in Egypt Mills, daughter of William and Nora Lueders Hengst. She and F.H. "Buck" Davis were married on Nov. 9, 1935, in Egypt Mills. He passed away Jan. 22, 1994...
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Becky Smith
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Becky Smith, 26, of Tamms died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005, in an automobile accident south of Anna, Ill. Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, with the Rev. Danny Jones officiating. Burial will be in McCrite Cemetery...
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Samuel Foutch
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
THEBES, Ill. -- Samuel E. "Eddie" Foutch, 78, of Thebes died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Friends may callfrom 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, Ill. The funeral will be at 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Larry Buckles officiating. A private burial will be held later in Rose Hill Cemetery at Thebes...
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Russell Kullberg
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
Russell Gordon Kullberg, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 4, 1922, in Flint, Mich., son of Gustav and Helga Hillman Kullberg. He and Mary E. Whitney were married on March 3, 1946, in Flint...
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Elizabeth Manus
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
BUNCOMBE, Ill. -- Elizabeth "Bet" Manus, 89, of Buncombe died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005, at the Southgate Health Care Center in Metropolis, Ill. She was born Sept. 4, 1917, at Cobden, Ill., daughter of John and Lydia Treece Haire. She and Raymond E. Manus were married May 23, 1937, at Buncombe. He died May 25, 2000...
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William Glastetter
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
William Gerard "Billy" Glastetter, 43, of Scott City died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005, at his home. He was born Sept. 9, 1962, son of William J. and Bertha A. Backfisch Glastetter. He was a janitor at Thorngate. He was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso, Mo., the Knights of Columbus Council 6420 in Scott City and 4th Degree St. Joseph Assembly 2283 in Scott City...
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Billy Brown
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
ANNA, Ill. -- Billy J. Brown, 77, of Anna died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Ill. He was born on Feb. 25, 1928, in Dongola, Ill., son of Albert and Mae Johnson Brown. He and Corinne Durrett were married June 28, 1947. He graduated from Dongola High School. He worked as a salesman and bookkeeper at Karraker Chevrolet in Dongola and worked for the Illinois Department of Agriculture. He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Korean War...
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Dale Reeves
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
KELSO, Mo. -- Dale Vincent Reeves, 82, of Kelso died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born on July 13, 1923 in Illmo,son of Luther Lelander and Martha Marie Davis Reeves. He and Marie D. LeGrand were married July 3, 1948 in Kelso. She died April 27, 2004...
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Macie Dunn
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Macie Dunn, 87, of Advance died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 27, 1918, in Lake County, Tenn., daughter of Maud and Isabell Barber Andrews. She and Walter Dunn were married Nov. 9, 1940, at Caruthersville, Mo...
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Elizabeth Kaufman
(Obituary ~ 11/26/05)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- Elizabeth J. Kaufman, infant daughter of Allen and Christy Kaufman of St. Charles, died Friday, Nov. 11, 2005, at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, Mo. She was born Nov. 11, 2005. Survivors include her mother and father; and two grandmothers, Mary McIntosh of Benton, Mo., and Joan Kaufman of Sullivan, Mo...
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Deep discounts result in crowds, skirmishes at stores nationwide
(National News ~ 11/26/05)
NEW YORK -- The pre-dawn sales frenzy is over -- and now the tally begins. Steep discounts and expanded hours drew hordes to the nation's malls in what merchants hope are signs consumer spending will be lively for the holidays. More people jammed the stores early, according to early reports, and more than a few testy shoppers scuffled in a rush to grab bargains, from notebook computers to cashmere sweaters...
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Correction
(Other Sports ~ 11/26/05)
The weight class Cody Rouse won last season at the Missouri Wrestling Championships was incorrectly stated in a cutline in Friday's edition. Rouse won the 152-pound division in Class 4. The Southeast Missourian regrets the error.
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Redhawks lose a classic
(College Sports ~ 11/26/05)
Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team dug itself one hole after another Friday night against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at the Show Me Center. While the Redhawks (1-2) were able to extricate themselves from quite a few of those holes, in the end, the Panthers came out on top 90-87 in double overtime at the Healthpoint Plaza Thanksgiving Classic...
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Road win boosts Southeast spirits; Nebraska looms
(College Sports ~ 11/26/05)
LINCOLN, Neb. -- It's amazing how much a victory to begin a road trip does for a basketball team's mental outlook. Southeast Missouri State's Redhawks are a perfect example. The Redhawks were somewhat reeling after Monday night's surprising home loss to IPFW, and they couldn't have been feeling all that good when they boarded a bus outside the Show Me Center a little past 5 a.m. on Wednesday...
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Priests take stem-cell campaign
to pulpits
(State News ~ 11/26/05)
ST. LOUIS -- Missouri Roman Catholics who attend Mass Sunday can expect to hear a homily against embryonic stem-cell research and a statewide petition drive aimed at allowing Missourians to vote on a constitutional amendment to protect the research...
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Black Friday: The 'hunting season' begins with bargains, madness
(Local News ~ 11/26/05)
Jennifer Yarbro and her family were ready when Black Friday came around this year. The family spent much the previous day, Thanksgiving, preparing for their multipronged attack on Cape Girardeau's stores. Yarbro's assignment, along with her 13-year-old cousin-in-law Rebecca Quick, was to infiltrate Kohl's in the department store's first Black Friday in Cape Girardeau...
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Blaze destroys house near Cape
(Local News ~ 11/26/05)
A house near Cape Girardeau was destroyed by fire late Friday night. Firefighters responded to the home of Larraine and Brad Brown at 209 Hillvale Drive at about 9:30 p.m., shortly after Larraine Brown returned home and found smoke billowing from the roof of her single-story home...
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A chance to escape drives some to enlist
(State News ~ 11/26/05)
SEDALIA, Mo. -- Sgt. Jay Key stands in the middle of the car lot, beside a salesman, among the neat rows of polished Mitsubishis. He isn't looking to buy. This is just one in a series of stops to make his face familiar and his mission clear. Key is an Army recruiter, charged with selling the service even as war rages and a death toll mounts, standing shoulder to shoulder with a man who need only trumpet the likes of a clutchless shift and aluminum rims...
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Man with wagon suspected of stealing metal, selling material back to scrap yard
(Local News ~ 11/26/05)
Business owner Bill Hartle suspects he has bought back his own stolen property. Specifically from a man in his late 50s who pulls a little red wagon around Cape Girardeau. Hartle, who doesn't know the man's name, said he is a regular customer at Top Metal Recycling at 624 S. Kingshighway Drive. About twice a week, he carts in aluminum cans, copper wiring and scrap aluminum...
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Longtime advocate for prison reform dies at 85
(State News ~ 11/26/05)
ST. LOUIS -- Ann Carter Stith found good in everyone, even in her work on behalf of prisoners. "I never met a really evil person in all my visits to prisons," Stith, a longtime advocate for prison reform, education and clean government, told the Ethical Society of St. Louis in 2000, when she was named Humanist of the Year. "There was always a humanity there."...
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Jackson High School puts modern spin on Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
(Local News ~ 11/26/05)
A play at Jackson High School will set the precedent for future student productions. On Friday and Saturday, "A Christmas Carol" will become the first student-directed play in recent years, with a cast and crew of nearly 50 students and not one teacher involved...
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Missouri deer season ends with two accidental hunter deaths
(State News ~ 11/26/05)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Department of Conservation said two hunters died this season from gunshots, and eight others were wounded. Both fatalities were being investigated as incidents in which other hunters mistakenly fired at what they thought were deer, said Bryan Bethel, the department's hunter education and unmanned shooting range coordinator...
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Asthmatic child, lonely senior need help this holiday
(Community News ~ 11/26/05)
Joey, 9 and Karen, 11 would especially enjoy Santa to bring a video game they could play on their TV. Karen has been hospitalized for asthma and a game like this would be useful during the time she's sick and can't engage in active play. Brightening Christmas day for these children would be easy with basic games, dolls, books or clothes suitable for their ages as they are homeless...
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Police reports 11/26/05
(Police/Fire Report ~ 11/26/05)
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Pageants and plays... cantatas and caroling
(Community News ~ 11/26/05)
It's their busiest time of the year. Not toy stores or shopping malls -- churches. Beginning this week, local churches have near-weekly Christmas-related events planned, many of them targeting the community in general. There are pageants and plays, choir concerts and cookie walks...
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