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Breathing new life into an old profession
(Column ~ 03/15/06)
A lot of people believe Monday was a bellwether day for print journalism. Why? Because on Monday the second largest newspaper chain in the United States, Knight Ridder Inc., was sold. Its price tag shows what the financial world's best and brightest think the future holds for the inky bundle that plops daily on America's doorsteps...
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Southeast readies for substitute teachers program
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
They work in obscurity, seldom getting the attention of parents. They're lucky if students know their names. But school districts rely on them to keep classrooms going when the regular teachers are sick or away at education conferences. They're substitute teachers. Too few of them exist in the region, Southeast Missouri State University officials say...
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Bids to open next week on Jackson's East Main extension
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
Next week the city of Jackson will begin advertising for bids on a two-phase project to extend East Main Street to the future interchange off Interstate 55. Phase one of the $1.5 million extension project involves demolishing an existing house, clearing the land, excavating rock, inserting a water and sewer line and constructing a storm water detention basin...
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MoDOT: Jackson, Scott City projects could affect traffic flow
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
Westbound traffic along Highway 34/72 in Jackson will be reduced to one lane today as workers smooth the pavement. The project will close the passing lane of westbound Highway 34/72 from Route PP to Main Street, according to a news release from the Missouri Department of Transportation...
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Bloody, broken and suffering: 137 dogs rescued from Senath, Mo.
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
SENATH, Mo. -- Five years after 170 dogs were removed from a property in the Missouri Bootheel, the Humane Society of Missouri was back at the same location Tuesday rescuing another 137 dogs. Many of the animals were suffering from mange and bloody sores, some appeared to have broken bones, and most appeared to have had very little human contact or veterinary care, Humane Society officials said. One dog was found dead...
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Monmouth claims the right to play No. 1 seed Villanova
(Professional Sports ~ 03/15/06)
DAYTON, Ohio -- A hot shooter and an imposing center won over a neutral crowd and helped Monmouth finally measure up in the NCAA tournament. Chris Kenny set an opening-round record with six 3-pointers Tuesday night, and 7-foot-2 center John Bunch entertained the crowd with his bulk and blocks during a 71-49 victory over Hampton in the play-in game...
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GOP falling short of budget promises
(National News ~ 03/15/06)
WASHINGTON -- It's a busy, unhappy budget week on Capitol Hill. At a time when Republicans are eager to prove their mettle on spending restraint, their deeds are falling far short of their election-year promises. The House is poised to pad the deficit by passing $91 billion in debt-financed funding for the war in Iraq and for hurricane relief, while the Senate is working on a budget plan shorn of tax and spending cuts wanted by President Bush...
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Redbirds slip past Yankees
(Professional Sports ~ 03/15/06)
TAMPA, Fla. -- The New York Yankees were happy with Randy Johnson's outing and worried about Johnny Damon's shoulder. Johnson cruised through four efficient innings before tiring in the fifth, and New York lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 Tuesday...
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Afghanistan urges drug lords to invest their profits at home
(International News ~ 03/15/06)
LASHKARGAH, Afghani-stan -- Afghanistan will encourage its powerful drug lords to invest their illegally earned profits in the war-shattered country, according to the governor of the nation's top opium-growing region. The offer comes amid warnings of another bumper poppy crop that will fuel a booming narcotics trade, which already accounts for 35 percent of the impoverished country's income...
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Walter Lynn
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Walter Lee Lynn, 77, of Chaffee died Tuesday, March 14, 2006, at his home. He was born Sept. 27, 1928, at Randles, Mo., son of William Thomas and Lillie Mae Thompson Lynn. He and Louvena Frazier were married Nov. 11, 1947. Mr. Lynn had been a self-employed truck driver. He was a member of First Baptist Church, Masonic Lodge 615, and VFW Post 3127, all in Chaffee...
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McAlister, Summers receive OVC honors
(College Sports ~ 03/15/06)
After turning in a career performance, Southeast Missouri State senior right-hander Jamie McAlister has been named the Ohio Valley Conference pitcher of the week for baseball. McAlister struck out a career-high 11 and did not issue a walk during Friday's 5-1 win over South Dakota State. Working all nine innings, McAlister allowed five hits...
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Store offers post-mastectomy help
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/15/06)
To the editor: I am writing in reference to the recent article about the so-called new mastectomy office that opened up at Doctors Park. Whoever did the article should have put more work into it. The article stated that this new office was the only place between St. ...
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Paying for inmates' health care
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/15/06)
To the editor: I read your editorial concerning the county inmate health-care issue with some interest, but no one seems to be talking about a very important point. Many inmates are destitute, and so are their families. Since they are incarcerated, they cannot hold down a job...
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Pit-bull bill is bad legislation
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/15/06)
To the editor: To be useful, legislation must be effective, enforceable, economical and reasonably fair. A bill has been placed before the state legislature that would fail all of these tests. This legislation specifically targets pit bulls or any mixed-breed canine that displays characteristics of the pit bull...
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Out of the past 3/15/06
(Out of the Past ~ 03/15/06)
25 years ago: March 15, 1981 Members of a local air traffic controllers union begin informational picketing at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport after their contract with the Federal Aviation Administration expired at midnight Saturday; similar picketing by members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization begins at airports throughout the county...
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Sikeston seeks help on train traffic
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/15/06)
To the editor: For over a year, we have been aware of Union Pacific's proposal to increase train traffic through Sikeston. We don't know anyone in Sikeston who thinks this would be anything short of devastating for our future. A great deal of the conversation on this topic concluded that there was nothing that could be done...
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Speak Out 3/15/06
(Speak Out ~ 03/15/06)
Using control; Importing criminals; Advice to men; Do-it-yourself cleanup; Sick at work; Notifying parents; Far right's direction; Lame Duck; Old people too?; City taxi service; Death and mayhem; Breath of life; Give city a break; Messy streets; Look it up; Burning alternatives
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Club news 3/15/06
(Community News ~ 03/15/06)
American Legion Post 158; Lamplighters FCE; Oak Ridge FCE; Xi Nu Phi; Town & Country FCE; New McKendree UMW; Sedgewickville UMW
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Dr. Julia Heath
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
Dr. Julia Ann Heath, 48, of Marion, Ill., died Saturday, March 11, 2006, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She was born May 25, 1957, in Harriman, Tenn., daughter of Ed and Audrey Heath. She married Bruce Westcott. Heath was a graduate of the University of Tennessee and its School of Medicine. She won the Ellen Quinn Award for Excellence. She was a physician/psychiatrist at Marion Veterans Administration Medical Center...
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Helen Polk
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Helen Polk, 73, of Cairo died Sunday, March 12, 2006, at Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 4, 1933, in East Prairie, Mo., daughter of George and Sadie Lee Singleton Nance. She moved from Wolf Island to Cairo in 1981...
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Clarence Cobb
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
Clarence Cobb, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, March 14, 2006, in his doctor's office. Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Lillian Kuss
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
Lillian Agnes "Bobbie" Kuss, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, March 13, 2006, at the Lutheran Home. She was born June 17, 1912, in Paragould, Ark., daughter of William C. and Maude Mae Ferguson Downs. She and Joseph R. Kuss were married Nov. 3, 1929, at New Hamburg, Mo. He died Nov. 3, 1970...
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Thirman White
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
Thirman "Drake" White, 80, of Jackson passed away Monday, March 13, 2006, at the Monticello House in Jackson, where he had resided for the past week. He was born Jan. 13, 1926, in Randles, Mo., son of the late Harley L. and Vergie V. Skaggs White. He and Maxine Godwin Comer were married April 10, 1971, in Jackson...
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Allen Friedrich
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
Allen Friedrich, 47, of Jackson, Mo., died at Saint Francis Hospital Tuesday. Arrangements are incomplete at McComb's Funeral Home in Jackson.
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Taylor Warpole
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
Taylor Warpole, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, March 13, 2006, at his home. He was born Sept. 13, 1919, in Curve, Tenn., son of Payton and Daisy Holloway Warpole. He and Fern Schuschke were married March 2, 1963, in Las Vegas, Nev. Mr. Warpole was a veteran of World War II in the Pacific Theater, and served in the Army from March 12, 1941, to April 21, 1946...
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Digging for dinosaurs
(Editorial ~ 03/15/06)
Seventy million years ago and more, dinosaurs roamed the land we think of as home. A 6-by-10-foot hole near Glenallen, Mo., has turned up the jaw bone of a hadrosaur, Missouri's official dinosaur, along with two dinosaur hooves, prehistoric turtle shells and the only tyrannosaurus tooth ever found in the Midwest...
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Anna Durbin
(Obituary ~ 03/15/06)
ANNA, Ill. -- Anna Lee Durbin, 66, of Anna died Monday, March 13, 2006, at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, Ill. She was born Nov. 3, 1939, at Lick Creek, Ill., daughter of George and Lorene Thornton Barringer. She and Fred N. Durbin Jr. were married Dec. 17, 1960. He died Sept. 8, 1991...
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Sports briefs 3/15/06
(Other Sports ~ 03/15/06)
Baseball...
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Symphony concert postponed due to game
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
Southeast Missouri State University's Wind Symphony/Concert Band concert scheduled for Thursday has been postponed because of the NCAA women's basketball tournament, school officials said. Many of the student musicians in the Wind Symphony and Concert Band, along with bands director Barry Bernhardt, will be traveling Thursday to Denver, Colo. ...
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Police seek suspects responsible for break-ins
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
Earlier this week, several Cape Girardeau businesses were broken into, and two reported cash being stolen. Police believe the same person or group of people broke in sometime between when the businesses were closed Sunday and opened Monday morning, according to police spokesman Jason Selzer...
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Pancakes being served at Cape's Arena Building
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
The 68th annual Lions Club Pancake Day will be held today at the Arena Building in Cape Girardeau. Serving begins at 7 a.m. and ends at 7 p.m. Tickets are $3. Sausages are available for an additional $1.
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Jackson man wielded knife, cane in Cape fight, police say
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
A 61-year-old man was accused of attacking several people and threatening them with a knife Monday morning outside a Cape Girardeau restaurant. Dennis Cianfrone of Jackson was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, two counts of assault and resisting arrest, police spokesman Jason Selzer said...
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Israeli forces raid jail
(International News ~ 03/15/06)
JERICHO, West Bank -- Israeli troops using tanks, helicopters and bulldozers pounded a Palestinian-run prison in the West Bank on Tuesday to seize a Palestinian militant leader and his accomplices in the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister...
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Recycling corned beef into rueben casserole
(Column ~ 03/15/06)
With St. Patrick's Day on Friday, I have to get organized and plan my menu to serve my family. I am sure it will include traditional corned beef and cabbage, along with some green bread and some potatoes -- after all, what would an Irish meal be without potatoes?...
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Guilty plea entered in statutory rape case
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
A Jackson man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of second-degree statutory rape of a teenage girl. Daniel Phillips, 25, of 205 Jacquie Lane, entered his plea before Circuit Judge David A. Dolan in Mississippi County. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dropped two counts of child molestation, one count of first-degree statutory rape, eight counts of second-degree statutory rape and four counts of statutory sodomy, according to court records...
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Cape/Jackson police reports 3/15/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/15/06)
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Cape fire reports 3/15/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/15/06)
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Cape Girardeau man sentenced to five years for drug conviction
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
A second man arrested in a Cape Girardeau drug bust received a five year prison sentence Tuesday. Mississippi County Circuit Judge David A. Dolan handed down the sentence to Anthony R. Bell, 22, of 337 N. Ellis St., after the defendant entered a guilty plea to felony drug trafficking before, said Cape Girardeau Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle. The case was being held in Mississippi County following a change of venue motion...
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All-region high school basketball teams
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
Boys Class 5 First team Ben Hansbrough, 6-3, sr. Poplar Bluff Allan Spencer, 5-9, sr., Poplar Bluff Darnell Wilks, 6-8, jr., Central Aaron Redecker, 6-11, sr., Jackson Matt Usherwood, 6-3, sr., Farmington Honorable mention: David Deisher, 6-4, sr., Central; Ricky Taylor, 6-0, sr., Poplar Bluff; Hunter Grantham, 6-6, so., Jackson...
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Nation briefs 3/15/06
(National News ~ 03/15/06)
Shuttle launch pushed back from May to July CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA on Tuesday pushed back the launch of space shuttle Discovery from May until at least July because of a faulty fuel tank sensor. NASA said it needs the time to open up the spacecraft's hydrogen fuel tank and replace the sensor, which gave an electrical current reading that was slightly off. The space agency plans to replace the three other sensors in the tank, too, to be safe...
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Brees, Culpepper claimed; Owens, Johnson set free
(Professional Sports ~ 03/15/06)
Two star quarterbacks found new homes on Tuesday and two talented but troublesome receivers went on the open market. Daunte Culpepper landed in Miami and Drew Brees in New Orleans, a few hours before Terrell Owens was released by Philadelphia and Keyshawn Johnson was cut by Dallas. ...
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Surprising Koreans put U.S. back on the ropes
(Professional Sports ~ 03/15/06)
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The poor play of the United States was all too clear to Mark Teixeira. "We could have hit better, we could have fielded better, we could have pitched better," the first baseman said. "But they just beat us." The 7-3 loss to South Korea on Monday night left the Americans in precarious shape again at the World Baseball Classic. ...
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City workers' health coverage threatened by Cairo impasse
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Health insurance coverage for city employees remains in danger following another deadlock between the city council and Mayor Paul Farris over whether to borrow money to pay a past due bill. Council members refused again to vote on a proposal to borrow approximately $140,000 to pay off a debt to the Laborers Health and Welfare Fund. If the debt dating from 2004 isn't paid, city employees will lose their health coverage on March 31...
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Redhawks' obstacle: Southeast faces certified first-round challenge in Stanford
(College Sports ~ 03/15/06)
As far as historically strong women's basketball programs go, Stanford can match up with just about anybody. And the 2005-06 Cardinal have lived up to Stanford's glorious past entering Saturday's NCAA tournament game against upstart Southeast Missouri State...
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Advance gets nostalgic, revives school's final-four tradition
(High School Sports ~ 03/15/06)
Southeast Missouri boasts some of the most successful boys basketball programs in the state. Scott County Central holds the state record with 12 state titles, Charleston has won nine state titles, and Portageville won three straight in the early 90s and has four championships overall...
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Broadway project slowed by bumps in property acquisition
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
City property acquisition continues to be slow going along Broadway with city hall and property owners remaining far apart in some places. A court date of March 27 has been set for condemnation of a 27-foot stretch of property in front of Global Trading Food Products at 1304 Broadway...
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Stranded decor: Hippie-inspired decor brightens apartment living
(Column ~ 03/15/06)
The downfall of apartment living is always feeling sandwiched between someone else's walls. No matter how many times you look at your bare walls there's nothing most renters can do to change the typically eggshell-colored walls of a rental...
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Stories behind the science
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
The question hung like a wet blanket, heavy and mentally suffocating. "What was your research hypothesis?" Research hypothesis? Research hypothesis... In her mind, 13-year-old Caylee Wheeler ran through all the possible answers. Over the past five months, the Cape Christian School student prepared for this moment...
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Klose discusses future of NPR
(Local News ~ 03/15/06)
President and CEO of National Public Radio, Kevin Klose was in Cape Gir-ardeau Tuesday night to wish KRCU 90.9 FM a happy 15th anniversary as an NPR affiliate. Klose spoke about public radio's role as a news source and community creative avenue as well as the future of journalism...
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