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Officials eye federal funds for floodwall
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
The downtown floodwall needs more than $9 million in repair work, and local officials are eyeing plans for a new pedestrian walkway and floodgate at Independence Street. These improvements are set to move forward once federal funding is secured. "I am committed to educating my colleagues and finding support for completion of the floodwall construction," said Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau...
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Bikers form support group for child abuse victims
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
Burly, hairy, tattooed and tough they may be, but they've got heart. Some local motorcyclists have recently started up a Cape Girardeau-area chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse, an international, not-for-profit organization of motorcyclists who support children who have been abused...
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Jackson teenager hurt in accident on Sunday
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
A Jackson teenager suffered moderate injuries after an early morning accident Sunday in Stoddard County. Kevin L. Greer, 17, was taken by ambulance to Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau after the vehicle he was driving ran off the roadway, struck an embankment and overturned...
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Seeds of redemption
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Darrell Porter toils away in a field each weekday. He tills soil, plants seeds, cuts grass, pulls weeds, harvests vegetables and picks fruit. But Porter isn't a farmer. He is a prisoner at Southeast Correctional Center...
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Veteran wins Spirit of America Award
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
If Neal Edwards could put a price on the amount of time he spent volunteering, it probably wouldn't come near to topping the more than $1 million he's raised for various causes during his life. Edwards spends countless hours of his time at the Missouri Veterans Home. In between serving on committees for the annual Veterans Home Flag Day Golf Tournament -- which he founded in 1997 -- and the Veterans Home Foundation Board, Edwards manages to visit the more than 100 residents living at the home...
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Local businesses contend with SEMO's summer break
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
Mike Risch watches it happen every summer. When the university students leave town, they take some of his profits with them. "June and July are two of our slower months, and it's just been that way historically," said Risch, who co-owns Mollie's Cafe and Bar in downtown Cape Girardeau. "It's emblematic of the impact the university has on our business. It's profound."...
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Bollinger County man stabbed
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
ZALMA, Mo. -- A man was stabbed and seriously injured this morning during a possible drug deal gone bad in Bollinger County. The accused assailant was arrested at his Zalma, Mo., home following the 5 a.m. attack, according to Bollinger County Sheriff's chief deputy Leo McElrath. No charges had been filed as of this afternoon...
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New supply store will honor first responders
(Column ~ 07/03/06)
As paramedics, Robert and Tami Kiefer have an intimate understanding of what it means to be on the front lines of emergency response. So when Robert Kiefer told me last week his new business would honor those who work as policemen, firemen and paramedics, it didn't feel forced or phony...
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Trumpeting its technology, China sends first trains to Tibet
(International News ~ 07/03/06)
ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS, China -- A $4 billion high-altitude train climbed past melon fields and herds of sheep Sunday on its way from Beijing to Tibet -- a new element in China's much-criticized push to bind its booming east to the Himalayan "roof of the world."...
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GPS system to track Ill. sex offenders
(State News ~ 07/03/06)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The state is expanding a program that uses global positioning system technology to monitor convicted sex offenders. The Illinois Department of Corrections has operated a GPS monitoring pilot program since July 2005 that can accommodate up to 250 high-risk sex offenders...
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Scaled-back Fair St. Louis gets mixed reviews
(State News ~ 07/03/06)
ST. LOUIS -- Bernice Deardueff thought something was missing this weekend from Fair St. Louis, the riverfront Fourth of July festival where her family traditionally gathers. "There's hardly anybody here," the 78-year-old Ferguson resident said. Indeed, crowds were sparse at the Gateway Arch and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on Saturday, the first day of a scaled-back, two-day Fair St. Louis...
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Hincapie ends first weekend with yellow jersey
(Professional Sports ~ 07/03/06)
STRASBOURG, France -- He can sprint, climb mountains and excel at time trials. And, thanks to some wily riding, he has the Tour de France's famed yellow jersey after the opening weekend. Judging from his early form, George Hincapie is emerging as a serious contender to succeed his one-time boss, Lance Armstrong...
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Weight signs multiyear deal to return to St. Louis
(Professional Sports ~ 07/03/06)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Blues signed free agent center Doug Weight to a multiyear contract, the club announced Sunday. "We are bringing back a player that loves the city of St. Louis and the Blues organization," Blues president John Davidson said in a news release Sunday. "He's a Stanley Cup winner and will be a key part of this team moving forward."...
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Military news 7/3/06
(Community News ~ 07/03/06)
Ayers graduates from basic combat training...
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Elder Care resident chosen queen of pageant
(Community News ~ 07/03/06)
Beulah Francis was a success at her first pageant. The 94-year-old resident of Elder Care of Marble Hill, Mo., was crowned queen at the 2006 Ms. Nursing Home Pageant, held at Plaza Conference Center in Cape Girardeau. She was one of eight contestants from area nursing homes...
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Americans are overweight, but they do read food labels
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
WASHINGTON -- Oh, the irony. A nation full of overweight people is also full of label readers. Nearly 80 percent of Americans insist they check the labels on food at the grocery store. Yet even when the label practically screams, "Don't do it!" people drop the package into the cart anyway. At least that is what 44 percent of people admitted in a recent AP-Ipsos poll...
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Attack on base kills 2 British soldiers in Afghanistan
(International News ~ 07/03/06)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- An insurgent attack on a British base killed two soldiers and an Afghan interpreter, military officials said Sunday, while at least 20 militants died during clashes and coalition airstrikes. A U.S. helicopter crashed in an accident in southern Afghanistan, killing one crew member, the U.S. military said...
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Business memo 07/02/06
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
Robinson Construction awarded contract Robinson Construction Co. of Perryville, Mo., has been awarded a $5,515,800 contract from the city of Searcy, Ark., to make improvements to the city's wastewater treatment plant. This is the second phase of the project. Robinson was also awarded phase one of the project, which was completed in September 2005...
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UN chief in Sudan says Darfur peace deal on brink of collapse
(International News ~ 07/03/06)
CAIRO, Egypt-- The head of the United Nations mission in Sudan said on his personal blog that the Darfur peace agreement "does not resonate with the people" and is in danger of collapse. But Jan Pronk also wrote last week that the pact was still salvageable if revisions were made, calling it "a good text, an honest compromise." And he urged its quick implementation, saying, "it meets more and more resistance" as time passes...
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Fireworks injuries on the rise
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
CHICAGO -- Backyard use of fireworks and related injuries are increasing nationwide, according to industry and government data, and researchers say thousands of children each year are among the victims. From 1990 to 2003, roughly 85,800 U.S. children under age 19 were treated in emergency rooms for burns and other injuries from firecrackers, bottle rockets and even sparklers, according to a study prepared for release today in July's issue of the journal Pediatrics. ...
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Saddam's wife, daughter put on Iraq's most wanted list
(International News ~ 07/03/06)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein's wife and eldest daughter are among 41 people on the Iraqi government's most wanted list, along with the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, a top official announced Sunday. National security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie also said the former al-Qaida boss, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had been buried secretly in Baghdad despite his family's demand that the body be returned to Jordan. Al-Zarqawi died June 7 from a U.S. airstrike northeast of Baghdad...
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Frequent flier programs stray from original intent
(Business ~ 07/03/06)
ATLANTA -- Mark Erickson is the kind of flier that airlines love. Every Monday, he leaves for New York or California for his job as a master chef for the Culinary Institute of America. He returns to Atlanta on Friday night and does it all again two days later...
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A penniless America
(Business ~ 07/03/06)
PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- In this village settled by thrifty Pilgrims, you can still buy penny candy for a penny, but tourist Alan Ferguson doubts he'll be able to dig any 1-cent pieces out of his pockets. He rarely carries pennies because "they take up a lot of room for how much value they have." Instead, like so many other Americans, he dumps his pennies into a bucket back home in Sarasota, Fla...
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Kennedy wins title with record performance
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/06)
Jill Kennedy won two more national championships this weekend at the U.S. Paralympics Track and Field National Championships in Atlanta, Ga., and she set a world record in the process. Kennedy, a Zalma native now living in Charlottesville, Va., topped her own world record in the discus for the F40 classification on Friday. Kennedy, who competes in the dwarf-only class, posted a mark of 63 feet, 3.8 inches, to win the title. Her previous mark was 63 feet, 1 inch...
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After decades of business, Brinkopfs close pet store
(Business ~ 07/03/06)
For Ramona Brinkopf, the words Sunny Hill have been a big part of her life. When she married her husband, Bill, in 1964, he was already running the Sunny Hill Feed and Seed. Later, she and her husband ran it together as it became the Sunny Hill Garden and Pet Center and finally just a pet store...
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Independence Day
(Editorial ~ 07/03/06)
While most Americans enjoy a day of fireworks, picnics and relaxation on Tuesday, thousands of others will be vigilantly pursuing the goal of restoring stability to war-torn areas of the world. The freedom most of us will enjoy is a bequest from all those who have valiantly answered our nation's call to duty in times of strife. To them we owe our special thanks, especially on a day like the Fourth of July...
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Out of the past 7/3/06
(Out of the Past ~ 07/03/06)
25 years ago: July 3, 1981 Another phase in the development of a master plan for Cape Girardeau's west side was entered this week with the purchase by Drury Development Co. of the 133-acre Siemers farms at the southwest corner of the Interstate 55 and Route K intersection; a company spokesman said the farm will be incorporated into the overall master plan for continued west end growth...
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Births 7/3/06
(Births ~ 07/03/06)
Essner; Chiles; Kunz; Faulkner; Grayhek; Wendel; Jannin; Rodewald; McCrackin
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Gifted students need attention, too
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/03/06)
To the editor: We have excellent laws to make sure no child is left behind. Our system of education makes sure everyone desiring a diploma will get it. There are provisions for those who are mentally handicapped, slow learners or learning disabled. It would be great if the same provisions and funding were also made available to our gifted students. ...
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Opposed to cloning, not research
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/03/06)
To the editor: I must respond to Will Richardson's recent letter. He refers to "falsehoods and scare tactics being the weapons of choice for the misguided opponents" to the Missouri Stem Cell Initiative. He states that the initiative is about "preserving the lives of thousands of sick or disabled Missourians." Here are some facts he chooses to ignore...
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Citizens have ultimate control
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/03/06)
To the editor: While I certainly disagree with the new sign ordinance and find it ironic that campaign signs are exempt, it should be noted that the residents of Cape Girardeau have allowed this to happen by not being more active in the political process. ...
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W.H. McMullen
(Obituary ~ 07/03/06)
W.H. "Mac" McMullen, 87, of Marble Hill, Mo., died Sunday, July 2, 2006, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 23, 1918, in Olive Hill, Tenn., son of William Henry and Sadie Baugus McMullen. He and Etta Mae Barks were married on May 24, 1958. She died on May 28, 2001...
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Speak Out 7/3/06
(Speak Out ~ 07/03/06)
Dropout drain; Jackson schools; Bad behavior; Parking-lot safety; Great fun; Trail repairs; Good emcee; Thanks to mentors; Time to talk; Capital comparison; Moving on; Flood plain woes; Partial answer; Special rights
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Danny Upchurch
(Obituary ~ 07/03/06)
Danny R. Upchurch, 59, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, July 1, 2006, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 9, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, son of John P. and Sybil E. Gallant Upchurch. He and Kathy Hale were married on September 6, 1986, in Cape Girardeau...
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Joe Heisserer
(Obituary ~ 07/03/06)
Joe P. Heisserer, 89, of New Hamburg, died Sunday, July 2, 2006, at his residence in New Hamburg. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.
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Violet Propst
(Obituary ~ 07/03/06)
Violet H. Propst, 90, of Jackson, passed away Sunday, July 2, 2006, at the Monticello House in Jackson. She was born April 18, 1916, in Sedgewickville, Mo., daughter of Dr. Edward and Myrtle Drum Crites. She and Loman Seabaugh were married on June 6, 1936. He passed away Aug. 7, 1941. She and Dale Propst were married on March 14, 1948. He passed away March 17, 1996...
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Polls show Mexico's presidential election too close to call
(International News ~ 07/03/06)
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's presidential election was too close to call Sunday with voters bitterly divided between a leftist offering himself as a savior to the poor and a conservative warning his rival's free-spending proposals threaten the economy...
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Cape police reports 7/3/06
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWIs Arrests Assaults Theft Property damage Miscellaneous...
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Cape fire reports 7/3/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/03/06)
Cape Girardeau...
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Study: Restricting teen drivers can reduce fatalities for 16-year-olds
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
WASHINGTON -- Laws that set numerous strict conditions before teenagers can get a license can reduce fatal crashes involving 16-year-old drivers by about one-fifth, public health researchers say. Examples include a waiting period before a young driver is eligible to move from a learner's permit to an intermediate license, restrictions on driving at night, required hours of supervision by an adult driver and limits on the number of passengers a teenage driver can have...
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Community briefs 7/3/06
(Community News ~ 07/03/06)
Glenn House open for tours Tuesday The Glenn House will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. This historic building is at 325 R S. Spanish St., Cape Girardeau. Call 334-1177 for more information. A catered, noon meal is scheduled for Saturday at St. John's United Church, west of Fruitland. For more information, call 243-5522 or 335-6878...
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Two Lions Club members receive foundation's highest honor at meeting
(Community News ~ 07/03/06)
The Wednesday noon meeting at Cape Girardeau Elks Lodge is routine for Cape Girardeau Noon Lions Club members Roberts Williams and Freck Shivelbine, both of Cape Girardeau. The noon club was chartered 86 years ago and they have been attending for 56 and 52 years, respectively. Even though programs, locations and faces have changed over the years, what remains constant is the fellowship...
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Trial starting in coed's abduction-slaying that changed laws in two states
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
FARGO, N.D. -- The abduction of 22-year-old Dru Sjodin from a shopping center parking lot and the discovery of her body five months later, after an emotional search, has led to major revisions of sex offender laws in two states and to North Dakota's first federal death penalty case...
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N.Y. Times editor: Banking story was not news to terrorists
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
NEW YORK -- Published reports that the U.S. was monitoring international banking transactions were not news to the terrorists who were its target because the Bush administration had already "talked openly" about the effort, The New York Times' top editor said Sunday...
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Coming home: Disabled vets to compete in wheelchair games
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- After a roadside bomb exploded under his 5-ton truck in Iraq, Tyler Hall remembers an Army buddy asking if he was alive. "I said, 'Of course I'm alive. Do you think I would die that easy?"' the former Army sergeant said. The 25-year-old Hall will join hundreds of other disabled athletes starting today at the 26th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, the largest annual wheelchair sports event in the world. The six-day games will be held at various sites around Anchorage...
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Nation briefs 7/3/06
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
Weather forces second delay for shuttle; Woman wrestles grenade from man
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Bolivians vote for national assembly to rewrite country's constitution
(International News ~ 07/03/06)
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Bolivians voted Sunday for a national assembly to retool the constitution, a key step in President Evo Morales' plans to cement his leftist reforms and give more power to the Andean nation's Indian majority. Voters also decided whether to grant more fiscal and political autonomy to Bolivia's nine states -- an issue that has exacerbated long-standing tensions between the country's wealthier eastern lowlands and its poorer highlands...
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Steady violence shifting into 'low-intensity' war in Sri Lanka
(International News ~ 07/03/06)
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka -- Gunfire echoes nearly every night across the lagoon that rings this fishing town. Bodies turn up nearly every day in the jungles beyond, some riddled with bullets, others bound and gagged with a single shot to the head. A year ago they called it a "Shadow War." Not anymore...
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Americans read food labels but are still overweight
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
WASHINGTON -- Oh, the irony. A nation full of overweight people is also full of label readers. Nearly 80 percent of Americans insist they check the labels on food at the grocery store. They scan the little charts like careful dieters, looking for no-nos such as fat and calories and sugars. Yet even when the label practically screams, "Don't do it!" people drop the package into the cart anyway. At least that is what 44 percent of people admitted in a recent AP-Ipsos poll...
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A big day for Pujols
(Professional Sports ~ 07/03/06)
ST. LOUIS -- Jason Marquis was ready to pitch as long as he needed to go to snap his personal two-game losing streak. Albert Pujols hit a three-run homer and Marquis pitched seven innings to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 9-7 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday...
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Area golf digest 7/3/06
(Community Sports ~ 07/03/06)
Bent Creek announces first half champions The team of Keith Quade, Bill King, Carl Knott, Don Henley, Rob Trankler, Craig Pecaut, Bob Meterra and Rick Pecaut captured the first-half championship in the men's golf league at Bent Creek Golf Course. The team of Donnie Chester, Chris Connelly, Jeff Appleman, Todd Koch, Richie Phillips, Chris Garland, Kenny Jones and Doug Koch placed second; and the team of Dave Sides, Jeff Ernst, Curt Buchheit, Chuck Bradford, Chuck Williams, Mike Johnson and Mike Umfleet placed third.. ...
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Wimbledon woes could be signal of lean years ahead
(Professional Sports ~ 07/03/06)
WIMBLEDON, England -- Everyone knew this was coming. Andre Agassi has played his last match at Wimbledon, and his final hurrah will come in a few months at the U.S. Open. Pete Sampras hung up his racket years ago, and Jim Courier and Michael Chang are long gone, too. Major champions all...
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Beckham gives up captain's role for England
(Professional Sports ~ 07/03/06)
David Beckham quit as England captain Sunday, the morning after his team went out in the World Cup quarterfinals on penalties to Portugal. A tearful Beckham, wearing a suit and tie, read a statement to a crowded news conference at England's training camp...
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Sorenstam, Hurst will lock horns for crown
(Professional Sports ~ 07/03/06)
NEWPORT, R.I. -- The birdie putt played a dirty trick on Annika Sorenstam, raising her hopes that 10 years of frustration in the U.S. Women's Open was about to end. Tied for the lead with Pat Hurst on the final hole of a marathon Sunday, she took two quick strides to her right as the 30-foot putt tracked toward the hole, her eyes wide as the ball dipped into the cup ever so slightly, then dipped out just as suddenly...
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Henry uses home-state advantage for first PGA Tour win
(Professional Sports ~ 07/03/06)
J.J. Henry shot a 3-under 67 for a victory at the Buick Championship in Cromwell, Conn., by three strokes, becoming the first Connecticut player to win the 55-year-old tournament. It was Henry's first PGA Tour win. The victory also clinched Henry a spot in his first British Open and moved him to sixth in Ryder Cup points...
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Extreme measures: 11 cousins give up stomachs to avoid hereditary form of cancer
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
LOS ANGELES -- Mike Slabaugh doesn't have a stomach. Neither do his 10 cousins. Growing up, they watched helplessly as a rare hereditary stomach cancer killed their grandmother and some of their parents, aunts and uncles. Determined to outsmart the cancer, they turned to genetic testing. Upon learning they had inherited grandmother Golda Bradfield's flawed gene, these were their options:...
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Weighty words: Experts debate whether children should be called obese
(National News ~ 07/03/06)
CHICAGO -- Is it OK for doctors and parents to tell children and teens they're fat? That seems to be at the heart of a debate over whether to replace the fuzzy language favored by the U.S. government with the painful truth -- telling children if they're obese or overweight...
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Program to put more Missouri products on grocers' shelves
(State News ~ 07/03/06)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A new program is seeking to put more products made in Missouri on grocery store shelves. State officials are working with the Missouri Grocers Association and grocery chain RCPS Inc. on the Missouri-Made effort. "Many Missouri products can't get to the shelf. It is too costly," said John Morrison, director of the Missouri Grocers Association. "We're trying to do it with a more effective and efficient manner."...
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Immigrants and ag money mix together in Senate race
(State News ~ 07/03/06)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- As a candidate for governor two years ago, Democrat Claire McCaskill met personally with executives of mega hog producer Premium Standard Farms Inc. to seek money for her campaign. She was rewarded with the maximum contribution...
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Pujols garners more than 3.4 million votes from fans
(Professional Sports ~ 07/03/06)
NEW YORK -- St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols was the leading vote-getter among fans for the All-Star Game, the rosters for which were released Sunday. Pujols was chosen on more than 3.4 million ballots and will make his third start in the classic, which this year is scheduled for July 11 in Pittsburgh...
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Fourth of July schedule
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
No paper Tuesday...
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People on the move 07/02/06
(Local News ~ 07/03/06)
Mary Kay future executive senior sales director Jana Jateff of Cape Girardeau recently honored her top quarterly performers at a dinner in Sikeston, Mo. Those honored for top sales for the quarter were: Jateff, Rebecca Creel of Cape Girardeau, Lisa Bollinger of Jackson, Katie Eggimann of Advance, Mo., Amy Romack and Sarah Dodson of Cape Girardeau, and Tina Tidwell Ashby of Scott City. Performers and their spouses joined other Mary Kay achievers in the area for a dinner and night of recognition...
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Movie critic Roger Ebert admitted to hospital
(State News ~ 07/03/06)
CHICAGO -- Film critic Roger Ebert, who has battled cancer in recent years, was in serious but stable condition Sunday following an emergency operation to repair complications from a previous cancer surgery. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper -- co-host of the "Ebert and Roeper" movie review show -- told the paper that Ebert's vital signs appeared to be good after the hours-long operation...
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