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Two-vehicle accident causes injuries to three teenagers
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. -- Three teenagers were seriously injured Tuesday afternoon when their vehicle was struck by a truck near Sedgewickville. Two 16-year-old girls and an 18-year-old woman were traveling on county Route K in a 1999 Saturn when a 1989 Ford pickup truck failed to yield as it pulled from a private drive. The Saturn struck the truck, which slid off the roadway and hit a tree, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol...
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Cape Girardeau man faces drug charge
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
A man whose alleged drug deal spurred an armed robbery and murder in Cape Girardeau was charged for the deal Tuesday. David W. McKee Jr., 19, 510 S. Frederick St., was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute...
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Newcomer wins Perry Co. commissioner race
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- A former UPS driver beat out two seasoned politicians and another candidate to win Perry County's presiding commissioner seat. Carl "Topper" Leuckel won the post vacated by retiring Presiding Commissioner Thomas Sutterer by nearly 600 votes. He beat out lawyer and former Perryville mayor Kim R. Moore and former state representative and current 1st District Commissioner Patrick A. Naeger, all Republicans...
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Hambacker wins Democratic primary in race for Congress
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
Veronica Hambacker won Tuesday's three-way Democratic primary for the 8th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to unofficial results from the Missouri secretary of state's office, Hambacker, of Salem, Mo., took the Democratic nomination with about 40 percent of the votes...
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Federal courthouse building 60 percent done
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
The view from a window on the fourth floor of the new federal courthouse impressed U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson enough to take a second glance. As Emerson gazed out the window that provides a view of the bridge dedicated to her late husband, Bill Emerson, she had one thing to say -- "spectacular."...
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Meadow Heights bond issue passing
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
PATTON, Mo. -- Voters in the rural Meadow Heights School District appeared Tuesday to have approved a $1.5 million bond issue to upgrade the school complex. Technical problems delayed vote counting in Bollinger County. With most of the votes counted late Tuesday night, the bond issue was passing 434 to 182...
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Newcomer to be clerk; incumbent wins presiding commissioner race
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
A political newcomer upset a 20-year fixture on the area political scene Tuesday to win the Republican nomination for Cape Girardeau County clerk. Kara Clark, a Cape Girardeau native who returned home two years ago to help care for her ill father, easily won her first election by defeating Jackson Mayor Paul Sander. Clark received 62 percent of the vote to Sander's 38 percent, winning 4,901 to 3,016...
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Dredging possible near Cape boat ramp
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
Rep. Jo Ann Emerson toured Cape Girardeau's downtown floodwall with city leaders, representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and concerned citizens Tuesday. But many boating enthusiasts attending the tour were not interested in the floodwall...
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Oran council votes to keep police chief during residents' vigil
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
ORAN, Mo. -- About 75 residents of Oran met for a candlelight vigil and community meeting in front of city hall at dusk Tuesday. Those involved said the aim of the meeting was to heal a community divided over the town's chief of police, Marc Tragesser...
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Water safe for customers, cafe owner says
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
Corner Store and Cafe owner Cindy Robbins wants to assure customers her business' water is safe to drink. The Burfordville business on Highway 34 is on a list of 37 public drinking water systems in the state that failed to comply with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources testing requirements...
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Portion of county courthouse ceiling collapses
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
A huge slab of plaster collapsed in the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse Tuesday afternoon, narrowly missing county public works director Don McQuay. The collapse, in the offices of the associate circuit court clerks, was preceded by reports of sounds coming from above the drop ceilings. McQuay was in the office shortly after it closed, attempting to call Associate Circuit Judge Gary Kamp, when he heard a ripping sound of the plaster giving way...
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Stoddard County prosecutor to look at Bell City school issue
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
The Stoddard County prosecutor will review a state investigative report regarding the Bell City School District's actions that led to illegally obtaining state aid. Stoddard County prosecutor Briney Welborn said Tuesday that ultimately he may forward the matter to the Missouri attorney general's office...
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West Nile virus found in mosquitoes
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
Cape Girardeau County officials have confirmed West Nile virus in two samples of mosquitoes. The samples collected in different traps in Cape Girardeau July 24 tested positive for the virus, according to Dr. Christina Frazier. Frazier, a Southeast Missouri State University biology professor, works with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on the mosquito trapping program for the state...
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Reds get even with Cardinals
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
CINCINNATI -- Back at ya! Ryan Freel got three hits and made a down-and-dirty catch on the warning track that inspired a capacity crowd and helped the Cincinnati Reds roll to a 10-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night. After losing the series opener 13-1, second-place Cincinnati emphatically evened its series with the NL Central leaders, moving to 3 1/2 games back. The Reds matched their season high with 17 hits -- the same number that St. Louis had in the opener...
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Sales tax passes by 131 votes
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
Cape Girardeau County voters narrowly approved a proposed half-cent sales tax Tuesday in an election that had all three county commissioners eagerly awaiting returns from every precinct. All three commissioners and Sheriff John Jordan, who together led the public relations campaign for the tax, agreed Proposition 1 would have lost heavily if the vote had taken place three weeks ago...
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Nebraska introduces Sadler as men's basketball coach
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska is pinning its hopes for a move up in Big 12 men's basketball on Texas-El Paso's Doc Sadler. Sadler was being introduced as the Cornhuskers' head coach at a Tuesday news conference, exactly one week after Barry Collier resigned to become athletics director at Butler University...
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U.S. edges Brazil 90-86 after pair of blowouts
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
GUANGZHOU, China -- After a pair of big blowouts, the U.S. finally got some competition. The Americans also got a reality check: facing the world's best basketball teams without Carmelo Anthony is far from an easy task. Anthony scored 16 first-half points before being forced out with a knee injury, and the United States hung on for a 90-86 victory over Brazil on Tuesday night...
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Solution at last?
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
ST. LOUIS -- Will Witherspoon is the latest to go into the Bermuda Triangle that is the middle linebacker position for the St. Louis Rams. Since London Fletcher left for Buffalo after the 2001 season, several players have tried, and mostly failed, at the position in St. Louis. First Jamie Duncan, then Robert Thomas and Chris Claiborne and others like Brandon Chillar stepped up but ultimately did not get the job done...
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GOP primary for state auditor a tight race
(National News ~ 08/09/06)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Buchanan County Auditor Susan Montee cruised to victory in the Democratic state auditor's primary Tuesday while Republicans awaited the outcome of a tight three-way race in their primary. Montee had 69 percent of the vote in her contest against Columbia accountant Darrell Wattenbarger, with 58 percent of statewide precincts reporting results...
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Horman upsets Mann; Burger fends off Pinkerton
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
BENTON, Mo. -- Scott City resident Cindy Gray went to the polls early Tuesday afternoon primarily for one reason. "I basically came out to vote for judge," Gray said. Danny Brown of Scott City was there for the same reason. In fact, he had little interest in the race for the county's presiding commissioner seat at all...
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High court rules for Planned Parenthood in funding dispute
(State News ~ 08/09/06)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Planned Parenthood affiliates won a roughly $900,000 victory Tuesday as the Missouri Supreme Court ruled they did not have to repay family planning funds received against the will of the legislature. The 4-3 ruling capped a legal dispute that has lasted most of the past decade as pro-life lawmakers struggled to try to prevent state grants for family planning and other women's health services from going to affiliates of abortion providers...
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Nation/world digest 08/09/06
(National News ~ 08/09/06)
Sugary drinks are piling on pounds, report says Americans have sipped and slurped their way to fatness by drinking far more soda and other sugary drinks over the last four decades, a new scientific review concludes. An extra can of soda a day can pile on 15 pounds in a single year, and the "weight of evidence" strongly suggests that this sort of increased consumption is a key reason that more people have gained weight, the researchers say. ...
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Feeling the heat
(Editorial ~ 08/09/06)
For most of the history of the world, heat was a fact of life. Cavemen and cavewomen made do in the summer just the way billions of people in underdeveloped countries still do: They sweated, they fanned themselves, they sought shade. Heat made beaches popular...
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Speak Out 8/9/06
(Speak Out ~ 08/09/06)
Exxon expose; Mixed media message; Economic push; Spend on kids; Not from prison; Turn off AC; Prefer isolation; Sales-tax math; Tax savings help; On the carpet; List grows longer
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Out of the past 8/9/06
(Out of the Past ~ 08/09/06)
25 years ago: Aug. 9, 1981 The Rev. Kevin P. Popp was ordained and installed as a Lutheran pastor earlier this month at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Concordia, Mo.; Popp is the son of Kenneth Popp of Pocahontas and the late Verna Popp. The Rev. Paul H. Jilg, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau, presents his farewell sermon in each of the worship services held this weekend; Jilg has accepted a call to serve Grace Lutheran Church in Little Rock, Ark...
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Lester Bippus
(Obituary ~ 08/09/06)
Lester H. Bippus, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, at Missouri Veterans Home. He was born Feb. 22, 1921, in Chicot County, Ark., son of Otto Franklin and Vera Poole Bippus. He and Frieda James were married Oct. 2, 1942, in Cape Girardeau at First Church of God. She died in August 1974. He later married Lillian Vanover in 1975 in Butler, Ind. She died in August 1984...
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Mona Hill
(Obituary ~ 08/09/06)
Mona A. Hill, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Aug. 7, 2006, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Jessie Silver
(Obituary ~ 08/09/06)
PATTON, Mo. -- Jessie Mae Silver, 100, of Topeka, Kan., formerly of Patton, died Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004. She was born Dec. 8, 1903, at Sedgewickville, Mo., daughter of Edward G. and Mary M. Fadler Johnson. She first married Carlos W. McKinney, then later married Charles J. Silver...
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Hilda Zoellner
(Obituary ~ 08/09/06)
Hilda R. Zoellner, 86, of Longtown, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 27, 1919, in Hildebrand, Mo., daughter of William and Lydia Pohlman Clements. She and Raymond R. Zoellner were married on Nov. 26, 1936. He died April 2, 2001...
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Helen Stoner
(Obituary ~ 08/09/06)
ANNA, Ill. -- Helen Louise Stoner, 99, of Anna died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, at Union County Hospital. She was born March 24, 1907, in Anna, daughter of Dee and Laura Shepard Brimm. She and George E. Stoner were married Sept. 29, 1926, in Jonesboro, Ill. He died July 19, 1982...
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Minnie Coleman
(Obituary ~ 08/09/06)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Minnie Coleman, 79, of Jonesboro died Monday, Aug. 7, 2006, at Jonesboro Rehab and Healthcare Center. She was born Jan. 5, 1927, in Chicago. She is survived by friends at the rehab center. Graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. today at Anna Cemetery, with the Rev. Clifford Heil officiating...
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Club news 8/9/06
(Community News ~ 08/09/06)
Zonta Club...
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Dr. Leonard Edmisten
(Obituary ~ 08/09/06)
Dr. Leonard Martin Edmisten, 87, of Anderson, Mo., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, July 10, 2006, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo. He was born June 11, 1919, in Anderson, son of Oliver and Alda Edmisten. He and Effie Alice Layson were married Dec. 9, 1940...
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Tyler Manjarrez
(Obituary ~ 08/09/06)
Tyler Blake Pini Manjarrez, 20, of Salem, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006, in an automobile accident in Salem. Survivors include his father and stepmother, Mark and Pam Manjarrez of Salem; his mother, Jimberly Manjarrez-Kroenung of Naples, Fla.; two brothers, Hunter Kroenung of Naples, Fla., John Howell of Salem; two sisters, Jessica and Jennifer Manjarrez of Salem; grandparents, Marteen Manjarrez of Salem, Janet Hill-Barnhart and Carrol Barnhart of Cape Girardeau; two stepbrothers, Jeremy Clark of Rolla, Mo., and Wesley Reed of Salem.. ...
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County sales tax, Fulbright set to win by wide margins in Bollinger County
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- With all but three precincts reporting, Bollinger County voters appeared to overwhelmingly support a countywide sales-tax increase as well as a deputy recorder of deeds to run to replace her retiring predecessor. Technical problems with the vote tabulators pushed the finals late into the evening, but with 10 of 13 precincts reporting and absentee ballots counted, the eighth-cent tax increase -- which would generate $70,000 a year for the Tri-City Senior Citizens Nutrition Center -- was all but assured victory with 1,023 voters saying yes and 541 casting no votes.. ...
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Missouri Supreme Court sides with cities in dispute over phone taxes
(State News ~ 08/09/06)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A state law changing the way local governments tax telephone services was tossed out Tuesday barely five weeks after it took effect. The Missouri Supreme Court sided with several cities in their challenge to a new law adjusting tax rates on telephone service and invalidating cities' lawsuits against various phone companies...
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Jackson brothers arrested after passing vehicle is hit by gunfire
(Local News ~ 08/09/06)
Jackson's first shooting in several years broke a window of a moving vehicle, but no one was injured. Cody A. Reid, 17, and his brother, Lonnie D. Reid, 18, both of 4847 Old Cape Road in Jackson, were arrested in connection to the early Tuesday morning shooting...
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Election briefs 8/9/06
(National News ~ 08/09/06)
Sen. Lieberman loses Connecticut primary Three-term Sen. Joe Lieberman fell to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic primary Tuesday, a race seen as a harbinger of sentiment over a conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 U.S. ...
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Cape police reports 8/9/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/09/06)
Cape Girardeau...
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Try these 1950s vintage recipes
(Column ~ 08/09/06)
Last week a volunteer at the Cape Girardeau Senior Center came into the office with a cookbook in her hand and said "Happy Birthday" as she handed it to me. I was so excited to receive a 1959 copy of the "Praise for the Cook" cookbook, published by the Procter & Gamble Co., promoting their Crisco product. It is a fun cookbook with interesting chapters like savory sauces, feeding the crowd, cookery for men and a great section on junior cookery. I have really enjoyed reading it...
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Area sports digest 8/9/06
(Community Sports ~ 08/09/06)
BBQ to benefit several Southeast programs The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team, women's tennis team and men's and women's track teams will receive a donation for the majority of sales at a barbecue fundraiser Aug. 17 through 19 at the Country Mart in Jackson...
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How the mighty have fallen
(Column ~ 08/09/06)
The list of athletes busted for doping seems to grow by the day. It's now reached the point where watching Sports Center reminds me of the high school biology lectures I used to sleep through. Maybe I'm alone, but I never dreamed I'd learn as much as I have about the inner workings and secretions of my favorite ballplayers. ...
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Salt: The only rock we eat
(Column ~ 08/09/06)
On April 5, 1930, after marching nearly a month over 240 miles of dusty roads in blazing heat, he arrived at the sea at Dandi and walked up the beach to where the sun's baking rays had produced a thick salt crust. Bending down, he picked up a chunk and boiled it in seawater...
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Goodell chosen to replace Tagliabue
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
NORTHBROOK, Ill. -- Roger Goodell was chosen as the NFL's next commissioner Tuesday, succeeding the man who groomed him for the job, Paul Tagliabue. The 47-year-old Goodell, the favorite for the job for months, worked his way from a public relations intern to perhaps the most powerful job in American sports. He was unanimously elected by the league's 32 owners on the fifth ballot, and will serve a five-year contract...
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Blues sign former Red Wings goalie
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Blues signed free-agent goaltender Manny Legace to a one-year contract Tuesday, setting up a likely battle for the starting job. Terms of the deal were not released. Legace, who spent the last six seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, is expected to compete with Curtis Sanford to be the No. 1 goalie in St. Louis...
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Judge: Fantasy baseball leagues entitled to stats
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
ST. LOUIS -- Statistics generated for fantasy baseball leagues are fair game in the public domain, not the intellectual property of Major League Baseball, a St. Louis judge ruled Tuesday. St. Louis-based CBC Distribution and Marketing Inc. filed the lawsuit against MLB after CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association for the rights to player profiles and statistics...
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Pollution, traffic top concerns for Beijing 2 years before Games
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
BEIJING -- Two years to the day before the 2008 Beijing Olympics are set to begin, organizers heralded a smooth construction program and shared concerns about potential traffic and pollution problems. Construction on 12 new Olympic venues and renovation of nine sites is expected to be completed by the end of 2007, said Wang Wei, executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games...
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Tiger may reach Snead's record before Nicklaus' major record
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
It was the one time Tiger Woods could be accused of setting the bar too low. He is three weeks away from the 10-year anniversary of his pro debut -- "Hello, world," he said on Aug. 27, 1996, in Milwaukee -- when his only goal was to earn his PGA Tour card without having to go through qualifying school...
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Saxony puts soccer on menu; Woodland adds cross country
(High School Sports ~ 08/09/06)
The official start of the 2006-2007 high school sports year began Monday with the opening day of fall practices. For two area teams, Monday marked the first official practice in program history. Woodland and Saxony Lutheran will each introduce new sports programs this fall...
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Martin is unsolved mystery at Jets camp
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- These days, Curtis Martin seems more like a ghost than a running back. The No. 4 all-time leading rusher has been squirreled away inside the Jets complex rehabbing his right knee, making it a mystery when he will play again. Even teammates sound spooked when asked about how their teammate is doing...
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Tiger running backs will see more carries
(Professional Sports ~ 08/09/06)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- With quarterback Brad Smith gone, Missouri running backs Tony Temple and Marcus Woods know they'll carry a much larger load this season. And that suits them just fine. Smith graduated after setting school records for career total yards (13,088) and rushing yards (4,289). His expected replacement at quarterback, Chase Daniel, will focus more on the pass and leave most of the running to Temple and Woods, along with several inexperienced backs vying for playing time...
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