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Cape school board discusses building plans
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
The Cape Girardeau school board Wednesday embarked on a comprehensive facilities planning process that will identify where and when to alter buildings or construct new schools. The board also voted to seek buyers for the Schultz campus at 101 S. Pacific St., and named an architect for a 12,000 square-foot expansion of the Career and Technology Center...
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Scott County courthouse renovations nearly complete
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
BENTON, Mo. -- Renovations at the Scott County courthouse and courthouse grounds are entering their final stages. All that is left on the project is to finish a drainage system for the courthouse lawn, to sod areas of the lawn and finish the renovation of the war memorial in front of the courthouse, commissioner Jamie Burger said Wednesday...
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Cape official: More warning sirens needed
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
The devastation caused to Southeast Missouri towns by tornados demonstrates the need to install a complete warning siren system in Cape Girardeau, an emergency officials says. To date, only about a quarter of the city is in earshot of the four warning sirens, Cape Girardeau fire assistant chief Mark Hasheider said...
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Notre Dame achieves national honor -- again
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
When Brother David Migliorino spoke to the 489 students at Notre Dame Regional High School on Wednesday, they reacted in ways that normally would have gotten them a trip to the his office. "They were jumping out their seats and screaming," Migliorino said. "It was crazy."...
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River Campus starting point for DREAM
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
Broadway, the riverfront and the area immediately surrounding the River Campus will be the focus of development efforts for Cape Girardeau' s DREAM initiative, architects of the proposal said Wednesday. Cape Girardeau is one of 10 communities statewide that will share $300,000 set aside to pay planners to develop local proposals into working plans, Missouri Department of Economic Development director Greg Steinhoff said. ...
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Area schools to celebrate Science Day
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
High school students will make clouds in water bottles. Eighth-graders will construct devices in an effort to protect dropped eggs from cracking. Those are just two of the activities planned at schools across the region to celebrate Science Day on Tuesday...
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Lending a helping hand
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
CROSSTOWN, Mo. -- Clearing debris and mending the destruction caused by an F4 tornado takes a village of extra hands and motivated movers. That's what 127 students from Saxony Lutheran High School in Jackson learned Wednesday when they spent the day in Crosstown helping residents dig out...
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Ethanol's benefits continue to increase
(Column ~ 09/28/06)
By Gary D. Marshall Michael Devaney's opinion piece in the Sept. 20 Southeast Missourian is way off base on so many levels. First, only one researcher has ever found ethanol to be a net energy loss: Dr. David Pimentel, whose research has been widely discredited by fellow academics and government officials at the U.S. ...
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Speak Out 9/28/06
(Speak Out ~ 09/28/06)
Listen to him; Still in the building; Heads in the sand; Misguided thinking; Let parents decide; Full credentials; Selling, not eating; Drainage concerns; Wall of Fame
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Community cuisine 9/28/06
(Community News ~ 09/28/06)
Harvest Festival planned at Reagan's Chapel; Chicken and dumplings dinner in the works
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Loel Lowes
(Obituary ~ 09/28/06)
Loel E. "Cotton" Lowes, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, at The Lutheran Home. He was born Sept. 23, 1927, in Cape Girardeau, son of Charles and Helen Norvell Lowes. He and Dorothy Brinkman were married June 1, 1946, in Cape Girardeau. They had been married 60 years...
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Carolyn Showmaker
(Obituary ~ 09/28/06)
PULASKI, Ill. -- Carolyn Wallace Showmaker, 64, of Pulaski died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, at her home. She was born Feb. 17, 1942, at Pulaski, daughter of Antone F. and Ellie Mayfield Wallace. She married Alvin R. Showmaker, who died Oct. 26, 2005. The Showmakers were managers of Terrell's IGA Store in Union City, Tenn., 15 years. They also owned and operated Pulaski Food Mart and Pulaski Video Store 23 years. She was a member of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Pulaski...
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House OKs terrorism detainee bill; Senate nearing approval
(National News ~ 09/28/06)
WASHINGTON -- The House approved legislation Wednesday giving the Bush administration authority to interrogate and prosecute terrorism detainees, moving President Bush to the edge of a pre-election victory with a key piece of his anti-terror plan. The mostly party-line 253-168 vote in the Republican-run House prompted bitter charges afterward by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., that opposition Democrats were coddling terrorists, perhaps foreshadowing campaign attack ads to come. ...
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Bush urges Asian anti-terror allies to cooperate
(National News ~ 09/28/06)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush appealed to the bickering presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday to put aside their differences and "strategize together" over dinner on ways to defeat the common enemy of terrorism. Standing between Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Bush emphasized "the need to cooperate, to make sure that people have got a hopeful future" in both countries...
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La Russa stays positive during slide
(Professional Sports ~ 09/28/06)
ST. LOUIS -- Tony La Russa has never taken losses well, quickly lashing out at the slightest provocation during postgame news conferences. But the St. Louis Cardinals' manager has been taking a decidedly different, positive-thinking tack during a September swoon that is threatening to become one of baseball's most spectacular collapses. ...
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Eighth-inning homer ends Cards' losing streak at seven
(Professional Sports ~ 09/28/06)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals count on Albert Pujols for big hits. His latest blast might have saved their season. Pujols' go-ahead three-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning was the difference in St. Louis' 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night, ending a seven-game losing streak during which the Cardinals' National League Central lead shriveled to 1 1/2 games...
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Mary Lou Winchester
(Obituary ~ 09/28/06)
On Sept. 24, 2006, Mary Lou Shell Winchester passed from this earthly life to eternal peace. Throughout her life, Mary Lou has been a source of strength, patience and goodness to all that knew and loved her. The examples she set for family and friends will always be remembered...
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Louretta Giltz
(Obituary ~ 09/28/06)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Louretta Burke Giltz, age 92, died at 5:20 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006, at her residence in Charleston. She was born Sept. 27, 1914, in Blodgett, Mo., to the late Emmett Taylor and Lena Burks Burke. She had lived in Charleston most of her life, playing high school basketball as a Blue Jay...
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Our winners
(Editorial ~ 09/28/06)
To be recognized for excellence by one's peers is among the highest accolades anyone can receive. For the Southeast Missourian, 2006 has been a year of special recognition both on the state and national levels. n The Missouri Press Foundation, an arm of the Missouri Press Association, named the Southeast Missourian the best newspaper in its class for overall general excellence...
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Phyllis Riney
(Obituary ~ 09/28/06)
Phyllis C. Riney, 57, of Jackson died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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Out of the past 9/28/06
(Out of the Past ~ 09/28/06)
25 years ago: Sept. 28, 1981 The number two man in the Cape Girardeau Police Department, Capt. Donald R. Roberts, will become the interim chief of the department effective Thursday, it is announced at a special meeting of the city council; Roberts, who has been a police officer here since February 1955, will be the temporary replacement of retiring Chief Henry H. Gerecke...
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MedAssets builds lead in Division 2
(Community Sports ~ 09/28/06)
The MedAssets entry used a big second-week push to close in on the Corporate Games Division 2 championship in the annual athletic competition for area companies. MedAssets placed first in bowling, poker and relay races earlier this week and opened a 90-point gap on Yellow Book in the overall standings heading into Wednesday's events...
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Billie Greer
(Obituary ~ 09/28/06)
Billie Jean Greer, 71, of Los Angeles died Friday, Sept. 15, 2006, at Mission Community Hospital in Panorama City, Calif. He was born Oct. 27, 1934, in Cape Girardeau, son of Webster C. and Leathea Mary Wilkinson-Doss Greer. Greer retired as a senior electronic technician with the space science industry in Southern California...
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Grampa Woo weekend excursions canceled
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
The Grampa Woo excursion yacht's cruises scheduled for the Cape Girardeau area on Friday and Saturday have been canceled. Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau director Chuck Martin said the cancellation is due to the lack of availability of the docking platform usually supplied by a private company for the yacht's Cape Girardeau cruises...
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The painful pain relief confusion
(Column ~ 09/28/06)
Editor's note: This column was originally published Jan. 27, 2005. Interesting, isn't it, how our "drug of choice" changes with the years. These days (if you are of a "certain age") we are more concerned about medicating our aches and pains than ... say ... birth control...
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Health briefs 9/28/06
(Community ~ 09/28/06)
Briefly The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Gateway Area Chapter, will sponsor a six-week course to help address fatigue in MS. Locally, the event will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 and run through Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the Saint Francis Health and Wellness Center -- Fitness Plus, 150 S. Mount Auburn Rd. The cost is $15 per person, which covers program materials and dinner at the final class. You must register to attend by calling (800) 344-4867...
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2 injured in shooting
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
Two men were shot Wednesday afternoon in a Cape Girardeau neighborhood some residents claim to be riddled with crime. Police responded to a call of shots fired near Good Hope and Hanover streets at 4:45 p.m., police Sgt. Barry Hovis said. Two men, ages 22 and 28, suffered gunshot wounds and were taken separately in private vehicles to local hospitals...
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Being and being marriedness
(Column ~ 09/28/06)
Sept. 28, 2006 Dear David, DC and I had our 13th wedding anniversary earlier this week. She had to work until 9 that night, so we didn't shake, rattle and roll much. Gifts and cards were exchanged, and we made plans to really celebrate soon...
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Cape Girardeau County Commission agenda 9/28/06
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
9 a.m. today Cape Girardeau County Administration Building, 1 Barton Square in Jackson Routine business Action items Discussion items and appointments...
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Three men arrested for allegedly stealing tools
(Local News ~ 09/28/06)
BENTON, Mo. -- Three Sikeston, Mo., men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stealing tools and a four-wheeler from Beggs Farm. Casey D. Burton, 17; Andrew C. Gardner, 19; and Joseph R. Foster, 18, were all charged with burglary and stealing in the Monday heist near Blodgett, Mo., according to a news release from the Scott County Sheriff's Department. All three defendants had bond set at $20,000...
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Cape Girardeau Boys and Girls Club plans science day
(Community News ~ 09/28/06)
The Cape Girardeau Boys and Girls Club will hold "Science Day" beginning at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at their 232 Broadway location. Hands-on experiments will include floating eggs, exploding soda and dancing raisins. Snacks will be available afterward. Interested youth should call the CBGBC at 335-7141 or just show up...
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Cape/Jackson police reports 9/28/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/28/06)
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Cape fire reports 9/28/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/28/06)
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Freda Clark
(Obituary ~ 09/28/06)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Freda M. Clark, 83, of Jonesboro died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 26, 1922, at Painton, Mo., daughter of Thomas and Hattie Welch Patterson. She and Robert Clark were married Jan. 2, 1946, in Cape Girardeau...
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Lois Reeves
(Obituary ~ 09/28/06)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Lois E. Reeves, 87, of Sikeston died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Oct. 28, 1918, in the Dogwood community of Mississippi County, daughter of James E. and Myrtle Bell Hurley Evans. A resident of the Charleston area most of her life, she moved to Sikeston a number of years ago. She was a retired licensed practical nurse. She had attended Elm Street Baptist Church in Charleston...
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Family reunion: Southeast senior Jones figures to have sizeable following Saturday
(College Sports ~ 09/28/06)
Edgar Jones figures to have his own cheering section Saturday when Southeast Missouri State hosts Samford. Jones, a native of Rayville, La., expects nearly 50 relatives and friends from his hometown to be on hand for the 6 p.m. Family Weekend game at Houck Stadium...
- Corrections 9/28/06 (Community Sports ~ 09/28/06)
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Area running results
(Community Sports ~ 09/28/06)
City of Roses 5K Results from Sunday's 5-kilometer run at the City of Roses event, which also included a half marathon. Overall Men -- 1, Arthur Waddle, 16:57. Women -- 1, Mindy Pruitt, 24:12. Age groups top five Women 14 and under -- 1, Lessley Dennington, 25:29; 2, Alyssa Gutwein, 26:05; 3, Shannon Ledbetter, 26:25...
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Kyle Busch's title hope running on empty after just two races in Chase
(Professional Sports ~ 09/28/06)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- No matter what happens the rest of the season, Kyle Busch always will have New York. And that's probably it. Unless things change quickly for the young driver, two trips to the Big Apple are all he'll take with him from his first appearance in the Chase for the championship. His title hopes essentially ended two laps into the 10-race hunt for the Nextel Cup title when he crashed with Jeff Green in New Hampshire...
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Rain stops Jackson, Central from deciding winner in scoreless game
(High School Sports ~ 09/28/06)
The Tigers' Nichols and the Indians' Wade each had pitched a shutout in a contest stopped in the eighth inning. The Central and Jackson softball teams were engaged in quite a pitcher's duel -- until the rain came. A thunderstorm put an end to the scoreless game at Central after the top of the eighth inning. It is not known whether the schools will attempt to continue the contest at a later date...
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Much ado about Owens
(Professional Sports ~ 09/28/06)
DALLAS -- Terrell Owens has been stirring things up for years, from edgy touchdown celebrations to mean-spirited comments about his quarterbacks and cries of being underpaid. Yet the drama was always about football, never matters of life or death. Then came news late Tuesday that Owens was taken in an ambulance to an emergency room. Details from the police report that came out Wednesday morning included words like suicide, overdose and depression...
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Holloman may miss Saturday's game
(College Sports ~ 09/28/06)
Sophomore tailback Tim Holloman, Southeast Missouri State's leading rusher, appears to be questionable for Saturday's home game against Samford. Holloman suffered an ankle injury during the Sept. 16 loss at Jacksonville State. He has not practiced this week, although he was at Houck Stadium for Wednesday's workout, testing the ankle during a variety of running and sprinting drills...
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Concussion lands offensive tackle Pace on questionable list
(Professional Sports ~ 09/28/06)
ST. LOUIS -- Orlando Pace made a rapid return from a concussion to the St. Louis Rams' lineup last week. But the seven-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle was extremely limited in practice due to post-concussion syndrome on Wednesday and will again be listed as questionable for this week. Coach Scott Linehan said it'll be a day-to-day proposition this week and probably for many weeks to come...
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Redhawks' annual fall World Series starts Friday
(College Sports ~ 09/28/06)
The start of the Southeast Missouri State baseball season is still more than four months away, but fans will be able to get an early look at the Redhawks seven times over the next several weeks. Southeast begins its annual Steak & Beans World Series at 6 p.m. Friday at Capaha Field. The seven-game intrasquad series is part of the Redhawks' fall workouts...
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Migraine pain: Coping with chronic headaches gets complicated by other disorders
(Community ~ 09/28/06)
The National Headache Foundation recently conducted an online survey asking sufferers about their experiences with migraines coupled with other disorders. The survey found that 54 percent of people affected by migraines also suffer depression; 34 percent complain of anxiety disorder; 20 percent have chronic fatigue; and 17 percent are bothered by asthma...
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