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Pratt, Tilley picked for Mo. House leadership positions
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- House Republicans have picked lawmakers from suburban Kansas City and rural eastern Missouri to take over a couple of top leadership positions. Rep. Bryan Pratt, R-Blue Springs, was nominated Tuesday night by fellow Republicans to become the next House speaker pro tem, the second-ranking position behind House Speaker Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill...
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Keys resigns from Scott City police
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
Former Chaffee police chief Martin Keys resigned a position he had accepted on the Scott City Police Department after only one week of work, Scott City Police Chief Don Cobb said Wednesday. "He didn't want to be a distraction to the department," Cobb said of Keys. "He appreciated the chance that we gave him, but felt like it's a little too soon."...
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Joplin police dog dies after being shot in chase
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- A police dog who was shot in the head while chasing a robbery suspect has died, police said. Cezar, a 7-year-old German Shepherd, was released by Officer Gabe Allen after a 22-year-old Joplin man fled a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant after a suspected robbery...
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St. Louis Art Museum pays $10 million for Degas work AP Photo
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A work by French artist Edgar Degas is the latest addition to the St. Louis Art Museum -- and one of the most expensive. "The Milliners," painted sometime around 1898, went on view Wednesday in the impressionist galleries at the museum in Forest Park...
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Missouri prosecutor won't pursue gun case against Bill Maas
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
PLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Prosecutors have decided not to pursue state charges against one-time NFL player and former Fox Sports broadcaster Bill Maas for allegedly trying to board a plane with a loaded handgun. Platte County prosecutor Eric Zahnd said Wednesday that his office will not file state charges against the former Chiefs' nose tackle because of a loophole in state law...
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Judge: Voters can decide whether 7 KC schools leave district
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Jackson County Circuit Court judge says it will be up to voters to decide whether seven schools in the Kansas City School District become part of the Independence district. If Judge W. Stephen Nixon's ruling stands, the vote will come during a Nov. 6 election...
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Blunt switches directors at labor department
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Gov. Matt Blunt has switched directors for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Blunt on Wednesday appointed labor director Rod Chapel to a six-year term on the Administrative Hearing Commission, which decides disputes between state agencies and businesses or individuals using a trial-type legal process...
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Police make arrest in connection with weekend robbery
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
Police continue to investigate a pair of robberies that occurred Sunday and Monday evenings, and have made an arrest in connection with one of them. Daunte J. Smith, 28, of Lilbourn, Mo., was arrested Monday night in connection with an armed robbery that took place earlier in the evening at Sprigg and Bertling streets...
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Panel: Politicians may be violating state law
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
The Missouri Ethics Commission decided Tuesday to notify politicians that they may be in violation of state law for receiving money in excess of the state's recently reinstated campaign contribution laws. But the method by which the commission made its decision has raised questions about whether it may have violated Missouri's open meetings laws...
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Black streamers, flags mark 9-11's sixth anniversary
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
On her way home Tuesday from a day in her classroom at the Oak Ridge School District, Sandy Hinton stopped at the display of more than 200 flags on the memorial hill in Cape County Park North to take a few photos and reflect on the tragic events six years ago in New York...
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Felons with firearms
(Column ~ 09/12/07)
This letter was sent to state Sen. Michael Gibbons and House Speaker Rod Jetton seeking improvements to Missouri's felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm statute. Copies also were sent to all the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Crime Prevention Committee as well as the governor and attorney general....
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Out of the past 9/12/07
(Out of the Past ~ 09/12/07)
Dr. Elbert C. Cole, pastor of Central United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Mo., is featured speaker at the 49th Old McKendree Day service at the chapel; the outdoor service commemorates the 198th year of the organization of the United Methodist Church in America, the 173rd year since the organization of Old McKendree Chapel, and the 163rd year of the building of the chapel itself...
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Poetic justice
(Editorial ~ 09/12/07)
Rochelle Steffen and Michael Vick couldn't be any more different. Steffen is an artist from Cape Girardeau. Vick is one of most talented athletes to ever slip on cleats. It's been interesting to see how their lives have connected. Vick, of course, has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a dogfighting operation. ...
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'Smellovision' to attempt a comeback
(Entertainment ~ 09/12/07)
BOSTON -- Megan Dickerson always loved the rich colors and melodic scores of the film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory." But she also longed to experience the sweet scents of chocolate and schnozberries. A self-proclaimed multisensory artist, Dickerson is now trying to revive "Smellovision."...
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Women send 100 sweaters to children in need
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- More than 100 hand-knitted and crocheted sweaters have been sent from Marble Hill to locations worldwide over the last year. Every Monday, four Marble Hill women meet to knit sweaters for children who wouldn't otherwise have warm clothing during the winter...
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Planning and Zoning Commission agenda 9/12/07
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
7 p.m. today City hall 401 Independence St. Hearings n Special-use permit request by Wayfield, LLC, for a community unit plan to construct a new 36-unit condominium complex between Kingshighway, Boulder Crest Drive, Hunter's Lane, and South County Park, within a C-1, local commercial district. (Ward 6)...
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Corrections 9-12-07
(Correction ~ 09/12/07)
The Southeast Missourian regrets the errors.
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More allegations emerge as trustees back SIU president
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Hours after trustees affirmed their "full confidence" in Southern Illinois University's president, who's been accused of plagiarizing parts of his 1984 doctoral dissertation, a published report surfaced that he copied sections of his 1975 master's thesis...
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Officer suspended after exchange on video
(State News ~ 09/12/07)
ST. GEORGE, Mo. -- A suburban St. Louis police sergeant is on unpaid suspension, accused of threatening a driver who caught the exchange on video. The recording, posted on Google Video and YouTube on the Internet, brought more than 300 protest calls to St. George police chief Scott Uhrig. "I was very displeased when I saw the actions on the video," Uhrig told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in Tuesday's edition. "My officers are not trained and taught to act like that."...
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Trade deficit dips as exports hit record
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. trade deficit declined slightly in July, helped by record exports that offset the biggest foreign oil bill in nearly a year. But even a spate of recalls did not stop the deficit with China from climbing to the second-highest level on record...
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Roads in Trail of Tears park close for triathlon
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
Interior roads in the Trail of Tears State Park will be closed for the safety of participants in a triathlon beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. The road will reopen at noon. The Triathlon Federation USA-sanctioned event includes individual and team competitions for best times in half-mile swims, 15-mile bike rides and a four-mile run. ...
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Juveniles cited into court for sexual misconduct
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
Two juveniles, ages 13 and 14, were cited in juvenile court Tuesday in connection with an incident at a local junior high school. The two adolescents allegedly revealed their genitalia to other students during a locker room incident, and made lewd comments, according to Cape Girardeau police spokesman Sgt. Barry Hovis. They have been charged with sexual misconduct...
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OPEC agrees to boost oil output by 500,000 barrels a day
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
VIENNA, Austria -- OPEC sought to reassure jittery oil markets Tuesday by agreeing to boost crude production by 500,000 barrels a day, a move the cartel conceded was prompted partly by "clouds on the horizon" from the U.S. housing slump. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said the higher output would begin Nov. ...
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Cape fire report 9/12/07
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/12/07)
n At 4:10 p.m., emergency medical service at 1900 N. Kingshighway. n At 7:24 p.m., emergency medical service in the 2500 block of Peachtree Street. n At 8:06 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1400 block of South West End Boulevard. n At 8:53 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1000 block of Linden Street...
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Cape police report 9/12/07
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/12/07)
Arrests; Thefts
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Jerry Lipps
(Obituary ~ 09/12/07)
Jerry Lee Lipps, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, at his home. He was born Oct. 10, 1929, in Cape Girardeau, son of Fred and Leora Brown Lipps. He and Ruth Naomi Wolters were married May 19, 1957, in Santa Monica, Calif. Lipps was in the U.S. Navy from July 9, 1952, to May 30, 1954. He was a member of the first crew to serve aboard the LST 1156. He earned the National Defense Service Medal...
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Dr. James Bruening
(Obituary ~ 09/12/07)
Dr. James T. Bruening, 58, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007, at his daughter's home in Maryville, Ill. He was born Feb. 27, 1949, in Cape Girardeau, son of Paul H. and Thekla Sieving Bruening. He and Fay Wessel were married Aug. 3, 1973, in Denison, Iowa...
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Elda Kasten
(Obituary ~ 09/12/07)
Elda Kasten, 91, of Jackson passed away Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. Friends and family may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, followed by interment in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson. Officiating will be the Rev. David Johnson, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson, where she had been a member since 1940...
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Henry Roberts Jr.
(Obituary ~ 09/12/07)
Henry Leo "Hank" Roberts Jr., 78, of Bonne Terre died Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, at his home. He was born March 18, 1929, in Champlain, N.Y., son of Henry Leo and Elizabeth Mesec Roberts Sr. He married Doris Brown. Roberts owned and operated Roberts Upholstery and the Remodeling House Upholstery Shop in Cape Girardeau more than 50 years. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus, and Mineral Area Elks Club...
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Vicky Bracher
(Obituary ~ 09/12/07)
GLENALLEN, Mo. -- Vicky Lynn Bracher, 49, of Bourbon, Mo., died Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Feb. 26, 1958, at Glenallen, daughter of Frank and Susan Butler Wagner Sr. She and Keith Bracher were married Sept. 1, 1984, in Fenton, Mo...
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Max Satterfield
(Obituary ~ 09/12/07)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Max Darrell Satterfield, 73, of Memphis, Tenn., died Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007, in Memphis. He was born Dec. 1, 1933, in Cairo, son of Louis and Ima Atherton Satterfield. He and Marilyn Rose Karraker were married Jan. 2, 1958. Satterfield was a 1951 graduate of Cairo High School, and attended Murray State University in Murray, Ky. He retired from CIGNA Corp. in 1998. He was a member of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis...
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Sue Reddish
(Obituary ~ 09/12/07)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Sue Reddish, 72, of Chaffee died Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007, at her home. She was born Aug. 11, 1935, in London, Ark., daughter of Graden and Mildred Brown Davis. Reddish had owned and operated Pancake House in Manteno, Ill., and later was manager at Sisters Restaurant in Chaffee. She was a member of the General Baptist Church at Randles and American Legion Auxiliary in Manteno...
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Curtis Burns
(Obituary ~ 09/12/07)
Curtis Wayne Burns, 51, of Scott City and formerly of Jackson died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007, at his home. He was born Aug. 9, 1956, in Mossy Rock, Wash., son of Carlos "Bud" and Velma Jean Stady Burns. He married Pamela Umfleet. Burns was a graduate of Jackson High School. He was an equipment operator with Associated Natural Gas Co. of Jackson...
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Incomes not keeping pace with home values
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
WASHINGTON -- An Associated Press analysis of new Census data provides insight into the reasons for the slumping housing market: Since 1990, homeowners have faced a growing gap between their incomes and the price of their homes. The widening gap in all but a handful of the nation's 500 largest cities helped make the recent boom in housing prices unsustainable, according to analysts. The rising prices were fueled largely by low interest rates and risky borrowing, rather than increasing incomes...
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Something that sticks to the ribs
(Column ~ 09/12/07)
With our children back in school, I am always looking for good breakfast options for them that will give them plenty of protein to keep them from getting hungry before lunch. When they have their lunch in one of the later shifts, they are hungry by noon. Adding protein to their breakfast stretches out that full feeling...
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Hot season: Preventing fires caused by fall activities
(Community ~ 09/12/07)
Ahh ... autumn. My favorite time of year. The crisp mornings and slightly shorter days that come just as the summer heat begins to be too much. The tree leaves, once so dark and green, start to turn to raging shades of red, yellow and orange. You pull that light jacket a little tighter as the sun hits just right through those old oaks and the leaves dance like hundreds of flames in your neighbor's yard...
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Around your house 9/12/07
(Community ~ 09/12/07)
home It's estimated that some 2 million homes will need termite treatment this year. Unfortunately, unlike with fire, there is no insurance policy that covers termite damage. However, there are things you can do to spot and quickly correct this problem. ...
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Turkish police defuse more than 1,300 pounds of explosives in capital
(International News ~ 09/12/07)
ANKARA, Turkey -- Police found and defused more than 1,300 pounds of explosives packed into a minibus parked near a marketplace Tuesday, thwarting what one official described as "a possible disaster." Bomb experts said the materials were similar to those seized in the past from Kurdish separatists. ...
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Kitchen worker at NY restaurant caught stomping garlic in work boots
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
NANUET, N.Y. -- Stomping on garlic with your shoes on is apparently not the correct way to prepare food. The Rockland County health department hit the Great China Buffet restaurant with two violations after someone took pictures of an employee stomping on a bowl of garlic with his boots in an alley. The man alerted health inspectors...
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Bush to announce conditional withdrawal of troops
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush will tell the nation this week he plans to reduce the American troop presence in Iraq by as many as 30,000 by next summer, but will condition those and further cuts on continued progress, The Associated Press has learned...
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Survival experts doubt Fossett still alive as search continues in Nevada
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
RENO, Nev. -- As the search for Steve Fossett dragged into its ninth day Tuesday, experts said they doubted the millionaire adventurer could have survived more than a week in the rugged desert since his plane vanished. While the resourceful aviator could scratch water, food and shelter from the desolate Nevada landscape, experts said his first order of business would have been signaling rescuers...
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Heads bow in memory of 9-11
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
NEW YORK -- Relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks bowed their heads in silence Tuesday to mark the moments exactly six years earlier when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field...
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Mishap helps Tigers elevate game
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/07)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Maybe the time the Central soccer team spent Saturday while being stuck in an elevator at a St. Louis-area mall did wonders for the Tigers' ability to bond. On Tuesday, Central displayed crisp passes and ballhandling skills that stymied the Sikeston Bulldogs during a 3-0 shutout at the Sikeston Sports Complex...
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Judge tosses NYC rule that fast-food joints post calorie counts
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
NEW YORK -- A judge struck down a New York City rule Tuesday that required fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus, but he suggested that expanding the rule to include more restaurants could make it legal. U.S. District Judge Richard J. ...
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Old Farmers Almanac says 2008 will be the warmest year in a century, predicts little snow
(National News ~ 09/12/07)
DUBLIN, N.H. -- The Old Farmer's Almanac says it used time-honored, complex calculations to predict that 2008 will be the warmest year in a century, along with a bit of folklore -- years that end in "8" have weird weather. People still talk about the frigid winters of 1748 and 1888, tornadoes of 1908, Northwest floods and the Northeast hurricane of 1938...
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Second bin Laden video commemorates 9-11 hijacker, raises new health questions
(International News ~ 09/12/07)
CAIRO, Egypt -- Two messages from Osama bin Laden in a matter of days have revived the game of questions over his health and whereabouts, but they also made clear he is al-Qaida's propaganda "top gun," able to draw attention in the West and strike a chord among sympathizers...
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Area sports digest 9/12/07
(Community Sports ~ 09/12/07)
Young captures clubtitle at Cape C.C. Robyn Young won the club championship during the Cape Girardeau Country Club's Women's Golf Association's Club Championship on Saturday and Sunday. Kathy Morris was second in the championship flight and Martha Hamilton took third...
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Duncan will likely need surgery
(Professional Sports ~ 09/12/07)
CINCINNATI -- St. Louis outfielder Chris Duncan will be sidelined for at least 10 days with a hernia that likely will need surgery, costing the Cardinals another player for their stretch run. Third baseman Scott Rolen also had surgery Tuesday to clean out his left shoulder. Rolen, who throws right-handed, is expected to be ready for spring training. He went on the disabled list on Aug. 31 with the sore shoulder...
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Prognosis changes: Everett will walk
(Professional Sports ~ 09/12/07)
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Kevin Everett voluntarily moved his arms and legs Tuesday when partially awakened, prompting a neurosurgeon to say the Buffalo Bills' tight end would walk again -- contrary to the grim prognosis given a day before. "Based on our experience, the fact that he's moving so well, so early after such a catastrophic injury means he will walk again," said Dr. Barth Green, chairman of the department of neurological surgery at the University of Miami school of medicine...
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Wroten suspended for four games
(Professional Sports ~ 09/12/07)
NEW YORK -- St. Louis Rams defensive tackle Claude Wroten was suspended Tuesday without pay for four games for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. Wroten's suspension begins immediately and he will be eligible to return to the team Oct. 8...
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Upstaged: Cuban leads pack, Tour de France winner
(Professional Sports ~ 09/12/07)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Ivan Dominguez of Cuba fought off cramps and an unexpected hill on the final stretch to break out of a tight clump and win the first stage of the inaugural Tour of Missouri on Tuesday with a time of 3:05:37. Dominguez, riding for Toyota-United, found himself without any team members to help as he took the lead with about 300 yards to go. ...
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Powerful quake hits Indonesia
(International News ~ 09/12/07)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A powerful earthquake hit Indonesia on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in at least four countries, and authorities issued a tsunami warning for much of the Indian Ocean region. The undersea quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.9 and hit at about 6:10 p.m. (7:10 a.m. EDT), the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered 65 miles southwest of Bengkulu, on Sumatra island, at a depth of 9.7 miles, the USGS said...
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Speak Out 9/12/07
(Speak Out ~ 09/12/07)
The beef; Knickers in a knot; Swearing at God; Dog ate my homework; Same as Macedonia; Honesty is best policy; Thanks, readers
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Small businesses to be the focus of fund-raiser
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
Small businesses and individuals will be the focus of the next phase of United Way of Southeast Missouri's annual fund-raising drive. The Small Business Blitz will begin with a volunteer meeting Thursday at Buffalo Wild Wings in Cape Girardeau. Teams from area businesses as well as individuals will compete for prizes for bringing in the most money to an event Oct. 10...
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Central netters roll past Jackson
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/07)
Sarah Ford and Lindsey Pingel have teamed up to win the past two district titles en route to successive trips to the state tournament. The two seniors, however, often have other things on their minds besides just tennis when competing. "Lindsey and I gossip," Ford said, laughing. "We talk about the day. Just gossip. Doubles is more fun because I have my partner."...
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Cards 'Dunn' in by slam, Reds
(Professional Sports ~ 09/12/07)
Cincinnati won 7-2 as St. Louis stumbled to its fifth straight loss. By JOE KAY The Associated Press CINCINNATI -- Players slumped in their padded folding chairs, staring blankly at the floor, their lockers or each other. The only sound was the harsh scrape of brushes cleaning metal spikes as the attendants did their job...
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Redhawks soccer squad salvages tie
(College Sports ~ 09/12/07)
The Southeast Missouri State women's soccer team scored early in the second half to rally for a 1-1 tie with host Evansville Tuesday night. Evansville (3-1-1) jumped on top with a goal about 11 minutes into the game as Kayla Lambert beat Southeast keeper Rachel Harrington...
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Jackson spikers squeak by Central in three games
(High School Sports ~ 09/12/07)
Rivals Central and Jackson squared off in a tight volleyball match Tuesday night, with the visiting Indians pulling out a three-game victory. Jackson rallied for a 22-25, 25-21, 25-23 triumph as the Indians improved to 7-3-1 and dropped the Tigers to 9-6-2...
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NCAA will review Redhawks' penalties
(College Sports ~ 09/12/07)
Southeast Missouri State may be less than a month away from wrapping up its business with the NCAA regarding violations committed by the university's women's basketball program. But the university also should learn next month if the NCAA is going to penalize the progam further. In a letter from the vice chair of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions dated Monday, the university was informed that further penalties may include vacating the program's victories...
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Demolition derby draws nearly 70 cars
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
Cliff Ebert III's eyes darted around the field below the grandstands at Arena Park. The 6-year-old boy hardly knew where to look. He wanted to see the blue-and-white car his dad would drive in Tuesday's demolition derby at the SEMO District Fair. "There it is," he said, jumping a little and pointing toward a line of battered cars...
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Biting the bullet: Ammunition in short supply for police departments
(Local News ~ 09/12/07)
The more than 1 billion bullets shot by U.S. troops overseas in the past year have created an ammunition shortage on domestic soil that is taking a toll on police departments all over the country. A little planning has saved most local law enforcement agencies from having to decrease their training hours, but area police budgets are still feeling the pinch, police spokesmen say...
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