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Blunt appeals for federal help
(Local News ~ 03/01/08)
Gov. Matt Blunt sent a message Friday to President George Bush asking for federal aid for 18 Missouri counties, including Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Butler, Scott, Stoddard and Wayne counties, which suffered significant damage from ice storms that swept across the state Feb. 10 through 14. Two people died and 50 more were injured in storm-related traffic accidents. Electric wires, utility poles and trees snapped under the weight of ice...
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Area native working on rebuilding Iraq's Babil province
(Local News ~ 03/01/08)
For the past three months, Lt. Col. Roger Shuck's primary work has consisted of reconstruction -- the slow process of rebuilding the economy and government in Iraq. Shuck's unit, the 4th Brigade Combat Team, Third Infantry Division, is responsible for the Forward Operating Base Kalsu, about 40 miles south of Baghdad. It is in the Babil region, which encompasses an area about the size of Switzerland, Shuck said in a telephone interview...
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Sikeston food bank coming to Cape
(Local News ~ 03/01/08)
The Bootheel Food Bank is moving from Sikeston, Mo., to a 25,700-square-foot building on Nash Road near the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. The move, which will be completed later this month, will increase visibility for the food bank, which distributes federal surplus commodities and donated food to 150 agencies in 16 Southeast Missouri counties, executive director Karen Green said in a news release issued Friday...
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St. Clair's guard worries Notre Dame's Hale
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/08)
One player stuck out as Notre Dame boys basketball coach Paul Hale studied his team's next opponent. Senior guard Jordan Flora leads St. Clair in scoring, averaging 19.1 points per game, including hitting 52.5 percent from 3-point range, according to stltoday.com...
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Early wildness dooms Redhawks
(College Sports ~ 03/01/08)
Southeast Missouri State ace Dustin Renfrow experienced control issues at the start. And that's the opening Northern Colorado needed to spoil the Redhawks' first home game of the season. The Bears took advantage of Renfrow's early wildness to score three first-inning runs despite getting just one hit...
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Lovelady, Whitney achieve college goals
(College Sports ~ 03/01/08)
One of the primary reasons Missy Whitney and Ashley Lovelady chose to play basketball for Southeast Missouri State was to win championships. It's not surprising that as their college careers wind down, the Redhawks' two seniors couldn't have scripted things much better...
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Southeast men lead OVC meet after first day
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/08)
The Southeast Missouri State men's track and field team jumped out to the lead after the opening day of the Ohio Valley Conference indoor meet. Southeast scored 48 points in five finals contested Friday at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn...
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Southeast softball team plays at home Sunday
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/08)
After canceling today's schedule of the All-Missouri Strike Out Against Cancer Classic due to poor field conditions, the Southeast softball team will open its home schedule Sunday in a scaled-back version of the original format. Three squads will participate, with Saint Louis University and Missouri State joining the Redhawks at the Southeast Softball Complex. Missouri-Kansas City will not make the trip...
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Disappointing season ends tonight
(College Sports ~ 03/01/08)
Southeast Missouri State senior center Mike Rembert never envisioned his final college basketball season ending this way. Especially not after the Redhawks won their first six Ohio Valley Conference games to lead the standings nearly one-third of the way through the OVC schedule...
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NASA: Shuttle Endeavour ready to fly March 11
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA on Friday cleared space shuttle Endeavour for liftoff in less than two weeks on the longest space station visit ever. Endeavour is scheduled to blast off March 11 on a 16-day mission that could end up stretching by another day...
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Author of best-selling Holocaust book admits story isn't true
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
BOSTON -- Almost nothing Misha Defonseca wrote about herself or her horrific childhood during the Holocaust was true. She didn't live with a pack of wolves to escape the Nazis. She didn't trek 1,900 miles across Europe in search of her deported parents, nor kill a German soldier in self-defense. She's not even Jewish...
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Study finds robots and dogs equally decrease loneliness
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
ST. LOUIS -- Dogs may have a hard time wrapping their paws around this one: Robotic competition is nipping at their heels in the man's-best-friend department. A study by Saint Louis University found that a lovable pooch named Sparky and a robotic dog, AIBO, were about equally effective at relieving the loneliness of nursing home residents and fostering attachments...
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Rural Alaska residents struggle to heat homes
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
JUNEAU, Alaska -- One of the cruelest ironies of living in Alaska is this:~ Shipping costs: Most of the state's oil must be refined on the West Coast The state is awash in oil money, but many residents of remote villages are struggling to heat their homes because of fuel bills that are two or three times the national average...
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Disaster lessons
(Editorial ~ 03/01/08)
Our recent ice storms have taught us many things. Collectively, the area was resilient during the outages, and our emergency responses seemed to be appropriate. To our knowledge, everyone survived the power outages. But in the grand scheme of things, an earthquake could be much worse than an ice storm...
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Teen crawls for help after train cuts off his leg
(State News ~ 03/01/08)
WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. -- A suburban St. Louis teenager was being treated at a hospital after having his leg cut off by a freight train. Police told STLtoday.com, the Web site for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, that 19-year-old Joseph Alexander somehow managed to crawl 50 yards for help, flagging down a passing motorist...
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Briefly
(Column ~ 03/01/08)
Briefly Upcoming events of the Vincentian Marian Youth n The next Vincentian Marian Youth Encounter with will begin at 6 p.m. March 9 at the Shrine Church in Perryville, Mo. The evening will start with a five-minute Faith Alive. Mass celebrated by the Rev. Milton Ryan will follow...
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Edna Nagel
(Obituary ~ 03/01/08)
Edna E. Nagel, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, at the Lutheran Home. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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Katie Tandy
(Obituary ~ 03/01/08)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Katie Lee Tandy, 90, of Cairo died Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. Friends may call from 12:30 p.m. until time of service today at Massie Funeral Home in Mounds, Ill. The service will be at 2:30 p.m. today at the funeral home, with Paul Jones officiating...
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Center works on much more than groundwater
(Local News ~ 03/01/08)
The work of the Center for Environmental Analysis at Southeast Missouri State University goes far beyond groundwater testing. It ranges from improving pediatric asthma care to developing a means of detecting methamphetamine exposure to finding old graves with radar. CEA research projects include lead exposure, discharges from swine farm operations and earthworm species identification, among many others...
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Northrop Grumman, EADS beat out Boeing for Air Force contract
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
WASHINGTON -- In a stunning upset, Boeing Co. lost out to Northrop Grumman Corp. and the maker of Airbus planes on Friday in the battle to win a $35 billion dollar contract to build military refueling planes for the Air Force. The decision is a major disappointment for Wichita, Kan., where Boeing Integrated Defense Systems would have been the finishing center for the militarization of the tanker...
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Dean Donadon
(Obituary ~ 03/01/08)
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- Dean DeWitt Donadon, 82, of Chesterfield, formerly of Marble Hill, Mo., died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, at Brooking Park Nursing Home in Chesterfield. He was born Jan. 31, 1926, in Kansas City, Mo., son of Elmer and Ruth Stella Staul Donadon. He and Leanna G. St. Clair were married July 13, 1948, in St. Louis. She died Sept. 24, 2002...
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Lent is a time to look within
(Column ~ 03/01/08)
I walked down the street shortly after a massive ice storm. I had been forced to stay in far more than usual. Roads and streets were icy and slick. I dared to barely scoot my feet along. I asked myself the purpose of the sudden deep freeze. Aside from benefits to nature, what was God trying to show me?...
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Births 3/1/08
(Births ~ 03/01/08)
Budnick; Urhahn; Cook; Abraham; Mahnken; Medlock; Hale; Loy; Seabaugh; Mayhew; Naeter; Sheppard; Biler; Roberts; Jackson; Barr; Hendricks
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London police clear Amy Winehouse of witness tampering
(Entertainment ~ 03/01/08)
LONDON -- Police are no longer investigating Amy Winehouse on suspicion of attempting to interfere with a court case involving her husband, her spokesman said Friday. The 24-year-old singer is not required to return to a police station for further questioning, her spokesman, Chris Goodman, said in a statement...
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Israel warns of disaster in Gaza as city of 120,000 comes under Palestinian rocket fire
(International News ~ 03/01/08)
JERUSALEM -- Israel's deputy defense minister warned of disaster in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian rocket fire grew more ominous Friday with an assault on an Israeli city. Gaza's unbowed Hamas rulers promised to fight on. Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai told Army Radio that because of the militants' attacks, Israel had "no other choice" but to launch a massive military operation in the Gaza Strip...
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Gary Wengert
(Obituary ~ 03/01/08)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Gary W. Wengert, 57, of Perryville died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born Feb, 7, 1951, in Cape Girardeau, son of Herbert and Emogene Riney Wengert. Wengert was president of First State Community Bank in Perryville. He was a member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and Perryville Optimist Club...
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Gunmen kidnap Chaldean archbishop in northern Iraq
(International News ~ 03/01/08)
BAGHDAD -- Gunmen abducted a Chaldean Catholic archbishop soon after he left Mass in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the latest in what church members called a series of attacks against Iraq's small Christian community. The gunmen killed three people who were with Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, said Iraqi Brig. Gen. Khalid Abdul Sattar, a spokesman for the Ninevah province police...
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Debris directions
(Local News ~ 03/01/08)
Cape Girardeau The company hired to clear debris from Cape Girardeau streets collected 1,300 cubic yards of debris Friday. Marriott Logging finished clearing zones C and D. Today, the crews will work in Zone F, around Southeast Missouri State University...
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Iraq's presidency gives go ahead for execution of 'Chemical Ali'
(International News ~ 03/01/08)
BAGHDAD -- The Saddam Hussein henchman known as "Chemical Ali" for gassing thousands of Kurdish civilians is due to hang within the month, following the endorsement of his death sentence Friday by Iraq's presidential council. But even survivors were notably subdued about the news in a nation weary of violence and suffering...
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Transportation Department investigators find lax oversight of aircraft parts suppliers
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
WASHINGTON -- Regulators and aircraft manufacturers are not keeping adequate tabs on the quality of plane parts made domestically and abroad, potentially raising risks for fliers, government investigators said in a report released Friday. The inspector general's office of the Transportation Department said the Federal Aviation Administration has failed to conduct enough audits to determine whether manufacturers' quality-assurance systems are working...
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Suicide bombing kills 35 at funeral in Pakistan's Swat Valley
(International News ~ 03/01/08)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide attacker blew himself up at a funeral Friday for a slain policeman in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley, killing at least 35 people including the officer's 16-year-old son. It was the deadliest attack in the country since the Feb. 18 parliamentary elections. And it was the bloodiest in the Swat Valley since militant followers of a pro-Taliban cleric grabbed control of large parts of the scenic corner of Pakistan's restive northwest...
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Fire report 3/1/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/01/08)
n At 6:11 p.m., emergency medical service in the 400 block of North Frederick Street. n At 3:25 a.m., emergency medical service in the 1500 block of Grandview Drive. n At 4:55 a.m., emergency medical service in the 1400 block of Price Drive. n At 9:22 a.m., an alarm in the 2300 block of Arabian Drive...
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Fatal shark bite off Bahamas draws attention to dangerous practices of some shark divers
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Ask any shark diver why they do it and the answer is quick and simple -- the thrill. From Cape Town to California, Florida and the Bahamas, adventurous divers can slip into the ocean with an experienced guide to observe some of the world's fiercest predators...
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Dems' huge fundraising gives Republicans reason to worry
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
WASHINGTON -- For Republicans, watching Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama fight for supremacy in fundraising is not just a spectator sport. It is a look into the future, and the GOP isn't cheering. Obama and Clinton together raked in as much as seven times as much cash in February as John McCain, the all-but-certain Republican nominee...
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Prince Harry pulled out of Afghanistan
(International News ~ 03/01/08)
LONDON -- Prince Harry wanted to be "one of the lads," an ordinary soldier sharing risk and hardship with his men. For 10 weeks, he got his wish -- and that may be enough to advance his career in the military. British defense chiefs announced Friday they were withdrawing him immediately from the combat zone in Afghanistan after his deployment, once a closely guarded secret, became public...
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When our daily plans get disrupted, it may be at God's direction
(Community ~ 03/01/08)
Life coaching experts have stressed that to be more fulfilled and successful in your life you need to create and act on a daily plan. Yet there are those days that do not turn out like we think they should. Days that, no matter how we schedule them, just will not conform. ...
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Speak Out 3/1/08
(Speak Out ~ 03/01/08)
Proposed trade; Not a good idea; Bowhunting insanity; Time for audit?; Funding conflict; Some problems; Sentencing skepticism; Woman of integrity; Outstanding job; Qualified to work; Where's his boss?; A bad idea; Suspended sentence; Vacation package
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Gulf Coast recovery chief steps down to return to private sector; top aide to take over
(National News ~ 03/01/08)
NEW ORLEANS -- The federal official in charge of rebuilding the Gulf Coast after the 2005 hurricanes said he submitted his resignation Friday because he wants to return to Texas to get back into banking. Donald Powell, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acknowledged that work remains to help the region recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ...
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Police report 3/1/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 03/01/08)
DWI; Theft; Arrests
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Shirley Taylor
(Obituary ~ 03/01/08)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Shirley Ann Taylor, 67, of McDonough, Ga., died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, at Sacred Journey Hospice in McDonough. She was born in Cairo, daughter of Fred M. and Helen L. Hawf Lilley. She married Edward Albert Taylor, who preceded her in death...
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SEMO center finds groundwater with pesticide levels far above the EPA's maximum limit
(Local News ~ 03/01/08)
In 2004 and 2005, monitors reporting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found potentially harmful levels of the weedkiller atrazine in the South Fabius River and Youngs Creek watersheds in northeastern Missouri. Some studies have shown that atrazine can produce hermaphroditic frogs and male frogs with ovaries and eggs, although the level of exposure has varied in those studies. ...
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Out of the past 3/1/08
(Out of the Past ~ 03/01/08)
The Westborough Mall site is apparently back in the running as a potential location for a multipurpose building in Cape Girardeau; an agent representing the owners of the site contacted Mayor Howard C. Tooke over the weekend and indicated an interest in making the site available for the arena project...
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Grounded in faith
(Community ~ 03/01/08)
Anyone who thinks young people aren't grounded in their spiritual faith needs to meet Joshua Smith. A full-time sophomore at Southeast Missouri State University, Smith was hired in November to be the youth coordinator for Grace United Methodist Church. ...
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Some want personal vaccine exemption restored in Missouri
(State News ~ 03/01/08)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Darrel Drumright has worked in the health care field for 15 years, but he doesn't trust immunizations. So for years, the Kansas City chiropractor and father of three has chosen not to vaccinate his children. His reason -- on paper anyway -- is religion. His family is Catholic, so they claim a religious exemption, which allows the kids to skip their shots...
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