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Carl Jank
(Obituary ~ 04/27/08)
Carl R. "Lindy" Jank, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, April 26, 2008, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 22, 1927, in Effingham, Ill., son of Robert M. and Cora Bombal Jank. He and Norma Jean Hahs were married Nov. 28, 1948...
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Jeffery Sullivan
(Obituary ~ 04/27/08)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Jeffery Donald Sullivan, 45, of Marble Hill died Thursday, March 20, 2008, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 4, 1962, in St. Louis, son of Donald and Thelma Jean Whitworth Sullivan. Sullivan was a CNA at a nursing home...
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Elma Gourley
(Obituary ~ 04/27/08)
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- Elma Arbutus Gourley, 83, of Chesterfield died Friday, April 25, 2008, at Garden View Care Center in Chesterfield. She was born June 15, 1924, in Supply, Ariz., daughter of the Rev. Albert Jesse and Zellarean Pierce Johnson. She and the Rev. John Gourley were married Nov. 8, 1940, in Corning, Ark. He died Sept. 9, 2001...
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Central, Notre Dame to play in title game of SEMO Conference tournament
(High School Sports ~ 04/27/08)
Notre Dame senior Blake Gaddis has looked comfortable batting leadoff for the Bulldogs the last three games after spending the first 13 games as the No. 9 hitter. "It's basically the same thing," Gaddis said, comparing the two spots in the order. "If you're at the bottom or the top of the lineup, you [get on to] get the big bats going. But I like hitting at the top more. You get more at-bats."...
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Redhawks baseball yields home sweep to Austin Peay
(College Sports ~ 04/27/08)
Defending Ohio Valley Conference baseball champion Austin Peay came to Cape Girardeau in an unusual position. The Governors, who have won three OVC regular-season titles in the past five years, entered a three-game series at Capaha Field in seventh place. Only the top six finishers make the conference tournament...
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Redhawks settle for split of softball doubleheader with UTM
(College Sports ~ 04/27/08)
The Southeast Missouri State softball team staged a late rally to win Saturday's opener of an Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader. But visiting Tennessee-Martin foiled the Redhawks' hopes for a sweep by bouncing back in the nightcap. Host Southeast prevailed 6-5 in eight innings before the Skyhawks posted a 5-2 victory...
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Engineering for man: Shaping the Mississippi River
(Local News ~ 04/27/08)
In his nostalgic look back at his career as a steamboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi," Mark Twain described the difficult task of navigating the river in the pre-Civil War era. "Piloting becomes another matter when you apply it to vast streams like the Mississippi and the Missouri, whose alluvial banks cave and change constantly, whose snags are always hunting up new quarters, whose sandbars are never at rest, whose channels are forever dodging and shirking, and whose obstructions must be confronted in all nights and in all weathers without the aid of a single lighthouse or a single buoy for there is neither light nor buoy to be found anywhere in all this three or four thousand miles of villainous river.". ...
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St. Vincent captures Chaffee baseball tournament
(High School Sports ~ 04/27/08)
The St. Vincent baseball team captured the championship of the Chaffee tournament on Saturday, following a semifinal win against Puxico with a 5-0 shutout of the host Red Devils in the final. Matt Hotop picked up the win for the Indians (7-8) in the final, as Chaffee (12-5) managed just five hits. Kyle Rollet and Quent Robinson each had two hits in the final...
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Defense dominates offense in Southeast football's spring game
(College Sports ~ 04/27/08)
Four days ago, Jared Van Slyke made the conversion from quarterback to slash. Judging by his performance Saturday during Southeast Missouri State's spring game, the sophomore might end up catching the ball more than throwing it this fall. Van Slyke had three catches for 93 yards and the lone touchdown for the offensive unit, which took a 50-11 beating from the defense in front of a little more than 100 fans at Houck Stadium...
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Civil War way of life displayed at Fort D
(Local News ~ 04/27/08)
Members of the Turner Brigade and friends from the Civil War Roundtable of Cape Girardeau gathered at Fort D Saturday and will be there today to deliver living history as part of the weekend's Mississippi River Valley Scenic Drive. The Civil War re-enactors talked with a few local youngsters visiting the fort who stopped to watch the costumed men of Fort D Bissell's Engineers of the West, Company G...
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Tests stalled on bullets from Kezer case
(Local News ~ 04/27/08)
Ballistics evidence that could lead investigators to new witnesses and new truths in the Mischelle Lawless case has fallen prey to a quagmire of miscommunication and a tangle of red tape. Joshua Kezer, 32, currently sits in a Jefferson City prison, serving a 60-year sentence imposed in 1994 for the murder of Lawless. ...
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Iraqi families accuse Blackwater of shredding documents
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
WASHINGTON -- Families of Iraqis who died in a shooting involving Blackwater Worldwide contractors accused the company Friday of shredding documents and destroying evidence. Lawyers for the families made the accusations in court documents but identified the source of the information only as former employees. They said officials at the company's North Carolina compound shredded documents related to ongoing investigations sometime around March 18...
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Company to pay $18 million in fatal accident
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A trucking company has agreed to pay $18 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the families of three women killed in a June 2006 crash. The parent company of Pro Logistics Inc. and two of its subsidiaries agreed to the payment Friday, two days after a jury found the company liable for the women's deaths and ordered them to pay $15 million. Jurors were deliberating whether and how much the company should pay in punitive damages when Pro Logistics agreed to the higher amount...
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More legal wrangling probably ahead in police shooting case
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
NEW YORK -- The family of an unarmed man killed in a hail of police gunfire on his wedding day pledged Saturday to continue its fight to have someone held accountable for his death, a day after a judge acquitted three officers in the slaying. "I'm still praying for justice, because it's not over. It's far from over. It's just starting," Sean Bell's fiancee, Nicole Paultre Bell, told supporters at a rally. "Every protest, every march, every rally, I'm going to be right up front."...
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Missouri inmate wins lawsuit seeking kosher meals
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
ST. LOUIS -- A federal judge has ruled that Missouri prison officials violated the constitutional rights of an inmate once labeled a white supremacist when they refused to serve him kosher meals. Norman Lee Toler, serving a 10-year sentence at the state prison in Bowling Green for statutory rape, sued in December 2005, saying he grew up in a Pentecostal home but chose Judaism in 2002. ...
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Torch arrives in South Korea; activists vow to disrupt run
(International News ~ 04/27/08)
The Olympic torch arrived Sunday in South Korea on the latest leg of its world tour, with demonstrators vowing to disrupt its run through the city that hosted the 1988 Summer Games. The torch relay was to begin later Sunday from a park built for the Seoul Olympics and make a 15-mile journey to City Hall, although organizers have refused to reveal the exact course because of concern over disruptions...
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Atheist soldier speaks out on lawsuit over harassment
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. -- Like hundreds of young men joining the Army in recent years, Jeremy Hall professes a desire to serve his country while it fights terrorism. But the short and soft-spoken specialist is at the center of a legal controversy. He has filed a lawsuit alleging he's been harassed and his constitutional rights have been violated because he doesn't believe in God. The suit names Defense Secretary Robert Gates...
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Caretakers get tips on caring for seized children
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
From Amarillo to Houston, children from the polygamist ranch in west Texas are settling into new surroundings, and caretakers are getting cultural pointers on how to deal with them -- such as no television, no movies, no radio and nothing red. "The color 'RED' is not acceptable for clothing," said a memo that the Texas Department of Child Protective Services sent to caretakers for the 462 children seized this month from the Yearning for Zion ranch after a tip about possible abuse...
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Fire in apartment complex leaves nearly 150 homeless
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
NORWICH, Conn. -- A fast-moving fire destroyed a large apartment complex early Saturday, and authorities were looking for one person unaccounted for. Authorities have confirmed the locations of all but one of the nearly 150 residents, said fire battalion chief Tracy Montoya...
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One of a kind
(Community ~ 04/27/08)
This three-bedroom home with two-and-a-half baths has plenty of curbside appeal. Shutters, a front deck that expands the length of the house, a stone-bordered flower bed and a landscaped area between the home and garage add to its charm. The home, in Meier Lake subdivision, is near a stocked lake and has a spot for a small boat. No two houses are alike in this 26-home community. Close to Highway 72, the home is not far from Jackson shopping and is in the Jackson School District...
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Shell Knob cut off by flooding since March 20
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
SHELL KNOB, Mo. -- Residents in the Big Bass Bend subdivision here are getting weary. It isn't because their homes got flooded -- they didn't. But Farm Road 1258 that leads to their homes has been flooded since March 20, making it impassible by cars almost every day since...
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Zimbabwe opposition appears set to retain parliament gains
(International News ~ 04/27/08)
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's opposition appeared set to retain its gains in parliament Saturday, as international pressure mounted for the release of results from the presidential vote that longtime leader Robert Mugabe is believed to have lost. Mugabe has been accused of using delays, fraud and violence to hold onto power. Even if he retains the presidency, he will have to deal with a defiant parliament...
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Out of the past 4/27/08
(Out of the Past ~ 04/27/08)
25 years ago: April 27, 1983 Despite some lingering uncertainty as to the willingness of the state of Missouri to participate in the project, Cape Girardeau's multipurpose building committee has decided to solicit architectural proposals for the design of a new civic arena...
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Penguin's wetsuit puts him back in the swim of things
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
SAN FRANCISCO -- What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things...
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School says girl's Marine boyfriend too old for prom
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Even though 18-year-old Jessica Pope of Glendale Heights spent $125 on her prom dress and her Marine boyfriend got leave to be her date, they didn't attend the prom at Glenbard East High School. School officials have informed Pope that since Francisco Velasco is 21, he was too old to attend the function Saturday night. Principal Robert McBride said the main reason is that 21 is the legal age for alcohol consumption...
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La. panel blocks anti-droopy pants bill
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A state Senate panel rejected a bill Tuesday that would make it a crime to wear one's pants too low, even as Cajun-country towns around Louisiana have been banning saggy pants from their streets. Sen. Derrick Shepherd's bill would have made it illegal to wear, in public, clothing that "intentionally exposes undergarments or intentionally exposes any portion of the pubic hair, cleft of the buttocks or genitals."...
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Chicago mayor says intersection where truck hit station is safe
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
CHICAGO -- Skid marks, a boarded-up entrance and police tape reminded commuters Saturday of the destruction left by a tractor-trailer that smashed into a crowded train station and killed two pedestrians Friday as authorities reviewed surveillance footage of the crash...
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Report: Blagojevich's donors benefited from state actions
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
CHICAGO -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich's campaign has received nearly $6 million in donations since 2000 that came in the form of checks written for exactly $25,000, according to a published report. Of those 235 donations, 75 percent came from donors who later benefited from his administration -- receiving everything from profitable state contracts to influential state board appointments to favorable regulatory or policy decisions, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune published in Sunday's editions.. ...
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Police: 13 dead in shootouts near Mexican border
(International News ~ 04/27/08)
TIJUANA, Mexico -- Gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who fired at each other early Saturday while speeding down heavily populated streets in this border city, killing 13 people and wounding nine. All of the dead were believed to be drug traffickers, possibly rival members of the same cartel who were trying to settle scores, said Rommel Moreno, the attorney general of Baja California state, where Tijuana is located...
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Displaced Kenyans say they can't go home despite promises from government officials
(International News ~ 04/27/08)
NAIVASHA, Kenya -- As Kenya's politicians toured the country's battle-scarred west, walking among uprooted multitudes, their message was clear: You will be able to go home soon. We, your leaders, will help you. But in the hardest-hit areas, there is no clear path home. More than four months after a disputed presidential election unleashed weeks of ethnically tinged bloodshed, some 157,000 people are still living in camps...
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Residents urged to prepare as earthquakes continue in Reno
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
RENO, Nev. -- Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors. More than 100 aftershocks were recorded on the western edge of the city after a magnitude 4.7 quake hit Friday night, the strongest quake around Reno since one measuring 5.2 in 1953, said researchers at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno...
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Odd ritual marks spring in Vt. town
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
WEST DANVILLE, Vt. -- Forget what the calendar says. In these parts, spring doesn't arrive until the cinder block falls through the ice on Joe's Pond. The 65-pound block, which is placed on a wooden pallet on the frozen surface of the pond each winter in a $1-per-chance guessing game, plunged into the water at 5:25 p.m. Friday...
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Celebrity speaker helps Wildlife Prairie State Park celebrate 30 years
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
PEORIA, Ill. -- A wildlife park in central Illinois began its 30th anniversary celebration with help from a celebrity among animal lovers. Animal Planet TV host Jeff Corwin spoke to an audience of more than 450 at a dinner and auction Friday. The event raised about $80,000 for Wildlife Prairie State Park, just outside Peoria...
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Conservatives dominate Iran's run-offs
(International News ~ 04/27/08)
TEHRAN, Iran -- Conservatives consolidated control of Iran's legislature in run-off elections but opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gained strength. Saturday's results indicate that the hard-line leader is growing increasingly vulnerable ahead of a bid for re-election next year...
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Fire reports 4/27/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/27/08)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following calls Friday: n At 6:26 p.m., a still alarm at South Mount Auburn and Bloomfield roads. n At 6:52 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1300 block of North Sprigg Street. n At 9:03 p.m., emergency medical service in the 800 block of Hackberry Street...
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Missouri projected to lag in population growth
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri is projected to have almost 6 million residents by the time of the next census in 2010. The state Office of Administration on Friday released updated population projections for Missouri going out to 2030. By then, the state is projected to have more than 6.7 million people -- a 21 percent increase over the 2000 census...
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Taggers track muskies at lake
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
KINKAID LAKE, Ill. -- Shawn Hirst, an Illinois Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist, maneuvered his boat to one of the nets set in the Johnson Creek area of Kinkaid Lake. As the boat glided slowly across the surface of the water, Dave Muir of Cambria, an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency employee, scooped up a float marking the net...
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Iraq's Sunni V.P. wants return to government
(International News ~ 04/27/08)
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president on Saturday called the return of his boycotting political bloc to the Shiite-led Cabinet a priority, saying the government needs to reconcile quickly to "save Iraq." Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi's comments were the latest to signal readiness by the main Sunni bloc, the National Accordance Front, to rejoin the government after an absence of nearly nine months...
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Officer shoots suspect after car chase
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An Independence police officer shot a woman after a car chase in Kansas City. Independence police said the suspect was driving what appeared to be a stolen car and bolted from a traffic stop at 5:15 a.m. Saturday morning. A chased ensued until the woman backed up on the Interstate 435 northbound ramp and rammed the police car...
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Democrats see promise in 2008 electoral landscape
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
WASHINGTON -- The electoral road to the White House favors Democrats this fall -- either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton -- and has Republican John McCain playing defense to thwart a presidential power shift. A downtrodden economy, the war in Iraq and a public call for change have created an Electoral College outlook and a political environment that may present opportunities for the Democrats and challenges for the GOP nominee-in-waiting...
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Max Neville
(Obituary ~ 04/27/08)
Max T. Neville, 100, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, April 26, 2008, at the Lutheran Home. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Police reports 4/27/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/27/08)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI n Jerome D. Kluesner, 20, of Chaffee, Mo., was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and exhibition driving. Arrests...
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Paddleboarders venture out after fatal SoCal shark attack
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
SOLANA BEACH, Calif. -- A few paddleboarders ignored posted signs warning that a great white shark still could be lurking below the surface Saturday, just a day after a swimmer was killed in a rare attack near San Diego. "It's like going to see 'Jaws' -- getting in the water the next day, all you could think about was the music," said Bob Rief, 63, who was teaching a friend how to stand up on a paddleboard. "But if you're afraid of the ocean, you shouldn't be in it."...
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Teens, parents learn to waltz in St. Joseph, Mo.
(Community ~ 04/27/08)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — It was one of the first days with decent weather all winter. Yet on this sunny Saturday afternoon, teenage girls in flip flops and boys in sneakers solemnly file with their parents into a windowless room at Heartland Regional Medical Center...
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Carjacker stops to ask TV crew for directions
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
CLEVELAND -- A carjacking suspect stopped during the crime to ask a television news crew for directions, police said. The 19-year-old was arraigned Thursday on a charge of aggravated robbery and ordered held on $50,000 bond. WOIO-TV newswoman Shannon O'Brien and photographer Eric Walls were doing a sidewalk report Monday when the passenger in a car asked for directions to a bank. The driver signaled that he was being held at gunpoint, O'Brien told police...
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Doctors need to respect parents' authority
(Column ~ 04/27/08)
Dear Dr. Dobson: Our family physician wants to examine my 13-year-old son without my being in the room. That's OK with me, but I expect him to tell me what my boy says and what his medical condition is. That's where we disagree. He says he must keep their conversation confidential. Am I right to expect to be informed and involved?...
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U.S. Marines deploying in Afghanistan for first time in years
(International News ~ 04/27/08)
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a NATO coalition that is growing but still short on manpower. They hope to retake the 10 percent of Afghanistan the Taliban holds...
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Isringhausen blows save in Cards' 3-2 loss
(Professional Sports ~ 04/27/08)
ST. LOUIS -- Carlos Lee's home run capped a three-run rally off Jason Isringhausen in the ninth inning, helping the Houston Astros beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 on Friday night for their sixth straight victory. Miguel Tejada had an RBI triple and Lance Berkman's sacrifice fly for the second out tied it before Lee hammered a first-pitch fastball well over the left-field wall, a drive estimated at 396 feet, for his fifth homer. ...
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Dora Dirnberger
(Obituary ~ 04/27/08)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Dora C. Dirnberger, 89, of Chaffee died Friday, April 25, 2008, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born July 25, 1918, at Blomeyer, Mo., daughter of August and Pauline Schwach Martin. She and Raymond Dirnberger were married March 5, 1946. He died June 10, 1955...
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Dalai Lama ready for serious talks with China
(International News ~ 04/27/08)
DHARMSALA, India -- The Dalai Lama said Saturday he welcomed China's offer to hold talks with his envoy but cautioned it would be meaningless to meet if Beijing was not serious about trying to solve the problems that caused recent unrest in Tibet. But just as it appeared China was reaching out to the Tibetan spiritual leader, Beijing's state media on Saturday blamed him for the deadly violence in the Tibetan capital that threatens to overshadow this summer's Olympics...
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Missouri preparing more sensitive odor-testing equipment
(State News ~ 04/27/08)
CARTHAGE, Mo. -- As lawmakers consider a bill to get tough on smells from a southwest Missouri plant that turns turkey parts into fuel oil, state officials are preparing more sensitive odor-testing equipment. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is modifying its equipment that checks odors to register at rates lower than the 7-to-1 threshold that now triggers regulatory action by the state, said Rebecca Birke, a spokeswoman for the agency's Air Pollution Control Program. ...
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Nissan adds a SUV with a price to entice buyers
(National News ~ 04/27/08)
Sport utility vehicles no longer are the darlings of car showrooms. But Nissan has a new SUV that's sure to attract buyers -- even those who are keenly sensitive to gasoline prices. The 2008 Nissan Rogue is the latest and smallest of Nissan's five SUVs and has the lowest starting price: just over $20,000...
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