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Humor helps breast cancer victim prepare
(Health ~ 06/24/08)
BLACKFOOT, Idaho -- Breast cancer is no laughing matter, but a southeastern Idaho mother of four is hoping humor helps her survive surgery and recovery from a disease that afflicts more than 1 in 1,000 women. Sheryl Thomson planned to write "Goodbye, Girls, no more hangin' around" across her chest and wear breast-shaped slippers on her way into the operating room Monday...
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Health calendar 6/24/08
(Health ~ 06/24/08)
Representatives from Cancer Society visit To highlight American Cancer Society Week, which continues through Friday, ACS representatives will visit the area with information about cancer, nutrition, mileage reimbursement and other programs, services and materials available to cancer patients and their families at no cost. ...
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Delores Heffner
(Obituary ~ 06/24/08)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Delores M. Heffner, 71, of Marble Hill died Saturday, June 21, 2008, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 2, 1936, in St. Louis, daughter of William James and Willetta Ploch Herbst. She and Richard Heffner were married June 18, 1955...
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Police report 6/24/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/24/08)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n David L. Lindsey, 41, 325 Lorimier St., Apt. 1, was arrested on suspicion of assault. n Daunte J. Smith, 29, of Lilbourn, Mo., was arrested on two Cape Girardeau warrants for failure to pay fines for peace disturbance and possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to pay fine for revoked operator's license and failure to pay fine for failure to appear...
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Cape man allegedly assaults officer after arrest
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
David Lindsey, 46, 325 N. Lorimier St., Apt. 1, was arrested last week and now faces charges of assault on a law enforcement officer following an incident that occurred at Southeast Missouri Hospital during early morning hours. Police responded to the hospital around 2 a.m. Friday. Lindsey had been transported to the hospital earlier in the evening after reportedly taking 25 Xanax tablets, according to a probable-cause statement written and signed by officer J.M. Jensen...
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Jerry Oxford
(Obituary ~ 06/24/08)
Jerry Oxford, 67, of Bethlehem, Ga., died Monday, June 16, 2008, at Guardian Angel in Winder, Ga. He was born Aug. 30, 1940, in Caruthersville, Mo., son of John Thomas and Blanche Bell Oxford. He married Roberta Miller. Oxford worked 14 years for Sargento Foods. He was a member of Bold Springs United Methodist Church...
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Out of the past 6/24/08
(Out of the Past ~ 06/24/08)
25 years ago: June 24, 1983 BENTON, Mo. — Three people were killed and another was seriously burned in a plane crash on a farm near Benton yesterday evening; the pilot of the single-engine plane, Billy W. Ferrell, 47, of Benton, and passengers James W. Sidener, 37, of Cape Girardeau, and Matthew D. Sidener, 9, of Pocahontas, Ill., died when the craft crashed in a field on the Gary Beggs farm; a third passenger, James Sidener, 14, is in stable condition at a St. Louis hospital...
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Candy a sweet spot in sour economy
(Community ~ 06/24/08)
CHICAGO -- Like a lot of people, Nate Towne is cutting back on spending. He's carpooling to work and only shops at grocery stores that take coupons or offer discount "rewards" cards. But even in this economy, he remains a self-described "candy snob."...
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Mulder scratched from rehab start
(High School Sports ~ 06/24/08)
ST. LOUIS -- Cardinals pitcher Mark Mulder has been scratched from a scheduled injury rehabilitation start due to back stiffness. Mulder is recovering from a pair of operations on his left shoulder. He'd been set for perhaps a final tuneup with Class AAA Memphis before joining the roster this weekend...
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Watch out for Chicago's blackbirds
(National News ~ 06/24/08)
CHICAGO -- Experts are telling Chicago residents to beware of the birds. The fiercely territorial behavior of red-winged blackbirds is being blamed on several recent dive-bomb attacks. The birds peck at unsuspecting bicyclists and pedestrians and swipe their hair...
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Gilliland's second-place finish helps pumps life into Yates team
(Professional Sports ~ 06/24/08)
SONOMA, Calif. -- Driving for an underfunded race team mired in the slow rebuilding process, David Gilliland has found that strong runs are hard to come by. But on a road course he's raced before, Gilliland found himself running with the leaders and showcasing the potential Yates Racing has after three-plus years of struggles. The California native finished a career-best second Sunday at Infineon Raceway -- the team's best result since Dale Jarrett won at Talladega in 2006...
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Mayor: No proof girls had pregnancy pact
(National News ~ 06/24/08)
GLOUCESTER, Mass. -- The city's mayor said Monday there is no evidence a group of young girls made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, seeking to dispel an explosive theory put forth by the high school principal. "Any planned blood-oath bond to become pregnant -- there is absolutely no evidence of," Mayor Carolyn Kirk said Monday after a meeting with city, school and health leaders...
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'Get Smart' maxes out weekend with $38.7M debut
(Entertainment ~ 06/24/08)
LOS ANGELES -- Audiences put "Get Smart" under surveillance as the spy comedy starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway debuted at No. 1 over the weekend with $38.7 million. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC:...
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Court rejects case on border fence
(National News ~ 06/24/08)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea by environmental groups to rein in the Bush administration's power to waive laws and regulations to speed construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has used authority given to him by Congress in 2005 to ignore environmental and other laws and regulations to move forward with hundreds of miles of fencing in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas...
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Residents keep fighting rising Mississippi
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
WINFIELD, Mo. -- With a few days to go before the last stretch of the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water. Officials in Lincoln County asked for volunteers to help fill 50,000 sandbags to fortify the 2-1/2-mile-long Pin Oak levee, an earthen berm that was so waterlogged that it was like "walking on a waterbed," said county emergency management spokesman Andy Binder. ...
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Gunman in Iraq kills 2 U.S. soldiers
(International News ~ 06/24/08)
BAGHDAD -- A disgruntled local official opened fire Monday on U.S. soldiers attending a municipal council meeting southeast of Baghdad, killing two of them and wounding four other Americans, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The assailant died in a hail of gunfire after the attack, which occurred in the town of Madain, also known as Salman Pak, about 15 miles south of Baghdad in an area with a history of Sunni-Shiite tension...
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Sprigg history preserved in Bible
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/24/08)
To the editor: Our family has lived most of their Cape Girardeau lives at the corner of Sprigg and Bellevue streets and follow current discussions of the romance of Sprigg Street. Anna Stokes, from whom we bought our house, died unexpectedly, and her heirs had little interest in the contents, so we were left with the lares and penates, including the family Bible. ...
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Cub Scouts meet the Capahas
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/24/08)
To the editor: On Friday night several area Cub Scout packs got together for a summer event at Capaha Park to attend a baseball game. Pack 20 from Alma Schrader School presented the colors and said the pledge of allegiance to kick off the game. Around the fifth inning all of the Scouts took advantage of the event to run the bases...
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Sikeston begins steps to formulate new strategic plan
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- This week, the city of Sikeston and a cross-section of residents will begin gathering to lay the framework for the next 10 or so years. "Every good organization needs a strategic plan," said Jim Schwaninger, one of the co-chairs for Sikeston Vision. "And Sikeston is at a point where it needs to renew its strategic plan."...
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Chinese planning to clean up Mount Everest in 2009
(International News ~ 06/24/08)
BEIJING -- With the debris of more than 50 years of climbing -- oxygen canisters, tents, backpacks and even some bodies -- Mount Everest has been called the world's highest garbage dump. Now China is moving to clean up its northern side of the mountain and protect its fragile Himalayan environment, announcing a trash collection campaign that could limit the number of climbers and other visitors in 2009...
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Second Tour of Missouri adds extra day, hills
(High School Sports ~ 06/24/08)
ST. LOUIS -- The second Tour of Missouri bicycle race adds an extra day of competition and more hills. The extra mileage is fine with Ivan Dominguez, a sprinter nicknamed the "Cuban Missile" who won the first and last stages of the inaugural event. Challenging terrain, he joked, he can do without...
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$4 gas brings promises, pandering from presidential candidates
(National News ~ 06/24/08)
WASHINGTON -- Like two rival filling-station owners across the highway in long-bygone price wars, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain keep putting up flashy signs and offering new incentives in hopes of attracting customers battered by $4 gas prices...
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Johnson's Shut-Ins to open for swimming Thursday morning
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
LESTERVILLE, Mo. -- Visitors to Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park near Lesterville can once again swim in the shut-ins beginning Thursday, when the park reopens for the summer. "We are pleased that visitors will once again be able to visit the shut-ins, one of the main reasons people come to Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park and the area," DNR director Doyle Childers said...
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Police raid Zimbabwe opposition headquarters
(International News ~ 06/24/08)
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's opposition leader took refuge in the Dutch Embassy after pulling out of the presidential runoff, and dozens of his supporters were hustled away by police in a raid on party headquarters Monday. Western powers outraged at the turmoil began pushing Monday for the U.N. Security Council to condemn the violence and insist on a fair presidential election. They expected opposition from Zimbabwe's two biggest trading partners, South Africa and China...
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James Bogle
(Obituary ~ 06/24/08)
James Hal Bogle, 82, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of East Prairie, Mo., died Sunday, June 22, 2008, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born Dec. 16, 1925, in Dexter, N.M., son of Hal Green and Inez Lucille Fay Bogle. He and Jean Lois Verstegen were married Sept. 7, 1946, in Sioux City, Iowa. She died June 2, 1990...
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Myanmar's monks regain political footing after killer cyclone
(International News ~ 06/24/08)
YANGON, Myanmar -- In helping others, Myanmar's saffron-robed Buddhist monks have helped themselves. The monks' critical role in providing relief after Cyclone Nargis has galvanized their ranks and strengthened their political voice -- just months after the junta quashed the democracy uprising spearheaded by the monks last fall...
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Cagle Fair
(Obituary ~ 06/24/08)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Cagle E. Fair Sr., 91, of Perryville died Saturday, June 21, 2008, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Sept. 24, 1916, in Okolona, Ark., son of James Augustus and Eugene Cagle Fair. He and Mary Ella White were married Dec. 23, 1947...
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Midwest flood victims say FEMA is doing a heckuva job
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- When floodwaters knocked out the water treatment plant in Mason City, Iowa, FEMA rolled into town and promptly set up an account with a Pepsi bottler to supply bottled water. Then FEMA officials moved into a vacant store and began handing out the stuff...
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Timeout with ... Darryl James
(Community Sports ~ 06/24/08)
Sport: Bowling Age: 46 Resides: Cape Girardeau Occupation: Manager of West Park Lanes Nickname: Fuzz If you could trades places with anyone, who would it be: A professional bowler. Just being good enough to be out on the pro tour, those guys are awesome...
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Thanks for help with flat tire
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/24/08)
To the editor: Recently I had the pleasure of attending my granddaughter's graduation from Jackson High School. As I was entering the area late on the night of May 14, I had a flat tire. Before I could dial my cell phone for help, Blake and Dillon Friedrich of Jackson stopped and changed my tire. First of all they called their mother to let her know they would be late and why...
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Births 6/24/08
(Births ~ 06/24/08)
Shinn Son to Geoffrey E. and Christina L. Shinn of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:13 a.m. Monday, June 16, 2008. Name, Gavin Edmond. Weight, 6 pounds, 14 ounces. Third child, first son. Mrs. Shinn is the former Christina Roethemeyer, daughter of Sam and Marilee Roethemeyer of Jackson. She is a teacher with Jackson School District. Shinn is the son of Gerry and Jane Shinn of Jackson. He is self-employed with Performance Blenders...
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Vergie Warren
(Obituary ~ 06/24/08)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. — Vergie "Toots" Warren, 82, of Grand Chain, Ill., formerly of Olive Branch, died Sunday, June 22, 2008, at her home. She was born Jan. 21, 1926, in Missouri, daughter of James and Ella Burns Johnson. She and Leslie E. Warren were married Dec. 20, 1941. He died Aug. 6, 2000...
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Butler County man charged with shooting 11-year-old after alleged drunken outrage
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
BUTLER COUNTY, Mo. -- A young Georgia boy, visiting relatives in the Fisk area, was shot Saturday evening during what authorities believe began as a fight among brothers on the banks of the St. Francis River. Shawn Michael Pyles, 11, was treated and released from Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, according to Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs, who described Pyles' wounds as superficial...
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Perry Krekel
(Obituary ~ 06/24/08)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. — The Rev. Perry L. "Tony" Krekel, 83, of Marble Hill passed away Sunday, June 22, 2008, at Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau, where he resided the past 18 months, having fought a long and courageous battle with Parkinson's disease...
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Four on trial for attempted murder in Stoddard County
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Four Stoddard County residents were in court last week on attempted murder and armed criminal action charges in connection with an alleged assault, where they severely beat a woman with intentions of killing her. Erica Cain, Josh Holderfield and Jason Talley, all of Bloomfield, and Frank Morris of Dexter, Mo., face charges of second-degree attempted murder and armed criminal action...
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Pedestrian struck and killed on I-55
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and fatally injured Saturday near New Madrid, making it the 30th fatality for Troop E. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred at 10:45 p.m., five miles north of New Madrid. Pedestrian Steven A. Simelton, 47, was in the passing lane of Interstate 55 when he was struck by the southbound vehicle driven by Susan L. Carver, 39, of Chicago...
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Australian police charge man in wheelchair with drunken driving
(International News ~ 06/24/08)
BRISBANE, Australia -- A man found asleep in a motorized wheelchair on a highway in northern Australia was charged with drunken driving, police said Monday. Officers in a patrol car noticed the man slumped in the stationary chair about 10 a.m. Friday on an exit lane near the tourist city of Cairns, regional traffic Inspector Bob Waters said. Cars were swerving to get around him, Waters said...
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Former Southeast employee charged with identity fraud
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
A former Southeast Missouri State University employee has been indicted on two charges of identity fraud and one charge of computer trespass after being found in possession of 800 student names and Social Security numbers. William Elum, hall director of Dearmont during the 2006 to 2007 school year, was arrested May 27 in Atlanta. While no students have reported credit fraud as a result of the leak, Elum is accused of trying to access two student accounts...
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Strained states to make cuts everyone will feel
(National News ~ 06/24/08)
With a new fiscal year beginning in most states next week, budget cuts are about to bite. That means less money for schoolchildren in Florida, the end of help with utility bills for poor Rhode Islanders and a good chance tuition will increase at Auburn University in Alabama...
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Speak out 6/24/08
(Speak Out ~ 06/24/08)
Favorite sons WHAT AN irony. Sikeston, Mo., has recently produced two national talents (Blake DeWitt in Major League Baseball and Neal Boyd in "America's Got Talent" as an opera singer). These are people who make us feel happy for them and good about ourselves, bring us together and unite us. On the other hand, Cape Girardeau gives us two nationally known media mavens who make much of their living off sowing the seeds of divisiveness...
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U.S. to bring stacked lineup to Beijing
(High School Sports ~ 06/24/08)
CHICAGO — MVP Kobe Bryant has a shot at another big prize after falling short of the NBA championship, and he'll have plenty of help along the way. LeBron James is there. Dwyane Wade, too. They will lead a U.S. Olympic basketball team that was announced Monday and hopes to capture the gold medal in Beijing in August after a third-place showing in Athens four years ago...
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The floods
(Editorial ~ 06/24/08)
Many Southeast Missouri residents have memories of the flood of 1993. Their experiences include having their homes under water at the peak of the flood, helping family, friends and neighbors evacuate to higher ground and filling countless bags with sand to shore up levees and protect homes prone to flooding...
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Area digest 6/24/08
(Community Sports ~ 06/24/08)
Scott County sweeps doubleheader The Scott County Junior American Legion baseball team swept Perryville in a doubleheader Monday. Jamie Scholz earned the win in the first game, a 19-3 rout. Mark Glastetter and Coby Holland both went 2-for-3. Dustin Crowden belted a pair of three-run homers in the win...
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Bigger tax write-off ready for high-cost fuel
(National News ~ 06/24/08)
WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service, citing the drain that high gas prices are having on people's finances, said Monday it raised the automobile mileage rate that businesses and others can claim. The tax agency said the optional standard rate to calculate deductible operating costs for business vehicles will rise from 50.5 cents a mile to 58.5 cents for the final six months of 2008...
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Men Battling Cancer Fellowship Group
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
Saint Francis Medical Center oversees the Men Battling Cancer Fellowship Group, but a male cancer patient being treated anywhere is welcome. The group meets the second Thursday of every month at the American Cancer Society, 106 S. Farrar Drive, in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Ravi Zacharias: 'Beyond Opinion' Part 2
(Column ~ 06/24/08)
In my most recent column, I introduced you to "Beyond Opinion," a Christian apologetics book, edited by Ravi Zacharias, that offers suggestions on how to approach the skeptic, depending on the skeptic's background or reasons. Let me give you a stronger flavor of this interesting apologetics method...
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Fed likely to hold rates steady
(National News ~ 06/24/08)
WASHINGTON -- Straddling risky economic crosscurrents, the Federal Reserve is expected to stand still this week on interest rates. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues, who open a two-day meeting today, are in a tricky spot: they are faced with stuck-in-a-rut economic growth along with inflation threats from rising prices for energy, food and other commodities. ...
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Scholars set date of Odysseus' return from Trojan War
(National News ~ 06/24/08)
WASHINGTON — Using clues from star and sun positions mentioned by the ancient Greek poet Homer, scholars think they have determined the date when King Odysseus returned from the Trojan War and slaughtered a group of suitors who had been pressing his wife to marry one of them...
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Danny Buckner
(Obituary ~ 06/24/08)
Danny Leroy Buckner, 81, of Fort Myers, Fla., died Thursday, June 19, 2008, at Southwest Regional Hospital in Fort Myers. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Report: Amy Winehouse diagnosed with emphysema
(Entertainment ~ 06/24/08)
LONDON -- Amy Winehouse has early stage emphysema and her lungs have been damaged by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes, her father said in an interview published Sunday. The Sunday Mirror quoted Mitch Winehouse as saying that Amy has an irregular heartbeat, and has been warned that she will have to wear an oxygen mask unless she stops smoking drugs...
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Serena Williams opens Wimbledon with win
(High School Sports ~ 06/24/08)
WIMBLEDON, England -- Wimbledon began with a few surprises Monday. There was lots of sunshine, Serena Williams wore a raincoat anyway, and Roger Federer's changeover routine was interrupted by a friendly visit from his opponent. The tennis went mostly as expected. Federer, Williams and new women's No. 1 Ana Ivanovic won in straight sets. Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic also eased into the second round, while American men went 1-4...
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George Carlin mourned as counterculture hero
(Entertainment ~ 06/24/08)
LOS ANGELES -- Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. Some People Are Stupid. Stuff. People I Can Do Without. George Carlin, who died Sunday at 71, leaves behind not only a series of memorable routines, but a legal legacy: His most celebrated monologue, a frantic, informed riff on those infamous seven words, led to a Supreme Court decision on broadcasting offensive language...
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Georgia rallies to win Game 1
(College Sports ~ 06/24/08)
OMAHA, Neb. -- Gordon Beckham's teammates had given him a hard time for a week because he hadn't hit the home run that would make him Georgia's career leader. "Tonight," he said, "was a pretty good time to do it." Yes, it was. Beckham's two-run shot to left-center started a four-run eighth inning that brought Georgia from three runs down to defeat Fresno State 7-6 in Game 1 of the College World Series finals Monday night...
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Salvation Army serves 'Meals with Friends' one week a month
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
A meatball shortage created the most drama during Monday's free dinner at the Salvation Army. It was a problem quickly resolved. Maj. Beth Stillwell opened the last box of frozen meatballs donated by the Olive Garden restaurant and quickly heated them up...
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Male-only support group helps cancer patients stay strong
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
These men know what it's like to live half a year eating only a liquid nutritional supplement, to throw up five or six times a day, to dread the latest test results, to spend a year of their lives in a hospital, to pray to be healed from a disease that claims the lives of more than half a million Americans each year...
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Bond calls for off-shore, domestic drilling to help ease energy prices
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
Consumers and businesses are "being held hostage" by foreign oil producers and extreme environmentalists that will only make energy more costly without quick, decisive action to ramp up U.S. oil production, Sen. Kit Bond said Monday. Stopping in Cape Girardeau and standing at under a sign at the Rhodes Travel Center proclaming a gasoline price of $3.79 per gallon, Bond called for eliminating restrictions on off-shore drilling and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
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Diebold Orchards to auction off property Aug. 20; store near Benton will remain open
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
KELSO — The Diebold family plans to auction off its 700-acre orchard on Aug. 20. David Diebold, co-owner of the business off U.S. 61 in Kelso, cited family issues for the closing of the orchard. "All the shareholders don't have enough money to buy each other out," Diebold explained. "So we are holding the auction so those who want to buy the assets of the company can do so and the rest of the land can be sold to the public."...
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Bent into shape: More cyclists turn to recumbent bikes
(Health ~ 06/24/08)
As with many cyclists who have chosen to "get 'bent" — that is, to ride those funky, laid-back recumbent bikes instead of conventional upright models — Gary Souza made the switch because of injury. Back? Neck? Shoulder? "No," the 45-year-old Sacramento, Calif., resident said. "It was, like, a more sensitive area. I use the term 'crotchasarus area."...
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Cardiovascular Consultants to purchase K's Merchandise building
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
Vacant since the company closed its doors early last year, the former K's Merchandise building is one step closer to having a new tenant. Cardiovascular Consultants of Cape Girardeau is expected to finalize in July its purchase of the 98,121-square-foot building, the largest structure in the region for sale on the commercial market. The medical business, made up of eight physicians, has outgrown its present location at 25 Doctor's Park and will occupy the seven-acre property...
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Mo. governor candidate Steelman backs ACT testing
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Sarah Steelman wants to do away with Missouri's standardized achievement tests for high school students and instead require them to take the ACT college entrance exam. Steelman said Monday that the Missouri Assessment Program tests have done a poor job of ensuring high school students learn what they need to know to get ahead in life...
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Lee's Summit officer whose wife, baby died is out of job
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) -- The suburban Kansas City police officer whose wife declined medical attention before she died is out of a job. Lee's Summit Police confirmed that as of Friday, Caleb Horner was no longer an officer, but they did not reveal terms of his departure from the department he served for nine years...
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Cape County begins chip-and-seal paving
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
Chip-and-seal paving has begun in Cape Girardeau County, more than a year after first being proposed as a money saving alternative to asphalt. County Road 273, which stretches for 1.3 miles south from Highway 25 to the Stoddard County line, was paved this morning...
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Former KC cops appeal firings
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Two former Kansas City police officers are appealing their firings in a case involving a pregnant suspect who miscarried. Melody Spencer and Kevin Schnell filed petitions in Jackson County Circuit Court on Friday. They say the Board of Police Commissioners "failed to establish that there was cause" for their firings...
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Two injured on Southeast Missouri lakes over the weekend
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
Accidents on area lakes Saturday afternoon sent two women to the hospital, including one with burns after her boat exploded on Clearwater Lake. Jennifer Wallis, 32, of Valley Park, Mo., reportedly was released from a burn unit Sunday, while Annie Clark, 19, of Puxico, Mo., was treated for moderate injuries and released from Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center Saturday...
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East County board chairman gives his resignation
(Local News ~ 06/24/08)
Gary Fornkahl, board chairman of East County Fire Protection District, added his resignation Monday to a long list of resignations in the fire district. Fornkahl said in a letter filed with the county that his resignation was tied to the vacancy on the board left in April 2007 when a member of the board resigned...
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New Missouri law lowers taxes for nonresidents
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder signs legislation designed to end a tax battle between Missouri and Kansas. Missouri in 2007 passed a law barring those working in Missouri but living elsewhere from taking a property tax deduction off their Missouri income taxes. That prompted Kansas lawmakers to threaten higher taxes for Missourians who work across the border...
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Israelis flattered by 'The Zohan' movie
(Entertainment ~ 06/24/08)
TEL AVIV, Israel -- In Zohan Dvir, Israelis have a Hollywood hero -- no matter that the soldier-turned-hairstylist played by Adam Sandler represents some of their country's worst stereotypes. "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" looks to be a big hit in the Holy Land. ...
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Swollen Mississippi defeats another Missouri levee
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
WINFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The swollen Mississippi River burst through yet another levee Tuesday, a reminder the flooding crisis that has besieged the Midwest has yet to completely pass. But the new break was expected to swamp only a soccer field and a sod farm on the north side of St. ...
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Independence opens new genealogy library
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -- Dedicated family researchers in the Kansas City area now have a library to match their ambitions. The new Midwest Genealogy Center is billed as one the nation's largest libraries specifically for people tracing their ancestors. The 50,000 square foot building replaces a smaller facility housed in the Mid-Continent Public Library's north Independence branch...
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Mo. Supreme Court upholds 2007 midwifery law
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has reinstated a law letting certified midwives work in Missouri without fear of potential criminal charges. The 2007 measure legalizing the trained but unlicensed practice of midwifery had been struck down by a Cole County judge. She ruled it violated the state constitution, because the midwives provision was unrelated to the bill’s titled subject of health insurance...
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Springsteen booked to play St. Louis, Kansas City
(State News ~ 06/24/08)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Bruce Springsteen is booked to perform in St. Louis and Kansas City in late August. Springsteen's Web site says he and his E Street Band are scheduled to perform at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis on Saturday, Aug. 23, and Sunday, Aug. 24, at the Sprint Center in Kansas City...
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