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Making an offer: Sources said the agreed price for the strip of park land was $300,000

By Rudi Keller ~ and Peg McNichol ~ Southeast Missourian

The Cape Girardeau County Commission's decision to sell a 1.24-acre section of County Park North raised questions about the legal authority for selling county land and raised the ire of the advisory board appointed to watch over park operations.

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Canceled animal blessing ceremony held after about 30 show up anyway

By Chris Harris ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 5/12/08

Roughly 30 animals whose owners took them to the canceled blessing of the animal ceremony Sunday were blessed anyway in Capaha Park.

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Cape author draws on protective detail experience

By Bridget DiCosmo ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 5/12/08

Thomas A. Taylor of Cape Girardeau has served on the security staff of four different Missouri governors and later head of the Governor's Security Division of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a division established by Sen. Kit Bond during his term as Missouri governor.

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Children watch garden grow at Family Resouce Center

By Chris Pagano ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 5/12/08

Children at the Cape Area Family Resource Center after-school program and those enrolled in the upcoming summer day camp will tend the tomatoes, lettuce, chives, cucumber, nasturtium, peppers and collard greens planted alongside and toward the front of their building.

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Cape plans to expand educational program

By Lindy Bavolek ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 5/12/08

Next year, more Cape Girardeau students with disabilities will be placed in traditional classrooms, under the expansion of a pilot program aimed at "mainstreaming."

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DNA-traceable meat technology marketed to retailers

By BRIAN CHARLTON ~ The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

LAWRENCE, Kan. — An Ireland-based company that uses DNA technology to test and track meat to the original animal and prove that it's what the label promises is now targeting U.S. retailers.

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Chicago students hunt for Obama's haircut, speedy spud, Weird Al

The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

CHICAGO — Dozens of students from the University of Chicago returned Sunday from a four-day multistate trek dubbed the world's largest scavenger hunt after trying to find Barack Obama's haircut and a car horn that plays "La Cucaracha," among other things.

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Insurance model follows American medical tradition

By KEVIN FREKING ~ The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

WASHINGTON — Call it Obamacare or call it Clintoncare. But don't call it "socialized medicine."

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Rebate excludes many U.S. taxpayers with foreign spouses

By JULIANA BARBASSA ~ The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

SAN FRANCISCO — When Maulit Shelat heard about the Bush administration's plan to pump up the economy by sending out stimulus checks, he sat down with his wife and drew up a list of priorities: first up, remodeling the bathroom.

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President calls Jenna's wedding 'spectacular'

By DEB RIECHMANN ~ The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

WACO, Texas — President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but on Sunday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.

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Families will make case in federal court for vaccine link to autism

The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

WASHINGTON — Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine today as they take their case to a federal court.

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Woman pays off parking ticket issued to her in 1976

The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

CALUMET, Mich. — Police in this Upper Peninsula town had forgotten about the $1 parking ticket written on Sept. 1, 1976. But the woman who had found it on her windshield hadn't.

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Pro-Western president of Serbia declares election victory

By WILLIAM J. KOLE ~ The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia's pro-Western president declared victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections — an upset over ultranationalists who tried to exploit anger over Kosovo's independence. But his rivals vowed to fight on, and it was unclear if he could stave off their challenge.

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At least 11 dead after crowded Haitian ferry sinks off southern coast

The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An overloaded ferry capsized off the coast of southern Haiti, killing at least 11 people, U.N. and Haitian authorities said Sunday.

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Boat carrying aid for Myanmar cyclone victims sinks en route

The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies — one of the first international shipments — sank on its way to the disaster zone.

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Naked photo shoot held in Austria

The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

VIENNA, Austria — The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling and no underwear.

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Nepal police detain female Tibetan protesters

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA ~ The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

KATMANDU, Nepal — Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations against China's recent crackdown in Tibet.

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Republicans to push Mo. voter ID measure

By DAVID A. LIEB ~ The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As quick as a camera flash, Republican lawmakers have resurrected a plan to require photo identification for voters. They will press to pass it this week, lest their political opportunity to do so disappears.

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Mo. tornado death toll climbs to 15

By ROXANA HEGEMAN ~ The Associated Press ~ 5/12/08

SENECA, Mo. — Search efforts were called off Sunday evening in southwest Missouri after a killer tornado swept through this sparsely populated countryside, leaving at least 15 people dead.

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Making an offer: Sources said the agreed price for the strip of park land was $300,000

By Rudi Keller ~ and Peg McNichol ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 5/12/08

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Youth United Way raises more than $15K for community projects

Southeast Missourian ~ 5/12/08

Youth United Way members conducted campaigns this year at Central, Jackson, Notre Dame Regional, Saxony Lutheran and Scott City high schools to raise money for support of projects addressing teen pregnancy prevention and youth substance abuse.

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Immunologist offers seminar in Cape

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Strong wind cancels Blue Sky Church meeting

Southeast Missourian ~ 5/11/08

The Blue Sky Church meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. today in Capaha Park has been rescheduled for next week due to bad weather.

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Auditor frequented sex-related Web sites, tracking records show

By Peg McNichol ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 5/11/08

Documents tracking the use of the computer on the desk of David Ludwig, Cape Girardeau County auditor, dating back to May 2007 show the computer was routinely used to access Web sites featuring Pamela Anderson, best known for her role in the television series "Baywatch" and who gained considerable...

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Commissioner to turn recordings over to attorney general

5/11/08

Cape Girardeau County's 2nd District commissioner, Jay Purcell, said Saturday he intends to turn over to the Missouri attorney general's office audio recordings he made of Cape Girardeau County Commission meetings. He said he will share with the state all recordings he has made of county business.

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Obama coming to Cape this week

By Rudi Keller ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 5/11/08

Democratic Party presidential front-runner Barack Obama will visit Cape Girardeau on Tuesday to meet with voters about the economy, an Obama campaign aide said Saturday.

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