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U.S. content with tie against South Korea
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
DAEGU, South Korea -- Playing 11 on 61,000, the Americans were happy with a tie. For much of Monday morning, it appeared the United States might even beat South Korea in the World Cup and disappoint the home team's delirious fans, who filled the stadium with deafening roars and songs amid a sea of red...
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Missouri's in middle in economic development
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- While faring better than most of its neighbors, Missouri's economic development approach ranked in the middle of the pack nationally, according to a new study. The report released Monday by the Progressive Policy Institute ranks states according to their emphasis on what it describes as the "new economy" -- a focus on such things as technology- and knowledge-based jobs, use of the Internet and worldwide exports...
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Barbecue championships begin June 28 at Kennett
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
KENNETT, Mo. -- Alan Jones isn't blowing smoke when he admits feeling intimidated by the big-shot barbecuers who arrive in this Missouri Bootheel town one weekend every summer to show who's master of the mesquite. Jones calls them "The Big Boys," the out-of-staters who converge in Kennett for the Show-Me State Championship Barbecue Cook-Off, now into its 21st year...
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Man charged with deaths of prostitutes
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Investigators of the slayings of 10 black women in the St. Louis area have accused a waiter and paroled robber in the deaths of two prostitutes abducted, tortured and strangled. Arrested Friday, Maury Troy Travis, 36, surfaced after Internet sleuthing by investigators traced to him a letter and map sent last month to a newspaper, leading officers to a woman's corpse in St. Charles County, a federal complaint unsealed Monday said...
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Nachtigal leaving Gov. Holden's administration for South Dakota
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The chief spokesman for Missouri Gov. Bob Holden is resigning to become the campaign press secretary for South Dakota gubernatorial candidate Jim Abbott. Jerry Nachtigal said Monday that his last day as Holden's communications director will be June 21. Both Holden and Abbott are Democrats...
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Student sentenced in bomb threats
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
PARK HILLS, Mo. -- A teen-ager accused of making bogus bomb threats to Central High School last November has been ordered to spend up to four years in prison. But under Friday's sentence, Circuit Judge Sandy Martinez after four months will reconsider Brock Conrad's punishment and decide whether the 18-year-old man should receive probation...
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Accused impostor at bridge collapse appears in court
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
OWEN SOUND, Ontario -- A Missourian accused of posing as a military captain and taking control of rescue efforts after last month's deadly interstate bridge collapse in Oklahoma will remain jailed in Canada at least another week. William Clark, arrested Sunday in Ontario as a U.S. fugitive with a rifle, made a brief court appearance Monday in this southwestern Ontario town...
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Russians looking for answers after riot kills two
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
MOSCOW -- Police and politicians in Russia looked to place blame Monday for riots that broke out during a broadcast of a World Cup match, leaving two dead, scores injured, and cars and shop windows damaged throughout much of Moscow's center. World Cup violence was also reported in southeastern China, where thousands of irate fans in Fuzhou overturned police cars and a bus and tore down street signs after a public television screen was switched off minutes before the China-Brazil game began Saturday night. ...
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India will let Pakistan resume air flights into its air space
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
NEW DELHI, India -- In a step back from the brink of war, India said Monday it would allow aircraft from nuclear-armed rival Pakistan to resume flights over Indian air space -- but there was still no word on sending an Indian envoy back to Islamabad...
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Want to go?
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
WHAT: Barbecue Championship WHEN: Friday-Saturday, June 28-29. WHERE: Kennett, Mo. ACTIVITIES: Barbecue contest, carnival rides, a live band and talent show on June 28,an ATV rodeo on June 29...
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Arkansas man indicted in calls threatening two Army sergeants
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- An Arkansas man was indicted Monday for making threatening phone calls to Fort Leonard Wood in which he threatened to shoot two staff sergeants, federal prosecutors said. Bralen L. Jordan, 20, of North Little Rock, Ark., is accused of making three separate phone calls to the Army post on May 2...
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Senate panel will examine use of steroids in majors
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
WASHINGTON -- Congress is going to look into steroid use in baseball, following the recent disclosure that two former league MVPs used the muscle-building drugs. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said Monday he plans to hold a hearing that also will look at steroid use in the Olympics and among college athletes. Dorgan is chairman of the consumer affairs, foreign commerce and tourism subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee...
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Businesses, schools close for match with Americans
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
DAEGU, South Korea -- Work hours and school classes were cut Monday as South Koreans, still excited by their team's first victory in a World Cup match, cheered on the Red Devils against the United States. President Kim Dae-jung watched on television along with millions of others freed from school or businesses for the game, which ended in a 1-1 tie...
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Pinning high hopes on the newest Cowboy
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
IRVING, Texas Chad Hutchinson stands in the glaring sun long after most of his teammates have left the practice field. He keeps flinging footballs, trying to solve the flaw in his motion that keeps sending them wide of his target. The rust on his powerful right arm is understandable. The 25-year-old rookie quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys hasn't played a football game in four years. He's spent the time away trying to throw fastballs past major and minor leaguers...
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MLB will examine Clemens' plunking
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
Roger Clemens' inside fastball that plunked Barry Bonds might cost the New York Yankees ace more than a little respect. Baseball is now looking into whether Clemens should be disciplined for hitting the San Francisco slugger -- as he hinted he might do...
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Jazz center trying to be brother, not hero
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
Utah Jazz center Greg Ostertag doesn't want anyone to see him as a hero, though later this month he will give one of his kidneys to his ailing diabetic sister. "I'm just trying to be a brother," he said Monday. Ostertag's sister, 26-year-old Amy Hall, has had Type 1 diabetes since she was 7 and began having kidney problems in 1999. Her kidneys failed in March, but tests showed Ostertag was a perfect match as a donor...
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Wrist injury puts Cards' Edmonds on 15-day DL
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
SEATTLE -- The St. Louis Cardinals placed centerfielder Jim Edmonds on the 15-day disabled list Monday because of a sprained right wrist. The Cardinals called up So Taguchi from Triple-A Memphis of to take Edmonds' place on the 25-man roster. Taguchi, who was Ichiro Suzuki's teammate with the Orix Blue Wave in Japan for nine seasons, was in the starting lineup for the opener of a three-game interleague series with the Seattle Mariners...
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Yankees rally to win World Series rematch against Diamondbacks
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
NEW YORK -- Shane Spencer hit a two-out grand slam in the eighth inning -- no, not against Byung-Hyun Kim -- and the New York Yankees rallied past the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-5 Monday night in a rematch of last year's World Series teams. Spencer homered on a full-count pitch from Bret Prinz after the Yankees chased Randy Johnson (9-2) earlier in the inning...
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Authorities look for motive in monastery shootings
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
CONCEPTION, Mo. -- A 71-year-old man opened fire at a Roman Catholic abbey in rural Northwest Missouri, killing two monks and seriously wounding two others before committing suicide in an abbey chapel, authorities said. The gunman was identified as Lloyd Robert Jeffress of Kearney, which is about 70 miles south of Conception Abbey. He opened fire at random in the halls around the abbey's business offices at about 8:40 a.m., said the Rev. Gregory Polan, abbot of the abbey...
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Loya jirga delayed for a day
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The former Afghan king renounced any role in the new government Monday -- a move aimed at defusing a crisis that forced a one-day delay in the opening of the grand council to select new leaders for this war-battered nation. Some of the 1,550 delegates to the council, or loya jirga, were shocked by the decision of 87-year-old Mohammad Zaher Shah, who ruled for 40 years. ...
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Ashcroft discusses joint U.S.-Russian efforts
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
MOSCOW -- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Russian law enforcement officials on Monday discussed ways to boost their agencies' cooperation in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, including what they called the growing Afghan drug trade...
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Activist less optimistic about overturning conviction
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian-American activist said judges are denying his lawyers access to vital evidence he hopes would overturn his convictions for tarnishing Egypt's image and accepting foreign funds without permission from the government. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, 63, said defense lawyers cannot collect the evidence because judges have not allowed them to enter his Cairo think-tank, the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies...
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Detroit officials grapple with a dozen child homicides
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
DETROIT -- Regina Trammell loved to sing rhythm and blues and gospel tunes with her 10-year-old son DeAntoine while driving him to school. But the radio is silent now. DeAntoine became the 12th child age 16 or younger to be slain in Detroit so far this year -- the ninth by gunfire. A man fired two shots through a wall into his bedroom June 3, hitting him in the back...
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Astronauts clamp work platform to space station
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts clamped a $254 million work platform to the international space station on Monday, providing a movable bench for the orbiting outpost's robot arm. Working from inside the space station, two astronauts used the 58-foot robot arm to put the platform in place on top of a rail car. A pair of spacewalkers will go back out Tuesday to bolt it down and wire it up...
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Fundamental premise of the World Wide Web is challenged
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
Nicolai Lassen considers linking such a fundamental element of the World Wide Web that he sees nothing wrong with creating a service around linking to news articles at more than 3,000 other sites. Danish publishers, however, equate such linking with stealing -- and have gone to court to stop it...
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Project tries to teach computer what humans take for granted
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
AUSTIN, Texas -- Day after day since 1984, teams of programmers, linguists, theologians, mathematicians and philosophers have plugged away at a $60 million project they hope will transform human existence: teaching a computer common sense. They have been feeding a database named Cyc 1.4 million truths and generalities about daily life so it can automatically make assumptions humans make: Creatures that die stay dead. Dogs have spines. Scaling a cliff requires intense physical effort...
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High school's new road likely to have late finish
(Local News ~ 06/11/02)
The section of Silver Springs Road that runs in front of the new Central High School, and the lighting that will run alongside the road, are not likely to be completed by the first day of school on Sept. 3, said Cape Girardeau city engineer Mark Lester...
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Gas prices drop locally and nationwide
(Local News ~ 06/11/02)
As the summer travel season goes into full throttle, gas prices are beginning to drop, falling 2.5 cents a gallon in the United States and almost twice that here in the Midwest. The dip comes at a time when people traditionally think of gas prices going up because more vacationers are traveling, though analysts say that's not the case...
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A ticket to the real world
(Column ~ 06/11/02)
hkronmueller It's summertime. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and I am green. Green with envy, that is. OK, maybe the sun isn't shining, but I'm still jealous of children who get to spend their summer afternoons splashing around at the pool, playing tag in their back yards or taking a nap on the couch...
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Law could give Miner flexibility to use tourism tax
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Voters in Miner will have a chance to decide if revenue generated by an existing hotel tax can be used for purposes other than tourism promotion under legislation Lt. Gov. Joe Maxwell will sign into law on Wednesday. Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, sponsored the bill at the behest of Miner city officials, who said the tax was generating more than needed for tourism purposes...
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Wildfire nears Denver suburb
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
DENVER -- A wind-driven wildfire closed in fast on Denver on Monday, and authorities said up to 40,000 people might be forced to leave their homes along the southwestern edge of the metropolitan area. The fire burning across more than 75,000 acres roared to within five miles of residential neighborhoods, spreading toward Denver at about a mile an hour...
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Mob king Gotti dies in Springfield prison hospital
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
NEW YORK -- John Gotti, who swaggered, schemed and murdered his way to the pinnacle of organized crime in America only to be toppled by secret FBI tapes and a turncoat mobster's testimony, died at a prison hospital Monday. He was 61. The U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., announced the death of the former Mafia boss. Gotti had suffered from throat cancer and had been moved to the prison hospital from the maximum-security federal prison in Marion, Ill...
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Rumsfeld calls Iraqi leader 'liar'
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
MANAMA, Bahrain -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is a "world-class liar" who is trying to fool the world into thinking he has no interest in weapons of mass destruction, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told U.S. troops Monday on this island nation in the Persian Gulf...
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Court sentences Egyptian to 10-year prison term
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- A state security court convicted an Egyptian of offering to spy for the Israeli intelligence service and sentenced him to 10 years in prison at hard labor. Magdy Anwar Mohamed Tawfiq, 52, was convicted of trying to contact a foreign country with the intent of harming national interests. ...
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Israeli troops surround Arafat's compound; curfew imposed
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Israeli tanks encircled the battered compound of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Monday while troops arrested 27 suspected Palestinian militants and imposed a curfew during a sweep through the city. Israel launched its latest West Bank raid just hours before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sat down with President Bush at the White House. ...
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Brazilian police say drug lord killed investigative journalist
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- An undercover TV journalist reporting on crime and drugs in Rio de Janeiro's shantytowns was tortured and put to death with a sword by a drug lord who runs his territory like a medieval fiefdom, police said Monday. Tim Lopes of Globo television was captured June 2 as he tried to infiltrate a dance party in the Vila Cruzeiro shantytown in northern Rio, where gangs sold drugs and staged illicit sex shows...
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U.S. highlights biotech as answer to hunger
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
ROME -- The United States sought to justify its new farm subsidies and use of biotechnology Monday amid criticism at the U.N. World Food Summit that its policies were stifling trade and harming poor farmers. The two issues dominated the opening session of a four-day summit on world hunger at the headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome...
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McCartney, Mills hoping for quiet wedding
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
GLASLOUGH, Ireland -- Looking somewhat shy and self-conscious, Paul McCartney introduced his fiancee to hundreds of fans outside a remote 17th century Irish castle on Monday, asking to be allowed a peaceful and private wedding ceremony there. McCartney and Heather Mills, who had tried to keep the location of Tuesday's wedding secret, walked out of the grounds at Castle Leslie holding hands to the wild applause of citizens and journalists who had gathered from nearby and around the world...
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Navajo vets glad to see little-told story come to screen
(Entertainment ~ 06/11/02)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When the president placed Congressional Gold Medals around the necks of four Navajo men last summer, it thrust the World War II veterans into the limelight after 56 years of relative silence. Those four, and one too ill to make the trip to Washington, are the only survivors of an elite group of 29 communications specialists -- the Navajo Code Talkers -- to whom many credit the Allied victory over Japan in 1945. ...
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Sound was not rare bird, but guns
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
NEW ORLEANS -- Researchers who thought tapping noises they captured on tape were evidence that a possibly extinct type of woodpecker still survives have had their hopes dampened: The sounds, it turns out, were just gunfire. The ivory-billed woodpecker is widely believed to be extinct, but a Louisiana State University student's detailed account of a possible sighting in 1999 raised hopes that there are still some around in south Louisiana's Pearl River Wildlife Management Area...
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State taxes, philosophers, trial lawyers
(Column ~ 06/11/02)
A taxing time: Even as the federal government cuts taxes to stimulate the economy, the states are raising taxes for the first time in eight years, creating a drag on the overall economy. With the nation's economic recovery still testing its footing, is this any time to be raising taxes? Certainly not, economists say. Yet that's precisely what states are beginning to do...
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Dynasty talk grows as Lakers take a day off
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Phil Jackson accidentally referred to team owner Jerry Buss as Jerry Krause on Monday, an indication of how easy it is for the Los Angeles Lakers to let their minds wander. With a 3-0 lead over the New Jersey Nets in the best-of-seven NBA Finals, the Lakers need to have their heads on straight for only 48 more minutes to win their third consecutive title...
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Youth justice panel to meet in Cape
(Local News ~ 06/11/02)
When Mark Steward was growing up in Poplar Bluff, Mo., teachers constantly threatened to send him to Boonville, Mo., if he didn't straighten up. Boonville was the location of the state's reform school. "It was almost like a mini-prison for kids," he says...
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Births 6/11/01
(Births ~ 06/11/02)
Merideth Daughter to Roy Dale and Elizabeth Merideth of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:30 a.m. Monday, June 3, 2002. Name, Gillian Grace. Weight, 9 pounds 6 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Merideth is the former Elizabeth Keith, daughter of Ronnie and Kathy Keith of Piedmont, Mo. ...
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Leon Eaves
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
ANNA, Ill. -- Leon R. Eaves, 77, of Anna died Saturday, June 8, 2002, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marion, Ill. He was born July 9, 1924, in Bush, Ill., son of Raymond and Josephine Eubanks Eaves. He married Mary Ohnemus, who preceded him in death...
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Louise Miller
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Graveside service for Louise Miller of Poplar Bluff was held Saturday at Bloomfield Cemetery in Bloomfield, Mo. The Rev. Kurt Schuermann officiated. Fitch-Hillis Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff was in charge of arrangements. Miller, 99, died Thursday, June 6, 2002, at Westwood Hills Healthcare Center...
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Frances Funke
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
Frances Funke, 76, of Edwardsville, Ill., died Saturday, June 8, 2002, at Cedar Ridge in Lebanon, Ill. She was born Oct. 23, 1925, daughter of Albert and Lillie E. Mott Rice. She and Paul Webster Funke were married May 16, 1942, in Missouri. Funke was an inspector and office worker 30 years at Pepsi Cola in Chicago...
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Robert Joyce
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Robert Finley Joyce Sr., 80, died Sunday, June 9, 2002, at his home. He was born Aug. 31, 1921, in Peru, Neb., son of James Henry and Ruth Helen Alfultis Joyce. He and Jeanette DuBois were married Dec. 3, 1944. Joyce owned and operated a trucking business in Cape Girardeau from 1950 to 1968, and retired in 1984 from ABF Co. in Cape Girardeau. He was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Teamsters Local 574...
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Larry Tice
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Larry Eugene Tice, 54, of Perryville died Sunday, June 9, 2002, at his home. He was born Jan. 31, 1948, at Kennett, Mo., son of James and Maxine Damron Tice. Tice was a carpenter. Survivors include two sons, Jeff Tice of Perryville, Michael Tice of Michigan; two daughters, Jessica Tice of Perryville, Tammy Tice of Michigan; three sisters, Carolyn, Margo and Kay; and five grandchildren...
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Mae Zimmerman
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
FRIEDHEIM, Mo. -- Edna "Mae" Zimmerman, 80, of Friedheim died Sunday, June 9, 2002, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 6, 1922, at Sedgewickville, Mo., daughter of Albert and Dona Hobeck Friese. She and Elmer Walter Zimmerman were married April 21, 1940, at Friedheim. He died Sept. 14, 1988...
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Edmund Bax
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
Edmund F. Bax, 87, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, June 9, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Nov. 19, 1914, at St. Elizabeth, Mo., son of Bernard H. and Elizabeth Elchholz Bax. He and Josephine M. Elfrink were married July 30, 1940, in Leopold, Mo...
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Out of the past 6/11/02
(Out of the Past ~ 06/11/02)
10 years ago: June 11, 1992 Board of Regents at Southeast Missouri State University approves nearly $50 million operating budget for institution; fiscal plan includes pay raises for faculty and staff; regents approve $49.87 million budget for 1993 fiscal year, with largest share of that - $36.3 million - going for salaries and benefits for schools approximately 950 employees...
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Sikeston youngsters to take the stage
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
Standard Democrat SIKESTON, Mo. -- When the curtain opens on Sikeston Little Theatre's production of "Follow that Rabbit" on Thursday, it will mark the 15th youth show staged by the group. Since its inception, more than 800 young people in the Sikeston area have appeared on stage in different plays...
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Stadium foes claim place on ballot for November
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
ST. LOUIS -- A group opposed to using public money to help the St. Louis Cardinals build a replacement for Busch Stadium says it has succeeded in placing a measure on the November ballot that, if approved, would require voters in the city to sign off on any such subsidy...
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TIF presentation doesn't answer all questions for school board
(Local News ~ 06/11/02)
The Cape Girardeau school board for the first time Tuesday night heard a tax increment financing presentation by Mark Grimm, an attorney hired by the city to handle TIF matters. Alongside the Cape Girardeau City Council, school board members asked plenty of questions only to be given plenty of incomplete answers...
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Investigation in case of missing Utah girl being refocused
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
Associated Press WriterSALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The city's police chief said Tuesday detectives are refocusing their investigation into the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart on those who know the 14-year-old girl, and vowed to the unidentified suspect: "We are going to get you."...
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Explosion in Israeli town inures nine in apparent terror attack
(International News ~ 06/11/02)
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A bomb went off Tuesday in a restaurant in Herzliya, injuring nine people in the upscale town just north of Tel Aviv, police said. Israel Army Radio said one person was killed, apparently a suicide bomber. Israel Radio said no one else was killed in the attack...
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Speakers at Southern Baptist Convention take swipes at Islam
(State News ~ 06/11/02)
Associated Press WriterST. LOUIS (AP) -- A leading Islamic group was demanding Tuesday that the Southern Baptist Convention condemn "bigoted" and "hate-filled" statements made by one of its pastors. During a pastors' conference Monday evening, the Rev. Jerry Vines, pastor of First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., told conventioneers that many of this country's problems can be blamed on religious pluralism...
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Court upholds government in fight over Islamic charity assets
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
Associated Press WriterCHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge who viewed secret evidence upheld Tuesday the government's seizure of money and records from an Islamic charity federal officials say is suspected of ties to terrorism. U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen rejected a request from Global Relief Foundation of suburban Bridgeview for release of its funds...
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Dow, Nasdaq, S&P have worst finishes of the year
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- A spate of disappointments in the pharmaceutical and biotch sectors triggered a broad selloff on Wall Street Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones industrials, Nasdaq composite and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes to their lowest closes of the year -- and near the lows that followed the terrorist attacks...
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Mariners' Moyer shuts out Cardinals
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
By Jim Cour The Associated Press SEATTLE -- Jamie Moyer just keeps getting better, even as he grows older. Moyer pitched his first shutout in nearly four years and the Seattle Mariners' offense broke out with 14 hits in a 10-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night...
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Ross Harmon
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
Ross K. Harmon, 91, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 10, 2002, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Feb. 27, 1911, at Vanduser, Mo., son of William and Hattie Harmon. He and Elma Baker were married Feb. 28, 1932, at Benton, Mo. Harmon was a maintenance worker at Southeast Missouri State University 25 years, and also farmed. He lived in Cape Girardeau most of his life. He was a member of Hobbs Chapel United Methodist Church...
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Archie Williams
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Archie Williams, 88, of Cairo died Monday, June 10, 2002, at Daystar Care Center. Heavenly Gates Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Ivan Farrow
(Obituary ~ 06/11/02)
Ivan L. Farrow, 69, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, June 9, 2002, at his home. He was born Nov. 22, 1932, in Cape Girardeau, son of Lawrence and Esther Lange Farrow. He and the former Jane Farrow were married May 12, 1989, in Cape Girardeau County. Mr. Farrow was a construction contractor, and member of Egypt Mills Antique Tractor Club. He was of the Lutheran belief...
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Cape fire report 6/11
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/11/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, June 11 Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday:At 5:21 p.m., a line down at 1009 Good Hope. At 6:59 p.m., a medical assist at 3120 Independence St. At 8:35 p.m., a box alarm at 143 S. Henderson Firefighters responded to the following calls Monday:At 1:19 a.m., a box alarm at 616 St. Benton...
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4 teens arrested for vehicle break-ins
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/11/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Four Jackson teen-agers have been arrested in connection with 16 vehicle break-ins and 18 instances of property damage amounting to more than $10,000 in theft and damages. Michael Arnold, David Fee and John Shetley, all 17, were arrested Saturday after a four-week investigation by Jackson police. A fourth suspect arrested is a juvenile...
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Results from last week's online poll
(Local News ~ 06/11/02)
semissourian.com RESULTS FROM LAST WEEK'S ONLINE POLL Because of cuts in state funding, Southeast Missouri State University is looking to save $3.5 million through budget cuts and fee increases, among other methods. The university's board of regents will meet Wednesday to decide what will be done. Last week, the Southeast Missourian's online poll asked, "Considering its current financial crisis, what should Southeast Missouri State University do to meet its budget?" (410 votes)...
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Woman dies in crash in Cape
(Local News ~ 06/11/02)
One person was killed in a collision Monday afternoon in the 800 block of South Kingshighway. The name of the victim was not released Monday night because next of kin had not been notified. Police said the victim was female. The accident occurred at 4:11 p.m. in the southbound lanes and involved two vehicles...
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Feds arrest man in alleged 'dirty bomb' plot
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
WASHINGTON -- The government on Monday announced the arrest of an American accused of plotting with al-Qaida terrorists to detonate a "dirty bomb" to spread radioactive material, possibly targeting Washington. Authorities said the alleged scheme, involving a former gang member from Chicago who was raised Catholic but converted to Islam, went only as far as the planning stages. ...
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Court rejects gun appeals testing right to own firearms
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will not hear two cases that would have tested the Bush administration's newly articulated position that the Constitution protects an individual's right to own guns. Without comment, the court turned down two men convicted of violating federal gun laws. The men had argued that the laws are unconstitutional because the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to "keep and bear arms."...
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Bush joins Sharon in criticism of Arafat
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
WASHINGTON -- As Israeli tanks encircled Yasser Arafat's headquarters, President Bush cast fresh doubts Monday on prospects for Mideast peace with the Palestinian leader in power. "No one has confidence in the emerging Palestinian government," Bush said with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his side...
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High court rules against employee in disability case
(National News ~ 06/11/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Americans with Disabilities Act does not entitle people to jobs that might jeopardize their health. The court rejected arguments from a man who argued he should be able to decide for himself whether to take the risk of working in an oil refinery, where chemicals might aggravate his liver ailment...
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Cape police report 6/11
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/11/02)
Cape Girardeau Tuesday, June 11 ArrestsShametra Laqua Twiggs, 19, of Cape Girardeau was arrested Saturday on a Cape Girardeau warrant for assault. Jason Daniel Wise, 27, of 186 Aloe, Jackson, Mo., was arrested Saturday for driving while revoked, no proof of insurance, no seat belt and failure to register vehicle...
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Benton man injured when truck hits tree
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/11/02)
FRUITLAND, Mo. -- A Benton, Mo., man sustained moderate injuries Monday after his pickup truck left Interstate 55 near Fruitland and struck a tree. Gregory McElroy, 37, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center after the 2:54 p.m. accident four miles north of Fruitland...
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Speak Out A 06/11/02
(Speak Out ~ 06/11/02)
Trash and health I DO not live in Jackson, but it seems to me if trash cans are forbidden, it should happen after all animals are removed from freedom. Who wants other people's garbage or personal items scattered in the streets or in the neighbors' yards? This could be a health problem with children picking items up...
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A giant legacy - Wilthong left his mark on Scott City football
(Other Sports ~ 06/11/02)
Although small in stature, William "Wil" Wilthong cast a giant shadow over the Scott City High School football program for parts of four decades. From 1968 to 1995, the 5-foot-5 Wilthong nurtured Scott City football to prominence as one of the top programs in the state. Besides his role as football coach, Wilthong coached baseball and served as athletic director at the Scott County school for the final 15 years of his tenure...
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Former student remembers Scully's devotion
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/11/02)
To the editor: It is with sadness that I read of the passing of Dr. Mark Scully. He was president during my years at SEMO from 1970 to 74. Scully was a distinguished man and a true friend of the students. I will always remember with great fondness my weekly meetings with him. I had been told he was unapproachable. I took it upon myself to visit him in his office one Wednesday morning, a visit I would make frequently over the next two years...
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Cape Girardeau woman wins PWBA regional event
(Other Sports ~ 06/11/02)
Meleia Sides of Cape Girardeau swept a field of 30 bowlers to win a Professional Women's Bowling Association regional tournament Sunday in Savannah, Tenn. Sides averaged 224.64 over 22 games in the two-day Jones Motor City Open. It was her first win on the tour after finishing 11th at a PWBA regional stop in Conway, Ark., earlier this year...
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Antibiotics a treasure feds debate how to save
(Community ~ 06/11/02)
WASHINGTON -- The ad shows a tantalizing glimpse of gold inside a treasure chest. No, not a pirate's doubloon: The message is that antibiotics are one of the nation's great treasures and it's everybody's responsibility -- not just doctors' -- to make sure they keep working...
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Sports digest 6/11/02
(Other Sports ~ 06/11/02)
Colleges Oklahoma State moved quickly to name a new athletic director, announcing that university vice president Harry Birdwell will replace the departed Terry Don Phillips. Phillips resigned last week after nearly eight years in Stillwater to become athletic director at Clemson. Birdwell has been OSU's vice president for business and external relations since 1994...
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Senators - Wait on making seating decision
(Editorial ~ 06/11/02)
When the Missouri Senate's $1.8 million renovation -- the first in many years -- was completed just prior to the January opening of this year's legislative session, reaction was generally favorable. The spruced-up chamber was a stark contrast to the dog-eared chamber of the previous session. Everyone was happy, except for most of the state's 34 senators...
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Proposed Catholic policy aims for healing
(Editorial ~ 06/11/02)
Two extremes of the Roman Catholic church have received considerable attention in the pages of the Southeast Missourian in recent days. One extreme has been the stories about the American church's handling of reports of sexual abuse by clergymen. The other extreme was the fanfare of the ordination of a priest, one of only three such ordinations held in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau diocese in the past dozen years...
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Red Wings shut out Carolina, one victory from title
(Professional Sports ~ 06/11/02)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Dominik Hasek is one victory away from no longer being the best goaltender in NHL history without a Stanley Cup championship. Hasek, acquired for the sole purpose of leading the NHL's oldest and most talented team to a championship, put on a spectacular show for his record sixth shutout of the playoffs to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals Monday night...
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