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A tough lesson about the nature of life
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
Darryl Kile was working on a no-hitter through six innings in his first major league start for Houston 11 years ago. He never got the chance to finish it. Art Howe, his manager at the time, worried that Kile had already thrown 90 pitches and might blow out his arm trying to close the game out. Kile was the kind of kid, Howe knew, who was governed more by guts and desire than by sheer talent. The kind who didn't win a college scholarship or get drafted out of high school but who wouldn't quit...
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Nixon pledges death penalty review after high court ruling
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
All 68 Missouri death row cases will receive "thorough and thoughtful review" for compliance with new U.S. Supreme Court rulings on capital punishment, Attorney General Jay Nixon said Monday. Nixon's announcement came hours after the nation's highest court ruled in an Arizona case that juries, not judges, are to decide whether to impose the death penalty...
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Governor appoints Chicago lawyer to Gaming Board
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
CHICAGO -- The Illinois Gaming Board's newest member said Monday that she hopes to find "creative solutions" to the battle over the Emerald Casino project in Rosemont. Gov. George Ryan appointed Chicago lawyer Violet Clark to fill a vacancy on the board. She will complete the term of Robert Mariano, who stepped down in April...
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Advice sought in removing priests over abuse allegations
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
CHICAGO -- The Archdiocese of Chicago is asking the Vatican for advice on how to proceed with the removal of five priests from ministry over sexual misconduct allegations, Cardinal Francis George said Monday. George announced Sunday he was removing eight priests to conform to stringent polices adopted earlier this month by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Five of the priests are appealing the decision to the Vatican, a process George said he expects will begin this week...
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Man drowns in Missouri River
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- A man who drowned last weekend while swimming in the Missouri River apparently had become disoriented and panicked, the Missouri State Water Patrol said. The patrol said Christopher Molsbee, 25, of St. Joseph, was swimming with a friend about 12:45 a.m. Saturday when he drowned...
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Collective bargaining has little impact
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A year after Gov. Bob Holden signed an executive order authorizing collective bargaining for thousands of state employees, little has changed in the work place. And despite heated rhetoric from some Republicans and pro-business groups, there has been little political fallout since Holden issued the order June 29, 2001...
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Millionaire balloonist skirts disaster
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
ST. LOUIS -- American adventurer Steve Fossett continued pressing his around-the-world balloon quest Monday, a day after a frozen burner and stormy weather nearly foiled his trek. Closing in on South America, Fossett and his Bud Light Spirit of Freedom balloon as of noon Monday CDT were cruising at nearly 66 mph at 26,600 feet above the south Pacific. Fossett has traveled more than 6,900 miles since launching last Tuesday from western Australia...
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Holden signs into law agriculture measure
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Bob Holden has signed legislation promoting alternative fuels and authorizing fees to promote Missouri agriculture. Holden was visiting St. Joseph, Palmyra and Dexter on Monday to promote the signing of the bill, which takes effect as law Aug. 28...
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Many with teacher scholarships don't finish requirements
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Nearly 40 percent of students who received state teacher scholarships never actually became teachers or quit after less than five years in the profession, according to a state audit released Monday. A state education official said part of the problem is that the scholarships have gone only to recent high school graduates or students still in their first two years of college...
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Lawmaker to become lobbyist
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State Rep. Ted Farnen will return to the Capitol next year as a lobbyist for the Missouri Laborers' Union. He is prohibited from seeking re-election because of term limits.
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Plaintiffs win $4 million in gas explosion lawsuit
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Whirlpool Corp. is among several defendants who have settled a $4 million lawsuit filed by a woman who was severely burned in a propane gas explosion in Rich Hill. Helen Schmitz was getting ready to move into a new home with her boyfriend, her 18-month-old daughter and his 12-year-old daughter when the explosion happened in 1993. The two girls were also injured...
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Police - Man may have killed up to 18 women
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
ST. LOUIS -- A suspected serial killer who hanged himself in his jail cell two weeks ago has been linked to the deaths of 12 women -- and there could be as many as six more who have yet to be found, investigators said Monday. When Maury Troy Travis was found hanged in his cell with a suicide note on June 10, he had been charged with killing two women. At the time, police said evidence had linked him to the deaths of at least eight other women...
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Braves continue hot June, collect sixth straight victory
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
NEW YORK -- Pinch-hitter Keith Lockhart lined a leadoff home run in the ninth inning and the Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets 3-2 Monday night for their sixth straight victory. The Braves improved to 17-4 in June behind a solid effort from starter Kevin Millwood and the majors' best bullpen. Julio Franco also homered for Atlanta...
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Rangers turn back Angels
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Rafael Palmeiro and Herbert Perry drove in two runs apiece to lead the Texas Rangers to their sixth straight win, 8-5 over the Anaheim Angels in the first game of a doubleheader Monday night. Palmeiro had two hits and the go-ahead sacrifice fly in the fifth inning, and Perry went 3-for-5 as the Rangers snapped Anaheim's four-game winning streak. Darin Erstad homered twice for the Angels...
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Powerful Brazil fails to intimidate surprising Turkey
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
SAITAMA, Japan -- Maybe the soccer world has this whole thing backward. Maybe it's the Turks everyone should focus on for their World Cup semifinal with Brazil. Turkey's surprising progress at this wild World Cup, their first since 1954, has been highlighted by a strong defense, outstanding goalkeeping, timely scoring and surging confidence. Indeed, the Turks believe they not only belong in Wednesday night's semifinal, but in Sunday's final, too...
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Teams search globe for foreign gems
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
NEW YORK -- Maybyner "Nene" Hilario could become the "Next Nowitzki" -- the term used by NBA draftniks to describe a relatively unknown overseas player who can be turned into an All-Star. The 6-foot-11 Brazilian power forward's stock has been rising in the days leading up to Wednesday night's NBA draft, and his agent said Monday that he does not expect Hilario to remain on the board past the seventh pick...
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Organ recipients gather for biennial U.S. Transplant Games
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- In the painful, breathless years before Maureen Pecor received a new lung, cystic fibrosis made walking up a flight of stairs seem like climbing a mountain. But within five months of a transplant operation, she had hiked up six peaks in Vermont...
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Sports digest 6/25/02
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
AREA Cape Riverdogs roll past Saline Co. 15-3 SIKESTON, Mo -- The Cape Girardeau Riverdogs improved to 8-10 by routing Saline County, Ill., 15-3 Monday night at VFW Stadium. Tatum Kitchen pitched 5 1/3 innings and gave up just three hits and two unearned runs. Matt Stroup came on in relief and struck out nine in 3 2/3 innings...
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St. Louis auxiliary bishop Dolan named Milwaukee archbishop
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Timothy M. Dolan, an auxiliary bishop in St. Louis who had headed the American seminary in Rome, was named by the pope Tuesday to succeed Rembert Weakland as Milwaukee archbishop. Pope John Paul II accepted Weakland's resignation May 24 -- a day after he acknowledged paying a $450,000 settlement to Paul Marcoux, a former Marquette University student who said Weakland sexually assaulted him in 1979...
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Lawsuit accuses retired Missouri priest of sexual abuse
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A southern California businessman is suing a retired Missouri priest, claiming the clergyman sexually abused him in the 1950s and church leaders covered it up, The Kansas City Star reported in today's editions. Thomas Dorrell, 62, of Valencia, Calif., claims in a lawsuit filed Monday in Orange County Superior Court that the Rev. Sylvester Hoppe molested him repeatedly from 1951 through 1954. The abuse allegedly started when Dorrell was about 12...
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Trial starts in death of state trooper
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. -- Jury selection in the trial of a man accused of dragging an Illinois State Police trooper to death stretched into a second day after nine jurors were seated Monday. Circuit Judge Charles Stengel ordered selection to continue today. A jury of 12 and two alternates must be chosen. Jurors should begin hearing testimony Wednesday...
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Former office manager pleads guilty to fraud
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
ST. LOUIS -- The former office manager of a temporary employment business pleaded guilty Monday to a federal fraud count related to false billings. Linda Sykora, 40, of St. Louis County, could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced Sept. ...
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Israel's Sharon pledges Gaza offensive
(International News ~ 06/25/02)
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Israeli forces clamped down harder on the West Bank, as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged to widen his military offensive against Palestinian extremists to the Gaza Strip, where a helicopter strike killed four Hamas members Monday...
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Police officers stricken with nausea at G-8 site
(International News ~ 06/25/02)
CALGARY, Alberta -- Dozens of Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers working at the site of this week's G-8 summit became nauseous early Monday, and three were taken to a Calgary hospital. Const. Rob Dunnett of the RCMP said the officers at Nakiska camp, inside the security zone established at the Kananaskis resort where the summit begins Wednesday, "fell ill with symptoms commonly associated with food poisoning" during the night...
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Management practices criticized for raising fire danger
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
EAGAR, Ariz. -- Fires ripping through eastern Arizona are fueling a growing debate over the best way to manage the nation's forests. "Mother Nature is saying to Arizona right now, saying to the West that we've got to clean up these forests," Gov. Jane Hull said as she toured the fires that have forced thousands of people to flee their homes...
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Wildfire within a mile of abandoned Arizona community
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
SHOW LOW, Ariz. -- An explosive, 500-square-mile wildfire burned nearly to the doorstep of this evacuated mountain town Monday as ash rained down in an eerie shower on crews desperately fighting to hold back the flames. The largest fire in Arizona history burned to within a mile of this town of 7,700 by midday. It had already destroyed at least 329 houses and 16 businesses, most of them in Heber-Overgaard, a community 35 miles west of Show Low that burned over the weekend...
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Police question convict connected to missing Utah girl
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
SALT LAKE CITY -- Police investigating the apparent kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart said Monday they have not ruled out a handyman with a 29-year criminal record. As a result of focusing the investigation on those who had access to the Smarts' home, they talked again to the man and are checking out his alibi, said Salt Lake City Police Chief Rick Dinse...
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Jackson creates new post of electric utilities director
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Don Schuette is Mr. Electricity in Jackson. Schuette, the former superintendent of the electrical department for Lone Star Industries in Cape Girardeau, begins work today in the city's newly created position of director of electric utilities...
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New high school building should be ready by Aug. 1
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
The fine arts wing of the new Central High School is complete, and the rest of the building isn't far behind. The floor in the junior varsity gym recently got a fresh coat of wax, the seats for the bleachers in the varsity gym are going in, the orange paint is going up and the carpet for the library is ready to be laid...
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Pair of Southeast officials to leave jobs
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
Two Southeast Missouri State University officials are leaving the school. One, Loren Rullman, a university assistant vice president, is leaving voluntarily. The other, alumni director Kim Groves, was forced out by budget cuts. "It is a major disappointment," said Groves...
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A glimpse of two Cape Girardeau churches
(Column ~ 06/25/02)
By Rebecca Rollins Traffic is heavy on Sunday morning as the people of Cape Girardeau make their way to church. The double doors of one church after another open, and the notes of music coming from the pianos and organs ring out into the open air...
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Cape Girardeau 15-year-old lands modeling contract
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
Last November, at the suggestion of the Cheekwood Studio photographer who took her freshman pictures, Ali Turner sent a few photographs to Ford Modeling Agency. Ford, the most famous name in modeling, receives hundreds of unsolicited photographs each month and rarely finds a model among them...
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Some residents want to curb street ball
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
Go work on your jump shot somewhere else. That's the sentiment expressed by some residents in south Cape Girardeau who are having trouble driving through pickup basketball games in the middle of city streets. In numerous locations in south Cape Girardeau neighborhoods, portable basketball goals are set up along curbs. Some residents in the neighborhood complain that these makeshift playgrounds impede traffic. Some also are concerned that a child could be hit by a car...
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Church-chartered bus crashes into concrete pillar; five dead
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
TERRELL, Texas -- A chartered bus taking youngsters to a church camp crashed into the concrete pillar of an overpass Monday, killing the driver and four passengers, authorities said. At least 36 other people were injured in the accident about 30 miles east of Dallas. The bus was carrying more than 40 people and had departed from the Dallas suburb of Garland...
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Polygamist convicted of child rape
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
NEPHI, Utah -- Polygamist Tom Green was convicted of child rape Monday for impregnating one of his wives-to-be when she was 13. District Judge Donald Eyre took just 30 minutes to find Green guilty for his relationship with Linda Kunz, who is now his legal wife. The non-jury trial lasted about an hour...
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Rescue teams dig out bodies from quake that killed 245
(International News ~ 06/25/02)
ABDAREH, Iran -- Anguished screams poured from makeshift tents Monday, replacing the drone of bulldozers after they ended their grisly task -- pulling the last bodies from rubble in one of 100 villages demolished by an earthquake that killed 245 Iranians...
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U.S. raids, cultural problems lead to rising resentment
(International News ~ 06/25/02)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- In one raid, U.S. forces storm a home and arrest the owner, only to release him hours later. In another, soldiers tie the hands of female suspects, breaking a strict local taboo against touching women. While many people in southern Afghanistan have welcomed the presence of U.S. forces as bringers of relative peace, anger is rising at what some people claim are clumsy and culturally inappropriate tactics used by the Americans to weed out al-Qaida and Taliban suspects...
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Putin addresses wide range of topics at news conference
(International News ~ 06/25/02)
MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin deftly fielded questions Monday ranging from Russia's all-out campaign to join the World Trade Organization to ways to end vote-buying in far-flung regions. But unlike previous Kremlin news conferences, Putin was not asked about his sports regimen or pet dogs...
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Creative arts emerge from shadows of Taliban
(International News ~ 06/25/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- His favorite pieces are the ones he painted of his family -- his grandmother's well-worn face, his father's worried eyes, his mother's gentle smile. But those portraits remained hidden in his home for years, where Sayed Ahmed Zabir worked in secret because the fundamentalist Taliban rulers believed human images were unholy...
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Students escape grenade attack; tensions escalating
(International News ~ 06/25/02)
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Three Catholic university students escaped injury Monday after Protestant extremists lobbed a homemade grenade into their rented house. The attack in the Village, a hard-line Protestant district of south Belfast, followed another night of Catholic-Protestant rioting on the north side, where Protestants damaged several Catholic homes and youths from both sides hurled stones at police...
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Euro's bid for parity against U.S. dollar hits tourists hard
(International News ~ 06/25/02)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- As the euro rises against the U.S. dollar, Thomas Metcalf's Berlin hotel room has gotten more expensive by the day. It's a feeling Americans abroad are getting used to. After several years of a strong dollar, suddenly a trip up the Eiffel Tower or through Berlin's refurbished Reichstag have become more expensive pleasures as the euro climbs toward parity -- one euro for each dollar. On Monday, the euro briefly surged above 98 U.S. cents, its highest since February 2000...
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Nation digest 06/25/02
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
Rhode Island mayor convicted of corruption PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr. was convicted Monday of turning city hall into a den of thieves at the same time the popular and irrepressible politician was overseeing a renaissance in Rhode Island's biggest city...
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Boeing begins contract negotiations
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
WICHITA, Kan. -- Negotiators for Boeing Co. and its machinists union begin talks here today on a new master contract covering 26,100 workers at its major plants in Washington, Kansas and Oregon. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said its three key issues in the upcoming negotiations will be jobs and job security, a decent retirement plan and affordable health care...
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Students' cell phone calls cost universities millions
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Instead of paying 9 cents a minute through Sonoma State University, 20-year-old Sadie Gardere pays a flat monthly rate of $45 for a nationwide long distance plan that covers her calls home to the Bay Area. Savvy students like Gardere are saving money for themselves, but costing cash-strapped public universities millions of dollars by not using the school-provided telephone services in residence halls and dorm rooms...
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Teachers stop at Nordenia USA
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
Teachers from central and northern Missouri made a stop at Nordenia USA in Cape Girardeau County Monday as part of a two-week tour of southern Missouri business and industry. The 53rd annual Missouriana Studytour is sponsored by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation and Central Missouri State University...
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Cardinals to hold public memorial
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
Cardinals to hold public memorial The St. Louis Cardinals planned to hold a public memorial service Wednesday at Busch Stadium for pitcher Darryl Kile, and a pre-game tribute was scheduled before tonight's game. Some current and past teammates and coaches of Kile, found dead Saturday in a Chicago hotel room, will participate in the memorial service at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Cardinals spokesman Brian Bartow said Monday. Stadium gates will open at noon...
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County board says it won't approve 'frivolous' expenses
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Cape Girardeau County commissioners say they won't approve "frivolous" spending even if more money must be budgeted for juvenile operations in the wake of a state ruling. Commissioners said Monday they're still undecided about whether to hire a juvenile detention consultant in the face of a state ruling last week that no need exists for a new detention center in Cape Girardeau...
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Wendell Keith
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
Wendell Hampton Keith, 94, of St. Louis, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, June 24, 2002, at Woodlawn Manor Nursing Home in Arnold, Mo. He was born July 18, 1907, in Alto Pass, Ill., son of Henry Ardell and Gertrude Atchison Keith. He and Elizabeth Dillow were married Dec. 31, 1943, at Lake Charles, La...
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Vallie Cobb
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Vallie A. Cobb, 89, of St. Louis died Sunday, June 23, 2002, at her home. She was born Feb. 26, 1913, near Marble Hill, daughter of Wyatt C. and Lora E. Winchester Snider. She and Luther W. Cobb were married Dec. 25, 1931. He died Aug. 26, 1978...
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Freddie Buckner
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Freddie V. Buckner, 55, of Marble Hill died Saturday, June 22, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 1, 1947, in Ypsilanti, Mich., son of Vollmer and Frieda James Buckner. He and Carolyn Garland were married July 9, 1965...
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Martha Schlichting
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Martha Anna Schlichting, 87, formerly of Wittenberg, Mo., died Sunday, June 23, 2002, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born June 5, 1915, in St. Louis County, Mo., the daughter of Alfred and Katherine Garlich Werner. On Nov. 26, 1949, she married Otto J. Schlichting...
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Eugene Baker
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
SCOTT CITY, Mo. -- Eugene Victor "Bake" Baker, 95, of Scott City died Monday, June 24, 2002, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 7, 1907, at Blodgett, Mo., son of Wood E. and Cora McCollum Baker. He and Elsie Mae Waddell were married Nov. 28, 1929, at Benton, Mo. She died Jan. 22, 1990. He later married Margaret Keating, who also preceded him in death...
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Willie Tyson
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- Willie J. Tyson, 70, of Olmsted died Sunday, June 23, 2002, at his home. Massie Funeral Home in Cairo, Ill., is in charge of arrangements.
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Wallace Schneider
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Wallace Steve Schneider, 84, of Jackson died Monday, June 24, 2002, at Jackson Manor. He was born Oct. 19, 1917, in St. Louis, son of Frederick and Louise Frey Schneider. He and Violet Daisy Christy were married Nov. 24, 1940. She died Nov. 2, 1985...
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Anna O'Howell
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
Anna Mae O'Howell, 92, of St. Peters, Mo., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, June 23, 2002, at St. Peters Manor. She was born Aug. 2, 1909, at Ellsinore, Mo., daughter of Harve and Ida Stacey Coleman. Anna Mae worked at Brown Shoe Co. five years, and worked in housekeeping at Southeast Missouri Hospital 24 years. She attended St. Peters Senior Center 23 years. She was a former member of Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau...
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Speak Out A 06/25/02
(Speak Out ~ 06/25/02)
No response U.S. SEN. Jean Carnahan was quick to attempt to correct the Southeast Missourian relative to her voting record on the death tax. It would be nice if she was as prompt when contacted by a constituent. In fact, it would be nice if she responded at all. ...
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Joseph Bennett
(Obituary ~ 06/25/02)
ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Joseph Edward Bennett, 68, of Alto Pass died Sunday, June 23, 2002, at Union County Hospital in Anna, Ill. He was born Dec. 31, 1933, in Thebes, Ill., son of Joseph Even and Audrey Katherine Bedwell Bennett. He and Shirley I. Sheffer were married Nov. 14, 1952, in Dongola, Ill...
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Births 6/25/02
(Births ~ 06/25/02)
Pobst Daughter to Matthew D. and Melissa A. Pobst of Chaffee, Mo., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:05 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2002. Name, Taylor Renee. Weight, 6 pounds 5 ounces. First child. Mrs. Pobst is the former Melissa Nordin, daughter of Patricia Nordin of Chaffee. Pobst is the son of Melvin Pobst and Melissa Pobst of Oran, Mo...
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Quake is signal for better preparedness
(Editorial ~ 06/25/02)
In the words of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, 2002 has all the earmarks of being an "annus horribilis" across the United States. So far, the ever-present threat of more terrorist attacks has grown stronger rather than weakening. The stock market is still in the dumps and threatens to dip to post-Sept. ...
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Evil lurks in GameCube's newest title
(Community ~ 06/25/02)
Not much has changed since the last time you passed through Raccoon City. The undead still walk the streets, dining on citizens. And you thought real estate values were down where you live. Once again, trained police experts from STARS (Special Tactics and Rescue Service) are on the scene to try to solve the problem...
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West Nile virus spreads, evolves in Midwest, South
(Community ~ 06/25/02)
With West Nile virus' rapid colonization of the Midwest and South, researchers are discovering that infections among new species of birds and mosquitoes, varying geography and changing weather patterns are in essence granting one disease multiple personalities...
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Judge enters innocent plea for Moussaui in revised indictment
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
Associated Press WriterALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge entered a plea of innocent Tuesday on behalf of Zacarias Moussaoui at the French citizen's arraignment on a revised Sept. 11-related indictment and denied his request to move the trial to Denver...
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Selling pushes market even closer to September lows
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- Doubts about technology overshadowed positive news from Boeing and DuPont Tuesday, forcing the stock market to give up a moderate advance and close sharply lower. The Dow Jones industrials fell 155 points...
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NASA grounds shuttle fleet to find answers to fuel line cracks
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
AP Science WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA has grounded the space shuttle fleet while engineers try to determine why tiny cracks are developing in the fuel line feeding the main rocket engines. The announcement put a crimp in NASA's efforts to satisfy a tight schedule for building and supplying the international space station. ...
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Murder suspect extradited
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
Standard Democrat SIKESTON, Mo. -- Carl Wayne Wilson, 45, of East St. Louis, Ill., was turned over to the St. Clair County, Ill., sheriff's deputies shortly after 9 a.m. Monday to face first-degree murder charges. Wilson was being held in the Scott County Jail after being apprehended by Sikeston police Saturday morning. No charges were filed in Sikeston related to the incident. Missouri State Highway Patrol officials said Wilson has family in the Southeast Missouri area...
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Plans finalized for Fourth of July festival at Clarkton
(State News ~ 06/25/02)
Daily Dunklin Democrat CLARKTON, Mo. -- The July 4th festival sponsored by the Clarkton Historical Society will be held from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. July 4 at the Kiwanis City Park in downtown Clarkton. It is the second annual festival. There will be games, contests, a country store offering crafts and gospel singing by various groups throughout the day. The first 800 people at the event will be treated to free ice cream. Door prizes will also be given away during the event...
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Out of the past 6/25/02
(Out of the Past ~ 06/25/02)
10 years ago: June 25, 1992 U.S. Supreme Court's recent ban on prayer at public high school graduations hits close to home; almost every public school in area includes prayer as part of its commencement ceremonies; school officials say they will have to determine if ban will force changes in what they consider part of commencement tradition...
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Paducah romps past Ford & Sons 18-7
(Other Sports ~ 06/25/02)
Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons American Legion baseball team has seen much better days than Monday. Ford & Sons got off to a slow start by committing three errors in the first inning and things never got much better as Paducah, Ky., romped 18-7 at Capaha Field. The game was stopped after seven innings by the 10-run rule...
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Column brings back memories of Ellsinore, Mo.
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/25/02)
To the editor: Thank you for Joe Sullivan's column regarding the loss of Gladys Leach. Having grown up in Ellsinore, Mo., the column brought me so close to home. I knew of Gladys all my life and used to receive the Van Buren Current Local and read her articles. When my mother passed a few years ago, somehow reading that the death angel had taken her made it easier...
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Indonesia boycotts American chicken
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Neil Carey knew it wouldn't be easy selling chicken to a Muslim country like Indonesia. He had to fly in two imams to his Missouri slaughterhouse to certify that the chickens were halal, or permissible to eat under Islamic law...
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Court - Only juries may vote for death sentences
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a jury, not a judge, must determine whether a capital defendant gets the death penalty, a decision that could ultimately take more people off death row than any other ruling by the court in three decades...
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Bush urges removal of Arafat as leader of Palestinian people
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush urged the Palestinians Monday to replace Yasser Arafat with leaders "not compromised by terror" and adopt democratic reforms that could produce an independent state within three years. "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a Palestinian state can be born," Bush said at the White House...
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Feds look at information contradicting Stewart's statements
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
WASHINGTON -- Congressional investigators are looking at new information that appears to contradict what Martha Stewart and her now-suspended broker have said about her sale of ImClone stock. A House committee is interested in a widening circle of Stewart acquaintances. The latest is a doctor who also sold shares of the biotech company shortly before the government announced it had rejected ImClone's approval application for the cancer drug Erbitux...
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DOT secretary vows to avert Amtrak shutdown
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said Monday that he is confident the federal government will not allow Amtrak to shut down and will work with the company's board and with Congress to ensure that passenger rail service continues...
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Judges may toughen sentences when guns used in crimes
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
WASHINGTON -- A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that judges can lengthen the prison sentences of people who use guns while committing other crimes, even if the defendant hasn't been convicted of any charge specifically involving the weapon...
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FBI checking libraries' reading records
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
WASHINGTON -- The FBI is visiting libraries nationwide and checking the reading records of people it suspects of having ties to terrorists or plotting an attack, library officials say. The FBI effort, authorized by the antiterrorism law enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks, is the first broad government check of library records since the 1970s when prosecutors reined in the practice for fear of abuses...
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U.S. not saying what will happen to Guantanamo prisoners
(National News ~ 06/25/02)
WASHINGTON -- A half-year after the United States began taking terror suspects to the Guantanamo Bay prison, the total has reached 564 from some 36 countries, and the Bush administration has made little apparent headway in deciding what to do with them...
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Doctors - Kile death was preventable
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
CHICAGO -- The heart condition suspected in the death of St. Louis Cardinals' pitcher Darryl Kile is common and treatable, and should have been suspected given his family history, doctors said Monday. An autopsy showed the 33-year-old pitcher, found dead Saturday in the team's Chicago hotel, had 80 percent to 90 percent narrowing of two of three main arteries to his heart...
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Top seeds find smooth sailing on opening day
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
WIMBLEDON, England -- Back home on Centre Court at the All England Club, Pete Sampras served just like Pete Sampras. And, rather out of character, so did Andre Agassi. Both won straight-set openers at Wimbledon, as did Serena Williams, Jennifer Capriati and every other top player in action Monday. Indeed, the day's only significant surprise was the beautiful weather: temperatures in the 70s with nary a rain cloud...
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Two in court on firearms counts
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
Two Southeast Missouri men were in federal court on Monday for illegally possessing firearms. Jerry L. Rector, 29, of Jackson, Mo., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being a previously convicted felon in possession of firearms. Last Aug. 17, Cape Girardeau County sheriff's deputies met Rector at his residence to follow up on a tip he had firearms...
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Cape police report 6/25
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/25/02)
DWIRobert Deimund, 29, 815 Third St., Scott City, Mo., was arrested Sunday for driving while intoxicated. James Deberry, 42, of 905 S. Pacific, was arrested Sunday for driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest and traffic violations. Arrests Solomon McGee, 21, 2029 W. Illinois St., Aurora Ill., was arrested Saturday on a warrant...
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Scientists search for alternatives fumigant
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
ATTAPULGUS, Ga. -- In small plots of Southern peas, growing in the sandy soils near Georgia's southwest corner, horticulturists Darby Granberry and Juan Carlos Diaz-Perez are evaluating the potential of compost for controlling pests that gnaw at farm income...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen actions
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
7:30 p.m. Monday, June 24 City Hall Public Hearings Held hearing to consider the rezoning of 16.36 acres of land located at Broadridge Drive and West Independence Street from R-1 and R-2 (single-family residential) District and R-3 (general residential) District to O-1 (professional office) District as submitted by the Southeast Missouri Medical Center Inc.Action Items...
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Holders of peanut quotas plan to file suit
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
ALBANY, Ga. -- A lawyer for peanut farmers says he plans to fight the new federal farm bill in court, arguing that the government is not offering enough money to people whose income depends on quotas abolished by the bill. Members of the Peanut Quota Holders Association voted overwhelmingly earlier this month to support a class-action suit challenging provisions of the law, which abolished the quota system...
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Natural compound may help brain recover from stroke
(Community ~ 06/25/02)
WASHINGTON -- Injections of a naturally occurring compound can prompt the growth of new nerve fibers and restore some functions lost after a stroke, according to researchers who have tested the chemical on rats. Researchers in Boston found that injections of inosine, a natural chemical, caused the undamaged side of the brain to develop new nerve circuits that helped to restore function in rats who lost the ability to control their legs after induced strokes...
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Revenue department can't explain the math
(Editorial ~ 06/25/02)
Part of Missouri's revenue crunch might be due to just plain poor accountability, as columnist Jack Stapleton has documented in a series of columns on the Sunday Opinion pages in recent weeks. With the signing last week by Gov. Bob Holden of authorization for more specialty license plates for Missouri motorists, another example of lackadaisical bookkeeping has come to light...
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People and things 6/25/02
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Cape Girardeau held commencement June. Twenty-five students were in the graduating class. Angela Ford of Cape Girardeau received the Delmar A. Cobble Outstanding Student Nurse of the Year Award...
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Rebecca Knight prepares for year in Belgium
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
Editor's note: Three area students will be leaving Southeast Missouri to study abroad and learn about other cultures. The students -- Rebecca Knight and Anna Bishop, both of Jackson, Mo., and Dane Lincoln of Cape Girardeau, are participating in an exchange program directed by Rotary International...
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People and things 6/25/02
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
Hahs sisters named all-American Scholars The United States Achievement Academy has announced that Jill and Julie Hahs of Sedgewickville, Mo., have been named All-American Scholars. The students, who attend Meadow Heights School, are the daughters of Kenny and Debbie Hahs and the granddaughters of Melba Moore and Ines Hahs, all of Sedgewickville...
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Municipal band to play swing tunes
(Local News ~ 06/25/02)
The Cape Girardeau Municipal Band will present "Big Band Spectacular" at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Capaha Park. The Jerry Ford Band will be guest entertainment, playing with the municipal band and also unaccompanied. Selections will include two medleys of big band swing tunes, including "In the Mood," "Woodchopper's Ball" and "April in Paris."...
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Struggling to locate Stiles points
(Professional Sports ~ 06/25/02)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- She was the darling of the WNBA last season, the country girl who went from women's college basketball's all-time leading scorer to professional rookie of the year. And the whole time she smiled through her purple and silver braces...
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