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The plot thickens for the semifinal round
(High School Sports ~ 12/29/03)
After two days the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament has gone according to plan, with no upsets to speak of. While there has not been an upset that does not mean the tournament has been void of excitement. From brawls in the stands, near-brawls on the court and one spectacular weekend for Bell City guard Dominitrix Johnson, the Christmas tournament has had plenty to keep the fans attention...
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'Tis a taxing time of the year
(Column ~ 12/29/03)
Santa Claus has pulled out of town -- to make way for the tax man. "Whazzat?" you say. "Don't we have four months until our taxes are due?" Settle down. Yes, that IS true. But you should know the official filing season starts Jan. 5. And there are some last-minute things you could do to save money before Dec. 31...
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People talk 12/29/03
(National News ~ 12/29/03)
Hiding tears, Mirren invested as a dame LOS ANGELES -- Golden Globe nominee Helen Mirren said embarrassment drives her to tears, and she almost broke down recently at Buckingham Palace when she was given the title of dame. Mirren has been in London for the past few months appearing in Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Elektra." Her stint in London kept her from the Los Angeles premiere of her latest film, "Calendar Girls," which opened nationally Dec. ...
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Shooting of activist raises debate in Israel
(International News ~ 12/29/03)
JERUSALEM -- The shooting of an unarmed Israeli peace activist during a demonstration has set off a debate among Israelis over the military's response to protesters during the last three years of conflict with the Palestinians. While some say Friday's shooting was legitimate, critics say it finally forced Israelis to confront the kind of treatment Palestinian demonstrators have long faced...
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World briefs 12/29/03
(International News ~ 12/29/03)
WHO wants China SARS case tested overseas BEIJING -- The World Health Organization said it wants samples from China's suspected SARS case sent to labs overseas for testing because local tests have been inconclusive. Meanwhile, health departments throughout China stepped up anti-SARS measures Sunday, a day after authorities announced the nation's first suspected case of the disease since July...
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U.S. commander says forces closing in on leaders of insurgency
(International News ~ 12/29/03)
TIKRIT, Iraq -- U.S. forces hunting top and midlevel leaders of the Iraqi insurgency are close to unraveling a network of five powerful clans that have funneled money, weapons and instructions to street gunmen and bombmakers, according to a U.S. Army commander...
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Other developments in Iraq
(International News ~ 12/29/03)
Roadside bombs in separate guerrilla attacks killed two U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi children on Sunday, including one explosion that went off in Baghdad. Hundreds of weeping and wailing mourners buried victims of a Saturday attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala -- the biggest since the Dec. 13 capture of Saddam Hussein -- as the death toll rose to 19...
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Lab testing human West Nile vaccine
(State News ~ 12/29/03)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Veterinarians having been advising horse owners in recent summers to vaccinate their animals against West Nile virus. But no such vaccine is available for humans, for whom long sleeves and mosquito repellent provide the best protection against the disease...
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Demand for child care around the clock growing
(State News ~ 12/29/03)
ST. LOUIS -- Daytime is long gone by the time Zannise Nailor picks up her five children from their day-care center. But that's not a problem at Buttons and Bows Preschool Development Center, one of a small but growing number of facilities that also provide night care...
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Illinois library delivers books
(State News ~ 12/29/03)
MAHOMET, Ill. -- The library in this central Illinois town now makes house calls. The new home delivery program is aimed at people who have trouble reaching the library because of age or disability. Customers can keep the books as long as they wish, with no worry of fines. "It's not just for older people," said library director Lyn Schmidt. "It's for anybody who has a disability or some temporary thing like a broken ankle."...
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Howard Dean had own secret energy group in Vermont
(National News ~ 12/29/03)
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean has demanded release of secret deliberations of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. But as Vermont governor, Dean had an energy task force that met in secret and angered state lawmakers...
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Muslim football tournament under fire for team names
(National News ~ 12/29/03)
IRVINE, Calif. -- The idea was innocent enough: A group of young men organize a holiday football tournament and give their teams such innocuous names as "4th and Goal" and "1988'ers." It was some of the other team names that raised eyebrows: Intifada, Soldiers of Allah and Mujahideen...
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Bulger not responsible for Rams' loss
(Sports Column ~ 12/29/03)
There is something about Marc Bulger's personality that doesn't let him hang his head. He doesn't get down on himself. You don't see a frustrated face when Mike Martz lays into him for making a bad read. He just shrugs it off and throws a touchdown on the next drive...
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State needs primary law for seat belts
(Column ~ 12/29/03)
By Kelley Lichtenegger Enough money to buy more than 450,000 Dodge Vipers -- $40.7 billion -- has been doled out to states just this year "to fund aggressive enforcement of seat belt laws," according to Consumers' Research Magazine...
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Nation briefs12/29/03
(National News ~ 12/29/03)
Seven missing after more bodies found in mudslide SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Seven people were still missing Sunday amid the river of debris and muck that a rainstorm had sent sliding through a church camp in Waterman Canyon, an area of the San Bernardino Mountains devastated by wildfires just two months earlier. Emergency crews returned to the camp Sunday for a third day of searching as parishioners held a memorial service for the dead at the campground...
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Hope fades in Iran after devastating earthquake
(International News ~ 12/29/03)
BAM, Iran -- Hopes of finding more earthquake survivors in Iran's ancient city of Bam faded Sunday as the sharp, foul smell of death permeated the pulverized rubble where mud-brick houses became instant tombs for more than 20,000 people. Rescue workers from around the world joined Iranians in searching through powdery debris that left little room for air pockets, which could allow people to survive while awaiting help...
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Arizona comeback puts Green Bay in playoffs
(Professional Sports ~ 12/29/03)
NEW YORK -- Green Bay got the last NFL playoff spot thanks to Arizona's wild comeback victory over Minnesota on Sunday, while Seattle and Baltimore took the other spots still open. Josh McCown threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Nathan Poole on fourth-and-25 as time expired to rally the Cardinals to an 18-17 victory over the Vikings...
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Infected cow's meat reached eight states
(National News ~ 12/29/03)
WASHINGTON -- Meat from a Holstein sick with mad cow disease has now reached retail markets in eight states and one territory, but still poses no health risk, Agriculture Department officials said Sunday. Dr. Kenneth Petersen, an Agriculture Department veterinarian, said investigators have determined that some of the meat from the diseased dairy cow slaughtered Dec. ...
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5 SEMO grads get A's all the way
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
In her toughest semester at Southeast Missouri State University, Marsha Walker considered dropping out of college to take care of her mother, who was hospitalized after a life-threatening car accident. Walker's professors convinced her to stick it out. And even though her mother passed away during the week of final exams last spring, the Dexter, Mo., resident still passed all of her classes with straight A's...
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Fireworks restrictions on city officials' agenda
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
The rocket's red glare might be harder to find next Fourth of July. While most area residents are focused on the upcoming New Year's holiday, Cape Girardeau and Jackson city officials are looking ahead to the Fourth of July and how to ensure safer celebrations...
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Getting ready for the big games to come
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
During the hour and a half between sessions of Saturday's Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament, the 7,000 seats were empty but not the court. At the east end, D.D. Johnson and Tyler Qualls cut, drove the basket and pulled up for jumpers as if getting ready for a game in the Show Me Center...
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Some winners and losers of 2003
(Business ~ 12/29/03)
NEW YORK -- The opening bell of the stock market finally stopped sounding like a funeral chime in 2003, but that doesn't mean everyone was a winner. Allegations of greedy behavior this year put many high-profile businesspeople on the hot seat -- and on our list of losers. Among the winners, a few made the list not for their impressive portfolios but for their gumption in shaping the various business worlds where they dwell...
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Market forecasts for next year more modest
(Business ~ 12/29/03)
NEW YORK -- Investors celebrated the long-awaited return of the bull market in 2003, snapping up shares after three years of bitter declines. But 2004 arrives with a warning for an increasingly exuberant Wall Street: The best of the gains is over. With stocks advancing since March on hopes for a strong economic recovery, the three main gauges are trading at their highest levels in nearly two years...
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The year that was
(Business ~ 12/29/03)
The three-year bear stock market came to an end and hiring picked up after the longest job slump in six decades. But that news came too late to save the Jim Wilson Co., which announced it was closing and laying off its 65 employees. MidAmerica Hotels razed its 40-year-old Holiday Inn to make way for a new Holiday Inn Express. Later, plans were unveiled for another 180-room hotel in Cape Girardeau not too far from there...
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Numerous signs point to a strong economy in the upcoming year
(National News ~ 12/29/03)
WASHINGTON -- For the U.S. economy, 2004 could turn out to be a banner year. Forecasters believe things are falling into place to produce the strongest economic growth in two decades. Consumer spending will be bolstered by tax refund checks early in the year. Businesses are finally beginning to invest in new plants and equipment and rehiring some laid off workers, though improvements in the unemployment rate are expected to be modest...
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Annie Potts returns to Stephens College campus
(State News ~ 12/29/03)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Annie Potts has moments of doubt. You'd never know it by sitting across from the 51-year-old actress and listening to her talk. She is the picture of confidence -- bright, animated and not the least bit apologetic about her success...
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Military digest 12/29/03
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
Meadow Heights grad finishes Marine training Marine Corps Pvt. Jeremy S. Mayfield, son of Tammy L. Ainsworth of Troy, Mo., and Jerry S. Mayfield of Patton, Mo., recently completed 12 weeks of basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif. Mayfield is a 2003 graduate of Meadow Heights High School of Patton...
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Rose Hughes
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Rose Lucille Hughes, 83, of Scott City, formerly of Cairo, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girar-deau. She was born Aug. 28, 1920, at Cairo, daughter of the late Frank and Catherine Zettler Walder. She was married to Norman D. Hughes. He preceded her in death in 1994...
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Muriel Gillespie
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
BETHALTO, Ill.-- Muriel G. Gillespie, 82, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, at Christian Hospital Northeast in St. Louis. She was born Feb. 18, 1921, in Bollinger County, Mo., daughter of the late William J. and Mattie C. Whittenburg Rea. She and Austin J. Gillespie were married Sept. 9, 1947, at Alton, Ill. He preceded her in death on Dec. 16, 1985...
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Alberta McAllister
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
Alberta "Birdie" M. McAllister, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girar-deau. She was born Aug. 3, 1933, at St. Louis, daughter of Albert and Clara Welker Warner. She and Joe McAllister were married Feb. 2, 1972, at St. Louis...
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Floyd Ford
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Floyd Ford, 92, of Tamms died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo, Ill. He was born Feb. 10, 1911, at Anna, Ill., son of James and Laura Spanfield Ford. He was preceded in death by his first wife Helen in 1983. He and Beulah Heater were married on Jan. 10, 1986...
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James Coker
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
OLIVE BANCH, Ill. -- James R. "Jim" Coker, 76, of Olive Branch died Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 30, 1927, in Ben Hill County, Ga., son of Walter and Odell Minshew Coker. He and Martha Housman were married in 1966. She died March 4, 2003...
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Stella Wilfong
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Stella Mae Wilfong, 100, of Dongola, Mo., died Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003, at the Advance Nursing Center in Advance. She was born Nov. 19, 1903, at Glennon, Mo., daughter of David and Bell Ward Green. She and Harrison Wilfong were married on April 28, 1920, at Farmington, Mo. He died on May 26, 1956...
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Helen Reynolds
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
VIENNA, Ill. -- Helen L. Reynolds, 92, of Vienna died Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, at the Harrisburg Medical Center in Harrisburg, Ill. She was born Nov. 6, 1911, in Missouri, daughter of A.L. and Edith Shots Shipman. She and Wallace Reynolds were married in Scott City. He died on March 9, 1993...
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Juanita Taylor
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Juanita Allene Taylor, 67, of Sikeston died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Aug. 20, 1936, at Sikeston, daughter of Eulis and Nancy Matthews Hobbs. She and Thomas J. Taylor were married on Nov. 20, 1980, at Poplar Bluff, Mo. He preceded her in death...
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Annie Smith
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Annie Bell Smith, 85, of Sikeston died Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003, at Select Special Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Dec. 8, 1918, at Franklin, Ind., daughter of the late Abe and Annie Wheatley Elmore. She was married to George Smith Jr...
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Robert Andersen
(Obituary ~ 12/29/03)
ORAN, Mo. -- Robert Steven Andersen, 49, of Spokane Valley, Wash., died Oct. 8, 2003, at his family's home in Spokane Valley. He was born Feb. 6, 1954, at Kansas City, Mo., son of Robert and Shirley Drymon Andersen. He and Delores Heisserer were married on Nov. 25, 1989...
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Speak Out 12/29/03
(Speak Out ~ 12/29/03)
Taxing support I DON'T understand why cities smaller than Cape Girardeau seem to be able to handle their fire and police money problems OK, but every time Cape needs something for its fire or police departments, it expects to go to the voters for help. What gives?...
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Cape County road crew destroys private property along roadway
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/29/03)
To the editor: My wife and I would like to express our appreciation to the Cape Girardeau County Highway Department for destroying our 10-foot red cedar tree during this holiday. Since it is only about 6 feet from the roadway and 2 feet behind an established fence, I can see where it severely obstructs the view of anyone driving in the ditch instead of the road. Apparently, this applies to our fence and anchor posts as well...
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Sports briefs 12/29/03
(Other Sports ~ 12/29/03)
Baseball New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was doing well Sunday, a day after he fainted at memorial service, and his doctor described his health as excellent. The 73-year-old Steinbrenner was expected to be released from Sarasota Memorial Hospital on Sunday night...
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Community briefs 12/29/03
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
Bridge dedication rebroadcast this week Television coverage of the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge dedication ceremony will be rebroadcast on KFVS12 at 1:08 a.m. Wednesday. The rebroadcast will be two hours. County health center to provide WIC services...
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Community Q&A 12/29/03
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
Name: Tony Buehrle Lives in: Cape Girardeau Family: My family consists of my wife, Donna, to whom I've been married for 29 years; three daughters, Nichole, a teacher at Notre Dame Regional High School; Amy, a student at Oklahoma State University; Emily, a senior at Notre Dame Regional High School; and a son, Mark, a 2003 graduate of Oklahoma State University...
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Night of remembrance held at garden
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
Luminaries For Life campaign and service was held at Saint Francis Medical Center Dec. 18. About 100 community members attended the outdoor service to honor the memory of loved ones. Southeast Missourian Nearly 100 people attended a Dec. 18 ceremony at the St. ...
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Former Cape boy faces risky surgery
(Local News ~ 12/29/03)
A fund has been established at First Midwest Bank of Dexter to help 7-year-old Dylan Ashley, the grandson of Jerry and Beverly Seabaugh of Dexter, Mo., formerly of Cape Girardeau. His immediate family members live in Jackson, Marble Hill and Charleston...
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Cape/Jackson fire reports 12/29/03
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/29/03)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded Saturday to the following items: At 10:36 p.m., a car fire on the 400 block of Sprigg. Firefighters responded Sunday to the following items: At 12:20 a.m., a carbon monoxide alarm at 1518 Luce. At 12:38 a.m., a request for medical assistance at 1020 Bloomfield...
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Man injured in one-car accident
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/29/03)
An Oran, Mo., man was moderately injured Sunday morning in a one-car accident, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Melvin Reynolds, 44, was traveling on Scott County Road 252 four miles south of Chaffee, Mo., when he failed to negotiate a turn and ran off the right side of the road into a ditch...
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Cape police report 12/29/03
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/29/03)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests A suspect was in custody Saturday pending formal charges for failure to use a turn signal and unlawful use of a weapon. Two suspects were in custody Sunday pending formal charges for domestic assault in separate incidents...
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Business memo 12/29/03
(Business ~ 12/29/03)
Innovative Idea Integration named MVP Innovative Idea Integration was recently named by Hewlett Packard as the MVP for the North Plains Global Business Unit, which covers a nine-state region and includes approximately 200 authorized service providers. The award is given each quarter to the Hewlett Packard service provider that achieves the highest customer satisfaction and operational performance score in the region...
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People on the move 12/29/03
(Business ~ 12/29/03)
Assistant administrator at area vets home named Carl Knott has been named the assistant administrator of the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Knott replaces Bobby Norman, who resigned in November. Knott will begin his duties Jan. 5...
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Understanding Medicare
(Editorial ~ 12/29/03)
Elderly Americans attending a meeting conducted by U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin of Maryland came away saying they don't understand the new Medicare Modernization Act. Another group of older Americans attending a meeting conducted by U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey of Georgia left saying they understood the new Medicare law a little better...
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Out of the past 12/29/03
(Out of the Past ~ 12/29/03)
10 years ago: Dec. 29, 1993 Freezing rain, sleet and snow that fell on parts of southern Missouri last night and early today, creating hazardous driving conditions, cause no accidents with injuries. Burned jumper line is being blamed for early-morning power outage that affects about 2,400 Union electric Co. customers in Scott City...
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