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NASA awaits color images from Mars
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
PASADENA, Calif. -- Thrilled by the apparently flawless landing of the Spirit rover on Mars, NASA scientists pored over photos and other information, awaited a stream of even more tantalizing data and worked on the days-long process of getting the robot ready to roll...
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More explicit spam
(Editorial ~ 01/05/04)
With the new year comes a new federal law regarding all that spam -- unwanted e-mail -- that fills the in-boxes of most typical computers hooked to the Internet. The new Can-Spam Act has been called an anti-spam law, but in reality it is unlikely to cut down on anyone's e-mail trash. ...
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Toys for Tots helps 1,544 children
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/05/04)
To the editor: While most of the residents of this area were spending this Christmas season decorating their homes and lawns with a variety of ornaments and lights, the members of the Cpl. Mason O. Yarbrough Detachment of the Marine Corps League were busy planning, collecting and organization the annual Toys for Tots drive. We want to report the success of this year's drive and thank everyone for their support...
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Orland Bollinger Sr.
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
BENTON, Mo. -- Orland James Bollinger Sr., 87, of Benton died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004, at his son's home in Benton. He was born July 4, 1916, at Benton, son of Theodore and Rosa Vogel Bollinger. He and Mary Jane Brock were married Aug. 31, 1941, at Benton...
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James Morse
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
TAMMS, Ill. -- James "Jay" C. Morse, 74, of Dorsey, Ill., died Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003, at his residence. He was born May 25, 1929, in Powe, Mo., son of the late Allen and Myrtle Whitehead Morse. He and Norma Holshouser were married Sept. 4, 1960, at Wood River, Ill...
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Hazel Gawenda
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
ANNA, Ill. -- Hazel Marie Gawenda, 75, of Lake of Egypt, Creal Springs, Ill., died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004, at her home. She was born June 12, 1928, at Chicago, daughter of Joseph and Edna Kalat Miller Sr. She and Alex J. Gawenda Sr., were married on Feb. 8, 1947, at Chicago. He died on April 1, 1999...
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William Staffen
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- William Joseph Staffen, 76, of Perryville, Mo., formerly of Farmington, Mo., died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004. He was born Dec. 7, 1927, at Libertyville, Mo., son of the late Eddie and Rose Steffan Staffen. Staffen served in the U.S. Army in World War II. He owned and operated D and B Concrete Finishers and worked throughout the state of Missouri for many years...
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Clarence Pulliam
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
ANNA, Ill. -- Clarence Pulliam, 95, of Anna died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004, at Jonesboro Health Care in Jonesboro, Ill. Arrangements are pending at Crain Funeral Home in Anna.
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Howard King
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Howard E. King, 87, of Cairo died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo. He was born May 13, 1916, at Gill, Ark., son of the late George and Grace Simmons King. He married Zita Johnson...
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Ronnie Barks
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
Ronnie "Bucky" L. Barks, 45, of Jackson died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 14, 1958, at Cape Girar-deau, son of the late Eugene and Theola Brown Barks. He and Tina Perdue were married Feb. 11, 1999...
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Helena Cracraft
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
Helena Paulina Cracraft, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004, at Kindred Hospital in St. Louis. She was born July 3, 1915. Arrangements are pending with Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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Nancy Ladd
(Obituary ~ 01/05/04)
ZALMA, Mo. -- Nancy "Grace" Ladd, 65, of Zalma died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004, at the Monticello House in Jackson. She was born July 23, 1938, in Bollinger County, Mo., the daughter of the late Emmett "Pete" and Elizabeth "Bess" McHaney Nall. She married James Ladd on May 3, 1958, at Glennon, Mo...
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Out of the past 1/5/04
(Out of the Past ~ 01/05/04)
10 years ago: Jan. 5, 1994 Some major changes have been announced for Coca-Cola Bottling Co.'s operations in Southeast Missouri following purchase of local plants by Coca-Cola Enterprise of Atlanta, Ga. Incumbent Pat Ruopp yesterday filed for fifth term on Cape Girardeau Board of Education, only candidate to do so on opening day of filings...
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Speak Out 01/05/04
(Speak Out ~ 01/05/04)
No surprise I READ in the paper where Cape Girardeau lost the Trex Co. site to Mississippi. That is no surprise when all you read and hear is that Cape Girardeau is going broke. Is that truly a surprise? Those bad laws IF WIDESPREAD flouting of immigration laws is justified because they are "bad laws," does widespread running of red lights mean that stoplights are bad?...
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Cape police report 1/5/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/05/04)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Assaults A suspect was in custody Saturday pending formal charges for domestic assault. Chad Phillips, 1920 Monterey, and Roberta Phillips, 1920 Monterey, both of Cape Girardeau were issued summonses Saturday on suspicion of assault...
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Cape/Jackson fire reports 1/5/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/05/04)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded Saturday to the following items: At 10 p.m., emergency medical service at 825 N. Fountain. At 10:10 p.m., a natural gas leak at 2700 Bloomfield. Firefighters responded Sunday to the following items: At 2:53 a.m., emergency medical service at 338 Broadway...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda 1/5/04
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
Today, 7 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Study session at 5 p.m. Public Hearings A public hearing regarding the request of Gwenn Freitag to rezone 2984 County Road 620, currently in the process of annexation into the city limits of Cape Girardeau, from R-1, single family dwelling district, to C-2, general commercial district...
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Community briefs 01/05/04
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
Women in agriculture group meets Thursday The next meeting of Scott County Women in Agriculture will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at the USDA Office, Highway 77, Benton, Mo. Della Hubbard of Farm Credit Services will speak on crop insurance. For more information, call Kay Dover at the USDA Center at (573) 545-9027. The organization's goal is to educate others about agriculture...
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Cape board agenda 1/5
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
CAPE GIRARDEAU SCHOOL BOARD Special Meeting 6 p.m. today at 301 N. Clark St. On the agenda: Recommendations for budget reduction
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Loophole lets felons own certain firearms
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
DON FRAZIER * dfrazier@semissourian.com Brothers Patrick Meyer, John Meyer and Michael Meyer said their goodbyes to friends and family during Army National Guard deployment ceremonies held Sunday at the Perry Park Center in Perryville, Mo. John Meyer's wife, Tasha, left, and their 8-month-old son, Caleb, were at the ceremony.By Mike Wells ~ Southeast Missourian...
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Stay out of financial trouble by identifying mistakes
(Business ~ 01/05/04)
NEW YORK -- We all make mistakes with our money, but identifying those mistakes can be the first step toward correcting them. Here are some ways experts believe consumers go wrong -- and their advice for staying out of trouble: Savings Don M. Blandin, president of the nonprofit American Savings Education Council in Washington, D.C., believes the biggest mistake workers make is cashing in their 401(k) retirement accounts when they change employers...
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Fed chief defends handling of '90s bubble
(Business ~ 01/05/04)
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan defended himself over the weekend against a criticism of his tenure, saying policy-makers would have damaged the economy in the late 1990s had they tried to burst that era's speculative stock market bubble...
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Forensic pioneer still gets rush from job
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- He's been a pre-eminent forensic anthropologist for half a century. His research facility inspired Patricia Cornwell's bestseller, "Body Farm." And his triumphs include identifying the remains of the Lindbergh baby. But at 75, Dr. Bill Bass, a semiretired University of Tennessee professor emeritus, still gets an adrenaline rush from a fresh encounter with an unidentified corpse...
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After 10 years of NAFTA, Mexico still waiting for jobs
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
ANAPRA, Mexico -- Ten years ago, the border slum of Anapra was a sea of shacks made of packing crates and car parts. Families stored scarce water in discarded industrial drums, and illegal electricity hookups started fires and sometimes electrocuted residents...
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Rivals target front-runner Dean in first debate of 2004
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
JOHNSTON, Iowa -- In a feisty, first debate of the election year, Howard Dean drew fire from fellow Democrats on Sunday over trade, terror, taxes and more, then calmly dismissed his rivals as "co-opted by the agenda of George Bush." "I opposed the Iraq war when everyone else up here was for it," said the former Vermont governor, invoking the issue that helped fuel his 2003 transformation from asterisk in the polls to front-runner...
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Recording industry crackdown may be slowing music pirating
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
NEW YORK -- The recording industry's legal onslaught against Internet song-swappers appears to be having its desired effect. The percentage of Americans who download music online has been sliced in half, according to a report released Sunday. Fourteen percent of Internet users surveyed from Nov. 18 to Dec. 14 said they sometimes download songs to their computers, according to the report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and comScore Media Metrix, a Web tracking firm...
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Taiwanese troubled by increase in family suicides
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Three days after he was diagnosed with liver cancer, Lin Wen-piao mixed a deadly dose of pesticide with milk and yogurt and fed it to his young son and two daughters before drinking some of the mixture himself. Splashed across the island's front pages, their deaths late last year shocked Taiwanese. ...
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Afghans reach historic milestone in grand council
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghans approved a new constitution on Sunday, embracing a deal shaped in three weeks of rancorous debate as a chance to cement a fragile peace and push ahead with reconstruction two years after a U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban regime...
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Purported bin Laden tape blasts Mideast peace efforts
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
CAIRO, Egypt -- The Al-Jazeera satellite channel broadcast an audiotape Sunday purportedly from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in which he urged Muslims to continue fighting a holy war in Iraq and the Middle East rather than cooperate with peace efforts...
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New exhibit at Truman Museum tells the rest of the story
(State News ~ 01/05/04)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Wherever life and politics took him, there was one constant for Harry S. Truman: Bess Wallace, the childhood sweetheart who became his wife and eventually the first lady of the United States. Now, the thousands of letters that Truman wrote to Bess throughout their lives have been put to use in a new, permanent exhibition at the Truman Presidential Museum & Library...
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Refugee gets word of sister and mother 35 years later
(State News ~ 01/05/04)
J.B. FORBES * St. Louis Post-Dispatch Maria Tanqua, 24, left, sat with her mother, Domingas Laura Nassar, 45, in St. Louis. Tanqua recalls the phone call she received recently from the Red Cross asking her if she knew Domingas Tangua, which was her mother's name before she got married. ...
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Lineup switch gets Tigers' attention
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/04)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri coach Quin Snyder's lineup shake-up brought the desired result, and he threatened to do it again if it'll keep his team on track. The No. 23 Tigers (5-4) ended a puzzling three-game losing streak in which they fell behind by 21 points to Illinois, by 15 to Memphis and 10 to Belmont, then staged furious rallies that fell just short, with a dominating 76-56 victory over Iowa on Saturday. ...
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Loss to Duke unmasks defending champs' flaws
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/04)
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Lindsay Harding dribbled nearly the length of the court unimpeded, slicing through Connecticut's defense. Looking up, the speedy Duke guard whipped a pass to Jessica Foley on the right wing. Before a defender could thwart things, Foley let fly a 3-pointer at the buzzer that gave Duke a 68-67 upset of the top-ranked Huskies, ending UConn's 69-game home winning streak...
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Packers survive scare by Seahawks
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/04)
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Al Harris never got a chance for a Lambeau Leap. By the time he thought about it, he was buried under an avalanche of teammates. His long dreadlocks flapping outside his helmet in the frigid wind, Harris streamed down the sideline with a 52-yard interception return in overtime. That touchdown lifted the Green Bay Packers past the Seattle Seahawks 33-27 Sunday in a first-round NFC playoff game...
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Manning stars as Colts rip Broncos
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/04)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Peyton Manning saw Marvin Harrison fall to the turf after a 16-yard catch and was getting ready to huddle for the next play. "All of a sudden, I see Marvin sprinting for the end zone," Manning said. "When something like that happens, it tells you maybe it's going to be your day."...
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World briefs 1/5/04
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
Tehran: 'Time is not ripe' for U.S. delegation to visit TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran rebuffed Washington's suggestion that a high-profile U.S. delegation fly in with earthquake relief, saying Sunday the time "is not ripe" for such an exchange -- which could be seen as a sign of smoother ties between the two. ...
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British Airways flight to Washington delayed again
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
WASHINGTON -- Extra security checks again delayed a British Airways flight to Washington Dulles International Airport on Sunday as the United States entered a third consecutive week on a high state of alert for terrorists. As the number of cancellations and delays mounted, the chairman and ranking Democrat on a key House committee endorsed a rapid assessment to plug gaps in U.S. defenses against terror attacks...
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Potent 'white' heroin gaining in use, St. Louis officials warn
(State News ~ 01/05/04)
ST. LOUIS -- A more potent form of heroin apparently has made inroads into the St. Louis area, according to federal authorities, who are worried the drug's increased use could increase violence and the number of addicts, particularly young ones. Officials say the switch from black tar heroin from Mexico to so-called white heroin from Afghanistan and southwest Asia comes as use of the drug in St. Louis is growing, apparently spreading to younger addicts...
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Department wants state to reimpose 50-cent fee on tires
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
A state-imposed fee applied to automobile tire purchases expired Thursday and the Department of Natural Resources says the loss of revenue could pose health risks to the public. The department is already launching a campaign for the 2004 legislative session to reinstate what the fee funded, a program that enforced state laws on tire disposal, cleaned up illegal tire piles and provided incentives for schools and communities to use shredded tires for playground surfaces...
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Brigadier general to 1140th - 'You're about to be tested'
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Perry Park Center in Perryville was packed Sunday afternoon as members of the community came out to give their best wishes to the Missouri National Guard 1140th Engineer Battalion Company B before it departs for the Middle East early Tuesday morning...
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Carrying on a tradition
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The departure of the 500 members of the 1140th Missouri National Guard Engineer Battalion will affect many families in Southeast Missouri, but it will be especially hard for the Meyer family of Apple Creek, Mo. Dolores and Paul Meyer have three sons who will be leaving with Company B for the Middle East Tuesday morning: John, 26, and 20-year-old twins Patrick and Michael...
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Business leaders give predictions for 2004
(Column ~ 01/05/04)
What will happen on the local business scene in 2004? A few local business leaders offered me some predictions last week, on subjects ranging from new retail developments to the state of the economy. Take them for what they're worth -- which is a whole lot more than if they were coming from me. (In the past, I invested in Enron and WorldCom and once predicted that Sears would move to the mall. No Nostradamus, I.)...
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Changes figure to be in store for BCS
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/04)
NEW ORLEANS -- Conceding "we made a mistake," the head of the BCS said an NCAA basketball tournament-style committee might become part of the selection process next season -- reducing the possibility of a split national championship in football. Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said Sunday that several changes could be discussed in the coming months, from the elimination of computers as a selection factor to adding an extra Bowl Championship Series game...
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BCS should mean basic common sense
(Sports Column ~ 01/05/04)
I didn't watch the Sugar Bowl game Sunday night. I didn't need to. I watched USC demolish Michigan on Thursday. The decisive victory by the Trojans soured the significance of Sunday night's Sugar Bowl, because as long as USC doesn't slip from its No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press poll, it will have a share of the national championship...
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Military digest 01/05/03
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
Private finishes training with National Guard Pvt. Matthew R. Cotner recently completed 18 weeks of basic training and advanced individual training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., with Bravo Company, 787th Military Police Battalion, 1st Platoon. Cotner is with the 1137th Military Police Company of the Missouri National Guard in Kennett, Mo. He is the son of Ron and Karen Cotner of Cape Girardeau...
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Newcomer's Club to decide new name this week
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
A final vote on the Newcomer's Club name change will be held at the 11:30 a.m. meeting on Wednesday. Activities of the Newcomer's Club's subgroups for January include: the Book Club will meet at Barnes & Noble at 7 p.m. Jan. 26, with "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown up for discussion; the Lunch Bunch will meet at the Phoenician Restaurant at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 12; members will have coffee at Tracy's Place in Jackson at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 23...
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Community Q&A 01/05/03
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
Name: Anne Foust Lives in: Cape Girardeau Family: My husband, Byron, and I have lived here 38 years. We have a daughter who teaches third grade in Memphis. Job: I have an interior plant service, Green Gardens...
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Applications taken for war medallions
(Local News ~ 01/05/04)
With the start of the new year, Missouri Korean War veterans may now apply for the Korean War medal, medallion and certificate. The program, created last fall, was modeled after the World War II Veterans' Award Recognition Program. Veterans must have served on active duty in a U.S. military force any time from June 27, 1950, to Jan. 31, 1955, and have been honorably discharged from military service, unless they are still in active service in an honorable status, according to the legislation...
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Midwest storm blamed for Wisconsin pileup
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
MADISON, Wis. -- A storm that brought whiteout conditions to Wisconsin was blamed for two freeway pileups involving more than 50 vehicles Sunday, authorities said. The storm also forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights in Chicago. The afternoon accidents on the east side of Madison on Interstate 90 occurred after snow had severely reduced visibility, said Kevin Fosso, a Dane County public safety dispatcher supervisor...
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U.S. retailers posted 4 percent gain in holiday sales for 2003
(Business ~ 01/05/04)
Area retailers, boosted by last-minute and post-Christmas spending and the increased use of gift cards, posted a bigger holiday season than last year while many U.S. retailers probably had their best season in at least four years. Sales at U.S. stores open at least a year rose about 4 percent in November and December from the same period a year ago, the largest gain since 5.4 percent in 1999, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers...
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Districts monitoring mad cow as classes, school lunch resume
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
WASHINGTON -- Meat chili. It's what's for lunch today when the 650 students of the Reardan-Edwall School District in eastern Washington state return to class. The district is about a 90-minute drive from the Moses Lake plant where a Holstein infected with mad cow disease was slaughtered. News of that first mad cow case in the United States broke Dec. 23 when many of the nation's schools were on break...
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School funding overhaul unlikely this session
(State News ~ 01/05/04)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- On Tuesday, an attorney representing 229 Missouri school districts plans to file a long-expected lawsuit challenging the way the state funds public schools. His plaintiffs will include school officials, students, parents and taxpayers. And his claim will be twofold -- that Missouri fails to provide enough money to schools, and that the money it does provide is handed out unfairly...
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Intense weight training can rip major artery, doctor says
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
WASHINGTON -- Bill Linski was lying down watching television when he felt as if something in his chest was being ripped apart. It was. The largest artery in Linski's body, the aorta, was splitting. It took a major operation to keep him together, and his surgeon thinks Linski's weight training triggered his brush with death...
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Nation briefs 1/5/04
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
Fed: Conditions ripe to keep interest rates low WASHINGTON -- With inflation tame and the fragile job market healing, the Federal Reserve has room to hold a main short-term interest rate near rock-bottom levels for some time, a Fed policy-maker said Sunday. ...
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New York City's mayor looks confidently to 2004 re-election
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
NEW YORK -- On a cold December morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has just finished breakfast at a diner and is heading for work at city hall. A taxi driver spots him on the sidewalk and leans out the window. "Bloomberg, way to go! Great job!" As he tells the story, the mayor is clearly delighted by the spontaneous show of support, but at the halfway point of his four-year term, the cab driver's compliment has become a rare affirmation for the Republican mayor in a city that has grown restless during his watch.. ...
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Bush's election-year plate full of foreign, domestic challenges
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
WASHINGTON -- Still energized by the capture of Saddam Hussein and signs of an economic rebound, President Bush begins the 10-month countdown to Election Day with the nation under a high terror alert and his job performance under criticism from Democrats who want to sit in the Oval Office...
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LSU sweet as Sugar
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/04)
NEW ORLEANS -- There's no question who's No. 1 to the thousands of purple-and-gold partyers in tiger stripes who packed the Superdome and Bourbon Street. That LSU likely will have to share the national title hardly matters. By holding off Heisman Trophy winner Jason White and Oklahoma 21-14 at the very end Sunday night in the Sugar Bowl, these Tigers certainly proved they belonged in the Bowl Championship Series finale...
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Sports briefs 1/5/04
(Professional Sports ~ 01/05/04)
Baseball Javier Vazquez and the New York Yankees were close to agreement Sunday on a $45 million, four-year contract. The 27-year-old right-hander, acquired from Montreal on Dec. 4, is eligible for free agency after next season, and the Yankees wanted a multiyear contract. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and Vazquez's agents, Sam and Seth Levinson, were working Sunday on finalizing the deal...
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Pastor - Man says he's Jesus, drives car into church
(State News ~ 01/05/04)
SUNSET HILLS, Mo. -- A man who disrupted services at a suburban St. Louis church Sunday after claiming he was Jesus later drove a car into the building's lobby doors, witnesses and police said. No one was injured. Life Christian Center pastor Rick Shelton told St. ...
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Trio on mission to keep U.S. soldiers in Iraq warm
(State News ~ 01/05/04)
REPUBLIC, Mo. -- Forget about the stitching machine that lines the length of her family room wall. Never mind the two sewing machines that sit side by side or the piles of fabric squares scattered from one side of her house to the other. Maggie Jones still considers herself and her two closest friends quilting "greenhorns" -- combined total experience: two years, four months...
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Blair warns of period of transferring power in Iraq
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
BASRA, Iraq -- The occupation of Iraq is entering a critical stage, with just six months to restore order ahead of the return to self-rule, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday. His top envoy warned insurgents are growing more sophisticated and planning bigger attacks...
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France mourns loss of entire families, victims of plane crash
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
PARIS -- The Fouchard family, returning from vacation under the Egyptian sun, was all but wiped out, with 11 dead. The Normandy village of Formigny, meanwhile, lost its mayor, killed along with his wife and three children. Across France, families and communities were mourning Sunday for the 133 French victims of Flash Airlines flight FSH604, which crashed off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik on Saturday, killing all 148 people on board...
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Slovakians searching for American planes shot down in WWII
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- It's a sleepy Sunday morning, and the quiet of a field behind the capital's high-rises is interrupted only by the beeps of a metal detector and the occasional thumps of a hoe. For Jan Babincak, the day of rest is an opportunity to look for the missing numerical identification of a U.S. warplane that crashed in the field during World War II...
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Despite low smoking rate, Swedes increasing use of snuff
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
GOTEBORG, Sweden -- Inside a waterfront factory soaked with the acrid smell of tobacco, about half the blue-clad workers show an odd facial deformity: Their upper lips look swollen. It's a telltale sign they are sampling some of the 20 tons of smokeless tobacco being produced here daily...
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Pakistan city has a slice of Scotland with kilts and bagpipes
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
SIALKOT, Pakistan -- The British Raj is history and Pakistan is half way round the world from Scotland, but in the bazaars and alleys of Sialkot the pulse of the Highlands beats -- or rather drones -- on. This dusty city in eastern Pakistan is home to four generations of bagpipe makers, who once kitted out Scottish regiments in what was part of Britain's India colony and now sell to piping enthusiasts around the world...
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Bears bring out lighter side of Kosovo peacekeepers
(International News ~ 01/05/04)
LIPOVICA, Serbia-Montenegro -- NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo have found a welcome distraction from their difficult daily routine -- Bubble and Trouble. Every Sunday, dozens of peacekeepers come to frolic and tumble with the two baby bears who were rescued by an American after hunters killed their mother last March...
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Child fast-food habits linked to extra weight
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
CHICAGO -- Every day, nearly one-third of U.S. children aged 4 to 19 eat fast food, which likely packs on about six extra pounds per child per year and increases the risk of obesity, a study of 6,212 youngsters found. The numbers, though alarming, are not surprising since billions of dollars are spent each year on fast-food advertising directed at kids, said lead author Dr. David Ludwig, director of the obesity program at Children's Hospital Boston...
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People talk 01/05/04
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
Tammy Faye helps raise funds for AIDS services DURHAM, N.C. -- A "drag bingo" event hosted by Tammy Faye Messner drew about 700 people to raise money for Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina. The former Tammy Faye Bakker said she was one of the first women to speak out about caring for people with AIDS when she was on the "The PTL Club" television show with her ex-husband in the 1980s. ...
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States face new trials in 2004 on money, education
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
Still struggling with money worries, state lawmakers head back to work to deal with some tricky problems -- Medicaid cuts, higher education funding, and whether to allow more gambling among them. Finding solutions will be tough, and made that much harder by lawmakers keeping one eye on fall elections...
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Cult leader's molestation trial could create circus
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
EATONTON, Ga. -- After months of protests by followers dressed as Egyptian pharaohs, mummies and birds, the leader of a quasi-religious cult is headed to trial today on charges he molested young followers. Dwight "Malachi" York leads the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, a mostly black sect whose neo-Egyptian compound on a Georgia farm includes pyramid-like structures. ...
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NRA publishes list of gun-rights enemies
(National News ~ 01/05/04)
RICHMOND, Va. -- What do Britney Spears, the United Methodist Church, the St. Louis Rams and Hallmark Cards have in common? They're among the hundreds of celebrities, organizations and companies on the National Rifle Association's roster of entities that it considers hostile to gun-ownership rights...
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Hale's first winning basket a big one
(College Sports ~ 01/05/04)
Given the impressive career he had at Dexter High School, it's almost hard to believe that Southeast Missouri State University junior guard Brett Hale had never before hit a game-winning shot. But Hale said the leaning 15-footer he rolled in to beat host Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne 77-75 Saturday afternoon was indeed the first such moment of his career -- as far as he can recall...
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