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Old Town Cape picks new director from United Way
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
After a longer than expected search, Old Town Cape has found a new executive director. Marla Mills, 47, the assistant director of the United Way of Southeast Missouri, will take over the job beginning Sept. 18. "She is exactly what we've been looking for. ...
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Police: Cleaner caused $4,000 in damage
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
Authorities suspect a cleaner broke two windows and overturned furniture at Jackson City Hall, causing about $4,000 in damage. Police responded to a call of glass breaking at city hall, 101 Court St., around 3 a.m. Monday, according to police chief James Humphreys...
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MoDOT touring paving projects
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
Missouri Department of Transportation bigwigs will hit the road over the next two months to see what has been accomplished with 12.8 million tons of asphalt. Top officials of the department embarked on a "Seat of Your Pants" tour Monday to review how the Smooth Roads Initiative is working. The initiative, begun after the passage of Amendment 3 in 2004, is aimed at making 2,200 miles of Missouri highways smoother and safer by Dec. 31...
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Southeast students move back into residence halls Thursday
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
Bringing carloads of items from clothes to computers, more than 1,100 freshmen and transfer students are scheduled to move into Southeast Missouri State University residence halls Thursday. More than 600 student and staff volunteers will help haul in the mountain of belongings...
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'Part of a person' found in sewer dig at Caruthersville
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
Dyersburg State Gazette CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. -- A construction crew working to repair a sewer problem on Tuesday cracked what appeared to be a burial vault when what police describe as "part of a person" was found in a pipe. The location of the dig, near the First United Methodist Church on Broadway, is thought to be a long-forgotten cemetery. ...
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Cape man charged in assault on police officer
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
Charges were filed Tuesday against a 52-year-old man who Cape Girardeau police say choked an officer and attempted to grab his sidearm while nude. Michael McLeary, of 606 S. Silver Springs Road, was charged with Class B felony assault of a law enforcement officer, Class C felony assault of a law enforcement officer, felony resisting arrest and misdemeanor property damage...
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City space to be used for court due to partial ceiling collapse
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
Some court cases out of Cape Girardeau County will be heard at another facility as repairs continue at the Jackson courthouse following a partial ceiling collapse. Cases normally held Mondays in the Division V courtroom in the basement of the courthouse will be now heard at the Jackson Board of Aldermen chambers, 101 Court St., according to county Commissioner Jay Purcell...
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Jackson officials eager for redesign of Web site
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
The city of Jackson's Web site, which hit the Internet more than 10 years ago, will soon undergo an $11,755 transformation. Jackson Chamber of Commerce executive director Marybeth Williams said the Web site redesign should provide a more appealing appearance and make the site easier to navigate. Information about the city, chamber of commerce and police and fire departments will be accessible through one main site when the redesign is completed...
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Target practice at Pike Lodge draws attention of police
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
Cape Girardeau police officers responding to a call of shots fired on the city's south side found two men target practice shooting. Officers responded Tuesday afternoon to Pike Lodge, 2827 S. Sprigg St., off-campus housing for a Southeast Missouri State University fraternity...
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Southeast's past stars to provide first test for '06 'Hawks
(College Sports ~ 08/16/06)
Southeast Missouri State volleyball coach Renata Nowacki will get a look at her team under match conditions for the first time Saturday -- and bragging rights will be on the line. The 2006 Redhawks will square off against some of the program's former stars in Southeast's second annual alumni match. Action gets under way at 10 a.m. at Houck Field House...
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Jim Ogles
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
Jim Ogles, 50, of St. Charles, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, Mo. He was born Sept. 25, 1955, in Paragould, Ark., son of Robert and Wilma Johnston Ogles. He married Terry Dowers. Ogles was employed by Boeing 20 years. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and an avid hunter and fisherman...
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Joseph Stafford
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
Joseph Stafford, 63, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, July 30, 2006, at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was born April 8, 1943, in Cape Girardeau, son of Mitchell D. and Minnie Stafford. He attended Cobb School and Central High School...
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USA thumps S. Korea in final exhibition game
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
SEOUL, South Korea -- A 53-point win over South Korea wrapped up a perfect Asian exhibition tour for a star-studded U.S. team on its way to the world championships. LeBron James scored 23 points Tuesday to lead the Americans to a 116-63 win over South Korea in their final tuneup for the world championships. The U.S. squad went 5-0 in exhibitions leading up to the worlds, which begin Saturday in Japan...
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Carpenter saws off Reds
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
ST. LOUIS -- Chris Carpenter refused to allow the St. Louis Cardinals' fast-dwindling NL Central lead to clutter his mind. The 2005 Cy Young Award winner just tried to pitch his game. Carpenter threw a four-hitter and Ronnie Belliard had three hits and two RBIs in his biggest game since joining the Cardinals at the trade deadline, helping them stop a three-game skid with a 5-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night...
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Lori Eftink
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
Lori Ann Ruble Eftink, 38, of Fruitland passed away Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, at her home. She was born Jan. 2, 1968, in St. Louis, daughter of James Larry and Dodi Ruble. She and Mike Eftink were married Sept. 8, 1990, at Kelso, Mo. She is survived by her husband, Mike; two sons, Afton and Kaden of the home; her parents, Larry and Dodi Ruble of Fruitland; a brother, Larry Ruble Jr., a niece, Danielle Hinkebein of Palm Springs, Calif.; and maternal grandmother, Virginia Cox of Fenton, Mo...
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Speak Out 8/16/06
(Speak Out ~ 08/16/06)
Shocking spending; Midweek warm-up; Reasons for flooding; Good self-esteem; Health secrecy; Tasteful tattoos; Medical oversight; Young leaders; Tattoo stories; Profitable work; Am I a loser?; Spending priorities; Call them murderers
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AOL prepares to dig for gold at home of spammer's parents
(National News ~ 08/16/06)
WASHINGTON -- AOL is preparing to dig for buried gold and platinum on property in Massachusetts owned by the parents of a man it sued for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers. AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company believes are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield, Mass. The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL's plans...
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Lawmakers prod workers to save more for retirement
(National News ~ 08/16/06)
WASHINGTON -- Rich, poor and in between, the nation's workers are being prodded by the government to save more money for retirement. They're being given incentives, too, encouraging them to do more on their own rather than rely on company pension plans...
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Redhawks honored for academics
(College Sports ~ 08/16/06)
The Southeast Missouri State gymnastics squad was recognized by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches as a NACGC Academic Team for its work in the classroom during the 2006 season. In addition to the team accolade, eight Southeast gymnasts were honored by the NACGC for individual academic excellence with NACGC Scholar Athletes awards...
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Phonak will fold due to doping bust of Landis
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Floyd Landis' former cycling team will shut down at the end of the season. Phonak owner Andy Rihs said Tuesday that he has been unable to find a buyer for his team since Landis, this year's Tour de France champion, was busted for doping...
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Thelma Barker
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
Thelma E. Barker, 87, of Jackson died Monday, Aug. 7, 2006, at her home. She was born Oct. 23, 1918, in Colorado Springs, Colo., daughter of Harry and Elsie M. Sheets Barnes. She and Glenn Barker were married in 1950. He died in 1985. Survivors include a daughter, Carol Marshall of Jackson; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren...
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Johnny Kinder
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Johnny Wayne Kinder, 47, of Sikeston, died Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Sept. 2, 1958, in Sikeston, son of John Sylvester and Lula Alberta Griffin Kinder. He and Doretta Marlene Whitley were married July 12, 1980, at Morehouse, Mo...
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Judge rules Nationwide policy excluded flood damage
(National News ~ 08/16/06)
GULFPORT, Miss. -- A federal judge ruled Tuesday that an insurance company's policies do not cover damage from flood waters or storm surge in a decision that could affect hundreds of upcoming cases related to property damage from Hurricane Katrina...
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Lively tax holiday
(Editorial ~ 08/16/06)
It will be interesting to see what happens to sales-tax receipts for August as a result of the recent back-to-school sales-tax holiday. Recall, if you will, that Cape Girardeau briefly opted out of the holiday based on the city's experience of revenue dips during the first two years of the holiday. In the end, the city participated in the holiday...
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NATO likens Taliban tactics to those of Hezbollah
(International News ~ 08/16/06)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A senior NATO official likened the tactics of Taliban militants who hide among civilians to those of Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday. U.S. and Afghan forces killed an al-Qaida suspect disguised as a woman during a raid. Meanwhile, insurgents in western Afghanistan killed six police officers, including a new local police chief, and wounded four other officers...
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Israel begins troop pullout from Lebanon, testing truce
(International News ~ 08/16/06)
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Israel began slowly pulling out forces from southern Lebanon and made plans to hand over territory Tuesday on the first full day of a tense cease-fire that already has been tested by skirmishes and rocket fire. But Israeli and Hezbollah forces avoided any escalation, raising hopes that the U.N.-imposed pact could stick, as governments rushed to assemble international troops to deploy in southern Lebanon and firm up the peace...
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Police in Britain arrest new suspect in plot to blow up jets
(International News ~ 08/16/06)
LONDON -- Police detained a new suspect Tuesday in the alleged plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic, the first arrest since authorities detained two dozen people last week and threw Britain's airports into turmoil by imposing tougher security...
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Dr. Grace Duff
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Dr. Grace H. Duff, 84, of Tamms died Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 26, 1921, daughter of Roy J. and Effie Holshouser Miller. She and Lawrence E. Duff were married Jan. 16, 1945. He died Oct. 26, 1991...
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Club news 8/16/06
(Community News ~ 08/16/06)
American Legion Auxiliary 158; Town & Country FCE; American Legion Auxiliary; Kage FCE; New Salem UMW
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Jacob Sitzes III
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
ALTON, Ill. -- Jacob M. "Jay" Sitzes III, 61, of Alton, died Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, at his home. He was born Feb. 4, 1945, in Cape Girardeau, son of Robert J. and Rachel T. Ruckel Sitzes. Sitzes was a 1963 graduate of Sikeston High School in Sikeston, Mo. He retired from Granite City Steel in Granite City, Ill...
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Out of the past 8/16/06
(Out of the Past ~ 08/16/06)
25 years ago: Aug. 16, 1981 The seventh anniversary of Lighthouse Bible Baptist Church, 2826 Independence St., is noted throughout the morning worship services; pastor of the church is the Rev. Jack Strickland. The board of trustees of Old McKendree Chapel has accepted responsibility for the care and upkeep of the cemetery across the road from the chapel; a fund for the maintenance of the cemetery has been set up, and donations are being sought...
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Healthy and fun recipes for two
(Column ~ 08/16/06)
Another school year is underway. School buses will be making the usual stops along the streets, school activities will begin and the college students will be rolling back into town. Back to school can be an exciting time, not only for the parents and students, but for grandparents and family as well...
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Lista Lentz
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Lista Elizabeth Lentz, 96, of Carbondale, Ill., formerly of Mounds, died Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, at Oak Grove Rehabilitation and Care Center in Carbondale. She was born Sept. 10, 1909, in Henderson, Ky., daughter of John and Zoe Hendrick Gardner. She married George Malcom Lentz, who preceded her in death...
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Mary Keene
(Obituary ~ 08/16/06)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Mary Dewies Keene, 79, of Advance died Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, at Lakeview Home Care Residential Facility in Wappapello, Mo. She was born Jan. 20, 1927, in Granite City, Ill., daughter of Charles and Mattie Milam Gunter. She and Lloyd Keene were married Jan. 19, 1946, at Kinder, Mo. He died Sept. 20, 1996...
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Federal Court 8/16/06
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
The following information was released by the office of federal prosecutor Catherine Hanaway for defendants who appeared in federal court Monday before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry: Names: Harold A. Lawrence and Mary K. Lawrence Ages: 46 and 47, respectively...
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Cape/Jackson fire reports 8/16/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/16/06)
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Cape/Jackson police reports 8/16/06
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/16/06)
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Births 8/16/06
(Births ~ 08/16/06)
Harden; Tubb; Hobbs
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Tenn. minister's wife accused of shooting husband to death released from jail on bond
(National News ~ 08/16/06)
SELMER, Tenn. -- A minister's wife accused of shooting her husband to death after the two argued over money was released from jail Tuesday on $750,000 bond. Mary Winkler, 32, is charged with killing Matthew Winkler on March 22 at their church parsonage in Selmer, about 80 miles east of Memphis...
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NASA launches effort to find missing high-quality Apollo moon walk
(National News ~ 08/16/06)
WASHINGTON -- Red-faced because the best pictures of its glory days are missing, NASA said Tuesday it was launching an official search for more than 13,000 original tapes of the historic Apollo moon missions. What's missing are the never-before-broadcast clear original videos -- not the grainy converted pictures the world watched on television more than three decades ago...
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TSA reassures public that X-rays of shoes detect weapons, explosives
(National News ~ 08/16/06)
WASHINGTON -- The government sought to assure airline travelers Tuesday that X-raying shoes at security checkpoints was a reliable way of detecting weapons and explosive devices. "Screening shoes by X-ray is an effective way of identifying any anomaly, including explosives," said Kip Hawley, Transportation Security Administration chief, at a news conference at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington...
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Europeans play with heavy hearts after death of Darren Clarke's wife
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
MEDINAH, Ill. -- The PGA Championship is never an easy time for the Europeans. Someone is always bringing up that oh-fer streak, a mark of major futility now at 75 years and counting. An Aussie, a couple of South Africans and someone from just about every corner in the United States have won since a European-born player last hoisted the Wanamaker Trophy...
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Odd couple: Major rivals are paired up
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
MEDINAH, Ill. -- The 10th tee is tucked away in a far corner of Medinah Country Club, where green mesh on a chain-linked fence separates the world's best golfers from a steady stream of cars on Lake Street. It's not much of an arena for the main event at the PGA Championship...
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Barton AD claims improprieties are rampant in Jayhawk Conference
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
WICHITA, Kan. -- The fraudulent use of work-study money to bypass Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference rules banning full scholarships is widespread in the league and has not stopped despite the convictions of eight people at Barton County Community College, the school's new athletic director said Tuesday...
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Solar system upgrade
(International News ~ 08/16/06)
The universe really is expanding -- astronomers are proposing to rewrite the textbooks to say that the solar system has 12 planets rather than the nine memorized by generations of schoolchildren. Much-maligned Pluto would remain a planet -- and its largest moon plus two other heavenly bodies would join Earth's neighborhood -- under a draft resolution to be formally presented today to the International Astronomical Union, the arbiter of what is and isn't a planet...
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When it rains, it pours
(Column ~ 08/16/06)
When it rains in this town, there's no mistaking it. Last Friday, from out of the blue, a thunderstorm transformed a parched Cape Girardeau into the set of "Waterworld." I half expected to see Kevin Costner running around breathing through his gills...
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Redhawks' defense does not rest at scrimmage
(College Sports ~ 08/16/06)
Senior ends Kyle Hunt and Edgar Jones, two of Southeast Missouri State's defensive leaders, flashed major-league grins after being asked how it felt to participate in the team's first scrimmage of fall camp. "It was great to be out here," Hunt said. "We were really flying around."...
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Cards juggle rotation, send Thompson down to Memphis
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals juggled their struggling rotation on Tuesday, moving Jeff Weaver ahead of Jeff Suppan. Weaver is 2-3 with a 6.60 ERA in six starts with the Cardinals, but has pitched better in his last two outings. He'll go Thursday on regular rest in the finale of a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds, with Suppan pushed back to a weekend series in Chicago...
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Experience on offensive line has MU optimistic
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- With four of five starters returning from last season, Missouri coaches believe the offensive line has the potential to be very good in 2006. You wouldn't necessarily know it from the team's first full scrimmage of the preseason Monday, when the offense managed just 70 rushing yards on 52 carries, a 1.35-yards-per-carry average...
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Talent, McCaskill forum to be Sept. 15
(State News ~ 08/16/06)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican Sen. Jim Talent and Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill will meet in a candidate's forum Sept. 15. The Missouri Press Association said Tuesday the two Senate candidates have agreed to participate in the forum during the group's annual convention at the Lake of the Ozarks...
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Pinkel: Daniel is clearly Tigers' No. 1 quarterback
(Professional Sports ~ 08/16/06)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Sophomore Chase Daniel has officially emerged as Missouri's probable starting quarterback and replacement for four-year starter Brad Smith. Daniel took the snaps for five series and completed 16 of 20 passes for 200 yards and two touchdowns at a scrimmage Monday at Faurot Field. He hasn't called himself the starter just yet, but coach Gary Pinkel has...
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Prerequisites for college life
(Community ~ 08/16/06)
The come-ons start early. Even before high school diplomas have been printed, retailers begin their annual sales push, telling college kids what they need for life in the dorm. Judging by the recommendations from many stores, entering freshmen need to buy, buy, buy. ...
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Cleaning the bricks at Trinity Lutheran
(Local News ~ 08/16/06)
Employees of L.T. Masonry cleaned up the new brick wall of the addition under construction at Trinity Lutheran School in Cape Girardeau on Tuesday. The school, which opened in 1854, broke ground Jan. 11 for the major addition and renovation project.
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