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Mike Wells
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March 9, 2004
A nose for rescues
BLODGETT, Mo. -- At 7 1/2 months old, Sweet Willie is destined for greatness. The black German shepherd owned by Marshia Morton is the youngest member of Scott County's recently formed search and rescue dog team. Surprisingly, he is also the most mellow...
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March 6, 2004
Jury gives Gill death penalty
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Mark Anthony Gill should be executed rather than get life in prison for the kidnapping and execution-style murder of 54-year-old Ralph Lape Jr. of rural Jackson, a jury decided Friday. The jury's decision was announced at 12:38 p.m., after about ...
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March 5, 2004
Life in prison or death
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- A jury is likely to decide today whether Mark Anthony Gill, 33, of Cape Girardeau, should live or die for killing Ralph L. Lape Jr. of rural Jackson. Sobs and muffled cries rose from the benches of a New Madrid County courtroom Thursday morning a...
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March 3, 2004
Swingle - Murder of Lape triggered by greed
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Mark Anthony Gill and an accomplice killed Ralph L. Lape Jr. out of greed for the $118,000 he had in the bank, Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle said Tuesday during his opening argument in Gill's capital murder trial. He s...
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March 2, 2004
Sheriffs hold off on concealed weapons permits
Sheriffs in the region are heeding guidance from the Missouri Sheriff's Association suggesting they prepare to issue permits but refrain from actually doing so. Both the association and Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon have asked sheriffs to wait until after a s...
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February 29, 2004
Fire tax set to go on June 8 ballot
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department is struggling to keep most of its life-saving vehicles rolling to meet the demand for emergency services as Cape Girardeau grows. Voters tentatively will be asked June 8 to approve a quarter-cent sales tax to support the departmen...
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February 29, 2004
Cape County offers varied legal specialities
With so many legal experts in Cape Girardeau County, those seeking representation have a lot of good choices to pick from, said Circuit Judge John Heisserer, a member of the Cape Girardeau County Bar Association for more than 20 years. "We have a wide variety of la...
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February 29, 2004
Crime lab grapples with smaller budget in new home
After 27 years inside a cramped white house on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University, the Southeast Missouri Regional Crime Laboratory has a new home and is poised to investigate the region's crimes for years to come. The lab was moved in August to a fo...
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February 29, 2004
Southeast's criminal justice department trains crime fighters
Many of the peace officers patrolling the highways and neighborhoods of Southeast Missouri received their initial training at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. The university's Department of Criminal Justice provides a core of courses in the fi...
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February 28, 2004
Rural Cape man dies when tractor overturns
A 65-year-old man died Friday afternoon when the farm tractor he was operating flipped backward on a steep grade off County Road 657, north of Cape Girardeau. Cape Girardeau County Coroner Mike Hurst identified the victim as Dearl W. "Bud" Boyd of rural Cape Girard...
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