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Ballet coming to Show Me Center
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
The Moscow Ballet will perform in November at the Show Me Center. The troupe will present "The Great Russian Nutcracker," a slightly different version of the famed ballet than American audiences are accustomed to. This "Nutcracker" ends up in the Land of Peace and Harmony instead of the Land of the Sweets and is performed with a prayer for peace...
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Getting transportation proposal on ballot a tricky endeavor
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- In their rush to pass a transportation package, some state officials failed to check their calendars. Granted, lawmakers approved the $511 million funding package proposal on the final day of the legislative session. But it appears no one thought about what needed to be done to get it on the ballot -- until it was almost too late...
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Town luring visitors with story of Jim the Wonder Dog
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
MARSHALL, Mo. -- Mary Hogge Burge is a soft-spoken woman of 70 who relates with sincerity and specifics her girlhood memories of a dog that seemed smarter than many humans. When those memories start flowing, the listener could be forgiven for questioning Burge's first-person accounts of Jim the Wonder Dog -- or the incredible stories related by others who encountered the Llewellyn setter with the unusual eyes...
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League gives Hispanics a voice
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- As Southwest Missouri's Hispanic population grows, so does the influence of groups helping them not only assimilate, but also organize. The League for United Latin American Citizens, for example, is fast carving out a political niche in the region...
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Lawsuit alleges abuse at state health center
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A federal lawsuit by two women allege their sons were slammed face-first on a hardwood floor and battered by staff members at a Missouri-run mental health center in Marshall, Mo. The U.S. District Court lawsuit, filed here last month, alleges that the abuse at the Marshall Habilitation Center -- owned and run by the state's Department of Mental Health -- was part of a ritual in the summer of 2000...
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Criticized gift ban revision goes to Illinois governor
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- An ethics proposal that was criticized as election-year political cover went to Gov. George Ryan on Sunday, after an overwhelming victory in the House. The bill bars government officials from soliciting campaign contributions from people or businesses they regulate. It also attempts to clarify a 1998 law that allows gifts of "nominal" value, by limiting them to $100 a year...
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Lawmakers send cigarette tax increase to governor
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois lawmakers began passing legislation Sunday that would balance the budget by raising taxes on cigarettes and casinos, borrowing money and laying off government employees. A cigarette tax increase of 40 cents a pack was sent to Gov. George Ryan on an 82-33 House vote. The increase is expected to generate about $230 million a year...
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Blacks challenge St. Louis County fire districts' hiring
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
ST. LOUIS -- An association of black firefighters has filed an employment-discrimination complaint against each of St. Louis County's 42 fire departments, alleging the lack of blacks requires court intervention. As chairman of the Firefighters League for the Advancement of Minority Equalization, University City firefighter Airest Wilson hopes FLAME's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint eventually compels the departments to hire one black firefighter for each white one...
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Study - Tiny newborns don't fare better with more resources
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
CHICAGO -- Contrary to medical thinking, low-birthweight newborns in the United States die at rates similar to those in other developed countries with far fewer resources for at-risk infants, a study found. The researchers compared newborn death rates by weight with those in Canada, Australia and Britain, which all devote comparatively more medical resources to prenatal care than to intensive newborn care...
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Highway closed temporarily after barge strikes bridge
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Part of U.S. 36 was closed for about an hour after two barges struck the bridge that carries traffic across the Missouri River, the Coast Guard said. The highway reopened around 8:30 a.m. Sunday after the Missouri Department of Transportation examined the bridge and determined it had not been damaged, said Jodi Ott of the Missouri State Highway Patrol...
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Developer convicted of stealing water
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A developer convicted of stealing water from the Jackson County city of Oak Grove said he was the victim of local politics and that nothing was actually stolen. Jack Hackley, 68, was convicted on Friday of stealing almost 5 million gallons from July 25 through July 30, 1999. ...
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Johnson makes up for bad run, wins at Dover
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
DOVER, Del. -- Rookie Jimmie Johnson redeemed himself for errors that probably cost him a victory a week earlier, winning the MBNA Platinum 400 on Sunday at Dover International Speedway. Despite dominating the middle part of the race, Johnson was 10th after most of the contenders stopped for gas for the final time with 92 of 400 laps remaining. But Johnson passed four-time Dover winner Ricky Rudd to take the lead on lap 363...
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Holt opts for a different number this season
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Rams wide receiver Torry Holt has a new goal -- getting the same results with the jersey number he always wanted and finally has got. Holt has turned in No. 88 and instead will wear No. 81 this season as the Rams try to earn their third Super Bowl trip in four years...
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Nunez addition pays off for Pirates
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
ST. LOUIS -- Pittsburgh manager Lloyd McClendon played a hunch Sunday and it paid big dividends for the Pirates. Abraham Nunez made the most of his rare start and drove in three runs, including a tiebreaking RBI single in the seventh inning that led the Pirates to a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals...
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Underdog Hurricanes don't lack confidence vs. Detroit
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
DETROIT -- The nine Stanley Cup championship banners that hang in Joe Louis Arena don't represent all the history the Carolina Hurricanes are up against in facing the Detroit Red Wings. Featuring at least a half-dozen players bound for the Hall of Fame, and a coach who's already there, Detroit has been favored all season to capture the Cup for the first time since 1998...
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U.S. star may not be starter for Cup opener
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
SEOUL, South Korea -- Cover boy Clint Mathis might start the World Cup on the U.S. team bench. He's already been criticized by his coach. The dynamic attacker is still recovering from knee surgery last summer, U.S coach Bruce Arena said Sunday, repeating that Mathis needs better work habits...
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Lakers survive, find familiar spot in finals
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Never in the past three years had the Los Angeles Lakers been tested like this. Extended to overtime in a Game 7 on the road, the two-time defending champions did what they do best -- thrived when the pressure was at its highest...
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Aid agencies in Afghanistan running out of money
(International News ~ 06/03/02)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- As refugees flood home, U.N. relief agencies helping Afghans recover from nearly two decades of war are being forced to suspend or curtail relocation and feeding operations because money is running out, aid representatives warned Sunday...
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Search for al-Qaida goes on near Pakistan
(International News ~ 06/03/02)
TORKHAM, Pakistan -- U.S. and coalition forces began searching early Sunday for al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border, officials said. Helicopter gunships and B-52s patrolled overhead as a combined force combed the al-Aqsa military base on the main road from Jalalabad to the Pakistani border before moving closer to Torkham, the Pakistani border post...
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Fingertip found in convenience store rice ball
(International News ~ 06/03/02)
TOKYO -- A woman in Japan bit into a rice ball she bought at a convenience store and got a gruesome surprise: a fingertip. The woman spit out a mouthful of her Korean bibimbap-flavored snack after she tasted something unusual and discovered a half-inch slice of human finger, said Takashi Fujii, a spokesman for the convenience store Lawsons...
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Nursery dedicated in doctor's honor
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
Friends, relatives and former patients of Dr. Jesse Ramsey, a noted Cape Girardeau pediatrician, gathered Sunday to remember his contributions to children's health and to dedicate Southeast Missouri Hospital's new nursery and neonatal intensive care unit in his honor...
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Getting a head start on the holidays
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
Around Christmastime, cities put up their manger displays, lights and other holiday decorations. In Cape Girardeau, the downtown area is decorated with aging wreaths, with faded red bows and ball ornaments that have turned from red to orange. Through wear and tear, wreaths are missing greenery in patches and leaving wires exposed, which can cause shorts in the bulbs...
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Two men escape jail in Bollinger County, still free
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Two Bollinger County Jail prisoners remain on the loose after an early morning escape Sunday. Casey Legate, 20, of Bollinger County and Paul Lutes, 23, of Wayne County, overpowered a dispatcher and escaped just before 6 a.m. No one was hurt during the escape...
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Mall could still be an option for Sears, insiders say
(Column ~ 06/03/02)
smoyers It's been more than a year since ShopKo closed its store at Westfield Shoppingtown West Park, which everyone outside of PR circles still just calls "the mall." And, as it does every time there's an opening at the mall, the same name continues to pop up as a replacement -- Sears...
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Families share prayers during final ground zero memorial
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
NEW YORK -- Hundreds of relatives of people lost on Sept. 11 joined hands at the site of the World Trade Center on Sunday as those hit hardest by terrorism sought solace at an interfaith memorial ceremony marking the end of the recovery effort. Family members hoisted pictures of their loved ones above their heads as the ceremony began with bagpipers playing "Amazing Grace." Then, a woman sang "God Bless America" amid the muffled sobs of relatives...
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Suspect in Sept. 11 attacks seen as symbol of missed clues
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Zacarias Moussaoui seems to grow in importance as he sits in jail, filing court motions that are kept secret by a judge's order. The only man charged as a Sept. 11 conspirator has become a symbol of the government's failure to piece together clues to the attacks...
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Park remains closed as damage cleanup continues
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. -- Amusement park workers on Sunday scrambled to assess and repair damage from a storm that damaged several rides, sent at least 47 people to the hospital and killed one woman. Kennywood Park, where 105-mph winds sent hail and flying debris for about 30 minutes on Friday, was to remain closed through at least Monday, park officials said...
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Fire causes evacuations, shuts down parkway
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A forest fire burned across more than 1,000 acres near a state park on Sunday, threatening hundreds of homes and shutting down a 24-mile stretch of one of the state's busiest highways. By nightfall, state forest fire officials said they had stopped the fire from moving forward. One house was engulfed in flames, and nine were damaged. At the fire's peak, 500 homes were evacuated...
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Shuttle to launch Wednesday
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA delayed the liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour yet another day, to Wednesday, because a valve change was taking longer than expected. Mission managers ordered a valve replacement Saturday and aimed for a Tuesday launch. Sunday, they postponed the flight one more day to give workers time to finish the job...
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Britain's music industry wants to get U.S. fans back
(Entertainment ~ 06/03/02)
LONDON -- The British music industry is singing the blues -- U.S. fans have lost that lovin' feelin'. Last month, for the first time since 1963, there were no British artists in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart -- and now some in the industry here are calling for a music "embassy" to promote their artists in the United States...
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Clancy's CIA guy Ryan gets makeover
(Entertainment ~ 06/03/02)
LOS ANGELES -- He's got no web-shooters and no license to kill. He needs a chopper to fly and steers a desk, not an Aston Martin. He never wears a cape, never hides behind a mask. Yet paper-pusher Jack Ryan has become a durable screen hero, protecting the world with the same devotion -- if not the flair and fashion sense -- of James Bond, Spider-Man, Batman and other larger-than-life superheroes...
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'The Goat' wins best play Tony; 'Millie' wins six
(Entertainment ~ 06/03/02)
NEW YORK -- "Thoroughly Modern Millie," the Jazz Age tale of an ambitious flapper, tapped its way to six Tony Awards including best musical Sunday, while "The Goat," Edward Albee's comic drama about the unpredictable nature of love was named best play...
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Pakistan's president suggests Russia help mediate dispute
(International News ~ 06/03/02)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- With India's prime minister unwilling to meet with Pakistan's president at a summit in Kazakhstan this week, the Pakistani leader held out the possibility Sunday that Russia could serve as a mediator in the crisis over disputed Kashmir...
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Arafat offers Cabinet posts to Hamas
(International News ~ 06/03/02)
JERUSALEM -- Yasser Arafat has offered Cabinet posts to Hamas and other militant groups involved in suicide attacks against Israelis as part of a government reshuffle he plans to announce in coming days, Palestinians said Sunday. While three other radical groups have turned down the Palestinian leader's offer, saying they don't want to belong to a government that's willing to negotiate with Israel, Hamas is still weighing the proposal, the group said...
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Fire forces evacuation, disrupting celebration
(International News ~ 06/03/02)
LONDON -- A fire broke out at Buckingham Palace Sunday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people and marring the high-spirited, four-day celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's 50 years on the throne. The London Fire Brigade said no members of the royal family were in the palace at the time of the fire, which police said was not intentionally set...
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Mexico army, police arrest 16 in massacre of sawmill workers
(International News ~ 06/03/02)
SANTIAGO XOCHILTEPEC, Mexico -- Army troops and police arrested 16 people in remote southern Mexico after 26 sawmill workers were massacred in a land dispute, state officials said Sunday. Three mass burials clogged the little graveyard in this village of 640 people on Sunday as Evangelical church members, Jehovah's Witnesses and then Catholics lowered their dead into graves, some dug extra wide in the red clay so that relatives could be buried side by side...
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Selling Baseball - A life raft for the grand old game
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
Last winter, commissioner Bud Selig appeared before Congress with his pockets turned inside out, singing a song of sadness as he reported losses of $232 million for major league baseball. And that was before the fans stopped coming. Imagine what Selig would tell the lawmakers now, with attendance off by 5 1/2 percent across the majors. According to figures released by his office, 22 of the 30 major league teams are down at the gate, some of them by huge amounts...
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Henderson powers Sox, leaves after hitting wall
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
NEW YORK -- Rickey Henderson homered and scored twice before being carted off to a hospital after crashing into a wall, leading Frank Castillo and the Boston Red Sox over the New York Yankees 7-1 Sunday. Nomar Garciaparra and Doug Mirabelli also homered for the Red Sox, who won two of three at Yankee Stadium in a matchup of the teams with baseball's best records. Boston left with a two-game lead over New York in the AL East...
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Philadelphia pitcher adds extra punch to Expos loss
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
PHILADELPHIA -- Starting pitcher Robert Person drove in seven runs with a grand slam and a three-run homer to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to an 18-3 rout of the Montreal Expos on Sunday. Pat Burrell hit a three-run homer and an RBI single in a 10-run first inning for Philadelphia. Burrell finished with three hits and five RBIs, Bobby Abreu had four RBIs, and Marlon Anderson had three hits and three runs scored...
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Program hopes to create rubber-producing sunflowers
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
DENVER -- Imagine a field of bright yellow sunflowers basking in warm summer sun, leaves thick and deep green, and brimming with enough natural rubber to fashion a set of high-performance tires. In a decade, it may be reality if an experiment by Colorado State University and government researchers proves successful...
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Subsidies expected to boost milk, pea output
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- Lentils and dry peas, two crops American farmers traditionally grew little of, are going to become more popular with growers now that the government will subsidize their production. Under the farm bill that President Bush signed in May, subsidies commonly reserved for corn, wheat, cotton, soybeans and other crops are being offered for lentils and dry peas, the type of peas used in split-pea soup...
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Sports digest 6/3/02
(Other Sports ~ 06/03/02)
AREA Riverdogs swept in pair at Dawson Springs, Ky. The Cape Girardeau Riverdogs lost a five-inning opener, then rallied in a narrow loss in Game 2 of a sweep Sunday by Dawson Springs, Ky. Steve Fowler pitched the opener, an 11-1 loss in five innings. Fowler pitched two innings and allowed eight earned runs. Mark Silverthorn had two of the Riverdogs' four hits...
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Speak Out A 06/03/02
(Speak Out ~ 06/03/02)
Passion for his job REGARDING TERRY Kitchen's commencement speech: I got chill bumps and tears to see a person as passionate about his school and work as Kitchen. I truly believe that if Kitchen could choose any job in the world, he would choose his job as athletic director of Central High School...
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Esther Vasterling
(Obituary ~ 06/03/02)
WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. -- Esther E. Mehrle Vasterling, 91, died Saturday, June 1, 2002. Born and raised in Cape Girardeau, she was a resident of Glendale for 52 years. She was the beloved wife of the late Oscar C. Vasterling, loving mother of Paul R. Vasterling, Larry R. Vasterling, Jeanne R. Vasterling, and the late Donald R. Vasterling...
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Walter Sander
(Obituary ~ 06/03/02)
SCOTT CITY, Mo. -- Walter W. Sander, 92, of Scott City died at St. Francis Medical Center. Arrangements are pending at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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Norbert Stearns
(Obituary ~ 06/03/02)
Norbert Stearns Norbert E. "Turtle" Stearns, 66, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 1, 2002, at Jackson Manor. He was born Nov. 3, 1935, at Daisy, Mo., son of Emory and Anna Hildebrand Stearns. He and Jolene Hoffer were married Oct. 27, 1962, at Cape Girardeau...
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Gladys Nenninger
(Obituary ~ 06/03/02)
Gladys Nenninger PERRYVILLE, Mo. - Gladys M. Nenninger, 87, died Sunday, June 2, 2002, at Anna House De Paul Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Oct. 7, 1914, at Perryville, daughter of Felix and Laura Roy Moore. She and Milford Nenninger were married June 12, 1937. He preceded her in death July 17, 1992...
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Out of the past 6/3/02
(Out of the Past ~ 06/03/02)
10 years ago: June 3, 1992 Jackson - With state and federal approval secured, County Commission is seeking bids for replacement of 200-foot bridge across Diversion Channel; Associate Commissioner Leonard Sander, who oversees roads and bridges for commission, says bridge will be largest one ever replaced by county; 70 percent of cost will come from federal highway funds that are available to cities and counties; bridge will be located on County Road 253 between Whitewater and Delta...
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Stocks fall on accounting worries, tensions overseas
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- Skeptical about corporate accounting practices and worried about conflicts overseas, investors dumped stocks Monday, sending the Nasdaq composite index to its lowest level this year and the Dow Jones industrials skidding more than 200 points...
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Former nurse charged with 10 deaths at state veterans hospital
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A former nurse at a veterans hospital was charged Monday with 10 counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of 10 patients in 1992. The charges against Richard Williams, 36, of St. Charles, were filed by Boone County Prosecutor Kevin Crane and capped a lengthy investigation aided by the Department of Veteran's Affairs and the FBI...
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Court declines to hear appeal on party contribution limits
(State News ~ 06/03/02)
Associated Press WriterJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Republican Party challenge to a state law limiting political party contributions to candidates. After nearly four years of battling the contribution limits, the state GOP conceded Monday that the case was over...
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Prosecutor says Skankel talked about killing Moxley
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
Associated Press WriterNORWALK, Conn. (AP) -- The 1975 slaying of Martha Moxley was a crime of hate and rage that Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel began talking about almost as soon as he committed it, prosecutors told the jury in closing arguments Monday. But the defense said he had nothing to do with the killing...
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Memphis medical examiner attacked, bomb tied to his body
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
Associated Press WriterMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal and local authorities promise an intense investigation into why the city's chief medical examiner was attacked, bound with barbed wire and left with an apparent bomb tied to his body. The device did not explode, and Medical Examiner O.C. Smith suffered minor injuries Saturday night...
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Industrial accident at Lone Star kills employee
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
An employee of Lone Star Industries was killed Monday morning after an industrial accident at the cement plant in Cape Girardeau. Details were sketchy, but Cape Girardeau County Coroner Mike Hurst confirmed that a fatality occurred during an industrial accident at about 10 a.m. The person was pronounced dead at the scene at about 10:45 a.m., Hurst said...
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Red House project needs volunteer help
(Editorial ~ 06/03/02)
It may be just a pile of logs now, but soon the project to recreate Cape Girardeau founder Louis Lorimier's Red House and make it into an interpretative center in time for the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition will take shape. To make this happen, volunteers are needed. ...
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Oyster farmer wants spot near national park; government objects
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
SEWARD, Alaska -- A businessman wants to launch a commercial oyster farm in Alaska's scenic Kenai fjords, but he is running into plenty of opposition. Robert Hardy applied for a lease to run the oyster operation on the waters of Kenai Fjords National Park, leading to angry responses from the federal government and environmental organizations...
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Farmer turns to growing grapes
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
OAKFORD, Ill. -- Mark Lounsberry, whose ancestors settled in Menard County before the Civil War, hopes his new venture, the Hill Prairie Vineyard and Winery, will help marry the present with the past. Lounsberry said his goal is to establish a prosperous family business. His sons, Matthew, 14, and Landon, 13, and wife, Connie, are already pruning the vines and harvesting the fruit. Lounsberry's parents also have been instrumental in getting the winery started...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
7:30 p.m. Monday City Hall Public Hearings Hearing to consider the request for voluntary annexation of 13.14 acres of land owned by the Jackson Industrial Development Corporation along South Farmington Road. Action Items Power and Light Committee Consider motion to cancel the regular council meeting date of Monday, June 17, and reschedule the regular meeting for Monday, June 24, at 7:30 p.m...
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Sorenstam matches record, overpowers LPGA field
(Professional Sports ~ 06/03/02)
AURORA, Ill. -- No record seems safe from Annika Sorenstam. A little more than a year after shooting the first 59 in LPGA history, Sorenstam matched the best 54-score ever on the tour in winning the inaugural Kellogg-Keebler Classic on Sunday. Sorenstam fashioned a 21-under-par 195 with a sizzling finish to win by 11 strokes, the largest margin on the tour this year...
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Executives press for new baggage screening deadline
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Department is not backing off a Dec. 31 deadline for mandatory screening of all checked baggage despite new warnings from airport officials that it will disrupt operations and could delay travel. A congressional leader on aviation said Sunday he thinks the government might need to reconsider the deadline...
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Airline warns loss of emergency loans may mean bankruptcy
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- US Airways and its supporters are battling congressional efforts to curtail the $10 billion in emergency airline loans that Congress approved just after Sept. 11, warning that squeezing the bailout program could force the company into bankruptcy...
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Officials - Prevention of Sept. 11 attacks unlikely
(National News ~ 06/03/02)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence agencies could have better analyzed information that pointed to Sept. 11, but probably could not have prevented the attacks, the attorney general and FBI director said Sunday. Members of Congress' intelligence committees promised to pursue intelligence gathering and missed clues when closed-door hearings begin Tuesday on why the terrorist hijackings were not foreseen...
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Female auctioneer sells memories
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
Claueda Barks picked up a packet, described the World War II-era coins inside and then seamlessly slid into the familiar auctioneer's "chant." "I was nervous," said Barks, who switched careers during the 1990s from being a retail merchant to "selling memories," via the auction block. "I've been an auctioneer seven years. I still get a little nervous when I pick up the mike."...
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Thousands volunteer to help in river cleanup
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
The annual Ohio River sweep yields some unusual, amusing and surprising items during its one-day annual cleanup. This year the river is falling. That may not be good news for thousands of volunteers who will turn out June 15 for the six-state river cleanup that extends the entire length -- 980 miles -- of the Ohio River, from its origin at Pittsburgh, Pa. to its end at Cairo, Ill...
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Military digest 06/03/02
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
Private completes Army basic training Pvt. Christopher Valentine has completed Army basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. He will remain at Fort Leonard Wood for advanced individual training and will be stationed out of Perryville, Mo., with the Army National Guard...
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Community digest 06/03/02
(Local News ~ 06/03/02)
Local woman named to state TPA office Margret Dickerson of Cape Girardeau Post M of the Missouri Division Travelers Protective Association (TPA), has been elected vice president of the Missouri Division. Other state officers include Jerry Goerger of Post SL in St. Louis, president; and Bob Rozinsky, Post SL, secretary...
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Cape fire report 6/3/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/03/02)
Cape Girardeau Monday, June 3, 2002 Firefighters responded to the following calls Saturday:At 4:34 p.m., a false alarm on Nash Road. At 7:50 p.m., a request for emergency medical service at 2901 Hawthorne. At 8:48 p.m., a motor vehicle accident at Broadway and West End...
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Cape police report 6/3/02
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/03/02)
Cape Girardeau Monday, June 3, 2002 ArrestsMatthew D. Pulliam, 20, of Jackson, was arrested Saturday on a warrant. Miles Ramply Walker, 28, was arrested Saturday for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, peace disturbance, assault and possession of an unlawful weapon...
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Opt in? Opt out? Just don't call me, consumers plead
(Business ~ 06/03/02)
INDIANAPOLIS -- When Jason Settles added his name to Indiana's new "no-call" list, he expected relief from the tyranny of telemarketers. But the computer consultant's dreams of dinner in peace quickly turned to alarm when he learned his own phone company intended to share details of his calling habits with its corporate affiliates...
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Funeral industry prepares for boomer generation
(Business ~ 06/03/02)
NEW YORK -- Death is hopefully decades away for Karen Bradford, but the 48-year-old is already preparing. She has purchased burial plots for herself and her husband, and is comfortable talking about what she views as the inevitable. "Death is a basic part of life," said the Riverside, Calif., woman, who also takes a relaxed view of funeral service planning. ...
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Interference more likely as wireless devices become popular
(Business ~ 06/03/02)
NEW YORK Gary Oglesby thought it was odd that his wireless network at WorldCom Inc. got unusually congested early each morning and again just after quitting time. Turns out a security gate at a parking lot just outside his group's offices shared the network's frequency. To reduce interference, Oglesby had to move an antenna away from the window...
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People on the move 06/03/02
(Business ~ 06/03/02)
Meyer attends Realtors meeting in Washington Thomas M. Meyer of Thomas L. Meyer Realty Co. recently attended the National Association of Realtors' meeting in Washington, D.C., as this year's NAR regional vice president. Realtor issues in government regulations and legislation concerning private property rights, virtual property marketing, and international property agreements were some of the items discussed...
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Business memo 06/03/02
(Business ~ 06/03/02)
This architect's rendering show's Southeast Missouri Hospital's plans to add two floors to its building at 1701 Lacey St. The cost of the project, which is scheduled to begin construction in July, is $16 million.Spartech announces 7 percent loss in sales...
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People you should know/Buz Sutherland
(Business ~ 06/03/02)
Age: 52 Key responsibilities: The Small Business Development Center at Southeast Missouri State University assists new and existing businesses meet business management and operational challenges and opportunities by linking the resources of the university to the small business community in the 19-county service area, in partnership with the U.S. ...
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City budget - Payroll just one factor
(Editorial ~ 06/03/02)
Comparing one city's budget to another city's budget can be compared to comparing Florida's fruit and vegetable industry to California's fruit and vegetable industry. Both states grow and sell fruit and vegetables, but they don't necessarily grow the same fruit and vegetables...
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