By Lindy Bavolek ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 7/9/08
The board also approved the design and location of a new autism center and a pay increase for faculty and staff
7/9/08
BLODGETT, Mo. — Three trees were reported down on Route H near Blodgett at 3:45 p.m Tuesday after severe weather passed through Southeast Missouri, according to the National Weather Service.Three trees were also reported uprooted at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Bloomfield, Mo.
By Aaron Dohogne
~ Southeast Missourian ~ 7/9/08
A bullet hole was found Tuesday in the Division I courtroom through the southeast window on the upper floor of the Common Pleas Courthouse.
7/9/08
Residents of Annwood Estates in Jackson are being ordered to boil their water following a water main break Monday night.The precautionary order is in effect until 10 a.m. Thursday.
By Aaron Dohogne ~ Southeast Missourian ~ 7/9/08
Patrolman Mike Kidd keeps pictures of his 6-year-old son, Cash, and himself making silly faces in his squad car to remind him of what he gets to go home to.
The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
CARBONDALE, Ill. — John Y. Simon, one of the nation's foremost scholars on President Grant and the Civil War, died Tuesday, Southern Illinois University officials said. He was 75.
By ANGELA K. BROWN ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
FORT WORTH, Texas — A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick.
By MALIA WOLLAN ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
BIG SUR, Calif. — Firefighters pushed back a blaze threatening this small coastal community just enough to allow hundreds of people to check on their homes Tuesday as a separate fire 300 miles north forced residents of another town to evacuate.
By LINDSEY TANNER ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
CHICAGO — A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.
By SAMANTHA YOUNG ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.
By JEANNINE AVERSA ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve will issue new rules next week aimed at protecting future homebuyers from dubious lending practices, its most sweeping response to a housing crisis that has propelled foreclosures to record highs.
By NEDRA PICKLER ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama says John McCain's plan to balance the budget doesn't add up. Easy for him to say: It's not a goal he's even trying to reach.
By CARLA K. JOHNSON ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
CHICAGO — Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.
By MATT REED ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — Demonstrations on the town square show how divided people are over the school board's decision to fire a science teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs in the classroom and burning crosses on students' arms.
By MIKE BAKER ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
RALEIGH, N.C. — Mourners who gathered to remember former North Carolina senator Jesse Helms on Tuesday celebrated both sides of his conflicting persona: the cantankerous conservative who reveled in political confrontation and the Southern gentleman who would do anything to lend a hand.
By JIM SALTER ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
Hulshof wants to increase funding for community and technical colleges and put more restrictions on lawsuits
By SAMANTHA GROSS ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
NEW YORK — The daughter of a woman who died unnoticed on the floor of a hospital psychiatric unit called Tuesday for criminal prosecution of the workers who did nothing to help her.
By BRIAN SKOLOFF ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
Elkhorn and staghorn corals have been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act
By DONNA ABU-NASR ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Sultan al-Mazeen recently stopped at a gas station to fill up his sport utility vehicle, paying 45 cents a gallon — about one-tenth what Americans pay these days.
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA ~ and SEBASTIAN ABBOT ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials stepped up pressure on the United States on Tuesday to agree to a specific timeline to withdraw American forces, a sign of the government's growing confidence as violence falls.
By TOM RAUM ~ and JOSEPH COLEMAN ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
TOYAKO, Japan — World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too uncertain.
By GREGORY KATZ ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
LONDON — The times they aren't a changing. Not at Buckingham Palace, at least.
By WILLIAM FOREMAN ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
WUFU, China — Angry parents whose children were crushed to death in schools that collapsed in China's mighty earthquake are no longer being allowed to march, wave banners and vent their rage in public.
By ANNE GEARAN ~ The Associated Press ~ 7/9/08
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The United States and leaders of the Czech Republic agreed Tuesday to place a radar system in this former Soviet satellite that would warn of long-range missiles coming to Europe from the Middle East.
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