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What time is it? Time to change clocks? Really? Who cares?
(Column ~ 10/26/01)
Most of you, I'm sure, are looking forward to my annual tirade about changing the clocks. By now you know I prefer year-round daylight-saving time. My second choice would be year-round standard time. But changing clocks back and forth every spring and every autumn is nuts...
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New York is swimming in tradition; Arizona is, well... swimming
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
PHOENIX -- Matt Williams made a beeline to Monument Park the first time he stepped into Yankee Stadium. "You have to go pay homage to the history of the game. That's where Ruth, Gehrig and DiMaggio played," the Arizona third baseman said. "It's a baseball cathedral."...
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MacInnis, Pronger leads Blues to 5-1 win over Rangers
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
ST. LOUIS -- Al MacInnis leads the St. Louis Blues in shots on goal this season, and finally one went in Thursday night for the 20-year NHL veteran defenseman. MacInnis and fellow defenseman Chris Pronger scored their first goals of the season, sparking the Blues to a 5-1 victory over the New York Rangers in the only meeting between the teams this season...
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Rudd realizes hopes are slim of catching Gordon
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Ricky Rudd knows bad finishes in his last two races have all but ended a run for the Winston Cup championship, but he's not ready to give up. Heading to Phoenix International Raceway for Sunday's Checker Auto Parts 500, Rudd trails series leader Jeff Gordon by a substantial 395 points. But with five races remaining and a maximum point spread -- first to 43rd -- of 151 at each event, Rudd still has time to at least make it interesting...
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Colts drop Chiefs to 1-6
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- After combining for 34 yards in a miserable first quarter, Peyton Manning and Edgerrin James proved once again it's not how you start, it's how you finish that counts. Manning, 3-of-9 in a scoreless, punchless first period, regained his touch to go 19-of-30 for 201 yards and two touchdowns as the Indianapolis Colts snapped a three-game losing streak with a 35-28 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs...
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Senate passes anti-terrorism bill to Bush for signature
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
WASHINGTON -- The Senate sent President Bush a package of anti-terror measures Thursday that gives police sweeping new powers to search people's homes and business records secretly and to eavesdrop on telephone and computer conversations. Bush said he will sign the bill "so that we can combat terrorism and prevent future attacks."...
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Anthrax spot checks ordered
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
WASHINGTON -- A State Department mail handler lay ill with inhalation anthrax Thursday and the besieged Postal Service set up spot checks at facilities nationwide as the bioterror scare widened. "We still don't know who is responsible," said Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge...
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Reports indicate recession has begun
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
WASHINGTON -- Home sales and orders to factories for big-ticket items plunged in September, and the number of Americans drawing unemployment benefits now stands at an 18-year-high -- the strongest evidence to date that the country has entered a recession...
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Israel says withdrawl from Palestine to begin
(Local News ~ 10/26/01)
JERUSALEM -- Facing steady U.S. criticism, Israel agreed Friday to withdraw from several West Bank towns if Palestinians begin adhering to a cease-fire agreement, an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said. Sharon agreed to the phased withdrawal at a late-night meeting of his top Cabinet ministers. There was no immediate Palestinian response...
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Halloween events
(Local News ~ 10/26/01)
Saturday Kids Safe Halloween party from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at ARCH Air Medical Service hangar at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. The event includes games, entertainment, candy and prizes for a costume contest. Parents can receive Halloween safety tips and reflective strips for costumes and candy bags. An ARCH helicopter ambulance, a Cape Girardeau fire department engine and police cars and an ambulance from Cape County Private Ambulance will be on display...
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Cape police report 10/26
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/26/01)
Cape Girardeau Friday, Oct. 26 ArrestsTeresa Marie McCrary, 44, 29 S. Sprigg, was arrested Wednesday for stealing. Beau Richard Ebinger, 48, 118 N. Pacific, was arrested Wednesday for stealing. Beverly Ann Ford, 36, Jackson, Mo., was arrested Wednesday for false declaration and several traffic violations...
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Cape fire report 10/26
(Police/Fire Report ~ 10/26/01)
Cape Girardeau Friday, Oct. 26 Firefighters responded to the following calls Wednesday:At 6:50 p.m., a box alarm at 629 S. Ellis. At 7:48 p.m., an alarm sounding at 735 Clark. At 8:07 p.m., an emergency medical service at 21 Village A. At 11:40 p.m., an emergency medical service at 630 North St...
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Fear factor - Terrorism's most potent weapon
(Editorial ~ 10/26/01)
A month and a half after terrorists flew commercial airliners into both towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Americans and our nation's many allies around the world are still trying to assess the impact such a catastrophe has on all of us...
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Worldwide threat exposes lax controls
(Editorial ~ 10/26/01)
Reports that anthrax bacteria are widely available at germ banks from Paris to Perth don't do much to allay concerns about the spread of the potentially fatal spores. Neither is it any comfort to learn that the Soviet Union, which once pursued biological weapons in earnest, dumped anthrax on an unguarded island near Afghanistan -- a mess that U.S. tax dollars now will clean up...
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Prep football
(High School Sports ~ 10/26/01)
VALLE (6-2) AT ST. VINCENT (5-3) Last week: St. Vincent 28, Chaffee 0; Hayti 40, Valle 14 Last year: St. Vincent 31, Valle 6 St. Vincent coach Keith Winkler: "They've got more experience and are bigger up front but we're going to go out and give it everything we've got. ...
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Tigers ride momentum to Perryville
(High School Sports ~ 10/26/01)
After playing their best game of the year, the Cape Central Tigers can't wait to play again. Central, coming off an impressive 32-9 victory over favored Sikeston, is beaming with confidence heading into Week 2 of Class 4A, District 1 play. And that's not good news for the Perryville Pirates...
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Stewart grapples with new safety mandate by NASCAR
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
By Jenna Fryer ~ The Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Tony Stewart no longer has any choice about wearing a head-and-neck restraint, and that makes him uneasy. A new rule forcing drivers to wear either a HANS or Hutchens device begins with qualifying Friday for the EA Sports 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, one of the most dangerous tracks in NASCAR...
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Ogilvy, Singh fire opening 64's at Buick
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- Australian rookie Geoff Ogilvy shot a career-best 64 on Thursday for a share of the first-round lead with Vijay Singh in the Buick Challenge. Five players were one shot back in the final chance to qualify for the season-ending Tour Championship...
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Bears rookie finds Payton, Sayers tough acts to follow
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Being a running back for the Chicago Bears might be one of the toughest jobs in the NFL. You're compared to Walter Payton and Gale Sayers from the minute you put on the uniform, and every step you take is measured against their considerably larger ones. Fans still wear their jerseys, and pictures of the Hall of Famers hang at team headquarters. You even practice in an indoor facility named for Payton...
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People talk 10/26
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
Reclusive filmmaker will stage play 'Anna' Ingmar Bergman is planning to stage a play for Swedish Television next year. The reclusive 83-year-old filmmaker will direct his chamber play "Anna," the public service network said Wednesday. Few details were provided, although Swedish media speculated it would be a sequel to "Scenes From a Marriage," a six-part TV series that was made into a movie in 1973...
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Ford ignition settlement may cost automaker $2.7 billion
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
HAYWARD, Calif. -- Ford Motor Co. agreed Thursday to reimburse current and former owners for repairs on millions of cars and trucks prone to stall because of a flawed ignition system. The deal approved by a California judge could cost the automaker $2.7 billion, the plaintiffs said. Ford attorney Richard Warmer disputed that estimate, without offering specifics...
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Cars stranded, buildings closed as storm moves east
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
The Associated Press FARGO, N.D. -- Snow-shrouded North Dakota highways were strewn with abandoned cars and trucks Thursday and tens of thousands of people across the Midwest were left without electricity after a blast of violent weather. Wednesday's storms were blamed for at least six deaths, including four in North Dakota. In Tennessee, a 4-year-old girl was killed and her mother critically injured after a tree toppled by 70 mph winds fell on their apartment...
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'Glass of Sultans' at Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Entertainment ~ 10/26/01)
NEW YORK The 6-inch-high pitcher is a marvel of glassmaking. It has a delicate green glass pattern carved all over the translucent body and is about a thousand years old. It is a breathtaking example of artistic ability and control, according to the curator of a new exhibit that looks at Islamic glass. But it is also an anonymous one. There is no signature, no identifying mark, nothing that would give a clue as to who made it...
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U.S. slows closure of German spy station
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
BERLIN -- The United States has delayed closing an Army spy base in southern Germany next year because of the war against terrorism, U.S. officials said. The control post in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Aibling provides long-range communications for U.S. forces. Scheduled to close as part of the U.S. troop drawdown in Europe, it will stay open until Sept. 30, 2004, said Lt. Col. Kenneth McClellan, a Defense Department spokesman...
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U.S. bombing runs increase
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- U.S. jets dive-bombed Taliban positions on the front line north of the Afghan capital on Thursday, eluding at least one missile and sending thick columns of black smoke climbing into a cloudless sky. Warplanes later pounded Kabul in the strongest attack on the city in days...
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Russian sub crew remains removed
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
MOSCOW -- Russian navy forensic experts began removing the remains of crewmen from the wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine Thursday, and authorities said the bodies found so far could be identified by sight after 14 months in their frigid underwater tomb...
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11 die, over 100 missing as Alpine tunnel fire burns on
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
AIROLO, Switzerland -- Fighting temperatures above 1,800 degrees, rescuers beat back a fierce blaze Thursday inside the longest highway tunnel through the Alps. Eleven people were confirmed dead, and officials fear others lay incinerated in the inferno...
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Jobless rate down in September
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's unemployment rate decreased slightly to 4 percent in September, but officials said Thursday any impact from the Sept. 11 attacks has yet to be felt. Missouri's jobless rate fell by two-tenths of a percentage point last month when compared to August. The effect of terrorism on the job market likely would appear in October figures...
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SIU, town brace for Halloween
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Shoe store owner Kim Treger says she's not worried that unruly street melees that have become a tradition here for most of the past 30 Halloweens will erupt again this weekend. She says students have been more subdued since last month's terrorist attacks...
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Panel looks at tobacco fees
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A three-member panel will decide the amount of money private attorneys will receive for their role in Missouri's lawsuit against big tobacco companies. The private attorneys, along with Attorney General Jay Nixon, testified before the Tobacco Fee Arbitration Panel in a closed meeting in Chicago on Wednesday. Also testifying were lawyers representing tobacco companies responsible for paying the fees...
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Water patrol has more boats and vehicles than employees
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri State Water Patrol has more boats and vehicles than employees, raising concerns about whether the patrol has more equipment than necessary, a new state audit said. State Auditor Claire McCaskill, in an audit released Thursday, recommended the patrol determine the number of boats and vehicles it really needs...
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Officer enters Juvenile race 4-for-4
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
NEW YORK -- Trainer Bob Baffert hopes Officer doesn't follow Point Given's example -- at least in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Saturday at Belmont Park. A victory by favored Officer would make him the champion 2-year-old and the early favorite for the Kentucky Derby. Point Given, who was about to achieve greatness before being retired two months ago, was beaten by a nose last year...
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Sports digest 10/26/01
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
Southeast softball honored for high G.P.A. The Southeast Missouri State University softball team was recently commended by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association for its academic record during the 2000-01 season. The Otahkians combined for a 3.501 G.P.A. to rank third among Division I softball programs...
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Officials aim race changes at Armstrong
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
PARIS -- They're trying to "Lance-proof" the Tour de France. Saying they wanted no repeat of this summer's runaway victory by American Lance Armstrong, Tour officials on Thursday unveiled the 2002 route that is the shortest in history and designed to keep the outcome in the balance until the final stages...
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Indians pack 8-0 record, lesson
(High School Sports ~ 10/26/01)
The Jackson Indians touched the proverbial stove last week. No matter how many times coaches say not to overlook opponents, the Indians did it anyway. And they got burned for more than 200 passing yards and 35 points by a team that is now just 2-6. Jackson, 8-0 and ranked sixth in the state, won the game 49-35, but everyone on the team was disappointed with the performance...
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Miami rips W. Virginia
(College Sports ~ 10/26/01)
MIAMI -- Top-ranked Miami overcame a slow start and a sloppy field Thursday night against West Virginia. Ken Dorsey threw two touchdown passes, tying the school record of 48 held by Steve Walsh and Vinny Testaverde, as the Hurricanes beat the Mountaineers 45-3 for their 16th consecutive victory...
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Knight lightens up for media
(College Sports ~ 10/26/01)
IRVING, Texas -- Bob Knight was telling tales, cracking jokes and having fun. And he was even spending his 61st birthday with reporters Thursday. In his first meeting with a large media group since his contentious introduction as Texas Tech's coach seven months ago, Knight was relaxed and engaging during the Big 12 Conference basketball media day...
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Emerson - Feds need power to fire
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
The federal government needs to hire and fire airport security workers nationwide, U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson says. Federalizing airport security won't work if the employees can't be fired for failing to do their jobs, Emerson said Thursday in a conference call with reporters. Congress could take up the airport security bill next week...
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Ag conference slated in December
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
DEXTER, Mo. -- In an effort to increase interest in the expanding world of agri-business, the University of Missouri Outreach and Extension will sponsor an entrepreneurial agriculture conference in Sikeston, Mo., Dec. 4. The conference is designed to educate producers who might be interested in starting or expanding a value-added agricultural business...
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Lichtenegger leads in campaign funding
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Republican Donna Lichtenegger of Jackson is off to a strong fund-raising start in her quest to become 157th District state representative. During the finance disclosure reporting period of July 1 through Sept. 30, Lichtenegger raised $20,462 and spent $3,918.97, leaving her with $16,543.03 on hand...
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Senate panel hears early-voting opinions
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
Missourians wouldn't have to squeeze voting around work and family obligations under a legislative proposal being considered by a state Senate interim committee that would allow early voting in elections. The idea of an early voting system was a major topic of election-reform discussion at a state Senate committee hearing in Cape Girardeau Thursday. The hearing, held at the Show Me Center, was the second of four scheduled around the state...
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'God Bless America' CD shoots to No. 1
(Entertainment ~ 10/26/01)
NEW YORK -- Americans are showing their patriotism in record stores. "God Bless America," an album featuring Celine Dion's much-praised rendition of the song, is the nation's best-selling album, according to figures released Wednesday. The disc, which Columbia Records touts as "a collection of songs of hope, freedom and inspiration," also includes Frank Sinatra's "America the Beautiful," Mariah Carey's "Hero," Tramaine Hawkins' "Amazing Grace" and Pete Seeger's "This Land Is Your Land.". ...
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Olympic Committee pares 2012 bids cities list
(Professional Sports ~ 10/26/01)
AP Sports WriterSALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The U.S. Olympic Committee trimmed the list of American cities bidding for the 2012 Summer Olympics to four, picking Houston, New York, San Francisco and Washington. Dropped from contention Friday were Dallas, Los Angeles, Tampa, Fla., and Cincinnati...
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New York postal workers uneasy working where anthrax was found
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- Executives of a postal union met Friday to decide how to deal with anthrax contamination at a huge mail processing plant, but one leader did not wait and urged workers to stay home. "We are telling the workers they are not supposed to go in that building," said William Smith, president of the New York Metro Area Postal Union, as he stood outside the Morgan Processing and Distribution Center. "They are supposed to close that building down."...
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Bush signs sweeping anti-terrorism bill into law
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Friday signed a sweeping anti-terrorism bill into law, giving police and intelligence agencies vast new powers to "counter a threat like no other our nation has ever faced." "Today, we take an essential step in defeating terrorists while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans," Bush said in an East Room ceremony even as the government grappled with a series of anthrax cases that may be linked to the Sept. ...
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Taliban say they captured, executed key opposition figure
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
Associated Press WriterKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. jets struck Kabul on Friday, rocking the capital city with huge explosions and blasting a Red Cross compound for a second time this month. The Taliban said they captured and executed a noted opposition figure, accusing him of spying for the United States and Britain...
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New-home sales fall by 1.4 percent to lowest level in a year
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of new homes fell in September to their lowest level in a year as rising layoffs and new uncertainties raised by the terror attacks made Americans shy away from making big-ticket purchases. The Commerce Department reported Friday that new-home sales declined by 1.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 864,000. That marked the lowest level since August 2000 when a rate of 839,000 homes were sold...
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Leading Puerto Rican legislator arrested
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The former president of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives was arrested Friday, family members said. Authorities would not immediately comment, but the FBI scheduled a news conference to discuss the matter. A federal grand jury had been investigating whether the legislator, Rep. Edison Misla Aldarondo, improperly intervened in the sale of the Arecibo Regional Hospital to a Puerto Rican company, Sulsoni Corp...
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Czechs confirm Atta met with Prague-based Iraqi diplomat
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
Associated Press WriterPRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Government officials confirmed Friday that suspected suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent during one of two trips to Prague. Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place several weeks before Al-Ani's expulsion from Prague on April 22, 2001 for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status...
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Another mail handler has anthrax; Postal Service expands hunt
(National News ~ 10/26/01)
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- A State Department mail handler who works far from previous anthrax-infected sites was hospitalized with the inhaled form of the disease, a puzzle a top official on Friday called "the $64,000 question." The CIA said it discovered a trace amount of anthrax in a mail-handling building at its headquarters...
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U.S. planes hit Kabul in overnight raids
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
Associated Press WriterKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. jets struck Kabul on the Muslim sabbath Friday, rocking the city with huge explosions and blasting a Red Cross compound for a second time this month. The Taliban captured a noted opposition figure reportedly on a peace mission on behalf of the U.S.-backed former king...
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Taliban - Afghan opposition figure Abdul Haq killed in shootout
(International News ~ 10/26/01)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan opposition figure Abdul Haq was killed in a shootout with Taliban soldiers, the Taliban's Bakhtar news agency reported Friday. Haq's family expressed skepticism over the report. Earlier, Taliban officials told the Afghan Islamic Press agency that Haq was captured early Friday about 20 miles south of Kabul. His family said in Pakistan that he had been apprehended on a peace mission...
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Holden to address county Democrats
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
Missouri Gov. Bob Holden will be in Cape Girardeau Saturday to give the keynote address at the annual Cape Girardeau County Central Democratic Committee Fall Festival. Holden is expected to address about 160 men and women about the state of the state, including the status of the budget and costs incurred from increased statewide security since the attacks on Sept. 11, said Tom Neumeyer, chairman of the Central Committee...
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BioKyowa to lay off 45 workers
(Business ~ 10/26/01)
Nash Road industry BioKyowa Inc. will discontinue production of farm-grade amino acid lysine and food-grade nucleic acids by March, resulting in the loss of 45 employees. Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, the Japan-based parent company of BioKyowa, is taking a $100 million loss primarily due to two expansions in the past two years: one to increase production of lysine and the other to begin production of food supplements for human consumption...
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Mall to hold Halloween activities
(Local News ~ 10/26/01)
Shortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, numerous e-mails started circulating warning Americans to stay out of shopping malls on Oct. 31 because they were thought to be the next target of the terrorists. The story claimed a woman living in California dating a man from Afghanistan was warned by the man to not fly in commercial jets on Sept. 11 and stay away from shopping malls on Oct. 31...
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Blunt is serving honorably during national crisis
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/26/01)
To the editor: On the issue of Matt Blunt: Lay off. Blunt is an officeholder and a proud military veteran. There is a law that protects his rights when called to active duty. Blunt did not whine and cry demanding that he not be called. He left his office to defend his country. ...
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No rides given to those against our nation's flag
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/26/01)
To the editor: Regarding Donn Miller's comment about our country's flag: He hitches rides every day, so I would like to know if a car comes by while he is out there looking for a ride and it has an American flag displayed on it, will he get in it and ride...
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Speak Out A 10/26//01
(Speak Out ~ 10/26/01)
Employment service HATS OFF to the 58-year-old Speak Out caller who claimed age discrimination is keeping him from getting a job. I also agree with his implicit point that the best way to secure gainful employment is to complain about it in Speak Out...
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Pearl Lewis
(Obituary ~ 10/26/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Pearl Lewis, 85, of Sikeston died Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001, at Clearview Nursing Center. She was born May 27, 1916, in East Prairie, Mo., daughter of John W. and Verna Sanders Clifft. She and Howard Sanders were married in 1936. He died in 1963. She and Raymond Lewis were married Nov. 27, 1971. He died March 13, 1999...
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Helen Newbold
(Obituary ~ 10/26/01)
ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Helen Newbold, 91, formerly of Alto Pass, died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001, at City Care Center in Cobden, Ill. She was born Nov. 17, 1909, in Alto Pass, daughter of Frank and Cora Cauble Willey. She and Lowell A. Newbold were married Feb. 6, 1932, in Murphysboro, Ill. He died Jan. 15, 1977...
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Alex Morgan
(Obituary ~ 10/26/01)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Graveside service for Alex Paul Morgan will be held at 11 a.m. today at Henderson Cemetery in Pulaski, Ill. Heavenly Gates Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The infant died shortly after birth Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...
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Rev. Dale Hendrix
(Obituary ~ 10/26/01)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- The Rev. Dale Levi Hendrix, 58, of Chaffee died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001, at his home. He was born Dec. 22, 1942, at Zalma, Mo., son of Cletis Izer and Thelma Delores Gobble Hendrix. He and Virginia Lea McRoy were married Nov. 23, 1962...
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Harold Shipman
(Obituary ~ 10/26/01)
DEXTER, Mo. -- Harold Shipman, 79, of Dexter died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001, at Missouri Southern Healthcare. He was born Jan. 22, 1922, at Hornersville, Mo., son of Claud and Ada Bell Myers Shipman. Shipman was employed by Missouri Department of Conservation as a firefighter in Bollinger County. He was a member of Mulberry Missionary Baptist Church...
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Charles Eifert
(Obituary ~ 10/26/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Charles Leon Eifert, 69, of Jackson died Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was formerly of Scott City, Mo. He was born Feb. 23, 1932, at Illmo, Mo., son of Paul Casper and Hattie Bretzel Eifert. He and Delores Selena Keesee were married Dec. 20, 1958, in Cape Girardeau...
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Oleta Johnson
(Obituary ~ 10/26/01)
GLEN ALLEN, Mo. -- Oleta "Vern" Johnson, 71, of Glen Allen died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001 at St. Francis Medical Center. Born April 16, 1930, she was the daughter of James and Minnie Thompson Johnson. A lifelong resident of Glen Allen, Johnson was a retired cook, having once worked at Bond Nursing Home...
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Births 10/26/01
(Births ~ 10/26/01)
Groll-Bourel Daughter to Frederick and Laura Groll-Bourel of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12:20 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001. Name, Chiara Simone. First child. Mrs. Groll-Bourel is the former Laura Anne Igoe, daughter of Robert and Linda Igoe of Marble Hill, Mo. Groll-Bourel is the son of Pierre and Jeanne Groll of Paris, France. He is employed with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Buenos Aires...
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Corrections 10/26/01
(Correction ~ 10/26/01)
Former U.S. senator Bob Dole, who addressed the Generations in Valor event in Cape Girardeau Wednesday, was incorrectly quoted in Thursday's edition. The quote should have read, "In a single, terrible day, we lost more Americans than died in the American Revolution."...
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Out of the past 10/26/01
(Out of the Past ~ 10/26/01)
10 years ago: Oct. 26, 1991 East Prairie - Re-enactment of Battle of Belmont comes close to original battle - right down to water, mud and neophyte general Ulysses S. Grant; undaunted onlookers turn jackets - and plastic trash bags used as rain coats - to wind and rain to see battle at original site, a swamp at time of Civil War...
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Storm rumbles through Bootheel
(State News ~ 10/26/01)
VANDUSER, Mo. -- Harold Graviett has seen a lot of rain and thunder and he weathered the tornado of 1986 but Wednesday's storm was unlike any other, he said. Graviett, the Vanduser mayor, said in the few minutes the storm blew through his community, it caused several thousands dollars in damage...
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Author tells Lakota way to persevere
(Local News ~ 10/26/01)
Reading from his new book "The Lakota Way: Lessons for Living" Thursday night, Joseph Marshall III did not introduce his chapter on perseverance --Wowacintanka -- as a timely lesson in the aftermath of Sept. 11. He didn't have to. The story tells of a hideous giant named Iya "with the strength of a thousand men, the blackest of hearts, and a bottomless hunger that drove him to terrible deeds." One stormy night on the prairie where Running Calf's people are camped, Iya appears and gorges himself on wives and daughters and sisters plucked from lodges, then disappears into the blackness.. ...
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Governor seeks dismissal of collective bargaining suit
(Local News ~ 10/26/01)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Bob Holden asks that a judge dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of his executive order allowing collective bargaining for state workers. Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, and 12 others filed suit in Cole County Circuit Court on Sept. 24 seeking to invalidate Holden's June 29 order that granted collective bargaining rights to approximately 30,000 employees...
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