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Two killed in plane crash near South Dakota base
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
RAPID CITY, S.D. -- A small military cargo and passenger plane crashed in a field outside Ellsworth Air Force Base, killing both airmen on board. The cause of the crash Saturday was not yet determined, Air Force officials said Sunday. No one on the ground was injured...
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NHL's second-half crunch begins with Olympic Games
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
LOS ANGELES -- There's no rest for the Red Wings and Avalanche. They renew one of the league's biggest rivalries in Denver tonight, two days after eight players from the teams, including both goalies, completed a busy All-Star weekend. The Red Wings will then send a league-high 10 players to the Salt Lake City Olympics in the middle of the month while the Avalanche send seven...
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Gogel closes strong, wins PGA Pebble Beach title
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Redemption for Matt Gogel came in the right place Sunday at Pebble Beach, and it was just as stunning as his setback. Two years after he was victimized by Tiger Woods' incredible comeback, Gogel holed a 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole and won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am when Pat Perez took a triple bogey on the final hole...
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Trial begins Tuesday for player beaned by Wichita State pitcher
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Anthony Molina batted .300 or better each season for Evansville before he was beaned while standing on-deck during a game at Wichita State three years ago. The second baseman's eyesight had been flawless and he had visions of a pro baseball career -- even if it was a longshot...
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Rams' turnovers shifted game in Patriots' favor
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
NEW ORLEANS -- The one thing that slowed the St. Louis Rams' offense this season was turnovers. The New England Patriots turned those giveaways into 17 points Sunday to help win their first Super Bowl. Ty Law ran back an interception 47 yards for the Patriots' first points. Terrell Buckley went 15 yards with a fumble recovery to set up another touchdown. And Otis Smith ran another interception 30 yards, leading to a field goal in New England's 20-17 victory...
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Underdog Patriots stun Rams on kick
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
NEW ORLEANS -- The New England Patriots made this a Super Bowl to remember -- for all the right reasons. Adam Vinatieri kicked a 48-yard field goal as time expired, capping a thrilling final two minutes and giving the Patriots a 20-17 upset over the St. Louis Rams on a red, white and blue Sunday...
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MVP Brady caps unlikely season with perfect finish
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
NEW ORLEANS -- The only thing spectacular about Tom Brady is his success. The sore-ankled former fourth-stringer completed an improbable season for himself and the Patriots on Sunday, guiding New England to its first NFL title with a 20-17 Super Bowl victory over the St. Louis Rams...
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Patriots stuff high-flying Rams' offense
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
NEW ORLEANS -- The "Greatest Show on Turf" got grounded. The St. Louis Rams are the only team in NFL history to score more than 500 points three straight seasons and are loaded with playmakers. They've grown accustomed to scoring touchdowns with ridiculous ease...
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Game's patriotic theme shows off red, white, blue
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
NEW ORLEANS -- Bobby Brady stood at attention outside the Superdome on Sunday, his hand raised to the brim of his New England Patriots baseball cap in a snappy salute for the soldiers standing on the street corner. "He loves football players, but now he says he wants to be a soldier," said the 5-year-old's mother, Carolyn Brady. "Isn't this great? He gets the best of both worlds today."...
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Rumsfeld - Iran refuge for Taliban
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- Some Taliban and al-Qaida members who escaped Afghan-istan have "found refuge" in Iran, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday. Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials also charged that Iran was creating instability inside Afghan-istan by funneling arms to various factions within the country...
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Data-sharing work to get budget ax
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration intends to cancel a $12 million program that helped police in California build an information-sharing computer network the FBI used to identify a suspected terrorist within hours of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to people familiar with the decision...
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President to send Congress 'new realities' budget today
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush will send Congress a $2.12 trillion spending plan today that seeks to recognize the "new realities" confronting the nation since Sept. 11. It proposes the biggest jump in defense spending in two decades and a record increase in money devoted to making Americans more secure at home...
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By the numbers
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
BY THE NUMBERS Some figures from President Bush's fiscal 2003 budget, which he sends Congress today, obtained by The Associated Press. Fiscal 2003 begins next Oct. 1: 2002: Proposed spending $2.05 trillion, $106 billion deficit...
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White House debates disclosure
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- A Republican committee chairman said Sunday the Bush administration probably will end up revealing information about its energy meetings, amid reports of more contacts with Enron and power companies. "I suspect ... the president and the vice president are going to disclose more and more of this information simply as a political matter," Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said on NBC's "Meet the Press."...
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Ridge - Guards should not be federalized
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Sunday that private security forces at nuclear power plants should not be replaced with federal guards. The federal role in guarding the nation's 103 nuclear reactors against terrorist attacks should be limited to setting standards on the level of security provided, Ridge said. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission certifies security plans at each plant, and tightened requirements after Sept. 11...
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Enron chief won't testify
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- Former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay pulled out of this week's scheduled congressional testimony on Sunday as members of Congress suggested he and other company executives engaged in widespread criminality. Enron's chairman "cannot be expected to participate in a proceeding in which conclusions have been reached before Mr. Lay has been given an opportunity to be heard," his attorney, Earl Silbert, said in letters to the Senate and House panels that were to hear from him...
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New IOC chief opens meeting with direction
(Professional Sports ~ 02/04/02)
SALT LAKE CITY -- With pointed references to the Sept. 11 attacks and the Olympics' own corruption scandal, the new IOC leader opened his first general assembly Sunday as the Winter Games drew near. Jacques Rogge, elected as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee last July in Moscow, said the multibillion-dollar industry that puts on the games was strong but faced many challenges, especially from world upheaval and the use of performance-enhancing drugs...
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Student says she uncovered more problems in historian's work
(State News ~ 02/04/02)
ST. LOUIS -- A history student at Washington University says a paper she wrote three years ago identified improper use of source material in "Undaunted Courage," one of historian Stephen Ambrose's most popular books. The accusation, reported Sunday in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, adds to the list of books in which Ambrose is accused of failing to provide proper credit for the use of some material. At least six other books by Ambrose have been questioned...
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Tens of thousands still without electricity
(State News ~ 02/04/02)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- More than 90,000 Kansas City-area customers were still without power from last week's ice storm, power company officials said. "We continue to lower the numbers, but it's a long, slow process," said George Minter, a spokesman for the Missouri Public Service Co., which had almost 17,400 customers without power Sunday morning...
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Ghost of Enron's fall haunts world forum
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
NEW YORK -- If there is a ghost haunting the World Economic Forum, it belongs to Enron Corp. Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay was among the business movers and shakers scheduled to participate at the event, but he was uninvited after the collapse of his energy trading company...
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Enron probe finds conflicts abounded in partnerships
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
HOUSTON -- Complex partnerships used to disguise Enron Corp.'s financial problems were run by company executives with conflicting interests, an internal probe into the company's collapse found. Enron employees who reported to Andrew Fastow, the company's former chief financial officer, negotiated deals on the energy giant's behalf with partnerships that Fastow ran. ...
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Focus shifts to globe's trouble spots
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
NEW YORK -- The Middle East and Northern Ireland took center stage at the World Economic Forum on Sunday, as key players in two of the globe's most intractable conflicts expressed hope that they could work toward peace. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he saw "a ray of hope" for Mideast peace on the fourth day of the forum, while key players in the peace effort for Northern Ireland said they were pleased with the disarmament process...
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Subway sails by McDonald's as biggest U.S. fast-food chain
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
MILFORD, Conn. -- There are now more places in this country to buy a B.M.T. than a Big Mac. Subway Restaurants, the privately held chain of sandwich shops, has eclipsed McDonald's as the largest restaurant chain in the country. The Milford-based chain operates 13,247 stores in the United States, 148 more than McDonald's as of Dec. 31. Subway, started by Fred DeLuca in 1965, opened 904 units last year, while McDonald's opened 295...
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Nation digest 2/4
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
Saudis may not back U.S. attack on Iraq WASHINGTON -- Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief suggested Sunday that his country might not support U.S. military attacks against Iraq even if Saddam Hussein were found to be developing a nuclear weapon...
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'Black Hawk Down' stays on box-office top
(Entertainment ~ 02/04/02)
LOS ANGELES -- A slow Super Bowl weekend at theaters helped lift "Black Hawk Down" to another box-office victory as the combat thriller took in $11.5 million to remain the No. 1 film for the third straight weekend. Only a couple of fresh movies were released, leaving the top 10 largely the same as last week, when studios dumped out a rush of new films...
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'Band of Brothers' star joins band of lawyers
(Entertainment ~ 02/04/02)
LOS ANGELES -- Ron Livingston has friendly brown eyes, but on ABC's "The Practice," his character is fierce looking, often with a tightly drawn upper lip. Livingston is Assistant District Attorney Alan Lowe, "a worthy opponent" to the team of Donnell, Young, Dole & Frutt. ...
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Dumas falls off reading lists but remains film favorite
(Entertainment ~ 02/04/02)
LOS ANGELES -- Alexandre Dumas' legacy of swashbuckling tales endures in scores of film and TV adaptations, even in the name of a candy bar. Thirty-plus versions of "The Three Musketeers" have been made, about 20 of "The Count of Monte Cristo," and two in one year alone (1998) of "The Man in the Iron Mask."...
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Two Afghan warlords to hold fire
(International News ~ 02/04/02)
GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Afghan and United Nations mediators, joined by American officials, on Sunday extracted a conditional cease-fire agreement from two rival tribal warlords in an eastern Afghan town that was rocked by two days of fighting last week...
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Muslim cleric - Detainees questioning their actions
(International News ~ 02/04/02)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Some detainees from the war in Afghanistan are having second thoughts about their actions, and some have regrets, a Muslim Navy cleric said Sunday. Lt. Abuhena Saiful-Islam said many believe they are innocent and want to go home, but most of all they want a decision about their future...
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Mexico's Fox visits Cuba
(International News ~ 02/04/02)
HAVANA -- Mexican President Vicente Fox faced perhaps his most difficult foreign policy dilemma yet as he traveled to Cuba Sunday for trade talks under pressure to meet with internal opposition groups -- a move that could damage relations with Cuban leader Fidel Castro...
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Argentina unveils austerity plan
(International News ~ 02/04/02)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina's government unveiled an ambitious plan to rescue its devastated economy Sunday, including the partial easement of a maligned banking freeze. The plan also calls for moving to a free-floating peso and slashing a bloated budget deficit...
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Philippine troops say U.S. know-how can defeat rebels
(International News ~ 02/04/02)
CABUNBATA RANGER CAMP, Philippines -- Twenty-six elite soldiers snake stealthily into a skirmish line, then open fire at three armed men approaching through chest-high ferns. The machine-gunner yells "rat-tat-tat" as riflemen grunt in staccato, aiming unloaded rifles at buddies posing as Muslim extremists for the exercise...
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Quake hits Turkey, topples buildings
(International News ~ 02/04/02)
SULTANDAGI, Turkey -- An earthquake shook a poppy-growing region in central Turkey on Sunday, toppling scores of buildings and killing at least 45 people, including an elderly couple crushed by falling rubble while having breakfast. At least 150 people were injured in the quake, which was far less powerful than the pair of earthquakes which killed 18,000 people in the northwest in 1999...
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Missouri leads nation in meth lab busts
(State News ~ 02/04/02)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- It may be an honor, but it's one the state would happily do without: Missouri is the nation's leader in busting methamphetamine labs. Last year Missouri seized 1,599 labs, according to figures released last week by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The state passed California -- which tallied 1,472 -- for the first time...
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8-year-old girl killed in Sunday accident in Jackson
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- An 8-year-old girl was killed in Jackson in a Sunday afternoon automobile accident involving four vehicles. The Jackson Police Department reported the accident occurred at approximately 1:20 p.m. near the intersection of East Jackson Boulevard and Old Orchard Road...
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Congress taps highway fund to pay for pork
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
WASHINGTON -- For the first time, members of Congress have dipped directly into a pot of highway money destined for the states to help pay for local projects dear to lawmakers. In doing so, an Associated Press computer analysis found, Congress steered a large amount of the redirected money toward pet projects in the home states of lawmakers who crafted the final spending plan...
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From seeding to store shelves, rice takes high-tech route
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- So you thought brown and white rice were different varieties? There's not a kernel of truth to it. White rice is simply brown rice stripped of its branny outer coating, the result of the surprisingly high-tech processing that transforms unclean, "rough" rice to the cookable white grain on store shelves...
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Mizzou finds boost in No. 8 Virginia
(College Sports ~ 02/04/02)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri answered some of the questions that arose after a humbling loss to archrival Kansas. Kareem Rush rebounded from one of his worst games of the season to score 26 points as No. 22 Missouri handed No. 8 Virginia its third straight loss, 81-77 Sunday...
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Speak Out A 02/04/02
(Speak Out ~ 02/04/02)
Get out and vote I WANT to encourage the voters in Cape Girardeau to please get out and vote, because our voices need to be heard if we want to elect the people in who are good for our city. We need to get out and vote. Why Gephardt? I THINK the most disgraceful event ever to take place for any party was the day Dick Gephardt led his party to the White House to show support for Bill Clinton, who had just been impeached. ...
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Ida Sander
(Obituary ~ 02/04/02)
Ida F. Sander, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2002, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson, Mo.
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Clyde Aldred
(Obituary ~ 02/04/02)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Clyde W. Aldred, 63, of Cairo died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 5, 1938, at Cairo, son of Carl and Vivian Davault Aldred. He was married to Rosalie Aldred of Cairo. Aldred attended Tigert Memorial United Methodist Church in Cairo and was a member of the Cairo Elks Lodge. He was a former member of the United Auto Workers Union and was retired from General Motors in Detroit, Mich., after 32 years of service...
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Phyllis Reynolds
(Obituary ~ 02/04/02)
MILL CREEK, Ill. -- Phyllis Reynolds, 57, of Mill Creek died at her home Sunday, Feb. 3, 2002. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna, Ill.
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Harold Wright
(Obituary ~ 02/04/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Harold Lee Wright, 70, of Jackson died Friday, Feb. 1, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 9, 1931, at Jackson, son of the late Elmer and "Anna" Lillian Nitsch Wright. He and Mollie Haupt were married Nov. 19, 1955...
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Victor Martin
(Obituary ~ 02/04/02)
Victor Martin, 59, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2002, at Southeast Memorial Hospital in Cape Girar-deau. McCombs Funeral Home of Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.
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Out of the past 2/4/02
(Out of the Past ~ 02/04/02)
10 years ago: Feb. 4, 1992 Jackson - Two Jackson High School students were arrested and charged Sunday with Dec. 5 vandalism of 24 Jackson school buses and burglaries of Hardee's Restaurant on East Jackson Boulevard Jan. 2 and 10; pair, both 17 years old, are being held in lieu of $15,000 bonds each at county jail...
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Deputies put dent in littering around river
(State News ~ 02/04/02)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Refrigerators, washers, dryers, couches, mattresses, stoves, hammers, nails, groceries, ice boxes, satellite antennas, kitchen sinks and carpets. A one-stop shoppers dream store? Actually, it's the Black River. Along the banks of the river on County Road 607, there is trash in the road, on both sides of the river and floating in the river. Some people bag their garbage before pitching it out of their cars...
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Mixed-signal recession puzzles economists
(State News ~ 02/04/02)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State and federal economists are scratching their heads these days as they scramble to make sense of conflicting signals in Missouri's uncertain economy. A study by the St. Louis Federal Reserve suggests that the national economic downturn will affect Missouri's best-educated workers, not those who historically have borne the brunt of hard-times: the less-educated, teen-agers and blacks...
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Group is closer to getting title to railroad station
(State News ~ 02/04/02)
Daily American Republic POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- It's taken nearly a year, but some progress is being made on saving the old Union Pacific Railroad Depot in downtown Poplar Bluff. "We're beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel," said Dennis Glaze, chairman of the Committee to Save and Restore the Poplar Bluff Historic Train Depot...
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Cape Girardeau Pendleton lassoes top retailer award
(Column ~ 02/04/02)
$$$Start smoyers The Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Ore., dubs itself the largest rodeo in the world and Cape Girardeau business woman Peggy Tinsley will be there. Tinsley and her husband Thomas will enjoy the week-long event in September, one filled with rodeos, parades, concerts and an Indian Pageant and Wild West Show...
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Bush appointe blocked form seat on civil rights commission
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday blocked President Bush's appointment of a conservative lawyer to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Commissioners serve six-year terms and Bush had no vacancy to fill, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said...
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Senate committee may vote to subpoena former Enron chairman
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay canceled an appearance Monday before a Senate committee investigating the bankrupt energy giant, and lawmakers swiftly arranged to issue a subpoena to compel his testimony...
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Bootheel farmers are enjoying a rice renaissance
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Gary Branum putters about his fields in his pickup truck and sees beauty in the barren -- acre after flat acre, most of them muddy and much of it marshy. Patches of flooding here, an occasional tree there. The sight brings joy to this rice farmer, whose Missouri's Bootheel region is enjoying a rice renaissance, challenging cotton as king in these parts...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda 2/4/02
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4 City Hall Action Items Power and Light Committee Consider a bill proposing an ordinance accepting the dedication of sanitary sewer easement deed from Michael and Kathleen McMillan. Consider a bill proposing an ordinance vacating an existing utility easement across Lot No. 1 in Sunset Hills Subdivision, Unit No. 1...
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Patriots won -- and so did U.S. patriotism
(Editorial ~ 02/04/02)
Without a doubt, the displays of patriotism before the Super Bowl game in New Orleans and during the halftime show were stirring and emotional as well as entertaining. It must have rubbed off on the New England Patriots, the underdogs who were supposed to fall to the mighty Rams of St. Louis...
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Community briefs 2/4
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
WalkAmerica 2002 kick-off marked The Cape Girardeau County kick-off celebration for WalkAmerica 2002 will be held Feb. 12 in the conference room of the Healing Arts Center, located next to St. Francis Medical Center. The conference room will be open from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Team captains are invited to bring their co-captains or another team member with them to the celebration...
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Rams fans' high hopes dashed
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
As Leslie McCulloch watched the Patriots' final field goal pass through the uprights Sunday night, she sank back in her chair, placed her head in her hands and said, "Oh my God." For the next several minutes she sat in disbelief, watching the picture on large-screen television at Willy Jaks in downtown Cape Girardeau become clouded with confetti...
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Miss New Mexico USA has ties to Jackson
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
Submitted photo Ellyn Colyer, Miss New Mexico USA, is the granddaughter of Woodrow and Ruth Colyer of Jackson, Mo. Southeast Missourian Ellyn Colyer is looking forward to this year's Miss USA Pageant in Gary, Ind. Colyer was crowned Miss New Mexico USA last month at Las Cruces, N.M., at a pageant to determine that state's representative for the 2002 Miss USA Pageant...
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Community group seeks to foster home ownership
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
Verneda Glass' brick house is old and small. A few pieces of furniture crowd her cramped living room. But the 60-year-old Glass couldn't be happier with her home on Cape Girardeau's south side because she owns it. "I just wanted to have my own house," said Glass, who moved into the home at 912 Linden St. last August shortly after suffering a stroke. She lives in the two-bedroom, brick house with her 39-year-old son...
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AARP Tax-Aide locations, hours set for 2001 returns
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
Cape Girardeau County Tax-Aide volunteers will be helping area citizens with 2001 tax returns at four sites in Cape Girardeau starting today. Laverne Nothdurft of Whitewater, AARP Tax-Aide Region 9 Coordinator, said 30 volunteers have completed training and are IRS certified working tax volunteers at sites in the Southeast Missouri area through April 15...
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Meeting on highway plan set
(State News ~ 02/04/02)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Officials from the Missouri Department of Transportation will meet with the public Feb. 28 to detail their plan to expand Highway 34/72 in Jackson from two lanes to four lanes and a raised median. Though MoDOT's decision last year to narrow the highway expansion from five lanes to four has drawn criticism, local officials have limited influence over improvements in a state highway...
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Commission names treasures
(Local News ~ 02/04/02)
Six Cape Girardeau houses have been added to the Cape's Original Treasures list. The city's Historic Preservation Commission sponsors a yard sign program that recognizes property owners for their efforts to maintain, preserve and restore the community's architectural gems...
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Cape police report 2/4
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/04/02)
Cape Girardeau Monday, Feb. 4 StealingA woman reported her telephone stolen Saturday at 2769 Adeline. A man reported a car stolen at 103 N. Clark on Sunday. AssaultTommy DeWolfe, 35, was issued a summons for assault of a police officer on Saturday. A domestic assault was reported Saturday...
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Cape fire report 2/4
(Police/Fire Report ~ 02/04/02)
Cape Girardeau Monday, Feb. 4 On Saturday, firefighters responded to the following calls:At 6:17 p.m., an emergency medical service at 25 S. Sprigg. At 8:12 p.m., an emergency medical service at 31 N. Henderson. At 10:50 p.m., an emergency medical service at 515 Cape Meadows Circle...
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Memo 2/4
(Business ~ 02/04/02)
Economy ekes out small increase The U.S. economy, jolted last fall by the terrorist attacks, managed to eke out a small increase in the final three months of the year in a surprising sign that the recession could be ending. A 0.2 percent growth rate for the gross domestic product, the country's total output of goods and services, and other positive developments were enough to persuade the Federal Reserve to call a cease-fire Wednesday in its yearlong campaign to lower interest rates...
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Saving the river
(Business ~ 02/04/02)
Despite what the barge industry, farmers, power companies and U.S. Sen. Kit Bond say, there's no proof that a plan that proposes major flow changes to the Missouri River would have a significant impact on the Missouri or adjoining Mississippi River...
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Signals indicate recession may be nearly over
(Business ~ 02/04/02)
NEW YORK -- Wall Street plunged into despair this past week, agonizing over economic uncertainty and a seeming lack of honesty in corporate accounting. Then, like magic, the Federal Reserve's positive economic outlook gave the market reason to believe in a better future...
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People you should know 2/4
(Business ~ 02/04/02)
Key responsibilities: Medical management of hospitalized patients. How long have you lived in Cape Girardeau? Seven months. Original hometown: Coimbatore, India. Education: Medical degree, American Board of Internal Medicine. Community involvement: Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau, American MENSA Missouri chapter...
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People on the move 2/4
(Business ~ 02/04/02)
Three earn real estate designation Liz Abernathy, Patty Main and Linda Brown of Coldwell Banker Abernathy Realty in Jackson, Mo., have been awarded the Accredited Buyer Representation designation by the Real Estate Buyer's Agent Council, Inc., of the National Association of Realtors. ...
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Deferring taxes would create revenue burden
(Editorial ~ 02/04/02)
On the one hand, Gov. Bob Holden has painted such a gloomy financial picture for Missouri government that tax increases and other revenue boosts will be necessary just to make ends meet. On the other hand, there are proposals floating around the legislative hallways in Jefferson City to enact cuts in order to ease the burden on some taxpayers...
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Bush urges support for military spending increase
(National News ~ 02/04/02)
Associated Press WriterEGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Florida (AP) -- On the day he submitted his new budget to Congress, President Bush called on lawmakers to rally behind his $48 billion increase for the Pentagon just as they've supported him in the war on terrorists...
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