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The pitter patter of little feet
(Column ~ 01/12/05)
"They should make it so you're more fertile in your 30s, because that's when you've got money and know what you're doing." The Other Half absently rubbed my feet on the couch, using the non sequitur to launch our umpteenth conversation about having children. It was becoming our sole conversational topic since I turned 35, my good eggs went on the lamb and my chances of having a child with Down syndrome shot to one in 400...
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Lipke wants to lead crime committee
(State News ~ 01/12/05)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- As a former prosecutor, state Rep. Scott Lipke obviously has an interest in criminal law. If he wins appointment as chairman of the House Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee, the second-term lawmaker will wield great influence on legislation that will shape Missouri's criminal code...
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Four arrested after Scott Co. police chase
(State News ~ 01/12/05)
BENTON, Mo. -- Four Louisiana residents are being held in the Scott County Jail after leading police on an early-morning chase Tuesday. According to the sheriff's department, a neighbor had interrupted an alleged residential burglary on Route NN and was reportedly following the suspects...
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Jackson considers battle flag at cemetery
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
A Civil War heritage group has asked the Jackson Board of Aldermen to allow a Missouri Confederate battle flag to be flown at the city cemetery to honor one of the area's most heralded Confederate Civil War leaders. The board discussed the request by the Southeast Missouri chapter of the Missouri League of the South at Monday night's study session, but the board members hesitated, saying they need more information about the flag before they make a decision. ...
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Drug companies launch new discount card for uninsured
(State News ~ 01/12/05)
WASHINGTON -- Two Illinois-based drug makers joined eight other major pharmaceutical companies in unveiling a new discount card Tuesday that could help millions of uninsured Americans save money on prescription drugs. The Together Rx Access Card program allows those who meet income and age requirements to save 25 percent to 40 percent -- and sometimes more -- on more than 275 brand-name prescription drugs and a host of generic drugs...
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USC's Leinart still weighing options
(Professional Sports ~ 01/12/05)
LOS ANGELES -- With his self-imposed Thursday deadline approaching, Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart still doesn't know whether he will return to Southern California or go to the NFL. "I have no idea. I'm just in a loop with all this," the junior quarterback said Tuesday. "I don't know what to do...
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Bush selects federal judge to lead Homeland Security
(National News ~ 01/12/05)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush nominated federal judge Michael Chertoff as the new homeland security chief Tuesday, completing the second-term Cabinet with a former prosecutor who recently called for a new look at the tough terrorist detainee laws that he helped craft after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks...
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Advocate says taxpayers, IRS befuddled by confusing laws
(National News ~ 01/12/05)
WASHINGTON -- There are education tax breaks that require an 83-page manual to decipher. A dozen options for retirement savings accounts. A mysterious "second layer" of taxation -- the alternative minimum tax -- that could mean the difference between a refund or a tax bill...
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Foster seeks to keep labor commission post
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State labor commissioner Bill Foster hopes Gov. Matt Blunt will reappoint him to the post after withdrawing all pending nominations to various positions made by the previous administration. Outgoing Democratic Gov. Bob Holden named Foster, a Poplar Bluff Republican, to the Missouri Labor and Industrial Relations Commission in September. Because the Senate was in recess until last week, it never had an opportunity to act on Foster's appointment...
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Region digest 01/12/05
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
Jackson man accused of selling stolen tools; Man in Wal-Mart sword case to be tried in June; Assault case to be tried in Mississippi County
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Making crime pay
(Editorial ~ 01/12/05)
Making prisoners pay -- literally -- for the crime they have committed is a concept Missouri embraced in August with a new law allowing counties to create a fund to fight crime. As a condition of probation or in cases in which the sentence is suspended, the guilty party can be required by judges to pay up to $300 into the County Law Enforcement Restitution Fund...
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Don't blame parents for bad choices
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/12/05)
To the editor: I have to respond to Mildred Fox's letter. Vandalizing churches is a heartbreaking situation. I do not condone what the vandals have done in any way, shape and or form. And I agree the vandals need to suffer the consequences of their actions...
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Liberals have best record on values
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/12/05)
To the editor: I'm confused. I just read that a high percentage of people think Republicans are for family values. But I thought it was liberal labor unions that gave us the eight-hour workday, the 40-hour week and overtime pay. And wasn't it liberals who gave workers a minimum wage and unemployment insurance? And wasn't it liberals who instituted programs like Social Security that have kept millions of people from homelessness? And wasn't it liberals who pushed for the Federal Housing Administration, a government program that created the middle class and put millions of families into homes while creating the strongest economy in world?. ...
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A case for moral responsibility
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/12/05)
To the editor: For decades, Republicans mounted a public relations campaign to convince people that they are the moral party. They shifted public attention away from life-shattering, economic issues by playing on emotional, wedge issues like abortion and gay rights. This morality strategy worked, as many middle-class and poor people voted against their self-interest and helped elect candidates whose real allegiance is to corporations and the wealthy...
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U.N. relief chief sees new level of compassion in disaster aid
(International News ~ 01/12/05)
GENEVA -- The record generosity toward tsunami victims -- now at more than $4 billion pledged -- should set the standard for caring for the world's most desperate people, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. But aid group Oxfam said it fears the money might simply be rerouted from existing funds for Africa...
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Loser in Ukraine election promises to contest results
(International News ~ 01/12/05)
KIEV, Ukraine -- The loser of Ukraine's presidential election said Tuesday he would file massive complaints in court challenging the win by Western-leaning Viktor Yushchenko, a move that could prolong the political tensions that have dominated the country for months...
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Venture capitalist classes big hit at business schools
(National News ~ 01/12/05)
Venture capital is agony and ecstasy, bust and boom, the stress of gambling and the thrill of a front-row view on the latest technologies. And when real money is involved, it's also one of the hottest classes on business school campuses. In an effort to elevate their teaching beyond the usual case studies and guest speakers, a handful of schools are raising significant amounts of money to turn over -- with a few strings -- to students who invest in real start-ups. ...
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Falcons' defensive line now among the best
(Professional Sports ~ 01/12/05)
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- They've known what it means to be a laughingstock, the supposed first line of defense for a team that gave up yards at an alarming rate. No one's laughing anymore. Bolstered by a new scheme, a key free-agent signing and better depth, the Atlanta Falcons' front four is now recognized as one of the best in the NFL...
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New York gives warm welcomes to Beltran, 'Big Jerk'
(Professional Sports ~ 01/12/05)
NEW YORK -- Carlos Beltran and Randy Johnson played in an offseason doubleheader Tuesday, a Cirque de Subway for two crosstown rivals hoping they might meet up again in October. Beltran, the Mets' $119 million man, stepped before more than 100 reporters and dozens of cameras at Shea Stadium in the morning. Strobes flashing off his shiny gold watch, he smiled as he spoke in English and Spanish...
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Marino, Young lead list of new candidates
(Professional Sports ~ 01/12/05)
The Associatred Press CANTON, Ohio -- Dan Marino and Steve Young set dozens of NFL passing records in the 1980s and '90s, some of which Peyton Manning is erasing now. Marino and Young soon might have something else in common: membership in the Pro Football Hall of Fame...
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Southeast nabs first OVC win
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
Gary Garner realizes that by no means is Southeast Missouri State University a dominant team. But Garner also knows that when Southeast takes care of the basketball and shoots a fairly high percentage, the coach has a solid squad capable of competing well in the Ohio Valley Conference...
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Southeast women shake early foul trouble, E. Illinois
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
Tatiana Conceicao has been Southeast Missouri State University's dominant player this season, but she has plenty of confidence in her teammates. So even though Conceicao played barely three minutes of the first half Tuesday after picking up two early fouls, she wasn't all that concerned...
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Cowboys throw late scoring spree at MU
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
STILLWATER, Okla. -- Joey Graham scored a season-high 27 points, John Lucas added 18 and Eddie Sutton tied his mentor Henry Iba for seventh place on the career victories list as No. 6 Oklahoma State beat Missouri 78-68 on Tuesday night. The Cowboys (12-1, 2-0 Big 12) took the lead for good with two free throws from Stephen Graham midway through the second half and held off the Tigers (9-6, 1-1), who moved within a point on three occasions...
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Tsunami victim adrift 15 days 'not prepared to die'
(International News ~ 01/12/05)
n That morning, when the ground began to shake, Ari was on a scaffolding, hammering nails into a plank, part of a crew building a beach home in Aceh Jaya, a town about 150 miles from the Indonesian provincial capital Banda Aceh. Frightened, the crew moved away from the house and squatted in the sand...
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Blunt acting on campaign promises
(State News ~ 01/12/05)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Matt Blunt began making good on campaign pledges on his first full day in office Tuesday, rescinding the collective bargaining rights of thousands of state workers, ordering agencies to make several cost-cutting policy changes and firing more than a dozen upper-level state employees...
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Shooting leaves three dead at state garage
(National News ~ 01/12/05)
JACKSON, Tenn. -- A man opened fire Tuesday at a state Transportation Department maintenance garage, killing his wife and two others, and wounding two, authorities said. David Jordan, 40, was arrested a short time later, not far from the maintenance garage, after officers followed him, police said. Two officers captured him and found a semiautomatic rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and two pistols in his truck...
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Apollo meets Apollo in 'Battlestar Galactica' remake
(Entertainment ~ 01/12/05)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The Sci Fi Channel is bringing back "Battlestar Galactica," ABC's campy 1970s space opera, with a boost from original series star Richard Hatch. The 59-year-old actor first appears in the third episode of the new series, which is shooting this day at an abandoned warehouse near the base of Vancouver's Port Mann Bridge. Galactica fleet Capt. Lee "Apollo" Adama (Jamie Bamber) is taken hostage by a group of convicts led by Tom Zarek (Hatch)...
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Con McArthur
(Obituary ~ 01/12/05)
MORLEY, Mo. -- Con McArthur, 78, of Morley died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are pending at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston, Mo.
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Auvine Lynxwiler
(Obituary ~ 01/12/05)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Mattie Auvine Lynxwiler, 84, of Sikeston died Monday, Jan. 10, 2005, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 4, 1920, in Loretta, Tenn., daughter of James C. and Donie Ezell Littrell. She and Herbert Sylvester Lynxwiler were married in December 1937. He died Oct. 20, 1981...
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Rather - I'll keep Guard report's lessons in mind
(National News ~ 01/12/05)
NEW YORK -- Dan Rather assured his CBS News colleagues on Tuesday that he had read the independent report on his network's ill-fated story about President Bush's military service, "and I shall keep its lessons well in mind." Rather, in an e-mail sent to CBS News employees, expressed sadness for the three executives and producer who lost their jobs over last September's story, which he narrated...
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Girl caught in red tape while trying to help tsunami victims
(National News ~ 01/12/05)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- All 10-year-old Carolyn Lipsick wanted to do was help kids hurt by the tsunami, because, she says, "you can't just think of yourself, you have to think of other people." She had several ideas. "A coffee stand, a snack stand, a fruit stand, any kind of stand," Carolyn said Monday. Eventually, she settled on selling lemonade and cookies...
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Constructing a feud
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
Developers' plans to expand a Cape Girardeau apartment complex worries neighbors who say the landlord doesn't keep up his property and that construction of more apartments on the site would make an eyesore worse. E.W. Geiser and his son, Jody Geiser, operate the Collegewood Apartments, a complex of two brick buildings housing 58 one-bedroom apartments at 807 N. ...
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Jackson schools schedule new bond vote
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
Jackson voters will take another crack at a bond issue to renovate and expand their aging high school this spring. On Monday, Jackson School Board members unanimously voted to place the $27 million issue on the April 5 ballot. The issue failed by less than 1 percentage point in last November's election...
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More rain to fall today; cold drops in Friday
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
The Mississippi River continued to fall Tuesday, much to the relief of levee watchers. But more rain is forecast to fall today and particularly tonight before temperatures turn sharply colder. Temperatures, which reached the high 60s Tuesday, were expected to drop to highs of only 26 degrees on Friday and 33 degrees on Saturday. Low temperatures are expected in the teens, forecasters said...
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New leadership - GOP strength, term limits bring new faces
(Column ~ 01/12/05)
When Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (as of Monday when he was officially sworn in by Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen Limbaugh) spoke to the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday overflow crowd last week, he displayed one of his strengths: the ability to communicate information that is clear and understandable in a logical and timely manner...
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Speak Out 1/12/05
(Speak Out ~ 01/12/05)
Response to disrespect...
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Liven up a living space with houseplants
(Column ~ 01/12/05)
When the Christmas decorations come down, the house sure looks bare. Eliminate that bare, drab look by adding some tropical plants or houseplants to your decor. Houseplants not only make your home cheery, they also soften the harsh edges of walls and furniture. They make your home a comfortable haven, a place to spend your non-working time quietly alone, or with family and friends...
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Perfect recipes for your Super Bowl party
(Column ~ 01/12/05)
Tracey Tripp of Cape Girardeau is really on the ball in planning her Super Bowl menu. She has submitted all of today's recipes and each one of them would serve well at any party, but especially a Super Bowl party. Cheddar Chili Tomato Pots 6 medium tomatoes...
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Death toll rises to six in California mudslide
(National News ~ 01/12/05)
LA CONCHITA, Calif. -- Rescuers with listening devices sensitive enough to pick up a whimper or faint tapping searched Tuesday for victims feared buried in a mudslide that sent trees and dirt thundering onto this seaside hamlet, killing at least six people...
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Kelly tops Scott Central, posts sixth win in last seven games
(High School Sports ~ 01/12/05)
The Kelly boys basketball team's strong play at the Southeast Missourian Christmas Tournament continues to carry over, as the Hawks knocked off state-ranked Scott County Central 78-67 on Tuesday on the road. Three players scored 20 or more points for Kelly (10-4), which has won six of its last seven games since the start of the Christmas tournament...
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$147 million in al-Qaida and Taliban assets seized, frozen
(International News ~ 01/12/05)
UNITED NATIONS -- Countries have seized or frozen $147 million in assets belonging to 435 individuals and groups linked to al-Qaida or the Taliban, crimping terrorist cash flows, a U.S. Treasury official said. U.N. sanctions require all 191 U.N. member states to impose a travel ban and arms embargo against a list of those linked to Osama bin Laden's terror network and the former Afghan rulers and to freeze their financial assets. The list currently includes 320 individuals and 115 groups...
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Allawi admits Iraqi election threatened
(International News ~ 01/12/05)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Prime Minister Ayad Allawi publicly acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that parts of Iraq probably won't be safe enough for people to vote in the Jan. 30 elections, and he announced plans to boost the size of the country's army from 100,000 to 150,000 men by year's end...
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James Dickerson
(Obituary ~ 01/12/05)
TAMMS, Ill. -- James M. Dickerson, 55, of Tamms died Monday, Jan. 10, 2005, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 14, 1949, in Cairo, Ill., son of Luther Mitchel and Carrie Ilene Lessar Dickerson. He and Lula Hill were married May 3, 1985, in Union County...
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Lavinia Skibbie
(Obituary ~ 01/12/05)
Lavinia Mae Skibbie, 86, of Boonville, Mo., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at Cooper County Memorial Hospital. She was born Oct. 26, 1918, in Howard County, Mo., daughter of Henry Washington and Maggie Mae Miller Coy. She and John T. Skibbie were married in 1948. He died in 1995...
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Christine Campbell
(Obituary ~ 01/12/05)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Betty Christine Campbell, 77, of Gravois Mills, Mo., died Monday, Jan. 10, 2005, at her home. She was born March 1, 1927, at Essex, Mo., daughter of Jim and Lottie Grace Brannon. Campbell was a waitress and cook many years. She was a member of American Legion Auxiliary and Eagles Auxiliary...
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Sharon Schilling
(Obituary ~ 01/12/05)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Sharon Kay Schilling, 53, of Altenburg died Monday, Jan. 10, 2005, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 17, 1951, in Alton, Mo., daughter of George and Velta Agnes Waggoner VanWinkle. She and Harold "Harry" Schilling were married Jan. 26, 1974...
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Out of the past 1/12/05
(Out of the Past ~ 01/12/05)
25 years ago: Jan. 12, 1980 It's January, and for the first time in three years, there's nary a snowflake, nary an aching back from trying to nudge a car out of an icy rut, nary a snow shovel that's seen any action; after two years of heavier than normal snow, this winter is a welcome respite...
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Club news 1/12/05
(Community News ~ 01/12/05)
Exchange Club; New Salem UMW; Xi Nu Phi; Oak Ridge After-School 4-H Club
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Births 1/12/05
(Births ~ 01/12/05)
Henderson; Simmons; Morgan; Garner
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Sports briefs 1/12/05
(Other Sports ~ 01/12/05)
Baseball...
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Cape fire report 01/12/05
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/12/05)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following items on Monday: * At 1:22 p.m., emergency medical service in the 200 block of South Mount Auburn Road. * At 6:41 p.m., gas odor at 3051 William St. Firefighters responded to the following items on Tuesday:...
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Cape/Jackson police reports 01/12/05
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/12/05)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released Tuesday by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests * Ralph D. Romaker, 54, 620 N. Second St., Marble Hill, Mo., was arrested on a Bollinger County warrant for probation violation...
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Volunteers learn ins and outs of preparing income tax returns
(Local News ~ 01/12/05)
Tax season is feared by most. It's a hassle. It's confusing. But there are people who enjoy the task of filing tax returns and are anxious to offer help for free. This week, 30 volunteers from the AARP/IRS Tax-Aide program are gathering at the National Guard armory in Cape Girardeau for tax training sessions that resemble SAT preparation classes...
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Winter doldroms - Now is the time to plan for spring, summer
(Community ~ 01/12/05)
As an amateur gardener, I like nothing more than getting on my hands and knees and tending to newly transplanted flowers and herbs in my yard each spring and summer. Winter is a particularly difficult season for me because nothing is growing. The only benefit is that the lull means spending cold days curled up on the couch flipping through gardening magazines and seed catalogs...
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