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Gov. Blunt proposes $24 million state tax cut for military pensions
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Military retirees in Missouri may have a state tax cut coming. Gov. Matt Blunt proposed Monday eliminating the state income tax on military pensions for tens of thousands of veterans in Missouri. The governor said the measure would eliminate $24 million a year in taxes on military retirees in Missouri...
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MoDOT working on I-55 in Cape Girardeau County
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. -- A section of Interstate 55 in Perry County will be reduced to one lane starting today and continuing through Friday while maintenance crews with the Missouri Department of Transportation make concrete repairs. The work will take place from mile marker 116 to 119 at the Perry County border. Work was scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. today and continue through 4 p.m. Friday...
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Blunt receives arts award
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Gov. Matt Blunt has been chosen as the the latest recipient of the Americans for the Arts' National Award for Public Leadership, according to Cristina Garcia, executive director of Missouri Citizens for the Arts. Americans for the Arts, a not-for-profit arts advocacy group, gives the award each year to a governor that has heightened public visibility of the arts...
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Final departure: Big Sky terminates service, employees
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Jennifer Cabaniss smiled and waved goodbye to the pilot of the final Big Sky Airlines flight Monday afternoon. She turned toward the door to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport building and sighed. As the plane rolled toward the runway behind her, Cabaniss began to cry...
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Tornado watch issued for Bollinger, Perry counties
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
A tornado watch was issued Monday for Bollinger and Perry counties that will remain in effect until 5 a.m. Tuesday. "We're expecting the watches to continue on Tuesday," said Mike York, a meteorologist wiht the National Weather service in Paducah, Ky...
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Freezin' for a reason: Donations being taken for Polar Bear Plunge
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Strip down and take the plunge. The Polar Bear Plunge for the Special Olympics Missouri has begun taking names and donations for its 2008 event. Last year was the first year for the Southeast Area to hold the Plunge. Eighty people signed up to run full-force into the February waters of the Trail of Tears State Park's Lake Boutin...
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Teams use aquatic center as pool's problems persist
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Continuing problems with Cape Girardeau's city pool have led more teams to use the new aquatic center at Southeast Missouri State University. On Saturday, Notre Dame Regional High School and Central High School swimming teams practiced at Southeast's facility, as the city worked to increase water temperatures at Cape Central Municipal Pool, often called the "Bubble."...
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Report: McClard hanged himself
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Authorities say 17-year-old inmate and Jackson native Jonathan McClard, who was found dead in his jail cell Friday, committed suicide. McClard apparently hanged himself while he was being held in a correctional facility in Bonne Terre, according to a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday. The St. Louis County medical examiner's office performed an autopsy with initial results indicating he committed suicide, Jim Copeland, the St. Francois County coroner told the Post-Dispatch...
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Scott City shocked by alleged murder
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
The investigation by the Scott City Police Department into the alleged murder of 45-year-old Stanley Frank Hagan seems to have been well kept secret. Many in Scott City hadn't even heard about Thursday's grand jury indictment for murder and armed criminal action against 18-year-old Marcus Bowers of Scott City, or that an investigation into the murder had gone on in secret for months...
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Joey's Seafood & Grill closes; NARS planning to expand
(Column ~ 01/07/08)
In the business blog Rude Awakenings last week, I had one of my most-commented items in recent weeks: the closing of Joey's Seafood & Grill. The entry included a note that the owners of the restaurant, Steve and Catherine Mills, have positions at the National Assets Recovery Services, or NARS, call center in Cape Girardeau...
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Incumbency impact
(Column ~ 01/07/08)
By J.C. Kuessner Conventional political wisdom holds that incumbency, although not a guarantee of retention in office, is a major advantage. For Missouri governors, however, that hasn't been the case as incumbents are batting just .500 in re-election bids...
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Schindler's is good place to go
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/07/08)
To the editor:Sam Blackwell's Dec. 30 article about the stabbing at Schindler's Tavern in New Hamburg, Mo., hit the nail on the head, including the fact that some people go to Schindler's after Mass. A lot has changed since Si and Dottie Glueck had the tavern, but basically it is the same...
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Paper trail
(Editorial ~ 01/07/08)
U.S. House members spent $20.3 million in tax money last year to send mail to their constituents, much of it little more than junk mail. As a media outlet, the Southeast Missourian gets more than its fair share of government mailings. Some agencies understand what information their constituents need to know. Others believe everything is news...
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Speak Out 1/7/08
(Speak Out ~ 01/07/08)
Debit-card spender; Highway hypocrisy; College rules; Official preening; Matter of faith; One-way taxes
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Shed some layers: It's going to be in the 70s today
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Bank signs and car consoles told the story: Cape Girardeau broke its first weather record of the year Sunday with a high of 65 degrees at 3 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. While temperatures never reached the predicted high of 70, the mercury rose two degrees above the record of 63 degrees set Jan. 6, 1982, according to accuweather.com and one degree higher than the local almanac record of 64 degrees at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport in 1998...
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Missouri joins states' rush to tackle illegal immigration
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Less than three years ago, an illegal immigrant who had worked in the governor's office gained national attention as lawmakers in Congress and Jefferson City urged immigration officials not to deport the worker, his wife and daughter...
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Lawmakers propose new restrictions for illegal immigrants, employers
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
Missouri lawmakers and elected officials have proposed various laws and regulations that impose restrictions and penalties for illegal immigrants and their employers. It's part of a national trend as state legislatures have tried to address an issue that has stalled in Congress. Here's a look at some of the details:EDUCATION...
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Shawn Hornbeck's family adjusts to life a year after boy's return
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
RICHWOODS, Mo. -- Nearly one year after Shawn Hornbeck was returned home after a long and tortuous captivity, his parents are still struggling to adjust to life as a family again. They get recognized in restaurants and shopping malls. Strangers stop to ask for hugs...
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'Ninja Bandit' may have struck again
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
NEW YORK -- The costumed crook known as the "Ninja Bandit" may have struck again on Staten Island, New York City police said. A home burglary this week seems to fit the pattern of 18 previous heists attributed to the black-clad, masked thief since May, according to police...
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Lawmakers ignore their own demands in new Medicaid law
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Lawmakers who sought to inject more accountability into the state's Medicaid program have failed to live up to their own demands. Others are doing a little better. When lawmakers gave the government health-care program for the poor a new name and new emphasis last year, they wanted to keep their fingers on the pulse of the program instead of just turning it over to bureaucrats and then turning away...
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KC residents file claims in 2006 raffle fraud case
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- People who bought tickets in a bogus 2006 charity raffle to win a luxurious home in Parkville, Mo., have begun filing claims in hopes of getting some of their money back. The Missouri Attorney General's office said it has received about 530 claims from Kansas City-area residents who shelled out $1,000 per ticket for the contest sponsored by St. ...
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St. Louis native seeks local help rebuilding Afghan legal system
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
ST. LOUIS -- A State Department official wants Missouri's law firms to help lead the way in a new program to rebuild the legal system in Afghanistan. St. Louis native Tom Schweich, a high-ranking State Department official, is leading the new public-private partnership that gives American law firms a role in the Afghanistan's future...
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Delays plague Illinois studies of hospital safety
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
CHICAGO -- When state lawmakers passed two pioneering laws aimed at providing hospital safety information to patients, health care experts said Illinois was a national model. Four years and many missed deadlines later, that's no longer true. "It's disappointing because Illinois was the leader, the model state that everyone was looking to," said Lisa McGiffert, a health care expert at Consumers Union. "But they're not a model anymore."...
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Out of the past 1/7/08
(Out of the Past ~ 01/07/08)
Traffic at the intersection of Frederick and Independence streets is obstructed for about an hour while a Missouri Pacific Railroad crew repairs tracks just east of the intersection; a Mo-Pac locomotive, pulling a boxcar and a caboose, derailed near the Mo-Pac depot about 9 a.m...
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Southern Illinois farm to be designated part of Trail of Tears
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
GRANTSBURG, Ill. -- A Johnson County farm is set to become the first site in Southern Illinois to be designated as part of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. Joe Crabb, who has lived on the land for more than 40 years, said he was following the established trail when he noticed a missing segment near his property...
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Vernon Auer
(Obituary ~ 01/07/08)
Vernon A. Auer, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 13, 1917, at Prairie du Rocher, Ill., son of John N. and Olive Rauch Auer. He and Charlotte L. Walther were married Sept. 21, 1940. She died March 22, 2006...
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Rev. A. W. Landis
(Obituary ~ 01/07/08)
A.W. Landis, 82, of Hartselle, Ala., formerly of Dongola, Ill., died Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, at Decatur General Hospital in Decatur, Ala. He was born Aug. 27, 1925, in Anna, Ill., to Willie E. and Mildred Nimmo Landis. He married Thelma Perkins Aug. 27, 1947...
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John Drum Sr.
(Obituary ~ 01/07/08)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- John Francis Drum Sr., 92, of Perryville, formerly of Oak Ridge, died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was born Oct. 24, 1915, at Oak Ridge, son of Marvin and Lottie Fulbright Drum. After the death of his mother he was raised by his father and stepmother, Ethel Smith...
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Cape police report 1/7/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/07/08)
Cape Girardeau The Cape Girardeau Police Department reported the following incidents. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Brian Greer, 20, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County probation violation. n Christopher Martin, 25, 517 N. Fountain St., was arrested on a warrant...
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Wilbert Best
(Obituary ~ 01/07/08)
Wilbert F. Best, 90, of Jackson died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 6, 1917, in Tilsit, Mo., son of Gustav and Lydia Burgfeld Best. He and Marie Radin were married Oct. 2, 1940, in Cape Girardeau. She died Jan. 5, 2005...
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Brian Trierweiler
(Obituary ~ 01/07/08)
Brian Trierweiler, 43, of Jackson died Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Cracraft Funeral Home.
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Vesta Barkovitz
(Obituary ~ 01/07/08)
Vesta Francis Barkovitz, 98, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Portageville, Mo., died Saturday, Jan 5., 2008, at the Chateau Assisted Living in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home chapel, with the Rev. Bob Towner officiating. Burial will be in the Portageville Cemetery...
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Births 1/7/08
(Births ~ 01/07/08)
Lindley; Parker; Arthur; Smith; Hunt; Schneidermeyer
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Cape/Jackson fire report 1/7/08
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/07/08)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following call Saturday: n At 6:42 p.m., emergency medical service in the 200 block of Pearl Street. Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday: n At 12:33 a.m., emergency medical service in the 500 block of South Frederick Street...
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Big pile-up in Wisconsin interstate crash
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
MADISON, Wis. -- Dozens of cars were involved Sunday in pileups that killed at least two people on a foggy stretch of Interstate 90 east of Madison. A truck plowed into vehicles that had braked upon reaching a fog bank, causing one pileup, Wisconsin State Patrol Lt. Laurie Steeber said. One person was killed...
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Steelville, Mo., couple restores 1830s log cabin after recent fire
(State News ~ 01/07/08)
STEELVILLE, Mo. -- Woodworkers Jeff and Sherry Owen are protecting a piece of Franklin County history on their 47-acre property in Steelville. Nearly three years ago the couple began dismantling an 1830s log cabin at Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit to relocate and restore on their land...
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Girl Scouts to build on cookie tradition with new variety for 2008
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Cookies financed Girl Scout troop activities as early as 1917, five years after Scouting's founder, Juliette Gordon Low, established the organization intended to encourage and prepare girls to make the world a better place. According to the Girl Scouts of the USA organization, the annual cookie sales enable girls to practice goal-setting, money management and get a taste of the work ethic while being part of a team working toward a common goal...
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Community digest 1/7/08
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Cape Girardeau County AARP to meet Monday The Cape Girardeau County Chapter AARP No. 4041 will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Grace United Methodist Church at Broadway and Caruthers Avenue. The program will be "The Area on Aging." There will be a drawing and a door prize...
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Clinton, Obama clash in most personal terms in homestretch of chilly New Hampshire primary
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The leading Democratic presidential candidates clashed Sunday over each other's claim to be the true candidate of change in the final hours of the slushy New Hampshire homestretch. Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-N.Y., told voters they should elect "a doer, not a talker." Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., countered that his rivals are stuck in the politics of the past...
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Romney, McCain clash over taxes and spending in second GOP debate of the weekend.
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Mitt Romney and John McCain sparred Sunday over their tax and spending records and who was a better agent for change, in the second Republican debate of the final weekend before the New Hampshire primary. "You have a choice," Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, said after ticking off his accomplishments in office. "You can select somebody who wants to fight for those things, or you can select somebody who's actually done those things."...
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Lethal injection case leads to pause in executions
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
WASHINGTON -- A quarter-century has elapsed since the U.S. experienced as long a pause in executions as the one the Supreme Court has occasioned with its current examination of lethal injections. No one has been put to death since Sept. 25 and the earliest that executions are likely to resume is in the summer. Forty-two people were executed in 2007, the lowest total in 13 years. Last month, New Jersey became the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty...
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Water freezes instead of draining in flooded town
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
FERNLEY, Nev. -- Hundreds of homes sat in as much as 8 feet of water Sunday following a canal rupture as freezing weather spread sheets of ice over yards and streets, hindering efforts to get the water to drain away. As many as 400 homes were damaged when the canal's bank gave way following heavy rainfall produced by the West Coast storm system that had piled snow as much as 11 feet deep in the Sierra Nevada...
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A costly commodity
(Business ~ 01/07/08)
There's a fuel pump at almost every convenience store, usually off to the side somewhere, that dispenses a costly commodity. Diesel fuel is used by few people who drive cars, and each gallon costs 30 to 50 cents more than gasoline. But consumers buy diesel fuel almost every time they make any kind of purchase. ...
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Recording industry trying to create new business model
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
LOS ANGELES -- When you're not inclined to give your product away for free, make your customers believe they're getting something for nothing. That's the thinking behind some of the offerings music fans may see this year as the recording industry scrambles to offset losses from plunging CD sales and find new sources of revenue when many consumers simply download music for free...
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Cape schools fighting increasing dropout rates
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Before schools closed for the holidays, Central High School principal Dr. Mike Cowan sat in his office with a parent and her child, who vowed to drop out. The student was failing every subject. In February she would be 16, the legal age in Missouri to quit school...
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Building costs of high-tech power plant ballooning
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
ST. LOUIS -- The Energy Department likes the idea: Partnering with big power and coal companies to build a groundbreaking power plant in central Illinois that's virtually emissions-free, trapping greenhouse gases and storing it underground. But FutureGen's ballooning $1.8 billion cost -- largely on the backs of U.S. taxpayers -- has the government so uneasy it wants the project's consortium of corporate backers to rework the design to get the price down...
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People on the move 1/7/08
(Business ~ 01/07/08)
Lawyer rejoins law firm; will work in Jackson The law firm of Lichtenegger, Weiss and Fetterhoff LLC, announced that lawyer Wayne Keller has rejoined the firm. Keller will work mainly in the firm's Jackson office at 1210 Greenway Drive and concentrate his practice in criminal law...
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Class offered on small business marketing
(Business ~ 01/07/08)
Class offered on small business marketing The Small Business Development Center of the University of Missouri Extension service will offer a five-class course on marketing for small businesses. The course, which begins Feb. 5, will cover topics ranging from market knowledge and customer satisfaction to pricing and promotion. Each class will run for three hours from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information or to sign up, contact the extension office in Jackson at 243-3581...
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Suicide bomber kills 11, wounds 17 in Baghdad
(International News ~ 01/07/08)
BAGHDAD -- Three Iraqi soldiers threw themselves on a suicide attacker wearing an explosives vest at an Army Day celebration Sunday -- an act of heroism U.S. officials said likely prevented many more deaths. Iraqi police said at least 11 people were killed in the blast, the deadliest in a series of bombings in Baghdad...
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Kenyan unrest takes toll on once-peaceful African nation
(International News ~ 01/07/08)
KACHIBORA, Kenya -- Armed with bows and arrows and automatic weapons, hundreds of attackers poured through the camp where the terrified had sought refuge Sunday. They fired into the air, sparking a brief gunbattle with police before fleeing into the hills...
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Obstacles to peace cast shadow over Bush visit
(International News ~ 01/07/08)
JERUSALEM -- President Bush heads to Israel and the West Bank this week, hoping his first visit as U.S. leader will open the throttle on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. But in the six weeks since Bush declared at an international gathering in Annapolis, Md., that "the time is right" to make peace, two perennial obstacles to Mideast peacemaking have already reared up: Israeli settlements and violence...
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U.S.-born al-Qaida spokesman asks fighters to greet Bush with bombs
(International News ~ 01/07/08)
CAIRO, Egypt -- Al-Qaida's American spokesman called on the terror network's fighters to greet President Bush with "bombs and booby-trapped vehicles" when he visits the Middle East later this week, according to a video posted Sunday. The rhetoric-packed video also featured the California-born Adam Gadahn tearing up his U.S. ...
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'Treasure' digs up more gold with $20M weekend
(Entertainment ~ 01/07/08)
LOS ANGELES -- Nicolas Cage may be running out of storage room for his loot. Disney's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," with Cage as a history buff on the trail of a lost city of gold, was the No. 1 box office draw for the third straight weekend with $20.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday...
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Women catch breather from OVC road
(College Sports ~ 01/07/08)
The stakes won't be nearly as high today. But the last time Southeast Missouri State and Murray State squared off in a women's basketball game, virtually everything was on the line. It took place March 3 in Nashville, Tenn., and Southeast scored in the final seconds to beat the Racers 62-60 in the championship game of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament...
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Redhawks will try to match 7-0OVC start vs. Racers
(College Sports ~ 01/07/08)
The Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team has an opportunity to match the best Ohio Valley Conference start in program history tonight. A win over the Redhawks' archrival will get the job done. "It's definitely exciting," Southeast senior center Mike Rembert said...
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Chargers eliminate Titans in wild-card round
(Professional Sports ~ 01/07/08)
SAN DIEGO -- Well, wouldn't you know it, the San Diego Chargers can win in the playoffs. Thirteen long years after their last postseason victory, the Chargers finally came to life late in the second half Sunday to beat the Tennessee Titans 17-6 in an AFC wild-card game...
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Southeast fans have chance to make a statement
(Sports Column ~ 01/07/08)
I know the students are not on campus because it's winter break. I know solid seasons -- heck, even mediocre ones -- have been few and far between in recent years. I know tickets aren't cheap. Those are all legitimate reasons why the Show Me Center was less than half-full Wednesday night when the Southeast Missouri State men's basketball team hosted Eastern Kentucky...
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Chopra claims PGA Tour's first '08 event in playoff
(Professional Sports ~ 01/07/08)
KAPALUA, Hawaii -- All those times watching the Mercedes-Benz Championship on television and playing the Plantation Course at Kapalua on a video game could never have prepared Daniel Chopra for his wild playoff victory Sunday. He twice blew chances to win the tournament on the 18th hole...
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Ohio State, LSU have something to prove in BCS title game
(College Sports ~ 01/07/08)
NEW ORLEANS -- Redemption and validation. Top-ranked Ohio State enters the BCS national championship game against LSU searching for redemption, hoping to bury the memories of an embarrassing loss in last year's title game. "As much as you try to forget about it, there's no way of forgetting about it," Ohio State fullback Dionte Johnson said. "I can close my eyes and go through that game like I'm still there."...
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UCF RB Smith reverses field, will turn pro
(College Sports ~ 01/07/08)
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Central Florida's Kevin Smith, the nation's leading rusher this season, changed his mind and will turn pro, he confirmed Sunday night. Smith seriously challenged Barry Sanders' NCAA record of 2,628 rushing yards in a season, but finished 61 yards short. The running back was hailed as a hero three weeks ago for deciding to stay in school to earn a degree and help build UCF's burgeoning program...
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Clemens vehemently denies steroids use in '60 Minutes' segment
(Professional Sports ~ 01/07/08)
NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens might be willing to take a lie-detector test, was "shocked" close friend Andy Pettitte used human growth hormone and, in his first interview since the Mitchell Report, said -- again -- that he probably will retire. Sounding indignant and defiant during the nearly 14-minute segment broadcast on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday night, Clemens appeared to set up a confrontation with former personal trainer Brian McNamee in front of Congress, which has asked the pair to testify under oath at a Jan. ...
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Buh-bye, Big Sky ...
(Local News ~ 01/07/08)
Today is the last day scheduled for Big Sky Airline flights at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. Departure times are set for 5:45 a.m., 12:35 p.m. and 4:25 p.m. The airport advisory board moved its Tuesday meeting to Jan. 15. Airport manager Bruce Loy said the board made the decision late last week to accommodate incoming proposals for new commercial passenger air service. ...
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Expert advice changes for preventing allergies in infants and children
(National News ~ 01/07/08)
CHICAGO -- Breast-feeding helps prevent babies' allergies, but there's no good evidence for avoiding certain foods during pregnancy, using soy formula or delaying introduction of solid foods beyond six months. That's the word from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is updating earlier suggestions that may have made some parents feel like they weren't doing enough to prevent food allergies, asthma and allergic rashes...
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