Stories from Monday, October 1, 2001

Jennifer Lopez married in private ceremony CALABASAS, Calif. -- Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez, wearing one of her trademark gowns with plunging neckline and low-cut back, married dancer and choreographer Cris Judd in a very private ceremony. Lopez, 31, and Judd, 32, were married Saturday night at a home in this Los Angeles suburb, her publicist Alan Nierob said Sunday...

ST. LOUIS -- As Missouri's statewide volunteer coordinator, Dante Gliniecki has directed the distribution of donations and services following everything from floods to tornadoes. Now he's in New York, helping sort and track the unprecedented wave of donations that flowed to the city since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A judge refused to throw out the murder conviction of an admitted carjacker who dragged a young boy to his death, setting the stage for jurors to consider a sentence. Kim L. Davis, 36, faces either the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Testimony in the penalty phase of the trial was to begin today before the Jackson County Circuit Court that convicted him Friday of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, tampering and kidnapping...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Imagine a sport in which the athletes race hundreds of miles -- at 1,200 yards a minute -- without stopping for water or food. Imagine a sport whose human participants consider their trainees "exhilarating" and "totally amazing."...

ST. LOUIS -- Nobody will be disciplined for letting prolific drug snitch Andrew Chambers lie under oath throughout 16 years of government testimony, the new chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration told a newspaper. But Asa Hutchinson pledged that the agency would never again give informers the free rein abused by Chambers, whose false testimony about his background and arrest record has compromised dozens of DEA investigations...

Missouri's newest winery was inspired, appropriately enough, by wineglasses. Bob and Cheryl Breuer of Tower Rock Winery used to collect souvenir wineglasses. "We started going to Missouri and Illinois wineries to add to our collection," said Bob Breuer. "I became interested in growing grapes and making wines. We felt like we could do this."...

ST. LOUIS -- Woody Williams has been one of the biggest reasons why the St. Louis Cardinals are in playoff contention. Williams won for the seventh time in eight decisions since joining St. Louis, and Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer as the Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 Sunday...

ST. LOUIS -- Kurt Warner is so good indoors, even the Miami Dolphins' defense couldn't stop him. Warner threw four touchdown passes, and Marshall Faulk scored three times to lead the St. Louis Rams to a 42-10 victory Sunday. Miami (2-1) was supposed to pose a stiff test, but the Rams rolled up 451 yards in total offense -- 99 of them on a third-quarter scoring drive...

Notre Dame, 0-3. Bob Davie cringes when he says it. Penn State, 0-3. Joe Paterno smiles halfheartedly and says he feels good about his team "if you can feel good about getting licked." Life is miserable at two of college football's most passionate places, the Golden Dome and Happy Valley. Two schools that subscribe to winning is everything, are losing at record rates...

FOXBORO, Mass. -- Otis Smith and Ty Law returned interceptions for touchdowns and the New England Patriots got their first victory of the season, 44-13 Sunday over previously unbeaten Indianapolis. The Colts (2-1) averaged 33 first-half points in their two victories as Peyton Manning threw six touchdown passes. But he also threw four interceptions, and that tendency continued against the Patriots, who led 20-0 at halftime...

SAN ANTONIO -- Justin Leonard was all business in defending his title at the Texas Open. After his last putt dropped Sunday, though, there was a release of pent-up emotion. Leonard's 2-under-par 69 was good enough to beat PGA Tour rookies J.J. Henry and Matt Kuchar by two strokes as he repeated at the LaCantera Golf Club course in the rocky hills north of San Antonio...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds never had much of a chance at matching history. Bonds stayed at 69 home runs and the San Diego Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 Sunday on Bubba Trammell's seventh-inning solo shot. Needing one homer to tie Mark McGwire's single-season record, Bonds grounded out, walked twice and was hit by a pitch from reliever Jose Nunez...

CLEVELAND -- Bartolo Colon (14-11) pitched eight shutout innings and Jim Thome hit his 49th homer as the Cleveland Indians clinched their sixth AL Central title in seven years, routing the Minnesota Twins 9-1 Sunday. Ellis Burks added a two-run homer and Jolbert Cabrera and Kenny Lofton had two RBIs apiece as Cleveland finished the season 14-5 vs. Minnesota...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- After two years of rebuilding his team and his confidence, the dominating Jeff Gordon is back. The three-time Winston Cup champion solidified his points lead Sunday with his series-leading sixth victory of the season, pulling away from rookie Ryan Newman to win the crash-filled Protection One 400 at Kansas Speedway...

WASHINGTON -- Banging drums, singing songs and waving giant puppets, several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched Sunday to call for peace following the terrorist attacks. "Now is when you should question the president," said Scott Morschhauser, 37, who came from Bettendorf, Iowa, with a large American flag, its field of stars replaced with a peace symbol. "At times of emergency the decisions made have repercussions 10 or 20 years from now."...

WASHINGTON -- If the United States attacks terrorist targets in Afghanistan, soldiers will have to deal with not only armed resistance but also with cascades of starving, desperate and fearful refugees. Military officials must plan how the armed forces will help ease the humanitarian crisis and avoid killing civilians. Failure on either point could turn public opinion against the war on terrorism, not only in the United States but throughout the region and around the world...

WASHINGTON -- When the Supreme Court gets down to business this week, one of the main subjects will be just that -- business. Forget the high-minded constitutional questions that scholars like to see answered by the country's highest court. Justices will delve into many more basic matters, like what bosses have to do to accommodate an injured worker and when states can help patients fight their HMOs...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- This town's newest park opened Saturday on the site of a former coal mine. St. Ellen Park features a walking path and lake, as well as picnic tables, a covered pavilion and restrooms. Paths surround the grass-covered mound of coal refuse and lead to a wooden lookout platform...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Under threat of U.S. military strikes, Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers said explicitly for the first time Sunday that Osama bin Laden is still in the country and they know where his hide-out is. But the president of Pakistan, which has been appealing to the Taliban to resolve the crisis with the United States, said hopes were "very dim" that the Taliban would surrender bin Laden. ...

ROME -- U.S. lawmakers and Afghanistan's opposition forces rallied around the country's former monarch Sunday and vowed to work together to fight their new common enemies: terrorism, Osama bin Laden and the "tyranny" of Taliban rule in Afghanistan...

NEW YORK -- Recruited off the streets of New York in 1986, Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl became a foot soldier for Osama bin Laden -- fighting in Afghanistan, training in Sudan and learning the inner workings of a terrorist network whose members signed on to a holy war against America...

SCRANTON, Pa. -- The green dot on the city map that fills Christine Tocki's computer screen doesn't move for several minutes, and that is exactly what she wants to see. The dot represents a sex offender sentenced to home confinement. Its position tells Tocki, an assistant Lackawanna County district attorney, that the man is inside his house...

NEW YORK -- Eighteen months ago, the markets seemed invincible at their lofty heights. The Dow Jones industrials had soared above 11,700 points and the Nasdaq composite index hovered near 5,000. Now even more modest targets of 10,000 on the Dow and 2,000 on the Nasdaq are questionable in the short term, say experts who study how the markets move...

BOSTON -- Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who led his nation in the war that tore apart his homeland and bitterly divided the United States, then was forced to step down as North Vietnamese troops closed in, has died. He was 78. Thieu collapsed Thursday at his home in suburban Foxboro on Thursday and died late Saturday at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, hospital spokesman Jerry Berger and cousin Hoang Duc Nha said Sunday...

NEW YORK -- The bitter rivalry between CNN and Fox News Channel spread to Afghanistan Sunday, where a veteran CNN correspondent stationed with forces fighting the Taliban abruptly switched networks. Steve Harrigan, a 10-year CNN correspondent based in Moscow, told CNN he was leaving on Saturday and by Sunday morning was delivering reports via videophone from Afghanistan on Fox News Channel...

NEW YORK -- Facing a nation rocked by recent tragedy, "Saturday Night Live" blinked. Typically irreverent, often defiantly rude in its comedy, the long-running NBC sketch series opened with a tribute to the victims and heroes of the Sept. 11 attacks...

PELHAM, N.Y. -- How do you tell the Shea children in Pelham that their father is in heaven when they have just witnessed hell? How do you comfort the child who sees repeated reminders of his father's death on television, on magazine covers, on the front pages of newspapers?...

Police holding twins in killing of deputy PENROSE, Colo. -- Police found a cache of weapons in the home of twin brothers, known to neighbors as loners who liked to wear camouflage clothing, who are suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy and critically wounding a police officer...

HATFIELD, England -- Damian Lewis smiles wryly as he thinks back on the reaction he got as an English actor taking the American lead in HBO's new series "Band of Brothers." "Everyone was watching me," says Lewis, "because I had this added pressure of playing The Man; everybody was curious as to who had been cast as this American hero."...

LOS ANGELES -- Linda Ellerbee worked nonstop for two days putting out a special report on the terrorist attacks, then went to work re-editing her 10th anniversary special. The hourlong program, "Turning Ten: A Nick News Celebration," will now be bookended by stories on the Persian Gulf War and the events of Sept. 11...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's defense minister said no troops would be allowed to use bases in his nation to launch attacks on Arabs or Muslims, according to an interview published Sunday. "We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs," Defense Minister Prince Sultan said in the interview with the government-controlled Okaz newspaper...

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Scattered gunfire rattled early Sunday through a volatile part of Macedonia the government has said it intends to eventually retake from ethnic Albanian rebels who seized control during a six-month insurgency, police and witnesses said...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The leader of Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban told his people Sunday not to worry about U.S. attacks on their country because Americans are cowards. "Americans don't have the courage to come here," Mullah Mohammed Omar said in an interview broadcast by Taliban-controlled Kabul Radio. He urged Afghans to remain calm and go about their business without trying to flee cities that might be targets of U.S. air strikes...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan -- Afghanistan's opposition claimed Sunday that hundreds of Taliban soldiers had defected during three days of fierce fighting in the country's northern mountains that have seen the opposition score major territorial gains. Fighting is raging on several fronts and "20 percent of the Afghan territory is now controlled by the northern alliance," an opposition spokesman, who goes by the single name Abdullah, told a news conference in the Tajik capital Dushanbe...

JERUSALEM -- A Mideast truce remained shaky Sunday, with Israeli troops fatally shooting three Palestinians in the West Bank. The killings bring the Palestinian death toll to 18 since the two sides pledged last week to formalize a cease-fire. No Israelis have been killed since the cease-fire promises were made Wednesday, but Israel said its troops have faced dozens of attacks in recent days as the Palestinians have marked the one-year anniversary of the current uprising with large street protests.. ...

GIZA, Egypt -- One camel driver just scowls when you ask him how's business. A napping guard sprawls against the gate to the pyramids, and the tourists inside -- their trips in progress or paid for by Sept. 11 -- seem to break a smile only when they talk about going home...

WASHINGTON -- A Florida real estate developer, Texas' massive King Ranch and dozens of other giant farms are cashing in on a program created last year to bypass payment limits on federal subsidies for grain, cotton and other crops. Maurice Wilder, a Clearwater, Fla., developer who controls 130,000 acres of farm and ranch land in eight states, has collected $1.2 million in benefits to himself and his company, the Wilder Corp., according to records obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.. ...

WASHINGTON -- Like the opening shot in billiards that sends the balls ricocheting in directions unknown, America's war on terrorism could have unintended consequences far and wide. U.S. policy-makers are aware that as they take their best shot against terrorism, they could set in motion problems of a different sort...

JACKSON, Mo. -- Concerns about additional traffic near a school and commercial uses in a residential neighborhood have sparked opposition to a proposed development of medical offices in Jackson. The Southeast Missouri Medical Center Inc. plans to market the property to medical and dental practitioners and related services. ...

YES, IT is wonderful that SEMO has grown so rapidly. More students only means more money for the university to use for improvements and more money entering our local economy. I suggest that now is the time, though, for SEMO to go ahead with some construction that will benefit the continuing growth, with some new, improved residence halls and some high-capacity parking garages. Without these amenities, growth eventually will reach a standstill...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Patricia Bell, 53, of St. Louis, died Friday, Sept. 28, 2001, at St. Louis. She was born May 2, 1948, at Wamego, Kan., daughter of M.E. "Bud" and the late Marie Green Bresee. Survivors include her husband, Danny Bell of St. Louis; her father and stepmother, of Haines City, Fla.; a son, Rob Chism of Bloomfield; a stepdaughter Tonya Shaner, of Suffork, Va.; and five grandchildren...

ST. LOUIS -- Homer W. Poole, 71, of Lake of Egypt, Ill., died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001, at Kindred Hospital in St. Louis. Funeral arrangements will be at Hileman & Parr Funeral Services.

10 years ago: Oct. 1, 1991 Motorists who shun seat belts and have no medical insurance account for roughly more than $320,000 in uncompensated trauma care at St. Francis Medical Center; figure covers hospital's fiscal year that ran from July 1, 1990, to June 30, 1991; Southeast Missouri Hospital keeps no similar figures...

$$$Start Business expansion has continued in Southeast Missouri despite a weakening national economy. A total of 52 new business starts were recorded in the second quarter in the seven-county region tracked by the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development office. Ten business closings were reported, resulting in a net gain of 42 new businesses...

It was worth it, Mario. Mario Whitney moved from Atlanta to Jackson, Mo., three years ago. His high school accomplishments have been well documented since then. On the first carry of his varsity football career, he scored a touchdown. From there, Jackson High School fans have seen countless spectacular runs, dozens of touchdowns, hundreds of jukes and thousands of steps. Really fast steps...

The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Taliban government confirmed Sunday that Osama bin Laden still is in Afghanistan but the White House flatly rejected an overture to negotiate his fate. Meantime, Attorney General John Ashcroft warned of a "very serious threat" of new terrorism against Americans that may increase if the United States retaliates for the Sept. 11 attacks...

Southeast Missourian JACKSON, Mo. -- Concerns about additional traffic near a school and commercial uses in a residential neighborhood have sparked opposition to a proposed development of medical offices in Jackson. The Southeast Missouri Medical Center Inc. ...

Southeast Missourian After just a month on the job, new fire chief Michael W. Lackman is getting ready to move into a house here and just beginning to really find his way around Cape Girardeau. Lackman was hired to replace Dan White, who resigned in April to take a position in Bentonville, Ark., and inherits a department that has, in Lackman's words, "a solid foundation."...

Southeast Missourian COMMERCE, Mo. -- On the banks of the river that flooded their town in 1993 and 1995, the people of Commerce gathered Friday night through Sunday afternoon for the fifth annual Floodfest. Each year the festival, which celebrates the support the town received when the Mississippi River flooded, plays host to several family activities such as a beauty pageant, Karaoke contest and country music concerts. ...

After just a month on the job, new fire chief Michael W. Lackman is getting ready to move into a house here and just beginning to really find his way around Cape Girardeau. Lackman was hired to replace Dan White, who resigned in April to take a position in Bentonville, Ark., and inherits a department that has, in Lackman's words, "a solid foundation."...

The grass is always greener when you're making money. Southeast Missouri has a growing agricultural industry in sod farming, which offer the traditional four grasses -- Bermuda, zoysia, fescue and bluegrass. In recent months, several acres of rolled sod were on the fairways of the new Dalhousie Golf Course, which is expected to open next spring along Bloomfield Road in Cape Girardeau. Rolled sod is being used to replace and repair fairways at Kimbeland Country Club Golf Course at Jackson...

AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street took a respite Monday after two weeks of volatile trading, dipping lower as investors absorbed an unsurprising purchasing managers' report and awaited a Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush cited progress on many fronts Monday in the war against terrorism. Among the U.S. offensives is a package of covert aid to groups inside Afghanistan that oppose the terrorist-harboring Taliban militia, U.S. officials said...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- A Virginia man has been charged with helping obtain false identification documents for two men accused of crashing a jetliner into the Pentagon Sept. 11, according to a criminal compliant unsealed Monday...

Associated Press WriterPARIS (AP) -- A Muslim militant said to be at the center of a plot to attack U.S. interests in France and linked to Osama bin Laden has been extradited from the United Arab Emirates and jailed in Paris, judicial officials said Monday...

To the editor: During my trip of Sept. 24, I was seriously concerned with the lack of security at Lambert Field in St. Louis. Here are the details: I arrived at the East Terminal at 7:15 a.m. I had an "E ticket" for Southwest Flight 1546 from my travel agency. ...

Jess Bolen says Jody Gajewski was a good baseball player -- but an even better person. "He was a real good, hustling ballplayer, but beyond that, he was just a good, young man who everybody liked," said Bolen, longtime manager for the Cape Girardeau Craftsman Union Capahas summer team...

TULSA, Okla. -- Southeast Missouri State University's women's soccer team kept its record unblemished Sunday with a hard-fought 3-2 victory over host Oral Roberts on the final day of the Adidas Classic. The Otahkians, who won both of their tournament games, improved to 8-0 on the season...

Two donate banks to penny drive at school Lacey and Austin Dowdy donated their entire piggy banks to the penny drive at Oak Ridge Elementary School. Kristina Jones, fourth-grade teacher, accepted the donation on behalf of the school...

Jackson Monday Oct. 1 Firefighters responded to this call Saturday: A medical assist on North High. Firefighters responded to these calls Sunday: An alarm sounding on East Jackson Boulevard. A medical assist on North Missouri.

Cape Girardeau Monday, Oct. 1 Firefighters responded to this call Saturday:At 9:25 p.m., a medical assist at 215 N. Henderson. Firefighters responded to these calls Sunday:At 1:36 a.m., a medical assist at 505 N. Kingshighway. At 4:43 a.m., a medical assist at 1302 Independence...

Monday, Oct. 1, 2001 Cape Girardeau TheftMerchandise was reported stolen Saturday from 2135 William, Suite 165. Gasoline was reported stolen Saturday from 2148 William. Meat was reported stolen Saturday from 19 S. Kingshighway. Gasoline was reported stolen Saturday from Amoco D-Mart at 3276 William...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Damittra Eveans was trembling as she walked into the Sangamon County Regional Office of Education -- accompanied by two friends and her mother for moral support -- to hear if she passed the GED test. "I jumped up and down and started screaming, 'I finally did it!'" Eveans said, smiling broadly. "Everyone was clapping for me."...

Firm donates funds to Red Cross disaster fund TG Missouri Corp., Perryville, Mo., and its employees have donated more than $9,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Employees of the company took action immediately following the terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center and Washington's Pentagon...

Save-A-Lot managers honored for sales Margit Byrd, Jackson Save-A-Lot store manager, and Phyllis Wiedefeld, assistant store manger, recently received divisional honors for sales. Byrd and Wiedefeld received the company's Top Cart award, for a "Great Food, Great Prices" sales promotion among seven locations in the St. Louis District...

Jackson, Mo., residents, who have been getting "free" residential trash pickup for the past 27 years, are being asked in a city survey their opinions on trash collection, recycling and the possibility of having to pay for curbside trash pickup. The city says it will decide by Jan. ...

The calls continue to go out for National Guardsmen and reservists in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. It is a trying time for all Americans, but particularly for the men and women who are called on the spur of the moment to defend the country wherever they are needed. Some have been dispatched to the Middle East, and some have been assigned to guard the nation's airports and other facilities against further tragedies...

NEW YORK -- Scientists say they've identified a flawed gene that can raise the risk that a baby will be born with cleft lip, sometimes along with cleft palate. If scientists can devise some kind of preventive treatment, the discovery could one day help identify couples at risk of having an affected child, who could then get that treatment, a researcher said...

CHICAGO -- One of the most popular pain relievers for children is safe but so commonplace that potentially harmful overdoses may occur, according to new recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Because overdoses of acetaminophen, best known as Tylenol, can cause problems ranging from nausea to liver damage and even death, pediatricians should give parents written instructions on how to use it at all regular well-child check ups, the academy says...

CHICAGO -- Sections of ovaries taken from two patients were implanted in their arms and continued to function there, raising hopes women can avoid the loss of fertility that often accompanies treatments for cancer and other diseases. In both cases, the tissue produced clearly visible welt-sized bumps -- mini ovaries, really -- on the forearm, just below the elbow. ...

Monday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Study session at 5 p.m. Public hearings Consent ordinances A public hearing regarding the request of Midamerica Hotels Corp. to rezone part of Lot 35, Doctor's Park, from C-1, local commercial district, to C-2, general commercial district...

7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1 City Hall Public Hearingsn Hearing to discuss the city's response to a request for proposals for housing development issued by the Missouri Department of Economic Development Community Development Block Grant program. Hearing to consider the voluntary annexation of property owned by the Missouri Department of Transportation...

KEARNEY, Mo. -- Visitors will not find many agricultural tools in David Pichel's tobacco barn. For the late summer tobacco harvest, all field hands need are tomahawks, spikes and wooden sticks. Unless of course you count the water cooler as a tool, something Pichel says is almost as important in the heat...

DeWEESE, Neb. -- A 3,500-square-foot dream house is being built on the west bank of the Little Blue River with materials grown 50 feet away. Construction does not depend on the ash, American elm or hackberry trees that line the meandering river in southern Nebraska. It instead relies on what remains of the wheat crop in surrounding farm fields...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ordered former President Clinton disbarred from practicing law before the high court on Monday and gave him 40 days to contest the order. The court did not explain its reasons, but Supreme Court disbarment often follows disbarment in lower courts...