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Campaign ads getting heated

This photo, from the 1920s, shows
why the Nixa Church of Christ was
once called the brick church.
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Kinder, Lager respond to spots

By Josh Nelson
JNELSON@NEWS-LEADER.COM

Church celebrating
100th anniversary
The Nixa Church of Christ is marking its100th anniversary this year
and is holding an open house Sunday to celebrate. The sanctuary still
has still has the original metal ceiling
and wooden walls, but the church
has added several rooms over the
years, to house classes, offices and a
basement area where dinners and
meetings are held. Faith,1C

As the sweltering summer

temperatures continue, so do
heated attacks in the Republican race for lieutenant governor.
The latest salvos involve an
ad alleging that Savannah Republican Brad Lager profited
from federal health care re-

group.
Both
candidates argue the
form through his job at a Kan- ads are false dissas City health care company. tortions of their
The spot was produced by in- past records.
cumbent Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder,
R-Cape Girardeau.
Health care
A separate ad, paid for by the connections
Peter
Missourians for Conservative
Kinder
Values PAC, focuses on incumThe attack on
bent Lt. Gov. Peter Kinders Lager, who is a state senator, fopast relationship with a strip- cuses on his position as a senior
per. Lagers campaign denied strategic analyst at Cerner, a
having any connection to the company that specializes in

In most corners of the world,

golden arches symbolize something.
So do a red bulls-eye, an apple with
a bite taken out of it and a wellknown swoosh. In the digital age, as
companies battle for customers
attention and money, instantly
recognizable symbols have become
increasingly important. Business,
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Overwhelming
majority opposed
plan for closures
By Mark E. McCormick

Outbreak highlights risk

of handling chicks

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A veterinary epidemiologist said

that probably more than 70 people
in at least 20 states have been sickened by salmonella linked to chicks
and other baby birds from Estes
Hatchery. Handling baby birds has
previously been linked to at least 35
other outbreaks of salmonella.
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Catchers leading the way

for Springfield Cardinals
During the dog days of summer,
the catching corps for the Springfield
Cardinals is not letting the heat get
to them. Audry Perez and Travis
Tartamella are doing a strong job
leading the teams pitching staff
through the Texas League season.
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City drops
plans for
Rountree
changes

Iconic logos prove

increasingly valuable

Index

electronic health
records.
Cerner is one
of several companies that has benefited from the federal health care
overhaul, because
the law expands
Brad
the use of elecLager
tronic records to
cut administrative costs, according to Forbes Mag-

Tom Sullivan, center, embraces family members outside Gateway High School where he was searching
frantically for his son Alex Sullivan, who celebrated his 27th birthday by going to see "The Dark Knight
Rises." AP

Gunman looked
like an assassin

Suspect opens fire

in Colorado theater,
killing 12 and
wounding 58
By P. Solomon Banda and
Thomas Peipert

Shooting suspect had purchased four guns in the past

two months. Page 4A
Springfield moviegoers say theyll still see the movie,
though theyre saddened by shootings. Page 4A
Shooting has eerie parallels in movie, comic book
character. Page 5A

James
Holmes

Associated Press

AURORA, Colo. As the new Batman movie

played on the screen, a gunman dressed in
black and wearing a helmet, body armor and a
gas mask stepped through a side door. At first
he was just a silhouette, taken by some in the
audience for a stunt that was part of one of the
summer's most highly anticipated films.
But then, authorities said, he threw gas canisters that filled the packed suburban Denver
theater with smoke, and, in the confusing haze
between Hollywood fantasy and terrifying reality, opened fire as people screamed and dove
for cover.
At least 12 people were killed and 58 wound-

ed 11 critically in one of the deadliest mass

shootings in recent U.S. history.
"He looked like an assassin ready to go to
war," said Jordan Crofter, a moviegoer who was
unhurt in the attack early Friday, about a halfhour after the special midnight opening of "The
Dark Knight Rises."
The gunman, identified by police as 24-yearold James Holmes, used a military-style semiautomatic rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, stopping
only to reload.
The suspect marched up the aisle in the stadium-style theater, picking off those who tried
to flee, witnesses said. Authorities said he hit 71
people. At least one was struck in an adjacent
theater by gunfire that went through the wall.
"He would reload and shoot and anyone who
See GUNMAN, Page 5A

Intense citizen reaction

to a proposal that would
have closed some railroad
intersections in the Rountree neighborhood has
stopped the plan dead in its
tracks.
City Councilwoman Cindy Rushefsky released an
email Friday to Rountree
homeowners that there will
be no street closings or special barriers erected for
safety reasons or to create
a quiet zone.
Rushefsky said the city
had planned to make the
announcement
Monday,
but after she learned that
still-fuming residents were
busy organizing a rally, she
said she saw no sense in
waiting to make the announcement.
Given the depth of feeling, I didnt want to see it
percolate any more, Rushefsky said Friday night
from her home. I thought
the best thing to do was to
get the information out
there before it got any
worse.
Tensions overflowed at
a neighborhood meeting
Tuesday where more than
120 citizens and a group of
city officials discussed the
$1 million project, which
would have installed gates
at three railroad intersections and permanently
closed three others.
City officials said the
plan would have made
those intersections safer
and would have decreased
train horn noise.
But residents of the
neighborhood pushed back
hard and, at times, emotionally, during the meeting.
We were a little taken
See ROUNTREE, Page 4A

Order clarifies bond requirements

By Mark E. McCormick

MEMCCORMIC@NEWS-LEADER.COM

Greene
County
Circuit
Courts presiding judge issued
an administrative order Friday
clarifying bond requirements
to help ensure that jail detainees arent released until any
and all special conditions of
their release are met.
Judge Thomas Mountjoys
order specifies that bond

agents and defendants personally appear before a judge prior

to a defendants release on
bonds greater than $25,000. It
also declares that language
spelling out special release conditions must appear on any arrest warrant, any docket entry
or any bond paperwork submitted for approval by a judge. His
order formalizes what has been
custom.
All of the judges are on the

same page in terms of how

night, weekend and holiday release situations should be handled, Mountjoy said. If there
was any gap in the system, it
was a communication gap with
everyone involved in the process, and even among the judges
themselves. Weve been talking
about that issue and weve been
working on it.
These provisions proved pivotal in the mistaken release last

month of a high flight-risk defendant charged with 19 counts

of felony child sexual abuse.
The defendant bonded out of
jail at night, without a court
hearing, without a GPS monitoring device and without surrendering his passport.
Mountjoy wanted to make
clear that the mistaken release
of such defendants isnt comSee ORDER, Page 4A