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Get great barbecue indoors all year with a stovetop smoker. pi Vol. 125, No. 50 2003 PROUDLY SERVING ST. LOUIS FOR 125 YEARS 50 1 4 1 fn kris in no-ca Fines for no-call violations in other states This month in Pennsylvania: Telemarketer Kristel Marketing Ltd.

fined $33,000. October in Louisiana: fined $175,000. July hi Indiana: Thirty-six organizations fined more than $127,000. AprBin Idaho: Eleven companies fined $54,000 for violations in 2001. January 2002 in Tennessee: Eleven groups fined $61 ,000.

June 1999 in Texas: Coastal Telephone Co. fined $35,000. May 1999 in Georgia: TruGreenChemlawn fined $45,000. SOURCE: POST-DISPATCH NEWS RESEARCH DEPARTMENT Missouri has won more than $1 million against telemarketers stay away or face a $5,000 penalty per violation. That didn't stop telemarketers for ADT, the world's largest security-alarm company: More than 1,100 people on the state's no-call list complained of getting calls.

The state sued, and today, Attorney General Jay Nixon is scheduled to announce that ADT and 23 of its dealers have settled and will pay a $275,000 penalty. It's the largest penalty yet against a telemarketer in Missouri since the state began enforcing the no-call law in July 2001. And it's believed to be the largest penalty anywhere for violation of a state or federal no-call law. Missouri now has won more than $1 million in penalties from no-call violators. Said Nixon: "This sends an unequivocally clear message to folks across Missouri and the country that violating our no-call law can have huge financial consequences." See List, A10 By Michael D.

Sorkin Of the Post-Dispatch 2003, St. Louis Post-Dispatch August Kissner of O'Fallon, says he got two abusive phone calls from telemarketers pressuring him to buy a security-alarm system. Michael Woodruff of St. Peters got four calls. Kristina Wotawa of Fenton got 1 2.

All three were on Missouri's no-call list, which requires telemarketers to REMEMBERING VICTIMS OF STAMPEDE TT" AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Iraqi scientist Saad Ahmed Mahmoud, who was interviewed by U.N. inspectors on Tuesday, speaks at a news conference in Baghdad. Mahmoud says the interview was unjustified. Story on Al 1 Bush will work with UJV. on new Iraq resolution But if tough mandate isn't passed, U.S.

pies to act anyway, he warns pcrr ret, uv.itKHg'O fauj "1., i M. SPENCER GREEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A man looks at 21 crosses that were placed outside Chicago's E2 nightclub Tuesday. The crosses bear the names of those who died in a stampede there Mon- day morning. Chicago officials asked a judge Tuesday for a criminal contempt sentence of at least one year in jail for the club's owner. Story on A10 By Colum Lynch Washington Post UNITED NATIONS President George W.

Bush pledged Tuesday to work with the U.N. Security Council to adopt a new resolution authorizing military action against Iraq. But he warned that the United States would act outside the international body if it failed to back a tough new mandate. Speaking as the Pentagon ordered the deployment of another 28,000 troops to the Persian Gulf, Bush said the United States wants to "work with our friends and allies" to broaden support for confronting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But he made clear that the United States would not be hamstrung by debates at the Security Council, adding that while it would be of help to win approval of another resolution, See Iraq, All Performing a balancing act with U.S., Syria is country of contradiction plays up help in anti-terrorism war (MOX's Nan Wyatt is slain at home Husband is questioned, police say iVA 4 with Charles Jaco, Steve Jankowski, and most recently Doug McElvein.

The show airs from 5 to 9 a.m. In 1998, Wyatt began appearing on "Donnybrook" Thursday nights on KETC (Channel 9), succeeding Anne Keefe. Wyatt was known for her in-depth political reporting. She's won several reporting awards, including the National Associated Press Award for Enterprise Reporting. She reportedly met her husband while in Chicago, where she hosted an afternoon radio show.

Their son turned 7 on Friday. her home. About 6:30 p.m., police found Wyatt's husband at an optical store on Telegraph Road, not far from the St. Louis County Police 4th Precinct station. One officer suggested that her husband was trying to find the station.

He was being questioned by officers Tuesday evening. Wyatt has hosted the drive-time "Total Information AM," St. Louis' top morning radio show, since 1996 after holding several other jobs at KMOX and a brief stint at WBBM-AM in Chicago. She has been paired By Greg Jonsson and Heather Ratcliffe Of the Post-Dispatch KMOX radio personality Nan Wyatt was shot to death in her home in Twin Oaks in St. Louis County on Tuesday evening, police said.

The incident happened about 6 p.m., according to police. Police sources said Wyatt was found with gunshot wounds in the bedroom of By Jon Sawyer Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief ANDREA SCOTT POST-DISPATCH KMOX morning news anchor Nan Wyatt and "Donnybrook" host Martin Duggan discuss potential topics with their fellow panelists Thursday at the program's most recent taping. Prosecutors make good on pledge with indictments over lead paint DAMASCUS, Syria The dozens of stalls that line the oldest open-air marketplace in pamascus were open for business, but the hundreds of customers who usually throng these ancient streets were nowhere in sight Perhaps that's because it was just past dawn. The shopkeepers were in fact making a command performance, under police orders to provide a colorful backdrop for Syria's young president as he came to pray at the mosque that lies just beyond the Roman columns at the end of the market's main arcade. The president is Bashar al-Assad, the lanky London-trained ophthalmologist billed as the softer, gentler version of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria with an iron hand until his death nearly three years ago.

The nation his son now heads is perhaps the most confounding and paradoxical country in a region that is struggling to See Syria, A12 Webster, 49, of St. Louis, and Sailor, 62, of O'Fallon, are charged with one felony and one misdemeanor each. They are accused of violating the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act. Both are expected to answer the charges in U.S.! District Court at St. Louis this week.

The maximum penalty is five years in prison, and fines. See Indict, A4 ed to hurt anyone. I'm a poor man, and I didn't do anything wrong." Separate but nearly identical indictments made public Tuesday against Webster and another home seller, Thomas E. Sailor, put new muscle behind promises by federal officials to crack down on lead paint Its use was banned in 1978, after health problems and learning disabilities were found in children who ate it or breathed its dust. erwise, lamented Tuesday, "I got a raw deal, a bad deal." Marco Webster, who sold her the brick building in the ,2000 block of North Market Street, reacted about the same way when told he was named in a federal indictment that could send him to prison.

"Everything they told me to do, I did," he insisted in an interview. "There's nothing I done that I intend Two home sellers face federal charges By Tim Bryant and Tim O'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Leola Johnson, who learned that the two-family flat she bought in St. Louis was contaminated with lead paint despite the seller's promise oth WEATHER INSIDE IN THIS SECTION BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN METRO IN BUSINESS CI Business dow System shuts computer down when operator CLOSE Baker fled bias here, found fame abroad The dancer, born in St. Louis, headed in 1924 to Paris, where she created a sensation. It was the start of years of performances that shocked, and drew, audiences.

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A8 walks away The product from a Maryland Heights company City firehouses double as free health centers A partnership between the St. Louis Fire Department and the Missouri Department of Health will be the focus of a conference here today. Bl Lawsuit accuses two priests in Missouri of sexual abuse When the victim sought help, he says, the priest he turned to also abused him. The suit says bishops should have better supervised the priests. Bl UP 132.35 GAIN 1.7 POSUHSKTCH WEATHFJtBIRD "Freedom suits" will be unveiled today The case of Dred and Harriet Scott was celebrated, but not unique.

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