Coal boom draws organized crime probes nationwide
The Justice Department investigates six murders, fraud, bribery, and tax evasion tied to coal industry growth. Alabama, Georgia, and Illinois grand juries, plus governors, seek a multistate probe with SEC and IRS help. Indictments and ties to brokers, bank loans, and coerced operators surface amid coal sector turmoil.
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New York Times
Atlanta
Justice Department
Alabama
Georgia
Illinois
George Busbee
Griffin B. Bell
Busbee
Kentucky
States
Bell
Securities and Exchange Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Thomas L. Krebs
Alabama Securities Commission
Erbs
James Fourghner
Organized Crime Division
Krebs
R. L. Herring
Herco Corp
Chicago
National Acceptance Co
Herring
Birmingham
Ala
FBI
Thompson OKs tax plan to aid homeowners in Illinois
Gov. James Thompson issued an amendatory veto rewriting the property tax relief bill to increase the exemption to 1500 and apply to equalized value, with 1979 bills. He signed related relief bills expanding home improvement tax breaks and shielding Cook County, and proposed raising elderly circuit breaker grants to 700 with state cost of 115 million.
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Springfield
James Thompson
Thompson
Thomas Hynes
Chicago
Illinois Senate
General Assembly
Hynes
Cook County
Saving and Loan Associations
Advisory Commission On Taxes
Iraqi security agents in Paris clash ends siege at embassy
In Paris the siege of the Iraqi Embassy ended after a gun battle between embassy guards and police. Three Iraqi security agents were detained while a captured terrorist, linked to Al Fatah, was wounded and later taken away after a chaotic exchange that killed a police officer and an Iraqi guard. An Arab League official and another officer were injured as heavy rain fell on the scene.
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Paris
Yasser Arafat
al Fatah
Arab League
Iraq
France
Arafat
Israel
London
Britain
16Th District
Town House
Marcel Leclerc
Robert Broussard
Smiths forge art at SIUC blacksmith workshop
SIUs School of Art hosts an intense 10 day blacksmithing workshop in Pulliam Hall with 18 smiths including six prominent masters and 12 aspiring artists. The program funded by a 12700 dollar NEA grant plus university support aims to establish SIU as a national blacksmith center.
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DeMaris Berry
National Endowment For the Arts
University
Francis Whitaker
Aspen
Colo
Dennis Proksa
Pocatello
Idaho
Pulliam Hall
Siuc School of Art
Southern Illinois University
United States
Brent Kington
Whitaker
SIUC
Philadelphia
Germany
U.S
Proksa
Weather Outlook and City News Snippets
Forecasters expect a tonight of partly cloudy skies with a thunderstorm chance and upper 60s lows. Wednesday will be hot and humid with high in the upper 80s to low 90s and a thunderstorm risk. Thursday and Friday turn cloudy and cool with highs in the 80s and a 60s low.
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National Weather Service
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