22 Dec 2002
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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 2002
Page
1
The Southern Illinoisan will not publish on Christmas Day to let staff spend time with families. The Thursday edition will carry normally Wednesday features such as comics and puzzles. Weather forecasts call for partly cloudy skies and mid forties highs through Monday.
RLCD leaders trace Rend Lake’s birth to a 1950s push by Franklin and Jefferson counties to secure a single water source. Key figures like former U S Rep Kenneth J Gray helped win Army Corps backing as the lake was filled from 1968 to 1971, delivering water to 13 communities and enabling vast recreation and regional growth.
Holiday shoppers crowded parking lots and downtowns as gift hunters flocked to stores malls and eateries in the waning days of Christmas sales. Local merchants report sales up slightly from last year beating national expectations though not booming, with Herrin Drug noting sold out Christmas cards in the downtown area.
Franklin County State's Attorney Bill Richardson seeks assistance from the Illinois Attorney General to aid an ongoing probe into the disappearance of seven to eight pounds of marijuana from an evidence storage facility near the Franklin County Jail. Police interviewed over 40 people as the COMIT Drug Task Force raid on Sept. 6 led to arrests of four suspects. The missing marijuana was discovered Sept. 9 after agents inventorying the confiscated drugs found the bagged pot had vanished.
A Sikorsky CH-53 carrying seven German peacekeepers crashed in eastern Kabul on a routine patrol, killing the seven aboard and two Afghan children. The crash sparked a German investigation and raised concerns about refugees districts. A U.S. soldier was killed in a separate gunfight in eastern Afghanistan as coalition forces faced ongoing dangers in the war on terror.
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