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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 2008
Page
1
A state committee drafting the final rules for the statewide smoking ban has not completed its work. Local health departments and police will enforce, but no formal procedures exist yet. Clerks report few complaints while officers note compliance largely through staff self-policing.
Master Sgt. Stan Diggs of ISP District 13 in Du Quoin says unsolved homicides are never closed and four cases from 1972 onward are being reevaluated as DNA advances and slower caseloads allow. He notes roundstable selection favors more solvable cases and some victims remain unidentified.
About 75 gathered at a Pope County farm to honor the Trail of Tears as the National Park Service opened the first Illinois site on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail at Crabb Abbott Farm. Historian Rowena McClinton notes 1803 Louisiana Purchase reshaped U.S. expansion and racism. the Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the 1838 forced Cherokee march to Indian Territory.
In Cairo a group of about fifty African-Americans converted to Judaism after year of study with Rabbi Lynn Goldstein culminating in mikvah immersion. The diverse ex-Christians include former drug dealers, workers, families, and students, transforming a city long marked by decline and shrinking church communities.
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