Three-year-old Omran and Afghan women greet UN chief in Kabul
Afghan crowds at Zarghana High School for Girls await UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as Prime Minister calls for expanded peacekeeping. In Cambridge Mass a judge sentences Thomas Junta to six to 10 years for manslaughter in the death of Michael Costin after a hockey game. A pair of hens cross a busy Chambersburg street with a rooster.
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U.N
Kofi Annan
Zarghana High School
Kabul
Afghanistan
Thomas Junta
Cambridge
Mass
Charles Graban
Junta
Michael Costin
Chambersburg
Carbondale Chamber honors John and Nancy Jackson
John and Nancy Jackson were named Citizens of the Year by the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, praised for decades of local service since 1969. The couple welcomed home their cat Newt after four and a half months apart, a reunion marked with humor and warm community support at the Civic Center.
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Nancy Jackson
Carbondale
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce
John and
Newt
University of Arkansas At
Jacksons
Southern Illinois University
Nancy
Arch Coal delays plan for Pinckneyville power plant
Arch Coal Inc plans a $1 billion coal fueled plant near Pinckneyville but says a slow economy delays pressure to sign on partners. Kim Link, a company spokeswoman, notes interest remains yet less aggressive than last fall as utilities and generators hesitate amid weaker demand.
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Arch Coal Inc
Pinckneyville
Illinois
Arch
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Link
Former Enron exec Baxter found dead in car
J Clifford Baxter a former Enron vice chairman aged 43 was found shot to death in a Mercedes parked near his Sugar Land home. Police said a suicide note was found. Baxter had quit Enron last May amid concerns over accounting practices and faced investigations and lawsuits linked to Enron’s collapse.
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Enron Corp
J. Clifford Baxter
Sugar Land
Baxter
Enron
U.S
FBI
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Jim Greenwood
R-Pa
Cliff Baxter
After 42 years a stolen purse returns to Oak Park
Audrey Wheeler’s long missing purse from 1960 is found in a restaurant wall by construction workers. Oak Park police Sgt. Jacques Conway tracked the owner through state records, phones, and old ID, delivering the purse with a bouquet of flowers. The cash was gone but the memories remained.
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Audrey Wheeler
Wheeler
Jacques Conway
Conway
Secretary of State
Chicago
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