Americans Aid Afghan Attack Against Taliban and Qaeda Foes
U S led assault in Gardez area as helicopters and warplanes struck suspected al Qaida and Taliban hideouts. Residents reported heavy air and ground fire with American Special Forces supporting Afghan troops in rugged Paktia mountains near Miran Shah.
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al-Qaida
Pakistan
Associated Press
U.S
Ubaidullah Khan
Miran Shah
al- Qaida
Saif Ullah
Paktia
Gardez
Saif Rahman
Mullah Mohammed Omar
Osama bin Laden
Logar
Kabul
Jan Mohammed
Naquibullah
Gardez Hospital
Extracurricular limits affect home schooled students
District 186 will allow non-district students to enroll in foreign language and other classes if space allows. For each class, the district receives one sixth of a day in state aid. Schwebel notes irony as his daughters Katie and Carrie wanted to return to Murphysboro district classes next year. He says he does not blame the coaching staff and that the situation has been hard on his family. He recalls telling Katie she made the team and that cannot be taken away.
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Schwebel
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Carrie
Murphysboro
Suncom1
Cape Girardeau
Carbondale
Marion
SunCom
Vienna Prison Pioneers Community Based Reform Led by Warden Vernon Houseright
Vernon Houseright shaped Vienna Correctional Center into a town like campus opened in phases from 1965. The first unit was three story X shaped with no fences later replaced by a quad setting offering shops, schooling, chapel and recreation. Inmates built baseball diamonds and trained as emergency medics joining town services as the program fostered reintegration.
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Houseright
Vienna Correctional Center
Vienna Town Square
Vienna
Lawrence
Regional golf courses plan new clubhouses and dining areas
Three regional courses move forward with new clubhouses seating about 150, plus outdoor terrace, pro shop, dining, and locker facilities. Construction aimed to start by late July with an April 2003 opening. financing includes 1.1 million borrowed and a 595 thousand clubhouse cost. Revenue from events and dining to cover 96 thousand annual debt. no tax increase. Stone Creek aims to finish by June. other course plans sought by fall.
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SIUC
Eden Thorne
Richard Grant
Grant
Stone Creek
Carbondale
U.S. 51
Don Pippens
Country Club
Murphysboro
Country Club Road
Illinois 13
Randy Fricke
Notice of Art Berg death at 39 in Parade Intelligence Report
Motivational speaker and author Art Berg died last week at age 39. The death occurred after Parade magazine had gone to press.
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Art Berg
Intelligence Report
Accuracy Check Request for The Southern Illinois News
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H&h Computers
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