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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 2003
Page
1
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U S warplanes and helicopters attacked Republican Guard units defending Baghdad while ground forces closed to within 50 miles of the capital. President Bush set a 75 billion dollar price tag for the war. A helicopter raid marked the first central Iraq engagement as Iraqi fire downed at least one craft and a two man crew was captured. Resistance stalled advances on Basra and An Nasiriyah five days into Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Mindy Stoke described her weekend as worry on top of worry as her husband Maj. David F. Stoke, with the 101st Airborne near the Iraqi border, faced separation and news of a grenade attack at Camp Pennsylvania that killed Capt. Christopher Seifert and wounded 15 others. Sgt. Alan Akbar of the 326 Engineer Battalion was detained in connection with the assault. Stoke learned of the incident via television early Sunday and faced renewed fear when the attack was reported in the same brigade and unit number as her husband’s assignment.
The Rend Lake Conservancy District board heard a Springfield group proposal to build a 7.5 million dollar water park named Adventure River near Rend Lake beside Interstate 57 and Illinois 154. Spokesman George Dinges said feasibility studies forecast 200000 visitors yearly and a family oriented park appealing to many.
George Dinges of Development Services Group says a feasibility study for the adventure river water park near Interstate 57 and Highways 54 predicts about 200000 visitors annually to the Rend Lake region.
Elverado High School mourns after senior outfielder Scott Rosenberger collapsed during practice and died from undetermined causes. Coach Todd Tripp recalls Rosenberger as a dedicated player who gave 100 percent and loved the game. An autopsy was planned to determine the cause.
Cory T. Simmons of Carbondale, 26, was charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count of voluntary manslaughter after Kendron Lacey, 25, was strangled. Police responded to a 4 27 a m disturbance at 820 W Mill St Apt 313B and found Lacey’s body. A friend, Chris Loss, said Simmons seemed nonviolent.
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