Trial begins Monday for Gant after crowd clash in Carbondale
David Watt is cited for probable cause in Gant case. After Gant's arrest the party crowd moved to South Illinois Avenue blocking traffic. Police dispersed using Mace. The incident spurred 60 complaints to Carbondale's Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, leading to a hearing. a 2001 city university task force formed to study race relations and a human relations commission developed. The Gant jury trial starts at 9 a.m. Monday in the Jackson County Courthouse.
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Gant
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Carbondale
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Jackson County
Neil Dillard
John Jackson
Accuracy Hotline for The Southern Illinoisan
A reader alerts of a corrected figure for Metropolis riverboat casino tourism study. The April 27 article overstated city costs. The study recommends Metropolis spend 30 to 40 million with the remainder from private sources. the newspaper provided the wrong amounts.
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Jackson County
Metropolis
SIU Ed Budget Cuts Spell Potential Job Loss and Harm
SIU officials and students warn that proposed 8.2 percent funding cuts could force up to 10 percent of SIUC jobs to go, with more than 250 positions at risk. Chancellor Wendler says top to bottom reductions, reliance on part time faculty, and long term harms to education loom as Springfield weighs the budget.
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SIUC
Walter Wendler
James Tyrell
Springfield
Illinois
Spacemen prepare to land in foreign spacecraft in historic mission
The mission switches to a docked Soyuz after the Columbia disaster grounds U S shuttles. Bowersox Pettit and Budarin will become the first NASA astronauts to land in a foreign spacecraft and land in a foreign country. About 10 NASA personnel and 35 Russian space officials will attend, as grief over Columbia shapes reception and cooperation on Earth.
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Columbia
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Iraq
Carrier Mills family welcomes loved one back from war
In Carrier Mills the Cramer family rejoices as Cmdr Martha Warner returns aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln after an Iraq War tour. Warner’s husband’s family notes his Korea War service, and planners say she will command the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station at Bangor. The Cramers expect to visit Washington state this summer.
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United States
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Harry Cramer
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Truman
Warner
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Iraq
U.S
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Washington
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Bush
Seattle
Sailors Return Home After Iraq War Deployment
Petty Officer Daniel Eaton led sailors ashore at 9 30 a m from the carrier Bakersfield man first off after a raffle prize Several others waited in long lines to leave and many used cell phones to contact families Nancy Wilson from Camarillo planned a wedding that was canceled Weeks earlier President Bush visited the carrier performing a tailhook landing and announced the heaviest combat in Iraq was over A Marine helicopter retrieved Bush from the vessel Friday Sacramento sailor Jason Nowland waited to reunite with his wife Ana
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Bakersfield
Calif
Bush
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