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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 2001
Page
3
Douglas Whitley 51 becomes president and chief executive officer of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. He vows to rebuild the group as an economic development and political force, replacing Dennis Whetstone.
AP reports Shelbyville judge AEase Kelsey Smith, formerly of Windsor, will serve 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to first degree murder of her infant daughter Madison Smith who suffocated on September 25, 1996. Smith, 24, already serves seven years in Florida for the 1997 attempted murder of Macy, Madison’s sister.
Shen Chang, a popular qigong teacher arrested on anti cult charges last year, was sentenced to 12 years in Suzhou for tax evasion. He was convicted of selling tapes about the discipline without a license and concealing income.
A 15-year-old boy in Cairo was sentenced to three years in prison for homosexuality and debauchery, marking the first verdict in Egypt’s large gay trial. The court ordered the youth to serve the sentence in a prison for young offenders.
British warplanes bombed a southern Iraqi anti aircraft missile site near Basra in retaliation for hostile activities against patrols enforcing a no fly zone, according to a U S Air Force officer. The attack followed statements from a Joint Task Force South West Asia spokesman. The Agriculture Department tightened import rules on Japanese meat over a suspected mad cow case, adding restrictions to cooked beef and sheep products after an earlier ban on livestock and some meats due to foot and mouth disease. A crane recovered two more vehicles from floodwater four days after the Queen Isabella Causeway collapse near South Padre Island Texas, where at least five people were killed when barges struck a bridge pillar.
Attorney General John Ashcroft warned of Nimda, a complex worm spreading via infected Web sites and email, risking corporate networks and causing congestion. The outbreak infects Windows systems through IIS servers and email, prompting updates from antivirus firms and Microsoft.
In Arusha Tanzania a Rwandan pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana 76 and his son Gerald 44 go on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on charges of genocide complicity in genocide conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity Prosecutors say they helped shelter Tutsis then urged militiamen to kill them The pair deny the charges and face a panel of three judges with opening statements detailing the killings at the church hospital complex in 1994
Akhmad Kadyrov the Moscow appointed Chechen head blamed federal and local power structures for Monday and Tuesday attacks in Grozny and Gudermes saying troops failed to stop the rebel raid. The assault killed seven Russian soldiers and three policemen along with 15 rebels, as streets emptied and offices closed.
Norman Byler a 69 year old Amish resident of Birmingham pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual battery involving two girls ages 3 and 5. The case, involving secular prosecution of Amish crimes, centers on incidents from 1999 and ends with possible five year commitment to a sex offender program in Mansfield.
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