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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 2001
Page
6
In Nashville Tennessee two maximum security prisoners Lyle Van Alzen aged 35 and Billy Coffelt aged 47 overpowered guards with homemade knives while being escorted via an underground tunnel from the city jail to the courthouse. They fled Friday morning but were recaptured a few hours later.
Five homes were evacuated before dawn as firefighters battled a wildfire that has burned about 4000 acres sixty miles northwest of Yellowstone. Gusting winds drove flames to within a quarter mile of several residences in the foothills south of Bozeman.
NASA engineers in Cape Canaveral report misshapen holes in two orbital-engine compartments planned for the space shuttle Columbia. The holes, likely caused by machining, raise questions about their timing and impact as Columbia is prepared for a Hubble Space Telescope mission early next year.
A hospital in Valhalla New York was fined twenty two thousand dollars following a fatal incident where a 6 year old boy was killed by an oxygen tank pulled by a strong MRI magnet. The state Health Department announced the penalty on Friday. A separate Friday fire at the Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut sent smoke from the 26 year old building and investigators cited a probable underground transformer malfunction per Police Lt. Brian Heavren.
Washington AP reports the ethics chair of a fertility standards group says sex selection for non medical reasons may be ethical for some couples, prompting a Chicago and New York clinic to offer the service. Critics warn of discrimination and risks, while the full committee has not yet voted.
Europol says trafficking into the European Union is worsening with up to 120,000 women and children trafficked annually into western Europe. Victims face sexual exploitation or forced labor as crime groups grow more sophisticated and central European transit rises. ministers agree on a Europe wide prison term for traffickers.
Brig Gen Heinz-Georg Keer commands about 250 troops to protect EU and OSCE monitors aiding peace efforts in Macedonia. The operation follows a Western peace accord between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians, with NATO handing control to a smaller contingent as monitors deploy nationwide.
Thousands of Palestinians marched in the West Bank and Gaza to mark the anniversary of the fighting. Three were killed by Israeli fire and a fourth died in a premature explosion while a bomb he prepared. Forty-five Palestinians and six Israelis were wounded as both sides traded blame yet pressed toward a cease-fire.
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