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By JOHN HARRIGAN Woods, Water and Wildlife COYOTES ARE are a regular part of the mix around our place, one family ranging the swamps and ridges between our farm and the Beloin place, and another pack making themselves known from the woods behind Wayne and Liz Richards' house. In their hunting, these coyotes behave more like wolves than coyotes, hunting in packs, which are really families, and using wolf-like tactics and communication. Our coyotes, bigger than their Western cousins, have learned to take bigger prey, a key to survival in a harsher climate. During summer the adults are teaching ...

UPDATE from Sacramento Streaming Sacramento Police Audio and co-workers comments live Heavily armed suspect Joe Ferguson hancuffed a fellow security officer to a tree in the Sacramento Zoo leaving a smashed Nextell next to her. The suspect has stolen the coworker's car and is now still at large. Earlier tonight the suspect, who was distraught over the breakup of a girlfriend, went to the City Corp Yard on 24th Street in Sacramento and shot 3 to 4 security guards, killing 3 and no word on the 4th victim. First hand accounts from friens and former co-workers ay Joe, who was ...

Republicans hide behind Holy Cross smokescreen Even by Northern Ireland’s standards this has been a dreadful week for the province and for defenders of the peace process. The dispute over access to Holy Cross primary school in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast is, however - for all its squalid, distressing and unpleasant nature - essentially and comparatively trivial in itself. Its significance lies not in the actions of an ugly Loyalist mob but in the windows it opens into the hearts and minds of Republicans and Unionists alike. It is a symptom, not the cause, of the paralysis ...

SUNDAY TERROR IN ISRAEL 8:00 - Arab "heros" shoot and murder driver and woman teacher near Jericho 11:00 - Suicide bomber goes to "heaven" and murders 3 Israelis 13:25 - just now, 2 bombs explode at Beit Leid Junction near Netanya - ambulances rushing to the scene More details of these and the Israeli replies at: GAMLA: News and Views from Israel http://www.gamla.org.il/english Get The GAMLA News Ticker WEBMASTERS: "Gamla" has now added, at the top of our homepage, a News Ticker. This will bring updated, real time headlines of breaking news to our users. You can easily take ...

The Trouble With Reparations By KURT SCHMOKE Sep 9 2001 12:00AM Some Yale students recently documented the fact that slaveholders and proponents of slavery, along with abolitionists, figured prominently in the university's 300-year history.This shouldn't be surprising. Few significant American institutions with a history stretching back well before emancipation are without connections to slavery. Early presidents were slaveholders, and scholarship has made clear the extent of slavery in the antebellum North as well as in the South. As an African American student at Yale more than 30 years ago, my own studies made me well aware of these facts. ...

he image on the grainy videotape is mesmerizing: a tall, slim, middle- aged Arab man, with the bushy beard, white robes and draped white headcloth of a devout Muslim, standing before a gathering somewhere in Afghanistan. He is reading an Arabic poem, apparently his own, on papers that riffle in a breeze. The speaker's style is that of the fire-and-brimstone preachers common at Friday Prayers across the Middle East. But he is no imam, nor even, by calling, a poet. He is Osama bin Laden, the 46-year-old Saudi-born fugitive millionaire who has declared a "holy war" against the United States, ...

Savin Rock Museum To Open Associated Press Sep 9 2001 12:00AM WEST HAVEN - Happy memories of the old Savin Rock Amusement Park are pouring back to the New Haven area for this weekend's opening of a museum dedicated to the seaside playground. The Savin Rock Museum, opening to the public today, includes a local history center, exhibits on the park and some of the original attractions, including a carousel horse from the park's antique merry-go-round. "I hope they see Savin Rock when they open the front doors," said Beth Sabo, who oversees the museum. "I hope it brings ...

The Democratic Party owes a huge debt to black America, and it's about time it started making more than token payments. Black voters are one of its most loyal constituency groups, sometimes to the point of voting against their own interests. And that loyalty has yet to be adequately repaid. No political party should be able to take any voting group for granted. Florida is a case in point. With the exception of the late Doug Jamerson's unsuccessful bid for the office of education commissioner, Florida Democrats have been unable -- or unwilling -- to rally around a black ...

New Rule Gets Mixed Grades By RICK GREENThe Hartford Courant Sep 9 2001 12:00AM For the first time, the state is reaching into classrooms across Connecticut and telling educators to hold back fourth-graders who cannot read and did not attend summer school.As a result, 270 children in Hartford are repeating fourth grade this fall because they are poor readers. In New Haven, 43 fourth-graders are being held back, Bridgeport is retaining 94 and Waterbury 65. Even tiny Putnam is holding back two students. "I really wish I could say we didn't need this,'' Hartford Superintendent of Schools Anthony S. ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - In the first step toward a radical agrarian reform in Venezuela that might involve property confiscation, President Hugo Chavez presented poor farmers with deeds to thousands of acres of land on Saturday. At a ceremony in the oil-rich western state of Zulia, the leftist leader exhorted wealthy landowners to donate unused land to the state, or face heavy taxation and even confiscation or eviction under a forthcoming land law. ``Today's act is a step toward the implementation of the Law of Lands and Rural Development by the revolution, so there can finally be justice in ...

UP LATE? Streaming Manhunt Live Another Massive Sacramento Manhunt: updated 01:34 a.m. Sacramento police are in a furious manhunt at this hour. A Burns International Security Officer killed at least on co-worker at his place of employment just a few minutes ago. A search of his residence is now underway. Subject is believed to have a scanner so traffic is held to a minimum. At his residence, many automatic weapons have been found, making of an explosive device, and various electronic counter-measures. The house was fully equipped with video surveillance systems. Burns could not tell police exactly what company vehicle ...

Terror Attack at Nahariya Train Station On Sunday Morning (IsraelNationalNews.com) The suicide terrorist attack at the Nahariya train station occurred at about 10:45am. The attack came on a Sunday morning when the station is particularly crowded with soldiers returning to their bases from a weekend leave. There is no confirmed information at this time from official sources but eyewitnesses stated the bomber detonated the explosive device in a crowd of persons.

<p>September 9, 2001 -- IT was a helluva week for Satan.</p> <p>In a single seven-day span, a Catholic archbishop revealed Mother Teresa had been exorcised before she died (no - not exercised); Gary Condom's father, a Protestant minister, declared that the devil - not his son - did it; and a Georgia state legislator announced that although Chandra Levy, is in fact, dead, she still walks among us. Or among her - anyway.</p>

Would-be Florida governors try, some fail, to be a funny bunch Sunday, September 9, 2001 By VICKIE CHACHERE, Associated Press TAMPA — They want to be Florida's head of state, but what about its king, or queen, of comedy? Janet Reno has her Saturday Night Live dance party. Tampa attorney Bill McBride uses a joke written by his 12-year-old daughter. And political activist Bob Kunst isn't laughing at anything at all. As the 2002 gubernatorial race heats up, the Democrats clearly want to take back the governor's mansion from Republican Jeb Bush. But the question in the already seemingly endless ...

<p>September 9, 2001 -- SAN FRANCISCO - Japan's foreign minister yesterday acknowledged the suffering her nation caused American POWs during World War II - but she wouldn't formally apologize.</p> <p>Japanese media said Friday that Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka planned to apologize at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, which officially ended the war between the United States and Japan.</p>

<p>September 9, 2001 -- MIAMI - The day after officially announcing her entrance into the Florida governor's race, former Attorney General Janet Reno hit the road - heading out of state.</p> <p>Her first stop Wednesday was a speaking engagement at Penn State University.</p>

Gubernatorial candidate Daryl Jones has credit card, IRS debt Sunday, September 9, 2001 Associated Press TALLAHASSEE — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Daryl Jones owed the IRS $135,000 at the end of last year and was shouldering some $30,000 in credit card debt, according to his annual financial disclosure forms. The documents, released this week by the state Division of Elections, showed Jones' income was $81,000 for 2000. Jones reported stock investments totaling $75,000, down significantly from the $480,000 he reported a year earlier for 1999. He did not have any credit card debt the previous year. The state senator from Miami ...

<p>September 9, 2001 -- Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien, the man linked by new DNA tests to the 1975 disappearance of ex-Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, says the findings are "a load of BS."</p> <p>O'Brien, 66, Hoffa's foster son who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., looked shocked when told DNA tests had matched a hair from Hoffa's head with a strand found in the car O'Brien was driving when Hoffa vanished on July 30, 1975.</p>

WASHINGTON (September 9) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a letter sent last month to Congressman John Conyers (D-Michigan), said Israel's use of American-made weapons in targeted killings of Palestinian militants does not constitute a violation of American law. While State Department spokesmen have been saying so for weeks, it was the first time a senior administration official made such an unequivocal statement on the issue. Powell, in a letter dated August 17, was responding to a letter sent by Conyers to President George W. Bush in June in which Conyers expressed concern that Israel's use of American-made weaponry ...

<p>September 9, 2001 -- Al Sharpton faces a volatile reception at Columbia University this afternoon when he appears as guest speaker at a back-to-campus event intended to unite the student body.</p> <p>A right-wing student group plans to protest Sharpton's speech on "community activism," saying they fear his address might pit blacks against Jews.</p>