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Owens' season likely overBy Bob BrookoverInquirer Staff WriterThe best-case scenario that the Super Bowl-hopeful Eagles gave for Terrell Owens' return this season wasn't all that good, and even worse was the prognosis provided by the foot specialist who examined the star wide receiver's injured right ankle yesterday."To be fair to him and the team and its fans, it doesn't make sense to say that he could be back in time to play in the Super Bowl," specialist Mark Myerson said last night from his office in Baltimore.Ninety minutes earlier, trainer Rick Burkholder had broken the news that Owens had suffered...

SCV supports Jaqueline Duty Confederate Prom Dress Lawsuit to be filed in Federal court in Lexington, KY Press Release - December 17, 2004 - For Immediate Release This past May Jacqueline Duty, an attractive honor student in Russell, Kentucky, prepared to attend prom night wearing a special dress she had designed herself. It was a classically cut strapless sheath, ankle-length with a shallow slit on one side, and sewn completely out of beaded sequins. And it tastefully incorporated a symbol of her Southern heritage; a Confederate Battle Flag turned upwards so that the starry blue arms of the St. Andrew’s...

HOUSTON - Texas death row inmates get no MTV, CNN or anything else on the tube. And state prison officials aim to keep it that way. The Texas American Civil Liberties Union has asked the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to allow death row inmates limited access to television, but so far has been rebuffed. Of the 38 states that have capital punishment, Texas alone allows no television for death row inmates. "We believe it is significant that every other death row in the country has successfully developed and implemented policies and practices that allow death row prisoners access to...

To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Chad Clanton or Phil Singer, _________, both of Kerry-Edwards 2004 WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to today's outrageous attacks on John Kerry's service by Karl Rove, former Georgia Senator Max Cleland and former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey made the following statements Senator Max Cleland: "Karl Rove was behind it all, it's part of his smear campaign to tarnish to tarnish the records and service of Vietnam Veterans, and now he's doing it again. I find it interesting that three different people have had to resign from basically the Bush Campaign and...

The greatest battle ever fought on the North American continent and the historical aftermath of this titanic contest have been lost forever in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On the same grounds where Robert E. Lee, John Buford and John Reynolds fought for principles they held dear to them, Gettysburg College has decided that political correctness is more important than it’s historical identity. The Sons of Confederate Veterans hereby alert all of our members and friends to attend the rally to be held on September 2 and September 3 at Gettysburg College to protest the College sponsored art exhibit featuring the hateful anti-Southern...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - Jennifer Gilligan says she wasn't drinking at the party and didn't know other underage people were. But when Naperville Police pulled up, the 20-year-old and more than a dozen others were ticketed, not for underage drinking, but for simply being at a party where their peers had alcohol. "I was very upset because I don't drink," Gilligan said. She isn't the only one complaining about the Chicago suburb's unusual ordinance. So are parents who say they teach their children to be responsible and stay away from alcohol until they reach the legal drinking age of 21 —...

Detainees' Medical Files Shared Guantanamo Interrogators' Access Criticized By Peter Slevin and Joe Stephens Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 10, 2004; Page A01 Military interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been given access to the medical records of individual prisoners, a breach of patient confidentiality that ethicists describe as a violation of international medical standards designed to protect captives from inhumane treatment.

GRAND BLANC - Bringing flags bearing the Confederate insignia to school could cost two Grand Blanc High School seniors their diplomas. School administrators met Thursday to determine the fates of the two students and a third who was involved in an altercation sparked by the flags. School officials wouldn't announce the outcome of the meeting. The Confederate flag has sparked a heated debate at the school about whether it's simply a symbol of the South or one of racial discrimination and slavery. The two students who brought the flags to school Wednesday said there's nothing racist about the Confederate flag....

BAYBORO -- A handful of students from Pamlico County High School asked school board members Monday night to rescind their school's ban on clothing that contains the Confederate flag, arguing it strips them of their Southern heritage and compromises their First Amendment rights. The three students, all of whom were white, told board members that they don't believe the clothing creates any conflicts at their school, and they presented the board with a 201-name petition urging it to allow the clothing."Most people we've talked to don't have a problem with it," said 17-year-old Kristina Mayeur. "We've talked to black kids...