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An alternate concert aimed at protesting THE DIXIE CHICKS is being planned. The Dixie Chicks are scheduled to open the American leg of their current tour in Greenville, South Carolina on May 1st. Nationally syndicated talk show host MIKE GALLAGHER says country music fans angry over comments by NATALIE MAINES can send a message by attending an alternate concert in the same city on the same night. "The Greenville News" says Mr. Gallagher is talking with CHARLIE DANIELS, TRAVIS TRITT, TOBY KEITH and DARRYL WORLEY about doing the anti-Chicks performance.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - What was to be a six-week deployment to snag drug smugglers off South America will likely become more than six months protecting military shipping in the Mediterranean for the Charleston-based Coast Guard cutter Dallas. "It's been eventful for us," the cutter's commander, Capt. Chris Colvin said by satellite phone from the ship on Friday. "So far we have not come under any hostile fire but it's been interesting." The 378-foot cutter has been operating with the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean. Earlier, the Dallas provided escort for military supply ships moving through the Strait of...

Terror fight trumps U.S. war on drugs Shift in priorities after Sept. 11 creates surveillance 'vacuum' WASHINGTON - Down in the warm waters off Central America, the drug war is a cat-and-mouse game that has gone on for decades. But since Sept. 11, the game has changed because the Coast Guard has been ordered back to American ports to guard the nation's borders from terrorism. And intelligence reports suggest that large shipments of drugs that would normally have been stopped in the eastern Pacific Ocean above Colombia are amassing just south of the U.S. border in Mexico. Coast Guard ...

8-year-old helps pull father, brother from icy pond Jan. 14, 2001 By JOY LEIKER Hays Daily News QUINTER ­ Even the 8-year-old Quinter youth who saved the lives of his father and older brother knows he and his family were pretty lucky. “It was like a miracle,” said Skyler Wittman. He and his brother Brandon, 11, and father, Randy Wittman, were rock and fossil hunting a week ago south of Castle Rock when they decided to look for a spot to give their dog, Jacie, a drink of water. What they discovered were a pair of frozen farm ponds. At ...

..for discussion, educational, and informative purposes only... EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Mexican soldiers strayed into U.S. territory and fired two shots at uniformed Border Patrol agents during an anti-drug mission, the agency said Wednesday. Nine Mexican soldiers were briefly detained. No one was hurt in the shooting late Tuesday in a remote area south of Santa Teresa, N.M., just west of El Paso. Mexico's National Defense Secretariat said today it had no information on the incident. Marco Antonio Fraire, spokesman for the Mexican Consulate in El Paso, said the soldiers accidentally crossed the international line, but he had no ...

A BABY girl lived for 80 minutes after medical staff tried to abort her, Darwin Coroners Court heard yesterday. Baby J was alive when born at about five months after her mother underwent an induced procedure to cause a ermination, but died after receiving no medical treatment, the court heard. Counsel assisting the coroner, Peter Barr, told the court Baby J showed clear signs of life when she was checked by a nurse after delivery at Darwin Private Hospital on July 14 last year. "She cried, she moved, she was breathing independently and she had an obvious heartbeat." But ...