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BELLEVILLE—A Freeburg High School teacher charged with trying to murder Ashley Reeves, 17, apparently had been seeing her for two months, ......The Freeburg teacher, Samson Shelton, 26, was charged Saturday in St. Clair County Circuit Court with two counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated kidnapping. Authorities allege that Shelton tried to strangle Reeves with a belt and break her neck with his forearm. Shelton, of the 5400 block of Live Oak Drive in Smithton, taught drivers education and physical education and volunteered as an assistant baseball coach, authorities said. ...

Sharpton: Don’t let whites redefine usMarch 12, 2006 By Andy Grimm / Post-Tribune staff writer Reverend Al Sharpton arrives at a party to celebrate the 24 American Idol semi-finalists at Cinespace in Hollywood February 18, 2006. REUTERS/Max Morse GARY — A New York teenager named Al Sharpton left the 1972 Black Political Convention here believing that blacks could win any elected office. Nearly 30 years later — and two years after a failed run for a presidential nomination — Sharpton returned to Gary’s West Side High School as Saturday’s keynote speaker for the 2006 National Black Peoples Unity Convention. Though...

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