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Jury selection scheduled in child sex tourism case
MIAMI (AP) — Jury selection is scheduled to begin in Miami federal court for the trial of a Michigan man accused of abusing children in his care in Haiti. Matthew Andrew Carter of Brighton, Mich., has been in custody since his May 2011 arrest....
Tags: Justice System, Abusive Behavior, Crime, Law and Justice
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Cargill to help Notre Dame program in Haiti
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Agribusiness company Cargill is expanding its partnership with the Notre Dame Haiti Program to try to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, in the Caribbean nation. Cargill has said it will spend...Tags: Salt
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Monitoring the St. Joe
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- First came the family saying prayers by the St. Joseph River to mark the Jewish new year. Then came a unicyclist rolling down Northside Trail. Minutes later Wednesday, six canoes docked near the pedestrian bridge at Indiana University South...Tags: Canoeing and Kayaking, Environmental Pollution, Indiana University, Sports, Students
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Michigan man accused of abusing Haitian children
MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Miami have indicted a Michigan man on charges the he sexual abused children in Haiti. The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Friday that 66-year-old Matthew Andrew Carter of Brighton, Mich., was indicted Thursday....Tags: Michigan, The Associated Press, Justice System, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Danny Glover in South Africa for Aristide
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The lawyer of Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide says actor Danny Glover has arrived in South Africa to escort the exiled former president home. Miami lawyer Ira Kurzban flew to Johannesburg Wednesday on the same mission amid...Tags: Jesse Jackson, South Africa, Politics, Justice System, Harry Belafonte
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Haitian Andrews University students remember thousands killed by quake that ravaged homeland
BERRIEN SPRINGS -- They may be thousands of miles from home, but their hearts are still in Haiti.
Haitian students at Andrews University took time to pause on Wednesday -- exactly a year after an earthquake ravaged their homeland - to remember the...Tags: Education, Elections, Family, Politics, Colleges and Universities
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Group rebuilds Haiti with earthquake rubble
PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti (AP) — Some of the rubble left by Haiti's massive earthquake a year ago is being put to good use — it's helping the country rebuild. Michel Pun, program director of the CRUSH rebuilding project, says his group takes...Tags: Renovation, Haiti Earthquake (2010)
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Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team
Scott Beck By John P. Huston,Tribune reporter Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me...
Tags: Relay for Life, Immigration, Northwestern University, Economy, Business and Finance, Vaccines
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Alison Wright, photographer, chases faces, grace
Alison Wright got her first camera at age 10, a Kodak Instamatic. Then she learned there was such a thing as a photojournalist, a person who traveled the world taking pictures. So that was that. She had a career – a career that would eventually...Tags: Interior Policy, Indigenous People, Human Interest, Photography, Dalai Lama
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JetBlue Airways: Fort Lauderdale-Port-au-Prince service to begin Dec. 5
Sun SentinelValue carrier JetBlue Airways on Thursday announced plans for new twice-daily nonstop service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince starting Dec. 5. The new...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Kennedy Airport, Air Transportation Industry, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
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Attinella earns start vs. Minnesota FC
Jeff Attinella spent his childhood growing up in Clearwater. He got his first start with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers against the Minnesota United FC on Saturday at Lockhart Stadium just days after being loaned to the club by Real Salt Lake of MLS. "I...
Tags: Lockhart Stadium, Soccer, Sports, Rugby League, Andy Herron
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Mary Novotny Jeffries advocates for amputees
Mary Novotny Jeffries was 11 when she lost her right leg, from the hip down, to bone cancer. When she returned to the home she shared with her parents and eight siblings on Chicago's South Side, everything — and nothing — had changed. "I...
Tags: Education, Orthopedic Surgery, Northwestern University, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Conservation
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