Deputies disciplined after botched slaying investigation

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Disciplinary action has been taken against three Kanawha Countysheriff's deputies and department communication procedures have beenchanged following a series of mistakes that allowed the slaying of aCross Lanes man to remain undiscovered for as many as 14 days.

Cpl. R.W. Sullivan was suspended for 30 days without pay and Lt.R.D. Cobb and Deputy E.S. Drennen were reprimanded following aninternal inquiry, Kanawha sheriff's spokesman Jess Bailes saidThursday.Changes in communications procedures also have been made to makesure calls are dispatched through Metro Communications, where theycan be recorded and monitored by supervisors, he said.Tom Hawkins, …

Pupils learn the secrets behind organic food

Children visited a 280-acre organic farm to find out how some ofthe food they eat is produced.

Manor Farm at Upton Cheyney hosted an event for pupils fromKingswood as part of the Taste food and drink festival.

The farm staged a sausage-making demonstration and an apple-pressing session, and allowed the youngsters to find out more aboutwildlife.

For more details of the programme, go towww.southgloslocalfood.org.

AMERICA AT WAR KEY DEVELOPMENTS

ENDINGLOOTING: American forces agreed to team up with Iraqi policeto stem widespread looting that included the trashing of the nation'sflagship museum.

TOWARDTIKRIT: U.S. Marines geared up to push north toward Tikrit,President Saddam Hussein's hometown. In the west, coalition troopstook an airfield and the 4th Infantry Division moved into southernIraq from Kuwait.

ADVISERSURRENDERS: Saddam Hussein's science adviser surrendered tothe U.S. military, becoming the first of the 55 most wanted Iraqifigures in coalition custody. He insisted that Iraq had no weapons ofmass destruction.

BAGHDADRESISTS: A wild firefight outside a Baghdad hotel and thethreat of suicide bombings kept American soldiers busy putting downarmed resistance in the capital.

SUSPECTBUS: U.S. forces stopped a bus with 59 men of military agewho had $630,000 in cash and a letter offering rewards for killingAmerican soldiers. Military officials said the bus was headed forSyria.

EX-POWCOMESHOME: Jessica Lynch, the soldier rescued in a daringcommando raid in Iraq, returned to the United States to recover fromher injuries at an Army medical center.

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Rush blasts law; Daley defends it

Mayoral challenger Bobby Rush blasted Mayor Daley's anti-gangloitering ordinance Wednesday as "police-state tactics" that "makescapegoats and criminals of innocent people."

But Daley said the ordinance is such an important tool to fightcrime and make people feel safer that if the U.S. Supreme Courtstrikes it down, he will instruct city lawyers to draft a new onethat will pass constitutional muster.

"People have a civil right to walk down their block withoutbeing impaired by a gang (member) or dope dealer," Daley said."We don't think dope dealers have a right to hold a cornerhostage against communities, against families, children and seniorcitizens," Daley …

SNS raises Wolters Kluwer share target to EUR 19.

(ADPnews) - Jun 25, 2010 - SNS Securities today raised its share price target for publisher Wolters Kluwer (AMS:WKL) to EUR 19 from EUR 16, affirming the "accumulate" recommendation on the stock.

Analyst Michel Veul raised the share target due to the higher estimations for revenue on improved market …

WANTING WINS, THEN AMNESIA.(SPORTS)

By PHIL ROGERS

NEW YORK -- Here's a question: Who do you think enjoyed Monday's events at Shea Stadium the most?

Was it Jim Hendry, the Cubs' general manager? Or John Schuerholz and Stan Kasten, the Atlanta Braves executives who spent the off-season explaining how they had let Tom Glavine get away? Or was it new ESPN analyst Bobby Valentine, as the Mets lost ugly in the first defeat their general manager, Steve Phillips, couldn't blame on Valentine?

It probably wasn't Sammy Sosa. On a day that began with 39-degree temperatures and a 20 m.p.h. wind whistling from the northwest, Sosa went 1-for-2 and walked three times before getting a seventh-inning …

CO-OP NETWORK ELECTS NEW BOARD OFFICERS.(David Maus)(Brief Article)

David Maus, president and CEO of Colorado's Public Service Credit Union, has been elected chairman of the board for the Ontario, CA-based Co-Op Network. Maus, who has been a board member since 2000, succeeds Tom Sargent, whose two-year term expired. Sargent will remain on the board. Armando Cavazos, president and CEO of the Michigan-based Credit Union One was elected vice chairman of the Co-Op board. Also elected to the board are secretary David Osborn, president and CEO of …