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Fourth and final crewman pulled alive from capsized ship
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By Jeff Amy and Stephen Morton ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped men alive from a capsized cargo ship Monday, drilling into the hull’s steel plates to extract the crew members more than a day after their vessel overturned while leaving a Georgia port. All four were described as alert and in relatively good condition and were taken to a hospital for further evaluation. “Best day of my 16-year career,” Lt. Lloyd Heflin, who was
coordinating the effort, wrote in a text message to The Associated Press. A video posted online by the Coast Guard showed responders clapping and cheering as the final man, wearing only shorts, climbed out of a hole in the hull and stood up. Three of the South Korean crew members came out in the mid-afternoon. The fourth man, who was trapped in a separate compartment, emerged three hours later. The rescues followed nearly 36 hours of work after the Golden Ray, a giant ship that
carries automobiles, rolled onto its side early Sunday as it was leaving Brunswick, bound for Baltimore. “All crew members are accounted for,” Coast Guard Southeast wrote on Twitter. South Korean President Moon Jae-in sent a letter to President Donald Trump to express gratitude over the successful rescue of the men, saying that the news brought “huge relief and joy” to South Koreans. The presidential Blue House said Moon also sent a letter to U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Karl Schultz and praised the
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Sept. 10, 2009 — A Spring Valley man established a weekly Job Seekers Club at Grace United Methodist Church to help the unemployed find jobs, network and learn how to live on a reduced income. Sept. 10, 1994 — Princeton Park District board members planned to improve the 32-acre Zearing Park. The district wanted to increase parking spaces and add ball diamonds and soccer fields to the park, which had been a cornfield 20 years prior. Sept. 10, 1969 — Readers were told to watch for a new column by the Rev. Lester Kinsolving, who was “both an ordained clergyman and a topnotch reporter.”
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will go ahead with planned U.S. troop cuts and how the collapse of his talks will play out in deeply divided Afghanistan. Trump said his administration is “looking at” whether to proceed with troop reductions that had been one element of the preliminary deal with the Taliban struck by presidential envoy Zalmay Khalilzad. “We’d like to get out, but we’ll get out at the right time,” Trump said. What had seemed like a potential deal to end America’s longest war unraveled, with Trump and the Taliban blaming each other for the collapse of nearly a year of U.S.-Taliban negotiations in Doha, Qatar. The insurgents are now promising more bloodshed, and American advocates of withdrawing from the battlefield questioned on Monday whether Trump’s decision to cancel what he called plans for a secret meeting with Taliban and Afghan leaders at the Camp David, Maryland, presidential retreat over the weekend had poisoned the prospects for peace. “The Camp David ploy appears to have been an attempt to satisfy Trump’s obsession with carefully curated public spectacles -- to seal the deal, largely produced by special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban negotiators, with the president’s imprimatur,” said John Glaser director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Trump has been talking of a need to withdraw U.S. troops from the “endless war” in Afghanistan since his 2016 presidential campaign. And he said anew in a tweet on Monday, “We have been serving as policemen in Afghanistan, and that was not meant to be the job of our Great Soldiers, the finest on earth.”
the park was on pace to welcome 2,453,000 visitors. If realized, it would be the fourth busiest year in park history with a shot at third-busiest if the fall colors bring in above-average crowds. A big finish this year means a staggering 15 million people will, cumulatively, have visited Starved Rock over the past five years. And the relentless pairs of feet are subjecting Starved Rock to a level of punishment it simply cannot withstand — not without upkeep that simply isn’t happening. State Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris) is listening. “I absolutely share the same concerns,” Rezin said. “It’s a real issue. We need to have a bill to address this or to get additional funds in the capital bill.” How much would Springfield need to stave off the decay and erosion? Neither Rezin nor park staff had a hard-and-fast answer to the question, but the backlog of deferred maintenance projects was estimated at not less than $6 million, and perhaps much more. “We’ve got some major problems at Matthiessen this year, too,” said Kerry Novak, complex superintendent for the two parks. “By the time you put all the Starved Rock and Matthiessen projects together, that figure is probably about right.” Novak further noted many of the parks’ need-items are manual jobs that can only be completed by hand, putting the onus on Springfield to allocate big bucks for personnel. “You don’t get anything done cheaply anymore, I’m afraid.” Atop Grivetti’s list of posts to be filled are Conservation Police officers. DNR currently has six officers in charge of six counties plus all of the rivers and natu-
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Separately, the council appears ready to take up another controversy: Letting residents build free-standing garages on lots too small for new home construction. Demes asked to have a proposal sent to the Planning Commission, a request the council approved. Whether it makes it out of the Planning Commission is another story. The proposal is to allowing construction of accessory structures on vacant lots wherein there is not a residential unit some residential zoning classes. Demes explained he wants to give residents a means to construct “man caves” on lots
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The pathway between Tonti and La Salle canyons shows a huge amount of erosion, evidenced by the excessive number of tree roots exposed and the trail way logs shifting to the right. The result is a soft and dangerous path. Tonti Canyon was closed due to the excessive number of accidents in recent years, and La Salle Canyon is well on its way to the same fate if it doesn’t get the necessary help closing down some of the most visited sites in the park. ral areas not located within the confines of Starved Rock and Matthiessen. “Staff is spread so thin they are only able to respond if an emergency arises,” Grivetti wrote. “The public is on a rampage to do as they please with disregard for the Park, their own safety and the safety of others. “Until there is a visible Conservation police presence in this Park and staff available to repair bridges and trails the destruction will continue.” Conservation police Sgt. Phil Wire doesn’t disagree, though he pointed out there are cadets in the pipeline and there are several new officers coming his way. “We are scheduled to gain three more officers by year’s end to the district,” he said. “The de-
deemed too small to build a new home. “I’ve seen some unbelievable man caves (fashioned) from garages,” Demes said, adding later, “All I’m trying to do is if somebody wants to do that they could at least come to the council.” No action was taken beyond sending it to the Planning Commission, though there were immediate objections with respect to noise and other potential nuisances, though Grove wouldn’t rule out concessions on tiny lots. “We have options, right?” he said. “We’re flexible in La Salle.
partment is aware we could use more officers.” Some relief is on the way for Utica, too, which has long complained about the backup created on Route 178 during the busiest weekends. On Labor Day weekend, Mayor David Stewart said he saw traffic pushed back to a dead stop on Interstate 80, as motorists sat waiting to exit the freeway and turn south onto 178. “We hadn’t seen that in quite a while,” Stewart said, acknowledging a notably large (85,000) crowd at Starved Rock. Stewart said he’s eager to see the state replace the stop lights at U.S. 6 and Route 178 — “Stop lights have helped, in my opinion” — with the planned roundabout and eliminate backup once and for all. What to do about the crowds
By Eric Tucker ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn is due back in court for the first time in weeks as his lawyers mount an aggressive attack on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan scheduled a conference for Tuesday morning to discuss Flynn’s cooperation with prosecutors and whether the two sides are ready to set a sentencing date. Flynn was supposed to be sentenced last December for lying to
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and lack of funding? Grivetti told Springfield the solution is to charge for parking, pointing out that 37 states currently charge parking and/or admission to their state parks. That’s an idea that Springfield has kicked around already, so far without success. Rezin championed a bill to charge a $5 parking fee, with funds allocated for infrastructure and safety. Senate Bill 1310 stalled, however, over a fee exemption for La Salle County residents. Rezin said recently she plans to reintroduce the measure in 2020, though not in the veto session beginning Oct. 28.
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“courage and dedication” of Coast Guard members. In the hours immediately after the accident, the Coast Guard lifted 20 crew members into helicopters before determining that smoke and flames and unstable cargo made it too risky to venture further inside the vessel. Officials were concerned that some of the 4,000 vehicles aboard may have broken loose. That left responders looking for the remaining four crew members. At first, rescuers thought the noises they were hearing inside could be some of the vehicles crashing around.
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