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LOCALSTATE 2A Friday, Oct. 24, 2003 Battle Creek Enquirer A.M. DIGEST Around our communities To submit an item, call the Metro desk at 966-0674 or 800-333-4139 LOTTERY POLICE AND FIRE REPORT MICHIGAN Midday daily game 1-3-9 Midday 4: 4-2-2-5 Daily game: 8-5-1 Daily 4: 8-0-2-2 Rolldown: Kenoc 8, 9, 12. 13. 20, 22.

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Watkins Road, 4300 block: cash East Emmett Street, 700 block: stereo Wood-side Drive, 600 block: stereo, speakers West Michigan Avenue, 200 block: money, radio Collier Road, 200 block: car Oak Street, 200 block: money Bansill Drive, 100 block plywood West Michigan Avenue, 1800 block: cash Capital Avenue Southwest, 900 block: stereo VANDALISM: Garrison Road, 600 block: car 12-Mile Road, 18000 block: mailbox White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Solberg is the top adviser to the director of the drug policy office. She's in charge of a new effort to work with state and local agencies on drug prevention, treatment and domestic drug law enforcement issues. Also attending the breakfast will be Yvonne Blackmond, director of the Michigan Department of Community Health Office of Drug Control Policy. GRAND RAPIDS B.C.iman sentenced on weapons charge A Battle Creek man, Marko L.

McGee, 33, has been sentenced to federal prison on a weapons charge. McGee was sentenced Monday to 54 months in prison and four years of supervised release after discharge from prison, on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. McGee originally faced a BATTLE CREEK Pre-licensing for builders class set Kellogg Community College's Lifelong Learning program is holding a Builder's Pre-Licensing Seminar from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov.

1 at KCC's Regional Manufacturing and Technology Center, 405 Hill Brady Road. This seminar is designed to give participants an overview of the Michigan Builder's License exam and help them prepare to success-fuly pass it. Cost is $150 if registration is received by Saturday. Call 965-4134. Drug policy deputy director to speak A White House drug policy deputy director will speak at today's Substance Abuse Council Community Recognition Breakfast.

The event is at 7 a.m. at the Calhoun Area Technology Center, 475 E. Roosevelt. The speaker is Mary Ann Solberg, deputy director of the BUSINESS Federal agents raided Wal-Mart's headquarters and 60 of its stores across the country Thursday, arresting more than 300 illegal workers in an immigration crackdown at the world's biggest retailer. In Michigan, the Wal-Mart store in Coldwater was raided.

Page 7B SPORTS With a win tonight, Pennfield will win its' 25th-straight regular-season game and record the ninth unbeaten regular-season in school history. Page lB INDEX Classified -5C Dear Abby Business Calendar Comics Crossword Horoscope Local Lifestyle 34, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Battle Creek police have arrested a boy, 15, after his mother, 45, said she was assaulted in the first block of Inn Road about 10:11 p.m. Wednesday. BREAK-INS: (Values in parentheses) West Columbia Avenue, 2200 block: cash box Richard A. Henry Funeral Home, 703 Capital Ave.

S.W.: tools North Avenue, 20000 block: tools THEFTS: Eiffel Drive, 600 block: CDs, hat Garrison Road, 600 block: car North Wabash Avenue, first block: tools Sunoco Gas, charge of first-degree murder in connection with the Dec. 27 shooting death of Trent Gibson, 33, and wounding of Christopher Castle, 31. Those charges were dropped but Battle Creek police officials said McGee admitted a handgun brothers had confessed to the murders over the years were "misunderstood bar talk" by "ex-girlfriends or others with an ax to grind." Williams has said repeatedly that there was "absolutely no physical evidence" to support the prosecution's theory. Defense attorney Seymour Schwartz quizzed Sliwinski about why she came forward so many years after the deaths if she was truly intimidated by the family. "When I read about the arrest, I felt it was the right thing to SETTING IT STRAIGHT Testimony continues in two hunters' 1985 disappearance found in his home during the investigation was his.

The firearms charge against McGee is part of Project Safe Neighborhood, which sees many weapons offenses tried at the federal level because of its stiffer penalties. do," she said. She said she has also had video cameras installed outside her home. Duvall brothers Frank and Ken also testified Thursday, but prosecutor Donna Pendergast attempted to impeach their testimony when each denied lying to a 1990 Oakland County grand jury about what they knew about the alleged murders. Ken Duvall, who claims to have suffered a stroke in 1993 and is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, said he didn't tell anyone he lied during the 1990 hearing.

3 a 3-3- 3- 3-3- 3-3-3 3-3 3 3 3 3-3- y-y y-y y-y y-y- Reg. S29.95 ONLY 4L95 Bring in Ad, Only ign Up This Week Only. jhK "He told me that if I turned against them, or left the family, something would happen to me," she added. Another witness testified on Tuesday that she watched the brothers beat the men in a field after she had seen the hunters behaving obnoxiously at a bar. Raymond and Donald Duvall have pleaded innocent to the charges.

If convicted, they face life in prison without the possibility of parole. Defense attorney Scott Williams told jurors in opening arguments that claims the a Come as -1 VJ A list of city commission candidates endorsed by the Battle Creek Area Association of Realtors incorrectly listed Steve Franklin as the incumbent in Battle Creek's Ward 3. Deb Ensign is the incumbent and was appointed in June. Nate Keagle's name was misspelled in a photo cutline on Page 3A of Wednesday's Enquirer. Incorrect informa- HOW TO REACH US NEWS Have a tip or a question? Below is a partial list of newsroom contacts: Battle Creek government, neighborhoods: Chris Springsteen, 966-0676 or cspringsbattlecr.

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Periodical postage paid at Battle Creek. lv. 1 Glamour Session Includes: Hollywood Hairstyling Complimentary High Fashion Makeover 4 Glamorous Wardrobe Changes Exciting, Professional, 12 Pose Photo Session Associated Press STANDISH Once you were involved with the Duvall family, you might not be able to get out. Catherine Sliwinski visibly shook as she testified Thursday about the Duvall concept of family in the murder trial of Raymond Jr. "J.R." Duvall, 52, of South Branch and Donald "Coco" Duvall, 51, of Monroe.

The brothers are charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two hunters Brian Ognjan and David Tyll. The lifelong friends disappeared while on a northern Michigan trip on Nov. 22, 1905. lneir bodies and vehicle, a black Ford Bronco, were never recovered. Struggling to the witness stand with the assistance of a cane, Sliwinski told the court she dated Tom Duvall, Raymond Duvall's son, from 1994 to 1997.

In the fall of 1996, the couple was living at Raymond Duvall's Hale residence, and during one particular argument between Sliwinski and Tom Duvall, she told him she wanted to leave the relationship. Tom Duvall turned to his father and told him to explain what happened to the hunters, Sliwinski testified. "J.R. looked at me and explained how he got into an argument with some hunters over a deer out in the woods," She said. "He said they met up with them later at the bar and they had another altercation.

They went outside into the parking lot, and J.R. said they beat them. "He said their heads smashed open like melons. Then they chopped up the bodies, fed them to the pigs and got rid of the rest. At battlecreekenquirer.com battle creek weather station Click on the Weather Station logo for radar, forecasts and current temperature, plus humidity, barometer, wind direction and speed, dew point and UV and heat indexes.

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