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Racine County's Daily New a 9 TI 0 tvott Local We take the Harley V-Rod for a test ride PAGE 1C hi Out About Holiday music events PAGE IB Sports Plus The county's best in cross country PAGE 8D i Pro Football VISIT RACINE COUNTY'S 24-HOUR NEWS SOURCE AT: www.Journaltlmes.com This Week TrVT Parkers a 1 Rivera's mentors: his 1 dad and Joe Paterno I INSIDE RACINE COUNTY, WISCONSIN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2001 HOME DELIVERY: 634-3333 50 CENTS (D) An Mi Xw- pr 7 CIA agent 1st Amenican to be Idled in Afghanistan Agency confirms his death in Taliban prisoners' uprising 6 BY JOHN J. LUMPKIN Associated Press WASHINGTON Rioting prisoners killed CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann at Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, the agency said Wednesday. He was the first American killed in action inside the country since U.S. bombing began seven weeks earlier. Officials recovered his body from the prison compound Wednesday, only after northern Spann alliance rebels backed by U.S.

airstrikes and special forces quelled an uprising by Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners. Spann, at the compound to interrogate prisoners, was caught inside when the riot began and had been missing since Sunday. The CIA provided few details of the circumstances Fort devastated by uprising is littered with Taliban bodies 5A. Northern alliance rejects peacekeeping force for Afghanistan 3A. of his death.

Spann had been in Afghanistan for about six weeks, said his father, Johnny Spann, during an afternoon news conference in the family's hometown of Winfield, Ala. The father said his son, upon joining the CIA, told his family: "Someone has got to do the things no one else wants to do." "That is exactly what he was doing in Afghanistan," said the father. The flag outside CIA headquarters in McLean, was lowered to half-staff. CIA Director George J. Tenet addressed agency employees Wednesday morning, saying Spann was an American hero and calling on fellow officers to "continue the More on SPANN, Page 11A GREGORY SHAVER Journa Times The Pagliaro family from left, Allie, 3, J.T., 4, and Todd sit on the front steps of their home Wednesday after their second Siberian husky Yukon, right, was returned home after being stolen in late October for ransom.

Yukon, center, was found in October. Yukon Jr. is finally back home apparently recognized the pup from flyers the family had distributed. "He's like a moose," said grateful owner Todd Pagliaro, who hadn't seen the dog since he was kidnapped last month. "I had given up hope.

I didn't think we'd ever get him back." Yukon Jr. and his 2-year-old dad, Yukon, were kidnapped Oct. 20 from an outdoor kennel in the 1200 block of Carlisle Avenue, where a friend of the Pagliaros lives. Darryl W. Jones, 40, of 813 Forest St.

has been charged with extortion and felony theft for the dognapping. He allegedly took the dogs from the outdoor cage, then called the Pagliaros and demand Pagliaro drove around Racine all night the night of the kidnapping until she found the older husky at the intersection of Fourth and Main streets. Flyers had been circulated around the city since the incident. They described Yukon and several people claimed they had spotted the dog in the week following his kidnapping. But it wasn't until earlier this week that someone got hold of the dog and called his family to come get him.

"I want to say thank you to everybody who helped," Pagliaro said. "It's great to have him home." Dustin Block contributed to this story. 'I I If mission agreed Wednesday on a tentative date of Jan. 9 for a public hearing to discuss proposed route and service changes. Morning, afternoon and evening hearing sessions were discussed.

After gathering surveys from bus users in December and taking comments from the public into consideration, any changes to the route restructuring would then be brought back to the commission for action in late January. Diers said the BUS company hopes to implement the changes in June. In other business Wednesday, the commission approved free parking in the Downtown area on Saturdays in the month of December. IS 'Mil ed a $1,000 ransom for the pets. Gillian Pagliaro told police that Jones threatened to have his pit bulls kill the Siberian huskies.

Pagliaro agreed to meet Jones in front of King's Liquor Mart, 965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, to exchange the dogs for the demanded $1,000. Police waited nearby as Pagliaro met Jones and then moved in and arrested him. Reports said officers searched Jones and reportedly found Pagliaro's phone number in his front pants pocket.

He also had one of the dog tags, according to court records. The Pagliaro family 2-year-old Yukon, but Yukon Jr. remained missing. Gillian other routes which cross or approach the old route lines. In addition to the route changes, the service frequency on busy routes would increase under the study recommendations.

On Monday through Friday, Routes 3 and 4 would be served by buses every 15 minutes. Current frequency on all routes is 30 minutes. Route 3 travels on Northwestern Avenue, Main Street, 16th Street and Washington Avenue out to Case High. School. Route 4 goes back and forth between Shorecrest Shopping Center and Regency Mall via Erie Street and Washington Avenue.

The Transit and Parking Com DARKO BANDIC Associated Press Northern alliance fighters walk over a yard covered with bodies of pro-Taliban forces Wednesday in a fortress prison near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan. Prosecutor: Detention of hundreds necessary to prevent new terrorism Kidnapped dog back with his family BY MARCI LAEHR TENUTA Journal Times RACINE The Siberian husky puppy that has been missing since it was stolen and held for ransom in late October has found his way home. The Pagliaro family got the dog, named Yukon back this week after someone found the 7-month-old dog wandering around downtown Racine. The man BUS route changes proposed BY MARCI LAEHR TENUTA Journal Times RACINE Three routes of the Belle Urban System would be eliminated under a plan recommended by consultants with the BUS management firm. However, the extension of other routes would continue service to the affected areas, according to a route restructuring study done by First Transit.

The study was commissioned because the central transfer point will be moved from Monument Square to State Street in 2002, and because even with route restructuring done in 1998, certain routes continue to underperform. The major changes recommended by First Transit also include increasing the frequency of buses on the most popular routes; expanding service in Sturtevant; retention of one-seat rides through Downtown Racine; and the renaming of routes and numbers. Under the recommendations, the following routes would be modified or eliminated: The current Route 1 which goes to Racine Street from Downtown via Washington Avenue, then south to 21st Street, would be modified. The service along Racine Street would be eliminated, but the area would still be served by Routes 2, 3 and 4, which all cross Racine Street, and by Route 7, which parallels WWII 1 1 BY KAREN GULLO Associated Press WASHINGTON The government's top terrorism prosecutor, grilled Wednesday by senators angry they weren't consulted about new get-tough police tactics, defended the changes as crucial to stopping "sleeper" terrorists waiting to strike Americans. Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff sought to assure a skeptical Senate Judiciary Committee that Attorney General John Ashcroft considered Congress a "full partner" in the war on terrorism.

GREGORY SHAVER Journal Times file photo A Belle Urban System bus stops to pick up riders at the intersection of Seventh and Main Streets on Oct. 26 as another bus drives by. According to the route restructuring study done by First Transit, some routes would be changed and three would be eliminated. Meanwhile, the investigation progressed overseas. In Hamburg, Germany, authorities arrested a Moroccan man believed to have controlled a bank account used to finance the Sept.

11 hijackers. Mounir El Motassadeq, 27, had extensive contacts with the terrorist cell believed behind the attacks, prosecutors said. At a Senate hearing in Washington, Chertoff repeatedly defended the administration's most controversial tactics authorization of military tribunals, monitoring of jailhouse More on SENATE, Page 1IA Rainy. Drizzle and fog. High 42.

18134-01500 7 IndexWeather Racine Street along Grand Avenue. Route 5, which goes from High and Goold streets between Memorial and Rapids drives and Lake Michigan, would be eliminated on the north end. The portion of the route that runs along Jacato Drive and Layard Avenue would be served by an extension of Route 3. Route 1, 2, 13 and 4 would cover the north end of the eliminated service. Portions of Routes 68 and 86, which link Downtown to St.

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