Amateur boxing: unprepared fighters killed in poorly regulated sport

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Art Dore, founder and promoter of Toughman boxing event, feels that this event is safer than amateur boxing because bouts are limited to three one-minute rounds, and fighters wear helmets, oversized gloves and groin protectors. However, the Toughman sport is under assault by officials in Michigan and elsewhere as efforts are made to find out about the numerous deaths that occurred in the sport and to highlight the and lack of regulation so that would help warn future participants.

author: Girard, Fred
Safety regulations, Boxing, Boxing rules

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Newseum to honor sacrifice of Don Bolles

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Don Bolles, an Arizona Republic reporter, who covered crime and political corruption, went to meet a source that had promised to give information on land fraud but got killed as a powerful bomb was detonated in his car. The Newseum, an international museum of news, displayed his car in a gallery called Dateline Danger to educate visitors about the dangers journalists face and make them remember his sacrifice.

Journalists, Death of, Crime and the press, Crime reporting (Journalism), Bolles, Don

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Following the faithful: Imam uproar: Imam's history hurts credibility on local scene

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Imam Fawaz Damra was the most prominent Islamic leader of Cleveland and one whom the people of northeast Ohio related as a man of peace. An investigation on his life shows that he advocated the murders of several Jews and established what the American Justice department described as 'Osama bin Laden's first beachhead in the United States'.

author: Merriman, Tom
Islam, Muslim leadership, Damra, Imam Fawaz

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