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The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday June 12 2001 — A5 Motion 11 I l lfc©©!l §1500 lb® may oroffoir ©Ms&iaiini MILFORD NY(AP)— Though the nation's hipest court has ruled that the Christian Good News dub har the right to gather at a public school die Bible study group may never actually meet iji the building Milford Central School district officials are weighing two options in response to the US supreme Court's ruling Monday: baring all groups from meeting there or pushing starting times back for all a dubs until 5 p jn or 6 p few hours after students ate dismissed The Rev Stephen By The Associated Press ages and interest for depleting the Arkansas River but not as much as the $62 million Kansas sought Refused to hear a state's-right- s case that asked whether states and their agencies must abide by a 1963 federal law requiring employers to give men and women equal pay for equal - The Supreme Court took these actions Monday: Ruled in a church-stat- e fight that a children's Bfete study must be allowed to meet in a public school building after school hours Ruled that police need a wari rant to use a 5 nr V Good News Chib said the second choice Wouldn’t work because the group wants to meet directly after school so it can teach die most students “That rules out the club meeting st the school’’ said the Rev Stephen Fournier pastor at Milfoid Community Bible Church “The best opportunity for us to reach the kids was right after school” Superintendent Peter Livsnin said the school board planned to meet Thmsday to begin talking about a new policy and would have new nues in place before the beginning of the next school year hi 1996 Fournier and his wifoDarieen requested' access to MUfonrs 2 school so young children could kam Scripture play games and listen to Bible stories When they were denied they sued arguing the district allowed other groups like the Bqy Scouts and 4rH use tbe Acuities The district countered that permitting Good News Club meetings would amount to a ‘ after-scho- ol free-spee-ch 6-- briefs David Ernst of the New York State School Boards Association said die ruling will certainly impact other school districts “Districts are going to have to be aware that when they friend-of-the-co- JeNtUre evidence when deciding ting between life and death Rejected a similar argument from another Texas killer Miguel Richardson meaning his death sentence stands Turned down an appeal from the Polish government seeking to overturn the death sentence of a Polish citizen convicted of a killing in the United States make a decision to give access to some groups the implications of this decision ia that they are riot able to deny access to groups like the Good News Club’’ Ernst said Milford straddles Route 28 midway between the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta In the community even at die school of 330 stu Children board Milfoid Central School buses on Monday in Milford NY at the end of the school day The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Good News Club a Christian youth group has the light to hold afterachool meetings in the local public school in Milford ’ K-1- a heavier burden for fathers than for mothers in disputes over the citizenship of children bom overseas and out of wedlock ' Reinstated a racketeering lawsuit against boxing promoter Don King by a rival promoter representing! heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman Ruled that Colorado must pay Kansas millions of dollars in dam AP photo once Milfoid opened its doors civic meetings to with a mpral theme the school district could not exclude an evangelism club without violating First Amendment rights “We always said this was a free speech issue’’ Fournier said “This ruling is going to affect dubs all across die country Any time you’re fighting for a freedom everybody benefits” The case from this village in upstate New York became a closely watched church-stat-e battle Groups ranging from die National Council of Churches to the American Civil Liberties Union filed Put the death sentence of Texas killer Mark Robertson on hold ruling that a lower court must evaluate whether jurors had a fair chance to consider mitiga- activity Ruled that courts may impose "sp- tianity — thatvery young children attending its 3 pm gatherings might believe the school endorsed the club’s religious outlook “It has nothing to do with school” Darieen Fournier said Monday “It’s just using a school budding after hours’’ “We don’t want the govern- mod mandating prayer over die public address system or something like that ” The did) first won and then lost federal court permission to use school space Last year the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the dim calling its activities “quintessentially religious By a 3 vote Monday die US Supreme Court ruled that work heat-detecti- device to peer inside the walls of homes and hunt for signs of illegal 6 m gmip dents the legal fight caused few ripples “I admire the Good News Club for their tenacity in pursuing something they believe in It’s what this country is all about" said Livshin who nonetheless disagreed with the court’s ruling Onttw Not: Supreme Court httpWww supremeoourtusgov ctrriiKVtsy the Lab to You No DsnsTVisns Required” “From i ii1 h - j m n DOZEN ROSES ARRANGED' 1 Clamp— dla § HAKUS DENTURE DESIGN WillUa Harris Ucmed Deaturiat 1 1 (208) (435) 732-381- M6-I21- Inbriof FRED'S FLOWERS 41 North Main Logan 752-624- os 2 increases Advocates say drug-pric- e former ASjffiNtmJNXAPy-l'lxiee- s die elderly have been rising more rapidly than 'trial living costal says a group that advocates fi feription drugs Toe average price of the top 5Q medicines most often prescribed to the elderly rose 61 percent last year Families USA says in a report The inflation rate was 24 percent in 2000 “For seniors living on fixed incomea and often paying for drugs out of pocket consistent price increases force them to make dangerous even choices” the seport said A group of drug makers criticized die report saying it implies that all seniors pay the same prices for each drug “The retail prices of the same medicine can vary by more than 100 percent within die same city block”said Alan F Holmer president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America J The study examined prices that drug makers suggested charge at the counter v This summer Congress plans to debate how to help 40 million elderly and disabled Americans in die federal health insurance program pay for expensive but bendaLmedidnes Oidy a third hive auch coverage mainly through their own retirement pbuu or through die HMOa that participate in Medicare 1 - pfrsr-maci- "Jr ‘ vBJKr'V' es ''' H--'- ' OntfwNefc FamUtoa USA: r ' httpMwwfamBeauaaorg Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America: miJwwwpi h maorg I -- AamASAI Anny gets new look with black berets WASHINGTON (AP) — A amall group pthered around Army LL CoL Steve Campbell's Pentagon desk as he tried on his new Mack beret :r "Soakit in Water ao it’ll ahape to your' head” said one “You shave ft wifea razor” to removp lint balls' offered another Actually under Amy Regulation 670-- 1 soaking and shaving the headgear that officially becomespart of die Anny uniform Thursday is “unauthorized” But making the right feshkm statement may require aoine bending of tbe rules : After alL by wearing it incorrectly “You could looh like a pastry chef” said ' 8gt 1st Class Kavto Army spokesman Mai Ibm CMlina - ' Tfr1" noway over die color of die beret and whether China should be allowed to - - v - U ' jnuhing to Retail many aadiey canto for 226th the time and j ThursdayJ in biithday Army’s troops dasiesare being heldmi how to wearthem : i Army Chief at Staff Gen Eric Shinseld ordered fee new ' beret would the a late be last of year saying symbd headgear : i ? 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