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More from today Past week Photos of the day Images in the news Sponsored by Ritz Camera Please register or log in Subscribers: Get the Advantage Search: chicagotribune.com Local news School asbestos leak goes unfixed State officials probe Calumet Park `risk' By Tom Rybarczyk, Tribune staff reporter.

Freelance reporter Carmen Greco Jr.

contributed to this report Published March 17, 2006 Asbestos was discovered more than a month ago in the main corridor of a middle school in Calumet Park and still has not been removed, prompting state officials to investigate what they say is a potential health hazard.

School District 132 Supt.

Doris Hope-Jackson said she was notified Feb.

14 that asbestos was found after a water pipe leak in one of the school's main hallways.

She said she informed the State Board of Education immediately but declined to comment further, referring questions to school board President William Connor.

He would only say that there was no problem with the asbestos....

... FISA - The Official World Rowing Web Site - News - Latest - Full Story NEWS 17 Mar 2006 Ginn reappears and Le Compte remembered at Australia’s rowing championships 17/3/06 10:07 AM Ginn, stroking towards a win in the men's eightAustralia wrapped up their domestic season with seven days of national championship racing at Lake Barrington in Tasmania, finishing with the highlighted event, the men’s and women’s eight.Winning the men’s interstate eight, Victoria pulled out their big guns by putting Olympic gold medallist Drew Ginn in stroke seat with Olympian David Crawshay sitting behind him.

This was Ginn’s second win of the championships after earlier winning the men’s four.Victoria also won the women’s eight ahead of Western Australia.

This helped to secure the Rowing Australia Cup for Victoria, for highest interstate points.

The lightweight men's four from Tasmania win with Birtwistle, Beltz, Wurf and GibsonHosts Tasmania, despite their smaller rowing population, put up a huge challenge for overall points.

Local Tasmanian’s Dana Faletic and Scott Brennan won their respective singles race with Brennan dedicating his victory to former Tasmanian Head Coach Sam Le Compte.

Le Compte died last year from asbestos related cancer and Brennan spoke of Le Compte’s influence in Australia Rowing’s press release.“He shaped my rowing career completely, so I owe him a lot,” said Brennan.

“He could make a champion out of anyone and that was his talent.”Brenna...

... New York Daily News - Home - Kin say WTC killed Mom .awmAnchor {position:relative;z-index:0} Current Archive Kin say WTC killed Mom EMS worker dies of rare cancer BY TONY SCLAFANIDAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU David Reeve, 45, in family photo with kids Elizabeth, 10, and Mark, 6, and ex-EMS paramedic wife Debbie, 41, a worker at WTC site who died of a rare lung cancer.

A retired FDNY paramedic died Wednesday from cancer that her doctor and family insist was linked to her work at the World Trade Center morgue after the 9/11 attacks.

Debbie Reeve, 41, died at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx after mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer in her lungs, ravaged her body, leaving her emaciated and unable to walk, her loved ones said yesterday.

Reeve, a Bronx mother of two who worked at the Ground Zero morgue for several months, developed the cancer after being exposed to asbestos thrown into the air by the collapsing twin towers, her family and doctor contend.

"The only risk factor she has for developing this cancer at such a young age is her exposure to asbestos and other unknown carcinogens while working at the former World Trade Center site," her doctor, Reynaldo Alonso, wrote in a letter last June.

"It is reasonable to state that her exposure at Ground Zero was the cause of her cancer." Her grieving husband, David Reeve, 45, also an FDNY paramedic, called his wife "the strongest person I've ever met." "That's why I married her.

Her biggest worry toward the end was maki...