Anti-DUI campaign a success despite unfruitful checkpoints
      Last month's 18-day drunk driving crackdown, cleverly dubbed "Avoid the 14," as in, avoid Ventura County's 14 different law enforcement agencies, took 287 DUI suspects off our roads and freeways and away from the harm they might have caused friends and loved ones.
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Marines in western Iraq see improvements
By Cpl. Michael C. Cifuentes Special to the Acorn
      The following is a guest col umn from a Marine corporal serv ing in the 3rd Battalion, 4th Ma rine Regiment, stationed at Al Qaim in Iraq's Al Anbar province. The battalion's commanding of ficer, Lt. Col. Scott C.
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