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Editor's note: This is an excerpt from "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina. Eggers is the author of five other books, including "What Is the What," a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco.

Dave Eggers writes that Abdulrahman Zeitoun dreamed of fishing on the Syrian coast as Katrina approached.

(CNN) -- FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2005

On moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather their lanterns and set out in their quietest boats. Five or six small craft, two or three fishermen in each. A mile out, they would arrange the boats in a circle on the black sea, drop their nets, and, holding their lanterns over the water, they would approximate the moon.

The fish, sardines, would begin gathering soon after, a slow mass of silver rising from below. The fish were attracted to plankton, and the plankton were attracted to the light. They would begin to circle, a chain linked loosely, and over the next hour their numbers would grow. The black gaps between silver links would close until the fishermen could see, below, a solid mass of silver spinning.

Abdulrahman Zeitoun was only thirteen when he began fishing for sardines this way, a method called lampara, borrowed from the Italians. He had waited years to join the men and teenagers on the night boats, and he'd spent those years asking questions. Why only on moonless nights? Because, his brother Ahmad said, on moon-filled nights the plankton would be visible everywhere, spread out all over the sea, and the sardines could see and eat the glowing organisms with ease. But without a moon the men could make their own, and could bring the sardines to the surface in stunning concentrations. You have to see it, Ahmad told his little brother. You've never seen anything like this.

And when Abdulrahman first witnessed the sardines circling in the black he could not believe the sight, the beauty of the undulating silver orb below the white and gold lantern light. He said nothing, and the other fishermen were careful to be quiet, too, paddling without motors, lest they scare away the catch. They would whisper over the sea, telling jokes and talking about women and girls as they watched the fish rise and spin beneath them. A few hours later, once the sardines were ready, tens of thousands of them glistening in the refracted light, the fishermen would cinch the net and haul them in.

They would motor back to the shore and bring the sardines to the fish broker in the market before dawn. He would pay the men and boys, and would then sell the fish all over western Syria -- Lattakia, Baniyas, Damascus. The fishermen would split the money, with Abdulrahman and Ahmad bringing their share home. Their father had passed away the year before and their mother was of fragile health and mind, so all funds they earned fishing went toward the welfare of the house they shared with ten siblings.

Abdulrahman and Ahmad didn't care much about the money, though. They would have done it for free.

Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream. He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat. Otherwise the house was silent. He knew it was near six o'clock, and the peace would not last. The morning light usually woke the kids once it reached their second-story windows. One of the four would open his or her eyes, and from there the movements were brisk, the house quickly growing loud. With one child awake, it was impossible to keep the other three in bed.

Kathy woke to a thump upstairs, coming from one of the kids' rooms. She listened closely, praying silently for rest. Each morning there was a delicate period, between six and six-thirty, when there was a chance, however remote, that they could steal another ten or fifteen minutes of sleep. But now there was another thump, and the dog barked, and another thump followed. What was happening in this house? Kathy looked to her husband. He was staring at the ceiling. The day had roared to life.

The phone began ringing, today as always, before their feet hit the floor. Kathy and Zeitoun -- most people called him by his last name because they couldn't pronounce his first -- ran a company, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, and every day their crews, their clients, everyone with a phone and their number, seemed to think that once the clock struck six-thirty, it was appropriate to call. And they called. Usually there were so many calls at the stroke of six-thirty that the overlap would send half of them straight to voicemail.

Kathy took the first one, from a client across town, while Zeitoun shuffled into the shower. Fridays were always busy, but this one promised madness, given the rough weather on the way. There had been rumblings all week about a tropical storm crossing the Florida Keys, a chance it might head north. Though this kind of possibility presented itself every August and didn't raise eyebrows for most, Kathy and Zeitoun's more cautious clients and friends often made preparations. Throughout the morning the callers would want to know if Zeitoun could board up their windows and doors, if he would be clearing his equipment off their property before the winds came. Workers would want to know if they'd be expected to come in that day or the next.

"Zeitoun Painting Contractors," Kathy said, trying to sound alert. It was an elderly client, a woman living alone in a Garden District mansion, asking if Zeitoun's crew could come over and board up her windows.

"Sure, of course," Kathy said, letting her feet drop heavily to the floor. She was up. Kathy was the business's secretary, bookkeeper, credit department, public-relations manager -- she did everything in the office, while her husband handled the building and painting. The two of them balanced each other well: Zeitoun's English had its limits, so when bills had to be negotiated, hearing Kathy's Louisiana drawl put clients at ease.

This was part of the job, helping clients prepare their homes for coming winds. Kathy hadn't given much thought to the storm this client was talking about. It took a lot more than a few downed trees in south Florida to get her attention.

"We'll have a crew over this afternoon," Kathy told the woman.

Kathy and Zeitoun had been married for eleven years. Zeitoun had come to New Orleans in 1994, by way of Houston and Baton Rouge and a half-dozen other American cities he'd explored as a young man. Kathy had grown up in Baton Rouge and was used to the hurricane routine: the litany of preparations, the waiting and watching, the power outages, the candles and flashlights and buckets catching rain. There seemed to be a half-dozen named storms every August, and they were rarely worth the trouble. This one, named Katrina, would be no different.

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text: was

text: near

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text: o'clock

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text: the

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text: The

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text: light

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text: kids

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text: it

text: reached

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text: second

text: story

text: windows

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text: the

text: four

text: would

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text: growing

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text: child

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text: the

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text: a

text: thump

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text: of

text: the

text: kids

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text: closely

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text: silently

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text: rest

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text: morning

text: there

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text: a

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text: period

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text: six

text: and

text: six

text: thirty

text: when

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: chance

text: however

text: remote

text: that

text: they

text: could

text: steal

text: another

text: ten

text: or

text: fifteen

text: minutes

text: of

text: sleep

text: But

text: now

text: there

text: was

text: another

text: thump

text: and

text: the

text: dog

text: barked

text: and

text: another

text: thump

text: followed

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text: happening

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text: this

text: house

text: Kathy

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text: to

text: her

text: husband

text: He

text: was

text: staring

text: at

text: the

text: ceiling

text: The

text: day

text: had

text: roared

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text: The

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text: began

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text: their

text: feet

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text: the

text: floor

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text: called

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text: last

text: name

text: because

text: they

text: could

text: n't

text: pronounce

text: his

text: first

text: ran

text: a

text: company

text: Zeitoun

text: A.

text: Painting

text: Contractor

text: LLC

text: and

text: every

text: day

text: their

text: crews

text: their

text: clients

text: everyone

text: with

text: a

text: phone

text: and

text: their

text: number

text: seemed

text: to

text: think

text: that

text: once

text: the

text: clock

text: struck

text: six

text: thirty

text: it

text: was

text: appropriate

text: to

text: call

text: And

text: they

text: called

text: Usually

text: there

text: were

text: so

text: many

text: calls

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text: the

text: stroke

text: of

text: six

text: thirty

text: that

text: the

text: overlap

text: would

text: send

text: half

text: of

text: them

text: straight

text: to

text: voicemail

text: Kathy

text: took

text: the

text: first

text: one

text: from

text: a

text: client

text: across

text: town

text: while

text: Zeitoun

text: shuffled

text: into

text: the

text: shower

text: Fridays

text: were

text: always

text: busy

text: but

text: this

text: one

text: promised

text: madness

text: given

text: the

text: rough

text: weather

text: on

text: the

text: way

text: There

text: had

text: been

text: rumblings

text: all

text: week

text: about

text: a

text: tropical

text: storm

text: crossing

text: the

text: Florida

text: Keys

text: a

text: chance

text: it

text: might

text: head

text: north

text: Though

text: this

text: kind

text: of

text: possibility

text: presented

text: itself

text: every

text: August

text: and

text: did

text: n't

text: raise

text: eyebrows

text: for

text: most

text: Kathy

text: and

text: Zeitoun

text: 's

text: more

text: cautious

text: clients

text: and

text: friends

text: often

text: made

text: preparations

text: Throughout

text: the

text: morning

text: the

text: callers

text: would

text: want

text: to

text: know

text: if

text: Zeitoun

text: could

text: board

text: up

text: their

text: windows

text: and

text: doors

text: if

text: he

text: would

text: be

text: clearing

text: his

text: equipment

text: off

text: their

text: property

text: before

text: the

text: winds

text: came

text: Workers

text: would

text: want

text: to

text: know

text: if

text: they

text: 'd

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text: expected

text: to

text: come

text: in

text: that

text: day

text: or

text: the

text: next

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text: Kathy

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text: It

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text: elderly

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text: a

text: woman

text: living

text: alone

text: in

text: a

text: Garden

text: District

text: mansion

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text: if

text: Zeitoun

text: 's

text: crew

text: could

text: come

text: over

text: and

text: board

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text: her

text: windows

text: Sure

text: of

text: course

text: Kathy

text: said

text: letting

text: her

text: feet

text: drop

text: heavily

text: to

text: the

text: floor

text: She

text: was

text: up

text: Kathy

text: was

text: the

text: business

text: 's

text: secretary

text: bookkeeper

text: credit

text: department

text: public

text: relations

text: manager

text: she

text: did

text: everything

text: in

text: the

text: office

text: while

text: her

text: husband

text: handled

text: the

text: building

text: and

text: painting

text: The

text: two

text: of

text: them

text: balanced

text: each

text: other

text: well

text: Zeitoun

text: 's

text: English

text: had

text: its

text: limits

text: so

text: when

text: bills

text: had

text: to

text: be

text: negotiated

text: hearing

text: Kathy

text: 's

text: Louisiana

text: drawl

text: put

text: clients

text: at

text: ease

text: This

text: was

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: job

text: helping

text: clients

text: prepare

text: their

text: homes

text: for

text: coming

text: winds

text: Kathy

text: had

text: n't

text: given

text: much

text: thought

text: to

text: the

text: storm

text: this

text: client

text: was

text: talking

text: about

text: It

text: took

text: a

text: lot

text: more

text: than

text: a

text: few

text: downed

text: trees

text: in

text: south

text: Florida

text: to

text: get

text: her

text: attention

text: We

text: 'll

text: have

text: a

text: crew

text: over

text: this

text: afternoon

text: Kathy

text: told

text: the

text: woman

text: Kathy

text: and

text: Zeitoun

text: had

text: been

text: married

text: for

text: eleven

text: years

text: Zeitoun

text: had

text: come

text: to

text: New

text: Orleans

text: in

text: by

text: way

text: of

text: Houston

text: and

text: Baton

text: Rouge

text: and

text: a

text: half

text: dozen

text: other

text: American

text: cities

text: he

text: 'd

text: explored

text: as

text: a

text: young

text: man

text: Kathy

text: had

text: grown

text: up

text: in

text: Baton

text: Rouge

text: and

text: was

text: used

text: to

text: the

text: hurricane

text: routine

text: the

text: litany

text: of

text: preparations

text: the

text: waiting

text: and

text: watching

text: the

text: power

text: outages

text: the

text: candles

text: and

text: flashlights

text: and

text: buckets

text: catching

text: rain

text: There

text: seemed

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: half

text: dozen

text: named

text: storms

text: every

text: August

text: and

text: they

text: were

text: rarely

text: worth

text: the

text: trouble

text: This

text: one

text: named

text: Katrina

text: would

text: be

text: no

text: different

question: Who emigrated to America and settled in New Orleans?

answer: Abdulrahman Zeitoun

text: Abdulrahman Zeitoun

question: Who grew up in Syria?

answer: Abdulrahman Zeitoun

text: Abdulrahman Zeitoun

question: Who grew up in Syrian fishing town?

answer: Abdulrahman Zeitoun

text: Abdulrahman Zeitoun

question: Where did Zeitoun settle?

answer: New Orleans

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Fragile finances are likely to rule out buying a boat for many this summer but that shouldn't mean the end of all water-based pastimes.

Underwater scooter: The Seabob Cayago will move you like a fish with its 7hp motor.

MainSail presents you with some of the coolest toys for slightly more affordable fun on the water.

Seabob Cayago scooter: Do you want to become a human fish this summer? This water and diving scooter is purported to be the fastest of its kind, with a 7hp electric motor.

Hydradome BOB: If you want to take the motorized diving experience to a new level, the Breathing Observation Bubble (BOB), is the ideal machine. This submersible can cruise underwater at two knots while the rider sits in comfort.

Hovpod: For high-speed fun on and off the water, the Hovpod hovercraft should be your gadget of choice. The Hovpod will take you across any flat surface at speeds of up to 45 miles per hour (72 kilometers per hour).

Powerski Jetboard: This machine is a cross between a surfboard and a jet-ski. Capable of up to 35 knots, the Powerski Jetboard lets you surf without the surf.  Walk-on-water ball: For cheaper and more simple fun on the water, the Nuclear Globe Walk-on-water ball is perfect. The heavy-duty PVC ball can keep you fit and you can even stay dry if you want to.

Iceberg Wall: If you're entertaining plenty of people, the Iceberg Wall looks like a great time. Coming in either the 2.5 meter or a massive 4.9 meter size, the Iceberg offers safe climbing, sliding and jumping for everyone.

See our  photo gallery Â» of this summer's top six toys for fun in the water, thanks to SuperYachtWorld.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu: unfortunately, it's nothing new in the Somali capital.

Casualties are taken into Mogadishu's hospital on stretchers.

Government forces are fighting against insurgents on this day in September in a bloody battle that leaves 30 dead. Dozens of wounded Somalis are taken out of the danger zone, some of them in the back of insurgents' pick-up trucks.

One of the trucks races through the streets, zig-zagging to the echoing booms of the ongoing shelling. The truck comes to an abrupt halt, stopping at a rare sight in the Somali capital -- an ambulance, waiting at the heart of the chaos to ferry the dead and the injured to the hospital.

The wounded are transferred onto the ambulance. People shout and run as the mortar attacks continue. One woman screams over and over for her son.

The ambulance is one of seven medical vehicles paid for with donated funds from local and expatriate Somalis. Residents can simply call for the ambulances without charge, and the vehicles will be dispatched to the scene.

"It is amazing," said Rufai Salad, one of the founders of the ambulance service in the Somali capital. "We have this toll-free number, 777, that you dial. Someone is giving you a free call and then coming and giving you free help.

"People here find it hard to believe it is real."

Life Line Africa, a local Somali charity, started its ambulance service in Mogadishu in December, bringing a small amount of order to the lawless country that is in the midst of a brutal Islamist insurgency.

Apart from the short-lived rule of the Islamic Courts Union in 2006, there has been no genuine central authority in Somalia since the collapse of Mohamed Siad Barre's repressive regime in 1991.

Now, the United States and other Western powers are propping the U.N.-backed transitional government forces in their attempt to fend off the insurgency, particularly Al-Shabaab -- a Somali militant group that has ties to al Qaeda.  Watch Nima Elbagir's report on the humanitarian crisis in Somalia Â»

Basic amenities in Somalia, like electricity, water and sanitation - and even luxuries such as wireless Internet facilities -- are provided by enterprising businessman, which is partly how the ambulance service came to life.

In the Somali equivalent of a public-private partnership, clan elders and local businessman donated the money to fund the ambulance service, helping fulfill a crucial need.

The ambulance drivers are well compensated, earning about U.S. $200 a month in a country where the average yearly income is $130, according to the United Nations.

Life Line Africa's monthly budget for its Mogadishu ambulance service is $3,200, including fuel, running costs and the salaries of the 10 drivers. They hope to increase their driving staff to 14.

Salad, 24, is an information technology officer for the Somali president's office, but volunteers his time to help keep Life Line Africa running.

His enthusiasm about the ambulance service obscures the very real danger he and his drivers face. Part of the problem, he explains, is trying to stay neutral in a war zone.

"We did have one driver killed by Al-Shabaab," he admits. "They told us that it was because we were carrying government soldiers to hospital. But I said to them that this is what we do - we are working for all of you."

And it's not just the insurgents that Salad and his drivers fear.

"We had to take the body of a Syrian ship captain who had been killed by pirates to the airport," he said. "The government and African Union soldiers opened fire on the ambulance. We were later told they'd received information that the insurgency was planning on using an ambulance to stage a suicide attack."

"But what can you do?" he asks. "Our driver ran away and then later was allowed to come back for his ambulance."

Salad says the relatively high pay is not the real reason his drivers are willing to take the risks they do.

"If you go to the area of the fighting then the combatants [from both sides] say 'You must carry us to the hospital or we will kill you,'" he says.

"It is so dangerous but when we see the problems of the people, we're trying to find a way somehow, to keep on working."

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Washington (CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday proposed a $2.9 million fine against American Eagle Airlines for allegedly conducting more than 1,100 flights using planes with landing-gear doors that had not been repaired as prescribed by the FAA.

The proposed fine comes just weeks after the FAA proposed a $2.5 million fine against the airline for allegedly operating flights without adequately ensuring that the weight of baggage was properly calculated.

The Fort Worth, Texas-based American Eagle -- a regional affiliate of American Airlines -- flew four Bombardier regional jets on more than 1,100 flights between February and May 2008, with main landing-gear doors that had not been repaired as ordered by the FAA in August 2006, the FAA said.

"Following Airworthiness Directives [repair orders] is not optional," FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement. "The FAA does not hesitate to levy fines if maintenance standards are violated."

American Eagle responded that it was disappointed in the FAA's actions, saying the airline did not endanger the public and it considered a fine unwarranted.

The repair order required airlines to inspect landing-gear doors and take necessary action, fixing the doors or replacing them with new ones. In this case, American Eagle found damage on four aircraft, but rather than removing the doors as required, the airline repaired them while they remained on the planes.

American Eagle said it self-disclosed to the FAA that repairs were performed while the landing-gear doors remained on the aircraft, a process that the FAA and the aircraft manufacturer subsequently approved, the company said. American Eagle subsequently removed the landing-gear doors on each of the affected aircraft and repaired them in accordance with the Airworthiness Directive.

The airline said it will meet with the FAA to discuss the matter.

The proposed fines are the latest in a string of multimillion dollar fines the FAA has proposed against airlines for failing to follow repair orders. In October, the FAA proposed to fine US Airways $5.4 million and United $3.8 million for other maintenance violations.

In March, Southwest Airlines agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a complaint that it flew unsafe planes.

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(CNN) -- The driver of a charter bus that overturned on a Minnesota freeway, killing two women, may have had a medical emergency, a spokesman for the State Patrol said Thursday.

"One factor being considered is whether the driver suffered a medical episode while behind the wheel," Patrol Capt. Matt Langer said.

The driver, 52-year-old Edwin Erickson of Elgin, was hospitalized in serious condition, authorities said. Langer said he had a valid driver's license.

The women who died, both from Minnesota, were identified Thursday as Rhonda Hill, 52, of Plainview and Pamela Holmquist, 56, of Kasson.

The accident happened Wednesday after the bus left a casino in Rochester, Minnesota, headed for Northwood, Iowa, Langer said.

Watch video of tour bus crash site

Erickson and 21 passengers were injured when the bus went out of control outside Austin, Minnesota, authorities said. They said two people were in critical condition, and one person was unhurt.

Andy Skoogman, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, said the bus was eastbound on Interstate 90 when it veered across a median and westbound lanes before overturning and landing in a ditch on the side of the road. The wreck happened three miles west of Austin.

No other vehicles were involved.

Authorities said weather conditions didn't appear to be a factor in the accident.

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(CNN) -- A Dolton, Illinois, police officer assigned to a school was placed on administrative leave and later resigned after a surveillance video surfaced of him allegedly assaulting a special-needs student, officials said.

Videotape allegedly shows an unidentified police officer assaulting student Marshawn Pitts, 15.

Ed Manzke, an attorney who represents the student, Marshawn Pitts, 15, told CNN Wednesday the officer beat Pitts for not adhering to the school's dress code.

The incident occurred in May at the Academy for Learning, a Dolton high school for special-needs students. Pitts was admitted to the school in May after moving from Iowa, Manzke said. He suffered brain injuries as a child when he was hit by a car.

The police officer, who has not been identified, reprimanded Pitts for not tucking in his shirt as school dress code and policy requires.

A video, released to Pitts' parents by the school several weeks after the incident, showed Pitts talking to the officer and a faculty member grabbing Pitts' arm. Pitts pulls away and walks down the hall, with the officer and faculty member close behind. But the officer then slams him against the lockers and pins him on the floor -- breaking his nose, according to Manzke.

Pitts was treated by a school nurse after the incident, then taken to the Dolton Police Department, where his mother picked him up, Manzke said.

The officer was taken to a hospital and treated for an eye scratch, Manzke said. But, he said, the officer was never charged with anything and an explanation for the incident was never provided.

In a written statement, Guy Lindsay, internal information officer for Dolton police, said the department was made aware of the incident and the tape on May 20. After review of the tape, the officer was removed from the school and placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, Lindsay said.

While on administrative leave, the police officer returned to the department and voluntarily resigned, Lindsay said. The investigation continues, he said.

In a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WGN, the Academy for Learning said it could not comment on an incident involving a specific student.

But, the school said, "Unfortunately, the physical restraint of a student sometimes becomes necessary. In such instances, AFL and its staff are committed to employing techniques that are safe, effective and which conform to best practice standards.

"Annually, a Behavioral Intervention Committee comprised of administrators, staff, union representatives and parents convenes to review restraint procedures. The AFL Behavior Management Team also participates in professional development and training regarding physical restraint on an annual basis. After a physical restraint occurs, the team meets to process, debrief and evaluate the incident and use of a physical restraint. AFL addresses the unauthorized or inappropriate use of a physical restraint, or improper techniques, as necessary, as an internal manner."

Pitts' parents are considering litigation against the city of Dolton, the school and Dolton police, Manzke said. He added he is in talks with Dolton police to settle the case. If those talks are not fruitful, Manzke said, a lawsuit could be filed within a few weeks.

Pitts is now living with his father and attending another school, Manzke said.

CNN's Monica Trevino and Kara Devlin contributed to this report

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answer: not adhering to the school's dress code.

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question: What did the students lawyer say about the incident?

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question: Who assaulted the student?

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question: What happened to the youngster as a child?

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(CNN) -- Snowstorms and icy conditions on Sunday delayed flights across the northern United States, caused havoc on roads and left thousands without electricity.

A worker shovels snow as the storm hits Chicago, Illinois.

At least one death has been attributed to storms that hit all over the country in the past week. A 44-year-old Massachusetts man died Friday when a tree limb weighed down by snow fell on him, authorities said.

Forecasters say there's more cold weather to come.

Authorities urged motorists in north-central and northeast Iowa to stay off roads because of poor visibility caused by blowing snow. Authorities prohibited tow trucks from operating on U.S. Highway 20, near the border with Minnesota, because of concerns the tow trucks would get stuck.

Forecasters said wind chills of 20 below and 30 below zero were possible in much of the rest of the Midwest, prompting wind chill advisories and warnings for the region into Monday morning.

Blizzard warnings also were expected to be in effect into Monday for parts of Maine and western parts of Michigan's lower peninsula.

In much of Maine, between 10 and 18 inches of snow was expected to fall Sunday and Monday, the weather service said. Whiteout conditions were expected at night, with wind gusts of up to 45 mph, the weather service said.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation ordered snowplow drivers off the road until Sunday morning in 13 southwest counties, because of poor visibility, blowing snow and wind gusts up to 40 mph, an agency spokeswoman said Saturday.

The western U.S. has also been hit with the cold blast. Parts of Washington saw 2 to 3 feet of snow last week. On Friday, two buses carrying 80 people collided on a road in Seattle and crashed through a metal railing, where they hung over a freeway for several hours before two trucks rescued them.

Many roads in Walla Walla, Washington, had yet to be plowed by Saturday, and the only practical way to drive on them was to have chains on tires, iReporter Aaron Cloward said.  Watch how driving has been difficult in Walla Walla Â»

Cloward, a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, said he had "never seen roads this bad or snow this bad." He also said he's been unable to free his car.

"Everything is sold out -- snow shovels, ice melt, salt, chains ... so I don't know how to get out," he said.

The storm system is expected to move eastward, where people are already dealing with air traffic delays and power outages brought on by snowfall earlier this week.

"This is essentially the reincarnation of the same storm that brought the heavy snow to parts of California, southern Nevada and northern Arizona," Steve Corfidi, lead forecaster with the weather service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, told CNNRadio.

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Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has refused a lower court's unusual request to decide whether a shocking 45-year-old civil rights crime can be prosecuted decades later.

The justices Monday dismissed an appeal involving James Ford Seale, convicted in the 1964 kidnapping of two teenagers whose bodies were found in a backwater area of the Mississippi River. The reputed former Ku Klux Klan member had long been suspected in the crime, but it was officially unsolved until Seale was indicted in 2007, and later convicted. He is serving three life sentences.

The move by the high court not to get involved keeps in place Seale's original indictment, but does not resolve the larger question of whether similar cases can be prosecuted.

The issue could have enormous implications for several dozen "cold cases" involving racially motivated crimes dating back to the 1950s.

Seale had appealed his conviction, claiming the statute of limitations had expired five years after the crime. The confusion arises over the fact that kidnapping could be considered a capital offense in 1964, and thus had no time limit for a prosecution. The high court in 1968 eliminated the federal death penalty for that crime, and Congress four years later changed the law to reflect that ruling. But lawmakers 15 years ago reinstated kidnapping as death penalty-eligible.

So the justices were being asked to decide when the statute of limitations kicked in, if ever.

Justice John Paul Stevens, supported by his conservative colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, thought the court should get involved.

"I see no benefit and significant cost to postponing the question's resolution," Stevens wrote in dissent. "A prompt answer from this court will expedite the termination of this litigation and determine whether other similar cases may be prosecuted."

Seale, a former sheriff's deputy, was convicted in June 2007 of kidnapping and conspiracy in the disappearances of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19.

Federal officials had initially trumpeted reopening the Seale case. "Today's indictment is one example of the FBI's strong and ongoing commitment to re-examining and investigating unsolved civil rights era murders and other crimes," FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said in January 2007. "Under our Cold Case Initiative, we will continue to identify and pursue these cases of racially motivated violence to ensure justice is served wherever possible."

Seale was not tried for murder, but prosecutors alleged that he and fellow Klansmen conspired to abduct, beat and murder Dee and Moore in May 1964. An indictment accused Seale and his cohorts of picking up the two men hitchhiking and driving them into the Homochitto National Forest in Franklin County, Mississippi, where the teenagers were beaten and interrogated at gunpoint.

Dee and Moore were then bound with duct tape and weighted down by an engine block and railroad rail. They were still alive when they were thrown into the Old Mississippi River, where they drowned, according to the FBI. Their decomposed bodies were found two months later during a search for three other missing civil rights workers that would later be known as the Mississippi Burning case.

Seale and another man, Charles Edwards, were arrested in the slayings in 1964, but were released on bond and never tried. The FBI turned the case over to local authorities, and the investigation was dropped after a justice of the peace said witnesses had refused to testify.

The case was revived in 2007 when Moore's brother -- during a visit to Franklin County to help research the case for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary -- discovered Seale was still alive. Thomas Moore told CNN in January 2007 that he gave the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi FBI files on the case, which he had obtained from a Mississippi reporter. U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton helped form a task force that led to Seale's indictment. Seale was the only person convicted in the Moore and Dee murders, the Justice Department said.

Since then, other notable cold cases from the civil rights era also have gone to trial. In 2005, Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of manslaughter for his role in the Mississippi Burning case.

Adding to the unusual nature of the Seale case is that a lower court was unable to decide the matter. The full 18-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split evenly on the time-limit question. They then asked the high court to "certify" the question, a rarely used procedure that essentially asks the justices about how to proceed.

The Supreme Court was under no obligation to accept the case in this fashion, under its "Rule 19." That provision gives appeals courts the discretion to hand off to the high court "any question of law in any civil or criminal case as to which instructions are desired, and upon such certification the Supreme Court may give binding instructions or require the entire record to be sent up for decision of the entire matter in controversy."

The case is U.S. v. Seale (09-166).

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text: Supreme

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text: entire

text: record

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text: sent

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text: entire

text: matter

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text: The

text: case

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text: U.S.

text: v.

text: Seale

question: In what year was the man convincted of a kidnapping?

answer: 1964

question: What did appeals court ask the high court?

answer: a shocking 45-year-old civil rights crime can be prosecuted decades later.

text: a shocking 45-year-old civil rights crime can be prosecuted decades later.

question: Who appealed the conviction in case?

answer: Seale

text: Seale

question: Which case did the Justices dismiss?

answer: an appeal involving James Ford Seale, convicted in the 1964 kidnapping of two teenagers

text: an appeal involving James Ford Seale, convicted in the 1964 kidnapping of two teenagers

question: What did the appeals court ask the high court?

answer: to "certify" the question, a rarely used procedure that essentially

text: to "certify" the question, a rarely used procedure that essentially

question: who was involving?

answer: James Ford Seale,

text: James Ford Seale,