Lake Forest High School grad embarks on Peace Corps dream From the first time Stephanie Owen met a Peace Corps volunteer in the Lake Forest High School Dimensions program, she knew that’s what she wanted to do some day. That day has come for Owen, 27, who began her two-year commitment last week in Sierra Leone. A 2004 Lake Forest High School graduate, who played tennis and soccer and sang in the choir, will use the teaching skills she learned from her ...
July 1, 2013 - Lake County News-Sun
Sierra Leone slaps travel ban on bank workers, taxmen in corruption probe FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone has banned the country's bank workers, tax officers and some shipping officials from travelling abroad without permission in a wide-scale crackdown on tax fraud. Authorities in the West African state have arrested 13 people working in banks and the tax authority as part of an investigation that has underscored deep-rooted corruption in a country attracting ...
June 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News