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Education

Derrik Sweeney gives details on arrest in Cairo

Kelly Gehringer

19-year-old Derrik Sweeney is relieved to be home in Jefferson City after being detained for a week in a Cairo holding cell. Sweeney, along with three…
Politics

Derrik Sweeney to be released Sunday

Scarlett Robertson

The pending release of three American students arrested in Egypt during protests near Cairo's Tahrir Square is the best Thanksgiving gift, the mother of…