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Scotch Plains man home after being imprisoned in Africa over a picture

A Scotch Plains man is home with his family after he was imprisoned in Africa for taking pictures of a court building. War vet Michael Chemidlin, 58, says he was visiting friends in Sierra Leone when

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Jul 23, 2006, 11:09 PM

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