local • a3 ‘SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY’ City aims to restore Dr. Jane McAllister home Tuesday, may 3, 2011 • 50¢ WWW.VICKSBURGPOST.COM every day since 1883 WEATHER Tonight: partly cloudy, lows in the 40s Wednesday: partly cloudy, highs in the 70s Mississippi River: 46.22 feet Rose: 1.15 foot Flood stage: 43 feet A7 TODAY IN HISTORY 1911: Wisconsin Gov. Francis E. McGovern signs the first U.S. workers’ com- pensation law to with- stand constitutional scrutiny. 1916: Irish nationalist Pad- raic Pearse and two others are executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising. 1933: Nellie T. Ross becomes the first female director of the U.S. Mint. 1948: The Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibit- ing the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable. 1991: Author Jerzy Kosin- ski is found dead in his New York City apartment; he was 57. INDEX Business ............................... A6 Classifieds ............................ B7 Comics .................................. B4 Puzzles .................................. B6 Dear Abby ........................... B6 Editorial ................................ A4 People/TV ............................ B5 CONTACT US Call us Advertising ...601-636-4545 Classifieds ...... 601-636-SELL Circulation ..... 601-636-4545 News................ 601-636-4545 E-mail us See A2 for e-mail addresses ONLINE www.vicksburgpost.com VOLUME 129 NUMBER 123 2 SECTIONS SPORTS ZUMBRO OUT Vicksburg baseball coach steps down B1 Nellie T. Ross 2 dead in shootings in city, county By Manivanh Chanprasith [email protected]A Vicksburg man and a Warren County woman were found shot to death in separate killings Monday, and the sher- iff’s department made a plea for a family member in one of the slayings to come forward. By this morning, no arrests had been made in either case. The body of 19-year- old Maurice Morris, 2228 Grove St., was found about 9:30 a.m. Monday on the sidewalk at Confed- erate Ridge Apartments, 780 U.S. 61 North, nearly 12 hours after a report of shots fired at the apart- ment complex, Vicksburg police Sgt. Sandra Wil- liams said. Separately, the body of Alicia Michelle Vega, 32, was found about 3 p.m. Monday at her home at 100 Jones Road, Lot 19, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said. He said she had been shot once in the head. She was pronounced dead at 4 p.m., Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said. Vega’s body was found in her home by her 15-year-old son who had just come home from school, Pace said. She was alone in the home she shared with her husband, Jason Vega, her son, Jason Vega’s 14-year-old daughter and Jason and Michelle Vega’s 8-year- old son. Pace said missing from the home was the family’s 2002 brown Dodge Dur- ango with Warren County tag WBD 139. “We need to locate the vehicle and speak with the 14-year-old daughter because witnesses saw her driving away from the trailer just before the boy came home from school and found his mother,” Pace said this morning. A weapon was recov- ered from the home, but Pace said he did not know if it was used in the killing. In the earlier slaying, in the city, Huskey said The Great Flood of 1927 = 56.2; forecast for flood of 2011 = 57.5 DAVID JACKSON•The Vicksburg PosT Herman Ross walks past a dog on flooded Williams Street Monday while helping a friend move out of his house before the water climbed too high to get to the house by car. City workers Skipper Whittington, left, and Ki Miles guide one of many posts into position to board up the openings at City Front Monday. By Danny Barrett Jr. [email protected]Sandbags flew and resi- dents ran from the rising water Monday as the Mis- sissippi River was forecast to reach an all-time high in Vicksburg — surpassing the Great Flood of 1927 — thanks to torrential rains and storms over the weekend in the Lower Mississippi River and Ohio Valley. The rising river stood at 46.22 feet this morning in Vicksburg, up more than a foot in 24 hours. It is expected to crest at 57.5 feet on May 18, surpassing the 1927 flood, which was recorded at 56.2 feet. If the levees had held, engineers say, the number in 1927 would have been 62 feet. Rainfall over northern Arkansas, southern Missouri and Cairo, Ill., where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers join, received 3 to 8 inches of rain Saturday through midday Monday, said Marty Pope, senior service hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson. “Backwater flooding on the Yazoo will increase signifi- cantly,” Pope said, adding no rain was predicted in that region until the middle of next week. “If we could get a week’s break out of this thing, it would be good.” The rain falling on Vicks- burg this morning was not expected to affect river levels locally. Sandbags were available at the Warren County Road Department on County Lane for residents who requested them. The number of burlap bags available late Monday appeared to be “about 500 to 1,000,” Warren County Emer- gency Management Direc- tor Gwen Coleman said. The bags, with no ties or sand, were available on a first- come, first-serve basis, Cole- man said. On Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasted a large section of the Birds Point levee in southeast Mis- souri to protect Cairo, Ill., from rising floodwaters. The Corps has said the levee break will divert up to 4 feet of water off the river, which would help Cairo, which is across the river from Birds Point. Forecasters have said a faster crest at Cairo would prevent higher crests down- river, including Vicksburg. See Flood, Page A8. See Homicides, Page A7. Today’s stage: 46.22 24-hour change: +1.15 Crest predicted for May 18: 57.5 feet Flood stage: 43 feet Through the years: • March 31, 2011 . . 43.3 • May 26, 2010..... 42.8 • May 27, 2009..... 47.5 • April 19, 2008 .... 50.9 • Jan. 31, 2005 ..... 44.5 • May 29, 2003..... 43.0 • June 3, 2002 ..... 45.4 • May 14, 1998..... 43.6 • March 22, 1997 .. 49.1 • May 27, 1983..... 49.3 • May 13, 1973..... 51.6 • Feb. 21, 1937 ..... 53.2 • June 6, 1929 ..... 52.8 • May 4, 1927 ...... 56.2 • April 28, 1922 .... 52.5 U.S. weighs release of bin Laden info Obama going to ground zero to mark milestone By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. officials weighed the pros and cons of releasing secret video and photos of Osama bin Laden, killed with a pre- cision shot above his left eye, as fresh details emerged today of the American raid that netted potentially cru- cial al-Qaida records as well as the body of the global ter- rorist leader. President Barack Obama is going to ground zero in New York to mark the milestone and remember the dead of 9/11. White House counterter- rorism adviser John Bren- nan said the U.S. already was scouring items seized in the raid — said to include hard drives, DVDs, documents and more that might tip U.S. intelligence to al-Qaida’s operational details and per- haps lead the manhunt to the presumed next-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri. As for publicly releasing photos and video, Brennan said in a series of appear- ances on morning televi- sion: “This needs to be done thoughtfully,” with careful International newspapers deliver the news of Osama bin Laden’s death. See Osama, Page A7. The associaTed Press mississippi river
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‘splendid opportunity’City aims to restore Dr. Jane McAllister home
T u e s d a y, m a y 3, 2011 • 5 0 ¢ w w w. v i c k s b u r g p o s t. c o m e v e r y d a y s i n c e 1883
weAtHerTonight:
partly cloudy, lows in the 40s
Wednesday:partly cloudy, highs in the
70sMississippi River:
46.22 feetRose: 1.15 foot
Flood stage: 43 feetA7
todAy in History1911: Wisconsin Gov. Francis E. McGovern signs the first U.S. workers’ com-pensation law to with-stand constitutional scrutiny. 1916: Irish nationalist Pad-raic Pearse and two others are executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.1933: Nellie T. Ross becomes the first female
director of the U.S. Mint.1948: The Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibit-
ing the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.1991: Author Jerzy Kosin-ski is found dead in his New York City apartment; he was 57.
A Vicksburg man and a Warren County woman were found shot to death in separate killings Monday, and the sher-iff’s department made a plea for a family member in one of the slayings to come forward.
By this morning, no arrests had been made in either case.
The body of 19-year-old Maurice Morris, 2228 Grove St., was found about 9:30 a.m. Monday on the sidewalk at Confed-erate Ridge Apartments, 780 U.S. 61 North, nearly 12 hours after a report of shots fired at the apart-ment complex, Vicksburg police Sgt. Sandra Wil-liams said.
Separately, the body of Alicia Michelle Vega, 32, was found about 3 p.m. Monday at her home at 100 Jones Road, Lot 19, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said. He said she had been shot once in the head.
She was pronounced dead at 4 p.m., Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said.
Vega’s body was found in her home by her 15-year-old son who had just come home from school, Pace said. She was alone in the home she shared with her husband, Jason Vega, her son, Jason Vega’s 14-year-old daughter and Jason and Michelle Vega’s 8-year-old son.
Pace said missing from the home was the family’s 2002 brown Dodge Dur-ango with Warren County tag WBD 139.
“We need to locate the vehicle and speak with the 14-year-old daughter because witnesses saw her driving away from the trailer just before the boy came home from school and found his mother,” Pace said this morning.
A weapon was recov-ered from the home, but Pace said he did not know if it was used in the killing.
In the earlier slaying, in the city, Huskey said
The Great Flood of 1927 = 56.2;forecast for flood of 2011 = 57.5
DaviD Jackson•The Vicksburg PosT
Herman Ross walks past a dog on flooded Williams Street Monday while helping a friend move out of his house before the water climbed too high to get to the house by car.
City workers Skipper Whittington, left, and Ki Miles guide one of many posts into position to board up the openings at City Front Monday.
Sandbags flew and resi-dents ran from the rising water Monday as the Mis-sissippi River was forecast to reach an all-time high in Vicksburg — surpassing the Great Flood of 1927 — thanks to torrential rains and storms over the weekend in the Lower Mississippi River and Ohio Valley.
The rising river stood at 46.22 feet this morning in Vicksburg, up more than a foot in 24 hours. It is expected to crest at 57.5 feet on May 18, surpassing the 1927 flood, which was recorded at 56.2 feet. If the levees had held, engineers say, the number in 1927 would have been 62 feet.
Rainfall over northern Arkansas, southern Missouri and Cairo, Ill., where the Ohio and Mississippi rivers join, received 3 to 8 inches of rain Saturday through midday Monday, said Marty Pope, senior service hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson.
“Backwater flooding on the Yazoo will increase signifi-cantly,” Pope said, adding no rain was predicted in that region until the middle of next week. “If we could get a week’s break out of this thing, it would be good.”
The rain falling on Vicks-burg this morning was not expected to affect river levels locally.
Sandbags were available at the Warren County Road Department on County Lane for residents who requested them. The number of burlap bags available late Monday appeared to be “about 500 to 1,000,” Warren County Emer-gency Management Direc-tor Gwen Coleman said. The bags, with no ties or sand, were available on a first-come, first-serve basis, Cole-man said.
On Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasted a large section of the Birds Point levee in southeast Mis-souri to protect Cairo, Ill., from rising floodwaters. The Corps has said the levee break will divert up to 4 feet of water off the river, which would help Cairo, which is across the river from Birds Point. Forecasters have said a faster crest at Cairo would prevent higher crests down-river, including Vicksburg.
See Flood, Page A8.
See Homicides, Page A7.
Today’s stage: 46.2224-hour change: +1.15Crest predicted for May
18: 57.5 feetFlood stage: 43 feet
Through the years:• March 31, 2011 . . 43.3• May 26, 2010 . . . . . 42.8• May 27, 2009 . . . . . 47.5• April 19, 2008 . . . . 50.9• Jan. 31, 2005 . . . . . 44.5• May 29, 2003 . . . . . 43.0 • June 3, 2002 . . . . . 45.4• May 14, 1998 . . . . . 43.6• March 22, 1997 . . 49.1• May 27, 1983 . . . . . 49.3• May 13, 1973 . . . . . 51.6• Feb. 21, 1937 . . . . . 53.2• June 6, 1929 . . . . . 52.8• May 4, 1927 . . . . . . 56.2• April 28, 1922 . . . . 52.5
U.S. weighs release of bin Laden infoObama going to ground zero to mark milestoneBy The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials weighed the pros and cons of releasing secret video and photos of Osama bin Laden, killed with a pre-cision shot above his left eye, as fresh details emerged today of the American raid that netted potentially cru-cial al-Qaida records as well as the body of the global ter-
rorist leader. President Barack Obama is
going to ground zero in New York to mark the milestone and remember the dead of 9/11.
White House counterter-rorism adviser John Bren-nan said the U.S. already was scouring items seized in the raid — said to include hard drives, DVDs, documents and more that might tip U.S.
intelligence to al-Qaida’s operational details and per-haps lead the manhunt to the presumed next-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri.
As for publicly releasing photos and video, Brennan said in a series of appear-ances on morning televi-sion: “This needs to be done thoughtfully,” with careful
International newspapers deliver the news of Osama bin Laden’s death.See Osama, Page A7.
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One comment recorded at redistricting hearingBy Danny Barrett [email protected]
It’s decision time for Warren County to choose one of two favored plans to redraw its five political districts.
A second public hear-ing Monday evening lasted barely 11 minutes as super-visors gathered final public comments. Both maps show predominately black sections of Vicksburg and Warren County moving into adjacent districts from which supervi-sors, school board members and election commissioners are elected.
A single hearing on the new justice court maps is set for 10 a.m. May 23. Once a map is chosen by the board, the Jus-tice Department has 60 days to approve it.
Population losses inside the city in the 2010 census prompted the redraw of dis-trict lines to be submitted to the Department of Justice to comply with the federal voting rights law.
Districts 2 and 3 gain popu-lation on both proposals for supervisor and school board. Land along U.S. 80 between the city limits and Buck Drive, extending north to Culkin Road and south along Mis-sissippi 27 to Stenson Road, would move to District 2 in the first plan. The second ver-sion excludes the city limits-to-Buck Drive strip of terri-tory, currently in District 1.
District 3 would gain in two spots in the first plan —
along U.S. 61 South to the city limits, bounded to the south by Grange Hall Road, and a piece south of East Clay Street between rail tracks north of Old Highway 27 and Missis-sippi 27. In the second version, the central city-based district gains neighborhoods between Halls Ferry Road and Wiscon-sin Avenue.
Monday’s lone comment was from John Strong, a self-described “tourist from Alaska” who has visited Vicksburg “for 40 years.” Strong was wearing a T-shirt bearing support for District 2
supervisor candidate De Reul, who spoke at the first redis-tricting hearing, on April 26.
“With all the stuff you’ve said, is there going to be a supervisors’ election this year or are they going put it off till next year,” Strong asked after board attorney Randy Sherard recited gen-eral procedures and guide-lines sought by the Depart-ment of Justice.
“You’ll have to wait and ask the federal court that,” She-rard said. “We don’t know.”
In March, a suit filed by the Vicksburg Chapter of the
NAACP against the county and both major parties’ exec-utive committees was com-bined along with similar cases against nine other Missis-sippi counties into a single case before Gulfport-based U.S. District Judge Louis Gui-rola Jr.
A third map presented April 26 by local NAACP chair-man John Shorter on behalf of the organization was not displayed. The board’s two chosen alternatives were mapped with the help of Cen-tral Mississippi Planning and Development District. Shorter
told the board April 26 con-sultation on the NAACP’s map was by Jackson State University.
The justice court’s central district gains voters from the northern district in both maps, which use the same census blocks that deter-mine the supervisor districts and mirror much of the same movement likely on the super-visor maps.
In the first alternative, the central district expands east-ward to take in everything between Culkin and Stenson roads except for a strip of U.S. 80 between the city limits and Buck Drive. It also gains ter-ritory south of East Clay and U.S. 80, including a chunk east of Mississippi 27 bounded by Stenson and Mount Alban roads.
The second alternative shows the northern district retaining the east side of Mississippi 27 and the cen-tral district keeping the expanded borders from the first proposal.
Primary and general elec-tions for countywide and dis-trict-level positions are still set for this year despite quali-fying deadlines having passed and those for state legislators moved to June 1. A three-judge panel ruled Friday they were inclined to make legislators run in districts each house approved unless the state Legislature adopts a new plan and obtains DOJ approval before June 1.
On the agendaMeeting Monday, the War-
ren County Board of Super-visors:• Authorized a $395.83 check
to county permitting in-spector Reed Birdsong to correct a payroll error. Bird-song is a candidate for su-pervisor in District 1.
• Authorized a $1,574.58 check to Northern District Constable Glenn McKay for overpayments of state em-ployee retirement contribu-tions for 2010. The amount has been received and de-posited with Public Employ-ee Retirement System.
• Approved an improvement-based ad valorem tax ex-emption through 2020 to Foam Packaging.The company’s application
was based on $527,000 spent on a new thermal former and air chiller, Deputy Tax Asses-sor Jim Agent said.
Exemptions based on phys-ical plant upgrades and new equipment exempt qualify-ing businesses from city and county taxes. They do not ex-empt school and state taxes.• Approved a $33,285.52 pay
estimate to Central Asphalt for special assessment pav-ing on Forest Cove subdi-vision.
• Awarded a bid to Puckett Machinery for three new motor graders for the Road Department. Costs totaled $190,451 with a 48-month buyback option.Supervisors OK’d a lease
purchase agreement with Trustmark Bank at 2.7 percent over the buyback period.
• Approved invoices total-ing $79,860.78 for County Engineer John McKee for engineering services and $7,279.92 for board attor-ney Randy Sherard for legal work.
• Approved a $500 advertise-ment in the 2011 Red Car-pet Bowl football program and a $500 advertisement for the State Military Order of the Purple Heart.
• Approved $20,076 for E-911 dispatchers salaries and matching benefits.
• Proclaimed May 1-7, 2011, as Children’s Mental Health Week and presented the resolution to Warren Yazoo Mental Health officials.
• Approved a $4,335.17 re-imbursement of the Drug Court coordinator salary.
cOmmunity calendarBeneFitS
Garage Sale/Fish Fry — 7 a.m. Saturday; benefits Ineeta Miller; Walker’s Detailing, 2764 Wash-ington St.Best Buddies Pet Rescue — 7 a.m.-noon Saturday; yard and bake sale; 1202 Mission Park Drive.Vicksburg Homecoming Be-nevolent Club — 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; County Market park-ing lot, 2101 Clay St.; benefits scholarship program; Leon Smith, 601-636-0796, or Willie Glasper, 601-415-7540.
PuBlic PrOGramSWalk Against Crime — 10-11:30 a.m. May 14; to register, 601-636-3411; more informa-tion, Danitta Reed, 601-218-7577, or Angela Turner, 601-218-0402; begins at City Hall, ends at Courthouse.Serenity Al-Anon — 5:30 p.m. Thursday; family, friends of alco-holics and addicts; River Region West Campus, Intensive Out-patient Group Room, 1111 N. Frontage Road; 601-883-3849, 601-883-3290 or 601-636-3229.Serenity Overeaters Anony-mous — 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Bowmar Baptist Church, Room 102C; 601-638-0011.Vicksburg Al-Anon — 8 p.m. Wednesday; family, friends of alcoholics and addicts; 502 Dabney Ave.; 601-636-1134.Disability Partners Communi-
ty Forum — 4-6 p.m. Thursday; for someone with a disability, family members or a provid-er of services for the disabled; Public Library.Career Services Center — Open to residents of the Vicks-burg Housing Authority; 601-529-8258 or 601-631-0102.Vicksburg Theatre Guild “Fast Food” — 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; Vicks-burg Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; 601-636-0471 or www.e-vtg.com.Jackson Audubon Society — 8-10 a.m. Saturday; bird walk; LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, 115 Lakeland Terrace, Jackson; 601-956-7444.Get Healthy Walk — Saturday; 8 a.m. register; 8:30, walk; Linda Fondren or Linnie Wheeless, 601-619-7277; Riverfront Park, 4100 Washington St.Narcotics Anonymous — Riv-er City Group, 8 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Good Shepherd Community Center, 629 Cherry St.; daytime, Alvin J., 601-661-7646 or 601-415-1742; evening, Jackie G., 601-638-8456 or 601-415-3345.
cluBSArmy/Navy Club — 7 p.m. Thursday; monthly steak din-ner; clubhouse.Democratic Executive Com-mittee — 6 tonight; John
Shorter, 601-218-9264; Jackson Street Community Center. Lions — Noon Wednesday; Glynn Griffing, former pro ath-lete, speaker; Jacques’ Cafe.John C. Pemberton Camp 1354 — 7 p.m. Thursday; Wil-liam Mathews, speaker; visitors welcome; Southern Cultural Heritage Center.Woodmen of the World — 6 p.m. Friday, monthly meeting; Fisher Ferry Volunteer Fire De-partment, 302 Goodrum Road; 601-638-2495.Ashmead DAR — 10 a.m. Sat-urday; Terry Rector, speaker, an-tique roses; George Washington Ball House.
cHurcHeSKing David No. 1 M.B. — Re-
vival, 7 tonight-Friday; the Rev. Ray E. Coleman, speaker; the Rev. A.L. Hines, pastor; 2717 Le-titia St.St. James No. 1 M.B. — Revival, 7 tonight-Friday; the Rev. Frank Gardner, speaker; the Rev. Willie J. White, pastor; 400 Adams St.Greater Grove Street M.B. — Women’s conference, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; Evangelists Shirley Jackson, Marva McKin-ley Smith and Phalecia Sanders; 2715 Grove St.Porters Chapel UMC — Stuff Sale, 6:30 a.m. Saturday; clothes, books, electronic items and more; 200 Porters Chapel Road.Pleasant Valley M.B. — Moth-ers Luncheon and Pearls of Wis-dom, 3 p.m. Saturday; 260 Mis-sissippi 27.
City man faces third DUI arrest
A Vicksburg man was arrested Monday for driv-ing under the influence, third offense, a felony.
Keith McClinton, 59, 202 Springridge Drive, was stopped at First North and Grove streets at 8 p.m. after police received a report of a vehicle striking a stop sign, said Lt. Bobby Stewart.
Bond was set at $10,000 for McClinton, who was being held at the Issaquena County Jail.
TV reported missingfrom Elizabeth Circle
A residential burglary was reported in the city Monday, said police Lt. Bobby Stewart.
At 5 p.m., a 64-inch Mitsubi-shi TV valued at $700 was reported stolen from a home in the 100 block of Elizabeth Circle.
crimefrom staff reportsStudents protest flag burning at LSU
BATON ROUGE (AP) — An American flag was hauled down and burned early Monday at Louisiana State University, and students and campus officials are uncertain whether it was connected to the U.S. hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden.
In response to the burn-ing, students gathered on the campus later Monday, holding hands and praying during a peaceful protest.
The LSU Police Department declined to comment on the investigation, but Cpt. William Conger, an assistant professor of military science and gradu-ate student, said a suspect has been identified.
A joint forces coalition of ROTC cadets volunteered to temporarily replace the flag. The cadets, representing all of the military branches, are guarding the temporary flag in rotating shifts.
Conger found the burned flag, along with two matches and what appeared to be a model rocket engine, at the war memorial at 5:45 a.m.
The state flag was wrapped up in the cable and the LSU flag was missing, said Conger.
The cable contains metal in order to support the large, ceremonial flag, which hangs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
at the war memorial on the parade grounds.
“You can’t just take a knife and cut that cable, and when I found it someone had defi-nitely been working on that cable to break it and get it
down,” Conger said.When Conger turned the evi-
dence over to the police, they informed him that there was a suspect who was not yet in custody, he said.
LSU students, from left, Josh Manriquez, Ryan Nuckolls, Mackenzie Cash and Meredith Quinn, pray for peace at Louisiana State University’s War Memorial in Baton Rouge Monday.
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lative Auditor Daryl Purp-era said Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration has refused to hand over some informa-tion about a proposal to hire a private company to run a state worker health insur-ance program.
The administration says the data is exempt from review under state public records laws. Purpera said Monday that without the information, his auditors can’t determine whether the privatization would be benefi cial for the state.
“We want to be protec-tive that we don’t give away state assets,” Purpera told the Senate Retirement Committee.
Jindal said Louisiana shouldn’t be in the business of operating a health insur-ance program. The idea faces opposition from some lawmakers.
Retirement boardfights pension hike
The Louisiana State
Employees Retirement System board is oppos-ing a plan to increase state employee pension contribu-tions, saying it could have constitutional problems.
Retirement system offi cials are questioning whether the potential 3 percent increase could legally apply to already vested LASERS members and whether some employ-ees could be exempt as proposed.
Lawmakers weighN.O. hospital data
Lawmakers on the House budget committee said Monday they’re concerned about a consultant’s report on plans for a $1.2 bil-lion public hospital in New Orleans, which suggests the state will have to fork over millions annually to keep the hospital running.
A fi rst draft of a report
by Illinois-based Kaufman Hall & Associates Inc. said University Medical Center, a planned 424-bed teach-ing hospital, is larger than is supportable on its own. The report says the hospi-tal would cost the state from $70 million to more than $100 million in subsidies yearly.
The hospital is planned to replace LSU’s Charity Hos-pital, which was fl ooded and shuttered by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Department of Justice questions diversity of Cleveland schoolsCLEVELAND (AP) — The
federal court overseeing a late-1960s desegregation case against a Mississippi school district has not enforced its diversity compliance, the U.S. Department of Justice says.
In a motion filed Monday, the department said the dis-trict has failed to dismantle the vestiges of legal segrega-tion of its schools, something it had been ordered to do in 1969.
Prior to that order, schools on the west side of the railroad tracks that run through Cleve-land were by law segregated white schools. More than 40 years later, the justice depart-ment says students and fac-ulty at those schools are still disproportionately white.
Similarly, the department says, schools on the east side of the railroad tracks — origi-nally black schools — have never been integrated. It says
they remain all-black or virtu-ally all-black. In most cases, the schools on the east side and west side are less than three miles apart.
Calls Monday night to school district authorities were not returned.
A statement from the Depart-ment of Justice said attempts to work with the school dis-trict were unsuccessful, so, the government asked the court to rule that it has violated the
existing desegregation orders and federal law. The depart-ment also wants the court to order the district to devise and implement a desegrega-tion plan expeditiously.
“It is intolerable for school districts to continue operat-ing schools that retain their racial identity from the Jim Crow era,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “If school districts
are not willing to work col-laboratively to eradicate the vestiges of de jure segregated schools, we will ask the courts to take the steps necessary to ensure that students of all racial backgrounds have the opportunity to attend diverse, inclusive schools.”
Enforcing court-ordered desegregation of school dis-tricts is a top priority of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
On the agendaMeeting Monday, the
Board of Mayor and Alder-men:• OK’d minutes from March 7
meeting.• Recognized the following
employee anniversaries: David Gaskin, gas, 25 years; Johnny Reed, cemetery, 10 years; and Carl Bell, street, 5 years.
• Proclaimed this week as Children’s Mental Health Week.
• OK’d a joint resolution with the Warren County Board of Supervisors to declare a lo-cal emergency based on the current river stages.
• Awarded sealed bids to Har-cros Chemicals of Vicksburg
for pool and water treat-ment plant chemicals.
• Rejected sealed bids to con-struct fuel farm, access road and truck parking at the Vicksburg Municipal Airport on U.S. 61 South because bids received were too high.
• Accepted the Delta Regional Authority’s approval to use remaining grant funds from the T-hangar project to pave the airport’s entrance.
• OK’d the city clerk’s advertis-ing of sealed bids for paving work at the Vicksburg Mu-nicipal Airport.
• OK’d the city clerk’s advertis-ing of sealed bids for pebble lime and vehicle accessories for police vehicles.
• Adopted a resolution for the sale of surplus property and
OK’d the city clerk’s adver-tising of sealed bids for no-tice of sale of the following properties: Meadow Street PPIN 5514, Crawford Street PPIN 17885 and Bowman Street PPIN 24683.
• OK’d the issuance of requi-sition to Applied Concepts Inc. of Plano, Texas, for the purchase of four Stalker ra-dar units, a sole source item, for $11,870.
• OK’d a three-year subscriber agreement with Westlaw, an online legal research ser-vice, for $1,395 per month for the city’s legal depart-ment.
• Discussed dilapidated build-ings and overgrown lot codes and approved Vic-tor Gray-Lewis, director of
Buildings and Inspections, to proceed to cut, clean and demolish the following properties: 106 Brown Alley; Cairo Drive PPIN 010250; 339 Ford Road; 434 Ford Road; 1429, 1601, 1604, 1609, 1740 and 1742 Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and 1400 South St.; and OK’d a 15-day extension for 101 Cairo Drive.
• Ratifi ed a letter of support of Cedar Grove Place for devel-opment of 24 single-family town homes.
• OK’d a request for advertise-ment from Vicksburg Home-coming Benevolent Club for its 36th annual homecom-ing souvenir booklet.
• OK’d a request for matching funds of $5,000 to Trium-
phant Ministries Inc for its youth summer enrichment program. South Ward Alder-man Sid Beauman voted against the request.
• OK’d a $1,953.74 payment to Vicksburg-Tallulah Regional Airport.
• In closed session, the board:
• Discussed two longevity matters in cemetery and street departments; three new hires in recreation de-partment; four pay adjust-ments in water and gas ad-ministration, fi re and police departments; and three po-tential litigation matters.The board meets next at 10
a.m. May 10 at City Hall An-nex room 109.
Bryantto donateextra payto charity
JACKSON (AP) — Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant will donate his act-ing-governor pay for the fi rst three months of this year to charity, $3,145 after taxes, his spokesman said Monday.
Bryant sent a Feb. 9 letter to the state Department of Finance and Administra-tion asking it to stop paying him extra when Gov. Haley Barbour is out of state, said spokesman Mick Bullock.
State law requires extra pay for the person who is acting governor.
The person is paid the differ-ence between his salary and the governor’s. That’s an extra $7.10 an hour for the lieutenant governor.
Bryant was acting gover-nor 665.5 hours from Jan. 31 through March 26, Bullock said. He is paid quarterly.
When both Barbour and Bryant are absent, Senate President Pro Tem Billy Hewes gets $11.09 an hour as acting governor, or House Speaker Billy McCoy makes $5.95 an hour. In 2010, Hewes earned $4,895 in acting gover-nor pay and McCoy $103, fi g-ures showed.
Bryant didn’t say to what charities he will donate the money.
Lt. Gov. PhilBryant
City takes Dr. McAllister’s home, hopes to make it museumBy Manivanh [email protected]
The Vicksburg home of the fi rst black woman in the U.S. to receive a doctorate in edu-cation could be preserved and turned into an African-American museum if a state grant is awarded.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen accepted at Mon-day’s regular board meet-ing the transfer of the home at 1403 Main St., which belonged to the late Dr. Jane McAllister of Vicks-burg, from its current owner, Yolande Robbins, in an effort to restore it through a grant program focusing on the preservation of the Civil Rights Era.
“This is a great opportu-nity for us to take a dinosaur of a building and bring life back to it,” Mayor Paul Win-fi eld said. “I saw it as a great opportunity for us to pre-serve a signifi cant history of Vicksburg.”
The City of Vicksburg is applying for up to $210,000 of a $2 million pool of the 2010 Civil Rights Historic Sites grant program offered through the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
The grant, which requires a 20 percent local match in either cash or in-kind fund-ing, is to be used for renova-tions, repairs and improve-ments to sites or properties
associated with the Civil Rights era, the late 1950s and 1960s.
“It would be a splendid opportunity if the city can obtain this grant,” said Rob-bins, who owns the Jacque-line House African-American Museum across the street. “It would be a tremendous boom for our neighborhood. We envisioned this to be a part of the Jacqueline House. We’re bursting at the seams there.”
Once renovated, the McAl-lister home would be used as an extension of the Jacque-line House, housing African-
American artifacts, or as a home for black scholars, Robbins said.
While the city will be the home’s owner in this convey-ance agreement, Robbins hopes to manage the reno-vated facility.
McAllister, who never mar-ried and had no children, was born in Vicksburg in 1899 and lived to be 96 years old. She received her doctorate in education from Columbia University.
She taught psychology and education at Jackson State University, Southern Univer-sity, Grambling State Univ-
eristy, Fisk University, Vir-ginia State University and Dillard University.
The city is using informa-tion recorded during the 1960s by the Mississippi Sov-ereignty Commission and archived online by MDHA to support her contributions during the Civil Rights era.
Robbins bought in the late 1990s the two-story white house from the Gardener family, McAllister’s nearest relatives who inherited the home after her death in 1996.
“I bought the house with the expectation of preserv-ing her house in her honor,”
said Robbins. “Now is the opportunity.”
The house has been empty since and is in need of repair.
“Major restorations are needed,” Robbins said. “The roof needs repair. The stair-case and exquisite rooms need to be renovated.”
The grant application dead-line is Friday and offi cials should know award results by September, city grant writer Marcia Weaver said.
If the city does not receive the grant, the home will be conveyed back at no cost to Robbins, who intends to restore the home no matter the outcome.
“My desire and my objec-tive is to get the home reno-vated,” she said. “I will seek other grants and funding.”
BRYANT HAWKINS•THE VICKSBURG POST
LOUISIANALEGISLATURE
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dr. Jane McAllister home, 1403 Main St.
Dr. Jane McAllister
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A4 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 The Vicksburg Post
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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891The tournament at St. Aloysius College closes. • Georgia Gale is crushed to death between cars in the LNO&T yards. • The frame building of James Kenard, east of the city, burns.
110 YEARS AGO: 1901The Grand Encampment of Odd Fellow convenes here. • J.P. Roach of Beaumont, Texas, is here visiting family.
100 YEARS AGO: 1911Henrietta Fox is married in Yokohama, Japan, to Robert E. Burris. • J. Pete Canizaro, popular attorney, returns from Lou-isville. • Claudia Stein of Canton is here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Stein.
90 YEARS AGO: 1921L.C. Dulaney is here from Grace. • Free round trips to Delta will be given by J.C. Miller, ferry operator, during the bank-ers’ convention here. • The Switzer family is planning a reunion.
80 YEARS AGO: 1931Mrs. Victor Johnson is named cafeteria manager for Carr Junior High School. • Carl C. White, candidate for railroad commissioner, is in the city.
70 YEARS AGO: 1941The Millsaps College Choir sings at Crawford Street Method-ist Church. • Jack Harlen is doing nicely following surgery at Vicksburg Hospital. • R.A. Geary of Vicksburg is named head of the executive board of the Mississippi Division of the USO.
60 YEARS AGO: 1951Percy Coleman is named president of the Mississippi State Junior Chamber of Commerce at the annual convention in Jackson.
50 YEARS AGO: 1961Louis P. Cashman Sr., editor and publisher of the Vicksburg Evening Post and Sunday Post, is honored by the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Association for distinguished service to journalism during the past 60 years.
40 YEARS AGO: 1971Mr. and Mrs. James Crowley announce the birth of a son, Michael, on April 28. • Mrs. Faye Peter, Tallulah resident, dies. • Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pearson are visiting in Memphis with friends.
30 YEARS AGO: 1981Warren Central’s Jewel Truly sets a state record in the hur-dles with a time of 16.4 seconds at the 1981 State Track Meet at Jackson’s Hughes Field. • Crystal Ruth Hornsby celebrates her fifth birthday.
20 YEARS AGO: 1991Damaged bridges in Warren County receive temporary repairs until the county, literally, can get its head above water. • Shirley Waldrop, Helen McGehee and Ricki McKenzie announce the opening of Capitol Home Health.
10 YEARS AGO: 2001Laura Causey is named a University of Southern Missis-sippi Olliphant Scholar. • David G. and Dana Stroud Smith announce the birth of a daughter, Laney Grace. • Antonio Rainey and Courtney Chapman are named Vicksburg High’s athletes of the year.
FedFamilies across America are
suffering what we’ll call pump shock: A doubling of gas prices in the past two years. Filling up a 12-gallon tank, even in a small car, can easily hit $40 or more.
At a Town Hall meeting in Reno last week, President Barack Obama blamed price gouging by oil companies: “The attor-ney general’s putting together a team whose job it will be to root out any cases of fraud or manip-ulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices — and that includes the role of traders and speculators. We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of the American people for their own short-term gain.”
He’s right to link gasoline and oil prices; gas is refined from oil. But he doesn’t see that the real problem is the incipient inflation that has been caused by the fed-eral government. It’s not just oil and gas that are going up in price — although pump shock perhaps is the most visible to consumers — but food and other commodity prices, too.
In first-quarter 2011 compared to the same three months last
year, commodity prices rose as follows: corn, 74 percent; wheat, 69 percent; soybeans, 36 percent; beef, 36 percent, according to the World Bank.
Economists give various rea-sons for inflation. But it seems to us that this is a repeat of the 1970s, when the Federal Reserve Board printed too much money, causing that decade’s “stagfla-tion” (stagnation plus inflation) until it was ended in the early 1980s by Fed Chairman Paul Volcker and President Ronald Reagan.
Current Fed Chairman Ben Ber-nanke, who was reappointed by Obama, has given us two rounds of what’s now called “quantitative easing,” a euphemism for creat-ing money to goose the economy: QE1 in late 2008 was $1.7 trillion. And QE2, begun in November and continuing for a few more weeks, it will total $600 billion.
Total so far: $2.3 trillion. All that money creation has goosed the economy — and inflation.
Some economists, especially those of the Austrian school of economics popularized by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) are calling for a return to the gold standard the
country was on from 1789 until 1971. Doing so would require the Fed to maintain the value of the dollar at a fixed value, such as the $35 price for gold from 1934-71.
While a return to the gold stan-dard is unlikely to gain much momentum politically, Fed Chair-man Bernanke’s indications Wednesday that the Fed’s “quan-titative easing” program finally will be completed in June came as welcome news. We’ve criti-cized the bond-buying program for masking, not curing, eco-nomic problems. The U.S. govern-ment became the Treasury mar-ket’s biggest buyer, thus creating, as the Wall Street Journal noted Tuesday, a “profit illusion” for investors who believe they can make money off rising prices and falling yields.
It’s time for the “real economy” of the private sector to manage on its own, and for the govern-ment to focus on reducing its debt, controlling spending and following policies that keep infla-tion in check. With a new air of certainty, entrepreneurs and everyone, really, will be moti-vated to save and invest.
STARKVILLE — The Smithville schools in Monroe County are in shambles. Over in Webster County, the East Webster Schools are essentially a total loss at the Cum-berland community campus.
Other schools around the state caught damage from the violent line of storms that pounded the South last week, but in Smithville and at East Webster the schools and the communities they serve will literally never be the same.
At East Webster, there are 382 stu-dents who attended school and par-ticipated in extracurricular activi-ties in 11 total buildings that existed on the Cumberland campus. All the buildings on the campus — all classrooms, the gymnasium, the athletic field houses and most of the attached infrastructures — were destroyed. The initial assessment of the insurance coverage available was $38 million, but that was prior to a visit by insurance adjustors.
Some of the East Webster facili-ties were 1930s era-construction that had been remodeled and refur-bished multiple times. Replacing essentially the entire East Webster
campus for $38 million would be a very tall order indeed and that total is simply unlikely to be sufficient.
In Smithville, things are even worse. The Smithville School campus was leveled by an EF5 tor-nado that swept through Monroe County Wednesday afternoon, leaving Smithville principal Chad O’Brian to describe the damage to The Monroe Journal newspaper as “complete devastation.”
“The campus is destroyed. There’s no football field, no gym. There is no building on campus with-out damage,” said O’Brian. “The campus is destroyed.”
At this point — in the face of mul-
tiple deaths, injuries and life-chang-ing destruction — a discussion of the fiscal costs of rebuilding the schools in Smithville remains in its proper priority. Across Mississippi, people are struggling to recover from these devastating storms.
But one thing these storms have revealed is the folly of a growing and false notion that local school districts are sitting on piles of money in their reserve funds that have no purpose and should be raided by state politicians. That notion had a powerful proponent in Mississippi in Gov. Haley Barbour.
During the 2004 legislative ses-sion, Barbour proposed spending
down some of the then-$349 million in school district reserve funds as a means of forcing local school dis-tricts to pay a significant portion of the state’s fair share of Missis-sippi Adequate Education Program funds.
At first, House Speaker Billy McCoy dug in his heels and never gave Barbour’s proposal any politi-cal oxygen over on his side of the Capitol. But grudgingly, with Med-icaid cuts looming and no stomach for tax hikes in the state Senate, the 2004 Legislature brokered a deal with Barbour to underfund MAEP and force local school districts to spend down reserve funds. Now, after a long and punishing reces-sion, many of the state’s school dis-tricts have either implemented or are facing local tax hikes for school support.
Still, Barbour and other conserva-tives in the Mississippi Legislature hold a straight face and talk about holding the line on taxes while those local tax hikes continue to trickle down to local taxpayers.
Local taxpayers in Monroe and Webster counties and in other
venues where schools were dam-aged will need every dollar — reserve or otherwise — to deal with these calamities. Prudent school boards and superintendents build reserves by assuming that those storms, fires, accidents and other eventualities will occur and that funding has to be available to help meet those needs.
The paradox here is that Missis-sippi communities facing disasters have no better or more effective friend than Barbour in mobilizing federal and state aid and funding to meet their needs. Barbour’s track record in storm response is envi-able and impeccable — and widely appreciated. But raiding local school district reserves to meet ongoing state public education funding obligations was bad public policy in 2004 and it remains bad public policy today.
The tornadoes that knocked down schools at East Webster and Smith-ville proved that this week.
•Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 662-325-2506 or [email protected].
Storms expose folly of asking school districts to deplete reserve funds
SidSaLTER
Replacing essentially the en-tire East Webster campus for
$38 million would be a very tall order indeed and that total is
simply unlikely to be sufficient.
Time to get out of the way
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Eye clinics, federal aidall part of Alabama relief
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — In the tornado-shattered South, survivors are getting what they need — sometimes more than they ever expected. And it is coming from everywhere.
Volunteers in golf carts ferry sausage biscuits and bottled water to them. Federal work-ers are interviewing them so they can get emergency cash. And neighbors with chain saws roam devastated streets, cut-ting up downed trees.
Residents and elected offi-cials praised churches, chari-ties, volunteers and even the much maligned Federal Emer-gency Management Agency.
The second-deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history — and a record 226 in one day — killed 342 people and left stretches of the South in ruin. In a region that is all too familiar with fum-bled emergency responses, res-idents from hardest-hit Ala-bama to Tennessee have seen a steady flow of aid.
By Monday, survivors could find a place to charge a dead cell phone or get a free hair-cut or restock on prescription medicine.
“I’m getting everything,
probably even more than I expected,” said Amy Hall, 23, who limped through the shelter set up at a community center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with a broken foot, cradling her 11-month-old daughter.
Her 2-year-old son broke his nose and bruised a lung when a twister tossed their home a block away. He spent two days in the hospital. Hall said the family was getting excellent care at the shelter where 240 were sleeping and scores more sought other services.
In Tennessee, where 34 people died, Marvin Quinn, 79, collected broken jars of home-canned peaches and pickles from the rubble. He said relief workers had been keeping him and his wife well fed.
“I’ve been eating more in the last four days than I ever have,” he said. “Every time I turn around there’s someone with food, water, Gatorade.”
Unlike Hurricane Katrina in
2005, the response to the latest natural disaster has worked because agencies at different levels of government are work-ing together and are telling res-
idents where they can get help, emergency management con-sultant Barry Scanlon said.
“They seem to be working well together,” said Scanlon.
After the storm
Police patrolling devastated Alabama city under curfewTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) —
The looters come out at night. So does the curfew patrol.
With a long, broad band of this city of 94,000 laid waste by a tornado that killed at least 45 people and destroyed hundreds of homes, busi-nesses and churches, Tusca-loosa police have been work-ing 12-hour shifts without any days off just to keep order.
Mayor Walt Maddox imposed a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the ravaged areas, where the power remains off, so offi-
cers are now patrolling pitch-black, storm-tossed neighbor-hoods they once knew by heart to keep the storm’s toll from getting any worse. The flash-ing strobe lights of their patrol cars reflect off the leaves of downed trees that line the streets, giving the scene an other-worldly pall.
It’s Sunday night, what should be a quiet time, but the radio in Sgt. Brent Blankley’s car crackles constantly.
Someone spotted possible looters in a neighborhood, and
they’re running — send a car.A volunteer needs a free
place to stay for the night — anyone know where he might find a bed?
Overhead, a police helicop-ter circles, patrolling from 300 feet up in the night sky with a spotlight.
In the days right after the twisters, residents complained of widespread looting. People took items from the rubble of a convenience store in broad daylight as officers drove by on the way to calls about missing
children, injuries and natural gas leaks.
“We were completely over-whelmed, there’s no question,” Blankley said.
Since then, Gov. Robert Bentley has sent in Alabama National Guard troops to staff checkpoints into the mostly heavily damaged areas, and other cities and counties that weren’t affected by the vio-lent weather have pitched in by sending officers, patrol cars and other equipment.
Tuscaloosa police have only
made a few arrests each day for storm-related offenses like looting and curfew violations, Blankley said, but Attorney General Luther Strange said the cases will be taken seri-ously. Speaking during a stop in an area that was pummeled by the twisters, Strange said the curfew was “helping tre-mendously,” yet problems remain.
Tuscaloosa has about 280 offi-cers, some of whom sustained tornado damage themselves.
Shell to submit new Arctic offshore drilling planANCHORAGE, Alaska —
Shell Oil will apply to drill 10 wells off Alaska’s Arctic shore over the next two years under exploration plans headed to federal authorities.
The company hopes to see results from a $3.5 bil-lion investment into Arctic Ocean drilling that has been thwarted in recent years by court challenges or inability to obtain federal permits.
Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith said the com-pany will seek permission to drill four wells in the Beau-fort Sea off Alaska’s north shore and six in the Chukchi Sea off the state’s north-west shore using two drilling ships in 2012 and 2013.
Giffords plans to returnto Fla. to watch launch
TUCSON, Ariz. — A spokesman for Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said she plans to return to Florida to watch her astronaut husband lead the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour.
C.J. Karamargin said Monday that his boss is awaiting word on when the flight will be rescheduled.
Giffords had traveled from Houston to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch sched-uled for last Friday but was delayed because of a techni-cal problem.
NASA says Endeavour won’t launch before May 10.
Giffords has since returned to the Houston rehab hos-
pital where she’s been undergoing treat-ment after being shot in the head while meeting con-stituents. She was one of 13 people wounded in the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson. Six others were killed.
Jared Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 fed-eral charges.
Pot laws scrutinizedafter warning
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Sev-eral states have started reassessing their medical marijuana laws after stern warnings from the federal government that everyone from licensed growers to reg-ulators could be subjected to prosecution.
The ominous-sounding let-ters from U.S. attorneys in recent weeks have directly injected the federal govern-ment back into a debate that has for years been progress-
ing at the state level. Warn-ings in Washington state led Gov. Chris Gregoire to veto a proposal that would have created licensed marijuana dispensaries.
Gregoire, the chair of the National Governors Asso-ciation, now says she wants to work with other states to push for changes to federal marijuana laws to resolve the legal disputes caused by what she described as pros-ecutors reinterpreting their own policies.
“The landscape is chang-ing out there. They are sug-gesting they are not going to stand down,” Gregoire said.
Court hears argumentsin Obama birth suit
PASADENA, Calif. — Leaders in the so-called “birther” movement argued their case over President Barack Obama’s U.S. citi-zenship before a federal
appeals court Monday in Southern California, claiming the full birth certificate he released last week
had been doctored.
But it was unclear how far their arguments would go, given the previous failed lawsuits on the issue and concern from the court about whether the latest claim was filed too late to be considered.
Obama’s production of the vital record was aimed at quashing any lingering doubt among critics who con-tend he shouldn’t have been elected because he couldn’t prove he was a citizen — a prerequisite for the nation’s highest office.
nAtionBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The associaTed press
A Tuscaloosa man on Monday gets a free haircut, one of the services emergency responders are providing for storm-displaced residents.
An Alabama National Guard soldier stands watch in the Alberta City area of Tuscaloosa.
on B5Actor Charlie Sheen visits Tuscaloosa
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
President BarackObama
JACKSON (AP) — The north Mississippi town of Smithville celebrated emotional mile-stones Monday as children returned to school and author-ities said they accounted for all the people who’d been con-sidered missing since a tornado ravaged the community last week.
A body was found Saturday in Smithville and authorities said the other missing people are alive. Greg Flynn, a spokesman with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, said Monday that the development in Smithville means all miss-ing people in Mississippi have been located.
Smithville officials praised the positive developments as proof the town of about 900 will survive the deadly tor-nado that destroyed its only major grocery store, city hall, the police department, the post office and numerous
homes and businesses. Smith-ville officials said the tornado was a half-mile wide, had winds topping 205 mph and was on the ground in the area for nearly three miles.
Full recovery could take years , and reminders of loss are every-where. There were funerals Monday in a damaged cem-etery and most of the town is littered with debris.
“Closure has started,” said Longtime Smith-ville Alderman Jimmy Dabbs. “We’ll be back bigger, stron-ger and better than before but it’s going to take time.”
Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Brian Mobley said everyone missing from Smithville and the county it’s located in, Monroe, have been accounted for. He said search-and-rescue operations are over. Now officials can con-centrate on cleaning up.
‘Closure has started. We’ll be back bigger, stronger and better than before but it’s going to take time.’
Jimmy DabbssmiThville alderman
Smithville studentsreturn to school
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A6 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 The Vicksburg Post
Q: I am a 73-year-old woman in good health. I own a home in a small town in Oklahoma. I share this home with a man who helps pay part of the utili-ties, food and other expenses. I plan to stay in this home for the foreseeable future. I am paying 5.375 percent on a 15-year mort-gage. The monthly payment is $875, including taxes and home insurance. The balance is now $42,000. I have six more years to go on the mortgage. I have
a govern-ment pen-sion and more than enough money in a low-inter-est money market fund that I could easily p a y o f f the mort-
gage. I have a few conserva-tive, mostly dividend paying stocks and a few bonds. I paid $2,400 in mortgage interest last year, which is tax-deductible. I gave about $2,000 in charitable donations in 2010 and would increase this amount this year if I paid off the mortgage. I’ve always been a conservative investor, especially now that I
am in my 70s. Is paying off the mortgage the best financial decision for me at this time? — R.K., via e-mail
A: Putting aside the mort-gage, the important thing here is you’re paying 5.375 percent interest on $42,000 and you have money invested in a low-interest money market fund. If you pay off the mortgage, you are getting a 5.375 per-cent return instead of the pit-tance you are receiving now. Other things being equal, that’s a smart move if you have enough money set aside for other things. You have effec-tively increased your annual return on your $42,000 by 4 to 5 percent, not a bad deal. You will have to continue to pay the taxes and home insur-ance directly, which is cur-rently being done through an escrow account. I only men-tioned that because most of the time people forget that these things are being done by the mortgage company and get themselves into hot water for unpaid taxes and worse, a lapse of appropriate insurance coverage.
•Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at [email protected].
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Stocks falter on weak earnings reports NEW YORK (AP) — The
earnings rally of the last two weeks has lost some luster. The parade of stronger-than-expected reports slowed today after several companies reported weak earnings.
Later in the day, the nation’s automakers were expected to report that U.S. sales of cars and trucks rose 19 percent in April. Americans likely more bought cars during the month because of fears that the earth-quake in Japan would lead to shortages.
Pfizer Inc., Clorox Co., Molson Coors Brewing Co. and Beazer Homes USA Inc. all fell after releasing results. Pfizer’s shares slid 2 percent after the company reduced its revenue forecast for 2011. It fell the most out of all 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial average.
Clorox and Molson Coors each
fell about 4 percent after they reported lower net income than the same period last year.
Beazer Homes slipped 2 per-cent. The homebuilder reported a larger-than-expected loss because orders for new homes fell, reflecting continued weak-ness in the housing industry.
The Dow rose 17 points, or 0.1
percent, to 12,825 in early trad-ing. The S&P 500 fell a point, or 0.1 percent, to 1,360. The Nasdaq composite index fell 4, or 0.2 percent, to 2,860.
Oil for June delivery slipped 97 cents to $112.55 per barrel. Gasoline jumped to a national average of $3.976 per gallon. It’s about $3.70 in Vicksburg.
RAising The debT liMiTGeithner gives Congress more time to negotiate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is giving Congress more time to negotiate a deal that would raise the nation’s borrowing limit.
The U.S. government will hit its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit on May 16. The debt limit is the amount the government can borrow to help finance its operations.
In a letter to congressio-nal leaders, Geithner said
Monday that he can delay a default on the debt until Aug. 2, by using a series of bookkeep-ing maneu-vers to keep
the govern-ment running.
That’s nearly a month longer than the July 8 deadline Geith-ner had previously cited.
Congress is negotiating to raise the debt limit. But Repub-licans have said they will not vote to do so until lawmak-ers reach an agreement with the White House on further spending cuts. With Congress back from a two-week recess, negotiations are expected resume this week.
There was little market reac-tion to Geithner’s letter, the latest in a series of updates on when the borrowing limit will
be reached. While he extended the default deadline to Aug. 2, Geithner urged Congress to act without delay and not wait until the August deadline.
But in the meantime, he can take steps to keep the govern-ment running. His first will be made Friday, when the gov-ernment stops selling Trea-sury securities used by state and local governments to sup-port their own sales of tax-exempt bonds.
tive Prime Minister Stephen Harper won his coveted majority government in elec-tions that changed Cana-da’s political landscape, with the opposition Liberals and Quebec separatists suffering a shattering defeat.
Harper, who took office in 2006, has won two elections but until Mon-day’s vote had never held a major-ity of Parlia-ment’s 308 seats, forcing him to rely on the opposi-tion to pass legislation.
Harper has deliberately avoided sweeping policy changes that could derail his government, but now has an opportunity to pass any legis-lation he wants with his new majority.
While Harper’s hold on Par-liament has been tenuous during his five-year tenure, he has managed to nudge an instinctively center-left coun-try to the right. He has grad-ually lowered sales and cor-porate taxes, avoided climate change legislation that would harm Alberta’s oil sands sector, promoted Arctic sovereignty, upped mili-tary spending and extended Canada’s military mission
in Afghanistan. He has also staunchly backed Israel’s right-wing government.
Afghan police: Airstrikekills security guard
KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO forces today launched an airstrike against a group of private security guards who were contracted to pro-tect military supply convoys along an eastern Afghan highway, killing one of the guards, Afghan police and the company said.
NATO confirmed that an airstrike was called in by forces in Ghazni province, but said its initial reports suggested the strike was on “suspected insurgents.”
The international coalition said it authorized the strike after its forces observed the suspected insurgents setting up an ambush site in Gelan district — activity that was confirmed by the air weap-ons team. They later found several machine guns, a rocket-propelled grenade and four AK-47 assault rifles.
Afghan officials said there were no insurgents involved.
“The Watan Risk guards came under attack on the road,” said Zirawer Zahid,
the Ghazni police chief. He was referring to Watan Risk Management, a private com-pany that supplies guards for convoys, offices and interna-tional organizations.
Zahid said the strike killed one guard, lowering the death toll from five that he had given previously. Zahid said he was going off reports from the company and they had lowered the death toll.
U.S., Romania planfor missile defense site
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s president said today his country will host missile interceptors as part of a planned U.S. shield over Europe.
Traian Basescu announced that Bucharest had agreed to build the interceptor site at the Deveselu former air base near the Bulgarian border, in a remote agricultural region.
Romania already had agreed to host the interceptors, but the location had not been decided.
The president, a staunch ally of the U.S., said it would give Romania “the highest security level in its history.”
Basescu earlier met with U.S. undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher and she traveled to the site, some 125 miles southwest of Bucharest.
An average of 200 troops will be based at the site, which can host a maxi-mum of 500, Basescu said. The base, which will remain under Romanian command, is a few miles outside Deve-selu, a town of about 3,000.
He said the site was approved late Monday by the country’s Supreme Defense Council. Local officials were informed and gave their agreement, he said.
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DETROIT (AP) — For the first time in nearly seven years, Detroit’s car compa-nies are all making money.
Chrysler, the last of the three to return to profitabil-ity, said Monday it earned $116 million in the first quar-ter on revenue of $13.1 bil-lion. The company, which emerged from bankruptcy protection less than two years ago, hadn’t reported net income since 2006.
General Motors Co., which also went bankrupt in 2009 and took billions in govern-ment aid, has reported four profitable quarters.
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Morris died of a single gun-shot wound to the chest area and was pronounced dead at 10:30 a.m.
Morris is believed to be one of two masked men attempt-ing to rob two people in the parking lot of the Confeder-ate Ridge apartment complex the night before, Williams said. His body was found with a mask covering his head at the bottom of steps near the complex’s business office, Williams said.
The would-be robbery vic-tims were resident Jermaine Wright, 26, who lived at the complex, and Patrick Tucker, 23, 2106 Baker St.
Police said the two had walked into the parking lot when they were approached by two men wearing masks. Reports indicated shots were fired by the masked men and shots were returned by the would-be victims.
Within minutes, Wright and Tucker fled the park-ing lot in Wright’s vehicle. Wright went to a nearby con-venience store and called 911 to report the shooting, and Tucker left the scene.
Around the same time, Corey Thompson, 25, 4880 U.S. 80, believed to be one of the masked men, showed up at the emergency room of River Region Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The hospital called law enforcement authorities.
Thompson was admitted to the hospital, police said, but a hospital spokesman declined to give information on his condition.
At the convenience store, Wright was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
He was released at about noon Monday after Morris’ body was found, Williams said.
A shotgun was recovered Sunday night in the com-plex parking lot, near where a second shotgun was found Monday morning, Willliams said. The steps where Morris was found are about 50 yards from the shooting scene, she said.
Williams said the investi-gation continues today and charges of armed robbery and capital murder against
Thompson are pending.Morris’ and Vega’s bodies
were taken to the Mississippi state crime lab in Jackson for autopsies.
Morris’ death was the first killing in the city and Vega’s was the second in the county this year.
Vega’s funeral arrange-ments were to be handled by Glenwood Funeral Home, and Morris’ were to be han-dled by Lakeview Funeral Home.
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Laden’s corpse and video of his swift burial at sea. Officials were reluctant to inflame Islamic sentiment by showing graphic images of the body. But they were also eager to address the mythol-ogy already building in Paki-stan and beyond that bin Laden was still alive.
Patience and persistence — characteristics normally attributed to al-Qaida — proved decisive in Ameri-ca’s decade-long hunt for bin Laden, whose fate was sealed in 40 minutes of thunderous violence.
Obama, who approved the extraordinarily risky opera-tion by Navy SEALs against bin Laden’s Pakistan com-pound and witnessed its progression from the White House Situation Room, his face heavy with tension, reaped accolades from world leaders he’d kept in the dark as well as from political opponents at home.
Republican and Demo-cratic leaders alike gave him a standing ovation at an eve-ning White House meeting that was planned before the assault but became a celebra-tion of it, and an occasion to step away from the fractious political climate.
“Last night’s news unified our country,” much as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, did, Republican House Speaker John Boehner said earlier in the day. Obama later appealed for that unity to take root as the U.S. presses the fight against a terrorist network that is now vowing vengeance.
As Americans rejoiced, they worried, too, that ter-rorists would be newly moti-vated to lash out. In their wounded rage, al-Qaida ideo-logues fed that concern. “By God, we will avenge the kill-ing of the Sheik of Islam,” one prominent al-Qaida com-mentator vowed. “Those who wish that jihad has ended or weakened, I tell them: Let us wait a little bit.”
In that vein, U.S. officials warned that bin Laden’s death was likely to encour-age attacks from “home-grown violent extremists” even if al-Qaida is not pre-pared to respond in a coordi-nated fashion now.
U.S. officials say the photo-graphic evidence shows bin Laden was shot above his left eye, blowing away part of his skull.
He was also shot in the chest, they said.
This, near the end of a frenzied firefight in a high-walled Pakistani compound
where helicopter-borne U.S. forces found 23 children, nine women, a bin Laden courier who had unwittingly led the U.S. to its target, a son of bin Laden who was also slain, and more.
Bin Laden had lived at the fortified compound for six years, officials said, far from the lawless Pakistani frontier where he had been assumed to be hiding out.
The only information about what occurred inside the compound has come from American officials.
They said SEALs dropped down ropes from helicopters, killed bin Laden aides and made their way to the main building. Obama and his national security team moni-tored the strike, watching and listening nervously and in near silence from the Situ-ation Room as it all unfolded.
“The minutes passed like days,” Brennan said.
U.S. officials said the infor-mation that ultimately led to bin Laden’s capture origi-nally came from detainees held in secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe. There, agency interrogators were told of an alias used by a courier whom bin Laden particularly trusted.
It took four long years to learn the man’s real name, then years more before investigators got a big break in the case, these officials said. Sometime in mid-2010, the man was overheard using a phone by intelligence officials, who then were able to locate his residence — the specially constructed $1 mil-lion compound with walls as high as 18 feet.
U.S. counterterrorism offi-cials considered bombing the place, an option discarded by the White House as too risky.
Instead, Obama signed an order Friday for the team of SEALs to chopper onto the compound in the dark.
In addition to bin Laden, one of his sons, Khalid, was killed in the raid, Brennan said. Bin Laden’s wife was shot in the calf but survived, a U.S. official said.
Also killed were the cou-rier, another al-Qaida facili-tator and an unidentified woman, officials said.
Some people found at the compound were left behind when the SEALs withdrew and were turned over to Pak-istani authorities, officials said.
Within 40 minutes, the operation was over, and the SEALs flew out.
Bin Laden’s death came 15 years after he declared war on the United States.
U.S. demands answers from PakistanWASHINGTON (AP) —
Incredulous lawmakers are pressing Pakistan for answers to two simple questions: What did its army and intelligence agents know of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts and when did they know it?
The al-Qaida terrorist leader behind the Sept. 11 attacks lived and died in a massive, fortified compound built in 2005 and located on the out-skirts of Abbottabad, some 60 miles from the capital of Islamabad. It stood just a half-mile from the Kakul Military Academy, Pakistan’s equiva-lent of West Point, and close to various army regiments.
Amid the high praise Monday for the operation, congressio-nal Republicans and Demo-crats questioned whether bin Laden was hiding in plain sight, with Pakistani military and intelligence operatives either unaware of his location or ignoring his presence.
It was more than a rhetorical question as lawmakers raised the possibility of imposing conditions on the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars that flow to Pakistan, largely to back an unsteady government.
“I think this tells us once again that, unfortunately, Pakistan at times is playing a double game,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a Senate Armed Services Committee member who indicated that Congress could put limits on funds for Pakistan.
Bin Laden’s death and ques-tions about Pakistan’s eager-ness in the fight against ter-rorism come as the tenuous U.S.-Pakistan relationship seems even more fragile. In recent weeks, CIA contrac-tor Raymond Davis’ killing of two Pakistanis and stepped-up drone attacks have further strained ties between the two countries.
Different factions within Pakistan itself complicate its role as a U.S. ally. What state officials and those in the mili-tary might have known about bin Laden could be quite dif-ferent from what tribes and even families in the region knew or, more to the point, were willing to say.
Early last month, CIA Direc-tor Leon Panetta met with Pakistan’s intelligence chief, Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, a meeting Washington officials saw as make or break. The Obama administration said it was negotiating a possible reduction in U.S. intelligence operatives and special opera-tions officers in Pakistan as they sought to ease Pakistani concerns about spy activity.
Prior to the raid on the com-pound, U.S. officials say, they didn’t inform Pakistan of its plans. Unaware and unnerved Pakistanis scrambled their aircraft in the wake of the U.S. military intervention.
Publicly, Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton thanked Pakistan for its coop-eration and said the coun-try “has contributed greatly to our efforts to dismantle al-Qaida.” She said, “in fact, cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound in which he was hiding.”
John Brennan, White House counterterrorism adviser, said the administration was look-ing at whether bin Laden had a support system in Pakistan.
“We know that the people at the compound there were working on his behalf, and that’s how we ultimately found our way to that compound,” Brennan told reporters at the White House.
Brennan said this morning that “clearly there was some kind of support network that provided him assistance.”
Based on the location of the compound and its proximity to army regiments, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Pakistan’s intelligence and army has “got a lot of explaining to do.”
Hours later, Levin acknowl-edged Clinton’s assessment, but he said he stood by his questions, citing the size of the compound compared with surrounding buildings and the fact that residents took the step of burning their garbage and avoiding collection.
“It’s hard to imagine that the military or police did not have any ideas what was going on inside of that,” Levin said.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Foreign Rela-tions Committee, sent a letter to Clinton seeking details on the level of cooperation from Pakistan, saying the fact that bin Laden lived in comfortable surroundings near Islamabad “calls into question whether or not the Pakistanis had knowl-
edge that he was there and did not share that knowledge.”
Said Collins, “It is very dif-ficult for me to understand how this huge compound could be built in a city just an hour north of the capital of Pakistan, in a city that con-tained military installations, including the Pakistani mil-itary academy, and that it did not arouse tremendous suspicions.”
In an essay published today by The Washington Post, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari denied suggestions his country’s security forces may have sheltered Osama bin Laden, and said their coop-eration with the United States helped pinpoint bin Laden.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., who has traveled to Pakistan, said candid conversations were necessary.
However, Kerry said it would be a mistake to forget “we’ve had people on the ground tracking this. There’s some degree of assistance and coop-eration of the Pakistanis.”
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Com-mittee, said, “I’m not the easi-est on Pakistan, but the fact is we had a period of time when we had nothing to do with Pakistan and it was not a productive exercise.” Paki-stan’s nuclear arms would be a direct threat to U.S. security, he said, if those weapons fell into the wrong hands.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intel-ligence Committee, said that while Pakistan must be asked about what it knew of bin Lad-en’s whereabouts, “we have to remember that are still equi-ties that we have in Pakistan as it relates to our national security.“
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Some two dozen Pal-estinians gathered in the Gaza Strip today to pay trib-ute to slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
About 25 people holding pictures and posters of bin Laden rallied outside a Gaza City university. The crowd included al-Qaida sympathiz-ers as well as students who said they opposed bin Lad-en’s ideology, but were angry at the U.S. for killing him and consider him a martyr.
Hamas police did not inter-fere in the demonstration.
On Monday, Ismail Hani-yeh, prime minister of Gaza’s Hamas government, con-demned the U.S. operation
against bin Laden, whom he hailed as a “Muslim and Arab warrior.” Still, the Islamic Hamas has always distanced itself from al-Qaida’s militant Islamic ideology, saying its battle is against Israel, not the West.
Bin Laden’s killing in Paki-stan on Monday has touched off expectations of revenge attacks.
In Israel, police said they beefed up security around sensitive sites, including the airport, the U.S. Embassy, the U.S. consulate and areas where U.S. officials live.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld characterized the reinforcements as precautionary.
Gaza Strip demonstratorscondemn bin Laden death
Across the western edge of Warren County, small levees have cropped up, but two essential structures near the Yazoo Backwater Area are being watched as they are tested by the river’s even-tual crest — the Yazoo Back-water Levee system, built in 1978 after the devastat-ing 1973 flood, and Redwood Elementary School, where an old school structure stands higher than one built about 20 years ago.
“The old building to the right of the new one is ele-vated by a few steps,” said Dr. Elizabeth Swinford, super-intendent. “So, it gives us a couple of extra feet.”
Corps officials are confident of the levee system’s ability to hold even as projections show stages higher than 50 feet for a month.
May 16 is the earliest date that Redwood’s 400 students could be moved to other schools, Swinford said.
“If we have to close the school, we’d have kids report to one school and then fan out to others,” Swinford said, adding the timing couldn’t be worse because of state-man-dated tests scheduled next week for third- through sixth-graders.
Tentative plans call for teachers moving with the stu-dents, ideally to schools near-est Redwood such as Sher-man Avenue and Warren Central Intermediate, where classes would go on simulta-neously, Swinford said.
“We’re going to have to double up,” Swinford said. “Double up kids, double up teachers, double up paraprofessionals.”
An additional concern, she said, is preserving school property and records in the building.
Casinos and business inter-ests along the waterfront, including at the Port of Vicksburg and south Warren County, were to meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hampton Inn & Suites on Clay Street, and Mayor Paul Winfield had called a press conference for late this morning.
Drinking water quality was not expected to be affected by the rising river because the city draws from the Missis-sippi River Alluvial Aquifer, which is concealed from the river’s main channel, said Pat McGuffie, supervisor of the City Water Treatment Plant.
LeTourneau Technologies plans to continue opera-tions until LeTourneau Road is closed by the county. In 2008, the plant closed for two months and access was ham-pered for nearly a year when a mile-long segment of the eastbound lane washed out.
Vicksburg’s five gaming houses remain open and will not be closed unless access becomes a problem, the Mis-sissippi Gaming Commission said.
Each casino has taken its own precautions. Diamond-Jacks Casino has raised its floating barge a floor’s level. At Ameristar Casino, hired crews have laid several dozen sandbags in front of the main gaming building while tests were conducted on soil below the casino’s concrete foun-dation. A small levee was built over the weekend to keep water out of a low spot between Riverwalk and Rain-bow casinos on Warrenton Road. No extra lift is expected at Horizon Casino, to be offi-cially renamed Grand Station Casino, on the Yazoo Diver-sion Canal, said Michael Sul-livan of Birmingham-based Great Southern Investment Group, which will run the hotel part of the new brand.
“Our barge can rise and fall with the river,” Sullivan said, adding the facility’s grand reopening is still set between May 12 and 20. “We don’t foresee any problems.”
Employees at Entergy’s natural gas-fired Baxter Wilson Steam Electric Plant off Warrenton Road near U.S. 61 South are monitoring the situation “very closely” and have a high-water plan in place, said Jill Smith, of the utility’s Fossil Communica-tions division.
She said Entergy does not anticipate problems with
operating Baxter Wilson, which supplies energy
throughout the year to Grand Gulf Nuclear Sta-
tion, on the river about 30 miles south. Flooding in 2008, which topped out at 50.9 feet in Vicksburg, produced only minor issues for the plant, Smith said.
“The plant has the ability to burn fuel oil as an alter-nate fuel source if necessary,” Smith said.
In north Vicksburg on Monday, residents slogged through ankle-deep water to throw out water-logged carpet and other possessions in some parts of low-lying Kings and Ford subdivisions. The city has blocked traf-fic on Levee Street between Clay and Grove streets and
has plugged openings in City Front with crossties. Roads closed inside the city Monday included Hardin Road, Jack-son Lane, Marys Lane, the west end of Pittman Road, Williams Street, Long Lake Road and Thompson Lake Road west of the rail tracks and Chickasaw Road. Ford Road was expected to be closed today.
No forced evacuation was ordered in that area or at Eagle Lake, where the water is rising and access is threat-ened becausee the Missis-sippi Department of Trans-portation was to close today the main road to the oxbow lake, Mississippi 465.
“We’ve been through this several times,” said Roger Maxwell, who plans to stay at Maxwell Landing in Eagle Lake as long as he can. “I was here in ’73. We’ll be open till water laps at our knees.”
Yore Country Store, next to the Eagle Lake Volunteer Fire Department station, also planned to remain open, said an employee who answered the phone at the store.
Water on Mississippi 465 touched the road that was still open Monday night.
Two district engineers met Monday with key officials with the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol and the Warren County Sheriff’s Depart-ment. Low spots in the road are being watched hourly by deputies, who are reporting the movement, Sheriff Martin Pace said.
Gates are open on the Muddy Bayou Control Struc-ture to fill Eagle Lake to 90 feet from its ideal level of 76.9 feet. The move is geared to ease pressure on the Buck Chute levee while a berm to enclose sand boils is built below. The lake’s stage was 80 feet this morning, up nine-tenths of a foot.
At Steele Bayou, the land side water level was at 89.01 feet and the river side was at 94.21 feet this morning. The gates will remain closed until the river side stage is lower than the level in the 4,093-square-mile Yazoo Backwa-ter Area. A 107-foot crest is expected on the river side around May 18, which would top an all-time high set in 1973. The land side crest is expected to reach 93.5 feet by June 10.
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Alex Summers rests while Claude Boue moves his belongings through 6 inches of water in his house on Williams Street in Kings Monday. Boue had moved many of his valuables to the attic but said he fears it is not high enough.
A levee constructed on a service road is designed to keep water out of Rainbow Casino.
FloodContinued from Page A1.
At a glanceSandbags — Warren County Emergency Management
Agency, 601-636-4415. Bags may be picked up at the Road Department, 100 County Lane, off U.S. 61 North.
River stages — http://www.srh.noaa.gov; http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/WaterControl/new/layout.cfm; or the City of Vicksburg’s recorded information line, 601-801-3443
Flood plain info — http://hazards.fema.gov; Warren Coun-ty Emergency Management Agency, 601-636-4415; City of Vicksburg Building and Inspections Department, 601-634-4528; or visit http://web.vicksburg.org/vicksburg/default.aspx?tabid=55, register for the city’s GIS mapping site and choose features under the “Flood Zone” folder.
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SChEdulESPRING FOOTBALLVicksburg at TaylorsvilleMay 12, 5 p.m.
WC at Yazoo CityMay 13, 5 p.m.
St. Aloysius at RidgelandMay 13, 5 p.m.
ON TV6 p.m. TNT - Miami aims for a 2-0 lead in Game 2 of its second-round play-off series against Boston, while Memphis tries to add to its improbable run tonight, leading the se-ries 1-0, at Oklahoma City in the nightcap.
WhO’S hOTCHASE SMITHFormer St. Aloysius golfer was named the team’s MVP at the Delta State golf team awards banquet on Monday.
SIdElINESM-Braves earnseries victory
The Mississippi Braves wrapped up a series win in a five-game home-stand against the Hunts-ville Stars on Monday at Trustmark Park with a 2-0 victory.
Tim Gustafson (1-1) showed pin-point control in eight strong innings, giving up just three hits and striking out four while issuing no walks.
Billy Bullock pitched a flawless ninth for his sec-ond save.
The M-Braves (9-16) took the lead in the fourth. C. J. Retherford led off with a double. Then Jordan Kreke sin-gled on a one-out line drive to center to bring him home.
In the fifth, the M-Braves gave Gustafson some more insurance. Marcus Lemon singled to lead off the frame. Gustafson bunted Lemon to second and C. J. Re-therford ripped a two-out infield single to score hin.
First baseman Geraldo Rodriguez paced the M-Braves with three hits.
Cody Zumbro’s decision to step down as Vicksburg High’s baseball coach wasn’t made after a grueling loss, or because of a clash with his bosses.
It was made over the course of several long days, when the sun rose and set with-out hearing the voices of his three children.
“I went three days one week without talking to my children. It was 50 hours straight without a chance to hug them, or talk to them or anything. That was a tipping point for me,” Zumbro said.
Last week, Zumbro decided to do what he could to not let it happen again. He informed VHS principal Derrick Reed and Vicksburg Warren ath-letic director Lum Wright that he is leaving the school after only one season.
Zumbro will return to his previous job, as an assistant baseball and football coach at Clinton High School. Zumbro still has a home in Clinton, and his wife works as a home health nurse in the area. Zumbro had been commut-ing to Vicksburg every day.
“I’m going to finish the year out, but I’m going to be back at Clinton. It was a family decision,” Zumbro said. “I prayed about it for a while. Once you leave Clinton, it’s really hard to get back there because nobody ever leaves. It’s amazing that my position never really got filled.”
Zumbro led Vicksburg to a 13-15 record this season, which ended last week with a heartbreaking first-round playoff loss to South Panola. The Gators led 13-8 in the series’ decisive Game 3, only to surrender six runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and lose 14-13.
After that loss — when he got home well after midnight — Zumbro said he had a long talk with his wife and they decided it was time to make a move. Although he’s giving
up a job as a head coach to once again become an assis-tant, Zumbro said the final call wasn’t difficult.
“You always hear not to make a lateral move. But this decision was about family, so it wouldn’t make a difference if it was two steps back. If it makes me a better husband and father, that’s what I’ve got to do,” Zumbro said.
Wright said he was disap-pointed to lose Zumbro, but understood his reason for leaving.
“It’s sad to see him go. I think he’s a tremendous person and a tremendously good coach. He brought a lot of good things to our school,” Wright said. “He’s doing it for his family. When you weigh those things, it’s understandable.”
No timetable has been set to find Zumbro’s successor. Wright said that Reed and Vicksburg Warren superin-tendent Dr. Elizabeth Duran Swinford were to meet this week to decide on a course of
action.Their options include:• Promoting one of the
assistants on the staff. Zumbro said Ryan Grey, who played at VHS and also served as an assistant under the previous coach, Jamie Creel, was his recommenda-tion if that route is chosen. Grey is currently in his first year as a physical education teacher at Vicksburg Inter-mediate School.
Despite playoff ouster, Vikings still had good yearBy Jeff [email protected]
Coaches talk all the time about the importance of senior leadership, but departing Warren Central senior Beau Wallace’s skills were honed a year earlier.
Wallace, along with fellow WC seniors Carlos Gonza-lez and Clayton Ashley, led the Vikings to 15 wins and a second straight trip to the Class 6A playoffs. Like last year, Warren Central’s season ended in the second round with a series loss in two games to Madison Cen-tral. The loss to the Jag-uars (28-1), ranked seventh nationally by MaxPreps.com, does nothing to diminish the seasons enjoyed by Wallace, Gonzalez or Ashley.
Coming into this season, the Vikings had to replace six senior starters from a 15-13 club that won the Divi-sion 4-6A title in 2010. Offen-sive production looked to be a problem, but that was not the case with Wallace leading the way with a .480 average.
“Not to discount what those seniors did for us last year, but it was the juniors who were the leaders on that team,” Wallace said. “Me, Carlos and Clayton made a pact that each of us would do our part in leading these young guys. We wanted to
show them how to work and how to play baseball. We did that. Now, it’s up to them.”
With six starters return-ing and a good group of ninth graders coming up, the Vikings appear set for a good run under coach Josh Abra-ham. The third-year coach, however, wanted to thank his seniors for getting his pro-gram to this point.
“They’ve set the bar high,” Abraham said. “Obviously, we’d love to still be playing.
But those seniors came out and competed every time out and they worked their tails off. I have to thank them for their efforts.”
The question now, is how can Warren Central, move back to the state’s elite —when the Vikings won the Class 5A championship.
Abraham said the Vikings are not that far away.
“Look, we work just as hard as they (Madison Central) do,” Abraham said.
Abraham knows there are areas he wants to address this summer.
“We’ll look at the whole spectrum of things,” Abra-ham said. “We definitely need to get better defen-sively. We will also look at our pitching and offense.”
The pitching should be in good shape.
Current juniors Chase Ladd and Devon Bell made four postseason starts between them.
Duersonhad braintraumabeforesuicideBy The Associated Press
BOSTON — Dave Duer-son, a former NFL player who committed suicide in February, had “moderately advanced” brain damage related to blows to the head, according to the researcher who made the diagnosis.
“It’s indisputable” that Duerson had chronic trau-matic encephalopathy, a disorder linked to repeated brain trauma, Dr. Ann McKee said Monday.
The findings were announced as part of an effort conducted by the Center for the Study of Trau-matic Encephalopathy at Boston University’s School of Medicine. The CSTE Brain Bank has the brains of more than 70 athletes and military veterans, with football play-ers comprising more than half of the athletes.
Duerson played safety in the NFL for 11 seasons, seven with the Chicago Bears, and was chosen for four Pro Bowls before retiring in 1993.
“Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evi-dence of any other disease,” McKee said, “and he has severe involvement of all the (brain) structures that affect things like judgment, inhibi-tion, impulse control, mood and memory.”
The body of Duerson, who was 50, was found in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., on Feb. 17. He left a note asking that his brain be given to the NFL’s Brain Bank. He shot himself in the chest, “presumably” to preserve his brain for study, said Chris Nowinski, co-director of the CSTE.
The other co-directors are McKee, Dr. Robert Cantu and Dr. Robert Stern.
Duerson’s case was “mod-erately advanced,” McKee said. “The likelihood is that if he hadn’t had the CTE, he wouldn’t have developed those symptoms that he was experiencing at the end of his life and perhaps he wouldn’t have been compelled to end his life.”
Cantu said that such results normally are pub-lished first, but the Duer-son family wanted them released earlier. Duerson’s former wife, daughter and three sons attended the news conference.
“We have been given the gift of closure,” said his son, Tregg. “We accept this gift with great humility, as we are mindful of other families that have lost loved ones and still bear the burden of unan-swered questions.”
Duerson had at least 10 con-cussions in his NFL career, according to his family, and lost consciousness during some. However, he never was admitted to a hospital for them, Stern said. But he said it’s also important to address hits to the head that don’t cause concussions.
CSTE, created in 2008, is a collaboration between the BU School of Medicine and the Sports Legacy Institute, headed by Nowinski. The center has been aggressively researching head trauma in sports, and has received a $1 million gift from the NFL.
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Vicksburg High baseball coach Cody Zumbro, left, talks to an umpire before a game against Jim Hill last month. Zumbro has announced he will leave VHS to take a job as an assistant baseball and football coach at Clinton High School.
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Warren Central first baseman Will Stegall attempts to tag Madison Central’s Curt Chism on a pickoff throw during their game at Viking Field on Saturday.
East All Games SEC W L W LFlorida ...........................34 10 17 4South Carolina .............35 8 17 4Vanderbilt .....................38 5 17 4Georgia .........................24 21 13 8Tennessee ....................22 20 5 16Kentucky .......................20 25 4 17
West All Games SEC W L W LAlabama .......................28 19 10 11Arkansas .......................29 13 10 11Auburn ..........................23 21 9 12Ole Miss ......................24 20 9 12Mississippi St. ............25 18 8 13LSU ...............................28 17 7 14
Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled
Tuesday’s GamesBethune-Cookman at Florida, 6 p.m.Mississippi St. at South Alabama, 6 p.m.Tulane at LSU, 6:30 p.m.SE Missouri St. at Arkansas, 6:35 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesSouth Carolina at Wofford, 6 p.m.SE Missouri St. at Arkansas, 6:35 p.m.
CONFERENCE USA All Games C-USA W L W LSouthern Miss ............32 11 11 4Rice ..............................28 16 9 6Houston ........................22 23 9 6Memphis .......................25 19 8 7UAB ..............................25 19 9 9East Carolina ................28 16 9 9Tulane ...........................26 18 6 9UCF ..............................27 17 7 11Marshall ........................17 24 4 11
Monday’s GamesNo games scheduled
Today’s GamesCentral Florida at South Florida, 6 p.m.Tulane at LSU, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesSouthern Miss at South Alabama, 6 p.m.Stephen F. Austin at Rice, 6:30 p.m.
———Mississippi schedule
Monday’s GameBelhaven 7, William Carey 1
Tuesday’s GamesMississippi St. at South Alabama, 6 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesSouthern Miss at South Alabama, 6:30 p.m.
———Baseball America Top 25
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The top 25 teams in the Baseball America poll with records through May 1 and previous ranking (voting by the staff of Base-ball America): Record Pvs1. Virginia ..............................42-5 .........................12. South Carolina ..................35-8 .........................23. Oregon St. ........................32-9 .........................34. Vanderbilt ..........................38-5 .........................45. Florida .............................34-10 .........................56. Texas ..............................33-11 .........................77. Arizona St. ......................31-10 .........................88. Florida St. .......................33-11 .........................99. Texas A&M .....................30-14 .........................610. Cal St. Fullerton ............30-13 .......................1011. Texas Christian .............31-13 .......................1112. Southern Miss .............32-11 .......................1513. Georgia Tech ................31-14 .......................1214. Oklahoma ......................31-13 .......................1415. Stetson ..........................34-10 .......................1716. Oklahoma St. ................30-13 .......................1917. Miami .............................29-15 .......................1618. North Carolina ...............33-10 .......................1819. Fresno St. .......................29-9 .......................1320. Connecticut ...................31-13 .......................2321. California .......................26-14 .......................2022. Clemson ........................29-15 ......................NR23. Gonzaga ........................25-13 ......................NR24. Rice ...............................28-16 .......................2525. Texas St. .......................28-16 ......................NR
Collegiate Baseball PollTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The Collegiate Baseball poll with records through May 1, points and previ-ous rank. Voting is done by coaches, sports writ-ers and sports information directors: Record Pts Pvs1. South Carolina ......................35-8 496 22. Virginia ..................................42-5 495 13. Vanderbilt ..............................38-5 494 34. Oregon St. ............................32-9 493 65. Florida ..................................34-10 492 56. Texas ...................................33-11 489 47. Arizona St. ...........................31-10 485 108. Texas Christian ....................31-13 479 79. Texas A&M ..........................30-14 478 810. Georgia Tech .....................31-14 476 911. Florida St. ..........................33-11 475 1212. Cal St. Fullerton .................30-13 472 1113. UCLA ..................................23-16 465 1314. Miami, Fla. .........................29-15 462 1415. Oklahoma ...........................31-13 460 1516. Connecticut ...................... 31-13-1 459 1817. North Carolina ....................33-10 458 1718. Fresno St. ...........................29-9 454 1619. Oklahoma St. .....................30-13 450 2120. Southern Miss ..................32-11 448 1921. Clemson .............................29-15 447 2522. Stetson ...............................34-10 446 2323. U.C. Irvine ..........................28-12 443 2024. California ............................26-14 440 2425. Charlotte .............................34-10 439 26
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american leagueEast Division
W L Pct GBNew York ......................17 9 .654 —Tampa Bay ...................15 13 .536 3Baltimore ......................13 14 .481 4 1/2Boston ..........................13 15 .464 5Toronto .........................13 15 .464 5
Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland ......................19 8 .704 —Kansas City ..................15 13 .536 4 1/2Detroit ...........................12 17 .414 8Chicago ........................11 19 .367 9 1/2Minnesota .....................9 18 .333 10
West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles .................16 13 .552 —Texas ............................16 13 .552 —Oakland ........................15 14 .517 1Seattle ..........................13 16 .448 3
Monday’s GamesOakland 5, Texas 4, 9 inningsN.Y. Yankees 5, Detroit 3Boston 9, L.A. Angels 5Chicago White Sox 6, Baltimore 2
Today’s GamesToronto (Jo-Jo.Reyes 0-2) at Tampa Bay (W.Davis 3-2), 5:40 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 2-1) at Detroit (Penny 1-3), 6:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Haren 4-1) at Boston (Lester 3-1), 6:10 p.m.Baltimore (Bergesen 0-3) at Kansas City (Francis 0-3), 7:10 p.m.Minnesota (Liriano 1-4) at Chicago White Sox (E.Jackson 2-3), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (Carmona 2-3) at Oakland (T.Ross 1-2), 9:05 p.m.Texas (Ogando 3-0) at Seattle (Bedard 1-4), 9:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesMinnesota (Blackburn 1-4) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-4), 1:10 p.m.Toronto (Morrow 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 1-3), 5:40 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 1-1) at Detroit (Scherzer 4-0), 6:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (E.Santana 1-3) at Boston (Beckett 2-1), 6:10 p.m.Baltimore (Arrieta 3-1) at Kansas City (Davies 1-3), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (Tomlin 4-0) at Oakland (Cahill 4-0), 9:05 p.m.Texas (C.Wilson 3-1) at Seattle (Pineda 4-1), 9:10 p.m.
National leagueEast Division
W L Pct GBFlorida ...........................18 9 .667 —Philadelphia ..................18 9 .667 —Atlanta ..........................15 15 .500 4 1/2Washington ...................14 14 .500 4 1/2New York ......................12 16 .429 6 1/2
Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis .......................16 13 .552 —Cincinnati ......................14 14 .500 1 1/2Pittsburgh .....................14 15 .483 2Milwaukee .....................13 15 .464 2 1/2Chicago ........................12 16 .429 3 1/2Houston ........................11 17 .393 4 1/2
West Division W L Pct GBColorado .......................17 9 .654 —Los Angeles .................15 15 .500 4San Francisco ..............13 15 .464 5Arizona .........................12 15 .444 5 1/2San Diego ....................11 18 .379 7 1/2
Monday’s GamesWashington 2, San Francisco 0Atlanta 6, Milwaukee 2Houston at Cincinnati, ppd., rainFlorida 6, St. Louis 5Pittsburgh 4, San Diego 3L.A. Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 2
Today’s GamesWashington (L.Hernandez 3-2) at Philadelphia (Hamels 3-1), 6:05 p.m.Houston (Happ 1-4) at Cincinnati (Leake 3-0), 6:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Estrada 1-0) at Atlanta (Hanson 3-3), 6:10 p.m.San Francisco (Vogelsong 1-0) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 1-3), 6:10 p.m.Florida (Ani.Sanchez 1-1) at St. Louis (McClellan 4-0), 7:15 p.m.Colorado (De La Rosa 4-0) at Arizona (J.Saunders 0-3), 8:40 p.m.Pittsburgh (Karstens 2-1) at San Diego (Latos 0-4), 9:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Dempster 1-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 2-1), 9:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesHouston (An.Rodriguez 0-0) at Cincinnati (T.Wood 1-3), 11:35 a.m.Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 3-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 2-2), 2:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Correia 4-2) at San Diego (Richard 1-2), 5:35 p.m.Washington (Marquis 3-0) at Philadelphia (Worley 1-0), 6:05 p.m.Milwaukee (Greinke 0-0) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 3-2), 6:10 p.m.San Francisco (Lincecum 2-3) at N.Y. Mets (Capuano 2-2), 6:10 p.m.Florida (Vazquez 2-2) at St. Louis (Carpenter 0-2), 7:15 p.m.Colorado (Chacin 3-2) at Arizona (Enright 1-2), 8:40 p.m.
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Today’s GamesCarolina at Tennessee, 10:30 a.m.Jackson at Chattanooga, 6:15 p.m.Mobile at Birmingham, 7:05 p.m.Jacksonville at Montgomery, 7:05 p.m.
Huntsville at Mississippi, 7:05 p.m.Tuesday’s Games
Montgomery at Carolina, 6:15 p.m.Mississippi at Chattanooga, 6:15 p.m.Jacksonville at Huntsville, 6:43 p.m.Tennessee at Mobile, 7:05 p.m.Birmingham at Jackson, 7:05 p.m.
NbaNBA Playoffs
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS(Best-of-7)
EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlanta 1, Chicago 0
Monday: Atlanta 103, Chicago 95, Atlanta leads series 1-0Wednesday: Atlanta at Chicago, 7 p.m.Friday: Chicago at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Sunday: Chicago at Atlanta, 7 p.m.x-May 10: Atlanta at Chicago, TBAx-May 12: Chicago at Atlanta, TBAx-May 15: Atlanta at Chicago, TBA
Miami 1, Boston 0May 1: Miami 99, Boston 90Today: Boston at Miami, 6 p.m.Saturday: Miami at Boston, 7 p.m.May 9: Miami at Boston, 6 p.m.x-May 11: Boston at Miami, TBAx-May 13: Miami at Boston, TBAx-May 16: Boston at Miami, 7 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCEDallas 1, L.A. Lakers 0
Monday: Dallas 96, L.A. Lakers 94, Dallas leads series 1-0Wednesday: Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.Friday: L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Sunday: L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 2:30 p.m.x-May 10: Dallas at L.A. Lakers, TBAx-May 12: L.A. Lakers at Dallas, TBAx-May 15: Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m.
Oklahoma City vs. MemphisMay 1: Memphis 114, Oklahoma City 101Today: Memphis at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m.Saturday: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 4 p.m.May 9: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 8:30 p.m.x-May 11: Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBAx-May 13: Oklahoma City at Memphis, TBAx-May 15: Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBA
April 29: Tampa Bay 4, Washington 2May 1: Tampa Bay 3, Washington 2, OTToday: Washington at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.Wednesday: Washington at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.x-Saturday: Tampa Bay at Washington, 11:30 a.m.x-May 9: Washington at Tampa Bay, TBAx-May 11: Tampa Bay at Washington, TBA
Boston 2, Philadelphia 0April 30: Boston 7, Philadelphia 3Monday: Boston 3, Philadelphia 2, OT, Boston leads series 2-0Wednesday: Philadelphia at Boston, 6 p.m.Friday: Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m.x-May 8: Boston at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.x-May 10: Philadelphia at Boston, TBAx-May 12: Boston at Philadelphia, TBA
WESTERN CONFERENCEVancouver 1, Nashville 1
April 28: Vancouver 1, Nashville 0April 30: Nashville 2, Vancouver 1, 2OTToday: Vancouver at Nashville, 8 p.m.Thursday: Vancouver at Nashville, 7:30 p.m.x-Saturday: Nashville at Vancouver, 7 p.m.x-May 9: Vancouver at Nashville, TBAx-May 11: Nashville at Vancouver, TBA
San Jose 2, Detroit 0April 29: San Jose 2, Detroit 1, OTMay 1: San Jose 2, Detroit 1Wednesday: San Jose at Detroit, 7 p.m.Friday: San Jose at Detroit, 6 p.m.x-Sunday: Detroit at San Jose, 7 p.m.x-May 10: San Jose at Detroit, TBAx-May 12: Detroit at San Jose, TBA
March 27 — Auto Club 400 (Kevin Harvick)April 3 — Goody’s Fast Relief 500 (Kevin Harvick)April 9 — Samsung Mobile 500 (Matt Kenseth)April 17 — Aaron’s 499 (Jimmie Johnson)April 30 — Crown Royal Presents The Matthew & Daniel Hansen 400 (Kyle Busch)May 7 — Showtime Southern 500, Darlington, S.C.May 15 — Dover 400, Dover, Del.May 21 — x-Sprint All-Star Race, Concord, N.C.May 21 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord, N.C.May 29 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C.June 5 — STP 400, Kansas City, Kan.June 12 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa.June 19 — Heluva Good! 400, Brooklyn, Mich.June 26 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif.July 2 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla.July 9 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky.July 17 — Lenox Tools 301, Loudon, N.H.July 31 — Brickyard 400, Indianapolis
Sprint Cup standings1. Carl Edwards ................................................. 3352. Jimmie Johnson ............................................ 3263. Kyle Busch .................................................... 3054. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ........................................ 3015. Kevin Harvick ................................................ 3006. Kurt Busch .................................................... 2897. Clint Bowyer .................................................. 2848. Ryan Newman .............................................. 2779. Matt Kenseth ................................................. 27610. Tony Stewart ............................................... 27511. A J Allmendinger ........................................ 26312. Juan Pablo Montoya ................................... 262
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Nationwide Series scheduleFeb. 19 — DRIVE4COPD 300 (Tony Stewart)Feb. 26 — Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 (Kyle Busch)March 5 — Sam’s Town 300 (Mark Martin)March 19 — Scotts EZ Seed 300 (Kyle Busch)March 26 — Royal Purple 300 (Kyle Busch)April 8 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 (Carl Edwards)April 16 — Aaron’s 312 (Kyle Busch)April 23 — Nashville 300 (Carl Edwards)April 29 — BUBBA burger 250 (Denny Hamlin)May 6 — Royal Purple 200, Darlington, S.C.May 14 — 5-hour ENERGY 200, Dover, Del.May 22 — Iowa 250, Newton, IowaMay 28 — Top Gear 300, Concord, N.C.June 4 — STP 300, Joliet, Ill.June 18 — Michigan 250, Brooklyn, Mich.June 25 — Bucyrus 200, Elkhart Lake, Wis.July 1 — Subway 250, Daytona Beach, Fla.July 8 — Feed The Children 300, Sparta, Ky.July 16 — New England 200, Loudon, N.H.July 23 — Federated 300, Lebanon, Tenn.July 30 — Kroger 200, Indianapolis
Nationwide Series standings1. Justin Allgaier ................................................ 3052. Elliott Sadler .................................................. 2993. Jason Leffler ................................................. 2964. Reed Sorenson ............................................. 2925. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ..................................... 2886. Aric Almirola .................................................. 2887. Trevor Bayne ................................................ 2608. Brian Scott .................................................... 2579. Kenny Wallace .............................................. 24710. Josh Wise ................................................... 216
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Major League BaseballMLB—Suspended minor league RHP Andrew Doyle (Myrtle Beach-Carolina) 50 games for a second drug violation.
American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES—Activated RHP Chris Jakubauskas from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Norfolk (IL). National LeagueST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Placed 3B David Freese on the 15-day DL. Activated INF-OF Allen Craig from the 15-day DL.
Eastern LeagueREADING PHILLIES—Announced OF Matt Miller was assigned to the team from Lehigh Valley (IL). Announced OF Jeremy Slayden was released.
HocKeYNational Hockey League
PHOENIX COYOTES—Announced the resignation of associate coach Ulf Samuelsson to become coach of MODO (Swedish Elite).
collegeARIZONA STATE—Announced women’s basket-ball coach Charli Turner Thorne is taking a leaving of absence for the 2011-2012 season and plans to return in the spring of 2012. Named associate head coach Joseph Anders interim coach.CASTLETON STATE—Announced softball and men’s soccer coach John Werner has resigned as softball coach.EARLHAM—Named Melissa Johnson women’s basketball coach.ILLINOIS-CHICAGO—Named Stew Robinson men’s assistant basketball coach.KING (TENN.)—Named David Hicks athletic direc-tor.
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or Washington at Philadelphia9 p.m. MLB - Texas at Seattle or Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers9 p.m. WGN - Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers
NBA PLAYOFFS6 p.m. TNT - Boston at Miami, Game 28:30 p.m. TNT - Memphis at Oklahoma City, Game 2
NHL PLAYOFFS5:30 p.m. Versus - Washington at
Tampa Bay, Game 38 p.m. Versus - Vancouver at Nashville, Game 3
May 31986 — The 54-year-old Bill Shoe-
maker wins his fourth Kentucky Derby, riding long shot Ferdi-nand to a sensational last-to-first dash for a 21⁄4-length win over Bold Arrangement.
2000 — The Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 6-4, ending Atlan-ta’s franchise-record 15-game win-ning streak, the longest in the majors since 1991 and the National League’s longest since 1951.
2007 — Golden State is the first No. 8 seed to capture a best-of-seven playoff series with a 111-86 victory over the NBA-best Dallas Mavericks in Game 6. The Warriors are only the third eighth seed to upset the No. 1 and the first since the opening round went from best-of-five to the current format. The Denver Nuggets (1994) and the New York Knicks (1999) are the only other No. 8 teams to win a series.
2008 — Big Brown, ridden by Kent Desormeaux, defies history with his 43⁄4-length victory in the Kentucky Derby. Big Brown is the first horse since the filly Regret in 1915 to win the Derby off just three career starts and the second to win from post position No. 20. Filly Eight Belles finishes second and then breaks both front ankles while galloping out a quarter of a mile past the wire. She is euthanized on the track.
college fooTballGuilty plea in 2009 cowbell assault
STARKVILLE — A guilty plea appears to settle a criminal case involving one man’s assault on another with a cowbell after the Ole Miss-Mississippi State football game in 2009.
But a civil lawsuit involving the attack continues, and the defen-dants include the Southeastern Conference. On Monday, Brent Vowell pleaded guilty to misde-meanor simple assault in the 2009 incident. He received a 45-day sen-tence to be served on weekends, according to other media outlets.
Victim William Matthew Brasher says in the civil suit that he suf-fered a 4-inch laceration in the altercation.
NflNFL: Lockout appealwon’t bar season
MINNEAPOLIS — With its play-ers again barred from work, the NFL told a federal appeals court the fight over whether the lockout is legal won’t get in the way of the 2011 season. The rest of the labor fight? That’s anyone’s guess.
The league filed an 18-page brief with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, arguing that the lockout should remain in effect permanently while appeals play out. The appeals court put U.S. Dis-trict Judge Susan Richard Nelson’s order lifting the 45-day lockout on hold temporarily last week. The owners reinstated the lockout a few hours later, and they want a more permanent stay of Nelson’s order so they can argue that it should be overturned altogether.
Packers’ Aaron Rodgers, Jets’ Rex Ryan honored
NEW YORK — Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers and New York Jets coach Rex Ryan were honored Monday by the Pro Football Writers of America.
Rodgers, who led Green Bay to the NFL title, won the Good Guy Award given to the player that best helped the media do their job.
Hawks stun Rose, Bulls in Game 1CHICAGO (AP) — The
Atlanta Hawks stared down Superman and they weren’t blinking against the Bulls, either.
Joe Johnson scored 34 points and Atlanta beat top-seeded Chicago 103-95 on Monday night in Game 1 of the East-ern Conference semifinals.
As if the loss itself wasn’t bad enough, the Bulls got a scare when Derrick Rose came up limping after he turned his left ankle at the end of the game. Their MVP — yes, MVP — stepped on Jamal Crawford’s foot as he dribbled out the final seconds and was helped off by teammates and a trainer.
A person familiar with the situation confirmed reports Monday night that Rose is the winner, making him the league’s youngest MVP and only the second Bull along with Michael Jordan to win the award.
That announcement is expected today, with the presentation at Game 2 on Wednesday. If the Bulls keep playing like this, that could be their final appearance at the United Center, particularly if Rose is limited.
“I should be OK,” he said. “I’ll probably get treatment right now, go home, get some more treatment and be ready to go for Wednesday.”
The Hawks went on a 15-2 run that bridged the third and fourth quarters to turn a 69-65 deficit into an 80-71 lead with 10:27 remaining.
Johnson scored eight points during that stretch, and the Hawks hung on.
Johnson was brilliant, hit-ting 12 of 18 shots and all five 3-point attempts. Craw-ford scored 22 points, and Jeff
Teague added 10 while start-ing at the point for the injured Kirk Hinrich. Teague wound up getting the game ball from coach Larry Drew.
“We’re the team that nobody talks about,” Crawford said.
Well, this is a good way to get them talking — shoot 51.3 percent against one of the league’s stingiest defenses
and take a series opener.As alarming as all that was
for the Bulls, though, the sight of Rose limping off sent a real shiver through Chicago.
“It’s tough when your best player is limping off the court with an injury that you know he’s had before,” center Joakim Noah said. “It’s tough, but right now, we have a game
on Wednesday in less than 48 hours.”
Rose twisted the same ankle in the opening round against Indiana, but even before he limped off the court, this cer-tainly wasn’t his best night.
He scored 24 points, but he was just 11 of 27 from the field and did not attempt a free throw.
Mavericks rally past defending championsLOS ANGELES (AP) —
When Kobe Bryant drained a 3-pointer to put the Los Ange-les Lakers up by 16 points in the second half, nobody would have been surprised if the Dallas Mavericks packed it in. After all, these peren-nial underachievers aren’t exactly known for their play-off tenacity.
Their stirring comeback against the two-time defend-ing champions showed that Dirk Nowitzki and his Mavs just might be capable of cre-ating whole new reputations this spring.
Nowitzki scored 28 points and hit two go-ahead free throws with 19.5 seconds left, Jason Kidd forced a crucial turnover moments later, and the Mavericks escaped with a 96-94 victory in Game 1 on Monday night when Bryant missed two late chances to steal it back for the Lakers.
Jason Terry scored 15 points and Nowitzki had 14 rebounds for the Mavericks, who erased that huge third-quarter deficit before the dramatic finish to the perennial playoff teams’ first postseason meeting in 23 years. The Mavericks trailed 92-87 with 3:32 to play, but fin-ished on a 9-2 run.
“I thought we did a great job hanging in there,” Now-itzki said. “It wasn’t looking good, but we talked about in the huddle. Just stick with it, try to get some stops, don’t turn the ball over, and get a shot up every time. Just at least give ourselves a chance to make it.”
They made it, all right — but only when Bryant, who scored 21 of his 36 points in the second half, couldn’t provide his usual late-game heroics.
“You’ve got to make plays, and you’ve got to dodge some
bullets,” Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. “We did both.”
After Nowitzki’s free throws gave Dallas its first lead of the second half, Bryant fell down while trying to get past Kidd to collect the ball from Pau Gasol with 5 seconds to play. After one free throw by Kidd, Bryant missed a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer off the back rim just before the buzzer.
“I think they always had
hope,” Bryant said of the Mavs. “They’re in the second round. They’re here to play. I don’t really see it as a big deal. We’ve got to improve.”
Game 2 is Wednesday night at Staples Center.
Gasol had 15 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for the second-seeded Lakers, who lost their second straight Game 1 after winning six straight openers over the pre-
vious two seasons. Their loss to New Orleans two weeks ago was much more surprising than this loss to the playoff-tested Mavs, but the Lakers’ lack of poise down the stretch should be scary to anybody anticipating a threepeat.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson blamed the loss on one stretch of awful basketball: Right after Los Angeles completed a 21-2 run spanning halftime to take a 60-44 lead on Bryant’s 3, Dallas made a 20-6 run.
“We felt like we gave the game away,” Jackson said. “I’m not so sure Dallas didn’t outplay us, but the players felt like we gave it away. ... The game was won in the third quarter when we got the lead and stopped playing defense and stopped playing offense. It took a lot of energy out of us, and put a lot of energy in them, to be able to do that. That shows a lot of heart on their part.”
Terry scored 13 points in the first half to lead the Mavs’ reserves, who outscored Los Angeles’ bench 40-25. But the Lakers took a 53-44 half-time lead with a 14-2 run that included four points in the final 0.7 seconds.
Terry got too close to Lamar Odom’s last-ditch heave from halfcourt right before the buzzer, and Odom — who fin-ished with 15 points — made three free throws. Nowitzki then got a technical foul for throwing an aggressive elbow under the hoop while scrap-ping with Ron Artest, and Bryant hit a final free throw.
Both teams put aside the ugliness of their ejection-filled meeting on March 31 while preparing for the franchises’ first postseason meeting since the 1988 Western Conference finals.
• Reviewing the applica-tions submitted last summer to see if there are any can-didates still interested and available.
“We just interviewed 12 months ago, so we might look at some of those people again. But that has not been decided yet,” Wright said.
• Starting the application and interview process all over again. Vicksburg has four full-time and two part-time starters returning next season, including a couple of college prospects with center fielder Lamar Anthony and pitcher Cody Waddell.
The combination of talent
and tradition — the Gators appeared in the state finals as recently as 2008 and are a perennial playoff contender — would certainly make it an appealing job to Mississippi’s baseball coaching fraternity.
Zumbro was hopeful he did his part to make it that way.
“I don’t have any regrets.
It was a great coaching job, a great teaching job, great athletes. We put the booster club back together,” he said. “All the factors are there. I hope this one year helped steer things in the right direction.”
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Braves rock nemesisGallardo, MilwaukeeBy The Associated Press
Chipper Jones said it might have taken a little more than a big hit from Alex Gonza-lez, a strong start from Jair Jurrjens and a homer from backup catcher David Ross for the Braves to finally beat Yovani Gallardo.
Jones kidded a little witch-craft might have been involved. Gonzalez hit a three-run double to give Atlanta the lead and the Braves finally solved Gallardo, beating the Milwaukee Brewers 6-2 on Monday night. Gallardo began the day 3-0 with a 0.96 ERA in five career starts against Atlanta, including a two-hit shutout in a 1-0 win on April 5 in Milwaukee.
“We snapped the head off a chicken and, I don’t know, exorcised a demon,” said Jones jokingly.
Ross hit a homer in the third inning before the Braves knocked Gallardo (2-2) out of the game in the sixth. Gon-zalez cleared the bases with his double before scoring on a single by Nate McLouth.
The four runs Gallardo allowed in the sixth matched his total allowed over 371⁄3 innings in his first five starts against the Braves.
“He’s been scuffling a little as of late,” said Jones, who had two hits.
Jurrjens appears to be gain-ing momentum. Jurrjens (3-0) gave up two runs on seven hits and no walks in 72⁄3 innings. He had four strikeouts as he con-tinues his comeback from a frustrating 2010 season short-ened by injuries.
Gallardo allowed nine hits and five runs in five-plus innings. He matched his season high with four walks while striking out seven.
The right-hander has allowed four or more earned runs in five straight starts, leaving his ERA at 6.10.
“I thought he looked better this time than he did his last outing,” said Brewers man-ager Ron Roenicke of Gal-lardo. “Still isn’t like we saw in the first couple games, but we thought it was better. Rhythm was better.
“The walks hurt him but I didn’t think they hit the ball that hard. This guy is used to being in every ballgame that he pitches. He’s used to keep-ing that run total down. I’m sure he’s getting a little frus-trated with it but I think there is improvement there.”
Elsewhere in the National League Monday, Los Angeles’ Andre Ethier extended his hit-
ting streak to 28 games as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 5-2.
In other games, it was Wash-ington 2, San Francisco 0; Flor-ida 6, St. Louis 5; and Pitts-burgh 4, San Diego 3. The Reds and Astros were postponed by rain and will play a make-up game on Thursday afternoon, originally scheduled as a day off for both teams.
White Sox 6, Orioles 2Paul Konerko homered twice
and Mark Buehrle pitched 62⁄3 scoreless innings to lead the Chicago White Sox past the Baltimore Orioles.
Konerko hit a two-run home run and a solo shot for the White Sox, who ended a five-game skid with only their fourth win in 19 games. Chi-cago also avoided a four-game sweep by Baltimore.
Juan Pierre had an RBI single along with a diving catch and Alex Rios added a solo homer to help the White Sox end a seven-game home skid with their first win at U.S. Cellular Field since April 12.
Buehrle (2-3) scattered eight hits, walked four and struck out four to win for the first time since Opening Day. It was his 150th career victory.
The 32-year old left-hander, who was drafted by the White Sox in 1998, already has a World Series ring, a perfect game and a no-hitter on his resumé.
“I don’t know if it is a good or bad thing. The one good is obviously I’ve been around the league long enough and it’s bad because I’m getting older,” Buehrle said. “Every-body is joking around saying 101⁄2 to 11 years to get to 300, but I don’t think that is going to happen. It’s just a round number. I don’t know if I’m downplaying it more than everybody else, everybody is congratulating me, Ozzie (Guillen) gave me a bottle of champagne. There are all round numbers, but it is 150 more than I ever dreamed of having.”
Baltimore went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left 13 on base.
“Typical Buehrle,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. “That’s why he’s pitched 200 innings for 10 straight years. He throws the ball with a great tempo and doesn’t walk the people he doesn’t need to walk.”
In other American League games, it was Oakland 5, Texas 4 in 10 innings; the New York Yankees 5, Detroit 3; and Boston 9, the Los Ange-les Angels 5.
Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer, center, falls to the court as Atlanta Hawks forward Damien Wilkins, left, and center Al Horford defend during the first quarter Monday.
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Dallas Mavericks center Tyson Chandler, left, dunks over Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest during the second half Monday. The Mavericks won 96-94.
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A ball hit for a home run by Atlanta Braves catcher David Ross gets over the head of Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez in the third inning Monday. Atlanta won 6-2.
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MILESTONESn BIRTHDAYSPete Seeger, folk singer, 92; Ann B. Davis, actress, 85; Frankie Valli, singer, 77; Christopher Cross, singer, 60; Shane Minor, country singer, 43; Damon Dash, music and film producer, 40; Brad Martin, country singer, 38; Cheryl Burke, dancer, 27; Jill Berard, actress, 21. n DEATHSRon Asmus — A former U.S. diplomat who took charge of the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in 2005 has died at 53. The fund said on its website As-mus died from cancer on Saturday in Brussels. As U.S. deputy as-sistant secretary of state for European affairs from 1997 to 2000, Asmus was part of talks that saw former communist East Eu-ropean nations join the NATO alliance. He wrote a book about that — “Opening NATO’s Door” — in 2002. Stoney Burns — The writer whose Dallas Notes alternative weekly served as the city’s leading countercultural voice in the late 1960s has died at 68. Burns died Thursday at Baylor Uni-versity Medical Center in Dallas after suffering chest pains. His sister, Marleen Stein Gold of Mission Hills, Kan., says burial was Sunday. Dallas Notes was standard reading for hip North Texas young people of the late 1960s. Burns chronicled peace vigils at Dealey Plaza and was arrested when Dallas police efforts to clear Lee Park of hippies and other young people resulted in a melee.Dr. David Sencer — A prominent former federal health official whose career was tainted by controversy over a swine flu cam-paign in the 1970s has died. Dr. David Sencer, 86, the former di-rector of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, died in an Atlanta hospital Monday after a bout with pneumonia. He was head of the government health agency from 1966 through 1977, then later served as New York City’s health commissioner during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
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Springfield arrested on suspicion of DUIRick Springfield has been released from jail after being arrest-
ed by sheriff’s deputies Sunday night on suspicion of drunken driving.
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department says in a news release the rocker was stopped around 8 p.m. after a deputy spotted him speeding in his 1963 Corvette on Pacific Coast Highway.
The department states a test showed Spring-field’s blood-alcohol content was .10 percent, which is over the .08 limit in which a percent is presumed to be drunk.
The singer was released Monday around 2 a.m. and is due in a courtroom in Malibu for a first appearance on July 5.
Springfield performed in Vicksburg at Riverfest in 2008.
Ferrell culminated a weeks-long lead-up to Monday’s epi-sode of “Conan” by shaving the late-night host’s beard. A giddy and determined Ferrell guest-starred on the program, pro-moted as the “Beardpocalypse.”
While guzzling Barbicide, Fer-rell trimmed O’Brien with clippers, which he named “Excali-beard.” He had promised O’Brien that the razor “sleeps for no one.”
Ferrell did a haphazard job of it, but the shave was finished off-camera. It was the first time O’Brien gave up the beard he grew after NBC jettisoned him from the “Tonight Show.”
Seeing O’Brien’s fresh-faced mug again, Ferrell turned re-morseful, saying he had made a “terrible mistake.”
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Cops: Men pilfer antlers from NrA eventPolice are pointing at two exhibition workers in the theft of
two massive sets of elk antlers following the National Rifle Asso-ciation’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh.
Investigators said 46-year-old Gary Felts and 44-year-old Ste-phen Lee abducted the antlers Sunday night while a vendor at the convention center waited to load a truck.
Police said the vendor reported the theft and the men were detained on a sidewalk outside with the antlers, valued at more than $500,000.
Felts, of Joppa, Md.; and Lee, of Cumberland, Md.; were charged with theft and conspiracy and released on $5,000 bail. Phone listings for both men are disconnected. Police said they work for a Maryland-based expo company.
Writer Barr fined for lying under oathAuthor pays $11,000 for perjury, destruction of evidence
California court rejects Phil Spector appeal
By Shelia ByrdThe Associated Press
JACKSON — Best-selling writer Nevada Barr has paid $11,000 in sanctions for lying under oath about an extra-marital affair and for destroy-ing a computer believed to be used to write a breakup letter to her then-husband, an attor-ney said.
Hinds County Chancellor Dewayne Thomas imposed the sanctions against Barr on April 12. In a separate ruling, he also ordered Barr to trans-fer $280,737 to a retirement account for her ex-husband, Richard Broderick Jones, and pay $2,500 in back property taxes on the house where the couple had lived in Clinton.
Kathleen A. Conway, an attorney for Jones, said Monday that Barr had paid the sanctions, attorneys’ fees, property taxes and tendered the documents for the retire-ment fund.
“Hopefully, this will send a strong message to anyone who believes they can lie to the court. It won’t be toler-ated even if you’re rich and famous,” Conway said Monday at the courthouse.
Conway said Barr had been acting as her own attorney in court.
“I believe Judge Thomas
fairly reviewed the facts regarding all matters in this case and made his rul-ings accordingly,” said Barr, whose works include “Winter Study” and the more recent “Burn.”
The rulings were the latest developments in the long-run-ning case.
Thomas’ order found Barr guilty of perjury and destruc-tion of evidence.
In the retirement ruling, Thomas wrote that Barr had attempted to transfer the $280,000 to Jones on multiple occasions, but her ex-husband wouldn’t cooperate because he sought an additional $83,000, which he had claimed was in the fund at the time of the divorce.
Thomas denied the extra money, and declined to award interest on the retirement award.
A judge finalized the divorce for the couple in 2006 after the two had been married for
eight years. But Jones had challenged the distribution of marital assets and lost.
However, the Mississippi Supreme Court in 2008 sent the case back to the lower court to determine if Barr should be sanctioned for lying about the affair in a pre-trial deposition.
Barr had testified she ini-tially lied about when the affair began because she wanted to protect the man, who is now her husband, from possibly losing his job.
An earlier court deposi-tion showed Barr was evasive about whether she wrote a breakup letter to Jones and eventually was asked to turn over the computer used to write it. Barr testified that she destroyed the computer before her husband requested it.
Barr visited Vicksburg in 2008 for a book-signing and lecture at the Southern Cul-tural Heritage Center.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court rejected music producer Phil Spector’s bid to overturn his murder conviction Monday, saying it was permissible for prosecutors to call a parade of women who said Spector had threatened them with guns in the past.
A three-member panel of the state 2nd District Court of Appeals affirmed Spec-tor’s conviction in a strongly worded, 81-page decision rejecting a number of claims made by defense attorney Dennis Riordan.
The judges also dismissed the contention that actress Lana Clarkson was despon-dent and might have killed herself with a gun at Spector’s home. In making that ruling, the panel pointed to evidence from her mother that sug-gested Clarkson was hopeful about the future.
The panel also concluded the trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting evi-dence to prove “Clarkson did not die by her own hand.”
In addition, the judges found there was neither judicial nor prosecutorial misconduct at the trial, and that the testi-
mony of five women who claimed Spec-tor threat-ened them with guns was properly admitted, even though some of the
incidents dated back 30 years.
Spector was never charged in those instances. Still, the judges said the testimony showed a pattern of gun-related behavior.
Spector’s lawyer said the women’s testimony was inflammatory.
Riordan also issued a state-ment later in the day saying the appellate decision “does not begin to adequately address the prosecution’s remarkable assault on con-stitutional rights to a neutral judge and to cross-examine all adverse witnesses.”
Riordan said the same was true of the ruling on eviden-tiary questions.
He said that he would seek a re-hearing before the court of appeal and if necessary will petition for review by the Cali-fornia Supreme Court.
On another topic, the judi-cial panel approved a general inference by a witness that Spector was a misogynist who expressed hatred of women and said he wanted to blow their heads off.
Spector was convicted two years ago of shooting the actress to death at his Alham-bra mansion in 2003. He’s serv-ing 19 years to life in prison on a second-degree murder con-viction. His first trial ended in a hung jury; the second in conviction.
The opinion, written by appellate Justice Joan Dempsey Klein and concurred with by Justices Patti Kitch-ings and Richard D. Aldrich, validated the actions of Supe-rior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler in every instance chal-lenged by the defense.
Riordan insisted that Judge Fidler erred when he allowed prosecutors to show jurors a videotape from a hearing held outside the presence of Spec-tor and the jury.
On the tape, Fidler was seen interpreting the testimony of a key forensic witness about the position of blood spatter on Clarkson’s body. Riordan said the judge had taken on the
role of a witness. The appeals court disagreed.
“A trial court’s power, indeed its responsibility, to clarify tes-timony is well-settled in Cali-fornia,” the decision said.
The justices also rejected the claim that prosecutors crossed a line in closing arguments when they accused defense experts of testifying a certain way because they were paid a lot of money.
The appeals court said, “Harsh and colorful attacks on the credibility of opposing witness are permissible.”
SHEEN TOuRS TuSCALOOSA
Actor wants to plan benefit for tornado victimsTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP)
— Actor Charlie Sheen toured an Alabama neighborhood leveled by tornadoes and said Monday he wants to organize a relief event for victims in the state.
After going through the deci-mated Alberta City neighbor-hood in Tuscaloosa, Sheen told The Associated Press he was working with local offi-cials to organize a benefit. He said a date has not been set.
“I want to bring some money, hope, faith and healing to the area,” said Sheen, the former star of the sitcom “Two and a Half Men.”
Sheen was fired from the show in March and has been in a bitter dispute with exec-utive producer Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros. Television. Since then, he’s launched a stage tour that has captured attention.
The actor, wearing a Uni-versity of Alabama baseball cap, said he decided to visit after receiving an invita-tion via Twitter from a Uni-versity of Alabama student. David Harris of Mobile had asked in a tweet April 30 if he would be willing to perform a relief show in Alabama, Sheen said.
Sheen spent the day in Tus-caloosa meeting with storm victims and first-responders. He posed for photographs with police officers and National Guard soldiers, accompanied by one of his so-called god-desses — marijuana magazine model Natalie Kenly — and former major league baseball
player Todd Zeile.At each stop, he was swarmed
by dozens of people asking for autographs and photographs. Sheen also stopped by an area Kmart to buy flashlights for some of the thousands still without electricity. He paid the $324.07 tab with his own Visa card, and then brought them to a relief center amid loud cheers and applause.
“I’m astounded,” said one of the people at the center, Adrian Norfleet. “I just can’t believe someone would care so much.”
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said he welcomed Sheen’s visit, which likely would focus even more national attention on the city of about 83,000.
“I hope he’s sincere when he says he’ll come back,” Maddox said. Sheen said he is planning to return for the benefit show and hopes to hold it at the Tus-caloosa Amphitheater.
One of Sheen’s stops was at a destroyed Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. He walked through the rubble amid the pungent odor of rot-
ting food, and left through an opening in what had been a walk-in freezer. Later, while going through the ruins of an apartment complex, he said he hoped people could find senti-mental possessions.
“Little personal items mean so much in this kind of devas-tation,” Sheen said.
Sheen posted a photo Monday on Twitter show-ing the wreckage of a home with a message: “I’m in Tusca-loosa. It’s beyond words. Info coming soon on how you can all help.”
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Charlie Sheen talks with university of Alabama pitcher Josh Rosecrans, whose house was destroyed, as Sheen visits Tuscaloosa Monday.
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Woman secretly in love wants coachingDear Abby: I am a woman
who is in love with my former high school coach. I don’t know if I should tell him. I first real-ized I loved him about a year and a half after I met him. We had an extremely close rela-tionship, but it was not inap-propriate. He is 13 years older than I am.
After two years of getting to know him and forming a strong friendship, he moved across the country for work. Since then, I have entered col-lege and we see each other only on holidays and in the
summer. Every time I see him, we go back to our normal, won-derful relationship as though nothing has changed.
I was in denial about my feel-ings for him. I told myself it was puppy love and couldn’t
work out because of the age difference and the distance. But after four years of pining for him, and several failed romances with others, I real-ize I deeply love him. We have a unique connection, but he has a reputation as a “player,” so I can’t be sure he feels the same. I don’t want to ruin what we have, but I want more. Should I finally reveal my feelings? — Hurting Badly in New England
Dear Hurting Badly: You and your former coach are both adults. I see no reason
why you shouldn’t tell him how you feel. However, if he responds affirmatively, please be careful about how you pro-ceed with this relationship. As you said — he has a reputation as a player, and men with a craving for variety can be very unreliable.
•Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
PSP symptoms includevision, balance problems
Dear Dr. Gott: My son was diagnosed with PSP — pro-gressive supranuclear palsy. I have never heard of this before. He was originally told that he had Parkinson’s. Is there any hope for him? He is 44 years old. I have read as much as possible on this condition and don’t see any relief for him. He falls, slurs his speech, and has difficulty with pain in his legs. These don’t happen all the time, though; some days he is “normal.” Thank you.
Dear Reader: Progres-sive supranuclear palsy, also known as Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, is a rare brain disorder. As the name states, it is progressive, mean-ing it slowly worsens over time. The condition can cause some life-threatening compli-cations such as swallowing dif-ficulty, which might lead to choking or pneumonia.
The characteristic symp-toms include loss of balance when walking, which causes an increased risk of falls and an inability to focus the eyes properly, which can result in blurred or double vision. This can also cause the sufferer to appear disinterested during conversation. Other symptoms include forgetfulness, dizzi-ness, personality changes, apathy (loss of interest in pre-viously pleasurable activities), depression, anxiety, laugh-ing or crying without reason, problems with speech and swallowing, slow or stiff move-ments, tremor, loss of coordi-nation and more. PSP is most often seen in people around age 60. Men are slightly more at risk than women.
There is no known cause of PSP, but research is bringing us closer. We now know that the symptoms are the result of deterioration of brain cells in four areas of the brain — the basal ganglia, cerebral cortex, cerebellum and brainstem. Each of these areas is respon-sible for helping control body movements. It has also been found that the deteriorated cells contain abnormal levels of the protein tau, which is also seen in other neurode-generative disorders.
There is no cure, but some of the symptoms are treat-able. Medications used to treat Parkinson’s disease as well as certain antidepressants might be helpful. Special eyeglass lenses and physical and occu-pational therapy are often beneficial. Even with treat-ment, brain function will con-tinue to decline, with death commonly occurring within five to seven years.
Your note is brief. Without knowing what testing your
son has undergone, when his symptoms began and more, I cannot hazard a guess as to whether this might be an accurate diagnosis. He is rela-tively young to have received the diagnosis, but that doesn’t mean it is incorrect. Pain is not listed as a typical symp-tom in this syndrome, but it could be the result of muscle stiffness, injury from repeated falls or his unsteady gait. I did not find anything stating that symptoms come and go. Fur-thermore, you did not men-tion difficulties with his eye control, a somewhat charac-teristic feature of PSP. I urge your son to undergo a thor-ough physical examination, blood work and imaging stud-ies with another neurologist in order to confirm the diagno-sis. If possible, seek out a spe-cialist affiliated with a teach-ing hospital or university.
•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) — It’s nice to be recognized by cer-tain people whom others admire, but don’t be flattered by ex-cessive attention. Subdue temptations to take any flirtation seri-ously.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — You should avoid mistakenly thinking of one friend as being more important than your other pals. It could cause you to seriously slight the feelings of some-one who really matters.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Be extremely careful how you treat someone whose material circumstances are far less fortu-nate than yours or most of your friends. It could make this very nice person feel inferior.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Even though certain promises made to you sound sincere, you might not be able to depend upon a commitment if the person involved is a bit scatterbrained or un-reliable. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Even though you’re likely to be a capable manager of your resources, not everyone is. Someone with whom you’re affiliated might disappoint you with his or her lack of responsibility. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — This can be a productive day for you, provided you team up with someone who is equally re-sponsible. Your industriousness will be dulled if your motiva-tions differ considerably from a partner’s. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Do not make light of things that you were supposed to take care of, but didn’t. If you don’t make up for your slacking, when the final score is tallied, you’ll be the loser, not others.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Amid the small talk with friends there are likely to be some very valuable morsels of in-formation being dispersed. Be on your toes in order to discern between fact and gossip.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — If it is to be a success, a new en-deavor in which you’re involved must get off to a very strong start. Should the launch fail, you’ll have to start all over again.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Do not be condescending with those whom are not as financially blessed or lack your for-mal education. Neither makes you superior; it’s character that counts.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — There is nothing wrong with your capacity for earning, but how you spend your dollars might be a different story. Beware needlessly throwing money away.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Usually you’re pretty good around people, but under certain conditions you can harbor some introverted thoughts that could cage your charisma.
Dr. Wallace: A nameless Columbus, Ind., youth wrote to you appealing for help. Though you do a very nice job of advising teens, I feel you missed a very important source of help to this person.
You advised the depressed teen to have his parents make an appointment with the school district psychologist.
As a school nurse in Califor-nia, I think you overlooked a great source of safe help to kids.
Often, school psychologists are so oriented with psycho-metric testing and have not been in touch with counsel-ing people on a one-to-one level (or even have an interest in it) that they are not the best qualified in a school setting to deal with this type of obvious depressive state.
Usually, the school nurse is in closer touch with avail-able medical and psychiat-ric/psychological services in the area than most school psychologists. Unfortunately, most people, including other school personnel, equate the term psychologist with in-depth problem counseling. This is often not the case. All school nurses in their basic training have had psychiatric training experiences; they are trained to see the whole per-son and not just their medical (physical) problems.
Again, our job is to care for
the needs (all of them) of the whole person. We can make direct referrals to sources of help, and often we are the ones to best communicate with a parent about a child’s problems. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have encouraged a child to share his problems with his parents and gone with him to sup-port/protect the youth in that process.
As a note of interest, in Cali-fornia, the school nurse is a college graduate in nursing, has a public health nursing certificate, a registered nurse license, and most often a wealth of pediatric nursing ex-perience.
Nurse: Thanks for your infor-mative letter. I’m well aware of the superb performances of school nurses.
•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.
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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE'S SALESTATE OF MISSISSIPPI)COUNTY OF WARREN)WHEREAS, on April 28,2005, Carmine Lancellottiexecuted a promissory notepayable to the order of Novastar Mortgage, Inc.; andWHEREAS, the aforesaidpromissory note was secured by a Deed of Trustdated April 28, 2005, executed by Carmine Lancellotti and Linda Lancellotti and being recorded in Book 1529, Page302, and as Instrument No.221815 of the records of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; andwhich aforesaid Instrumentconveys to Alan Derivaux,Trustee and to MortgageElectronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Nomineefor Novastar Mortgage, Inc.as Beneficiary, the hereinafter described property; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned to TheBank of New York Mellon, asSuccessor Trustee underNovastar Mortgage FundingTrust, Series 2005-2, by anAssignment filed of record onOctober 28, 2010, andrecorded in Book 1514, Page782, in the office of the Clerkof the Chancery Court ofWarren County, Mississippi;andWHEREAS, The Bank ofNew York Mellon, as Successor Trustee underNovastar Mortgage FundingTrust, Series 2005-2, havingexecuted a Substitution ofTrustee to substitute FloydHealy as trustee in the placeand stead of Alan Derivauxthe same having beenrecorded in Book 1514, Page783, of the records of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, default havingoccurred under the termsand conditions of saidpromissory note and Deed ofTrust and the holder havingdeclared the entire balancedue and payable; andWHEREAS, Floyd Healy,Substituted Trustee in saidDeed of Trust will on the 4thday of May, 2011 betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m. and4:00 p.m., offer for sale andwill sell at public outcry to thehighest bidder for cash at theMain West steps of the Warren County Courthousein Vicksburg, Mississippi, thefollowing described propertylocated and situated in Warren County, Mississippi,to wit:PARCEL ONE: Part of Section 43, Township 14North, Range 3 East, WarrenCounty, Mississippi, moreparticularly described as follows: Commencing at thenorthwest corner of Section43, Township 14 North,Range 3 East, Warren County, Mississippi, being aniron bolt; thence South, 3148feet, more or less to a 4 inchboiler tube; thence S 83-30E, 2199.22 feet to a point onthe north right-of-way of Dogwood Road; thenceNorth, 473.77 feet; thence N46-00-00 E, 1076.66 feet toan existing steel shaft, beingthe point of beginning of theherein described parcel;thence N 57-00-00 E, 483.57feet to the West right-of-wayof Hankinson Road; thencewith the West right-of-way ofHankinson Road, S 24-30-11E, 239.99 feet to the Northright-of-way of DogwoodRoad; thence with the Northright-of-way of DogwoodRoad, S 56-29-48 W, 438.06feet; thence leaving saidright-of-way, N 35-23-25 W,241.41 feet to the point ofbeginning, containing 2.5acres, more or less.PARCEL TWO: Part of Section 43, Township 14North, Range 3 East, WarrenCounty, Mississippi, moreparticularly described as follows: Commencing at theNorthwest corner of Section43, Township 14 North,Range 3 East, Warren County, Mississippi, being aniron bolt; thence South 3148feet, more or less to a 4 inchboiler tube; thence South 83-30 East, 2199.22 feet to apoint in the North right-of-way of DogwoodRoad; thence North, 473.77feet; thence North 46-00East, 250.00 feet to the pointof beginning of the herein described parcel; thenceNorth 46-00-00 East, 608.63feet to an existing iron rod;thence North 46-00-00 East,218.03 feet to an existingsteel shaft; thence South 35-23-25 East, 241.41 feet tothe North right-of-way ofDogwood road; thence withthe North right-of-way ofDogwood Road, South 42-49-54 West, 141.47 feet;thence with the North right-of-way of DogwoodRoad, South 42-49-54 West,202.37 feet; thence with theNorth right-of-way of Dogwood Road, South 29-07-10 West, 281.74 feet;thence with the North right-of-way of DogwoodRoad, South 49-22-48 West,107.35 feet; thence leavingsaid right-of-way, North 55-56-19 West, 340.54 feetto the point of beginning,containing 5.0 acres, more orless.More commonly known as:2355 Hankinson Road,Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180Subject to the rights of wayand easement for publicroads and public utilities, andto any prior conveyance orreservation of mineral of ev-ery kind and character, in-cluding but not limited to oil,gas, sand and gravel in orunder subject property.A copy of the above Noticeof Sale has this day beenmailed to the Internal Revenue Service at 1555Poydras Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112.The property will be soldsubject to the interest of theInternal Revenue Service byvirtue of a Federal Tax Lienfiled in the Real Estaterecords of Warren County,Mississippi on June 19,2009.As the undersigned Substituted Trustee, I willconvey only such title as isvested in me under saidDeed of Trust.This 4th day of April, 2011Prepared by:Floyd HealySubstituted TrusteeFloyd Healy______________________1405 N. Pierce, Suite 306Little Rock, Arkansas 72207Publish: 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3(4t)
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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE'S SALESTATE OF MISSISSIPPI)COUNTY OF WARREN)WHEREAS, on April 28,2005, Carmine Lancellottiexecuted a promissory notepayable to the order of Novastar Mortgage, Inc.; andWHEREAS, the aforesaidpromissory note was secured by a Deed of Trustdated April 28, 2005, executed by Carmine Lancellotti and Linda Lancellotti and being recorded in Book 1529, Page302, and as Instrument No.221815 of the records of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; andwhich aforesaid Instrumentconveys to Alan Derivaux,Trustee and to MortgageElectronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Nomineefor Novastar Mortgage, Inc.as Beneficiary, the hereinafter described property; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned to TheBank of New York Mellon, asSuccessor Trustee underNovastar Mortgage FundingTrust, Series 2005-2, by anAssignment filed of record onOctober 28, 2010, andrecorded in Book 1514, Page782, in the office of the Clerkof the Chancery Court ofWarren County, Mississippi;andWHEREAS, The Bank ofNew York Mellon, as Successor Trustee underNovastar Mortgage FundingTrust, Series 2005-2, havingexecuted a Substitution ofTrustee to substitute FloydHealy as trustee in the placeand stead of Alan Derivauxthe same having beenrecorded in Book 1514, Page783, of the records of theChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, default havingoccurred under the termsand conditions of saidpromissory note and Deed ofTrust and the holder havingdeclared the entire balancedue and payable; andWHEREAS, Floyd Healy,Substituted Trustee in saidDeed of Trust will on the 4thday of May, 2011 betweenthe hours of 11:00 a.m. and4:00 p.m., offer for sale andwill sell at public outcry to thehighest bidder for cash at theMain West steps of the Warren County Courthousein Vicksburg, Mississippi, thefollowing described propertylocated and situated in Warren County, Mississippi,to wit:PARCEL ONE: Part of Section 43, Township 14North, Range 3 East, WarrenCounty, Mississippi, moreparticularly described as follows: Commencing at thenorthwest corner of Section43, Township 14 North,Range 3 East, Warren County, Mississippi, being aniron bolt; thence South, 3148feet, more or less to a 4 inchboiler tube; thence S 83-30E, 2199.22 feet to a point onthe north right-of-way of Dogwood Road; thenceNorth, 473.77 feet; thence N46-00-00 E, 1076.66 feet toan existing steel shaft, beingthe point of beginning of theherein described parcel;thence N 57-00-00 E, 483.57feet to the West right-of-wayof Hankinson Road; thencewith the West right-of-way ofHankinson Road, S 24-30-11E, 239.99 feet to the Northright-of-way of DogwoodRoad; thence with the Northright-of-way of DogwoodRoad, S 56-29-48 W, 438.06feet; thence leaving saidright-of-way, N 35-23-25 W,241.41 feet to the point ofbeginning, containing 2.5acres, more or less.PARCEL TWO: Part of Section 43, Township 14North, Range 3 East, WarrenCounty, Mississippi, moreparticularly described as follows: Commencing at theNorthwest corner of Section43, Township 14 North,Range 3 East, Warren County, Mississippi, being aniron bolt; thence South 3148feet, more or less to a 4 inchboiler tube; thence South 83-30 East, 2199.22 feet to apoint in the North right-of-way of DogwoodRoad; thence North, 473.77feet; thence North 46-00East, 250.00 feet to the pointof beginning of the herein described parcel; thenceNorth 46-00-00 East, 608.63feet to an existing iron rod;thence North 46-00-00 East,218.03 feet to an existingsteel shaft; thence South 35-23-25 East, 241.41 feet tothe North right-of-way ofDogwood road; thence withthe North right-of-way ofDogwood Road, South 42-49-54 West, 141.47 feet;thence with the North right-of-way of DogwoodRoad, South 42-49-54 West,202.37 feet; thence with theNorth right-of-way of Dogwood Road, South 29-07-10 West, 281.74 feet;thence with the North right-of-way of DogwoodRoad, South 49-22-48 West,107.35 feet; thence leavingsaid right-of-way, North 55-56-19 West, 340.54 feetto the point of beginning,containing 5.0 acres, more orless.More commonly known as:2355 Hankinson Road,Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180Subject to the rights of wayand easement for publicroads and public utilities, andto any prior conveyance orreservation of mineral of ev-ery kind and character, in-cluding but not limited to oil,gas, sand and gravel in orunder subject property.A copy of the above Noticeof Sale has this day beenmailed to the Internal Revenue Service at 1555Poydras Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112.The property will be soldsubject to the interest of theInternal Revenue Service byvirtue of a Federal Tax Lienfiled in the Real Estaterecords of Warren County,Mississippi on June 19,2009.As the undersigned Substituted Trustee, I willconvey only such title as isvested in me under saidDeed of Trust.This 4th day of April, 2011Prepared by:Floyd HealySubstituted TrusteeFloyd Healy______________________1405 N. Pierce, Suite 306Little Rock, Arkansas 72207Publish: 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3(4t)
01. LegalsIN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN THE MATTER OF THEESTATE OF MINNIE MAEMITCHELL, DECEASEDJAMES E. MITCHELL, ADMINISTRATORCAUSE NO.: 2009-064PRJAMES E. MITCHELLPETITIONERVS.THE UNKNOWN HEIRSAND WRONGFUL DEATHBENEFICIARIES OF MINNIE MAE MITCHELL,DECEASED,IF ANY, AND ALL PERSONS OR ENTITIESUNKNOWNCLAIMING ANY INTERESTIN THE ESTATE OFMINNIE MAE MITCHELL,DECEASED RESPONDENTSSUMMONSTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: The unknown heirs-at-law and wrongfuldeath beneficiaries of MinnieMae Mitchell, deceasedYou have been made a Defendant in the suit filed inthis Court by James E.Mitchell, Petitioner, seekingto have James E. Mitchell,Lillie B. Morris, Charles LeeMitchell, Geraldine Knight,Roosevelt Mitchell and theEstate of Bertha Faye Davisestablished as the sole heirs-at-law and wrongfuldeath beneficiaries of MinnieMae Mitchell, deceased.You are summoned to appear and defend againstthe petition filed against youin this action at 10:30 A.M.on the 8th day of June, 2011,in the courtroom of the Warren County Courthouseat Vicksburg, Mississippi,and in case of your failure toappear and defend a judgment will be enteredagainst you for the relief demanded in the petition,thereby barring the claims ofany other relatives of thedecedent.You are not required to filean answer or other pleadingbut you may do so if you desire.ISSUED UNDER MY HANDAND THE SEAL of saidCourt, this 20th day of April,2011.DOT McGEEChancery Clerk of WarrenCounty, MississippiPost Office Box 351Vicksburg, MS 39181BY: Denise Bailey, D.C. Of Counsel:STEPHEN B. JACKSON(MB #10693)Glover, Young, Walton &Simmons, PLLC1724A - 23rd Avenue (P. O.Box 5514)Meridian, MS 39302-5514Telephone: (601) 693-1301Publish: 4/26, 5/3, 5/10(3t)
IN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPIIN THE MATTER OF THEINTEREST OF WILLIAM DAVIS WRIGHTWALTERS, A MINORCAUSE NO. 2011-125GNSUMMONS(Service by Publication)Residence UnknownTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: JOEL EARL WALTERSYou have been made a Partyto the Petition filed in thisCourt by HELEN WRIGHTASHLEY, Petitioner, seekingTermination of ParentalRights of the minor childnamed in said petition.NOTICE TO DEFENDANTTHE PETITION WHICH ISATTACHED TO THIS SUMMONS IS IMPORTANTAND YOU MUST TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TOPROTECT YOUR RIGHTS.You are summoned to appear and defend againstthe PETITION FOR TERMINATION OFPARENTAL RIGHTS, filedherein, on the 1st day ofJune, 2011 at 10:30 a.m inthe Warren County ChanceryCourtroom, Warren CountyCourthouse, Vicksburg, Mississippi, and in case ofyour failure to appear anddefend the relief sought insaid Complaint will beawarded to the Petitioner.You must also file the original of your Responsewith the Clerk of this Courtwithin a reasonable time afterward.Issued under my hand andthe seal of said Court, this20th day of April, 2011.DOT McGEECLERK OF THECHANCERY COURT OF WARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPI By: /s/ Denise BaileyDEPUTY CLERKWREN C WAY,attorney for Plaintiff(SEAL) Publish: 4/26, 5/3, 5/10(3t)
01. LegalsIN THE CHANCERYCOURT OF WARRENCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI INTHE MATTER OF THELAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MELVIN J.YOUNG, DeceasedProbate No.: 2011-034PREXECUTRIX NOTICE TOCREDITORS OF THE ESTATE OF MELVINYOUNG, DECEASEDLetters Testamentary havingbeen granted on the 27thday of April, by the ChanceryCourt of Warren County,Mississippi, to the under-signed upon the Estate of Melvin Young, Deceased, notice is here-bygiven to all persons havingclaims against said estate topresent the same to theClerk of said Court for probate and registration, according to law, within ninety (90) days from thedate of the first publication ofthis notice and failure to doso within said period willforever bar all claims. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this the 27th day of April,2011./s/ Carolyn BrownCarolyn Brown, ExecutrixPublish: 5/3, 5/10, 5/17(3t)
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TOWN Road/ Openwoodarea. Male Bloodhound, 16months old, red, family pet.601-278-8628.
07. Help Wanted
NEEDED!!!ACCOUNTS MANAGER
Must be computer literate, long term caremedicaid/ medicare
billing experience preferred, must be able
to multi-task, work withdeadlines, have good
people skills.
Mail resume to:P.O. Box 820485
Vicksburg, MS 39181
“ACE”Truck Driver Training
With a DifferenceJob Placement Asst.
Day, Night & RefresherClasses
Get on the Road NOW!Call 1-888-430-4223MS Prop. Lic. 77#C124
AVON LETS YOU earnextra money. Become anAvon Representative today.Call 601-454-8038.
AVON LETS YOU earnextra money. Become anAvon Representative today.Call 601-454-8038.
DUMP TRUCK DRIVERSKanza Construction isseeking experienced dump
�truck drivers.Applicants must possessClass A CDL and proficiencyoperating 2-axle or 3-axletrucks. Must pass drugscreening , and backgroundcheck. Fax resume to 785-
ERS to start in the MaritimeIndustry. Entry level posi-tions start at $690-$790 perweek. Sign up for trainingtoday. Call 850-424-2606.
MECHANIC NEEDED. 5years experience, musthave own tools, be DRUGFREE. NO PHONE CALLS.Apply in person StevensService Center Inc. 800Hwy 80.
PROCESS MEDICALCLAIMS from home! Use
your own computer! Find out how
to spot a medical billingscam from The Federal
Trade Commission. 1-877-FTC-HELP.
A message from TheVicksburg Post and The
FTC.
07. Help Wanted
NOW ACCEPTING APPLI-CATIONS for Papa Johns.Pick up and return applica-tions to F&G Beverage 1707Washington Street. Monday-Friday 8am- 10pm.
ROCKETTAXICAB
601-636-0491Drivers Needed
NightsCommission Work
50/50
TO BUY OR SELL
AVONCALL 601-636-7535
$10 START UP KIT
10. Loans AndInvestments
“WE CAN ERASE yourbad credit- 100% guaran-teed.” The Federal TradeCommission says the onlylegitimate credit repairstarts and ends with you. Ittakes time and a consciouseffort to pay your debts.Any company that claims tobe able to fix your creditlegally is lying. Learn aboutmanaging credit and debt atftc.gov/credit
A message from TheVicksburg Post and theFTC.
12. Schools &Instruction
AIRLINES ARE HIRING-Train for high paying Avia-tion Career. FAA approvedprogram. Financial aid ifqualified – Job placementassistance. CALL AviationInstitute of Maintenance866-455-4317.
ATTEND COLLEGE ON-LINE from home. *Medical,*Business, *Paralegal, *Al-lied Health. Job placementassistance. Computer avail-able. Financial aid if quali-fied. SCHEV certified. Call888-210-5162.
SMALL TOY POODLEbabies. Ready for Mom.Shots, wormed, registered.$200 and up. 318-680-2100318-282-0437.Delhi
15. AuctionLOOKING FOR A great
value? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.
17. Wanted ToBuy
$ I BUY JUNK CARS $I will pickup your junk car
and pay you cashtoday! Call 601-618-6441.
GOOD, USED ALU-MINUM CANOES. CallVicksburg YMCA, 601-638-1071.
JUNK CARS: GET rid ofthose snake dens and ratdens. Bring them to us or we'llpick them up! 601-218-0038.
WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, lawn mowers, hot waterheaters, junk and abandonedcars, trucks, vans, etcetera.601-940-5075, if no answer,please leave message.
11. BusinessOpportunities
18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale
25 INCH T.V.'S- $49!!Mattress Sets-$125!!Always a store full of
quality used furniture!!All About Bargains,
1420 Washington Street,601-631-0010,
601-529-9895 cell.
6 FOOT FINISH mower.$750 or best offer.
601-218-3252
Horseback Birthday Parties
Silver Creek Equestrian601-638-8988
silvercreekarena.com
CERAMIC BUSINESS.1000 molds with large kiln.$800. 601-634-8199.
FOR LESS THAN 45cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post
delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,
7 day delivery.Call 601-636-4545,
Circulation Department.
FOUR AND FIVE foot Cy-press swings. 601-638-6405, 601-415-7478.
THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street
Pond fish, Gold fish, Koi, fish foodaquarium needs, bird food, designer collars, harnesses & leads,loads of pet supplies!Bring your Baby in for a fitting today!
Fresh Seafood, & Sack Oysters,
Live Crawfish $1.99/ lb
• BACK ROADS •Playing Saturday
9pm-1am
CCheapest Prices in Townheapest Prices in Town
STRICK’SSEAFOOD601-218-2363
USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.
19. Garage &Yard SalesWhat's going on in
Vicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!
For convenient home deliv-ery call 601-636-4545, ask
for circulation.
21. Boats,Fishing Supplies
What's going on in Vicks-burg this weekend? ReadThe Vicksburg Post! Forconvenient home delivery,call 601-636-4545, ask forcirculation.
24. BusinessServices
24 HOUR EMERGENCYheating and plumbing. Bro-ken water lines, hot waterheaters, toilets, faucets,sinks. 601-618-8466.
ALL PRO PAINTING- Alltypes of painting, interior/exterior and home repairs.601-218-0263.
FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON
ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair
(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref
Licensed • Insured601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133
D&D Tree CuttingTrimming & Lawn
Care InsuredFor Free Estimates call “Big James”at 601-218-7782.
Res. & Com. • Lic. & Ins.Robert Keyes, Jr. (Owner)
601-529-0894
ClassifiedHours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, Closed Saturday & Sunday. Post Plaza, 1601-F North Frontage Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180 • P. O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182.
• S O M E T H I N G N E W E V E R Y D A Y •We accept: e y r w • Call Direct: (601)636-SELL
Online Ad Placement: http://www.vicksburgpost.com
We Write Thousands OfBest Sellers Every Year...We’re The Vicksburg PostClassified Advertising Department . . .our job is to help you writeeffective classified ads so you canhave best sellers too! Give us a call . . . we’ll write one for you!Call (601) 636-SELL.
Classified InformationLine Ad DeadlinesAds to appear Deadline
is easy, but now it’s practically automatic,since we’ve put our
listings online. www.vicksburgpost.com
FIND THE CAR FIND THE CAR YOU HAYOU HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR IN THEVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR IN THEVICKSBURG POST CLASSIFIEDS! VICKSBURG POST CLASSIFIEDS!
READ THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILREAD THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILY!Y!
28. FurnishedApartments
COMPLETELY FUR-NISHED. 1 Bedroom or stu-dio apartment. All utilitiespaid. Includes cable, internetand laundry room. $750 -$900 a month. 601-415-9027or 601-638-4386.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
THE COVETired of high utility bills?
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Paid cable, water & trash!Washer & Dryer,
Microwave included!Ask about our
SPECIAL!
601-415-8735
CALL FOR OURSPRING SPECIALS!
Autumn Oak Townhouses601-636-0447.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE
LIVING
• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community
