By Danny Barrett Jr. [email protected]A sale of Ameristar Casino’s parent company is no longer under consideration as an option to build up its stock value, a committee of its Las Vegas-based board of directors announced this morning. The news was received positively by market- ing officials at the companies’ eight casinos, said Bess Averett, public relations manager for Ameristar Casino Hotel Vicksburg. In August, selling the company was mentioned as a viable alternative to buck up profits in light of a depressed economy that has hit the gaming industry hard. Now, directors said, Ameristar will look at various other alternatives to keep itself profitable, though declined to specify them in the release. “Ameristar Casinos Inc. announced today that TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2010 • 50¢ WEATHER Tonight: Partly cloudy, lows in the 30s Wednesday: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers; highs in the 50s Mississippi River: 22.2 feet Fell: 0.5 foot Flood stage: 43 feet A9 DEATHS • James Richard Carley • Donnie Ray Lowe A9 TODAY IN HISTORY 1799: The first president of the United States, George Wash- ing- ton, dies at his Mount Vernon, Va., home at age 67. 1910: The Car- negie Endow- ment for Interna- tional Peace is created in Washington, D.C., as industrialist Andrew Car- negie present a gift of $10 million for its founding. 1962: The U.S. space probe Mariner 2 approach- es Venus, transmitting information about the planet. 2000: President-elect George W. Bush receives a flood of congratulatory calls from world leaders on his first full day as pres- ident-elect. INDEX Business ............................... A7 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 128 NUMBER 348 2 SECTIONS SPORTS BIG SHIFTS PCA, Sharkey face football changes B1 Andrew Carnegie Lawmakers OK budget, cuts for many agencies By Shelia Byrd The Associated Press JACKSON — The budgets of many agencies and pro- grams would be cut under a plan approved Monday by key lawmakers, which also called for tapping up to half of the money in two cash reserves to help keep Missis- sippi’s government afloat in the coming fiscal year. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee adopted a budget recommendation approaching $5.4 billion for the fiscal year starting July 1. Lawmakers had warned that few agencies would be granted the budget increases they requested during fall hearings. Mississippi’s revenue col- lections have been sluggish in recent years amid the national economic downturn. And, officials say drafting a spending plan will be par- ticularly challenging because the state will be without $700 million in nonrecurring Rep. George Flaggs looks over budget proposals Monday. ROGELIO SOLIS•The associaTed press ‘The footnote is the part of the budget that guarantees tax at the local level.’ REP. GEORGE FLAGGS See Budget, Page A9. KATIE CARTER•The Vicksburg posT Judge: Entergy charged too much By the Associated Press BATON ROUGE — A federal regulatory judge has ruled that electric utility Entergy Corp. overcharged customers in four states by selling higher priced power to its own subsidiaries. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Monday announced last week’s ruling by an Tax package heads toward Senate OK By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The tax package negotiated by President Barack Obama and GOP lawmak- ers is headed toward passage in the Senate even as House Democrats consider changes to the estate tax. The bill could be passed and sent to the House today. The Senate voted 83-15 Monday evening to advance the package, which would provide a two-year reprieve from tax increases scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1 at all income levels. Long legal fight ahead for health law By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The score- card on the legal fight over Presi- dent Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is two judges in favor and one against. But these are the early rounds in preliminary bouts. The one that really counts — a showdown at the Supreme Court — is at least a year away. The health care law suffered its first major legal setback Monday when a federal judge declared that the heart of the sweeping legislation is unconstitutional. The decision handed Republican foes ammunition for their repeal effort next year. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson, a Republican appointee in Rich- mond, Va., marked the first suc- cessful court challenge to any portion of the new law, following two earlier rulings in its favor by Democratic-appointed judges. A number of other lawsuits were dismissed early on, without rul- ings on the substance of the law. The law’s central requirement for nearly all Americans to carry insurance is unconstitutional, well beyond Congress’ power to mandate, Hudson ruled. That put him in the same camp as Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli — the Republican who filed the suit — and many of the GOP law- makers who will take control of the U.S. House in January. But Hudson denied Virginia’s request to strike down the law in its entirety or block it from being implemented while his ruling is appealed by the Obama administration. “An individual’s personal deci- sion to purchase — or decline to purchase — health insurance from a private provider is beyond the historical reach of the Com- merce Clause,” said Hudson, a 2002 appointee of President President Barack Obama discusses the tax bill Monday. See Health, Page A9. See Tax cuts, Page A9. See Entergy, Page A9. See Casino, Page A9. Ameristar rules out sale for now Tyler Staples packs dirt behind the Levee Street Depot Monday in preparation for tracks that will hold train cars for the Vicks- burg Transportation Museum. Five sets of tracts will go in near the depot to hold cars that include two cabooses already at the property and donations by heirs of former Speaker of the House Buddie Newman of Val- ley Park, said museum curator Lamar Roberts. The museum will be on the first floor of the depot in renovations underway by Kenneth R. Thompson Jr. Builder of Greenwood. The $1.535 million contract calls for depot work to be completed in about a year. ON T R A C K
A sale of Ameristar Casino’s parent company is no longer under consideration as an option to build up its stock value, a committee of its Las Vegas-based board of directors announced this morning.
The news was received positively by market-ing officials at the companies’ eight casinos, said Bess Averett, public relations manager for Ameristar Casino Hotel Vicksburg.
In August, selling the company was mentioned as a viable alternative to buck up profits in light of a depressed economy that has hit the gaming industry hard. Now, directors said, Ameristar will look at various other alternatives to keep itself profitable, though declined to specify them in the release.
“Ameristar Casinos Inc. announced today that
T U E S D A Y, D E c E m b E r 14, 2010 • 5 0 ¢
WEATHErTonight:
Partly cloudy, lows in the 30s
Wednesday:Mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers; highs in the 50s
Mississippi River:22.2 feet
Fell: 0.5 footFlood stage: 43 feet
A9DEATHS
• James Richard Carley• Donnie Ray Lowe
A9TODAY IN HISTOrY
1799: The first president of the United States, George Wash-ing-ton,
dies at his Mount Vernon, Va., home at age 67. 1910: The Car-negie Endow-ment for Interna-tional Peace is created in Washington, D.C., as industrialist Andrew Car-negie present a gift of $10 million for its founding.1962: The U.S. space probe Mariner 2 approach-es Venus, transmitting information about the planet.2000: President-elect George W. Bush receives a flood of congratulatory calls from world leaders on his first full day as pres-ident-elect.
Lawmakers OK budget,cuts for many agenciesBy Shelia ByrdThe Associated Press
JACKSON — The budgets of many agencies and pro-grams would be cut under a plan approved Monday by key lawmakers, which also called for tapping up to half of the money in two cash reserves to help keep Missis-sippi’s government afloat in the coming fiscal year.
The Joint Legislative
Budget Committee adopted a budget recommendation approaching $5.4 billion for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Lawmakers had warned that few agencies would be
granted the budget increases they requested during fall hearings.
Mississippi’s revenue col-lections have been sluggish in recent years amid the national economic downturn. And, officials say drafting a spending plan will be par-ticularly challenging because the state will be without $700 million in nonrecurring
Rep. George Flaggs looks over budget proposals Monday.rogelio solis•The associaTed press
‘The footnote is the part of the budget that guarantees tax at the
local level.’Rep. GeoRGe FlaGGs
See Budget, Page A9.
KATie CArTer•The Vicksburg posT
Judge: Entergy charged too muchBy the Associated Press
BATON ROUGE — A federal regulatory judge has ruled that electric utility Entergy Corp. overcharged customers in four states by selling higher priced power to its own subsidiaries.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Monday announced last week’s ruling by an
Tax package headstoward Senate OKBy The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The tax package negotiated by President Barack Obama and GOP lawmak-ers is headed toward passage in the Senate even as House Democrats consider changes to the estate tax.
The bill could be passed and sent to the House today. The Senate voted 83-15 Monday evening to advance the package, which would provide a two-year reprieve from tax increases scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1 at all income levels.
Long legal fight ahead for health lawBy The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The score-card on the legal fight over Presi-dent Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is two judges in favor and one against.
But these are the early rounds in preliminary bouts. The one that really counts — a showdown at the Supreme Court — is at least a year away.
The health care law suffered its first major legal setback Monday when a federal judge declared that the heart of the sweeping legislation is unconstitutional. The decision handed Republican foes ammunition for their repeal
effort next year.The ruling by U.S. District
Judge Henry E. Hudson, a Republican appointee in Rich-mond, Va., marked the first suc-cessful court challenge to any portion of the new law, following two earlier rulings in its favor by Democratic-appointed judges. A number of other lawsuits were dismissed early on, without rul-ings on the substance of the law.
The law’s central requirement for nearly all Americans to carry insurance is unconstitutional, well beyond Congress’ power to mandate, Hudson ruled. That put him in the same camp as Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli
— the Republican who filed the suit — and many of the GOP law-makers who will take control of the U.S. House in January.
But Hudson denied Virginia’s request to strike down the law in its entirety or block it from being implemented while his ruling is appealed by the Obama administration.
“An individual’s personal deci-sion to purchase — or decline to purchase — health insurance from a private provider is beyond the historical reach of the Com-merce Clause,” said Hudson, a 2002 appointee of President
President Barack Obama discusses the tax bill Monday.
See Health, Page A9. See Tax cuts, Page A9.
See Entergy, Page A9.
See Casino, Page A9.
Ameristarrules outsale for now
Tyler Staples packs dirt behind the Levee Street Depot Monday in preparation for tracks that will hold train cars for the Vicks-burg Transportation Museum. Five sets of tracts will go in near the depot to hold cars that include two cabooses already at the property and donations by heirs of former
Speaker of the House Buddie Newman of Val-ley Park, said museum curator Lamar Roberts. The museum will be on the first floor of the depot in renovations underway by Kenneth R. Thompson Jr. Builder of Greenwood. The $1.535 million contract calls for depot work to be completed in about a year.
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Girl, 4, tells court man molested her last yearBy Pamela [email protected]
A 4-year-old girl took the stand in Warren County Cir-cuit Court Monday, pointing out for the court a man she said molested her a year ago.
She identified Thomas E. Tubbs, of 906 National St., as the man who molested her Dec. 17 and said she told her mother after it happened.
Tubbs, 56, was convicted in 1993 of raping a 10-year-old girl and served 10 years of a 25-year prison sentence.
In Monday’s action, Judge Isadore Patrick took the
unusual step of clearing the courtroom of all except legal teams, the press and jurors before the girl took the stand for less than 10 minutes. About a dozen spectators waited in the courthouse hallways.
Tubbs is accused of “illegal touching of a child” for lustful purposes. The trial that began Monday was expected to con-clude with a verdict this after-noon or evening.
If found guilty, Tubbs faces 15 years in prison without pos-sibility of parole or earned early release.
Tubbs’ defense attorney, Louis Field, told the pool of
prospective jurors that Pat-rick had allowed Tubbs’ pre-vious conviction to be intro-duced into evidence, but “just because he did that you may not infer that he committed this crime.”
Later, after the jury of six men and six women, with one man as an alternate, were sworn in, Assistant District Attorney Dewey Arthur said in his opening statement that Tubbs had made two differ-ent statements to police about what happened with the girl, then 3, and concocted an implausible story to cover up the truth.
Field deferred his opening statement until later.
Witness testimony began with the child’s mother tes-tifying that the girl told her Tubbs had touched her and saying the child pointed to her private parts when she was asked where on her body. The mother then took her to the hospital, where an examina-tion revealed no physical evi-dence of abuse.
Also testifying were police investigators, one of whom took the official statements of the child, her mother and Tubbs.
District Attorney Ricky
Smith played Tubbs’ taped interrogation for jurors, who were provided with tran-scribed copies of the difficult-to-hear recording.
In a pretrial competency hearing, in which the judge and the attorneys asked the child questions, Patrick ruled she did not “have an under-standing that she can ver-balize to the court as to what is truthful and what is not,” and that she was not compe-tent to testify. After meeting with Smith, Arthur and Field in his chambers, he reversed the decision and allowed her to take the stand.
Stepmom says not guiltyin abuse of slain children
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A woman accused of abus-ing her common-law hus-band’s two young children, whose bodies were found in the woods, pleaded not guilty today and was being held on $206,000 bond.
An attorney entered the plea for Heather Leavell-Keaton, 22, at a hearing in Mobile. She had been brought back to Ala-bama from Kentucky.
Her husband, 27-year-old John DeBlase, is also being held in Mobile, on $500,000 bond, on murder charges.
On Saturday, investigators found bones about 30 miles north of Mobile that are likely those of Natalie DeBlase. She would have turned 5 in Novem-ber. A boy’s remains were found in the woods of rural Mississippi last week, and investigators said they’re con-fident they belong to 3-year-old Chase DeBlase. Police say the children were killed sepa-rately, and their remains were immediately dumped.
An investigation started last month after Leavell-Keaton sought a protective order against DeBlase in Kentucky, where the two had moved.
She said in the Nov. 18 filing that DeBlase might have killed his children, and that she feared for her life because he was abusive. The couple had
a child together this summer, and that child is in state cus-tody in Kentucky.
Arrest warrants in the case accuse Leavell-Keaton of bind-ing Natalie DeBlase’s hands and feet with duct tape, put-ting a sock in her mouth and stuffing her in a suitcase in a closet for about 14 hours.
The warrants also accuse Leavell-Keaton of duct-taping Chase DeBlase’s hands to the sides of his legs, strapping a broom handle to his back and shoving a sock in his mouth, then forcing him to stand in a corner all night while the adults went to bed.
community calendarWe welcome items for the Community Calendar. Submit items by e-mail ([email protected]), postal service (P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182), fax (634-0897), delivered in person to 1601-F N. Frontage Road, or by calling 636-4545 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. If corresponding by fax, mail or e-mail, be sure to include your name and phone number.
cluBSVicksburg-Warren JSU Alumni — 6 tonight; Jackson Street Center.Lions — Noon Wednesday, Jacques’ Cafe; Dr. Matt Buck-les, First Baptist Church pastor, to bring Christmas message.Vicksburg Toastmasters
2052 — Will not meet Thurs-day; meetings will resume Jan. 6; Jeff Hensley, 601-634-4596.Vicksburg Coin Club — 6 p.m. Thursday; Panda Buffet.Vicksburg Homecoming Be-nevolent — 7 p.m. Thursday; bring covered dish and a se-cret pal gift; 108 Dogwood. Vicksburg Warren County ASU Alumni — 6 p.m. Fri-day; Alcorn State, Vicksburg Branch Building, 1514 Cherry St., Suite A.Rosa A. Temple High Class of 1971 — 9 p.m. Saturday, Christmas dance; admission $5; The Hut, 1618 Main St.; 601-415-1377 or 601-631-
4177.
PuBlic ProGramSYMCA Christmas Camp — Registrations being accepted at Purks Center, call 601-638-1071 or online at www.vicks-burgymca.com.Senior Center — Wednesday: 10 a.m., chair exercises; 1 p.m., bingo; 1:30, knitting class with Brenda Harrower; 2:30, ca-nasta.Public Library — 10:30 a.m. Wednesday; story time for preschoolers and toddlers; 10:30 Thursday; day-care groups; 700 Veto St.Serenity Overeaters Anony-mous — 6-7 p.m. Wednes-
day, Bowmar Baptist Church room 102C; for those wanting to stop binge eating; 601-638-0011. Vicksburg Al-Anon — 8 p.m. Wednesday; family, friends of alcoholics and addicts; 502 Dabney Ave.; 601-636-1134.“First Night” — Vicksburg Theatre Guild event sched-uled for Dec. 31-Jan. 9 has been canceled.
cHurcHeSSpiritual Education of Chil-dren — End-of-semester party; programs for ages 6-10 and 11-14; 4-5 today; co-sponsored by the Baha’is of Vicksburg; Jeanine Hensley,
601-415-3253; Alma Smith, 601-636-8628; Christ Episco-pal, Sunday School Building 2 doors down from church at 1115 Main St.; e-mail [email protected]. First Baptist — Blood drive, 4-8 p.m. Wednesday; all do-nors receive free T-shirt; Fam-ily Life Center, 1607 Cherry St.Mount Givens M.B. — Youth Christmas program and din-ner, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday; choir rehearsal, 6:30 p.m. Fri-day; food distribution, 11 a.m. Saturday; 210 Kirkland Road.Gospel Temple M.B. — Bettie Murphy Draper Celebration, 6:30 p.m. Friday; 1612 Lane St.
‘Biggest Loser’ finale at 8 tonightThe two-hour finale of
“The Biggest Loser,” featur-ing Vicksburg resident Pat-rick House as one of three remaining contenders, will be broad-cast live from Los Angeles on NBC at 8 tonight.
“I am feeling really good about this,” the formerly 400-pound House said from Los Angeles Monday. “I feel like I have put myself in the best possible position to win, and I can honestly say that I have done everything I can possi-bly do to win this.”
A week ago, about 400 people gathered with House at the Vicksburg Conven-tion Center to watch as he clinched a spot in the live two-hour season finale in the weight-loss competition.
A win by House, who has lost 156 pounds on the show, would be the first for a Mis-sissippian in the show’s 10 years on the air.
House, 28, returned to Vicksburg in September, where he lives with his wife, Bradley, and their two young sons, after four months on The Biggest Loser Ranch in California. Since, he has continued gym visits in his attempt to have the highest weight-loss percentage.
The champion will receive $250,000 and be under con-tract to the show for about a year.
“I really appreciate the city of Vicksburg for being behind me,” House said. “And in about 24 hours I really hope I can bring this title back to them.”
Three Vicksburg men heldfor four vehicle burglaries
Three Vicksburg men were in the Warren County Jail this morning charged with four counts of burglary and sale of a stolen fire-arm, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said.
Daniel Edward Stokes, 17, 1245 Mount Alban Road, Jimmy Hart, 20, 1490 Sher-man Ave., and Gary Guillot, 18, 420 Tilton Ranch Road, are accused of breaking into two cars on Alice Place and Douglas Road on Nov. 24 and two cars on St. Patrick Street Friday night, Pace said.
Missing were at least five guns and speakers.
Stokes was arrested Friday night after deputies found him sitting in his car wear-ing gloves and with bolt cut-ters and other burglary tools. Investigators linked him to the car burglaries.
Hart and Guillot had fled on foot, Pace said, and they surrendered at 3:45 p.m. Monday.
All three are charged in the four car burglaries and in the sale of one gun and the speakers.
Three in county heldfor cooking meth
Two Vicksburg men and a woman were in the Warren County Jail this morning charged with manufactur-ing methamphetamine, jail records said.
John Williamson, 29, 2831 U.S. 61 South, and Rocky Howard, 36, and Tracy Powell, 34, both of 1676 Jeff Davis Road, were arrested by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics just before 2 p.m. Monday.
All three are being held without bond pending an ini-tial court hearing.
Vicksburg man jailedfor aggravated assault
A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail this morning charged with aggravated assault, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said.
Charles Mitchell, 37, 1317 Harrison St., was being held without bond pending an ini-tial court hearing.
Further information on his charges was not available.
Two Vicksburg autosreported missing
Two cars were reported stolen in the city on Monday, Vicksburg police Lt. Bobby Stewart said.
A burgundy 1997 Oldsmo-bile Aurora valued at $2,500 was reported missing from a home in the 1500 block of Bodley Street at 4:43 p.m.
At 7:30 p.m. a 2003 GMC Yukon valued at $15,000 was left running outside a home in the 2500 block of Drum-mond Street, while the owner was putting something in the house.
When he returned, he saw his truck speeding away.
It was found two hours later in the 2600 block of Cherry Street. An Apple iPhone valued at $400 was reported stolen.
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Haley Ray, left, Greg Hazel-rig and Michelle O’Bannon
stand in place for the Gibson United Methodist Church Live Nativity. Free and open to the public to drive up to view, the live
nativity will be Friday and Saturday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The address is 335
Oak Ridge Road. The num-ber is 601-636-2605.
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Wednesday• Curtis Wilkie book-signing
— Noon at Lorelei Books on Washington Street; “The Fall Of the House Of Zeus”; 601-634-8624 or www.lorelei-books.com.
• Verdee Thomas Art Exhibit — Mississippi Welcome Cen-ter, Interstate 20 and Wash-ington Street.
Friday• “The Best Christmas Pag-
eant Ever” — 7 p.m. at the Coral Room inside The Vicks-burg on Clay Street; $10; pre-sented by Westside Theatre Foundation; 601-618-9349.
• Gibson Memorial United Methodist Live Nativity — 7-8:30 p.m. at church at 335 Oak Ridge Road.
• FitZone’s Holiday Fun & Fit Night — 6-9 p.m. for ages 3-12; $15, with discounts for multiples; pizza and drink included; 1808 S. Frontage Road; 601-638-3778.
• Verdee Thomas Art Exhibit — Mississippi Welcome Cen-ter, Interstate 20 and Wash-ington Street.
Saturday• Nativity Display — 10 a.m.-
4 p.m. at Goodman Memori-al United Methodist in Cary;
more than 200 nativities from around the world; free.
• “The Nutcracker” — 2 and 7 p.m. at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; presented by Debra Franco School of Dance; $10; 601-638-7282.
• “The Best Christmas Pag-eant Ever” — 7 p.m. at the Coral Room inside The Vicks-burg on Clay Street; $10; pre-sented by Westside Theatre Foundation; 601-618-9349.
• Gibson Memorial United Methodist Live Nativity — 7-8:30 p.m. at church at 335 Oak Ridge Road.
• Yuletide Souls Festival — 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Warren County-Vicksburg Public Li-brary; featuring Southern authors, artists; free; 601-636-6411.
• Verdee Thomas Art Exhibit — Mississippi Welcome Cen-ter, Interstate 20 and Wash-ington Street.
Sunday• Nativity Display — 1-4 p.m.
at Goodman Memorial Unit-ed Methodist in Cary; more than 200 nativities from around the world; free.
• “The Nutcracker” — 2 and 7 p.m. at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; presented by Debra Franco School of Dance; $10; 601-638-7282.
• Verdee Thomas Art Exhibit — Mississippi Welcome Cen-ter, Interstate 20 and Wash-ington Street.
Dec. 22• “What Do the Lonely Do
at Christmas?” — 7:30 p.m. at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; written by Pam Pruitt of Vicksburg; tickets: $10 for adults by Wednes-day, $15 after, $8 for children 12 and younger; 601-636-4786 or 601-994-3477.
• Verdee Thomas Art Exhibit — On display through Dec. 22 at Mississippi Welcome Center, Interstate 20 and Washington Street.
Dec. 23• “What Do the Lonely Do at
Christmas?” — 7:30 p.m.
at Parkside Playhouse, 101 Iowa Ave.; written by Pam Pruitt of Vicksburg; tickets: $10 for adults by Wednes-day, $15 after, $8 for children 12 and younger; 601-636-4786 or 601-994-3477.
Dec. 26• Soul Session Sundays —
3-6 p.m. at the CYA Village Campus on Mississippi 548 in Hermanville; holiday crafts, entertainment, etc.; free
New Year’s Eve• “The Rocky Horror Show”
— Midnight at the Coral Room inside The Vicksburg on Clay Street; $12; contin-ues at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 1-2; pre-sented by Westside Theatre Foundation; 601-618-9349.
Holiday events
Bird count starts todayThe Audubon Society’s
110th annual Christmas Bird Count kicks off today.
The event will run through Jan. 5.
More than 60,000 people participated in the 2009 count, tallying some 2,300 species and 56 million birds. Volunteers spotted 200 more species than in 2008.
Information on how to par-ticipate may be found at
http://eidertrk.audubon.org or by calling the Vicksburg Audubon office at 601-661-6189.
The Audubon Society, founded in 1905, aims to con-serve and restore natural ecosystems.
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Answer: We recommend the hearing aids that work for you!Hearing aids don’t give perfect hearing because of damage to thecochlea but should enhance the ability to hear and understand bet-ter! Many people choose the style that doesn’t show and enjoy thebenefits of better hearing! The type of technology can be determinedby your lifestyle. Every successful hearing aid fitting does requirepatience and a positive attitude, keeping follow-up appointmentsand wearing the devices on a daily basis to achieve optimal results!My staff and I are here to assist you. Call today for a complimentaryhearing evaluation. 601-636-2269.
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Answer: Your child's hearing may be affected if fluid stays in themiddle ear after an infection. This is called otitis media with effusion.(Effusion is another word for fluid buildup.) Usually the fluid goesaway in two to three months, and hearing returns to normal. Yourdoctor may want to check your child again at this time to see if fluidis still present. If the fluid stays for more than a few months, yourdoctor may want to check your child's hearing. Your doctor may rec-ommend ear tubes (also called tympanostomy tubes) to drain thefluid. Ear tubes may also decrease the number of ear infections yourchild gets.
Michael Jones, R.Ph.Helping Hands PharmacyIs there anything I can do to prevent my childfrom getting head lice?
Answer: The only way to prevent head lice is to tell your child not to share personalitems such as combs, brushes, scarves, hats, helmets, or hair accessories with anyone.Also, tell your child to avoid head-to-head contact with other children while playing.
Parents who get a note from school about an outbreak of head lice should followthese steps:
Check your child’s hair for lice and nits (lice eggs) every three to four days.Be alert to symptoms of infection: intense itching, red bumps on the scalp, or the feel-ing of something moving on the hair. If your child experiences any of these symptomsand/or if head lice can be seen in the hair, then using a medicated shampoo is recom-mended, such as Nix® or Rid®. (Follow the directions on the package.)
Any combs, brushes, and hair accessories used by the infected person should be leftto soak in rubbing alcohol or medicated shampoo for one hour, or they should bereplaced.
Janet S. Fisher, DMD, PAGeneral Dentistry
Being overweight can cause a lot of health prob-lems. Is there a link between obesity and gumdisease?
Answer: Recent studies by the International Association for DentalResearch has shown a strong indication of a possible relationshipbetween obesity and periodontal disease (gum disease). Additionalstudies are still required to determine the exact relationship betweenthe two conditions.
Adverse health conditions associated with obesity include cardio-vascular disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and stroke. Risk fac-tors for developing type 2 diabetes are obesity, age and lack of phys-ical activity. Type 2 diabetes increases the risk of developing peri-odontal disease.
Answer: A tube called the eustachian (say: “you-stay-shun”) tube connects the middle ear with the
back of the nose. Normally this tube lets fluid drain out of the mid-dle ear. If bacteria or viruses infect the lining of your child’s eustachi-an tube, the tube gets swollen and fills with thick mucus. This keepsfluid in the ear from draining normally. Bacteria can grow in the fluid,increasing pressure behind the eardrum and causing pain. Theeustachian tubes can become blocked because of allergies, a cold orother infection. In other cases, the adenoids (glands near the ear)become enlarged and block the eustachian tubes. Acute ear infectionsusually clear up within one or two weeks. Sometimes, ear infectionslast longer and become chronic. After an infection, fluid may stay inthe middle ear. This may lead to more infections and hearing loss.
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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1890Frank A. Gallagher dies. • The steamer Nellie Hudson, which sank in the Sunflower River, will prove a total loss.
110 YEARS AGO: 1900Theo Link, architect of the new state capitol is in the city. • The assessorship fight comes up next in circuit court before Judge Henry.
100 YEARS AGO: 1910Local interest is attracted to the Charles Jones murder case in progress at Cleveland.
90 YEARS AGO: 1920C.J. O’Neill is in Memphis on business. • Mrs. H.B. Slater returns to Memphis after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Shaffer.
80 YEARS AGO: 1930The Exchange Club has a Ladies Night affair. • R.A. Mont-gomery resigns as manager of the Hotel Vicksburg and goes to Greenville to manage the Roslyn Hotel.
70 YEARS AGO: 1940John Hermann is elected president of the Illinois Central Supervisors Club. • Alice Lunch, former resident, dies in Monroe.
60 YEARS AGO: 1950Charles Harper, who was injured in an automobile accident, dies. • Joseph H. Short, former Vicksburg newspaperman, is sworn in as press secretary to President Harry Truman.
50 YEARS AGO: 1960Johnny Stepan is home for the holidays from Southwestern University at Memphis. • The Rev. Joseph Hillhouse, former resident, dies in California. • Services are held for Mrs. Blanche Yates. • R.B. Flowers dies. • Belinda Lee stars in “She Walks By Night” at the Rivoli Drive-In Theatre.
40 YEARS AGO: 1970Mr. and Mrs. George Hudson of Port Gibson announce the birth of a daughter, Vivian, on Dec. 8. • Liza Minelli stars in “The Sterile Cuckoo” at the Joy Theatre. • Mr. and Mrs. Denny Kitchens of Utica announce the birth of a daughter, Amanda, on Dec. 12.
30 YEARS AGO: 1980Vicksburg High Senior Edward Wilson signs a football grant-in-aid with the University of Southern Mississippi. • Mrs. Stacy Blackmon is chosen Mother of the Year by the Family Development Service. • Eagle Lake Methodist Church burns.
20 YEARS AGO: 1990The Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau adopts a budget of more than 425,000, up about 17,000 over the 1990 spending plan. • David Willoughby is pictured with a 205-pound, nine-point buck he killed.
10 YEARS AGO: 2000Ethel K. “Dump” Sanders dies. • Avery Mathes bags an eight-pointer near Warner-Tully YMCA Camp in Claiborne County. • Jerry and Michelle Wicker announce the birth of a son, Christian Chandler, born Dec. 5.
Could it actually be that President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans can work together to get stuff done?
My bet is: temporarily, and on a limited basis, because they have to. But soon enough we’ll be back to partisan war as usual.
The good news is that, having been clobbered in the last election, Obama finally realizes he can’t ignore the Republicans as he’s done more or less systematically for the past two years.
The bad news is that Republicans, having won the House and having strong prospects for capturing the Senate in 2012, will try to deny Obama any significant accomplish-ments over the next two years in hopes of defeating him and control-ling the whole government in 2013.
Obama had it right when he said, after meeting with leaders of both parties, that “the American people did not vote for gridlock. They didn’t vote for unyielding partisan-ship. They’re demanding coop-eration and they’re demanding progress.”
That’s an old Obama theme, famously dating back to the 2004 Democratic National Convention speech that launched his national political career. But does he know
how to walk his talk?On two issues, at least, Repub-
licans and Democrats absolutely have to come to terms this month: the Bush-era tax cuts and funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year.
It’s nothing less than legislative malfeasance that Congress did not perform these basic functions before the election.
Having failed to enact a budget resolution this year for just the fifth time since 1975, Congress has not passed a single one of the 12 appro-priations bills to fund (and set pri-orities for) federal departments.
It’s likely that, during the lame-duck session, Congress will punt again, merely passing a continuing resolution to keep the government operating into next year.
Meantime, the tax cuts are set to expire Jan. 1 unless a new law is passed, raising everyone’s taxes with the economy, at best, stagger-ing out of recession.
Obama and most Democrats want to keep the cuts just for families earning less than $250,000. Repub-licans want to make all of them permanent.
There’s almost certain to be a compromise of some sort. But it could be merely a split-the-differ-ence pact, or a creative one.
The best one I’ve seen, recom-mended by Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is to extend all the cuts for two years — and then adopt sweeping tax reform to eliminate loopholes and lower corporate and individual rates, making the tax code sim-
pler, fairer and more economically efficient.
As the co-chairmen of Obama’s debt commission reported last month, the $1.1 trillion a year in “tax earmarks” written into the revenue code benefit the top 1 per-cent of taxpayers at a rate double that of any other income group.
Democrats had hoped to use the waning days of their dominance of the government to push through noneconomic items on their agenda, notably the DREAM Act to benefit children of illegal immi-grants, permission for openly gay service members in the military and the new START agreement with Russia.
There may be a chance for an alternative immigration bill that would give legal status to about 1 million agricultural workers, but prospects for that aren’t bright.
There’s every reason to allow openly gay service members, now that a Pentagon study has found that 70 percent of military person-nel say it would have no effect on unit cohesion. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asserted that allow-ing orderly integration of gays was “a matter of urgency,” preferable to a judicial order to implement it precipitously.
And the prospects for START have improved with the adminis-tration’s move to yield to skeptics’ concerns over U.S. missile defenses and the reliability of the nuclear stockpile.
It’s clear what the public wants. A new Marist College/McClatchy poll shows that 72 percent of voters say that “Republicans should compro-mise with Democrats and President Obama to get things done.”
That includes 94 percent of Demo-crats, 71 percent of independents, 49 percent of Republicans and even 45 percent of Tea Party supporters.
But when asked what they expect to happen, 64 percent of all voters think Republicans will “stand firm on their positions even if it means things don’t get done,” including 69 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of independents, 55 percent of Repub-licans and 58 percent of Tea Party supporters.
My guess, sadly, is that this pre-diction is correct — and that the 2012 election will be mainly about who’s to blame for the fact that the country’s urgent problems haven’t been solved.
•Morton Kondracke is executive editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.
Bipartisanship in the lame-duck session can be accomplished
MORTONKONDRACKE
On two issues, at least, Repub-licans and Democrats absolute-
ly have to come to terms this month: the Bush-era tax cuts and funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year.
InternetReason and prudence are
needed to untangle the digi-tal-age Gordian knots posed by Internet technology. Unfortu-nately, Congress can be short of reason and prudence.
A bill to protect online property rights of owners’ copyrighted material sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee last week 19-0. We urge the Senate to rethink this approach.
Producers of digital products, such as Hollywood movie studios, are at an increasing risk of their property being pirated and dis-tributed on the Internet, costing them millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Let us be clear. We’re unwav-ering supporters of intellectual property rights. That said, let us also be clear in condemning this bill, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which would infringe on other cherished rights, including the rights to freedom of speech and due process.
The bill would protect online copyrighted material by target-
ing file-sharing websites that have “no demonstrable, com-mercially significant purpose or use other than” providing access without authorization to material protected by federal copyright laws.
The bill would allow the Justice Department to seek expedited court orders to force U.S. domain-name registrars to shut down domestic websites suspected of hosting infringing materials. The bill also would permit similar court action to order U.S. Inter-net service providers to divert customer traffic away from infringing foreign websites.
Critics say the bill grants too broad authority and would extend its effects to third parties who aren’t involved in copyright infringement. Moreover, as struc-tured, the new law would impose its Draconian solutions “without any meaningful opportunity for any party to contest” the govern-ment’s allegations, according to a public letter signed by numer-ous law professors from univer-sities. The act “would also sup-
press vast amounts of protected speech containing no infringing content,” the letter says.
The bill has drawn opposition from across the political spec-trum, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Elec-tronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-rights group, and assorted conservative bloggers. However, in the Senate there are at least 11 co-sponsors.
PCWorld.com, the website of a consumer computer magazine, reported that Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced his opposi-tion to the bill in its current form, which the online publication said, “means the bill is likely dead this year” because “individual sena-tors can place holds on legisla-tion,” and the lame duck session is winding down.
We hope before making a bad situation worse, Wyden and other reasonable, prudent senators in the coming year give more sober deliberation that can lead to bal-ancing all stakeholders’ rights.
Abusing rights to protect others
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Oxford mulls parking garage for squareOXFORD, Miss. — Anyone
who’s ventured into down-town Oxford after a Uni-versity of Mississippi game knows parking is scarce on the square.
Mayor George “Pat” Pat-terson said local officials are now studying the possibility of building a parking garage.
Officials said such a facil-ity could alleviate the park-ing shortages that peak on Thursday, Friday and Satur-day nights.
Patterson said a commit-tee of downtown business owners, workers and resi-dents will study possible locations, impacts, designs and financing for a parking garage.
Financing would likely be one of the main issues for building a parking garage. Patterson said taxes won’t be raised to pay for it.
1 killed in plane crashin Hancock County
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Officials were awaiting
an autopsy Monday before releasing the name of a person killed when a small plane crashed in coastal Hancock County.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the crash was reported at 6:15 a.m. Monday about 6 to 8 miles west of Stennis Inter-national Airport. FAA inves-tigators and local authorities were at the crash site in a wooded area.
The FAA says the plane, a four-seat Diamond DA40, was destroyed.
The website Flight Aware, which tracks private and commercial flights, said the aircraft is registered to Waveland Equipment Leas-ing in Waveland.
Flight Aware said the plane was scheduled to fly Sunday night from Florida’s Destin-Fort Walton Beach airport to Stennis International Airport.
Sentencing dates setin burned body case
NEW ORLEANS — Two of the three New Orleans police officers convicted in a man’s shooting death after Hurricane Katrina have new sentencing dates.
U.S. District Judge Lance Africk is scheduled to sen-tence Officer Gregory McRae on March 31.
A jury convicted McRae last week of burning Henry Glover’s body in a car after he was fatally shot by a dif-ferent officer on Sept. 2, 2005.
Lt. Travis McCabe is scheduled to be sentenced April 7. He was convicted of writing a false report on the shooting.
McCabe, McRae and a former officer, David Warren, were initially scheduled to be sentenced March 24.
The administrator of a $20 bil-lion fund doling out money to Gulf oil spill victims said Monday that people who want more cash can now get a quick check within two weeks, but there’s a catch: Cashing it means giving up the right to sue BP or receive any more payments.
Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who took over the claims pro-cess from BP PLC in August, said individual claimants who have already received some compensation from the fund can get a $5,000 check, but they can’t sue BP and won’t be eligible for a final settle-ment. Businesses could seek
a $25,000 check. The payments would be issued within two weeks.
The other options are to seek quarterly interim pay-ments for losses until August 2013, or file for a lump sum final settlement. Getting the lump sum also means giving up the right to sue BP over its April 20 oil well blowout that spewed more than 170 million gallons of crude into the sea.
Some who haven’t decided whether to accept the final payment or to sue BP can opt for the interim payments in the meantime.
“No more documentation required, no requirement that you add any evidence of damage,” Feinberg said of the new option to receive quick cash.
By Wednesday, Feinberg said, the Gulf Coast Claims
Facility will have paid about $2.5 billion to roughly 170,000 claimants, but many have been complaining the process is taking too long or they are being shortchanged. Some large businesses with claims of more than $500,000 say they haven’t been paid at all.
Mississippi seafood proces-sor Keath Ladner said his claim for roughly $1.7 million has been pending for three months, and the losses keep growing. He employs about 70 boats and is one of the largest processors in the state.
Ladner received some money early on, but nothing in months, and said he wouldn’t even consider accepting the $25,000 quick payment.
Home demolition programwon’t finish on time
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The board charged with demolishing and disposing of hurricane-damaged homes bought by the state won’t be able to finish the work on time or likely within the current budget, according to a review by Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera.
Purpera’s office released a report Monday looking at the program overseen by the Lou-isiana Land Trust.
The trust is in charge of dealing with more than 10,400 properties acquired through the state’s Road Home Pro-gram after hurricanes Katrina and Rita — either by demol-ishing them, auctioning them off or transferring them to
local control.Purpera’s report said the
$220 million cost projection for the program is based on faulty assumptions beyond the land trust’s control and timelines that don’t appear reasonable, assumptions that rely on Orleans and St. Ber-nard parish agencies to take certain actions.
The land trust projected all demolitions would be com-plete by March 31 and the pro-gram completed by May 31.
Mike Taylor, executive direc-tor of the land trust, said he is working aggressively to deal with the blighted property as quickly as possible, hoping to get most of the properties dis-posed of by June 30.
AFTER ThE SPILL
Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who took over the claims process from BP PLC in August, said individual claimants
who HAVE already received some compensation from the fund can get a $5,000 check, but they can’t sue BP and
won’t be eligible for a final settlement.
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Holbrooke dies at 69 after heart surgery
WASHINGTON (AP) — Few U.S. diplomats had the breadth, depth or length of service of Richard Holbrooke, who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace accords and served as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Paki-stan and Afghanistan.
Holbrooke’s unexpected death Monday at 69, follow-ing surgery for a tear in his aorta, marked the end of a sto-ried career. He served through defining eras in U.S. diplomacy, witnessing the end of Euro-pean colonialism and the Cold War and the rise of interna-tional terrorism as the great-est threat to America.
Calling Holbrooke “a true giant of American foreign policy,” Obama paid homage to his crisis expert as “a truly unique figure who will be remembered for his tireless diplomacy, love of country and pursuit of peace.” Holbrooke deserves credit for much of the hard-won progress in Afghani-stan and Pakistan, the presi-dent said.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Holbrooke’s presence would be especially missed this week as the Obama administration fin-ishes its review of the Afghan war, expected Thursday. Mullen said Holbrooke helped write and “deeply believed in” the war strategy.
“That we have been making steady progress in this war is due in no small measure to Richard’s tireless efforts and dedication,” Mullen said. “I know he would want our work to continue unabated. And I know we will all feel his bully presence in the room as we do so.”
Holbrooke has served under every Democratic president since John F. Kennedy. He
brought a lion’s appetite for difficult work, from Indochina and the Pacific to Europe, Africa and, in his last incarna-tion, South Asia.
Supremely self-confident, brash and instantly dismissive of critics, Holbrooke entered the foreign service in the early 1960s at the height of what crit-ics called the State Depart-ment’s “pale, male and Yale” phase.
It was a time when the dictum of former Secretary of State Henry Stimson — “Gen-tlemen don’t read each other’s mail” — still rang through the corridors of Foggy Bottom, the State Department’s Washing-ton neighborhood.
At the time of his death, Hol-
brooke — an Ivy League grad-uate of Brown University, not Yale — was serving a vastly different agency. The State Department in recent years has been led by an African-American man and three women, one of them African-American.
And, quite far from Stim-son’s admonition, the depart-ment instructed its diplomats to seek out personal informa-tion about foreign leaders and politicians, according to leaked classified documents released by the WikiLeaks website.
Holbrooke had a forceful style that earned him nicknames such as “The Bulldozer” and “Raging Bull.”
GOP chief Steele sayshe’ll run for re-election
Embattled GOP Chair-man Michael Steele is telling Republican National Com-mittee members that he’s
running for re-election.
That’s according to several par-ticipants lis-tening to a conference call Monday night
between Steele and
the 168-member committee. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the call was private.
The RNC will vote in Janu-ary on whether to grant Steele a second two-year term or choose a successor from a multicandidate field.
Steele has watched his once strong support within the RNC rank and file all but evaporate during a first term that has been marked by allegations of financial mismanagement and verbal missteps.
Obama: Nutrition billvital to kids’ future
Thousands more children
would eat lunches and din-ners at school and all school food would become more nutritious under a bill Presi-dent Barack Obama signed into law Monday, part of an administration wide effort to combat childhood obesity.
“At a very basic level, this act is about doing what’s right for our children,” Obama said before sign-ing the bill. The ceremony was moved from the White House, where most sign-ings are held, to an elemen-tary school in the District of Columbia to underscore the point.
Besides Obama, the bill also was a priority for his wife, Michelle, who launched a national campaign this year against childhood obesity.
“We can all agree that in the wealthiest nation on earth all children should have the basic nutrition they need to learn and grow and to pursue their dreams,” said Mrs. Obama. “Because in the end, nothing is more impor-tant than the health and well-being of our children. Nothing,”
Obama callscrisis expert‘giant offoreign policy’
washingtonBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GOP ChairmanMichael Steele
The associaTed press
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to give away $30,000 to two sib-lings? Is there a yearly limit? I am 57 years old. — Susan, via e-mail
A: This should not present any problems. You are allowed to give $12,000 to any one person in any one year. That would mean $24,000 immedi-ately, and if you do this before the end of this year, give the remaining $6,000 ($3,000 a piece) in the next tax year. Alternatively, if the siblings are married, you could give $12,000 apiece to them and $3,000 to the spouses, but either way, there is no serious problem.
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Brake light glitch sparksrecall of Toyota minivan
WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it will recall nearly 100,000 Sienna minivans from the 2011 model year to replace a switch bracket on the brake lamp that could cause the brake lights to stay on.
The Japanese automaker, which has grappled with sev-eral safety recalls during the past year, said a driver’s foot could hit the switch bracket and deform it while apply-ing the parking brake pedal. Toyota said it did not know of any accidents or injuries related to the issue.
Owners may contact Toyota at 800-331-4331 or visit www.toyota.com/recall.
Retail report spreadscheer on Wall Street
NEW YORK — An upbeat report on retail sales gave stocks a boost today.
All three major indexes opened slightly higher today after the Commerce Department reported that retail sales rose for the fifth straight month in November. The biggest jump in depart-ment store sales in two years gave the holiday shopping season a strong start.
Investors were also encour-aged after the Senate voted late Monday to advance the nearly $900 billion tax-cut legislation toward final passage.
This morning, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 8, or 0.1 percent, to 11,437. The Standard and Poor’s 500 index was up 2, or 0.1 per-cent, to 1,242. The Nasdaq composite index was up 4, or 0.2 percent, at 2,629.
Yahoo to lay offas many as 700
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.’s holiday trim-mings will include 600 to 700
layoffs in the Internet compa-ny’s latest shake-up triggered by lackluster growth.
Employees could be noti-fied of the job cuts as early as today, said a person familiar with Yahoo’s plans.
The planned cutbacks rep-resent about 5 percent of Yahoo’s work force of 14,100 employees. It will mark Yahoo’s fourth mass layoff in the past three years.
The latest two houseclean-ings have come under the company’s current CEO, Carol Bartz, a Silicon Valley veteran hired nearly two years, despite a lack of expe-rience on the web or in advertising — Yahoo’s main source of revenue.
Fed set to reviewbond-buying program
WASHINGTON — After launching a much-criticized $600 billion bond-buying pro-gram last month to bolster the economy, the Federal Reserve is now taking stock of how it’s working.
Fed Chairman Ben Ber-nanke and his colleagues will gather today for their last scheduled meeting of 2010; no policy changes were expected.
Instead, the Fed will exam-ine the effectiveness of the unfolding program and dis-cuss the implications of a tax-cut plan emerging from Congress.
Since the Fed announced its second round of stimu-lus on Nov. 3, stocks have risen. That’s encouraging for the economy because larger stock portfolios make people more inclined to spend.
On the other hand, rates on mortgages have risen, defy-ing one of the Fed’s stated goals of the program.
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funds — mostly stimulus money — that disappear at the end of this budget year.
“We have to get on with the program and spend no more than we have,” House Speaker Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, said Monday. “We don’t have any options for new revenue. No tax increases. No fee increases.”
Not all of the budget com-mittee members were satis-fied with the spending plan approved Monday.
Rep. George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg, said “the foot-note is the part of the budget that guarantees tax at the local level.”
The broad proposal will be presented to the full Legis-lature after it convenes in January. Under the plan, universities would be cut by 2 percent compared to the current year’s budget, while the overall budget for K-12 public education would remain nearly level. Fund-ing for community colleges would be reduced by 1.2 per-cent and the Department of Mental Health’s budget would be cut by 4.4 percent.
All of those agencies, as well as a few other programs, are included in the plan’s footnote for lawmakers to give special consideration for additional funding during the 2011 session.
Department of Mental Health Executive Direc-tor Ed Legrand has said if his agency is cut any more it could force the closure of many of its facilities.
“The House is adamant about not destroying the progress made in mental health over the last 30 years,” McCoy said.
Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant agreed that an effort would be made to steer more money to mental health.
“Trying to keep mental patients out of jails is a prior-ity for me,” Bryant said.
The budget committee’s proposal called for using $56.3 million of the state’s health care trust fund and $88 million of the rainy day fund to plug budget holes.
The rainy day fund was created in the early 1990s to provide a financial cush-ion when money is tight. The state is supposed to set aside a portion of annual rev-enues for the fund, but that hasn’t been done in recent years because of the faltering economy.
The health care trust fund was created in the late 1990s after Mississippi settled a massive lawsuit against tobacco companies. For the past few years, the state has spent its annual payments rather than saving them and allowing the trust fund to grow.
In Gov. Haley Barbour’s proposed spending plan released weeks ago, most state programs would be cut by 8 percent. Universi-ties and community colleges would see cuts of about 3 per-cent under his plan. While funding for elementary and secondary schools would remain about level.
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administrative law judge for the Federal Energy Regula-tory Commission. The ruling can be appealed and no dollar amount for a potential rebate was specified by the judge.
The investigation covered subsidiaries with about 2.7 million customers: Entergy Arkansas, Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, Entergy Louisiana, Entergy Missis-sippi, Entergy New Orleans and Entergy Texas. Also involved is Entergy Services Inc., which provides shared services to all the utilities, such as engineering.
The judge found that Entergy violated its own “System Agreement,” which requires it to sell its cheap-est electricity to its affiliated utility companies. Instead, the judge said, Entergy Corp. sold its lowest-cost power to outside parties from 2000 to 2009 for a profit, forcing higher electricity costs onto customers of the Entergy subsidiaries.
“A judge has now found by compelling evidence that Entergy has overcharged ratepayers by selling them its most expensive electricity. This is one of the company’s methods of cheating ratepay-ers,” Hood said in a statement.
The case was brought by the Louisiana Public Service Com-mission. LPSC Executive Sec-retary Eve Gonzalez said the commission was pleased with the ruling and will be following the case closely.
“We think we have a very strong case and we think cus-tomers will likely see a refund, it’s just a matter of when,” she said.
Hood said the judge’s order requires Entergy’s sharehold-ers to repay the overcharges to the subsidiary companies, but he said the money then should be refunded to ratepayers because the overcharges were passed along through monthly electricity bills.
Entergy will file a request in early January to ask the entire Federal Energy Regu-latory Commission to review last week’s initial decision, said Entergy Mississippi spokes-woman Mara Hartmann. She said it’s premature to discuss how much money would be refunded.
“We continue to believe that the sales that the Louisi-ana Public Service Commis-sion challenged were appro-priate and were in line with the system agreement,” said Mike Burns, a spokesman for Entergy Corp.
Hartmann called the dis-pute a “complex issue of tariff interpretation.”
One of Mississippi’s three elected public service commis-sioners, Brandon Presley, said Monday that the administra-tive judge’s order “is as strong as 10 acres of garlic.”
Presley said Entergy should immediately refund money to customers.
“I’m not interested in their being a credit on somebody’s bill,” Presley said. “There should be a check in the mail for the amount they were overcharged.”
“This proves that both par-ties can in fact work together to grow our economy and look out for the American people,” Obama said. “I rec-ognize that folks on both sides of the political spec-trum are unhappy with certain parts of the pack-age and I understand those concerns. I share some of them. But that’s the nature of compromise.”
House Democrats are scheduled to meet in a closed-door caucus tonight to discuss the package. Last week, House Democratic leaders said they would not schedule a vote on the tax bill without changes to make it less generous to the wealthy.
Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin of Illi-nois said on TV this morn-ing that the wide margin by which the measure cleared the procedural vote should help facilitate its passage in the House.
“I think the House takes notice,” he said, adding that he believes the bill will be passed by Christmas.
Durbin said he under-stands opposition to the bill from liberal Democrats out-raged over the substantial relief given the wealthy in estate tax provisions. “In the spirit of the season, it does say, ‘God bless Tiny Tim and Donald Trump,” he said.
This week, several Demo-cratic leaders said they may settle for a vote on an amend-ment that would impose a higher estate tax — a vote that would face an uncertain outcome.
“I think we’re going to have a vote on the Senate bill, with possible changes,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. “We may have it with amendments. We’ll see what the process is.”
The most sweeping tax cuts in a generation, enacted under former President George W. Bush, are sched-uled to expire Jan. 1. The $858 billion package negoti-ated by Obama would extend them for two years.
It would also renew a pro-gram of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed that is due to lapse within days and enact a one-year cut in Social Security taxes.
“It is a substantial vic-tory for middle-class fami-lies across the country who would no longer have to worry about a massive tax hike come Jan. 1,” Obama said.
“It would offer hope to mil-lions of Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own by making sure that they won’t sud-denly find themselves out in the cold without the unem-ployment insurance benefits that they were counting on. And it would offer real tax relief for Americans who are paying for college, parents raising their children and business owners looking to invest in their businesses and propel our economy forward.”
George W. Bush.Another judge in Florida,
a GOP appointee, has not ruled in another lawsuit — brought by 20 states against the legislation — though he has signaled trouble for the administration. Arguments in that lawsuit, which also challenges whether the fed-eral government can require states to expand their Medic-aid programs, get under way Thursday in Florida.
Nevertheless, the White House predicted it would pre-vail in the Supreme Court.
“Keep in mind this is one ruling by one federal district court. We’ve already had two federal district courts that have ruled that this is defi-nitely constitutional,” Presi-dent Barack Obama said Monday.
“You’ve got one judge who disagreed. That’s the nature of these things.”
Federal appeals courts based in Atlanta, Cincinnati and Richmond make up the next set of judges who will have their say on the law, though their rulings are at least months away.
Once appellate judges have weighed in, the next appeal is to the Supreme Court.
In April, Justice Stephen Breyer predicted an eventual high court hearing for the health care overhaul. That might not happen until after the 2012 elections, though.
In the short term, the latest court ruling hands potent ammunition to GOP oppo-nents as they prepare to assert control in the new Congress with promises to repeal the law.
Whatever the eventual out-come, Monday’s ruling could create uncertainty around the administration’s efforts to gradually put into effect the landmark legislation extending health coverage to more than 30 million unin-sured Americans.
Obama aides said imple-mentation would not be affected, noting that the indi-vidual insurance require-ment and other major por-tions of the legislation don’t take effect until 2014. Some provisions of the law took effect in September, six months after its passage, including free preventive care, an elimination of life-time limits on coverage and requirements for insurers tto cover children with pre-ex-isting health conditions and allow adult children to stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26.
Hudson limited his ruling to striking down the so-called individual mandate, leav-ing intact other portions of the law. But administration officials and outside analysts agree that important provi-sions of the legislation could not go forward without the requirement for everyone to be insured. That’s because insurers need to have large pools of healthy people, who are cheap to insure.
The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.
James Richard CarleyJames Richard “Rick”
Carley died Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010, at his home. He was 53.
Mr. Carley was a native of Mobile and had lived in Vicksburg for 43 years. He was a self-employed heat and air technician.
He was preceded in death by his father, James William Carley; and his wife, Deborah Lynn Carley.
Survivors include his daughter, Angie Carley of Vicksburg; two brothers, Greg Carley and wife Joanne
and Mike Carley and wife Shelia, all of Vicksburg; three stepbrothers; two neph-ews; three nieces; and two grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at a later date with Glenwood Funeral Home in charge.
Donnie Ray LoweServices for Donnie Ray
Lowe will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Greater Mount Lebanon M.B. Church with the Rev. Curtis Ross officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery with W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home in charge.
Mr. Lowe died Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, at his home. He worked as a maintenance man for Battlefield Inn. He was a member of Greater Mount Lebanon M.B. Church.
DEATHS
as part of its evaluation of strategic alternatives to enhance stockholder value, the transaction committee of its Board of Directors is no longer considering a pos-sible sale of the company since a sale is not in the best interests of the Com-pany and its stockholders at this time,” the one-para-graph release said. “While a sale transaction is no longer actively being considered, the transaction committee will continue to explore other avenues to enhance stock-holder value, including the continued execution of the company’s existing busi-ness plan which the Com-mittee believes will provide meaningful opportunities to maximize profitability and enhance stockholder value going forward.”
Ameristar’s stock fell $1.72, or 9.6 percent, to $16.18 in morning trading today. Details on what alternatives the board of directors will consider will not be disclosed “unless and until its Board of Directors determines there is a material need to update the market,” the company said.
Talk of a sale has persisted since 2006 when founder and chief executive Craig Neilsen died. His estate, including a 50 percent stake in Ameri-star, went to a foundation for spinal cord research. Tax issues have been prominent as a possible reason, but the U.S. Senate is set to consider legislation that would include a lower tax on inheritance.
The company hired finan-cial and legal advisers when it announced it might be sold.
The local property, also Vicksburg’s largest gaming venue, employs 824 people at the casino, hotel, RV park and a gas station the casino owns, according to data supplied to the Mississippi Gaming Commission.
Third-quarter net income fell 18 percent as higher expenses and promotional allowances offset modest rev-enue gains, according to the company’s quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ameristar has been the area’s largest and market share casino leader since it opened in 1994. Three of the city’s four casinos that opened in 1993 and 1994 since have changed hands.
DiamondJacks, which opened as the Isle of Capri and was sold in 2006, was Vicksburg’s first casino, opening in August 1993. Isle re-entered the Vicksburg market in May, purchas-ing Rainbow, off Warren-ton Road. Riverwalk Casino opened next door to Rainbow in 2008, becoming the city’s fifth casino.
Horizon Casino, the second to open in Vicksburg, as Har-rah’s in 1993, is being sold by parent company Tropi-cana Entertainment to Delta Investments & Develop-ment LLC for $3.25 million in cash plus certain liabilities associated with the casino, Tropicana officials said in a release last week.
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Mrs. Melissa “Leisa” Hearn CollinsService
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Frank J. Fisher Funeral ChapelInterment
Cedar Hill CemeteryMemorials
Palmer Home for ChildrenP. O. Box 746
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St. JudeChildren’s Research Hospital
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Mr. Donald M. CrossService
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Frank J. Fisher Funeral ChapelInterment
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Judge grantsbail toWiki chief in Swedish case
LONDON (AP) — A Brit-ish judge today granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The order, issued in London court, said Assange must abide by strict conditions as he fights extradition to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
The 39-year-old Australian has been held in a London prison for a week after surren-dering to Scotland Yard police to answer a Swedish arrest warrant.
Assange is wanted for ques-tioning after two women accused him of sexual miscon-duct in separate encounters in Sweden over the summer. Lawyers for Assange said he denies the allegations and will contest the attempt t o e x t r a -dite him for questioning.
Assange is represented by Geoffrey Robertson, a former appeals judge at the U.N. Spe-cial Court for Sierra Leone who has specialized in free-dom of speech cases. Robert-son’s former clients include author Salman Rushdie.
Supporters of Assange held a small rally on Monday outside Sweden’s embassy in London.
Some of his proponents have said they suspect the extra-dition request has been moti-vated by WikiLeaks’ decision last month to begin publish-ing its trove of about 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables, something Swedish officials have denied.
The disclosures, which have continued unaffected since Assange was detained in prison, have offended some U.S. allies and angered its rivals. Officials in Washing-ton claim some other coun-tries have already curtailed their dealings with the U.S. government as a result.
At an hour-long court hear-ing last week, lawyer Gemma Lindfield — acting for Swed-ish police — said Assange is accused of rape, molestation and unlawful coercion.
She told the court one woman had accused Assange of pin-ning her down and refusing to use a condom during an Aug. 14 encounter in Stockholm. That woman also accused Assange of molesting her in a way “designed to violate her sexual integrity” several days later.
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Japan vows to find WWII dead on Iwo JimaiOTO, Japan (AP) — In a
rare visit to Iwo Jima, Japan’s prime minister offered prayers today at two recently discov-ered mass graves and vowed to find the more than 12,000 fallen soldiers whose bodies have yet to be recovered from the remote island where some of World War II’s fiercest fight-ing took place.
Kneeling in a deep pit with dozens of remains spread out before him, Naoto Kan clasped his hands in prayer and then helped searchers exhume a badly decayed set of bones swathed in a faded green body bag. Workers said it was one of more than 20 found today alone.
“We will examine every grain of sand,” Kan said. “It is hard to imagine from the beauty of the island today what happened here 65 years ago.”
Kan said he had wanted to visit the island since the dis-covery in August of the mass graves.
Now known in Japan as Ioto — that was what the island was called by residents before the war — Iwo Jima was the site of one of the most fateful and iconic battles in the Pacific and helped turn the tide against the Japanese.
For many Americans, an Associated Press photo of U.S. Marines and a Navy corps-man raising the flag atop Mount Suribachi has become
one of the most lasting sym-bols of the war, and of Ameri-can sacrifice and bravery. More medals of honor — 27, includ-ing nearly a third of all given to Marines during World War II — were awarded for valor on Iwo Jima than any other single campaign.
In Japan, however, Iwo Jima is seen by most as just one of many bloody defeats.
It has been generally ignored since the war, has been left largely untouched and is now uninhabited except for a few hundred troops at a small Jap-anese military outpost. Kan is only the second prime minis-
ter to visit the island. Junichiro Koizumi was the first, five years ago.
But Kan’s government, inspired in part by the suc-cess in Japan of the 2006 Clint Eastwood movie “Letters from Iwo Jima” and concerned that time is running out, has made a strong effort to bring closure on Iwo Jima by stepping up the civilian-run mission to recover all of the Japanese dead.
That project began in July and took a big step forward in October, when two mass graves that might hold the remains of more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers were discovered by
search teams.Working from documents
provided by the U.S. National Archives and Records Admin-istration, the Japanese teams found sites listed as “enemy cemeteries” near a runway at the military outpost and at the foot of Suribachi.
“Many troops will be return-ing home now that these mass graves have been found. I prayed they will rest in peace,” said lawmaker Yoshitaka Shindo, whose grandfather was commanding officer of Japa-nese troops on Iwo Jima. “But Ioto’s battle is not over until all of the bodies are recovered.”
Yukihiko Akutsu, a special adviser to the prime minis-ter who heads the search mis-sion, told The Associated Press the main site is estimated to have about 2,000 bodies. Dig-ging was completed this week at the Suribachi site, with 152 remains found. The full exca-vation effort was expected to take several more months, but Akutsu said the teams have already found more than 300 remains in the two areas.
Akutsu said the government would notify Washington if any American remains are exhumed.
The discovery of the mass graves is one of the biggest breakthroughs in decades toward recovering Iwo Jima’s dead.
“This is a very significant mis-sion,” Akutsu said. “Because we lost the war, for a long time there was not much enthusi-asm about projects like this, but time is running out. The fami-lies of the dead, their brothers and sisters, are in their 80s. We would like to settle this issue in the next three years.”
Iwo Jima’s Japanese defend-ers were so deeply dug into caves, bunkers and tunnels, and the shelling of the island by the Americans was so intense, that recovering their bodies has been an almost impossible mis-sion despite small-scale annual searches since the 1950s.
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Japanese officials bow at a mass grave site on Iwo Jima island today.The associaTed press
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NEW YORK (AP) — Turns out the Philadel-phia Phillies do have enough money for both Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay — and Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels, too.
A year after they traded him away, Lee chose to rejoin the Phillies and form a fearsome four-some that is the envy of all of baseball.
The free-agent pitch-er and former Merid-ian Community College standout passed up an extra $50 million from the New York Yankees and reached a prelimi-nary agreement on a $100 million, five-year contract with the Phillies on Monday night, a per-son familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
The agreement is sub-ject to the 32-year-old left-hander passing a physical, the person said on condition of anonym-ity because the agree-ment was not final.
The Yankees and Texas Rangers had been con-sidered the front-runners, but the Phillies wound up with the most-prized free agent of the offsea-son, reaching a deal that gives them a dominant rotation that likely is the strongest in the majors.
Lee, the 2008 AL Cy Young Award winner, joins Halladay, a two-time Cy Young Award winner who won the NL honor last month.
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Porters Chapel moves to new seven-team districtBy Ernest [email protected]
When the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools comes up with a realignment plan every two years, the shape of the orga-nization seldom looks the same as it did before.
With the 2011-13 plan, the MAIS’ smallest schools are taking on a whole new look.
Class A will feature only four districts, down from
eight, and 30 schools play-ing 11-man football. The top four finishers in each district will advance to the playoffs, instead of the top two in the current alignment.
The structure of Classes AA and AAA did not change.
In past realignments, Class A has included anywhere from six to eight districts, making this the biggest
change in years. MAIS direc-tor of activities Les Trip-lett said the overhaul was spurred by the growth of the eight-man football division.
Sixteen teams, the largest number since it was added in 2008, will play eight-man football next season. As that division has grown, the 11-man districts have varied widely in size. District 6-A, for example, had just two teams this season while Dis-trict 8-A had six.
“It’s like every other align-ment. You end up tweak-ing it because you don’t know who’s going to grow or shrink. This is the first align-ment where we’ve really had to do some soul-searching because eight-man is such a significant factor,” Triplett said.
Although the same number of teams will advance to the playoffs in the new
“It made a lot of sense. The committee that came up with that, I applaud them.
It’s the best idea they’ve come up with for single-A in quite some time.”
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Favre’s streak ends at 297By The Associated Press
DETROIT — An unex-pected postponement gave Brett Favre one more chance.
A little extra time for his right shoulder to heal, another day for him to show he was healthy enough to start.
So many times in the past, he had defied expectations and played on. This time, he was having trouble feeling his hand, which was an ugly shade of purple.
And with that, the streak was over.
“I’ve always assumed I’d play every game,” Favre said.
After 297 consecutive regular-season starts over 19 years, one of the great-est individual streaks in all of sports, Favre ran into an injury he couldn’t beat and sat down Monday night. The 41-year-old quarterback, who fought through broken bones, aches, pains and per-sonal grief to play week after week, couldn’t make it for the Vikings in their 21-3 loss to the New York Giants.
Favre was sidelined by a throwing shoulder too dam-aged for even him to over-come and a hand too numb to take the field with.
“I’ve played through a lot of stuff,” Favre said. “This is something different that I’ve got to be more cautious of.”
The Vikings hoped Favre, who has started despite a broken foot and elbow tendi-nitis this season, could do it again when the game against the Giants was delayed from Sunday after the Metro-
dome roof collapsed. That forced the game to be moved to Ford Field, but it was not enough time for Favre to get
healthy enough to play.Minnesota interim coach
Leslie Frazier said the plan was for Favre to go through
a pregame throwing rou-tine to try and determine if
Ravenstriumphin OTBy The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Josh Wilson saw Matt Schaub’s pass heading straight for him in overtime and couldn’t believe what was happening.
He overcame his disbe-lief in time to intercept the throw and dash 12 yards for a touchdown to lift the Baltimore Ravens to a 34-28 overtime win over the Houston Texans on Monday night.
“I was just saying, ‘Catch the ball, catch the ball, catch the ball,’ and game over,” he said.
The Texans trailed 28-13 entering the fourth quar-ter before Jacoby Jones capped a 99-yard drive with a 7-yard touchdown reception with 6 minutes remaining.
The Ravens (9-4) had to punt after their drive stalled at the Houston 44 following an incomplete pass on third-and-2 with about 3 minutes left to give the Texans the ball.
Andre Johnson managed to keep his toes inbounds on a 5-yard touchdown reception that made it 28-26 and Jones grabbed Houston’s first 2-point conversion of the year to tie it with 21 seconds remaining.
Bulldogshold offColonelsBy David BrandtThe Associated Press
STARKVILLE — Ravern Johnson has a history of prolific scoring, so his 23 points weren’t a surprise on Monday night.
But Brian Bryant pouring in a career-high 22 points? That was a welcome revelation for coach Rick Stansbury as Mis-sissippi State held off Nich-olls State for a 67-58 victory on Monday night at Hum-phrey Coliseum.
“He played with a little con-fidence tonight — like he was in control,” Stansbury said. “He was a little more relaxed and that’s what we need from him.”
Johnson, who came in aver-
aging 23.9 points per game, scored 18 in the first half. Bryant easily topped his pre-vious career-high of 15 points as Mississippi State (6-2) shot
51.1 percent from the field.Bryant, a 6-foot-3 junior,
made 7 of 9 shots from the
Rebels pulverizehapless Delta DevilsBy The Associated Press
OXFORD — Chris Warren scored 18 points as Ole Miss placed six players in double figures Monday to defeat Mississippi Valley State 101-69.
Warren added five assists and a steal to highlight the Rebels’ balanced attack. Trevor Gaskins scored 15 points, Terrance Henry had 14 and Nick Williams, DeMarco Cox and Dun-drecous Nelson added 10 apiece for the Ole Miss (6-2).
Ole Miss led 52-26 at half-time and led by as many as 37 points in the second half. The Rebels improved to 31-0 against Southwestern Athletic Conference teams and 3-0 against Mississippi Valley State.
Mississippi Valley State (1-7) was led by D’Angelo Jackson with 20 points,
including 17 in the second half. The loss was the sev-enth straight for the Delta Devils, who managed only 23-of-64 shooting from the field (36 percent).
Ole Miss had runs of 20-5 and 24-9 in the opening half, and the Delta Devils never got closer than 14 points the rest of the way, despite a four-minute stretch of 11 consecutive points by Jack-son early in the second half.
The Rebels removed any doubt with a pair of 10-0 runs, which included 3-point shots by Will Bogan, Nelson and Gaskins.
Mississippi Valley State was whistled for 25 fouls, including a pair of techni-cal fouls and an intentional foul. Ole Miss responded by hitting 73 percent from the free-throw line (24 of 33), including a 9-of-11 perfor-mance by Warren.
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Minnesota Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson, left, stands with quarterback Brett Favre during warmups at Ford Field before their game against the New York Giants Monday. Favre’s record consecutive starts streak, dating back to 1992, ended at 297.
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Mississippi State guard Ravern Johnson shoots as Nicholls State guard Kenny Franklin defends Monday. Mississippi State won, 67-58.
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East W L T Pct PF PAx-New England ..11 2 0 .846 415 276N.Y. Jets ............9 4 0 .692 273 242Miami .................7 6 0 .538 225 244Buffalo ...............3 10 0 .231 256 339
South W L T Pct PF PAJacksonville .......8 5 0 .615 295 331Indianapolis .......7 6 0 .538 347 318Houston .............5 8 0 .385 316 355Tennessee .........5 8 0 .385 291 265
North W L T Pct PF PAPittsburgh ..........10 3 0 .769 290 198Baltimore ...........9 4 0 .692 294 229Cleveland ...........5 8 0 .385 235 252Cincinnati ...........2 11 0 .154 262 345
West W L T Pct PF PAKansas City .......8 5 0 .615 295 268San Diego .........7 6 0 .538 354 253Oakland .............6 7 0 .462 314 307Denver ...............3 10 0 .231 269 376
South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta ...............11 2 0 .846 335 243New Orleans .....10 3 0 .769 330 240Tampa Bay ........8 5 0 .615 260 267Carolina .............1 12 0 .077 164 338
North W L T Pct PF PAChicago .............9 4 0 .692 253 228Green Bay .........8 5 0 .615 306 189Minnesota ..........5 8 0 .385 230 274Detroit ................3 10 0 .231 285 309
West W L T Pct PF PASeattle ...............6 7 0 .462 261 329St. Louis ............6 7 0 .462 245 268San Francisco ...5 8 0 .385 243 280Arizona ..............4 9 0 .308 243 351x-clinched playoff spot
Dec. 11Tampa Bay 17, Washington 16Buffalo 13, Cleveland 6Detroit 7, Green Bay 3Jacksonville 38, Oakland 31Pittsburgh 23, Cincinnati 7Atlanta 31, Carolina 10N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, ppd.San Francisco 40, Seattle 21New Orleans 31, St. Louis 13San Diego 31, Kansas City 0Arizona 43, Denver 13New England 36, Chicago 7Miami 10, N.Y. Jets 6Philadelphia 30, Dallas 27
Monday’s GamesN.Y. Giants 21, Minnesota 3Baltimore 34, Houston 28, OT
Thursday’s GameSan Francisco at San Diego, 7:20 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesKansas City at St. Louis, noonWashington at Dallas, noonHouston at Tennessee, noonArizona at Carolina, noonPhiladelphia at N.Y. Giants, noonDetroit at Tampa Bay, noonCleveland at Cincinnati, noonBuffalo at Miami, noonJacksonville at Indianapolis, noonNew Orleans at Baltimore, noonAtlanta at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.Denver at Oakland, 3:15 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 3:15 p.m.Green Bay at New England, 7:20 p.m.
Monday’s GamesMiami 96, New Orleans 84Chicago 92, Indiana 73Memphis 86, Portland 73Milwaukee 103, Dallas 99Utah 108, Golden State 95
Today’s GamesToronto at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Philadelphia at New Jersey, 6 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Washington, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Sacramento at Houston, 7:30 p.m.Orlando at Denver, 8 p.m.Minnesota at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesL.A. Lakers at Indiana, 6 p.m.Boston at New York, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Chicago at Toronto, 6 p.m.Cleveland at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Charlotte at Memphis, 7 p.m.Sacramento at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Houston at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.Minnesota at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Portland at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
COllEGE bASKETbAllTop 25 Schedule
Monday’s GameNo. 11 San Diego St. vs. Cal Poly
Today’s GamesNo. 7 Tennessee vs. Oakland, Mich., 6 p.m.No. 20 Louisville vs. Drexel, 8 p.m.No. 22 Texas vs. North Florida, 7 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesNo. 2 Ohio St. vs. Florida Gulf Coast, 5:30 p.m.No. 9 Baylor vs. Bethune-Cookman, 7 p.m.No. 21 Minnesota vs. Akron, 7:30 p.m.No. 22 UNLV vs. UC Santa Barbara, 9 p.m.
Mississippi ScheduleMonday’s Games
LaGrange College at Millsaps, 3 p.m.Mississippi Valley St. at Ole Miss, 7 p.m.Nicholls St. at Mississippi St., 7 p.m.Spring Hill at Jackson St., 7 p.m.
Today’s GamesAlabama St. at Mississippi St., 7 p.m.Valdosta St. at Delta St., 8 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesMississippi St. vs. Belhaven, 7 p.m., at JacksonMississippi Valley St. at Arkansas, 7 p.m.Mary Hardin-Baylor at Miss. College, 7:30 p.m.
SOUTHEASTERn COnfEREnCEEast
Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTTennessee .........0 0 .000 7 0 1.000South Carolina ..0 0 .000 7 1 .875Florida ................0 0 .000 7 2 .778Kentucky ............0 0 .000 7 2 .778Vanderbilt ..........0 0 .000 7 2 .778Georgia ..............0 0 .000 6 2 .750
West Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTArkansas ............0 0 .000 6 1 .857Mississippi St. .0 0 .000 6 2 .750Ole Miss ...........0 0 .000 6 2 .750LSU ....................0 0 .000 6 3 .667Alabama ............0 0 .000 4 5 .444Auburn ...............0 0 .000 3 5 .375
Monday’s GamesOle Miss 101, Miss Valley St. 69Coastal Carolina 78, LSU 69, OTMississippi St. 67, Nicholls St. 58
Today’s GamesOakland, Mich. at Tennessee, 6 p.m.Alabama St. at Mississippi St., 7 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesMiss Valley St. at Arkansas, 7 p.m.Auburn at South Florida, 8 p.m.SE Louisiana at Alabama, 8 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesMarshall at Savannah St., 6 p.m.Louisiana-Lafayette at UCF, 6 p.m.Louisiana-Monroe at UTEP, 8:05 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesAustin Peay at Memphis, 7 p.m.Ark.-Little Rock at Rice, 7 p.m.Weber St. at Tulsa, 7 p.m.
SOUTHWESTERn ATHlETIC COnfEREnCE Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCTAlabama A&M ...0 0 .000 3 4 .429Jackson St .......0 0 .000 2 7 .222Grambling St. ....0 0 .000 2 8 .200Alabama St. .......0 0 .000 1 7 .125Miss Valley St. .0 0 .000 1 7 .125Texas Southern .0 0 .000 1 7 .125Southern U. .......0 0 .000 1 8 .111Prairie View .......0 0 .000 1 9 .100Alcorn St. .........0 0 .000 0 8 .000Ark.-Pine Bluff ...0 0 .000 0 9 .000
Monday’s GamesOle Miss 101, Miss Valley St. 69Wichita St. 71, Alabama A&M 49New Mexico St. 83, Ark.-Pine Bluff 49
Today’s GamesSpring Hill at Jackson St., 7 p.m.Alabama St. at Mississippi St., 7 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesMiss Valley St. at Arkansas, 7 p.m.
Thursday’s GamesOakwood at Alabama St., 6 p.m.Texas Southern at Texas St., 7 p.m.Talladega at Jackson St., 7:30 p.m.
MISSISSIPPI ST. 67, nICHOllS 58NICHOLLS (4-4)Bose 4-11 8-8 17, Martin 4-10 0-0 12, Franklin 1-5 0-0 2, Hunter 5-13 1-3 11, Carter 3-4 0-0 6, Thomas 5-7 0-0 10, Hammond 0-2 0-0 0, Talking-ton 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-52 9-11 58.MISSISSIPPI ST. (6-2)Augustus 4-11 0-0 8, Bailey 1-4 3-5 5, Johnson 8-14 2-2 23, Benock 1-5 0-1 3, Bryant 7-9 6-6 22, Steele 0-1 0-0 0, Beckham 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Lewis 3-3 0-0 6. Totals 24-47 11-14 67.
Halftime—Mississippi St. 36-27.3-Point Goals—Nicholls 5-23 (Martin 4-10, Bose 1-8, Hunter 0-1, Franklin 0-4), Mississippi St. 8-20 (Johnson 5-9, Bryant 2-2, Benock 1-4, Steele 0-1, Augustus 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Nicholls 24 (Hunter 9), Mississippi St. 33 (Bryant 7). Assists—Nicholls 8 (Carter 3), Mississippi St. 12 (Augustus 5). Total Fouls—Nicholls 16, Missis-sippi St. 9. A—2,378.
OlE MISS 101, MISS. VAllEY ST. 69MISS. VALLEY ST. (1-7)Smith 4-7 0-1 8, Jones 0-5 2-4 2, J. Holmes 4-10 0-0 9, Joyner 2-4 3-4 8, Jackson 5-17 7-9 20, Lamb 1-1 0-0 3, Studivant 0-0 0-0 0, Cox 3-8 0-0 6, Burwell 3-10 4-6 10, M. Holmes 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 23-64 16-24 69.OLE MISS (6-2)Henry 3-4 7-10 14, Buckner 3-4 1-4 7, Warren 4-7 9-11 18, N. Williams 4-7 2-2 10, Gaskins 5-14 3-3 15, Bogan 1-3 0-0 3, Nelson 4-7 0-1 10, Short 3-4 2-2 8, D. Williams 2-3 0-0 4, Graham 1-5 0-0 2, Cox 5-6 0-0 10. Totals 35-64 24-33 101.Halftime—Ole Miss 52-26.3-Point Goals—Miss. Valley St. 7-17 (Jackson 3-7, Lamb 1-1, Joyner 1-1, M. Holmes 1-1, J. Holmes 1-2, Cox 0-1, Burwell 0-4), Ole Miss 7-22 (Nelson 2-5, Gaskins 2-6, Henry 1-2, Bogan 1-3, Warren 1-3, N. Williams 0-1, Graham 0-2). Fouled Out—Buckner. Rebounds—Miss. Valley St. 35 (J. Holmes 10), Ole Miss 44 (Henry 8). Assists—Miss. Valley St. 8 (Burwell 3), Ole Miss 21 (Warren 5). Total Fouls—Miss. Valley St. 24, Ole Miss 21. Technical—Miss. Valley St. Bench. A—4,566.
WOMEn’S bASKETbAllTop 25 Schedule
Monday’s GameNo. 22 DePaul vs. Northwestern
Today’s GamesNo. 2 Baylor vs. No. 6 Tennessee, 6 p.m.No. 11 Ohio St. vs. S.C.-Upstate, 6 p.m.
Wednesday’s GameNo. 15 Florida St. vs. UCF, 5 p.m.
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Dec. 18 New Mexico Bowl .............................................UTEP (6-6) vs. BYU (6-6) 1 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 18 Humanitarian Bowl .............Northern Illinois (10-3) vs. Fresno State (8-4) 4:30 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 18 New Orleans Bowl .............................................. Ohio (8-4) vs. Troy (7-5) 8 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 21 Beef ’O’ Brady’s Bowl ..................Louisville (6-6) vs. Southern Miss (8-4) 7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl .........................................Utah (10-2) vs. Boise State (11-1) 7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl ................................San Diego State (8-4) vs. Navy (8-3) 7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl ................................................... Hawaii (10-3) vs. Tulsa (9-3) 7 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl .......Toledo (8-4) vs. Florida International (6-6) 7:30 p.m. ESPN
Dec. 27 Independence Bowl .......................Georgia Tech (6-6) vs. Air Force (8-4) 4 p.m. ESPN2
Dec. 28 Champs Sports Bowl ..North Carolina State (8-4) vs. West Virginia (9-3) 5:30 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 9 Fight Hunger Bowl .........................Boston College (7-5) vs. Nevada (12-1) 8 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 10 BCS National Championship ....................Auburn 13-0 vs. Oregon (12-0) 7:30 p.m. ESPN
NHL6 p.m. Versus - Pittsburgh at Philadelphia
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL6 p.m. ESPN2 - Tennessee at Baylor
Dec. 141991 — Desmond Howard, the
nation’s second-leading scorer with 23 TDs, wins the Heisman Trophy by the second-biggest margin in history. The Michigan receiver beats runner-up Casey Weldon of Florida State by 1,574 points.
1995 — The first Division I-A over-time game takes place at the Las Vegas Bowl with Toledo beating Nevada 40-37.
2002 — Marvin Harrison breaks Herman Moore’s 1995 mark of 123 catches. By making nine receptions in a 28-23 win at Cleveland, Har-rison reaches 127 with two games remaining. He also gains 172 yards, giving Harrison 1,500 yards for the second straight season, the first player with consecutive 1,500-yard seasons.
2002 — Michael Jordan matches his career low with two points in the Washington Wizards’ victory over the short-handed Toronto Rap-tors. The 39-year-old Jordan shoots 1-for-9 from the field, but has nine assists and eight rebounds as he matches his season high by playing 40 minutes.
COllEGE fOOTbAllAuburn says Malzahn is not leaving Tigers
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Auburn coach Gene Chizik said offen-sive coordinator Gus Malzahn has received a raise and contract exten-sion, apparently ending fears that Malzahn would leave to take the Vanderbilt head coaching job.
“Gus Malzahn has played a large role in the success of our foot-ball program the last two years and we’re very pleased to be able to give him a raise and extend his contract,” Chizik said in a release Monday. “In my opinion we have the best staff in the country, and while we want our coaches to strive to become head coaches, retaining them as long as we can is important to me and the entire Auburn family.
“Gus is a very bright and talented coach and we are looking forward to beginning preparation for the BCS national championship.”
Big Ten divisions named Leaders, Legends
COLUMBUS, Ohio — It’ll be the Leaders vs. the Legends divisions when the Big Ten stages its first football championship game next season.
The conference also on Monday unveiled a new logo — it is a block “Big Ten” with the numeral 10 embedded in the last two letters of Big — as well as two-person trophy names for 18 new football awards, including the Stagg-Paterno Cham-pionship Trophy and the Hayes-Schembechler Coach of the Year.
With Nebraska becoming the conference’s 12th team earlier this year, the conference created new divisions that it introduced in Sep-tember. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin will be in the Leaders Division, with Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and North-western in the Legends Division.
Prairie View A&Mfootball coach resigns
HOUSTON — Henry Frazier has resigned as football coach at Prai-rie View A&M after reviving a pro-gram that had seen record losing streaks in the 1990s.
Prairie View athletic director Fred Washington told KRIV-TV of Houston that Frazier cited personal reasons for his resignation. Wash-ington said Panthers defensive coordinator Heishma Northern will succeed Frazier.
In 2004, Frazier took over a team that had won 21 of 216 games since 1980 and lost a record 80 in a row from 1989-98. He took the Panthers to their first winning season in 2007 and their first Southwestern Ath-letic Conference title in 45 years in 2009, earning the SWAC coach of the year award.
Prairie View was 7-4 and 6-3 in the SWAC in 2010.
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“Our guys overcame a tough situation and they found a way to win,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. “In December that’s really what matters.”
Harbaugh raved about Wilson, who was born in Houston and whose late father, Tim Wilson, played for the Oilers.
“I mean that’s just the hero of the game,” he said. “Made a play in a critical situation, on the road, in overtime, in December, in the playoff hunt.”
The Ravens were able to avoid another tough loss a week after a 13-10 defeat by the Steelers that came after Troy Polamalu’s sack and forced fumble led to the winning touchdown by Ben Roethlisberger.
“That’s what happened last week where one play changes everything, and this week, we made that play, and that’s what good defenses do,” Ray Lewis said.
Baltimore lost fourth-quar-ter leads in each of its four losses and had to punt after its only offensive series of overtime. Houston started from its 12, and Schaub was trying to connect with Jones on second down when Wilson picked it off and ran into the end zone.
Houston (5-8) has lost six of its last seven. Houston coach Gary Kubiak struggled with his message to the team after this one.
“I wish I had the per-fect words,” Kubiak said. “I always tell people the truth.
The truth is, I didn’t know what to tell them.”
Schaub was 31-of-62 for 393 yards, with three touch-downs and two interceptions.
“I didn’t make a play,” Schaub said. “As a quarter-back at this level, you have
the opportunity to take your team down and win the game, you’ve got to do it. I didn’t do it.”
Baltimore’s Joe Flacco was 22-of-33 for 235 yards and two touchdowns, both in the first half.
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Jets’ coach fined$25,000 for trip
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Turns out this was one costly trip for Sal Alosi.
The New York Jets assistant coach who tripped a Miami Dolphins player during a game was suspended by the team Monday night without pay for the rest of the season, includ-ing the playoffs, and fined an additional $25,000.
Alosi, the strength and con-ditioning coach, began serv-ing his suspension immedi-ately and will have no access to the team’s practice facility.
“I accept responsibility for my actions and respect the team’s decision,” Alosi said in a statement.
General manager Mike Tan-nenbaum said Alosi will also not be allowed to interact with any players or coaches “as it pertains to his job function.”
He added that the team spoke with the NFL about the inci-dent throughout the day, and the league will issue no fur-ther discipline.
“Hopefully we’re going to learn from what happened yesterday and take full responsibility for it,” Tannen-baum said. “We’re really dis-appointed with Sal, with what happened, and we’re going to hold him accountable for his actions.”
Alosi stuck out his left knee on the sideline and tripped Dolphins cornerback Nolan Carroll, who was covering a punt in the third quarter of Miami’s 10-6 win Sunday.
“I let everybody down yes-terday with my actions,” said Alosi, fighting back tears during a news conference ear-lier Monday.
Heat run sinks hapless HornetsMIAMI (AP) — LeBron
James banked in a runner as he drew a foul, then joined the crowd’s roar and threw a fist.
A knockout punch? Pretty much. The basket came during a second-half spurt that turned a close game into another romp for the Miami Heat. They trailed early and waited until the end of the third quarter to make their move, winning by double fig-ures for the ninth game in a row by beating New Orleans 96-84.
Dwyane Wade scored 32 points, topping 30 for the third consecutive game, and Chris Bosh added 23 points and 11 rebounds. The Heat blew the game open with an 18-2 spurt that put them up 94-77.
“This was for us one of the most gratifying wins, because it was a grind-out game,” Wade said. “We were able to stick to it until our time finally came.”
Wade had an especially effi-cient night: 8-for-13 from the field and 14-of-17 from the free-throw line. James had 20 points and seven assists for Miami, back home after a four-game road sweep.
“They do the same thing every night,” Hornets coach Monty Williams said. “Nobody can stop them.”
While the Heat roll, New Orleans continues to strug-gle. With a loss for the second day in a row, the Hornets fell to 3-9 since an 11-1 start. They haven’t scored 100 points since Nov. 19, a stretch of 13 games.
“We need to get a win so we could see how it feels,” said
Chris Paul, who managed only 11 points. David West had 26 points and 12 rebounds for the Hornets, who went 1 for 13 from 3-point range.
The teams split the season series. New Orleans beat the Heat 96-93 on Nov. 5.
“I think they have figured each other out,” West said. “They are jelling, playing well together, sharing the ball.”
Miami is the sixth team
in NBA history to win nine straight games by at least 10 points or more. And James has had a hand in two of those runs — Cleveland was the last team to do it, between Nov. 22 and Dec. 9, 2008.
alignment, it should give more schools an opportunity. Instead of a worthy team being squeezed out because it lost one key game, there will now be more margin for error.
“Your season means more now, rather than just three games. It’s even better than the power points system,” Porters Chapel football coach John Weaver said. “It made a lot of sense. The commit-tee that came up with that, I applaud them. It’s the best idea they’ve come up with for single-A in quite some time.”
As with most realignments, geography is a major issue — especially for teams in the Vicksburg area.
Porters Chapel was placed in the seven-team South District, where its closest rival for football is Pearl-based Park Place Christian. The other five teams are Alpha Christian in Hatties-burg; Ben’s Ford in Bogalusa, La.; Newton County Acad-emy; Prentiss Christian; and Heidelberg Academy.
In all other sports, PCA will be in a much more travel-friendly District 5-A. Six of the nine schools are in the Jackson area or just west of it.
“It was going to be a trav-eling nightmare either way. Going west, we’re going to Minden, Farmerville, Haynesville, Alexandria ... almost to Texas,” Weaver said.
Weaver added that the home-and-home schedule, where PCA will only have to travel for three or four district games each of the next two seasons, will alle-viate some travel concerns.
So will scheduling non-dis-trict games against nearby schools like Yazoo City’s Manchester Academy and Tallulah Academy.
“We’re going to schedule Manchester, we’re going to schedule Benton and Tal-lulah. If these non-district games come through with their commitments, it won’t be a traveling nightmare,” Weaver said.
Among other Vicksburg-area schools:
• Tallulah Academy was placed in the South Central district for football, along with five other Louisiana schools, Wilkinson County Christian and Amite School.
For other sports, Tallulah was placed in District 6-A with Amite, Chamberlain-Hunt, Tensas Academy and Wilkinson County Christian.
• Sharkey-Issaquena Acad-emy switched from 11-man to eight-man football and will compete in District 2. For other sports, SIA was put in District 4-A with Benton Academy, Central Holmes, Clinton Christian, Hum-phreys and Tri-County.
• Briarfield Academy, Rebul and Tensas remained in the eight-man ranks and will also stay in District 2. In other sports, Briarfield will compete in District 2-A, while Rebul will be in 5-A.
• Central Hinds remained in Class AA, but was relo-cated to District 3-AA. Cen-tral Hinds will be the only Mississippi team in the four-team, Louisiana-centric dis-trict. The other schools are River Oaks — this year’s Class AA football cham-pion — Riverdale and Prairie View.
field, including 2-of-2 from 3-point range and 6 of 6 from the free-throw line. He also added seven rebounds, two assists and two steals.
Nicholls State (4-4) had already upset one Southeast-ern Conference team this season, beating LSU 62-53 on Nov. 16. The Colonels looked like they might be in conten-tion for another improbable win early, briefly taking a 27-26 lead with 2:47 remain-ing in the first half after an 8-0 run. But MSU roared back with 10 unanswered points to take a 36-27 lead at halftime, taking all of Nich-olls State’s momentum in the process. Johnson hit two 3-pointers during the cru-cial run. He made 5 of 9 from 3-point range.
MSU extended its lead to 13 early in the second half, but Nicholls State had one more run, closing within 56-49 with 3:52 remaining before the Bulldogs went on a 5-0 run to put the game away.
“Tonight was a scary game
in a lot of ways,” Stansbury said. “If you come in and guard them a certain way, they are very difficult to defend.”
Anatoly Bose scored 17 points to lead four Colonels in double figures, but was held well below his 25.4 scor-ing average. The Bulldogs played zone the entire night, shading toward Bose to deny him passes.
It was MSU’s third game in the midst of a brutal stretch of five games in five days.
The odd scheduling quirk is by design. Point guard Dee Bost — the team’s lead-ing scorer last season — is serving a nine-game suspen-sion after failing to with-draw from the NBA draft last spring before the NCAA’s deadline.
But Bost was also academi-cally ineligible for the first semester, so his nine-game suspension couldn’t begin until finals were finished last week.
he could play, but the three-time MVP wasn’t on the field about 90 minutes before kickoff, and the Vikings announced moments later he was inactive.
Frazier said Favre wasn’t even able to try throwing Monday.
“He was having trou-ble with numbness down through his shoulder and into his hand,” Frazier said. “It was a no-brainer. We couldn’t put him out there. He couldn’t function as a quarterback.”
Favre finally came out about 35 minutes before the game started, wearing a T-shirt and warmup pants. He hugged a teammate while receiving a few cheers from the crowd, then stood at the 15-yard line and chatted with Tarvaris Jackson, the new Minnesota starter.
After Minnesota’s first drive, Favre looked at photo
printouts with Jackson as the Vikings went over strat-egy. For the rest of the game, he remained near midfield, standing calmly much of the time while Minnesota’s offense sputtered without him.
“Relief, in one sense. There wasn’t a whole lot of pres-sure on me today,” Favre said in an emotional news con-ference after the game. “It’s been a long time. I’d much rather be playing, that’s just my nature. I don’t want to say it was time, but it’s prob-ably been long overdue”
It’s uncertain if Favre will play again in this, his third comeback season from a brief retirement. Neither he nor Frazier would rule it out, but this injury is obviously serious if it was enough to keep him out of even one game.
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Derrick Mason catches a pass from Joe Flacco for a touch-down, as Houston Texans cornerback Jamar Wall slips during the first half Monday.
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Hurley announces split from husbandBritish actress and model Eliz-
abeth Hurley said she has sepa-rated from her Indian husband of three years, Arun Nayar.
Hurley’s announcement on her Twitter account comes amid reports in British tabloids linking her romantically to Aus-tralian cricket star Shane Warne. Warne on Monday confirmed he has also split from his wife.
“Not a great day,” Hurley, 45, tweeted Sunday. “For the re-cord, my husband Arun & I sep-arated a few months ago.”
The couple married in 2007 at a castle outside of London. They followed up the private civil ceremony with a lavish and traditional Hindi wedding in Jod-phur, India.
Hurley dated actor Hugh Grant for more than a decade and has an 8-year-old son, Damian, from a relationship with film producer Steve Bing.
mor isn’t just for guys. She believes women ap-preciate lewd humor, too.
In the January 2011 issue of Vogue magazine, the Academy Award-nominated actress says she’s started her own production company and is interested in making comedic films like “The Hangover” for women.
In the article, Portman said women are typi-cally “not allowed” to be “beautiful and funny.” She also believes it’s frowned upon for females to be vulgar.
Her latest movie “Black Swan” is now in theaters.The January issue of Vogue goes on sale nationwide Decem-
ber 21.
Paltrow gets star on Walk of Fame Oscar-winner Gwyneth Pal-
trow has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw were on hand Monday to help Paltrow celebrate the unveiling of her star on the sidewalk out-side Madame Tussauds celeb-rity wax museum.
The unveiling comes in ad-vance of the Dec. 22 release in Los Angeles and Nashville of Paltrow’s new film, “Country Strong,” co-starring McGraw. It opens nationwide on Jan. 7.
Paltrow won the best actress Academy Award for her role in 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love.”
The 38-year-old actress also had roles in the “Iron Man” movies, “Two Lovers,” “The Good Night,” “Proof,” “Sylvia,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Emma,” and “Jefferson in Paris.”
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Inmate seeking kosher cites FestivusA Festivus for the rest of us?A convicted drug dealer in California thinks so. He cited his ad-
herence to the holiday celebrated on a famous episode of “Sein-feld” to get better meals at the Orange County jail.
Malcolm Alarmo King disliked the salami meals served at the jail, so he used his devotion to Festivus as a reason to get kosher meals reserved for inmates with religious needs.
Keeping kosher is not one of the tenets of Festivus, which was depicted on “Seinfeld” as celebrated with the airing of grievanc-es and the display of an aluminum pole.
Sheriff’s spokesman Ryan Burris said King got salami-free meals for two months before the county got the order thrown out in court.
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Golden Globe AwArds
‘King’s Speech’ leads with 7 nominationsbeVerlY HIlls, Calif.
(AP) — The British monar-chy tale “The King’s Speech” led Golden Globe contenders Tuesday with seven nomina-tions, including best drama and acting honors for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush.
Other best-drama nominees were the psychosexual dance thriller “Black Swan,” the boxing saga “The Fighter,” the sci-fi blockbuster “Inception” and the Facebook chronicle “The Social Network.”
Nominees in the Globes’ other best-picture category, for musi-cal or comedy, are the Lewis Carroll fantasy “Alice in Won-derland,” the song-and-dance extravaganza “Burlesque,” the lesbian-family tale “The Kids Are All Right,” the action tale “Red” and the romantic thriller “The Tourist.”
“The Social Network” and “The Fighter” tied for second with six nominations each. Among nominations for “The Social Network” were Jesse Eisenberg as best dramatic actor, Andrew Garfield as supporting actor and David Fincher as director.
“The Fighter” earned four acting nominations, best actor for Mark Wahlberg and sup-porting honors for Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. Its nominations also included a directing slot for David O. Russell.
Johnny Depp earned two nominations, as best musical or comedy actor for “Alice in Won-derland” and “The Tourist.”
Along with Eisenberg, Firth and Wahlberg, best dramatic actor contenders are James Franco for the survival story “127 Hours” and Ryan Gos-ling for the marital tale “Blue Valentine.”
Nominees for best dramatic actress are Halle Berry for the multiple-personality drama “Frankie and Alice,” Nicole Kidman for the grieving-par-ent tale “Rabbit Hole,” Jennifer Lawrence for the Ozarks crime yarn “Winter’s Bone,” Natalie Portman for “Black Swan” and Michelle Williams for “Blue Valentine.”
Along with Fincher and Rus-sell, directing nominees are Darren Aronofsky for “Black Swan,” Tom Hooper for “The King’s Speech” and Christo-pher Nolan for “Inception.”
Nolan’s sci-fi hit also earned nominations for screenplay and musical score, but its cast, including Leonardo DiCaprio, was snubbed for acting slots.
Joel and Ethan Coen’s West-ern “True Grit,” starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, was shut out completely.
Joining Depp in the musical or comedy actor race are Paul Giamatti in the curmudgeon chronicle “Barney’s Version,” Jake Gyllenhaal in the romance “Love and Other Drugs” and Kevin Spacey in the Jack Abramoff saga “Casino Jack.”
Depp’s “The Tourist” co-star Angelina Jolie is among musi-cal or comedy actress nomi-nees. Also competing are Annette Bening and Julianne
Moore as a lesbian couple in “The Kids Are All Right,” Anne Hathaway in “Love and Other Drugs” and Emma Stone in the high school romp “Easy A.”
The animation category is filled with blockbusters, led by “Toy Story 3,” “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Despicable Me.” The current hit “Tangled” also made the cut, along with the upcoming French tale “The Illusionist.”
“Glee” leads TV contenders with five nominations, includ-ing comedy series and acting honors for Lea Michele, Jane Lynch, Chris Colfer and Mat-thew Morrison.
Other TV comedy series picks were “30 Rock,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Big C,” “Modern Family” and “Nurse Jackie.” Drama series nominees were “Boardwalk Empire,” “Dexter,” “The Good Wife,” “Mad Men”
and “The Walking Dead.”Hollywood’s second-highest
film honors, the Globes tradi-tionally were a solid weather vane for predicting which film might triumph at the Academy Awards. But the Globes have provided murky forecasts in recent times. In the last six years, only a single recipient of one of the Globe best-film prizes has gone on to win best picture at the Oscars — 2008’s “Slumdog Millionaire.”
That came after a stretch of eight-straight years when a Globe winner in either the dramatic or musical-comedy category went on to claim the best-picture Oscar.
Like the Globes, the Oscars will feature 10 best-picture nominees, but in a single cate-gory, after academy overseers doubled the number of con-tenders so a broader range of
films could compete.With two acclaimed dramas
— “The King’s Speech” and “The Social Network” — con-sidered front-runners this time, there are prospects of another divergent year between the Globes and the Oscars, whose nominations come out Jan. 25, nine days after the Globes are presented.
“The Social Network” already has snagged two key prizes as both Los Angeles and New York film critics groups picked it as the year’s best movie. The National Board of Review, a group of film historians, educa-tors and students, also picked “The Social Network” as best of the year.
The Globes and Oscars typi-cally line up better on acting winners. Last year, “Avatar” won best drama at the Globes and “The Hurt Locker” took best picture at the Oscars. But all four Oscar acting recipi-ents — Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side,” Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart,” Mo’Nique for “Precious” and Chris-toph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds” — also won prizes at the Globes first.
Clear favorites have emerged this season for best actor (Firth in “The King’s Speech”) and supporting actor (Bale in “The Fighter”).
Bening for “The Kids Are All Right” and Portman for “Black Swan” could wind up in a two-woman race for best actress at the Oscars, while the sup-porting-actress category is up for grabs among prospects that include Adams and Leo for “The Fighter,” Bonham Carter for “The King’s Speech” and 14-year-old newcomer Hailee Steinfeld for “True Grit.”
No matter how the two awards shows line up on win-ners, the stars generally can count on a good time at the Globes, a more laid-back, din-ner-and-drinks affair than the stately Oscars.
The Globes are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 85 critics and reporters for over-seas outlets.
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Colin Firth portrays King George VI in “The King’s Speech.”
Annette Bening, left, and Julianne Moore in “The Kids are All Right”
Jesse Eisenberg, left, and Joseph Mazzello in “The Social Network”
‘Jeopardy!’ to pit humansagainst IBM machine
new YorK (AP) — The game show “Jeopardy!” will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful sci-entists are in creating a com-puter that can mimic human intelligence.
Two of the venerable game show’s most successful champi-ons — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — will play two games against “Watson,” a computer program developed by IBM’s artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three days that will air Feb. 14-16, the game show said on Tuesday.
The competition is reminis-cent of when IBM developed a chess-playing computer to compete against chess cham-pion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
The “Jeopardy!” answer-and-question format is a differ-
ent kind of challenge. It often requires contestants to deal with subtleties, puns and rid-dles and come up with answers fast.
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Gwyneth Paltrow touches her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday.
Man bothered and bewildered by crush on younger womanDear Abby: I am a 60-year-
old man with three children. I’m in excellent health and have been happily married for 39 years.
I have a woman friend at work who is 28. We talk a lot, and I buy her chocolate once a week. I have never tried to see her outside of work and don’t intend to, but I like her very much.
Is there something wrong with me that I like her so much? I think about her con-stantly. She says it’s no prob-lem. I am so fond of her it drives me crazy. I have no bad intentions toward her, and I’m not looking for an affair. She is just such a sweet young lady.
Is it normal to feel like this? Do you think I should try to forget about her? — Blushing in Schaumburg, Ill.
Dear Blushing: It has been my experience that the more a person tries NOT to think about something, the more he or she does. Please understand that you are in the throes of an old-fashioned crush. Accept it for what it is; enjoy it while it lasts. The intensity will lessen eventually.
P.S. If you stop buying her chocolate and quit feeling so guilty, you will hasten the process.
Dear Abby: I am a young
mother in my early 20s with two young children and another on the way. I have been married to my high school sweetheart for three years. We have been together since we were young teenag-ers. Both of us come from sin-gle-parent families, and our marriage has been less than perfect.
I work a full-time swing shift. My husband works only a part-time swing shift job. I have asked him to take on another part-time job so we can be more comfortable financially, but he refuses. He says if I want more money in the household, I will have to get a second job.
If it wasn’t for our families’ free baby-sitting, I don’t know how we could afford child care. We have no money in
the bank, and we are deep in debt. I feel overwhelmed with too much responsibility and don’t know what to do about it. — Anonymous Mother in North Carolina
Dear Anonymous: Start by telling your husband that with a third child on the way, you are in no position to take on another job — but he IS. If he refuses — and he very well may — then you will need to think seriously about your and your children’s future, and to what degree it includes him. And please, until you are financially stable, hold off on having more children.
Dear Abby: My girlfriend is Jewish; I am not. Her mother recently found out that I am not circumcised. She has been putting pressure on me to get “snipped.” Circumcision at my
age would hurt a lot. I am not sure what I should do. What do you suggest? — Doesn’t Like Pain
Dear Doesn’t Like Pain: If you are seriously consid-ering converting to Judaism, then you should discuss your concerns with a rabbi. If not, it’s time to inform your girl-friend’s mother that there are
certain subjects you feel are none of her beeswax — and that part of your anatomy is first on your list.
•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.
Left-sided body sweatsmight be caused by meds
Dear Dr. Gott: I’m a 58-year-old female who only sweats on the left side of my body. I believe it started four years ago, when I awoke with my nose red, swol-len and throbbing badly. After suffering for two days, I finally went to a doctor who wanted me to have an IV of Levaquin, but with no insurance, I chose it orally for 14 days. After that is when I noticed sweating on my left side only.
I get so extremely hot when I work outside or exercise that it takes me a long time to cool back down. The only medicine I take is Synthroid for hypothy-roidism. I would appreciate any information you can provide.
Dear Reader: Levaquin, a broad-range antibiotic, does carry a rare side effect of increased sweating. Synthroid’s side effects include flushing, excessive sweating, heat intol-erance, joint pain and more (all signs of hyperthyroidism), but neither drug indicates sweating on one side of the body only.
There are a few possibilities we might consider.
The first is anhidrosis. This condition is marked by an inability to sweat, causing the body to overheat and difficulty cooling down. In mild cases it may only affect one part of the body or small patches. In severe forms, the entire body may be affected. It may be the result of nerve damage, cer-tain medications, skin damage, dehydration, genetic factors and more.
Anhidrosis can also cause hyperhidrosis of the areas of the body that are able to sweat. This is characterized by pro-fuse sweating. It can affect patches of the body, half or the entire body depending on the severity. While the exact cause of hyperhidrosis remains unknown, hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system due to a variety of triggers has been found in these patients.
Another possibility is arach-noiditis, a non-specific inflam-matory process of the arach-noid membrane (the middle of the three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord). Symptoms might include neuropathic pain, night sweats and fever, with temperatures at the forehead, medial knees and thorax varying from side to side with one side cold and wet while the opposite is warm and dry.
Autonomic neuropathy, another consideration, is a nerve disorder that affects, among other things, perspira-tion. The damage to the auto-nomic nerves can disrupt sig-nals between the brain and portions of the nervous system and sweat glands. Some med-ications are known to cause autonomic neuropathy, as with diabetes, an abnormal buildup of protein in the organs (amy-loidosis), alcoholism and some autoimmune disorders, such as Sjogren’s syndrome, systemic lupus, Parkinson’s disease, nerve injury from trauma and rheumatoid arthritis.
While it’s a stretch, atopic der-matitis might be considered. This presents as inflamma-tion of the skin that itches and may be associated with asthma
or hay fever. It is thought to result from a malfunction of the body’s immune system. Fac-tors that worsen the condition, among other things, include sweating and rapid changes in temperature.
I am aware of your lack of insurance; however, you should be seen by an endocrinologist, who can order appropriate test-ing so you can get to the bottom of this annoying condition. Be sure to explain your financial situation and request that only the most appropriate and lim-ited work be performed.
•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th fl., New York, NY 10016.
If tomorrow is your birthday: There is a strong possibility that you could make a significant change in your social life in future months, when you meet a fun new group of people. This might happen because of a move or merely by chance.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Even if you are in your usual convivial and friendly mood, if you go to a gathering at which someone you dislike is present, you might allow it to sour your mood.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — It’s not like you to be compla-cent, yet you might allow someone who is jealous of you to rain on your parade, instead of putting this person in his/her place.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — It’ll be your own fault if you dis-cuss an idea about which you’re an optimist with someone who is a known pessimist, and you end up with your enthusiasm be-ing considerably subdued. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Make sure you first clear up all your old obligations before going shopping and assuming new debts. It’s fun when you’re spending, but being a spendthrift carries penalties.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Even though you know there are always two sides to every issue, you may only want to see your own point of view. Loosen up, or you’re going to be asking for trouble.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — It won’t be a lack of industrious-ness on your part that holds you back; it’ll be creating more work by not checking and using the wrong materials, tools or procedures that gets you. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — You’re the type of person who is gifted with having lots of good friends in many different circles, so don’t attempt to impose yourself on a small clique where you’re not appreciated.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Everyone gets their turn, and this could be one of those days when the odds are tilted in the oth-er guy’s favor. Thus, it might be wise to avoid competitive career encounters.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — If you find that you’re hearing only what you want to hear, and making it worse by focusing only on the negative statements being made, take control and reverse that behavior.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — When you’re out shopping, be cognizant of your actions and try not to allow money to slip through your fingers. If you aren’t attentive of your spending, you’re likely to end up broke.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — A partnership arrangement isn’t likely to work out too well, if you and your cohort are pulling apart instead of working together. If you can’t find common ground, you’re destined to fail.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Unless you are your usual me-thodical self, you may work very hard but in the end produce very little. Don’t walk around in circles.
Dr. Wallace: Nadia and I are best friends. I mean very, very best friends. We do everything together and tell each other our darkest secrets. If Nadia ever moved away, I’d be lost. She feels the same way about me.
We are both 13, but my problem is that her parents are very strict, and at times, they treat her like she’s 10. For example, I had a birthday party at my house for my 14-year-old cousin. Of course Nadia was invited, but her parents wouldn’t allow her to come because boys were going to be at the party. It didn’t mat-ter that my mother and my aunt were going to be chaperones.
Last Saturday, Nadia went with my mother and me to the mall to buy a new coat for me. The stores stayed open until 9 p.m., but we had to hurry because she had to be home by 8:30.
Also, Nadia spends a lot of time at my house, but I’m never in-vited over to her house. That makes me feel like I’m not wanted by her parents. Even my mom thinks Nadia’s parents are a bit odd.
I’d like to have my mom call Nadia’s mom to see if she’d allow Nadia to have a little more freedom and stop treating her like a baby. Do you think this would be all right? Nadia says it would be all right with her. — Nikki, Indianapolis.
Nikki: That’s not the kind of contact your mom should make with Nadia’s mom. It certainly wouldn’t do any good and is likely to alienate her parents, causing your friendship with Na-dia to end abruptly! Your best bet is to enjoy the friendship just the way it is, even if it occasionally means coming home from the mall a little early. Be patient. Nadia’s freedom will no doubt gradually increase. Meanwhile, have your friend work on gain-ing her parents’ permission for you to visit her at home.
Dr. Wallace: We have two frogs in our science class. The teach-er encourages us to hold them, so we can get to know how an amphibian feels. My dad says I’ll get warts on my hands from handling frogs. My teacher says my dad is mistaken. Is he? — Lenore, Ames, Iowa.
Lenore: There are about 50 things that can cause warts, but none of them say “Ribbit”! Viruses cause warts.
•Dr. Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@Copley News Service.
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THE FOLLOWING CLAIMS WERE APPROVEDBY THE WARREN COUNTY BOARD OFSUPERVISORS FOR NOVEMBER 2010.
Fund 001 GENERAL1998.41 ......ABSOLUTE ! PRINT SOLUTION1400.00....................ALFRED H. RHODES JR.500.00 ........AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATI500.00......................AMERICAN RED CROSS1890.00....................AMERICAN RED CROSS198.67 ....AMSTERDAM PRINTING AND LI343.47 ....“ANCO, DIVISION OF CHEM-AQ”1547.84 ....................................................AT&T2942.35 ....................................................AT&T53.00....AT&T GOVERNMENT MARKETS A490.15 ......AT&T LONG DISTANCE SERVIC295.06 ..................................AT&T MOBILITY136.49 ..................................AT&T MOBILITY285.23 ....................ATCO INTERNATIONAL219.36 ......................................AUTO CHLOR815.75 ......................................AUTO CHLOR430.92 ........AUTOMOTIVE PAINT CENTER2437.49 ................“BAREFIELD & CO., INC.”74.85 ..................“BERKLEY SECURITY,INC.”120.00 ............“BERNARD COTTON, PHD.”256.95 ..BLUE BOOK LAW ENFORCEMENT828.83 ....................BOB BARKER COMPANY820.31 ........................BOST PLUMBING LLC1416.67 ....BOVINA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEP600.00 ..................BRANAN SOUTHERLAND18.84 ......................................CARL JACKSON986.49 ..............“CARUTHERS HVACR, LLC”13470.66 ..............CBM FOOD SERVICE INC896.16..............“CDW GOVERNMENT, INC”349.79 ..............................CELLULAR SOUTH3723.00..........CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI EMS D1100.00 ....................................CEOLA JAMES2560.00 ..................................CHARLIE CARR460.53 ......................................CHIEF SUPPLY939.78 ............CINTAS CORPORATION #210235.24 ............CINTAS CORPORATION #2103900.00 ................CLARENCE A. WHITAKER75.00........................................CLYDE GLENN100.00 ........................................CNA SURETY784.24 ................................COMM SPEC INC.7500.00 ..........COMM. COUNCIL OF WARR251.00 ......CONTROL. ENERGY MANAGEM272.50 ......................CORNER DRUG STORE1416.67 ....CULKIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEP80.00 ......................................DAVID GIBSON1180.00 “DELTA COMPUTER SYSTEMS,IN”678.41 ....................DEMENT PRINTING CO1155.00 ............................DONALD S. OAKES1175.50 ......................................DOT MCGEE276.25 ....................................DOUG HUSKEY900.00....................................DPS CRIME LAB38.11 ....“DURST DISCOUNT DRUGS, INC”1416.67......EAGLE LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE351.98 ..................................ECOM FOLDERS269.91 ................................ELITE UNIFORMS700.00 ................ELLIS BRADDOCK & DEES25393.09 ..........................................ENTERGY80.00 ........................EVELYN JEAN THOMAS131.18......................................................EXELL31.57 ......................................................FEDEX120.00 ............FIELDER MANUFACTURING1416.67 ......FISHER FERRY VOLUNTEER FI12343.86 ........FLEETCOR TECHNOLOGIES147.25 ..................FP MAILING SOLUTIONS404.00 ..........GARY JONES PEST CONTROL2000.00 ....GLOBAL FORENSIC ENTERPRIS201.79 ..................GOLDIES’ TRAIL BAR B Q138.50....GOLDMAN INTERPRETING SERV474.30 ....GREENFIELD COMMERCIAL CRE540.00 ..............................HELEN M MARTIN10416.67..........................HUMANE SOCIETY421.74 ........INDEPENDENT HEALTH SVCS.224.00 ..INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SE34.75 ..........INTERSTATE ALL BATTERY CE3625.00 ....INTL MEDICAL LEGAL FORENS45.58 ..........................IOD INCORPORATED3849.45 ............JACKSON PAPER COMPANY4050.00..........................JAMES L. PENLEY JR.4770.00 ..........................JAMES R. SHERARD1425.00 ..............................JERRY CAMPBELL966.55........“JERRY’S COLLISION CENTER,”1660.00 ....................................JIM C MOORE2125.00 ............JOHN ALLEN DERIVAUX JR.2100.00 ................................JOHN BULLARD600.00 ..........................JOHN M. TOMPKINS
525.00................JOSIE MAYFIELD HUDSON41.10 ......................................KELDA BAILESS4467.00 ..............KOSSEN EQUIPMENT INC700.00 ..........LAW OFFICE OF G. MICHAEL279.58 ..LAWRENCE PRINTING COMPANY1416.67 LETOURNEAU COMMUNITY FIRE255.71 ......LEXIS NEXIS MATTHEW BENDE100.90 ..........LEXIS NEXIS-RISK DATA MGT604.80 ............................LUCRETIA R SMITH226.23..............................MAILFINANCE INC800.00 ..................MARCIE SOUTHERLAND700.00..............................MARK W. PREWITT530.00 ............................................MEDQUIST567.00 ....MID SOUTH UNIFORM & SUPPL587.00..........“MIDSOUTH ELEVATOR, LLC”2685.02 ........................MILLER’S TIRE MART238.00 ........MISSION PRIMARY CARE CLIN35.00 ..........MISSION PRIMARY CARE CLIN2025.00............MISSISSIPPI ASSOC.OF SUPE22916.67........MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN’S HO3758.38..........MISSISSIPPI DEPT OF EMPLO339.16........MISSISSIPPI HARDWARE COMP103.90 ..............MISSISSIPPI POLICE SUPPLY90.00 ..........MS ASSOCIATION OF EXTENSI2238.73 ........................MS FILING SYSTEMS260.00 ....“MS MORTUARY SERVICES, INC”144.00 ........NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY IN1416.67 ....NORTHEAST VOLUNTEER FIRE77.50 ..................................................NU PAGE825.00 ..................PARADISE PRODUCTION1712.00 ..........PELL’S LAWN CARE SERVICE89.18 ..................................................PENGAD147.96 ..................................PETSMART #0520175.00 ..............................PHILIP L. SCURRIA2000.00 ..PITNEY BOWES PURCHASE POW339.96 ........................“PITNEY BOWES,INC.”54.97 ..........PLAZA AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE900.00........................................PREMISE INC.27461.00....................................PREMISE INC.125.00 ..........PRICE’S GLASS & MIRROR CO1448.50 ..............................PRINT SHOP THE2296.70 ............PRIVATE HOME CARE INC.175.65 ......................QUILL CORPORATION2144.73..............R & R SECURITY SERVICES708.90 ........RECEIVABLE SOLUTIONS SPEC2000.00....RESERVE ACCOUNT/PITNEY BO865.11 ......RICKY’S WELDING & MACHINE372.55 ....RICOH AMERICAS CORPORATIO2300.00 ......RIVER CITY LAND COMPANY I1475.00 ......RIVER REGION HEALTH SYSTE200.16......................ROCHESTER MIDLAND40.56 ..“RONALD C.REGAN,DEPUTY COR”1800.00 ....SCALES BIOLOGICAL LABORAT819.69 ..........SEFCO ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO.500.00..........SHELLY ASHLEY-PALMERTREE146.93 ..............................SHIPLEY DO-NUTS125.00 ..........................SHORTER’S TOWING140.89 ............SIRCHIE FINGERPRINT LABS6616.67 ........SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATES372.76 ........................“SOLAR SUPPLY, INC.”143.19 ..............SOUTHERN PIPE & SUPPLY301.72 ..........SPEEDIPRINT & OFFICE SUPP537.60 ..........“STAFFING SOLUTION, LTD.”298.90 ............................STAMPS-A-MILLION93.79 ..........STAPLES BUSINESS ADVANTAG2133.00 ......................“STAR SERVICES,INC.”7078.09 ......................“STAR SERVICES,INC.”93.00..............................STUART C. IRBY CO.941.66 ............................T & E ENTERPRISES495.00 ......................“TERRY SERVICES,LLC”450.00 ..................TONI WALKER TERRETT32707.00 ........“TREASURER, STATE OF MS”13.00......TWIN COUNTY ELECTRIC POWE2990.56 ....“UNITECH, INC. OF VICKSBUR”1150.00 ........UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS-PAT242.00..................................US POSTMASTER65.85..............VICKSBURG ALARM SERVICE900.00 ..........VICKSBURG ARMORY GUARD89.00 ........VICKSBURG BUSINESS MACHIN249.00 ............................VICKSBURG CLINIC1456.00 ..VICKSBURG INSURANCE AGENC500.00........VBURG MONUMENT COMPAN789.60 ..........VICKSBURG PHYSICIANS LLP1472.30..............................VICKSBURG POST297.60 ....VICKSBURG RADIOLOGY ASSOC1023.01 ....VICKSBURG TELEPHONE SYSTE412.33 ....................VICKSBURG VIDEO INC9220.69 ..VICKSBURG-TALLULAH REGION1483.84 ......VISA - UMB BANK CONTROL A
1850.00 ........................“W. B. DUGGINS, JR.”1000.00 ..................W. RICHARD JOHNSON1850.00 ............WALKER & JOHNSON PLLC275.00..........WALTER E JOHNSTON JR.MD.9368.75 WARREN COUNTY HEALTH DEPA490.34 ....WARREN COUNTY SHERIFF DEP185.00 ..WARREN COUNTY TAX COLLECT1500.00 ..........WARREN COUNTY 4H CLUB1100.00 WARREN-YAZOO MENTAL HEALT844.08 ..WASTE MANAGEMENT OF VICKS1000.00 ................“WAY, FIELD & BODRON”96.30 ..............................WELLS & LAHATTE1745.85 ................WEST PAYMENT CENTER1217.29 ....“WHEELESS,SHAPPLEY,BAILESS”3000.00..........................WILLIAM B KIRKSEY3200.00..................ZACKARY ROOFING INC525598.88 ........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND1335.87 ........................M. P. E. E. B. T. ATT13.50 ..........AMERICAN UNITED LIFE INSU9.00..............MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF9.00..............MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF9.00..............MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF5121.00........SHELLY ASHLEY-PALMERTREE410.00 ......................................................AT&T2209.49 ................................AT&T MOBILITY550.00 ........BAKER INVESTIG.& SECURITY1180.50 ......................BOST PLUMBING LLC21.00 ..................................................NU PAGE2735.38 ................................THE TINT SHOP1262.70..............................VICKSBURG POST93593.63 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND500.00 ........GLENWOOD FUNERAL HOME1386.80........SHELLY ASHLEY-PALMERTREE8784.18 ........................CITY OF VICKSBURG5600.06......CITY OF VICKSBURG WATER &11510.31VICKSBURG WARREN SCHOOL D100.00..........AMERICAN LEGION DEPT. OF7500.00 “BUTLER,SNOW,O’MARA,STEVEN”125.00 ........................................DOT MCGEE500.00 ........GLENWOOD FUNERAL HOME7500.00GOVERNMENT CONSULTANT INC3750.00 ..........................JAMES R. SHERARD100.00 ..................OMICRON RHO LAMBDA100.00 ......“VICKSBURG BRANCH, NAACP”164.40................................VICKSBURG POST2065.60........SHELLY ASHLEY-PALMERTREE
Fund 002 REAPPRAISAL TRUST117.66 ......................................................AT&T1.56 ..........AT&T LONG DISTANCE SERVIC41.98 ................................CELLULAR SOUTH1675.00 “DELTA COMPUTER SYSTEMS,IN”209.05 ............FLEETCOR TECHNOLOGIES180.82 ........................................................OCE261.93 ........VISA - UMB BANK CONTROL A20603.72 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND10543.13 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND
381458.87 ....................................“APAC, INC.”9345.72 ..HANCOCK BANK LEASING DEPA922.00 ......................“HARRY L MARTIN, JR”308.75 ..........“PAUL INGRAM, ARCHITECT”1200.00 ....THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY G B13541.47 ..JOE GAY ELECTRICAL CONTRA
Fund 057 CD BG/KATRINADISASTER HAIN B
13390.76..............“ABMB ENGINEERS, INC.”218236.73 ........................................“KEY,LLC”4833.33 ............................JIMMY G. GOURAS
Fund 059 CDBG/KATRINA DISASTERBAYOU
11377.20..............“ABMB ENGINEERS, INC.”10143.75 ..........................JIMMY G. GOURAS
Fund 095 LIBRARY114.49 ....“ANCO, DIVISION OF CHEM-AQ”148.55 ......................................................AT&T6.98 ..........AT&T LONG DISTANCE SERVIC234.34 ............................................AUDIO GO
2828.85 ..............................BAKER & TAYLOR304.86......BAKER & TAYLOR ENTERTAINM200.00 ..............“CARUTHERS HVACR, LLC”447.54 ........CENTER POINT LARGE PRINT89.25 ..............CINTAS CORPORATION #210401.49........CITY OF VICKSBURG WATER &4107.00 ......EBSCO SUBSCRIPTION SERVIC4846.45 ............................................ENTERGY254.16 ....................FINDAWAY WORLD LLC82.90 ....FLEMING BOOKBINDING COMPA1352.60 ....................................................GALE192.00 ......“H.W.WILSON COMPANY, THE”459.72 ........................RANDOM HOUSE INC1106.40 ..............“RECORDED BOOKS, LLC”3574.00 ....STATE SCHOOL INSURANCE FU121.29 ..WASTE MANAGEMENT OF VICKS36856.52 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND1108.23 ............PAYROLL CLEARING FUND
Fund 097 WARREN COUNTY E-91155.25 ........ADP SCREENING & SELECTION546.91 ......................................................AT&T10040.19 ..................................................AT&T24.29 ........AT&T LONG DISTANCE SERVIC194.23 ..................................AT&T MOBILITY43.31 ....................“BAREFIELD & CO., INC.”72.59 ..............CINTAS FIRST AID & SAFETY94.50 ..................................COMM SPEC INC.224.00 ..INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SE203.56 ..............JACKSON PAPER COMPANY206.71 ................................JESSICA JANOTTA185.00 ........................JOHNATHAN TAYLOR90.10 ................LANGUAGE LINE SERVICES595.00 ......“NASSOUR ENTERPRISES, INC.”206.16 ......................................NICOLE VERA40.00 ............PHYSICIANS PRACTICE OF RI1240.00......................................PREMISE INC.264.53 ......“UNITECH, INC. OF VICKSBUR”57.34 ......................VICKSBURG VIDEO INC1114.29..........VISA / UMB BANK ACCT 005038838.99 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND25865.77 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND
Fund 098 PORT9135.74................“ABMB ENGINEERS, INC.”250.00 ..............AMERICAN SPECIALTY INC3492.02....“AQUA-AEROBIC SYSTEMS ,INC”511.94 ......................................................AT&T273.50 ............................BEVERLY STEWARD472.08 ..............................CELLULAR SOUTH46.53..........CITY OF VICKSBURG WATER &1750.00“CLEARWATER CONSULTANTS,IN”59.00 ..................CULKIN WATER DISTRICT3195.00........................................“EDKO, LLC”14357.91 ..........................................ENTERGY300.00 ..GUARANTY BANK & TRUST COM300.00........“INLAND RIVERS, PORTS AND”122.50 ..............................KATRINA SHIRLEY41.46..........MISSISSIPPI HARDWARE COMP595.00 ......“NASSOUR ENTERPRISES, INC.”32734.89 ............SEVERNTRENT ENVIRON.231.20 ......“UNITECH, INC. OF VICKSBUR”301.50 ......“VARNER PARKER & SESSUMS,”699.00................................VICKSBURG POST600.41 ............................WAYNE MANSFIELD19632.12 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND
Fund 104 LAW LIBRARY FUND200.00 ..........WARREN COUNTY BAR ASSN1018.34 ................WEST PAYMENT CENTER
Fund 106 FIRE FUND64.56 ....................................AT&T MOBILITY632.00 ........“SUNBELT FIRE APPARATUS, I”257.71 ......TUPELO FIRE EQUIPMENT CO.
Fund 113 GRAND GULFPREPAREDNESS R.E.
48.04 ....................................LIGHTSQUAREDFund 119 CULKIN FIRE DISTRICT
30.62 ......................CULKIN FIRE DISTRICTFund 120 FISHER FERRY FIRE DISTRICT
2.88 ......................FISHER FERRY FIRE DISTFund 150 ROAD FUND
175.00......................AMERICAN RED CROSS170.00 ......................................................AT&T98.11 ........................................................AT&T13.65 ........AT&T LONG DISTANCE SERVIC72.82 ....................“BAREFIELD & CO., INC.”54.00 ..................“BERKLEY SECURITY,INC.”1905.00 ......................BOB’S LAWN SERVICE82.19 ................................CELLULAR SOUTH443.48 ..............CERTIFIED LABORATORIES448.33 ..........................COOK TRACTOR CO
341.24 ................CULKIN WATER DISTRICT5105.80 CUSTOM PRODUCTS CORPORATI74.94..............“EMPIRE TRUCK SALES, LLC”1176.82 ............................................ENTERGY106.43 ..................................................ERGON442.79 ........................FASTENAL COMPANY27105.85 ........FLEETCOR TECHNOLOGIES1293.60 ................................G & K SERVICES25.00 ............GARY JONES PEST CONTROL279.12 ............GRAY-DANIELS CHEVROLET41137.79 HANCOCK BANK LEASING DEPA1067.71 ..HANCOCK BANK LEASING DEPA3965.57 ..HANCOCK BANK LEASING DEPA1903.03 ..HANCOCK BANK LEASING DEPA219.00........“JERRY’S COLLISION CENTER,”6694.93 ....................................JOHN MCKEE27167.97 ..................................JOHN MCKEE508.80 ..............................KING INDUSTRIAL1294.00 ..............KOSSEN EQUIPMENT INC23.62 ..........MCCOY’S BUILDING SUPPLY #2687.36 ........................MILLER’S TIRE MART4341.13..........MISSISSIPPI DEPT OF EMPLO909.67........MISSISSIPPI HARDWARE COMP54.40................NORDAN SMITH WELDING175.00 ..“NOVELTY MACHINE WORKS, IN”1492.00 ....................................PARTS SUPPLY129.22 ......................................PARTSMASTER3884.31 ....................PUCKETT MACHINERY63.00 ........REBEL WELDING AND INDUST.110.50 ......REBEL WELDING AND INDUST.528.38 ......RENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIO219.73 ......RICKY’S WELDING & MACHINE1670.40 ..................SCOTT CONST. EQUIPM60.00 ..............................SHEFFIELD RENTAL327.60....SOUTHERN TRACTOR/FARM PLA256.30............SPENCERS FIRST AID & SAFE951.18 ..........“STAFFING SOLUTION, LTD.”52.73..........“STRIBLING EQUIPMENT, LLC”330.15 ............................T & E ENTERPRISES74.10 ............................T. B. HENRY & SONS1890.23......“TRI-STATE TRUCK CENTER, I”1306.96....TRUCK TRAILER AND EQUIPME1191.74......TRUSTMARK NATIONAL BANK1191.74......TRUSTMARK NATIONAL BANK614.86 ....TUBB EQUIPMENT & RENTAL C20.85............“VERMEER MIDSOUTH, INC.”37.00 ........VICKSBURG TELEPHONE SYSTE448.15 ....VICKSBURG WARREN CO. LAND132.63 ........VISA - UMB BANK CONTROL A34.81..............VISA / UMB BANK ACCT 0050105.68 ................................WARING OIL CO.1949.85WARREN COUNTY WASTE CONTR111976.17 ........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND371.46 ..................................AT&T MOBILITY120.74 ..............“CARUTHERS HVACR, LLC”40.00 ..................................COMM SPEC INC.1966.50 ........................COOK TRACTOR CO191.12 ................CULKIN WATER DISTRICT933.67 ..CUSTOM PRODUCTS CORPORATI299.70 ....GREENFIELD COMMERCIAL CRE110.00 ........................HILL CITY RADIATOR475.65 ................KOSSEN EQUIPMENT INC53.34 ..........MCCOY’S BUILDING SUPPLY #1204.00 ........................MILLER’S TIRE MART12.00............MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF1167.01 ....................................PARTS SUPPLY450.00..........PARTS WASHER SERVICES LLC3685.23 ....................PUCKETT MACHINERY430.00 ......RENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIO176.66 ..SCOTT CONSTRUCTION EQUIPM1277.09......“TRI-STATE TRUCK CENTER, I”181.38......TRUCK TRAILER AND EQUIPME4785.24 ..............................WARING OIL CO.5.00 ......WARREN COUNTY TAX COLLECT404.46 ..WASTE MANAGEMENT OF VICKS63881.61 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND150.00............................WILLIAM C PORTER
Fund 160 BRIDGE & CULVERT2348.50 ..ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS16246.45 BROWN TRANSPORT OF MS LLC529.00 ..............“DELTA INDUSTRIES, INC.”159.20 ..................................................ERGON685.12 ......MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS831.00 ..................“MMC MATERIALS, INC.”19423.49 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND4190.64 ..ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS560.00 ..............“DELTA INDUSTRIES, INC.”933.30 ................................................VSG INC494.73 ................................................VSG INC
12730.81 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND
Fund 213 PUBLIC
IMP.REFUNDING BOND 20
397642.50 ..FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CL
Fund 650 JUDICIAL ASSESSMENT
CLEARING
658.00 ..........CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI CRIME
2340.00 ....DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFE
25.00 ..............................EDWIN WOODS JR.
25.00 ................................JAMES JEFFERSON
6097.18 ............................................C. R. D. U.
708.00 ......TENNESSEE CHILD SUPPORT R
408.00..................NATURE DAWN COMANS
200.00 ....SOLANO COUNTY DEPT OF CHI
366.00 ......................PENELOPE L. REDDITT
2392.50 ..............................JAMES L. HENLEY
6615.50 ....“HAROLD J BARKLEY JR, CHAP”
1385.19 ..................MENDELSON LAW FIRM
219.67 ................................NOAH JOHNSON
522.09 ........................SUSAN K. STEADMAN
100.00 ..............UNITED STATES TREASURY
514.01......ADVANCED RECOVERY SYSTEM
200.12 ................NEW MAIN APARTMENTS
605.49 ........................ANDERSON WHITE II
125.06 ........INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
Fund 690 HINDS JR COLLEGE
DISTRICT 1
7035.10 ....HINDS JUNIOR COLLEGE DIST
Fund 691 HINDS JUNIOR COLLEGE #2
2422.44 ....HINDS JUNIOR COLLEGE DIST
Fund 693 V’BURG/W.C. VO-TECH
7452.97 VICKSBURG WARREN COUNTY V
Fund 698 CHANCERY CLERK
PERSONAL P/R
12656.68 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND
10396.27 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND
Fund 699 CIRCUIT CLERK PERSONAL P/R
11121.71 ..........PAYROLL CLEARING FUND
“3,937,006.26” ....................Total All Invoices
05. Notices
01. Legals
Abandoned Vehicles For SaleThe following vehicles areconsidered abandoned andwill be sold for towing, repairs and storage.1995 Dodge CaravanVIN: 1B4GP44ROTB1612712001 Dodge StratusVIN: 1B3EJ46X11N61199351994 Nissan VanVIN: 4N2DN11WORD8515191994 SaturnVIN:1G8ZF5591RF2354551995 Buick SkylarkVIN:1G4NV55M35C4057972002 Kawasaki ZX6-600VIN:JALX4E102B5189771997 Ford Ranger VIN:1FTCR10A9VV814D029Date of Sale: Thursday, December 23, 2010Time of Sale: 9:00 A.M.Place of Sale:Thomas Towing2100 North Washington St.Vicksburg, MS 39180Publish: 12/7, 12/14, 12/21(3t)
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on May 7, 2001,Anthony Burden, an Unmarried Man and SonyaJones, an Unmarried Woman, executed a certaindeed of trust to Jim B. Tohill,Trustee for the benefit ofLong Beach Mortgage Company which deed of trustis of record in the office ofthe Chancery Clerk of Warren County, State of Mississippi in Book 1265 atPage 102 and reformed inChancery Cause #2010-113gn; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequently assigned to Deutsche BankNational Trust Company formerly known as BankersTrust Company of California,N.A., as Trustee for LongBeach Mortgage Loan Trust2001-3 by instrument datedJanuary 24, 2008 andrecorded in Book 1474 atPage 494 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; andWHEREAS, Deutsche BankNational Trust Company f/k/aBankers Trust Company ofCalifornia, N.A., as Trusteefor Long Beach MortgageLoan Trust 2001-3 hasheretofore substituted J.Gary Massey as Trustee byinstrument dated July 29,2010 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1512 at Page268; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company f/k/aBankers Trust Company ofCalifornia, N.A., as Trusteefor Long Beach MortgageLoan Trust 2001-3, the legalholder of said indebtedness,having requested the under-signed Substituted Trusteeto execute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust and for thepurpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees, trustee'sfees and expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on January 4, 2011 offerfor sale at public outcry andsell within legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at theWest Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren Coun-ty, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the highestand best bidder for cash thefollowing described propertysituated in Warren County,State of Mississippi, to-wit: LOT 82All of that certain Lot or Parcel of Land lying and being situated in part of theSoutheast One-Quarter ofSection 23, Township 16North, Range 4 East, of theCounty of Warren, State ofMississippi, more particularlydescribed as follows to-wit:Commencing at an iron rod(Found) on the South line ofU.S. Highway No. 80, marking the Northwest corner of the B.P. Buford's46.6 acre tract as recorded inDeed Book 1048 at Page 7of the land records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; thencerun S 04 degrees 30' E,533.37 feet; and run thenceS 89 degrees 47' 30" W,183.55 feet; thence S 01 degrees 33' 23" W, 35.50feet; thence S 54 degrees29' 18" E, 355.50 feet; andthence run N 22 degrees 16'27" E, 59.19 feet to an ironrod, and, the POINT OF BEGINNING; thence run N22 degrees 16' 27" E, 118.63feet to an iron rod; thencerun S 73 degrees 06' 08" E,184.39 feet to an iron rod;thence run S 18 degrees 48'27" W, 153.76 feet to an ironrod; thence run N 62 degrees30' 21" W, 193.68 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING,containing 0.588 Acre.TOGETHER WITH: That certain Perpetual, non-exclusive easement, to beused in common for the Purpose of a Roadway, andfor the installation and maintenance of Sewer Lines,Power Lines and WaterLines over and across thatcertain Fifty (50') foot widestrip of Land being furtherdescribed as Commencing atthe Northeast Corner of saidB.P. Buford Tract; thence runS 86 degrees 00' W, 500.21feet to the Intersection of theSouth line of U.S. HighwayNo. 80 with the centerline ofSilver Leaf Drive, and thePOINT OF BEGINNING OFROAD EASEMENT; thencerun 25' either side of the fol-lowing described centerline:S 06 degrees 48' 39" E,58.65 feet; thence S 27 de-grees 20' 29" E, 76.9 feet;thence S 39 degrees 12' 31"E, 102.1 feet; thence S 36degrees 01' 10" E, 43.78feet; thence S 55 degrees02' 51" E, 125.37 feet to apoint in the centerline of another Road; thence leaving the centerline of saidSilver Leaf Drive, run alongthe centerline of AnotherRoad as Follows: S 38 degrees 33' W, 195.0 feet;thence S 07 degrees 41' 36"W, 527.06 feet to THE ENDOF EASEMENT;SUBJECT TO: That certain25' strip of Land, to be usedfor a Roadway, over andacross a certain 25' widestrip lying immediately Southof the North line of the hereindescribed property.The above described realproperty includes a manufactured home described as a 2001 28 X 48Autumn bearing a SerialNumber AHAL179601 AB.The manufactured home is afixture related to the realproperty and has become apart of the realty. Any foreclosure of this deed oftrust will include the manufactured home situatedthereon.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 7th day of December,2010.#J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE##Shapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-9299519 Heartwood DriveVicksburg, MS 3918007-1234DMPublish: 12/14, 12/21, 12/28(3t)
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on May 7, 2001,Anthony Burden, an Unmarried Man and SonyaJones, an Unmarried Woman, executed a certaindeed of trust to Jim B. Tohill,Trustee for the benefit ofLong Beach Mortgage Company which deed of trustis of record in the office ofthe Chancery Clerk of Warren County, State of Mississippi in Book 1265 atPage 102 and reformed inChancery Cause #2010-113gn; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequently assigned to Deutsche BankNational Trust Company formerly known as BankersTrust Company of California,N.A., as Trustee for LongBeach Mortgage Loan Trust2001-3 by instrument datedJanuary 24, 2008 andrecorded in Book 1474 atPage 494 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; andWHEREAS, Deutsche BankNational Trust Company f/k/aBankers Trust Company ofCalifornia, N.A., as Trusteefor Long Beach MortgageLoan Trust 2001-3 hasheretofore substituted J.Gary Massey as Trustee byinstrument dated July 29,2010 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1512 at Page268; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company f/k/aBankers Trust Company ofCalifornia, N.A., as Trusteefor Long Beach MortgageLoan Trust 2001-3, the legalholder of said indebtedness,having requested the under-signed Substituted Trusteeto execute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust and for thepurpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees, trustee'sfees and expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on January 4, 2011 offerfor sale at public outcry andsell within legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at theWest Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren Coun-ty, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the highestand best bidder for cash thefollowing described propertysituated in Warren County,State of Mississippi, to-wit: LOT 82All of that certain Lot or Parcel of Land lying and being situated in part of theSoutheast One-Quarter ofSection 23, Township 16North, Range 4 East, of theCounty of Warren, State ofMississippi, more particularlydescribed as follows to-wit:Commencing at an iron rod(Found) on the South line ofU.S. Highway No. 80, marking the Northwest corner of the B.P. Buford's46.6 acre tract as recorded inDeed Book 1048 at Page 7of the land records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; thencerun S 04 degrees 30' E,533.37 feet; and run thenceS 89 degrees 47' 30" W,183.55 feet; thence S 01 degrees 33' 23" W, 35.50feet; thence S 54 degrees29' 18" E, 355.50 feet; andthence run N 22 degrees 16'27" E, 59.19 feet to an ironrod, and, the POINT OF BEGINNING; thence run N22 degrees 16' 27" E, 118.63feet to an iron rod; thencerun S 73 degrees 06' 08" E,184.39 feet to an iron rod;thence run S 18 degrees 48'27" W, 153.76 feet to an ironrod; thence run N 62 degrees30' 21" W, 193.68 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING,containing 0.588 Acre.TOGETHER WITH: That certain Perpetual, non-exclusive easement, to beused in common for the Purpose of a Roadway, andfor the installation and maintenance of Sewer Lines,Power Lines and WaterLines over and across thatcertain Fifty (50') foot widestrip of Land being furtherdescribed as Commencing atthe Northeast Corner of saidB.P. Buford Tract; thence runS 86 degrees 00' W, 500.21feet to the Intersection of theSouth line of U.S. HighwayNo. 80 with the centerline ofSilver Leaf Drive, and thePOINT OF BEGINNING OFROAD EASEMENT; thencerun 25' either side of the fol-lowing described centerline:S 06 degrees 48' 39" E,58.65 feet; thence S 27 de-grees 20' 29" E, 76.9 feet;thence S 39 degrees 12' 31"E, 102.1 feet; thence S 36degrees 01' 10" E, 43.78feet; thence S 55 degrees02' 51" E, 125.37 feet to apoint in the centerline of another Road; thence leaving the centerline of saidSilver Leaf Drive, run alongthe centerline of AnotherRoad as Follows: S 38 degrees 33' W, 195.0 feet;thence S 07 degrees 41' 36"W, 527.06 feet to THE ENDOF EASEMENT;SUBJECT TO: That certain25' strip of Land, to be usedfor a Roadway, over andacross a certain 25' widestrip lying immediately Southof the North line of the hereindescribed property.The above described realproperty includes a manufactured home described as a 2001 28 X 48Autumn bearing a SerialNumber AHAL179601 AB.The manufactured home is afixture related to the realproperty and has become apart of the realty. Any foreclosure of this deed oftrust will include the manufactured home situatedthereon.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 7th day of December,2010.#J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE##Shapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-9299519 Heartwood DriveVicksburg, MS 3918007-1234DMPublish: 12/14, 12/21, 12/28(3t)
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on May 7, 2001,Anthony Burden, an Unmarried Man and SonyaJones, an Unmarried Woman, executed a certaindeed of trust to Jim B. Tohill,Trustee for the benefit ofLong Beach Mortgage Company which deed of trustis of record in the office ofthe Chancery Clerk of Warren County, State of Mississippi in Book 1265 atPage 102 and reformed inChancery Cause #2010-113gn; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequently assigned to Deutsche BankNational Trust Company formerly known as BankersTrust Company of California,N.A., as Trustee for LongBeach Mortgage Loan Trust2001-3 by instrument datedJanuary 24, 2008 andrecorded in Book 1474 atPage 494 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; andWHEREAS, Deutsche BankNational Trust Company f/k/aBankers Trust Company ofCalifornia, N.A., as Trusteefor Long Beach MortgageLoan Trust 2001-3 hasheretofore substituted J.Gary Massey as Trustee byinstrument dated July 29,2010 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1512 at Page268; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company f/k/aBankers Trust Company ofCalifornia, N.A., as Trusteefor Long Beach MortgageLoan Trust 2001-3, the legalholder of said indebtedness,having requested the under-signed Substituted Trusteeto execute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust and for thepurpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees, trustee'sfees and expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on January 4, 2011 offerfor sale at public outcry andsell within legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at theWest Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren Coun-ty, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the highestand best bidder for cash thefollowing described propertysituated in Warren County,State of Mississippi, to-wit: LOT 82All of that certain Lot or Parcel of Land lying and being situated in part of theSoutheast One-Quarter ofSection 23, Township 16North, Range 4 East, of theCounty of Warren, State ofMississippi, more particularlydescribed as follows to-wit:Commencing at an iron rod(Found) on the South line ofU.S. Highway No. 80, marking the Northwest corner of the B.P. Buford's46.6 acre tract as recorded inDeed Book 1048 at Page 7of the land records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; thencerun S 04 degrees 30' E,533.37 feet; and run thenceS 89 degrees 47' 30" W,183.55 feet; thence S 01 degrees 33' 23" W, 35.50feet; thence S 54 degrees29' 18" E, 355.50 feet; andthence run N 22 degrees 16'27" E, 59.19 feet to an ironrod, and, the POINT OF BEGINNING; thence run N22 degrees 16' 27" E, 118.63feet to an iron rod; thencerun S 73 degrees 06' 08" E,184.39 feet to an iron rod;thence run S 18 degrees 48'27" W, 153.76 feet to an ironrod; thence run N 62 degrees30' 21" W, 193.68 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING,containing 0.588 Acre.TOGETHER WITH: That certain Perpetual, non-exclusive easement, to beused in common for the Purpose of a Roadway, andfor the installation and maintenance of Sewer Lines,Power Lines and WaterLines over and across thatcertain Fifty (50') foot widestrip of Land being furtherdescribed as Commencing atthe Northeast Corner of saidB.P. Buford Tract; thence runS 86 degrees 00' W, 500.21feet to the Intersection of theSouth line of U.S. HighwayNo. 80 with the centerline ofSilver Leaf Drive, and thePOINT OF BEGINNING OFROAD EASEMENT; thencerun 25' either side of the fol-lowing described centerline:S 06 degrees 48' 39" E,58.65 feet; thence S 27 de-grees 20' 29" E, 76.9 feet;thence S 39 degrees 12' 31"E, 102.1 feet; thence S 36degrees 01' 10" E, 43.78feet; thence S 55 degrees02' 51" E, 125.37 feet to apoint in the centerline of another Road; thence leaving the centerline of saidSilver Leaf Drive, run alongthe centerline of AnotherRoad as Follows: S 38 degrees 33' W, 195.0 feet;thence S 07 degrees 41' 36"W, 527.06 feet to THE ENDOF EASEMENT;SUBJECT TO: That certain25' strip of Land, to be usedfor a Roadway, over andacross a certain 25' widestrip lying immediately Southof the North line of the hereindescribed property.The above described realproperty includes a manufactured home described as a 2001 28 X 48Autumn bearing a SerialNumber AHAL179601 AB.The manufactured home is afixture related to the realproperty and has become apart of the realty. Any foreclosure of this deed oftrust will include the manufactured home situatedthereon.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 7th day of December,2010.#J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE##Shapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-9299519 Heartwood DriveVicksburg, MS 3918007-1234DMPublish: 12/14, 12/21, 12/28(3t)
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on May 7, 2001,Anthony Burden, an Unmarried Man and SonyaJones, an Unmarried Woman, executed a certaindeed of trust to Jim B. Tohill,Trustee for the benefit ofLong Beach Mortgage Company which deed of trustis of record in the office ofthe Chancery Clerk of Warren County, State of Mississippi in Book 1265 atPage 102 and reformed inChancery Cause #2010-113gn; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was subsequently assigned to Deutsche BankNational Trust Company formerly known as BankersTrust Company of California,N.A., as Trustee for LongBeach Mortgage Loan Trust2001-3 by instrument datedJanuary 24, 2008 andrecorded in Book 1474 atPage 494 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; andWHEREAS, Deutsche BankNational Trust Company f/k/aBankers Trust Company ofCalifornia, N.A., as Trusteefor Long Beach MortgageLoan Trust 2001-3 hasheretofore substituted J.Gary Massey as Trustee byinstrument dated July 29,2010 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Book 1512 at Page268; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the terms andconditions of said deed oftrust and the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due andpayable in accordance withthe terms of said deed oftrust, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company f/k/aBankers Trust Company ofCalifornia, N.A., as Trusteefor Long Beach MortgageLoan Trust 2001-3, the legalholder of said indebtedness,having requested the under-signed Substituted Trusteeto execute the trust and sellsaid land and property inaccordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust and for thepurpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, togetherwith attorney's fees, trustee'sfees and expense of sale.NOW, THEREFORE, I, J.Gary Massey, SubstitutedTrustee in said deed of trust,will on January 4, 2011 offerfor sale at public outcry andsell within legal hours (beingbetween the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at theWest Door of the CountyCourthouse of Warren Coun-ty, located at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the highestand best bidder for cash thefollowing described propertysituated in Warren County,State of Mississippi, to-wit: LOT 82All of that certain Lot or Parcel of Land lying and being situated in part of theSoutheast One-Quarter ofSection 23, Township 16North, Range 4 East, of theCounty of Warren, State ofMississippi, more particularlydescribed as follows to-wit:Commencing at an iron rod(Found) on the South line ofU.S. Highway No. 80, marking the Northwest corner of the B.P. Buford's46.6 acre tract as recorded inDeed Book 1048 at Page 7of the land records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi; thencerun S 04 degrees 30' E,533.37 feet; and run thenceS 89 degrees 47' 30" W,183.55 feet; thence S 01 degrees 33' 23" W, 35.50feet; thence S 54 degrees29' 18" E, 355.50 feet; andthence run N 22 degrees 16'27" E, 59.19 feet to an ironrod, and, the POINT OF BEGINNING; thence run N22 degrees 16' 27" E, 118.63feet to an iron rod; thencerun S 73 degrees 06' 08" E,184.39 feet to an iron rod;thence run S 18 degrees 48'27" W, 153.76 feet to an ironrod; thence run N 62 degrees30' 21" W, 193.68 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING,containing 0.588 Acre.TOGETHER WITH: That certain Perpetual, non-exclusive easement, to beused in common for the Purpose of a Roadway, andfor the installation and maintenance of Sewer Lines,Power Lines and WaterLines over and across thatcertain Fifty (50') foot widestrip of Land being furtherdescribed as Commencing atthe Northeast Corner of saidB.P. Buford Tract; thence runS 86 degrees 00' W, 500.21feet to the Intersection of theSouth line of U.S. HighwayNo. 80 with the centerline ofSilver Leaf Drive, and thePOINT OF BEGINNING OFROAD EASEMENT; thencerun 25' either side of the fol-lowing described centerline:S 06 degrees 48' 39" E,58.65 feet; thence S 27 de-grees 20' 29" E, 76.9 feet;thence S 39 degrees 12' 31"E, 102.1 feet; thence S 36degrees 01' 10" E, 43.78feet; thence S 55 degrees02' 51" E, 125.37 feet to apoint in the centerline of another Road; thence leaving the centerline of saidSilver Leaf Drive, run alongthe centerline of AnotherRoad as Follows: S 38 degrees 33' W, 195.0 feet;thence S 07 degrees 41' 36"W, 527.06 feet to THE ENDOF EASEMENT;SUBJECT TO: That certain25' strip of Land, to be usedfor a Roadway, over andacross a certain 25' widestrip lying immediately Southof the North line of the hereindescribed property.The above described realproperty includes a manufactured home described as a 2001 28 X 48Autumn bearing a SerialNumber AHAL179601 AB.The manufactured home is afixture related to the realproperty and has become apart of the realty. Any foreclosure of this deed oftrust will include the manufactured home situatedthereon.I WILL CONVEY only suchtitle as vested in me as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATUREon this 7th day of December,2010.#J. Gary MasseySUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE##Shapiro & Massey, L.L.C.1910 Lakeland DriveSuite BJackson, MS 39216(601)981-9299519 Heartwood DriveVicksburg, MS 3918007-1234DMPublish: 12/14, 12/21, 12/28(3t)
Statewide Publishing LLCPO Box 768170Roswell, GA 30076SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE STATEOF MISSISSIPPI COUNTYOF WARREN WHEREAS,on February 26, 2001, AlfredL. Daniel, Jr. and VanessaC. Daniel executed and delivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto Charles A. Myers,Trustee for the benefit of Re-alty Mortgage Corporation, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi in Book 1241,Page 418; and WHEREAS,said Deed of Trust was subsequently assigned untoChase Manhattan MortgageCorporation, by instrumentrecorded in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1228, Page 315; andWHEREAS, the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust substituted and appointedNationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Trustee insaid Deed of Trust by instrument recorded in theOffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk Book 1510,Page 391; and WHEREAS,default having been made inthe payments of indebted-ness secured by said Deedof Trust, and the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust, havingrequested the undersignedso to do, on December 21,2010, I will, during legalhours (between the hours of11 o' clock a.m. and 4 o' clock p.m.), at public outcry, offer for sale and willsell, at the Front door stepsof the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit: LOT 32,FOX RUN OF VICKSBURG,PART TWO, A SUBDIVI-SION ACCORDING TO THEMAP OR PLAT THEREOFON FILE AND OF RECORDIN THE OFFICE OF THECHANCERY CLERK OFWARREN COUNTY ATVICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPIIN PLAT BOOK 3 AT PAGE111 THEREOF, REFER-ENCE TO WHICH IS HERE-BY MADE IN AID OF ANDAS A PART OF THIS DE-SCRIPTION Title to theabove described property isbelieved to be good, but I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as SubstitutedTrustee. WITNESS MY SIG-NATURE, this the 18th dayof November, 2010Stephanie JohnsonStephanie Johnson, Assistant Vice President Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 0506898MS Publish: 11/30, 12/7, 12/14(3t)
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Statewide Publishing LLCPO Box 768170Roswell, GA 30076SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'SNOTICE OF SALE STATEOF MISSISSIPPI COUNTYOF WARREN WHEREAS,on February 26, 2001, AlfredL. Daniel, Jr. and VanessaC. Daniel executed and delivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto Charles A. Myers,Trustee for the benefit of Re-alty Mortgage Corporation, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi in Book 1241,Page 418; and WHEREAS,said Deed of Trust was subsequently assigned untoChase Manhattan MortgageCorporation, by instrumentrecorded in the Office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1228, Page 315; andWHEREAS, the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust substituted and appointedNationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Trustee insaid Deed of Trust by instrument recorded in theOffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk Book 1510,Page 391; and WHEREAS,default having been made inthe payments of indebted-ness secured by said Deedof Trust, and the holder ofsaid Deed of Trust, havingrequested the undersignedso to do, on December 21,2010, I will, during legalhours (between the hours of11 o' clock a.m. and 4 o' clock p.m.), at public outcry, offer for sale and willsell, at the Front door stepsof the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg,Mississippi, for cash to thehighest bidder, the followingdescribed land and propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit: LOT 32,FOX RUN OF VICKSBURG,PART TWO, A SUBDIVI-SION ACCORDING TO THEMAP OR PLAT THEREOFON FILE AND OF RECORDIN THE OFFICE OF THECHANCERY CLERK OFWARREN COUNTY ATVICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPIIN PLAT BOOK 3 AT PAGE111 THEREOF, REFER-ENCE TO WHICH IS HERE-BY MADE IN AID OF ANDAS A PART OF THIS DE-SCRIPTION Title to theabove described property isbelieved to be good, but I willconvey only such title as isvested in me as SubstitutedTrustee. WITNESS MY SIG-NATURE, this the 18th dayof November, 2010Stephanie JohnsonStephanie Johnson, Assistant Vice President Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 0506898MS Publish: 11/30, 12/7, 12/14(3t)
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01. LegalsNOTICE OF SUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE'S SALESTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WARRENWHEREAS, on July 27,2005, Diane Warfield executed a promissory notepayable to the order of FirstHorizon Home Loan Corporation; andWHEREAS, the aforesaidpromissory note was secured by a Deed of Trustdated July 27, 2005, executed by Diane Warfieldand Michael Warfield andbeing recorded in Book1563, at Page 567, of therecords of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and which aforesaid Instrument conveys to Jerry Baker,Trustee and to First HorizonHome Loan Corporation, asBeneficiary, the hereinafterdescribed property; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned to HSBCBank USA, National Association, as Trustee Nomura Home Equity Loan,Inc. Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-HE1, by an Assignment filed of record onDecember 1, 2010, andrecorded in Book 1516, atPage 448, in the office of theClerk of the Chancery Courtof Warren County, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, HSBC BankUSA, National Association,as Trustee Nomura HomeEquity Loan, Inc. Asset-Backed Certificates,Series 2006-HE1, having executed a Substitution ofTrustee to substitute FloydHealy as trustee in the placeand stead of Jerry Baker, thesame having been recordedin Book 1516, at Page 449,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 5thday of January, 2011, between the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m., offer forsale and will sell at publicoutcry to the highest bidderfor cash at the West steps ofthe Warren County Courthouse, located at 1009Cherry Street, in Vicksburg,Mississippi, the following described property locatedand situated in WarrenCounty, Mississippi, to wit:All of Lot 59 in Block A ofMarion Park Subdivision,Part 4, as shown by map orplat record in Plat Book 1 atPage 37 of the land recordsof Warren County, Mississippi.Indexing Instructions: Lot59, Block A, Marion ParkSubdivision, Part 4, WarrenCounty, Mississippi.More commonly known as:502 Longview, Vicksburg,Mississippi 39180Subject to the rights of wayand easement for publicroads and public utilities, andto any prior conveyance orreservation of mineral of every kind and character, including but not limited tooil, gas, sand and gravel inor under subject property.As the undersigned Substituted Trustee, I willconvey only such title as isvested in me under saidDeed of Trust.This 10th day of December,2010.Prepared by: Floyd HealyFloyd HealySubstituted Trustee1405 N. Pierce, Suite 306/s/ Floyd HealyLittle Rock, Arkansas 72207Publish: 12/14, 12/21, 12/28,1/4(4t)
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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTEDTRUSTEE'S SALESTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WARRENWHEREAS, on July 27,2005, Diane Warfield executed a promissory notepayable to the order of FirstHorizon Home Loan Corporation; andWHEREAS, the aforesaidpromissory note was secured by a Deed of Trustdated July 27, 2005, executed by Diane Warfieldand Michael Warfield andbeing recorded in Book1563, at Page 567, of therecords of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and which aforesaid Instrument conveys to Jerry Baker,Trustee and to First HorizonHome Loan Corporation, asBeneficiary, the hereinafterdescribed property; andWHEREAS, said Deed ofTrust was assigned to HSBCBank USA, National Association, as Trustee Nomura Home Equity Loan,Inc. Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-HE1, by an Assignment filed of record onDecember 1, 2010, andrecorded in Book 1516, atPage 448, in the office of theClerk of the Chancery Courtof Warren County, Mississippi; andWHEREAS, HSBC BankUSA, National Association,as Trustee Nomura HomeEquity Loan, Inc. Asset-Backed Certificates,Series 2006-HE1, having executed a Substitution ofTrustee to substitute FloydHealy as trustee in the placeand stead of Jerry Baker, thesame having been recordedin Book 1516, at Page 449,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 5thday of January, 2011, between the hours of 11:00a.m. and 4:00 p.m., offer forsale and will sell at publicoutcry to the highest bidderfor cash at the West steps ofthe Warren County Courthouse, located at 1009Cherry Street, in Vicksburg,Mississippi, the following described property locatedand situated in WarrenCounty, Mississippi, to wit:All of Lot 59 in Block A ofMarion Park Subdivision,Part 4, as shown by map orplat record in Plat Book 1 atPage 37 of the land recordsof Warren County, Mississippi.Indexing Instructions: Lot59, Block A, Marion ParkSubdivision, Part 4, WarrenCounty, Mississippi.More commonly known as:502 Longview, Vicksburg,Mississippi 39180Subject to the rights of wayand easement for publicroads and public utilities, andto any prior conveyance orreservation of mineral of every kind and character, including but not limited tooil, gas, sand and gravel inor under subject property.As the undersigned Substituted Trustee, I willconvey only such title as isvested in me under saidDeed of Trust.This 10th day of December,2010.Prepared by: Floyd HealyFloyd HealySubstituted Trustee1405 N. Pierce, Suite 306/s/ Floyd HealyLittle Rock, Arkansas 72207Publish: 12/14, 12/21, 12/28,1/4(4t)
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31. Mobile HomesFor Rent
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29. UnfurnishedApartments
32. Mobile HomesFor Sale
$36,500 – LIKE NEWSingle Wide, 2 bedroom, 1bath, 8/10 acre, Privatecountry setting. Oak RidgeRoad. Wayne ThorntonReal Estate. Call Wayne.601-415-7779.
2006 16 x 80 3 bedroom,2 bath Laundry room, large
master bath with closet,storm windows, dishwasher,
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Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Judy Uzzle-Ashley....601-994-4663Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI
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FINALREDUCTIONPRICE
Summit white, light titanium, equipped with all standardBuick features. #1936
$25,535*
M.S.R.P. -$27,850
Sale Price - $27,035
Finance with Ally - $1,500**
2010 Buick Lacrosse CX
FINALREDUCTION
PRICE
Summit white with ebony cloth, equipped with 4 wheel drive, skid plate, SLE package, H.D. traileringequipment, locking differential. #41278
$26,495*
M.S.R.P. -$34,520
Sale Price - $32,495
Rebate - $5,000
Finance with Ally - $1,000**
2010 GMC Sierra Ext. Cab 4x4 SLE
FINALREDUCTION
PRICE
Summit white with dark titanium, equipped deep tintedglass, AM/FM/CD player, work truck package, powerwindows, power door locks and mirrors. #41341
$27,195*
M.S.R.P. -$34,748
Sale Price - $33,195
Rebate - $5,000
Finance with Ally - $1,000**
2010 GMC Sierra Crew Cab 4x4
DEMOSALEPRICE
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$22,800*
M.S.R.P. -$25,235
Sale Price - $24,300
Rebate - $1,500**
2011 GMC Terrain (Demo Special)
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Equipped with 5.3L V8, third row seat, 6 months OnStarDirections & Connections package. All standard fea-tures. #41463
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$22,595*
M.S.R.P. -$26,995
Sale Price - $25,095
Rebate - $2,500
2010 GMC Savana 1500 Work Van
FINALREDUCTIONPRICE
Onyx black with ebony interior, equipped with deluxefront bucket seats, 3.7L 5 cylinder engine, all standardSLE features. #41425
$21,495*
M.S.R.P. -$26,010
Sale Price - $24,995
Rebate - $2,500
Finance with Ally - $1,000**
2010 GMC Canyon Crew Cab
2011 END OF THE YEAR SPECIALS!
FINALREDUCTIONPRICE
Onyx black with ebony interior, equipped with SLE pack-age, 6-way power driver and passenger seat, BOSEsound system, inside rearview mirror with camera,remote vehicle start, 1 year OnStar Safe & Sound.#41315
