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CALENDAR

Thursday, June 2■ Exhibit opening: The

Columbus Arts Council hosts

a free reception opening an

exhibit of paintings by Ellen

Langford at the Rosenzweig

Arts Center, 501 Main St.

For more information, con-

tact the CAC, 662-328-2787.

■ Me & My Fiddle: Follow-

ing the reception above, fid-dler Aidan Dunkelberg of Co-

lumbus and friends present

a program of fiddle music at

7 p.m. in the Columbus Arts

Council’s Omnova Theater,

501 Main St. $6 in advance;

$8 at the door. Limited seat-

ing. Visit columbus-arts.org

or call 662-328-2787.

PUBLIC MEETINGS

June 6: Lowndes County

Supervisors, Courthouse,

9 a.m.

June 7: Columbus City

Council, Municipal Complex,

5 p.m.

June 13: Columbus Munic-

ipal School District Board of

Trustees, Brandon Central

Offices, 6 p.m.

June 14: Columbus CityCouncil, Municipal Complex,

5 p.m.

June 17: Lowndes County


9 a.m.

July 5: Lowndes County


9 a.m.

MALIK NEWMAN IS LEAVING MSU BASKETBALL Sports, See page 1B

MSU BASEBALL NORTHSIDE BASH

Sarah Ross Latimer, 8, runs after a beach ball in one of the many yards along Eighth Street North that made up theBicentennial Northside Bash in Columbus on Sunday. The community get-together featured live music, crawfish andan inflatable water slide. Sarah Ross is the daughter of Cassandra and Chris Latimer, of Columbus.

BY SLIM SMITH

[email protected]

For most folks, today meansits back to work after the longMemorial Day weekend.

But for many of the studentsparticipating in the City of Co-lumbus Summer Job program,today marks their introductioninto the working world.

The program, now in its 23rd year, began at 7 a.m. today forthe 25 students taking part. Tobe eligible, students must beresidents of the city who arestudents between the ages of 16and 24. Although there are a fewcollege students in the programeach year, most are high schoolstudents. For many, it is theirfirst paying job.

“It’s really a mixture,” Tra- vis Jones, who oversees theprogram on a day-to-day basis,said. “Some of them will havehad jobs before, but for just as

many, it’s the first time they’vereally been exposed to the working world.”

Jones has supervised the kids

in the program for 20 years. Thebiggest challenges the studentsface, he said, is the most basic:Getting to work on time and be-ing ready to work.

“Really, this program is as

much about learning what it means to have a job as the workitself,” Jones said. “It’s thingslike showing up on time, taking

directions, following instruc-tions. But it goes farther thanthat. We have a week of instruc-tion, where we bring in speak-ers to share information about

25 students begin summer job program

EMCC OFFICE OF PUBLIC

AFFAIRS

MAYHEW — Since its firstbroadcast nearly a year ago,East Mississippi CommunityCollege’s radio station on theGolden Triangle campus hasgrown its listenership throughinnovative content that in-cludes original live radio dra-ma that harkens back to the1940s and early 1950s, whenaudio was king.

On Wednesday, EMCC’s WGTC 92.7 FM will debutthe first episode of “Search

for Happiness.” The storylinerevolves around a fictional

Bartlesville, Oklahoma, oil ty-coon by the name of J.D. Gray whose three grown daughtersdiscover he has eloped with a woman not much older thanthey are.

The characters in the

Bulldogs are

No. 6 seed inNCAA tourneyRegional play in Starkville

begins Friday

BY BEN WAIT

[email protected]

STARKVILLE — The Mis-sissippi State baseball teamis in the midst of a historicalseason.

On Monday, the Bulldogsadded to the growing list of ac-complishments.

MSU was announced asthe No. 6 national seed for theNCAA tournament, the first in school histo-ry.

“I think it’s a great honor,” MSU coachohn Cohen said. “But like I’ve said many

times, we won the Southeastern Conference,that’s a tremendous honor, but you’ve gotabout two minutes to take that in. Now we’vegot to get ready to play against a very, verygood field.”

The No. 4 Bulldogs learned Sunday thatthey would host their 13th regional and firstsince 2013. Joining top-seeded MSU (41-16-

Cohen

Program aims to teach participants basic

work skills; students earn minimum wage

EMCC’s radio station breaking new ground

BerryJones

Courtesy photo

EMCC cast members

of the live radio drama“Search for Happi-ness” tell listeners

of the college’s radiostation, WGTC 92.7

FM, about the first ep-isode of the show that

will air Wednesdayunder the direction ofstation Manager Don

Vaughan, far right. Tay-lor Corder takes a turn

at the microphonewhile fellow cast mem-

bers wait their turn.They are, from left, Ka-liyah Loggan, KathleenPohl, Chelsea Harrison

and Ashton Smith.

See JOB PROGRAM , 6A

See EMCC, 6A

TUNE IN■ WHAT: “Search for Happiness,”a live radio drama aired on WGTC92.7 FM

■ WHEN: The first episode airsWednesday at 9:30 a.m. and at11:30 a.m. Re-broadcast Thursdayat 7:30 a.m. Future episodes will beaired at the same times each weekon Wednesdays and Thursdays

See MSU , 6A

‘It’s more than just a summer job. It’s about

helping them prepare for work later in life.’Summer Job program director Travis Jones


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A THOUSAND WORDS

Birney Imes/Dispatch Staff

On Friday, Stephanie Hopper paints a sign to be used at the wedding of her friends — Wyatt Jenkins andSamantha Thompson — in Columbus on Saturday. Hopper, a logistics specialist in the U.S. Navy stationed in

Norfolk, Virginia, was visiting her mother, Candy Champion, on Wolfe Road near Caledonia.

Tuesday SAY WHAT?“It’s kind of like a rigged election. It’s supposed to be oneman one vote. This is the way it should be.”

Nayef Jaber, of San Rafael, California. In a recent poll,Americans said they have little faith in the system for

selecting presidential candidates. Story, 7A.

Depp’s ‘Alice’ bombs, ‘X-Men:Apocalypse’ on top with $65MBY JAKE COYLE

P Film Writer

NEW YORK — JohnnyDepp’s “Alice Throughthe Looking Glass”

bombed over the Memori-al Day weekend with just$28.1 million through Sun-day in North Americantheaters, while “X-Men:Apocalypse” debuted ontop with an estimated $65million.

The anticipated show-down of the two big-bud-get films turned out to belittle contest for 20th Cen-tury Fox’s latest “X-Men”installment. Both filmswere lambasted by critics,and neither drew the audi-

ence many expected overthe holiday weekend.Disney’s “Alice

Through the LookingGlass” had more than badreviews to deal with. OnFriday, as the film washitting theaters, AmberHeard, Depp’s wife, wasgranted a restraining or-der after alleging the ac-tor previously assaultedher. She appeared in LosAngeles Superior Courton Friday with a bruiseon her right cheek. Somefans called for a boycott of“Alice Through the Look-ing Glass.”

Paul Dergarabedian,senior media analyst forcomScore, said it was diffi-

cult to quantify how muchthe fortunes of Disney’s“Alice Through the Look-ing Glass” turned Fridayafternoon when newsof Heard’s allegationsspread.

“I think the reviews hadmore to do with the film’sperformance than anypersonal drama for Depp,”Dergarabedian said.

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Estimated ticket salesfor Friday through Sunday1. “X-Men: Apocalypse,”

$65 million ($55.3 million

international).

2. “Alice Through theLooking Glass,” $28.1

million ($65 million interna-

tional).

3. “The Angry Birds Mov-

ie,” $18.7 million ($31.8

million international).

4. “Captain America: Civil

War,” $15.1 million ($12.5


5. “Neighbors: Sorority

Rising,” $9.1 million ($4.5


6. “The Jungle Book,” $7

million ($5.3 million interna-

tional).

7. “The Nice Guys,” $6.4


tional).8. “Money Monster,” $4.3


tional).

9. “Love & Friendship,”

$2.5 million.

10. “Zootopia,” $831,000

($4 million international).

Source: comScore

BY STEVE KARNOWSKI

The Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. — One team isdeveloping GPS ear tags so cattlefarmers can track herds from afar. Another thinks drones can pro-tect livestock from predators. Yetanother is developing a recharge-able portable warmer to prevent vaccines from freezing when dair yproducers inoculate their herds inthe winter.

These aren’t corporate or univer-sity researchers, but teenagers in

Minnesota’s 4-H Science of Agricul-ture Challenge, which aims to nur-ture the next generation of agricul-tural scientists for a country facinga critical shortage. A study last yearby the U.S. Department of Agricul-

ture and Purdue University foundthat nearly 60,000 high-skilled agri-culture-related jobs open up annu-ally, but there are only about 35,000college graduates available to fillthem.

University of Minnesota Exten-sion is developing the challenge, which is now in its second yearand already attracting interest fromother 4-H programs, such as Mich-igan’s. Extension specialist JoshRice says his team will present a workshop for national 4-H officialsin October, and recently gave a pre-sentation to youth development of-ficials in Bangladesh.

“This program is going to havean extremely positive impact ongetting young people to think aboutagricultural careers,” Rice said.

In preparation for the finalson June 21-23, teams from acrossthe state have spent months withcoaches and mentors. Recently, judges helped them refine theirpresentations.

The ear tags are property of theMeeker County Ag Squad. Mem-bers Abbey and Bailee Schiefelbe-in, 16 and 13 respectively, said their family members were in churchlast year when their phones startedringing — the cows were loose. But the pasture was about a four-hourdrive from their home in Kimball incentral Minnesota.

So, the team of five girls andboys devised a system that farmerscould use to track their livestockfrom far away, speaking with re-searchers who track moose with

GPS radio collars. While the $2,500collars were “a little expensive for a cowboy,” they learned about a smalltransmitter in a $70 tracking col-lar for hunting dogs, and attachedthem to ear tags that cattle wear.

4-H program aims to grow next

generation of ag scientists

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SACRAMENTO, Calif.— A black teenager sayshe was escorted out of hishigh school graduationceremony in Sacramentoby three deputies for re-fusing to remove his kentecloth, a traditional Ghana-ian silk and cotton fabric.

Nyree Holmes saidSaturday that he wore thedecorative cloth atop his

graduation robes to havesomething with him that represented his cultureduring the ceremony at Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena on Tuesday.

“The kente representsmy culture that I have noother links to,” Holmestold The Associated Pressin a telephone interview.

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Study: Nearly 60K high-skilled agriculture-

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35,000 college graduates available to fill them


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Rehabilitation agency

says budget cuts willtrim services

BY JEFF AMY AND NASSIM BENCHAABANE


JACKSON — Another Mississippi government agency says that state budget cuts beginning July 1

are likely to cause service reductions.Chris Howard, director of the Department ofRehabilitation Services, said his agency will cut vocational rehabilitation and aid to disabled home-owners because its state money is being cut by $3.4million, or 12 percent.

He also the department will lose about $11 mil -lion in federal money because of reductions in statefunding and because it will no longer receive feder-al reimbursement for rent, legal services, comput-er services or other items provided by other stateagencies. Lawmakers banned state agencies fromcharging each other for services as part of an effort to assert more control over state spending.

Overall, the budget was rejiggered so that gen-eral state spending rose to $6.35 billion, but that

was after $187 million that had been in special ac-counts was swept into general budgets. Without the changes, which didn’t increase revenue but just shifted it around, overall spending will fall about$90 million, or 1.4 percent.

BY JEFF AMY


JACKSON — Carey Wright want-ed to be a superintendent pretty bad-ly, but sometimes you have to won-der if she knew what she was gettinginto when she took the job leadingMississippi’s public schools.

Just in the last month, the gov-ernor made it harder for Wright to

reorganize the state Departmentof Education by vetoing a bill thatwould have exempted the depart-ment from civil service rules, partlyover concerns that the department’schief information officer, John Por-ter, was being paid more than thelegal limit.

Then majorities of the stateHouse and Senate sent ugly lettersdemanding that the department geton board with a plan to fight thefederal government over transgen-der bathroom policy. Some of thosecalled for Wright to be fired, andthey all had threats of political repri-

sals if Wright and the Board of Ed-ucation didn’t do what Republicanlegislative leaders wanted.

During the run-up to Tuesday’sspecially called Board of Educationmeeting, supporters began to fearthe board was going to fire Wright. That didn’t happen, and BoardChairman John Kelly of Gulfportgave her a renewed vote of confi-dence after a long closed session.

Still, though, 2½ years into Wright’s term, history suggests thather time at the helm of Mississippi’sschools may be more than half done.Since Richard Boyd became Missis-sippi’s first appointed superinten-dent in 1984, the median length ofservice in the office is four years.

It’s a tough, bruising job, withless power than some observersmight realize. The typical super-intendent is caught between animperious Legislature that doesn’thesitate to dictate the details of howit thinks schools ought to be man-aged, and local superintendents,

who can always optto voice agreement with new state poli-cies while waiting forthe latest fad to pass.For example, who re-members Mississip-pi’s 1990s devotionto “tech prep” — a

program meant to blend academic

and vocational education and helpstudents find connections between work and the classroom?

Wright made it to Mississippi af-ter a 41-year career as a teacher, prin-cipal and administrator. She jumpedfrom a long career in well-regardedMaryland schools to the District ofColumbia in 2009, rising to chief ac-ademic officer under Michelle Rhee, who was often embroiled in contro- versy. Wright applied for a numberof superintendent jobs, becoming afinalist but missing out on posts inDes Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Ne-braska.

nalysis: Wright’s time assuperintendent at a crossroads

Wright

UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME

Director says agency will cut

vocational rehabilitation and aid

to disabled homeowners

AROUND THE STATE

13-year-old drowns atpool in Hattiesburg

HATTIESBURG — A13-year-old boy has diedafter being pulled from acommunity center pool inHattiesburg.

WDAM-TV reportsuwine Hughes of Lau-

rel was pronounced deadMonday morning at Uni-versity Medical Center inackson.

Hattiesburg Police Lt.on Traxler said Hughes

was found unresponsive inthe water at C.E. Roy Com-munity Center around 3:30p.m. Sunday.

Forrest County Coro-ner Butch Benedict ruledthat drowning was thecause of death.

Teen’s body recoveredfrom Leaf River

HATTIESBURG — Thebody of a 15-year-old hasbeen recovered from theLeaf River.

Glen Moore, the For-rest County EmergencyManagement Agency di-rector, tells the Hattiesburg American the teenager dis-appeared while swimmingnear the Evelyn GandyParkway on Sunday after-noon.

The Forrest CountySheriff’s Department diveteam responded and wasassisted by Petal and Hat-tiesburg fire departments.

Moore said the teen’sbody was recovered around10 p.m. by members of the

dive team. The teen’s namehas not been released.

Jackson public worksdirector resigns

JACKSON — The headof the Jackson public worksdepartment has resigned,leaving an understaffeddepartment and ongoingproblems at its water treat-ment facilities.

City officials told theClarion-Ledger on Satur-day that Kishia Powell hasresigned after starting the

job in July 2014. Jackson Mayor Tony

Yarber praised her for herservice.

She inherited a depart-ment facing a $400 million

federal consent decreemandating the city makeupgrade its wastewatertreatment facilities to prevent untreated wastewatergetting into the Pearl River.

Powell was Jackson’sfirst female public worksdirector and was the high-est-paid city employee witha $150,000 salary.


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A victory for open governmentOn Thursday, Lowndes

County Chancery JudgeKenneth Burns ruled Colum-bus Mayor Robert Smith andthe city council did, in fact,violate Mississippi’s OpenMeeting Act.

Burns’ decision is the bestpossible outcome. While cityattorney Jeff Turnage previ-ously said the city will appeal

this issue to the SupremeCourt, we hope this rulingwill mark the end of this de-bate and usher in a new era ofopen government in our city.

This episode began in2014 when a Dispatch report-er filed a complaint to theEthics Commission after twoincidents of illegal meetings

occurred.In the first, councilmen and

the mayor planned to meet with LINK officials in smallgroups. These meetings werepre-arranged and involveddiscussions of official policy,specifically the LINK’s role inrecruiting retail business tothe city.

Later, councilmen and the

mayor met in the same way todiscuss renovations to TrotterConvention Center.

These meetings wereclosed to the public, and a Dis-patch reporter who requestedaccess to the Trotter meet-ings was denied. Decisionsmade in these illegal meet-ings were later ratified by a

vote in an official meeting. The city argued in its

appeal that these were not“meetings,” but “gatherings”held to share information that

would later be presented tothe council at a public meet-ing. Since the gatherings werenot “meetings” as defined bythe Open Meetings Act, thepublic could be excluded, the

city argued.Burns cut to the essence of

the matter in his ruling: “Sig-nificant to the court is thatthe city admits that the mayorand other officials met with aquorum of the council on thedays in question but dividedinto groups with less than aquorum of the council so the

public could be excluded,” he wrote.

The city claims it “circum- vented” the law but didn’tbreak it. Systematically cir-cumventing a law intended toensure government opennessdefies the intent of the law.

The issue (and ruling) hasfar-reaching ramifications. Infact, this marks the first time

a judge has made a ruling onan appeal of an Ethics Com-mission finding regardingthe Open Meetings Act. Thecase has captured attentionthroughout the state.

The city maintains it isimportant that the mayor andcouncil are allowed to haveinformal conversations about

city policy. We agree. Butthere is an important distinc-tion to be drawn betweenexchanging thoughts andreaching decisions that arethen announced at a latertime. The council clearlycrossed that line. The EthicsCommission reached thatconclusion and now, so hasthe courts.

Mississippi has some ofthe least restrictive OpenMeeting laws in the nat ion.Following those rules doesnot inhibit the city’s ability togovern. It does, however, in-sist that the public’s businessbe done in public.

That has been our argu -ment all along.

Superman hasleft the building

“I need a hero ... And he’sgotta be sure, and it’s gottabe soon and he’s gotta belarger than life ... And he’sgotta be strong and he’s gottabe fast and he’s gotta be freshfrom the fight. I need a hero.”

—Footloose, 1984

Sam and I went to seePrairie neighbors Nick andEleanor Hairston’s grand-daughter Reed’s schoolmusical where she beltedout the “Hero” song. I’ve been thinking about thatsong ever since.

We were so knocked out by the talent, enthusi-asm and participation of so many kids, we’ve haven’tstopped talking about it. We saw another impressiveschool musical, “Aida,” and were planning to see theschool performance of “The Lion, the Witch and theWardrobe,” when unexpected company dropped in.

Thinking about the Hero lyrics made me real izehow fast things are changing in the world and thatit’s a wonder we aren’t all dizzy.

One morning while walking with Shirley andRobin, Robin brought up the days of the blue laws

and the time her mother went to the drugstore on aSunday afternoon to get a prescription filled. She sawa lawn chair and thought how nice it would be to sitin the backyard, but she couldn’t buy the chair due tothe blue laws.

I recounted hearing of a Sunday School teacherwho called in late Saturday night saying she couldn’tteach the next morning’s class because her son’s soc-cer team won their games and was now playing at 9a.m. Sunday morning. My, how things have changed.

Occasionally I stop by St arkville’s wonder-fillednew Kroger grocery store. You need to be in themood for browsing to see all the features like amaz-ing buffets, sit-down sushi bar, Starbucks coffeeshop, flower shop, rows of kitchen gadgets and smallappliances, not to mention all the fresh produce and

groceries. And the bathrooms. Designers were thinkingahead when they hung the signs, “Family Re-strooms.” Just inside the alcove are door No. 1 “Men,”door No. 2 “Women,” and door No. 3 “Unisex.”

Sharing the description of the bathrooms to ayoung “30-something” prompted this conversation:

She said, “I don’t know why all bathrooms andshower/locker rooms aren’t private anyway. I remem-ber being totally traumatized by junior high lockerrooms. Girls can be very mean.”

She looked at Sam, “And the whole concept ofurinals is just weird.”

Somewhere along the way I feel like I’ve fallen offthe moving sidewalk of “progress.” When did all therules change? Some of the language, I don’t speak.Some of the concepts, I can’t wrap my brain around.If my computer goes down, I can’t work.

I wish I could ask my parents if they ever felt likeI do? Did my grandparents? Did electric motors sendthem into a tailspin?

Who is in charge? Is anybody? Is the dearly de-parted Prince our hero? My friend Michele thoughtPrince was somebody’s dog. Does anybody knowwhat time it is?

I desperately need a hero, and he’s gotta be sureand he’s gotta be strong and I’d like it to be now.

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READER COMMENT

Supports TrumpPat Buchanan “Who’s the conservative heretic”

5-22-16 in The Dispatch, hit the nail on the head.Let me state, The Donald was not my first choice.

Dr. Carson was, then Rubio. As the field narrowed The Donald stood out because he was the same ev-erywhere. I like the “Make America Great” motto.

All the finger pointing to The Donald should bechecked out, even by the Republicans. Anyone canbe nicked-picked. A lot of the statements of Mr. Trump are taken out of context. T hey are spoken byhim to make a point.

Political correctness is not his to worry about. Mymain support for him is, he is not in the race for themoney. He will take a pay cut and not for the powerbecause with his wealth and power in the privatesector. He could buy most of the politicians includingthe Clintons. I might be naive, but I think he wants America to be respected again.

The present administration is doing al l that can bedone to drag America down further. The Pres is onanother apology tour selling arms to our enemy andLord help us what he will say to the Japanese. ForgetPearl Harbor.

The Democrats want felons, illega ls and anyoneelse to be able to vote. Friends, the inmates are run-ning the asylum.

Don’t get me started on the transgender move-

ment. God, the creator or whoever you think createdthe world, created man and women, male and femaleor girls and boys. The transgender was not in theequation. There is a mental health problem. You areborn male or female, there is no, to be determined.

Have you noticed that when certain problems oc-cur the present administration makes a controversiallaw to take the eyes off the real problems. Terrorism,border security and the economy for a few pressingproblems. He wants the minimum wage raised, butnothing is said about those in the military that aretrying to protect us for less than minimum wage.

America is stil l the best, greatest place to l ive. We just need more true patriots in Washington that arenot self-serving, egomaniacs that think they knowbetter than the ones that wrote the Constitution.

It has served us for all these years. Those that areeducated beyond their intelligence got elected, now we are in a real mess.

I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I am aGod-fearing American.

I don’t expect all to agree with me, all I ask is, tothink where you are today. Are you better off , worstor treating water to keep up?

Lee Roy Lollar Columbus

The following is an edited selection of readercomments posted at the end of stories and columns

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Judge: Closed council gatherings in Columbusbroke Open Meetings Act

KJ705: They violated the law because the publicmeeting and public vote were not materially part ofthe decision making process. They existed only toattempt to avoid breaking the law. But they alreadybroke the law by excluding the public. … This wasn’trandom crosstalk between council members. This was a meeting of the full council that was deliber-ately constructed in such a way as to circumvent theopen meeting laws. They wanted to avoid discussingin an open meeting something that they were re-quired to discuss in an open meeting. All the EthicsCommission and the judge have ruled is that publicbodies cannot avoid the requirements of transparen-cy.

Ask Rufus: Memorial DayDanny Coggins: Oak Lawn Cemetery in Rich-

mond has a historical marker claiming credit for thefirst Declaration Day. I understand there are a dozenor so cities in the nation making the same claim. Who is first is not important to me, but rather a greatfirst step in understanding and healing began withthis thought. Such sad days and even compounded with the fact that so many were marked unknown.Families hoping and wondering what happened. Always enjoy reading what Rufus writes.

Bryant intends to join transgender bathroomlawsuit

KJ705: Oh good, I was wondering what the state was going to do with all of the extra money we got when we cut taxes.

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Jasper FuquaCOLUMBUS —

asper Paul Fuqua,88, died May 26, 2016.McLaughlin Mortuaryis in charge of arrange-ments.

Mr. Fuqua was theson of the late Roy andEthel Fuqua. He was amember of CumberlandPresbyterian Church.He graduated from

S.D. Lee High Schooland Mississippi StateUniversity. He served inthe U.S. Army and Ala-bama National Guard.

He is survived by hiswife, Deloris Fuqua;children, RodneyPaul Fuqua and PaulaDeloris Syfrett; sister,Margaree Davidson;brother, R.D. Fuqua ofColumbus; four grand-children; and threegreat-grandchildren.

Jeanne SmithNEW ALBANY —

eanne Claire TindallSmith, 87, died May29, 2016, at BaptistMemorial Hospital-NewAlbany.

Services are today at1 p.m. at Gunter & PeelFuneral Chapel withShawn Parker officiat-

ing. Burial wil l follow in

Friendship Cemetery. Visitation is two hoursprior to services at thefuneral home.

Mrs. Smith wasborn Jan. 18, 1929, tothe late Campbell andZelma Bell Tindall inMemphis, Tennessee.She was a graduateof Hollandale HighSchool and MississippiUniversity for Women.She was previouslyemployed as a teacherat Brandon Elementary

and was a member ofFirst Baptist Church ofColumbus.

In addition to herparents, she was pre-ceded in death by herhusband, John BryantSmith Jr.

She is survived byher daughters, VickiSmith Harmon of New Albany and Anne SmithBaker of Charleston;three grandchildren;and five great-grand-

children.Pallbearers will beDavid Seago, BryantSeago, Jay Baker,Parker Felsher, RandyMcCall and Sam Bray.

Memorials may bemade to St. Jude’s Chil-dren’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude’s Place, Memphis, TN, 38101 or the Amer-ican Cancer Society,1380 Livingston Lane, Jackson, MS 39213.

Deline BrownCOLUMBUS — De-

line Cowart Brown, 83,died May 28, 2016, at Windsor Place.

Services are todayat 2 p.m. at MemorialFuneral Home Chapel with the Rev. Roy Plym-on officiating. Burial will follow at EggerCemetery in Caledonia. Visitation is one hourprior to services at thefuneral home.

Mrs. Brown was

born Nov. 8, 1932,to the late L.V. andMary Alice RobinsonCowart Sr. in McShan, Alabama. She was amember of Mt. Mo-riah Freewill BaptistChurch.

In addition to herparents, she waspreceded in death byher husband, Wilson

Brown; brothers, Wil -

liam Cowart, L.V. Cow-art Jr., Owen Cowartand Sonny Cowart; andsister, Laudice Perrigin.

She is survived byher daughter, Jewell Johnson of Caledonia ;brothers, Fred Cowartand Tommy Cowart,both of McShan;sisters, Loften Peeksof Northport, Ala-bama, Betty Jourdanof Columbus and SuePlymon of Ethelsville, Alabama.

Pallbearers will be Jerry Perrigin, BobbyCowart, Terry Jourdan,Kelsey Taylor, Aurthur Winters and JohnnyPhillips.

Ronnie PenningtonSULLIGENT, Ala. —

Ronnie Pennington, 67,died May 25, 2016, atthe VA in Birmingham.

Arrangements areincomplete and willbe announced by Otts

Funeral Home.

Earline Morris WEST POINT —

Earline Mann Morris,88, died May 28 , 2016,at her residence.

Services will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. atCalvert Funeral HomeChapel with the Rev.Roy Myers officiating.Burial will follow inEupora Cemetery. Visi-tation is today from 5-8p.m. at Calvert FuneralHome.

Mrs. Morris wasborn Sept. 8, 1927, tothe late Grover and Ka-tie Bell Johnson Mannin Eupora. She waspreviously employed with K nickerbockerManufacturing and wasa member of West EndBaptist Church.

In addition to herparents, she was pre-ceded in death by herhusband, Willie Lewis

Morris; and brothers,Delmar and HoraceMann.

She is survived byher sons, John Morrisof Grenada and KennyLewis Morris of WestPoint; sisters, JimmieScribner of Philadel-phia, Allene Mann ofHilo, Hawaii, MargieBeckman of Helen,

Montana, and Lorene

Dearman of Jackson;brothers, Leonard EarlMann and WillardMann, both of Merid-ian; and three grand-sons.

Frank KyzerCOLUMBUS —

Frank “Frankie” Kyzer,38, died May 27, 2016,at Baptist MemorialHospital-Golden Trian-gle.

Memorial services will be Saturday at 1p.m. at First ChristianChurch with JerryFoster and Ed Maurerofficiating.

Mr. Kyzer was born June 15, 1977, to thelate Pearson and NeomiKyzer Hemphill in Tuscaloosa, A labama.He was a graduate ofNew Hope High Schooland was a member ofFirst Christian Church.He was employed as amaintenance engineer

at River Chase Inn.He is survived by his wife, Michelle Kyzer;daughter, Alexis Nel-son; sons, Zachary Nel-son, Kyle Kyzer, JamesKyzer and Noah Kyzer,all of Columbus; andsister, Valerie Kyzer ofFlorida.

Shirley OrrREFORM, Ala. —

Shirley Rae Orr, 79,died May 28, 2016, atPickens County Medi-cal Center.

Services are today at2 p.m. at Skelton Funer-al Home Chapel with Tony Latham officiat-ing. Burial wil l followin Graham MemorialCemetery. Visitation isone hour prior to andimmediately followingservice.

Mrs. Orr was born Jan. 28, 1937, to thelate Murry and Mau-die Jordan in Vernon,

Alabama. She graduat-ed from Vernon HighSchool and was previ-ously employed withReform Elementary.

In addition to herparents, she was pre-ceded in death by hersister, Faye Russell;brother, Warren Jordan;and two grandchildren.

She is survived by

her husband, Leon Orr

of Reform, Alabama;sons, Tommy Orr andMichael Orr, both of Re-form, Alabama; sisters,Polly Waters and BettyCarr; and brothers, Bud Jordan and Bill Jordan.

Pallbearers will beKenny Jordan, Jeff Jordan, Greg Russell , Terry Russell, DannyBlack, Bruce Shaw and Tony Carr.

Memorials maybe made to ReformFirst Free Will Baptist

Church, PO Box 495,Reform, AL, 35481.

Laquinton LockettMACON — LaQuin-

ton Lockett, 23, diedMay 29, 2016.

Arrangements areincomplete and will beannounced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.

Rosetta JohnsonCOLUMBUS — Ro-

setta Johnson, 90, died

May 28, 2016, at Bap-tist Memorial Hospi-tal-Golden Triangle.

Arrangements areincomplete and will beannounced by Lee-Sykes Funeral Home.

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ald Larry Simmons, 69,died May 27, 2016, atthe Aberdeen PioneerHospital.

Services were

Monday at 2 p.m. at Tisdale-Lann MemorialFuneral Home with VanMoore officiating. Buri-al followed at Oddfel-lows Rest Cemetery.

Mr. Simmons wasborn Sept. 13, 1946, tothe late Louis LeroySimmons and DellaMcDonald Simmonsin Ingersol, Ontario,Canada.

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his wife, Sylvia LeeSimmons; daughter, Theresa L ee SimmonsBouyer of Orange,California; son, Lar-ry Keith Simmons of Tallahassee, Florida;sisters,Sandra Houlk ofBelmont, North Car-olina, Brenda Allen of Aberdeen, Patsy Hillof Aberdeen and LoisMcCollum of Daph-ne, Alabama; and onegrandson.

Pallbearers will be Vince Sanders, ShaneSanders, Aaron Smith,Blake Smith, TimHouck and Bill Davis.


JACKSON — Ruralmothers whose prematurebabies are in intensivecare will be able to gettheir breast milk deliveredto their babies, thanks to a$1.9 million, three-yeargrant, say authorities in

the Mississippi Delta. The W.K. Kellogg

Foundation is providingthe money to the Commu-nity Foundation of North- west Mississippi, based inHernando, for a programcalled “Right! From theStart.”

Research has foundthat babies fed breastmilk are less likely to getinfections, and breast-fedpreemies are generallyhealthier, Program direc-tor Sannie Snell told TheCommercial Appeal.

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For The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Taking SocialSecurity benefits early comeswith a price, yet more than 4 in10 Americans who are 50 andover say they’ll dip into theprogram before reaching fullretirement age.

An Associated Press-NORCCenter for Public Affairs Re-

search poll released Thursdayfound that 44 percent report

Social Security will be theirbiggest source of incomeduring their retirement years.

Full benefits begin at 65 or66 for those born between 1943and 1954. Americans can be-gin collecting as early as age62, but with benefits reducedby up to 30 percent, according

to the Social Security Adminis-tration.

“One thing we know for cer-tain is that claiming early canhave long-term repercussionson your fiscal security as youage,” said Gary Koenig, vicepresident of Financial security

at the AARP Public Policy In-stitute.Koenig said benefits in-

crease significantly for those who wait , rising around 8 per-cent more for each additional year past age 66 and up to 70, when benefits max out .

“So we encourage people todelay as long as possible,” he

said.But waiting is a luxury many

Americans don’t have. The poll found that 43 per -

cent of those 50 and older planto receive, or have alreadystarted receiving, Social Secu-rity early.

Ken Chrzastek of Chicagobegan drawing Social Securitybenefits at age 62 and pulled$50,000 out of an IRA after los-ing a retail job two years ago.He has been unable to findeven part-time work. “Hiringa 62-year-old is a liability for acompany,” he said.

The poll found that Ameri-

cans 50 and over have multiplesources of income for retire-ment but that Social Security is the most common by far.Eighty-six percent say theyhave or will have Social Secu-rity income. More than halfhad a retirement account such

as a 401(k), 403(b), or an IRA.Slightly less had other savings. About 43 percent had a trad i-tional pension.

The average age at whichpeople expect to start or havestarted collecting Social Secu-rity benefits is 64. Just 9 per-cent said they would wait untilafter they turned 70.

Many opt to take Social Security before full retirement age4 in 10 Americans who are 50 and over say

they’ll dip into the program before reaching

full retirement age

BY KEVIN FREKING


AR LINGTON, Va. — PresidentBarack Obama challenged Amer-icans on Memorial Day to fill thesilence from those who died serv -ing their country with love andsupport for families of the fallen,“not just with words but with ouractions.”

Obama laid a wreath Monday atthe Tomb of the Unknowns to hon-or the nation’s war dead. Undermostly sunny skies at ArlingtonNational Cemetery, he bowed hishead for a moment, then placed hisright hand over his heart as taps was played. Obama in his addresscommemorated the more than 1million people in U.S. history whopaid the ultimate sacrifice.

Obama said the markers at Ar-lington belong mostly to young Americans , those who never livedto be honored as veterans for theirservice.

The Americans who rest here,and their families — the best of us,those from whom we asked every-thing — ask of us today only onething in return: that we rememberthem,” Obama said.

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how to go through the jobinterview process, how tomanage their money —credit, balancing a check-book, saving. It’s morethan just a summer job.It’s about helping themprepare for work later onin life.”

The program is fundedthrough a $20,000 appro-priation from the city anda $35,000 grant from theMississippi Departmentof Transportation. For thenext eight weeks, the stu-dents work from 7 a.m. un-til noon Monday throughThursday at minimumwage, which amounts toa weekly pay-check ofabout $150, said Christina

Berry, the city’s planningand community servicesdirector. The kids mostoften are assigned land-scaping work, but Berrysaid students can work ona variety of tasks.

“This year, we hope touse some of them to con-duct some communitysurveys, which helps usidentify what the needsare in our community,such as housing, transpor-tation,” Berry said. “Thatinformation is helpful to usas we make our plans, and we feel that using the kidsto help with those surveymakes a lot of sense.”

Over the years, Jonessaid the program has prov-

en to be both popular andeffective. More than 100students applied for the 25positions in the program.

“The kids do stick withthe job,” Jones said. “Atthe most, we may haveone — and never morethan two — kids drop out,either because they havefound another job or someother reason. But the ma - jority of kids really makethe commitment.”

The students in this years program are: Car-lius Bankhead, AshleyBrandon, Niyah Brooks,Quansima Brooks, Ga-briel Brown, JaquarionBush, Brianna Cochran, Jaquavise Craddieth,

Christopher Deloach, Car-los Draper, ZjhaalexxiaDurrah, Bryson Gardner,D’Asia Gordon, BrylenGore, Tahj Lowery, JustinPerryman, Franklin Poe,Gabrielle Sharp, JavarioSharp, Bryce Shirley, Key-shawn Tate, April Taylor, Jared Turner, Kristopher Tucker and Stephon Wilk-erson.

MSUContinued from Page 1A

1) in the Starkville Re-gional are second-seededCalifornia State Univer-sity at Fullerton (35-21), third-seeded Loui-siana Tech (40-18) andfourth-seeded SoutheastMissouri State (39-19).

MSU and SEMO play

1:30 p.m. Friday, whileCal State Fullerton andLouisiana Tech follow at6:30 p.m.

Winners from day onewill play 6:30 p.m. Satur-day, while the losers meetat 1:30 p.m. in an elimi-nation game. Game fivewill be 1:30 p.m. Sunday,with game six followingat 6:30 p.m. An if-neces-sary game is scheduledfor 6:30 p.m. Monday. Allgames in the StarkvilleRegional can be seen on

ESPN3.MSU, who is playing

in its 35th NCAA tourna-ment, became the firstteam to go from worstto outright champion inthe Southeastern Confer-ence. After finishing lastseason in last place withan 8-22 record, the Bull-dogs went 21-9 and wonnine conference series towin the SEC regular sea-son title outright.

FocusCohen, who won SEC

Coach of the Year, andMSU, who went 1-2 in last

week’s SEC tournament, were practicing when thebracket was unveiled 11a.m. Monday.

“We’re really focusedon what we’re trying todo,” Cohen said. “It’s agood field, we’re excitedabout it, but we still havea lot to work to do before

we open up on Friday.”Cal State Fullerton

won the Big West Confer -

ence title, while SoutheastMissouri State won theOhio Valley Conferenceregular season title andtournament title to earnan automatic bid. Louisi-ana Tech finished fifth inConference USA.

The Starkville Re-gional is paired with the

Lafayette (La.) Regional(Louisiana-Lafayette, Ar-izona, Sam Houston State

and Princeton) for a superregional. If MSU advanc-es, it will host the superregional.

‘This league’s reallygood’

The SEC got a recordfour national seeds and a

record seven host sites.Florida earned the No. 1overall national seed, Tex-

as A&M the No. 4 nation-al seed and LSU the No.8 national seed. Ole Miss, Vanderbilt and South Car-olina are also hosting re-gionals.

“This league’s real-ly good,” Cohen said. “Ithink the strength of our

league is notable and Ithink the committee dida great job noticing that.”

Cal State Fullerton ismaking its 38th NCAAtournament appear -ance and second trip toStarkville for a regional.Louisiana Tech is mak-ing its first NCAA tour-nament appearance since1987. This is the third ap-pearance for SEMO.

The Bulldogs cameout of the 2013 StarkvilleRegional and beat Virgin-ia in the CharlottesvilleSuper Regional. MSUfinished as the nationalrunner-up to UCLA in theCollege World Series inOmaha, Nebraska, thatseason.

“If our kids are play-ing at their best, that’sall I want, that’s all I canask for,” Cohen said. “Be-cause I think we have aspecial group. We’ve got to find that, we’ve got to

find what our best is.” Follow Dispatch sports

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EMCCContinued from Page 1A

script written by EMCCDrama and Speech in-structor Don Vaughanwill be portrayed on airby an all-female castcomprised of students inVaughan’s speech class.The cast members are:Taylor Corder of Colum-bus, Chelsea Harrison ofStarkville, Kaliyah Log-gan of West Point, Kath-leen Pohl of Alabaster, Al-

abama, and Ashton Smithof Columbus.

“I would think EMCChas to be the first collegeever that has a speechclass that will produce alive radio drama,” saidVaughan, who is alsothe station manager forWGTC. “Probably nobodyhas beaten us to that.”

Corder, who plays oneof the three sisters, saidduring a recent rehearsalthat the experience hasbeen interesting.

“I have two sisters my-self so I can kind of relateto my character by theway they bicker back andforth,” Corder said.

Recently, the radiostation wrapped up a 10-week run of “Hope for To-morrow,” a parody of theold daytime soap opera“Search for Tomorrow.”

“Hope for Tomorrow”was written by Vaughanand EMCC humanitiesinstructor Laura Vernonand performed by stu-

dents and faculty.Listeners are tuning in.“Sometimes I will have

a student come up to meand say, ‘I don’t like thatcharacter,’” Vaughan saidwith a laugh.

The 100-wat t stationtransmits north to WestPoint, south to Brooks-ville, west to Starkvilleand east to Columbus

Nissan. Hopes are togarner approval from theFederal CommunicationsCommission to boost thestation’s power enough toextend the transmissionout another 10 miles or so.

The station, which iscommercial free, nowboasts a newscast sixminutes before each hourthat features local, nation-al and international news.

Playlists include Main-stream Top 40, which ispopular with students andfeatures all the latest art-ists.

A TuneIn Radio app forthe station has also beenadded.

About five monthsago, Vaughan included aSolid Gold Weekend tothe station’s mix that ispatterned after the Chi-cago-based WLS Radioformat of yesteryear fea-turing hits from the 60s,

70s and 80s. In fact, the

voice-over introducingthe EMCC program wasrecorded by former WLS veteran Chuck Buell, whois friends with Vaughan.

“At one time Chuck was the most listened toradio personality in theU.S.,” Vaughan said.

The Solid Gold Week-end amps up at 4 p.m. Thursdays and runsthroughout the weekend,

with 6,600 songs now inthe growing library col-lection.

There is also an ed-ucational component. Journal ism students writethe newscasts and readthem on air. In each epi -sode of the radio dramas, Vaughan will throw in abit of history and at leastthree words not common-ly used. Listen Wednes-day to hear how he refer-ences Helen of Troy and weaves the word “vicissi-

tudes” into the script.

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DES MOINES, Iowa — BernieSanders’ pitch for changing the waypresidential candidates are chosenappears to have broad public sup-port.

As the tortured primary seasonconcludes, Americans say in a pollby the Associated Press-NORCCenter for Public Affairs Research

that they have little faith in theDemocratic or Republican systemfor selecting a presidential candi-date. They prefer open primaries tothose that are closed to all but par-ty members, like primaries insteadof caucuses and oppose the partyinsiders known as superdelegates, who have a substant ial say in the

Democratic race.“It’s kind of like a rigged elec-

tion,” said Nayef Jaber, a 66-year-old Sanders supporter from San Ra-

fael, California. “It’s supposed to beone man one vote. This is the way itshould be.”

According to the pol l, 38 percentof Americans say they have hardlyany confidence that the Democrat-ic Party’s process for selecting apresidential nominee is fair; 44 per -cent say the same of the RepublicanParty ’s process. In addition, about 4in 10 say they have only some con-fidence in each party’s nominationprocess.

Just 17 percent of Republicansand 31 percent of Democrats havea great deal of confidence in theirown party ’s system being fair.

P-NORC poll: Americans want

nomination system changed

CAMPAIGN 2016

‘It’s kind of like a rigged election. It’s supposed to

be one man one vote. This is the way it should be.’

BY JULIE PACE

P White House Correspondent

W A S H -I N G T O N— Peter

C o s t a n z ois the manwho helpedturn DonaldTrump into@RealDon-aldTrump.

That, of course, isTrump’s Twitter account— a high-octane portal forthe presumptive Republi-can presidential nomineeto pump out insults, polit-ical attacks and self-pro-motion to more than 8million followers. But the

billionaire’s foray into theworld of social media be-gan with a much simplerpurpose, yet one that’sstill distinctively Trump:making money.

Costanzo crossedpaths with Trump in 2009when he was working as

online marketing directorfor the publishing compa-ny putting out the busi-nessman’s book, “Think

Like a Champion.” Twit-ter was still in its infancyat the time. But Costan-zo saw the 140-charac-ter-per-message platformas a new tool that the realestate mogul could use toboost sales and reach abroader audience.

He was given sevenminutes to make his pitchto Trump — “Not five min-utes, not 10,” Constanzo

said — in a boardroom at Trump Tower in Manhat-tan that appeared to be thesame one used on Trump’sreality television show.

Trump liked what heheard.

“I said, ‘Let’s call you@RealDonaldTrump —

you’re the real Donald Trump,’” Costanzo said.“He thought about it for aminute and said, ‘I like it.

Let’s do it.’”Costanzo would spendthe next several monthshelping coordinate Trump’s Twitter account,as well as his official Face-book page, often sendingout messages for his fa-mous client.

Inside the origins of Trump’s high-octane Twitter account

On cutting-edge voter data, Trump critically behind


PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trumptrails Hillary Clinton by months, even years, in using fast-evolving digitalcampaigning to win over voters, dataspecialists working with the GOP say.

The presumptive Republican pres-idential nominee has dismissed thescience that defines 21st century po-litical campaigns, a tool that PresidentBarack Obama used effectively in win-ning two terms and the Clinton cam-paign has worked on for nearly a year.

And while it is too early to tell

whether the late star t signals trouble

for Trump, it illustrates the difference

between Trump’s proudly outsidercampaign and the institutional knowl-

edge within Clinton’s.

“She’s been able to prepare a gener-

al election campaign since the begin-

ning,” said Alex Lundry, former senior

technology adviser to Mitt Romney’s

2012 Republican presidential cam-

paign. “That head start in terms of time

is extraordinarily valuable.”

Trump


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CINCINNATI — The CincinnatiZoo’s director on Monday defendedthe decision to kill a gorilla to pro-tect a 4-year-old boy who enteredits exhibit, noting it’s easy to sec-ond-guess after the child was recov-ered safely.

The male western lowland goril-la named Harambe was killed Satur-day by a special zoo response teamthat feared for the boy’s safety. Vid-eo taken by zoo visitors showed thegorilla at times appeared to be pro-tective of the boy but also dragged

him through the shallow moat.Director Thane Maynard saidthe gorilla was agitated and dis-

oriented by the commotion during

the 10 minutes after the boy fell.He said the gorilla could crush acoconut in one hand and there wasno doubt that the boy’s life was indanger.

“We stand by our decision,” hesaid Monday, reiterating that usinga tranquilizer on the 420 -pound go-rilla could have further threatenedthe boy because it wouldn’t havetaken effect immediately.

Maynard said an investigationindicates the boy climbed overa 3-foot-tall railing, then walkedthrough an area of bushes about4 feet deep before plunging some

15 feet into the moat. The boy wastreated at a hospital and releasedthat same day.

The director said the zoo re-mains safe for its some 1.6 millionannual visitors, but a review is un-derway for possible improvements.

Kim O’Connor, who witnessed

the boy’s fall, told WLWT-TV thatshe heard the youngster say he wanted to get in the water with thegorillas. She said the boy’s mother was with several other young chil-dren and told him no.

Anthony Seta, an animal rightsactivist in Cincinnati, helped or-ganize a vigil Monday just outsidethe zoo gates. He said the gather-ing wasn’t meant to assess blamebut rather to honor Harambe, whoturned 17 the day before he wasshot.

“People can shout at the parentsand people can shout at the zoo,”

Seta said. “The fact is that a gorillathat just celebrated his birthday hasbeen killed.”

Cincinnati Zoo director defendskilling gorilla to save boy Director: Gorilla could crush a coconut in one hand

and no doubt that the boy’s life was in danger

BY CHRISTOPHER S.

RUGABER

P Economics Writer

WASHINGTON —Many of America’s youngadults appear to be in nohurry to move out of theirold bedrooms.

For the first time onrecord, living with par-ents is now the most com-mon arrangement forpeople ages 18 to 34, ananalysis of census data bythe Pew Research Center

has found.Nearly one-third of

millennials live with

their parents, slightlymore than the proportion who l ive with a spouse orpartner. It’s the first timethat living at home hasoutpaced living with aspouse for this age groupsince such record-keep-ing began in 1880.

The remaining youngadults are living alone, with other relat ives, incollege dorms, as room-

mates or under other cir-cumstances.

The sharp shif t re-

flects a long-runningdecline in marriage, am-plified by the economicupheavals of the GreatRecession. The trend hasbeen particularly evidentamong Americans wholack a college degree.

The pattern may bea contributing factor inthe sluggish growth ofthe U.S. economy, whichdepends heavily on con-

sumer spending. Withmore young people living with their parents ratherthan on their own, fewerpeople need to buy appli-ances, furniture or cablesubscriptions. The re-

covery from the 2008-09recession has also beenhobbled by historicallylow levels of home con-struction and home own-ership.

As recent ly as 200 0,nearly 43 percent of young adults ages 18 to34 were married or living with a partner. By 2014,that proportion was just31.6 percent.

Goodbye, empty nest: Millennials staying longer with parents


PORTLAND, Ore. —

A paralyzed collie justmoments from being eu-thanized and his Oregonowners have more days toshare thanks to a sharp-eyed vet intern who spot-ted the culprit — a tick.

KPTV in Portland re-ports Ollie’s owner FallineFate says a thorough checkat the vet revealed no an-swers to why he couldn’tstand, walk or do every-thing else a dog needs todo. So they made the toughdecision to let him go.

But just before he wasto be put to sleep, a tickwas discovered behind thedog’s ear.

Aside from an unflatter-ing haircut, Ollie was backto his energetic self about10 hours after the tick wasremoved.

Now Ollie is doing welland back with his family.

Oregon colliesaved by sharp-eyed vet intern


QUETTA, Pakistan —The family of a driver whowas killed alongside Tali-ban chief Mullah AkhtarMansour in a U.S. dronestrike in Pakistan hasfiled a case against U.S.officials, seeking to pressmurder charges, policesaid Sunday.

Mansour had enteredPakistan from Iran usinga false name and fakePakistani identity docu-ments on May 21, whenhis car was targeted bya U.S. drone. The driver,who was also killed, waslater identified as Mo-hammed Azam.

The police filed a caseon behalf of Azam’s fam-ily, police official AbdulWakil Mengal said.

It was not immediatelyclear what legal avenuesthe family can realistical-ly pursue.

In the case documents,

his brother MohammedAsim describes Azam asan “innocent man” and

a father of four who wasthe family’s sole bread- winner. “I want justice,” Asim said, according tothe case file.

“In our view, both the

(officials) who orderedand those who executedthe drone strike are re-sponsible for (killing) aman who had nothing todo with terrorism, who

was a non-combatant,” Azam’s uncle, Allah Na-zar, told The AssociatedPress.

Pakistani driver’s family presses charges over drone hit

For the first time on record, living with parents is now

the most common arrangement for people ages 18 to 34


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BY JANIE MCCAULEY


OAKLAND, Calif. — Aheart-to-heart was in order.

As the Golden State War-riors made the long, frustratingflight home from OklahomaCity last week suddenly facingelimination, Draymond Greengathered with a few fellow start-

ers at a table in the front of theplane to discuss how to get thedefending champions back to winning — and fast .

No other choice to avoida premature end to this re-cord-setting season.

“We just kept talking about what we needed to do and what we were going to do,” Green said.

Somehow, six days later, the Warriors had won Game 7 witha third straight victory againstthe Thunder after falling be-hind 3-1 in the best-of-seven se-ries. And they are headed backto the NBA Finals for a rematch

with LeBron James and theCleveland Cavaliers, the titledefense still very much with-in reach. Game 1 is Thursday night on Golden State’s Oracle Arena home floor.

“We never lost confidence,and every game just played with fearlessness and that

BY SCOTT WALTERS

swalters@cdi spatch.com

Preparing to host a regional nevergets old for Ole Miss baseball coachMike Bianco.

“Each year, you are a little more ex-cited,” Bianco said. “In football, there

are 105, 110 teams, and more than halfof those (around 70) play in a bowl game.In baseball, there are 301 teams. The top64 get this invite. That is special. I don’tthink you ever take this opportunity forgranted.”

On Sunday, the NCAA tournamentselection committee named Ole Missone of 16 regional hosts. On Monday,top-seeded and No. 6 Ole Miss (43-17)learned it will face fourth-seeded Utah(25-27) at 7 p.m. Friday at Oxford-Uni- versity Stadium.

No. 2 seed Tulane (39 -19) will play No.

3 seed Louisiana Tech (40-18) at 3 p.m.Friday in the opening-game of the four-team double-elimination tournament.

“If you at look each regional, youcould find a way to say that is the hard-est regional,” Bianco said. “We havetwo conference champions coming here(Tulane won the American Athletic Con-ference regular-season title, while Utah won the Pac-12 regular- season title). You would think it is unheard of that a cham-pion from a Power-5 conference (Utah)

BY BEN WAIT

[email protected]

STARKVILLE — Jarrod Parks and Nick Vickerson know the impor-tance of home-field advantage.

Parks and Vickerson led theMississippi State baseball teamto the 2011 Gainesville (Fla.)Super Regional against South-eastern Conference foe Florida.MSU, which won the Atlanta(Ga.) Regional a week earlier,lost to Florida 11-1 in Game 1.But Vickerson hit a two-run, walk-of f home run with Parks

on first base to lift the Bulldogsto a 4-3 victory in Game 2 toforce a Game 3 at McKethanStadium. The Bulldogs led 6-4in the bottom of the seventh in-ning and were eight outs awayfrom their first appearance inthe College World Series inOmaha, Nebraska, since 2007.

Unfortunately, Preston Tucker hit a three -run homerun to right field off Caleb Reedto help the Gators win 8-6 andmove on to the College WorldSeries. Parks still thinks aboutthat super regional and won-

ders how different it would havebeen if it had been at Dudy No-ble Field.

“I think if we take the fieldthen with 15,000 fans on theirfeet, I don’t think they comeback and hit that three-runbomb to go ahead,” Parks said.

The 2016 Bulldogs won’thave to worry about playingon the road. By earning a No.6 national seed in the NCAA tournament, the

BY BEN WAIT

[email protected]

STARKVILLE — Afterone season with the Mis-sissippi State basketballteam, five-star guard Ma-lik Newman will transfer,coach Ben Howland an-nounced Monday.

The former CallawayHigh Schools t a n d o u t was expect -ed to be a“ o n e - a n d -done play-er.” He wentthrough the

NBA Com-bine earlierthis month, but he with-drew before the deadlineWednesday. Last week,ESPN reported Newmanwas considering transfer-ring from MSU, but hisfather, Horatio Webster,wanted to meet with How-land and MSU before mak-ing a decision.

After meeting lastweekend, Webster saidthe transfer is due to a cul-mination of things, most

notably a clash in styles.“I don’t think the wayhe was played sort of fitthe way he plays,” Webstersaid. “Not saying Ben is abad coach, it just didn’t fithis style of play.

“(He’s) trying to puthimself in a situationwhere maybe he could bea little bit more involvedin the offense or trying toplay a little bit more withthe ball in his hands.”

Newman battled withI.J. Ready at point guard.

Ready, a rising senior, re-turns this season.Bothered by injuries,

Newman played in 29games (22 starts) andaveraged 11.3 points, 2.2assists, and 2.8 rebounds.He missed two weeks ofpractice and the seasonopener due to turf toe. Healso battled through anelbow injury. Lower backsoreness kept him fromplaying Feb. 20 againstAlabama. He scored a

BY DAVID MILLER

Special to The Dispatch

Scott Dedwylder’searly dominance in theNeSmith Late ModelTouring Series contin-ued Sunday night with a$2,000 win at Magnolia

Motor Speedway. The Vossburg native

has led or been in sec-ond place in the NeSmithpoints race each week ofthe season. After startingsixth, Dedwylder rodea harder tire compoundand an unfamiliar setupto the win. He finishedsecond at Whynot Motor -sports Park in Meridiana night earlier in a 50-lapNeSmith Touring race.

“It’s a mind-game here,like at Meridian last night,”

he said. “I think we couldhave went a little bit differ -ent at Meridian. Here, wewent different than we’dever done. You have to keepan open mind.”

Part of Dedwylder’sstrategy was his tire se-lection, a decision thathelped him hold off Bran-

don Williams, who ran asofter tire. Williams ledfor a majority of the first20 laps, maintaining alower line as the rest ofthe top 10 dabbled in the

slicker top half. Williamssurrendered the lead toMichael Arnold once theduo hit lap traffic, butDedwylder, who has wontwice at Magnolia this year, that proved to bebuilt for all 40 laps.

“When you’re on hardtires, you gotta keep the

edges,” Dedwylder said.“It looked like the No. 4(Arnold) was getting a bittight and having to workhis edges a little bit. The95 (Williams) was on all

softs — they would makeit, but the hard tire goesfaster here.”

Will iams had compet-ed in one race at Magno-lia before Sunday. He saidhe expected more cau-tion flags, which wouldnegate the advantage ofhard-compound tires.

“The harder tire cameon faster and developed alittle bit more of a lane,” Will iams said. “I knowthose boys were on theoutside — I’m not a lane

jumper — and I felt like we were stil l competitiveon the bottom. This wasa solid second-place car.”

Will iams almost foundan opening against Ded- wylder with nine laps togo. After the final re-startof the race, Williams gotan aggressive jump com-

ing out of turn four. Thenose of his car reachedthe number of Dedwy-lder’s left side, but Ded- wylder built another twocar-length advantage off

turn two.“I knew I couldn’t run with him the center outof the turn, so what I wasbuilding for is to gainsome distance betweenme and the third-placecar,” Williams said. “I wanted to protect second.”

Magnolia “locals” took

three of the top four spotsin the regional seriesrace, as Jeremy Shaw, ofMillport, Alabama, andChase Washington, of Houlka, finished fourthand third, respectively.

“This place out here,it’s a tough place to get a

hold of,” Shaw said. “Wefeel like when we’re all onour game we can run asgood as anybody out here.

“Chase and I were pret-ty close to equal. He was just a touch better.”

In other action, EricCooley won the Super LateModel feature. Jamie Toll-ison, Shay Knight, Buddy George, and Jason Brockrounded out the top five.

Spencer Hughes wonthe Street Stocks feature,his ninth win of the sea-

son. Randy Lovell, TKKing, Ronald Dunn, andBen Keith rounded outthe top five.

Tony Shelton won the602 Late Model feature.Daniel Gann, JonathanPridmore, Dustin Smith,and Joey Maxwell round-ed out the top five.

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INSIDEn MORE COLLEGE BASEBALL: Alabamabaseball coach Mitch Gaspard resignedMonday after seven seasons. Also, DivisionI Regional Schedules. Pages 2B, 4B

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BASEBALL:MSU coachJohn Cohenwill wait toname astartingpitcher forSoutheastMissouriState. Also,SouthernMississippiearned a No.2 seed in theTallahasseeRegional. Pages 4B, 5B

COLLEGE BASEBALL: NCAA Regionals

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Ole Miss Athletic Media Relations

Junior third baseman Colby Bortles and the Ole Miss baseball team will play host toUtah in their first game of the Oxford Regional of the NCAA tournament on Friday.

Dedwylder uses different setup to win at Magnolia Motor Speedway

David Miller/Special to The Dispatch

Scott Dedwylder held off Brandon Williams on Sundaynight to win the NeSmith Late Model Touring Seriesevent at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus.

David Miller/Special to The Dispatch

Heath Beard (5) tries to hold off Brad Gable (47), whois right on his bumper, in their Factory Stocks raceSunday night at Magnolia Motor Speedway.

Big third quarter helps Warriors complete comeback

Tough regional in store for RebelsRegular-season champions Tulane, Utah will join La. Tech in Oxford

BASKETBALL: NBA Playoffs

BULLDOGS HOPE

TO CAPITALIZE

ON HOME FIELDFormer players know crowds to Dudy

Noble will give MSU huge advantage

Newman

to transfer

from MSU

Golden State 96,

Oklahoma City 88


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Auto RacingIndianapolis 500

SundayAt Indianapolis Motor Speedway,

IndianapolisLap length: 2.5 miles

(Starting position in parentheses)1. (11) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 200 laps.2. (5) Carlos Munoz, Honda, 200.3. (2) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 200.4. (18) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet, 200.5. (16) Charlie Kimball, Chevrolet, 200.6. (15) JR Hildebrand, Chevrolet, 200.7. (1) James Hinchcliffe, Honda, 200.8. (13) Scott Dixon, Chevrolet, 200.9. (19) Sebastien Bourdais, Chevrolet, 200.10. (6) Will Power, Chevrolet, 200.11. (9) Helio Castroneves, Chevrolet, 200.12. (10) Oriol Servia, Honda, 200.13. (14) Marco Andretti, Honda, 200.14. (26) Graham Rahal, Honda, 200.15. (22) Max Chilton, Chevrolet, 200.

16. (31) Jack Hawksworth, Honda, 200.17. (33) Alex Tagliani, Honda, 200.18. (25) Pippa Mann, Honda, 199.19. (8) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet, 199.20. (21) Gabby Chaves, Honda, 199.21. (4) Townsend Bell, Honda, 199.22. (27) Matt Brabham, Chevrolet, 199.23. (28) Bryan Clauson, Honda, 198.24. (3) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda, 198.25. (29) Spencer Pigot, Honda, 195.26. (12) Takuma Sato, Honda, 163, Contact27. (7) Mikhail Aleshin, Honda, 126, Contact.28. (30) Stefan Wilson, Chevrolet, 119,Electrical.29. (24) Conor Daly, Honda, 115, Contact.30. (32) Buddy Lazier, Chevrolet, 100,Mechanical.31. (20) Ed Carpenter, Chevrolet, 98,Mechanical.32. (23) Sage Karam, Chevrolet, 93, Contact.33. (17) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 63,Contact.

Race StatisticsWinners average speed: 166.634 mph.Time of Race: 3:00:02.0872.Margin of Victory: 4.4975 seconds.Cautions: 6 for 46 laps.Lead changes: 54 among 13 drivers.Lap Leaders: Hunter-Reay 1-2,Hinchcliffe 3, Hunter-Reay 4, Hinchcliffe 5,

Hunter-Reay 6-8,Hinchcliffe 9, Hunter-Reay 10,Hinchcliffe 11, Hunter-Reay 12-13,Hinchcliffe 14-16, Hunter-Reay 17, Hinchcliffe18-23, Hunter-Reay 24-27, Newgarden 28-29,Munoz 30, Karam 31-32, Hunter-Reay33-41, Bell 42-48, Hunter-Reay 49-56, Bell57, Hunter-Reay 58, Hinchcliffe 59-60,Hunter-Reay 61-66, Power 67-74, Hinchcliffe75-77, Hunter-Reay 78-80, Hinchcliffe 81-84, Hunter-Reay 85-87, Hinchcliffe 88-91,Castroneves 92-96, Clauson 97-99,Castroneves 100-103, Hunter-Reay 104-108,Kanaan 109, Hunter-Reay 110-112, Bell 113-116, Tagliani 117-121, Rossi 122, Tagliani123-128, Rossi 129-137, Castroneves 138-148, Munoz 149-153, Castroneves 154-157,Kanaan 158-160, Hinchcliffe 161, Kanaan162-163, Hildebrand 164-167, Kanaan 168-178, Newgarden 179-181, Kanaan 182-183,Newgarden 184-190, Munoz 191, Newgarden192-193, Munoz 194-196, Rossi 197-200.Point standings: 1. Pagenaud 292, Dixon235, Castroneves 224, Newgarden 211,Hinchcliffe 205, Rossi 203, Munoz 199,Kanaan 192, Kimball 189, Montoya 187.

F1 Grand Prix de MonacoSunday

1. Lewis Hamilton, Britain, Mercedes, 1 hour,59 minutes, 29.133 seconds.2. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red BullRacing, +7.252 seconds.3. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Force India,+13.825.4. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari,+15.846.5. Fernando Alonso, Spain, McLaren,+85.076.6. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Force India,+92.999.7. Nico Rosberg, Germany, Mercedes,+93.290.8. Carlos Sainz, Spain, Toro Rosso, +1 lap.9. Jenson Button, Britain, McLaren, +1 lap.10. Felipe Massa, Brazil, Williams, +1 lap.11. Esteban Gutierrez, Mexico, Haas, +1 lap.12. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Williams, +1 lap.13. Romain Grosjean, France, Haas, +2 laps.14. Pascal Wehrlein, Germany, Manor, +2laps.15. Rio Haryanto, Indonesia, Manor, +4 laps.Not classifiedMarcus Ericsson, Sweden, Sauber, did notfinish.Felipe Nasr, Brazil, Sauber, did not finish.Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red BullRacing, did not finish.Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Renault, didnot finish.Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Toro Rosso, did notfinish.Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari, did notfinish.Jolyon Palmer, Britain, Renault, did not finish.

Driver Standings(After six of 21 races)

1. Nico Rosberg, Germany, Mercedes, 106points.2. Lewis Hamilton, England, Mercedes, 82.3. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red Bull, 66.4. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari, 61.5. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari, 60.6. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, ToroRosso, 38.7. Felipe Massa, Brazil, Williams, 37.8. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Williams, 29.9. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Force India, 23.10. Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Red Bull, 22.11. Romain Grosjean, France, Haas, 22.12. Fernando Alonso, Spain, McLaren, 18.13. Carlos Sainz Jr., Spain, Toro Rosso, 16.14. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Force India,14.15. Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Renault, 6.16. Jenson Button, England, McLaren, 5.17. Stoffel Vandoorne, Belgium, McLaren, 1.

Constructors Standings1. Mercedes, 188.2. Ferrari, 121.3. Red Bull, 112.4. Williams, 66.5. Force India, 37.6. Toro Rosso, 30.7. McLaren, 24.8. Haas, 22.9. Renault, 6.

Sprint Cup PointsLeaders

Through May 301. Kevin Harvick ......................................4572. Kurt Busch ...........................................4213. Jimmie Johnson ..................................4094. Kyle Busch ...........................................4055. Brad Kes elowski ............

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