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WORLD • A10
EARTHQUAKEHundreds dead in Japan
F R I D A Y, M A R C H 11, 2011 • 5 0 ¢ W W W. V I C K S B U R G P O S T. C O M E V E R Y D A Y S I N C E 1883
SPORTS • B1
VIKINGS CONQUERWC beats Northwest Rankin
WEATHERTonight:
mostly clear,lows around 40
Saturday:sunny, highs inthe lower 70s
Mississippi River:37.2 feet
Rose: 0.7 footFlood stage: 43 feet
A9DEATHS
• Janice Marie Calcote Clark• Richard Hicks Jr.• Elmer V. Schepers Sr.
A9TODAY IN HISTORY
1861: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Ala. 1888: The famous Blizzard of ’88 begins inundating the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths.1959: The Lorraine Hans-berry drama “A Raisin in the Sun” opens at New York’s Ethel Barrymore Theater.1965: The Rev. James J. Reeb, a white minister from Boston, dies after being beaten by whites during civil rights distur-bances in Selma, Ala.1985: Mikhail S. Gor-bachev is chosen to suc-ceed the late Soviet Presi-dent Konstantin U. Chernenko.
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NATION
OBAMATALKS TOUGHNo excuse for bullies,
president says
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Autopsy: Man taken from city strangledBy Pamela [email protected]
Vicksburg police are in Ala-bama today, trying to piece together what happened to an Ohio man who went missing here on Monday and whose body was found Wednesday near a Bessemer motel.
The cause of death was strangulation, a preliminary autopsy report released this morning said.
The body of David M. Cupps, 53, was identifi ed
Thursday in Bessemer, an Inter-state 20 town about 265 miles east from where police believe he was car-jacked on
Pember-ton Square Boulevard by two Louisiana state prison escapees.
“We are still piecing together the series of events that led up to the fi nding of
Mr. Cupps’ body,” Vicksburg police Lt. Bobby Stewart said today from Bessemer, after fl ying there Thursday with Louisiana offi cials to work with them, Bessemer police, U.S. Marshals and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The medical examiner esti-mates Cupps had been dead about 24 to 36 hours before his body was found Wednes-day around 1:50 p.m. in tall grass 20 to 30 yards from the edge of the parking lot at the Bessemer Comfort Inn, Stew-
art said. Strangulation was the
cause of death, the lieuten-ant said, but Cupps had also been beaten, the Jefferson County, Ala., medical exam-iner’s report said.
It was unclear where Cupps was killed, Stewart said. Vicksburg police plan to fi le kidnapping and carjack-ing charges, he said, while Bessemer authorities will seek homicide charges.
Police believe Cupps came in contact Monday evening with Ricky Wedgeworth, 36,
and Darian Pierce, 33, who had escaped three days ear-lier from a Louisiana prison work detail near Baton Rouge and hitchhiked to Vicksburg.
Vicksburg police Chief Walter Armstrong said blood stains on the back seat of Cupps’ vehicle indicate he might have been assaulted as he was removing clothing or belongings from the car preparing to check in to his motel.
Senatorsnix mapby Bryant,favor ownBy Emily Wagster PettusThe Associated Press
JACKSON — Missis-sippi senators on Thursday rejected Lt. Gov. Phil Bry-ant’s redistricting plan before accepting a map drawn by one of their colleagues.
Both proposals for the 52-member Senate were drawn by Republicans, and both would increase the party’s voice statewide by adding a new district in growing and heavily Repub-lican DeSoto County and by reconfi guring a long, squig-gly swing district near the coast into a more compact and Republican-leaning one.
The main difference between the Bryant plan and the one drawn by Senate redistricting chairman Terry Burton was in the Hatties-burg area. The Bryant plan would have kept three mostly white, Republican-friendly districts in and around Hat-tiesburg, a majority-black
Supervisorstake � rst lookat new linesBy Danny Barrett [email protected]
JACKSON — A plan to redraw Warren County’s fi ve political districts won’t be ready for public perusal for at least a week, but two areas shown by the 2010 census to be predominately black were put into play for reconciling population shifts — all while minding the federal law that protects minority voting strength.
A chunk just beyond the city limits, bounded by rail tracks to the south and Mount Alban Road to the east, emerged as a likely place to subtract the overall head count in District 1 and
City seeking grant to build skate parkBy Manivanh [email protected]
If the money comes through, skateboarders in Vicksburg will have a desig-nated place to play.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Thursday — except North Ward Alder-man Michael Mayfi eld, who was away on personal business — voted to apply for up to $100,000 in grant monies from the Missis-sippi Recreational Trails Program, which falls under the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and
Parks outdoor recreation grants division, to build a skate park near City Pavil-ion on Lee Street.
“A lot of our young people are skateboarding in the
city streets,” Mayor Paul Winfi eld said at Thursday’s board meeting. “We get complaints about that and, after talking to quite a few of the (skaters), they asked
us if they could have a skate park. And this is positive.”
The deadline to apply for the funds is March 24, and the grant requires a local match.
The 5,000-square-foot skate park would join the play-ground, swimming pools, ball fi elds and walking trail already in the area. The trail would get a touch-up if the grant money is awarded.
“We’ve been talking about this for a while now, but this is the fi rst time we’ve been able to fi nd some funding,”
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAILNo room for negativity, Reeves tells Tea PartyBy Danny Barrett [email protected]
A party primary battle for lieutenant governor with a 20-year veteran of the Leg-islature doesn’t necessarily dictate a negative campaign, State Treasurer Tate Reeves says.
Reeves, 36, in Vicksburg on Thursday tested cam-paign themes for his run for the offi ce before about two dozen members of the local Tea Party organization. Exercising fi scal conserva-
tism and supporting bills that benefi ted taxpayers above parties and regional-ism came up often, as did touting his own record as
treasurer. He cited his 2003 run for treasurer, buoyed by support from his primary opponents in the general election, as proof he can
win against state Sen. Billy Hewes, R-Gulfport.
“We spent six months tell-ing people why I ought to be state treasurer and not why someone else ought not to be,” Reeves said.
Reeves and Hewes, 49, who is Senate President Pro Tem and chairs the Rules Com-mittee, are the lone Repub-licans in the Aug. 2 primary for all statewide and county- and district-level offi ces. No Democrats fi led for the
DavidCupps
See Senate, Page A9.
See County, Page A2.See Reeves, Page A2.
See City, Page A9.
‘We spent six months telling people why I ought to be state treasurer and not why someone else ought
not to be.’STATE TREASURER TATE
REEVESLIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CANDIDATE
‘A lot of our young people are skateboarding in the city streets.
We get complaints about that and, after talking to quite a few of the
(skaters), they asked us if they could have a skate park.’MAYOR PAUL WINFIELD
A place to play
Seventeen-year-old Zac Brewer does a skate trick near Redbone and Fairview roads Thursday.BRYANT HAWKINS•THE VICKSBURG POST
See Missing, Page A9.
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The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case of a man being questioned by Port Gibson police in the weekend death of a homeless woman, Chief Calvin Jackson said this morning.
The family of Dexter Watson, 40, 907 Vine St., asked the state agency to take the lead because his brother, Terrence, is a sworn officer on the Port Gibson police force, Jackson said.
Watson is on parole for malicious mischief, accord-ing to Mississippi Depart-ment of Corrections records. Police have questioned him in the death of Patri-cia Dotson, 35, whose body was found behind First Baptist Church on Farmer Street in Port Gibson Sunday morning.
An autopsy showed she died of stab wounds to the face and trauma to the head. Investigators are awaiting the results of other tests from the Mississippi Crime Lab.
Dotson had family in Port Gibson, including her grand-father, Constable Roosevelt Dotson.
Gunshots reportedfired on Tanglewood
Three reports of shots fired into occupied dwellings were taken by Vicksburg police Thursday.
All came from the 4300
block of Tanglewood Drive and were described to police as a drive-by shooting, police Sgt. Sandra Williams said.
The homes were occupied by six adults and two chil-dren at the time of the inci-dent, reported to police at 11:21 p.m., Williams said.
No injuries and no vehicle description were reported, Williams said.
Thousands in itemsreported stolen in city
Electronics, cash and other items were reported missing in two residential burglaries worked by Vicksburg police Thursday.• In the first, $480 and a safe
valued at $80 were reported taken from a home at 2:47 p.m. in the 100 block of Eliz-abeth Circle.
• At 5:08 p.m., various items valued at $7,225 were reported taken from a home
in the 3300 block of Drum-mond Street. They were a Kodak camera, at $65; three Emerson flat screen televi-sions, $750 total; two Polo hats, $25 each; three laptop computers, one a Gateway and two Dell models, $5,500 total; a $40 charger; a $50 case; two iPod devices, $720 total; a Mizuno baseball bat, $25; and an LG cell phone, $50.Damage was reported to a
window on a back door of the residence, Williams said.
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Greater Jerusalem Baptist — Appreciation service for the Rev. Kemp Burley Jr., pas-tor; 6 p.m. Saturday; the Rev. Raymond Gill, speaker; 5026 Mount Alban Road.Pleasant Valley M.B. — Bat-tle of the Male Chorus, 6 p.m. Saturday; the Rev. Joe Harris, pastor; 260 Mississippi 27.Bradley’s Chapel United Methodist — Children and youth night, 6-8 Saturday; ad-mission: one canned good; movies, games, refreshments; Oak Ridge Youth Center. Taking It Back Outreach Ministry Thrift Store — 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays; 75 percent off fall clothes, mat-tress and box springs set; newborn clothes; 1314 Fill-
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PUBLIC PROGRAMSGrace Group Alcoholics Anonymous — 5:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays; 11 a.m. Saturdays; 601-636-5703; 1414 Cherry St.Levi’s — A Gathering Place; 7-10 p.m. Saturday, music by Murry Stewart; donations ap-preciated.Warren County Beekeep-ers — 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday; Dr. Eugene and Joyce Ferris, speakers; Warren County Ex-tension Service, 1100-C Grove St.; 601-636-5442.Tuesday Vicksburg Al-Anon — Noon Tuesday; sec-ond floor, First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St.; 601-
634-0152.Genealogy Fair — March 25; statewide interactive video conference; Betty Wiltshire, researching African-Amer-ican and Native American ancestry; Mona Vance, how to archive family memories; Rick Dixon, preserving and restoring tombstones; War-ren County Extension Service, 1100-C Grove St.; 601-636-5442.Festival of Barbershop Har-mony — 7 p.m. April 2; Mag-nolia Chorus, Men in Black, Vo-cality and Center Stage Show Chorus; $20 general admis-sion, $10 students; 769-218-2438, 601-383-4264; Belhaven University Center for the Arts, 835 Riverside Drive, Jackson.
CLUBSAmerican Legion Tyner-Ford Post 213 — 4 p.m. Sunday; 92nd birthday of post; pro-gram and dinner; retired Col. Benny Terrell, speaker; 1618 Main St.Ladies Auxiliary and VFW Post 2572 — 6 p.m. Monday; monthly meeting and men’s nomination of officers; 1918 Washington St.Yokena Jeff Davis Water Dis-trict — 7 p.m. Monday; an-nual meeting; 4864 Jeff Davis Road.Vicksburg Kiwanis — Noon Tuesday, Jacques’ Cafe; Mi-chelle Vinson, MS Department of Environmental Quality, speaker.
MBI takes over Port Gibson death case
COMMUnIty CALEndAR
BRyaNt HawkINS•The Vicksburg PosT
Meredith Holifield, 2, the daughter of Skip and Kate Holifield, snaps her fingers to the music of Osgood & Blaque during Hit the Bricks Thursday night. The event to promote downtown shopping occurs several times a year.
HIT THE BRICks
CRIME & ACCIdEnt from staff reports
Emergency workers, background, help Mar-cus Anderson, 14, 105 Quinola Lane, from the 1999 Chevrolet Lumina he had been in with his mother, Markisha Montgomery, 34, same address, when they wrecked at East Clay Street and Berryman Road Thursday. Montgomery was eastbound on Clay when her vehicle hit a 1995 Honda Civic driven
by Daniel Perez, foreground, 22, 402 Long-wood Drive, said a Vicksburg police report by officer Robert Arnold. Perez had been turning left onto Clay from Berryman, the report said. All three were taken to River Region Medical Center, where they were treated and released, a hospital spokesman said this morning.
katIE CaRtER•The Vicksburg PosT
ReevesContinued from Page A1.
office, which in Mississippi functions as the state Sen-ate’s presiding officer. The winner there faces Reform Party candidate Tracella Lou O’Hara Hill in the Nov. 8 gen-eral election to succeed Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, who is run-ning for governor.
Reeves, a Florence native, credited others for cuts to the state’s $3.2 billion in debt under his watch, namely Gov.
Haley Barbour, and said his rapport with state agencies helped cut $25 million from the state budget during his first term.
“When Haley leaves office, there’s going to be a bit of a leadership void in our state,” Reeves said. “And I believe that it’s important that we have someone that steps up to the lieutenant governor’s office that helps fill part of
that leadership void.”“We did it in a way that you
didn’t read about it in the newspapers,” Reeves said. “We worked with state agen-cies and it’s a situation that I think we did it so well, that the Democrat-controlled House never wanted us to do it again.”
As treasurer, Reeves also administers the state’s col-lege savings plan for eligible
high school graduates.Reeves’ appearance was the
third Republican candidate for office this year to address the Vicksburg Tea Party, as gubernatorial hopefuls Dave Dennis and James Broadwa-ter addressed them earlier.
The group elected a four-person board of directors Thursday, a list that included former congressional candi-date Bill Marcy.
CountyContinued from Page A1.
add to Districts 2 and 3. The northeastern District 1, rep-resented for three terms by David McDonald, grew the fastest in the past 10 years. Districts 2 and 3, repre-sented by William Banks and Charles Selmon, respectively, are minority heavy districts that shrank in the census.
All five supervisors and technical staff with Cen-tral Mississippi Planning and Development District weighed options Thursday at the CMPDD’s offices in Jackson. Their goals are to balance the most and least populous districts within a 10 percent range mandated by the U.S. Department of Jus-tice and to not dilute minor-ity voting strength.
County officials plan to hold this year’s elections under the current lines. A public hearing will be set once the board agrees on a final map. From there, it goes to the DOJ for approval, as per Sec-tion 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The board and CMPDD staff plan to meet again Wednesday.
Shifting District 1’s west-ern-most territory, which takes in Dusty and Paxton roads west of Mississippi 27 and several subdivisions along U.S. 80 between the city and Mount Alban, was cast by McDonald as the only way to comply with the VRA.
“There’s no place else to go,” McDonald said during the three-hour session, cen-tering mostly on how best to add numbers for Banks and Selmon.
In the census, District 1 was densest, with 11,671 people, nearly 70 percent white. Dis-trict 3, which covers central city, came in smallest at 8,293 and 71 percent black. Dis-trict 2, which covers north Vicksburg and hugs U.S. 61 North to the Yazoo River, had 8,499 people, about 69 per-cent black. Districts 4 and 5, covering the southern half of the city and county, came in at 10,142 and 10,168, respec-tively. District 4’s population is 52.4 percent white, and Dis-trict 5’s is 62.5 percent white.
A second wedge of land in District 4 between U.S. 61 South and the city limits, bounded to the south by Grange Hall Road, contains significant census blocks where the black population exceeds 80 percent. Selmon stopped short of agreeing to take a census block showing 100 percent black population, on a portion of Grange Hall Road between the end of city limits and Dana Road, which includes the Magnolia Com-mons apartments. However, the four-term incumbent was open to extending his district south along 61, just short of Hillcrest subdivision.
“I just don’t want to go in the subdivision,” Selmon repeated when the topic of Grange Hall and Hillcrest came up. “I just prefer not to have them.”
Supervisors are elected from each of the five dis-tricts, as are members of the Vicksburg Warren School District board. Three dis-tricts denote constable and justice court seats, where borders of each are expected to shift due to the census.
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Sierra Club � les suitover Miss. coal plantBy Shelia ByrdThe Associated Press
JACKSON — The Sierra Club has fi led a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy accusing the agency of providing incentives for a $2 billion coal plant in Mis-sissippi with-out conducting an adequate environmental review of the project.
Mississippi Power Co. is building the 582-megawatt plant near the Liberty community in Kemper County. It will use a process that converts coal into a syn-thesis gas that can generate electricity with fewer emis-sions than existing pulverized coal power plants.
The suit filed on behalf of the San Francisco-based envi-ronmental group alleges DOE ignored the National Environ-mental Policy Act to consider other clean-energy alterna-tives that have been a focus of the Obama administration.
“The Department of Energy didn’t play by the rules or the law in issuing the funding and fi nancing for the Kemper County plant. It think it’s unconscionable the U.S. tax-payer is being asked to pony up $600 million guarantee up to $2 billion,” said Louie Miller, director of the Missis-sippi Sierra Club. “Why are we subsidizing a Fortune 500
company?”The complaint names as
defendants the agency; its director Steven Chu; Carol M. Borgstrom, director of DOE’s Offi ce of NEPA Policy and Compliance; and Richard A. Hargis, Jr., the NEPA doc-
ument man-ager for DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory.
Tiffany Edwards, a DOE spokes-
woman, said the agency offi -cials “will review the com-plaint and we are confident we acted lawfully.”
According to Mississippi Power’s website, the coal plant project will receive a $270 mil-lion grant from the DOE to offset the cost of constructing the facility.
The company said it will also receive $133 million in invest-ment tax credits approved by the Internal Revenue Service provided under the National Energy Policy Act of 2005, and loan guarantees from the fed-eral government. Mississippi Power has also applied for an additional $279 million in IRS tax credits, according to the site.
“They’re getting a lot of help from a lot of different places,” said Abigail Dillen, an attorney for Earthjustice, a nonprofi t law fi rm that fi led the suit on behalf of the Sierra Club.
Hood hopes $20.2M will aid mental health ‘crisis’By Molly DavisThe Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said Thursday he hopes that lawmakers will use $20.2 mil-lion that the state received from settling its lawsuit against pharmaceutical com-panies to fund mental health programs next year.
Hood, a Democrat, said the funds would address the mental health care “crisis” that prompted child-services advocates to sue the state in 2010. He said that increasing funds for community pro-grams could prevent simi-lar legal challenges in the future.
The Southern Poverty Law Center in their ongoing case charges that Mississippi fails
to care for low-income chil-dren with mental illness. The plaintiffs said that, in order to avoid further lawsuits, the state must shift funds away from large psychiatric hospi-
tals and toward community care.
“This $20 million would go a long way toward filling a hole that will help protect our citizens from people who are mentally ill,” Hood said. “Law enforcement certainly does not want to see people who are mentally ill locked up in jail. That’s not where they belong, and that’s what’s going to happen if we don’t spend the money now.”
House Appropriations Com-mittee Chairman Johnny Stringer, D-Montrose, agreed. He said the budget for the year that begins July 1 just happens to be short $20 million, and the money would help support the state’s 15 community mental health centers. They serve residents with intellectual dis-abilities and mental illness.
“They don’t deserve to be put in jail,” Stringer said. “They’re not criminals. They’re just sick like someone who has a heart attack.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center charges in a suit fi led last year that Mississippi fails low-income children by fund-ing large, ineffective institu-tions rather than providing services in the communities where patients live. The com-plaint says that institutional care can often be “counter-productive and harmful.” The case is being mediated.
Sheila Bedi, the deputy legal director for the SPLC’s Children at Risk program, said the prob-lem comes from how the state implements its program, not solely from the budget gap.
Carnival Cruises ending trips from MobileMOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Car-
nival Cruise Lines is ending its cruise service from Mobile.
The company announced Thursday that it’s reposition-ing its Carnival Elation ship from Mobile to New Orleans
in November. After that, the company will no longer offer trips out of Mobile.
While ships leaving Mobile have consistently been full, the company said it can’t make enough money because of rising fuel prices and
prices that are lower than at other ports.
The future of the Alabama cruise terminal at Mobile is uncertain. Offi cials have tried without success to lure other lines to the state.
TAGGEDRogers Wesley, front
left, 11, the son of Beverly Brooks, tags
Marcus James, 16, the son of Darnisha James,
during a spring break Thursday afternoon
football game at Vicks-burg Family Devel-opment Service on
Monroe Street. Expect sunny, mild weather
this weekend, with highs in the 70s and
lows in the 50s.BRYANT HAWKINS•THE VICKSBURG POST
PHARMACEUTICAL SETTLEMENT
Mississippi Power Co. is building the
582-megawatt plant near the Liberty community in
Kemper County.
‘This $20 million
would go a long way
toward � lling a
hole that will help protect our
citizens from people who are mentally ill.’
ATTORNEY GENERAL JIM HOOD
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OUR OPINION
JACK VIX SAYS: A skate park sounds fun.
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OLD POST FILES120 YEARS AGO: 1891The warehouse of the Southern Brewing company is partly burned. • A storm blows from their mooring the steamer Sun-beam, R.L. Cobb and Dyersburg.
110 YEARS AGO: 1901Judge Thompson rules out all the ballots in envelopes, leav-ing Kiersky with two ballots over Kelly. • P.M. Harding turns over to Capt. W.T. Rigby a sword found by Miss Millsaps on the Port Gibson battlefi eld.
100 YEARS AGO: 1911A.A. Trescott is in the city.
90 YEARS AGO: 1921The Vicksburg Evening Post tells about the elegant new home of Henry Kline on Cherry Street. • L.M. Barclift dies in Birmingham, Ala. • Mayor J.J. Hayes goes to St. Louis for a river meeting.
80 YEARS AGO: 1931Work is started on the new WQBC transmitter. • Ralph Bendinelli, popular member of the Vicksburg Police Depart-ment, is struck by a hit-and-run driver.
70 YEARS AGO: 1941Mrs. F.C. McCleish, former resident, dies in Memphis. • Local school teachers attend the MEA meeting in Jackson. • H.V. Cooper aids in formulation of association policies.
60 YEARS AGO: 1951Sgt. James Thornell, Vicksburg soldier, is wounded in action in Korea.
50 YEARS AGO: 1961John Tuminello dies. • Dr. and Mrs. W.A. Brown of Mathis-ton are here visiting relatives. • Mrs. Carrie Lee Cotton dies. • Hugh Marlowe stars in “The Long Rope” at the Strand Theatre.
40 YEARS AGO: 1971Mrs. J.P. Stafford, Cary resident, dies here. • Services are held for Sister Mary Teresa, RSM. • Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fille-baum announce the birth of a son, Kevin Leroy, on Feb. 12.
30 YEARS AGO: 1981Just arrived, purple martins encounter a freeze in the city. • Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Kemp announce the birth of a daughter, Cassidy Simone, on March 15.
20 YEARS AGO: 1991The city plans to ask the Legislature to amend the bill allow-ing special taxes to be levied to pay for construction of a con-vention center. • A portrait of the late Chancellor Nat Bullard is unveiled at the Warren County Courthouse. • Frank “Joey” Norwood Jr. dies.
10 YEARS AGO: 2001The Rev. Jonathan Grant is installed as pastor at King Solo-mon M.B. Church. • Martha Ann Klaus shows off a bed of tulips that bloomed from some of the 1,500 bulbs planted in her yard.
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghan-istan — Until fi ve months ago, Forward Operating Base Jackson in Sangin was an island in a Tali-ban sea. Patrol bases were ringed by Taliban fl ags, about 100 to 200 meters out, to dramatize the state of siege. Everywhere beyond the main road was enemy sanctuary. Each spring the fertile land along the Helmand River bloomed red with poppies from horizon to hori-zon. Thirty-fi ve drug processing labs helped fund the Taliban.
In October about 1,500 Marines arrived, took the offensive, pushed into the territory — and sustained the highest casualties of the Afghan War. During the fi rst three months of operations in Sangin, more than two dozen Marines died; another 150 were wounded.
But the Marines, as usual, got the better of the killing — count-ing more than 400 insurgent dead. In the end they owned the ground. War-weary locals have begun coop-erating and providing informa-tion. Morale of Afghan army and police has improved. Farmers are being given other seeds to replace poppies. Though the region is not fully pacifi ed, the Marines have quickly established themselves as the toughest tribe in this part of the
Taliban homeland. The Afghan surge — involving
about 40,000 additional coalition forces and more than 70,000 new recruits to the Afghan army and police — has made swift progress. And these advances are accumulat-ing into a strategy. Coalition forces are moving north up the Helmand River valley, connecting their gains to Kandahar next door, hoping to expand the security bubble toward Kabul.
Near Kandahar, Tabin is one of a string of villages that the Tali-ban controlled last summer but lost to the coalition. Local insur-gents have been fi ghting not just for the last few years but since the Soviet Union was the enemy. Yet the American Army has suc-ceeded where the Russians did
not. Troop strength has more than tripled in this area. Taliban weap-ons caches and Improvised explo-sive device factories have been destroyed. Village leaders are coop-erating. During this visit, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (trailed by the press, including myself) walked down the main road in Tabin. Six months earlier, according to an American offi cer on the scene, an armored vehicle would not have dared to make the trip.
It is possible for progress in a war to be real but not suffi cient. Cur-rent coalition efforts are as great as they will ever be. Is their scale, in the vastness of Afghanistan, large enough?
“For the fi rst time since the (earli-est stage) of the Afghan war,” Gates told me, we have “the resources,
both civilian and military, and the strategy in place ... to actually put us on the path to success, rather than sort of holding our own.”
The mission, in his view, has been refocused on achievable goals: “Deny the Taliban control of popu-lated areas. Degrade their capabili-ties. And expand Afghan national security forces to the point where they can handle a degraded Tali-ban threat.” We are “going into places the Taliban have controlled for years,” explained Gates. This is undermining the Taliban’s eco-nomic support from the drug trade, pushing insurgents into remoter regions and giving local govern-ment a chance to take hold.
Afghans must eventually defend these gains — a heavy weight on a slim thread. Yet American offi cers in Helmand and Kandahar told me they were impressed with their Afghan army counterparts, whom one American offi cer described as “solid and eager.” When the fi rst Americans arrived in Helmand a little over a year ago, there were fi ve coalition soldiers on the ground for every one from the Afghan security forces. Now that ratio is one-to-one. The Afghan police have always been a harder case — often untrained and predatory. But the
coalition is taking a new approach, organizing the Afghan Local Police — nominated by village elders, vetted by coalition forces, charged with extending security into rural areas. The current $12 billion spent annually by the U.S. to train Afghan security forces is too expensive to be sustainable, but it seems to be working.
This progress is about to be tested. The green leaves of spring also provide cover for Taliban returning from Pakistan. American commanders anticipate a strategy of assassination against Afghans who participate in community structures such as the ALP. “We are expecting violence to pick up,” said Lt. Col. Jason Morris at FOB Jackson. “They’ve started moving forces here. They’ll try to reassert their authority, but they’ll have a hard time doing it. They will be met at every turn.”
How does this fi ghting season differ from the past 10? “When (the Taliban) come back this spring,” Gates responds, “it’s no longer their home-court advantage. We hold the home-court advantage now.”
•Michael Gerson’s e-mail address is [email protected].
Coalition forces gaining home-� eld advantage in Afghanistan
MICHAELGERSON
BPDale Sandler, chief of the epide-
miology branch of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, did a pretty good job recently of talking up her agency’s planned study of the health effects of the BP oil spill. “The study is a good thing for Gulf Coast residents,” she said during a conference call with reporters. “It will allow Gulf Coast communities to gain needed data.”
It’s true that the oil well blowout which fouled the Gulf of Mexico last spring and summer left many wondering about its possible health effects on area residents. It’s also true that an in-depth study to separate rumor from reality, anxiety from actuality, may be warranted.
But we doubt this study will put people’s worries to rest.
The NIEHS intends to mail out
thousands of letters asking folks to take part in health surveys. About half the participants will be asked to undergo physical tests at home; experts will gauge respiratory functions and take samples of blood, hair and so on. The participants will also fi ll out health profi les every two or three years.
That’s the fi rst problem. This study will go on for a long, long time. Reviews of cancer rates will take even longer. Physicians, insurance companies and local governments hoping for a suc-cinct answer to a basic question — Did the oil spill make people sick? — will have to wait quite a while.
Another problem is that the study will focus on people who actually worked on the spill response, such as those on cleanup crews. Many of the
health-related complaints we’ve heard are from people who DIDN’T patrol beaches or handle oil-dispersing chemicals.
Our gravest concern, however, has to do with money. The NIEHS study is funded by the National Institutes of Health, which “received some funding as a gift ... from BP,” Dr. Sandler said. She asserted that BP will not infl u-ence the study’s fi ndings.
That may be true, and we cer-tainly hope it is, but the fact that BP is helping pay for this study will inevitably taint the project. Who will believe that a review of the oil spill’s health impact will proceed fairly and impartially if the company that CAUSED the spill is writing a check for the review?
We’re happy to see the NIEHS study get under way. But we’re not expecting much from it.
Here’s to your health
Local insurgents have been fi ghting not just for the last few years but since the Soviet Union
was the enemy. Yet the American Army has succeeded where the
Russians did not.
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Q: My wife and I are both 58 years old and debt-free. Our house is paid for (worth about $200,000) and we have
a net worth of about $1.4 million in 401(k)s, Roths and taxable accounts. My wife is thinking about retir-ing from teaching at age 60. She
would have a decent pension. I’m not sure about myself retir-ing at 60. Health care will be a big issue because we would be five years away from Medi-care. I read the various money and other financial magazines. I believe our investments are diversified, yet in the back of my mind I wonder should I contact a fee-based planner? Would a qualified planner be able to offer better options and returns on investments? — CRM, via e-mail
A: It appears to me that you and your wife have done very
well. You mentioned your wife could retire from teaching. The likelihood is, besides the pen-sion, she would have health benefits until she reaches 65 years old. You on the other hand, will have to provide for yourself, which means you will have to continue to work. I am wondering with a worth as large as yours, how long it has been since a com-petent adviser has reviewed your investments? I have no problem in contacting a well-recommended, fee-based planner. A fee-based planner is someone who doesn’t sell anything other than informa-tion. This person would look over your investments and perhaps make some recom-mendations on minor or major investments. You didn’t indi-cate in your own analysis, how your investments are doing, that is an important variable. On balance, having a portfolio reviewed periodically, in my opinion, is a very good thing.
•Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at [email protected].
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government ran the largest-ever budget deficit for a single month in Feb-ruary. The shortfall kept this year’s annual deficit on pace to end as the big-gest in U.S. history.
The widening deficit reflects the impact of the tax-cut package President Barack Obama and con-gressional Republicans brokered in December.
As a result, the nonparti-san Congressional Budget Office in January raised its estimate for the annual def-estimate for the annual def-estimate for the annual deficit from $1.1 trillion to $1.5 trillion. It said the tax cuts would add $400 billion to this year’s gap. The budget year ends Sept. 30.
The tax-cut package extended income tax cuts, reduced workers’ Social Security taxes, extended unemployment benefits and accelerated business tax write-offs, among other steps.
February’s deficit of $222.5 billion eclipsed last Febru-ary’s record by nearly $2 billion. The full-year deficit would exceed 2009’s record deficit of $1.41 trillion
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Banks, merchants in hot battleover fees for swiping the plastic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bankers and merchants, pil-lars of the business world and frequent allies, are embroiled in a bitter lobbying battle over something Americans do 38 billion times a year — swipe their debit cards. Both sides vigorously claim to speak for consumers.
At stake is $16 billion annu-ally that the Federal Reserve says stores pay to banks and credit card companies when customers use the cards — fees the Fed has proposed cutting.
Cut the fees, banks say, and they’ll have to aban-don free checking and boost other charges to consumers to recover lost revenue. Mer-chants say lower fees would help them drop their prices and expand their businesses.
Currently, the fees typically range between 1 and 2 per-cent of each purchase, averag-ing 44 cents. The Fed has pro-posed capping that at 12 cents, though smaller banks could charge more. Bankers want lawmakers to delay the change in hopes that it will eventually be killed or toned down.
Patrick Lewis and Charles Garlock are foot soldiers in this fight’s opposing infantries.
Each side is dispatching
planeloads of hometown busi-ness people like them, along with armies of lobbyists and mountains of letters and e-mails to Washington. Some 4,000 local credit union officers swamped the Capitol last week, and around 300 merchants are buttonholing lawmakers this week. Unless Congress delays the deadline, the Federal Reserve must issue a final rule by April 21, to take effect three months later.
Lewis, a partner in 13 Oasis Stop ’N Go convenience stores in southern Idaho, was visiting Idaho lawmakers on Thursday urging them to back the Fed
proposal. He said the $275,000 he pays yearly in debit card fees trails only payroll and his prop-erties’ mortgages and rents.
“I don’t think her boss is nec-essarily on our side,” he said spending a half hour with an aide to Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho. “But maybe if we pro-vide enough information it will change.”
Garlock, president of the Rock Valley Federal Credit Union in Loves Park, Ill., said he would lose $150,000 to $175,000 annu-ally if the Fed’s proposed cut in fees is adopted, about one third of his credit union’s net annual income.
Unions say bargainingis matter of civil rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor unions at the heart of a burning national disagreement over the cost of public employ-ees want to frame the debate as a civil rights issue, an effort that might draw more sympathy to public workers being blamed for busting state budgets with generous pensions.
As part of that strategy, unions are planning rallies across the country on April 4 — the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Union officials want the obser-vances in dozens of cities to remind Americans that King was supporting striking san-itation workers in Memphis, Tenn., the night he was shot.
By portray-ing collective bargaining as a human rights issue, union officials hope the ral-lies can help fuel a back-
lash against Republicans
in Wisconsin and other states trying to curb collective bar-gaining rights for public employees. The rallies on the 43rd anniversary of King’s death are part of a coordi-nated strategy by labor lead-ers to ride the momentum of pro-union demonstrations and national polls.
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Cupps fl ew to Mississippi Monday for an inspection job at Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station near Port Gibson, and last spoke with his wife by phone about 4 p.m. on the way to the motel, which Arm-strong declined to identify.
Cupps never checked in, and did not report for work or his return fl ight Tuesday.
His rental car was found Tuesday night near Jack-son, Tenn., with blood stains inside and information that was linked to Wedgeworth and Pierce.
The two had escaped March 4, last Friday, from a prison work detail, stealing a Loui-siana state-issued van and driving it to the St. Francis-ville area, 130 miles south of Vicksburg, where they aban-doned it and continued on foot along U.S. 61, authorities have said.
Armstrong said a Vicks-burg man came to police Thursday and said he picked the two up about two miles south of St. Francisville, gave them a ride to Vicksburg and dropped them off at Riv-erwalk Casino around 2:45 p.m. The inmates’ absence was discovered by Louisiana authorities around 2 p.m.
“There was no indication (the man) knew they were escapees,” the chief said. “They were dressed in civil-ian clothing.”
Armstrong said police have
learned that Wedgeworth and Pierce walked to Rain-bow Casino, where they ate lunch and then left at 3:30. They spent the weekend in the Vicksburg area, though there are indications they might have crossed back over into Louisiana on foot or hitchhiked for part of that time, he added.
“What’s alarming is that these very dangerous men were staying in our commu-nity for three nights and four days,” the chief said.
Monday morning, a Vicks-burg woman called 911 to report seeing two men matching the escapees’ descriptions walking in the area of Captain D’s on Pem-berton Square Boulevard, Stewart said.
Cupps’ rental car was recovered near Jackson, Tenn., after a state trooper attempted to make a traf-fi c stop Tuesday night. Two men believed to be Wedge-worth and Pierce report-edly got out of the car, then jumped back in and led
troopers on a chase along Interstate 40.
Troopers put down spike strips to disable the vehicle and at one point they had it boxed in, said Armstrong, but the driver rammed police vehicles and the two men were able to get out of the car and escape on foot.
A manhunt continued over-night in western Tennessee, with residents put on alert and schools on lockdown, but Wedgeworth and Pierce had not been found as of this morning. Law enforcement agencies in 25 states have been put on alert.
Wedgeworth, a Memphis native, was convicted of armed robbery in Louisiana in 2006. He also has a crimi-nal history in Shelby County, Tenn., police said. He is white, 5-foot-8 and about 145 pounds with reddish brown hair and brown eyes. He has tattoos on his arms, chest and abdomen.
Pierce, of Bogalusa, La., was serving a sentence for attempted second-degree murder. He is white, 5-foot-11 and about 145 pounds with brown hair and eyes and tat-tooed fi ngers on his right hand.
Anyone with information related to the case is urged to call Vicksburg police at 601-636-2511 or Stewart at 601-831-1168.
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TONIGHT
Mostly clear tonight, lows around 40; sunny Saturday,
highs in the lower 70s
40°
PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST
BARBIE BASSSETTSATURDAY
72°
WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information
provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the
City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.
LOCAL FORECASTSATURDAY-SUNDAYPartly cloudy Saturday
night, lows in the upper 40s; partly cloudy Sunday,
highs in the lower 70s
STATE FORECASTTONIGHT
Mostly clear tonight,lows around 40
SATURDAY-SUNDAYPartly cloudy Saturday
night, lows in the upper 40s; partly cloudy Sunday,
highs in the lower 70s
ALMANACHIGHS AND LOWS
High/past 24 hours............. 59ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 37ºAverage temperature ........ 48ºNormal this date .................. 57ºRecord low ..............25º in1998Record high ...........88º in 1911
RAINFALLRecorded at the
Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ................0.0 inchThis month ............... 0.0 inchesTotal/year ............. 00.00 inchesNormal/month .....2.09 inchesNormal/year ....... 12.42 inches
SOLUNAR TABLEMost active times for � sh
and wildlife Saturday:A.M. Active .........................10:40A.M. Most active ................ 4:27P.M. Active ..........................11:07P.M. Most active ................. 4:54
SUNRISE/SUNSETSunset today ....................... 6:07Sunset tomorrow .............. 6:08Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:18
RIVER DATASTAGES
Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg
Current: 37.2 | Change: +0.7Flood: 43 feet
Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 21.1 | Change: +0.8
Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City
Current: 24.9 | Change: +1.3.0Flood: 29 feet
Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 22.2 | Change: +2.3
Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West
Current: 18.8 | Change: -0.7Flood: 12 feet
Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 28.1 | Change: -0.6
Flood: 28 feet
STEELE BAYOULand ...................................83.1River ...................................85.0
MISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST
Cairo, Ill.Saturday ................................ 51.8Sunday ................................... 52.0Monday ................................. 51.7
MemphisSaturday ................................ 32.2Sunday ................................... 32.7Monday ................................. 33.2
GreenvilleSaturday ................................ 43.4Sunday ................................... 43.9Monday ................................. 44.4
VicksburgSaturday ................................ 37.4Sunday ................................... 37.8Monday ................................. 38.2
DEATHS
MissingContinued from Page A1.
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Janice Marie Calcote Clark
RIVER RIDGE, La. — Janice Marie Calcote Clark died Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. She was 71.
A resident of River Ridge, La., Mrs. Clark was born in Natchez and reared in Vicks-burg. She attended Loyola University and, for the past 28 years, had assisted in the renovation of the family’s chapel in Blythe, Ga.
She was preceded in death by her father, Adrian Cal-cote; and her mother and stepfather, Mattie Pearl Baker Hunter and George L. Hunter.
She is survived by her husband, Charles Edmund Clark; one son, Clayton Wise Clark; three daughters, Camela Clark Kirshbom, Caroline Clark Leggio and Catherine Clark Levy; her sister, Peggy Calcote Grif-fi th of Brookhaven; and six grandchildren.
Services were Feb. 11 at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Metairie, La., with Monsi-gnor Robert Massett offi ciat-ing. Burial followed at Lake Lawn Cemetery.
A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. April 9, 2011, at the Clark family’s United Meth-odist Chapel in Blythe.
Memorials may be made to Clark Family Chapel, Upkeep
and Preservation, c/o 8701 Bocage Place, River Ridge, LA 70123.
Richard Hicks Jr.PORT GIBSON — Richard
Hicks Jr. died Sunday, March 6, 2011, at River Region Medi-cal Center. He was 70.
Mr. Hicks was born in Clai-borne County and worked in the auto body repair busi-ness. He was a member of St. Luke Christian Church.
He was preceded in death by his father, Richard Hicks Sr.; his mother, Louise Keys-Hicks; two brothers, Joe Hicks and Matthew Flowers; and a sister, Shirley Hicks.
Survivors include his wife, Myrtis Hicks of Port Gibson; three sons, David Mays and Maurice Andrews, both of Port Gibson, and Lester Cam-eron of Texas; fi ve daugh-ters, Dereneice Marbley, Nina Williams, Beverly H. Harris and Deverly H. Cruel, all of Port Gibson, and Bonita Faye Hicks of Chicago; three brothers, Eddie Lee Hicks, Willie J. Hicks and John H. Hicks, all of Dallas; four sis-ters, Betty Barnes and Vera Liggins, both of Port Gibson, Louise Benit and Jacque-lyne Miller, both of Dallas; 26 grandchildren; great-grand-children; and other relatives and friends, including Levi Dorsey of Port Gibson.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jimmy Ellis offi ciating. Burial will follow at Barnes Family Cem-etery. Visitation will be from 1 until 7 today at Rollins Funeral Home.
Elmer V. Schepers Sr.ALSATIA — Elmer V.
Schepers Sr. died Wednes-day, March 9, 2011, at Madi-son Parish Hospital. He was 86.
Mr. Schepers was born in Shinnston, W.Va., and had lived in the Alsatia area for more than 45 years. He was a retired farm manager and a member of Melbourne Bap-tist Church.
Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Flora Schepers of Alsatia; one daughter, Eva Holmes of Tallulah; one son, Chris Schepers of Tallulah;
two sisters, Jeanette Tisdale of Kingston and Gertrude Winans of Pine Plains, N.Y.; six grandchildren; and fi ve great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Melbourne Bap-tist Church in Transylvania with the Rev. Butch Good-man offi ciating. Burial, directed by Crothers-Glen-wood Funeral Home of Tal-lulah, will follow at 2 p.m. at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Natchez.
Visitation will be tonight from 6 until 8 at the church.
On the agendaThe board, except North
Ward Alderman Michael May� eld, on Thursday also:• Heard Southern Cultural
Heritage Center updates from Executive Director Annette Kirklin.
• Approved budget amend-ments: a $1,000 increase in revenue in the general fund for a donation made to the Mayor’s Youth Coali-tion and a $1,000 increase in parks and recreation ex-penses; a $2,500 increase in the federal grants fund for an energy grant and a $2,500 increase in the fund’s planning depart-ment to cover the grant-writing fee.
• Gave the go-ahead for the city clerk to advertise sealed bids for four new stretchers for the fi re de-partment and a conces-sion stand operation for the city-sponsored adult men and women softball leagues.
• Approved a budget modi-fi cation for the STOP Vio-lence Against Women grant program, extending it three months — through May 31.
• Granted a 30-day exten-sion each to properties at 1404 Main St. and 728 Johnson St.
• Presented fl oat trophies for the 2011 downtown Mardi Gras parade.
• OK’d a resolution to re-quest local and private rules for vehicles trans-porting in the city limits a load of 18 feet.
• OK’d a $15,000 allocation to Haven House Family Shelter.
• OK’d a $36,019.17 pay-ment to Vicksburg Warren E-911 for the city’s share of dispatchers’ salaries, matching benefi ts and in-surance for February.
• OK’d the claims docket.In a closed session, the
board:• Discussed a new hire in
the right-of-way depart-ment, two pay adjust-ments in the water mains department and potential litigation.The board meets next at
10 a.m. March 21 at City Hall Annex, room 109.
city Parks and Recreation Director Joe Graves said. “If this grant comes through, it’ll give us another avenue to reach kids because not every kid plays softball, baseball or basketball.”
Graves said Vicksburg offi -cials have met with other cities that have built skate parks.
“We’ve talked to the city clerks at Tupelo and Oxford, and they said there was no increase in their liabil-ity insurance,” he said. “We were worried it would increase our liability insur-ance, but it won’t.”
Graves said admission to the park would be free, with a fee charged for safety equipment rental. In doing some research, he said, he found that skateboarding is among the top fi ve sports in the country.
In Vicksburg, skaters are using makeshift ramps on city streets and county roads.
“There are a bunch of kids I know who skate, and they all say we need a skate park,” said Zac Brewer, 17, the son of Kevin and Robin Moore. “We need a safe skate spot.”
His mother agrees.“Skating gives them some-
thing to do, and it keeps them out of trouble,” she said. “It’s not any more dangerous than any other sport.”
In other business, the board agreed to modify an inspection contract with Transystem, an engineering fi rm involved in the Clark Street bridge at Washington Street improvement project. City engineer Garnet Van Norman told the board that the not-to-exceed $84,000 in funds set aside for inspection was used to repair a slide failure near the bridge in the spring of 2009. On Thursday, the board put that money back into the project’s $8.6 million contract fund.
“We were out of inspec-tion money because they used it to do the slope repair two years ago,” Van Norman said. “We have to add this money back into the Wash-ington Street project so Transystem can watch the city’s interest.”
The project, which will feature a roadway-topped rail tunnel, is expected to be complete by June.
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city. Sixteen Republicans voted for the Bryant plan, while 24 Democrats and 11 Republicans voted against it.
The Burton plan, which passed the Senate, would create two majority-white districts and one major-ity-black district around Hattiesburg.
The Burton plan passed 44-7, with all opposition coming from Republicans. Nine Republicans who had supported the Bryant plan turned around and voted for the Burton plan.
Vickburg’s Sen. Briggs Hopson III, a Republican, voted for the Burton plan, which would have him pick-ing up more of Yazoo County.
The majority-black district around Hattiesburg would use some territory now rep-resented by Sen. Tom King
of Petal, who’s running for transportation commis-sioner. Some GOP leaders believe the new seat would tilt to Dems because of voting patterns.
Legislators are redraw-ing the 52 Senate districts and 122 House districts to account for population changes revealed by the 2010 U.S. Census.
The Senate map was held for the possibility of more Senate debate, but Bryant said he doesn’t plan to make a serious effort to revive his plan. The Senate plan even-tually will go to the House for consideration.
A Republican-led Senate committee has rejected a House map approved by the Democratic-controlled House. House leaders say they will try to revive their
own map, but they wouldn’t say how. That map showed Warren County with fi ve rep-resentatives instead of four.
Mississippi’s redistricting maps must be approved by the U.S. Justice Department, which checks to ensure that the plans don’t dilute minori-ties’ voting strength. Law-makers say the approval gen-erally takes at least 60 days. June 1 is candidates’ qualify-ing deadline for this year’s legislative elections.
In other legislative happen-ings, a bill that would give Jackson State University ownership of Mississippi Vet-erans Memorial Stadium has been sent to the governor for approval. If signed, the bill would become law July 1.
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Hundreds die in record-making earthquake
TOKYO (AP) — A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes on record slammed Japan’s east-ern coast today, killing hun-dreds of people as it swept away ships, cars and homes while widespread fi res burned out of control.
Hours later, the tsunami hit Hawaii but did not cause major damage. Warnings blanketed the Pacifi c, putting areas on alert as far away as South America, Canada, Alaska and the entire U.S. West coast. In northeastern Japan, the area around a nuclear power plant was evacuated after the reac-tor’s cooling system failed.
Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeast-ern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicenter. Another 137 were confi rmed killed, with 531 people miss-ing. Police also said 627 people were injured.
The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake unleashed a 23-foot tsunami and was followed for hours by more than 50 after-shocks, many of them of more than magnitude 6.0.
Dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile stretch of coastline were shaken by vio-lent tremors that reached as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of miles from the epicenter. A large section of Kesennuma, a town of 70,000 people in Miyagi, burned furiously into the night with no apparent hope of being extinguished, public broad-caster NHK said.
“The earthquake has caused
major damage in broad areas in northern Japan,” Prime Minister Naoto Kan said at a news conference.
The quake was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that struck New Zealand late last month, devastating the city of Christchurch.
“The energy radiated by this quake is nearly equal to one month’s worth of energy con-sumption” in the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Scien-tist Brian Atwater said.
The government ordered thousands of residents near a nuclear power plant in the city of Onahama to move back at least two miles from the plant. The reactor was not leaking radiation but its core remained hot even after a shutdown. The plant is 170 miles northeast of Tokyo. Trouble was reported at two other nuclear plants as well, but there was no radia-tion leak at either of them.
Japan’s coast guard said it was searching for 80 dock workers on a ship that was swept away from a shipyard in Miyagi.
Even for a country used to earthquakes, this one was of horrifi c proportions because of the tsunami that crashed ashore, swallowing everything in its path as it surged several miles inland before retreat-ing. The apocalyptic images on Japanese TV of powerful, debris-filled waves, uncon-trolled fi res and a ship caught in a massive whirlpool resem-
bled scenes from a Hollywood disaster movie.
Large fishing boats and other vessels rode high waves ashore, slamming against overpasses or scraping under them and snapping power lines along the way. Upturned and partially submerged cars bobbed in the water. Ships anchored in ports crashed against each other.
“Our initial assessment indi-cates that there has already been enormous damage,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said.
Gi� ords’ family making plansfor her to attend shuttle launch
HOUSTON — Encour-aged by Rep. Gabrielle Gif-fords’ prog-ress, family and friends are making plans for the wounded con-gresswoman to attend her husband’s upcoming space shuttle launch, a person close to the family says.
Although doctors — con-strained by confi dential-ity laws — have been tight-lipped about her progress, those close to her have pro-vided tidbits of information since she was moved to TIRR Memorial Hermann on Jan. 26.
But today, her doctors will give their fi rst public update on her recovery since she began intensive rehabilita-tion after being shot in the head.
The person close to the family said that she will likely attend the mission launch next month in Florida.
Giffords was shot in the head Jan. 8 at a political event outside a grocery
store in an attack that killed six people and wounded 12 others.
Ohio executes inmate,first with new drug
LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Ohio on Thursday put to death a Toledo store owner’s killer with the country’s fi rst use of the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug.
Johnnie Baston was pro-nounced dead at 10:30 a.m., about 13 minutes after the 5 gram dose of the drug began fl owing into his arms. About a minute into the execution, Baston appeared to gasp, then grimace and wince, but then was quickly still.
In a 5-minute fi nal state-ment, Baston said the gov-ernor should have respected the opposition of his victim’s family to the death penalty and commuted his sentence to life without parole. Baston also said he made a bad deci-sion and said he hoped both his family and that of his victim could move on.
Japan tremorrolls tsunamitoward Hawaii
Tsunami waves hit homes in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, after today’s quake.
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LOTTEryLa. Pick 3: 6-7-0La. Pick 4: 2-1-1-8Weekly results:B2
Third time isnot the charmThe Golden Eagles fall to Memphis in the C-USA Tournament. Story/B3
SChEduLEPREP BASEBALLPCA hosts RussellToday, 5 p.m.
WC at VicksburgToday, 7 p.m.
ON TV9 p.m. WJTV - Dee Bost and Mississippi State get a tough assignment in the second round of the SEC Tournament, as the Bulldogs take on the Van-derbilt Commodores.
WhO’S hOTTALBOT BUYSPorters Chapel basketball player was selected to play in an AAU national basketball all-star event at Millsaps College on Sunday.
SIdELINESBraves’ coach hasmore facial surgery
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Atlanta Braves minor league manager Luis Salazar had more facial surgery Thursday, a day after being hit by Brian McCann’s foul liner while standing in the dug-out during an exhibition game.
Braves spokesman Brad Hainje said “it may be an-other day or two before we have final clarification on everything they had to do.”
Salazar had surgery Wednesday after being airlifted to the hospital. Braves general manager Frank Wren said earlier the 54-year-old former major leaguer may have sustained a concussion and might have damage around his left eye.
McCann did not play Thursday when the Braves took on St. Louis. Atlanta manager Fredi Gonzalez said he expect-ed McCann to be in the lineup on Friday when the Braves play the New York Yankees in Tampa.
McCann took himself out of Wednesday’s game moments after the ac-cident, then went to the hospital and was with Salazar’s family.
“Yesterday was a tragic day,” McCann told report-ers at the Braves’ camp on Thursday. “It’s just a helpless, sick feeling.”
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Warren Central to host annual Lady Vikes InvitationalBy Steve [email protected]
Warren Central softball coach Dana McGivney’s Lady Vikes Invitational tourna-ment has endured all sorts of rainy and cold weather.
But finally, the tourna-ment will get some favorable weather as the teams hit the diamond Saturday at Lucy Young Field.
McGivney is glad to get her team back on the field after a couple of rainouts last week.
“We’re really excited to play and get some games in,”
McGivney said. “We’re really happy to see some good weather.”
In addition to WC, Vicks-burg, St. Aloysius and Green-
ville-St. Joe round out the field.
Each game in the tourna-ment will be time limited to one and 1⁄1⁄1 2⁄2⁄ hours and each
team will get the opportunity to play each other.
The Lady Vikes haven’t had a lot of game or practice time and have endured the unexpected loss of standouts Mallory Reynolds and Sydnei Smith. But McGivney likes what she’s seen out of her young team.
“I really think we’re headed in the right direc-tion,” McGivney said. “We have some eighth-graders who have had to step up into some starting roles sooner than they expected. We’re going to experience some
growing pains, but we’ve got a good core group and by the end of the season, I’ll think we’ll have a good ball team.”
Vicksburg (1-1) earned a big 8-7 win over Riverside on March 3 in the home opener and enters the tour-nament with a lot of confi-dence thanks to the pitching of Faith Thomas, who earned the victory in the opener.
St. Aloysius (1-2) enters the tournament with a 1-2 record. The Lady Flahes own a 4-2 win over Pelahatchie bookended by losses to Tay-lorsville and Florence.
Ashley, WC send Cougars to first lossBy Jeff [email protected]
Warren Central picked up a big momentum boost by rallying from a 4-0 deficit to knock off unbeaten North-west Rankin 5-4 Thursday night at Viking Field.
The Vikings (3-3) got three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning thanks to a meltdown by Northwest Rankin relief pitcher Kelsey Wilkinson. WC coach Josh Abraham didn’t care how his Vikings did it, he’s just glad they have something to build on going into tonight’s Division 4-6A opener against archrival Vicksburg at Bazinsky Field.
“We did a good job of com-peting for all seven innings,” Abraham said. “Northwest is a very solid defensive team, but like us, they have a big division game (tonight), so they didn’t throw their best. This will give us confidence going into tomorrow night. It should be a fun ball game.”
Warren Central got its fun going in the fourth inning despite being down 4-0. Will Stegall’s roller down the third-base line was enough to score Beau Wallace and plate the first WC run. Brandon Gates followed with a single up the middle to score Carlos Gonzalez to make it 4-2.
In the WC fifth, pinch-hit-ter Devon Bell reached on a one-out error against Cougar starter Caleb Dugas. Dugas then walked Bill McRight. A sharp single by Clayton Ashley loaded the bases and that was all for Dugas.
Northwest coach Jeff McClaskey brought in
Wilkinson, one of his top relievers. Wilkinson nearly missed nabbing Ashley off second base, but Ashley slid under the tag and was ruled safe. Wilkinson then tried to get Bell off third base, but his throw went past the bag. Bell scored to make it 4-3 and the two other Viking runners moved into scoring position.
On a 2-2 pitch to Beau Wal-lace, Wilkinson threw way right of catcher Kreg Garner.
The wild pitch went to the fence. McRight scored easily and Ashley hustled around third and darted home, beat-ing the relay tag to put WC up 5-4.
“I got to third and saw where the catcher couldn’t find the ball, so I went home,” Ashley said.
Wilkinson walked thee straight Vikings to reload the bases. WC, however, left the runners stranded
after Wilkinson came back to strike out the next two Vikings to end the inning.
Ashley, who came to the mound in relief in the fourth inning, was pumped to have the lead.
“I knew I had a defense that can make plays behind me,” Ashley said.
Ashley allowed a one out walk, but got out of the sixth
Vikings,GatorsrenewrivalryBy Ernest [email protected]
Approaching the first signpost of the season, both Warren Central and Vicksburg are enjoying the ride so far.
Both teams have played well, with a couple of close losses the only blemishes on the record, Both boast team bat-ting averages near .400 and strong, deep pitch-ing staffs. Each one also considers itself a con-tender for the Division 4-6A championship — as if they needed another reason to amp up the intensity for their Warren County grudge match.
The Vikings and Gators hook up at Bazinsky Field tonight at 7 for the first of three meetings this season. The winner will get bragging rights — at least until next Friday when they face each other again at Viking Field — and, more importantly, a leg up in the division pen-nant race.
With the two Warren County teams and Clinton expected to be neck-and-neck in the division, every head-to-head matchup is crucial.
“It’s an evenly matched game. It’s pretty much the same groups they had
Rebels outrun GamecocksBy The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Ole Miss finally figured out how to win at the Southeastern Confer-ence Tournament.
Just keep scoring in bunches.
Chris Warren led the way with 20 points and the Rebels prevailed in a game of spurts, pulling away from South Carolina 66-55 Thursday in the opening round of the SEC Tournament.
Ole Miss (20-12) had lost its opening tournament game three years in a row. Now, the Rebels have a chance to win two straight for the first time since 2001, though they’ll be facing No. 15 Kentucky in the quarterfinals today.
Bring ’em on, coach Andy Kennedy said.
“It really is the sadistic nature of coaches. I’m really looking forward to it. It’s
going to be a great experi-ence,” he said. “At the end of the day, it’s about creating an experience for these kids.”
The final run was the deci-sive one for the Rebels, who came into Atlanta knowing their only shot at the NCAAs was probably to win four games in four days. After South Carolina (14-16) closed to 50-45 with 91⁄1⁄1 2⁄2⁄ minutes to go, Ole Miss put it away with an 11-1 run.
“Great effort. The execu-tion still leaves a little to be desired,” Kennedy said. “We knew they weren’t going to go away.”
Ramon Galloway led the Gamecocks with 17 points, but only one teammate, Sam Muldrow with 12, reached double figures.
• 9 a.m. WC vs. St. Aloysius• 10:30 a.m. Vicksburg vs.
Greenville-St. Joe• Noon WC vs. Vicksburg• 1:30 p.m. St. Aloysius vs.
Greenville-St. Joe• 3 p.m. Warren Central vs.
Greenville- St. Joe
• 4:30 p.m. Vicksburg vs. St. Aloysius
SEC TournamentTV: WJTV
Thursday’s Games• Georgia 69, Auburn 51• Ole Miss 66, S. Carolina 55• Tennessee 74, Arkansas 68• Vanderbilt 62, LSU 50
Today’s Games• Alabama vs. Georgia, noon• Kentucky vs. Ole Miss, 2:30
p.m., 1490 AM• Florida vs. Tennessee, 6:30 p.m.• Miss. State vs. Vandy, 9
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Lady Vikes InvitationalSaturday at Lucy Young Field
Warren Central pitcher Chase Ladd throws during the first inning of Thursday’s game against Northwest Rankin at Viking Field.
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Ole Miss guard Chris Warren works as South Carolina guard Bruce Ellington defends during the Southeastern Conference Tournament Thursday. Ole Miss won, 66-55.
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college baseballSOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
East All Games Conference W L W LVanderbilt .....................13 1 0 0South Carolina .............9 1 0 0Florida ...........................10 2 0 0Tennessee ....................9 2 0 0Kentucky .......................6 7 0 0Georgia .........................4 8 0 0
West All Games Conference W L W LLSU ...............................12 1 0 0Arkansas .......................11 1 0 0Auburn ..........................10 3 0 0Mississippi St. ............10 3 0 0Ole Miss ......................10 4 0 0Alabama .......................7 5 0 0
Thursday’s GamesArkansas 12, San Diego St. 4
Today’s GamesNiagara at Kentucky, 3 p.mManhattan at Tennessee, 3 p.m.Illinois-Chicago at Vanderbilt, 4 p.m. Sacred Heart at Mississippi St. 5 p.m. Lipscomb at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m.E Illinois at Alabama, 6 p.m.Arizona St at Auburn, 6 p.m. Rhode Island at Florida, 6 p.m. Bakersfield at South Carolina, 6 p.m.Cal St. Fullerton at LSU, 7 p.m. Georgia at USC, 8 p.m.Arkansas at San Diego State, 8 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesNiagara at Kentucky, noonManhattan at Tennessee, noon Lipscomb at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m.Illinois-Chicago at Vanderbilt, 2 p.m. Cal St. Fullerton at LSU, 2 p.m.E Illinois at Alabama, 2 p.m. Arizona St at Auburn, 3 p.m. Rhode Island at Florida, 3 p.m. Bakersfield at South Carolina, 3 p.m. Georgia at USC, 4 p.m. Sacred Heart at Mississippi St. 6 p.m. Arkansas at San Diego State, 8 p.m.
CONFERENCE USA All Games Conference W L W LUCF ..............................10 3 0 0East Carolina ................9 3 0 0Tulane ...........................9 3 0 0Southern Miss ............8 3 0 0UAB ..............................8 3 0 0Rice ..............................9 6 0 0Memphis .......................6 4 0 0Houston ........................7 6 0 0Marshall ........................5 6 0 0
Thursday’s GamesNo games scheduled
Today’s GamesRice vs. Long Beach State, 1 p.m. Monmouth at East Carolina, 4 p.m. Wagner at UCF, 5:30 p.m. Missouri State at Southern Miss, 6 p.m. Houston at Texas State, 6:30 p.m. Wichita State at Tulane, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesUAB vs. Notre Dame, 10 a.m.UAB vs. Kent State, 5 p.m. Marshall at Ohio (DH), noon St. Peter’s at Memphis (DH), Noon Rutgers at East Carolina, 2 p.m. Houston at Texas State , 2 p.m. Missouri State at Southern Miss, 2 p.m. Wichita State at Tulane, 2 p.m. Wagner at UCF, 3 p.m. Rice vs. California, 9 p.m.
Mississippi scheduleThursday’s Games
No games scheduledToday’s Games
Missouri St. at Southern Miss, 6 p.m.Mississippi College at Louisiana College, 6 p.m.Southern Polytechnic at William Carey, 6 p.m.Truett-McConnell at Belhaven, 6 p.m.Lipscomb at Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m.Sacred Heart at Mississippi St., 6:30 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesMiss. College at Louisiana College, Noon (DH)Jackson St. at Alcorn St., Noon (DH)Alabama A&M at Miss. Valley St., Noon (DH)Tougaloo at Selman, Noon (DH)Truett-McConnell at Belhaven, 1 p.m. (DH)Southern Polytechnic at William Carey, 1 p.m. (DH)Millsaps at Trinity, 1 p.m.Lipscomb at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m.Missouri St. at Southern Miss, 2 p.m.Sacred Heart at Mississippi St., 2 p.m.Delta St. at Arkansas-Monticello, 2:30 p.m. (DH)
Sunday’s GamesMillsaps at Trinity, NoonMissouri St. at Southern Miss, 1 p.m.Jackson St. at Alcorn St., 1 p.m.Alabama A&M at Miss. Valley St., 1 p.m.Lipscomb at Ole Miss, 1:30 p.m.Sacred Heart at Mississippi St., 1:30 p.m.Delta St. at Ouachita Baptist, 2:30 p.m.
mlbspring Training schedule
Thursday’s GamesTampa Bay 8, Boston 6Atlanta 2, St. Louis 1Washington (ss) 6, N.Y. Mets 5Philadelphia 7, N.Y. Yankees 0N.Y. Mets 9, Florida 4Toronto 7, Minnesota 4Kansas City (ss) 4, L.A. Angels (ss) 3San Francisco 7, Cincinnati 0San Diego 8, L.A. Dodgers 2Chicago White Sox (ss) 7, Texas 6Seattle 10, L.A. Angels (ss) 5Oakland 4, Kansas City (ss) 4, tieChicago Cubs 2, Cleveland 1Colorado 9, Milwaukee 8, 10 inningsBaltimore 11, Pittsburgh 8Houston 6, Washington (ss) 5Detroit 6, Florida 1Chicago White Sox (ss) 5, Arizona 3
Today’s GamesBoston (ss) vs. Houston (ss), 12:05 p.m.Philadelphia vs. Baltimore, 12:05 p.m.Atlanta vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss), 12:05 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. Tampa Bay, 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Toronto, 12:05 p.m.Boston (ss) vs. Minnesota, 12:05 p.m.Detroit vs. St. Louis, 12:05 p.m.Florida vs. N.Y. Mets, 12:05 p.m.Oakland (ss) vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.Arizona vs. L.A. Angels, 2:05 p.m.Cincinnati vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers vs. Oakland (ss), 2:05 p.m.Seattle vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Kansas City vs. Colorado, 2:05 p.m.Houston (ss) vs. Washington, 2:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. San Diego, 2:05 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesPittsburgh (ss) vs. Toronto (ss), 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees vs. Washington, 12:05 p.m.Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia (ss), 12:05 p.m.Baltimore vs. Houston, 12:05 p.m.Philadelphia (ss) vs. Pittsburgh (ss), 12:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Atlanta, 12:05 p.m.Minnesota vs. St. Louis, 12:05 p.m.Florida vs. Boston, 12:05 p.m.Toronto (ss) vs. Detroit, 12:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. San Francisco, 1:05 p.m.Oakland vs. Seattle, 2:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. Kansas City, 2:05 p.m.Arizona vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.Texas vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Cincinnati (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs (ss), 2:05 p.m.San Diego vs. Colorado, 2:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. Cleveland, 3:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Cincinnati (ss), 3:05 p.m.
Arizona vs. Colorado, 7:40 p.m.
prep baseballWarreN ceNTral 5, NW raNKIN 4
Northwest Rankin .......................201 100 0 — 4 5 2Warren Central ............................000 230 x — 5 5 2WP-Clayton Ashley, LP-Caleb Dugas. HR-Annon Etheridge (NW), Alex Shermer (NW). 2B-Dugas (NW), Brandon Gates (WC). Multiple hits-Bill McRight (WC) 2, Gates (WC) 2, Etheridge (NW) 2.
prep sofTballVicksburg roster
1.......................Torey Daniels ............................8th2........................Grace Bufkin ............................8th3.......................Faith Thomas ............................ Fr.4.......................Victoria Lewis ............................So.5................ Shannan Botsford (C) .....................Sr.6..................... Brooke Mcgrew .......................... Fr.9...................... Sydney Bufkin ........................... Fr.10...................... Kori Screws .............................8th11.................. Blake Derossette ......................... Fr.15....................Kortni Newman...........................8th17......................Olivia Oakes .............................7th19....................Lea Davies (C) ...........................Sr.20................... Corey Mahoney ..........................So.22................. Heather Middleton ........................So.23..................Morgan Callender......................... Fr.25.....................Paige Bowser ............................So.
Vicksburg scheduleMarch 12 at Warren Central* .................. noonMarch 12 Greenville-St. Joe* .........10:30 a.m.March 12 St. Aloysius* .....................4:30 p.m.March 17 Warren Central# ....................6 p.m.March 19 Tournament of Grace ............... TBAMarch 22 Pearl ......................................6 p.m.March 24 at Cathedral ......................6:30 p.m.March 29 at Greenville-Weston# ......4:30 p.m.March 31 at Warren Central#...........6:30 p.m.April 9 Richland Tournament ............... TBAApril 14 at Pearl ..................................5 p.m.April 17 Greenville-Weston# ...............5 p.m.April 19 Riverside ................................5 p.m.*Lady Vikes Invitational at Warren Central#Division 4-6A game
Warren central roster1. ............................Alexis Patterson ............3B, UTIL ....So.2. ............................Lawren Boolos ..............INF ..............8th4. ............................Chasity Hearn ...............SS ................ Jr.5. ............................Victoria Fothergill ..........OF, C .........8th7. ............................Raylee Barwick .............2B................7th8. ............................Elysia Gilley ...................INF ..............8th9. ............................Krista Cortezie ...............UTIL ............. Jr.10. ..........................Darby Gain ....................P ..................8th12. ..........................Kendall Parker ..............OF ...............So.13. ..........................Mattie Jones ..................OF ...............7th15. ..........................Megan McCullough ......1B, P ..........So.16. ..........................Karley Hinson ................C..................8th17. ..........................Katie Busby ...................CF ................ Jr.18. ..........................Chelsea Worley (C) .....P, OF ...........Sr.19. ..........................Brooke Patterson ..........UTIL ............7th20. ..........................Skylar Blades ................OF ................Fr.22. ..........................Lexi Burleigh..................OF ................Fr.
Warren central scheduleMarch 12 ........ St. Aloysius* .......................9 a.m.March 12 ........ Vicksburg* .............................noonMarch 12 ........ Greenville-St. Joe* ...............3 p.m.March 15 ........ at Greenville-Weston# ...... 6:15 p.m.March 17 ........ at Vicksburg# .......................6 p.m.March 22 ........ Madison Central ..................5 p.m.March 24 ........ Greenville-Weston# .......... 6:15 p.m.March 28 ........ Terry .................................. 6:15 p.m.March 31 ........ Vicksburg# ........................ 6:30 p.m.April 1 ............. Brandon ............................ 4:30 p.m.April 1 ............. Clinton ............................... 6:30 p.m.April 5 ............. at Northwest Rankin ......... 6:15 p.m.April 7 ............. at Terry ............................. 6:15 p.m.April 9 ............. at Richland Tournament ....... TBAApril 14 ........... at Greenville-St. Joe ............4 p.m.April 19 ........... Ridgeland .......................... 6:15 p.m.April 21 ........... at Cleveland .........................4 p.m.*Lady Vikes Invitational at Warren Central#Division 4-6A game
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W L Pct GBx-Boston .......................46 16 .742 —y-Chicago .....................45 18 .714 1 1/2x-Miami .........................44 21 .677 3 1/2Orlando .........................41 24 .631 6 1/2Atlanta ..........................37 27 .578 10New York ......................34 30 .531 13Philadelphia ..................33 31 .516 14Indiana ..........................27 37 .422 20Charlotte .......................26 38 .406 21Milwaukee .....................25 38 .397 21 1/2Detroit ...........................23 42 .354 24 1/2New Jersey ..................20 43 .317 26 1/2Toronto .........................17 47 .266 30Washington ...................16 47 .254 30 1/2Cleveland ......................12 52 .188 35
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBx-San Antonio ...............52 12 .813 —Dallas ............................47 18 .723 5 1/2d-L.A. Lakers ................46 20 .697 7d-Oklahoma City ..........40 23 .635 11 1/2Denver ..........................38 27 .585 14 1/2Portland ........................37 27 .578 15New Orleans ................38 29 .567 15 1/2Memphis .......................36 30 .545 17Phoenix .........................33 30 .524 18 1/2Utah ..............................34 31 .523 18 1/2Houston ........................33 33 .500 20Golden State ................28 36 .438 24L.A. Clippers .................25 40 .385 27 1/2Minnesota .....................16 50 .242 37Sacramento ..................15 47 .242 36d-division leaderx-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division
Thursday’s GamesMiami 94, L.A. Lakers 88Dallas 127, New York 109Denver 116, Phoenix 97
Today’s GamesPortland at Charlotte, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at New Jersey, 6 p.m.Indiana at Toronto, 6 p.m.Boston at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Chicago, 7 p.m.Utah at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Detroit at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Sacramento at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.Orlando at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday’s GamesMemphis at Miami, 3:30 p.m.Portland at Atlanta, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Washington, 6 p.m.Utah at Chicago, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.Sacramento at New Orleans, 7 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.San Antonio at Houston, 7:30 p.m.
Detroit at Denver, 8 p.m.
college basKeTballconference tournaments
Southeastern ConferenceAt Atlanta
First RoundThursday
Georgia 69, Auburn 51Ole Miss 66, South Carolina 55Tennessee 74, Arkansas 68Vanderbilt 62, LSU 50
QuarterfinalsToday
Alabama vs. Georgia, NoonKentucky vs. Ole Miss, 2:30 p.m.Florida vs. Tennessee winner, 6:30 p.m.Mississippi St. vs. Vanderbilt, 9 p.m.
SemifinalsSaturday
Alabama—Georgia winner vs. Kentucky—Ole Miss winner, NoonFlorida—Tennessee winner vs. Mississippi St.—Vanderbilt winner, 2:30 p.m.
ChampionshipSunday
Semifinal winners, Noon
Conference USAAt El Paso, Texas
First RoundWednesday
East Carolina 75, UCF 60Southern Miss 63, Tulane 47Marshall 97, Houston 87Rice 58, SMU 57
QuarterfinalsThursday
East Carolina 75, UAB 70, OTMemphis 66, Southern Miss. 63Tulsa 81, Rice 72UTEP 77, Marshall 65
SemifinalsToday
East Carolina vs. Memphis, 3 p.m.UTEP vs. Tulsa, 5:30 p.m.
ChampionshipSaturday
Semifinal winners, 10:30 a.m.
SWACAt Garland, Texas
First RoundWednesday
Jackson State 50, Prairie View 38Texas Southern 50, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 45
ThursdayAlabama St. 81, Alabama A&M 61Grambling St. 65, MVSU 62
SemifinalsToday
Jackson St. vs. Grambling St., 2:30 p.m.Alabama St. vs. Texas Southern, 8 p.m.
ChampionshipSaturday
Semifinal winners, 7:30 p.m.
ole mIss 66, soUTH carolINa 55SOUTH CAROLINA (14-16)Cooke 2-12 0-0 4, Harris 2-5 1-2 5, Jackson 2-5 1-2 5, Muldrow 5-13 2-2 12, Ellington 2-9 1-2 7, Richardson 0-0 0-0 0, Smith 1-5 2-4 5, Galloway 6-16 0-0 17, Jefferson 0-1 0-0 0, Slawson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-67 7-12 55.OLE MISS (20-12)Henry 5-10 4-6 14, Buckner 5-10 0-1 10, Nelson 3-10 1-2 10, Warren 7-16 3-4 20, Graham 2-8 4-4 8, Short 1-1 0-0 2, N. Williams 0-1 2-2 2, Gaskins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-56 14-19 66.Halftime—Ole Miss 30-26. 3-Point Goals—South Carolina 8-30 (Galloway 5-12, Ellington 2-7, Smith 1-4, Cooke 0-3, Muldrow 0-4), Ole Miss 6-19 (Nelson 3-6, Warren 3-7, Henry 0-1, N. Williams 0-1, Buckner 0-1, Graham 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—South Carolina 43 (Muldrow 9), Ole Miss 43 (Henry 11). Assists—South Carolina 15 (Ellington, Jackson 4), Ole Miss 10 (Nelson, Warren 4). Total Fouls—South Carolina 18, Ole Miss 9.
gramblINg sT. 65, mVsU 62GRAMBLING ST. (11-20) Qualls 3-12 6-6 14, Patton 6-14 13-19 25, Feur-tado 4-10 2-2 11, Rose 4-10 0-0 8, Danridge 0-1 0-0 0, Hobbs 1-4 3-3 5, Johnson 0-2 0-0 0, Britt-Black 0-0 0-2 0, Roberson 0-1 2-3 2. Totals 18-54 26-35 65.MVSU (13-19) Joyner 4-10 4-6 12, Jackson 3-6 0-1 8, Smith 3-4 0-0 6, Jones 2-8 2-2 6, Crosby 6-10 2-3 16, Don-ald 1-4 0-0 3, Studivant 1-1 0-0 2, Pugh 0-0 0-0 0, Cox 0-0 0-0 0, Burwell 1-4 2-2 5, J. Holmes 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 23-51 10-14 62.Halftime—Grambling St. 32-30. 3-Point Goals—Grambling St. 3-11 (Qualls 2-8, Feurtado 1-1, Hobbs 0-2), MVSU 6-16 (Crosby 2-2, Jackson 2-4, Burwell 1-3, Donald 1-3, Joyner 0-1, Jones 0-3). Fouled Out—Smith. Rebounds—Grambling St. 33 (Patton 8), MVSU 39 (Crosby 7). Assists—Grambling St. 7 (Feurtado, Qualls 2), MVSU 8 (J. Holmes 2). Total Fouls—Grambling St. 15, MVSU 24.
Ncaa automatic bidsArkansas-Little Rock, Sun Belt ConferenceBelmont, Atlantic Sun ConferenceButler, Horizon LeagueGonzaga, West Coast ConferenceIndiana State, Missouri Valley ConferenceLong Island University, Northeast ConferenceMorehead State, Ohio Valley ConferenceNorthern Colorado, Big Sky ConferenceOakland, Mich., Summit LeagueOld Dominion, Colonial Athletic AssociationSaint Peter’s, Metro Atlantic Athletic ConferenceUNC Asheville, Big South ConferenceWofford, Southern Conference
ToUrNameNTAtlantic Coast Conference
First RoundBoston College 81, Wake Forest 67Maryland 75, N.C. State 67Miami 69, Virginia 62, OTVirginia Tech 59, Georgia Tech 43
Big 12 ConferenceQuarterfinals
Colorado 87, Kansas St. 75Kansas 63, Oklahoma St. 62Texas 74, Oklahoma 54Texas A&M 84, Missouri 70
Big East ConferenceQuarterfinals
Connecticut 76, Pittsburgh 74Louisville 81, Marquette 56Notre Dame 89, Cincinnati 51Syracuse 79, St. John’s 73
Big Ten ConferenceFirst Round
Michigan St. 66, Iowa 61Northwestern 75, Minnesota 65Penn St. 61, Indiana 55
Big West ConferenceFirst Round
CS Northridge 75, Cal St.-Fullerton 54
Long Beach St. 79, UC Irvine 72UC Riverside 70, Cal Poly 66, OTUC Santa Barbara 79, Pacific 67
Conference USAQuarterfinals
East Carolina 75, UAB 70, OTMemphis 66, Southern Miss. 63Tulsa 81, Rice 72UTEP 77, Marshall 65
Great West ConferenceFirst Round
Houston Baptist 72, N.J. Tech 70North Dakota 71, Texas-Pan American 70South Dakota 73, Chicago St. 70, OT
Mid-American ConferenceQuarterfinals
Akron 82, Miami (Ohio) 75, 2OTBall St. 76, Ohio 73, OTKent St. 73, Buffalo 62W. Michigan 67, Bowling Green 56
Mid-Eastern Athletic ConferenceQuarterfinals
Morgan St. 77, N. Carolina A&T 59Norfolk St. 55, Coppin St. 53
Mountain West ConferenceQuarterfinals
BYU 64, TCU 58New Mexico 67, Colorado St. 61San Diego St. 64, Utah 50UNLV 69, Air Force 53
Pacific-10 ConferenceQuarterfinals
Arizona 78, Oregon St. 69Oregon 76, UCLA 59Southern Cal 70, California 56Washington 89, Washington St. 87
Southeastern ConferenceFirst Round
Georgia 69, Auburn 51Ole Miss 66, South Carolina 55Tennessee 74, Arkansas 68Vanderbilt 62, LSU 50
Southland ConferenceSemifinals
McNeese St. 91, Texas St. 83UTSA 79, Sam Houston St. 70
Southwestern Athletic ConferenceFirst Round
Alabama St. 81, Alabama A&M 61Grambling St. 65, MVSU 62
Western Athletic ConferenceSecond Round
New Mexico St. 66, Nevada 60San Jose St. 74, Idaho 68
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Big Sky ConferenceFirst Round
E. Washington 77, Montana St. 68Montana 66, Idaho St. 53
Colonial Athletic AssociationFirst Round
Delaware 74, Northeastern 66Drexel 52, Towson 46Georgia St. 68, George Mason 64Hofstra 89, William & Mary 67
Conference USAQuarterfinals
Houston 68, UTEP 64Memphis 63, Rice 52Tulane 83, East Carolina 72UCF 51, UAB 47
Mid-Eastern Athletic ConferenceQuarterfinals
Coppin St. 76, Florida A&M 64Howard 82, N. Carolina A&T 72
Missouri Valley ConferenceFirst Round
Bradley 64, Evansville 47Indiana St. 83, S. Illinois 68
Pacific-10 ConferenceSemifinals
California 48, Arizona St. 43Second Round
Arizona 72, Southern Cal 61Southland Conference
SemifinalsCent. Arkansas 68, Lamar 60, OTMcNeese St. 66, UTSA 50
Southwestern Athletic ConferenceFirst Round
Grambling St. 72, Alcorn St. 63MVSU 52, Alabama A&M 51
Western Athletic ConferenceSecond Round
Nevada 75, Idaho 61Utah St. 72, New Mexico St. 67
Women’s Ncaa automatic bidsArkansas-Little Rock, Sun Belt ConferenceConnecticut, Big East ConferenceDuke, Atlantic Coast ConferenceGonzaga, West Coast ConferenceMarist, Metro Atlantic Athletic ConferenceOhio State, Big TenPrinceton, Ivy LeagueSamford, Southern ConferenceSouth Dakota State, Summit LeagueStetson, Atlantic Sun ConferenceTennessee, Southeastern ConferenceTennessee-Martin, Ohio Valley ConferenceXavier, Atlantic 10
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL1 p.m. ESPN - Big Ten Conference, quarterfinal, Michigan vs. Illinois2:30 p.m. ESPN2 - ACC, quarterfinal, Clemson vs. Boston College3:45 p.m. ESPN2 - Patriot League, championship game, Lafayette at Bucknell6 p.m. ESPN - Big East Conference, semifinal, Connecticut vs. Syracuse6 p.m. ESPN2 - ACC, quarterfinal, Duke vs Maryland8 p.m. ESPN - Big East Conference, semifinal, Notre Dame vs. Louisville8 p.m. ESPN2 - ACC, quarterfinal, Florida State vs. Virginia Tech8 p.m. FSN - Pac-10 Conference, semifinal Southern Cal vs. Arizona10:30 p.m. FSN - Pac-10 Conference, semifinal, Oregon vs. Washington 11 p.m. ESPN2 - Western Athletic Conference, semifinal, Boise State vs. New Mexico State
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL2:30 p.m. FSN - Big 12 Conference, semifinal, Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma
March 111958 — Manhattan upsets top-
ranked West Virginia 89-84, in the first round of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament. Jack Powers leads the Jaspers with 29 points. Manhattan holds sopho-more Jerry West to 10 points in the Mountaineers’ second loss of the year.
1963 — Chicago Loyola blows out Tennessee Tech 111-42 for the larg-est margin of victory (69) in the his-tory of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.
1979 — St. John’s and Penn post two of the biggest upsets ever in the NCAA tournament in the second round of the East regional in Raleigh, N.C. St. John’s, the 40th and last team selected, beats No. 2 seed Duke 80-78, and Penn comes from behind to beat No. 1 seed North Carolina 72-71.
2003 — The longest winning streak in women’s Division I his-tory ends at 70 games when No. 18 Villanova hands No. 1 Connecti-cut its first loss since the end of the 2001 season, 52-48 for the champi-onship of the Big East Conference tournament.
loTTerYSunday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 6-9-8La. Pick 4: 2-4-3-1Monday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 8-3-5 La. Pick 4: 4-5-6-6 Tuesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-3-1La. Pick 4: 3-6-7-7Wednesday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 4-2-8La. Pick 4: 6-6-9-0Easy 5: 5-6-9-17-21La. Lotto: 2-6-9-13-19-35Powerball: 12-20-28-40-48Powerball: 8; Power play: 2Thursday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 6-7-0La. Pick 4: 2-1-1-8Friday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 3-0-9La. Pick 4: 3-5-3-3Saturday’s drawingLa. Pick 3: 0-1-3La. Pick 4: 7-8-7-5Easy 5: 6-14-21-26-36La. Lotto: 18-21-22-30-35-40Powerball: 2-23-31-42-48Powerball: 21; Power play: 2
TracK aNd fIeldWC track team placessecond at St. Andrews
The Warren Central track team placed second at the St. Andrews Invitational on Thursday. DéAn-drea Smith finished first in the 110 meter high hurdles with a time of 16.33 seconds. She also won the 400 meter dash with a time of 54.52 seconds and was second in the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 44.19. Tori Smith was second in the 200 meter dash with a time of 22.34 and finished third in the 100 meter dash with a time of 11.75 seconds. The 4x400 meter relay team of Nehe-miah Taylor, Marquis Prentiss, Jeremy Harper and Walter King took first with a time of 3:40.01.
NflRhetoric rises, clock ticks down on NFL talks
WASHINGTON — The NFL and the players’ union headed into the final 24 hours of their twice-ex-tended collective bargaining agree-ment with little apparent prog-ress on key economic issues. And a public series of back-and-forth barbs made it sound as if the league is close to its first work stoppage in nearly a quarter of a century.
“Everyone knows where the cal-endar is,” lead NFL negotiator Jeff Pash said Thursday night. “Every-one knows what’s potentially on the table tomorrow.”
The league’s labor contract origi-nally was to expire last week. The sides agreed to push that dead-line to today; if a deal isn’t reached, there could be another extension.
What certainly appeared more likely, given Thursday’s tone, was that talks could break off, leading to a lockout by owners or decertifica-tion by the union, followed by anti-trust lawsuits by players — actions that could threaten the 2011 season.
“Things can come together quickly,” Pash said. “Things can come together quickly,” Pash said after the sides spent a 15th day in mediation. “Things can fall apart quickly.”
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inning with a flyout to left and a groundout to second.
In the seventh, an error in left made things interesting. Reid Humphries rolled into second after his towering fly was dropped in left. He then went to third on a wild pitch with just one out.
Ashley struck out North-west’s Cody Livingston and then got Jordan Stark to line out to Travis Barnett at second base to end the game.
“This will be a real good boost going into Vicksburg,” Ashley said. “This is the start of many wins for us. Our defense is good and our sticks are coming.”
Northwest (4-1) showed the early sticks with Annon Etheridge blasting a two-run homer to center off WC starter Chase Ladd in the first inning. Alex Shermer had a solo shot in the second for a 3-0 lead and Dugas knocked in a run in the fourth on a double.
Ladd walked six in 32⁄3 innings and was also touched up for both home runs. Ashley pitched three-plus scoreless innings to grab the win.
McRight and Brandon Gates had two hits each for WC. Etheridge had two hits and drove in two runs for the Cougars.
Port Gibson 15,South Pike 4
Shaquille Williams doubled and drove in a pair of runs, and Dominic Savage added two RBIs as Port Gibson (4-0, 1-0 Division 7-4A) opened its division schedule with a rout of South Pike (0-5, 0-1).
Arthur Turner tripled for Port Gibson, which trailed 4-3 after two innings. The Blue Waves scored four runs in the third to take the lead for good and pulled away from there. Devonta Tarleton
struck out five batters in four innings to earnl the victory.
Port Gibson will play a doubleheader today at South Pike, then face Clinton and
Ridgeland — both at Clinton High School — on Saturday afternoon beginning at 1.
and we had last year, so we feel like we know them well,” Warren Central coach Josh Abraham said. “There’s no better way to start in the dis-trict than Vicksburg-Warren Central.”
Warren Central might have liked a better start to the season, but only in terms of wins and losses. It has dropped a pair of one-run games during a 3-3 start, despite a lineup that’s hitting .384 as a team.
Its pitching staff has also shown some depth. Three hurlers — Carlos Gonzalez, Devon Bell and Beau Wal-lace — have pitched effec-tively. The list doesn’t even include perhaps the team’s best pitcher, Blake Jobe, who has missed a week of practice with a minor back injury.
“We like what we’ve estab-lished in these first four or five games. The wins might not show, but we’ve got guys that can win. Especially in our division,” Abraham said. “We’ve played really hard and aggressive, and really swung it well. Maybe not at the most opportune times, but we’ve got four or five guys over .400.”
So do the Gators (3-3), which is just one among many similarities they share with Warren Central.
Vicksburg’s two losses have also been by one run, it has five players batting over .400 — led by center fielder Lamar Anthony, who’s gone a blis-tering 10-for-20 at the plate in five games — and has also shown a surprising amount of depth on the mound.
Cody Waddell is the team’s ace and will get the ball on Friday night, but left Clyde Kendrick is 1-0 with a 3.32 ERA in two starts. Another top arm, Cameron Cooksey, also returned this week after being part of Vicksburg’s basketball team that reached the Class 6A championship game.
Cooksey has played in one game, but has seen limited practice time on the baseball
field.“We’ve hit the ball very
well. We’ve pitched well too,” Vicksburg coach Cody Zumbro said. “Clyde has stepped up and Cody Wad-dell has been solid in all of his outings.”
Although Zumbro was pleased with the main pieces of his junior-laden squad, he’s been particularly impressed with several freshmen who have emerged in the early going.
Infielder Michael Rohrer and catcher/infielder Josh Sterling both filled in well defensively in Cooksey’s absence. Rohrer has also gone 1-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored in six plate appearances.
“Our freshmen have really stepped up. Michael Rohrer has been great at short-stop and Josh Sterling has been good behind the plate. They’re going to give us some depth as this thing goes along,” Zumbro said.
Like his two freshmen, Zumbro will be getting his first real taste of the Vicks-burg-Warren Central rivalry. He grew familiar with it — and had his share of battles with both teams — as an assistant coach at Clinton.
“Being at Clinton for so long, it’s not the same thing, but we had some big battles with Warren Central. It was intense,” Zumbro said. “I know the importance of it, but I guess we’ll see when we get out there Friday.”
Warren Central was trying to take a more low-key approach. After being encouraged by his coach to avoid any trash talk, Gonza-lez said that in the end both sides have to remember it still only counts as one game in the standings.
“It’s going to be fun. We’re going to treat it like any other game. We’re going to try to win. They’re a good team, but we are too,” Gonzalez said. “It’s important so we can get on top and hopefully go 1-0.”
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Memphis eliminates Southern MissBy The Associated Press
Joe Jackson scored 15 points and hit two free throws that helped seal Memphis’ 66-63 victory over Southern Miss in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA tournament Thursday.
Memphis was threatened by a Southern Miss late-game push. The Golden Eagles trailed 60-59 with 36 seconds left, but the Tigers pushed the lead back to five points thanks to a pair of Will Barton free throws and a slam dunk from Jackson.
Memphis led 64-59 before Ahyaro Phillips scored twice for Southern Miss to cut it to 64-63 with 12 seconds left. Then Jackson hit his free throws.
“That was a good basketball game,” Memphis coach Josh Pastner said. “Southern Mis-sissippi is a good basketball team.”
The Tigers (23-9) had four players in double digits, as Jackson was joined by Anto-nio Barton with 12 points and Charles Carmouche and Will Barton with 10 each. But it was the defensive stops at the end of the game that made the difference for the Tigers.
“We made big stops, and Will Barton and Joe Jackson stepped up and made free throws,” Pastner said. “Defen-sively (Jackson) did big things and hit those free throws down the stretch.”
Southern Miss did not go easily. The Golden Eagles’ defensive pressure increased as they held Memphis with-out a basket for eight min-utes stretching from late in the first half to early in the second. Memphis was held to 32 percent shooting in the first half.
The fifth-seeded Golden Eagles (22-9) stayed in the game thanks to R.L. Horton, who had 17 points. D.J. New-bill scored 14 and Gary Flow-ers added 12.
Southern Miss started the game poorly by allowing
Memphis to take a 14-point lead in the first half. It was a deficit that proved difficult to overcome.
“We had a gameplan that we thought was the right way to play them, and unfortunately we didn’t follow directions and dug a big hole,” Golden Eagles coach Larry Eustachy said. “Our guys fought back as they always do, but we came up a bit short.”
Fourth-seeded Memphis will face eighth-seeded East Caro-lina (18-14) in the semifinals today.
Vanderbilt 62,LSU 50
Jeffery Taylor scored 21 points and Vanderbilt held on for an ugly win over LSU in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament, even without the league’s top scorer.
Guard John Jenkins, aver-
aging more than 19 points a game, sat out after tweaking his left foot in the regular-sea-son finale against Florida last weekend.
After a sluggish start, the Commodores (22-9) pulled away to lead by as many as 14 in the first half. They stretched the margin to 20 points against last-place LSU (11-21), which closed out its second straight 20-loss season after winning the SEC title in 2009.
Andre Stringer led the Tigers with 13 points.
Tennessee 74,Arkansas 68
Freshman Tobias Harris scored 20 points and Tennes-see recovered after blowing a 16-point lead to beat Arkan-sas in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament.
Tennessee (19-13) bolstered its NCAA tournament case
after losing six of its last nine games in the regular season.
Georgia 69,Auburn 51
One day after proclaiming himself “more healthy than I’ve ever been,” Trey Thomp-kins scored 22 points to lead Georgia past Auburn 69-51 on Thursday in the opening game of the Southeastern Confer-ence tournament.
Grambling State 65, Miss. Valley St. 62
Justin Patton scored 25 points to lead Grambling State to a victory over Mississippi Valley State in the first round of the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament.
Paul Crosby scored 16 points for the Delta Devils (13-19) and Terrence Joyner had 12.
The associaTed press
Memphis forward Will Barton, left, and Southern Miss forward Gary Flowers fight for con-trol of the ball at the Conference USA tournament Thursday. Memphis won, 66-63.
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obama to bullied:I know what it’s like
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama smiled when he said his large ears and funny name once made him a target of school-yard harassment. But he was all seriousness Thursday when he told a White House conference on bullying that torment and intimidation must not be tolerated.
Some 13 million students, about a third of all those attending school, are bullied every year, the White House said. Experts say that puts them at greater risk of falling behind in their studies, abus-ing drugs or alcohol, or suf-ing drugs or alcohol, or suf-ing drugs or alcohol, or suffering mental or other health problems. Kids who are seen as different because of their race, clothes, disability or sexual orientation are more likely to be bullied.
“If there’s one goal of this conference,” Obama said, “it’s to dispel the myth that bully-ing is just a harmless rite of passage or an inevitable part of growing up. It’s not.” He spoke to more than 100 par-ents, students, teachers and others gathered to discuss the problem and share ideas for solutions.
“Bullying can have destruc-tive consequences for our young people. And it’s not something we have to accept,” he said.
The issue has been getting more attention partly because texting, Facebook, Twitter and other technologies are being used to carry it out — it’s called cyberbullying — and because of media coverage of teens who have killed them-selves after such taunting.
Families of some of those youngsters joined Obama at the White House, includ-ing Tina Meier, of suburban St. Louis. Meier’s 13-year-old daughter, Megan, hanged her-self in 2006 after falling victim to an Internet hoax carried out, in part, by an adult neigh-bor who posed as a boy. The neighbor, a woman, was later convicted of a federal misde-
meanor in a landmark cyber-bullying trial.
“No family should have to go through what these families have gone through,” Obama said. “No child should feel that alone.”
Meier had a message for par-ents who want to take away their children’s computers and other electronic devices to spare them from bullying: It won’t work. She urged them instead to get a better under-standing of what their kids are doing.
“Technology is out there. We cannot shut it off. Children are not going to allow it to be shut off,” Meier told participants. “We have to make sure that we have parents who under-stand what’s going on in their child’s online world, as well as the real world.”
Speaking as a parent and as a victim, Obama urged every-one to help end bullying by working to create an atmos-phere at school where chil-dren feel safe and feel like they belong. He said that even he felt out of place growing up.
“I have to say, with big ears and the name that I have, I wasn’t immune,” said Obama, who moved around a lot as a boy, being born in Hawaii and growing up there and in Indonesia. “I didn’t emerge unscathed,” he said.
TONIGHT ON TV n MoVIe“the School of rock” — Fired from his group and des-perate for money, a guitarist, Jack Black, poses as a teach-er for students who play in a school band./7 on tBSn SPortScollege basketball — Dee Bost and Mississippi State get a tough assignment in the second round of the SEC Tour-nament, as the Bulldogs take on the Vanderbilt Commo-dores./9 on WJtVn PrIMetIMe“Fringe” — The team investi-gates a group of thieves who are able to break the laws of gravity; Walter attempts to de-lay the damage he has caused./8 on Fox
THIS WEEK’S LINEUPn eXPanXPanXP DeD lIStInGStV tIMeS — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost.com
MILESTONESn BIrtHDaYSaYSarupert Murdoch, media mogul, 80; Supreme court Justice antonin Scalia, 75; Bobby McFerrin, singer, 61; Jerry zuck-uck-ucker, movie director, 61; Peter Berg, actor-director, 49; lisa loeb, singer, 43; terrence Howard,terrence Howard,t actor, 42; Johnny Knoxville, ac-tor, 40; letete oya, toya, t singer, 30; thora Birch, actress, 29. n DeatHJean Dinning — The songwriter who wrote the teen tragedy hit “Teen Angel” has died. She was 86. Daughter, Cynthia Wygal, said that her mother died Feb. 22 in Garden Grove, Calif. Din-ning’s brother Mark performed “Teen Angel,” which is about a girl who dies tragically. A couple’s car stalls on railroad tracks and they safely get out, but the girl runs back to get the boy’s high school class ring and a train hits the car. The song was re-leased in October 1959 and it became an instant hit.
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Gallagher collapses during comedy showComedian Gallagher is hospitalized in Minne-
sota after collapsing during a performance.Todd Powers, owner of Whiskey Bone’s Road-
house in Rochester, said the 64-year-old Gal-lagher collapsed in the middle of a show there Thursday night.
Gallagher’s manager, Craig Marquardo, said the comedian is in stable condition and will be hospitalized overnight. He said he doesn’t yet know what caused Gallagher to collapse.
Gallagher, whose real name is Leo Anthony Gallagher, is best known for smashing watermelons with a sledgehammer.
Former mouseketeer’s L.A. home burnsFormer Disney Mouseketeer Annette Funicello has suffered
smoke inhalation from a fire that badly damaged her Los An-geles home, but her former husband says she wasn’t seriously injured.
The blaze Thursday in Encino was doused in less than a half-hour.
Fire spokesman Erik Scott says two women — one of them in a wheelchair — and a man were hospitalized for possible smoke inhalation and are in good condition.
Their names weren’t released, but Funicello’s ex-husband, Jack Gilardi, says the 68-year-old actress was at home with her cur-rent husband and a nurse. Funicello has multiple sclerosis.
‘Wire’ actress nabbed in drug raidsAn actress who appeared on the HBO series “The Wire” has
been charged with conspiring to sell heroin and was one of dozens arrested in early morning raids across Baltimore, author-ities said Thursday.
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, 30, is among 64 people charged in a joint state-federal prosecution of a large east Baltimore drug gang. She is charged in state court with conspir-ing with two men to distribute heroin and aid-ing and abetting.
Local television showed video of DEA agents leading Pearson from an apartment building downtown to a waiting police van. She was one of 37 people arrested by about 450 federal, state and local officers early Thursday. Twenty-two face state charges and 15 are charged in a federal indictment unsealed Thursday with con-spiracy to distribute drugs and possession with intent to distribute. A 38th person arrested earlier this month was charged in a federal criminal complaint. Authorities are still looking for the remaining 26 people charged.
The indictment states that since 2008, members of the con-spiracy bought heroin from New York and marijuana from Cali-fornia and sold the drugs on the streets of Baltimore neighbor-hoods. As part of the conspiracy, the indictment alleges that members who failed to perform required tasks were dealt with violently.
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Glitch blamed for $200M refund promiseOhio’s tax department said a promise that it would send a
woman a $200 million refund check was a mistake due to a soft-ware glitch.
Denise Bossetti was among 9,700 taxpayers statewide who received Ohio Department of Taxation notices about mega-refunds. It’s not clear if the other amounts were as big as what Bossetti was told to expect.
The woman from Huron in northern Ohio was sent a letter dated Jan. 24 saying her $200 million refund could not be paid by direct deposit so she’d be sent a check. Bossetti said she and her boyfriend had a “big laugh” over the letter.
Another dated a week later explained there’d been a software error.
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No savefor Joneson ‘Idol’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “American Idol” viewers didn’t tell Ashthon Jones they loved her.
The silky smooth 24-year-old retail manager from Nash-ville, Tenn., on Thursday was revealed to have the fewest viewer votes on the Fox talent competition.
The judges decided not to save Jones after her per-formance of Diana Ross’ “When You Tell Me That You Love Me.” Jones said before her dismissal that she regretted not selecting a more popular Ross tune.
“I was rooting for you, baby,” Jennifer Lopez told a weep-ing Jones.
Joining Jones as the bottom three vote-getters were 21-year-old college student Karen Rodriguez of New York and 20-year-old college stu-dent Haley Reinhart of Wheel-ing, Ill. Randy Jackson dubbed their respective Wednesday performances of Selena’s “I Could Fall In Love” and LeAnn Rimes’ “Blue” as sleepy, and he criticized Reinhart’s lack of direction.
“Find your lane,” Jackson advised.
Casey Abrams, the 20-year-old film camp counselor from Idyllwild, Calif., delivered an energetic take on Joe Cock-er’s rendition of “With a Little Help From My Friends” during Wednesday’s perfor-mance episode. He earned enough votes to move on in the competition, but he missed out on the results because he was hospitalized, “Idol” host Ryan Seacrest said.
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Dear Abby: My 3-year-old son is terminally ill. My sis-ter-in-law, “Anita,” has a son who is a year old. Anita always wants to compete for atten-tion between the two boys. She makes nasty comments to family members, suggest-ing that her son is ignored while mine gets all the atten-tion. No one says anything to her because they’re afraid of her “blowups.”
I don’t know how much longer I can live with this. It is hard enough watching my son slip away a little more each day, but having to deal with this has pushed me over the edge. How can I handle a crazy in-law in this situation? — Falling Apart in Illinois
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ance” she’s feeling is selfi sh and insensitive.
However, because no one is, it might be better that Anita be excluded from family gath-erings in which she might feel her son is getting short shrift. And you should ask the person who is repeating her com-plaints to you to please stop sharing them. That should solve your problem.
Dear Abby: A few months ago I ran into an old friend at the spa. She told me to call her and plan to get together with her. I have called her, but she never seems receptive to actually getting together. She called me once and invited
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Should I stop putting out the effort? — Can’t Figure It Out
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•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.
Son’s coughing, shaking worries parentsDear Dr. Gott: My son is
60-plus years old and has been reasonably healthy. He has been hospitalized a couple of times for pneumonia. Unfortu-nately, he still smokes.
Over the past few years, he has developed a visible con-stant shaking of his body, par-ticularly noticeable in his arms and hands, even when he is eating. He is married and has no children. Seeing him during the holidays, my husband (his stepdad) and I were shocked at his appearance. He has always been a handsome man. Now, apart from the frightening, continuous shaking, he has a sick, unhealthy color, with his face blotchy and gray. His eyes are rather sullen and baglike. He coughs occasionally, some-times almost choking.
When asked, his wife said he has been to the doctor, had a few preliminary tests and is fi ne. “They could fi nd nothing wrong with him.”
My husband and I love them both, and we are so worried about my son. What can we
do? He has always been a dear man, and we are just sick over this.
Dear Reader: Tremors are unintentional muscle move-ments that commonly affect the hands, arms, legs, head, face and other areas of the body. There are more than 20 types of tremor that are often caused by diffi culties in parts of the brain that control muscles. They occur at any age but are more common in middle-aged and older men and women. The cause of body shaking (trem-ors) depends on which body parts are involved. Simple pos-sibilities include a feeling of apprehension or nervousness brought on by an event that occurred or is pending; pre-scribed drugs such as stimu-lants and amphetamines with
shaking as a side effect; the excessive use of alcohol or withdrawal from it; or stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease.
Beyond the body shaking, you indicate your son continues to smoke and cough, his com-plexion is gray and he appears unhealthy. This is of more con-cern to me from a medical point of view. He may have cardiac abnormalities, chronic obstruc-tive pulmonary disease or other more ominous problems. If his wife indicates he is fi ne, it would likely be in his best inter-est to make an appointment with another physician for a complete examination, blood work, X-rays, an EKG and any-thing else the doctor deems appropriate. My guess is that he should also consult a top-notch neurologist, who can get to the bottom of his tremors and get him back on track.
•Write to Dr. Peter Gott in care of United Media, 200 Madison Ave., 4th � ., New York, NY 10016.
ABIGAILVANBUREN
DEAR ABBY
DR. PETERGOTT
ASKTHEDOCTOR
TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPEBY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION
TWEEN 12 & 20BY DR. ROBERT WALLACE • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION
Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — When everything is running smoothly, you’re a delightful person to be around. How-ever, there is a slim chance something could get ugly, so don’t let less desirable traits prevail.Aries (March 21-April 19) — You might be tempted to manipulate someone for the purpose of making him/her feel indebted or obligated to you in order to get something you want. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Even if you just want to be a good friend, don’t lend mon-ey to a pal who has trouble paying people back.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — If you kid yourself into be-lieving that you have more clout than you actually pos-sess, you’re likely to get your-
self drawn into a situation in which you’ll be overmatched. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Failing to promptly pay back what you promised is likely to generate some new complica-tions for you.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — When it comes to your enter-tainment needs, budget your spending money very wisely. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Something you’d like to do with friends might get re-jected by one person in the group, but instead of fuel-ing the discord, see if you can work out some kind of com-promise.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You’re an individual who likes to be helpful to others when you can, but think twice be-fore volunteering aid that might not be in the recipient’s
best interest.Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Fellow friends might get angry if you attempt to ad-just some arrangements that everyone had agreed upon to better suit your new time and needs. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Minor disagreements between you and your mate will be easily resolved without incident. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’ll be inviting trouble if you start throwing your weight around with subordi-nates. If something needs to be changed, handle the mat-ter respectfully and tactfully.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — If at all possible, avoid any risky bet that would require a large cash outlay by you.
Dr. Wallace: I am 20, and my husband of two months works from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. six days a week. I am attend-ing college full time at night because the tuition is a lot cheaper.
This arrangement has made me very depressed and I cry a lot. I am alone all day and have not made any friends (we are new in town).
I love my husband and he is very kind, but I never see him anymore. Please help. — Alli-son, Charleston, Ill.
Allison: Your marriage and mental well-being are more important than being a full-time college student.
Drop all of your evening courses but one and spend evenings with your husband. You may also enjoy a part-
time job or volunteering one or two days in a � eld that is re-lated to your future plans after college.
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Substitute Trustee'sNotice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WarrenWHEREAS, on the 20th dayof December, 2005 andacknowledged on the 20thday of December, 2005,Anthony D McCloud,executed and delivered acertain Deed of Trust untoEllis and Ellis, Trustee forMortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,Beneficiary, to secure anindebtedness thereindescribed, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1567 at Page 717#229603; andWHEREAS, on the 28th dayof September, 2010,Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,assigned said Deed of Trustunto Wells Fargo Bank, NA,by instrument recorded in theoffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1514 at Page 353Instrument #282337; andWHEREAS, on the 30th dayof September, 2010 theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1514 at Page 444Instrument #282472; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 18th day of March, 2011,I will during the lawful hoursof between 11:00 a.m. and4:00 p.m., at public outcry,offer for sale and will sell, atthe west front door of theWarren County Courthouseat Vicksburg, Mississippi, forcash to the highest bidder,the following described landand property situated inWarren County, Mississippi,to-wit:All of Lot Forty-Eight (48) ofCottonwood Subdivision,Part II, a plat of which is ofrecord in Plat Book 3 atPage 113 of the land recordsof Warren County,Mississippi.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me asSubstitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 10th day ofFebruary, 2011.Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020ASH/F10-2586Publish: 2/25, 3/4, 3/11(3t)
Substitute Trustee's Noticeof SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WarrenWHEREAS, on the 13th dayof April, 2007, andacknowledged on the 13thday of April, 2007, RobertButler, a single man,executed and delivered acertain Deed of Trust untoArnold M. Weiss, Attorney,Trustee for MortgageElectronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., Beneficiary, tosecure an indebtednesstherein described, whichDeed of Trust is recorded inthe office of the ChanceryClerk of Warren County,Mississippi in Book 1651 atPage 68 #244839; andWHEREAS, on the 7th dayof September, 2010,Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,assigned said Deed of Trustunto BAC Home LoansServicing, LP fkaCountrywide Home LoansServicing LP, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1514 at Page 266Instrument #282215; andWHEREAS, on the 20th dayof September, 2010, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1514 at Page 267Instrument #282216; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 25th day of March, 2011,I will during the lawful hoursof between 11:00 a.m. and4:00 p.m., at public outcry,offer for sale and will sell, atthe west front door of theWarren County Courthouseat Vicksburg, Mississippi, forcash to the highest bidder,the following described landand property situated inWarren County, Mississippi,to-wit:All of Lot Two (2) of thatcertain survey in said City ofVicksburg known as the Dyerand Feld Survey in SectionThirty-four (34) TownshipSixteen (16) North, RangeThree East as shown by aplat duly recorded in Book116 at Page 131 of the LandRecords in the Office of theClerk of the Chancery Courtof Warren County,Mississippi.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me asSubstitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 18th day of February,2011.Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020lca/F10-2142Publish: 3/4, 3/11, 3/18(3t)
Substitute Trustee'sNotice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WarrenWHEREAS, on the 25th dayof July, 2005, andacknowledged on the 25thday of July, 2005, MichelleCarroll, a single woman andJohn D. Harmon, a singlewoman, executed anddelivered a certain Deed ofTrust unto James L.Robertson, Trustee forMortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,Beneficiary, to secure anindebtedness thereindescribed, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1545 at Page 518;andWHEREAS, on the 26th dayof September, 2008,Mortgage Electronic
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01. LegalsRegistration Systems, Inc.,assigned said Deed of Trustunto The Bank of New YorkMellon Trust Company,NationalAssociation fka The Bank ofNew York Trust Company,N.A. as successor trustee toJPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.as Trustee for 2005RS9RAMP, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1486 at Page 54Instrument #261986; andWHEREAS, on the 26th dayof September, 2008, theHolder of said Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau asTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1486 at Page 55Instrument #261987; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 25th day of March, 2011,I will during the lawful hoursof between 11:00 a.m. and4:00 p.m., at public outcry,offer for sale and will sell, atthe west front door of theWarren County Courthouseat Vicksburg, Mississippi, forcash to the highest bidder,the following described landand property situated inWarren County, Mississippi,to-wit:That certain lot, tract, orparcel of land, lying andbeing situated in WarrenCounty, Mississippi, moreparticularly described asfollows, to-wit:Part of Lot 88 ofWARRENTON HEIGHTSSUBDIVISION, Part "E" ofPart II, Warren County,Mississippi, as shown by Platattached to that certainwarranty deed, recorded inDeed Book 1018 at Page166 of the land records ofWarren County, Mississippi,and being a resurvey of theoriginal Lot 88 in WarrentonHeights Subdivision, Part "E"of Part II as shown on a platrecorded in Plat Book 2 atPage 69 of the aforesaidland records, said tract orparcel of land hereinconveyed hereby is moreparticularly described asfollows:Part of Lot 88,WARRENTON HEIGHTSSUBDIVISION, Part "E" ofPart 2 as recorded in PlatBook 2 at Page 69 of theland records of WarrenCounty, Mississippi, moreparticularly described asfollows: Beginning at theSouthwest Corner of said Lot88, thence with the East lineof Linda Drive, North 00degrees 50 minutes West,60.0 feet, thence with saidEast line of Linda Drive,North 14 degrees 35 minutesWest 63.0 feet, thence North81 degrees 46 minutes East181.96 feet, thence South 03degrees 55 minutes East,102.93 feet to the North lineof an unnamed street, thencewith the North line of said un-named street, South 75degrees 25 minutes West,176.05 feet to the point ofbeginning, containing 0.45acres, more or less.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me asSubstitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 21st day of February,2011.Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020DMM/F08-2762Publish: 3/4, 3/11, 3/18(3t)
Substitute Trustee's Noticeof SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF WarrenWHEREAS, on the 26th dayof September, 2008, andacknowledged on the 26thday of September, 2008,Odessa Foster aka OdessaHemphill Foster, executedand delivered a certain Deedof Trust unto Cindy R.Palmer, Trustee forMortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc.,Beneficiary, to secure anindebtedness thereindescribed, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the officeof the Chancery Clerk ofWarren County, Mississippiin Book 1699 at Page 163Instrument #261884; andWHEREAS, on the 6th dayof July, 2010, MortgageElectronic RegistrationSystems, Inc., assigned saidDeed of Trust unto WellsFargo Bank, NA, byinstrument recorded in theoffice of the aforesaidChancery Clerk in Book1510 at Page 611 Instrument#278593; andWHEREAS, on the 6th dayof July, 2010, the Holder ofsaid Deed of Trustsubstituted and appointedEmily Kaye Courteau as
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01. LegalsTrustee in said Deed ofTrust, by instrumentrecorded in the office of theaforesaid Chancery Clerk inBook 1510 at Page 644Instrument #278649; andWHEREAS, default havingbeen made in the paymentsof the indebtedness securedby the said Deed of Trust,and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requestedthe undersigned so to do, onthe 25th day of March, 2011,I will during the lawful hoursof between 11:00 a.m. and4:00 p.m., at public outcry,offer for sale and will sell, atthe west front door of theWarren County Courthouseat Vicksburg, Mississippi, forcash to the highest bidder,the following described landand property situated inWarren County, Mississippi,to-wit:The following propertysituated in Warren County,Mississippi, to-wit:Part of Lots 10 and 11,extension to Sky HeightsSubdivision, City ofVicksburg, Warren County,Mississippi, a plat of which isrecorded in Plat Book 116 atpage 169 of the WarrenCounty, Mississippi LandRecords, more particularlydescribed as follows:Beginning at a point on theEast side of Sky FarmAvenue, said point being thecorner common to Lots 10and 11 of the extension toSky Heights Subdivision; runthence South 68 degrees 28minutes East, 273.0 feet to apoint on the Westernright-of-way line of LeatriceLane South 47 degrees 11minutes West, 218.7 feet;thence North 50 degrees 16minutes West, 195.2 feet toa point on the Eastern sideof Sky Farm Avenue, saidpoint being the cornercommon to Lots 9 and 10 ofthe extension to Sky HeightsSubdivision; thence alongthe Eastern right-of-way ofSky Farm Avenue with acurve to the left, a chord ofNorth 24 degrees 24 minutesEast, 136.3 feet to the Pointof Beginning.I will only convey such titleas is vested in me asSubstitute Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,this 28th day of February,2011.Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee2309 Oliver RoadMonroe, LA 71201(318) 330-9020lca/F10-1747Publish: 3/4, 3/11, 3/18(3t)
SUMMONS BYPUBLICATIONTO: " WRONGFUL DEATHBENEFICIARIES ANDLAWFUL HEIRS OFDORSEYMAYES, DECEASED",absent or unknownDefendants, this cause shallbe proceeded with as othercauses in chancery, andupon satisfactory evidenceas to death of said personand as to the fact that theparties to said suit are hiswrongful death beneficiariesand sole heirs at law,the court shall enter ajudgment that the persons
so described be recognizedas the wrongful deathbeneficiaries and heirs at lawof such a decedent, and assuch be placed in posses-sion of his estate. And saidjudgment shall be evidencein all the courts of law andequity in thisstate that the persons thereinnamed are the wrongfuldeathbeneficiaries and sole heirsat law of the person thereindescribed astheir ancestor.TAKE NOTICE that ahearing will be held in theChancery Court ofthe Warren CountyCourthouse, Vicksburg,Mississippi, on March 23,2011,
01. Legalsat 10:30 a.m., and at saidhearing you should appearand show cause, ifany you can, why the reliefsought by the Plaintiff shouldnot begranted by the Court. Failureto appear at the time andplace mentionedmay result in a judgmentagainst you for the reliefdemanded.You are not required to filean answer or other pleadingbut youmay do so if you desire.Issued under my hand andseal of said Court, this the15thday of February, 2011.DOT MCGEE, CHANCERYCLERKWARREN COUNTY,MISSISSIPPI
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SHORKIE PUPPIES FORsale, $200.Tea cup Maltese$100. 10 GALLON tank with fishand plants, $30. 601-529-6608.
15. AuctionLOOKING FOR A great
value? Subscribe to TheVicksburg Post, 601-636-4545, ask for Circulation.
24. BusinessServices
17. Wanted ToBuy
I PAY TOP dollar forjunk vehicles. Call
601-218-0038.
17. Wanted ToBuy
WANTED 1990 FORDProbe GT car for bodyparts. 601-885-8502.
WE HAUL OFF old appli-ances, lawn mowers, hot waterheaters, junk and abandonedcars, trucks, vans, etcetera.601-940-5075, if no answer,please leave message.
24. BusinessServices
18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale
25 AND 27 inch Hotel T.V.'s. 12 month
warranty, 1420 Washing-ton Street, 601-331-0010,
601-529-9895.
6' WALNUT EXECUTIVEdesk. $300. 601-415-7333.
After Taxmas Sale at RiversidePawn and Jewelry. Come see T-Bone
and Jabo. 5 DVD’s for $10, PS2,
Xbox 360, games $5 each, VHS2 for $1, CD’s $2 each, PS3
games $10, Blu ray movies $5each. Tools on sale, Fishing rods,
weed eaters, electoronics. AsALWAYS we pay more for
broken or old gold.Riverside Pawn and Jewelry601-619-1551 • 700 China St.
FILE CABINETS- 2 and 4 drawer- lateral. AAB's, 1420 Washing-
ton Street, 601-331-0010, 601-529-9895.
FOR LESS THAN 45cents per day, haveThe Vicksburg Post
delivered to your home.Only $14 per month,
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Circulation Department.
HOTEL KING ANDQueen mattress and box
springs, sanitized. Sleeper sofas.
1420 WashingtonStreet, 601-331-0010,
601-529-9895.
NEW ARRIVALS- NEW 5piece bedroom suite withmattress set, $650. Sofaand love seat, $699. Dis-count Furniture Barn, 600Jackson Street. 601-638-7191.
PAGEANT CLOTHES (9months- 3t) Youth horse
show clothes.601-397-0131.
THE PET SHOP“Vicksburg’s Pet Boutique”3508 South Washington Street
DOGGIE SWEATERS ARE HERE!A VARIETYOF SIZES,
STYLES& COLORS!
COME INFOR A
FITTING!
USED TIRES! LIGHTtrucks and SUV's, 16's,17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A fewmatching sets! Call TD's,601-638-3252.
18. Miscellaneou sFor Sale
PINK BARK MULCH $2.48.New shipment of Vietnameseglazed planters. M&M Rocks601-218-3850.
USING YOUR TAX re-fund to buy new furniture/computer/ electronics?Make room by selling youritems with a classified ad!Call 601-636-7355.
24. BusinessServices
19. Garage &Yard Sales
107 BOY SCOUT Road.Friday- Saturday 8am- until.Clothes, purses, householditems, lots of jewelry.
112 PINEHURSTSTREET. Saturday 7am-.Collectibles and much mis-cellaneous.
114 JENNIFER DRIVE,off Freetown Road, Satur-day only, 7am- until. Singersewing machine and materi-al, variety VCR tapes,books, vacuum, bread ma-chine, summer boy's andgirl's baby clothes- newbornto size 4, all size adult cloth-ing, lots of miscellaneous.Rain or shine.
125 ROSELAND DRIVE, offHalls Ferry. Saturday 7am- un-til. Furniture, Clothing; all sizes,DVD's, sports memorabilia,what-nots and books.
1415 HARRISONSTREET, Friday, Saturday,8am-3pm.
180 LAKE VIEW DRIVE,Lake Park. Saturday 7am-11am. Microwave, dryer, cof-fee table, clothes, miscella-neous.
206 SIOUX STREET(Hillcrest) 61 South Saturday 8am- 12pm
furniture, clothes, shoes,baby clothes, babyaccessories, lots of
miscellaneous.
216 MILLER STREET.Friday and Saturday 7am-1pm. Flat screen Tvs,tools, tires, lots of goodstuff for men and women.
3 FAMILY SALE, 2151Culkin Road, Saturday, 7am-12 noon, Rugs, 2 recliners,queen size bed, lots of babyitems, much, much more!
24. BusinessServices
19. Garage &Yard Sales220 AMBERLEAF
DRIVE OFF HWY. 803 Family sale Baby & Kiditems; junior, men, womenclothes; and lots ofhousehold misc. 7am-noon
5209 GIBSON ROAD.Saturday 7am-11am. Plentyof clothes, shoes, house-wares and much more.
5670 NORTH WASHING-TON Street. Saturday 6:30am-
10:30am. Household items,yard and pool items, futon
$150, tall oak shelf, teen purs-es and jeans, TV, Karaokemachine. 601-529-2808.
DANAWOOD LANE,OFF Dana Road, Friday
pre-view 2pm-6pm, Saturday, baby boy
clothing, jewelry, niceclothing, linens,
household miscellaneous.
Multi family!
ESTATE SALE REM-NANTS, lots of furniture,mirrors, frames, decorativeglassware, small chande-liers, much more! Saturday,7am-12 noon, 102 RobertE. Lee, No early birds.
GARAGE SALE OVER?River City Rescue Missionwill pickup donated left overitems. 601-636-6602.
GARAGE SALE, 585 Mt.Alban Road, Saturday, lotsof clothes, good miscella-neous. No early birds!
GARAGE/ MOVINGSALE
Saturday, March 12th. 1208Newit Vick from 7am - 2 pm.Tools, clothes, householdgoods, some furniture.
GOING OUT OF busi-ness sale, Lovie's DayCare, 3425 Wisconsin Av-enue, Saturday, 7am-12noon, 1 year old poolpump, furniture, copy ma-chines, much, much more!
HUGE GARAGE SALE109 Melissa Drive. Saturday6am-11am. Lots of babyitems, good quality clothes,household items, dryer, lots& lots of everything. EarlyBirds Friday PM.
INSIDE GARAGE SALE,1 Riverview Drive, 61South, Saturday, campingitems, tools, grill, ladder,clocks, lots of ruby redglass, furniture, pots andpans, couch chairs, babyfurniture, compost maker,miscellaneous items! Rainor shine!
MOVING TO THE Caribbean. Cant take it with us.3809 Old Highway 27. Saturday7am- 1pm. Taxidermy mounts,duck stamp prints, hunting ac-cessories, home décor, furni-ture, clothes.
STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale?Donate your items to
The Salvation Army, we pick-up!
Call 601-636-2706.
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S H A M R O C KA PA RT M E N T S
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George Mayer R/E Management
1 Bedroom/ 1 Bath2 Bedrooms/ 2 BathsStudios & Efficiencies
Utilities Paid • No Utility Deposit Required
Downtown Convenience •to Fine Restaurants, Shops,
Churches, Banks & CasinosSecure High-Rise Building •
Off Street Parking •9 1/2 Foot Ceilings •
Beautiful River Views •Senior Discounts •
Listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings •
Classic Elegancein Historic Surroundings
MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTSElderly & Disabled3515 Manor Drive
Vicksburg, Ms.601-636-3625
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19. Garage &Yard SalesWhat's going on in
Vicksburg this weekend?Read The Vicksburg Post!
For convenient home deliv-ery call 601-636-4545, ask
for circulation.
21. Boats,Fishing Supplies
What's going on in Vicks-burg this weekend? ReadThe Vicksburg Post! Forconvenient home delivery,call 601-636-4545, ask forcirculation.
24. BusinessServices
BUYERS WANTED!!BUYERS needed for multi-ple cash flow investmentproperties. Call today!
1-877-619-6884.
• BankruptcyChapter 7 and 13
• Social Seurity Disability• No-fault Divorce
Toni Walker TerrettAttorney At Law
601-636-1109
FREE ESTIMATESTREY GORDON
ROOFING & RESTORATION•Roof & Home Repair
(all types!)•30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref
Licensed • Insured601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133
D&D Tree CuttingTrimming & Lawn
Care InsuredFor Free Estimates call “Big James”at 601-218-7782.
DIRT AND GRAVELhauled. 8 yard truck. 601-638-6740.
J & H TREE SERVICES.Experienced, Licensed and
Insured. Free estimates!Cut, trim, remove, no jobtoo big or small. 601-415-
6074 or 601-738-0856
River City Lawn CareYou grow it - we mow it!Affordable and profes-
sional. Lawn and land-scape maintenance.Cut, bag, trim, edge.
601-529-6168.
STEELE PAINTINGSERVICE LLC
Specialize in painting/ sheet rock.
All home improvementsFree Estimates 601-634-0948.
• Mechanic Work• Painting • Carpentry
• Yard Work • Odd Jobs
• Honest • Dependable,• Reasonable
Steven, 601-618-6113
29. UnfurnishedApartments
26. For RentOr Lease
MOBILE HOME LOTS. InVicksburg city limits. 601-619-9789.
PROFESSIONALOFFICE SPACE.
Great location. Utilitiesand janitorial serviceincluded. $600/month.
601-638-4050.
28. FurnishedApartments
COMPLETELY FUR-NISHED. 1 Bedroom or stu-dio apartment. All utilitiespaid. Includes cable, internetand laundry room. $750 -$900 a month. 601-415-9027or 601-638-4386.
SINGLE OCCUPANCY-Corporate Apartments,
$700 to $900 Utilities/ Cable/ Laundry.
Weekly cleaning. On-SiteManager. 601-661-9747.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
2 BEDROOM DUPLEX,$400 monthly, $200
deposit. Refrigerator andstove furnished. 2 Bedroomall electric. Stove, refrigera-
tor and water furnished$450 monthly, $200 de-
posit. 601-634-8290.
THE COVETired of high utility bills?
Country Living at it’s BEST!
Paid cable, water & trash!Washer & Dryer,
Microwave included!Ask about our
SPECIAL!
601-415-8735
29. UnfurnishedApartments
BEST DEAL IN DowntownVicksburg 1, 2 and 3 bedroom
apartments. Call for more information. 601-638-1746.
BEAUTIFULLAKESIDE
LIVING
• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts.• Beautifully Landscaped• Lake Surrounds Community
• Pool • Fireplace• Spacious Floor Plans
601-629-6300www.thelandingsvicksburg.com
501 Fairways DriveVicksburg
CYPRESS HILL APART-MENTS- 402 Locust- 1 bed-room- $250 bi-weekly, utili-ties/ furniture, no utilities-$375/ month. 601-456-3842.
CommodoreApartments
1, 2 & 3Bedrooms
605 Cain Ridge Rd.Vicksburg, MS
39180
601-638-2231
30. HousesFor Rent
1405 DIVISION STREET,3 bedroom, 1 bath, centralair/ heat. $650 month, $650deposit. 678-571-8049.
1455 PARKSIDE, lovelycul-de-sac, $1,350 monthly.1865 Martin Luther King, new-ly remodeled, $700 monthly.732-768-5743 or 601-994-4212.
LOS COLINAS. SMALL 2Bedroom, 2 Bath Cottage.Close in, nice. $795 month-ly. 601-831-4506.
NEAR DOWNTOWN. 2 bed-room, central air/ heat, porches,
stove, refrigerator, $450. 601-636-7107,
SHORT DRIVE FROMVicksburg! 3 bedroom, 2bath, Tallulah. $700 month-ly, deposit/ references/ nopets. 601-218-2746.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
31. Mobile HomesFor Rent
MEADOWBROOKPROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bed-room mobile homes, southcounty. Deposit required.
601-619-9789.
NEWLY REMODELED.24X70, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths.Laminate/ ceramic flooring on40 acre lake. $975 monthly.601-218-9928, 601-638-0177.
32. Mobile HomesFor Sale
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40. Cars & Trucks
34. HousesFor Sale
Completely Updated4 Bedroom, 2 Bath. Wired workshop, Warren Central
area. For appointment,
601-415-3022
AskUs.
2150 South Frontage Road bkbank.comMember FDIC
! FHA & VA! Conventional! Construction! First -timeHomebuyers
Candy FranciscoMortgage Originator
MortgageLoans601.630.8209
Open Hours:Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm
601-634-89282170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd.
www.ColdwellBanker.comwww.homesofvicksburg.net
Rental includingCorporate Apartments
Available
Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134Jill Waring Upchurch....601-906-5012Carla Watson...............601-415-4179Judy Uzzle-Ashley....601-994-4663Mary D. Barnes.........601-966-1665Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490Broker, GRI
601-636-6490
Licensed inMS and LA
Jones & UpchurchReal Estate Agency
1803 Clay Streetwww.jonesandupchurch.com
34. HousesFor Sale
McMillinReal Estate601-636-8193
VicksburgRealEstate.com
OAK PARK. 424 Evans,updated 3 bedroom, 2 bath,hardwood, ceramic, carpet,10x16 building. 601-619-4486, 601-750-6262.
PEAR ORCHARD SUBDI-VISION, 315 Belize Court. 3bedroom, 2 bath in cul-de-sac.Reduced! Call Caroline 601-415-7408. Not available forrent!
Kay Odom..........601-638-2443Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512Jake Strait...........601-218-1258Bob Gordon........601-831-0135Tony Jordan........601-630-6461Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318Kai Mason...........601-218-5623Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549
Sybil Carraway...601-218-2869Catherine Roy....601-831-5790Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211
AARRNNEERRRREEAALL EESSTTAATTEE,, IINNCCV
JIM HOBSONREALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER
601-636-0502
29. UnfurnishedApartments
35. Lots For Sale
BEAUTIFUL 1 ACRE lotfor sale in Claiborne Coun-ty. $8,000 firm. Serious in-quiries only. 601-630-7997.
38. FarmImple ments/
Heavy Equipment
FORD 3000 TRACTOR.Diesel, box blade, boompole. Good tractor! $4200.601-415-6479.
39. Motorcycles ,Bicycles
2000 HONDA SHADOWSpirit 1100. Good condition.$3,000. 601-218-9191.
2007 KAWASAKI VUL-CAN 900. Bike has 6,000miles well taken care of.
Approximately $2,300 ofafter market accessories.
Vance and Power Comman-der, Passenger backrest,
luggage rack, and Highwaybars. The bike was placedon a dyno and a specific
map was made for the powercommander. Asking $5,500.
601-638-0436, 601-529-3407.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
40. Cars & Trucks
1997 CHEVROLET AS-TRO LS 7 passenger
van. 4.3 liter V6, cold a/cwith rear air, Clean193,000 miles, wellmaintained $3,500.
601-831-3245.
1998 CHEVROLETBLAZER. 4 door, only86,000 miles, new tires,dual power seats, powerwindows/ locks, V6, goodgas mileage, great condi-tion. Call 601-218-9654 day,601-636-0658, night.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
40. Cars & Trucks
1987 VOLKSWAGENCABRIOLET convertible,white. $1500. 601-529-2258, leave message.
1999 MAZDA B-4000 Ex-tended cab truck. Runsgood, clean. LOW PRICE!Call Robert at 601-400-0229. Dealer.
2000 NUBIRA DAE Woo.4 door, purple/ white freshlypainted Tinker Bell interior,new 18 inch rims, new bat-tery, brakes, very smoothride! $4200. 601-218-8306.
2002 CHRYSLER TOWNand Country Van. Runsgreat, clean, leather. LOW,LOW PRICE! Call Robert at601-400-0229. Dealer.
2006 CHEVROLET COL-ORADO. 2 wheel drive, crewcab, Z-71 package, verynice, runs great, spray-inbedliner. Call Robert at601-400-0229. Dealer.
2006 FORD F-250 Extend-ed cab. Maroon, nice truck,good for farm truck or pullingheavy loads. Call Robert at601-400-0229. Dealer.
2006 FORD F250 LariatDiesel FX4. White, sunroof,leather, assist steps, 5th
wheel, very clean. CallRobert at 601-400-0229.Dealer.
2007 Dodge Nitro. Black,4x4, R/T package, loadedand very clean. Call Robertat 601-400-0229. Dealer.
2007 HONDA PILOT.Clean, runs great, must see,low price! Call Robert at601-400-0229. Dealer.
29. UnfurnishedApartments
40. Cars & Trucks
2008 Buick Enclave. Lowmiles, clean, warranty,leather, DVD, 3rd row. Mustsee! Call Robert at 601-400-0229. Dealer.
2008 DODGE RAM 1500crew cab. Hemi engine, lowmiles, power back glass,spray-in bed liner, runs greatand clean. Call Robert at601-400-0229. Dealer.
BUY HERE, PAY HERE.Located at George Carr
old Rental Building.Come check us out.
MUTUAL CREDITUNION has for sale: 2006
Toyota Tacoma XTRA Cab,2 wheel drive, white,
107,000 miles. $9100.Please call 601-636-7523,
extension 258.
NEED A RIDE? $1500Cash Down, current checkstub and W-2, phone bill inyour name- no pre-paid, 1year on job. Call Robert at601-400-0229. Dealer.
USING YOUR TAX re-fund to buy a new car/ truckor SUV? Sell your old vehi-cle with a classified ad. Call601-636-7355.
WHITE DURANGO FLT1999. Asking $5,500118,000 miles. 601-415-3845.
CLOSET PHOBIA?Clear out the skeletons in yours
with an ad in the classifieds. 601-636-SELL
Finding the car you wantin the Classifieds is easy,
but now it’s practicallyautomatic, since we’veput our listings online.
FIND THE CAR FIND THE CAR YOU HAYOU HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FORVE BEEN SEARCHING FORIN THE VICKSBURG POST CLASSIFIEDS! IN THE VICKSBURG POST CLASSIFIEDS!
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