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By The Associated Press PARCHMAN — A Mississippi man was put to death Wednesday evening for killing two men in a December 1995 robbery spree after the courts declined to stop the execution based on arguments that the inmate was mentally ill at the time. Edwin Hart Turner, 38, died at 6:21 p.m. after receiving a chemical injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Edwin Hart authorities Turner said. Turner was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Eddie Brooks and Everett Curry, who were slain at two gas stations a few miles apart that were targeted by Turner and an armed friend in a spree that netted them about $400. Brooks was shot to death first while working at one of the gas stations and Curry, at the other while pumping gas when the pair went there next, toting rifles. Turner’s accomplice testified against him and was sentenced to life in prison. Wearing a red prison jumpsuit as he lay strapped on a gurney, Turner said, “No” when asked if he had a last statement. When the lethal chemicals began flowing, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath and appeared to fall asleep. The sister and a cousin of victim Eddie Brooks watched the execution. The brother and son of his other victim, Everett Curry, also did. One of Curry’s other brothers read a family statement afterward.

By John Surratt jsurratt@vicksburg post.com Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield has pushed back until Monday plans to present a proposal to increase the city’s hotel and food and beverages taxes. Winfield had called a special meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen for today to discuss the bill, but canceled it late Wednesday to give city attorney Lee Davis Thames time to revise the proposed bill. The revisions eliminate the

proposed $20 million ceiling and do not specify a maximum amount. They also reduce the majority of Mayor Paul votes in a Winfield referendum necessary to levy the tax to more than 50 percent instead of 60 percent and make the bill effective on the governor’s signature if it passes. See Recreation, Page A10.

Bond denied for 2 men held in Jackson beating By Pamela Hitchins phitchins@vicksburgpost.com

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Death penalty opponents brave cooling temperatures to pray for the soul of Edwin Hart Turner Wednesday evening at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. “I don’t think we will ever have complete closure because a void will always exist in our hearts,” said Roy Curry, who did not watch the execution. “At least we will have some consolation in knowing that the person who committed this cowardly and senseless act is finally gone.” Turner had requested that

none of his family watch the execution, though his attorney and a pastor were present. There was little dispute that Turner killed the two men while robbing gas stations, then went home and had a meal of shrimp and cinnamon rolls before going to sleep. But his lawyers had tried

Bond has been denied for two suspects charged with the brutal beating and robbery of a Warren County man as he worked in Jackson Jan. 29. Jontez Garvis, 29, and David Thomas, 25, both residents of Jackson, continue to be held in the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond, said Jackson Police Department spokesman

to block the execution in various state and federal courts based on the argument that Turner was mentally ill at the time of the crimes. The lawyers had hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would outlaw executions of the mentally ill as it has done with people con-

David Thomas

Jontez Garvis

Colendula Green. Garvis was arrested Friday, Thomas on Sunday, Green said, both See Jackson, Page A3.

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No grandstanding, Waller tells attorneys in pardons fight By Emily Wagster Pettus The Associated Press JACKSON — Attorneys for a group of former inmates told the Mississippi Supreme Court today that former Gov. Haley Barbour’s pardons of them are valid. The Supreme Court was holding a lengthy hearing on whether the pardons were legal. In his final days in office, Barbour pardoned nearly 200 people, including four convicted murderers and a robber who worked as trusties at the Governor’s

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Mansion. His actions outraged victims’ families. Attorney Thomas Fortner, who represents four of the former trusties, said past cases suggest that pardons are not reviewable by the courts. “If you have a valid pardon signed by the governor ... it is not open to judicial review,” Fortner told the court. Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. opened the hearing, saying no decision would be announced today. He did not say when the court might

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rule. He also admonished the attorneys. “I don’t want any political soundbites. I don’t want any jury arguments. No grandstanding. No sniping. Everybody understand?” Waller said. Attorney General Jim Hood is challenging the pardons. The Democrat contends that if ads weren’t run in daily papers every day for 30 days, or weekly newspapers once a week for five weeks, the pardons aren’t valid under the state

constitution. Section 124 of the Mississippi Constitution says that in felony cases no pardon “shall be granted until the applicant therefor shall have published for thirty days, in some newspaper in the county where the crime was committed, and in the case there be no newspaper published in said county, then in an adjoining county ...” Fortner said the sole judge of whether the publication was proper is the governor. See Pardon, Page A10.

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Jovanny Martinez holds his son, Jeremiah Martinez, 2, wrapped in a blanket to keep him warm during a family outing to Riverfront Park late Wednesday afternoon. The group arrived at the park in light clothing and had to bundle up when the temperature dropped over a short period of time. Temperatures will continue to drop tonight and Friday, the National Weather Service forecast, until they hit a low in the 20s Saturday night.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1861: Jefferson Davis is elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America at a congress held in Montgomery, Ala. 1870: The U.S. Weather Bureau is established. 1942: Daylight-saving “War Time” goes into effect in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward. 1943: The World War II battle of Guadalca-

nal in the southwest Pacific ends with an Allied victory over Japanese forces. 1950: In a speech in Wheeling, W.Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charges the State Department is riddled with Communists. 1964: The Beatles make their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York on CBS.

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Diane Lutz uses a rope to hold onto her electric mower as she trims the lawn on a hill in her front yard on Washington Street Wednesday.

An annual condition report for the old U.S. 80 bridge over the Mississippi River is on hold another month, as officials wait on more details from its author. A report presented in January to the Vicksburg Bridge Commission showed the 82-year-old bridge in “fair-tovery good” condition. However, the five-member board decided Wednesday to wait on its inspection firm to note structural issues with rail tracks and suggest a slower speed for trains to ease stress on the bridge. The delay marks the third straight year commissioners have waited to accept the draft so more details can be included. The commission’s lone vote on the matter supported more analysis and study from Baton Rouge-based G.E.C. before the report is approved.

Half-pound of pot found after traffic stop in city A Vicksburg man accused of transporting a half-pound of marijuana, valued at $600, was in jail this morning without bond. Michael Smith, 25, 65 Smith Road, was arrested shortly before 2 a.m. today and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, police Capt. Bobby Stewart said. Smith was stopped near Clay and Spring streets for driving with no headlights, Stewart said. A canine search of the vehicle turned up marijuana hidden under the driver’s seat, and $1,200 was seized from Smith after his arrest, Stewart said. Smith was at Vicksburg Police Department headquarters this morning awaiting his initial court appearance.

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Purse-snatcher’s take recovered by witness A Clay Street pedestrian was knocked to the ground and her purse was stolen Wednesday afternoon, but a witness snatched it back and returned it to the victim. Vicksburg police today were searching for the pursesnatcher, whose attack was reported at 1:54 p.m. in the 900 block of Clay near Monroe Street, said Capt. Bobby Stewart. The robber fled west, and the witness grabbed the purse from him, Stewart said. All the items in the purse were recovered, and

the woman did not require medical attention, he said. The purse-snatcher was described only as a black teen.

Fugitive found hiding in motel’s attic A Vicksburg man accused of violating his parole was in jail today after trying to evade arrest by hiding in a motel attic, police Capt. Bobby Stewart said. Jason Lane, 25, 400 Mission 66, was arrested at 9:18 p.m. Wednesday in the attic of the Dixiana Motel in the 400 block of Washington Street, Stewart said. Lane is believed to have been visiting the motel with a woman when someone alerted police that he was there, Stewart

said. Lane was sentenced on Sept. 11, 2008, to three years in prison for felony shoplifting, and a warrant had been issued Aug. 8, 2011, for his arrest on a parole violation, Stewart said. Lane was in the Warren County Jail this morning, held for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Stolen car found; suspect ID’d, sought A car is back with its owner today after someone stole it for 30 minutes Wednesday and tried to sell it for scrap. At noon Wednesday, a 1998 white Lincoln Continental, valued at $8,500, was reported missing in the 2600 block of Togo Street, police

Capt. Bobby Stewart said. At 12:30 p.m., the car was recovered at Vicksburg Recycling in the 4700 block of North Washington Street. A suspect has been identified but police declined to give the name until an arrest, Stewart said.

Electronic games missing on Pierce Electronics valued at $350 are missing after a Wednesday burglary. Just before noon Wednesday, a homeowner in the 900 block of Pierce Street reported stolen a Sony PS3 game console, valued at $150, and five PS3 games, valued at $40 each, police Capt. Bobby Stewart said.

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BENEFITS Vicksburg Kiwanis Chili Feast — Friday: lunch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. or dinner, 5-7 p.m.; cost, $6; will deliver 10 or more, Charlie McKinnie, 601218-1754; eat in or take out; benefits service projects and college scholarships for local youth; Purks YMCA. Yard Sale — 6 a.m.-noon Saturday; 411 Ridgewood Drive; benefits Tournament Soccer Team.

CLUBS Elite Civic Club — Applications for scholarships available at the guidance counselor’s office of Vicksburg and Warren Central high schools; deadline is April 7. National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club — Applications for scholarships available at the guidance counselor’s office of Vicksburg and Warren Central high schools; deadline is April 7. Omicron Rho Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity — 6 tonight; LD’s Kitchen, 1111 Mulberry St. North/South Vicksburg

and Warren Central Class of 1972 Reunion — 6 p.m. Friday, planning meeting; Vicksburg Mall’s Meeting Room, near J.C. Penney. American Legion Post 213 — Dance at The Hut; Friday, 9 p.m. with DJ Reo, $5 admission; Sunday, 8 p.m. with DJ “Horseman” Mitchell, $3 singles or $5 per couple; cash raffle drawing both nights. Vicksburg Titans — 11 a.m.2 p.m. Saturday, pre-registration; WC Junior High; Freda Gaskin, 601-661-6002 or 601618-0734. PRAM River City Chapter — Noon Monday; Suzanne Anderson, communications specialist for Entergy, speaker; Martin’s at Midtown, 1101 Belmont St. AARP Chapter 4967 — 10 a.m. Tuesday; Alzheimer’s disease; Pastor Betty Tyler, RN and former staff development director of Shady Lawn Nursing Home, speaker; Senior Center.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS Grace Group Alcoholics Anonymous — 5:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays; 11 a.m. Saturdays; 601-636-5703; 1414 Cherry St. After School Program — For grades K-12; Central MS Prevention Services; Emma Roberts, 601-631-0102. Riverfest Tickets — Reduced rate through February: one day pass, $10, or weekend pass, $25; Paper Plus, 1318 Washington St.

Senior Center — Friday: 10 a.m., beanbag; 11:30, dulcimer; 1 p.m., card games and open use of computers. Author Talk — 1-2 p.m. Saturday; Darlene D. Collier and Meredith C. McGee, authors of “Married to Sin: A Memoir”; Public Library, 700 Veto St.; 601-630-4103. After School Tutorial — Tuesday-Feb. 16: 3-5 p.m. junior high and high school; 4-6 p.m., grades K-6; The Dream Center, 1600 Clay St.; for registration, 601-501-4351 or Pastor Troy D. Truly Sr., 601-2181323. Social Media Workshop — 10-11:30 a.m. March 3; learn how to use free social media websites; reservations required; Joel Angle and Candace Merrick, presenters; SCHF office, 601-631-2997. Tabooli With the Toneys — Cooking class, 2-4 p.m. Saturday; cost, $50, includes supplies; space limited; e-mail lmhand@live or ctoney20@ gmail. Parkside Playhouse Auditions — 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; “The Foreigner” a comedy directed by Jim Miller; 101 Iowa Ave. Levi’s — A Gathering Place; 7-10 p.m. Saturday, music by Old Habits; donations appreciated.

CHURCHES Beech Grove M.B. — Citywide revival crusade, 7 tonight; Pastor James Williams, speaker; 150 Redbone Road.

Share a Prayer — 6:30 p.m. Friday; bring favorite prayer, spiritual reading or meditation; sponsored by the Baha’is of Vicksburg; Alma Smith, 601636-8628. Spring Hill M.B. — Selling fish and spaghetti plates, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; $7 each; 815 Mission 66. Shiloh Baptist — Women’s Auxiliary meeting, 2 p.m. Saturday; fellowship hall; 920 Meadow St. Shady Grove Baptist — Black History program, 3 p.m. Saturday; Earnestine Johnson, speaker; Richard Johnson, pastor; 61 Shady Grove Circle. Cool Spring M.B. — Black History Extravaganza, 5 p.m. Saturday; the Rev. Byron T. Maxwell, pastor; refreshments; 385 Falk Steel Road. House of Peace — Singles

Valentine social, 7 p.m. Saturday; McNutt House, 815 First East St.; 601-529-1232 to register; age 18 or older.

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State Health Department seeks money as reserve runs dry By Jeff Amy The Associated Press JACKSON — The Mississippi Health Department told lawmakers Wednesday that it needs more money in the coming budget year or it may have to close clinics and reduce AIDS drug purchases. Dr. Mary Currier, the state health officer, told the House Appropriations Committee that the department has been draining internal reserves to stay afloat last year and this year. She said the Health

Department is spending about $4 million from reserves this year and said accounts will be almost empty when the current budget year ends June 30. “For the past several years, we have spent down cash reserves to keep our doors open,” Currier said. The department needs $32.5 million in state money, she said, well above the $26.5 million it’s getting now. Legislative budgeters recommend $20.7 million for the coming year, while Gov. Phil Bryant

has found about $4 million in current spending that can be counted toward the increased match, leaving it $2 million short. Currier said that the department also expects a roughly 8 percent decrease in federal money next year, which will also affect operations. She also said county governments are cutting funding. She attributed the partial closure of a Health Department clinic in Ocean Springs to a $200,000 cut in money from Jackson County.

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Vicksburg resident George Mitchell, 26, shoots hoops in his backyard on Division Street Wednesday afternoon. Mitchell said he built the backboard out of wood a few months ago and that he just wants to keep shooting rather than join up with a team or league.

Bond set for suspects in church burglaries state

BYRAM — Bond has been set for two men charged with multiple church burglaries. Kewane Latiker and Amos Simmons, both of Jackson, made their initial appearances in Byram on Wednesday, where their bond was set at $65,000. Latiker and Simmons are charged with two burglaries in Byram, two in Jackson and five in Hinds County. They also face separate charges in Hinds County.

started about 7:45 p.m. The plant was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. There were no injuries. The mill closed in 2002, leaving 300 people without jobs. It reopened in 2005 and closed again in 2009, this time for good. Workers have been cutting up and removing scrap metal and cleaning up the property.

Man found guilty of manslaughter

2 sought, 1 charged in Coast kidnapping

JACKSON — A Hinds County jury has convicted David Waits in the fatal shooting of a man outside a Jackson convenience store more than a year ago. Waits said he was acting in self-defense when he shot 32-year-old Waivous McGee 17 times. Special Circuit Judge L. Breland Hilburn sentenced Waits to 20 years in prison.

PASS CHRISTIAN — Sheriff’s investigators have arrested a Pass Christian man and have warrants for two others after a man went to a truck stop and reported he had been kidnapped and beaten. Shawn Hilton, 41, and two unidentified suspects are accused of tying up the man and assaulting him while accusing him of stealing scrap metal from a relative. Hilton was being held on a $200,000 bond set by Justice Court Judge Brandon Ladner.

Fire destroys closed paper mill GLOSTER — Fire destroyed a closed paper mill in Gloster. Amite County Fire Coordinator Sam Walsh said fire

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The Band Perry to headline fest BILOXI — The Band Perry,

Montgomery Gentry, Lakeside and Jake Owen are just some of the talent scheduled to perform at this year’s Crawfish and Music Festival. The 20th annual event, to be held at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, runs over two weekends, April 19-22, and again April 26-29. The festival will have more than 30 country, rock, regional Cajun/Zydeco and R&B bands.

Columbus schools cut 59 positions COLUMBUS — The Columbus Municipal School District has announced it will not renew the contracts of 59 teachers and support staff. Interim Schools Superintendent Dr. Martha Liddell says personnel cuts and other reductions will save the district $3.4 million.

Doctor admits failing to pay child support GULFPORT — A former Gulf Coast doctor has pleaded guilty to failing to pay thousands of dollars in child support while avoiding prosecution by living outside the United States. Federal prosecutors said 61-year-old Dr. Donald Lee

Roberts Jr. is being held pending sentencing in U.S. District Court. Roberts pleaded guilty Monday.

State attacking unemployment fraud JACKSON — The state of Mississippi has collected $7.3 million thus far from its efforts to crackdown on unemployment fraud. Mark Henry, executive director of Mississippi Department of Employment Security, says the money came from people caught collecting unemployment benefits while working. The recovered funds will go to the Unemployment Benefits Trust Fund. The fund provides benefits to those who are unemployed. The fund can also help hold down unemployment taxes paid by employers. MDES recovers fraudulently-obtained benefits through direct repayment, wage garnishment and tax refund garnishment. The agency has garnished state income tax refunds as a means of recovering funds. The agency began garnishing federal refunds Jan. 30. Henry says MDES verifies the records of recipients against current payroll records.

Jackson Continued from Page A1. charged with aggravated assault and armed robbery. The victim, Fred Jackson, 62, 627 Wright Road, Yokena, suffered severe head and facial injuries in the attack, said his daughter, Sheila Hedrick, who lives next door to her father. Jackson has not regained consciousness since the attack at Tri-Miss Services, a salvage yard at 416 Woodrow Wilson Drive, while he

was kneeling down welding a back gate at the yard. A videotape shows two men in hooded jackets approach and beat him repeatedly before leaving. Missing were $500, a paycheck and Jackson’s cell phone, Jackson police have said. Since, he has been in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at University Medical Center in Jackson. Hedrick said Wednesday

that her father has shown some signs of improvement but is still unresponsive and has developed pneumonia. “He’s not out of the woods yet but the doctors say that time is our best friend,” Hedrick said. An account has been set up at Regions Bank to receive donations to help with Jackson’s medical expenses, said Linda Harris, corporate communications officer with the

Currier said that without the full $32 million, Mississippi would collect less federal AIDS money and “have to give up some things.” “It would mean fewer services for folks,” she said. “It would mean less medicine for AIDS patients.” Rep. Sam Mims, R-McComb, asked if department could divert anti-tobacco money to other purposes. Currier said that money was earmarked by law and could not be shifted. Currier was not the first agency head to tell budget

writers that she has been living on internal reserves that are now running out after years of budget cuts. Higher Education Commissioner Hank Bounds told the committee last week that college financial aid programs are in much the same shape. “When you put non-recurring cash into recurring expenses, you get into the problem we’re in right now,” House Appropriations Chairman Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, said after the meeting.

Coast Rep. Baria pushes bill to increase alcohol in beer

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Court to hear case over Yazoo pumps project NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Mississippi levee board is asking a federal appeals court to revive a $220 million flood control project that the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed in 2008, claiming it would harm wetlands and wildlife. A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was set to hear arguments in the case today. The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners sued the EPA over its veto of the decades-old Yazoo Backwater Project. The board said the proposed pumping station would protect wetlands, farmland and forests north of Vicksburg from flooding. EPA argues the board doesn’t have standing to pursue its claims.

recommended about $25 million. She said the $32.5 million would allow the department to maintain its current operations, as well as give it $2 million needed to meet increased matching requirements for federal AIDS funding. Th e d e p a r t m e n t h a d requested $30.5 million at the beginning of the budget process, but had to raise its request when federal match requirements rose. Currier said the state needs $6 million more in AIDS money, and

bank. Donations, made out to Susan Gould or Sheila Hedrick for Fred Jackson, account number 0167152287, can be made at any Regions Bank, Harris said. Garvis and Thomas appeared in Jackson Municipal Court, where bond was denied, Green said. No further details about the hearings or their arrests were available, she said.

JACKSON (AP) — Lawmakers and grassroots organizers who have unsuccessfully pushed for legislation to modernize Mississippi’s beer and brewing laws are optimistic their efforts have a chance of paying off this session. As he has the past few sessions, Rep. David Baria, D-Bay St. Louis, has filed bills that would increase the state’s alcohol-by-weight limit in beer, and potentially pave the way for the state’s lone brewer to expand while encouraging new breweries to open. One bill would raise the state’s current cap — the lowest in the U.S. — of 5 percent ABW in beer made and sold in the state to 8 percent. Mississippi regulates alcohol in beer by weight, while other states use an alcohol-by-volume formula. The 5 percent

ABW in Mississippi calculates to about 6.19 percent by volume. The other two bills would allow Hancock County’s Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co. to offer certain samples to people who tour the brewery, and to brew beer with an ABW is above 5 percent as long as it’s shipped and sold out of state. The last would legalize homebrewing. Each piece of legislation has died in committee the past three legislative sessions. “There has been time for folks to digest this a little bit,” Baria said. “Hopefully they’ll understand that this is just not necessarily about the alcohol content, but it’s about generating additional revenue and creating additional jobs. To go with that, it’s about providing additional choice in the marketplace.”

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JACK VIX SAYS: Rec complex plans are confusing — at best.

Health Care Trust Fund headed to a zero balance

STARKVILLE — A new Republican governor and new Republican legislative leadership now face the same task that has confounded their Democratic colleagues when they had the reins of state government — finding a way to pay for Mississippi’s massive Medicaid program. Medicaid is a $3.9 billion federal-state program that provides health care for the poor, the blind, the disabled and children. State taxpayers pick up about 20 percent of the overall costs of the program or $763 million. Most of the rest of the costs are paid by federal tax dollars. Historically, state lawmakers have authorized a more generous Medicaid program than they have funded with state dollars. But even with austerity measures like face-to-face reauthorizations during the Haley Barbour administration, rising health care costs and increased demand or eligibility for Medicaid driven by high unemployment and a protracted economic recession have caused the state’s Medicaid costs to steadily increase. After an effort to expand Medicaid during the administration of former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, the state began to scramble to cover the concurrent rising costs. Prior to 2005, some 28 hospitals paid into a Medicaid transfer program that was used to “draw down” more federal dollars. By 2009, Barbour demanded that the state’s hospitals help pay for Medicaid through fees that those

institutions dubbed “the hospital tax.” Lawmakers were in the political crossSID fire of Barbour’s war with the Mississippi Hospital Association over that funding mechanism, but they also found other ways to stop the fiscal bleeding in meeting Medicaid’s growing bite out of the state budget. In 2004, they rejoiced over a $94 million federal reimbursement of a Medicaid “overpayment” for patients eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare. In 2005, they used federal hurricane relief funds that Barbour negotiated to help pay for Medicaid. Then they used federal stimulus funds. But as most taxpayers know, the Legislature had another sizeable source of funds they used to pay for Medicaid — the state’s Health Care Trust Fund. After the state’s $4.1 billion dollar tobacco settlement, the HCTF was established on July 1, 1999, with the initial deposit of $280 million in tobacco settlement funds. Left alone, the HCTF would today contain well over $2.4 billion in principal earning as much as $100 million in annual interest payments to spend on public health care in the state. Yet today, the HCTF has a balance of $97.4 million. The Legislature appears set to spend that entire amount to prop up the state’s troubled budget

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and avoid additional budget cuts. Some have tried to blame the depletion of the HCTF on Republicans in general and Barbour in particular. The facts contradict that posture, as confirmed by former Democratic Attorney General Mike Moore in a 2010 interview with this writer: “It hasn’t mattered who was in office, Republicans, Democrats, Musgrove, Barbour, or who was leading the Legislature. It’s the greatest disappointment I’ve had in 20 years that they couldn’t resist spending it all.” More than that, Democratic lawmakers defended the practice two years ago with many of the same arguments offered by Republicans currently about the need to spend the HCTF monies on health care. In 2010, state Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, didn’t dispute that lawmakers and governors had almost exhausted the HCTF in a bipartisan fashion. But he argued that the funds were spent in great measure on Medicaid. “We did spend it, but it was for health care and that’s where we directed a lot of it,” said Johnson. “It is true that we spend a lot on other functions of government, too, but that’s our responsibility to make decisions about using all the state’s resources in the most effective manner.” Republican legislative leaders are likely to echo Johnson’s 2010 words during the 2012 session. •

Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com

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Mrs. Sallie Hanley is dead at her home on Fort Hill.

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Sir David Ormsby Gore, British ambassador to the United States, and Lady Ormsby Gore are visiting here.

A reception in honor of Mrs. Jefferson Davis is tendered by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

40 YEARS AGO: 1972 Mary L. Wardell is killed in a head-on collision on old U.S. 61.

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Charles Lumey, who has been ill, is out again. • The Gem Cafe is bought by S. Susman.

90 YEARS AGO: 1922 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mason go to Port Gibson to reside. • W.W. Nesmith is ill at his home.

80 YEARS AGO: 1932 Mrs. Phoebe Simrall, pioneer teacher, dies at Yokena.

70 YEARS AGO: 1942 Vincent Cassino, a patient in the Infirmary, is reported missing. • Col. H.D. Vorgel is a visitor in the city. • A son is born to Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vollor.

60 YEARS AGO: 1952

Services are held in Yokena for Clara White.

Bill Harden transforms an old one-room schoolhouse for blacks on U.S. South in Yokena into an attractive antique store.

20 YEARS AGO: 1992 Ethel Wright Mohamed, widely known as Mississippi’s Grandma Moses of stitchery, dies. • Horace Richmond dies.

10 YEARS AGO: 2002

Derrick Dotson and Tiara Slater are named king and queen at the Kids Are Kids Learning Center Valentine Ball. • The Sheriff’s Department says it has shut down at least 10 crystal methamphetamine manufacturing sites across the county.

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

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Business

UNEMPLOYMENT

Aid applications near a 4-year low

Fr o m s t a f f a n d A P r e p o r t s

LOCAL STOCKS The following quotes on local companies are provided as a service by Smith Barney Citi Group, 112-B Monument Place, 601-6366914. Archer-Daniels (ADM)............. 30.42 American Fin. (AFG)................. 37.48 Ameristar (ASCA)....................... 20.29 Auto Zone (AZO).....................349.15 Bally Technologies (BYI).......... 44.32 BancorpSouth (BXS)................. 12.07 Britton Koontz (BKBK)................8.00 Bunge Ltd. (BG).......................... 59.74 Cracker Barrel (CBRL)............... 53.61 Champion Ent. (CHB)................... .20 Com. Health Svcs. (CYH)........ 19.92 Computer Sci. Corp. (CSC).... 31.39 Cooper Industries (CBE)......... 60.80 CBL and Associates (CBL)...... 18.47 CSX Corp. (CSX).......................... 21.95 East Group Prprties(EGP)...... 50.30 El Paso Corp. (EP)...................... 27.09 Entergy Corp. (ETR).................. 68.06

Fastenal (FAST)........................... 48.83 Family Dollar (FDO).................. 57.48 Fred’s (FRED)................................ 14.90 Int’l Paper (IP)............................. 30.95 Janus Capital Group (JNS).......8.44 J.C. Penney (JCP)....................... 42.35 Kroger Stores (KR)..................... 23.64 Kan. City So. (KSU).................... 69.09 Legg Mason (LM)..................... 27.21 Parkway Properties (PKY).........9.99 PepsiCo Inc. (PEP)..................... 66.74 Regions Financial (RF).............. 5.52 Rowan (RDC)............................... 36.95 Saks Inc. (SKS)............................. 10.88 Sears Holdings (SHLD)............ 48.80 Simpson-DuraVent (SSD)....... 32.58 Sunoco (SUN).............................. 40.13 Trustmark (TRMK)..................... 24.19 Tyco Intn’l (TYC)......................... 50.12 Tyson Foods (TSN).................... 19.05 Viacom (VIA)................................ 55.53 Walgreens (WAG)...................... 33.13 Wal-Mart (WMT)........................ 61.62

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8.62 30.06 7.33 1.98 10.78 22.38 28.99 52.46 27.80 16.60 23.62 29.83 47.28 50.18 18.53 10.23 8.35 24.84 22.15 43.71 25.01 114.64 8.62 18.92 22.42 3.05 34.74 68.39 13.85 15.25 9.31 14.72 11.00 92.98 18.73 25.84 63.27 41.05 26.33 13.61 85.69 12.90 47.25 19.35 16.80 9.02 10.71 24.62 37.23 21.10 62.26 29.49 3.31 9.45 17.09 68.90 17.47 9.81 13.45 33.47 40.34 44.00 54.43 83.03 21.52 38.68 65.35 23.43 11.41 43.40 11.32 9.67 23.86 8.13 52.70

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39.83 2.29 26.98 4.65 14.33 12.10 56.43 38.52 37.98 17.72 79.34 20.70 39.41 5.19 64.90 32.31 21.16 46.75 11.86 16.62 53.88 19.55 10.50 9.92 19.23 63.94 61.23 8.96 3.55 5.63 5.32 1.61 170.37 135.49 7.44 12.53 43.67 21.50 10.69 2.40 36.15 74.06 14.86 28.17 34.97 54.30 3.90 22.61 1.97 14.25 63.73 28.50 50.46 9.47 9.99 9.15 2.66 29.67 5.26 31.17 84.31 26.27 25.25 25.34 44.32 37.97 114.90 61.99 33.55 18.13 30.85 17.85 8.07 16.94 5.15

39.63 39.80+.02 2.26 2.27+.02 26.78 26.92+.04 4.50 4.64+.21 14.07 14.21—.06 11.94 12.02—.14 55.91 56.24+.70 38.23 38.28—.14 37.50 37.58—.11 17.30 17.51+.26 77.70 78.34—.80 20.42 20.54+.10 39.25 39.36+.40 5.10 5.11—.10 63.81 63.97—2.77 31.85 31.97—.15 21.00 21.13+.12 46.30 46.44—.02 11.59 11.72+.37 16.52 16.55—.06 53.54 53.77+.14 19.43 19.53+.22 10.40 10.42—.05 9.75 9.83—.20 19.10 19.12—.16 63.53 63.89+.25 58.70 58.84—1.70 8.61 8.95+.30 3.46 3.49+.06 5.56 5.63+.11 5.06 5.25+.06 1.59 1.60+.02 169.64 170.03+1.53 135.07 135.36+.17 7.34 7.41+.06 12.43 12.51+.06 41.91 43.53—.88 20.75 20.88+.43 10.56 10.69—.01 2.38 2.39—.03 36.00 36.05—.10 73.72 73.92+.15 14.74 14.79+.02 28.04 28.15+.18 34.80 34.82—.15 53.75 53.99—.76 3.71 3.83—.02 22.20 22.41+.16 1.92 1.95+.02 14.07 14.20+.01 61.40 62.78+4.74 27.40 28.24+.84 49.89 50.08+.64 9.05 9.37+.14 9.89 9.91+.02 8.81 8.93—.17 2.62 2.65+.06 29.41 29.50—.13 5.22 5.25+.06 30.61 30.83—.11 82.50 83.39+1.65 26.05 26.19—.23 25.04 25.15—.21 25.05 25.24+.20 44.12 44.30+.07 37.80 37.83—.09 112.60 113.87+5.52 61.58 61.98+.36 33.24 33.48+.35 17.84 18.10+.20 30.58 30.83+.20 17.73 17.80+.07 7.98 8.03+.02 16.71 16.80+.18 4.92 5.10+.20

smart money Q: My father-in-law passed away 30 years ago from cancer. It was determined that his cancer was caused by decades of working in the plant where he was employed. Out of the blue, we recently received a medical settlement of $37,500. We are planning on putting $15,000 toward home improvements. I am seeking advice on what to do with the remaining $22,500. I am not BRUCE sure if this type of settlement is counted as income and is taxable in Pennsylvania. We have about $5,500 in credit card debt (low interest rate) and a $100,000 mortgage. I was hoping to put the money into something that, if needed, we could tap into easily. My wife and I are in our early 50s. — V.P., Pennsylvania

WILLIAMS

A: Ordinarily, any monies received from this type of litigation, a class-action lawsuit, is totally tax-free. You might wish to consult an accountant, but I think you’ll find this is correct. How you spend the money is entirely up to you. Any money that the $22,500 earns will be taxable unless it’s put into taxfree bonds or something similar. There are a number of places where the money could be invested, but the reality is that it will earn next to nothing unless you’re willing to take a risk. If you are not totally riskaverse, you might want to have a broker look into some decent dividend-paying stocks. There are many that are paying 4 percent and 5 percent and that are perfectly sound, in my opinion, and they very possibly will appreciate with the current upswing (at this writing) in the market. •

Bruce Williams writes for Newspaper Enterprise Association. E-mail him at bruce@brucewilliams.com.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment aid neared a four-year low last week, a positive sign that strong hiring could continue in the coming months. The Labor Department said this morning that weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 358,000. That’s the second-lowest level since April 2008. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 366,250, the lowest since late April 2008. “The encouraging U.S. employment news continues,” Jennifer Lee, an economist at BMO Capital Markets, wrote in a note to clients. The “job market started February off on a sturdy footing.” When applications fall con-

The job market has a long way to go before it fully recovers from the damage of the Great Recession. Nearly 13 million people remain unemployed, and 8.3 percent unemployment is painfully high. sistently below 375,000, it generally signals that hiring is strong enough to lower the unemployment rate. Employers added a net gain of 243,000 jobs in January, the biggest gain in nine months. The unemployment rate fell for the fifth straight month to 8.3 percent, the lowest in nearly three years. From November through January, the economy has added an average of 201,000 net jobs per month. With job cuts low, even a modest increase in hiring results in net job gains. The number of people receiv-

ing benefits edged up in the week ending Jan. 21, the latest data available. About 7.6 million people received unemployment aid that week, a slight increase from the previous week. That figure includes about 3.5 million people receiving extended unemployment benefits under an emergency program set up during the recession. That program is set to expire at the end of this month, unless Congress agrees to extend it through the end of the year. Lawmakers are wrangling over how to pay for an extension of benefits and

Greece reaches deal on cutbacks ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Taking negotiations to the eleventh hour, Greece announced an agreement today on new austerity cuts demanded by its international creditors to release a $173 billion bailout, shortly before a crucial meeting of finance ministers in Brussels. A statement from Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’ office said talks “were successfully concluded” with representatives of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund — collectively known as the “troika”. The statement said leaders of the parties backing Papademos’ coalition government had accepted the outcome of the talks with the three organizations. “Therefore, there is a general agreement on the content of the new (bailout), ahead of tonight’s meeting” of finance ministers from the 17 euro-

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Pedestrians pass next to a beggar in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki today. zone members in Brussels, the statement said. The deal will allow alternatives to the pension cuts rejected early today during a marathon meeting of coalition party leaders. She did not elaborate on what the alternative proposals were. Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, confirmed the latest stage in the austerity talks,

States, banks reach deal on foreclosure-abuse WASHINGTON — Federal officials say the five largest mortgage lenders have reached a $25 billion settlement with 49 states over foreclosure abuses that took place after the housing bubble burst. They will have three years to fulfill the terms of the landmark deal announced today. The deal also ends a separate investigation into Bank of America and Countrywide for inflating appraisals of loans from 2003 through most of 2009. Bank of America will pay $1 billion to settle that federal probe. Oklahoma is the lone holdout.

Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Eastman Kodak Co. said this morning that it will stop

for an extension of a Social Security tax cut that is also set to expire at the end of this month. Most economists expect growth will slow a bit in the January-March quarter, because companies won’t need to rebuild their stockpiles of goods as much as they did in the winter. But some economists are increasingly optimistic that the economy will steadily expand this year, given last month’s unexpectedly large job gains and other positive signs. The job market has a long way to go before it fully recovers from the damage of the Great Recession. Nearly 13 million people remain unemployed, and 8.3 percent unemployment is painfully high.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company. Founded by George Eastman in 1880, Kodak was known all over the world for its Brownie and Instamatic cameras and its yellowand-red film boxes. But the company was battered by Japanese competition in the 1980s, and was then unable to keep pace with the shift from film to digital technology. The Rochester, N.Y.-based company, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month, said it will phase out the product lines in the first half of this year and instead look for other companies to license its brand for those products.

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telling reporters the Greek party leaders had accepted the terms of the deal. Although all the other cuts demanded by the troika were approved — including a 22 percent cut in the minimum wage, firings of 15,000 civil servants and an end to dozens of job guarantee provisions — party leaders had balked at new pension cuts worth an estimated $400 million.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks opened higher today after Greek leaders agreed to cost-cutting measures that should prevent the country from defaulting on its debt next month. Stocks fell later in the morning. The Dow Jones industrial average pushed to within 123 points of 13,000 but was down 7 points at 12,877 after an the first two hours of trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index was down one points at 1,348. The Nasdaq composite index was up one at 2,917. The euro rose half a cent against the dollar to $1.33. Bond prices fell slightly. The yield on the U.S. government’s benchmark 10-year note rose to 2.05 percent from 1.99 percent Wednesday, then dropped back to 2.03 percent. The Dow has gained 5 percent in the young year. Its last close above 13,000 was May 19, 2008, four months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank and the worst of the financial crisis.

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Continued from Page A1. sidered mentally retarded. The nation’s highest court allowed the execution to go forward Wednesday when it rejected petitions to stop it. Earlier in the day, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant had refused to grant a reprieve, saying after a review of the case, “I have decided not to grant clemency for his violent acts.” Turner’s lawyers had

argued in the petition to the U.S. Supreme Court that he inherited a serious mental illness. They argued that his father is thought to have committed suicide by shooting a gun into a shed filled with dynamite and his grandmother and great-grandmother both spent time in the state mental hospital. Turner’s attorneys say he was severely disfigured

during a suicide attempt at 18 by putting a rifle in his mouth and pulling the trigger. He had been released from a mental hospital just weeks before killing the two men, his lawyers said. Attorney General Jim Hood has said recently that Turner’s mental health claims had been “fully addressed.” Richard Bourke, director of the Louisiana Capital

Assistance Center that represented Turner, said after the execution in an e-mailed statement that he lamented the “tragic and senseless” killings. He also said Mississippi’s mental health care system failed Turner, describing him as “a seriously mentally ill and tortured man” with no criminal history before those slayings. Bourke’s statement added

Mississippi was among a handful of states that provide the least protection for the seriously mentally ill in their criminal justice systems. “This needs to change. At the very least, seriously mentally ill offenders whose illness contributed directly to their crimes should not be subjected to the death penalty,” the statement added.

deaths The Vicksburg Post prints obituaries in news form for area residents, their family members and for former residents at no charge. Families wishing to publish additional information or to use specific wording have the option of a paid obituary.

Eugene Bell ROLLING FORK — Services for Eugene Bell will be at noon Saturday at the United Baptist Church of Fitler with the Rev. Willie Joyner officiating. Burial will follow at St. Matthew Cemetery under the direction of W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home. Mr. Bell died Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. He was 79. Mr. Bell was a retired farmer and member of United Baptist Church of Fitler. He was preceded in death by his parents, the Rev. Issac and Lilly Bell; a son, Selmon Ford; and three brothers, Ike Bell, Leroy Bell and Linnell Bell. He is survived by his wife, Louella Bell of Rolling Fork; four sons, Eugene Bell Jr. and Otis Bell, both of Detroit, Lonnie Bell Ford of Phoenix, Ariz., and Johnny Green of Glen Allan; seven daughters, Frances Bell of Joliet, Ill., Delphine Hines of Memphis, Pearl Webb of Rolling Fork, Debra Bell-Young of Atlanta, Josephine Crawford of Las Vegas, Bridgette Portis of Flowood and Wanda Lewis -Stimage of Vicksburg; eight brothers, Arthur Bell, Freddie Bell, Joe Bell and Percy Bell, all of Vicksburg, Tommie Bell of Rolling Fork, William Bell of Omaha, Neb., W.R. Bell of Jackson and Elijah Bell of Biloxi; four sisters, Frances Bell-Barnes and Betty Jean Bell, both of Rolling Fork, Margaret Garner of Jackson and Ruby C. Stewart of New Orleans; 28 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.

Lee G. Brown Lee G. Brown died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at his home. He was 59. Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

Debrah Ann Butler NEW CASTLE, Del. — Services for Debrah Ann Butler of New Castle, formerly of Vicksburg, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Kings Community Empowerment Center with Pastor Patrick Taylor officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home and Saturday at the center from 10 a.m. until the service. Ms. Butler died Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She was 53. She was employed by the YMCA. She attended Warren Central High School and was a member of Mount Moriah Pentecostal Church in New Castle, where she served on the usher board. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Ira “Duke” Harris Parker Jr.; and her maternal grandparents, Henry Butler and Montana Barbara Mosley Butler. Survivors include Luther Sessoms of New Castle; a son, Detriche Butler of Vicksburg; two daughters, Shelia Butler of Houston, Texas, and Dewanda Butler of Vicksburg; her mother, Eliza-

beth “Sue” Butler of Vicksburg; her father, Charlie Gray of Aurora, Ill.; two brothers, Kenneth Butler of Vicksburg and Broderick Butler of Memphis; six sisters, Vanessa Butler and Katina Butler, both of Decatur, Ga., Cynthia B. Williams of New Castle, Erika Lamborn of Wilmington, Del., and Audrey B. Walker and Esther Regina Butler, both of Vicksburg; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, friends and other relatives, including Gladys “Doll” Butler and Jacqueline Swartz of Vicksburg, Barbara Caples Roberts of San Antonio and the Winters, Carson, Younger, Caples and Tyler families.

Fred A. Malik Sr. Fred A. Malik Sr. died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. He was 98. Mr. Malik was a native of Birmingham, Ala. He moved in 1944 to Vicksburg, where he worked for R.G. LeTourneau until 1948 and then he moved to Toccoa, Ga., where he owned and operated Toccoa Metal Products with his brother, Joe Malik. He returned in 1971 to Vicksburg with his family, and he owned and operated American Portable Appliance until 1973, when he retired. After a very short retirement he started and opened VAMPCO. He was a member of St. Paul Catholic Church. He was an entrepreneur having engaged in many projects. He was an avid fisherman and golfer, having done both in his 90s. He was preceded in death by his wife, Marguerite Malik; brothers, Joe and Louis Malik; a daughter, Mary Jane Malik; his parents, John and Maggie Malik; two sisters, Mary Rafool and Ramsey Shoup; and greatgranddaughter, Layla Grace Pettway. Survivors include a son, Tony Malik Jr. and his wife, Jennifer of Flora; two daughters, Roxanne Gay and husband Joe of Vicksburg and Margaret Dicks of Warne, N.C.; 10 grandchildren, Patrick Young (Jillian), Ryan Gastley (Jennifer), Jeremiah Cottner, Leanne Pettway (Bryan), Katie Malik, Lindsey Gay, Lauren Rohrer (Paul), Sayde Fortner, Chole Fortner and Fred A. Malik III; and nine great-grandchildren, Ada, Emma and Dawson Gastley, Erin, Sam, Hayley and Conner Young and Briley Kate and Colton Pettway. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Michael Catholic Church with Monsignor Patrick Farrell and the Rev. P.J. Curley officiating. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday from noon until the service. Pallbearers will be Steve Barlow, Patrick Young, Ryan Gastley, Brian Pettway, Drew McIlreavy and Jeremiah Cottner. Honorary pallbearers will be Paul Rohrer, Mike Kavanaugh, ICU nurses at River Region Medical Center, Joe Gerache and Phares Griffin. Memorials may be made to Catholic Charities, P.O. 17066, Baltimore, MD 21297-1066 or Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, The Division of Public Affairs, University Medical Center, 2500 N. State St., Jackson, MS 39216.

Pat Pickle ROLLING FORK — Pat Pickle died Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. He was 82. Mr. Pickle was a native of Barnes, Miss., and was a Carthage resident for 18 years. He had lived in Sharkey County for a number of years. He retired as an operator from Southern Natural Gas Co. He was a member of Cary Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Rebecca Pickle Boykin. He is survived by a son, Patrick Pickle of Rolling Fork; two daughters, Patricia Huff of Pelahatchie and Christie Bobo of Rolling Fork; one brother, Dill Pickle of Carthage; one sister, Billie Turner of Mesa, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; and one great-great-grandson. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cary Baptist Church with the Rev. Millard Caulder officiating. Burial will follow at Cary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. Friday at Glenwood Funeral Home in Rolling Fork. Pallbearers will be Kirk Nichols, Jay Pickle, Bubby Pickle, Steven Boykin, J.J. Russum and Mike Duggins. Honorary pallbearers will be Mike Williams and Paul Williams.

Marie Rogers Marie Rogers died Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, at her residence. She was 82. Born in Lexington, Ky., Mrs. Rogers was the daughter of the late Daniel Fabian Robichaud and Dorothy McFadden Robichaud. She was a former resident of Shreveport, La., and had been a resident of Vicksburg since 1987. Mrs. Rogers was a carrier for The Vicksburg Post from 1990 until 2008 with a devotion to her customers that endeared her to all. She was a member of the Catholic faith. She is survived by two daughters, Denise Morin Hluska (John) and Roxanne Marie Rogers, both of Vicksburg; four grandchildren, Kevin Armstrong, Kody Armstrong (Kelcey), Kristopher Morin Hluska and Kimberly Marie Stokes; and five great-grandchildren, Cameron Armstrong, twins Leah Marie Armstrong and Anthony Fabian Armstrong,

Reilly Armstrong and Mia Armstrong. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, John Francis Rogers II; and her son, John Francis Rogers III. A memorial Mass will be said at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, at St. Michael Catholic Church with the Rev. P.J. Curley as celebrant. The eulogy will be delivered by Steve Elwart. Visitation will be at the church from 4:30 p.m. until the service. Riles Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to Patient’s Choice Hospice, 1911 Mission 66, Suite A, Vicksburg, MS 39180.

Robbie M. Williams EDWARDS — Services for Robbie M. Williams will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at United M.B. Church with the Rev. Sherman Thomas Jr. officiating. Burial will follow at Pleasant Grove M.B. Church Cemetery in Edwards. Visitation will be from noon until 6 p.m. Friday at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home with family present from 4 until 6. Mrs. Williams died Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. She was 95. She was the daughter of the late Dora B. Collins Smith and Robert Martin. She was a former member of Galilee M.B. Church in Edwards and was a member of Pleasant Grove M.B. Church. She retired from the Hinds County Public Schools. She was preceded in death by her husband, James

Williams Jr.; a son, James Martin; two sisters, Dorothy Williams and Willette Smith; and three brothers, C.D. Smith Jr., Sylvester Smith and J.C. Davis. Survivors include two daughters, Patricia Stokes and Bobbie Irving, both of Edwards; three sons, James Williams Jr., Willie Charles Williams and Karl Williams, all of Edwards; a brother, Willie J. Smith of Shamil, Fla.; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Adam Wilson ROLLING FORK— Adam Wilson died Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Rolling Fork. He was 70. Survivors include four sons, Adam Wilson Jr. of Chicago, Robert Wilson of Jackson, Charlie Williams of Greenville and Chris Jenning of Rolling Fork; three daughters, Francis Jones of Greenville, Varonica Williams of Rolling Fork and Charlie Mae Wilson of Chicago; five sisters, Clara Myles, Mary Johnson and Estella Evans, all of Rolling Fork, Warrine Lindsey of Hollandale and Lucille Odems of Bloomington, Ill.; and three brothers, Roosevelt Lindsey, Lorenzo Odems of Rolling Fork and William Curtis of Chicago. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mount Herald M.B. Church with Gregory Young, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow at Elmwood Cemetery.

BY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST BARBIE BASSSETT TONIGHT

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Partly cloudy tonight, lows in the mid-30s; showers Friday, highs in the mid-50s

WEATHER This 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 FORECAST Friday-Saturday Partly cloudy Friday night, chance of rain, lows in the mid-30s; mostly sunny Saturday, highs in the upper 40s

STATE FORECAST TONIGHT Partly cloudy, lows in the mid-30s Friday-Saturday Partly cloudy Friday night, chance of rain, lows in the mid-30s; mostly sunny Saturday, highs in the upper 40s

Almanac Highs and Lows High/past 24 hours............. 57º Low/past 24 hours............... 38º Average temperature......... 48º Normal this date................... 49º Record low..............14º in 1933 Record high............80º in 1957 Rainfall Recorded at the Vicksburg Water Plant Past 24 hours.................0.0 inch This month..............4.93 inches Total/year.............. 10.01 inches Normal/month......1.53 inches Normal/year...........7.00 inches Solunar table Most active times for fish and wildlife Friday: A.M. Active............................ 5:53 A.M. Most active..................N/A P.M. Active............................. 6:18 P.M. Most active................12:06 Sunrise/sunset Sunset today........................ 5:42 Sunset tomorrow............... 5:43 Sunrise tomorrow.............. 6:51

RIVER DATA Stages Mississippi River at Vicksburg Current: 36.6 | Change: +0.4 Flood: 43 feet Yazoo River at Greenwood Current: 23.0 | Change: -0.4 Flood: 35 feet Yazoo River at Yazoo City Current: 23.3 | Change: -0.4 Flood: 29 feet Yazoo River at Belzoni Current: 22.8 | Change: -0.6 Flood: 34 feet Big Black River at West Current: 18.0 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 12 feet Big Black River at Bovina Current: 27.6 | Change: -0.2 Flood: 28 feet StEELE BAYOU Land....................................84.2 River....................................84.0

MISSISSIPPI RIVER Forecast Cairo, Ill. Friday....................................... 35.7 Saturday................................. 33.6 Sunday.................................... 31.8 Memphis Friday....................................... 23.4 Saturday................................. 22.0 Sunday.................................... 19.8 Greenville Friday....................................... 41.2 Saturday................................. 41.1 Sunday.................................... 40.6 Vicksburg Friday....................................... 36.5 Saturday................................. 36.5 Sunday.................................... 36.4

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Dwindling time, rising tension make Iran top fear Bishop warns WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect of conflict with Iran has eclipsed Afghanistan as the key national security issue with head-spinning speed. After years of bad blood and an international impasse over Iran’s disputed nuclear program, why does the threat of war seem so suddenly upon us? The short answer is that Iran has used the years of deadlock over whether it was pursuing a bomb to get within roughly 12 months of being able to build one. Iran claims its nuclear program is not aimed at building a bomb, but it has refused to drop suspect elements of the program. Time is running short for Iran to back down without a fight. Time is also running short for either the United States or Israel to mount a pre-emptive military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, something that seemed far-fetched until fairly recently. It is still unlikely, and for the U.S. represents the last worst option to stop an Iranian bomb. The United States has a “very good estimate” of when Iran could produce a weapon, President Barack Obama said this week. He said that while he believes the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to a technician during his visit of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility 200 miles south of the capital Tehran. can still be resolved through diplomacy, the U.S. has done extensive planning on a range of options. “We are prepared to exercise these options should they arise,” Obama said during an interview with NBC. He said Israel has not made a decision about whether to launch

its own strike. Diplomacy and economic coercion are the main focus for the U.S. and its allies, and the preferred option. But the increasingly strong warnings from Obama and other leaders reflect a global consensus that Iran is closer than ever to joining the nuclear club.

In November, the International Atomic Energy Agency issued a scathing assessment of the Iranian nuclear program, calling it disturbing and possibly dangerous. The IAEA, a U.N. body, said it had “serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions” of a program Iran claims is not

tion, voters are not going to read the ballot and they’ll vote against it because it’s a tax,” he said. Holding a separate special election, he said, would be worth the expense, “because the voters who support the tax are going to go out and vote for it.” He suggested eliminating the $20 million ceiling in the bill “because, sometimes, that scares people away. And you may not need $20 million to do what you want to do.” Winfield wants to increase the city’s 2 percent motel tax to 4 percent and add a 1.5 percent tax on food and beverages sold in the city to pay off up to a $20 million loan for the purchase and development of a sports complex. The tax increases, he said, would generate about $1.2 million, sufficient to pay off an $18 to $19 million loan in 15 years. No site has been identified publicly for the park, though Winfield has said for weeks that he has one in mind. The only description he has given is that it is on U.S. 61 North. He said earlier this week that he is considering other parcels. Mayfield said after the meeting that he has found a site on U.S. 61 North that is north of River Region Medical Center, and another on Mississippi 27 South, just inside the city limits. He said both are about 200 acres. Winfield said a special advisory committee he will name in the near future will be asked to look at possible park sites. Mayfield said he was concerned that the city might get overly ambitious in planning a sports complex. “I’m trying to get this thing down to where Vicksburg will have what is adequate and competitive,” he said. “We can’t afford (a) Cadillac. “This is a need and not a want. This is a need for Vicksburg and Warren

County,” he said. “I’m trying to make a determination what is the right and best thing to do, but it has to be done. Whatever we do, it has to be tomorrow worthy. ” Beauman, a former city recreation director, said the current fields “are adequate for the numbers (of people) who play. “A tournament facility is based on the number of fields, not the quality,” he said. “People will come to play where they’re treated best. Where there are things and activities for children to do when they are not playing.” Beauman does not support Winfield’s plans for a new complex because the board has not decided what to do with the Fisher Ferry property. “I can’t support spending more money (on a sports complex),” he said. “ I will not support a new facility unless we get something out of that property.” The city in 2003 bought a 200-acre tract on Fisher Ferry Road for a sports complex for $325,000. City officials abandoned the project in 2009 after spending an additional $2.7 million for preliminary plans, engineering and dirt work. Winfield said work was stopped on the Fisher Ferry site because it is not suitable, adding part of the property, including the access route, is in a flood zone. In 2007, the city board hired USA Partners Sports Alliance of Jacksonville, Fla., for $250,000 to determine the feasibility of a proposed $25 million sports complex at Halls Ferry Park, including Bazinsky Field, proposed by the Aquila Group of Vicksburg. It would have included baseball and softball fields and related amenities, a water park, a baseball stadium/ ballpark and facilities for golf, soccer, volleyball, tennis

and other activities. The Aquila Group would lead the construction and management of the fields and sports facilities. The project died after a study by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality found the site was not suitable because part of Halls Ferry Park was built on what was once the city’s landfill.

powers under the Mississippi Constitution,” Griffin said. Before leaving office Jan. 10, Barbour, a Republican, granted pardons to 198 people and granted other types of reprieves such as sentence suspensions and medical releases. Only the pardons required publication of intent. Ten of the people pardoned were incarcerated at the time. Five Governor’s Mansion trusties were released before Hood got a judge to issue a temporary restraining order. That restraining

order has kept five other inmates behind bars until the legal challenge is decided. Many of those others who were pardoned had been out of prison for years and in some cases for decades, but their chance of having their rights restored could be wiped out in the legal battle over the pardons in violent crimes. Hood has said about two dozen of them published the proper notification. None of the former Governor’s Mansion trusties met the requirement, Hood has said.

intended to build a weapon. Close U.S. ally Israel is driving much of the burst of international attention now focused on the likelihood of an Iranian bomb and what to do about it. “When a country that refers to you as a ‘cancerous tumor’ is inching, however slowly, toward a nuclear weapons capability, it’s understandably difficult to relax and keep quiet,” said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. For Obama, the threat that the United States might use military force must ring true to Iranian leaders while not sounding alarmist to Americans or jittery oil markets. He has been very cautious, which is why his recent, blunter words are notable. White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor would not comment on whether the timetable is being moved up. He rejected the idea that the administration is under the gun. “We said all options are on the table. That is not bellicose and that is not new,” Vietor said. “What we’re trying to do is lead Iran to make a choice.”

of sex abuse cases in Asia

ROME (AP) — A top Asian church official told a Vaticanbacked conference on fighting priestly sex abuse today that a culture of silence has kept many victims from coming forward, as concerns rise that Asia may be the next ground zero in the abuse scandal. Monsignor Luis Antonio Tagle, archbishop of Manila, Philippines, said deference to church authorities in such places as the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Philippines might also have contributed to keeping a lid on reports. He said more and more victims have come forward in the past five years in the Philippines, but that incidents of priests keeping mistresses far outpace reports of priests preying on children. Tagle addressed the conference, which is aimed at helping bishops and religious superiors around the world craft guidelines on how to care for victims and keep abusers out of the priesthood. The Vatican has set a May deadline for the policies to be submitted for review.

Recreation Continued from Page A1. The changes came after a Wednesday morning meeting including Winfield, Aldermen Michael Mayfield and Sid Beauman, city clerk Walter Osborne, Thames and former Vicksburg Mayor Demery Grubbs, who is a financial consultant for Government Consultants Inc. in Jackson. Grubbs participated through a conference call and recommended the changes. Mayfield had asked for the Wednesday meeting to resolve questions about the bill and a required special election to levy the taxes. “I’m kind of confused about some things involving this, and I shouldn’t be,” he said. “I didn’t do my homework.” Winfield’s initial plan was to have city voters decide on the referendum on the same day they cast ballots in November’s presidential election. On Wednesday, board members decided against that, but no other date for a referendum vote was suggested. Osborne said holding the referendum the same time as the presidential election would create confusion because some city precincts are not aligned with those used for county elections. He said it would require city officials to open some city precincts, and require some county/city precinct workers to keep duplicate poll books and a separate ballot box for the city election. “You would be asking people to vote twice,” he said. “Some of them would go to their county precinct (for the presidential race) and then have to go to their city precinct to vote on the referendum.” Mayfield estimated the cost of a special election at $80,000 to $90,000. Grubbs suggested a separate special election. “In my opinion, if you combine it with the general elec-

Pardon Continued from Page A1. “The governor as the chief executive is granted the power to pardon and is the judge of the propriety of the publication,” he said. “The constitution does not give the power to anybody to review that.” Charles Griffin, an attorney for Barbour, also said the pardons are not reviewable. “This case is not about Haley Barbour. This case is not about General Hood. And this case is not about the individuals who have received pardons. This case is about the separation of

Under an agreement between the city and USA Partners, which was hired after the Aquila Group approached the city, the company would return the $250,000 feasibility study cost to the city if the complex did not materialize. More than four years later, the city has not been reimbursed. “The money spent on Fisher Ferry has been spent,”

Winfield said. He suggested selling the Fisher Ferry property to a developer for a residential or mixed-use development. “This is an investment for us to use year-round,” Winfield said of the sports complex, adding the hotel and food tax increases were the only way to fund the project without increasing taxes on property.

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UAB shocks Southern Miss By The Associated Press

On B2 Complete county prep softball schedules

Schedule PREP BASKETBALL (G) Warren Central vs. Greenville-Weston Friday, 6 p.m., at Clinton

(B) Veritas vs. PCA Friday, 6:30 p.m., at Rebul (B) Vicksburg at Clinton Friday, 7:30 p.m.

On TV 6 p.m. ESPN2 - Mississippi State tries to avoid an Ole Miss sweep of the season series tonight at the Hump. Preview/B3

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Cameron Moore scored 27 points on 12-of-15 shooting as Alabama-Birmingham defeated Southern Miss 71-61 Wednesday night, handing the Golden Eagles only their second loss in the past 18 games. The game was tied 49-49 with 8 minutes to play before the Blazers (10-13, 5-5 Conference USA) scored seven consecutive points to take the lead for good. Southern Miss (20-4, 7-2) never pulled closer than four points the rest of the way. UAB’s Jordan Swing scored five of his 15 points in the final 4 minutes, including a 3-pointer that gave the Blaz-

ers a 65-57 lead. The Blazers made eight of their first nine shots to take an 18-14 lead, and led 32-28 at halftime. Moore scored 15 points in the first half on 7-of-9 shooting. “He was special tonight,” UAB coach Mike Davis said of Moore. “It was by far his best game. He was really aggressive. I always tell him that he leaves at least 10 points on the court every game, but he didn’t leave many on the court tonight.” Southern Miss coach Larry Eustachy agreed. “You play a lot of games every season, and there are always a couple that are tough to explain. This is one of them. We just couldn’t stop them. We had no answer

for Moore.” The Blazers made 60.5 percent of their shots (26-for-43) and outrebounded Southern Miss 34-25 in the game, 20-8 in the second half. “Rebounding is a good indicator of who really got after it, and we just got knocked around the whole game,” Eustachy said. “It’s unusual for that to happen to this team.” Preston Purifoy added 10 points for UAB, all in the second half, and Quincy Taylor had six assists. Jonathan Mills led the Golden Eagles with 14 points. Mills, one of the Golden Eagles’ best interior players, scored only two points in the first half after picking up two fouls in the first 3 minutes.

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Southern Miss forward Jonathan Mills shoots over UAB defenders Wednesday. UAB won 71-61.

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Slive: BCS changes are two years away

Who’s hot CHANDLER BOUNDS Warren Central soccer player signed with Gulf Coast Community College.

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Having won the first two AL pennants in franchise history, the Texas Rangers want to keep their key players around for a while. Slick-fielding shortstop Elvis Andrus and the Rangers finalized a $14.4 million, three-year contract Wednesday. The deal covers his three years of salary arbitration eligibility, and Texas would like to discuss an even longer agreement with agent Scott Boras. “We have made no bones about the fact that we would like to sign some of our core players to extensions that do extend into free agency,” assistant general manager Thad Levine said. “Elvis is one of those types of guys. We hope he is a Texas Ranger for years to come.” Andrus gets a $750,000 signing bonus and salaries of $2,375,000 this year, $4.8 million in 2013 and $6,475,000 in 2014. An arbitration hearing had been scheduled for Thursday. Andrus had asked for $3.6 million and was offered $2.65 million. A key for him was financial security. “It is something I was looking for, especially for my family ... at this point in my career, at this point in my life,” Andrus said. The 23-year-old hit a career-best .279 with 37 stolen bases last year, when he made $452,180. He was an All-Star in 2010.

LOTTERY La. Pick 3: 5-9-2 La. Pick 4: 5-2-1-3 Easy 5: 3-9-18-26-27 La. Lotto: 10-21-22-28-35-36

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Porters Chapel guard Kawayne Gaston drives past Rebul Academy’s Justin Mavpin.

From underdog to top dog

Porters Chapel to open postseason play against Mt. Salus By Ernest Bowker ebowker@vicksburgpost.com During last year’s run to the MAIS Class A Final Four, Porters Chapel was the scrappy underdog with no pedigree. The Eagles, long a mediocre program at best, didn’t win the district or South State tournaments. They were under .500 in the postseason heading to the state tournament, winning just enough games to land in the top four and advance to the

next round. They caught fire finally at the state tournament, knocking off two No. 1 seeds with big second-half comebacks before losing to Trinity in the semifinals. This time around, things are different. PCA begins its postseason run Friday night in the District 5-A Tournament with an 18-4 record, a guaranteed place in next week’s South Central State tournament, and a target on its back as the regular-season district champion.

“It’s a good feeling to have. We just have to live up to it,” said senior center Talbot Buys, one of three returning starters from last season. The Eagles are hardly resting on their laurels heading into Friday’s second-round game against Mt. Salus at Rebul Academy. Having seen firsthand what can happen when the favorite underestimates a lower-seeded team, they’re trying to keep the mindset of the underdog. “It’s the same mindset. You go in there with a dif-

ferent mindset, think you’re the big dog, you’re going to get knocked out in the first round,” senior guard Kawayne Gaston said. “If you go in unprepared, thinking you’re better, you’re going to get knocked out.” It’d be understandable, though, if the Eagles believe they’re better than the other teams in District 5-A. For the most part, they have been by a wide margin. Other than a one-point win See PCA, Page B3.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Mike Slive helped propose the plus-one plan to find a national champion in football and says actual change remains a couple years away even if everyone can agree on changes to the Bowl Championship Series. The Southeastern Conference commissioner said Wednesday a decision could be made later this year, but cautioned it’s premature to speculate on what changes might be made. He said they need time to sit down and analyze plans with discussions needed among the conferences. Mike “Really a Slive lot of this discussion is premature, and I want to respect the process that we’re in,” Slive told members of the Nashville Sports Council during a question-and-answer session. “We’ve had four-year formats since we started. We’ve done it on the basis of four years, so each four-year period you have to sit down See Slive, Page B3.

Key to winning is respecting legitimate authority The old saying is that rules are made to be broken. But really, they’re meant to be followed. So why is a culture of rebellion against authority settling in at all levels in our society, even sports? In the 1960s, the Baby Boom generation popularized the phrase, “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Their disrespect and war against “The Establishment” got us to now. Countless college football and basketball players run afoul of legitimate authority and lose their opportunity to represent their school via the catch-all “violation of team rules.” The violation is never specified, but does it need to be? The rule-breakers had a choice: follow the rules to remain part of the team or

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else. Failure to hold players accountable can lose a coach a team. And if your team is composed of too many rulebreakers, well, something’s gotta give. A great example is last year’s Ole Miss football team. Too many of the players ex-coach Houston Nutt recruited were unwilling or incapable of following his rules, and roster attrition dissolved the depth chart like hydrocholoric acid.

When your addition by subtraction turns into absolute zero, problems arise and losses mount. Sports is an analogue for life. Youngsters learn lessons about defeat, victory, hard work and, of course, following the rules. In an individualistic society, it’s difficult to submit to authority and do things the proper way. Some people are unable to square their individual agendas with that of a team. The best coaches hold young people accountable and teach them a lesson that will help them achieve success in the future, be it on a court, in college or at a job. It’s no coincidence that the two teams in the Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Giants and New England Patriots, are

run by coaches who few would describe as touchy-feely. Both are rock-solid, my-way-or-thehighway types, yet both have been ridiculously successful. Demanding and expecting the best while holding players and coaches accountable gets the best results. It’s little wonder that certain players have prospered under Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick and others have hit the exit ramp with a thud. The salary cap structure gives coaches an even bigger incentive to rid themselves of those who refuse to follow the rules. Our popular social-media culture prioritizes the individual and denigrates those who sacrifice for the greater good of something bigger than themselves. For authority figures at all

levels of society, it makes their job seem like swimming upstream against a floodchoked current. There’s nothing wrong with individual achievement. Our country is, by virtue of the Constitution, designed to inspire and nurture people’s aspirations to be the best they can be. That is the biggest blessing of liberty. But ultimately, that liberty has boundaries. Learning that boundaries are not designed to constrain, but to focus and protect is a lesson we all need to learn. •

Steve Wilson is sports editor of The Vicksburg Post. You can follow him on Twitter at vpsportseditor. He can be reached at 601-636-4545, ext. 142 or at swilson@vicksburgpost.com.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLF 2 p.m. TGC - PGA Tour, Pebble Beach National Pro-Am 3:30 a.m. TGC - European PGA Tour, Dubai Desert Classic COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6 p.m. ESPN - Wisconsin at Minnesota 6 p.m. ESPN2 - Ole Miss at Mississippi St. 8 p.m. ESPN - Colorado at Arizona 8 p.m. ESPN2 - Virginia Tech at Miami 10 p.m. ESPN2 - Saint Mary’s (Cal) at Gonzaga 10 p.m. FSN - Washington at Oregon NBA 7 p.m. TNT - L.A. Lakers at Boston 9:30 p.m. TNT - Oklahoma City at Sacramento WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 8 p.m. FSN - Southern Cal at Stanford

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MLB Hall of Fame starts drug education program The Baseball Hall of Fame is starting a drug education program for students and young adults — in the same year Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa will appear on ballot for the first time after careers tainted by steroid accusations. While adding PEDs to RBIs and ERAs among its interests, the Hall emphasized that its new initiative wasn’t tied to the former stars up for election or the people who will choose them. The Hall plans to promote a healthy lifestyle that is free of PEDs.

Bonifacio beats Marlins in salary arbitration ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Emilio Bonifacio became the second player to defeat the Miami Marlins in salary arbitration this year. Bonifacio was awarded a $2.2 million salary by a three-person panel rather than the Marlins’ offer of $1.95 million. Pitcher Anibal Sanchez beat the Marlins in a case decided Monday.

NFL Santonio Holmes remains with Jets It appears Santonio Holmes is sticking around — just as the New York Jets said he would. By remaining on the roster through the second day of the NFL’s waiver period Tuesday, the talented but troublesome wide receiver will get $15.25 million in guaranteed money over the next two seasons. A clause in Holmes’ five-year, $45 million contract, signed last offseason, kicked in Wednesday morning.

Correction Warren Central basketball player Shegredda Shorter left the team for personal reasons. Incorrect information appeared in Tuesday’s edition. • The Vicksburg Post attempts to publish accurate information. To report an error, call 601-636-4545 ext. 142.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Feb. 9 1912 — The U.S. Tennis Association amends the rules for the men’s singles championship play. The defending champion is required to play through the tournament instead of waiting for the tournament to produce a challenger. 1992 — Magic Johnson, playing for the first time since announcing his retirement on Nov. 7, scores a game-high 25 points and hands out nine assists to lead the West to a 153-113 win over the East in the NBA All-Star Game at the Orlando Arena. 1997 — Glen Rice breaks two scoring records in an MVP performance and Michael Jordan has the first triple-double in NBA All-Star game history. The East rallies to beat the West 132-120. Rice, who finishes with 26 points, sets records with 20 in the third quarter and 24 in the second half. 2003 — Kevin Garnett, the MVP, scores nine of his 37 points in the second overtime as the West beat the East 155-145 in the first double overtime game in NBA All-Star history.

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scoreboard prep basketball Division tournament schedules Division 3-6A

At Clinton High School Boys Tuesday Vicksburg 69, Greenville-Weston 64 Friday Vicksburg vs. Clinton, 7:30 p.m. Girls Tuesday Greenville-Weston 41, Clinton 37 Warren Central 39, Vicksburg 37 Friday Warren Central vs. Greenville-Weston, 6 p.m. ———

Division 7-1A

At Natchez Cathedral Boys Tuesday Hinds AHS 111, St. Aloysius 36 Cathedral vs. Bogue Chitto, 8:30 p.m. Today Cathedral vs. Piney Woods, 5:30 p.m. Hinds AHS vs. West Lincoln, 8:30 p.m. Friday Consolation game, 5:30 p.m. Championship game, 8:30 p.m. Girls Tuesday Piney Woods 70, St. Aloysius 56 West Lincoln 37, Cathedral 32 Today St. Al vs. Hinds AHS, 4 p.m. West Lincoln vs. Bogue Chitto, 7 p.m. Friday Consolation game, 4 p.m. Championship game, 7 p.m. ———

District 5-A

At Rebul Academy Girls Feb. 6 Veritas 51, Park Place 19 Rebul 60, Porters Chapel 18 Tuesday Newton Academy 34, Russell Christian 27 Friday Newton Academy vs. Mt. Salus, 4 p.m. Veritas vs. Rebul, 6:30 p.m. Saturday Consolation game, 2 p.m. Championship game, 4:30 p.m. Boys Feb. 6 Mt. Salus 61, Park Place 58 Tuesday Russell Christian 54, Veritas 33 Newton Academy 57, Rebul 37 Friday Newton Academy vs. Russell Christian, 5:15 p.m. Mt. Salus vs. Porters Chapel, 7:45 p.m. Saturday Consolation game, 3:15 p.m. Championship game, 5:45 p.m.

college baskteball SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT Kentucky 10 0 1.000 24 1 .960 Florida 7 2 .778 19 5 .792 Vanderbilt 6 3 .667 17 7 .708 Mississippi St. 5 3 .625 18 5 .783 Alabama 5 4 .556 16 7 .696 Ole Miss 4 4 .500 14 8 .636 Arkansas 4 5 .444 16 8 .667 Tennessee 4 5 .444 12 12 .500 LSU 3 6 .333 13 10 .565 Auburn 3 7 .300 13 11 .542 Georgia 2 7 .222 11 12 .478 South Carolina 1 8 .111 9 14 .391 Wednesday’s Games Georgia 81, Arkansas 59 Tennessee 69, South Carolina 57 Vanderbilt 76, LSU 61 Today’s Games Ole Miss at Mississippi St., 6 p.m. Friday’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games Georgia at Mississippi St., 12:30 p.m. South Carolina at Arkansas, 12:30 p.m. Tennessee at Florida, 3 p.m. Alabama at LSU , 6 p.m. Auburn at Ole Miss , 6 p.m. Kentucky at Vanderbilt, 8 p.m. ———

CONFERENCE USA

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT Southern Miss 7 2 .778 20 4 .833 Memphis 7 2 .778 17 7 .708 UCF 7 3 .700 18 6 .750 Tulsa 7 3 .700 14 10 .583 Marshall 5 5 .500 14 10 .583 Rice 5 5 .500 14 11 .560 UAB 5 5 .500 10 13 .435 UTEP 4 6 .400 11 13 .458 Tulane 3 6 .333 15 8 .652 East Carolina 3 7 .300 12 11 .522 Houston 3 7 .300 11 12 .478 SMU 2 7 .222 11 13 .458 Wednesday’s Games UCF 67, Marshall 60 Memphis 70, East Carolina 59 Rice 79, Houston 71 SMU 68, TCU 62 UAB 71, Southern Miss 61 UTEP 64, Tulsa 55 Today’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games UCF at Southern Miss, 4 p.m. East Carolina at Marshall, 6 p.m. Houston at Tulsa, 7 p.m. SMU at Rice, 7 p.m. UAB at Memphis, 7 p.m. Tulane at UTEP, 8:05 p.m. ———

SWAC

Conference All Games W L PCT W L PCT MVSU 11 0 1.000 12 11 .522 Southern U. 9 2 .818 13 11 .542 Prairie View 6 4 .600 10 13 .435 Texas Southern 6 4 .600 7 15 .318 Alabama St. 5 6 .455 8 15 .348 Alcorn St. 4 7 .364 7 16 .304 Ark.-Pine Bluff 4 7 .364 5 19 .208 Alabama A&M 3 8 .273 5 15 .250 Jackson St 3 8 .273 5 18 .217 Grambling St. 3 8 .273 3 18 .143 Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled Today’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games Miss. Valley St. at Alcorn State, 3 p.m. Grambling State at Texas Southern, 4:30 p.m. Alabama State at Alabama A&M, 5 p.m. Jackson State at Prairie View, 5:30 p.m. Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Southern, 7:30 p.m. ———

Top 25 Schedule

Wednesday’s Games No. 2 Syracuse 64, No. 12 Georgetown 61, OT No. 10 Duke 85, No. 5 North Carolina 84 No. 7 Kansas 68, No. 6 Baylor 54 No. 11 Michigan St. 77, Penn St. 57 Boston College 64, No. 15 Florida St. 60 No. 19 Virginia 68, Wake Forest 44 No. 22 Michigan 62, Nebraska 46 Today’s Games

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9 Murray St. vs. Tennessee St., 7 p.m. 16 Saint Mary’s (Cal) at Gonzaga, 10 p.m. 20 Mississippi St. vs. Ole Miss, 6 p.m. 21 Wisconsin at Minnesota, 6 p.m. 23 Indiana vs. Illinois, 7 p.m. Friday’s Game 25 Harvard at Penn, 6 p.m. Saturday’s Games 1 Kentucky at Vanderbilt, 8 p.m. 2 Syracuse vs. UConn, noon 3 Ohio State vs. No. 11 Michigan State, 5

No. No. No. p.m. No. 4 Missouri vs. No. 6 Baylor, 12:30 p.m. No. 5 North Carolina vs. No. 19 Virginia, noon No. 7 Kansas vs. Oklahoma State, 3 p.m. No. 8 Florida vs. Tennessee, 3 p.m. No. 9 Murray State vs . Austin Peay, 7:30 p.m. No. 10 Duke vs. Maryland, 3 p.m. No. 13 San Diego State at No. 14 UNLV, 3 p.m. No. 15 Florida State vs. Miami, noon No. 16 Saint Mary’s (Cal) vs. Santa Clara, 10 p.m. No. 17 Creighton vs. Wichita State, 4 p.m. No. 18 Marquette vs. Cincinnati, 2 p.m. No. 20 Mississippi State vs. Georgia, 12:30 p.m. No. 24 Louisville at West Virginia, 11 a.m. No. 25 Harvard at Princeton, 6 p.m. ———

Mississippi college schedule

Wednesday’s Game UAB 71, Southern Miss 61 Today’s Games Ole Miss at Mississippi St., 6 p.m. Delta St. at West Georgia, 7 p.m. Faulkner at William Carey, 7:30 p.m. Mobile at Belhaven, 7:30 p.m. Mississippi College at Texas-Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Friday’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games Georgia at Mississippi St., 12:30 p.m. Delta St. at West Alabama, 2 p.m. Mississippi College at Ozarks, 3 p.m. Central Florida at Southern Miss, 4 p.m. Mississippi Valley St. at Alcorn St., 4 p.m. Auburn at Ole Miss, 6 p.m. Tougaloo at Dillard, 7 p.m. Belhaven at William Carey, 7 p.m. Jackson St. at Prairie View, TBA Sunday’s Games No games scheduled ———

Wednesday’s Scores

EAST Boston College 64, Florida St. 60 Bucknell 66, Colgate 50 Cincinnati 76, St. John’s 54 Delaware 71, UNC Wilmington 53 Holy Cross 64, Navy 52 LIU 86, St. Francis (NY) 77 Lafayette 90, Army 74 Monmouth (NJ) 75, Fairleigh Dickinson 62 Notre Dame 55, West Virginia 51 Quinnipiac 72, CCSU 44 Robert Morris 78, St. Francis (Pa.) 74 Sacred Heart 79, Bryant 77 Saint Louis 72, Saint Joseph’s 60 Seton Hall 59, Rutgers 54 Syracuse 64, Georgetown 61, OT Temple 79, George Washington 72 UMass 76, St. Bonaventure 67 Wagner 59, Mount St. Mary’s 44 SOUTH Bethune-Cookman 84, Houston Baptist 76 Carson-Newman 78, Tusculum 64 Coker 85, Barton 69 Drexel 63, James Madison 56 Duke 85, North Carolina 84 Florida Tech 64, Nova Southeastern 61 George Mason 72, Hofstra 62 Georgia 81, Arkansas 59 Georgia St. 61, Northeastern 59 Jacksonville St. 69, Morehead St. 55 King (Tenn.) 79, Belmont Abbey 56 Lander 70, SC-Aiken 62 Lincoln Memorial 91, Mars Hill 66 Maryville (Tenn.) 70, Berry 62 Memphis 70, East Carolina 59 Mount Olive 78, Pfeiffer 64 New Orleans 81, Loyola NO 73 Old Dominion 70, William & Mary 51 Randolph-Macon 54, Va. Wesleyan 51 Richmond 78, La Salle 76 South Florida 63, Pittsburgh 51 Tenn. Wesleyan 99, Va. Intermont 67 Tennessee 69, South Carolina 57 Transylvania 67, Mount St. Joseph 58 UAB 71, Southern Miss 61 UCF 67, Marshall 60 UNC Pembroke 59, Augusta St. 58 Union (Ky.) 72, Milligan 56 VCU 66, Towson 43 Vanderbilt 76, LSU 61 Virginia 68, Wake Forest 44 Wingate 70, Lenoir-Rhyne 47 MIDWEST Akron 69, W. Michigan 66, OT Bowling Green 61, Ball St. 54 Bradley 68, Indiana St. 60 Buffalo 66, Cent. Michigan 62 Illinois St. 64, Drake 53 Kent St. 62, E. Michigan 58 Michigan 62, Nebraska 46 Michigan St. 77, Penn St. 57 Missouri St. 56, S. Illinois 54 N. Illinois 62, Miami (Ohio) 59 Toledo 77, Ohio 73 Wichita St. 82, N. Iowa 57 Xavier 84, Rhode Island 66 SOUTHWEST Kansas 68, Baylor 54 Lamar 85, Northwestern St. 66 Rice 79, Houston 71 SMU 68, TCU 62 Stephen F. Austin 62, Nicholls St. 58, OT Texas St. 94, Cent. Arkansas 63 Texas-Arlington 75, Sam Houston St. 63 Texas-Pan American 73, CS Bakersfield 67 UTEP 64, Tulsa 55 UTSA 59, SE Louisiana 51 ———

UAB 71, SOUTHERN MISS 61

SOUTHERN MISS (20-4) Mills 6-12 2-2 14, Page 3-8 0-1 6, Bolden 4-7 2-4 10, McGill 0-2 0-0 0, Johnson 2-5 0-2 5, Dodson 5-11 2-2 13, Watson 1-8 2-2 4, Jenkins 1-3 0-0 3, Pelham 3-4 0-0 6. Totals 25-60 8-13 61. UAB (10-13) Soko 2-6 2-4 6, Moore 12-16 2-2 27, Williams 0-0 1-2 1, Purifoy 3-5 2-2 10, Taylor 2-4 2-3 7, Tyler 2-3 1-2 5, Swing 5-9 4-4 15. Totals 26-43 14-19 71. Halftime—UAB 32-28. 3-Point Goals—Southern Miss. 3-16 (Dodson 1-2, Jenkins 1-2, Johnson 1-3, McGill 0-1, Bolden 0-2, Page 0-3, Watson 0-3), UAB 5-11 (Purifoy 2-4, Moore 1-1, Taylor 1-2, Swing 1-4). Fouled Out—Soko. Rebounds— Southern Miss. 25 (Dodson, Pelham 5), UAB 34 (Moore 12). Assists—Southern Miss. 12 (Watson 5), UAB 12 (Swing 4). Total Fouls—Southern Miss. 21, UAB 16. A—4,721.

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GP Washington......53 Florida..............52 Winnipeg..........55 Tampa Bay......52 Carolina...........55

Women’s Top 25 Schedule

Wednesday’s Games 6 Miami 61, No. 23 North Carolina 37 14 Georgetown 56, Seton Hall 51 15 Texas A&M 67, Kansas St. 36 25 St. Bonaventure 69, UMass 54 Today’s Games No. 4 Stanford vs. Southern Cal, 8 p.m. No. 5 Duke at Boston College, 6 p.m. No. 8 Maryland at Clemson, 6 p.m. No. 9 Green Bay vs. Detroit, 7 p.m. No. 10 Ohio St. at Illinois, 7 p.m. No. 11 Tennessee at Vanderbilt, 8 p.m. No. 12 Delaware vs. Old Dominion, 6 p.m. No. 13 Nebraska vs. Michigan, 7:05 p.m. No. 18 Penn St. vs. Wisconsin, 6 p.m. No. 19 Gonzaga at BYU, 8 p.m. No. 24 South Carolina at Arkansas, 7 p.m. Friday’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games No. 1 Baylor vs. No. 15 Texas A&M, 5 p.m. No. 3 UConn vs. No. 14 Georgetown, 3 p.m. No. 9 Green Bay vs. Wright State, 2 p.m. No. 19 Gonzaga at San Francisco, 4 p.m. No. 20 Louisville vs. Syracuse, 1 p.m. No. 25 St. Bonaventure at Dayton, 1 p.m. No. No. No. No.

L 8 10 15 19 19 L 7 9 10 21 22 L 6 8 14 14 20

Pct GB .692 — .583 3 .423 7 .296 10 1/2 .296 10 1/2

Pct GB .786 — .680 3 1/2 .440 9 1/2 .417 10 .259 14 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE L 9 11 11 13 22

Pct GB .667 — .577 2 1/2 .577 2 1/2 .500 4 1/2 .154 13 1/2

Northwest Division

W Oklahoma City...............20 Denver...........................15 Utah...............................13 Portland.........................14 Minnesota......................13

L 5 11 11 12 13

Pacific Division

W L.A. Clippers..................15 L.A. Lakers....................14 Phoenix..........................11 Golden State.................8 Sacramento...................9

L 8 11 14 14 16

Pct .800 .577 .542 .538 .500

GB — 5 1/2 6 1/2 6 1/2 7 1/2

Pct .652 .560 .440 .364 .360

GB — 2 5 6 1/2 7

Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 99, L.A. Clippers 92 Milwaukee 105, Toronto 99 Orlando 102, Miami 89 New York 107, Washington 93 San Antonio 100, Philadelphia 90 Atlanta 97, Indiana 87 Detroit 99, New Jersey 92 Chicago 90, New Orleans 67 Memphis 85, Minnesota 80 Dallas 105, Denver 95 Houston 103, Portland 96 Today’s Games L.A. Lakers at Boston, 7 p.m. Golden State at Denver, 8 p.m. Houston at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m. Friday’s Games Chicago at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Boston at Toronto, 6 p.m. Atlanta at Orlando, 6 p.m. Miami at Washington, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. New Jersey at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Portland at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Indiana at Memphis, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at New York, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 9:30 p.m. ———

OT 5 7 3 5 8

Pts 71 67 65 65 52

Northeast Division

GP Boston.............52 Toronto............54 Ottawa.............56 Buffalo.............53 Montreal...........54

W 33 28 27 23 21

L 17 20 22 24 24

OT 2 6 7 6 9

Pts 68 62 61 52 51

Pts 74 69 69 65 36

W 33 25 25 27 21

L 15 20 22 25 28

OT 5 8 7 3 5

Pts 71 58 57 57 47

GF 176 129 152 171 123

GA 131 106 140 163 175

GF 171 122 130 140 143

GA 133 136 147 153 162

GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose.........51 29 16 6 64 148 121 Los Angeles....54 26 18 10 62 118 117 Phoenix............54 25 21 8 58 143 143 Dallas...............52 27 23 2 56 137 148 Anaheim..........53 21 24 8 50 138 158 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Wednesday’s Games Buffalo 6, Boston 0 Detroit 4, Edmonton 2 Anaheim 3, Carolina 2, OT Calgary 4, San Jose 3 Today’s Games St. Louis at New Jersey, 6 p.m. Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. Toronto at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at Washington, 6 p.m. Dallas at Columbus, 6 p.m. Nashville at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Florida, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Calgary at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Friday’s Games Dallas at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m. Anaheim at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Carolina at Colorado, 8 p.m. Chicago at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

prep softball Warren Central Date Opponent Time Feb. 25...........at Brandon Classic.....................TBA Feb. 28............................ Brandon................. 6 p.m. March 1.............. Madison Central................. 6 p.m. March 2................................ Terry................. 6 p.m. March 3...............at Clinton tourn......................TBA March 6..... *at Greenville-Weston................. 5 p.m. March 8..........at Madison Central................. 6 p.m. March 10.. Lady Vikes Invitational.....................TBA March 20............................Clinton................. 6 p.m. March 22................. *at Vicksburg................. 6 p.m. March 23..................... at Natchez................. 6 p.m. March 29.....................at Brandon................. 6 p.m. March 30-31.......... at Terry tourn......................TBA April 3............... Northwest Rankin................. 6 p.m. April 5.............*Greenville-Weston................. 5 p.m. April 10.........................*Vicksburg................. 6 p.m. April 13-14........at Richland tourn......................TBA April 17............................. at Terry................. 6 p.m. April 19..................... at Ridgeland................. 6 p.m. *Division 4-6A games

BASEBALL

LOTTERY

EASTERN CONFERENCE L 13 16 19 19 22

OT 2 7 5 7 6

COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended freeagent RHP Rolman Candelario 50 games for testing positive for metabolites of Stanozolol under the minor league drug prevention and treatment program.

nhl W 33 30 31 30 22

L 17 14 17 18 32

Transaction

BULLS 90, HORNETS 67

Atlantic Division

W 36 31 32 29 15

Vicksburg Date Opponent Time March 1..........................Riverside................. 6 p.m. March 6................................ Pearl................. 6 p.m. March 10..................at WC tourn......................TBA March 20.............................. Pearl................. 6 p.m. March 22.............*Warren Central................. 6 p.m. March 27........*Greenville-Weston................. 5 p.m. March 31.........at Riverside tourn......................TBA April 3.......................... at Natchez............ 6:30 p.m. April 5............................ Cathedral................. 6 p.m. April 10........... *at Warren Central................. 6 p.m. April 12...........*Greenville-Weston................. 5 p.m. April 13-14........at Richland tourn......................TBA April 16..........................Ridgeland............ 5:30 p.m. April 17......................at Cathedral............ 6:30 p.m. *Division 4-6A games

CHICAGO (90) Deng 4-10 0-0 9, Boozer 8-15 2-2 18, Noah 6-7 1-2 13, Rose 3-5 0-0 6, Brewer 2-9 1-4 5, Korver 4-9 2-2 12, Watson 1-10 0-0 2, Asik 3-4 2-2 8, Gibson 7-12 0-0 14, Butler 0-0 0-0 0, Lucas 1-3 0-0 3, Scalabrine 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-85 8-12 90. NEW ORLEANS (67) Ariza 3-10 0-0 6, Ayon 3-5 0-0 6, Okafor 5-7 0-0 10, Jack 2-11 0-1 4, Belinelli 4-9 4-8 13, Kaman 6-17 5-5 17, Henry 2-4 0-1 4, Vasquez 2-7 1-2 5, Aminu 0-1 0-0 0, Thomas 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 28-75 10-17 67. Chicago 23 21 26 20 — 90 New Orleans 14 17 15 21 — 67 3-Point Goals—Chicago 4-16 (Korver 2-6, Lucas 1-2, Deng 1-3, Rose 0-1, Brewer 0-1, Watson 0-3), New Orleans 1-3 (Belinelli 1-1, Ariza 0-1, Vasquez 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Chicago 58 (Noah 10), New Orleans 46 (Kaman, Okafor 9). Assists—Chicago 29 (Rose 6), New Orleans 19 (Vasquez, Ariza 4). Total Fouls—Chicago 13, New Orleans 12. Technicals—Chicago defensive three second. A—15,456 (17,188).

GP N.Y. Rangers...51 Philadelphia.....53 New Jersey.....53 Pittsburgh........54 N.Y. Islanders..52

GA 149 149 151 176 168

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Southwest Division

W San Antonio...................18 Dallas.............................15 Houston.........................15 Memphis........................13 New Orleans.................4

GF 149 131 131 148 139

Pacific Division

Pct GB .731 — .654 2 .615 3 .192 14 .120 15 1/2

Central Division

W Chicago.........................22 Indiana...........................17 Milwaukee......................11 Cleveland.......................10 Detroit............................7

Pts 60 59 56 51 50

Northwest Division

GP Vancouver.......53 Minnesota........53 Calgary............54 Colorado..........55 Edmonton........54

Southeast Division

W Miami.............................19 Atlanta...........................17 Orlando..........................16 Washington....................5 Charlotte........................3

OT 4 11 6 5 10

Central Division

GP Detroit..............55 St. Louis..........52 Nashville..........54 Chicago...........54 Columbus........53

nba Atlantic Division

L 21 17 24 24 25

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE W Philadelphia...................18 Boston...........................14 New York.......................11 New Jersey...................8 Toronto..........................8

W 28 24 25 23 20

GF 141 173 150 163 126

GA 103 157 148 141 150

GF 180 168 162 132 140

GA 117 157 174 154 147

Sunday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 5-7-6 La. Pick 4: 6-4-7-2 Monday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 5-4-9 La. Pick 4: 4-8-7-9 Tuesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 9-5-1 La. Pick 4: 4-4-1-6 Mega Millions: 17-23-30-37-45 Megaball: 4; Megaplier; 4 Wednesday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 5-9-2 La. Pick 4: 5-2-1-3 Easy 5: 3-9-18-26-27 La. Lotto: 10-21-22-28-35-36 Powerball: 17-28-38-39-51 Powerball: 33 Thursday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 8-0-4 La. Pick 4: 0-0-8-0 Friday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 7-8-4 La. Pick 4: 5-6-6-0 Mega Millions: 7-19-21-49-53 Megaball: 35; Megaplier: 4 Saturday’s drawing La. Pick 3: 1-5-0 La. Pick 4: 0-3-4-1 Easy 5: 19-21-25-32-33 La. Lotto: 6-15-17-19-21-36 Powerball: 15-23-43-45-56 Powerball: 7

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Hornets drop seventh straight By Brett Martel The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Derrick Rose gutted it out and started against the struggling New Orleans Hornets only two days after leaving Chicago’s previous game with back spasms. In retrospect, the Bulls would have been fine if their star guard had simply taken the night off. Carlos Boozer scored 18 points and the Bulls won their fourth straight game while nearly holding New Orleans to a franchise low in points during a 90-67 rout Wednesday. “We’re staying humble, staying hungry and we just did a good job of setting the tone defensively,” Boozer said. “We did a good job contesting shots, did a good job making them take tough shots, and at the same time I thought we did a good job executing our offense to make the lead grow.” Joakim Noah had 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Bulls. Taj Gibson scored 14 and Kyle Korver 12. Rose played 22 minutes and finished with six points, six assists and five rebounds. He sat out the entire fourth quarter. “Give D-Rose a lot of credit, man. He’s been playing through it for a while,” Boozer said. “Gutsy, gutsy dude, played through it again and then (reserve guard) C.J. (Watson) came in and played great. ... I thought everybody from one through the whole team did a great job.” Chris Kaman scored 17 for the Hornets, who have lost seven straight and 22 of 24.

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Mississippi State forward Arnett Moultrie. right, tries to shoot around Auburn forward Kenny Gabriel last week.

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Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose drives past New Orleans Hornets guard Greivis Vasquez Wednesday. The Bulls defeated the Hornets 90-67. New Orleans made its last six shots, including Marco Belinelli’s 3-pointer with a second left, to narrowly surpass the club low of 65 points. Hornets coach Monty Williams credited the Bulls for maintaining ferocious intensity while playing a heavy underdog in the midst of a long road trip. “I believe that that’s the way you play if you want to win a

championship,” Williams said of Chicago. “Everybody on that team knows their role. They have an identity and they live it out every night. I thought we had a tough time with their pressure.” The Hornets have usually maintained a hustling style of play and kept deficits low even as they have lost game after game, but they simply wilted against the Bulls, who

had seven layups in the third quarter alone. The Bulls’ lead grew to 27 in the period when Rose fed Noah for a fast-break layup. New Orleans shot 6 of 24 in the period (25 percent) and trailed 70-46 heading into the anticlimactic final quarter, when Chicago’s lead grew as large as 88-60 with 1:19 left. Chicago finished shooting 46 percent.

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Vanderbilt snaps skid, throttles Tigers By The Associated Press Festus Ezeli scored 21 points in helping Vanderbilt beat LSU 76-61 Wednesday night and snap a two-game skid. Vanderbilt (17-7, 6-3 Southeastern Conference) had lost at Arkansas and then-No. 12 Florida, which knocked it back out of the Top 25. The Commodores bounced back at home, even though they came out flat and a bit sloppy with a visit Saturday night from No. 1 Kentucky looming. John Jenkins added 20 points for Vanderbilt, and Jeffery Taylor added 19. The Commodores led by 11 three times but couldn’t put LSU away. Andre Stringer hit two free throws to pull the Tigers within 63-59. Ezeli had a one-handed dunk, then Taylor stole the ball leading to a 3-pointer by Jenkins with 4:07 left.

LSU (13-10, 3-6) lost for the fourth time in five games. Reserve Storm Warren had a team-high 13, Anthony Hickey and Ralston Turner had 12 and Justin Hamilton 10.

Duke 85, UNC 84 Freshman Austin Rivers buried a 3-pointer at the horn to give No. 10 Duke an 85-84 win over No. 5 North Carolina on Wednesday night. Rivers scored a season-high 29 points and hit six 3s, though the last will certainly live on in the lore on the fierce rivalry. With the Blue Devils (20-4, 7-2) trailing by two, Rivers launched a 3 over 7-footer Tyler Zeller from the right wing. The ball swished through the net, sending Rivers running down the court in celebration while the rest of his teammates gave chase before mobbing him in front

of a stunned UNC crowd. Rivers’ 3 capped a wild rally for the Blue Devils, who trailed by 10 points with about 2 1/2 minutes left.

Syracuse 64, Georgetown 61 Kris Joseph scored a careerhigh 29 points, hitting a goahead 3-pointer in the final minute of overtime, and second-ranked Syracuse beat Georgetown to give coach Jim Boeheim his 880th career win. Boeheim took sole possession of third place all-time in Division I, one more than North Carolina’s Dean Smith, but it wasn’t easy against the Orange’s rival.

Kansas 68, Baylor 54 Jeff Withey scored a careerhigh 25 points and No. 7 Kansas

went ahead to stay during a stretch without Thomas Robinson as the seventh-ranked Jayhawks had another convincing victory over sixthranked Baylor. After a 14-3 run over the final 4 1/2 minutes of the first half with Robinson on the bench to take its first lead, Kansas (19-5, 9-2 Big 12) scored 14 consecutive points early in the second half to take complete control of the game. The Jayhawks, coming off a 74-71 loss at fourth-ranked Missouri on Saturday, grabbed a share of the Big 12 lead with the Tigers. Baylor (21-3, 8-3) was 17-0 with the longest winning streak in school history before a 92-74 loss at Kansas just more than three weeks ago. The Bears followed that with a one-point home loss to Missouri, where they play their next game Saturday.

PCA Continued from Page B1. at Russell Christian on Jan. 20, the Eagles’ closest district game was a 17-point blowout of Newton Academy. PCA went undefeated to earn the top seed in the district tournament, which comes with a first-round bye and an automatic berth in the South Central tournament. Russell (20-8) got the No. 2 seed in the district tournament and advanced to tonight’s semifinals by beat-

ing Veritas on Tuesday. The top four teams advance to South Central. Given the way it ran roughshod within the district, PCA’s toughest opponent this week might be time. It will have gone eight days between games by the time it tips off Friday. The extra time off has allowed the Eagles to heal some nagging injuries and rest a thin rotation that’s

only seven players deep. Coach E.J. Creel worried that it might have messed up their rhythm. “Three days, four days, I’m good with. Eight days, I’m not,” Creel said. “We have injuries, so that can help. Hopefully we can stay motivated. Our practices have been good.” Creel added two games to the schedule last week to avoid an even longer layoff.

Even though both ended in losses, to Washington School and Simpson Academy, Buys said getting some live action has helped keep the team sharp. “We’ve been practicing a good bit, doing a lot of conditioning. That’s helped. If we wouldn’t have had these two games, it would hurt,” Buys said. “They helped a lot.”

ings on the topic after he saw no interest from his colleagues or other conferences in pursuing a four-team playoff to decide the BCS champ back in 2008. The format of pairing four teams playing two semifinals plus the title game was proposed by Slive and the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference only to be shot down by leaders of the

Big Ten, Pac-10, Big East, Big 12 and Notre Dame. Now the Big Ten is expressing interest in changes. “What would it look like and whether it’s actually going to happen, all of that is premature,” Slive said. “I think we need the time to sit down and analyze it. We need time to take ideas back to our respective conferences and ... a decision to be made

sometime later this year as we begin to talk about the ... next format.” The SEC commissioner said they also need to look very carefully at how any changes affect traditions like bowl games. Before the session, he said they have two years left in the current format, leaving plenty of time to work through any changes.

Slive Continued from Page B1. and decide what format is going to be going forward. So we have decided to sit down and talk about this from every different side.” Slive said they started discussions the day after Alabama beat LSU for the SEC’s sixth consecutive national championship in January with another meeting scheduled later this month. He said there will be several meet-

Bulldogs set to face rival Rebels tonight By David Brandt The Associated Press STARKVILLE — Mississippi State has a starting five that looks capable of a deep run into the NCAA Tournament come March. The bench? Not so much. With the grind of Southeastern Conference taking its toll on a talented but thin roster, coach Rick Stansbury is desperately searching for anybody capable of giving quality minutes as the 20th- ranked Bulldogs (18-5, 5-3 SEC) prepare to host Ole Miss (14-8, 4-4) tonight. That’s why sophomore Shaun Smith’s brief burst in Saturday’s win over Auburn was so encouraging. The 6-foot-6 guard has been stuck on the bench for most of his two seasons, bothered by hip and wrist injuries, but he scored five points and grabbed a rebound in seven minutes against the Tigers. The production came at key moments — a 3-pointer when the game was tight in the first half and a pair of free throws in the final seconds as the Bulldogs sealed the win. “There’s no reason he can’t do that against everybody,” Stansbury said. “And if he hadn’t of been hurt I think we’d be way beyond that point, but just because of his situation that’s where we’re at right now.” Mississippi State has been limited to basically a sevenman rotation the past few games since backup point guard DeVille Smith was sidelined indefinitely with what Stansbury called headaches and dizziness. Stansbury hopes Smith can return to the lineup soon, but no date has been set. That’s meant an even heavier load for the starters. Dee Bost, Rodney Hood and Arnett Moultrie rank one, two and three in the SEC in minutes played. All three average more than 34 minutes per game. Smith’s lengthy 6-foot-6 frame is beneficial on both ends of the floor when he’s healthy. He’s slowly worked his way back from injuries the past two months, trying to send a message to Stansbury with improved play during practice. “I’m still here and want to play,” Smith said. Stansbury is more than happy to put him on the

college basketball On the air 6 p.m. ESPN2 Ole Miss at Mississippi State Radio: 105.5 FM, 1490 AM floor as long as he contributes. Sophomore guard Jalen Steele said there’s little doubt Smith has the talent when healthy. “Shaun will help us out on defense,” Steele said. “He’s just got to come out with the focus where he can play, be confident about his game, be confident about his defense, and everything will be good.” Mississippi State is trying to avoid getting swept by rival Ole Miss in the season series for the first time since 1998. The Rebels won the first game 75-68 in Oxford, with Reginald Buckner scoring a career high 19 points and grabbing 15 rebounds. “Offensive rebounding was a factor in that game,” Stansbury said. “We have to play better than we played the last time.” Ole Miss is coming off its second double-overtime loss of the season, a 69-67 setback to Alabama. The Rebels still have NCAA Tournament hopes, and two wins over the Bulldogs would certainly help their at-large profile. It won’t be easy. Mississippi State has a 12-game home winning streak against all opponents and won 24 of its past 27 home games against Ole Miss. “We’re a handful of possessions away from sitting here at 7-1 (in the SEC),” Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy said. “If you dwell on that, it can drive you crazy. The reality is there’s nothing we can do about the first eight. All we control is the next eight, starting Thursday night. For us, it shows me our attention to detail needs to improve.” Kennedy said that starts with improving the team’s free-throw percentage and turnover margin, which both rank last in the league. Ole Miss had just five turnovers against Mississippi State in the first meeting, which was easily one of the Rebels’ best games of the season in that category.

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

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gone to the dogs

TONIGHT ON TV n MOVIE “I, Robot” — In 2035 a Chicago homicide detective, Will Smith, tracks a sophisticated robot accused of murdering a visionary scientist./7 on FMC n SPORTS College basketball — The Hump should be hopping tonight as longtime rivals Ole Miss and Mississippi State battle on the basketball court in Starkville./6 on ESPN2 n PRIMETIME “The Office” — When Dwight receives a special assignment in Tallahassee, he and Andy must Will Smith decide which Scranton employees will go with him; Pam returns from maternity leave./8 on NBC

THIS WEEK’S LINEUP n EXPANDED LISTINGS TV TIMES — Network, cable and satellite programs appear in Sunday’s TV Times magazine and online at www.vicksburgpost. com

MILESTONES n BIRTHDAYS Carole King, singer-songwriter, 70; Joe Pesci, actor, 69; Mia Farrow, actress, 67; Judith Light, actress, 63; Travis Tritt, country singer, 49; Charlie Day, actor-producer, 36; Ziyi Zhang, actress, 33; David Gallagher, actor, 27; Marina Malota, actress, 24; Jimmy Bennett, actor, 16. n DEATH Janice Voss — NASA astronaut who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years was 55. A native of South Bend, Ind., Voss started with NASA while attending Purdue University in 1973. She later worked as an instructor before being selected as an astronaut in 1990. Voss flew four missions in the 1990s before a flight to the International Space Station in 2000.

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CNN suspends Martin for tweets CNN is suspending political analyst Roland Martin for tweets during the Super Bowl that the network said were “offensive” and that some critics said were anti-gay. Martin commented on Twitter about a commercial during the Super Bowl that showed soccer star David Beckham in underwear: “If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish Roland Martin out of him.” The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said the remark advocated violence against gays. Martin said he was making a joke about soccer. CNN said Wednesday that Martin’s remarks were “regrettable and offensive” and he will not be on air “for the time being.”

Hollywood preps for first Golden Collar Awards LOS ANGELES (AP) — With Uggie stealing hearts in “The Artist,” snagging the spotlight at celebrity events and reportedly preparing for a sketch with Oscar host Billy Crystal, Hollywood really has gone to the dogs this year. There’s even a brand-new award show honoring canine performers on Monday. The first Golden Collar Awards drew international attention when Martin Scorsese recently published a letter in the Los Angeles Times demanding recognition for Blackie the Doberman, who appears alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in “Hugo.” Scorsese pushed a write-in campaign and now “Hugo” adds one Golden Collar nomination to its 11 Oscar bids. Antonio Banderas, who voiced the leading cat in the Oscar-nominated animated film “Puss in Boots,” followed up with his own letter in the Huffington Post, urging Hollywood to “please overcome this anti-feline-ism” and consider recognizing Puss with a Golden Collar nod. (No word yet whether the directors of “Kung Fu Panda 2” and “Rango” are demanding panda and lizard inclusion in the competition.) Forget it, says Golden Collar Awards founder Alan Siskind. His show is just for live-action dogs. As creator of Dog News Daily, a website and marketing firm, Siskind came up with the idea to honor onscreen dogs in January when he noticed how many awards contenders prominently featured man’s best friend. “It was just an excuse to have a party,” he said.

Charge against country star retired Country music singer Rodney Atkins will not be prosecuted on a misdemeanor domestic assault charge if he continues to meet court-ordered conditions. Atkins was arrested in November and charged after his wife Tammy Jo Atkins told police he attacked her and tried to suffocate her with a pillow after a night of drinking. A Tennessee judge on Wednesday agreed to retire the charge, meaning it will be removed from Atkins’ record if he continues to meet conditions, including staying out of trouble for 11 months and 29 days. Attorney Rose Palermo says Atkins has passed court-ordered anger management, drug and alcohol evaluations and has agreed to do 30 hours of community service. His No. 1 hits included “Take a Back Road.” He and his wife are divorcing.

Schwarzenegger joins Sly in ’The Tomb’ It’s an action superstar reunion: Arnold Schwarzenegger is joining Sylvester Stallone for the thriller “The Tomb.” The filmmakers said Wednesday that Schwarzenegger signed on to star alongside Stallone in the prison-break adventure. Schwarzenegger previously had a cameo in Stallone’s action hit “The Expendables” and also appears in its upcoming sequel.

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Judge: Buy wife flowers, dinner A spat over forgetting to wish his wife a happy birthday landed a South Florida man in jail on domestic violence charges. When Judge “Jay” Hurley heard the circumstances that brought 47-year-old Joseph Bray to bond court Tuesday, he issued a unique ruling. Hurley ordered Bray to buy a birthday card and flowers for his wife before taking her to dinner at Red Lobster and bowling afterward. Hurley ruled the couple should begin seeing a marriage counselor immediately. Hurley felt this was a “better resolution” since the incident was minor and Bray had no prior arrests. Bray’s wife told the judge she’s not afraid of her husband.

Jean Dujardin holds his co-star, Uggie the dog. But Hollywood really sunk its teeth into the concept. When Harvey Weinstein’s office got word of the Golden Collar Awards, he offered Uggie and a co-star of “The Artist,” actress Penelope Ann Miller, to help announce the nominees. With that starry boost, the show, like a Labrador after a tennis ball, was off and running. Uggie is the night’s leading nominee, with nods for his work in both “The Artist” and “Water For Elephants.” Besides him and Blackie (real name: Maximilian), the other feature-film nominees are Cosmo from “Beginners,” Denver,

who played Skeletor in “50/50” and Hummer, who played Dolce in “Young Adult.” Small-screen canine stars are also being honored. Siskind said he’s been approached by TV networks interested in broadcasting the show next year, and the Hollywood Reporter has signed on to stream Monday’s ceremony on its website. “Everybody’s having fun with it. It’s tongue in cheek, but also recognizing the joy that dogs bring to people’s lives,” he said. “Unlike films and TV shows that only appeal to a particular demographic, an awards show for dogs transcends any socio-economic or gender or political or geographic boundary.” But what about the cats, horses and other creatures who entertained moviegoers this year? They’re not eligible for the Golden Collars, but could be among the honorees at the PAWSCARS, American Humane Association’s annual recognition of animal actors. The group, which issues the “no animals were harmed” certification to films and TV shows, has presented its PAWSCARS for the past four years. This year’s winners was set to be announced today. All kinds of animals are eligible for PAWSCARS, she said, noting that a tarantula won best supporting arachnid for its role in “Salt” with Angelina Jolie. “He was honored for his acting job with the most famous actress on the planet,” said Jone Bouman, spokeswoman for the American Humane Association’s film and television unit.

Dietary restrictions force woman to fend for herself Dear Abby: I was recently diagnosed as gluten intolerant. My question is, when dining at a restaurant, while everyone else is eating the bread that is served, is it acceptable to discreetly take a few glutenfree crackers from my purse and snack on them so I’m not starving while waiting for dinner? My husband thought it was inappropriate, so I didn’t take them. I did ask the waiter if he had gluten-free bread or crackers, but he didn’t. What do you think, Abby? — Gluten Intolerant in Florida Dear G.I.: It’s good that you were diagnosed, because gluten intolerance can cause serious digestive issues. Your husband may have had a bad day when he criticized you,

DEAR ABBY ABIGAIL

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because I see nothing wrong with someone on a restricted diet taking emergency rations in case a restaurant can’t accommodate his or her special needs. Gluten intolerance has gone undiagnosed in many people, but in recent years food manufacturers have created many products that are safe for them to eat. Accommodating a customer who is gluten intolerant shouldn’t be an insurmountable problem if the restaurant

is asked in advance. Dear Abby: I was standing in front of a restaurant with my mother-in-law and a group of relatives when she “felt up” my back and backside. We were facing the others when she put her hand around my back, first sideways and then all around until she got down to my rear end. It felt like she was searching for something, but the weather was warm and my blouse was very thin, so I couldn’t have hidden anything. When she reached my behind, she pressed her thumb hard on my hipbone and rubbed in a circular motion. I feel extremely violated because her hand should not be anywhere near that region. My husband said I misinterpreted what she did,

but he has no explanation. I think her behavior was incestuous! When she visits, she also insists on sleeping in the master bedroom. Am I overreacting? — Violated in Southern California Dear “Violated”: Unless your mother-in-law insists on sleeping between you and her son when she comes to visit, I do think you’re overreacting. What she did was give you a back rub. In most families, a gesture like that is one of affection. Lighten up! •

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. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

TWEEN 12 & 20

Actor Busey files for bankruptcy Court records show actor Gary Busey has filed for bankruptcy and is listing more than $500,000 in estimated personal debts. Busey’s filing in Los Angeles provides few details but includes more than a dozen potential creditors. The filing states the 67-year-old has less than $50,000 in assets. Busey has starred in numerous films including Gary Busey “Point Break” and “Lethal Weapon” but has in recent years appeared more on reality shows such as “Celebrity Apprentice.”

BY DR. ROBERT WALLACE • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION DR. WALLACE: I met this really nice guy at the restaurant where we both worked, and we had dated for more than a year. He was born in Mexico and so was my father. I really loved him, and I thought he loved me, too. About six months ago, I found out I was pregnant. When I told Jose, he said we had to get married, and I thought he meant it because that was what I wanted to hear. My parents were happy because they liked him, and he was also from Jalisco where my parents are from.

One day, about a week after I told Jose about being a father, he didn’t show up for work. And now, months later, he still hasn’t appeared at work. It took me no time to figure out that he has fled across the border and isn’t coming back. I gave birth to a healthy baby boy and quickly signed papers to allow him to be adopted by a childless couple unable to have children. It was very difficult for me, but I love my son with all my heart and soul, and I pray that I did the right thing. Sometimes I feel guilty for giving my son away,

but I know that he will have a good life that I could never afford to give him. I think you will tell me I did the right thing, but I’d like to read it in your column. — Adella, El Paso, Texas ADELLA: You were placed in the most difficult position — a young teenage girl who was pregnant and deserted by the baby’s father. Making the decision with your mother’s guidance to have the baby and to give him to a loving couple was a wonderful choice. You had several options, and you should feel very

good that you did what was best for your son. I understand that giving your son up for adoption was extremely painful; only you can know the extent of your sorrow and guilt. You have these feelings because you love your son like all mothers do and always will. You made the supreme sacrifice in giving up the privilege of watching your son grow into a man, in order to give him a greater opportunity to succeed in life. • Dr, Robert Wallace writes for Copley News Service. E-mail him at rwallace@ galesburg.net.

Antibiotics are safe to treat urinary tract infections Dear Doctor K: I’m a 42-yearold woman. This year I’ve had four urinary tract infections. Each cleared up with antibiotics. But now my doctor wants me to take a preventive antibiotic every day. Is this safe? Dear Reader: Urinary tract infections are surprisingly common in women of all ages. Most UTIs occur in the bladder. As you know from experience, the symptoms include frequent, urgent and painful urination, bloody urine and pressure or pain in your lower abdomen. Less often, your kidneys may become infected. Antibiotics are effective in preventing recurrent UTIs, and it is safe to take antibiotics preventively for up to several years. Still, one concern is the creation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. These bacteria can cause infections that cannot be treated with antibiotics. Your doctor will try to avoid this by prescribing the lowest dose that’s still effective. If you’re still concerned, try the following to prevent your

ASK DOCTOR K Dr. Anthony L.

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risk of recurrent UTIs. If these steps are effective, you may be able to forgo the antibiotics. • Urinate before and after intercourse. • Drink plenty of fluids throughout the day. • Urinate as soon as you have the urge, whenever possible. • Wipe front to back after a bowel movement. • If you are postmenopausal, try a vaginal estrogen cream. Why do some women get recurrent urinary tract infections? Some are born with a condition that causes bacteria to stick more tightly to the cells of or near their urinary tract. Currently, there is no treatment for this. You’re just born with a genetic curse. Much less often, defects in the shape of the urinary tract

are the cause. One example is a kidney stone that is blocking some part of the system. Such abnormalities can be detected by imaging tests such as an ultrasound or a CT scan. Fortunately, most recurrent urinary tract infections are not caused by a serious problem and do not lead to serious complications. They just cause aggravating symptoms. Today, we know of good treat-

ments to reduce the number a woman gets. •

Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. Go to his website to send questions to www. AskDoctorK.com.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE

BY BERNICE BEDE OSOL • NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — When there is justification, it’s commendable to praise another. However, if you’re doing so for less noble reasons, such as getting a favor out of someone, it’s likely to backfire. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Don’t let someone who has trouble managing financial affairs take care of a money issue for you. If you acquiesce and let this person do it anyway, you’ll be sorry. Aries (March 21-April 19) — If you’re having a difficult time making a decision, forgo taking a leadership role. Let someone else who seems to have his or her head on straight call the shots. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — It’s one thing to help out a pal who is overwhelmed with work, but don’t saddle yourself with a friend’s burdens merely because he or she can’t be bothered to handle them on his or her own. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — When becoming friendly with a new group, watch out for one member who is somewhat unpopular, and for good reason. She or he might try to glom on to you and drag you down as well. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Someone with whom you’re closely affiliated might be able to put on pretenses and get away with it, but that doesn’t mean you can. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Just because you haven’t heard from a pal who is close to your heart for some time, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he or she isn’t interested in keeping in touch. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Money in itself is not evil, but the love of it can sometimes cause people to lower their standards and do things that they shouldn’t. Don’t you be one of them. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Don’t single out one person in particular to be nice to just because you want a favor that, chances are, you won’t

get anyway. You’ll go further being amiable to everyone. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Beware of any involvement that is off limits, such as an illicit romantic encounter. It might be flattering to be wooed, but it’ll create complications you don’t need. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — An insincere person might try to manipulate you by at-

tempting to make you believe that what he or she is asking of you is for your best interest. Don’t take the bait. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — If by chance you are feeling a powerful inclination to be the center of attention, don’t do anything silly. All eyes will be focused on you all right, but not for the reasons you think.

01. Legals

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01. Legals

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on May 8, 2007, CHARLIE BLACKMORE, JR AND LINDA BLACKMORE, HUSBAND AND WIFE, executed a Deed of Trust to OLD REPUBLIC NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY as Trustee for the benefit of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS A NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN BROKERS CONDUIT, which Deed of Trust was filed on May 10, 2007 and recorded as Instrument No. 245494 - and in Book 1655 at Page 49 - in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was re-filed on November 2, 2009 and re-recorded as Instrument No. 274165 - and in Book 1703 at Page 601 - in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP, then Beneficiary of said Deed of Trust, substituted EMILY KAYE COURTEAU as Trustee therein in place of the afore-mentioned original Trustee, as authorized by the terms thereof, as evidenced by an instrument filed on January 14, 2010 and recorded as Instrument No. 275001 - and in Book 1504 at Page 517 - in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP, current Beneficiary of said Deed of Trust, substituted RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. as Trustee therein in place of the afore-mentioned original Trustee and substituted Trustee, as authorized by the terms thereof, as evidenced by an instrument recorded as Instrument No# 294022 and in Book 1530 at Page 722 - in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust, and the entire debt secured thereby having been declared to be due and payable, and the legal holder of said indebtedness, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP, having requested the undersigned Substitute Trustee to execute the trust and sell said land and property in accordance with the terms of said Deed of Trust for the purpose of raising the sums due thereunder, together with attorney's fees, Substitute Trustee's fees and expenses of sale. NOW, THEREFORE, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Substitute Trustee, will on February 16, 2012, offer for sale at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, within legal hours (between the hours of 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) at the front steps of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, the following-described property: LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND REFERRED TO IN THIS COMMITMENT. THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN SQUARE 9 IN THE CITY OF VICKSBURG, WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, KNOWN AS SPRINGFIELD PROPER MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: COMMENCE AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 30 OF SQUARE 9, AND RUN NORTH 07 DEGREES EAST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 30 AND THE WEST LINE OF POPLAR STREET FOR 73.75 FEET TO AN OLD FENCE ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH HALF OF LOT 30, THENCE CONTINUE ALONG SAID EAST LINE OF LOT 30, THENCE CONTINUE ALONG SAID EAST LINE OF LOT 30 AND WEST LINE OF POPLAR STREET NORTH 07 DEGREES EAST FOR 66.25 FEET TO AN IRON PIN IN THE WEST LINE OF POPLAR STREET AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE PARCEL TO BE CONVEYED HEREIN, THENCE RUN NORTH 78 DEGREES 52 MINUTES 31 SECONDS WEST FOR 104.27 FEET TO AN IRON PIN, THENCE TURN AND RUN NORTH 11 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 31 SECONDS EAST FOR 45.62 FEET TO AN IRON PIN IN LOT 31 OF SQUARE 9, THENCE TURN AND RUN SOUTH 83 DEGREES EAST FOR 100.68 FEET TO AN IRON PIN ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 31 AND THE WEST LINE OF POPLAR STREET, THENCE TURN AND RUN ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 31 AND THE WEST LINE OF POPLAR STREET SOUTH 07 DEGREES WEST FOR 53.0 FEET BACK TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 5000 SQUARE FEET, MORE OR LESS, THIS PROPERTY IS ALSO KNOWN AS LOT 3, CHRISTOPHER AND LEWIS ESTATES AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 3, PAGE 138 (SLIDE CABINET A, SLIDE 207-A) IN THE LAND RECORDS OF WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. will convey only such title as vested in it as Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature on this 10th day of January, 2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 Telephone No. (800) 281-8219 By: /s/ Mahtab Memar Title: Assistant Vice President RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 TS No.: 11 -0145847 PARCEL No. 094E 13 0421 001504 DHGW 67663G-1LL Publish: 1/26, 2/2, 2/9(3t) Adams and Edens SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on the 14th day of August, 2006, Clint Olin Truesdell and Shannon L. Truesdell, executed a Deed of Trust to Teller, Chaney, Hassell & Hopson, Trustee for the use and benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., which Deed of Trust is on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Deed of Trust Book 1607 at Page 323 and as Instrument No. 236101 thereof; and WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was assigned to Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., by assignment on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Book 1478 at Page 810 and as Instrument No. 256796 thereof; andWHEREAS, the legal holder of the said Deed of Trust and the note secured thereby, substituted Bradley P. Jones, as Trustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, by instrument recorded in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book 1528 at Page 324 thereof; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the performance of the conditions and stipulations as set forth by said Deed of Trust, and having been requested by the legal holder of the indebtedness secured and described by said Deed of Trust so to do, notice is hereby given that I, Bradley P. Jones, Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me in said Deed of Trust, will offer for sale and will sell at public sale and outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, during the legal hours (between the hours of 11 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p.m.) at the West front door of the County Courthouse of Warren County, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the 16th day of February, 2012, the following described land and property being the same land and property described in said Deed of Trust, situated in Warren County, State of Mississippi, to-wit: Part North 1/2 Section 6, Township 14 North, Range 4 East, Warren County, Mississippi. Commencing at a found iron on the Westerly line of Fisher Ferry Road, marking the East Southeast corner of the Nannie Cox Price Tract, as described in Deed Book 644 at Page 672 of the Land Records of Warren County, Mississippi; thence S 72 degrees 16 minutes 29 seconds W, 1844.14 ft. to a set iron in a fence-line and the Point of Beginning of the herein described parcel; thence, along said fenceline N 89 degrees 36 minutes 12 seconds W a distance of 193.07 ft. to a set iron in said fence; thence leaving said fence-line, N 26 degrees 43 minutes 21 seconds E a distance of 156.76 ft. to a set iron; thence N 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds E a distance of 52.76 ft. to a set iron; thence S 37 degrees 47 minutes 51 seconds E a distance of 45.67 ft. to a set iron; thence with a curve turning to the left having an arc length of 104.82 ft, a radius of 40.00 ft., a chord bearing of S 23 degrees 00 minutes 11 seconds E, and a chord length of 77.30 ft.; thence S 18 degrees 48 minutes 45 seconds E a distance of 36.04 ft. to the Point of Beginning, containing 0.38 acres, more or less.ALSO of record: a 2006 Clayton 56 x 32 Mobile Home, Serial No.CLA055418TNAB filed in Book 1438 Page 514 in the Chancery Clerk Office of Warren County, State of Mississippi, to wit:Together with that certain perpetual, non-exclusive ingress/egress easement to be used in common, for the purpose of a roadway to Fisher Ferry Road (Public Access) and for the installation and maintenance of power lines, water lines, utilities, etc. over an across a certain 50 ft. wide strip of land being further described as: Commencing at the East Southeast corner of the Nannie Cox Price Tract; thence North 45 degrees 43 minutes 55 seconds West a distance of 124.56 ft. to a point being the intersection of the said West Fisher Ferry Right of Way and the centerline of the herein described street, being the Point of Beginning; thence along said easement the following courses:South 44 degrees 44 minutes 35 seconds West a distance of 59.98 ft.; thence South 44 degrees 19 minutes 20 seconds West a distance of 108.71 ft.; thence South 43 degrees 29 minutes 53 seconds West a distance of 52.23 ft.; thence South 21 degrees 48 minutes 25 seconds West a distance of 33.58 ft.; thence South 30 degrees 34 minutes 03 seconds West a distance of 61.25 ft.; thence South 30 degrees 55 minutes 13 seconds West a distance of 129.38 ft.; thence South 34 degrees 35 minutes 24 seonds West a distance of 52.44 ft.; thence South 42 degrees 50 minutes 16 seconds West a distance of 36.94 ft.; thence South 52 degrees 21 minutes 47 seconds West a distance of 77.72 ft.; thence South 66 degrees 44 minutes 15 seconds West a distance of 85.23 ft.; thence South 73 degrees 23 minutes 24 seconds West a distance of 73.45 ft.; thence South 88 degrees 31 minutes 31 seconds West a distance of 72.16 ft.; thence North 83 degrees 24 minutes 01 seconds West a distance of 103.52 ft.; thence North 81 degrees 13 minutes 54 seconds West a distance of 99.55 ft.; thence North 76 degrees 38 minutes 52 seconds West a distance of 117.93 ft.; thence North 80 degrees 02 minutes 50 seconds West a distance of 121.08 ft.; thence North 79 degrees 01 minutes 35 seconds West a distance of 180.96 ft.; thence North 80 degrees 37 minutes 47 seconds West a distance of 60.22 ft.; thence S 87 degrees 11 minutes 10 seconds W a distance of 77.61 ft.; thence S 65 degrees 19 minutes 22 seconds W a distance of 224.50 ft.; thence S 61 degrees 50 minutes 45 seconds W a distance of 186.70 ft.; which is the Point of Terminus of said easement. Title to the above described property is believed to be good, but I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature, on this the 19th day of January, 2012. _______________ BRADLEY P. JONES SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE PREPARED BY: ADAMS & EDENS POST OFFICE BOX 400 BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI 39043 (601) 825-9508 A&E File #11-02000 Publish: 1/26, 2/2, 2/9(3t)

01. Legals

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on January 26, 2004, ARTHUR BROOKS, AN UNMARRIED MAN, executed a Deed of Trust to CTC REAL ESTATE SERVICES as Trustee for the benefit of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS A NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., which Deed of Trust was filed on January 27, 2004 and recorded as Instrument No. 206859 - and in Book 1445 at Page 466 - in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-3, the current Beneficiary of said Deed of Trust, substituted RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. as Trustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, as evidenced by an instrument recorded as Instrument No. 294123 and in Book 1530 at Page 802 in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust, and the entire debt secured thereby having been declared to be due and payable, and the legal holder of said indebtedness, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-3, having requested the undersigned Substitute Trustee to execute the trust and sell said land and property in accordance with the terms of said Deed of Trust for the purpose of raising the sums due thereunder, together with attorney's fees, Substitute Trustee's fees and expenses of sale. NOW, THEREFORE, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Substitute Trustee, will on February 23, 2012, offer for sale at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, within legal hours (between the hours of 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) at the front steps of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, the following-described property: LOT 27-FAIRWAYS PART 11 (UNRECORDED) PART OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST, CHOCTAW DISTRICT, WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI COMMENCING AT A 3/4 INCH RE-BAR MARKING THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST, CHOCTAW DISTRICT, WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, AND RUN THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 22 MINUTES 42 SECONDS EAST, 1093.35 FEET TO A FLAT IRON IN A FENCE LINE; THENCE SOUTH 86 DEGREES 37 MINUTES 48 SECONDS WEST, 1351.39 FEET TO AN IRON PIN ON THE EAST RIGHTOF-WAY OF PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE; THENCE ACROSS PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE, SOUTH 73 DEGREES 44 MINUTES 02 SECONDS WEST, 50.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY OF SAID PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE; THENCE ALONG THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY OF SAID PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND DISTANCES: SOUTH 16 DEGREES 15 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, 208.03 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF A 2 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS CURVE TO THE RIGHT, THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE (HAVING A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 5 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 24 SECONDS RIGHT AND A RADIUS OF 2839.79 FEET) A CHORD OF SOUTH 13 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 16 SECONDS EAST, 275.30 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF SAID CURVE; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG THE WEST RIGHT-OF- WAY OF SAID PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE, SOUTH 10 DEGREES 42 MINUTES 34 SECONDS EAST, 244.28 FEET TO *THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF A 2 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS CURVE TO THE RIGHT; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE (HAVING A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 10 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 36 SECONDS RIGHT AND A RADIUS OF 2839.84 FEET) A CHORD OF SOUTH 5 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 09 SECONDS EAST, 482.54 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE ACROSS PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE, SOUTH 46 DEGREES 38 MINUTES 45 SECONDS EAST, 69.33 TO AN IRON PIN ON THE EAST RIGHT-OF-WAY OF SAID PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE, SAID IRON PIN BEING FURTHER DESCRIBED AS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 26 OF THE PROPOSED FAIRWAYS SUBDIVISION PART 11; THENCE ALONG THE EAST RIGHT OF WAY OF SAID, PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE, SOUTH 00 DEGREES 08 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, 165.00 FEET TO AN IRON PIN AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 27 OF THE PROPOSED FAIRWAYS SUBDIVISION, PART 11, SAID POINT BEING THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED TRACT. FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, THENCE LEAVING THE EAST RIGHT-OF-WAY OF SAID PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE AND RUN NORTH 89 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 02 SECONDS EAST, 200 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 08 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, 155.00 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 02 WEST, 200.00 FEET TO AN IRON PIN ON THE EAST RIGHT-OF-WAY OF SAID PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE; THENCE ALONG THE EAST RIGHT-OF--WAY OF SAID. PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE, NORTH 00 DEGREES 08 MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST, 155.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING AND CONTAINING 0.71 ACRES, MORE OF LESS, AND BEING LOT 27 OF SAID PROPOSED FAIRWAYS SUBDIVISION, PART 11, BEING SITUATED IN PART OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST, CHOCTAW DISTRICT, WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. TOGETHER WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT AND RIGHT OF WAY FOR THE USE IN COMMON WITH THE PUBLIC FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AND FOR THE INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF UTILITIES OVER, ACROSS, IN, ON, UNDER AND ALONGSIDE ALL THOSE PORTIONS OF PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE AS SAME IS EXTENDED FROM THE NORTHERLY TERMINUS OF PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE AS IDENTIFIED AND DEPICTED UPON THE RECORDED PLAT OF FAIRWAYS SUBDIVISION, PART 10, AS SHOWN BY PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 3 AT PAGE 117 OF THE LAND RECORDS OF WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, AND BEING CONTAINED THEREIN IN PLAT CABINET "A" AT SLOT 200-D, AND RUNNING IN A NORTHERLY DIRECTION TO THE NORTHERN MOST TERMINUS OF PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE AS SAME IS CONSTRUCTED AND EXISTS UPON THE GROUND TOGETHER WITH ANY FUTURE NORTHERLY EXTENSION OF SAME ALONG WITH ANY SECONDARY STREET WHICH IS HEREAFTER DEVELOPED OR CONSTRUCTED FROM THE WESTERLY SIDE(S) OF PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE AND WHICH RUN IN A WESTERLY AND SOUTHERLY DIRECTION TO PROVIDE INGRESS AND EGRESS AND UTILITY SERVICE TO ANY LOTS WHICH MAY BE HEREAFTER DEVELOPED WITHIN THE TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED HEREINABOVE IN FEE SIMPLE AND KNOWN AS "FAIRWAYS SUBDIVISION, PART 11." RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. will convey only such title as vested in it as Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature on this 10th day of January, 2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 Telephone No. (800) 281-8219 By: /s/ Mahtab Memar Title: Assistant Vice President RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 TS No.: 11 -0146734 PARCEL No. 0848 01C9999 005900 DHGW 67763G-1LL Publish: 2/2, 2/9, 2/16(3t)

01. Legals

IN CHANCERY COURT OF WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI IN THE MATTER OF THE REQUEST FOR AUTHORITY TO SETTLE DOUBTFUL CLAIM OF MICHAEL CARSON, A MINOR LAQUANTA CARSON PETITIONER CAUSE NO. 2011-376GN RULE 81 SUMMONS (Summons by Publication) THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO: Michael Austin as biological father of Michael Carson You are hereby summoned to appear and defend against Laquanta Carson's Petition for Authority to Settle a Doubtful and Unliquidated Claim in Which Said Minor Has an Interest. You are summoned to appear and defend against said Petition at 9:00 o'clock a.m. on the 8th day of March, 2012, in Warren County Chancery Court, Vicksburg, Mississippi, and in case of your failure to appear and defend a judgment may be entered against you for the money or other things demanded in the Petition. You are not required to file an answer or other pleading but you may do so if you desire. Issued under my hand and the seal of said Court, this the 31st day of January, 2012. Donna F. Hardy, Chancery Clerk /s/ Denise Bailey, D.C. CHANCERY CLERK OF WARREN COUNTY, MS (seal) Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on the 21st day of December, 2007, Larry Allen Barnes, Jr., executed a Deed of Trust to CTC Real Estate Services, Trustee for the use and benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., which Deed of Trust is on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Deed of Trust Book 1689 at Page 653 thereof; and WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was assigned to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP, by assignment on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Book 1496 at Page 613 thereof; and WHEREAS, the legal holder of the said Deed of Trust and the note secured thereby, substituted Bradley P. Jones, as Trustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, by instrument recorded in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book 1530 at Page 812 thereof; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the performance of the conditions and stipulations as set forth by said Deed of Trust, and having been requested by the legal holder of the indebtedness secured and described by said Deed of Trust so to do, notice is hereby given that I, Bradley P. Jones, Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me in said Deed of Trust, will offer for sale and will sell at public sale and outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, during the legal hours

The Vicksburg Post

Thursday, February 9, 2012

01. Legals

(between the hours of 11 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p.m.) at the West front door of the County Courthouse of Warren County, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the 23rd day of February, 2012, the following described land and property being the same land and property described in said Deed of Trust, situated in Warren County, State of Mississippi, to-wit: Parcel One: To get to the point of beginning, begin at the Southeast corner of Section 4, Township 16 North, Range 4 East, Warren County, Mississippi; thence run due West a distance of 2,989.11 feet thence North 01 degrees 44 minutes 30 seconds East a distance of 69.68 feet to the North side of a power line right of way and the point of beginning for the following described lot; thence run North 86 degrees 11 minutes West a distance of 100.00 feet along said right of way; thence North 13 degrees 33 minutes East a distance of 219.42 feet; thence South 88 degrees 13 minutes East a distance of 199.88 feet; thence South 13 degrees 33 minutes West a distance of 219.42 feet to the North side right of way of a power line thence South 89 degrees 45 minutes West a distance of 100.0 feet along said power line right of way to the point of beginning, and containing 1.0 acres of land and is located in the Southwest Quarter of Section 4, Township 16 North, Range 4 East, Warren County, Mississippi. Parcel Two: All of that certain tract, parcel or lot of land lying and being situated in part of the Southwest quarter of Section 4, Township 16 North, Range 4 East of the County of Warren, State of Mississippi, more particularly described as follows, to-wit; Commencing at an iron rod (found) marking the Northeast corner of that certain 1.0 acres property conveyed by deed from Lewis M. Miller to Robert Earl Barnes in Deed Book 720 at page 548 Land Records of Warren County, Mississippi; thence run South 13 Degrees 33 minutes West, 219.42 feet along the East line of said Robert Earl Barnes property to the Southeast corner of same; thence run along the South line of said Robert Earl Barnes property, South 89 degrees 45 minutes West, 20.0 feet to an iron rod and the point of beginning; thence run South 05 degrees 15 minutes 42 seconds East, 65.22 feet to an iron rod; thence South 19 degrees 00 minutes 42 seconds West, 215.41 feet to an iron rod; thence run North 84 degrees 55 minutes 55 seconds West, 50.64 feet to an iron pipe (found); thence run North 01 degrees 55 minutes 26 seconds West, 86.92 feet to an iron rod; thence North 38 degrees 40 minutes 52 seconds West, 76.25 feet to an iron rod; thence run North 11 degrees 14 minutes 49 seconds West, 80.75 feet to an iron rod; thence run North 10 degrees 25 minutes 27 seconds East, 45.12 feet to an iron rod on the South line of said Robert Earl Barnes` 1.0 acre property; thence run along the said South line of the Robert Earl Barnes property as follows: South 86 degrees 11 minutes East, 93.0 feet; thence North 89 degrees 45 minutes East, 80.0 feet to the point of beginning, containing 0.780 acre, and being part of the Lewis Miller Tract, as recorded in Deed Book 604 at page 31. Title to the above described property is believed to be good, but I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature, on this the 27th day of January, 2012. _______________________ BRADLEY P. JONES SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE PREPARED BY: ADAMS & EDENS POST OFFICE BOX 400 BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI 39043 (601) 825-9508 A&E File #11-05051 Publish: 2/2, 2/9, 2/16(3t)

Plaintiff is entitled to possession of the Property and such other relief as it deems just and proper. You are summoned to appear to defend against said complaint or petition at 9:00 a.m. on the 12th day of March, 2012, in the courtroom of the Warren County Courthouse at 1009 Cherry Street, Vicksburg, MS 39181 and in case of your failure to appear and defend a judgment will be entered against you for the money or other things demanded in the complaint or petition. You are required to mail or hand-deliver a copy of a written response to the Complaint filed against you in this action to Ian J. McCutchen, the attorney for the Plaintiff, whose address is c/o Johnson & Freedman, LLC, 1845 W. Plaza Drive, Suite A, Winchester, VA 22601. YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE MAILED OR DELIVERED NO LATER THAN THIRTY (30) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION. IF YOUR RESPONSE IS NOT SO MAILED OR DELIVERED, A JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT WILL BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU FOR POSSESSION OF PROPERTY AND ANY OTHER DEMANDS IN THE COMPLAINT. You must also file the original of your answer with the Clerk of this Court within a reasonable time afterward. Issued under my hand and the seal of this Court, this the 2nd day of February, 2012. By: /s/ Kelly Stevens, D.C. Clerk of County Court Warren County, Mississippi (seal) Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t)

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI IN THE MATTER OF THE REQUEST FOR AUTHORITY TO SETTLE DOUBTFUL CLAIM OF D'JUAN COLEMAN, A MINOR LAQUANTA CARSON PETITIONER CAUSE NO. 2011-375GN RULE 81 SUMMONS (Summons by Publication) THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO: Ricky Coleman as biological father of D'Juan Coleman You are hereby summoned to appear and defend against Laquanta Carson's Petition for Authority to Settle a Doubtful and Unliquidated Claim in Which Said Minor Has an Interest. You are summoned to appear and defend against said Petition at 9:00 o'clock a.m. on the 8th day of March, 2012, in Warren County Chancery Court, Vicksburg, Mississippi, and in case of your failure to appear and defend a judgment may be entered against you for the money or other things demanded in the Petition. You are not required to file an answer or other pleading but you may do so if you desire. Issued under my hand and the seal of said Court, this the 31st day of January, 2012. Donna F. Hardy, Chancery Clerk /s/ Denise Bailey, D.C. CHANCERY CLERK OF WARREN COUNTY, MS (seal) Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t)

Mutual Credit Union Notice to Membership of Regular Annual Meeting for Transaction of Regular Business Pursuant to Section 3 of Article V of the bylaws, the Board of Directors of Mutual Credit Union announce that the Regular Annual Meeting of the Membership will be held on February 16, 2012, at 6:30 PM in the Vicksburg City Auditorium of Vicksburg, Mississippi, located at 901 Monroe Street, in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi. Registration for door prizes will end at 6:30 p.m. This is the Regular Annual Meeting and regular business will be transacted including the election of Directors and Supervisory Committee members. Notices of this Regular Meeting have been posted on the bulletin boards at Mutual Credit Union's Main Office, MCU-South Frontage Road Branch, MCU Clay Street Branch, and MCU Hinds-Raymond Branch. All members of Mutual Credit Union are urged to attend this important meeting. MARY ANNE WOODS Secretary Mutual Credit Union Notice to Membership of Regular Annual Meeting for Transaction of Regular Business Pursuant to Section 3 of Article V of the bylaws, the Board of Directors of Mutual Credit Union announce that the Regular Annual Meeting of the Membership will be held on February 16, 2012, at 6:30 PM in the Vicksburg City Auditorium of Vicksburg, Mississippi, located at 901 Monroe Street, in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi. Registration for door prizes will end at 6:30 p.m. This is the Regular Annual Meeting and regular business will be transacted including the election of Directors and Supervisory Committee members. Notices of this Regular Meeting have been posted on the bulletin boards at Mutual Credit Union's Main Office, MCU-South Frontage Road Branch, MCU Clay Street Branch, and MCU HindsRaymond Branch. All members of Mutual Credit Union are urged to attend this important meeting. MARY ANNE WOODS Secretary Publish: 1/26, 2/2, 2/9(3t)

this the 30th day of January, 2012 Stephanie Fonteno Stephanie Fonteno, Assistant Vice President Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (404) 417-4040 1016155MS Publish: 2/2, 2/9, 2/16(3t)

thence South 01 degrees 30 minutes West, 1283.7 feet; thence South 81 degrees 35 minutes West, 25.9 feet to the center line of a gravel road and also the point of beginning of the herein described tract. From said point of beginning, run thence South 81 degrees 35 minutes West, 25.9 feet; thence South 76 degrees 10 minutes West, 265.0 feet; thence South 25 degrees 50 minutes East, 149.12 feet; thence North 65 degrees 30 minutes East 282.0 feet to the center line of the above mentioned gravel road; thence along the center line of said gravel road, North 24 degrees 30 minutes West 93.23 feet to the point of beginning. Together with and subject to a non-exclusive right of way and easement over and across the aforementioned gravel road, being 25 feet on each side of the center line described as follows: Beginning at the Northeast corner of Section 31, Township 16 North, Range 4 East, Warren County, Mississippi, and running thence North 88 degrees 53 minutes West 1648.0 feet; thence South 01 degrees 30 minutes West 1283.7 feet; thence South 81 degrees 35 minutes West 25.9 feet to the center of a gravel road; thence running along the center line of said gravel road South 24 degrees 30 minutes East 506.1 feet; thence continue along said gravel road South 13 degrees 40 minutes East 223.4 feet; thence continuing along said center line South 13 degrees 00 minutes East 503.6 feet. Title to the above described property is believed to be good, but I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted Trustee. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 30th day of January, 2012 Stephanie Fonteno Stephanie Fonteno, Assistant Vice President Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (404) 417-4040 0809602MS Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t)

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Vicksburg Warren School District will receive SEALED BIDS, marked 11-12-05 until 9:00 A.M. on Feburary 23, 2012 for Surplus Property Specifications may be obtained from the Office of Purchasing at 1500 Mission 66, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids and to waive informalities. Dr. Elizabeth Swinford Superintendent Publish: 2/2, 2/9, 2/16(3t)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on the 31st day of August, 2004, Bobby Sorrels, a married man and his wife, Shenicia Sorrels, executed a Deed of Trust to Joan H. Anderson, Trustee for the use and benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. , which Deed of Trust is on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Deed of Trust Book 1489 at Page 322 and re-recorded in Book 1491 at Page 765 thereof; and WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was assigned to Flagstar Bank, FSB, by assignment on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Book 1522 at Page 198 thereof; and WHEREAS, the terms of said deed of trust were modified by instrument on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Book 1500 at Page 336 thereof; and WHEREAS, the legal holder of the said Deed of Trust and the note secured thereby, substituted Lem Adams, III, as Trustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, by instrument recorded in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book 1440 at Page 69 thereof; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the performance of the conditions and stipulations as set forth by said Deed of Trust, and having been requested by the legal holder of the indebtedness secured and described by said Deed of Trust so to do, notice is hereby given that I, Lem Adams, III, Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me in said Deed of Trust, will offer for sale and will sell at public sale and outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, during the legal hours (between the hours of 11 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p.m.) at the West front door of the County Courthouse of Warren County, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the 23rd day of February, 2012, the following described land and property being the same land and property described in said Deed of Trust, situated in Warren County, State of Mississippi, to-wit: Part Section 37, Township 15 North, Range 3 East, Warren County, Mississippi, described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of Lot 36 of Warrenton Heights Subdivision, a plat of same being of record in Plat Book 1 at Page 86 of the Land Records of Warren County, Mississippi, and said point being North 36 degrees 00 minutes West, 1393.6 feet from the Southeast corner of said Section 37; running thence North 18 degrees 00 minutes West, 160.0 feet; thence South 72 degrees 00 minutes West, 80.0 feet; thence South 18 degrees East, 160.0 feet, said point being on the North line of Belva Drive, running thence l id N h li f id

IN THE COUNTY COURT OF WARREN COUNTY STATE OF MISSISSIPPI FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION PLAINTIFF VS. CIVIL ACTION NO.: 11-1439-CO ERICA BREWER BEVERLY WOMACK AND ANY OTHER PARTIES IN INTEREST WHETHER KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, DEFENDANT(S) SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: Erica Brewer Beverly Womack 119 Lovers Lane Vicksburg, MS 39183 (last known address) You have been made a defendant in the suit filed in this Court by Federal National Mortgage Association (Plaintiff"), seeking Judgment For Possession regarding property located at 119 Lovers Lane, Vicksburg, MS 39183 ("Property"). Specifically, Plaintiff requests that the Court declare that

TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on September 8, 2001, Xavier Richards, single and Charlette Ceasar, single, executed a Deed of Trust to W. Stewart Robison, Trustee for Jim Walter Homes, Inc., Beneficiary, which Deed of Trust is recorded in Land Deed of Trust Book 1279, at Page 384, in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; AND WHEREAS, this Deed of Trust was ultimately assigned to Mid-State Trust X, a business trust and Walter Mortgage Company, LLC, by instrument recorded in Book 1530, at Page 519, in the office of the Chancery Clerk aforesaid; AND WHEREAS, default having been made in payment of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note and Deed of Trust having requested the undersigned Trustee so to do, I will on the 13th day of February, 2012, offer for sale at public outcry and sell during legal hours between the hours of 11:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., at the main front door of the County Courthouse of Warren County, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, for cash to the highest and best bidder, the following described land and property, situated in Warren County, Mississippi, to-wit: Part of Sections 10 and 15, Township 15 North, Range 3 East, Warren County, Mississippi, more particularly described as follows to wit: Beginning at an iron rod marking the Southeast corner of that certain 0.98 acre lot conveyed by deed from David Oldenburg to Tomie L. White, Jr. and Theresa White as recorded in Deed Book 868 at Page 232 of the land records of Warren County, Mississippi; thence run North 11 degrees 39 minutes East, along the East line of the said Tomie White Property, 218.34 feet to an iron rod on the South line of that certain road known as Private Countryside Road; thence run along the said South line of said Private Countryside Road as follows: South 56 degrees 55 minutes 48 seconds East, 94.64 feet to an iron rod; thence South 46 degrees 28 minutes 21 seconds East, 114.46 feet to an iron rod; thence South 57 degrees 45 minutes 39 seconds East, 55.77 feet to an iron rod; thence South 65 degrees 07 minutes East, 111.81 feet to an iron rod found on a fence line; thence run along said fence line and the West line of the Shirley Lloyd Property as described in Deed Book 950 at Page 339 of the aforesaid land records, South 24 degrees 14 minutes West, 289.93 feet to an iron rod; thence run North 49 degrees 00 minutes West, 333.06 feet to an iron rod; thence run North 21 degrees 08 minutes 48 seconds East, 39.21 feet to the point of beginning, containing 2.0 acres, more or less. I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Trustee. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this, the 11th day of January, 2012. _______________________ /s/ W. Stewart Robison, Trustee ROBISON & HOLMES, SOLS. Publish: 1/19, 1/26, 2/2, 2/9 (4t)

07. Help Wanted

COMPUTER GRAPHICS DESIGNER Qualified applicant should have good grammar skills, experience with MacIntosh computers, ad layout and design. Knowledge in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign. Responsibilities include creating and composing advertisements to customer specifications. Must be creative, organized, self-motivated, able to meet deadlines. Send resumes to: Dept. 3782 The Vicksburg Post P.O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182

IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI SARAH HEAD COMPLAINANT VS. UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OF JULIUS MAURICE HEAD a/k/a MAURICE HEAD, DECEASED, and ALL PARTIES HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED LAND, TO-WIT: DEFENDANTS CAUSE NO. 2012-031GN That part of Lot 62 in Square 9 of Vicksburg Proper described as beginning at a point on the South line of Main Street, 99 feet 6 inches West of the Northeast corner of said Square 9; and running thence West along the Southern boundary line of Main Street, 33 feet 9 inches to an alley; running thence South at right angles to said Main Street along the Eastern boundary line of said alley, 94 feet; thence running East parallel with Main Street, 33 feet 9 inches; thence running North at right angles to Main Street, a distance of 94 feet to the place of beginning; and being the same property conveyed to Ellen Head by Henry DeJong by deed dated October 25, 1945, and recorded in Book 250, Page 501 of the Warren County Land Records. SUMMONS THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO: ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OF JULIUS MAURICE HEAD A/K/A MAURICE HEAD, DECEASED AND ALL PARTIES HAVING OR CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE INTEREST IN THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PROPERTY THE COMPLAINT OR PETITION WHICH IS ATTACHED TO THIS SUMMONS IS IMPORTANT AND YOU MUST TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You are summoned to appear and defend against said complaint or petition at 10:30 a.m. on the 28th day of March, 2012, in the Chancery courtroom of the Warren County Courthouse at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and in case of your failure to appear and defend a judgment will be entered against you for the money or other things demanded in the complaint or petition. You are not required to file an answer or other pleading but you may do so if you desire. Issued under my hand and the seal of said Court, this 3rd day of February, 2012. DONNA F. HARDY Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi BY: /s/ Denise Bailey, D.C. Deputy Clerk Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t)

06. Lost & Found

Statewide Publishing LLC PO Box 768170 Roswell, GA 30076 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY OF WARREN WHEREAS, on May 28, 2008, Jimmie L. Johnson and Kimberly R. Johnson executed and delivered a certain Deed of Trust unto Dave Vach, Trustee for the benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as a nominee for USA Home Loans, Inc., its successors and assigns, to secure an indebtedness therein described, which Deed of Trust is recorded in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi in Book 1697, Page 347; and WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was subsequently assigned unto Chase Home Finance LLC, by instrument recorded in the Office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book 1512, Page 335; and WHEREAS, the holder of said Deed of Trust substituted and appointed Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by instrument recorded in the Office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk Book 1512, Page 336; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the payments of indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and the holder of said Deed of Trust, having requested the undersigned so to do, on February 23, 2012, I will, during legal hours (between the hours of 11 o' clock a.m. and 4 o' clock p.m.), at public outcry, offer for sale and will sell, at the front door steps of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi, for cash to the highest bidder, the following described land and property situated in Warren County, Mississippi, to-wit: All of Lot 10 of Lake Park Estates, Part 8, a plat of which appears of record in Plat Book 2 at Page 85 of the land records of Warren County, Mississippi. Title to the above described property is believed to be good, but I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted Trustee. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE,

06. Lost & Found

REWARD - FAMILY PET - $150 Large, very friendly, black female Labrador. She’s blind in one eye and needs medication. She has been spayed and treated for Red Mange. Was wearing pink collar when she went missing. Chases deer, but not traffic smart. Always sleeps inside. Lost in the Timberlane area, but has been seen on Halls Ferry Road. If seen, please call 601-415-2284 or 601-636-8774.

PART TIME CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED Must be computer literate, have a pleasant telephone manner and be good with customers. Please send resume to: Dept. 3779, The Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box 821668 Vicksburg, MS 39182 or e-mail to classifieds@vicksburgpost.com Please note Dept. 3779 in the subject line.

PUBLIC NOTICE The annual report of the Hundred Club of Vicksburg for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011 is available for inspection at 609 Pittman Avenue, Vicksburg, Mississippi during regular business hours for any persons who request this inspection within 180 days of this publication. G. Gilmore Martin President Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t) SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY OF WARREN WHEREAS, on October 30, 2007, Latonya Samararatne executed and delivered a certain Deed of Trust unto Clyde E. Ellis, Trustee for the benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Mortgageamerica, Inc, its successors and assigns, to secure an indebtedness therein described, which Deed of Trust is recorded in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi in Book 1681, Page 90; and WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was subsequently assigned unto JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA, by instrument recorded in the Office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book 1502, Page 754; and WHEREAS, the holder of said Deed of Trust substituted and appointed Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by instrument recorded in the Office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk Book 1532, Page 26; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the payments of indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and the holder of said Deed of Trust, having requested the undersigned so to do, on March 1, 2012, I will, during legal hours (between the hours of 11 o' clock a.m. and 4 o' clock p.m.), at public outcry, offer for sale and will sell, at the Front door steps of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi, for cash to the highest bidder, the following described land and property situated in Warren County, Mississippi, to-wit: Beginning at the Northeast corner of Section 31, Township 16 North, Range 4 East, Warren County, Mississippi and running thence North 88 degrees 53 minutes West 1648.0 feet;

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Vicksburg Warren School District will receive SEALED BIDS, marked 12-13-02 until 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, February 29, 2012 for Waste Container Service. Specifications may be obtained from the Office of Purchasing at 1500 Mission 66, Vicksburg, MS 39180. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids and to waive informalities. Dr. Elizabeth Swinford Superintendent Publish: 2/9, 2/16(2t)

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Vicksburg Warren School District will receive SEALED BIDS, marked 12-13-01 until 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 29, 2012 for Propane Heating Fuel. Specifications may be obtained from the Office of Purchasing at 1500 Mission 66, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities. Dr. Elizabeth Swinford Superintendent Publish: 2/9, 2/16(2t)

SEALED PROPOSALS for furnishing Grass Cutting Flood Buy Out Areas will be received in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Vicksburg, Mississippi until 9:00 o'clock a.m., Friday, February 24, 2012. They will be publicly opened and read aloud by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Vicksburg in a Regular Board Meeting at 10:00 o'clock a.m., Friday, February 24, 2012 Bidders are cautioned that the City Clerk does not receive the daily U.S. Mail on or before 9:00 a.m. Bids will be time-stamped upon receipt according to City Clerk's time clock. Specifications and instructions for bidding are on file in the office of the City Clerk, second floor, City Hall, 1401 Walnut Street, corner Crawford and Walnut Streets, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Bidder's Bond in the amount of 5% of bid must accompany same. (No Business or Personal Checks) The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Vicksburg reserve the right to reject any and all bids and to waive informalities. /s/ Walter W. Osborne, Jr. Walter W. Osborne, Jr., City Clerk Publish: 2/9, 2/14(2t)

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along said North line of said drive, North 72 degrees 00 minutes East, 80.0 feet, said point being the point of beginning. Title to the above described property is believed to be good, but I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature, on this the 27th day of January, 2012. ______________________ LEM ADAMS, III SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE PREPARED BY: ADAMS & EDENS POST OFFICE BOX 400 BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI 39043 (601) 825-9508 A&E File #11-04938 Publish: 2/2, 2/9, 2/16(3t)

Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi in Book 1605, Page 684; and WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was subsequently assigned unto BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP, by instrument recorded in the Office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book 1500, Page 646; and WHEREAS, the holder of said Deed of Trust substituted and appointed Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by instrument recorded in the Office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk Book 1500, Page 647; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the payments of indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and the holder of said Deed of Trust, having requested the undersigned so to do, on March 1, 2012, I will, during legal hours (between the hours of 11 o' clock a.m. and 4 o' clock p.m.), at public outcry, offer for sale and will sell, at the Front door steps of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi, for cash to the highest bidder, the following described land and property situated in Warren County, Mississippi, to-wit: All of Lot 100 of Warrenton Heights Subdivision, Part "E" of Part II, a plat whereof appears of record in Plat Book 2 at Page 59 of the Warren County, Mississippi Land Records. Title to the above described property is believed to be good, but I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substituted Trustee. WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 2nd day of February, 2012 Stephanie Fonteno Stephanie Fonteno, Assistant Vice President Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (404) 417-4040 0801944MS Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on the 1st day of August, 2008, Lashonda Thomas, executed a Deed of Trust to Joan H. Anderson, Trustee for the use and benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., which Deed of Trust is on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Deed of Trust Book 1697 at Page 733 thereof; and WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was assigned to Flagstar Bank, FSB, by assignment on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Book 1520 at Page 378 thereof; and WHEREAS, the terms of said deed of trust were modified by instrument on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi, in Book 1502 at Page 850 thereof; and WHEREAS, the legal holder of the said Deed of Trust and the note secured thereby, substituted Bradley P. Jones, as Trustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, by instrument recorded in the office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in Book 1520 at Page 379 thereof; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the performance of the conditions and stipulations as set forth by said Deed of Trust, and having been requested by the legal holder of the indebtedness secured and described by said Deed of Trust so to do, notice is hereby given that I, Bradley P. Jones, Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the authority conferred upon me in said Deed of Trust, will offer for sale and will sell at public sale and outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, during the legal hours (between the hours of 11 o'clock a.m. and 4 o'clock p.m.) at the West front door of the County Courthouse of Warren County, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the 1st day of March, 2012, the following described land and property being the same land and property described in said Deed of Trust, situated in Warren County, State of Mississippi, to-wit: Legal Description of Parcel: Commence at the Southwestern corner of Section 10, Township 15 North, Range 4 East, Warren County, Mississippi; thence North 36 degrees 03 minutes 58 seconds East, 3487.78 feet; thence South 68 degrees 19 minutes 40 seconds West, 125.00 feet to the Point of Beginning of the herein described parcel; thence South 68 degrees 19 minutes 40 seconds West, 124.26 feet; thence North 18 degrees 10 minutes 04 seconds West, 125.00 feet; thence North 68 degrees 19 minutes 40 seconds East,124.26 feet; thence South 18 degrees 10 minutes 04 seconds East, 125.00 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing 0.36 acres, more or less. Centerline of 50 Foot Access Easement Description: Commencing at the Southwestern corner of Section 10, Township 15 North, Range 4 East, Warren County, Mississippi; thence North 36 degrees 58 minutes 47 seconds East, 3530.57 feet to the Point of Beginning of the herein described 50 foot access easement centerline, being a point of the Western Right-of-Way of China Grove Road; thence South 68 degrees 19 minutes 40 seconds West, 313.26 feet; thence South 59 degrees 52 minutes 06 seconds West, 108.92 feet; thence South 55 degrees 44 minutes 15 seconds West, 208.11 feet to the end of this 50 foot easement centerline as of September 10, 2002. TOGETHER WITH that certain 2001 Cappaert Impact Manufactured Home, Model Number 3248, Serial Number CHVM080124817835AB which is permanently affixed to said land. Title to the above described property is believed to be good, but I will convey only such title as is vested in me as Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature, on this the 2nd day of February, 2012. _______________________ BRADLEY P. JONES SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE PREPARED BY: ADAMS & EDENS POST OFFICE BOX 400 BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI 39043 (601) 825-9508 A&E File #11-05067 Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t)

Statewide Publishing LLC PO Box 768170 Roswell, GA 30076 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY OF WARREN WHEREAS, on August 7, 2006, Lisa White executed and delivered a certain Deed of Trust unto Recontrust Company, N.A., Trustee for the benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. its successors and assigns, to secure an indebtedness therein described, which Deed of Trust is recorded in the office of the Chancery

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on July 13, 2006, JAMES E. WILLIAMS, SR AND WIFE, GERALDINE WILLIAMS executed a Deed of Trust to CENTENNIAL BANK as Trustee for the benefit of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.,ACTING SOLELY AS A NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., which Deed of Trust was filed on July 19, 2006 and recorded as Instrument No. 235305 in Book 1601 at Page 771 in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and

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01. Legals WHEREAS, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-15, the current Beneficiary of said Deed of Trust, substituted RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. as Trustee therein, as authorized by the terms thereof, as evidenced by an instrument recorded as Instrument No. 293688 in Book 1530 at Page 496 in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Warren County, Mississippi; and WHEREAS, default having been made in the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust, and the entire debt secured thereby having been declared to be due and payable, and the legal holder of said indebtedness, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-15, having requested the undersigned Substitute Trustee to execute the trust and sell said land and property in accordance with the terms of said Deed of Trust for the purpose of raising the sums due thereunder, together with attorney's fees, Substitute Trustee's fees and expenses of sale. NOW, THEREFORE, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Substitute Trustee, will on March 01, 2012, offer for sale at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, within legal hours (between the hours of 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) at the front steps of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, the following-described property: BEGINNING AT AN OLD IRON PIPE (FOUND) IN AN OLD NORTH AND WEST FENCE CORNER, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE T.J. ROBINSON 8.66 ACRE TRACT IN SAID SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST, WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI; THENCE RUN ALONG AN OLD FENCE LINE NORTH 88 DEGREES 28 MINUTES W., 404.0 FEET; THENCE LEAVE SAID FENCE AND RUN NORTH 04 DEGREES 41 MINUTES W., 346.41 FEET; THENCE RUN NORTH 40 DEGREES 46 MINUTES E., 250.0 FEET TO THE SOUTH RIGHT-OFWAY LINE OF GIBSON ROAD; THENCE RUN ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF GIBSON ROAD, SOUTH 44 DEGREES 06 MINUTES E., 175.06 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE EUNICE P. GRAVES LOT RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 706 AT PAGE 244 OF THE LAND DEED RECORDS OF WARREN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI; THENCE LEAVE SAID ROAD AND RUN SOUTH 22 DEGREES 00 MINUTES W., 163.75 FEET; THENCE RUN SOUTH 14 DEGREES 48 MINUTES E., 191.75 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST

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CORNER OF SAID GRAVES LOT; THENCE RUN SOUTH 87 DEGREES 46 MINUTES E., 162.5 FEET TO THE EAST LINE OF THE ROBINSON 8.66 ACRE TRACT; THENCE RUN ALONG AN OLD FENCE LINE SOUTH 02 DEGREES 14 MINUTES W., 76.22 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 2.88 ACRES MORE OR LESS. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. will convey only such title as vested in it as Substitute Trustee. WITNESS my signature on this 11th day of January, 2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 Telephone No. (800) 281-8219 By: /s/ Mahtab Member Title: Assistant Vice President RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 TS No.: 11 -0131934 PARCEL No. 112 08 9999 001501 DHGW 68022G-2SB Publish: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23(3t)

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06. Lost & Found FOUND! BOXER PUPPY. APPROXIMATELY 4 months old, found off Fisher Ferry/ Joyce Lane. Jimbo or Brenda Shiers, 601-618-3862, 601-831-7000.

FOUND! LITTLE FEMALE PUPPY found on Boy Scout Road, close to Woodlawn Baptist Church. 601-638-3183. LOST A DOG? Found a cat? Let The Vicksburg Post help! Run a FREE 3 day ad! 601-636-SELL or e-mail classifieds@vicksburg post.com LOST WALKING CANE! Hand Crafted, Vine design. Taken from cart beside restroom at Walmart. $100 reward! Call to return 601-456-4634, 601-4361330, 601-738-1283.

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05. Notices Warren County Long Term Recovery Committee A non-profit volunteer agency organized to provide for the unmet needs of the Warren County victims of the 2011 flood.

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Volunteers experienced with construction and design are needed to assist the LTRC in various projects supporting 2011 Flood victims in Warren County. Please call 601-636-1788 to offer support.

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ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR NEEDED at Claiborne County Senior Center. Apply in person only, 2124 Old Highway 61 South, Port Gibson, MS.

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PERSONAL ASSISTANT NEEDED. We are looking for an Office Assistant. Duties include: greeting clients, answering phones, routing mail, data entry and retrieval, scheduling and calendar maintenance. Ideal candidates will have proven customer service skills in an administrative setting and experience with Microsoft Office applications. If interested, email resumes to david.johnson8600@gmail.com

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LPN, CNA, PCA NEEDED as soon as possible for home care. Call Nursing Management Inc. 800-448-3634 or website www.nminursingmgt.com.

PROFESSIONAL LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT Company seeking experience individuals for grass cutting, landscaping and irrigation. Starting pay $10$12 per hour based on experience. Must have at least 2 years experience and pass monthly drug screens. College highly valued. Current drivers license, good driving history and clean background check required. Send professional typed resume and photo with work history, references and contact information to Dept. 3781, The Vicksburg Post, P.O. Box 821668, Vicksburg, MS 39182. SEATRAX MARINE CRANES now hiring field service technicians, machinists and electricians. Apply at 218 Gunther Lane, Bell Chasse, LA 70037 or call Cindy at 504-394-4600 extension 233.

Assistant Manager Position Available The successful candidate will have high energy sales floor experience, management & organizational skills, some past computer/ administrative. Get applications from Halls Ferry location or send fax to 601-693-2693 or call Leon at 601-693-2655 x14.

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MOTOR AND TRANSMISSION for Ford F150 (300). 5-speed overdrive transmission. $400. 601634-1355, 601-529-0262.

AVAILABLE TO CLEAN homes/ apartments. References/ reasonable rates. Call Lisa, 601-218-0287.

THE COVE

$6000 DOWN, $600 per month on land/ home in Vicksburg area. 3 to choose from. Other mobile homes available. 662-417-1209.

• BY OWNER • 121 AUTUMN DRIVE,

D & D TREE CUTTING

Paid cable, water and trash. Washer, Dryer and built-in microwave furnished.

½ ACRE LAKE front property with 2 decks, and covered back porch. 4 bedroom, 2 bath fixer upper house. $45,000. 601-5725300, 601-573-5029.

601-638-5587 1-601-686-0635

½ acre lake front property. With 2 decks and covered back porch, 4 bedroom, 2 bath fixer upper. $32,500 cash. 601-5725300, 601-573-5029.

NICE DARK CHERRY TV/ VCR media center console. (80 high x 39 wide x 21 deep). Like new. $299. 601-661-0237. THE BEST WAY to bargain hunt is to check the Classifieds Daily. We make it easy with our convenient home delivery. For details call 601-636-4545, Circulation. TWIN MATTRESS SETS $175, Full sets $199. New sofa love seat $675. 601638-7191. Discount Furniture Barn. USED TIRES! LIGHT trucks and SUV's, 16's, 17's, 18's, 19's, 20's. A few matching sets! Call TD's, 601-638-3252.

07. Help Wanted

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MASSAGE THERAPIST OR NAIL TECH Busy Salon needs you. Call Linda 601-630-7170

09. Child Care WILL KEEP CHILDREN in my home. Infants to 3 years old. $75 weekly. Over 20 years experience. 601629-4027.

ESTATE SALE SERVICE AUCTION SERVICE KATZENMEYER'S MISSISSIPPI AUCTION SERVICE 601-415-3121 www.msauctionservice.com LOCALLY OWNED SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES

17. Wanted To Buy

19. Garage & Yard Sales

Ask us how to “Post Size” your ad with some great clip art! Call the Classified Ladies at 601-636-Sell (7355). ESTATE SALE. Friday and Saturday 8am-12 Noon. 184 Freeman Road. (North of River Region, 61 North).

10. Loans And Investments “WE CAN ERASE your bad credit- 100% guaranteed.” The Federal Trade Commission says the only legitimate credit repair starts and ends with you. It takes time and a conscious effort to pay your debts. Any company that claims to be able to fix your credit legally is lying. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit A message from The Vicksburg Post and the FTC.

12. Schools & Instruction EARN COLLEGE DEGREE ONLINE. *Medical, *Business, *Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance. Computer available. Financial aid if qualified. SCHEV certified. Call 877-206-5185. www.CenturaOnline.com WORK ON JET Engines. Train for hands on Aviation Career. FAA approved program. Financial aid if qualified. Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 866455-4317.

13. Situations Wanted

PLEASE CALL THE Gentleman of Junk for all your junk vehicle needs. Make like a magician and turn your junk vehicles into cash. Please leave message if no answer. 601-868-2781.

WE PAY CASH for junk. Cars, trucks. Vans, SUVs, and old dump trucks. 601-638-5946 or 601-529-8249.

18. Miscellaneous For Sale 5x14 ATV TRAILER with loading ramp, new tires, good floor, single axle. Selling because we need wider trailer. $700 (call Percy 601218-0334 or after 5pm call 601-634-8714. ANTIQUE TABLES, $150. Antique coffee table with glass top, $50. Antique end table, $50. Antique sofa, $100. Antique chair, $50. Sanyo t.v., $150. Sleigh bed with dresser, $400. Curtains, bedding, miscellaneous. 601-6311674.

NEED A SITTER? Call 601-497-5144, 601-400-1290. Over 25 years of experience.

14. Pets & Livestock

Arkansas stone, White Resin Sun room furniture, sofa, love seat, coffee table, 2 end tables, Cherry corner lighted cabinet. MOVING MUST SELL! 601-638-8383.

Vicksburg Warren Humane Society & MS - Span Low Cost Spay & Neuter Program

CEMETERY PLOT. GREEN Lawn Gardens Cemetery (1 space). 225294-3061 or e-mail: thomp son4815@bellsouth.net

CATS: Male . .$25 Female ........$35 DOGS (UNDER 40 LBS): Male . .$55 Female ........$65 • For the above category of animals, pick up applications at the Humane Society DOGS (OVER 40 LBS): Male . .$70 Female ........$80 • For dogs over 40 lbs, call 866-901-7729 for appt.

ELECTRIC HOSPITAL BED. $250. 601-638-7721.

HOME COMPUTER SERVICE and repair. Reasonable prices. Pick up available .601502-5265, 601-636-7376.

Hwy 61 S - 601-636-6631 MINI CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES. Registered, 3 females, 2 males. $300. 601218-0312.

www.pawsrescuepets.org

If you are feeding a stray or feral cat and need help with spaying or neutering, please call 601-529-1535.

STILL HAVE STUFF after your Garage Sale? Donate your items to The Salvation Army, we pick-up! Call 601-636-2706. What's going on in Vicksburg this weekend? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

20. Hunting WE HAUL OFF old appliances, old batteries, lawn mowers, hot water heaters, junk and abandoned cars, trucks, vans, etcetera. 601940-5075, if no answer, please leave message.

CALL 601-636-SELL AND PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY.

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Call our Circulation Department for CONVENIENT Home Delivery and/ or our On-line Subscription. Monday- Friday, 8am-5pm, 601-636-4545.

21. Boats, Fishing Supplies What's going on in Vicksburg? Read The Vicksburg Post! For convenient home delivery, call 601-636-4545, ask for circulation.

•Trimming • Lawn Care • Dirt Hauled • Insured For FREE Estimates Call “Big James” 601-218-7782 DIRT AND GRAVEL hauled. 8 yard truck. 601638-6740.

I CLEAN HOUSES! Well known, excellent references. Will also iron by the hour. Reasonable. 601-6312482, 601-831-6052. I-PHONE REPAIR. Buy, sell and repair. Arcue Sanchez - 601-618-9916. PLUMBING SERVICES24 hour emergency- broken water lines- hot water heaters- toilets- faucetssinks. Pressure Washingsidewalk- house- mobile homes- vinyl siding- brick homes. 601-618-8466. PURVIS UPHOLSTERY AND repairs. 36 years experience, specializing in antiques. 601-634-6073.

26. For Rent Or Lease

Bienville Apartments The Park Residences at Bienville 1, 2 & 3 bedrooms and townhomes available immediately.

and

VICKSBURGS NEWEST, AND A WELL MAINTAINED FAVORITE. EACH WITH SPACIOUS FLOOR PLANS AND SOPHISTICATED AMENITIES. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

FOR LEASING INFO, CALL 601-636-1752

www.parkresidences.com • www.bienvilleapartments.com

• Pool • Fireplace • Spacious Floor Plans 601-629-6300 www.thelandingsvicksburg.com

501 Fairways Drive Vicksburg

CONFEDERATE RIDGE 780 Highway 61 North Fall In LOVE With

Our 2 Bedroom SPECIAL! Call for Details 601-638-0102 COUNTY 2 BEDROOMS, 2½ baths. Openwood Townhouse. 1,400 plus/ minus square feet, cheap county car tags. 601-831-8900. Leave message.

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

27. Rooms For Rent 3 ROOMS AVAILABLE. In Vicksburg, separate private entrances, furnished, free linens and washer/ dryer use. $330 and up per month. 773-719-6529.

29. Unfurnished Apartments 2 BEDROOM ALL electric. Water furnished, $450 monthly. 4 BEDROOM duplex Both $200 deposit, $500 monthly. Refrigerator, stove furnished. 601-634-8290.

605 Cain Ridge Rd. Vicksburg, MS 39180

601-638-2231

30. Houses For Rent 1455 PARKSIDE, 3/ 2. 1865 Martin Luther King, 3/ 1. 123 Roseland 4/ 2. 2606 Oak Street, 2/ 1. $750 and up! 732-768-5743.

31. Mobile Homes For Rent MEADOWBROOK PROPERTIES. 2 or 3 bedroom mobile homes, south county. Deposit required. 601-619-9789.

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14X70. 3 BEDROOMS, 2 baths. Choose from 5 nice mobile homes. $8000 cash! 601-572-5300, 601-5735029. 2005 28x64. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths. Tons of upgrades. $34,900. 601-572-5300, 601-573-5029. 2006 28 x 62. 4 bedroom, 2 bath, new everything! $29,000. Call 601-5725300, 601-573-5029. 2010 LEXINGTON. 16X60, 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, washer/ dryer included. Central air and heat. $20,000. 601-870-4212. KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LOCAL NEWS AND SALES... SUBSCRIBE TO THE VICKSBURG POST TODAY! CALL 601-636-4545, ASK FOR CIRCULATION. NICE MOBILE HOME. All appliances and air, 2002 Clayton, 16x80, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $14,900. Call 601-573-5029, 601572-5300. USED 14X70. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, will deliver and setup, central air included. Call 662-417-2354, 601-916-9796. USED 16X80. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, new paint, new carpet. Financing available. Only $19,750. CALL TODAY! 662-417-2354, 601-916-9796. USED DOUBLE WIDE. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, delivery, setup and tie down. Only $19,995! Call 601-916-9796 or 662-417-2354.

33. Commercial Property 960 SQUARE FOOT Deluxe office space on Wisconsin Avenue. $675 monthly. Call 601-634-6669. FOR LEASE. WAREHOUSE space, 12,000 square feet, south county, zoned for manufacturing. 601-638-3214.

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Enjoy the convenience of downtown living at

The Vicksburg Apartments READ THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILY! DAILY!

convenient in-town location, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 998 square feet, recently renovated, almost everything new, very nice, ceramic tile, hardwood floors, double pane insulated windows, super clean, move-in ready. ONLY $83,000! For appointment call

601-529-3132.

36. Farms & Acreage ACREAGE 21.5 ACRES/ Barn Northeast of Edwards. 5.5 ACRES- 3 bedroom home, deck, greenhouse, lake, lots of extras, near Edwards. 376 ACRES- hunting land – Holmes County. Joan Vickers Real Estate, 601-969-2042.

40. Cars & Trucks 1988 CHEVY CAMARO BODY only. Good condition, rebuilt transmission, engine locked. $600. 601-456-3842.

Open Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm

601-634-8928 2170 S. I-20 Frontage Rd. www.ColdwellBanker.com www.homesofvicksburg.net

Licensed in MS and LA

Jones & Upchurch Real Estate Agency 1803 Clay Street www.jonesandupchurch.com

2003 MERCEDES E320. 90,000 miles, Presidential Blue, clean. $11,000. 601218-4797, 601-502-6522.

2010 JEEP COMPASS Latitude. Practically new, very low mileage, black berry, loaded, heated seats, remote key with start. $15,000 negotiable (cash only). 601-529-9028, leave message. CONCRETE STEPS. 20 inches high, 4 feet wide, 3 steps tall. $100. Call 601218-9654.

Jill WaringUpchurch....601-906-5012 Carla Watson...............601-415-4179 Mary D. Barnes .........601-966-1665 Stacie Bowers-Griffin...601-218-9134 Andrea Upchurch.......601-831-6490 Broker, GRI

601-636-6490 Kay Odom..........601-638-2443 Kay Hobson.......601-638-8512 Jake Strait...........601-218-1258 Alex Monsour.....601-415-7274 Jay Hobson..........601-456-1318 Daryl Hollingsworth..601-415-5549

Sybil Caraway....601-218-2869 Catherine Roy....601-831-5790 Mincer Minor.....601-529-0893 Jim Hobson.........601-415-0211

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REAL ESTATE, INC

JIM HOBSON

REALTOR®•BUILDER•APPRAISER

601-636-0502

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TAX TIME BLOWOUTSALE ! Buy here, Pay here. Located at George Carr Rental building! 601-831-2000 after 2pm. Fuxer-Uppers starting at $700 CASH!

Finding the car you want in the Classifieds is easy, but now it’s practically automatic, since we’ve put our listings online. www.vicksburgpost.com

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MAGNOLIA MANOR APARTMENTS Elderly & Disabled 3515 Manor Drive Vicksburg, Ms. 601-636-3625 Equal Housing Opportunity

Classified Advertising really brings big results!

NEED AN APARTMENT?

601-661-0765 • 601-415-3333

READ THE CLASSIFIEDS DAILY! DAILY!

• Lake Surrounds Community

(INCLUDING CORPORATE APARTMENTS) CALL 601-618-5180 caldwell@vicksburg.com

CUSTOM CABINETS, EXTRA LARGE MASTER BDRM, & WASHER / DRYER HOOKUPS. SAFE!! SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT

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• 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts. • Beautifully Landscaped

Commodore Apartments

S HAMROCK A PA RT M E N T S SUPERIOR QUALITY,

OUR ON-LINE SUBSCRIPTION keeps you “plugged” in to all the local news, sports, community events. Call Circulation, 601-636-4545.

BEAUTIFUL LAKESIDE LIVING

RICHARD M. CALDWELL BROKER SPECIALIZING IN RENTALS

• Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and 13 • Social Seurity Disability • No-fault Divorce

Live in a Quality Built Apartment for LESS! All brick, concrete floors and double walls provide excellent soundproofing, security, and safety. 601-638-1102 • 601-415-3333

Ask about our Holiday special!

TREY GORDON ROOFING & RESTORATION •Roof & Home Repair (all types!) •30 yrs exp •1,000’s of ref Licensed • Insured 601-618-0367 • 601-456-4133

Toni Walker Terrett Attorney At Law 601-636-1109

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Stop looking, Start living!

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24. Business Services

Bradford Ridge Apartments

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