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Audit notes employee concerns BY SARAH MORRIS Sun Staff Writer smorris@jonesborosun.com

JONESBORO — Arkansas State University employees told internal auditors they question the ASU study abroad pro-

gram’s eﬃciency and its contractors’ relationship with ASU Chancellor Tim Hudson. “Am I promoting programs to students to line the pockets of Hudson’s friends?” Honors Program Director Rebecca Oli-

ver told Senior Internal Auditor Glen Grayham in April. Hudson’s wife Deidra “Dee Dee,” who is the part-time director of the program, was at the center of an internal audit. ASU released documents re-

garding the program’s audit, including Oliver’s interview with Grayham, to The Sun this week as part of a Freedom of Information Act request the newspaper made in June. Oliver, who could not be

reached Wednesday, told Grayham one concern is that Hudson and his wife are friends with Alfonso Rubio, whose company, Multisense Espana,

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Municipal candidates to begin filing BY KEITH INMAN Sun Staff Writer inman@jonesborosun.com

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Multiple problems slow Airport Road work BY KEITH INMAN Sun Staff Writer inman@jonesborosun.com

JONESBORO — A job at Aggie and Airport roads that was only supposed to take 75 working days has stretched out for most of a year. However, District Engineer Walter McMillan said the contractor is a lot closer to completing the job than it may appear to residents. Seagraves Construction Inc. of Maynard is building the roundabout, or traﬃc circle, to replace a four-way stop at the intersection, which is near two school campuses. Parents taking

their children to school next month will have to deal with both the fourway stop and delays because of the construction. Neither McMillan nor contractor Clint Seagraves could predict Wednesday when construction would be completed. “If it keeps raining every other day, it’s going to be awhile,” Seagraves said, adding that his crew was drenched by a popup storm Wednesday afternoon. McMillan said the project has been delayed a few times by several complications in addition to weather. The Arkansas State Highway Com-

mission approved a contract with Seagraves in July 2015, but only if the city agreed to pay for the $1.2 million job up front. The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department normally uses federal transportation money to pay for 80 percent of the cost of such a project. But at the time, the future of the National Highway Trust Fund was in doubt. Seagraves said he wasn’t allowed to begin construction until last October because of a variety of issues. Engineers even had to make some design Please see ROUNDABOUT | A2

JONESBORO — Friday begins the filing period for nonpartisan municipal elections. Candidates may begin filing their paperwork at noon, said Craighead County Clerk Kade Holliday. Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin has already announced that he is seeking a third four-year term, and Nathan Coleman, a police officer, has announced he will also seek the office. Two men have also announced their intentions to seek a municipal office for the first time. David McAvoy has announced he’s running for the Jonesboro City Council, Ward 2 Position 2 seat occupied by Chris Moore. And Joseph A. “Joe” Hafner says he’s running Ward 5, Position 2 seat currently held by Rennell Woods. Ward 3, Position 2 Alderman Chris Gibson is the only incumbent council member who has announced reelection plans. Other aldermen whose terms expire this year are: Gene Vance, Ward 1; Mitch Johnson, Ward 4 and Todd Burton, Ward 6. Though council candidates must live in specific wards, they are elected citywide. City Attorney Donna Jackson’s term also expires this year. There is no filing fee for candidates seeking nonpartisan municipal office. They qualify by petition. To seek the mayor’s position in Jonesboro and other first-class cities, a candidate must submit petitions with the signatures of at least 30 qualified voters, Holliday said. Candidates for council seats must submit at least 10 signatures. In smaller cities and towns, 10 signatures are required for all positions, Holliday said. The filing period continues until noon Aug. 19. The election is Nov. 8.

Gala to support children’s shelter BY NEAL EMBRY Sun Staff Writer neal@jonesborosun.com

WALNUT RIDGE — During the past seven years, The Children’s Shelter in Walnut Ridge has rescued 850 children from 26 diﬀerent counties in Arkansas from neglect, abuse and drugs and helped them create a better life for themselves. Fran Cavenaugh, a board director for the shelter, said the shelter serves an unfortunately vital role in the state. “If we weren’t here, where would these children go?” Cavenaugh said. Unlike other shelters, The Children’s Shelter doesn’t turn away children from counties outside of its area. While a majority of the children come from Lawrence and Craighead counties, the shelter has taken children from all over the state. Children must be referred by the courts, law enforcement, DHS, parents or legal guardians. Children can stay in the home for up to 45 days and are provided food, shelter, hygiene, clothing and medical needs. The shelter even helps infants who have been neglected. “We’ve had infants come in with diapers that haven’t been changed in weeks,”

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Cavenaugh said. The children are also taken to practices, religious services, school and receive guidance and education from workers. “We try to build them up,” Cavenaugh said. “We try to give them the skill set to be able to say, ‘I’ve had a bad upbringing, but I don’t have to live like that.’” As much as possible, the shelter tries to keep families together, Cavenaugh said. “If the children have siblings, we’ll take them, too,” Cavenaugh said. “We try not to split them up. We want to keep the family unit together.” The shelter is so effective that Cavenaugh told the story of a child who felt so comfortable at the shelter that when they were placed in a foster home, the child quickly ran away to come back to the shelter. The staff had to help the child move on from the shelter, but it made Cavenaugh realize how big of a difference the shelter makes. “We get letters from kids when they’ve grown to be adults, thanking us for helping them,” Cavenaugh said. The shelter can house 12 children at one time, and the law states they must Please see GALA | 2A

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“The Sanders campaign was probably the most inspiring thing to happen in this country, I believe, for a long time,” Johnny Lofton said. “That’s where the most passion comes from for me right now. I’ve connected with some Democrats locally, and they were a little split. The division of the party was pretty transparent. A lot of new people jumping into the process and still trying to figure out what it takes to organize and get people together. I think we’re largely disconnected as a community, and it’s all about finding solidarity between people locally … I think young people are finally getting excited about elections, and that’s what most important because they can change the course of an election and just don’t realize it yet.”

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DAMASCUS, Syria — A suicide bomber riding an empty livestock truck laden with explosives blew himself up Wednesday in a crowded district in the predominantly Kurdish town of Qamishli in northern Syria, causing massive destruction and killing 44 people in a new attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Residents and activists describe a huge explosion in the western district of the town Kurds call the capital of their self-declared autonomous enclave in northern Syria. Hours after the early-morning explosion, rescue workers continued to search for survivors under the rubble of buildings, some of them totally leveled by the powerful blast. Most of the victims were civilians, who were lingering in the district that also houses a station for the Kurdish security forces. It was not immediately clear if any Kurdish fighters were among those killed. “Terror is all I saw among the residents when I first arrived. I was shocked at the extent of destruction in the homes and shops,” said Decile Husen, a 23-year old media activist who works with the

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Syrians carry a victim after twin bombings struck the Kurdish town of Qamishli, Syria, on Wednesday. Bombings struck a crowd in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria on Wednesday, killing 44 people and wounding dozens more, Syria’s state-run news agency and Kurdish media reported. Kurdish ANHA Hawar news agency, who got to the scene shortly after the 9.30 a.m. explosion. “One home was reduced to rubble. Nothing was left of it,” she said. Qamishli, near the Turkish border, is mainly controlled by Kurds but Syrian government forces are present and control the airport. The Kurds, Syria’s largest ethnic

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minority, have carved out a semiautonomous enclave in Syria’s north since the start of the civil war in 2011, where they run their own aﬀairs. Separately, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported a total blackout in nearby Aleppo province, blaming rebel groups for hitting the main power station in the provincial and divided capital.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Islamic State group presence in Afghanistan is directly linked to the parent organization in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. Army general in charge of American and NATO troops in Afghanistan said on Wednesday. Gen. John Nicholson, speaking to The Associated Press in an interview, says IS loyalists in Afghanistan have financial, communications and strategic connections with the main IS leadership based in a self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria. “This franchise of Daesh is connected to the parent organization,” he said, using a common alternative acronym for the Islamic State group. “They have applied for membership, they have been accepted, they had

to meet certain tests, they have been publicized in Dabiq,” the IS magazine, he said. IS bases in the eastern province of Nagharhar, which borders Pakistan, are currently being targeted by an Afghan military oﬀensive, backed by U.S. troops. The oﬀensive, part of the Afghan army’s Operation Shafaq, began on Saturday, hours after the IS group claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in the capital Kabul that killed around 80 people. The attack targeted ethnic Hazaras, who are also Shiite Muslims — considered apostates by IS — who were demonstrating to demand that a regional electrical project to be rerouted through their province of Bamiyan to boost economic growth in the impoverished central highlands.

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changes. “We had some utility issues that we had to work out,” McMillan said. He said much of the work that contractors have done so far had nothing to do with the road surface that motorists typically don’t see. “We’re probably a lot farther along that it appears because they had a lot of underground work,” McMillan said. Seagraves said wet weather, both in the fall and spring also slowed the project down. And for three months, the highway departments stopped counting the work-

ing days because of winter. “From Dec. 21st to March 15th, we stop the clock,” McMillan said. That doesn’t mean Seagraves did no work in those three months. “They did accomplish some work in that time frame.” Whenever the work gets completed, city oﬃcials have said they will have to begin an education campaign to teach local drivers how to use it. During public hearings last year, several residents said they were afraid of them. While there are some roundabouts in some private developments in Jonesboro, this will be the first on a state highway in this area.

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have a certain number of employees for every child. One of the goals of the program is to pay oﬀ the building’s mortgage so as to have more beds and help more children. “We’ve had to turn hundreds of children away because we don’t have room,” Cavenaugh said. The shelter has been helped tremendously by the support of Northeast Arkansas. “A lot of people know we’re out there,” Cavenaugh said. “Walnut Ridge has been hugely supportive, as well as Randolph County, Lawrence County and Jonesboro.” Events like next week’s summer gala provide an opportu-

nity to financially support the shelter. The event is Thursday, Aug. 4, and will be held at The Studio on Main Street. The gala will have a live silent auction, along with music, food and fun for all involved. Tickets are $50 and can be bought at the door or purchased ahead of time. The financial support allows the shelter to focus on helping children, who often come in with emotional instability, suffering from abuse and neglect in the home. “We try to make them feel like a family,” Cavenaugh said. Cavenaugh said the major problem she sees with the children is the influence of drugs in the home.

“Ninety to ninety-five percent of our cases are drug-related,” Cavenaugh said. “We’ve had kids living in a meth house, the parents not there because of drugs, and the drugs leading to crime.” Cavenaugh said society must play a role in stopping the cycle of drug abuse. “It’s us beginning to understand how much of an epidemic this is,” Cavenaugh said. “If we can break the cycle when they’re young, there’s hope.” Cavenaugh wants to see society start acting on, not just saying that children are our future. “Children are our future. But if we don’t assist them when they need us, what kind of future do they have?” she said.

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is a third-party contractor for the Lanjaron, Spain, study abroad site. “In summer 2013, they went to Spain before (Deidra Hudson) was an employee,” Oliver added. “There are pictures of them on the beach, with the kids, and Alfonso and (his wife) Adela are in the pictures also. When they go to Spain, they stay with them or in one of their houses. Pablo (Rubio Diez), their son, was hired in the chancellor’s oﬃce. Diez is Adela’s last name.” Rubio, who worked last school year as the coordinator of special projects for the chancellor, resigned in May to return to Spain. His salary was $70,000. Oliver’s involvement with the Lanjaron study abroad site began in May 2012 when Hudson initiated a meeting with her just after the former fulltime study abroad director left. Hudson had Oliver and

A copy of Arkansas State University internal audit and related documents may be found at: http://www.jonesborosun. com/asudocs.php. another employee visit Spain to determine if it could be a possible study abroad site. The pair met with Rubio, whose company, Grupo Sense, trained dental assistants, and his partners in November 2012. She said Lanjaron “was a great place to centralize a program.” However, she recalled that during the trip Rubio spoke of “his sons needing working and diversifying.” Plans moved forward. In spring 2013, Oliver said Hudson suggested university oﬃcials hire his wife, Deidra “Dee Dee,” to handle the logistics, and they did. According to the audit’s related documents, state law pro-

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hibits public oﬃcials from appointing, employing, promoting, advancing or advocating for the appointment, employment, promotion or advancement of a relative. The audit also noted that Hudson nixed the university search for a full-time study abroad director earlier this year after he learned his wife could not be hired. She could only work part time. The audit’s recommendation to revisit the decision was taken with a new search currently under way. Auditors also reported there was no contract with Alfonso Rubio’s company. “I didn’t realize it was weird at the time, but Hudson didn’t want us to have direct contact with Alfonso outside of our initial trip,” Oliver told Grayham. “While we were there Alfonso and Adela talked about how great friends they were with the Hudsons and how they stayed in each other’s homes. … They are very warm and treat people as family. But, I felt like a pawn giving a stamp of

approval, and it was all predetermined.” Oliver said there were problems before and during the first student trip to Lanjaron in spring 2014. She said the assigned faculty members were cautious of stepping on Deidra Hudson’s toes. Deidra Hudson left for Spain with no emergency protocol in place and questioned some staﬀ hiring, the handling of a Title IX situation and why students had to move their belongings to a single room if they traveled so the hotel rooms could be rented to others on those nights, per Rubio’s agreement with the hotel. Oliver also learned the study abroad handbook was lifted from another university, and students were having questions about it. She had no clue whether the other university had given permission to do so. She wasn’t alone in her complaints of scheduled trips. Assistant Professor of Journalism Gabriel Tait said the summer 2015 trip he participated in was disorganized due to funding or lack thereof. “I told Dr. Hudson that if she were not the chancellor’s wife, I would not do it,” he told Grayham in April. He added there were financial issues throughout the trip, and he and the students had diﬀerent expectations of

the trip. “I felt I just added academic legitimacy to this trip,” he said. Emails from other ASU oﬃcials noted problems with Deidra Hudson not properly submitting time sheets or working over the mandated 28 hours per week and needed program and trip financial documents that were unavailable. In March, Jeannie Cossey, associate for administration, notified Executive Director of Global Initiatives Thilla Sivakumaran that Deidra Hudson could not legally act in a supervisory capacity due to her part-time status. Sivakumaran would be responsible for approving all study abroad forms, employee time sheets, travel and any other documents requiring approval. The trips’ management and financial activities were also questioned. Grayham asked Jennifer Brightwell, Deidra Hudson’s administrative specialist, in May why a $50 application fee was not charged as it should be except for Lanjaron. The ASU System Board of Trustees approved the fee in September 2014. Brightwell said it wasn’t charged because “we haven’t figured out a good way to handle it yet.” ASU System Assistant Vice President for Ad-

ministration Jo LunBeck also told Deidra Hudson in an April interview that “she heard a horror story about three young ladies on a study abroad trip. They had issues getting a car and had to travel with a creepy stranger.” “I tell parents that I can’t guarantee your child will be safe here on campus,” Deidra Hudson responded. “But I will do all I can. We do have a very structured safety protocol. We use terra cotta national database which includes all the national best practices for study abroad.” However, the audit began after a friend told an ASU employee that she believed student payments were being mishandled for a Nordic study abroad trip. She contacted Internal Aﬀairs in mid-March. The audit found the payments were mishandled since they were paid through a PayPal account. Grayham noted in April that all funds paid to that account were since collected, and he questioned if the site met accreditation. But, he said the trip’s instructor, a previous ASU employee, could not be legally hired. The university had already broken the law when Deidra Hudson previously hired the professor to instruct in Lanjaron, the audit reported.

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LITTLE ROCK (AP) — An administrator with the University of Arkansas System’s Cossatot Community College is a search committee’s top choice to lead the state’s Department of Higher Education. The committee on Tuesday recommended the hiring of Maria Markham, who now serves as vice chancellor for academic services at Cossatot Community College. The Arkansas DemocratGazette reported that the recommendation now goes to the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and is subject to confirmation from Gov. Asa Hutchinson. If approved, Markham would succeed former director Brett Powell, who stepped down earlier this year to take a job at Henderson State University.

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LITTLE ROCK — Supporters of a plan to legalize casinos in three Arkansas counties won additional time Wednesday to circulate petitions after falling short of the number of signatures needed to put their proposal on the November ballot. The proposed constitutional amendment would legalize casinos in Boone, Miller and Washington counties.

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ment on the ballot this November.” Coon said the group also expected to challenge the state’s ruling that some signatures aren’t valid, saying they’d provide proof as to why the signatures should be counted. Arkansas Wins last month announced it had struck a deal with Cherokee Nation Entertainment to run the Washington County casino if voters approve the measure.

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LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Gov. Asa Hutchinson named a former state senator to lead the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission. The governor on Tuesday announced the appointment of Bruce Holland, who will replace retiring director Randy Young. Holland served as executive director of the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission for the past year and a half. Before that, Holland served four years as a Republican state senator from Greenwood. Young is retiring this week after 45 years with the agency. In a statement, Hutchinson praised Young’s leadership and “steadfast devotion” to the commission for the past four decades.

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Audit shows chancellor violated code of ethics

Scrolling through the hundreds of pages of Arkansas State University’s internal audit of its study abroad program, four themes literally scream out: • Nepotism. • Cronyism. • Unethical behavior. • And disarray. All four lead directly to Chancellor Tim Hudson and his wife, Dee Dee Hudson, who continues to operate the program as a part-time employee until someone unrelated to the chancellor is hired in August for the newly advertised full-time position. The audit is disappointing, disheartening and embarrassing to read — and it was produced by people who work for the ASU System. It’s hard to imagine what an independent audit might find, which should be the university’s next step. One has to ask: Are there similar problems with other programs and departments at ASU? That the chancellor of a major state university would compel his staﬀ to devise a full-time position for his wife is bad enough. When Hudson was told it would be illegal for his wife to hold such a position because of state nepotism rules, he had his staﬀ cancel the job opening — which had been advertised on the university’s job site — so his wife could keep her part-time position. Fourteen people who had applied for the job were notified the job was no longer available. Can you imagine how those 14 people feel now that the details of the study abroad audit have been released? They applied for a $50,000 a year job that only the chancellor’s wife was qualified to fill because she’s the mother of their children. They were duped. Now that the audit has been released, the job has again been posted on the university’s job site. We wonder if any of those 14 people will reapply. Could they work with a chancellor who pulled such an unethical stunt? It gets worse. The study abroad program was aligned with a company based in in Lanjaron, Spain — Multisense Espana — which is operated by friends of the Hudsons. The program was charged more than $250,000 by Multisense Espana during the three years Dee Dee Hudson operated it. There were no contracts and no receipts showing what the money had been spent on — just charges. “All of the charges that we have seen have come after the fact of the activity and have been paid by a wire payment,” the audit states. “Because of this, any requisition that might have been done — are found in the system as deleted with no documentation backing that requisition in the document imaging system.” It gets juicier. Last November, Hudson hired Pablo Rubio as the coordinator of special projects for the chancellor. He was paid $70,000 annually. Rubio, who abruptly

resigned in June, is the son of the president of Multisense Espana. Do we see a pattern here? As for the study abroad program itself, the audit shows that is was in disarray, with dozens of deficiencies in how the program was operated. There are simply too many to list here. But you can find the 600-plus pages on our website at http://www.jonesborosun.com/asudocs.php. Dee Dee Hudson may be qualified to fill the position, but the mere fact that she’s the chancellor’s wife gives reason for why there is a nepotism policy in the first place. Perception can, and often does, become reality. Probably the simplest way to describe the disarray is to point to one routine task: Dee Dee Hudson routinely failed to turn in her work hours in a timely manner and had to be asked repeatedly, month after month, to do so. The task involved putting the dates and the number of hours worked during the pay period and sending it in an email to administration. She wasn’t required to use the university’s electronic time card system. Magically, the hours always added up to the 28 each week, the maximum allowed for her position. Perhaps more disappointing than the audit was ASU System President Chuck Welch’s response. “Definitely, I think we found there were some organizational issues, and some policies and processes not nailed down,” Welch told Sun reporter Sarah Morris. “But if anything, to me, it was 100 percent proof positive that we don’t need to be operating a full-time program such as this with a part-time director. To me, it reinforced that we definitely need a full-time director if we are going to operate a program such as this.” At $50,000 a year, that’s a steep price to pay for someone to set up study abroad trips for an average of about 100 students a year. As for whether he had any ethical concerns from the audit, Welch punted, saying he couldn’t speak to individual personnel matters. “I would say I think we all realize that mistakes were made during this process that perhaps meant the entire process was not communicated as well as it should have been or decisions made in a manner that we would have preferred,” Welch said. “But those are things we will deal with moving forward.” Let us say it more clearly for Welch: These weren’t mistakes of process or policies or communication. They were intentional unethical decisions and displays of bad judgment made by the chancellor. Hudson repeatedly showed a lack of integrity and character, which should be hallmarks of a university chancellor. It’s time for Welch and the board of trustees to make some tough decisions to get ASU back to the university we all know and love.

It’s been a good year — for liberals only After four days of watching the Republican National Convention and a day of watching the Democrats, one thing is clear: Regardless of who wins in November, it’s been a lot better year for liberals than it’s been for conservatives. For traditional conservatives, in fact, this election season has been tough, and a bit of an awakening. The Republican Party has long been thought to be dominated by two factions — pro-business/ less government types, and social conservatives. Steve To maintain power, the Brawner | party has had to appeal to Wall Streeters in New York and pro-lifers in Arkansas. But it turns out that Donald Trump understood something that the datadriven party establishment didn’t: who really votes for Republicans, and why. In recent years, the Republican Party has attracted more and more support from two very important groups who don’t fit neatly into the pro-business or social conservative wings: white working people without a college degree and senior citizens. At the same time, Republican Party policies have not always aligned with those voters. The party has supported trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement and the TransPacific Partnership, teaming with President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama to overcome the opposition of Democrats in Congress. Who’s been hurt the most by free trade? Working people without a college degree. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have supported significant changes to Social Security and Medicare that their senior citizen voters generally don’t support. Then came Donald Trump. During the campaign, he’s pledged repeatedly not to touch Social Security and Medicare, saying his policies will make the country so rich that no changes are needed. And during his speech to the Republican National Convention, Trump railed against a system rigged in favor of those rich Wall Streeters and blasted those free trade deals. Trump’s ascendancy is forcing the Republican Party to come to grips with the disconnect between some of

its conservative policies and its voters. That’s diﬃcult. Last week, some conservatives stayed home from the Republican National Convention, while others whooped and hollered or at least held their nose and golfclapped for a candidate who, at times, sounded a lot like a Democrat. True-blue liberals do not have that problem this year. Hillary Clinton may have won the nomination, but Sen. Bernie Sanders won the battle of ideas. Thanks to him, the party has taken a giant step to the left, including promising a tuition-free college education to students with a family income of up to $125,000. During his speech to the rowdy convention Monday, Sanders railed against income inequality caused in part by … the same trade deals Donald Trump criticized. As for social issues, Democrats at the national level no longer are even pretending to straddle the middle. During Sanders’ speech, the person sitting next to President Clinton was Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. Every election is described as “the most important election of our lifetime.” This one actually does rank up there. We are watching the realignment of both parties. The Republicans, for three decades the party of Reagan conservatism, are becoming the party of Donald Trump. To some degree, they must in order to appeal to their own voters. The Democrats are becoming more liberal — so liberal that President Obama is now one of the party’s moderates, and the Bill Clinton of the 1990s wouldn’t even fit in the party today. So for liberals, the Democrats, and in some ways the Republicans, have moved in their direction if not past them. Conservatives, meanwhile, will have some tough questions to ask about their own philosophy. Maybe the best they can hope for is to be both the party of Reagan and the party of Trump. As for the Wall Streeters who both nominees say they’re mad at? I’m pretty sure they’ll do OK, regardless of who wins or loses. Steve Brawner is an independent journalist in Arkansas. Email him at brawnersteve@mac.com. Follow him on Twitter at @stevebrawner. © 2016 by Steve Brawner Communications Inc.

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The chaos candidate

Thank you, Jonesboro Sun, for reporting on the underhanded ways of Tim and Dee Dee Hudson at Arkansas State University. It was only a matter of time that these things, which many of us knew about, would eventually come to light. I pray the board of trustees would do the right thing by releasing Chancellor Tim Hudson immediately from leading the Jonesboro campus. Our campus should have a chancellor with the utmost integrity and character — both of which the Hudsons lack greatly. Marilyn Brewer Jonesboro

Donald Trump’s major themes in his convention speech are that our nation is in chaos and that he’s the only one who can bring it to order. As is typical of Trump’s rhetoric, he gave little or no specific plans to restore law and order to save the nation. Instead, he simply asks voters to trust him. If we consider the results of the convention, then there’s no reason to trust him. He has so divided the Republican Party that the governor of the state that hosted the convention refused to attend, let alone give a speech endorsing him. In the grandstanding, but substance-less, moves so characteristic of Trump’s campaign, he invited his most successful Republican rival to give a speech. Ted Cruz pointedly refused to endorse Trump. In something that I’ve never seen in a Republican

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convention, an invited speaker from their own party was booed oﬀ stage. His wife was even given security assistance when escorted from the venue. It was perhaps as remarkable that so many prominent Republicans refused to even attend the convention — let alone endorse him. It was even more astounding how our own governor displayed the penchant for rhetoric over substance that so marks Trump’s campaign. Examine the pre-convention disdainful comments of Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and then contrast those critiques to the glowing words he bestowed on Trump last week. It’s clear that Trump has found ways to take government insiders who once were willing to stand against his campaign and then twist them into Trumpettes. If there was any inspiration in last week’s convention, it emerged in one of the major debacles of the event. His

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third wife, Melania, gave a speech that demonstrated that the only substance in her address could be found in the many lines that she stole from the speech given by of our Democratic President’s wife — a woman Melania Trump claims she adores and admires. These small examples from the bizarreness of a failed convention are clear displays of the skills of what the former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush calls “the chaos candidate.” Running a campaign convention in this way clearly demonstrates that Trump has no skill as uniter. He’s divided the Republican Party, and, as his campaign continues, he’ll continue to divide the nation. This will continue to bring chaos to order. At this point, Trump truly is the only man who can accomplish this feat at the national level in our 2016 election. Gregory Hansen Jonesboro

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Obama: Clinton ready to lead BY JULIE PACE AND CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — His own legacy on the line, President Barack Obama implored Americans to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House, casting her as a candidate who believes in the nation’s future and warning against the pessimism of Republican Donald Trump. “America is already great. America is already strong,” he declared to cheering delegates Wednesday night at the Democratic convention. “And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump.” For Democrats, the night was steeped in symbolism, the passing of the baton from a barrier-breaking president to a candidate trying to make history herself. Obama robustly vouched for Clinton’s readiness to be commander in chief, saying “no matter how daunting the odds, no matter how much people try to knock her down, she never, ever quits.” Earlier Wednesday, Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, introduced himself to the nation as a formidable foil to Republican nominee Donald Trump. With folksy charm, he ridiculed Trump’s list of promises and imitated one of the GOP candidate’s favorite phrases. “Believe me!” he said mockingly, as the audience boomed back, “No!” Obama’s vigorous support for Clinton is driven in part by deep concern that Republican Trump might win in November and unravel the president’s eight years in oﬃce. He warned that the billionaire businessman is unprepared for the challenges that would

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President Barack Obama speaks Wednesday, the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Obama vouched for Hillary Clinton’s readiness to be the United States’ next president. await him in the Oval Oﬃce. Trump fueled more controversy Wednesday when he encouraged Russia to meddle in the presidential campaign. On the heels of reports that Russia may have hacked Democratic Party emails, Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening,” it would be desirable to see Moscow find and publish the thousands of emails Clinton says she deleted during her years as secretary of state. Wednesday night’s Democratic lineup was aimed at emphasizing Clinton’s own national security credentials. It was a significant shift in tone after two nights spent reintroducing Clinton to voters as a champion for children and families, and relishing in her historic nomination as the first woman to lead a major political party into the general election. The convention’s third night was also a time for Democrats to celebrate Obama’s two terms in oﬃce. Vice President Joe Biden, who decided against running for president

this year after the death of his son, called it a “bittersweet moment.” A son of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden appealed directly to the working class white voters who have been drawn to Trump’s populism, warning them against falling for false promises and exploitation of Americans’ anxieties. “This guy doesn’t have a clue about the middle class,” he declared. Kaine also picked up the traditional attacking role of the presidential ticket’s No. 2. He tore into Trump, mocking his pledges to build a wall along the Mexican border, asking why he has not released his tax returns and slamming his business record, including the now-defunct Trump University. “Folks, you cannot believe one word that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth,” Kaine said. “Our nation is too great to put it in the hands of slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting, one-man wrecking crew.”

Freedom days away for Reagan shooter WASHINGTON — For the past decade, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan has quietly spent a growing number of his days living with his 90-year-old mother in a gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia. On Wednesday, a judge finalized John Hinckley Jr.’s transition to freedom, ordering that Hinckley can permanently leave the psychiatric hospital where he was confined after the assassination attempt. The order, which cannot be appealed, has been in the works for years, despite opposition by prosecutors, who sought numerous restrictions on Hinckley’s freedom, most of which were agreed to by Judge Paul Friedman. Hinckley could leave St. Elizabeths Hospital as early as Aug. 5. Hinckley, now 61, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the March 30, 1981, shooting fueled by his obsession with the movie “Taxi Driver” and its teenage star, Jodie Foster. He used a pawn-shop revolver to fire six shots at Reagan, the president’s aides and his protective detail outside a Washington hotel, wounding the president and three others.

‘20th hijacker’ to stay at Guantanamo

MIAMI — A board reviewing the status of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has decided against releasing a Saudi who U.S. authorities believe narrowly avoided becoming one of the hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. Lawyers for prisoner Mohammed al-Qahtani asked the Periodic Review Board last month to send the prisoner to a rehabilitation center in Saudi Arabia for treatment of severe mental illness. The board, made up of representatives of six government agencies,

They came as the Democrats met on the third day of their national convention in Philadelphia, where Clinton will accept the presidential nomination Thursday night to face Republican Trump in November. Trump’s comments raised the question of whether he was condoning foreign government hacking of U.S. computers and the public release of information stolen from political adversaries — actions that are at least publicly frowned upon across the globe. His brief remarks managed to divert attention from an embarrassing leak of other hacked emails that exposed sensitive internal political communications that had divided Democrats.

Church attacker nurtured jihad in quiet French town Associated Press

SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France — Adel Kermiche nursed his obsession with jihad in this quiet French town alongside the Seine River, and his twice-thwarted attempt to join Islamic State extremists in Syria ended with an attack on an elderly priest celebrating Mass in its sturdy stone church. New details emerged Wednesday about the 19-yearold, one of two assailants who took five hostages Tuesday at the church in Saint-Etiennedu-Rouvray, slitting the throat of the 85-year-old priest, the Rev. Jacques Hamel, before being shot to death by police.

The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, which released a video Wednesday allegedly showing Kermiche and his accomplice clasping hands and pledging allegiance to the group. In it, Kermiche identifies himself by the nom de guerre Abul Jaleel al-Hanafi, and says his compatriot, who has not been identified by French authorities, is called Ibn Omar. Wearing a camouflage jacket and speaking in broken Arabic, Kermiche recites: “We pledge allegiance and obedience to Emir of the faithful Abu Bakr al-Baghdady in hardship and in ease.”

Turkey mired in tension after uprising

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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump encouraged Russia on Wednesday to find and make public missing emails deleted by his presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton, setting oﬀ an instant debate over hacking and his urging of a foreign government to meddle in American politics. Shortly after Trump’s extraordinary remarks, his Republican running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, took a diﬀerent tack and warned of “serious consequences” if Russia interfered in the election. Democrats — and some Republicans — quickly condemned the remarks by the Republican presidential standard-bearer.

turned down the request in a statement released Wednesday. The board cited several reasons for its decision, including the fact that al-Qahtani “almost certainly” had been chosen by senior al-Qaida members to be the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 plot and his “refusal to respond to questions” about his past activities.

institution. But he came under increasing fire for embezzlement scandals and a string of other embarrassments, including an FBI investigation of top university officials for alleged misuse of federal money and an NCAA investigation into whether a university employee paid women to strip and have sex with basketball players.

UofL trustees accept president’s resignation

Sheriff: Deputy was lucky in attack

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — University of Louisville trustees on Wednesday accepted the resignation of embattled President James Ramsey, whose long tenure was dogged by scandal. The action at a special meeting of the school’s board signaled the end of an era. Ramsey, a former state budget director, has led the university for 14 years. After six hours of closed-door deliberations, the board announced late Wednesday that Ramsey will be paid $690,000 and will resign immediately, with an agreement not to sue the school. Ramsey was credited with raising academic standards and boosting the school from a commuter campus to a distinguished research

GRETNA, La. — A Louisiana sheriff on Wednesday called his deputy “one of the luckiest men in America” after a suspect’s weapon malfunctioned as he pointed it at the officer. In a news conference Wednesday, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said his deputy could easily have been killed in a confrontation with a 17-year-old theft suspect late Tuesday. Normand compared the encounter between his deputy and Devon Martes to an “O.K. Corral shootout.” Surveillance video captured the fatal shooting and shows Martes pointing what appears to be a gun at a sheriff’s deputy inside a warehouse of The Times-Picayune newspaper in a suburb of New Orleans.

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ISTANBUL — Turkey was riding high in 2010, casting its brand of Islamic piety, Westernstyle democracy and economic growth as a regional model amid popular upheavals in the Mideast and North Africa. Six years later, it is mired in tension with neighbors and allies, dominated by a president seeking to increase his constitutional powers and now enmeshed in a purge of large sectors of society after an uprising by renegade military oﬃcers. The changes that led to this turn in Turkey’s fortunes include internal rifts — the collapse of a Kurdish peace process and the alleged erosion of democratic rights under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are among them — as well as the war in Syria and other regional chaos in which Turkey has taken sides. Erdogan is also sparring with the United

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Women are reflected in a shop window as they walk at a shopping street in Istanbul on Wednesday. Turkey is mired in tension after an uprising by renegade military officers. States, a NATO ally, over his demand that Washington extradite Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Turkey accuses of orchestrating the July 15 coup attempt. And on Aug. 9, the Turkish president is scheduled to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in an eﬀort to repair strained ties following Turkey’s apology for shooting down a Russian fighter jet last year.

The breach has cost Turkey an important source of tourists, and stalled energy deals. Turkey’s trajectory in the past decade represents the struggle of a strategically located nation, spanning the Asian and European continents, to shine on an international stage. Now, after the failed uprising, the government is trying to rid the military, judiciary and other institutions of suspected Gulen supporters.

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Obituaries Mable Anthony

MARKED TREE — Mable Maxcine Anthony, 86, of Marked Tree died Friday, July 22, 2016, at Hospice Home Health in Little Rock. She was a member of St. John Missionary Baptist Church and was a senior choir member when she was active. Survivors include her sons, Albert Anthony of Atlanta, Matthew Anthony of Marked Tree, Billy Anthony of Dallas and Eugene Anthony of Little Rock; daughters, Dorothy Griﬃn of Counsel Bluﬀ, Iowa, Millie Anthony of Marked Tree, Janett Jones, Barbara Jamerson and Shirley Anthony, all of Little Rock; brother, L.D. Pruitt of Detroit, 22 grandchildren, 41 greatgrandchildren, 15 greatgreat-grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Marked Tree with the Rev. Anthony James officiating. Burial will follow in River View Cemetery directed by Woodard’s Marked Tree Funeral Service. Visitation will be 5 to 6

p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Online registry: www. woodardfuneralservice. com

M.C. Bunch

LAKE CITY — M.C. “Marty” Bunch, 76, of Lake City died Monday, July 25, 2016, in Paragould. He had lived most of his life in the Lake City/ Jonesboro area. Marty was a member of the Lunsford Baptist Church. He loved to fly and was the owner of the Classic Air Strip. Marty also owned M.C. Bunch Inc. His passions were construction and hard work, restoring classic cars and spending time with family and friends. He was preceded in death by his mother, Alice Bunch. Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Kay Bunch of the home; son, Mark Bunch (Gayla) of Paragould; daughter, Donna Qualls (Ted) of Lake City; father, the Rev. Carl Bunch; brothers, Johnny Bunch (Chris) of Jonesboro and Lewis Bunch (Libby) of Little Rock; twin-sister, Maurine Freeze of Little Rock; sisters, Jo Ann Matthews (Frank) of McAlpin, Fla., and Jacquline Reams

Hafner seeks council seat

JONESBORO — Joseph A. “Joe” Hafner has announced his candidacy for the Jonesboro City Council Ward 5, Position 2 seat. “Jonesboro is a city that I love very much,” Hafner said in announcing his candidacy. “It’s my hometown, and I feel that the experiences that I have gained from both my personal and professional lives can benefit the Hafner citizens of Jonesboro and help ensure that Jonesboro continues to be an attractive city to not only industries and businesses looking for new locations but also for families and individuals looking for a great place to live and call home.” Hafner graduated from Arkansas State University with a bachelor of science degree in accounting and is a certified public accountant with more than 25 years of experience in both public and corporate accounting including manufacturing and

service industries. He has been active in the community by serving in leadership positions on various boards including the YMCA and Legacy Landfill boards. Hafner and his wife, Margo, are the parents of Cameron and Braden, and they are members of First United Methodist Church in Jonesboro. “I feel that our city is at an important crossroads in our growth, and we need people in leadership positions who can make the best choices to keep Jonesboro strong, safe and progressive,” Hafner said. “My experiences have taught me to tackle tough situations head on, gather the facts and make the best decisions in a timely manner. With many of the opportunities that Jonesboro currently has and will have, it’s important that we do what is right for our citizens.” Rennell Woods is the current Ward 5, Position 2 alderman.

Gibson seeks council re-election

JONESBORO — Alderman Chris Gibson has announced he will seek re-election for Ward 3, Positiion 2 in the upcoming election. Gibson is completing serving his second fouryear term as alderman. “Jonesboro is growing, and while we are making improvements to roads, we are also bringing new businesses to town,” Gibson said in his announcement. “I want Jonesboro to continue to boom and make life better for each person living in Jones- Gibson boro. I have been honored to serve the City of Jonesboro over the last eight years, and I hope to continue to serve this great city.” Gibson graduated from Jonesboro High School and received a bachelor’s degree at Arkansas State University. He is the regional director of operations for Arcare. Gibson listed a number of professional accomplishments, including: • MBA, Healthcare Administration. • Medical Group Management Association member.

• Kentucky Primary Care Association member. • National Board of Realtors member. • Jonesboro Advertising and Promotions commissioner. • Arkansas Municipal League Advisory Council member since 2012. • Certified Municipal Oﬃcial. • 2004 Leadership Jonesboro Class. • 2014 Leadership Arkansas Class. • Alumni advisor for Delta Eta chapter of Kappa Alpha Order. President of the NEA Alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha. Commissioned in 2015 by Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear as a Kentucky Colonel for putting community above self. On the council, Gibson is chairman of the Public Services Committee, member of the Public Safety Committee, chairman of the E911 Subcommittee, a member of the Transportation Committee and rotating chairman of the Nominating and Rules Committee.

(Ron) of Dexter, Mo.; grandchildren, Brannon Qualls (Ronna), Braden Qualls, Katie Bunch and Marti Lynn Bunch; and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday in Emerson Memorial Chapel with Ron Langston officiating and Emerson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Burial will follow in Jonesboro Memorial Park Cemetery with nephews serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be the members of Jim Ladd’s Sunday school class and the members of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter No. 437. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time. For lasting memorials, please consider Mount Zion Baptist Association Camp Building Fund, 2460 Sunny Meadow Drive, Jonesboro 72404 or the Lunsford Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 634, Lake City 72437. Online registry: www. emersonfuneralhome.com

Howard Johnston

WYNNE — Howard Holloway Johnston, 91, of Wynne died on Thursday, March 3, 2016, at

her home. Mrs. Johnston was born Nov. 27, 1924, at Tallassee, Ala. Howard was preceded in death by husband, John H. Johnston Jr., and son, Hank Johnston. Survivors are daughters, Amelia Johnston Harris and husband Elsey and Jennifer Johnston Tippett; daughter-inlaw, Susan Johnston; six grandchildren, a brother and four great-grandchildren. Visitation will be from 10 until 11 a.m. Saturday with a memorial service following at 11 a.m. at Wynne First United Methodist Church. Online registry: www. kernodlefh.com

Mercedes Larkins

JONESBORO — Mercedes Nicole Larkins of Jonesboro passed from this life Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at her home. She was born May 3, 2016, at Jonesboro to David Cody Larkins Sr. and Brittny Cox. Mercedes is survived by her parents; maternal grandparents, Mark Cox, Rebecca Highfill and Mark Rousse; paternal grandparents, Lucille Larkins, James Larkins Sr. and Travis Huckabee;

paternal great-grandmother, Wanda Hamilton of Centralia, Ill.; a brother, David Cody Larkins Jr. of Clinton; sister, Gracelynn Marie Jones of Jonesboro; aunts, Sadie Mitchell and Crystal Cox, both of Jonesboro; and she also leaves behind many cousins and other family members. A visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday at Emerson Funeral Home with Jerry Jolly oﬃciating. Burial will follow in Jonesboro Memorial Park Cemetery. Emerson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online registry: www. emersonfuneralhome. com

Woodrow McKenzie

PIGGOTT — Woodrow Wilson “Wookie” McKenzie, 86, of Piggott passed away July 27, 2016, at the General Baptist Nursing Home in Piggott. He was born Nov. 28, 1929, at Piggott. Survivors include his brother, Everett “Tater” McKenzie; many nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday in Hoggard & Sons Funeral Home Chapel in Piggott. Burial

Index • Anthony, Mable • Bunch, M.C. • Johnston, Howard • Larkins, Mercedes • McKenzie, Woodrow • Sutton, Claudine will be in Piggott Cemetery. Visitation will be noon to 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Claudine Sutton

BLYTHEVILLE — Claudine Sutton, 73, of Blytheville died Friday, July 22, 2016, at Methodist University Hospital. She was born June 2, 1943, at Louisville, Miss., to the late Emma Haynes Miller and D.V. Dawkins. Survivors include her daughter, Tracie Beaugard of Blytheville; brothers, Lee Dawkins and David Dawkins, both of Saginaw, Mich.; and grandchildren, Kevin Jr., Micah and Tia Hamon, all of Blytheville. Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday at New Jerusalem Christian Fellowship with services following. Burial will be in Sandy Ridge Cemetery under direction of Wilson Funeral Home.

Parolee accused of auto thefts BY KEITH INMAN Sun Staff Writer inman@jonesborosun.com

JONESBORO — A man who is on parole now faces auto theft charges in two counties. Craighead County District Judge David Boling found probable cause Wednesday to charge Jessie Allen Floyd, 31, of Bay, with theft greater than $25,000. He set bond at $7,500. Floyd was arrested early Wednesday after a witness reported watching a pickup swerve off of Arkansas 158, Investigator Ron Richardson of the Craighead County Sheriff’s Office said in a probable cause affidavit. The witness drove to her home nearby, and the driver of the truck, Floyd, pulled out of the ditch and followed her, Richardson said. After she refused to give him a ride, she

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said Floyd gave her the keys to the 2014 Chevrolet and a key to a Jeep and told her to tell the vehicles’ owners that he was sorry. The truck, valued at $35,000, was reported stolen in Bay. The 2000 model Jeep was stolen from a business in Trumann. Police found the Jeep at the home of the owner of the truck, Richardson said. Trumann police will pursue charges in Poinsett County in the theft of the Jeep. In an unrelated case, Boling found probable cause to charge Liberty Abby Marie Torrez, 18, of Osceola, with 10 felonies and set her bond at $50,000. Torrez, who was arrested Monday, faces five charges of seconddegree battery and five counts of aggravated assault. Torrez admitted to striking

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Four small children found abandoned

JONESBORO — The Republican Party of Arkansas will hold a grand opening from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday for its Northeast Victory Headquarters in Jonesboro. U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford and Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin will be the keynote speakers. There will be appearances by local candidates and current elected officials. Mayor Harold Perrin will hold an official ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. Friday. The headquarters is located at 2929 S. Caraway Road, Suite 11. There will be refreshments, sweepstakes drawings and other activities. The event will be held in memory of Maj. Ron Miller.

JONESBORO — Social workers took custody of four small children Tuesday evening after a neighbor reported that the children were left home alone. By mid-afternoon Wednesday, police still hadn’t heard from the mother. A next-door neighbor told police one child told her that their mother had left to walk the dog. Officer Joseph Branstetter said in his report that the mother didn’t return during the hour that he spent at the home waiting for Department of Human Services case workers. He said he noticed one child had placed cereal into a microwave oven and began heating it up. The name of the 32-year-old mother wasn’t disclosed. In an unrelated case, a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun was reported stolen from a car in a city parking lot on Church Street. The glove box where the gun was stored had been forced open. The car’s owner said the door locks were broken, which explained why there were no signs of forced entry. The man said his wife’s wallet, containing debit cards and personal information was also stolen. Four residents of Chateau Apartments, 828 S. Caraway Road, reported Wednesday that someone broke the windows on their vehicles. Police said it appeared the culprits use a BB gun.

Mentoring program scheduled Friday JONESBORO — Men on a Mission will host a mentoring program from noon to 3 p.m. Friday at Temple Baptist Church, 2405 Red Wolf Blvd., in the new section of the church. “Breaking the Cycle” will explore the need, effects and how to create obtainable goals through mentoring. Guest speaker will be Department of Youth Services System Reform manager Adam Baldwin. The event is free to the public, and no registration is required. For additional information call (501) 404-8636 or email themenonamission@gmail.com.

the five victims with her car, but claimed she “was not going that fast,” McCanless said in an aﬃdavit. She said the victims were attacking her vehicle and trying to get her out of it. McCanless said Torrez told him she was just trying to get away from them. Torrez posted a message on social media following the incident in which she bragged about injuring the five victims and threatened to shoot the victims in the future. The victims told police that they had been arguing with Torrez via text and social media before the incident occurred. The victims ranged from 22 to 15 years of age. All were treated and released from hospitals. Torrez and Floyd were ordered to appear Aug. 26 in Craighead County Circuit Court.

Caretaker held on possession charge JONESBORO — Craighead County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call on Tuesday night from a concerned family member who believed her mother was being abused. The night ended with the woman’s caretaker being charged with felony posses-

sion of methamphetamine. Deputies arrived at the home on Craighead Road 319 in Jonesboro to check on the welfare of an elderly female. Her daughter, Patricia Coggins, is the woman’s daughter and caretaker. There was enough concern about the woman’s condition for deputies to call paramedics to conduct a medical check. The woman refused any medical assistance and told officers she had not been abused. However, paramedics deterCoggins mined the living conditions of the home were severe enough to call Adult Protective Services. Coggins was placed under arrest for outstanding warrants. When deputies searched her, a small bag of methamphetamine was found on her. She was transported to the Craighead County Detention Center and held on suspicion of felony drug possession. The case has been referred to Criminal Investigation Division for further investigation. On Wednesday, District Court Judge David Boling found probably cause and set bond at $1,500. Coggins is due back in court on Aug. 26.

Jonesboro firefighters answer 14 alarms JONESBORO — The Jonesboro Fire Department responded to the following alarms during the 24-hour period ending at 6 p.m. Wednesday. • At 6:51 p.m. Tuesday, 608 Warner Ave., outside rubbish fire. • At 11:41 a.m. Wednesday, Magnolia Road and Church Street, vehicle accident with injuries. Firefighters also received 12 calls for medical assistance.

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MOSCOW — Bias is often in the eye of the beholder, and President Barack Obama’s claim that Russia’s news media favor Donald Trump isn’t an open-and-shut case. But informal surveys of Russia’s main outlets suggest that Trump gets plenty of praise — especially for his “anti-establishment” stance — and that favorable assessments of Hillary Clinton are comparatively rare. Trump’s unorthodox campaign often draws a kind of backhanded praise. Dmitry Kiselyov, whose vehement and provocative views have made him Russian television’s

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Syrian refugees stand near the site of the Ansbach, Germany, attack, holding up a sign reading “We are Muslims and not terrorists” on Tuesday. In the most recent attack on Sunday night, a 27-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker set off a backpack laden with explosives and shrapnel after being refused entry to a crowded music festival in the Bavarian city, killing himself and wounding 15 people.

Minister: Bomber online before attack Associated Press

BERLIN — A 27-yearold Syrian asylum-seeker who blew himself up in the southern German town of Ansbach was chatting online with a still-unidentified person immediately before the explosion, Bavaria’s interior minister said Wednesday. Attacker Mohammed Daleel died and 15 people were wounded when his bomb exploded outside a wine bar Sunday night after he was denied entry to a nearby open-air concert because he didn’t have a ticket. “There was apparently an immediate contact with someone who had a significant influence on this attack,” state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said on the sidelines of a party meeting in Bavaria, news agency dpa reported. It wasn’t clear whether Daleel was in contact with the Islamic State group or where the other person in the chat was, Herrmann said. He said investigators checking the assailant’s cellphone came across the “intensive chat” and that “the chat appears to end immediately before the attack.” “Because of witness testimony on what happened and also the course of the

chat, there are indeed questions about whether he intended to set oﬀ the bomb at that moment,” Herrmann said. On Tuesday night, the online magazine of the Islamic State group said the attacker spent months planning the attack, once even hiding his homemade bomb in his room in a state-supported asylum shelter moments before a police raid. The weekly Al-Nabaa magazine’s report added that Daleel had fought in Iraq and Syria with a branch of al-Qaida and the IS group before arriving in Germany as an asylum-seeker two years ago. Herrmann said a roll of 50-euro ($55) notes was found on the attacker. It’s unclear where the money came from — but it is “unlikely that it could have been paid for solely from what an asylum-seeker in Germany gets in the way of pocket money.” He didn’t disclose the total value of the cash. The Ansbach explosion was the last of four attacks in Germany in a week, two of which were claimed by IS. Islamic extremism wasn’t the motive in the other two — including the deadliest, Friday’s shooting in Munich in which nine people were killed.

most prominent commentator, chose colorful phrasing to describe him in one broadcast: “He’s a dangerous person ... He is anti-establishment ... In the Republican nest, Trump is like a chicken among cuckoos.” In June, he noted that Trump had become a tough competitor against Clinton and then called forth a dark image: “She’s tried to call Trump insane and incompetent. To some extent, it resembles the Soviet punitive psychiatry experience, where those who disagreed with the system were declared insane.” Kiselyov also heads the Rossiya Segodnya state media complex, whose

outlets include two of the media that are most prominent outside Russia: the RT satellite TV channel and the Sputnik multilingual news website. These outlets, aimed at foreign audiences, are hugely important to the Kremlin’s aim of propagating its views and countering what it claims to be Western news media’s determination to portray Russia unfavorably. How much influence top officials exert on the editorial policy is unclear, but the outlets are widely assumed to reflect the thinking at the top. The news is not all good for Trump, either. After his nomination, Sputnik

oﬀered a podcast headlined “Fear and Loathing in Cleveland” that spoke of his “dark and dishonest acceptance speech.” Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of Russia’s largest-circulation newspapers, minced no words on Wednesday, calling Clinton “the personification of evil” and lauding Trump who “appears to be fresh air from an open window in a room that no one has aired out for decades.” More measured, government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta suggested that the United States’ heated and shambolic presidential campaign is a matter of reaping what one sows.

Texas AG’s gift came despite agency rules BY PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Documents show the $100,000 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accepted from the head of a company his oﬃce was investigating came despite internal agency rules that prohibit such gifts. Ethics and legal experts say Paxton’s acceptance of the money to help pay for his criminal defense on felony securities fraud charges wasn’t a clear violation of Texas’ loose ethics laws. But internal policies in the Texas attorney general’s oﬃce, obtained by The Associated Press, say agency employees “shall never” take gifts from an entity “the employee knows is

b e i n g investigated” by the oﬃce. Last year, Paxton accepted the gift from Preferred Imaging Paxton founder James Webb, whose company was under investigation at the time for Medicaid fraud. Webb contributed nearly one third of the $330,000 that Paxton, a Republican, reported raising in 2015 to help pay his personal legal bills. He was indicted six months after taking oﬃce last year and has pleaded not guilty. Paxton spokesman Marc

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Black River Bridge demolition underway BY NEAL EMBRY Sun Staff Writer neal@jonesborosun.com

POCAHONTAS — The Black River Bridge demolition is underway in downtown Pocahontas. So far, some of the railing and old metal has been removed, said Walter McMullen, regional

engineer. “They’ll knock down the concrete posts and take down the railing and decks,” he added. “They’ll then drop the trusses and piers down before demolishing the bridge.” Pocahontas Mayor Kary Story said the state project was started after an investigation found

the bridge, which was deemed a historic structure in 1990, was unable to be renovated and needed replacing. “It wasn’t a city decision,” Story said. However, the sentiment expressed by Story and several Pocahontas residents is that the demolition is going well

and not creating a lot of problems. “They engineered a traﬃc design,” Story said of the Arkansas Highway Department. “We’ve gone down to two lanes, and they retimed the traﬃc light.” Congestion has not been a problem so far, Story said. Pre-

vious concerns voiced in The Sun have quieted down, as residents have expressed mixed, but overall positive, comments about the work. McMullen said the new bridge will feature standard railing found on other bridges. The project is expected to be completed in July 2018.

Service center being renovated BY NEAL EMBRY Sun Staff Writer neal@jonesborosun.com

HOXIE — The Kenneth Quarry Service Center will undergo some repairs in order to be ready for city events in the fall. Mayor Lanny Tinker said the 30-year old building, which serves as a community center and hosts many meetings and events, is in need of a “facelift.” “We’ve done some minor repairs with previous grants, and fixed the air conditioning last year,” Tinker said. However, Tinker said that the center’s main stage is now in need of repair, as the floor tiles have begun to come oﬀ. The lobby area and both men’s and women’s restrooms are in need of repair as well. The center hosts many events in Hoxie, including Dicken’s in the Park, an annual Christmas event revolving around a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Hoxie received a $5,000 General Improvement Fund grant from the White River Planning and Development District, and Tinker said the grant covers the entire cost of the project. Tinker said the project will be completed by the end of the summer, and the city is currently in the process of hiring a contractor to handle the renovations.

Drop-in set at GCT junior high Paxton News Bureau

PARAGOULD — Greene County Tech will host a drop-in at its new junior high school addition on Sunday. The event, which will last from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., is open to the public. This is not an open house and as such students should not bring school supplies to the event. GCTJHS Open House event will take place on Aug. 10 from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. Visitors on Sunday are asked to park either by Reynolds Gym or the cafeteria. The dropin will include a tour for community members to see the 12 new classrooms and media center. The new classroom construction began during the summer of 2015 and continued throughout the 2015-16 school year. The new addition took the place of “Old Main,” which had been a fixture on the campus since 1948. However, the building was not accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act and after a difficult decision by board members it was torn down. The new junior high addition will help to accommodate GCT’s ever expanding school population. Several classrooms have previously been held in portable trailers. The new classrooms will allow for the removal some of these from the campus. To make the most of their extra room, the district will shift its classrooms around to take advantage of the new space. The alternative school, which was previously housed in the separate building behind the administration office, will move into the old agriculture building. The alternative school was slightly remodeled, with new flooring and a new roof, and will now house the band room, choir room and art room. In addition to classrooms, there is also a new media center. Free standing from the rest of the building, the media center will house the library and a computer lab. The new addition cost about $4.5 million to complete and the building is completely energy efficient. A safety feature added to the addition will create a safe haven for students in the event of an emergency such as a tornado. One hallway, which consists of two bathrooms and four classrooms, are hardened classrooms, meaning that they can be sealed off to protect students.

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Special guest Riley Jane Mitchell of Nashville, Tenn., 11, shows campers how to grate carrots Wednesday afternoon during Arkansas State University’s Summer Camp Academy at the Jonesboro Math and Science magnet school. Riley, who competed in New York on the Food Network show “Chopped Junior,” helped teach campers how to make coleslaw and sliders. Her grandparents, Karen and Mike Gott and Mike and Brenda Mitchell, live in Jonesboro.

Equalization Board to begin meeting BY ERIK WRIGHT Paxton Media Bureau

PARAGOULD — The Greene County Equalization Board will begin meeting on Monday. Residents looking to argue whether or not their properties in Greene County have been appropriately assessed will have until Monday, Aug. 15, to make their case in front of the five-person board. “The burden of proof is on the property owner,” Greene County Deputy Tax Assessor Jane Wheeler Moudy said. “The purpose of the equalization board is to ensure that all of the assessed properties in the county are of nearly equal value for like properties. Anyone who feels that their assessment is unfair or not correct should come before the board.” To go before the Greene County Equalization Board, Moudy said a resident must first have an appointment, which needs to be made with the Greene County Clerk’s office. For more information, call the clerk’s office at (870) 239-6311 or the Greene County Assessor’s Office at (870) 239-6303. Moudy said she defends the

county’s assessments during hearings held by the equalization board, which meets at the Greene County Courthouse in Paragould. The county assessor’s oﬃce just completed the most recent appraisal of personal and commercial properties in Greene County. “We are looking at between 26,000 and 27,000 separate parcels,” she said. The last countywide assessment occurred in 2011. Since that time, Moudy said personal and commercial parcel values have gone up 11 percent. “That is not even considering our ag [agriculture] valuations,” she said. “Those have gone up 50 percent.” For those local property owners who feel that their newly assessed values are incorrect or not in line with other local properties of similar size and value, Moudy said they should come before the board. “We want to make sure everyone here in the county is on an even playing field,” she said. “If I have a 10,000-square-foot house and you, as my neighbor, have a 1,000-squarefoot house, there should be no reason why we should pay the same amount

of property taxes. That is the kind of thing we are looking to address with the board.” Those coming before the board will need to be prepared with appropriate information to articulate their argument. “Bring pictures of your property and pictures of the problem or problems you are wanting us to address,” Moudy said. An example she oﬀers that some property owners address is the interior of their homes. “We [assessor’s oﬃce] don’t always get to see the inside of the house to make an assessment,” Moudy said. “So, one thing that could come up would be if you have termite damage that could dramatically alter the value of your home, but we wouldn’t necessarily know that. So, if someone brought us pictures of termite damage, which is something that isn’t always readily visible, that could be argued.” Other pieces of information property owners should bring are any other current appraisals made on the property within the last six months and comparable information on adjoining or nearby properties.

Area kids show appreciation for officers BY JEFF BRICKER Sun Staff Writer jbricker@jonesborosun.com

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Seth Beasley and Alexis Scott put together goodie bags for local police officers on Wednesday.

JONESBORO — Children at an area learning center want to show their appreciation for local police officers. They are expressing their gratitude through a goodie pack they are calling “survival kits.” “I thought with all the stuff going on ... I thought maybe it would be a good idea to show the kids how important the police are and support them,” said Elyssa Peterson, director of Pride & Joy Learning Center in Jonesboro. Peterson said the children have done service projects before, but this is the first one to benefit the law enforcement community. All of the children at the learning center are participating in the project, which involves putting candies, a bottle of water and a note of encouragement in a bag for each officer. In total, the children will be putting together nearly 250 kits, and they plan to be done by the end of this week. “They’re having fun,” said Peterson when asked how the children have reacted to the project. Kits will be delivered to the Jonesboro Police Department and the Craighead County and Greene County sheriff’s offices.

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Natalie Carusso, 9, (center) and Savannah Stanton, 9, (right) grate carrots Wednesday as Isabella Stanton, 9, waits her turn during Arkansas State University’s Summer Camp Academy at the Jonesboro Math and Science magnet school. Special guest Riley Jane Mitchell, an 11-year-old from Nashville who appeared on “Chopped Junior,” helped teach campers how to make coleslaw and sliders.

Public Affairs Calendar Events listed in this column are generally open to the public, although admission fees may be charged. To request changes or additions or notify The Sun of special meetings for this listing, call 935-5525 or 1-800-237-5341, fax to 935-5823 or email to newsroom@jonesborosun.com.

Monday Valley View School Board, 6 p.m., superintendent’s office. Riverside School Board, 6 p.m., Lake City. Newport City Council, 6 p.m., City Hall. Ravenden City Council, 7 p.m., Municipal Building. Black Rock City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall. Cherokee Village Planning and Zoning Commission, 1 p.m., City Hall. Concordia Christian Academy School Board, 6 p.m., Pilgrim Lutheran Church. Brookland Planning Commission, 7 p.m., City Hall.

Tuesday Jonesboro City Council, 5:30 p.m., Municipal Center, 300 S. Church St. Hardy City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 124 Woodland Hills Road. Luxora City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall. Blytheville City Health and Sanitation Committee, 4 p.m., municipal courtroom.

Thursday, Aug. 4 Blytheville City Street and Drainage Committee, 4 p.m., municipal courtroom. Blytheville City Finance & Purchasing Committee, 4:30 p.m., municipal courtroom.

Today in History Today is Thursday, July 28, the 210th day of 2016. There are 156 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On July 28, 1976, an earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate.

On this date: In 1540, King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. In 1655, French dramatist and novelist Cyrano de Bergerac, the inspiration for a play by Edmond Rostand, died in Paris at age 36. In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine. In 1821, Peru declared its independence from Spain. In 1866, British children’s author Beatrix Potter was born in London. In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In 1932, federal troops forcibly dispersed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington to demand payments they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945. In 1945, a U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people. The U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2. In 1959, in preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-American, Republican Hiram L. Fong, to the U.S. Senate and the first Japanese-American, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 “almost immediately.” In 1984, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics opened. In 1995, a jury in Union, South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her to life in prison for drowning her two young sons (Smith will be eligible for parole in 2024).

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Bulldozer operator killed fighting California blaze BY TERENCE CHEA AND KRISTIN J. BENDER Associated Press

BIG SUR, Calif. — The operator of a bulldozer was killed when it rolled over during the fight against a wildfire near Big Sur that has destroyed 20 homes and spread across more than 36 square miles, California fire oﬃcials said Wednesday. Another operator escaped injury when a second bulldozer rolled over and sustained minor damage, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The name and age of the operator who was killed was not immediately available. Battalion Chief Robert Fish said the operator was working in steep and diﬃcult-to-access terrain when the accident occurred. Fish did not have further details about the incident but said 60 bulldozers were being used in the fight against the fire. The death occurred as firefighters worked around the clock against the blaze near a scenic stretch of the California coast, where smoke and the threat of flames forced the closure of state parks near Big Sur, a popular

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Karrie H. Andrews recovers items Tuesday that she salvaged from the ruins of her home that was destroyed when the Sand fire swept through Santa Clarita, Calif., over the weekend. tourist area. At least 2,000 structures were threatened. Firefighters got a break early Wednesday from cooler temperatures and increased humidity. Pacific Coast Highway remained open Wednesday, but its signature views were marred by a dark haze. “We wanted to see more of the ocean,” said Phoenix-area tourist Jim Newby, who drove along the highway with his family Tuesday. “We didn’t

see a whole lot of it unfortunately, and it’s a beautiful, beautiful stretch.” The blaze could crest a ridge and make a run toward campgrounds, lodges and redwoods closer to the shore, oﬃcials said. To the south, firefighters made progress containing a huge blaze in mountains outside Los Angeles, allowing authorities to let most of 20,000 people evacuated over the weekend return home. The fire has destroyed 18 homes since it started

and authorities found the burned body of 67-yearold Robert Bresnick on Saturday in a car and said he had refused to be evacuated. The fire in rugged wilderness between the northern edge of Los Angeles and the suburban city of Santa Clarita grew slightly to nearly 60 square miles. It was 40 percent contained. Firefighters expected temperatures to reach about 100 degrees on Wednesday with winds gusting to near 25 mph. “We’re expecting to have a lot of smoldering today,” said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Justin Correll. He said the 40 percent containment figure was good news but “that means there’s still 60 percent of containment left to get. And that’s a lot.” There was also high potential for “fire runs” up slopes still choked with unburned brush, he said. The Big Sur closures were put into place for parks that draw 7,500 visitors a day from around the world for their dramatic vistas of ocean and mountains. The fire started Friday north of Big Sur and was just 10 percent contained.

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Mad magazine artist dies BY FRAZIER MOORE

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NEW YORK — Jack Davis, the prolific Mad magazine illustrator, cartoonist and movie poster artist, has died. He died Wednesday morning, according to his son-in-law, Chris Lloyd. He passed away in St. Simons, Georgia, of natural causes. He was 91. As a struggling young artist in New York, Davis was “about ready to give up, go home to Georgia and be either a forest ranger or a farmer,” he recalled in an interview a few years ago. Then, in 1950, he scored the first of many sales of his artwork to EC Comics, which published a line of horror titles including “Tales from the Crypt.” He stuck with its editors — William M. Gaines, Albert B. Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman — when they launched the pioneering satire magazine Mad in 1952. He remained a member of “The Usual Gang of Idiots” (as the magazine billed them) for the next six decades. His far-flung illustrations poked fun at politicians and celebrities along with countless portraits of the magazine’s perpetually grinning mascot, Alfred E. Neuman. Along the way, Davis also created numerous covers for TV Guide and Time, and provided

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Cartoonist Jack Davis attends a 2011 event honoring him by the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Cartoonists Society in Savannah, Ga. Davis, the prolific Mad magazine illustrator, cartoonist and movie poster artist, died Wednesday, according to the University of Georgia, his alma mater. He was 91. artwork for books, record jack- tended on the G.I. Bill after three ets, and posters for films includ- years in the U.S. Navy), he coning “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad tinued to produce innumerable World,” ‘‘American Graﬃti” and billboards and other artwork celWoody Allen’s “Bananas.” ebrating the “Dawgs” throughout In 1961, he wrote, drew, and his life. edited his own comic book, “Yak “Jack Davis was a seminal Yak,” for Dell Comics. figure in illustration of the last While Davis was masterful at century,” said Chris Garvin, dicaricatures of recognizable fig- rector of the UGA Lamar Dodd ures, he took amusing liberties School of Art. “His work was both with all his subjects, endowing timely and timeless. It perfectly them with distinctly large heads, expressed the era in which he pipe-stem legs and snowshoe- worked.” size feet. Davis is survived by his wife, As a proud alumnus of the Uni- Dena, of St. Simons, Georgia, as versity of Georgia (which he at- well as a daughter and a son.

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Lee Daniels, the co-creator of TV’s “Empire,” spoke passionately of his own family’s struggles as he endorsed Hillary Clinton Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, calling her a true advocate for victims of gun violence who can help turn “their heartache into action.” But his support didn’t come easy. “I wondered if Hillary knew who I was, not just the work I do in entertainment, but who I really am,” said Daniels, who was raised in west Philadelphia. His father, a cop, was killed in a robbery when Daniels was 15, he said, and his sister is under house arrest. He said a brother and a nephew are in jail and he has cousins in and out of custody. “That’s the America I know,” Daniels said, “and still I rise.” The director and producer said he came to trust Clinton’s commitment to help reduce gun violence, and he urged young voters not to sit out the election in November, calling it the “most important election of our lifetime.” On the convention’s third day, actress Angela Bassett introduced two survivors of the shooting massacre last year

Sweet man sours marriage by calling wife fat — and admit it out loud — I never thought it was appropriate for your significant other to Abigail it to you. Van Buren | sayI am at a loss as to what to do because he is right, but it hurts my

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feelings that he not only thinks it but says it. I have tried talking to him about how it makes me feel, but he just shrugs his shoulders. He sees nothing wrong with calling me fat. What do you think? — BIG GIRL IN CHAMPAIGN, ILL. DEAR BIG GIRL: If you call yourself fat, then it’s possible your husband didn’t think his doing so would hurt your feelings. Straighten him out. And when you do, tell him what other terms you would prefer he use (i.e., “big and beautiful,” “bountiful and bodacious,” etc.). Point out that whether it is a large or small amount, getting weight oﬀ is diﬃcult. Also, it’s not unusual for people who are hurting to eat more in order to compensate. He married you when you were heavier,

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at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Sigourney Weaver introduced a short film about climate change. “What we’re really talking about is people,” she said, “people whose lives are aﬀected by climate change right here and right now. Can Donald Trump look these people in the eye and tell them that climate change is a hoax?” Wednesday’s musical interludes included a line of Broadway stars passing a microphone for a round of “What the World Needs Now is Love.”

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DEAR ABBY: I am a large, overweight woman. I have been in the process of losing weight for more than five years. I got married three years ago to an amazing guy. He’s the sweetest man I have ever met. Something he said recently really bothers me. He said he thinks I’m fat. While I know I’m fat

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DEAR ABBY: I’m 30 and have lived with my boyfriend, “Shane,” for two years. We spend lots of time together, our families socialize and we have a good relationship. My problem is Shane’s use of social media. He takes a lot of pictures and posts them online while we’re together, but I am never in them and he never mentions that I’m there. Example: We took trips to Las Vegas, New York and Jamaica. He posted dozens of pictures of himself, but none of us together. When we go to nice restaurants, he shoots pictures of the food and solo selfies, but never mentions that I’m there, too. He has female friends I have never met who comment on all his fabulous adventures. It appears to me that Shane has created an online image as an exciting, jet-setting single guy. But when I say that, he tells me I am being “immature.” I am considering ending the relationship because of this. What do you think? — OUT OF THE PICTURE DEAR OUT OF THE PICTURE: When a couple has been living together for two years and spends the majority of their time together, their friends usually know they are involved. That Shane has cultivated an image of himself online as fancy-free seems strange to me, too. It may be that he is self-centered, or that he’s not as committed to your relationship as you would like him to be. When you tell a person something bothers you, and that person not only doesn’t do something about it but blames you, it’s a red flag. But if everything else in the relationship is as fine as you say, it doesn’t have to be a deal-breaker. I assume you have a social media presence of your own. I suggest that you fill it with lots of pictures of Shane, the two of you together and the places you’re going together. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Cook finding his groove on course BY CORY CLARK Sun Staff Writer cclark@jonesborosun.com

Over the past few weeks, Austin Cook has found his groove on the Web.com golf tour. The Jonesboro High graduate has shot up the Web.com money list over the past few weeks and sits in 29th place after recording a fourth-place finish in last week’s Utah Championship. The fourth-place finish was his best on the Web.com Tour so far this year. “It played tough, as the week went on they kind of cut the water oﬀ on Tuesday, and it just got more firm as the week went on and the wind switched on me,” Cook said Wednesday in a phone interview with The Sun. “The practice round and the first day I played with a south wind and then the rest of the days it came from the north.” And with five tournaments remaining in the regular season, Cook is on the cusp of finishing in the top 25 money earners which would secure him a PGA Tour card for next year. Cook was ranked in the 40s just a few weeks ago but has played his best golf of the season over the past mont, putting himself in position to possibly earn a PGA Tour card. While his season started a bit slowly, he has played very consistent lately. Cook said when things weren’t going his way, he still had a good mental approach to the game. “I just tried staying patient and taking it one round at a time, and if things didn’t work out like I wanted them to I

would just move on to the next week,” he said. After making a slight change to his swing, Cook has played good golf over the past month. “I kind of went back to what my old swing was like. I was getting a little steep in the past few weeks,” he said. Cook will try to continue his stellar play beginning today at the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae located on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. He tees oﬀ at 12:10 p.m. Central time. Cook said the course, located in the hills of San Francisco, is very challenging this week. “It’s really up and down and very hilly. We’re on top of a mountain out here on the West Coast, and it probably drops 800 to 1,000 feet in elevation from the top to the bottom,” he said. “The greens are very undulated, and so it will make for an interesting week.” His play on tour has even garnered the attention of the tour press as he is featured in a story this week on the Web.com Tour website. One of the areas the story touches on is the work of his wife Crys, who has been Cook’s caddy for most of the season despite being new to the game. “It’s nice. She is learning a lot about the game and actually is getting really involved and learning my yardages with my clubs and learning how to read yardage books, and she’s come a long way with that,” he said. “It’s fun for us. We haven’t had any arguments or anything out there, and she also saves us a lot of money each week instead of Please see COOK | B2

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St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright delivers a pitch during the second inning of Wednesday’s game against the New York Mets in New York.

Cardinals snap Familia’s saves streak, rally to beat Mets 5-4 BY MIKE FITZPATRICK Associated Press

NEW YORK — Yadier Molina and pinch-hitter Kolten Wong each stroked an RBI double in the ninth inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals ended Jeurys Familia’s streak of 52 straight saves in rallying past the New York Mets 5-4 on Wednesday night. Yoenis Cespedes hit a goahead homer oﬀ Adam Wainwright to cap a three-run comeback in the seventh that gave the Mets a 4-3 lead. But then Familia, who hadn’t blown a regular-season save opportunity since July 30 last year, finally

faltered. Jedd Gyorko drew a one-out walk in the ninth and was replaced by pinch-runner Randal Grichuk. Molina hit the next pitch to deep center field, and Grichuk scored standing up to tie it. Molina was thrown out at third by Familia (2-2) on pinchhitter Jeremy Hazelbaker’s comebacker, but Hazelbaker stole second and scored when Wong lined a double just inside the left-field line. Familia’s franchise-record saves streak was the third-longest in major league history behind Tom Gordon (54) and Eric

Gagne (84). Jonathan Broxton (3-2) tossed a scoreless eighth and Seung Hwan Oh got three quick outs for his sixth save. Including a split of Tuesday’s doubleheader, St. Louis took two of three from the Mets in a matchup of NL wild-card contenders. It was only the second time in the past decade that the Cardinals have won a road series against the Mets. Logan Verrett pitched seven eﬃcient innings and slumping Neil Walker went 3 for 3 with a base on balls for the third-

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Defending champion Day sees Baltusrol for first time BY JIM O’CONNELL Associated Press

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Denver Broncos general manager John Elway speaks Wednesday before the team’s opening of training camp in Englewood, Colo.

Questions abound on offense, defense for Super Bowl champs BY ARNIE STAPLETON Associated Press

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Super Bowl champs begin training camp Thursday with major questions on both sides of the ball, beginning with who will be the one throwing it. General manager John Elway declared the Denver Broncos’ quarterback competition wide open. Coach Gary Kubiak said he’ll split snaps between Mark Sanchez, Trevor Siemian and Paxton Lynch, beginning — but not set — in that order. “Gary is very seasoned at that position, so I know he’s going to handle it the right way and we’ll find the right guy,” Elway said. There are also unknowns on defense such

as when star cornerback Aqib Talib and pass-rusher DeMarcus Ware will be cleared to practice. Both are starting out on the non-football injury list, Ware after aggravating a bad back in the offseason and Talib after suffering a gunshot wound to his right leg. While acknowledging it’s hard to top a Super Bowl triumph, Elway said he expects his offense to be better this year no matter who wins the quarterback job. Kubiak has said “we should know a lot more in about a week” about who has the inside track to the job, but he declined to say how deep into camp he’s willing to hold open the audition. The winner gets to di-

rect an offense that Elway reconstructed this offseason following Denver’s 24-10 win over Carolina in Super Bowl 50 and the departures of Peyton Manning to retirement and Brock Osweiler to free agency. The Broncos have just four offensive starters from the Super Bowl returning to their same position: center Matt Paradis, running back C.J. Anderson and wide receivers Emmanuel Sanders and Demaryius Thomas. Led by linebackers Von Miller and Brandon Marshall, both of whom signed big contracts this summer, the defense returns all but two starters. Elway said he trusts the Broncos have the depth.

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Jason Day’s plan to defend his PGA Championship took a turn he wasn’t expecting. It is rare for a player considered one of the favorites in a major not to see the golf course until the day before the tournament starts, but that’s how the world’s No. 1-ranked player will try to handle Baltusrol Golf Club, the site of this year’s PGA Championship. “I haven’t played a practice round. I haven’t seen the course. I don’t know what it looks like,” Day said Wednesday before heading out for a practice round. “I was with Doug Steﬀen, the head pro, last night at the champions’ dinner. I went through pretty much every hole with him for about 20, 30 minutes, kind of going over all the holes. I’m going to try and touch them all today, but obviously the prep’s been a little on the lighter side. So I need to come in and try to get a good, solid 18 holes in today so I kind of know where I’m going.” Day’s plan had always been to take Monday oﬀ. Tuesday became a day of tending to a sick family and himself. “Dash and Lucy (his children) are sick right now, and kind of Dash

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Jason Day hits his approach shot on the fifth hole during Wednesday’s practice round for the PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J. Day is the PGA Championship’s defending champion. passed that on to me a little bit,” Day said. “I’m OK. I’m fine. I’m just a little bit under the weather. Ellie (his wife) had an allergic reaction last night and had to go to the hospital. We were there until 2 o’clock or something like that. So I’m kind of running on ‘E’ right now. She’s fine. Everything was great.” The 28-year-old Australian has eight wins in 2015 and 2016, but he hasn’t had a good first round in any of the majors this year, which makes his having two Top Ten finishes in them all the more

impressive. He shot a 72 to start the Masters and was able to finish tied for 10th. At the U.S. Open at Oakmont, he started with a 76 and rallied to finish tied for eighth. At the British Open he started with a 73 and finished tied for 22nd at Royal Troon. “I think there’s a little bit of expectation obviously on my shoulders; that I’ve got oﬀ to a great start this year. You’ve got to come out and fire on all cylinders and get yourself

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On the Air GOLF noon — PGA Championship......................................cable channel 28 (TNT)

SOCCER 6:30 p.m. — MLS All-Stars vs. Arsenal ................. .cable channel 32 (ESPN)

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 6 p.m. — St. Louis at Miami................................cable channel 134 (FSSW) 7 p.m. — Kansas City at Texas ..............................cable channel 34 (FSSW)

CFL FOOTBALL 8 p.m. — Winnipeg at Edmonto .......................... .cable channel 33 (ESPN2)

TENNIS noon — Rogers Cup ............................................ cable channel 33 (ESPN2) 5:30 p.m. — Rogers Cup..................................... cable channel 33 (ESPN2)

Baseball A.L. standings

East Division W L Pct GB 58 42 .580 — 57 45 .559 2 55 44 .556 2½ 52 49 .515 6½ 39 61 .390 19 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 57 42 .576 — Detroit 54 48 .529 4½ Chicago 50 51 .495 8 Kansas City 49 51 .490 8½ Minnesota 37 63 .370 20½ West Division W L Pct GB Texas 58 44 .569 — Houston 55 46 .545 2½ Seattle 51 49 .510 6 Oakland 47 55 .461 11 Los Angeles 45 56 .446 12½ —— Tuesday’s late games L.A. Angels 13, Kansas City 0 L.A. Dodgers 3, Tampa Bay 2 Wednesday’s Games Washington 4, Cleveland 1 San Diego 8, Toronto 4 Detroit 4, Boston 3 Tampa Bay 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 Colorado 3, Baltimore 1 Pittsburgh 10, Seattle 1 Chicago Cubs 8, Chicago White Sox 1 Oakland 6, Texas 4 Atlanta 9, Minnesota 7 Houston 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Kansas City 7, L.A. Angels 5 Today’s Games Baltimore (Jimenez 5-9) at Minnesota (Gibson 3-6), 6:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Sale 14-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lackey 7-7), 7:05 p.m. Kansas City (Ventura 6-8) at Texas (Hamels 11-2), 7:05 p.m. Boston (Price 9-7) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 8-8), 9:05 p.m. Friday’s Games Seattle at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m. Baltimore at Toronto, 6:07 p.m. Houston at Detroit, 6:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 6:10 p.m. Oakland at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m. Kansas City at Texas, 7:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m. Boston at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

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East Division W L Pct GB 59 42 .584 — 55 46 .545 4 53 47 .530 5½ 46 57 .447 14 35 66 .347 24 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 60 40 .600 — St. Louis 54 47 .535 6½ Pittsburgh 52 48 .520 8 Milwaukee 43 56 .434 16½ Cincinnati 40 61 .396 20½ West Division W L Pct GB San Francisco 59 42 .584 — Los Angeles 57 45 .559 2½ Colorado 49 52 .485 10 San Diego 44 58 .431 15½ Arizona 42 59 .416 17 —— Tuesday’s late games Milwaukee 9, Arizona 4 L.A. Dodgers 3, Tampa Bay 2 San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 7 Wednesday’s Games Miami 11, Philadelphia 1 Washington 4, Cleveland 1 San Diego 8, Toronto 4 Tampa Bay 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 Cincinnati 2, San Francisco 1 Colorado 3, Baltimore 1 Pittsburgh 10, Seattle 1 St. Louis 5, N.Y. Mets 4 Chicago Cubs 8, Chicago White Sox 1 Arizona 8, Milwaukee 1 Atlanta 9, Minnesota 7 Today’s Games Colorado (Anderson 3-3) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 6-5), 12:10 p.m. Arizona (Ray 5-9) at Milwaukee (Davies 7-4), 1:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 5-9) at Atlanta (Wisler 4-10), 6:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 5-7) at Miami (Fernandez 12-4), 6:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Sale 14-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lackey 7-7), 7:05 p.m. Washington (Roark 9-6) at San Francisco (Cueto 13-2), 9:15 p.m. Friday’s Games Seattle at Chicago Cubs, 1:20 p.m. Colorado at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m. St. Louis at Miami, 6:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 6:35 p.m. Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. Washington at San Francisco, 9:15 p.m. Cincinnati at San Diego, 9:40 p.m.

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SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Facts and figures for the 98th PGA Championship, which starts today: Television (all times CDT): Today and Friday, noon to 6 p.m., TNT. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., TNT Sports; 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. CBS. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., TNT; 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., CBS. Site: Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course) Length: 7,428 yards. Par: 34-36—70. Field: 156 players (136 tour pros, 20

club pros). Prize money: TBA ($10 million in 2015). Defending champion: Jason Day. Major champions at Baltusrol: Phil Mickelson (2005 PGA), Lee Janzen (1993 U.S. Open), Jack Nicklaus (1980, 1967 U.S. Open), Ed Furgol (1954 U.S. Open), Tony Manero (1936 U.S. Open), Jerome Travers (1915 U.S Open), Willie Anderson (1903 U.S. Open). Check the calendar: The PGA Championship was moved to the last week in July because of golf being on the Olympic program for the first time since 1904. The last time the PGA was not played in August was in 1971, when it was held at PGA National in Florida in February. The last time it was held in July was in 1968 at Pecan Valley Country Club in San Antonio. Key statistic: Eleven of the last 12 winners of the PGA Championship had already won a tournament earlier in the year. Noteworthy: Americans have won all but the first major played at Baltusrol. Quoteworthy: “Winning a major seems to make or break the entire year, no matter what you’ve done before or after, how many times you’ve won or not won, a major makes it a great year.” — Phil Mickelson.

Solunar periods Periods begin at the times shown. Major periods last for an hour-and-a-half or two hours thereafter. Minor periods are of somewhat shorter duration. A.M P.M. Minor Major Minor Major Today 12:45 6:55 1:05 7:20 Friday 1:35 7:45 1:55 8:15 Saturday 2:30 8:40 2:50 9:10 Sunday 3:25 9:30 3:40 10:00 Monday 4:15 10:25 4:35 10:50 Tuesday 11:25 5:15 11:55 5:40 Wednesday — 6:05 12:15 6:30

Johns signs with Bacone College BY MATTHEW V. ROBERSON Sun Staff Writer mroberson@jonesborosun.com

JONESBORO — Ethan Johns wasn’t that interested in playing college athletics until he visited Bacone College. Johns, a former football and track standout at Valley View, will continue his athletic career at Bacone College this fall. He recently accepted an athletic scholarship to run track and will also play football for the NAIA school in Muskogee, Okla. Johns hadn’t given much thought to playing collegiately until coaches from Bacone College convinced him to consider what their school had to oﬀer. After making a visit there earlier this summer, he decided Bacone College was a pretty good fit and signed with the Warriors. “I wasn’t really interested in going to college all that much unless there was some full ride or high-scholarship pay to a specific college,” Johns said. “It (Bacone) was one of those colleges that I didn’t think I was going too be interested in just because it was a little smaller than I thought. But I went to the campus and had a look around and I really liked what it

was oﬀering.” J o h n was a starting safety and played some linebacker Johns for Valley View last fall. He also participated as a high jumper with the Blazers track team. He’ll continue both sports at Bacone, whose coaches have indicated they want him to play safety as well. He expects to high jump for the track team as well. Johns received a scholarship oﬀer about three weeks ago, around the July 4 weekend. He didn’t need much time to think about his decision, saying similarities between his high school and Bacone made him feel comfortable about going there. “Their football program is a little bit like ours at Valley View in a way,” Johns explained. “We had the players and we had the aggressive teamwork and everything like that, it just didn’t go their way sometimes. “They’ve started out with all new coaching, and they’re just trying to work it all out and get the flow going again and hopefully be better next

year. That was one thing that kind of reminded me of Valley View. They have good players, they’re just a work in progress.” Johns was a pretty good player for the Blazers. At 6-foot-2 and 180 pounds, Johns finished fourth for the Blazers in tackles last season. He spent most of the year at free safety but also helped out at outside linebacker. Johns had 58 tackles, including 32 solo and 26 assisted. He made five tackles for loss, had one pass deflection and a fumble recovery. Valley View football coach Sean Cockrell said Johns has the potential to make an impact at Bacone. “He’s just a super-athletic kid and a good tackler,” Cockrell said. “He’s so athletic. He can run well, jumps well, he’s physical and has got a great body. He’s one of those kids that is just pure athleticism and I’m sure that’s what they saw in him.” Bacone went 2-9 last season and finished in a three-way tie for fourth in the Central States Football League (CSFL). The Warriors posted a 2-4 mark in conference play. Johns said the campus stood out and had a traditional feel, which made the school attractive to

him. “It’s a little bit of an older school. It looks like they really try to keep the history behind the college, which I really like,” Johns added. “Plus, it had the major that I wanted to go into.” Johns plans to major in exercise science. Johns was also an excellent high jumper at Valley View. He finished fifth at the 5A-East district track meet in the high jump. Johns high-jumped 6-feet even for his best mark of the year at the Redskin Relays earlier in the season. Johns said he has not discussed the specifics with the Bacone track coach but assumed he’ll continue high jumping. “He’s a really good kid and deserves being able to follow his dreams and keep playing,” Cockrell added. “I think it’s going to be a jump up for him, but I think he’ll look forward to it and get better as he gets some college coaching and really develops once he starts working at that level.” Bacone College is a private four-year liberal arts college with an enrollment of 900. The Warriors are a member of the CSFL for football and the Sooner Athletic Conference in all other sports.

Transactions Wednesday’s deals BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed 2B Brett Lawrie on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Friday. Recalled 3B Carlos Sanchez from Charlotte (IL). DETROIT TIGERS — Sent OF J.D. Martinez to Toledo (IL) for a rehab assignment. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent OF Lorenzo Cain to Omaha (PCL) for a rehab assignment. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Designated OF Todd Cunningham for assignment. Recalled LHP Tyler Skaggs from Salt Lake (PCL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned RHP Daniel Mengden and C Matt McBride to Nashville (PCL). Reinstated C Stephen Vogt from family medical leave. Recalled RHP J.B. Wendelken from Nashville. Sent RHP Andrew Triggs to Nashville for a rehab assignment. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent OF Desmond Jennings to Charlotte (FSL) for a rehab assignment. TEXAS RANGERS — Traded INF Travis Demeritte to Atlanta for RHP Lucas Harrell and LHP Dario Alvarez. Designated 1B/3B Matt Duffy for assignment. Sent OF Drew Stubbs to Round Rock (PCL) for a rehab assignment. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Bo Schultz to Buffalo (IL). National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent OF Socrates Brito to the AZL Diamondbacks for a rehab assignment. COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP Jason Motte on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Tuesday. Reinstated LHP Chris Rusin from the 15-day DL. Sent RHP Justin Miller to Albuquerque (PCL) for a rehab assignment. NEW YORK METS — Optioned LHP Josh Smoker to Las Vegas (PCL). ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned RHP Sam Tuivailala to Memphis (PCL). SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed INF Yangervis Solarte on family leave. Recalled INF Alexi Amarista and LHP Buddy Baumann from El Paso (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed 2B Stephen Drew on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sunday. Recalled INF Wilmer Difo from Harrisburg (EL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHOENIX SUNS — Named Jay Triano associate head coach and Tyrone Corbin and Nate Bjorkgren assistant coaches. PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS — Signed G CJ McCollum to a four-year contract extension. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released LB Quayshawn Nealy. Signed LB Donald Butler. ATLANTA FALCONS — Announced the retirement of S Charles Godfrey. Signed TE Arthur Lynch and WR Corey Washington. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Agreed to terms with OL Jake Long on a one-year contract. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed S Kurt Coleman to a three-year contract extension. CHICAGO BEARS — Promoted Scott Hagel to senior vice president of marketing and communications, Karen Murphy to senior vice president of business strategy and chief financial officer, Cliff Stein to senior vice president and general counsel and Lee Twarling to senior vice president of sales and customer relations, Doug Carnahan to vice president of corporate partnerships and Jake Jones to vice president of finance. Named Brandon Faber vice president of communications. Signed DB Brandon Boykin and WR B.J. Daniels. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed DE Jack Gangwish. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed RB Jamaal Charles on the PUP list. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Released QB Nick Foles. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed OT Sean Hickey and LB Jason Whittingham. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed DB Nate Ebner on the reserve/did not report list. Signed OL Jon Halapio and TE Bear Pascoe. NEW YORK JETS — Agreed to terms with LB Darron Lee on a four-year contract. Waived RB Zac Stacy. Signed RB Bernard Pierce. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Placed RB Ryan Mathews on the active/non-football injury list. Signed WR David Watford. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WRs Kendal Thompson and T.J. Thorpe. HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Signed coach Bill Peters to a contract extension through the 2018-19 season. DETROIT RED WINGS — Agreed to terms with G Petr Mrazek on a two-year contract. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed F Calle Jarnkrok to a six-year contract. OTTAWA SENATORS — Agreed to terms with F Mike Hoffman on a four-year contract. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Re-signed F Vladislav Namestnikov to a two-year contract.

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FRISCO, Texas — Dallas defensive end Randy Gregory is facing a longer suspension over another violation of the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, and owner Jerry Jones says he doesn’t expect to see the troubled player at training camp in California. With Gregory already suspended for the first four games this season, Jones said Wednesday that the Cowboys haven’t heard from the league about a possible 10-game ban for another failed drug test. A day after reports that Gregory was in rehab, Jones acknowledged that the former Nebraska standout was undergoing treatment. “It’s very disappointing,” Jones told reporters during an event at the team’s new headquarters in the Dallas suburb of Frisco. “But it does point out the diﬃculty you have

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with addiction. A n d there is no question he needs the kind of help and care he is getting

right now.” Considered one of the best pass rushers in the 2015 draft, Gregory slid to the Cowboys at the end of the second round after he tested positive for marijuana at the NFL combine. His first suspension was announced in February. Gregory played 12 games without a sack as a rookie, missing four games early in the season with a sprained right ankle. He participated in all the oﬀseason workouts despite the suspension, and would still be eligible to participate in camp and preseason games

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us having to pay a caddy, and it’s nice to be able to save that money.” When he made the decision to devote all of his time this year to the Web.com Tou,r Cook’s main goal was to secure a full-time PGA Tour card for next year. With the top 25 in sight, Cook is confident coming into the final few events of the season as he sits four spots behind

up the leaderboard and show people that you’re there and you’re ready to win,” he said. “I think if you try a little bit too hard sometimes, you can kind of shoot yourself in the foot. I think that’s what I did in the first two majors.” Since the PGA went to stroke play in 1958, only Tiger Woods has repeated as champion, in 2006 and 2007. Besides chasing Tiger, Day is also trying keep that No. 1 ranking he claimed after winning the World Match Play Championship in March. He could lose it this week if things

Jones said he hasn’t given up on Gregory, or on the idea of taking risks in the draft. “It’s an individual thing, individual treatment,” Jones said. “We have got some good cases that have rewarded us. That is just part of it.” Jones said he expects Ezekiel Elliott to report for training camp a week after the rookie running back denied allegations that he assaulted his girlfriend, causing bruises and abrasions. Elliott wasn’t arrested or charged. The fourth overall pick out of Ohio State told police in Columbus, Ohio, that the woman was injured in a bar fight. Witnesses told police they didn’t see Elliott assault the woman. A day after coach Jason Garrett said McClain would be at camp, executive vice president of personnel Stephen Jones said that issue was a “work in progress.”

SAVES the final qualification spot for a tour card. “It gives me a lot of confidence, especially the last four events I haven’t finished outside the top 25, so I know my game is strong right now and I’m playing good,” he said. “It feels a little iﬀy at times with the putter or with the little tweak in my swing, but knowing that I’m still able to get the ball in the hole and put up good scores and compete. It’s a good feeling.”

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even with a 10-game suspension. But Jones essentially said football wasn’t Gregory’s top priority at the moment. The Cowboys fly to California on Thursday, and the first camp practice is Saturday. “We are first and foremost interested in how he can basically address his addiction and get to where he can function in society first and then look to be a football player second,” said Jones, who also said the Cowboys had already decided they couldn’t count on Gregory in 2016. Gregory has been listed as a starter alongside third-year player DeMarcus Lawrence, another young defensive end serving a four-game suspension to start the season for a substanceabuse violation. Linebacker Rolando McClain is banned for 10 games for the same reason.

fall right between himself and U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson. “It’s definitely important. I really want to obviously finish No. 1 in the world at the end of the year,” Day said. “But I think the biggest thing for me is to really understand what I need to do to win each week, or get myself into contention. Because the hardest part is obviously trying to stay consistent for so many years; it’s very, very difficult. “I think the last guy we had was Tiger Woods that was very consistent. Each week that he played, he was pretty much in contention.”

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place Mets, who have alternated wins and losses in their last 13 games. They dropped 51/2 games behind NL East-leading Washington. New York did manage to keep Gyorko and the rest of St. Louis’ hitters in the ballpark after the Cardinals had homered in 17 consecutive games — their longest streak since a club-record run of 19 games in 2006. Gyorko went deep in both ends of Tuesday’s doubleheader, giving him seven homers in nine games. Matt Holliday hit a two-run double oﬀ Verrett with two outs in the third, and Matt Adams followed with an RBI double that made it 3-1. Wainwright, who entered 3-0 with a 0.93 ERA in July, nursed that lead until the seventh — repeatedly pitching out of trouble. He nearly did so again after striking out Curtis Granderson and Asdrubal Cabrera with runners at the corners. But then Travis d’Arnaud scored on a wild pitch and Cespedes socked a two-run homer oﬀ the facing of the second deck in left-center on the 117th and final

pitch from the 34-yearold Wainwright. COMING ATTRACTION? — Because of Tuesday’s doubleheader, St. Louis needs a fill-in starter Saturday night in Miami. But manager Mike Matheny would not say whether the team was leaning toward promoting RHP Alex Reyes to make his major league debut. The 21-year-old Reyes, one of baseball’s premier prospects, was removed from his TripleA outing after three innings Tuesday — perhaps to keep him available for Saturday. Left-handed reliever Tyler Lyons, who made 20 major league starts from 2013-15, also could be a candidate. SHORT STAY — Cardinals RHP Sam Tuivailala and Mets LHP Josh Smoker were sent back to the minors. Both relievers were called up to serve as their team’s 26th man for the second game of Tuesday’s doubleheader. TRAINER’S ROOM — Cardinals: 1B-OF Brandon Moss (sprained left ankle) is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment Thursday at Double-A Springfield, with AllStar INF Matt Carpenter (strained right oblique) not far behind.

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Asian stocks mixed June durable goods orders plunge BY JOE MCDONALD Associated Press

BEIJING — Chinese stocks gained Tuesday but other Asian markets fell after Wall Street declined on losses for energy stocks. Keeping Score — The Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.5 percent to 3,028.56 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng advanced 0.7 percent to 22,144.70. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.6 percent to 16,362.88 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 shed 0.4 percent to 5,512.10. Benchmarks in Seoul and Manila advanced while New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and Indonesia retreated. Wall Street— Stocks fell as investors took a break after four weeks of gains that brought the market to record highs. Energy companies fell more than other shares, but analysts said the sale was benign and foreseeable following a run-up in prices. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 77.79 points, or 0.4 percent, to 18,493.06. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 6.55 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,168.48 and the Nasdaq composite lost 2.53 points, or 0.1 percent, to 5,097.63. Energy Stocks— Energy stocks tumbled as the price of oil slid 2 percent, leaving U.S. benchmark crude down 12 percent this month. Chevron lost 2.5 percent and Exxon Mobil gave up 2 percent, the two biggest drops for companies that make up the Dow. The industry faces concern that growing gasoline inventories during the peak U.S. summer driving season and a steady rise in working drilling rigs will push up crude inventories, depressing prices and profits. Analyst’s Take — “After a mixed European session, U.S. markets were dramatically thrown

oﬀ course by the capitulation in energy stocks overnight,” said Angus Nicholson of IG in a report. He said concern about U.S. gasoline stocks combined with anxiety over European banks: “Concerns about the Italian banking sector threaten to rear their ugly head again this week as all European banks undergo stress tests.” Central Bank Watch — The Bank of Japan and the U.S. Federal Reserve are due to hold policy meetings this week. With Japan’s economy barely growing, economists are speculating about whether its central bank may push interest rates lower into negative territory when it announces its decision Friday. The U.S. economy is in better shape than other advanced economies, but expectations are the Fed will hold interest rates steady. Yahoo — Shares in Yahoo, the original Internet giant, fell $1.06, or 2.7 percent, to $38.32 after the company announced Verizon would buy its advertising, media and email businesses for $4.8 billion. What little of Yahoo is left will be a holding company for its Alibaba and Yahoo Japan investments, as well as its patent portfolio. Verizon fell 23 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $55.87. Energy— Benchmark U.S. crude gained 4 cents to $43.17 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It plunged 94 cents on Monday to close at $43.13. Brent crude, used to price international oils, gained 16 cents to $44.88 after falling 97 cents the previous session to $44.72. Currency — The dollar declined to 104.84 yen from Monday’s 105.70. The euro edged down to $1.0987 from $1.0994.

BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Orders to U.S. factories for long-lasting manufactured goods fell in June by the largest amount in nearly two years, reflecting a big decline in the volatile category of commercial aircraft and broad weakness across a number of other areas. The key category that tracks business investment eked out a small gain. Demand for durable goods dropped 4 percent in June, the biggest setback since an 18.4 percent drop in August 2014, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Excluding the volatile transportation area, orders would have still been down but by a smaller 0.5 percent. The new report was weaker than analysts had been expecting and indicates manufacturing remains under stress from weak global demand and a

strong dollar. “It is a tale of two economies,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank. “Consumer expenditures are strong with the economy at full employment but companies are pulling back as the strong dollar and slower world growth are taking a toll on exports.” The orders report prompted some analysts to lower their forecasts for overall growth in the April-June quarter. Economists at Barclays Research trimmed their forecast to 2.3 percent growth, down from 2.4 percent. June’s result was led by a 58.8 percent plunge in orders for commercial aircraft. Demand in a closely watched category that serves as a proxy for business investment plans edged up a slight 0.2 percent after two months of declines. This category has shown monthly increases only three times so this

year. Orders in the investment category through the first half of this year are down 3.8 percent compared to the same period a year ago. American manufacturers are struggling with a strong dollar, which makes U.S. products more expensive on foreign markets, and a sluggish global economy. Concerns about a slowing Chinese economy roiled financial markets at the beginning of the year. Markets were again sent into a brief tailspin following the June 23 vote in Britain to leave the European Union. The 4 percent decline in orders in June followed a 2.8 percent drop in May and a 3.2 percent rise in April. For June, one of the few areas of strength was autos and auto parts, which increased 2.6 percent. Orders for primary metals such as steel, computers and machinery all declined.

Pending home sales improve slightly in June Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes crept up in June, a possible indication that the recent growth in real estate sales is still on track. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index rose 0.2 percent last month to 111, regaining some ground after a dip in May. The index of upcoming sales improved 1 percent from a year ago, as buyer demand remains strong even though there are fewer properties

being listed for sale. Pending sales contracts are a barometer of future purchases. A sale is typically completed a month or two after a contract is signed. The number of signed contracts Completed sales of existing homes rose 1.1 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.57 million, the best pace since February 2007, the Realtors reported last week. Even as demand has increased, the number of listings on the market has fallen over the past year. Many homeowners are recover-

ing equity that disappeared after the housing bubble began to burst almost a decade ago. Even though prices are pulling closer to their peaks, these homeowners would be unable to generate enough of a profit from a sale to pay for the expense of purchasing a new home. The number of listings has fallen 5.8 percent from a year ago to 2.12 million, possibly limiting how much sales can continue to increase. The tight supplies have fed into rising home values. The median home sales price has risen 4.8 percent from a year ago to $247,700 in June.

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CHG

%CHG

YTD %CHG

DIV 1.92

AT&T Inc

30.97

43.89

42.76

+.38

+0.9%

+24.3%

Amer Railcar Inds

33.02

57.93

38.68

-.68

-1.7%

-16.4%

1.60

BancorpSouth

18.69

27.23

23.86

+.02

+0.1%

-0.5%

0.40

Bank of America

10.99

18.29

14.63

+.10

+0.7%

-13.1%

0.20

CenterPoint Energy

16.05

24.71

23.90

-.42

-1.7%

+30.2%

1.06

ConAgra Foods

37.97

48.81

45.98

-.65

-1.4%

+9.1%

1.00

Crane Co

41.68

63.42

62.01

+.21

+0.3%

+29.6%

1.32

Dillards Inc

54.37

103.09

66.24

-.16

-0.2%

+0.8%

0.28

Emerson Elec

41.25

56.82

56.04

-.14

-0.2%

+17.2%

1.90

Entergy

61.27

82.09

80.15

-.73

-0.9%

+17.2%

3.40

FedEx Corp

119.71

173.00

160.91

-.59

-0.4%

+8.0%

1.60f

Gen Electric

19.37

33.00

31.28

-.19

-0.6%

+0.4%

0.92

HealthSouth Corp

30.26

48.37

40.36

-.58

-1.4%

+15.9%

0.96f

Home Bancshares Inc

16.93

23.75

20.83

+.10

+0.5%

+2.8%

0.36f

Hunt, JB Transport

63.58

89.43

83.20

-1.05

-1.2%

+13.4%

0.88

Iberiabank Corp

42.20

66.03

63.38

+.04

+0.1%

+15.1%

1.36

Kroger Co

27.32

42.75

35.57

-.85

-2.3%

-15.0%

0.48f

Mondelez Intl

35.88

48.58

43.94

-1.31

-2.9%

-2.0%

0.76f

Murphy Oil Corp

14.30

37.48

27.80

-1.05

-3.6%

+23.8%

1.40

Nucor Corp

33.90

57.08

53.46

-.25

-0.5%

+32.7%

1.50

6.00

11.99

9.40

-.25

-2.6%

+41.1%

...

Pentair plc

41.57

64.02

63.77

+.49

+0.8%

+28.8%

1.32

PepsiCo

76.48

110.94

107.48

-.72

-0.7%

+7.6%

3.01

Post Holdings Inc

50.93

89.00

85.13

-1.08

-1.3%

+38.0%

...

PulteGroup Inc

14.61

22.40

22.11

+.01

...%

+24.1%

0.36 0.26f

Penney JC Co Inc

7.00

10.81

9.10

-.05

-0.5%

-5.2%

Sears Holdings Corp

10.52

28.31

15.05

+.03

+0.2%

-26.8%

...

Simmons Fst Natl

38.30

58.75

46.65

+.08

+0.2%

-9.2%

0.96

Toyota Mot

97.80

133.71

110.57

+.97

+0.9%

-10.1%

...

Tyson Foods

39.05

73.78

72.16

-.64

-0.9%

+35.3%

0.60f

Unilever NV

37.93

47.30

45.64

-.37

-0.8%

+5.4%

1.40e

WalMart Strs

56.30

74.35

73.32

-.41

-0.6%

+19.6%

2.00f

Walgreen Boots Alli

71.50

97.30

79.94

-1.39

-1.7%

-6.1%

1.50f

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Commodities Soybeans

Cotton

5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel

YESTERDAY: Sales: 185,194 Open Interest: 702,484, t -7798.00 MONTH Aug 16 Sep 16 Nov 16 Jan 17 Mar 17 May 17 Jul 17 Aug 17 Sep 17

Rice

OPEN 994 985.50 974.75 975 964.75 959 964.50 964

HIGH 1015.50 1007 995 995.25 985.75 981.50 982.50 973.50

LOW 991.25 983.75 971.50 972.50 963.75 959 963.50 963

SETTLE 1010.50 999.75 986 986.25 975 970.25 971 963 946.75

CHG. +17 +14.75 +12.25 +11.75 +11.75 +11.25 +10.75 +10.50 +10.50

CHG.

9.825

-.200

10.070

10.100

-.195

10.340

10.350

-.195

10.550

-.200

10.060

10.160

9.800

Nov 16

10.330

10.435

Jan 17

10.460

OPEN 74.53 73.86 74.08 73.82 73.50

HIGH 75.00 74.78 74.82 74.48 73.99

LOW 73.32 73.22 73.51 73.48 73.21

72.35

72.75

72.02

Corn

5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel

SETTLE 73.83 73.55 73.80 73.56 73.21 72.64 72.02 72.44 72.46

CHG. +.20 -.40 -.57 -.56 -.54 -.52 -.44 -.48 -.51

Mar 17 May 17

10.740

-.200

Jul 17

10.880

-.200

Sep 17

10.880

-.200

MONTH Sep 16 Dec 16 Mar 17 May 17 Jul 17 Sep 17 Dec 17 Mar 18 May 18

OPEN 416.75 443.75 469.50 482 489.75 501.50 520 534

Soybean Meal

YESTERDAY: Sales: 259,031 Open Interest: 1,309,528, s +12355.00 SETTLE

Sep 16

MONTH Oct 16 Dec 16 Mar 17 May 17 Jul 17 Oct 17 Dec 17 Mar 18 May 18

5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel

YESTERDAY: Sales: 118,389 Open Interest: 471,210, t -124.00

YESTERDAY: Sales: 27,334 Open Interest: 236,323, s +2920.00

2,000 CWT- dollars per CWT

YESTERDAY: Sales: 975 Open Interest: 9,855, s +225.00 MONTH OPEN HIGH LOW

Wheat

50,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

HIGH 420.75 446.75 472.75 485.25 492.75 504.50 520.50 537

LOW 414 440.50 466.50 479.75 487.50 500 518.75 533

SETTLE 414.75 441.50 467.25 480.75 487.75 500 518.75 533 536.75

CHG. -.25 -.50 -2 -1.50 -1.50 -1.50 -1.25 -1 -1

100 tons- dollars per ton

YESTERDAY: Sales: 81,479 Open Interest: 364,289, t -3431.00

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OPEN

HIGH

LOW

SETTLE

CHG.

MONTH

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HIGH

LOW

SETTLE

CHG.

Sep 16 Dec 16 Mar 17 May 17 Jul 17 Sep 17 Dec 17 Mar 18 May 18

332.50 339.50 349 354 359 363.75 369.75

338 345.25 354.25 359.25 364 367.25 373.25

331.75 338.75 348.25 354 359 362.50 367.50

335.75 343 351.75 357 362 365.50 370.25 379.75 384.75

+3.25 +3.50 +2.75 +2.50 +2.50 +2 +.50 +.75 +.50

Aug 16 Sep 16 Oct 16 Dec 16 Jan 17 Mar 17 May 17 Jul 17 Aug 17

341.40 341.10 339.10 338.60 333.80 325.30 321.40 322.20 319.50

349.30 349.50 347.60 347.00 343.10 334.30 329.20 329.20 326.10

339.00 338.90 337.10 336.50 333.00 324.80 320.00 320.70 319.50

344.80 345.80 344.40 343.20 339.10 330.40 325.30 325.30 323.50

+3.40 +4.60 +5.30 +4.90 +4.70 +4.70 +4.20 +3.80 +3.60

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horoscope | The moon spits at the communication planet, antagonizes the war planet and then leaves the bull’s realm for the double trouble of Gemini. The indication is a mood that changes as quickly as the weather on Mercury. So, if you don’t like what’s happening, wait five minutes. By the time the long hand reaches a new number, all could change. ARIES (March 21-April 19). At its simplistic essence, life is energy. The energy you invest in a project is your life. Is this project worthy of the attention you’re giving? How will its successful completion make a difference for you and others?

by holiday mathis TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Many disparate elements converge and you’ll suddenly have a cohesive plan in your head. Put it on paper now while it’s fresh, because you’ll want to look back at what started you on this journey. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When people can’t bear self-scrutiny they blame others. You don’t see the point, though. You take full responsibility for whatever part is yours. CANCER (June 22-July 22). When you’re working there are rules. When you’re just playing there are even more rules, because the potential for getting hurt or hurting others is greater in a seemingly unstructured playground.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your first idea will be pretty good, but it’s not until you reach idea 10 or 12 that you’ll get to the next level, which is sheer gold. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 28). Domestic improvements will align your head and heart. You’ll find new ways to relate to your loved ones and build better relationships all year long. Capricorn and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 16, 20, 48 and 33. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You weren’t expecting to be finished with a job early, and yet you’ll hit a point today where it seems to be dragging on beyond what is reasonable. This warrants thoughtful communication.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Remember that bruise that mysteriously appeared? Emotional bruises also can have vague origins, but that doesn’t make them hurt any less or show up fainter. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re joyfully aware of the best that’s in you. That doesn’t make you clueless or Pollyanna about the rest. You know of your darker potentials. But why focus on the shadows, when there’s so much to do in the light? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). A figure from your past will be a in your future. There’s a reason you parted and a reason you reconnected. Just be careful not to let nostalgia cloud your vision.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You want a broader repertoire, and you’re willing to put in the practice time to get it. This isn’t going to come together over night, but if you work on it each day you’ll soon have something impressive. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Ask the others how they’re doing and you’ll suddenly feel pretty good about your own baggage. The novelty of another person’s problems seems to subtract pounds from your own. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). One way to stop a torturous temptation from having power over you is to give into it. The horoscope is an entertainment feature and is not based on fact.

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Education/ 0216 Teaching FREE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TRAINING SEMINAR, SUBTEACHUSA EOE – Training NEA AREA Schools, Thursday, July 28th. 9a – 12p, at Paragould Community Center (3404 Linwood Dr., Paragould). Applicants Required: 1. 21 yrs old min. 2. HS Diploma (min.) 3. Pass FBI background chk. Bring DL, SS Card, Proof HSD or College Transcript . INFO: 1800-641-0140. Unable to attend? Apply online: SubTeachUSA.com. MIRACLE KIDS Success Academy is seeking to hire a full- time Teacher's Assistant and a dependable Van Driver & Van Rider. Application are available at 1900 Stillwater Dr. Jonesboro, AR

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DENTAL ASSISTANT RN/ LPN Registered dental as- Needed immediately for sistant needed for local full time nights, private dentist office. duty nursing position in the Jonesboro area. BeD u t i e s w i l l i n c l u d e nefits and gas mileage chairside, temporaries, reimbursement availl a b , p h o n e , a n d able. For interview call scheduling. 1-877-822-8232 during office hours (8:00- 4:30 Experience is preferred. Monday- Friday) or send resume to: Please drop off resume lavel@approve at: homemedical.com 622 W. Court St. or fax# 870-698-1057. Paragould,AR. No phone calls please. HOME BOUND Medical is hiring LPN/ RN. Part time/ full time. Great pay and flexible hours. Contact Katelyn at 870425-2446. LEXINGTON PLACE Healthcare at 2911 Browns Lane, Jonesboro, has an immediate opening for a Certified Activity Director. Apply in person, see David Brazile. LPN: ARCARE is accepting applications for an LPN in Jonesboro: Clinic Nurse. Possible Sat. a.m. rotation. Must be willing to travel. Qualifications: Current AR license and CPR. Duties: Assist providers in primary health care, pt. education, E.M.R., direct pt. contact. Apply @ www.arcare.net. EOE

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REGIONAL NORTHEAST AR CPA firm, Thomas Speight & Noble, is seeking CPA with excellent tax experience and people skills to join its Blytheville office, with near-term partnership in mind. This will be a great career move for the right person. Send confidential resume to kthomas@tsncpa.com.

0232 General Help AMERICAN GREETINGS is looking for Retail Merchandisers in Jonesboro, AR. As a member of our team, you will ensure the greeting card department is merchandised and maintained to provide customers the best selection of cards and product to celebrate life's events. Apply at: WorkatAG.com. Questions? Call 1.888.323.4192

MANILA NURSING Center We are now hiring RN's and LPN's full-time for 3-11 and 11-7 shifts. Please apply in person at 814 N. Davis Street in Manila, AR. There is a $2500 sign on bonus offered to fill these spots at this time. CONSTRUCTION COMPANY seeking carpenters, lead men, and framing crews to build Paramedics: work 2 days, off 2 days, apartments. 870-243work 2 days, off 3 days. 7287

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LOOKING TO hire parttime receptionist in a busy medical solo practice. Possible transition to full-time. Must have telephone etiquette, some knowledge of insurance and computer skills. Email resumes to entsinussleep@gmail.co m or fax to 870-2408028.

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ABERNATHY MOTOR Company/Instant Auto Credit Corporation is looking for a payment clerk to work 40 hours a week. Job skills required are basic computer knowledge, phone etiquette, and organization skills. We will train you on the systems we use and other aspects of the job. If you would like to apply for the position, please email your resume to abernathy_motors@yahoo.com or fax resume to 870-933-6842 with attention to Emilee. POSITION TITLE: Warehouseman Clay County Electric Cooperative is accepting applications for a Warehouseman at our Pocahontas District Office. This is a full time position. Position requires a high school diploma or equivalent; Non-commercial Driver's License; 1-2 years of job related experience; utility construction experience preferred; proficient in Microsoft Excel preferred. Regularly lifts and moves materials weighing 50lbs or more. Overtime required as needed. Application and more information found at www.claycountyelectric .com/content/jobs

CENTRAL BUICK GMC is currently seeking an experienced technician to join our growing service department. Must pass drug screening and have a good driving record. Apply in person at 2907 East Parker EXPERIENCED FARM em- Road, Jonesboro. ployee, drug test may be required. 870-219VARIOUS POSITIONS 0557 Established, growing EXPERIENCED HVAC title company seeks a REPAIR TECH AND pleasant, courteous, INSTALLERS needed. Self-Motivated, AmbiCall Kevin's Heating and tious individual for a full Air. time position. (870)935-3006 Candidate must have a professional attitude, FRONT PAGE excellent customer service skills, and profesCafe sional appearance. 2117 E Parker Rd Additionally: 870-932-6343 Now hiring servers for -professional attitude, self-motivated and have all shifts. extreme attention to Apply in person. details No phone calls. -professional commuE X P E R I E N C E D H E L P nication skills wanted at Berry Floor -organizational skills Leveling. Call 870-565- and ability to multi-task -dependable and reli5564 able LOOKING FOR employ- -proficient in printing, ees with construction scanning, faxing, emailexperience. Local coning, etc. struction company hir- -ability to coordinate ing immediately. Call with real estate agents, 870-897-6378. buyers, sellers, homeowners, and LOOKING FOR EXPERIlenders ENCED SIDING IN-answer phone calls, STALLER to work on a emails etc. crew, MUST HAVE experR e s u m e t o ience and transportag.winton@neatitle.com. tion. Call 870-586-8211 NO PHONE CALLS and ask for Harold. PLEASE. LOOKING FOR experienced decal installers. WANTED YARD TRUCK Pay based on experiDRIVER, Ottowa Comence. Call 870-236-9195 mando, must be able to ext. 1114. Please leave a work inside climbing message if no answer scaffolding and will be PART-TIME Shelter mon- working some weeki t o r . F l e x i b l e H o u r s ends. 870-236-9195 ext Needed. Apply at 800 1114. Leave a message if no answer. Cate,

While a bachelor's degree — preferably in journalism or communications — is preferred, it is not a requirement if the candidate has prior reporting experience at a daily or weekly newspaper or media outlet.

The Jonesboro Sun, which publishes mornings seven days a week, offers competitive pay with benefits, including vacation time, health insurance and a matching 401k retirement plan.

Jonesboro is a thriving city with a population of about 75,000 in Northeast Arkansas and is home to Arkansas State University, which has a main campus enrollment of about 13,200.

Send resume, clips and references to: Chris Wessel, editor, at cwessel@jonesborosun. com; or 581 Carson St., Jonesboro, Ar., 72401.

The Sun and its parent company, Paxton Media Group Inc., is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, national origin or disability.

The Jonesboro Sun, which publishes mornings seven days a week, offers competitive pay with benefits, including vacation time, health insurance and a matching 401k retirement plan.

Jonesboro is a thriving city with a population of about 75,000 in Northeast Arkansas and is home to Arkansas State University, which has a main campus enrollment of about 13,200.

To apply, send a cover letter, resume, examples of work and three references to: Chris Wessel, editor, at cwessel@jonesborosun. com or 518 Carson St., Jonesboro, Ar., 72401.

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Schools, Day Cares, Churches, Rent/Buy/Trade Makes great paINTERESTED BUYER, Cash available, wish to per for craft or purchase 2 bedroom + School projects. home in Jonesboro Moving? area. Contract only. Call 501-626-0237 No ReNew Pet? altors please. Gardening? Misc. Items for Painting? 0563 Sale Stuffing Boxes?? 1 AMANA washer Just to name a $165.00, 1 electric few!! only Amana dryer $165. 1 Kenmore gas oven $165, 2 for $300, all for $450.00 870-520-1317.

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BEDROOM SUITE Full/Queen Bookcase Headboard, Dresser with Mirror Hutch, and 0410 Farm Market Nightstand. Mattress, box springs and bedding (comforter, sheets, Farm Produce pillows, etc.) included. CANNING TOMATOES, 1/2 $395. Call or text 870b u s h e l $ 1 5 . 0 0 a n d 931-2422 for photos bushel $25.00. 870-4765120, 870-476-2529 or Wanted to 0554 870-476-0913

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EXCEL BOATS in Mountain View, AR has a job opening in the Boat Design Department. At least one year in Auto CAD required. Wage based on experience. Full time/ Insurance/ Paid Holidays & Vacation offered. Moving Expenses will be considered for Relocation. Send Resumes to mellissa@excelboats.net

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CABINET MANUFACTURER has several positions open in Assembly, Saw and Shipping. This is a fast paced high quality environment. Must be able to lift 50lbs, have basic math skills, Computer Knowledge a plus and be a team player. Experience Not Required. Apply in Person 133 N Melton Ave, Trumann AR

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PRONTO M51 motorized chair with Surestep in excellent condition but 870-935-7919 it is used. There is one blemish on the seat. We K - J F a r m s O r g a n i c have all the books that Blackberries. $10 per it came with and it has gallon. Call 870-239-9894 brand new batteries. $500 573-717-6707 KING SIZE 4 Poster Rice Bed, medium color oak. BOx springs and matUSED DENTAL tress like new. Bargain Equipment for sale! at $500 Smoke and pet Chairs, lights, stools, free home. 870-586units, x-rays, etc. 0824, 870-476-5398 870-275-0418.

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LARGE SWIMMING pool for kids $10.00 870-9306778 LOVESEAT $25.00 870930-6778 NIKON D50 Camera Outfit: camera body, 2 zoom lens, accessories and case. $ 500.00. Text only 870-573-0002. Can send pictures. PANTHER CREEK Carports â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10x 20x7 Factory direct, $598. Offer good through Aug 15th. Call 1-501-835-7222 OD Funk Manufacturing Inc. Sherwood, AR | Since 1976 Rated for 90 mph winds & 20 lbs snow loads POTTERY BARN Ankara dhurrie patchwork wool rug 5 x 8. Non smoking, pet free home. $125 Call 870 -930-8150 Can text pictures if interested

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2127 CR 403 â&#x20AC;˘ Valley View â&#x20AC;˘ On the Ridge Great Buy!

$124,000

3 BR, 1.5 BA, 2 car carport, 6 acres +/-, near Brookland Schools.

901-326-4760, 901-853-7180

4400+/- New Construction 4 Bedroom 4 Bath Across from the JCC

Kent Arnold Arnold Group 930-7750

Custom built by owner. 4 BR/3.5 BA, 3250 SF, on 2 acres, Energy efficient home. New Roof, Maintenance free exterior. Spacious Gilmore Kitchen w/Walkin Pantry, Master suite w/sitting area. Master Bath w/ Jacuzzi, double vanities, Walk in Closet. Lg. bedrooms, Private Two level Wood deck, Separate Auxiliary Quarters w/Carport, Shop. New hardwood floors in Living Rm & Dining Rm. (appx 1000 sf) 4.72 extra acreage if desired. Will consider trade.

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Elegant Hilltop Home Spacious 2 story beauty on 8+ acres in Randolph Co., 3BR-2-1/2B, private master suite, sitting room, x-lg. bath area w/step-in Jacuzzi tub, walk-in closets, media/game room, upstairs hallway overlooks unique vaulted family room w/raised fireplace, opens into large modern kitchen, PRICE REDUCED! built-ins, seated bar, windows of 1605 Shady Grove, Jonesboro adjoining breakfast area offer specSingle level, brick veneer, 3 Bedrooms 1 1/2 bath, tacular view of surrounding wooded living room, kitchen, den, laundry room, standing area. Formal dining room, vaulted fire place, fenced with storage unit. Approximately 1,870 Sq Ft. atrium. The home of a lifetime. Seller will pay $3,000 of closing expenses. YOU MUST SEE THIS ONE!

$110,000

870-932-5206

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870-869-3422 or 870-612-4657

167 +- acres on Cache River near Jonesboro. 150 farmable acres. Precision leveled. 2 wells and underground pipe. Potential excellent duck hunting.

$650,000. 870-926-0212

10,000 sq ft commercial space. Offices, classrooms, and hangar space. Please Contact:

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Unfurnished Apartments

2 BR apartments for rent. Please Call

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2 BR. Townhouse Bono. Spacious. No pet policy. $575 rent. 870-759-1658.

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Jonesboro

1 BEDROOM 1 bath, central location, utilities paid. $495 monthly. 870-935-7377 LARGE 1 bedroom, near ASU, 870-926-0491

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2 BR, all appliances, all electric, water & sewer paid. 870-932-7883.

114 South Rockingchair Road located across from the old Kum & Go, 630 sq.ft., $350 month, Call 870-240-3386 or 870240-3615 150 Greene 721 Road, Unit B (Paragould), previous location of Priscilla's Cheer & Tumbling, close to GCT High School, 3200 sq. ft., CH&A, 18 ft sidewalls CHATEAU APARTMENTS with 14ft tall garage for rent. 1, 2 bedrooms. doors, includes 2 bath- 870-935-8378 rooms. Call 870-215-3939 EFFICIENCY, 1 & 2 BR, W/D hookup, HUD Unfurnished accepted. Call 870-9350610 Apartments 9018. 1811 Self Circle # 1 & 2 Bedroom apart1ST MONTH FREE ments, some 2 bath, 2-3 Bedrooms Available prices, pictures. Locagrandoakplace tion at: www.majonesboro.com gictouchcorp.com 935Contact 4800 24 hour info 935Ray Moody. 5051 870-897-5278 #2 BEDROOM Duplex. F O X H O L L O W a p a r t 213 Holmes. $550. 870- ments. 2 br 1 1/2 ba. All electric. $495 monthly. 931-8449. 870-935-7377. #2 BEDROOM. 1607 Latourette, all appliances, W/D, $595. 870-931-8449. NEWLY renovated

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916 Valhalla, 3 bedroom/2 bath, 3500 sf., fireplace, basement, fenced backyard w/deck, garage, , quiet neighborhood, Jonesboro schools. $204,000. Call 935-7681 for appointment.

819 WEST Matthews Apt. 5, 2 BR, Water, Sewage, Garbage paid. CH/A. All major appliances. Does not have washer and dryer connections. No HUD, no pet policy. $450 monthly. 870-530-2041. LARGE 1 BR apartments. Lease and deposit, No pet Policy. 870-935-7863 870-935-0680 after 5pm.

Paragould

2 BEDROOM, upstairs, utilities paid, walking distance to library. 870236-0768 NEWLY REMODELED 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, 1 bath, CH&A, all electric, stove and refrigerator furnished. No HUD, No large pet policy. Call 870-239-1556 or 870-2403616 2 BEDROOM, 2 bath apartments for rent $475 month, $400 deposit. Call Dave for more info 870-240-4495 CLEARVIEW APARTMENTS (New Owners) 207 B Street. Weekly or monthly rates. Utilities and cable included. 573344-6604. NEW APARTMENT, garage, 2br, 1ba, appliances furnished, NO HUD, no pets. 2904 Ranch Road 870215.1305

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Homes for Rent

601 BERTIG Street, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $650 month, $375 deposit, utilities and appliances furnished. 1 bedroom, 1 bath $575 month, $325 deposit Also 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath with garage 209 Academy Drive $650 rent, $400 deposit. No pet policy. 870-2391336

#3 BEDROOM, 2 baths, 729 S. 3rd Avenue (Par2 3 0 3 B i l t m o r e c o v e . agould) 3 bedroom, 1 $795, 870-931-8449 bath. No pet policy. $450 monthly, $300 de2 B E D R O O M , 1 b a t h posit. Call 870-239-9328 home $500 rent/ $500 or 870-450-3658 deposit. 870-316-4837 or 870-219-3860 1 BEDROOM, 1 bath house, edge of town, 2 B E D R O O M , 1 b a t h , lots of privacy, fully furCH&A, $600 monthly, nished, water & sewer $600. 870-530-1303. paid, rent $425, Refer3 BEDROOM, 1.5 bath, ences required. Call 870CENTER HILL (Paragould) 1 4 3 0 W H u n t i n g t o n . 215-1447 or 870-215v e r y n i c e n e i g h b o r - $ 6 5 0 / $ 6 5 0 d e p o s i t . 3334. hood, 2 bedroom, 1 870-219-0815 FOR RENT: New, 3 bedbath, all electric. CH&A, s t o v e , r e f r i g e r a t o r , 3 BEDROOM house $550 room, 2 bath, 1500 sq. washer/dryer included. Swifton, AR. 35 miles f t . N o p e t a n d n o smoking policy. Applica$475 monthly/$250 de- from Jonesboro. tion required. One year 870-809-1716 posit. References release. $1,000 per month, No pet policy. quired. No pet policy. $1,000 deposit. Call 870870-215-8133. 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, 476-2588. 1 BEDROOM, 1 bath, re- CH&A, 505 Ridgecrest. NEW HOME, frigerator, stove, mi- $750 monthly, $750 de3 bedroom, 2 bath, posit. 870-530-1303. crowave, w/d/ hook$875 rent, $500 deposit, ups, No HUD, No utilit3 BR 1 1/2 ba. Nettleton No pet policy ies furnished, AcceptSchools. $750 monthly. Call Jennifer at able pets with addition870-935-7377. 870-340-6883 al charge. $20 ApplicaImage Realty tion fee required. 708 S. 3711 GRIFFIN, 2 bed4th Street. $495 month, r o o m , 1 b a t h , $ 6 0 0 $300 deposit. Call 870- monthly, $400 deposit. 0625 Condominiums for Rent 212-0554 No HUD. 870-974-2109, 870-974-3884. NICE DOWNTOWN, bot1 BEDROOM, 1 bath tom floor loft. 2 bedapartment. All electric 3 BR mobile home. room, private iron gate No pet police. refrigerator furnished. entrance. $1100/ month 200 W. Forrest $425 monthly, $150 dewith deposit. 870-919870-273-4827. posit. 801 Wilson Street. 4218 or 870-930-7841 No smoking policy. Call 3 BR 1 ba. CH/A. 413 S 870-897-2921. Duplexes for Debra Bono. HUD ap0630 Rent 1 CAR garage, 2 bed- proved. $700 monthly. room, 1 bath, refriger- 870-219-8901. LARGE 3/ 2 Duplex, 2 car ator, stove, dishwasher, SAGE MEADOWS - upper garage, water and landCH/A, all electric, no scale home; 4104 Sage scaping provided, excelutilities furnished. $650 Meadows; 2,563 feet; 3 l e n t l o c a t i o n , $ 1 1 0 0 rent, $300 deposit. $20 BR; 2.5 BA; fenced back- monthly, $600 deposit. A p p l i c a t i o n f e e r e - yard. $1,800 per month; 870-810-3786. quired. No HUD, 804 $1,000 security deposit; Ada. Call 870-212-0554 must have excellent, 2 BEDROOM, 1 bath, verifiable references; 1- Paragould range, refrigerator, all year lease. 417-293-7323. DUPLEX APARTMENT for electric, 820 Thomas St. Jonesboro rent,2907 Friendship # 2 , G o o d n e i g h b o r - 2300 FOXMEADOW Ln. 3 Road extra nice and hood. No HUD, No pet Bedrooms 2 baths, sun clean, one car garage, 2 policy. $425 month, r o o m . $ 9 0 0 / m o n t h , bedroom, 2 bath, $700 $300 deposit. 870-239- $650 deposit. Call 870- month, $450 deposit No 1368 Pet Policy, No HUD, Call 219-0815 870-236-5066 or 870-236FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS all Paragould 6842. brick, gorgeous open1005 OAKLAND Drive. 5 floor plan, 2b, 2ba, 5 or 6 bedroom, 4 baths. NEWER 2BR, 1BA, Dufoot walk-in shower, $1200 monthly, $600 De- p l e x , R e f r i g e r a t o r , stainless appliances, big posit. All Electric. NO stove. dishwasher, 806 closets, covered patio, Pet Policy. 870.239.9328 N.8th Ave. in Paragould. garage, $800/$850, de$500 monthly, $250 deor 870.450.3658 posit $600. No pet or posit. Call 870-219-3419. smoking policy. Refer- 4 BEDROOM, 2 bath with ences required. 870-335- kitchen appliances. Gas Business 6937 water heater and cook 0670 Places/Offices stove. $850 month, $450 FOR RENT, 2 bedroom, 1 deposit. 212 E. Johnson. O F F I C E A N D R e t a i l bath, 504 W. Baldwin. Call 870-335-5416. Space- 500 to 5,000 sq. 870-206-0529 ft. Starting at $350 per 436 EAST Emerson. 3 month. Please call 870TWO BEDROOM, CH/A, bedrom 1 bath $450 935-9018. W/D hook-up, kitchen rent $300 Deposit. All appliances furnished. Electric. No Pet Policy OFFICE/ RETAIL 1350No pet policy. Call after 870.239.9328 2250 sf. 3915 E. or 870.450.3658 4:30p.m. 236-7140. Nettleton. 870-935-4398 505 N. Pruett, 3 bedSmall Office Space, room, 1 bath, $500 "Great Price" month, $300 deposit, Southwest DriveNo pet policy. Lease re- Coldwell Banker, Phillip 870-351-5505 quired. 870-450-2704, 870-935-2059 870-239-9328

2 BEDROOM, 1.5 Bath with fireplace. All appliances included. No pet policy. $625 rent, $475 deposit. Call day: 870READY FOR OCCUPANCY: 236-8704 nights: 870334 W. Highland, open 335-6250 PARAGOULD. 515 Belaire floor plan, 2 bedroom, Circle. 3BR, 1BA. Nice 1.5 bath, garage, patio, Furnished neighborhood, close to washer/dryer, refriger- 0615 Apartments school. $675 month, ator, range, dishwasher, $500 deposit. No pet microwave, garbage policy. No HUD. 870disposal, ceiling fans, 450-0010. N o S m o k i n g P o l i c y . Paragould Senior discount avail- 2 BEDROOM, 2 bath, util- 709 N. Pruett, 2 bedities & cable paid, all r o o m , 1 b a t h , $ 3 0 0 able. 870-236-0768 rooms furnished. $650 month with $200 depos2 B E D R O O M , 1 b a t h month, $400 security it. No pet policy. 870a p a r t m e n t f o r r e n t , deposit. 870-239-6005 or 239-9328 or 870-450CH&A, Call 870-335-2754 901-826-7422 3658

Mobile Homes 0675 for Rent 1/ 2 Bedrooms, starting $200, deposit, no pet policy. 870-930-8137 3 BEDROOM Mobile Homes for rent in MARMADUKE. $425 month. No Pet Policy. 870-2360164

Mobile Homes 0675 for Rent

Homes for 0710 Sale

Jonesboro

2 OR 3 Bedroom- Weekly or monthly plus deposit. 870-932-5981

Paragould

2 AND 3 bedrooms for rent. $300 and up, monthly or weekly, plus deposit. No pet policy. No HUD. Call 870-5656074 or 870-212-1918

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Paragould

3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, 2 car garage, bay window, approx 1500 sq. ft. upscale neighborhood, $128,900.00 Call 870215-3334

1818 COUNTRYSIDE Lane, 3 bed/2 bath. 2168 SQ Feet. Fully Remodeled kdale@paragould.net. Shown by appt only.

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HOUSE FOR SALE 207 Bogil Road: 5 bedroom, 3.5 baths with basement, in ground pool, 2.3 acres. large garage with motor DarrelCookRealEstate.com home or camper. Garage all under 1 roof FOR SALE with CH&A, Priced way Rental property for sale below appraisal. Must i n M a r m a d u k e . T w o Sell!! $240,000.00. Call small houses on adjoin- 870-450-2899 ing lots with Highway 49 N. frontage. Each house has 2 bedrooms 0720 Duplex/Apts and 1 bath. Price is $39,900.00 for both houses. No financing. Call 870-236-0164 after 6 Lake/River/ p.m. 0728

870-974-0078

Resort

0734 Lots & Acreage

HOME LOANS

1 TO 2 Acres, near 351. Hills, trees, electric, water, cable, owner financing, 870-935-5411, 870935-7863,

Jelena Prichard 870-932-3562

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LENDER

708-B Windover, Jonesboro

LOOKING FOR a new house? Visit us at www.jonesborosun.co m "Find a Home" NORFORK LAKE Gamaliel, AR. 1.75 ac +- with beautiful lake view, corps front, 4 building includes; 1850 square feet 3/2 home, 725 square feet deluxe apartment, granite, jacuzzi tubs, beautiful composite deck, three shops, one heated cooled and finished, eight auto garage doors, 5 full baths, 1/2 mile from boat ramp, includes bass boat, new 60 hp merc, and 1977 Wrangler Jeep, two wells, two septics, beautiful fireplace, fiber optic available, priced to sell before listing. $349,999. Call John 559917-1826.

482 ACRES Hunting Land,

Clubhouse, Game cooler, Well, Electric. Ravenden Arkansas.

870-219-6779

Mobile Homes 0741 for Sale

MOBILE HOMES with acreage. Ready to move in. Seller Financing (subject to credit approval). Lots of room for the price, 3Br 2Ba. No renters. 501-5883300

Commercial/ 0754 Office

RETAIL/OFFICE SPACE available at Rockingchair Village #7 at 100 N. Rockingchair Road, 870239-4358

GREAT BUY

Commercial Property For Sale Highway Frontage 49 South (Paragould) 1912 Mt. Vernon Completely remodeled brick/ cedar single level home. 3br 2ba. Approx 1700 Sq. Ft. Huge LR w/ fireplace, additional living area. Hardwood flooring, ceramic, carpet throughout, and new appliances. 2 car garage. Unique feature includes Murphy Bed with beautiful wood built-ins. Closing cost INCLUDED $128,000 Call/text Leah 870-530-1496

2.09 acres Includes 800 sq. ft. building on property. Paved parking lot Call

COMMERCIAL LOT

4575 HWY 163 SOUTH

(Next to Wolf Creek Mall)

Builders Welcome CONTACT DAMON SLINKARD

870-919-5435

$1,800,000

86x 150 3504 E. Highland

$120,000 870-275-7198

745 Craighead Road in Jonesboro

3 BR/2 BA; CH&A; Security System; new appliances, carpet, paint and much more; 1597 sq. ft; 2 car garage; large fenced-in yard;

$139,900. OBO 417-293-7323

870-476-2320 or 870-476-1160

3 ACRE LOTS $60,000 1.5 acre lots $35,000

VALLEY VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT BILL OF ASSURANCE PEMBERLY BROOK SUB-DIVISION

$2,000,000

FOR SALE: 402.93 AC PRECISION LEVELED RICE AND SOYBEAN FARM POINSETT CO., AR $2,155,675.00

DAVID HOWELL 870-926-1610 DAVIDHOWELLREALTOR@YAHOO. COM Village Communities

870-935-7800 WWW.COLDWELLBANKERJONESBORO.COM

LAND FOR SALE:

2 lots located just off Hwy 91 West, 80 CR 131, 1 mile West of Westside High school. First lot consisting of one half Acre, with a 32â&#x20AC;&#x2122;X45â&#x20AC;&#x2122; metal shop with a kitchenette and full bath plus a 22â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x36â&#x20AC;&#x2122; metal shed. Lot # 2 consisting of 1 and 1/4 Acres, mostly wooded with Oak trees. Electric, water, and gas available on property. Would sell separately.

870-926-9390 if no answer, leave message, please.

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Recreational 0816 Vehicles

Paragould

2313 E. Kingshighway. Apartment building for sale. Will need to be remodeled. Good Location for a business or car lot. Endless Possibilities. Asking $35,000 OBO Call 870.565.6432

Business 0760 Properties

0832 Motorcycles 2004 Harley Davidson Soft Tail Springer Fxsts 1450 engine. $4000 in Chrome.

2012 Class A

$9,800 obo

13,000 miles.

Thor ACE 11,000 miles, 30’, 1 slide

$76,543

870-919-9299

870-935-7205

Campers/ 0820 Trailers

Trucks for 0864 Sale

0804 Boats for Sale

1995 JAYCO Self contained camper, 25 Ft. 15.5' x 44" Grumman. Very clean. Sleeps 6. Heavy gauge with 25hp $5,500. 870-919-9821 Nissan. Everything Excellent Condition.. F-C t r o l l i n g m o t o r . 5 0 l b 1999 STARCRAFT 27 foot. T h r u s t . F r o n t d e c k . Shop kept. Like new Brand New Battery. NO condition! Equipped LEAKS! $2500 OBO Call with boat hitch and hook up. $6000. 870-243870.565.6432 1693/ 870-897-0568. 1977 SKI Nautique great 2010 HIDE out camper, condition. $5,500. 870- 32ft, self contained, 219-5349 queen sleeper and 2 bunk beds, electric jack, n e w t i r e s, excellent condition, call for information, leave message at 870-203-6237

2007 BASS TRACKER Fully equipped,

2 livewells, 2 baitwells, MOTORGUIDE trolling, fishfinder, 17” 4” all metal, 25 HP 4 cycle MERCURY. Garage stored.

6000 OBO.

870-761-9047 2014 HARRIS 220 Cruiser, like new, loaded. Black exterior and Tan/black/white interior. Bluetooth sound system, 90 horse 4 stroke motor. Includes all accessories. 3 year warranty. Must sell. $24,800 870-759-0707

FOR SALE: Speed Boat. Beautiful gold metallic 18 foot, 190 HP, Ford Ski's and life jacket $3800. Only 370 hours. 870-932-1861.

27 Ft. Camper

Good Condition!

$8,000 870-935-4826 Price Reduced!

2,000 34’ FOURWINDS Windsport

2007 Yamaha V-Star 1300,

8300 miles, excellent condition. $3750.00 OBO. 870-239-9186 or 870-335-8025

2011 Harley Davidson

1200 Custom Black, windshield and backrest.

$6,800 870-930-7861

2013 Heritage softtail. 11,500 miles. Tequila sunrise orange. $14,000. 870-930-6354

$24,500

Call for info

$2,550 870-476-2922

Sport Utility 0856 Vehicles

2002 Suzuki 1994 Winnebago Intruder LC 1500 Brave 33 Ft. 54K

Touring Bike miles. Good motor home for a good price! white and silver, leather bags, cruse control

$10,000. 870-475-2156

2002 32ft Cardinal

5th wheel travel trailer by Forrest River, 3 slide outs, dual air conditioners, washer and dryer hook ups, aluminum structure, cleaned and serviced. Asking $12,500 OBO

870-974-1847

$3200 with cover.

870-598-1001 2003 YAMAHA V Star Silverado 1100, with saddle bags, sissy bar and windshield. 40K miles, adult ridden. Extras, external oil filter conversion kit, motor guard, running lights. $3500. Jonesboro 870919-2176 2006 HARLEY Davidson Heritage soft tail classic, black with 36k miles, Vance and Hines exhaust, Lots of chrome, $7,750 obo, 870-240-6378

1962 Chevy BelAir 4-Door Sedan. Restored! Dependable, Fun Driver. Rebuilt Eng & Trans. New Drive Shaft, Brakes, Tires, & Wheels. Radiator Chrome Eng. Acc. New Red & White Upholstery, New Paint. I have done everything this car needed! Nothing Spared!

$10,000 OBO. 870-935-0863 Cell 870-897-0571

1998 TACOMA Pickup 4x2, 4 cyl., cold air, runs great, 340,000 miles. $3,950 obo. 870-972-6806

1996 CHEVY Blazer 4&4 174,000 miles, air, heat, great tires, leather seats, radio, clean title. Asking $2,000 OBO Cash Talks! Shop 870-262-7434 or cell 870-834-4368. 2001 CHEVY Trailblazer. Loaded. $2800 OBO. 870650-0400 Call anytime. 2003 GMC Envoy, SLE, 2wd, 172k miles, power window's, tilt, cruise, $5,999. 870-351-8965.

Two wheel drive. Extended cab LT. 70K miles.

$21,900

1930 A Model Ford Coupe, with rumble seat. Restored $20,000. PH. #870-238-9327 2000 CADILLAC Deville, good motor and transmission, 172K miles, REDUCED to $2650 cash or OBO, 870-650-0400 2000 PONTIAC Grand AM SE: 4 door, 205,xxx miles, great tires, air, heat, radio, gas saver, runs good, clean title. Asking $1,500 OBO Cash Talks! Shop 870-262-7434 or cell 870-834-4368.

2001 Jaguar XK8, convertible, 122k miles. New tires, new struts, new battery.

2006 MERCURY Grand Marquis, 77,000 miles, White/ light stone interior. Good condition, Reduced to $7,000. 870-974-1924. 2007 FORD Focus Hatchback, leather, loaded, like new. 55,000 miles, $5995. OBO. 870-2436276

870-926-1639 2008 BMW, 3 Series Hardtop Convertible, Low mileage: 58,000, Navigation system, 3 series sport package, KW T-600, 400 Sirius satellite Cummins, 13 speed, radio. $18,500. $20,000. Big Bubba 870-932-6079 trailer, $20,000, Call Steve

870-702-1063 0868 Cars for Sale

4-Speed Restored

One owner, brand new tires, 80k miles.

$8,500

Call or Text

870-930-7369 or 870-919-9314

$11,900 870-926-5090 2008 TOYOTA Avalon.97k miles. Leather. All power. Sunroof. Good conditon. $9700. 870972-1976

2012 FORD Focus SE 4 door, auto, power, 66 K., Clean car. $4995. 870932-1022 2014 TOYOTA Prius Auto, air, tilt, cruise, power windows, power door locks, clean title, 9K, $16,900. 870-932-9357 See @ www.jandlautos.com 2014 TOYOTA, Camry, 57,816 miles, excellent condition,black in color, $17,000 firm. 870-2196055

title, 16K, $13,900. 870-932-9357. See @ www.jandlautos.com

BMW 2014 535i, black w/tan, luxury line, premium package, heated seats, surround sound, bought new, exceptional, 8,000 miles, $38,900. 870-926-6442

CLASSIC CAR! 1959 Studebaker

2009 Mercedes, Smart car.

Convertible, power windows, heated seats, AC. 55k miles, $8250, OBO.

870-897-1579

Lark, series VI, new paint, new interior, new tires, $5900 obo. 870-588-2232. FOR SALE. 2006 Honda Accord EX. 2 door coupe. Graphite Blue. Black leather. Sunroof. 3.0 V6 engine. 134K miles. New Michelin tires. Nice car. $6500. 870-239-9116.

2009 TOYOTA Camry LE 4cyl, auto, air, tilt, FOR SALE. cruise, power windows, 2015 Buick Lacrosse. power door locks, 3,500 miles, power, sunroof, leather, leather seats, 49K. $9950 870-932-9357 Reverse camera, See @ grey colored www.jandlautos.com $36,345.80 2010 CHEVROLET Malibu, 870-763-2140. 65,000 miles, moon roof, leather, new tires, nice car, $11,000 OBO. 870- LOOKING FOR a Car, 243-5027 Truck, Van, RV Motorcycle? Visit us at 2011 FORD Fiesta SES. www.jonesborosun.co Five door. Power. Auto. m "Find a Vehicle" Leather. Sunroof. Only $4995. 870-932-1022

Business 0910 Opportunities

NOTICE: THE Sun does not have the opportunity to fully investigate the credibility of each advertiser appearing within this section. Many of these ads are selling lists that you may be asked to send money for. If an offer sounds "too good to be true", it probably is. Proceed with caution IF you are asked to send money, give a credit card number, or your bank account number. If you have any concerns about an advertiser, please contact: Better Business Bureau of Arkansas 501-664-7274 12521 Kanis Road Little Rock, AR 72211

LEGALS

0955 Legals

Final Notice to the Public: The following vehicles will be destroyed, dismantled, or sold if not claimed within forty-five days from the towing date. In order to redeem said vehicles all towing, storage and processing fee must be paid in full on the vehicle. If not redeemed within time limit constitutes a waiver by all owners and lien holders of all rights, title and interest in vehicles and their contents. List as follows: 1996 Jeep Wrangler vin#2BCCE81J3HB517924 2006 Hummer vin #5GTDN136868207831 2005 Dodge Durango vin #1DHD58D15F547104 2001 Chevy Van v i n #1GCEG15W311155092 1998 Dodge Pickup v i n #1B7HC16X6WS537331 2005 Ford F150 v i n #1FTRX14W45FA02913 2003 Ford Excursion v i n #1FMNU42P03ED39517 Advantage Towing and Recovery LLC 102 Miller Jonesboro, AR 72401 870-931-4300

Off-Road 0880 Vehicles

BIG BAD BOY. 2011 Honda Foreman 500 ES 4x4, 4 wheeler. Runs good. Looks great. Good condition, with trailer, ramp & wench. $3300. Call 870-578-9795, Leave Message.

FINANCIAL

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2011 Harley Softtail,

$13,900.00

12,800 miles, bought new always serviced at HD. $1,600 worth of extra chrome. New tires, always shedded. Great bike!

870-275-5840

870-219-7541

or Best Offer

0868 Cars for Sale

dark blue, 56,000 miles, original owner, 2015 TOYOTA Corolla dealer maintained, Auto, air, tilt, power very good condition, windows, power door 6-speed Manual Trans. locks, like new, clean

2011 TOYOTA Camry XLE V-6 auto, air, tilt, cruise, power windows, power door locks, power sunroof, leather, 64K, $12,900 870-932-9357 2008 CHEVY Impala LTZ. See @ Leather interior, 4 door, www.jandlautos.com all available options. Perfect for a first time 2013 TOYOTA Camry SE 4 driver, or family car. cyl. Auto, air, tilt cruise, 90,000 miles, $7,000.00 power windows, power OBO. Located in Po- door locks, 13K, $13,900 870-932-9357 See @ cahontas Call 870-378www.jandlautos.com 3850

1969 Mercury Cougar XR-7

“Eliminator Tribute”

2008 HONDA CIVIC

2008 Nissan 350Z

2015 CHEVROLET Suburban LT 2-wheel dr. 40k miles. 870-588-2232

Both for $40,000

0868 Cars for Sale

1930 A Model Ford Coupe W/rumble seat, Restored $20,000.00 PH. #870-238-9327

2000 CHEVY Silverado LS extended cab. Z-71 4wd. "Like new" leather interior with dualpower seats. 5.3 vortec with 264,000 miles (mostly highway miles). Very good mechanic- 2001 TOYOTA Camry LE 4 ally. REDUCED $5500 . cyl. auto, air, tilt, cruise, power windows, power 870-530-2781 Jeff. door locks, 140K. $3750. 2 0 0 6 C H E V R O L E T S i l - 870-932-9357 See @ verado LT. New engine, www.jandlautos.com new tires, CD, cold air, Drive anywhere. $5850 2003 JAGUAR S-type V8, Cash OBO. 870-650-0400. 128,000 miles, loaded. REDUCED… $3695 cash OBO, 870-650-0400

2010 Chevy Silverado

55,600 miles, Triton V-10, 1 slide

0832 Motorcycles

1977 FORD F-150 pick up. Short bed. 351M 400 motor. Custom paint and wheels. Very straight and clean. Daily driver. $13,850 for pay off. Please call Steve at 870-530-4426.

0868 Cars for Sale

$8250 OBO 870-897-1579

2003 Kawasaki 900 Vulcan 870-275-7253 with new Dunlap tires, mustang seat, Vance & HONDA AQUATRAC Jet Hines pipes, and Martin Ski, three seater, 20-25 NEW 2014 Delta Dump saddle bags. Kept in shop, hrs. Early bird gets the Trailer, 12 ft long, Hy- excellent shape. Has front worm. 870-563-5137 draulic dump, $5750, and back foot pegs. 870-588-2232.

Recreational 0816 Vehicles

2003 MERCURY Mountaineer 3rd row seats, 4 door, leather, air, heat, radio, great tires 122,xxx on motor, clean title. Retail $6,500 asking $5,000 OBO. Shop 870-262-7434 or cell 870834-4368. 2006 TOYOTA 4 Runner SR5 2WD 4.7V8 auto, air, tilt, cruise, power windows, power door locks, power sunroof, leather, only 90K, $11,900. 870-932-9357 See @ www.jandlautos.com

(loan value up to $89,000)

TRANSPORTATION

Sport Utility 0856 Vehicles

Asking

$12,500.

2008 Saturn Outlook 3rd row seating all wheel drive 124k miles. Call or text (479)926-4492 $7,200 quick sale!

Ford Industrial Back Hoe Good Condition

2012 Coachmen Catalina Deluxe Edition

29 FT With large slideout, runs on Electric, propane, and battery. In very good condition, $15,500.

870-926-9091

870-910-6603•870-761-4617

Ready for Tailgating or retirement. 2005 Holiday Rambler Navigator. 45 Ft and 4 slides. Excellent condition. PRICE REDUCED…$147,500 Call for Info 573-757-8318

2006 Dodge Durango 4x4, V8, 125k miles.

$5,500 (870)307-2095/(870)834-5107

2014 Dodge Avenger SE Loaded, 20,000 miles, Like new, Carfax report available.

$9500.00 Call 870-530-0603

1985 Silverado, SWB. V8, automatic. Loaded. New paint. New interior. New tires. $9950. 870-886-7159 or 501-350-2787.

1989 (box)

Chevrolet Caprice *One of a kind & hard to find, SUPER CLEAN* 2006 Lincoln Mark LT 4X4 w/ 2008 options & looks. Special Edition made between ‘06-’08. Silver metalic with grey leather interior. One owner, garage kept, non-smoker, new tires, remote start w/ alarm, 46,000 miles, 20” original chrome rims, original Lincoln bedliner, moon roof, heated seats, fiberglass match Cab & trailer towing package with hitch. Serviced at Glen Sain, Paragould.

Asking $24,500.

Call 573-888-0507 ask for Maria.

2004 Silverado LT

1 Ton 6.6 Duramax Diesel Dually, 4x4, chrome Alcoa wheels, chrome step bar, in-dash DVD Player, loaded inside. 115K Miles, runs and drives great. $21,000.

870-425-0050

1992 Alumacraft

16 Ft. Suzuki stainless steel prop, console, radio, foot-controlled trollingmotor, hummingbird depth finder. Trailer has new tires. $3,600.

Call 573-717-0426.

2004 Chevy Ext 4-door Silverado 4.8 V-8, tilt, cruise, keyless entry. 99,600 Miles

$8950

(501)350-2787

305 V8 engine. Blue in color. Hard top. 20 Iroc wheels and tires. New Kenwood stereo. Flowmaster exhaust. New complete brakes. New shocks. Tinted windows. New radiator. New fuel pump. Converted A/C 1134R. Nice ride. 76,000 actual miles. $5500. 870-919-3335.

2005 Fleetwood Freightliner Discovery 39L, 330HP Cat Engine, 4 slides, W/D, 25,800 miles, 2nd owner, always shedded, $83,500 OBO.

CALL

870-378-2800 or 870-378-2333

2007 MAZDA RX-8 GRAND TOURING 71,600 miles, NEW Engine only has 5,600 miles, Black with Leather Interior, WellMaintained $11,995 CALL: 870-897-9379

1983 El Camino

All the extras, beautiful 2 tone blue, runs and drives good, new tires, $8250 • 870-275-7198

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• Additions & Remodels, Complete with Design • Concrete Work • Custom Tile & Flooring • Decks & Fencing • Kitchens & Baths • Metal Roofing • All Painting & Drywall

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• Dirt & Chat • Driveways • Sm. Parking areas • Yard leveling • Clearing & Underbrushing • Dozer Work

Free estimate,

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Aaron Richardson, Owner

Jonesboro, AR

870-761-0727

DRIVEWAY, PATIO, Sidewalk tear out. All type of concrete work. Includes all areas. 870-8091471

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Dirt Work

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Lawn/Landscape/ Tree Svc

• Oil Change • Radiator Flush • A.C. Recharge • Air Filters

• Transmission • Fuel Injection • Fuel Filter • Motor Flush

2221 Grant Ave. • Jonesboro • 935-6650 www.mrfastlubejonesboro.com