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Murder case heads to state Supreme Court

BY MICHAEL WILKEY Sun Staff Writer mwilkey@jonesborosun.com

LITTLE ROCK — The attorneys for a man sentenced to death for killing a police officer in 2011 will argue Thursday that a judge erred on several issues in the case.

The 9 a.m. Thursday hearing

before the Arkansas Supreme Court in Little Rock involves Jerry Lard, 39, of Trumann.

Lard was sentenced by a jury to death in July 2012 in the April 2011 capital murder of Trumann police officer Jonathan Schmidt. Lard was also sentenced to life in prison for the attempted capital murder

of Trumann police officer Corey Overstreet.

Schmidt pulled over a 2002 Hyundai, with Lard as a passenger, on Pine Avenue near the Cottonwood Manor Apartments.

Overstreet went to help Schmidt with the traffic stop as Schmidt was removing the

driver, Brian Keith Elumbaugh, who was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant, police said.

After getting Elumbaugh and another passenger out of the car, Schmidt went to the rear right side of the car.

“Upon opening the passenger door, (he) was confronted

by Lard, who was armed with a

handgun and fired on Schmidt,” Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said at the time.

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In a 22-page brief, Lard’s attorney, Janice W. Vaughn of the

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Brookland school parking lot brawl leads to 10 arrests

BY DUSTIN AZLIN Sun Staff Writer dazlin@jonesborosun.com

BROOKLAND — An incident that began Sunday at a dance club in Jonesboro ended with a brawl in a Brookland school parking lot, and 10 people were arrested in connection with the fight.

Craighead County deputies went to a Brookland school parking lot at about 2 a.m. Sunday about a large fight there, according to a police report.

Deputy Brandon Womack noticed multiple vehicles and people in the parking lot when he arrived. Another vehicle was trying to leave the lot quickly as Womack pulled in, he said.

After stopping the vehicle, Womack said there were three women in the car, and they appeared to be intoxicated.

There were also multiple open beer and liquor bottles inside.

The driver was bleeding from her knee and face. She told the Rob Holt | The Sun

Craighead County election officials announce the results of the District 21 state Senate primary election runoffs Tuesday at the Craighead County Courthouse Election Annex in Downtown Jonesboro.

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Cooper, Rockwell win primary runoffs

ASU buys land, sells part of it to complex

BY DUSTIN AZLIN Sun Staff Writer dazlin@jonesborosun.com

JONESBORO — Democrat Steve Rockwell and Republican John Cooper will face each other Jan. 14 after both won in primary runoff elections yesterday.

According to complete but unofficial results, Cooper won the Republican primary with 1,486 votes, or 51.15 percent, against Dan Sullivan, who received 1,419

votes, or 48.85 percent.

For the Democrats, Rockwell won with 1,215 votes, or 50.5 percent, against Baker, who received 1,191 votes, or 49.5 percent.

More Republicans voted in this election than Democrats. Of the 5,322 total ballots cast in the race, 2,412 were for Democratic candidates, and 2,910 voted Republican.

Results were announced at 9:50 p.m. Tuesday.

BY SHERRY F. PRUITT Sun Staff Writer sherry@jonesborosun.com

The four candidates were vying for the District 21 state Senate seat left vacant after the August resignation of former state Sen. Paul Bookout, D-Jonesboro.

Bookout resigned from the seat after questions arose about how he spent campaign funds for personal purchases.

Now the Rockwell and Cooper will prepare for the Jan. 14 gen-

JONESBORO — A-State System President Chuck Welch said he didn’t want the sights, sounds and smells of a new scrap yard adjacent to the new Fowler Family Hospitality Complex where students are taught culinary arts.

Welch spoke to Arkansas State University Board of Trustees about a land deal that both parties had agreed to during a special meeting via conference call Tuesday. Following Welch’s presentation, the board approved the measure.

ASU-Newport’s Jonesboro campus is in the Jonesboro Industrial Mini-Park. When ASU-Newport officials got word the Jonesboro Recycling Facility had bought property beside the campus, they became concerned, Welch said.

When ASU officials explained their concerns, they found the

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Volunteers repair City Cemetery headstones

BY KEITH INMAN Sun Staff Writer inman@jonesborosun.com

JONESBORO — Mike Brewer felt a need to step in when he learned vandals damaged headstones at Jonesboro’s City Cemetery last week.

Police said about 20 headstones were broken and scattered through the grass on the north side of the cemetery.

Brewer, tool rental manager at The Home Depot, thought he might be able to help the city with repairing the headstones “I just read the story in the paper, and I called (Parks Director Wixson Huffstetler) and he said, ‘Yeah, come on out,’” Brewer told The Sun Tuesday.

“I told him that I had a product that I thought he could use.”

While waiting on city em-

“He put a thing in the paper saying he didn’t know if they were going to be able to fix some of them or not. We had a product that I thought he could use, and it turned out it worked pretty good, and I just gave it to them.”

Mike Brewer Tool rental manager, The Home Depot ployees to arrive the next day, Brewer went ahead and put his glue to use.

“He put a thing in the paper saying he didn’t know if they were going to be able to fix some of them or not,” Brewer said of Huffstetler. “We had a product that I thought he could use, and it turned out it worked pretty good, and I just gave it to them.”

After repairing about 15 headstones, Brewer said he went back to the store and got some help.

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Mike Brewer of Jonesboro stands a headstone back up Tuesday afternoon at the City Cemetery in Downtown Jonesboro.

Brewer repaired several headstones that were recently vandalized.

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BRAWL deputy she suffered the injuries during a fight with a woman in the parking lot.

Womack detained the three women and drove back to where the other people were standing with another officer, he said.

He reported there were about 15 people in the group.

In connection with the fight, officers arrested Hallie Summers, 20, 198 Craighead Road 771; Riley Gilbert, 24, 2009 Munos Lane; Cody Gilbert, 22, 2009 Munos Lane; Stacey Cole, 18, of Rector; Jaden Stevens, 21, 1815 Craighead Road 903; and Courtney Davis, 19, 1705 N. Culberhouse St. The fight began between Stacey Cole and Summers.

According to witnesses, the altercation started at the Electric Cowboy in Jonesboro and the group met at the parking lot to fight, Womack said.

Womack said he then decided to detain the people he thought were responsible for the fight.

“At this time six subjects that were felt to be escalating this incident were placed into custody,” Womack said.

Riley Gilbert was arrested after Womack said he admitted shattering a car window when he knocked on it.

He told the deputy he was trying to get the occupant to roll down the window and didn’t mean to break it.

Cody Gilbert admitted to police he stepped on Stacey Cole’s glasses after they were knocked from her face during the fight.

When the officers were about to clear the scene with the detained suspects, a gold car pulled into the parking lot and four men got out in an “aggressive manner,” Womack said.

A Brookland police officer ordered the men to get back in the car and leave, but they didn’t obey.

That’s when Womack said the four men, Ricky Hendrix, 25, of Paragould; Donavon Mead, 19, of Paragould; Casey Cole, 21, of Rector; and Timothy Coke, 21, of Marmaduke, were arrested on suspicion of obstructing governmental operations.

After taking Hendrix into custody, Womack reported finding a suspected meth pipe in his pocket, he said.

The 10 suspects were arrested on suspicion of charges ranging from disorderly conduct, public intoxication, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, criminal mischief, possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing governmental operations.

Both winning candidates wanted to thank all the people who supported their campaigns.

“I want to thanks each and every supporter, volunteer and voter that helped push our message these last few weeks,” Cooper said. “We’ve made it this far because of (them).”

Rockwell shared similar gratitude.

“I want to thank voters, supporters, volunteers and my family,” he said.

“I’m glad to see people participate in a democratic process.”

Despite being a close race, Sullivan said he conceded to Cooper.

“I’ve already called M r .

C o o per and c o n gratulated h i m a n d Cooper c o n ceded,” he said after the results were announced.

Baker wasn’t as quick to throw in the towel.

“Due to the closeness of the totals at this point, we’re going to wait on the official totals before we release an official statement,” he said.

Despite not giving up the fight, Baker offered congratulations to Rockwell.

“I’d like to congratulate Mr. Rockwell on a hard-

fought c a m paign,” Baker said.

H e added t h a t even if he loses the Rockwell race, he was overwhelmed by the support he received.

“I want to thank everyone that helped me,” he said. “I really feel like I had a lot of people supporting me, and I was humbled.”

Both Rockwell and Cooper said they were going to spend the remainder of the night celebrating and resting.

“I think I’m going to get a good night’s sleep tonight,” Rockwell said.

Vaughn called the statements by prosecutors about the case, “flagrant and highly prejudicial.” However, Adams said the comments were in bounds legally.

“Regarding the claims that the prosecutor interjected his personal beliefs into his closing argument and caused the jury to disregard the mitigation evidence, (Lard) fails to make a persuasive claim,” Adams said.

Vaughn also argues that there was no “valid method of execution” when the murder happened due to issues involving the state’s death penalty law.

“In the instant case, at

the time of Lard’s crimes, there was no constitutional method of execution.

More importantly, at the time Lard was convicted, there was no method of execution in place,” Vaughn said. “Accordingly, any method of executing Lard at this stage would be a greater punishment than was allowable at the time of his crimes or conviction, and is violative of the Arkansas and U.S. Constitutions.”

Adams, in her brief, said the state picked lethal injection as a rule to execute prisoners in 1983, and the state Legislature reiterated the decision earlier this year.

“To the extent (Lard) argues his due process rights were violated because he was forced to forfeit his Eighth Amendment claim as there was no constitutional method of execution in existence at the time of his conviction, his argument is meritless,” Adams said. “First, an individual’s constitutional guarantees to due process are not violated by his inability to discover potential claims at the time of his trial. Second, unless (Lard) can present evidence that a method of execution is contrary to an approved protocol, he has no Eighth Amendment claim.”

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BY CHARMAINE NORONHA Associated Press

TORONTO — Cries of “shame” rose up as Toronto Mayor Rob Ford walked up to the podium to honor war veterans.

One World War II veteran refused to shake his hand, calling him a “druggie.”

Unfazed, Ford declared moments later, “I’m not going anywhere,” as calls to take a leave of absence swirl around the embattled mayor. The next day, he was signing bobblehead dolls of himself at City Hall to raise money for charity.

Ford’s refusal to resign over his admitted drug use has confounded Toronto’s City Council. Allies and opponents alike agree that a stream of

revelations of the mayo r ’ s erratic behavior — from smoki n g Ford crack cocaine in a “drunken stupor” to threatening to kill someone in a videotaped tirade — has consumed Toronto’s politics and has impacted the City Council’s ability to tackle other challenges.

But with no clear legal path to force him out, the 44-member City Council is grasping for ways to shunt the larger-thanlife leader aside and govern without him un-

til next year’s municipal elections.

It is an unprecedented effort but in some ways, it may not be a stretch.

Toronto’s mayor already has limited powers compared to the mayors of many large cities in the United States. He is just one voting member in the council and his power stems mostly from his ability, as the only councilor elected by citywide vote, to build consensus and set the agenda.

That authority, many council members say, has evaporated in the crack scandal.

“We really just have to build a box around the mayor so we can get work done,” said councilor John Filion, who has introduced one of two mo-

tions in the council designed to isolate Ford.

The first motion, which goes to a vote Wednesday, would call on Ford to take a leave of absence, apologize to Toronto residents for misleading them and cooperate with police. If he refuses, the council would ask the province of Ontario to pass legislation to remove the mayor from office.

The City Council has no authority itself to oust Ford because he has not been convicted of a crime. Toronto police said last month they had obtained a long-sought video of Ford apparently smoking from a crack pipe but that it does not constitute enough evidence to charge him.

an acre, but he agreed to sell it to ASU for $15,500, the president said. A-State would then sell six of the eight acres to Jonesboro Recycling at the cost it had agreed to pay — $12,000 per acre, Welch said.

The recycling center would be in the same area, but not adjacent to the college campus.

“They couldn’t have been better. They were

great,” Welch said.

ASU is left owning the original six acres of the Schuchardt land and two acres of the Vance land.

“They are as far from us as they can possibly be,” he said.

No plans have been made for the acreage.

A-State will use it to buffer itself for now, but it could be used to expand ASU-Newport’s Jones-

boro campus for future needs, Welch said.

“It lets us protect our boundaries,” he said.

The board met in a special session because the metal recycler is at the stage of presenting its plans to Jonesboro’s Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. A greater delay would have caused concerns for Jonesboro Recycling Facility, he added.

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Jonesboro Recycling Facility officials understanding, he said.

A plan was hatched between them for ASU to purchase six acres from Bob Schuchardt at $12,000 an acre and eight acres from Gene Vance at $15,500 an acre. The Vance property was on the market for $18,000

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RUNOFF “We’re empowered to do stuff like that. The corporation on a whole says that if there’s a need, take care of it. Help people out.

So, there was a need, and I did what I felt was right.”

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those two back up.”

He said he plans to fix the remaining headstones in the near future.

Brewer said what he did is not unusual.

“We’re empowered to do stuff like that,” Brewer said. “The corporation on a whole says that if there’s a need, take care of it. Help people out. So, there was a need, and I did what I felt was right.”

Brewer, a former Boy Scout master, said that was the philosophy he always tried to pass down with his scouts.

“People live their lives, and they need respect.

They need respect when they’re dead, too,” Brewer said. “And if somebody goes out and breaks down the only thing that recog-

Mike Brewer Tool rental manager, The Home Depot nizes they were even here, somebody needs to help take care of stuff, and I just felt like I needed to do it.”

The oldest graves in the cemetery at 504 E. Matthews Ave. date back to 1815 when whites first settled in the area.

In hopes of preventing further vandalism, City Water & Light workers installed four more

floodlights in the darkest portions of the cemetery Monday, CWL spokesman Kevan Inboden said.

“It’s going to be bright,” Huffstetler said.

Five floodlights already served the cemetery.

The parks department also plans to trim some trees that have blocked some of the lighting, Huffstetler said.

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Arkansas Public Defender Commission, argues that Circuit Judge Brent Davis erred: ■ By allowing the state to present bad acts and bad character evidence as well as repeated showings of dash cam video showing the shooting.

■ By failing to sequester witnesses in the case.

■ By allowing prosecutors to make improper statements during the closing argument.

■ By denying Lard’s motion to prohibit seeking or imposing the death penalty as well as death qualification of the jury.

As for the bad acts issue, Vaughn, in her filing, details some of Lard’s criminal history, problems with violence in the past and issues with cruelty to animals.

“Importantly, Lard did not put his character or his belief system in issue. In fact, he did not even testify at trial,” Vaughn said in the brief. “Yet, as Justice (Benjamin) Cardoza (United States Supreme Court justice) stated long ago, ‘character is never an issue in a criminal prosecution unless the defendant chooses to make it one.’”

However, in a brief filed Aug. 13, Assistant Attorney General LeeAnn

J. Adams argues Lard’s criminal history and statements made before the shooting show his actions.

“The fact that (Lard) had warrants out for his arrest are independently relevant to explain why he shot at Officer Schmidt — it explains his actions and his motive, and the absence of any mistake that he was pointing and shooting a gun at Officer Schmidt and Officer Overstreet. The trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting testimony regarding his warrants at the time of the shooting as evidence of (Lard’s) motive for shooting at the officers,” Adams wrote.

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Aid trickling into hard-hit areas in Philippines

BY JIM GOMEZ AND TODD PITMAN Associated Press

TACLOBAN, Philippines — Desperately needed food, water and medical aid are only trickling into this city that took the worst blow from Typhoon Haiyan, while thousands of victims jammed the damaged airport Tuesday, seeking to be evacuated.

“We need help. Nothing is happening. We haven’t eaten since yesterday afternoon,” pleaded a weeping Aristone Balute, an 81-year-old woman who failed to get a flight out of Tacloban for Manila, the capital. Her clothes were soaked from a pouring rain and tears streamed down her face.

Five days after what could be the Philippines’ deadliest disaster, aid is coming — pallets of supplies and teams of doctors are waiting to get into Tacloban — but the challenges of delivering the assistance means few in the stricken city have received help.

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Bea Joy Sagalis, named after grandmother Beatrice, who remains missing following Typhoon Haiyan, was the first baby known to be born at an improvised clinic at Tacloban Airport on Monday in Leyte province in the central Philippines.

“There is a huge amount that we need to do. We have not been able to get into the remote communi-

ties,” U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said in Manila, launching an appeal for $301 million to

help the more than 11 million people estimated to be affected by the storm.

“Even in Tacloban, be-

cause of the debris and the difficulties with logistics and so on, we have not been able to get in

the level of supply that we would want to. We are going to do as much as we can to bring in more,” she said. Her office said she planned to visit the city.

Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said relief goods were getting into the city, and the supply should increase now that the airport and a bridge to the island were open.

Tacloban, a city of about 220,000 people on Leyte island, bore the full force of the winds and the tsunami-like storm surges Friday. Most of the city is in ruins, a tangled mess of destroyed houses, cars and trees. Malls, garages and shops have all been stripped of food and water by hungry residents.

The loss of life appears to be concentrated in Tacloban and surrounding areas, including a portion of Samar island that is separated from Leyte island by a strait. It is possible that other devastated areas are so isolated they have not yet been reached.

Clinton: Obama should honor health care overhaul pledge

BY JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Adding pressure to fix the administration’s problem-plagued health care program, former President Bill Clinton says President Barack Obama should find a way to let people keep their health coverage, even if it means changing the law.

Clinton says Obama should “honor the commitment that the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.”

The former president, a Democrat who has helped Obama promote the 3-year-old health

law, becomes the latest in Obama’s party to urge the president to live up to a promise he made repeatedly, declaring that the if Americans liked their health care coverage, they would be able to keep it under the new law.

Instead, millions of Americans have started receiving insurance cancellation letters. That, coupled with the troubled launch of the health care law’s enrollment website, has prompted Republican critics and frustrated Democrats to seek corrections in the law.

House Republicans have drafted legislation to give consumers the

opportunity to keep their covera g e .

T e n Senate Democrats a r e Obama pushing for an unspecified extension of the sign-up period and in a private White House meeting last week several pressed Obama to do so. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has proposed legislation that would require insurance companies to reinstate the canceled policies.

T h e White House says it is working on changes t h a t would e a s e the imClinton pact of the cancellations for some people. But the fixes under consideration are administrative actions, not congressional changes to the law.

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday reiterated the White House argument that the cancellations apply to only about 5 percent of

Americans who obtained health care insurance.

He also argued that more than half of those people receiving termination notices would benefit from better insurance at lower prices either through expanded Medicaid or through new health care marketplaces.

For the remainder, Carney said, “The president has instructed his team to look at a range of options.”

The issue facing the administration now is how to ease the impact on people who are losing their plans and don’t qualify for subsidies to cover higher premiums. Carney said the White House opposes a

House Republican bill, proposed by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., that would allow insurers to keep selling insurance that doesn’t offer the type of benefits required by the new law.

“Any fix that would essentially open up for insurers the ability to sell new plans that do not meet standards would create more problems than it fixed,” he said.

Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who advised the Obama administration on the health care law, said the White House has few if any administrative options available.

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OPINION

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.’

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Get used to rising health insurance costs Talk about health insurance sticker shock.

First it was the teachers, bailed out by the state to the tune of $43 million in taxpayer funds.

Then city employees, whose price tag declined to a 15 percent hike after Mayor Harold Perrin negotiated a better deal.

Still, a big hit to city taxpayers.

Then private-sector Americans, whose policies were canceled and new premiums and deductibles quadrupled.

Now it’s county employees’ turn.

The overhaul of our nation’s health care system is seeing a tidal wave of change thanks to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

With millions of private insurance customers having their health policies canceled only to find that premiums and deductibles will skyrocket under Obamacare, the public sector is also feeling the pinch — a 34 percent hike in premiums at the Craighead County Courthouse.

The county’s increase isn’t all due to Obamacare. Nineteen percent of it is because of an increase of claims.

It’s only going to get worse. See, you can’t add millions of uninsured people — many with preexisting conditions — to the insurance rolls and expect everything to stay the same, even if the government — read taxpayers — is picking up most of the tab. The new law requires healthy (young) private-sector folks to pitch in more to make up the difference.

Insurance companies aren’t going to lose money in this deal. They can only gain, with millions of new customers — many with health problems — who will cause everyone’s premiums to increase to make up the difference.

They’re in the money.

Add to the fact that super costly health care advances literally lead to daily miracles and the extension of life, and the costs escalate proportionately.

County officials noted earlier this week that their coffers simply can’t take a 34 percent hit. The county pays 100 percent of an employee’s health insurance and 50 percent of a dependent’s.

Last year’s total bill for the county was $1.65 million. The increase would make that climb $550,000 to $2.2 million.

Who’s going to come up with the $550,000? Taxpayers, of course.

That’s unless the county can find a less expensive insurance carrier or makes employees pay a portion of their insurance like most businesses do.

So, those in the private sector lose twice. Their insurance policies go up with higher deductibles, and they have to pay more for public-sector employees, who often get a sweetheart deal.

Yes, Obamacare is a rip-off.

Added to that, the ability to get care will be tougher. With so many new patients standing in line and so many new doctors needed to treat them, good luck getting into see your physician quickly for the foreseeable future. There’s a shortage of family physicians, and that’s not going to end any time soon despite efforts to recruit more.

Obamacare is socialized medicine with a private-sector component through private insurance companies. It’s practically a license to steal.

Hospitals love it because much of the millions in indigent care they write off each year will now be paid by the government (taxpayers).

Obamacare’s premise is that if most Americans receive quality health care before an illness hits or can be avoided all together, then overall health care costs will decline. It’s also designed to provide primary health care to people without so they won’t use expensive emergency room care when they come down with a cold or the flu.

Don’t expect health care costs to decline and expect advances in medicine to keep costs soaring.

Too many folks are holding their breath and just hoping it turns out like the Obama administration planned.

Like the website, we know how well that’s gone so far.

Expect to pay more for less.

—Chris Wessel

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Letters Win-win situation A number of common sense suggestions remain in play regarding the change in the name of a portion of Stadium Boulevard to Red Wolf Boulevard. The one making the most sense is changing the name from Stallings to Johnson Avenue rather than from U.S. 63 to Johnson Avenue.

The idea of changing the name from Stallings to Johnson was not my idea. I think this suggestion has a lot of merit.

This change gives those wanting a portion of Stadium changed to Red Wolf what they want. This change also saves a great many folks a lot of money. One side gets what they want and the other side saves money. Sounds like a win-win situation to me.

But when the dust settles, I predict the change will go as originally planned. Red Wolf Boulevard will start at U.S. 63 and go to Johnson. I might be wrong, but time will tell.

I am glad to hear the ASU administration persuaded ASU alumni to foot the bill for a change of any sort. Just the one large sign south of Stallings on the East side of Stadium will likely cost thousands of dollars to tear down and replace.

Terry Dancer Jonesboro

Why we fight I am a Vietnam Marine veteran. I want to say how proud I am of the American people towards all veterans these days. The citizens of our country have come a long way since then in the way it treats its veterans, and that is such a good thing.

The way we came home was a sad way for soldiers to come home,

soldiers willing to die for their country and those they loved and wanted to protect from people who would do them harm and the ugliness of war.

We endured so you didn’t have to. We went there so the problems over there didn’t end up here Freedom is so precious. Many of you just don’t understand. Ask anyone from Vietnam, Russia, North Korea, France, Italy and the rest. Ask any woman from any Mid-East country who wishes she was free to go outside without a man with her, drive a car, not have to hide her face, not have to walk behind her husband in shame as property, but proudly beside him as his helpmate and wife.

Ask any little girl from that part of the world who has had to endure the horror of mutilation so that she can never enjoy the pleasures of her body and the knowledge that she is only there for the man’s pleasure and to have his baby. Remember the millions who died under Stalin in Russia, the millions of Jewish people who died under Nazism in World War II, the Cambodians under Pol Pot, the hundreds of thousands and millions who have died in the Mid-East and Africa under horrible oppressive rulers who would rather hurt, maim, torture and kill them than to allow them to walk freely — their own citizens.

These are the reason men and women go to do what they must. People crying out throughout the world, looking for a savior — someone, anyone who will come to their defense.

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Obamacare’s gift to the GOP

In spite of everything — the GOP’s internal scrimmages, the government shutdown, the party’s transparent attempts to derail Obamacare — Republicans keep getting second chances.

The question is, can they handle prosperity? Do they even know what to do with it?

With the myriad problems besieging Obamacare, from the non-rollout to the minuscule number of enrollees in the health insurance exchanges, this is no time for gloating. Rather, it is time for Republicans to get very, very busy with their own ideas for acrossthe-board reforms.

The party of “no” must Kathleen become the party of “we Parker | can, too!” This doesn’t mean sacrificing core principles, though some could use a little shelf time. It does mean picking battles Republicans can win and avoiding skirmishes that further alienate centrists and minorities.

Forget building a larger tent, which increasingly looks like a pup for two white guys and a flashlight. Ditch the tent and build a coliseum. Install Doric columns, if you like, and grab an obelisk on your way to redemption. At no extra cost, here’s an inscription for the

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keystone: “Waste not, want less.” Waste not this moment; want less than perfection and aim for the possible.

This was always House Speaker John Boehner’s battle plan, but he finally concluded that leading his conference where it wanted to go was preferable to inciting a civil war. In a recent interview, Boehner told me he thinks at least some of the better-death-than-compromise caucus had come around to understanding that attaching Obamacare to the continuing resolution, resulting in the government shutdown, was the wrong tactic.

Even so, “at least some” may not be enough. And who knows what Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has up his sleeve as new deadlines loom for budget and debtceiling negotiations early next year?

In the meantime, House and Senate Republicans have a small window, while Obamacare is hugging the shoals, to show why their ideas are best. Americans frustrated with Congress and disappointed by the president are primed for someone to pick up the bullhorn and say, “We hear you.”

It’s too bad “compassionate conservatism” has become tarnished because compassion is what is needed in today’s GOP playbook: Compassion for the hungry whose food stamps House Republicans excised from the farm bill; compassion for 11 million immigrants

who are prisoners in illegal limbo; compassion for gays, lesbians and others seeking protection against workplace discrimination.

These are not such difficult choices in the scheme of things. How to guarantee that Iran can’t weaponize its nuclear capability? That’s tough. Not so tough: Helping the poor feed their families, finding a path for citizenship along with other immigration reforms, extending equal protections to individuals whose sexual orientation should not be a firing offense.

The Senate also has passed a comprehensive immigration bill with the help of 14 Republicans that contains a relatively strenuous path to citizenship that includes paying back taxes and fines, and getting in line behind others seeking citizenship.

Hardly a giveaway. Even so, some Republicans aren’t on board with the path to citizenship. Although Boehner told me he hopes to get an immigration bill to the House floor next year, others say 2014’s midterm elections make this unlikely.

Phooey.

What’s really not likely to happen is a Republican White House — ever — without Latino voters. There’s only so much Republicans can accomplish when they control only half of one-third of government. Consider that the biggest states with the largest concentrations of Hispanics — Florida, California, Texas and New

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York — also convey 151 of the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected president.

Appealing to Latinos doesn’t mean Republicans have to pander or bow to President Obama’s wishes. It means doing the right thing. Even though a slim majority of Americans (53 percent) think most immigrants here illegally should be deported, according to a Reuters/Ipsos online survey last February, a more recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 65 percent favor a path to citizenship if it requires essentially what the Senate bill proposes.

The draconian option of deportation would be an unlovely sight. Not only would families be torn asunder, but America’s crops would wither on the vine, as they did in Alabama after that state’s crackdown prompted a sudden, mass exodus. Yet again, unyielding principle prevailed over common sense and survival.

Time is of the essence if Republicans hope to refresh their image in the public square. Picking battles wisely, acting compassionately, creating rather than negating is the only way forward. Jar the hardwoods, campers, there’s daylight in the swamp.

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Jonathan Pollard — the ‘spy’ still out in the cold

With all the spying the United States has been doing on foreign leaders, possibly including the pope, why is Jonathan Pollard, a former American civilian intelligence analyst, still in prison nearly three decades after being sentenced to life in prison for taking classified documents he believed contained information important to Israel’s self-defense?

Prominent individuals support Pollard’s release.

They include former SecCal retary of State Henry KissThomas | inger, George P. Schultz, former CIA director James Woolsey (who initially was against Pollard’s release), former U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, among others.

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Lawrence J. Korb notes that Pollard has been in prison “three times longer than anybody who’s ever provided classified information to a friendly country or a neutral country.”

In a letter to President Barack Obama, Wexler says Pollard is “the only American citizen convicted of such a crime to be sentenced to more than 14 years in prison. Currently, the punishment for such a crime is set at a maximum of 10 years.”

Pollard supporters are circulating a classified memo written by then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, which they say instructs the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to “spy” on Israel. The document was released by WikiLeaks and published in the Guardian in 2010 and is included in the book, “The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan,” by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman. If the same standard were applied to Rice as has been applied to Pollard, Rice might be in an Israeli prison.

In the June 1997 issue of Middle East Quarterly, David Zwiebel, general counsel of Agudath Israel of America, a national Orthodox Jewish organization, got to the heart of the issue: “First, Pollard did not stand trial for his crime.

Rather, he received his life sentence after entering into a plea-bargain agree-

ment in which the government promised not to seek a life sentence. Entering into that agreement, Pollard relinquished his right to a trial, cooperated with government investigators, pleaded guilty — all, presumably, with the expectation that some leniency would be shown in his sentence. The expectation was reasonable, but it proved illusory.

“Secondly, Pollard was sentenced to life in prison despite the fact that he was never accused of delivering classified information to an enemy of the United States. Rather, he was accused of delivering such information to Israel, a close and staunch American ally. There may be no other case of a life sentence imposed for spying on behalf of a strategic ally.”

The gist of the material Pollard gave to Israel was related to intelligence the United States possessed about Israel’s numerous enemies and their intentions.

The government’s rationale for going after Pollard in such a heavy-handed way appears to have been its desire not to “upset” America’s Arab allies. There seems to have been less concern about “upsetting” Israel, which is under con-

stant threat of annihilation.

Numerous leaks about the U.S. government’s spying, not only on foreign leaders, but on its own citizens, along with promises made to Pollard his supporters say were broken, should raise serious questions about the legitimacy of Pollard’s life sentence and the motivation behind it. Several administrations have declined requests for clemency, even in light of Pollard’s failing health and desire to live in Israel.

Israel has released murderers from its prisons after U.S. pressure in pursuit of an unobtainable peace with Palestinians, whose antipathy toward Israel never changes. The U.S. government appears to be covering something up beyond secrets that are unlikely to have much value today. President Obama should consider commuting Pollard’s sentence, not necessarily as a favor to Israel, but to make good on a promise.

It also would seem the right thing to do.

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our neighbors. They are human beings, and we as God’s children know and understand what we must do.

We must fight evil wherever it rears its ugly head. We must go and face it on its own territory so that we don’t have to face it here on ours. For we as soldiers will never allow these things to happen in our country again.

They have happened here in our past, and this is our shame as a country, and we must continue to endure that shame to ensure no one ever forgets it and to make sure it never happens again.

These are the reasons we go. These are the reasons we fight. These are the reasons we die, so far from home, so that those at home do not have to endure it.

Happy birthday to my Marine Corps on Nov. 10.

Happy Veterans Day to all our veterans and to all our brothers and sisters who never cam home.

Rest in the arms of God. You earned your peace.

Tom Diddle Rector

Guardian angels

With everything going on in the government today, I want to tell everyone all politicians are not alike!

Several months ago I wrote about a “problem” my husband and I were having with a branch of “the government.” I was so scared that I spent many a day and night crying, afraid that we would lose everything, literally everything. When I sent my letter to The Sun I honestly did not feel there was any hope; we had no way to take care of this ourselves, and “they” were not willing to help us find an affordable solution. That was when our Guardian Angels stepped in.

The day after my letter ran in The Sun I received an email from Chris Wessel that U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford’s office in Washington was requesting my contact information. They wanted to help us. I gave my permission and was contacted in a matter of minutes. A young man took all the information, put my mind at ease and told me an employee from the local office (Jonesboro) would contact me shortly.

I received a call from Mr. Crawford’s local office in a very short amount of time. She (I will not use her name as I do not have permission) did her best to calm me and promised we were not alone in our situation. She would connect

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us with the right people, qualified to work with and for us. She sent forms we needed to complete and return to her.

Once contact with our advocate occurred (I also do not have permission to use her name), she began working with us/ for us. I cannot tell you all of the hard work she put into this, but she kept me in the loop, always offering encouragement, support and kindness.

We will receive the final decision the first week or so of December, but our advocate believes our “problem” will be taken care of permanently at that time.

Why am I saying there is a difference in politicians you may ask?

Because of one letter, one person who read that letter and one politician along with his office staff. Not all politicians elected into office forget their constituents until the next election. Mr. Crawford’s office did not ask who we voted for or even if we voted. He/they only saw a chance to help and took it.

I also have to say thank you to The Sun for getting this ball rolling. I did not know this was the first step of our solution as I do not believe Mr. Wessel did either. Thank

you for letting us voice our opinion; I wonder how many others have connected with their Guardian Angels through The Sun? My husband and I do vote. We vote for the person and not the party. Mr. Crawford went above and beyond for two people he will never know. I can say without question, if he wins at the next election by only two votes, he will know they were ours!

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Armenda Boyd

PIGGOTT — Armenda Bell Boyd, 89, of Piggott passed away Friday, Nov. 8, 2013.

She was born Nov. 18, 1923, at Piggott, the daughter of the late Fred and Nettie Vaughn Jaggers.

She was united in marriage to Dewey William Boyd on Nov. 15, 1941.

She is survived by her daughter, Bonnie Ellen Boyd of Piggott; and two grandchildren, John Jackson and Charla Springer.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday in Hoggard and Sons Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Gravel Hill Cemetery at St Francis. Visitation will be 6 p.m. Sunday.

Cordelia Cook

BONO — Cordelia Cole Cook, 92, of Bono passed away Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, at the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House.

Born Sept. 23, 1921, in Craighead County, Cordelia was a retired farmer and a member of Shiloh Methodist Church.

Cordelia was preceded in death by her parents, S.L. Cole and Gillie Carolyn Lindley Cole; her husband, Gordon Cook; two brothers; and three sisters.

Survivors include her daughter, Glenda Sue Cook Trantham of Bono; four grandchildren, Cynthia Drummonds, Rickey Reynolds, Rebecca Gibbs and Randy Reynolds; eight great-grandchildren; 11 great-greatgrandchildren; and her twin sister, Cornelia Atkinson of Jonesboro.

Graveside services will be 2 p.m. today in Shiloh Cemetery with Lance Guest officiating.

No visitation is planned.

Services are under the direction of Roller-Farmers Union Funeral Home of Jonesboro.

Online registry: www. rollerfuneralhomes.com

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JONESBORO — Ed Doman, 67, went to be Mae Herndon with his Lord Jesus on Nov. 8, 2013.

He was born in Longview, Texas, in 1946. He was a veteran who served in the Vietnam War in the Army Medical Service Corp as a first lieutenant. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Arkansas State University.

He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Carolyn Doman of Jonesboro; his son, Eddy Doman of Phoenix; his Herndon sister and brother-inlaw, Faye and Mack JONESBORO — Mae Mankey of Hoxie; Herndon, 88, of Jonesbrother, Roger Doman boro died Saturday at St. of Hoxie; sister-in-law Bernards Medical Cenand brother-in-law, ter.

Lindley and KaneasShe had spent most ter Hodges Jr. of New- of her life in Jonesboro, port; sister-in-law and coming from Enid, Okla., brother-in-law, Nancy and Easton, Md. Jo and Russell Clinton She was preceded in III of West Memphis; death by her parents, and several nephews Nathan and Ouida Kirsh and nieces.

Roberts; her husband Ed Doman was the of 66 years, George Y. former superintendent Herndon; son, Stephen; of the Arkansas Human and five siblings.

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Mae was a MethodHe worked there nine ist and a member of years and knew each res- First United Methodist ident personally before Church. She was a genhe resigned. tle, caring and sacrificial For the next 30 years mother and friend. Mae he worked at the East was a bridge player, a Arkansas Area Agency pink lady for NEA Baptist on Aging, being the di- Memorial Hospital. She rector since 1985. liked to square dance, go He served on the camping and fishing. board of the Special Survivors include her Olympics, the Long- son, Jeff and wife Martha Term Care Facility Advi- of Jonesboro; daughter, sory Board for the State Terri Reno of Jonesboro; of Arkansas, the board two brothers, Nathan of the Arkansas Vol- Roberts of Alexandria, unteer Lawyers for the La., and Lannis Roberts Elderly and the board of Dallas; three grandof the National Associa- children, Andrew Reno tion of Area Agencies on of Jonesboro, Nicole Aging.

Henry and husband J.T. He was a state lobbyist of Beaumont, Texas, and for the aging population Courtney Herndon of the to improve programs for The Woodlands, Texas; them. and four great-grandchilAlthough we have so dren, Alaina Henry, John many special people who Henry, Ashley Henry and have served our com- T.J. Henry. munity well, Ed’s service A graveside service will was often behind the be 2 p.m. Saturday in scenes.

Oakland Cemetery with He was a wonderful John Miles and Patty Soadministrator directing ward officiating. people to share differVisitation will be 6 to 7 ences and still get along. p.m. Friday at Emerson Sometimes he even sac- Funeral Home. rificed for his employees Honorary pallbearat his own expense. ers will include Andrew He provided access Reno, J.T. Henry, Bob for the community to and Blanche Abbott, have softball facilities Josie Moore, Bill and for everyone to enjoy. He Joyce Thompson, and also helped bring pro- Dorothy Burrow. grams to benefit the agFor lasting memorials, ing population, not only the family asks that conto Jonesboro but to the sideration be given to the other 11 counties he di- George Herndon Gradurected. ate Scholarship in ComHe worked very hard munication Disorders, during legislative ses- Arkansas State Universisions to pass bills that ty Foundation, Attention: would benefit the aging Phillip Jackson, P.O. Box population.

1990, State University He was a member of 72467, memo line: Hernthe 1st Baptist Church don Scholarship. and taught a Sunday Online registry: emerschool class for many sonfuneralhome.com years. He always had a genuine interest making Cletis Humphrey those who were older or younger to know their MOUNTAIN VIEW — needs were important.

Cletis Willie Humphrey, Ed was a wonderful 80, formerly of Joneshusband, father, son, boro, passed away Tuesbrother and friend. He day, Nov. 12, 2013. will be greatly missed.

He was born Dec. 19, Funeral service will be 1932, at Peach Orchard 10 a.m. Friday at Emer- to the late Jessie and son Funeral Home with Otra Humphrey. Mr. Bruce Tippit and Derek Humphrey retired after Collins officiating.

34 years with City Water Visitation will be 6 to 8 & Light. p.m. Thursday at EmerHe will be remembered son Funeral Home. as a child of God and an Online registry: emer- accomplished coon-dog sonfuneralhome.co trainer. He was featured

in Full Cry magazine many times as a master gardener. God blessed him with a beautiful high tenor voice and the ability to play many instruments.

During his lifetime he made numerous friends and always made time to help a friend in need.

He is survived by a daughter and her husband, Carolyn and Jeff Carter of Mountain View; three sons, Danny Humphrey (Marsha) of Flippen, Richard Humphrey of Jonesboro and Gary Wayne Humphrey (Leah Ann) of Eads, Tenn.; two brothers and their wives, Jay and Delores Humphrey of Sacremento, Calif., and Jack and Jean Humphrey of Mira Loma, Calif.; three sisters, Arbra May Garner and Maxine Foster, both of Paragould, and Irene Cook of Rainbow City, Ala. He was also preceded in death by five brothers and a sister.

A graveside service will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Trinity Cemetery with Jeff Carter officiating under the direction of Gregg Langford Bookout Funeral Home.

Visitation will be 6 until 8 p.m. tonight at Gregg-Langford Bookout Funeral Home, 300 W. Matthews Ave. Online registry: mcnabbfuneralhomes. com

unit secretary and was a member of United Methodist Church in San Antonio.

She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers; and three sisters.

Survivors include her husband, Cecil of the home; sons, C. Douglas (Jane) Rorex of Jacksonville, Ill., and Jeffrey C. (Margaret) Rorex of San Antonio; brother, Tommy Sammons of California; and stepgrandchildren, Paul, Keith and Stephan Norman.

Visitation will be 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday at CoxFears Chapel in Walnut Ridge. Funeral services will immediately follow visitation with Jay Justus officiating. Burial will follow in Markham Cemetery at Egypt.

Active pallbearers will be Paul, Keith and Stephan Norman, Sam Poe, Bruce Payne and Gary Grier. Honorary pallbearer will be Steve Payne.

Online registry: coxfearsfuneralhome.com

Wanda Stahl HARRISBURG — Wanda Stahl, 75, of rural Harrisburg, died Monday evening at her home of natural causes. She was preceded in death by husband, James “Bud” Stahl.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Emerson Funeral Home.

Brayden Vernor

Mary Johnson POCAHONTAS — Mary Poteet Dalton Johnson, 98, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013.

Mary Poteet was born March 11, 1915, at Reyno to Charles and Maggie Rusk Poteet.

She was preceded in death by husbands, Kermit Dalton and Truell Johnson; her parents; two brothers; five sisters; a son-in-law, Arnold Sullivan; and several nephews.

Survivors include her two children; a stepdaughter; three stepsons; five grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; eight stepgrandchildren; 11 stepgreat-grandchildren; and one sister.

Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday in McNabb Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday in the chapel with Larry Owens officiating. Burial will be in Masonic Cemetery.

Ella Rorex SAN ANTONIO — Ella Marie Sammons Rorex, 83, of San Antonio, formerly of Lawrence County, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, at her residence.

She was born July 2, 1930, at Egypt to Samuel and Edna McDaniels Sammons. On Oct. 8, 1949, she married Cecil Rorex in Egypt. She worked as a hospital

WHITEHALL — Brayden Vernor, 14 days, of Whitehall became an angel, Monday.

He was born Oct. 28, at Little Rock to Zach Vernor and Jose Bearden.

Survivors include his parents; twin brother, Branden Vernor; grandparents, Marsha and Kurt Howe of Whitehall and Stacy and David Bearden of Redfield; and great-grandparents, Gary and Helen Reed of Wynne, Susie Vernor of Whitehall, Bobby and Sue Vickers, and Sandra Johnston, all of Crossett, and Carolyn Bearden of Pine Bluff.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Thompson-Wilson Wynne Funeral Home with burial in Crosslawn Cemetery.

Online registry: www. thompsonwilsonfh.com

Margaret Wilson OSCEOLA — Margaret Loretta Wilson, 63, of Osceola died Monday, Nov. 11, 2013.

She was born March 9, 1951, at Manila and was preceded in death by her parents, Ozzie Oswald Poston and Nola Poston; husband, Gregory Wilson Sr.; a sister; and two brothers.

Survivors include her children, Gregory Wilson II of Wilson, Terry Wilson and Roberta Wilson, both of Grand Rapids, Mich.; sister, Peggy Snyder of Redding, Pa.; brothers, Elmer Poston of Omaha and Charles Poston of Los Angeles; and two grandchildren.

A memorial service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Wilson Funeral Home in Osceola.

Fire Runs Firefighters answer 14 alarms JONESBORO — The Jonesboro Fire Department responded to the following

alarms during the 24-hour period ending at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

■ At 9:12 p.m. Monday, 5504 Kreuger Drive, gasoline spill.

■ At 9:38 p.m. Monday, 2906 Kazi St., smoke detector activation with no fire.

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Suspected burglars go through front door

JONESBORO — Two residential burglaries reported Monday to Jonesboro Police Department had one thing in common: The alleged suspect or suspects entered the home through the front door and took items while the victims were at home.

Jonesboro Police Department was dispatched shortly after 8 a.m. to 2210 Sybel Cv. Apt. 3.

According to a police report, Ricky Barr, 52, told police that it was either Nov. 7 or Nov. 8 when a person known to him only as “Keith” entered his home.

Barr said he was in the kitchen when he heard a noise and went to investigate.

Barr caught “Keith” going out his back door with Barr’s television under his arm, the report stated.

Barr grabbed his television and escorted “Keith” out the door.

JPD was also dispatched to 300 E. Pine St. in reference to a residential burglary.

According to a police report, Joyce Williams, 44, told police that a man came into her home earlier through the front door and stole a cigar box full of money.

A witness contacted Williams later and told her they saw someone leaving with the cigar box at about the time it went missing.

Police spoke with the witness who was able to positively identify the suspect’s photograph.

Both cases are active investigations.

Shooting suspect released on $3,500 bond

JONESBORO — A man accused of shooting at a carload of young men Sunday morning posted $3,500 bond Tuesday and was released from jail.

District Judge Curt Huckaby set the bond after he found sufficient evidence to charge Dontra Webb, 21, 1125 Walker Ct. Apt. 2, with suspicion of a terroristic act.

A conviction for a terroristic act carries a possible prison sentence of 20 years.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Webb was arrested after a planned fight among a group of young men turned into a shooting near Allis Street.

Webb told police he and a 15-year-old male took turns firing a Hi-Point .45 caliber pistol at the car, the affidavit stated.

Webb is slated to appear at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 30 in Craighead County Circuit Court.

In another case, a woman accused of forging a prescription in her children’s names was jailed on a $1,500 bond.

Huckaby found sufficient evidence to charge Whitney McDaniel, 28, 3313 Timms St., with suspicion of using fraud

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Two sentenced in meth Bay school board accepts and marijuana cases bid for bus engine repair Judgment came Tuesday for two accused of unrelated drug crimes.

BY SUNSHINE SWALLERS Sun Staff Writer sswallers@jonesborosun.com

JONESBORO — As shackled inmates in circuit court took turns speaking with lawyers and rattling chains on the way to the restroom, one man was overheard saying, “You’re still asleep? Wake your happy [butt] up, man. It’s judgment day.”

Judgment came Tuesday for two accused of unrelated drug crimes.

A man considered a “habitual offender” was sentenced to three years in prison for a total of 5.5 grams of methamphetamine possession. In a separate case, a woman was sentenced to one year of probation for misdemeanor possession of 78.1 grams of marijuana.

Jarrell Lowery, 33, of Jonesboro, pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Cindy Thyer to possession of a controlled substancemethamphetamine.

According to court documents, Lowery’s trouble began in the spring when officers with the Craighead County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to his house in reference to a disturbance.

Deputies found Lowery to be in possession of 2 grams of methamphetamine and furnishing prohibited articles.

Lowery was sentenced to 36 months in the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) plus five years suspended imposition of sentence or

probation for the possession charge.

Lowery also pleaded guilty to furnishing prohibited articles.

According to court documents, Lowery was in custody at the Craighead County Detention Center on misdemeanor charges on or about Sept. 25.

After Lowery appeared in court Sept. 25 deputies performed a barracks check and found 3.3 grams of methamphetamine in his possession.

Lowery was also sentenced to 36 months in the ADC plus five years probation for the second charge, the documents stated.

Lowery was found to be a “habitual offender” because of two prior methamphetamine possession cases from several years ago.

Before his incarceration, Lowery worked for two years at a farm equipment company, court documents stated.

In addition to penitentiary time and a suspended sentence, Lowery was ordered to pay more than $800 in fees and fines. If the court revokes Lowery’s probation for any reason, he could be sentenced to seven years in prison.

Robin Ragsdale, 38, 4620 Prospect Road, Apt. 2, Jonesboro, pleaded guilty to possession of

a controlled substancemarijuana.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Ragsdale was arrested during a drug task force investigation.

Officers stopped two vehicles after the drivers left Ragsdale’s hotel room and marijuana was reportedly found in each vehicle.

An officer knocked on Ragsdale’s door and smelled marijuana when it was opened.

Ragsdale surrendered 78.1 grams (about 2.75 ounces) of marijuana to authorities, the affidavit stated.

She pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.

She was sentenced to one year suspended sentence plus $731 in court costs and fees.

Since possession of a controlled substance leads to a driver’s license suspension, Ragsdale was granted a hardship license to drive to and from work and other court-ordered appointments.

According to court documents, as probationers both Lowery and Ragsdale must submit to a search or seizure of their persons or property “at any time day or night, with or without a search warrant, whenever requested by any supervising law enforcement officer.”

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At 1:29 a.m. Tuesday, Brandon Drive, building fire.

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■ Hired Susan Moore as elementary concession stand worker.

Motions were approved with 4-0 votes.

Director Donny Rodgers was absent.

BRTC Foundation to benefit from ‘The Odd Couple’ PARAGOULD — The Greene County Fine Arts Council will present a dinner theater production of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” Nov. 22-24 at the Red Goose Deli in downtown Paragould. One dollar from every ticket sold will be donated to the Black River Technical College Foundation.

The play will feature BRTC alum and respiratory adjunct instructor Jason Linam as “Felix” and BRTC-Paragould theater instructor Thom Fielder as “Oscar.”

Felix Ungar, a neurotic, neat-freak news writer, is thrown out by his wife and moves in with his friend Oscar Madison, a messy sportswriter. Despite Oscar’s problems — careless spending, excessive gambling, a poorly kept house filled with spoiled food — he seems to enjoy life. Felix, however, seems utterly incapable of enjoying

anything and only finds purpose in pointing out his own and other people’s mistakes and foibles. Even when he tries to do so in a gentle and constructive way, his corrections and suggestions prove extremely annoying to those around him. Oscar, his closest friend, feels compelled to throw him out after only a brief time together, though he quickly realizes Felix has had a positive effect on him.

Dinner will begin at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday with the performance to start at 7 p.m. On Sunday, the meal will be served at 12:30 p.m. with the performance beginning at 1 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.gcfac.org, by calling 236-6223, or from Fielder at the BRTC campus in Paragould. Tickets are $25 for both meal and show or $15 for the show only.

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According to a report, police were dispatched to the Cash Saver Pharmacy, 3106 Southwest Drive, when the phar-

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McDaniel requested to be released on her own recognizance because she is eight months pregnant and has been having complications, but the court found a $1,500

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A conviction in McDaniel’s case could lead to a six-year prison sentence.

McDaniel is scheduled to appear at 8:30 a.m.

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Shopping overhauls Thanksgiving Supreme Court

BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press

NEW YORK — Last Thanksgiving Day, Kimberly Mudge Via’s mother, sister and nieces left in the middle of their meals to head for the mall.

Now, Via says she’ll never host Thanksgiving dinner for her relatives again.

“They barely finished,” says the 28-year-old who lives in Boone, N.C. “They thanked me and left their plates on the counter.”

That scene could become more common in homes across the country.

Black Friday shopping, the annual rite of passage on the day after Thanksgiving, continues to creep further into the holiday as more stores open their doors a day early.

It’s a break with tradition. Black Friday, which typically is the year’s biggest shopping day, for a decade has been considered the official start to the busy holiday buying season. Stores open in the wee hours of the morning with special deals called

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Shoppers stand in line outside a Best Buy department store in 2012 before the store’s opening at midnight. Thanksgiving is slowly becoming just another shopping day as at least a dozen major retailers are planing to open Thursday. doorbusters and stay open late into the evening.

Meanwhile, Thanksgiving and Christmas remained the only two days a year that stores were closed.

Now Thanksgiving is slowly becoming just another shopping day. Over the past few years, major retailers, including Target and Toys R Us, slowly have pushed opening times into Thanksgiving night to one-up each other

and compete for holiday dollars. Some initially resisted, saying that they wanted their employees to be able to spend time with their families.

This year, more than a dozen major retailers are opening on Thanksgiving, including a handful like Macy’s, J.C. Penney and Staples that are doing it for the first time. The Gap, which operates its Old Navy, Gap and Banana

Republic, is opening half of its stores on Thanksgiving morning.

Roger Beahm, professor of marketing at the Wake Forest University School of Business in WinstonSalem, N.C., expects that it’s just a matter of time — he estimates five years — before most chains open all day on Thanksgiving.

As for Christmas, he says that day is still sacred among shoppers.

“The floodgates have opened,” Beahm says.

“People will turn Thanksgiving Day shopping into a tradition as they historically have on the day after Thanksgiving ... And stores don’t want to be left behind.”

Indeed, retailers say they’re just doing what shoppers want. And they know that opening earlier gives them a chance to be the first to grab shoppers’ dollars. That’s an important opportunity for chains, which can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue during the last two months of the year.

considers whistleblower protections Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court looked back Tuesday at the collapse of energy giant Enron to determine who is protected from retaliation after blowing the whistle on a company’s misdeeds.

The justices heard arguments in an appeal brought by two former employees of companies that run the Fidelity family of mutual funds. The workers claimed they faced retaliation after they reported allegations of fraud affecting Fidelity funds.

They argue that a provision of the SarbanesOxley Act, passed in 2002 in response to the Enron scandal, protects their whistle-blower activity.

But the court spent most of an hour Tuesday discussing Enron’s bankruptcy in 2001 amid startling revelations that its top executives manipulated the company’s earnings and stock price by lying to employees and investors about Enron’s financial health. The scandal also took down the Arthur Andersen accounting firm that failed to uncover efforts by Enron to hide its debts among spinoffs it created with “Star Wars”inspired names like Chewco and Jedi.

In 2002, Congress responded to scandals at Enron and other companies by passing the SarbanesOxley law. The provision at issue at the Supreme Court protects people who expose the kind of corporate misdeeds that arose at Enron.

One World Trade Center named tallest US building Associated Press

NEW YORK — They set out to build the tallest skyscraper in the world — a giant that would rise a symbolic 1,776 feet from the ashes of ground zero.

Those aspirations of global supremacy fell by the wayside long ago, but New York won a consolation prize Tuesday when

an international architectural panel said it would recognize One World Trade Center as the tallest skyscraper in the United States.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, considered a world authority on supersized skyscrapers, announced its decision at simultane-

ous news conferences in New York and Chicago, home to the 1,451-foot Willis Tower, which is being dethroned as the nation’s tallest building.

Measuring the height of a building would seem to be a simple thing, but in the case of the new World Trade Center tower it is complicated by the 408-foot-tall needle atop the skyscraper’s roof.

The council’s verdict rested on a conclusion that the needle should be counted as part of the building’s total height. Without it, the tower would be just 1,368 feet tall, the same height as the original World Trade Center. That would make it smaller than not only the Willis, but also a 1,397-foot apartment building being built a short subway ride away near Central Park.

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Men carry the coffin Tuesday of one of four Syrian children who were killed Monday in the Bab Sharqi neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. The state news agency said a mortar shell hit a school bus Monday in the neighborhood, killing four children and the bus driver. It said four children and two teachers were also wounded.

Families grieve in Damascus after attack on school

BY ALBERT AJI ZEINA KARAM Associated Press

DAMASCUS, Syria — Families in a central neighborhood of the Syrian capital wept quietly Tuesday as they retrieved the bodies of four children and their bus driver killed in a mortar attack on their school in a predominantly Christian area a day earlier.

The strike was the latest rebel reprisal to hit Damascus as government troops press ahead with a crushing weekslong advance into oppositionheld suburbs, often relying on indiscriminant artillery fire themselves. Such mortar attacks by rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad have been on the rise. “Those children were angels,� said Marwan Qabalan, a family friend picking up the body of nine-year-old Vaniciya Mekho from the morgue.

He said the girl’s parents couldn’t bear to see her, still dressed in a school

uniform and covered with blood.

Often-random rebel mortar fire has hit shops, churches, homes and embassies in the capital this year, killing dozens of civilians. But Monday’s shelling of Risaleh school in the Bab Sharqi neighborhood shocked residents in particular because the casualties were children.

A fifth pupil died early Tuesday, raising the number of children killed to five. Four other children and two supervisors were also wounded in the strike, and another mortar attack the same day on nearby John of Damascus school wounded 11.

Also Tuesday, Kurds announced a transitional autonomous administration to run day-to-day affairs in regions they dominate in Syria’s northeast. Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, said the announcement was made in the city of Qamishli.

CAIRO — A court declared that Egypt’s 3-month-old state of emergency expired Tuesday, two days earlier than expected, but the military and security officials held off from implementing the ruling and lifting a nighttime curfew, amid worries that the measures’ end will fuel protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

Morsi, meanwhile, held his first extensive meeting with lawyers in a prison near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. He had been held in secret military detention with almost no contact with the outside world since he was ousted in a July 3 popularly backed coup, but he was moved to a regular prison last week after the first session of his trial on charges of inciting murder.

The lawyers, who hail from the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, on Wednesday will relay a message from Morsi addressing the Egyptian people and “all parties,� according to Morsi’s son Osama, a lawyer who was among those who met him. The son told The Associated Press that his father is still refusing to allow any lawyer to represent him in the trial because he insists he remains president and does not recognize the tribunal.

The state of emergency and a nighttime curfew imposed along with it have been aimed at helping authorities tighten their security grip and control on near daily protests that frequently de-

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Amr Moussa, the chairman of Egypt’s 50-member panel tasked with amending Egypt’s Islamist-drafted constitution, speaks during a press conference Tuesday at the upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, in Cairo. scended into violence by pro-Morsi supporters and his Muslim Brotherhood demanding his reinstatement and the reversal of what the call an illegal coup against democracy.

On Monday, Interior Minister Mahmoud Ibrahim, who heads the security forces, said the state of emergency would expire on Thursday and that security reinforcements would deploy in the streets at that time — a sign of the worries over intensified protests.

The surprise ruling by the Cairo Administrative Court ordering the lifting Tuesday appeared to have caught the government off guard — and authori-

ties said they were not immediately implementing it until the court formally notifies them of the decision.

The confusion came because the state of emergency was initially announced for a month on Aug. 14. But the government renewed it for another two months on Sept.

12. The court said that means it ends on Nov. 12, not Nov. 14.

The Cabinet put out a statement saying it will abide by the ruling, but that it will wait for the details of the ruling to issue the verdict in writing. By Tuesday night, that had not occurred.

The military said that

without official notification of the verdict, it was implementing the curfew as planned, at 1 a.m. on Wednesday. Military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said in a statement that the military so far had not been “notified officially of any court ruling.�

The state news agency also cited an unidentified high ranking Interior Ministry official saying the ministry has not received the court’s ruling.

It said security forces have started deploying to secure the Egyptian street.

It was not clear how binding the ruling is. The court said its decision came in response to a lawsuit questioning legality of the state of emergency, and the court rejected the lawsuit saying that it has already expired. A senior judge in the court, AbdelMaguid al-Mouqanan, told the state news agency that the ruling doesn’t obligate the government to put an end to the state of emergency.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement that the U.S. welcomed the formal lifting of the state of emergency, but also took note of the fact the government is considering other legislation on security.

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GOP blocks key Obama court nominee in Senate

BY ALAN FRAM Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans blocked another of President Barack Obama’s picks for one of the nation’s top courts on Tuesday, the latest skirmish in a nominations battle that has intensified partisan tensions in the chamber.

The vote derailed Obama’s selection of Georgetown University law professor Cornelia Pillard to fill one of three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The roll call was 56-41 in favor of ending GOP procedural delays that have blocked Pillard from winning confirmation — four short of the 60 votes Democrats needed.

The D.C. circuit court is considered one of the nation’s most powerful because it rules on administration orders and regulations and because

some of its judges ultimately become Supreme Court justices. The D.C. circuit’s eight current judges are divided evenly between Democratic and Republican nominees.

Democrats used Tuesday’s vote to assail Republicans for opposing female nominees to the D.C. circuit. Republicans have blocked votes on two other Obama nominees to the same court this year, attorneys Patricia Millett and Caitlin Halligan.

“Women are grossly underrepresented on our federal courts. So what kind of message are Senate Republicans sending by refusing to even allow a vote on three of the most qualified female attorneys in this country,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said.

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, top Republican on the Judiciary panel, called such arguments “offensive,” adding that

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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. (center), speaks to reporters Tuesday after Senate Republicans derailed President Barack Obama’s selection of Georgetown University law professor Cornelia Pillard to fill one of three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit at the Capitol in Washington. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. (from left), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., amd Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., listen.

Democrats’ “last line of defense is to accuse Republicans of opposing nominees based upon gender or race.”

Tuesday’s vote prompt-

ed Democrats to threaten anew to unilaterally rewrite Senate rules to make it harder for the chamber’s minority party to block nominations.

Commercial bus seat belts delayed 45 years

BY JOAN LOWY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After a drunken driver on a California highway back in 1968 slammed into a bus carrying passengers to Las Vegas, killing 19, investigators said a lack of seat belts contributed to the high death toll.

But 45 years later, safety advocates are still waiting for the government to act on seat belts and other measures to protect bus passengers.

Over the years, the National Transportation Safety Board has repeated its call for seat belts or some other means to keep passengers in their seats during crashes involving

Safety advocates are still waiting for the government to act on seat belts and other measures to protect bus passengers. the large buses used for tours, charters and intercity passenger service.

About half of all such motorcoach fatalities are the result of rollovers, and about 70 percent of those killed in rollover accidents were ejected from the bus.

The board has also repeatedly recommended stronger windows that don’t pop out from the force of a collision and help keep passengers from being ejected, and roofs that withstand

crushing.

Those recommendations are nearly as old as the seat belt recommendation.

No requirements have been put in place, even though all have long been standard safety features in cars.

Hundreds of motorcoach passengers have died and even more have been injured, many severely, since the board made its initial recommendations.

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Victims have included college baseball players in Atlanta, Vietnamese churchgoers in Texas, skiers in Utah, gamblers returning to New York’s Chinatown, and members of a high school girls’ soccer team en route to a playoff match.

“In 1998, my father was launched like a missile (out) a bus window and landed on his head on pavement. He is now permanently brain damaged and cannot even take care of himself,” one woman wrote regulators, urging them to act.

“This issue has been around for decades and it needs to change, NOW, before more people die or are severely injured like my father.”

Democrats could do that by curbing a minority’s ability to require 60 votes to end procedural delays called filibusters.

“Republicans are inch-

ing closer and closer to that line. I’d hope they’ll turn back,” said No. 3 Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

It is unclear that Democrats have enough votes to force such changes.

Some senior lawmakers have long warned that it would boomerang against them should the GOP recapture the Senate majority and the White House.

In a sign of shifting attitudes, Leahy — a senator for nearly four decades — said he now backs a rules change because blocking judges for political reasons “destroys the integrity of the federal judiciary.”

Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the only two Republicans to vote “yes” on Pillard. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was the only Democrat to vote “no,” allowing him to stage the vote again.

Ill boy who came home for early Christmas dies Associated Press

TOLEDO, Ohio — A boy whose last wish was to be home for his favorite holiday has died, two weeks after his hometown welcomed him with a Christmas tree outside his window and a motorcycleriding Santa Claus.

Doctors had told the family of 13-year-old Devin Kohlman that he didn’t have long to live so residents in the city of Port Clinton along Lake Erie spent the past few weeks giving him an early Christmas.

They sang carols outside the family’s apartment, piled tons of shaved ice into drifting snow near his window and decorated a park with colorful strings of lights, reindeer cutouts

and a red “Merry Christmas, Devin” sign.

Devin, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in the summer of 2012, died Monday afternoon, his family said. Relatives and friends gathered for a vigil after his death while an early-season snow fell over the city.

“He had the gift of being able to see how much everyone loved him,” his mother, Alexis Kohlman, said Tuesday.

Devin was flown from Cincinnati, where he was being treated, to Port Clinton on Oct. 27 so that he could spend his final days at home. Residents filled the city’s main street late at night as Devin was driven home with a police escort.

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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 e-mail to newsroom@jonesborosun.com.

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■ Caraway City Council, 6 p.m., City Hall.

■ Blytheville City Parks & Recreation Committee, 4:30 p.m., municipal courtroom.

■ Jackson County Quorum Court, 6 p.m., County Courthouse.

Today in History Today is Wednesday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2013. There are 48 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

On this date: In 1312, England’s King Edward III was born at Windsor Castle.

In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

In 1849, voters in California ratified the state’s original constitution.

In 1909, 259 men and boys were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Ill. In 1927, the Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between lower Manhattan and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.

In 1937, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, formed exclusively for radio broadcasting, made its debut.

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.

In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public city and state buses.

In 1969, speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.

In 1971, the U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars.

In 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.

Ten years ago: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove his granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel for having “placed himself above the law.” Eric Gagne of the Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League Cy Young Award.

Five years ago: A wind-driven fire erupted in Southern California; the blaze destroyed more than 200 homes in Santa Barbara and neighboring Montecito. Investors did an abrupt turnaround on Wall Street, muscling the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 550 points after three straight days of selling. Colombian rocker Juanes won five awards, including record of the year and album of the year, at the Latin Grammys in Houston.

Cleveland’s Cliff Lee won the American League Cy Young Award.

One year ago: The Pentagon said it was looking into more than 20,000 pages of documents and emails between Marine Gen. John Allen and Florida socialite Jill Kelley. (Kelly had reportedly received threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, the biographer who had an affair with Gen. David Petraeus.) A week after winning a ninth full term in Congress, Jesse Jackson Jr. left the Mayo Clinic, where he had been treated for bipolar disorder.

The Chicago-area Democrat had rarely appeared in public since taking medical leave in June.

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Today City Hi/Lo/W Ashdown 51/26/s Batesville 46/29/s Benton 49/27/s Bentonville 49/28/s Blytheville 44/30/s C. Girardeau, MO 44/26/s Clarksville 48/24/s Conway 48/25/s Crossett 52/27/s Des Arc 46/27/s Dyersburg, TN 46/28/s El Dorado 50/24/s Fayetteville 48/24/s Flippin 47/26/s Fort Smith 52/27/s Hampton 50/26/s Hot Springs 49/27/s Jackson, TN 48/24/s

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NATIONAL EXTREMES YESTERDAY (for the 48 contiguous states) National High: 91° at Phoenix, AZ National Low: -2° at Rudyard, MT

Agency accepts airline merger

BY DAVID KOENIG Associated Press

DALLAS — American Airlines and US Airways reached a deal with the government that lets the two form the world’s biggest airline and opens up more room at key U.S. airports for low-cost carriers.

The settlement announced Tuesday — if approved by a federal judge — would end a fight with the U.S. Justice Department and head off a courtroom showdown later this month.

It preserves hub airports in Phoenix, Philadelphia, Charlotte and four other cities for at least three years. And it caps a series of mergers that have already eliminated four big U.S. airlines and stoked fear about higher travel prices.

For American, the nation’s third-biggest airline, the deal lets parent AMR Corp. exit bankruptcy protection, repay creditors and reward shareholders.

At US Airways, the No. 5 U.S. carrier, shareholders will own 28 percent of the new company, employees stand to get more pay, and top executives will realize their dreams of running an airline even bigger than United or Delta.

The Justice Department said it extracted the largest divestitures ever in an airline merger. Attorney General Eric Holder said the agreement would ensure more competition on nonstop and connecting routes throughout the country.

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An American Airlines plane and a US Airways plane sit at ae gate Aug. 13 at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport. On Tuesday, the Justice Department said it reached an agreement to allow the merger of the two airlines. The agreement requires them to scale back the size of the merger at key airports in Washington and other big cities.

For American and US Airways customers, they’ll get reciprocal frequent-flier benefits in January and, executives said, more service to more places eventually. Doug Parker, the US Airways CEO who will run the new airline, even suggested that customer service will improve because workers will share in a more prosperous industry.

William Baer, assistant attorney general for Justice’s antitrust division, said that even a few more gates and flights for lowfare carriers would help consumers. He said that when Southwest picked up slots at Newark, N.J., as part of the 2010 merger of United and Continental, it had a ripple effect that reduced fares on

many routes.

The airlines were close to finishing the merger in August until the Justice Department and several states filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, saying it would reduce competition on hundreds of routes around the country and lead to higher consumer prices. A trial was scheduled to begin Nov. 25.

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Syria war leads to rise in Lebanon kidnappings

BY DIAA HADID Associated Press

BEIRUT — For nearly three weeks, kidnappers held Lebanese pharmacist Wissam Khatib, threatening to kill him and his children if his family didn’t pay a ransom of tens of thousands of dollars.

During his captivity, Khatib — often shackled and blindfolded — went through depression, terror, pain. But, he says, the trauma was not a surprise. A well-to-do pharmacist in the eastern Lebanese city of Zahleh, the 40-year-old Khatib knew he was a target.

He had escaped one kidnapping attempt in August, when he saw masked gunmen ap-

proaching his pharmacy and fled before they saw him. He expected them to return, knowing that Lebanon’s weak security forces couldn’t help him. “The state knew, security forces knew, but they didn’t help me at all,�

Khatib told The Associated Press.

Hostage-taking of wealthy businessmen in Lebanon has risen more than seven-fold in an unlikely knock-on effect from Syria’s civil war. Security officials say gangs who once made their money smuggling fuel and contraband through the porous Syria-Lebanon border have watched their trade wither because of the violence, so they are turning to kidnapping to

make a profit.

Lebanon is suffering multiple woes from the war next door. The tiny country, with a population of 4.5 million, has been flooded with an estimated 1 million Syrians fleeing the conflict.

Also, tensions between its Sunni and Shiite communities have spiked, sometimes exploding into deadly clashes, mirroring the sectarian hatreds in Syria, where Sunnis largely support the rebellion, and Shiites and the Alawite sect — an offshoot of Shiism — back President Bashar Assad.

In the latest violence, a Sunni sheik, Saad ElDeen Ghieh, was shot to death in his car Tuesday by gunmen in the north-

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A Lebanese released hostage pharmacist, Wissam Khatib, looks for medicine on a shelf Thursday at his pharmacy in Zahleh town, in the Bekaa valley, east Lebanon. Lebanon has seen a dramatic spike in kidnappings in an unusual knock-on effect from the civil war in neighboring Syria. ern city of Tripoli, scene of frequent clashes between Sunnis and Alawites in connection with Syria’s war.

In contrast, the kidnapping wave — a more indirect repercussion — illustrates the multiple, unexpected ways that

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JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday abruptly halted a plan to explore the potential construction of thousands of new homes in West Bank settlements, saying it had created an “unnecessary confrontation� with the international community that threatened to weaken his campaign against Iran’s suspect nuclear program.

The plan announced by

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The statement said Ariel had accepted the request.

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2 US mariners kidnapped off Nigerian shores freed Associated Press

WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The State Department says two American mariners kidnapped last month off the coast of Nigeria have been released.

Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Tuesday that the U.S. welcomes the release of the two Americans, but said privacy concerns prevented her from disclosing any details about how they were freed.

U.S. officials earlier identified the two as the captain and chief engineer of the U.S.-flagged C-Retriever offshore supply vessel.

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Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s navy has rescued at least two hostages this year and reported killing several pirates in counterattacks to prevent ship hijackings.

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Brookland mayor discusses growth

BY CHRISTI CRAWFORD Sun Staff Writer ccrawford@jonesborosun.com

BROOKLAND — Geographic location has sandwiched Brookland in a prime spot less than 15 miles between two growing communities and has sparked some growth of its own.

According to Brookland Mayor Kenneth Jones, Brookland’s location and school have caused most of the town’s growth.

“We are blessed to be sitting where we are,” Jones said. “We have good highway access for transportation with easy access south to Jonesboro and north to Paragould, and our school is

a shining star in the area.”

Jones said the new NEA Baptist Clinic and Hospital medical campus also generated residential growth in Brookland.

“Depending on how busy traffic is and what time of day you’re driving, the new hospital is only about three minutes from Brookland,” Jones said.

“We’ve got a new 288-unit apartment complex, and we’ve got a bunch of nurses, respiratory therapists and other folks who will be working at the hospital moving into our community.”

The Brookland Hills subdivision is also bringing additional

residential real estate to the former country club location.

Commercial growth on Highway 49 South is evident, as a new two-shop space is nearing completion. According to Jones, a tanning salon and hair salon will occupy the space.

Additionally, a new Jordan’s Kwik Stop is supposed to open in January at the intersection of School Street and Highway 49 South.

“Jordan’s purchased the land and did some work on it, but that’s the last we’ve heard in a month,” Jones said. “It was supposed to be ready in January, but we haven’t really heard

anything in a while.”

Jones said the town’s growth has had a positive impact on the community.

“Our citizens are a huge part of our growth, because they voted for the sales tax increase,” Jones said. “By doing that, Brookland has taken steps to better serve the community with a better infrastructure.”

Jones said in the next year, $300,000-$400,000 in road improvements will be made possible by both tax revenue and state aid.

“Our tax base has grown, and we can now do some of the work we haven’t been able to do

in the past to move toward the future,” Jones said. “For years, our citizens have spent money in Jonesboro and Paragould adding tax revenue to both areas, and now people from other areas are starting to spend money in Brookland.”

According to Jones, increased tax revenue means there is no extra burden on citizens to pay for infrastructure inprovements.

Jones said several other commercial projects are considering the area, but could not elaborate because none involved formal agreements or contracts.

Lawrence County employees to get end-of-year bonuses

BY GEORGE JARED Sun Staff Writer gjared@jonesborosun.com

WALNUT RIDGE — Christmas came early for Lawrence County employees Tuesday night in Walnut Ridge.

Quorum Court members unanimously approved about $50,000 for end-of-year bonuses for employees.

The amount each employee will get varies based on full- or part-time employment status and other factors, officials said.

Court members had been concerned the county couldn’t afford the annual bonuses, but budget projections show the county should finish the year in the black, Justice of the Peace Junior Briner said.

The court also decided to enact a hazardous driving ordinance. The ordinance will allow deputies to write tickets for any type of unsafe driving, unnecessary swerving, acceleration to make sounds or any other action that is

deemed unsafe.

Fines will range from $75 to $250 and may include court costs of up to $75. Hazardous driving tickets are already being issued, but the money goes to the state, and the ticket can be sent to your insurance company if its levied by the state, Lawrence County Sheriff Jody Dotson said.

“It won’t go against a person’s insurance,” Dotson said before the ordinance was passed. “Almost every city around us is already doing it. … this will just keep the money at home.”

In other business, justices passed a measure to allow the millage rates to be applied in different parts of the county for 2013. Those real and personal property taxes will be due in 2014. Court members also passed several passthrough grants to help fund numerous fire departments throughout the county.

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Cutting away J.R. Engle of Batesville-based M & A Jones Construction Co. on Tuesday afternoon cuts a pipe before removing concrete at a construction site at the intersection of Wilkins Avenue and Caraway Road in Jonesboro. The building at the site is being remodeled to be a First Community Bank branch.

BIC students write petition, take part in cross-curricular adventure

BY SHERRY F. PRUITT Sun Staff Writer sherry@jonesborosun.com

MONETTE — Baylee Rose and John Garrett Edwards said their goal was to get 100 percent of sixth-graders to sign a petition allowing them take a field trip to Harrisburg.

“Some didn’t want to, but most of us did,” Edwards said.

The students were in one of two classes of sixth-graders, who used a classroom lesson on democracy to turn the tables on West Elementary administrators.

West Elementary is one of two elementary schools in the Buffalo Island Central school district.

Students Lexa Whitley and Lilie Hatch wrote a proposal advocating sixth-graders take a field trip to Parker Pioneer Homestead near Harrisburg. Rose edited it, and most classmates signed it.

Usually, fourth-graders at BIC visit the re-created 19th century town at Whitehall. They learn about trades, such as blacksmithing, sorghum making and newspaper printing at the homestead.

When the sixth-graders were in the fourth grade, they went to see a performance of “The Nutcracker” instead, explained West Elementary Principal Kima Stewart. It wasn’t their fault. It happened because of teachers switching positions, social studies teacher Terrie Selby said.

Fast foward two years.

The 11-year-olds were talking, and the conversation turned to field trips.

Under the direction of Selby, the sixthgraders were studying democracy and the right to petition.

“They came up with a petition,” Stewart said. “That’s what education is about.

It’s education in action, and we had a

new superintendent.”

“They went step by step, worded it, and the students brought it straight to you,” Selby told the principal.

After clearing it with their principal, the students asked if they could take it to Superintendent Gaylon Taylor.

Stewart agreed.

Taylor, who was hired as BIC superintendent this year, granted permission — with a caveat. He responded in writing to the students and the principal: “I am giving approval for the trip under one condition. Upon your return from the trip, each student will complete a five-paragraph essay over your field trip.

You will explain how your time at Parker Homestead is relevant to your studies.

The papers will be graded, and the individual with the best essay will receive a pizza party for his or her class.”

“Mr. Taylor came up with an extension of the assignment,” Stewart said. “It was to take it to the junior high English Department.”

What Taylor didn’t tell the sixthgraders initially is their essays would be graded by seventh-graders at Buffalo Island Central Junior High School in Leachville.

Students’ essays were numbered, and the older students graded the assignments without knowing the authors, Stewart said.

Adding technology to the cross-curricular assignment, a Chrome book was used to connect the sixth-graders in Monette with the seventh-graders in Leachville. Fourth- and fifth-graders in Monette classrooms were able to listen to the exchange, but unable to contribute, Steward added.

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Red Tent Experience, screening on tap at ASU

JONESBORO — A screening of “Things We Don’t Talk About” will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Wilson Hall Auditorium on the Arkansas State University campus.

“Things We Don’t Talk About” is a groundbreaking 72-minute documentary film by awardwinning filmmaker Dr. Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost. The film weaves together healing nar-

ratives from the Red Tent — a red textile space where women gather to share deep and powerful stories about their lives.

The film provides the audience an opportunity to remember, to listen, to know and to find what is needed to help awaken the voices of women.

A question-and-answer session with the filmmaker will follow the screening. The event is

free and open to the public.

The Red Tent Experience will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday in the Honors Living Learning Community Classroom at ASU. This event is open to women only.

With its ability to address social problems, reflect values, knowledge, and the basic feelings of women, the Red Tent fulfils a constellation of gendered societal needs — to cre-

ate a place that honors and celebrates women; enable open conversations about the things that women don’t want to talk about in other venues; promote positive ideals for womanhood; provide a place where women’s voices can be heard; to provide a place for women where they can laugh, cry, sing, dance, give each other back or foot rubs, play with face and body paint-

ing, give or receive massage and other types of body work, tell stories, eat soup, drink tea, sleep, meditate, journal, share poetry, create artwork, knit, among other things.

Co-sponsors of these events include the ASU vDepartment of Social Work, Office of Diversity, Dean B. Ellis Library, College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Heritage Studies.

Library plans to host ‘Doctor Who’ event

JONESBORO — “Doctor Who” fans are invited to the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library, 315 W. Oak Ave., to celebrate the pop culture hit’s 50th anniversary.

“Doctor Who” first aired on the BBC in 1963.

Library festivities will begin at 5 p.m. A cookie decorating contest will begin at 5:15 p.m., followed by games. Game winners will get to participate in a “Jeopardy”-style trivia game.

Around 6:30 p.m. the library will show a fan-favorite episode of “Doctor Who.” “We’ll show an episode

chosen by our Facebook fans. Be sure to check out the library Facebook page on Monday and Wednesday to cast your vote,” said Valerie Carroll, event coordinator.

This event is open to those ages 13 and older.

“It’s something that a lot of people in the community are interested in that isn’t associated with libraries and books but is fun and celebrates an important part of our culture,” Carroll said.

For more information on this or other library programs call 935-5133 or visit www.libraryinjonesboro.org.

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West Mart EHC officers

The West Mart Extension Homemakers Club officers for 2013-14 are (from left) Janice Moulder, treasurer; Bettye Gibson, secretary; Billie Mullins, vice president; and Jean Fisher, president.

Social Calendar Today Junior Auxiliary of Jonesboro, noon, board meeting, First United Methodist Church.

Games Club (Bridge), 9 a.m. to noon, Harlin Henry Senior Citizens Center.

Handquilters, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nettleton United Methodist Church.

ASU Faculty Women’s Club Book Club, 7 p.m., home of Jean Strauser.

Jonesboro Women of Moose, 7:30 p.m., Moose Lodge.

Jonesboro Masonic Lodge No. 129, 6 p.m. dinner and practice session, Jonesboro Masonic Lodge, 2206 W. Washington Ave. Walk fit, 8 and 9 a.m., karaoke, 9 a.m., game groups, 9 a.m., fit, 9:30 a.m., chair exercise, 10:30 a.m., book club, 10:30 a.m., Wii games, 11:30 a.m., ladies’ pool, 1 p.m., computer basics, 1 p.m., St. Bernards Senior Life Center, 700 E. Washington Ave. ■■■

Thursday Chapter BN of P.E.O., 10 a.m., Teresa Boyd, hostess.

Junior Auxiliary of

Jonesboro, 11 a.m., general meeting, First United Methodist Church.

Jonesboro Duplicate Bridge Club, 1 p.m., Harlin Henry Senior Citizens Center.

Chapter AJ of P.E.O., 1:30 p.m., home of Vickie Tidwell.

Chapter CF of P.E.O., 6:30 p.m., home of Stephanie Cockrill.

Pistols and Petticoats Square Dance Club, 7 to 9 p.m., Family Life Center, St. Paul United Methodist Church.

Caraway Masonic Lodge No. 733, 7:30 p.m., Caraway Lodge.

Jonesboro Elks Lodge, 7:30 p.m., lodge.

Stated Communications of Cardinal Lodge 677, 7:30 p.m., Weiner.

Walk fit, 8 a.m., memory class, 9 a.m., game groups, 9 a.m., fit, 9:30 a.m., medication misuse and abuse program, 10 a.m., chair exercise, 10:30 a.m., ladies’ pool, 1 p.m., pleasure painting, 1:30 p.m., baked potato supper, 5 p.m., music

by David and Kyle Luna, 6 p.m., St. Bernards Senior Life Center, 700 E. Washington Ave.

Births Bryon and Ashley Cliff of Jonesboro are the parents of a son, Racyn Stark. The 6-pound, 6-ouncer arrived at 12:58 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26, at The Women’s Center at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital.

Grandparents are Beth and Dan Pasmore and Jim and Michelle Cliff. Great-grandparents are Jean Pasmore, Jim and Mavis Stark, Ed and Emily Watson and Betty Nelson.

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It’s a girl for Randy and Sara Sullivan of Jonesboro. The 7-pound, 14-ouncer arrived Tuesday, Sept. 17, at St. Bernards Medical Center, and the couple’s daughter has been named Harlee Gayle.

Harlee has two brothers, Trey, 5, and Devon, 3. Grandparents are Rob and Susan Henegar and Leola Moreland, all of Jonesboro.

Great-grandmother is Josephine Johnson of Jonesboro.

Jude Brandon is the name chosen by Mark and Sarah Morris of Jonesboro for their son, who arrived Friday, Oct. 25, at The Women’s Center at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital, weighing 9 pounds, 5 ounces.

Jude has two siblings, Gabriel and Abigail. Grandparents are Roy and Terry Morris and George and Deborah Haney.

James and Courtney Colburn of Trumann are the parents of a daughter, Emma Raylynn. The 7-pounder arrived Friday, Oct. 18, at St. Bernard Medical Center.

Emma has five siblings, Lily Colburn, 6, Brooke Colburn, 5, Gatlin Colburn, 2, Brooklynn Chambers, 6, and Camryn Chambers, 4. Grandparents are Sam-

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my and Kathy Colburn of Walnut Ridge, Bobby and Lou Holladay of Trumann, Tommy and Judy Stevens of Bay and Robert Hoover of Paragould. Great-grandparents are Oral and Barbie Cover of McCrory, Darrell and Marylin Colburn of Walnut Ridge, Brenda Hawkins of Trumann and Dennis and Cora Dill of Jonesboro.

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Madyson Nicole Gates is the name chosen by Mika Mans and Christopher Gates for their daughter, who arrived Thursday, Oct. 17, at St. Bernards Medical Center, weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces.

Grandparents are Larry and Sonia Mans of of Bono, Angela Gates and Scott Hoover, both of Jonesboro. Great-grandparents are Carl Mans of Walnut Ridge, Kathy McCracken and Richard Hoover, both of Jonesboro.

Events Announcement The United Auto Workers Retirees will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Grecian Steak House, 210 Airport Road, Paragould.

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Social The Valley View Modern Extension Homemakers Club met Oct.

24 in the fellowship hall of Mount Carmel United Methodist Church.

Dollie Flemon, president, opened the meeting with the homemakers’ creed. Carol Kay Moore read the devotional. Shirley Duggleby present a program on self defense.

Leader reports included tips on how to avoid food allergies

by JoAnn Stevens; good nutrition for seniors by Wanda Hendrix; affects of depression by Glenda Wheaton.

Roberta Coleman presented the eye opener — little gift boxes made from cards.

Flemon reminded members the club will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Feb. 3.

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State governor candidates address educators

BY CHUCK BARTELS Associated Press

HOT SPRINGS — The four announced candidates for Arkansas governor split along party lines Tuesday on whether the state Supreme Court ruled correctly when it said local school districts shouldn’t have to give the state any leftover money after meeting the state’s perpupil spending targets.

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, the only Democratic candidate in the race, said he believes the ruling could undermine funding plans legislators put in place to address a lawsuit brought by the nowdefunct Lake View School District. Justices ended that case after 15 years — determining that the Legislature had established ways to fund evenly and adequately.

“I think the Supreme Court got it wrong,” Ross said at a meeting of the Arkansas Public Schools Resource Center. He said after the forum that he had met a teacher who moved from prosperous northwest Arkansas to southeast Arkansas and told him there is a vast difference between the regions in quality of school facilities.

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that state education officials could not lay claim to excess money from two school districts — Eureka Springs and Fountain Lake — after their local tax collections exceeded what was necessary to meet state-set spending totals.

Eureka Springs raised $825,000 more while Fountain Lake took in $1.4 million more under the state’s minimum property tax. Voters in 1996 directed all districts to levy no less than 25 mills of property tax for maintenance and operation of schools.

Districts are allowed to levy more than 25 mills. A mill produces $1 for every $1,000 of assessed property value.

Last month, a legislative committee shot down a bill that would have let the state retain the excess revenue, and GOP candidate Debra Hobbs, a state representative from Rogers, said her vote helped kill the bill that would have nullified the Supreme Court ruling.

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson, who unsuccessfully challenged Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe in 2006, said he supports the court’s decision.

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Businessman Curtis Coleman, a Republican, said districts should have the right to keep excess revenue.

“I have a fundamental problem with the state capping local property tax ... and giving it back with strings attached,” Coleman said.

Coleman said Tuesday

that he wants the state to abandon a 350-student minimum threshold for a school district to avoid being consolidated with another district. Legislators established the minimum a decade ago, saying districts with fewer than 350 pupils would be difficult to fund adequately and equitably.

Coleman cited the con-

Hutchinson wants to cut income tax

BY JEANNIE NUSS Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK — Republican gubernatorial hopeful and former U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday he wants to gradually cut Arkansas’ individual income tax rate, starting with a plan to reduce rates for the state’s middle class.

Hutchinson said that if elected, he would seek during his first year in office to drop the income tax rate from 7 percent to 6 percent for people earning between $34,000 and $75,000 and from 6 percent to 5 percent for people earning between $20,400 and $33,999.

For someone making about $50,000 per year, Hutchinson said his tax

plan would result in about a $300 tax cut per year.

“This is money that will be spent by the taxpayers,” Hutchinson said. “It will help grow our economy and it will create jobs.

And ... it creates a more fair tax structure compared with our surrounding states.”

Hutchinson said after the initial cuts, he would work with state lawmakers to hammer out more reductions as surpluses in state revenue and growth in the state’s economy allow.

Hutchinson said the tax cuts under his plan would cost about $100 million and would affect more than a half-million people in Arkansas. He also said his proposed income tax

cuts can be paid for with existing growth and surplus funds.

“We will maintain our commitment to fund education,” Hutchinson said.

“There’s not any cuts involved. That is off the table.”

Hutchinson, Little Rock businessman Curtis Coleman and state Rep. Debra Hobbs are seeking the GOP nomination for governor. Former U.S. Rep. Mike Ross is seeking the Democratic nomination.

Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe is term-limited and can’t seek re-election next year.

Hutchinson called for a gradual reduction in the state’s income tax months ago and Tuesday marked the unveiling of specific

figures in his proposal. He is far from the only candidate to advocate cutting taxes.

Ross last month called for a gradual reduction in the tax that Arkansas manufacturers pay for repairing or partly replacing machinery.

He proposed phasing out nearly all of the tax over time and estimated that eliminating that tax would eventually cost Arkansas about $40 million per year.

“Since launching his campaign, Mike Ross has said he would implement income tax cuts that target working families who need it the most,” Ross campaign spokesman Brad Howard said in a statement on Tuesday.

Wal-Mart steps up holiday competition

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An outdoors sign for Wal-Mart stands May 28 in Duarte, Calif. As more stores push for Thanksgiving shoppers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday, that it will start to offer its holiday blockbuster deals at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving at its stores, two hours earlier than last year. ing officer at Wal-Mart’s U.S. namesake division, said the discounter carefully studied the competitive landscape when it decided to start the deals earlier at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving.

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FORT SMITH — Engravers planned to fix the U.S. Marshals Museum’s 15,000-pound monument that misspells the name of Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe.

A ceremony was held Saturday dedicating the monument for the $50 million museum to be built along the Arkansas River. But at the ceremony, officials noticed that the governor’s last name was misspelled on the stone as “Bebee.”

“What we have determined is that the stone cutter or the engraver made that error, and it is 100 percent fixable,” said James Dunn, the museum’s president and chief executive officer, adding that such errors are not uncommon.

Dunn said a crane was used to put the stone in place a couple of days before the ceremony. It was immediately covered until the unveiling Saturday, he said.

Dunn told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the error can be repaired without replacing the entire stone.

“I was embarrassed for the governor that such a mistake had been made,” said Dunn. “I am also confident that we will get it fixed . It’s a beautiful stone. It’s

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Organizers intend to break ground Sept. 24, 2014, the 225th anniversary of when President George Washington established the marshals.

A commemorative coin will go on sale then, too, with proceeds expected to reach about $5 million.

The museum is expected to open in late 2016 or early 2017. A similar museum was located previously in Laramie, Wyo., but closed in 2002.

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The world’s largest retailer will stagger holiday deals throughout the night and into “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving that is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year.

The company also said that it will increase its stock of TVs by 65 percent and double the number of tablet computers for sale that weekend. It’s also bulking up the list of guaranteed popular items that it will sell in designated sections of its store to 21, from three last year.

Wal-Mart is responding to what’s expected to be a fiercely competitive holiday shopping season. Black Friday has traditionally been the official kickoff to the period, but in the last few years, that start has crept into Thanksgiving. This year, stores including Macy’s Inc., J.C. Penney Co. and Kohl’s Corp. are opening for the first time on Thanksgiving evening. And other stores, including Best Buy Co., announced earlier on Thanksgiving.

Most of Wal-Mart’s 4,000 U.S. namesake stores are already open 24 hours year-round. But the

“Everyone’s moved up this year so it will be a new dynamic,” MacNaughton said.

For online shoppers, Wal-Mart will be offering special deals starting Thanksgiving morning, some of which will be the same as those offered at the sales events at the stores later in the evening.

The stakes are high for retailers since the holiday season accounts for up to 40 percent of their annual revenue.

solidation of the Weiner school district, which had high-performing schools but not enough students.

“I definitely want (the 350-student minimum) to be amended, if not completely repealed. For instance, when I say amended, I think a population number as a single measure of whether a school is allowed to continue or

not is far inadequate and let’s at least add a population threshold, financial distress, lack of academic performance,” Coleman said after the session.

Hobbs said that districts that want to remain in existence without meeting the 350-student minimum should have to vow to not sue the state and claim they’re not being adequately funded.

“The reason for that 350 is to make sure they are fiscally sound,” Hobbs said.

Hutchinson didn’t weigh in directly on whether 350-student minimum should be abandoned but said he believes there should be a deeper measure to determine the fate of a district.

“I’ve always said if a school is performing academically and they’re financially sound, then the state should support that school in terms of their existence,” Hutchinson said.

Ross said the 350-student minimum “has been in place for a number of years. I think it probably makes sense and is probably a good place to be.”

But Ross also said schools should be judged on “quality rather than quantity.”

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“Our technology enabled us to meet with junior high face-to-face,” Selby said. “They (sixthgraders) loved the lesson.”

“It was the first time we had this technology available,” Stewart said. “We went wireless yesterday.

Less than 24 hours, and we were there.”

The principal credited technology coordinator Brandon Jones with working late to make the Skype meeting happen.

The seventh-graders, still not knowing which students wrote which essays, critiqued them so all the students could hear positive and negative comments about the papers.

“The sixth-grade kids were excited, completely mesmerized,” Stewart

said.

They used a rubric scoring guide for paragraph, report and essay writing to grade the essays, Selby said.

“Based on it, they anonymously graded them and picked the winner.”

First, they narrowed the 27 writers to four finalists: Whitley, Hatch, Rose and Edwards. They announced Hatch’s essay as the best during the Skype encounter.

“I was very excited,” Hatch said.

“She jumped out of her chair,” Rose added.

Edwards said the exercise was productive because student writers were able to see their mistakes, as well as what they did right.

“They gave us a lot of feedback,” Whitley said.

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nounced he would like to have sixth-graders grade essays written by seventhgraders.

Stewart said both groups of students benefited from the project.

She said junior high English teacher Nancy Spencer “felt like their kids learned more by doing the edits than our kids learned composing the essays.”

“It’s blending every subject,” Selby said.

Spencer also gave the younger students tips on what to expect in junior high English class next year.

Stewart said the new superintendent is protechnology, and she expects more cross-curricular activities at BIC. “We’ll embrace it, use it and maximize it,” she said.

can be worn for everyday purposes will also be listed on an employee’s taxes as a fringe benefit.

The court will approve its 2014 budget at its December meeting. The court is expected to pass a $2.9 million budget for the upcoming year. That’s 90 percent of the nearly $3.1 million in projected revenues the county is expected to take in, according to numbers released.

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BY MATTHEW V. ROBERSON Sun staff writer mroberson@jonesborosun.com

JONESBORO — Arkansas State needed a small miracle to beat Tennessee-Martin a year ago.

The Red Wolves are hoping they’ve improved enough that a similar bounce of the ball isn’t necessary tonight.

Arkansas State plays its home opener when it hosts UT-Martin this evening at the Convocation Center. Tipoff is 7:05 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on KFIN (FM107.9).

The last time these teams met was almost one year ago to the day.

Arkansas State needed a last-second 3-pointer at the end of regulation to force overtime, then finally beat the Skyhawks in triple overtime by a 77-73 score.

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Arkansas State’s Melvin Johnson drives the ball during the Red Wolves’ exhibition opener against Henderson State. ASU takes on Tennessee-Martin tonight at the Convocation Center in its regular-season home opener.

Texas State employs old-school formula

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Opponent: Texas State Site: Liberty Bank Stadium (30,406), Jonesboro Time: 6:30 p.m. Saturday Records: ASU 5-4, 3-1 SBC; TSU 6-3, 2-2 Sun Belt Series: First meeting Radio: KFIN (FM-107.9) TV: Sun Belt Network

JONESBORO — For Arkansas State, its first-ever matchup with Texas State may be a lot like a trip back in time.

That’s because the Bobcats play old-school football.

Arkansas State is busy preparing this week for a scheme it hasn’t seen on a regular basis in three decades or more. Unlike today’s hurry-up, no-huddle offenses that emphasize speed and utilize the pass to an extreme, Texas State’s playbook comes from another day and time when college football was dominated by the running game.

Texas State (6-3 overall, 2-2 Sun Belt Conference) runs the triple option, an offense that emphasizes blocking schemes, timing and reading the defense.

The Bobcats have shown that while the offense may be decades old, it can still be just as productive as it was in the height of its popularity.

“It’s kind of a tricky offense,” ASU linebacker Kyle Coleman said. “I played quarterback in high school and ran a similar type of offense somewhat, but it can be kind of tricky on the defense. It’s hard to stop and you have to know what to look for.”

What to look for is a ground-and-pound attack.

Texas State ranks fourth in the Sun Belt in rushing offense, averaging 183 yards a game on the ground. The Bobcats run the football 64 percent of the time, far more than any other team in the conference.

Arkansas State knows what to expect, but that won’t make stopping it any easier.

“It’s a whole lot of offense and they’re very, very well coached,” ASU defensive coordinator John Thompson said.

“There’s a lot of things that you’ve got to be prepared for. They’re an offense that they’re going to come in and show you a lot of things, and if there is something you can’t handle ... then they’re going to really bloody your nose with it.”

Texas State will run from a number of different

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SBC honors ASU’s Gamble

JONESBORO — One day after recording a double-double in her first game at Arkansas State, sophomore guard Aundrea Gamble was named the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week in women’s basketball.

Gamble scored 30 points and pulled down 10 rebounds Monday night as the Red Wolves opened the regular season with a 79-61 victory over Missouri State at the Convocation Center. She was perfect from the field in the first half, going 5-for-5 while also adding two free throws, and produced 18 points along with six rebounds in the second half.

The McKinney, Texas native is the 15th Red Wolves women’s basketball player to earn an SBC Player of the Week honor and her award was the 28th such award in the history of the program.

ASU visits Austin Peay State on Friday. The Red Wolves have two home games next week, hosting TennesseeMartin on Nov. 19 and Kent State on Nov. 22.

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Arkansas coach Bret Bielema speaks with an official during the Razorbacks’ loss last Saturday at Ole Miss.

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas won’t be going to a bowl game this winter, missing out on postseason play for the second straight year.

Senior Julian Horton is disappointed. He and the rest of the Razorbacks had much higher aspirations for coach Bret Bielema’s first season.

But he said Arkansas doesn’t have any plans to treat the 2013 season as if it’s over.

“It’s about pride,” Horton said when asked about Arkansas’ motivation with a bowl game out of the picture.

“We’ve got to have pride in what we do. … We’ve got to keep building each and every week and be motivated for these last two games.

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sas (3-7, 0-6 in Southeastern Conference) has left to play for after suffering its seventh straight loss at Ole Miss last Saturday. The 34-24 loss secured a losing record for the second straight season, leaving a sour taste around the program as it began another bye week with Tuesday’s practice.

The seven-game losing streak means Arkansas has two games left in 2013 before beginning the long offseason.

It will play Mississippi State in Little Rock on Nov. 23, then travel to play at LSU in the season finale on Nov. 29.

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MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6 p.m. — Wright State at Georgetown ....................... cable channel 62 (FS1) 7 p.m. — Tennessee-Martin at Arkansas State ................... KFIN (FM-107.9)

NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. — New York at Atlanta................................ cable channel 32 (ESPN) 7 p.m. — Toronto at Memphis ..................................cable channel 34 (FSN) 9:30 p.m. — Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers .......... cable channel 32 (ESPN)

NHL HOCKEY 7 p.m. — Philadelphia at Pittsburgh ....................cable channel 63 (NBCSN) 9 p.m. — Dallas at Edmonton ..................................cable channel 26 (FSN)

SOCCER Men’s World Cup qualifier 2:15 p.m. — Mexico vs. New Zealand .................... cable channel 32 (ESPN)

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL 6:30 p.m. — Texas Tech at Baylor ............................cable channel 26 (FSN)

Basketball NBA standings, schedule

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 4 4 .500 — Boston 4 4 .500 — Toronto 3 5 .375 1 New York 2 4 .333 1 Brooklyn 2 4 .333 1 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 5 3 .625 — Atlanta 4 3 .571 ½ Charlotte 3 4 .429 1½ Orlando 3 5 .375 2 Washington 2 5 .286 2½ Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 8 0 1.000 — Chicago 3 3 .500 4 Cleveland 3 5 .375 5 Milwaukee 2 4 .333 5 Detroit 2 5 .286 5½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 7 1 .875 — Houston 5 3 .625 2 Dallas 5 3 .625 2 Memphis 3 4 .429 3½ New Orleans 3 5 .375 4 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 5 1 .833 — Portland 5 2 .714 ½ Minnesota 5 3 .625 1 Denver 2 4 .333 3 Utah 0 8 .000 6 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Phoenix 5 2 .714 — L.A. Clippers 5 3 .625 ½ Golden State 5 3 .625 ½ L.A. Lakers 4 5 .444 2 Sacramento 1 5 .167 3½ ___ Monday’s Games San Antonio 109, Philadelphia 85 Indiana 95, Memphis 79 Atlanta 103, Charlotte 94 Boston 120, Orlando 105 Chicago 96, Cleveland 81 Houston 110, Toronto 104,2OT Denver 100, Utah 81 Detroit at Portland, (n) Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, (n) Tuesday’s Games Miami 118, Milwaukee 95 Dallas 105, Washington 95 Golden State 113, Detroit 95 L.A. Lakers 116, New Orleans 95 Today’s Games Milwaukee at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Houston at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Memphis, 7 p.m.

New York at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Washington at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Denver, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Utah, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 9 p.m.

Brooklyn at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Houston at New York, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s men’s college scores EAST Albany (NY) 71, NJIT 65 George Washington 108, Maine 81 Hampton 64, St. Peter’s 59 Harvard 79, MIT 37 La Salle 73, Quinnipiac 67 Lehigh 92, Rider 78 Manhattan 71, Columbia 70 Penn 79, Monmouth (NJ) 73 Pittsburgh 75, Fresno St. 54 Robert Morris 90, Lafayette 81 Syracuse 89, Fordham 74 Towson 95, Morgan St. 75 UMass 92, LSU 90 Vermont 77, Siena 66 SOUTH Alcorn St. 87, Mississippi College 61 Campbell 73, Appalachian St. 66 Coll. of Charleston 83, Charlotte 82 East Carolina 85, UNC Greensboro 84 FIU 93, Warren Wilson 56 Florida Gulf Coast 65, Hartford 51 Furman 75, Gardner-Webb 64 High Point 94, Ferrum 64 Jacksonville 101, Florida College 72 Louisiana-Lafayette 92, McNeese St. 66 Louisville 97, Hofstra 69 Marshall 119, Rio Grande 77 Md.-Eastern Shore 95, Salisbury 55 Morehead St. 71, ETSU 63 Murray St. 97, Brescia 69 New Orleans 81, Millsaps 45 South Florida 91, Bethune-Cookman 65 Tennessee Tech 74, Loyola of Chicago 69 The Citadel 82, Presbyterian 68 VCU 59, Virginia 56 Vanderbilt 86, Georgia St. 80 Virginia Tech 87, West Virginia 82 Wake Forest 98, VMI 71 William & Mary 84, Liberty 72 MIDWEST Ball St. 73, Taylor 53 Bradley 80, Cent. Michigan 70 Chicago St. 79, Jacksonville St. 75 Cincinnati 68, NC State 57 Drake 104, Iowa Wesleyan 49 Drexel 78, Illinois St. 70 E. Michigan 95, Concordia (Mich.) 50 Evansville 84, IUPUI 78 Indiana 73, LIU Brooklyn 72 Iowa St. 80, Texas A&M-CC 50 Kansas 94, Duke 83 Marquette 114, Grambling St. 71 Michigan 93, SC State 59 Michigan St. 78, Kentucky 74 Minnesota 84, Montana 58 Missouri 72, S. Illinois 59 Nebraska 62, W. Illinois 47 Ohio St. 79, Ohio 69 Wisconsin 59, Florida 53 Xavier 67, Tennessee 63 SOUTHWEST Baylor 66, South Carolina 64 Cent. Arkansas 109, Hendrix 59 George Mason 68, Lamar 54 Longwood 82, TCU 79 Oklahoma St. 93, Utah Valley 40 SE Louisiana 63, Rice 62 Stephen F. Austin 64, Texas St. 57 Texas 84, South Alabama 77 Texas-Arlington 88, Samford 75 FAR WEST Arizona St. 90, Miami (Ohio) 54 N. Colorado 98, Colorado Christian 74 Nevada 60, Cal Poly 58

Pacific 84, UC Irvine 79 UC Santa Barbara 86, UNLV 65 UCLA 91, Oakland 60 Utah St. 90, S. Utah 57

Tuesday’s women’s college scores EAST American U. 76, Md.-Eastern Shore 69 Boston College 80, Hofstra 63 Davidson 83, Mount St. Mary’s 82 Providence 104, Bryant 67 Robert Morris 67, Marshall 48 St. John’s 78, Iona 48 Temple 70, Delaware 58 SOUTH Alabama St. 80, Stillman 52 Charleston Southern 85, Southern Wesleyan 55 ETSU 81, Appalachian St. 72 Florida Gulf Coast 71, Bethune-Cookman 38 Furman 79, Brevard 31 George Mason 74, Morehead St. 67 James Madison 67, Liberty 56 Radford 72, Lynchburg 49 Southern Miss. 93, South Alabama 68 UAB 70, Lipscomb 54 MIDWEST Akron 118, Tennessee Tech 71 Austin Peay 71, S. Illinois 69 Creighton 68, S. Dakota St. 63 Illinois 87, Valparaiso 59 Indiana 85, IPFW 80 Indiana St. 65, E. Illinois 53 N. Illinois 79, MVSU 60 N. Iowa 61, North Dakota 56 UCF 57, Oakland 54 Wright St. 90, Miami (Ohio) 63 SOUTHWEST UTEP 94, New Mexico St. 69 FAR WEST BYU 71, UNLV 64 Colorado 63, Colorado St. 59 N. Colorado 71, Air Force 60 Oregon 113, Portland 86 San Jose St. 97, Santa Clara 93 Washington St. 81, Seattle 72 Wyoming 73, Denver 70 TOURNAMENT Women’s Preseason NIT Quarterfinals Louisville 100, Quinnipiac 82

Football Arkansas high school playoff pairings Friday’s first-round games All times 7 p.m.

CLASS 7A Cabot, Bye LR Central at Fayetteville Bryant, Bye Rogers Heritage at North Little Rock Bentonville, Bye Rogers at FS Southside Conway, Bye LR Catholic at Springdale Har-Ber CLASS 6A Mountain Home at El Dorado Benton at Russellville Sheridan at Jonesboro Marion at Lake Hamilton LR Fair at Greenwood LR Parkview at Texarkana LR Hall at Pine Bluff Siloam Springs at Searcy CLASS 5A Beebe at Alma White Hall at Pulaski Mills Greenbrier at Batesville Helena-West Helena at Camden Fairview Sylvan Hills at Hope Shiloh Christian at Wynne Watson Chapel at Pulaski Academy Nettleton at Morrilton CLASS 4A Warren, bye Dardanelle at Highland Dumas at Arkadelphia Pottsville at Newport Pulaski Robinson at Prairie Grove Gravette at Valley View Pocahontas at Lonoke Stuttgart at Maumelle Gosnell, bye Gentry at Star City Westside at Dollarway Farmington at Ashdown Clinton at Booneville Mena at Hamburg Monticello at Malvern Nashville at Lincoln CLASS 3A Harding Academy, bye Atkins at West Fork Harmony Grove at Charleston Greenland at McGehee Elkins at Hoxie Barton at Lamar Mayflower at Fordyce Earle at Fountain Lake Glen Rose, bye Osceola at Lavaca Riverview at Green Forest Two Rivers at Corning Paris at Smackover Centerpoint at Melbourne Fouke at Episcopal Collegiate Prescott at Rivercrest CLASS 2A Des Arc, bye Brinkley at Magazine Salem at Dierks Strong at Spring Hill Mineral Springs at East Poinsett Co. Cutter-Morning Star at Hazen Hackett at Bearden Murfreesboro at Mount Ida Junction City, bye Bigelow at Gurdon Parkers Chapel at Hector England at McCrory Union Christian at Magnet Cove Rison at Mountainburg Conway Christian at Walnut Ridge Marked Tree at Carlisle

NFL standings, schedule AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 2 0 .778 234 N.Y. Jets 5 4 0 .556 169 Miami 4 5 0 .444 193 Buffalo 3 7 0 .300 199 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 6 3 0 .667 222 Tennessee 4 5 0 .444 200 Houston 2 7 0 .222 170 Jacksonville 1 8 0 .111 115 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 6 4 0 .600 234 Cleveland 4 5 0 .444 172 Baltimore 4 5 0 .444 188 Pittsburgh 3 6 0 .333 179 West

W L T Pct PF PA 9 0 0 1.000 215 111 8 1 0 .889 371 238 4 5 0 .444 212 202 3 6 0 .333 166 223 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 5 5 0 .500 274 258 Philadelphia 5 5 0 .500 252 244 N.Y. Giants 3 6 0 .333 165 243 Washington 3 6 0 .333 230 287 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 7 2 0 .778 265 163 Carolina 6 3 0 .667 214 115 Atlanta 2 7 0 .222 186 251 Tampa Bay 1 8 0 .111 146 209 North W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 6 3 0 .667 238 216 Chicago 5 4 0 .556 259 247 Green Bay 5 4 0 .556 245 212 Minnesota 2 7 0 .222 220 279 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 9 1 0 .900 265 159 San Francisco 6 3 0 .667 227 155 Arizona 5 4 0 .556 187 198 St. Louis 4 6 0 .400 224 234 ––– Monday’s Game Tampa Bay 22, Miami 19 Thursday Indianapolis at Tennessee, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday Baltimore at Chicago, Noon Oakland at Houston, Noon N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, Noon Atlanta at Tampa Bay, Noon Detroit at Pittsburgh, Noon Washington at Philadelphia, Noon Cleveland at Cincinnati, Noon Arizona at Jacksonville, Noon San Diego at Miami, 3:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at New Orleans, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

Open: Dallas, St. Louis Monday, Nov. 18 New England at Carolina, 7:40 p.m.

Kansas City Denver San Diego Oakland

PA 175 231 209 259 PA 193 196 248 291 PA 186 197 189 218

Hockey NHL standings, schedule EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 18 13 5 0 26 56 43 Boston 17 11 5 1 23 48 30 Detroit 19 9 5 5 23 47 51 Toronto 17 11 6 0 22 51 40 Montreal 19 9 8 2 20 49 42 Ottawa 18 7 7 4 18 53 56 Florida 19 4 11 4 12 40 66 Buffalo 20 4 15 1 9 36 63 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 17 11 6 0 22 50 40 Washington 19 10 8 1 21 61 55 N.Y. Rangers 18 9 9 0 18 41 49 Carolina 18 7 7 4 18 34 49 New Jersey 18 6 7 5 17 38 46 N.Y. Islanders 19 7 9 3 17 54 61 Philadelphia 17 6 10 1 13 31 44 Columbus 17 6 10 1 13 44 50 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Colorado 17 14 3 0 28 55 30 Chicago 18 12 2 4 28 66 49 St. Louis 16 11 2 3 25 54 37 Minnesota 18 10 4 4 24 48 40 Winnipeg 20 9 9 2 20 53 57 Dallas 17 8 7 2 18 46 52 Nashville 18 8 8 2 18 38 57 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 20 15 4 1 31 68 48 Phoenix 19 13 4 2 28 63 58 San Jose 18 11 2 5 27 66 43 Vancouver 20 11 7 2 24 54 54 Los Angeles 18 11 6 1 23 52 44 Calgary 18 6 9 3 15 49 64 Edmonton 19 4 13 2 10 48 75 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Game Boston 3, Tampa Bay 0 Tuesday’s Games Buffalo 3, Los Angeles 2, SO Tampa Bay 2, Montreal 1, SO Winnipeg 3, Detroit 2, SO N.Y. Islanders 3, Nashville 1 New Jersey 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Washington 4, Columbus 3, OT Carolina 2, Colorado 1 Philadelphia 5, Ottawa 0 Florida 3, Anaheim 2 Phoenix 3, St. Louis 2, OT San Jose 3, Calgary 2, OT Today’s Games Toronto at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Columbus at Boston, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Calgary, 8 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

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 1:10 7:15 1:25 7:35 Thursday 1:50 8:00 2:10 8:20 Friday 2:35 8:40 2:50 9:05 Saturday 3:20 9:25 3:35 9:50 Sunday 4:05 10:10 4:20 10:35 Monday 4:50 11:05 5:15 11:30 Tuesday 5:45 11:55 6:05 --

Transactions Tuesday’s deals BASEBALL American League OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Named Marcus Jensen minor league roving hitting instructor; Webster Garrison hitting coach for Midland (TL); Ryan Christenson manager and John Wasdin pitching coach for Stockton (Cal); Rick Magnante manager, Jimmy Escalante pitching coach and Lloyd Turner hitting coach of Beloit (MWL); David Newhan manager and Tommy Everidge hitting coach of Vermont (NYP); and Ruben Escalera manager of the Arizona League Athletics.

TEXAS RANGERS — Named Bengie Molina first base coach and catching instructor. Promoted Round Rock (PCL) manager Bobby Jones to assistant hitting coach and Kevin Harmon to head trainer.

Named trainer Jamie Reed senior director of medical operations.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Announced the retirement of INF Mark DeRosa.

Frontier League NORMAL CORNBELTERS —- Signed LHP Jason Boyer and INF Aaron Dudley to contract extensions.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Traded 3B Jovan Rosa to Traverse City for RHP Scott Dunn.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Jacksonville LB LaRoy Reynolds four games for violating the league’s policy on performanceenhancing drugs.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DE Ikponmwosa Igbinosun to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Re-signed LB Justin Staples to the practice squad.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed QB Seneca Wallace on injured reserve.

Signed QB Matt Flynn.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Released S Ed Reed. Placed RB Arian Foster on injured reserve.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed DE Spencer Nealy to the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed WR Devon Wylie from the practice squad. Signed C Kevin Matthews. Re-signed LB Brandon Copeland to the practice squad. Placed QB Jake Locker on injured reserve. Released OL Pat McQuistan.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WR Nick Williams from the practice squad and RB Davin Meggett to the practice squad. Placed RB Chris Thompson on injured reserve.

Warriors hold off Rebels JONESBORO — Ridgefield Christian held off Riverside for a 59-51 victory in senior boys’ basketball Tuesday night.

Andy Newman scored 19 points to lead Ridgefield Christian (1-3).

Dylan Green and Taylor Davidson added 14 and 11 points, respectively.

Ridgefield led 29-19 at halftime and 42-31 after the third quarter. Devon Austin scored 19 points for Riverside (4-1), followed by Caleb Waugh with 17 and Kollin Stone with 10.

Riverside won the junior boys’ game 50-20 as Gavin Stone scored 14 points. Wyatt Morris led Ridgefield with eight points.

Sloan-Hendrix 78, Black Rock 71 BLACK ROCK — SloanHendrix rallied to force overtime Tuesday night and pulled out a 78-71 victory over Black Rock in the extra period.

The Greyhounds (1-6) trailed 54-47 going into the fourth quarter. Regulation ended with the game tied at 64.

Kyle Murphy, who was 10-for-10 from the free throw line in overtime, scored 30 points to lead Sloan-Hendrix.

Matt Wilkins added 28 points for the Greyhounds.

Derek Nunnally led Black Rock with 15 points. Malachi Gott and Elijah Mondy added 14 points apiece.

time.

Jalen Warren paced Earle (0-1) with nine points.

In the junior high contest Earle pulled out a 5843 win despite Trey DePriest’s 19 point for BIC. Dax Hurst added 11.

BIC won the seventhgrade game 24-22.

teammates also reached double digits Tuesday as Harrisburg routed Tuckerman 74-42 in senior girls’ basketball.

Hunter Lewis added 12 points while Makaleigh Riddle and Keely Edwards contributed 10 apiece for the Lady Hornets (2-0). Deria Ratliffe led Tuckerman with 17 Hillcrest 87, CRA 61 points.

Harrisburg won the juLYNN — Another game, nior girls’ game 37-20. another big night for Colman Evans.

Piggott 60, The Hillcrest standMaynard 53 out scored 34 points and added 10 rebounds in PIGGOTT — Kacey Hillcrest’s 87-61 demoli- Crossfield scored 14 tion of Crowley’s Ridge points and Devin Staples Academy on Tuesday. added 12 for Piggott in Evans wasn’t the only a season-opening 60-53 Screamin’ Eagle with victory over Maynard on a double-double. Evan Tuesday night.

Doyle added 13 points Ten players scored in and a team-high 14 re- the game for Piggott, bounds. Brad Nunnally which led 15-7 after one contributed 11 to the quarter, 35-20 at the half cause. and 48-35 after three Hillcrest, which led 47- quarters.

28 at the half, improved Brittanie Cline scored to 7-1 overall.

17 and Sibley Ray added In the junior high game 11 points and 10 rebounds Hillcrest won 33-3. for Maynard (3-3).

In the junior high game Maynard defeated PigRector 53, gott 35-16.

Pocahontas 37

RECTOR — Kendal Gunn knocked down six 3-pointers to help Rector stay undefeated on Tuesday night.

Rector defeated Pocahontas 53-37. Gunn finished with 25 points to go with eight rebounds.

Pocahontas’ Kylie Kirk scored 10 in the loss.

Rector led 26-16 at halftime and 35-22 after three quarters.

Bay 57, In the junior high Marmaduke 27 game, Pocahontas won MARMADUKE — Tyler 44-10.

Pritchett scored 18 points to help Bay defeat MarRiverside 63, maduke 57-27.

Bay 40 Bay, which led 31-15 at the half, received 14 LAKE CITY — Riverpoints from Dustin Utley. side’s girls maintained Eddie Page led Marmad- their undefeated start to uke with 14 points. the season with a 63-40 In the junior high game victory over Bay on TuesBay defeated Marmaduke day.

35-28. Nolan Smith had Anna Brickell scored 11 points for Bay, while 13 points and Kenzley Quentin Francomano Wilson added 12 in the added 10 in the victory. win. Natalie Milligan led Riverside (5-0) with eight rebounds.

BIC 60, Earle 45 For Bay, Katie FerguMONETTE — A big son scored 23 points and fourth quarter pushed Brittany Roedel added Buffalo Island Central to 13. a 60-45 triumph against In the junior high game Earle in boys’ basketball Riverside defeated Bay on Tuesday night.

33-22. Haven Robertson BIC (5-1) led 40-34 af- scored 14 and Carson ter three quarters but fin- Smith 10 for Riverside. ished the game on a 20-11 spurt. Nick Bollinger and Harrisburg 74, Jacob Sanders scored 19 Tuckerman 42 points apiece and Alan Carmichael added 10 reTUCKERMAN — Peybounds for the Mustangs, ton Craft scored 25 who led 28-25 at half- points and three of her

Hillcrest 52, CRA 23 LYNN — Stacy Maxwell collected 11 points and 13 steals in Hillcrest’s 5223 victory over CRA on Tuesday night.

Maxwell’s teammate Caitlin Whitmire added a double-double of her own (13 points and 13 rebounds). Elsewhere for Hillcrest, Natalie Glenn scored 11 points and Rachel Crabtree added 12 rebounds.

Jack Moore Invitational JONESBORO — Valley View and Nettleton earned semifinal victories Tuesday in the Jack Moore Invitational junior girls’ basketball tournament. Balanced scoring helped tournament host Valley View (1-0) beat Rivercrest 38-14. Hayden Cain and Molly Poe led Valley View with seven points apiece. Jordan Elder and Lauren Shempert scored six apiece for Rivercrest.

Nettleton defeated Paragould 31-27 behind 12 points from Dasia Young and 11 from Mya Love.

Bailey Bateman scored 13 points for Paragould.

Valley View and Nettleton will play in the tournament final Thursday night at 7:45. Paragould and Rivercrest will play for third place at 6:30 p.m.

Sports Roundup Red Wolves Express to run Saturday for Sun Belt game JONESBORO — The Red Wolves Express will begin rolling at 4 p.m. Saturday for Arkansas State’s Sun Belt Conference football game with Texas State, said Steve Ewart, coordinator of Jonesboro Economical Transportation System.

JETS buses will take fans from the free parking lot at Church Street and Cate Avenue. Other departure times are 4:20, 4:40, 5, 5:15, 5:30, 5:45 and 6 p.m. Kickoff for the game is 6:30 p.m.

JETS buses will unload passengers at the northwest corner of the stadium, just outside Gate 11. Fares are $1.25 each way for adults, 90 cents for students with a current student ID and 60 cents for those over age 65, the disabled and veterans with a veteran’s pass.

Buses will begin leaving the stadium for the return trip to the parking lot 10 minutes following the end of the game. The last bus will depart 20 minutes after the game ends.

and all other basketball operations for both the Razorbacks men’s and women’s teams.

Athletic director Jeff Long has talked extensively over the last year about the school’s need for a practice facility, citing difficulties scheduling practice time in Bud Walton Arena and saying Arkansas is the only Southeastern Conference school without one.

Long says the school is still in the process of raising the money needed.

Bethel nips WBC in double OT McKENZIE, Tenn. — Bethel nipped Williams Baptist 114-108 in double overtime Tuesday night in men’s basketball.

James McClain scored 27 points to lead five Eagles who scored in double figures. E.J. Rucker added 24 points, while Chris Price finished with 19 points, Kevin Charles 16 and Tevin Howard 15 points and 14 rebounds for WBC (3-1).

WBC routs Philander Smith Arkansas to build basketball practice facility for $25 million FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Arkansas has announced it will begin construction of a $25 million basketball practice facility next month.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the 65,000-square-foot facility will be held on Dec. 7, and it is scheduled to open in the summer of 2015. It will hold the workout facilities, offices

WALNUT RIDGE — Williams Baptist opened a 17-point halftime lead Tuesday and went on to beat Philander Smith 81-70 in women’s basketball.

Four Lady Eagles produced a double-double, including three in points and rebounds — Michaela Thompson (17 points, 13 rebounds), Sharonda Brabson (14 and 11) and Cheyenne Childers (13 and 18). Tieara Burks had 11 points and 10 assists.

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following Tuesday’s light workout. “It was triple overtime and we had to have a bank shot 3-pointer from 30 feet to send it to overtime. Ed Townsel made that shot and we were fortunate to win there. We’re going to have to play well and I’m glad we’ve got them at home.”

Arkansas State (1-0) opened the season Monday night with a 65-61 victory at Jackson State.

The Red Wolves got 16 points from Cameron Golden off the bench while senior Melvin Johnson and sophomore Raeford Worsham scored several critical baskets late. ASU was outscored 9-0 to start the second half and rallied from a 50-39 deficit to win.

Brady said he wasn’t satisfied with ASU’s offball defense and he expects to see improvement in that area tonight.

“We’re good at times but we just need to develop some defensive consistency,” Brady said.

“Our ball defense wasn’t bad, but our off-ball defense wasn’t good because we let people cut in front of us and get to where they wanted to get to on the floor. We just need to get better at that.”

Arkansas State shot just 38.2 percent from the floor in the opener, and was just 8-of-26 for 30.8 percent in the second half.

ASU senior guards Brandon Reed and Ed Townsel had especially difficult openers. Reed missed all six of his shots while Townsel was 0-for9 from the field.

Brady said there was no cause for concern about either player’s off night. He thought both took good shots for the most part, they just didn’t go in.

“I know what they’re capable of doing,” Brady said. “We’ll say they just had a poor shooting night. We’ll see what happens. They’ve shot it well at home, particularly Brandon Reed has shot it well, so we’ll see if they come out of it tomorrow night. I expect them to.”

Tennessee-Martin has four starters back from a team that finished 9-21 overall last year.

They were fifth in the Ohio Valley Conference West Division with a 5-11 league mark.

The Skyhawks are winless through their first two games this season, losing at Wyoming 7860 on Friday and then falling 91-65 at Colorado on Sunday.

Junior guard Marshun Newell leads the Skyhawks with 14.5 points a game while sophomore guard Dee Oldham is averaging 13 points and junior guard Terrance Smith is averaging 12.5 points a game.

Brady said he expects UTM to play some man but primarily stick to a zone defense. The Skyhawks have a relatively smaller lineup with no starter taller than 6-7.

“Martin is not going to overwhelm anybody with their size, but they’re certainly a good team and they’re good enough that we’re going to have to play well,” Brady said.

Arkansas State will stick with its same starting lineup as in the opener, but nothing is set in stone once the game tips off.

“We’ll go with the same group, but it’s subject to change, particularly with the depth we have,” Brady said. “I think we had 33 points off the bench last night, so we’ve got some different combinations that we can use. We’ll see how it goes and make changes if we need to.”

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two weeks.

“I feel like we still have something to play for, even if we don’t have the opportunity to go to a bowl game,” Marshall said after the Ole Miss loss last Saturday.

“There’s no reason for us to just throw two extra games away.”

Bielema hopes the rest of his team agrees with Marshall.

“We’ve got two games to show what kind of pride we have,” Bielema said.

It’s an unusual position for Bielema, who guided his Wisconsin teams to a bowl game in every season dating back to 2005.

He left the Badgers last winter after leading them to the Rose Bowl for the third straight season.

But Arkansas’ reclamation project has been more difficult than imagined.

Its tumble has reached historic levels as well as the losses continue to mount.

The Razorbacks equaled the school’s longest losing streak with their seventh straight defeat last Saturday. They also dropped their 10th straight conference game dating back to last season, which is the second longest streak in school history (20 straight Southwest Conference games between the 1940 and 1943 seasons).

If that’s not enough, the 2013 Razorbacks also became just the fourth team in the 99 years Arkansas has been affiliated with a conference to be 0-6 in league play (1941, 1942 and 1990). The 1941 and 1942 Razorbacks were the only teams in school history to go through conference seasons without

wins, finishing 0-6. Arkansas must win to avoid becoming the first team in school history to lose nine games in a season.

Avoiding that dubious distinction is one of many motivations for the Razorbacks.

“We’re playing for everything,” Arkansas safety Alan Turner said.

“Of course we’re going to play for the seniors because we don’t want the seniors to go out like this, so we’ve got to try to win these last two games. But also, we’re playing for the guys that are going to be back next year. So we can just establish ourselves for next year.”

Bielema said he’s disappointed his team won’t get to go through bowl practices, which allows for an additional month of work on the field. It’s a luxury, especially for programs like Arkansas that could use the practice time as it builds.

Arkansas offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said the early end wouldn’t change the Razorbacks’ motivation as they prepare for the final stretch of the season.

“That’s what we all do,” Chaney said. “That’s what I’ve chosen as my profession, so there’s never a throw-away ballgame.

Every ballgame counts, every play counts. And I do believe our kids understand that. … In classes you have six or seven exams, as coaches we have 12 exams and you want to do as good as you possibly can on those exams.”

Chaney believes the Razorbacks will continue to compete even though the countdown to the season’s end is underway.

So does Horton, who was part of Bobby Petrino teams that went 21-5 over a two-year stretch.

Spartans subdue No. 1 Wildcats Associated Press

CHICAGO — With Keith Appling, Gary Harris and Adreian Payne all scoring in double figures for No. 2 Michigan State, Keith Dawson came up with the biggest basket, tipping in a miss with less than six seconds left to give the Spartans a 78-74 victory over top-ranked Kentucky on Tuesday night.

James Young missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer, and the Spartans erupted in delight, with Harris holding up his index finger.

No. 1, indeed.

It was the earliest meeting of 1 vs. 2, and the first since 2008, and the matchup did not disappoint for many who see it as a sneak preview of the Final Four. Julius Randle had 23 of his 27 points in the second half, as the Wildcats (2-1) erased a 13-point deficit. But they couldn’t overcome their troubles at the free throw line, going a dismal 20 of 36.

No. 3 Louisville 97, Hofstra 69 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Russ Smith scored 21 of his game-high 30 points in the first half and Louisville made 12 3-pointers to set the tone for a rout of Hofstra.

The senior guard shot 12 of 22 from the field including 5 of 12 from beyond the arc. Wayne Blackshear made three straight 3s for nine points to help Louisville break the game open with a 26-2 secondhalf run. Luke Hancock returned from an Achilles injury to hit a couple from long range as well as the Cardinals finished 12 of 31 from deep.

Louisville (2-0) shot 35 of 68 overall (51.5 percent), a big improvement from its 38-percent effort in a season-opening win over the College of Charleston.

Chris Jones added 20 points with seven assists for Louisville, Montrezl Harrell had 19.

The Cardinals forced 22 turnovers leading to 30 points and dominated the paint 44-16.

No. 5 Kansas 94, No. 4 Duke 83 CHICAGO — Andrew Wiggins scored 16 of his 22 points in the second half, outplaying Jabari Parker down the stretch and helping No. 5 Kansas knock off fourth-ranked Duke.

Parker, a former prep star at nearby Simeon High School, had 27

points, nine rebounds and three steals in a spectacular homecoming. But it was his fellow freshman star that made the biggest plays in the final minutes of a taut thriller between two storied programs.

Wiggins drained a stepback jumper to give the Jayhawks an 85-81 lead with 1:33 to go, and then had a fast-break dunk after a steal by Perry Ellis.

Wiggins held his arms out and yelled after the big jam.

Ellis finished with 24 points, and Wiggins also had 10 rebounds for the Jayhawks.

No. 7 Michigan 93, S. Carolina State 59 ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Caris LeVert made his first five 3-point attempts, and No. 7 Michigan had a terrific night from beyond the arc, breezing to a victory over South Carolina State.

LeVert finished with 24 points, going 6 of 7 from long distance. Nik Stauskas added 23 points — he was 5 of 6 from 3-point range. Both sophomores set career highs in scoring.

The Wolverines (2-0) were again without star big man Mitch McGary, who has been out with a back problem.

Jordan Smith scored 19 points for South Carolina State (1-2).

Michigan, which scored only 69 points in a seasonopening win over UMassLowell last week, led 5923 at halftime Tuesday after going 12 of 19 from 3-point range. The Wolverines finished 15 of 28 from beyond the arc.

No. 8 Oklahoma St. 93, Utah Valley 40 STILLWATER, Okla. — Phil Forte scored 19 points to lead six double-figure scorers and Oklahoma State cruised past Utah Valley.

The Cowboys (2-0) hit 10 of 18 from 3-point range in the first half and 14 of 33 from beyond the arc for the game. Forte and Marcus Smart, who scored 14 points, combined to hit 8 of 17 from 3-point range.

Freshman Stevie Clark was 3 of 4 from 3-point range, finished 16 points and had six assists.

Le’Bryan Nash (11), Brian Williams (10) and Markel Brown (10) also scored in double figures for the Cowboys.

Brown and Kamari Murphy each pulled down six rebounds as Oklahoma State led 50-25 at halftime.

Keawe Enos and Hayes Garrity both had eight

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Kentucky forward Willie Cauley-Stein (15) blocks the shot of Michigan State guard Gary Harris as forwards Julius Randle (30) and Alex Poythress help to defend during the first half of Tuesday’s matchup in Chicago.

The No. 2 Spartans beat the No. 1 Wildcats 78-74. points for Utah Valley with 1:18 left.

(2-1), which was 14 of 48 from the field.

No. 17 Marquette

No. 9 Syracuse 89, Fordham 74 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — C.J. Fair scored a careerhigh 26 points, Jerami Grant added 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Syracuse beat Fordham.

Syracuse, which started the season with a so-so 82-60 win over Cornell on Friday night after trailing by 14 points late in the first half, left little doubt about the outcome of this one.

The Orange had the game in hand by halftime, leading by 25 behind 15 points from Fair as the Syracuse defense clamped down from the opening tip.

No. 10 Ohio State 79, Ohio 69 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Aaron Craft scored 17 points — including eight free throws down the stretch — to help Ohio State hold off neighboring rival Ohio.

Amir Williams had a career-high 14 points, reserve Sam Thompson had 12 and LaQuinton Ross added 10 for the Buckeyes (2-0).

114, Grambling State 71

MILWAUKEE — Chris Otule scored 17 points and Steve Taylor added 16 points and 11 rebounds to help Marquette roll over Grambling State.

The last time Marquette (2-0) reached the century mark came in a 102-77 victory over Mississippi Valley State on Dec. 21, 2010.

Deonte Burton added 14 points, JuJuan Johnson 12 and Jamil Thomas, Juan Anderson and Jake Thomas each a had 11 for Marquette.

The Golden Eagles took command early and led by as much as 23 in the first half as Otule scored 13 points and Davante Gardner and Burton each added 10 for a 52-35 lead.

No. 23 Baylor 66, South Carolina 64

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Treveon Graham scored 22 points, including a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds to play, and VCU beat Virginia.

The Rams (2-0) trailed for almost all of the final 10 minutes until Graham’s steal and baseline jumper gave them a 56-55 lead

WACO, Texas — Brady Heslip scored 18 points with five 3-pointers and Baylor held on for a victory over South Carolina, without making a field goal in the final 7 minutes and having to wait out a lengthy review after the final buzzer Tuesday before officials determined there wasn’t yet another foul in the game.

South Carolina (1-1) was desperately trying to get a tying basket, and the ball was still being batted around when the buzzer sounded at the same time a referee blew a whistle for an apparent foul. The refs reviewed the video before declaring the game was over.

yards and six TDs while averaging 6.1 yards a carry.

ASU safety Sterling Young said whether it’s the quarterback, fullback or tailback who ends up with the football, what matters for the Red Wolves is being disciplined.

“We’ve got to be real disciplined with our eyes and know what we’re doing in our assignments,” Young said. “I feel like it’s going to be a ground-and-pound game. We’re going to see a lot of option and triple option. We have to be ready.”

Texas State doesn’t throw the football much at all.

The Bobcats have attempted just 209 passes this season, the fewest of any Sun Belt team. In six starts, Jones is 69-of107 passing for 822 yards and five TDs while being picked off four times.

Thompson said the Red Wolves want to force Texas State into passing situations because the Bobcats aren’t a passing team.

“The key to the game is for us to get them in third and long,” Thompson said.

“If we can do that, we put them at a disadvantage.

There’s no secret about that. We’ve got to play well on first and second down and make them pass the ball on third down.”

While the triple option is a challenge to prepare for in its own right, perhaps the biggest challenge is the amount of time the Red Wolves have to get ready for it.

Arkansas State started its first work on the Bobcats on Sunday night, going over film and walking through some different aspects of the attack. The Red Wolves began to implement their plans on Tuesday and they’ll have most of their work in by Friday.

That’s not very much time to prepare for an offense that very few teams run any more, according to Thompson.

“The one negative thing is we’ve only got three days to prepare for it,” Thompson said. “Some of the things that we like to think we do on defense that can cause some people some problems, well they’ve got it offensively. We’ve got to get the right reps and try to break the code of what they’re going to do.”

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formations, but the primary set has three simple options: the fullback dive, the quarterback keeper and the halfback pitch.

Arkansas State’s defense is tasked with containing all three. Any single mistake can lead to a serious breakdown and a big play for the Bobcats.

The Red Wolves say defending the triple option is all about discipline, trusting your read and sticking with your assignment.

“They’re one of these teams that you know what they’re going to do coming into the game,” ASU cornerback Rocky Hayes said.

“They run the triple option and they run it well, and we’ve got to just be prepared for it and stop it. We have to be really good with our eyes and everyone up front, our defensive line will have to play well.”

The central figure in Texas State’s triple-option attack is quarterback Tyler Jones.

A 6-foot-2 true freshman, Jones will determine who ends up with the ball based on his read of the defense and what he be-

lieves will give the Bobcats their best opportunity for a big play. He’ll hand it off, keep it or pitch it and try to lure the Red Wolves into mistakes.

Thompson said Jones is the key to Texas State’s entire offense and disrupting him is a priority.

“They’ve got good offensive linemen, good receivers and good running backs, but he’s obviously the guy to be able to do it,” Thompson said. “They execute, too. They don’t have busts. The ball is not on the ground. They’re not all over the place. They’re consistent and they’re precise and it will be tough.”

While Jones may be the key piece in Texas State’s offense, it’s the Bobcats’ running backs who have done most of the work.

Sophomore Robert Lowe (5-10, 195) is second in the Sun Belt and leads TSU with 769 yards rushing. He’s scored nine touchdowns and is averaging 5 yards a carry.

Another option for the Bobcats is sophomore Chris Nutall (5-8, 190), who ranks eighth in the conference in rushing.

Nutall has picked up 443

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US stocks fall as earnings disappoint

BY STEVE ROTHWELL Associated Press

NEW YORK — Disappointing company earnings and falling oil prices pulled stocks back from record highs on Tuesday.

NRG Energy slumped after the company lowered its earnings forecast, leading other power companies lower. News Corp. fell after the media company posted an unexpected revenue decline due to weakness at its Australian newspapers.

Energy stocks declined after oil dropped to a five-month low.

Winners included airlines.

The gains were led by JetBlue Airways after the Justice Department said it cleared the way for American Airlines and US Airways to merge, creating the world’s biggest airline.

This year’s 24 percent surge in the stock market has slowed in November. The Standard & Poor’s 500 has edged up 0.6 percent this month after an average monthly increase of 1.7 percent in the previous 10 months.

“The market looks tired to us,” said Jim Russell, a regional investment director at US Bank. “A little bit of a pause is actually healthy,” allowing the economy time to catch up to the gains the stock market has made.

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Specialists Jason Hardzewicz (left) and Patrick Murphy handle the final trades of the NYSE Euronext stock on floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

After closing at an all-time high on three of the previous four trading days, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 32.43 points, or 0.2 percent, to 15,750.67. The S&P 500 index dropped 4.20 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,767.69 points. The Nasdaq composite edged up 0.13 point to 3,919.92.

Six of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index fell. Banks and utilities slid the most.

NRG Energy was one of the biggest decliners in the S&P

500, slipping 98 cents, or 3.5 percent, to $27.06. News Corp. fell 27 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $17.15.

Energy stocks fell broadly.

Pioneer Natural Resources, an oil exploration company, dropped $5.63, or 3 percent, to $182.70. Chevron lost $1.20, or 0.9 percent, to $120.

Stocks have climbed this year as the Federal Reserve has maintained its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases to keep interest rates low and

encourage borrowing and hiring. Now, investors may start focusing more on an improving economy rather than the future of the Fed’s economic stimulus program, said Joe Quinlan, chief market strategist for U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management.

The U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the third quarter, up from 2.5 percent in the previous quarter and more than economists anticipated, the government reported last Thursday. That was followed by an unexpectedly strong October jobs report.

“Economic data has really come in strong of late,” said Douglas Cote, chief market strategist at ING Investment Management. “There’s a lot of room for this market to continue higher in 2014.”

Investors will also be following Thursday’s confirmation hearing for Janet Yellen, who has been nominated to succeed Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

They’ll look for clues about when the Fed may begin to scale back its economic stimulus.

“Some discussion of tapering could well take place” next month, Fed Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart said Thursday in a radio interview

with Bloomberg Radio. The Fed’s last policy meeting of the year starts Dec. 18.

In U.S. government bond trading, the yield on the 10year Treasury note climbed to 2.78 percent from 2.75 percent Friday. The bond market was closed Monday for the Veterans Day holiday.

In commodities trading, the price of oil slumped as the market anticipated another increase in domestic supplies.

Oil fell $2.10, or 2.2 percent, to $93.04 a barrel, its lowest price in five months.

Among other stocks making big moves: ■ Dean Foods, a major milk producer, dropped $1.51, or 7.7 percent, to $18.20 after cutting its profit forecast.

■ JetBlue rose 47 cents, or 6.1 percent, to $8.16 after the government said it had reached a settlement with US Airways and American Airlines. American and US Airways will have to give up takeoff and landing slots at major airports as part of the deal.

■ D.R. Horton rose 85 cents, or 4.7 percent, to $18.91 after the homebuilder said its net income jumped 39 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter and that sales of new homes rose in October.

Typhoon exposes weak Philippine infrastructure

BY KELVIN CHAN AND TERESA CEROJANO Associated Press

Associated Press

Erosion invades in a cornfield that was recently converted from pasture near Lineville, Iowa, on June 26. Five million acres of conservation land has been converted to row crops since President Barack Obama’s ethanol mandate, leading to erosion and pollution from fertilizer runoff. In 2012, 44 percent of the nation’s corn crop was used for fuel, about twice the rate seen in 2006, according to the Department of Agriculture.

Industry takes aim at ethanol probe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A new Associated Press investigation, which found that ethanol hasn’t lived up to some of the government’s clean-energy promises, is drawing a fierce response from the ethanol industry.

In an unusual campaign, ethanol producers, corn growers and its lobbying and public relations firms have criticized and sought to alter the story, which was released to some outlets earlier and is being published online and in newspapers Tuesday. The Agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, told the Des Moines Register that the AP project included “a number of inaccuracies and errors.”

Vilsack said farmers were engaged in other conservation practices, including wetland reserve programs, wildlife habitat incentive programs and EQIP, a program that helps farmers adopt conservation practices.

The industry’s efforts, which began one week before the AP project was being published and broadcast, included distributing fill-in-theblank letters to newspapers editors that call the AP’s report “rife with errors.” Industry officials emailed newspapers and other media, referring to AP’s report as a “smear,” ‘‘hatchet job” and “more dumpster fire than journalism.”

“We find it to be just flabbergasting. There is probably more truth in this week’s National Enquirer than AP’s story,” said Geoff Cooper, vice president of research and analysis for the Renewable Fuels Association in a press call with reporters Monday criticizing the investigation.

The economic stakes for the industry are significant. Congress is working on legislation to do away with the corn-based portion of the mandate, which required oil com-

panies to blend billions of gallons of ethanol into their gasoline. Big Oil is pumping big money into the effort. The Obama administration, a strong defender of biofuels, is soon expected to slightly ease the law’s requirements.

Overnight, such changes would eliminate a huge source of the demand for ethanol, reduce profits for farmers and ethanol producers and likely lower the price of corn.

The AP’s investigation is based on government data, interviews and observations. It highlights what many researchers have published in peerreviewed journals and is consistent with reports to Congress by the Environmental Protection Agency about ethanol’s environment toll.

“The AP’s reporting on this important topic is a result of months of work and review of documents, and interviews of experts and people on all sides of the public policy debate

about this energy resource,” said Mike Oreskes, AP’s vice president and senior managing editor. “We stand behind our reporting and welcome further insights and discussion.”

Specifically, the ethanol industry disputed AP’s findings that as farmers rushed to find new places to plant corn, they wiped out millions of acres of conservation land and destroyed habitat. The industry said the primary driver for such losses was Congress lowering the number acres allowed in conservation, not ethanol. It also cited a Dutch study, which was not peer-reviewed and found that urban sprawl internationally was responsible for greater loss of grassland than biofuels.

The ethanol industry also complained that AP was misleading when it said since 2010 more corn went to fuel than livestock feed.

MANILA, Philippines — Under a reforming president, the Philippines emerged as a rising economic star in Asia but the trail of death and destruction left by Typhoon Haiyan has highlighted a key weakness: fragile and patchy infrastructure after decades of neglect and corruption.

Authorities fear that the storm that tore through Leyte province in the country’s east has killed thousands. More than 600,000 people have been displaced.

Low rates of insurance in the Philippines mean the disaster is likely to sap government finances but analysts say it might not slow growth significantly because of the small role the affected region plays in the wider economy.

Haiyan’s devastation, however, underlines the pressing need to spend more money to build hard assets such as more roads, ports and power lines — not only to improve living standards but also to better withstand the storms, earthquakes and other natural disasters that strike the country with numbing regularity.

The Philippines has the lowest percentage of paved roads when compared with neighbors Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore, according to data compiled by foreign business groups in the Philippines in 2010.

It also had the worst scores in other key in-

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Personnel of the Philippines Army 51st engineer corps load water for victims of Typhoon Haiyan on Monday at Villamor Air Force Base in Manila, Philippines.

dicators such as fixed phone lines, households with power and electricity lost in transmission.

“It’s hard to prepare for the worst storm in the world,” said HSBC economist Trinh Nguyen.

“But at the same time one of the issues now is there isn’t a way to access these places that are severely hit. The roads are not there.”

The Philippines is the country that’s most at risk to natural hazards, according to UK-based risk analysis firm Maplecroft. The country loses $1.6 billion dollars a year on average each year because of such disasters, according to the Asian Development Bank. Haiyan, likely the most powerful storm on record, was just one of 20 typhoons that hit the country each year and arrived as it was still recovering from a 7.2 magnitude quake in October that killed 220.

European Union vows youth unemployment to ease within 2 years

BY GREG KELLER Associated Press

PARIS — European youths still face rising joblessness at a rate far higher than their American counterparts — but European leaders insisted Tuesday that scenario is going to improve over the next two years.

Leaders from 24 European nations as well as labor ministers and European Union officials met Tuesday in Paris to talk

about youth unemployment. They announced no new programs but many expressed confidence that plans now in place will reverse the rising joblessness for the under-25 set over the next two years.

With budgets still tight, Europe’s youth unemployment rate stands at 23.5 percent, up from 23.1 percent a year ago. In the U.S., the rate is about 16 percent.

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ment.

French President Francois Hollande said the meeting had set a strategy to ensure that by 2015,

no youth will spend more than four months unemployed without being offered a job, an apprenticeship, training or education.

“We must act quickly because it is urgent, we cannot abandon a generation,” Hollande said at a news conference.

Hollande said the leaders agreed that EU nations which have action plans to combat youth unemployment by the end

of the year will be able to begin drawing upon the 6 billion-euro ($8 billion) Youth Employment Initiative that the EU has set aside beginning Jan. 1.

As of 2011, only 34 percent of 15-29 year-olds in Europe were employed, the lowest figure ever recorded.

The EU employment figure masks huge disparities, however: The German youth unemployment rate was only 7.7 percent

while Greece’s was a stunning 57.3 percent. Seven EU countries had a youth jobless rate over 30 percent, fueling concern that a generation of people will be locked out of the job market, hurting long-term growth prospects for their nations.

One EU think tank has estimated the cost to Europe of employing so few of its young people at 153 billion euros annually as of 2011.

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Macy’s is one of a group of retailers planning to open on Thanksgiving evening for the first time this year. Investors will be looking for an updated outlook on the critical holiday season when the department store chain reports third-quarter results Wednesday.

The company – which operates Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s – is seen as a barometer of spending among middle- to upper-income shoppers. It’s coming off a second quarter in which it reported disappointing earnings and cut its outlook for the year.

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Soybean Meal

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Nov 13

GOLD $1,271.10

YESTERDAY: Sales: 190,029 Open Interest: 397,677, s +7542.00

YESTERDAY: Sales: 46,449 Open Interest: 179,453, t -3342.00

2,000 CWT- dollars per CWT

YESTERDAY: Sales: 535 Open Interest: 8,465, t -45.00 MONTH OPEN HIGH

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-2.10

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438 449.50 458.50 464.75 470 478.25 486.25 490 490

430.25 442 451 457.50 463 471 481.50 486.25 488.75

432.25 444 453 459.75 465.25 472.50 481.50 486.25 488.75

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• LPN • Graphic Design • Medical Mgmt.

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Medical/ Medical/ 0220 Dental Please mail your re- 0220 Dental sume to NEA Baptist Clinic, Attn: Human ReNEW CNA sources at PO Box 1960, Jonesboro, AR 72403 or Class Start Dates Day class - 12 Days fax your resume to 870932-3608. Applications may be completed at Batesville: 1835 Grant Avenue. NEA November 11 Baptist Clinic is an Equal Jonesboro Days: Opportunity Employer.

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST/ MEDICAL TECHNICIAN NEA Baptist Clinic, one of the largest multispecialty groups in the Mid-South, has openings for full-time medical technologists and medical technicians .

Our laboratories provide services for the patients and physicians for all of the NEA Baptist Clinic locations.

Competitive salary and exceptional benefits package for qualified candidates. AA or BS in Medical Technology required. New graduates welcome. Please mail your resume to NEA Baptist Clinic, Attn: Human Resources at PO Box 1960, Jonesboro, AR 72403 or fax your resume to 870-932-3608.

Applications may be completed at 1835 Grant Avenue. NEA Baptist Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

RN NEEDED for Assistant Director of Nursing.

Long Term Care experience helpful but not required. M-F position, good working conditions, good benefits.

Apply in person at Three Rivers Healthcare & Rehabilitation, Marked Tree, AR. See David or Diane.

TerriTory Manager

We are looking for an aggressive Territory Manager to hunt new business in specific territories for our company. At MARCK Recycling and Waste Services (www.marck.net) we rely on our territory managers to drive our growth in the recycling and waste industry, so we’re looking for a true hunter who isn’t afraid to make the calls and the face-to-face visits necessary to close new business. If you are self-motivated, with a background of proven success in cold calling and new business generation, apply below.

To the qualified candidate we offer: • A base + commission structure, with on target earnings of $50,000+ • Health insurance • Paid vacation and holidays • Simple 401 with match: 100% up to 3% • Excellent sales training and support • Automobile • Laptop, iPad and cell phone with database management software The Territory Manager will: • Schedule and complete weekly cold calls, tele-prospecting, and similar activities • Work an assigned geographic territory on a daily basis • Achieve annual sales targets and average weekly revenue quotas on a consistent basis • Enter sales tracking data daily to optimize sales results • Analyze prospective customers’ needs and meet those needs via proposals, negotiations and business contracts • Show continual professional development in industry, sales ability and time management Requirements The right candidate for this job will have a background that demonstrates: • Proven success cold-selling B2B services • Highly procedural, with strong communication skills • Outgoing, engaging, sales-motivated personality • Willingness and ability to travel daily within your local territory • Any experience in the recycling industry, waste industry, or industrial markets is a plus • Proficiency with MS Office and internet/email • Self-motivation and excellent time management

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RN: FULL time Registered Nurses needed for NEA Baptist Clinic Hospitalist Program.

Variable shifts availableprimarily for evenings and weekends. At least three years hospital experience preferred.

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Applications may be completed at 1835 Grant Avenue. NEA Baptist Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

FAMILY PHYSICIAN office seeking full-time LPN. Hours Mon-Fri. Good benefits. Mail resume to Attn: LPN, 1401 West Hunt Street, Paragould AR 72450.

The Clinical Manager is responsible and accountable for leadership and management for clinical practice and resources of the Surgery Center, overseeing all clinical personnel, hire and provide orientation and training to staff, evaluate RINITY BEHAVIORAL employee job performance, counsel and discipline as necessary, conduct team THealth Masters Level meetings, maintain current policies and procedures for the Surgery Center and Therapist: Therapist will responsible for the Center’s operations within all legal, regulatory and accredita- p e r f o r m i n d i v i d u a l , group and family thertion standards. apy with children and Minimum Requirements: adolescents. Must have Must be a graduate of an accredited program (BSN preferred); licensed in Ar- a Masters degree and kansas with three to five years nursing experience. Previous management ex- be licensed or eligible for license in AR. Call perience preferred (charge nurse, shift supervisor). Experience in Ambulatory or 870-647-1400 or email Outpatient care a plus. Must have excellent communication skills and be able to trinityopps@yahoo.com work in a fast paced environment.

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2057 sq. ft. heated & cooled.

3120 sq. ft. under roof.

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0232 General Help TRANSPORTATION AIDE NEEDED IF YOU ARE SELECTED TO JOIN US, YOU WILL ENJOY COMPETITIVE PAY, GREAT BENEFITS, A HOMELIKE WORK ENVIRONMENT AND AN EXCITING FUTURE WITH A VERY PROGRESSIVE COMPANY. WE NEED A CNA WITH A VALID ARKANSAS DRIVERS LICENSE, ABLE TO WORK WITH LITTLE SUPERVISION, ABLE TO MULTI-TASK AND HAVE GREAT PEOPLE SKILLS. WE WANT PEOPLE WHO TAKE PRIDE IN WHAT THEY DO AND LIKE WORKING WITH A DYNAMIC TEAM OF CAREGIVERS THAT ARE ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF "CULTURE CHANGE" IN THE LONG TERM CARE INDUSTRY. CALL 870-236-7104 OR COME BY 1800 LINWOOD FOR AN APPOINTMENT AND LET US SHOW YOU WHAT WE ARE ABOUT. SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY!!

PROPERTY INSPECTOR Maintenance Quality Control Accepting applications to fill two position: Property Maintenance Quality Inspector AND maintenance Mechanic Position.

P R O P E R T Y M A IN T E N ANCE QUALITY CONTROL POSITION: Accepting applications to fill an administrative multi- responsibilities position to include performing Multi- Family Unit/ grounds inspections, Quality Control, Preventative Maintenance and Housekeeping inspection; supervision of a ground crew and other administrative/ maintenance responsibilities. The following experience is preferred: Proficient computer skills including familiarity with Microsoft programs for tracking and maintaining property, maintenance, work- order, inventory records, etc.; strong background or knowledge in grounds/ lawn care, general knowledge and/ or experience in management/ maintenance of multi- family units, familiarity with state and local building codes.

MAINTENANCE MECHANIC POSITION: Accepting application to fill a Maintenance Mechanic position. The successful candidate must have experience in direct maintenance of multifamily units and construction work with excellent maintenance, electrical, plumbing and HVAC skills; familiarity with state and local building codes.

The successful candidate for both positions MUST demonstrate ability to manage priorities and organize schedules and tasks to meet deadlines; have a valid driver's license, insurable under the agency's fleet insurance policy, bond-able and ability to perform tasks requiring moderately to heavy manual work.

Policing/ Security background a plus. Excellent Benefits and salary negotiable based on experience.

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OTR POSITIONS AVAILABLE Only 1 Year Experience Required No Canada orMexico No Loading/ Unloading No HazMat

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Pocahontas, Applications/ Resumes: Lynn, & will be accepted at the Strawberry Jonesboro Housing Authority, 330 Union, Please call Jonesboro, Arkansas or may be faxed or emailed to Sharon Poe and ask to speak to a @ 870-935-6872 or district manager. sharonp@jurha.org.

Phone calls will not be PETS accepted. All application received and on file will be reviewed and only qualified person(s) Cats/Dogs/Pets will be contacted for an 0320 interview.

AKC BLACK Lab puppies, champion bloodlines, $300. 870-240-6378 Construction

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METAL STUD framers, must have verifiable 3-5 years minimum experience. Must be able to pass a drug test. Equal Opportunity Employer.

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0244 Trucking CLASS A CDL: Earn $50,000 + per year. $600 plus 5 cpm sign on bonus. Benefit Package.

Family-Owned Company. 573-471-1102

COMPANY DRIVERS & OWNER OPERATORS WANTED! No touch fre ig h t, 90 % d ro p & hook, dedicated opportunities available. Call 888-710-8707 Also seeking Recent Grads. Call Lavonna 877-440-7890.

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BEAUTIFUL REGISTERED female Tea-Cup Poodle, 8 weeks old, $350.

Registered Male Poodle.

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FREE KITTENS to good home. 870-932-1022 GERMAN SHEPHERD female puppy, AKC Registered. Call for more information 870-4501048 or 870-450-1059 LOOKING FOR Reg. Yorkie male sire, must be 3-5 lbs. to breed with my female. 870-2757755.

REWARD: LOST brown Chihuahua on Powne St in Hoxie on Thursday Nov. 7th. Was wearing blue lease. Anyone with information please call 870-637-2932.

FARM DRIVERS... 12 Pro Drivers Needed! $$$ Up to 50 cpm $$$ Full Benefits + Quality Home Time.

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The successful candidate for both positions MUST demonstrate ability to manage priorities and organize schedules and tasks to meet deadlines; have a valid driver's license, insurable under the agency's fleet insurance policy, bond-able and ability to perform tasks requiring moderately to heavy manual work.

Policing/ Security background a plus. Excellent Benefits and salary negotiable based on experience.

FOR SALE BY OWNER

184 Acres

Duck Hunting Land 60 Acres Farm Land Cross County

0410 Farm Market

0450 Livestock LIVESTOCK FOR SALE! 4 Registered black bulls, 7 months to 1 year old.

Top blood line. William Davis 870-930-8155.

FREE ROOSTER only crows between 2AM and 3AM. Please take.

870-933-1628

0460 Horses HOMELESS-UNWANTED HORSES We will pick up and find them homes.

870-450-8501.

Farm 0470 Equipment ALLIS CHAMERS 715-B backhoe loaded, engine over hauled, D17 AC Tractor and bush hog, 5040 AC tractor diesel, WD AC tractor with wide front, C-AC with belly mower, 9N Ford tractor, runs good.

Bald Eagle storage building. Any size to 1440 foot.

Coffman Baker Enterprises at the foot of Bono Hill. 870-268-0102, 870-930-0718

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FOR SALE BY OWNER 2501 ROSEWOOD CIRCLE

Applications/ Resumes: will be accepted at the Jonesboro Housing Authority, 330 Union, Jonesboro, Arkansas or may be faxed or emailed to Sharon Poe @ or 4 870-935-6872 or 6 bedroom home, 3 living areas, 4 sharonp@jurha.org. car garage, new backsplash, Phone calls will not countertops, be accepted.

All applicanew carpet, freshly painted, new heattion received and on file ing and air units, new hot water heater, will be reviewed and phone system, alarm system, Sound Cononly qualified person(s) will be contacted for an Great Neighborhood. cepts sound system. interview.

870-237-8166 870-974-0436 $490,000

870-897-1010

BANK FORECLOSURE AUCTION!

Mountain Home commercial location with 270 feet of Hwy 62 Frontage, 3800+ Square Feet, Call 870-421-1233 or 870-421-5692 for more details.

Auction November 15th @ 12:12pm.

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Mickey Mouse, 120 in. TV projector, and much more! We accept credit & debit cards.

"MILITARY"

Military Items.

Guns, Knives, Helmets, Etc. 870-930-7700

Top $$$ PAID for Diamonds & Gold

VICTORIAN SOFA, with 2 chairs, 2 end tables and Sofa table with marble tops. $4000 for all or $2000 3 pieces. Excellent condition, Beige color. 870-886-5284, 870- A WINNING MEMORY! Preserve that Special 759-0855. day! Reprints of published or unpublished Musical 0512 Merchandise photos are available now at our web site: www.jonesborosun.co m in our Photo Gallery under Features Call us ANTIQUE Upright at 935-5525 or email us Pianos. One is a at photo@jonesboroGulbransen Player sun.com for more inforPiano but player mation. action has been removed, the other AVAILABLE TO the pubis a Hamilton circa lic: Newsprint roll ends.

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EXERCISE CYCLE Nordictrack GX4.5 from Sears.

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PARACHUTE FOR sale only used once. Minimal holes. Call 870-9331533.

Distress Sale Bank Foreclosures. Receive a free list w/pics of foreclosure properties

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Quality disabled person shall not on the basis of their disability, be subjected to discrimination in employment.

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MOUNTAIN HOME, $374,900

RIVERFRONT lot , 2.03 ac.on White River @ Norfork Village. 163 ft . on river. 3 car cedar garage w / attached 12’x34’ shop. Incl. well + 3 bdrm. septic permit.Vehicular access to riv. on property. Price just reduced to $156,500.

More Pics on request.

870-656-0920 / 870-491-5013

LOOKING FOR A VACATION HOME NEAR LAKE NORFORK? Look no more. With a seasonal view of the lake this 4 BD/4 BA home is great for entertaining. It has an open floor plan on the main level. Three Bedrooms are upstairs including the huge Master Suite with its own fireplace. The family room is downstairs in the walkout basement along with a kitchen, bedroom and bath for all the kids and grandkids. The location is minutes from Mtn. Home & Lake Norfork.

To see call Marcia Taylor, Century 21 LeMac Realty, Mountain Home, AR (901) 490-4828.

$182,500

2713 Keystone. Great 3 bedroom 2 bath home with open floor plan. Living room, dining room feature crown molding and open to the spacious kitchen and breakfast area. Master is spacious with large master bath with walk-in closet. 2nd bedroom has vaulted ceiling. Approx 1300 sq/ft unfinished walk out basement.

Call Stacy Murry • 870.919.4601 Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

17,000 sq ft warehouse and office space: Large fenced lot with truck parking, 1.1 acres. Centrally located in Jonesboro. $531,000.00 Call Martin Young at: 870-930-9017

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For further details call 870-236-9266 or 870-4766939.

CLEARVIEW APARTMENTS (New Owners) 207 B Street. Weekly or monthly rates. Utilities and cable included. $225 move-in special. 870236-3217.

3 BEDROOM, 1 1/2 bath, new construction, 1250 sq. ft., $675/month, $675/deposit, No smoking policy. 621 S. 6 1/2 St. Call 870-565-8785

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SMALL 2 BR/ 1 BA bungalow apartment. $550 monthly. 870-530-0648.

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Brookland AR 10 Minutes from the new NEA Hospital & Medical Center

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Great location. Refrigerator, stove, dishwasher.

Rent $675 monthly.

870-212-0554.

605 WIRT Street, Paragould. 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Refrigerator, stove, dishwasher. $475 monthly. 870-2120554.

801 1/2 Vance, Apt. 2. 2 Bedroom, $375 monthly, $200 deposit, lease required, NO PET POLICY! 870-450-2704, 870-239-9328.

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NEW REMODELED 2BR, 1BA, all appliances. $495/month $400/deHJE, LLC Properties posit. HUD approved.

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870-931-8449/ 870-8973830 #3 BR, 2 BA, remodeled, fenced, storage buildNow Leasing at 1816 James. $950.

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2 bedroom washer/dryer hookup, stove, refrigerator. $590 rent, $300 deposit. 870-450-3670.

0610

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NEW 2 bedroom, 2 car garage. Appliances, utilities furnished. 802 Hester. $875. 870-9354398.

918 Brownwood Circleâ&#x20AC;Ś Jonesboro; FSBO; 4BR/2.5 Bath; 2500 sq ft; Traditional Beauty; Move in Ready; Split Floor Plan; Paragould Convenient Location; AMAZING Closet 2 & 3 BR apartments.

Space; Security System; Privacy Fence Kitchen appliances, W/D $239,000 â&#x20AC;˘ 870-926-5332 hookup, HUD approved,

100 MAURITA - 3BR, 1 BA, Westside Schools, CWL & Centerpoint, no HUD, $750/month, 1 year lease, $400 deposit. 9318085.

1503 WOODFIELD: 3 BR 1.5 BA, $750 monthly, $500 deposit. Call for details: 870-931-8052

1908 COVEY Cove, NEW 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, Jonesboro Schools, $1,350 monthly. 870-935-7377.

2 BEDROOM, 1 bath, appliances furnished, $500 rent, $450 deposit. Lafe, AR. Call 870-586-9058.

2 BEDROOM, all electric, Updated, $650 month.

3918 Griggs. 870-9262053, 870-219-5595.

2 BR 1 BA, near Hytrol, all electric, $550 monthly, $250 deposit, HUD accepted. 2016 Maurice. Call Jerry 870219-1924; or Teresa 901call Shawn 870-243-5977. 550-2332

1708 Merrill Cove

$118,000

Dunwoody Huntcliff Sub., Valley View Schools:

4BR, 2.5BA, completely remodeled Granite counter tops, wood floors, ceiling fans, and new appliances.

Large backyard with new enlarged deck. $330,000.

Call 870-897-7100 for appointment

$9,200 Below Appraisal

LARGE 1 BR unfurnished with utilities paid. Washer/ dryer, lease and deposit, No pet Policy.

870-935-7863 870-935-0680 after 5pm.

0610

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870-933-6178

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Prime Deer & Turkey Hunting Farm 120 Acres $132,000 Ravenden Springs, Arkansas

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FOX HOLLOW Town homes. Newly remodeled. 2 BR/ 1.5 BA, $495 monthly. 870-9357377.

#1 LOCATION: Luxury 2 BR, $595, 1600 Latourette. 931-8459

870-819-6118

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# 1 $495-$695, 1-2 Bed- 3 BR, HUD accepted. CR WOODSPRINGS CONDO 2 room, all utilities paid. 380, Bono. 870-275-7707/ bedroom 2 bath with 870-974-4697.

972-1666. office. Newly remodeled, rent $1,375 50% OFF first # 1 & 2 Bedroom apartmonth. 870-897-8368 months rent! ments, some 2 bath, The Sun Pam Wood Coldwell Ends 11/15 prices, pictures. Loca518 Carson, t i o n a t : w w w . m a - Spacious 2 Bedroom/ 3 B a n k e r V C I .

Jonesboro gictouchcorp.com 935- bedroom apartments. CHATEAU APARTMENTS Whitley & Associates Monday- Friday 4800 24 hour info 935for rent. 1, 2 bedrooms 870-933-7303.

5051 8:00-5:00 November Special $100 off first months rent.

WHOLESALE PECANS 25 #1 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 870-935-8378 lb. bags. You or we pick. t r i p l e x , n i c e q u i e t Swihart's Leachville 870- neighborhood, washer, EFFICIENCY, 1 & 2 BR, dryer, dishwasher, 539-6991 W/D hookup, HUD stove, fridge, all elecaccepted. Call 870-935tric, CH&A, $525 month, 9018. 1811 Self Circle REAL ESTATE FOR RENT No Hud. 870-932-0923.

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0610

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209 E. Nettleton, 1 and 2 bedroom apartments, very nice, weekly and monthly rent. Utilities paid. Onsite manager, with laundromat. Please call 870-897-0573, 870219-0579.

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3305 Richardson Rd

2 BEDROOM, Nettleton Schools $575/ $300 deposit. Application required. 870-926-5472

870-931-1520

0610

FOX RUN

#2 BR nice quiet Cove.

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VERY contemporary 2/3 bedrooms, 2 full baths including 3200sf, 4BR/3.5BA, large wrap around front porch, screened in back porch, landscaped backyard, master bath has large master bath, Quiet Cul-de-sac, Recently Renovated with New Countertops, Floor Coverings, Interior paint, Interior whirlpool tub, family room with rec. lighting/crown molding, Doors, and Insulated Windows! New 16X24 Rear Deck! spacious kitchen w/island, 2.5 car garage. Roof, carpet, paint, Call or Email for additional Photos and Information. hardwood 2yrs old. $299,999. To set up appt call 870-926-9031, mh@airsouth1.com 678-860-9600, or email dkwebb2727@yahoo.com

Golf Cart Included $309,000

6012 Beaver Creek â&#x20AC;˘ $167,000

4Br/2 Ba, 1810 sf., Valley View Schools, fenced yard.

Call or text 870-215-2516

Crown Lake in Horseshoe Bend â&#x20AC;˘ $295,500 Largest Private Lake in AR. Jet Skiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permitted.

5 BR/3 BA, Eat in Kitchen. 2 Gas Log FPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s,

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This custom built home on the 17th hole of the South Golf Course in Cherokee Village offers leisurely living and Southern Style. Enjoy 7 lakes and two 18 hole golf courses in the beautiful Ozark foothills!

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0620

Homes for Rent

2 OR 3 BR houses, no HUD, nice area, $725$1150. 870-219-1432

208 CODY, Brookland. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, $900 month. 870-926-2013

0620

Homes for Rent

1815 MAGNOLIA Lane in Paragould, 3BR/1 1/2 BA, Brick separate work870-761-5816 shop. $700/rent, NEW 2200 sqft. 3 bed- $300/deposit, No pet r o o m , b o n u s r o o m , and no Smoking policy. wood floors, granite in 870-239-4579. kitchen and bath. $1600.

Condominiums 870-935-5799 0625 2, 3, 4 Bedroom HUD approved Homes.

3 BEDROOM, 1 bath, 1 car carport, Nettleton schools $575 monthly.

870-935-7377 NEW 3 BR/2 BA good location. $1,100 month.

3 BR, 1 BA, 1007 Opal Jennifer 901-496-9233.

Circle, Lake City. No Pet Darrel Cook Real Estate policy, No HUD, $600 Service. monthly, $400 deposit.

References required, Paragould 870-486-2861, 870-926- 4 BEDROOM, 2 bath with 6114. kitchen appliances. Gas

3 BR, 1.5 ba, nice neigh- water heater and cook borhood, Extra clean, stove. $850 month, $450 deposit. 212 E. Johnson.

870-316-3691.

Call 335-5416.

3707 KEELY, 3 Bedroom, 2 B a t h , 2 C a r , $ 9 5 0 2808 NORTH 4th Street. monthly, $950 deposit. 3 bedroom, 2 full bath Lease, Lease Purchase w i t h 1 c a r c a r p o r t . or Sale! 870-931-8048. Stove and dishwasher 3725 LEXEE, 3 Bedroom, supplied. Rent $750.

2 B a t h , 2 - c a r , $ 1 1 0 0 Call 212-0554.

monthly, $1100 deposit.

Lease, Lease Purchase 3 B E D R O O M , 2 b a t h home. No pet policy. or Sale! $950 month, $500 de870-931-8048. posit. Call 870-450-0966.

403 BRIAN Street, Bono.

2 B e d r o o m , $ 5 5 0 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, 2 monthly, $275 deposit. car garage, 1700 sq. ft. 2 Good neighborhood. s t o r a g e b u i l d i n g s , 870-351-5011. $1,000/month 503 Bogil Rd. 870-476-8002 CHASTAIN PROPERTY 4217 Teri Dawn Cove. 3 BR/ 2 Bath house, all ap- 3 BR homes for rent. pliance and blinds, ex- $675 to $1100. No pet c e l l e n t c o n d i t i o n , policy. Call Bratton ReNettleton Schools. $850 alty (870) 236-7100 monthly, $500 deposit. 1 year lease. 870-761-3116. PARAGOULD: NEWER 3 870-933-0957, 870-761- bedroom, 1 bath. All appliances including 3117. washer/dryer. 300 B R O O K L A N D : N E W Emerson. $625 month.

HOME, 3 BR 2 BA, $825 870-476-3694. monthly, $450 deposit.

870-897-2819 3209 STONEGATE, Carriage Hills. 3 bedroom, COUNTRY SETTING: 1709 2.5 bath brick home Willett Rd. 3 Bedroom/ with two living areas.

1 Bath. No Pet Policy, Large master, fenced CH&A, appliances. No backyard. 2200 sq.ft.

HUD. $800 rent/ $700 $1275 month, $825 dedeposit. 870-932-3472. posit. 1 year lease. 870Please leave message.

974-3654.

LARGE KITCHEN, living, and dining room, sun- PARAGOULD. CUTE, 2 room, 2 BR, 1 BA, hard- bedroom, 1 bath. 412 w o o d / c e r a m i c t i l e Bard. CH&A, refrigeratf l o o r s , l a r g e f e n c e d or, stove, washer/dryer backyard, no HUD, $775 connections. Rent $450, monthly, $450 deposit. Deposit $330. 236-7673 1108 W Matthews. 870- (office), 236-0650 (cell).

931-8284

SMALL EFFICIENT 2 BR/ 1 BA, All electric, 230-B Olive. $400 monthly , $200 deposit, Call Jerry 870-219-1924, or Teresa 901-550-2332.

Jonesboro

#904 WILMAR Cr. Newly Remodeled 4/5 BR/ 2 BA, 3 living areas. No HUD. No Pet policy. $900 monthly. References and application required. 870-219-0685.

1910, 1913 Milbranch Drive: 3 BR, 2 BA, Near New hospital. $950, $975 monthly. No smoking/ pet policy. 641-425-1519

Homes for Rent

for Rent

ALL ELECTRIC 2 Bedroom 2 Bath, Low Utilities, Cambridge Court, $700 per month, $350 Deposit. Great Location!

870-243-0762

Duplexes for 0630 Rent 906-A South Culberhouse, 2 BR/ 1 Ba, washer, dryer, carport, $650 monthly, $300 deposit.

870-974-3253, 870-2190579.

Business 0670 Places/Offices #1 3 Three major shopping centers, Jonesboro.

Highland Center Grant Center Valley View Center 2820 Highland 2828 Highland 870-972-6042

Mobile Homes 0675 for Rent

Homes for 0710 Sale

Business 0760 Properties

3 BR/ 2 Full baths, Jacuzzi, Walk-in Closet, 1/ 2 Bedrooms, starting Deck, Double Garage, $200, deposit, no pet S t o r a g e b u i l d i n g . policy. 870-930-8137 $155,000. 870-935-2389.

FSBO. 418 East Main Street. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, 2 car garage. $69,900. Call 870-3355902.

Misc. Real 0780 Estate

IN BAY, 2 BR from $75 per week. 870-926-5667.

0720 Duplex/Apts

Jonesboro

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

Paragould

2 AND 3 bedrooms for rent. $300 monthly, $200 deposit. No pet policy.

No HUD. Call 870-4507615.

ATTENTION: PATS Mobile Homes

HOUSES AND Mobile Homes also NEW mobile homes for rent in Mar236-0164, 25X50 SHOP/ RV Parking m a d u k e .

1/2 bath, heated, and 18 597-1217. ft. automatic garage MOBILE HOMES for rent door. $350/ Month.

Call 870-935-6938 for in Marmaduke. 3 bedroom, 2 baths. Rent more information. $400, deposit $400. Call 4 9 2 0 E N e t t l e t o n : 870-236-0164 1 20 0s f- $ 6 00 . A cro ss from George's Jewelry.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 870-935-5799 Nettleton or Southwest Drive- 600–2100 sf.

Homes for commercial offices.

Coldwell Banker, Phillip 0710 Sale 870-351-5505 870-935-2059 -FREE SERVICE, Wonder O F F I C E A N D R e t a i l what your house would Space- 500 to 5,000 sq. sell for? Call Mike Childs ft. Starting at $350 per Remax Real Estate month. Please call 870- 974-7352.

935-9018.

1601 COURTNEY Cove: 2

OFFICE SPACE for rent: BR 2 BA, 2-car garage, 1,000-5,000 sf. 3014 Tur- large closets, large outdoor shed, screened man Dr. 870-935-3006 patio. $98,900. 870-934Mobile Homes 1410

0675 for Rent

2005 Chevy Avalanche

3 BEDROOM, 1.5 bath, carport. $650 month, $650 deposit. Call 870240-8811.

1500 Crew cab, 8 cyl, 5.3 Fuel injection, 48,200 miles, Excellent condition. Victory Red.

$16,995. 870-761-2209.

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VERY NICE 4 BR/ 2 Bath in the country. Very nice cabinets, tile floors, cathedral ceilings. Paragould school district. 100% financing BEAUTIFUL BRICK, 4 bed- available for qualified room, 4+ acres, approx. buyers. 870-510-2507 2500 SF, plus basement, 1 mile from Westside Schools. 870-972-9230. NICE 3 BR/ 1 Bath on $ 1 6 4 , 9 0 0 . P R I C E D T O one acre in Newport.

Fresh paint, nice cabinSELL!! ets. Large utility room.

Owner financing available. 870-510-2507

Serving Your Real Estate Needs Since 1988.

Now Offering Auction Services

870-974-0078

Nice 3 bedroom, 2 bath 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath DarrelCookRealEstate.com mobile homes.

Stove, refrigerator.

BEAUTIFUL 3 BR/ 2 Bath on 1 1/2 acres. 9 ft ceilCall: ings, nice cabinets.

100% financing avail870-239-4203 able for qualified buy870-240-7311 ers. 870-510-2507

3 BR/ 2 BA, Very nice, #1 TWO bedroom, very 1 8 0 0 s f , 1 B l o c k o f f clean, washer, dryer, N o r t h G o l f C o u r s e , stove, refrigerator. 870- C h e r o k e e V i l l a g e .

708 MEADOW Lane, Par- 316-3691 $89,000. 870-759-0513. agould. 2 bedroom/1 bath. 1 year lease. No pet policy. Deposit $575, Rent $575. 870-239-5286.

CENTER HILL. 3 bedroom, 2 bath. All new appliances, 2 car garage, large fenced in back yard. CH&A, All electric, 16x16 deck and storage shed. $800 month, $450 Deposit.

Call 870-215-8121.

Homes for 0710 Sale

BEAUTIFUL HOUSE on 5 acres. 3 BR/ 2 Bath, lg utility room, separate dining room. Large front porch across the front. Duck hunting paradise. 100% financing to qualified buyers.

Harrisburg school district. 870-510-2507 NICE 3 BR/ 1 Bath on one acre. Ready to move into. Maynard school district. Financing available! 870-5102507.

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IN JONESBORO 5 bed- 0734 Lots & Acreage room, 3 bath on acre 1 TO 3 Acres, near 351. with large shop.

Hills, trees, electric, wa870-932-2268 ter, cable, owner financing, 870-935-5411, 870935-7863

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Jelena Prichard 870-932-3562

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708-B Windover, Jonesboro

FSBO 2106 Brookway Lane- Valley View school district 3 bedrooms/ 2 COZY 3 BR/ 1 Bath on baths $119,500. 870-219quiet street in Walnut 6322 Ridge. Fresh paint, F S B O : 4 b e d r o o m , 2 ready to move into. 100 bath, very nice, main- % financing available for t e n a n c e f r e e h o m e . qualified buyers. 870$98,900. 870-932-4884. 510-2507 4 BR/ 2 Bath on one acre in the country.

Fresh paint, ready to move into. Quiet neighborhood. 5 miles N of Forrest City. 100% financing available for qualified buyers. 870-5102507

Lake/River/ 0728 Resort

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Paragould

PRIME HUNTING land. 40 acre tract off HWY 90. 2 miles from 11 Poin t Bridge, between Pocahontas & Ravenden Springs. 1 mile road from Hwy 90 to property. $58,000. 870-2195014.

Mobile Homes 0741 for Sale $0 DOWN Rent to own, 2/ 3/ 4 Bedrooms, each on 1 acre lot.

870-935-7525 NEED 10 USED MOBILE HOMES - $0 DOWN if trade in on new Mobile home, Very Easy to buy apply by phone. for a limited time. 870-9351700 W.A.C SPECIAL GOV’T PROGRAMS - on manufactured homes for landowners or family lan d . $ 0 D O W N wit h TRADE Very Very Easy to buy - apply by phone for a limited time. 870935-1712.

Commercial/ 0754 Office

NEWLY RENOVATED 3 bedroom, 3 bath home with Hardwood Floors, Fireplace, Quite Wooded neighborhood.

1905 Hillcrest Drive (Sunset Hills). 870-6564660

HUNTERS SPECIAL,12K 2Bed/ 1Bth Cabin on 10 lots. Newer well. 4mi outside of Hardy. 870856-2164.

4 SPACES available for rent: 1200sf, 2800sf, 3000sf, 640sf. Remodeled, great location- Marketplace. Call 870-935-6140 for info.

Paragould

Office Space for rent 1200 sq ft. Grecian Plaza in Paragould. Call 870476-2822.

0804 Boats for Sale

14 FT. Aluminum John Boat 9.8 hp Mercury Motor and Trailer. $700.

870-882-9909

Campers/ 0820 Trailers

Vending Trailer

2013 LARK VENDING TRAILER 8 ft x 16 ft $ 11, 575 870-910-6603 0832 Motorcycles

2005 Harley Davidson

Soft Tail Deluxe, 4,100 Miles, LIKE NEW!

$11,150.00 870-926-9031

mh@airsouth1.com

Caring businesses around Northeast Arkansas support the Newspapers in Education program.

Won’t you join them?

Call 935-5525 ext 315 for more information.

2011 Infiniti G25

Journey Package, 31K Miles, Charcoal Shadow, Sunroof, Back-Up Camera, New Tires, 1 Owner, Carfax Bumper-Bumper Warranty Till Jan. 2015.

$23,500

870-935-3874

1995 E350 FORD TRAVEL CAMPER

7.5 V8 auto. 37,521 miles, new tires, tune up, inside remodeled, central ac just serviced, new thermostat. Brand new $1,200 awning, 600 hours on gen. Self maintained with stove, shower, refrigerator, and master bedroom.

Located 84 West Motel 1433 Kennett, MO 63857.

$14,750

573-888-0507

1983 BUICK RIVIERA CONVERTIBLE

Blue, V8, Auto, Fair Condition, 106K+ Miles.

$3,950 OBO

870-935-5716

1985 NISSAN 300 ZX

REDUCED! $4,375

Call 870-935-2570

1999 30’ Tracker Trailstar, 27k miles, Chevy 350 engine.

CH&A. Good tires & Generator.

Sleeps 6, Self contained.

$19,000 • 870-844-5413

2004 MAZDA RX-8 Huge Price Reduction!!

$5,700 479-926-4492 870-834-5107

2004 Gulf Stream 42’ Friendship G7

Ads nteed to Sell ra a u G ccord 2007 Honda a 1 column x 2” AY, Runs EVERYD Until it Sells! k 4 Door, LX, 42 , to au 6, miles, V , er h at le , AC garage kept, sun roof, ion. good condit

$59/$69*

Diesel pusher.

2 TV’s, 2 AC’s, 2 Furnace’s, Bose sound.

Washer & Dryer.

Side/Side refrig. with ice. 4 slides. perfect condition!

All the extras. non smokers.

$105,000.

870-892-3819, 870-378-4596.

2003 HARLEY DAVIDSON V-ROD 100th year Anniversary edition.

3,500 miles, chrome tank cover.

Very clean garage kept. $9,500

Contact Dale At 870-926-6645

2009 KAWASAKI VULCAN

$13,500 870-555-5555

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$8950.00

2005 Harley-Davidson Wide Glide. Garage kept, one owner, 14K miles.

Call Dale 870-926-6645. er, to, AC, leath miles, V6, au k n. io 42 it r, d o n o D co 4 roof, good n su t, p ke garage

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2003 Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide.

12,400 miles. $7,650.

Excellent condition.

Too many extras to list.

Jonesboro.901-828-6023

Huge Price Reduction!! $3,900

479-926-4492 • 870-834-5107 1994 Harley Davidson Heritage Soft Tail.

7400 miles.

Like new with extras.

8,200

$ First gets this bike !

Got over $14,000 in bike .

870-935-6140

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2012 Chevy Silverado

2004 HONDA V-13

16,400 Miles. Saddle bag & windshield included. Very clean, runs great! Financing available to qualified buyers.

Reduced! $4,500 Contact Trey:

573-359-4499

Located in Jonesboro

Trucks for 0864 Sale

2010 Chevy Silverado Ext. Cab. Blue, 4wd, 71,000 miles $ 17,500 870-623-4190

Ext. Cab, 4wd, 17k miles, Power Doors, lock, & window. $21,000

870-623-4190

0868 Cars for Sale

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1978 Mercury Marquis

2-D, PW, PB, PL, PA, 2nd Owner, V-8 460 engine, runs, new starter & fuel pump.

$2,600

870-563-3339 1979 FORD THUNDERBIRD

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0955 Legals NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION FOR PRIVATE CLUB PERMIT Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has filed an application with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the State of Arkansas for a private club permit to dispense alcoholic beverages on the premises described as: 2903 Phillips Dr. Jonesboro, Craighead County.

Said application was filed on October 10, 2013. The undersigned states that he/she is a resident of Arkansas, of good moral character; that he/she has never been convicted of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude; that no license to sell alcoholic beverages by the undersigned has been revoked within five (5) years last past; and, that the undersigned has never been convicted of violating the laws of the State, or any other State, relative to the sale of controlled beverages.

Maria Francisca Castillo De Lopez La Casa de la Fiesta 2, Inc. Sworn to before me this 17 day of October, 2013 /s/Rachelle Eldridge, Notary Public My Commission Expires 1/31/18

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Jonesboro Urban Renewal and Housing Authority has developed its FY 2014 Annual Agency Plan in compliance with the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998. It is available for FINANCIAL review at the Authority’s office located at 330 Union, Business 0910 Opportunities Jonesboro, Arkansas and on the Authority’s a t THE JONESBORO SUN has w e b s i t e several delivery routes www.jurha.org. The Authority’s hours of operavailable in ation are Monday – Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to Harrisburg, 4:30 p.m. The Agency Walnut Ridge, Plan will be available for Pocahontas, review starting OctoLynn, & ber 28, 2013 through December 11, 2013. In Strawberry addition, a public hearing will be held on Please call Thursday, December 12, 2013 at the Authority’s and ask to speak to a office at 4:00 p.m. This district manager. meeting is open to the public, and everyone is NOTICE: invited.

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debtedness has been declared due and payable, and that an agent of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., as Trustee, by| virtue of the power, duty, and authority vested in and imposed upon said Trustee will, on December 12, 2013, at or about 11:00 A.M. at the Craighead County Courthouse in Jonesboro, Arkansas, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the highest bidder for cash, free from the statutory right of redemption, homestead, dower, and all other exemptions which are expressly waived in the deed of trust, said property being real estate situated in Craighead County, Arkansas, and being more pa rtic ula rl y de scribed as follows: Lot 18 of Taylor's Fourth Replat of a part of North Belgrath Heights Subdivision, Craighead County, Arkansas, as shown by plat in Plat Cabinet B Page 75 at Jonesboro, Arkansas, subject to Bill of Assurance in Deed Record 204 Page 595, and to easements as shown on said replat.

More commonly known as: 111 Royale Drive, Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401-8951 UNLIKE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALES, THIS STATUTORY FORECLOSURE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE Craighead County Courthouse OR, IF THERE IS NO AREA COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE FRONT DOOR, THEN THE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE PLACE AT SAID VENUE WHERE FORECLOSURE SALES ARE CUSTOMARILY ADVERTISED AND CONDUCTED. This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.

The sale held pursuant to this Notice may be rescinded at the Trustee’s option at any time. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

THE SALE OF THIS PROPERTY WILL BE AUCTIONED WITH RESERVE. THE TERMS OF SALE ARE CASH THE DAY OF SALE. W&A No. 1104-237995 WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C. 1521 Merrill Drive, Suite D-220 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 (501) 219-9388 Heather Martin-Herron (2011136) FHA No. 031-3704337-952 DNoticeofDefaultTrusteeAR_ysmith_131002_1225 For more information regarding this foreclosure sale, visit WWW.MYFIR.COM, or for general information call 501-224-5239

Freedom Senior Funding Corporation; and WHEREAS, said deed of trust was duly recorded February 2, 2009, at Book 1390, Page 328 in the real estate records of Craighead County, Arkansas; and WHEREAS, default has occurred in the payment of said indebtedness and the same is now, therefore, wholly due, and the holder of the debt has requested the undersigned to sell the property to satisfy said indebtedness, the party initiating this action is OneWest Bank, FSB, 2900 Esperanza Crossing, , Austin, TX 78758, (512)250-3811; WHEREAS, the mortgagee or beneficiary has provided the undersigned a copy of the letter required to be sent to Freida M. Williams by Act 885 of 2011; and WHEREAS, there may be tenants that claim an interest in the real property herein based upon said tenancy.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable, and that an agent of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., as Trustee, by virtue of the power, duty, and authority vested in and imposed upon said Trustee will, on December 12, 2013, at or about 11:00 A.M. at the Craighead County Courthouse in Jonesboro, Arkansas, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the highest bidder for cash, free from the statutory right of redemption, homestead, dower, and all other exemptions which are expressly waived in the deed of trust, said property being real estate situated in Craighead County, Arkansas, and bein g mo re parti cula rly desc rib ed a s fol lows: Lot 18 of Taylor's Fourth Replat of a part of North Belgrath Heights Subdivision, Craighead County, Arkansas, as shown by plat in Plat Cabinet B Page 75 at Jonesboro, Arkansas, subject to Bill of Assurance in Deed Record 204 Page 595, and to easements as shown on said replat.

More commonly known as: 111 Royale Drive, Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401-8951 UNLIKE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALES, THIS STATUTORY FORECLOSURE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE Craighead County Courthouse OR, IF THERE IS NO AREA COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE FRONT DOOR, THEN THE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE PLACE AT SAID VENUE WHERE FORECLOSURE SALES ARE CUSTOMARILY ADVERTISED AND CONDUCTED. This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.

The sale held pursuant to this Notice may be rescinded at the Trustee’s option at any time. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

THE SALE OF THIS PROPERTY WILL BE AUCTIONED WITH RESERVE. THE TERMS OF SALE ARE CASH THE DAY OF SALE. W&A No. 1104-237995 WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C. 1521 Merrill Drive, Suite D-220 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 (501) 219-9388 Heather Martin-Herron (2011136) FHA No. 031-3704337-952 DNoticeofDefaultTrusteeAR_ysmith_131002_1225 For more information regarding this foreclosure sale, visit WWW.MYFIR.COM, or for general information call 501-224-5239

Foreclosure 0970 Notices

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENTION TO SELL YOU MAY LOSE YOUR PROPERTY IF YOU DO NOT TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. IF YOUR PROPERTY IS SOLD, YOU WILL REMAIN LIABLE FOR ANY DEFICIENCY WHICH THEN EXISTS AND AN ACTION FOR COLLECTION MAY BE BROUGHT AGAINST YOU. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR SUCH PURPOSE. This Instrument Prepared by: WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C. 1521 Merrill Drive, Suite D-220 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 (501) 219-9388 WHEREAS, on December 13, 2002, Thomas Childs and Connie J Childs executed a mortgage conveying certain property therein described to Midsouth Ban k D/B/A Midsouth Bank Mortgage; and WHEREAS, said mortgage was duly recorded December 16, 2002, at Book 0553, Page 0310 in the real estate records of Greene County, Arkansas; and WHEREAS, default has occurred in the payment of said indebtedness and the same is now, therefore, wholly due, and the holder of the debt has requested the undersigned to sell the property to satisfy said indebtedness, the party initiating this action is JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Attn: Correspondence Mail, Mail Code LA4-5555/700 Kansas Lane, Monroe, LA 71 203, (8 66)5 50-5705 ; WHEREAS, the mortgagee or beneficiary has provided the undersigned a copy of the letter required to be sent to Thomas Childs and Connie J Childs by Act 885 of 2011; the party initiating this action is JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Attn: Correspondence Mail, Mail Code LA4-5555/700 Kansas Lane, Monroe, LA 71203, (866)550-5705; WHEREAS, the mortgagee or beneficiary has provided the undersigned a copy of the letter required to be sent to Thomas Childs and Connie J Childs by Act 885 of 2011; and WHEREAS, there may be tenants that claim an interest in the real property herein based upon said tenancy.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable, and that an agent of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., as Attorney-in-Fact, by virtue of the power, duty, and authority vested in and imposed upon said Attorney-in-Fact will, on November 25, 2013, at or about 2:30 P.M. at the Greene County Courthouse in Paragould, Arkansas, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the highest bidder for cash, free from the statutory right of redemption, homestead, dower, and all other exemptions which are expressly waived in the mortgage, said property being real estate situated in Greene County, Arkansas, and being more particularly described as follows: That part of the North Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 5 East, described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said tract, run thence North 88 degrees 43 minutes East 1397.7 feet to the true point of beginning, run thence North 88 degrees 43 minutes East 281.6 feet, run thence South 4 degrees 28 minutes East 462.1 feet, run thence South 85 degrees 3 2 minutes West 173 feet, run thence South 84 degrees 46 minutes West 101.8 feet, run thence North 5 degrees 14 minutes West 479.1 feet to the true point of beginning, containing 3.0 acres, more or less.

More commonly known as: 290 Greene Road 567, Lafe, Arkansas 72436 UNLIKE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALES, THIS STATUTORY FORECLOSURE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE Greene County Courthouse OR, IF THERE IS NO AREA COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE FRONT DOOR, THEN THE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE PLACE AT SAID VENUE WHERE FORECLOSURE SALES ARE CUSTOMARILY ADVERTISED AND CONDUCTED. This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.

The sale held pursuant to this Notice may be rescinded at the Attorney-in-Fact’s option at any time. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. THE SALE OF THIS PROPERTY WILL BE AUCTIONED WITH RESERVE. THE TERMS OF SALE ARE CASH THE DAY OF SALE. W&A No. 355-199037 WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C. 1521 Merrill Drive, Suite D-220 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 (501) 219-9388 Courtney Miller (2008263) Agent for Mortgagee DNoticeofDefaultMortgageeAR_d monroe_130919_ 731 For more information regarding this foreclosure sale, visit WWW.MYFIR.COM, or for general information call 501-224-5239

SALES, THIS STATUTORY FORECLOSURE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE Greene County Courthouse OR, IF THERE IS NO AREA COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE FRONT DOOR, THEN THE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE PLACE AT SAID VENUE WHERE FORECLOSURE SALES ARE CUSTOMARILY ADVERTISED AND CONDUCTED. This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.

The sale held pursuant to this Notice may be rescinded at the Attorney-in-Fact’s option at any time. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. THE SALE OF THIS PROPERTY WILL BE AUCTIONED WITH RESERVE. THE TERMS OF SALE ARE CASH THE DAY OF SALE. W&A No. 355-199037 WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C. 1521 Merrill Drive, Suite D-220 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 (501) 219-9388 Courtney Miller (2008263) Agent for Mortgagee DNoticeofDefaultMortgageeAR_d monroe_130919_ 731 For more information regarding this foreclosure sale, visit WWW.MYFIR.COM, or for general information call 501-224-5239

Foreclosure 0970 Notices

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENTION TO SELL YOU MAY LOSE YOUR PROPERTY IF YOU DO NOT TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. IF YOUR PROPERTY IS SOLD, YOU WILL REMAIN LIABLE FOR ANY DEFICIENCY WHICH THEN EXISTS AND AN ACTION FOR COLLECTION MAY BE BROUGHT AGAINST YOU. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR SUCH PURPOSE. This Instrument Prepared by: WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C. 1521 Merrill Drive, Suite D-220 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 (501) 219-9388 WHEREAS, on August 31, 2007, Jimmy C. Mandrell and Alice R. Mandrell executed a mortgage conveying certain property therein described to First Continental Mortgage Corp.; and WHEREAS, said mortgage was duly recorded September 6, 2007, at Book A-13, Page 603 in the real estate records of Randolph County, Arkansas; and WHEREAS, default has occurred in the payment of said indebtedness and the same is now, therefore, wholly due, and the holder of the debt has requested the undersigned to sell the property to satisfy said indebtedness, the party initiating this action is JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Attn: Correspondence Mail, Mail Code LA4-5555/700 Kansas Lane, Monroe, LA 71 203, (8 66)5 50-5705 ; WHEREAS, the mortgagee or beneficiary has provided the undersigned a copy of the letter required to be sent to Jimmy C. Mandrell and Alice R. Mandrell by Act 885 of 2011; the party initiating this action is JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Attn: Correspondence Mail, Mail Code LA4-5555/700 Kansas Lane, Monroe, LA 71203, (866)550-5705; WHEREAS, the mortgagee or beneficiary has provided the undersigned a copy of the letter required to be sent to Jimmy C. Mandrell and Alice R. Mandrell by Act 885 of 2011; and WHEREAS, there may be tenants that claim an interest in the real property herein based upon said tenancy.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable, and that an agent of Wilson & Associates, P.L.L.C., as Attorney-in-Fact, by virtue of the power, duty, and authority vested in and imposed upon said Attorney-in-Fact will, on December 9, 2013, at or about 11:30 A.M. at the Randolph County Courthouse in Pocahontas, Arkansas, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the highest bidder for cash, free from the statutory right of redemption, homestead, dower, and all other exemptions which are expressly waived in the mortgage, said property being real estate situated in Randolph County, Arkansas, and being more particularly described as follows: Lot Ten (10) in Block Five (5) in the Macamoor Addition in the City of Pocahontas, Arkansas.

More commonly known as: 1929 Dogwood Street, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 UNLIKE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALES, THIS STATUTORY FORECLOSURE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE Randolph County Courthouse OR, IF THERE IS NO AREA COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE FRONT DOOR, THEN THE SALE WILL BE HELD AT THE PLACE AT SAID VENUE WHERE FORECLOSURE SALES ARE CUSTOMARILY ADVERTISED AND CONDUCTED. This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable; any statutory rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.

The sale held pursuant to this Notice may be rescinded at the Attorney-in-Fact’s option at any time. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. THE SALE OF THIS PROPERTY WILL BE AUCTIONED WITH RESERVE. THE TERMS OF SALE ARE CASH THE DAY OF SALE. W&A No. 355-237345 WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C. 1521 Merrill Drive, Suite D-220 Little Rock, Arkansas 72211 (501) 219-9388 Courtney Miller (2008263) Agent for Mortgagee DNoticeofDefaultMortgageeAR_d monroe_131003_ 737 For more information regarding this foreclosure sale, visit WWW.MYFIR.COM, or for general information call 501-224-5239

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Philadelphia cream cheese

There’s nothing more satisfying than baking sweet treats for friends and family during the holidays. This year, spread cheer with cheesecake — it’s a great way to showcase your personal dessert style.

Whether you prefer using a traditional springform pan, sheet cake pan or muffin tin, making cheesecake at home is easy and fun.

Take a traditional recipe, apply a few simple tricks and techniques, and you’ll be on your way to confection perfection. Philadelphia cream cheese provides you with the perfect canvas to add your favorite holiday flavors.

Try one of these baking styles this holiday season to impress your guests: ■ Top it with decadence — Top your cheesecake with a drizzle of chocolate, a sprinkling of powdered sugar or even a tablespoon of chopped nuts. These beautiful decorations will make your cheesecake feel extra special for the holidays.

■ Keep it fresh — Balance the velvety nature of the cream cheese with fresh fruits and vibrant flavors, such as sliced strawberries or the holiday classic cranberry with an orange zest twist.

Classic Black Tie Cheesecake

Tried-and-true classics — Give grandma’s classic desserts a bit of a modern spin: Use a gingerbread or sugar cookie crust instead of the traditional graham cracker for a sweet surprise.

Bake for good!

Philadelphia has collected dessert recipes from top chefs across the country to benefit Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign, a national campaign to end childhood hunger in America.

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Classic Black Tie Cheesecake Prep time: 30 minutes Total time: 6 hours 35 minutes (including refrigerating) 18 chocolate sandwich cookies, finely crushed (about 11⁄2 c.)

2 Tbsp. butter, melted 4 (8 oz.) pkgs. Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened 13⁄4 c. sugar, divided 3⁄4 c. Breakstone’s or Knudsen sour cream 1⁄2 c. whipping cream 1 Tbsp. vanilla 4 eggs 4 c. raspberries, divided 1⁄4 c. raspberry jam 3 Tbsp. water 2 tsp. lemon juice Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Philadelphia cream cheese

Triple Caramel Cheesecake

Triple Caramel Cheesecake Prep time: 20 minutes Total time: 6 hours (including refrigeration) 11⁄2 c. graham cracker crumbs 3 Tbsp. butter, melted 3 (1.4 oz. each) chocolate-covered toffee bars, chopped into small pieces 4 (8 oz.) pkg. Philadelphia cream cheese, softened 2⁄3 c. plus 2 Tbsp. sugar, divided 1 (13.4 oz.) can Mexican caramel spread (dulce de leche) 2 tsp. vanilla 4 eggs 3⁄4 c. Kraft caramel bits 1⁄4 c. whipping cream

Mix cookie crumbs and butter until blended; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 12 minutes.

Beat cream cheese and 1 cup sugar in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add sour cream, whipping cream and vanilla; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing after each just until blended. Pour over crust.

Bake 1 hour or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate 4 hours. Meanwhile, bring 1 cup raspberries, remaining sugar, jam and water to boil in saucepan; simmer on mediumlow heat 5 minutes or until thickened, stirring occasionally. Cool slightly. Pour into blender. Add lemon juice; blend until smooth. Refrigerate until ready to use.

Pour topping over cheesecake just before serving; top with remaining raspberries.

Makes 16 servings.

Note — For best results, refrigerate cheesecake overnight before serving.

(Recipe courtesy of Alice Currah)

Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Mix graham crumbs, 2 tablespoons of butter and 1⁄2 cup toffee pieces; press onto bottom of 13-by-9-inch baking pan.

Beat cream cheese, sugar, dulce de leche and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Gently pour over crust.

Bake 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen sides; cool. Refrigerate 4 hours.

Heat caramels bits and cream in microwave on high for 11⁄2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until smooth.

Cool 5 minutes; pour over cheesecake. Sprinkle with remaining toffee pieces. Makes 16 servings.

(Recipe by Sandra Lee)

Cranberry-Orange Mini Cheesecakes Prep time: 30 minutes Total time: 3 hours 55 minutes (including refrigerating) 13⁄4 c. (6 oz.) fresh cranberries 1 c. sugar, divided 1⁄4 c. plus 1 Tbsp. juice from one orange, divided 11⁄2 Tbsp. vanilla, divided 3⁄4 tsp. ground nutmeg 1⁄4 tsp. ground cinnamon

11⁄2 c. (about 32 cookies) gingersnap cookies, crushed 3 Tbsp. butter, melted 3 (8 oz.) pkgs. Philadelphia cream cheese, softened 1⁄2 c. Breakstone’s or Knudsen sour cream 1 Tbsp. orange zest 3 eggs Heat oven to 325 degrees F.

Philadelphia cream cheese

Cranberr y- Orange Mini Cheesecakes

Cook cranberries, 1⁄2 cup sugar and 1⁄4 cup orange juice and spices in a saucepan on medium heat until cranberries pop and sauce is thickened. Cool slightly.

Spoon cranberry mixture into food processor and process until smooth. Transfer to bowl and stir in 1 tablespoon vanilla; refrigerate until ready to use.

Mix gingersnap crumbs and butter until blended; press 1 tablespoon on the bottom of each 24 muffin pan cups lined with papers.

Beat cream cheese and remaining sugar in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add sour cream, orange zest and remaining orange juice and vanilla; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing after each addition just until blended. Add 2⁄3 cup of the cranberry puree; swirl gently with a spoon. Spoon 1⁄3 cup into each muffin cup over crusts.

Bake 25 minutes or until centers are almost set. Cool completely. Refrigerate 2 hours.

Drizzle with remaining cranberry puree just before serving.

Makes 24 mini cupcakes.

Tip — Garnish each cheesecake with small dollop of thawed whipped topping before serving.

Note — When refrigerating the cranberry puree, cover the partially cooled puree with plastic wrap, with wrap pressed onto surface of puree, to prevent skin from forming on top.

(Recipe by Bri Emery, courtesy of Leslie Grow for designlovefest)

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BY HOLIDAY MATHIS

In the weeks to come, you may find yourself more willing to share dreams, fantasies and big goals that you would normally keep to yourself.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19).

You’ll create the kind of moments that people will look back on and say, “Remember when we...” This is a gift beyond anything material you could give.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20).

You’ll be privy to a situation that necessitates a confrontation to resolve.

You’re up to it, though, and your involvement will bring solutions.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 21).

Your energy will be high, and that could cause you to look for extra things to do.

Try to stick to your main purpose because if you apply yourself, you’ll be able to take a long break later.

CANCER (JUNE 22-JULY 22). Accepting your brain’s logic will help you realize that problems aren’t entirely your fault. Your brain just has developed ways to keep you from pain and steer you to pleasure.

ZIGGY

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22). Envy is not such a bad thing to feel. When you’ve lost motivation, a source of envy may be just the thing to renew your energy reserves.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (NOV. 13).

It’s a rediscovery process as you explore who you are outside of relationships and change who you are inside of them. December brings the tools you need to complete a job. You’ll appreciate the inheritance you receive in June. It may not be financial, but it’s valuable. Cancer and Leo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 24, 39, 11 and 15.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22). If you allow yourself, you’ll spend the day doing what you want to do. It goes against everything in your work ethic, yet if the “you” inside is sick from neglect, who will be left to work?

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 23). This day is not as set as you think it is. An unexpected curve will force you to turn or fly off the road when there is no more of it. You’ll have a lot of fun with this.

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SCORPIO (OCT. 24-NOV. 21).

Your daring is not required to do your work, but you’ll miss out if you don’t apply it. You’ll come to a place where not taking the chance will be a greater risk than taking it.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21). You would be hardpressed to separate what you’re doing out of conditioning from what you’re doing out of a true desire SHOE to express your soul. But if it seems to help people, it’s good enough.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19).

Regarding that someone you used to admire because he or she was older and wiser: You now get the sense that you’ve caught up in spite of the years.

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The imperfection you deliver with your whole heart is worth so much more than a mindful and GARFIELD flawless contribution.

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You’ll be part of a contest of sorts. The prizes are status-oriented, and that’s enough to fill your belly with a fire to win.

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Recommendations for lady who Baldwin denies wants to feel wind in her hair relationship with

Dear Tom and Ray: I want one more crack at a convertible, having had a wonderful Dodge Dart convertible in earlier years (it was stolen in Detroit when I left it with a company to replace the top and they parked it on the street — boo hoo!).

Background: I’m 93 years old, drive a 2000 Subaru Outback (also a great car but has high mileage and a roof). I have extensive driving experience — across the country twice, 3,300 miles last summer (Mill Valley, Calif.; Durango, Colo.; Moab, Utah; across Nevada and back home).

No arrests, no accidents, no problems (so far).

What would you recommend for a secondhand, moderately priced, safe (air bags), serviceable and fun convertible?

Many thanks for your assistance. I’ve loved your column and radio show for many years. — Anne RAY: Well, first I have to ask if you’d accept a

marriage proposal from my brother.

He’s been looking for someone like you Click and ever since Clack Wife No. 2 TOM AND RAY changed the locks.

MAGLIOZZI | TOM: I see you in a Porsche Turbo Carerra, Anne — as long as I’m not making the payments. I’ve made enough “payments” already, if you know what I mean!

RAY: Actually, the car that first comes to mind for you is the Toyota Camry Solara. It’s basically a Camry with two doors and a convertible top.

TOM: There are several things that make me think the Solara is the convertible for you. First, it’s based on the Toyota Camry, which means it’ll be durable, reliable, ergonomically practical

and easy to service.

RAY: Second, it’s a little bigger than some of the sportier convertible alternatives, like the Mazda Miata, the Mini Cooper or the VW Golf Convertible.

And if you’re driving across the country, it’s nice to have a little room for your belongings and not feel cramped. Plus a slightly larger car will feel more stable on the interstate at high speeds.

Not to mention that size often adds some measure of safety if you do have an accident.

TOM: Third, the Solara’s a little higher off the ground than those other cars. That means you can get into it without having to “fall” down into the driver’s seat, or rappel back out of the car with a grappling hook.

That also means you’ll see better when you’re driving. I thought of the Mustang for you, too.

But you sit pretty low in the Mustang’s seat, and I don’t know how tall you

are (you didn’t mention a playing career in the WNBA), but you may feel a little bit like you’re sitting in a bathtub when driving the Mustang.

RAY: Finally, it’s an easy car to drive. Yeah, it doesn’t corner at 90 mph like a Porsche, but it won’t require constant vigilance on your part to keep it in its lane, either.

And with the top down on a nice day, any car is fun.

TOM: I don’t know what you consider affordable, Anne, but for $15 or $20 grand, you can pick up a very nice used Solara. I recommend red.

Send us a picture and enjoy it!

Got a question about cars? Write to Click and Clack in care of this newspaper, or email them by visiting the Car Talk website at www.cartalk.com. © 2013 by Tom and Ray Magliozzi and Doug Berman, distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc.

Thank-you notes are always in fashion

DEAR ABBY: With the holidays approaching, a reminder is in order.

People: Don’t forget those thank-you notes!

I don’t mean an email, but a REAL, honest-togosh thank-you note sent through the mail with postage.

My mother always told me that a gift is not truly yours until a proper thank-you has been sent.

She said it “completed the transfer.” I was not allowed to play with the item or use it until that note was written.

This is especially true for young people today, who seemingly were not taught this in school or by their parents. Very young children can draw a picture, and the parent can add a line to say it was drawn to express thanks.

As the child matures, he/ she can use his/her own words of gratitude.

I can’t tell you how many parents comment on the absence of this display of etiquette. Good manners are never out of date. They are noticed and appreciated. From time to time I have seen you mention your booklet on “How to Write Letters.” If it includes a section on thank-you notes, I’m sure it would be helpful to a lot of people in the next two months.

— Elinor In Surprise, Ariz.

DEAR ELINOR: The booklet does. Not a day goes by that I don’t receive letters and emails from readers who are upset enough to write because they haven’t received a thank-you note for a birthday, graduation, wedding or holiday gift they sent. Some of the writers say they are so hurt and offended that they will stop giving gifts because they were left hanging, wondering if their gift was ever received.

The problem may be that many parents no longer insist their children practice this courtesy, so the kids never learn how to do it.

Chief among the reasons that thank-you notes aren’t sent is that many people don’t know what to say. They think the note has to be a long, flowery composition when, in fact, short and to the point is more effective.

Keeping a notepad handy when opening gifts and immediately taking a moment to jot down the first thought that comes to mind is helpful.

(Example: Do you like

the color?

The style? Is it something you had been looking for and couldn’t find? Is it a special Abigail Van Buren | homemade treat?

Mmmm.)

WRITE IT DOWN. While letter-writing or even emailing may seem like a chore, there are times when a handwritten note is the most appropriate means of communicating one’s thoughts.

My booklet contains sample letters for almost any occasion. It can be ordered by sending your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds), to Dear Abby — Letters Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, Ill. 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price. Inside you

will find many samples that can be used as patterns from which to write your own.

For anyone who has ever wondered where to begin when writing a note of thanks, offering warm congratulations, condolences, composing a love letter or the opposite — announcing a broken engagement or a decision to divorce — “How to Write Letters” is

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Baldwin, at times, NEW YORK — It was, Alec Baldwin said, “like came close to playing disomething out of Hitch- rector, dilating on points cock”: He waits in the he wanted to make, tellwings of a Lincoln Cen- ing Sabourin’s lawyer he ter stage before a movie- sounded nervous and musing about screening discushaving thought of sion. He looks out to see his tormenturning Sabourin’s tor in a front-row voicemail messagseat. She turns to es into a play. him. And smiles.

Baldwin and the That was one of Manhattan district several scenes in attorney’s office a personal drama say it’s a case of the “30 Rock” Sabourin an acquaintance actor described with a movie star Tuesday, as the star wit- turning into harassment. ness against Genevieve Sabourin claims it was a Sabourin, a small-time romance that fell apart.

Canadian actress charged Baldwin, 55, said he first with stalking him. encountered Sabourin at a “It was nightmarish,” lunch with a mutual friend Baldwin said during a in 2000 in Montreal, morning of testimony where Baldwin was filmthat at times approached ing “The Adventures of theater in itself. Sabourin Pluto Nash.” Sabourin, 41, unleashed a stream of hails from the Montreal outbursts — “He’s ly- suburb of Candiac and has ing!” for instance — that appeared in some Canaprompted a judge to warn dian films and TV series.

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